The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-04 00:00:00

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rO&EXON.
Tuesday being the feast of All Souls, only two Jour-
nals were published in Paris. One of these—the Presse—
congratulates Great Britain and the United States on
the acquittal of M'Leod, and denounces as most suicidal
to both the idea of a war between them. The Presse
advocates our true interests in a far more patriotic spirit
than the Times or the Morning Herald.
The French Minister of Commerce and Agriculture
has nominated the following persons to be the Members
of the Council of Agriculture:—Duke Decazes, M. Girod
de l'Ain, Marquis de Cambis, Marshal Clausel, Baron
Charles Dupin, Count de Gaspirin, Count de Rambuteau,
Baron Seguier, M. Beaumont, General Bugeaud, Count
Dangeville, Messrs. Darblay, Desjobert, de Gasparin, de
Lamartine, Lemaire, Duke de Marmier, Messrs. Pisca-
tory, Sannac, Tourret, de Tracy, Vuitry, J. Boulay, C.
Beauvais, Behague, Bella, Baron Buche, Dailly, Mathieu
Dombasle, Viscount Hericart de Thury, Julien Lefevre,
de Mirbel, Baron Silvestre, Soulange Bodin, Trochu,
Yvart, Count Angles, Count de Bonneval, Count de
Caumont, Oscar Leclerc, Lefebvre Sainte-Marie, Leroy
of Bethune, Duke de Liancourt, de Mornay, de Morny,
Niviere, Pommier, Victor Rendu, Rieffel, Viscount do
Romanet, Baron de Tocqueville, and M. Villemorin.
General O'Donnell had a narrow escape into France
from his own soldiers, who, having a suspicion or his in-
tentions, determined to deliver him up to Espartero as a
rebel and a traitor, and to insist, upOn his being shot.
The Moniteur Beige states that several merchants from
Constantinople are now in Brussels making large pur-
chases of all kinds of goods, clothes, cutlery, glass,
tools, nails, &c., which they are about to send to the
East. These merchants have visited England and France,
and regard Belgian manufactures as equal to those of
these kingdoms.
The same Journal states that had the conspirators,

half Orange, half radical as they were, marclied into
Brussels in the middle of daylight, with their guns and
flags, the citizens would have received them as a band of
masqueraders. So little did the War Minister care for
them, that he went disguised as one of them to see the
shells cast, and gave directions for improving them that
they might be sufficiently valuable for a place in the na-
tional arsenal.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning`Herald, after enumerating the evils of
machinery, and comparing the manufacturing with the
agricultural districts, giving of course the moral supe-
riority to the latter, goes on to observe :--" Mr. Cob-
chin and his associates have converted free trade into a

question of life or death to the landed interest ; and yet
theffrofess to be astonished that the agriculturists should
compafe the moral and physical results of their occu-
pation with the evil consequences of over-stimulated
mannfactures ; and their organs write dull and heavy
lectures on the abstract truths of political economy,
which no one denies or' controverts. With all mode-
rate men the subject has now become a question of com-
promise, and the greatest enemies of peace and future
prosperity are the wild and perambulatory spouters
who infest and disturb the Manufacturing districts."—
If by the word " compromise" the Herald means that
the important questibn of free trade is to be settled, so as
to suit the interests,of the Monopolists, then we say that
such a question will admit of no compromise. Trade
must be free in reality. I, A nominal or a partial freedom
will be wholly unavailing. Of what use is it to knock off
the fetters from a man's legs, if you keep his arms fast
tied behind him ? Those who advocate free trade do so
from a conviction that it will be most decidedly and last-
ingly beneficial to the country ; and thus thinking, they
should allow of no compromise. The very circumstance
that a Tory Journal suggests something of the sort should
be quite enough to put the Reformers on their guard.
In an article suggested by the returns of the municipal
' elections, the Times says:----" What beconies of the mi-
serable allegation, that Sir Roberti Peel's Government is
only the creature of a landed aristocracy? Why, it is
emphatically the people's own Geiernment, chosen, ra-
titiEd, and confided in by the overw'helmi'ng majority .of
all ranks in the nation. The conviction that the Right
lion. Baronet, notwithstanding the ruinous condition in
which the Whigs have handed over the country to his
care, will in due time restore it to a prosperous condi-
tion, is as strong among the middle classes, who pre-
ferably commit their municipal interests to Conservative
councillors, as among the high-born gentry who
rally around him in the national Legislature."—
It is not respect for, or confidence in, the Tories-that
returned them in such force to Parliament. at the late
elections, but a dislike on the part of the people—natural
enough, we must confess—to the halting, dubious, timid,
inconsistent policy of the Whigs. Any chaitge, argued
John Bull, must be for the better, for it can scarcely be
for the worse ; and it was this impression that induced
him to give his old enemies the Tories one more chance,
on the honourable principle of fair play. Well, they
are now on their trial ; and the result will, we appre-
hend, be such as to convince John Bull that questionable
as,was at times the policy of the Whigs, that of their
successors is a thousand times worse. _ .

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The Post says, in reference to Mr. O'Connell's election
to the Dublin Mayoralty :—" The letter of our Dub
Correspondent affords ground for apprehension that the
new Itigd Mayor of Dublin was not quite sincere when
he declared to his brotber corporators that, as Lord
Mayor,l he would have nothing to do with Repeal, and
that, fot, the year, he would do nothing, not even eat,
drink, or talk, but as Lord Mayor. Perhaps his Lord-
ship, who has long been accustomed to use two different
styles of expresion, and to,develope two different trains
of thought, on the opposite sides of St. George's Chan-
nel, map think fit to adopt the same flexible policy in
respect td the Corporation of Dublin and the mob of
that city::,His Lordship is now in a position in which
he cannot help advancing the Conservative cause. If
lie preferiti to do so by degrading the office which has'
been bestOWed upon him, and the Corporation that,
conferred rather than by another and more respect. 7,;
able course; we can only say, so much the better."—r
It must be confessed that Mr. O'Connell is in a queer:.
position just now. In his official robes, as Chief Ma-j,
gistrate, he is confidently expected to do his best to
maintain the unity of the Kingdom ; in his capacity of
Repeal agitater, it is expected with equal confidence,
that he will do his best to overturn that unity. The
Magistrate and the Agitator combine to form a truly
Irish concord and congruity in his person. O'Connell,
in his robes at the Mansion-house, is as different from
O'Connell in the chair of the Repeal Association, as
light from darkness. It must be the duty of the one to
keep a wholeseme check on the vagaries of the other.
In a word, the Lord Mayor must discountenance the
Repeal agitator; and, if necessary, take him into custody!
The following is from the Chronicle:—" Lord Stanley,
though keld in less regard by the middle classes than
-Sir Robert Peec.is a much greater favourite with his
.party; and our readers cannot have forgotten the ques-
tion that was raised in pamphlets, ' Who shall rule us,
Peel or Stanley?' And yet this Tory statesman, second
only in importance in his party to the Premier, displayed
An the face of Europe an ignorance which must excite
,oniversal astonishment. The people of the Continent
do not know how statesmen are formed in aristocratical
,England. An over-grown schoolboy acquires at an
university a superficial knowledge of the classics, and,
from his social position, he obtains a familiarity
with good English. On this stock, if he be ,a
fluent speaker, he at once sets up for a statesman."—
This is too much the case in aristocratic England. Many
a Speaker in Parliament has set up for a statesman on
the strength of an apt Latin or Greek quotation ; and.
many a raw Etonian been looked up to as a future Pre-
inier, because he has shown great facility in the manu.,
faeture of laexameters and pentameters. As for an tic,
quairitance with-the real business of life; with the corn.,
mercial relationWbf England; and all that goes to make
the enlarged statesman, this is deemed beneath the notice.
of an aspiring ydung aristocrat. Lord Stanley is one of
the most intelligent of the school he belongs to; but it is
a bad school, and-now more useless than ever.
The WorceateF Chronicle contains the following re;
marks:—" If any: fear of war may. be reasonably enter-
tained at the present moment, it is not on account ctf
America, but of France that we should find ground (er
it. The conduct of Louis Philippe in stirring up the
late insurrection in Spain, that, by restoring the chief
authority in that kingdom to the ex-Queen Regent
Christina, ho might obtain from her the hand of her
daughteriLthe child-Queen, and a crown for his fourth
son, marks him for a man who will stick at no means,
however base and culpable, to aggrandise his family and
extend his influence. No matter how dirty the paths to
be trodden, if he set his mind upon gaining an end he
will travel forward through the mire without heeding
how closely it may stick to him."
The Dublin Evening Post remarks as follows, on the
subject of ' Mr. O'Connell's election to the Dublin
Mayoralty He sought the office, we had been well
persuaded, and the result has proved it, not from any
vulgar motive respecting the rank it conferred, for to
him such things are valueless ; but on account of the
opportunity:i- which it would afford him of de-
monstratinglhat the best mode of removing all pre-
judices against Catholics, is to render them perfectly
equal with -tie rest of their fellow-subjects—to give
them the means of' exercising . power, in order to prove
that they are incapable of abusing it. It was with these
views that Mr. O'Connell undertook the onerous duties
of Lord Mayor, and every sentiment which he uttered
every opinion -he expressed—proved that he was ac-
tuated by the most laudable anxiety for the welfare of
the citizens.'.'
The Cheltenlutni Examiner, speaking on the question
of the Irish-policy of Ministers, says t—" Notwithstand-
ing the thin veil of moderation, in which the new Pre-
mier has shrouded his Irish policy, and the cautiousness
which the ()range regime has been hitherto administered,
we believe, that next tx) the Corn-laws, Sir Robert will
yet find that Ireland.is his chief difficulty.' We ground
this opinion on the very nature of Irish Orangemen ; the
bitter, persecuting, and we might almost add, blood-
thirsty spirit which ever actuates your true Protestant
ascendancy Tory."
MONEY—TRADE—COMMEIRCE.

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At the adjourned meeting of the Talacre Coal and
Iron Company, held yesterday at the Adelphi, the report
and accounts were referred back to a committee, and an
adjournment made sine die,
The new alterations just made by the Post-office are
as follow :—The packets from Liverpool for North
America will be once only in the month, instead of twice;
and in future two mails will be despatched in November,
and only one in March. The rate of postage to and from
the province of Panama, or any place on the western
coast of South America, are reduced from 2s. 3d. to Is. 2d.,
when not exceeding half an ounce ; 2s. 4d. when not
exceeding an ounce, &c.
The gun-making trade, both in London and-Birming-
ham, are looking out for good orders in consequence of
the destruction of arms in the Tower ; the masons also,

and other classes of labourers, expect to profit by the
accident.
Colonel Monroe Edwards, son of Ninian Edwards,
who some years ago figured at Illinois as a political
character, has been lately arrested at Philadelphia, hav-
ing obtained from two houses, by means of forged letters
of credit, about 50,000 dollars in cash, 44,000 of which
were recovered in his trunk at the time of arrest.
In Bethnal-green, Spitalfields, and Shoreditch, out of
14,000 looms, 3,000 are entirely out of work, and the
remaining 11,000 are only employed three-fourths of
their time.