The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1840.

notice of the subject, till the weekly press and the -
provincial press, by their remarks, in the above
sense, have warned us that we have neglected cur
duty, by not pointing out, in the prostitution of
Cambridge, an additional proof of the influence
which the Church exercises over the morals of
those who are most imbued with her principles.
Where can we expect to find the influence of those
principles so strong as in the neighbourhood of a
College, the abode of the fathers of the Church,
and the instructors of the priesthood ? We be-
lieve that influence is perceptible in gross cor-
ruption and bribery, carried on to seat Mr.
SUTTON, because the practice of the whole body
of the clergy continually teaches the people to dis-
regard
honesty, to set at nought the principles of
the Gospel, in order to obtain wealth and power.
As the whole Church is corrupt, so are the electors
of Cambridge under its influence. Cause and effect
were never more distinctly connected or more beauti-
fully illustrated, and the gloss corruption amongst the
electors of the High Church party at Cambridge is
precisely what we should have anticipated from the
influence of the priesthood.
There is another aspect under which the Report
of the Cambridge Committee may be viewed. The
higher the situation and dignity of those who com-
mit offences, the more pernicious is the influence of
their example in the community. Of the Hon.
Mr. SUTTON the Norwich Mercury remarks :

A new exposure of those infamous practices we have so
often denounced, has just taken place in the Cambridge
Committee, which has unseated the " Honourable Mem.
bet," the Hon. John Henry Thomas Manners Sutton, son
of Lord Canterbury, who rose to that title through the
Speakership. Here is another and a flagrant instance of
the sons of men most dignified by their country's honours
and their own deserts—here is another instance of the sons
of such men, implicated, nay convicted of the constitutional
crime of corrupting the fountain of public morals at its very
source, by bribery.

But the Hon. Mr. SUTTON, who was turned out
of his seat for treating and bribery, was by the
Committee anxiously exonerated from all blame.
The conduct, therefore, of this exalted gentleman,
sanctioned, almost praised by the Committee, is
placed on record as an encouragement for others to
try the same sort of bribery and treating at Cam-
bridge, taking care to avoid the fixing of agency on
the dirty tools (and the dirtier they are the better)
who are employed to do the dirty work. Undoubt-
edly, as the example of Ludlow, Cambridge,
and other small boroughs, denote, corruption has
got to a fearful height ; but as corruption sup-
poses a corruptor, the gentlemen who fill this
honourable office at various places, must be each
of them a concentration of all the corruption
they cause. They who buy the votes of the
constituents to sell them for a party purpose
—who are under no temptation from poverty, are
much more guilty, though the House of Commons
shields them, than the poor, ignorant, and deluded
voters whom they corrupt. For the gentlemen of
England, however, this is a most dangerous course.
Such corruption must weaken and destroy the
authority of Parliament. It will equally make the
electors and the elected despised. It vitiates legis-
lation at its source. But it is by the authority of
Parliament that the so-called National Church
exists, that much of the property of the aristocracy
exists (Mr. SUTTON'S father's pension, for ex-
ample, and the sinecure connected with the Eccle-
siastical Courts which is in his farmly)—that the
Army is kept up, the throne maintained, and the
taxes levied—and, consequently, to destroy that
authority by corrupting the electors, and so making
the Parliament despised and contemptible, is to
overthrow the power and property of the aristocracy.
If the Church and its followers—if the Hon. Mr.
SUTTON and his friends, care nothing on principle
for the honesty of the electors, good policy requires
that they should not corrupt them, and so strike at
the root of the authority of Parliament.

The practice of annoying respectable publicans
by the intrusion of police constables into their
houses, under the direction of the Police Commis-
sioners, at twelve o'clock on Saturday night is again
revived. One of the grossest instances of this
kind was brought before the sitting Magistrate at
Bow-street, on Saturday. An inspector of the
name of 'MuscutAvE, informed against a publican
who had kept a house in the parish of Covent
Garden for forty years, and stated that the house
was open after twelve on Saturday, the 25th of
April. The publican admitted the fact ; and, at
the same time, said that he had turned every one
out at the hour prescribed by the Police Commis-
sioners, and that he had opened his door solely to
afford refreshment for a few minutes to the mu-
sicians of Covent Garden Theatre, who could
not possibly come before the theatre was closed.
No one could deny that the house was properly
conducted, that the statement was consistent with
fact, that there was no noise, and that the publi-
can, and those who applied for refreshment, were
highly respectable, yet the Magistrate, Mr.
JARDINE, with great reluctance, was obliged
to inflict a nominal penalty. He signifi-
cantly added " that there might be hardship in
the case, but it was his duty to administer
the law," and added something more, for which we
refer our readers to our police report. We are now
convinced that the Police Commissioners are chiefly
to blame for the annoyance which the public have
suffered by the New Police Act. They summon
publicans before Magistrates for offences which all the
Magistrates now decide are, at the utmost, nominal
offences ; they shut up thoroughfares on Sundays
without any legal authority; they, in fact, are taking
steps to establish a system of military control over
the innocent amusements and daily occupations of
a free people, which, if not checked by the Govern-
ment, will make this police force detested by every
Englishman. The effect which these proceedings
will have on the next elections for the metropolitan
boroughs will not be for the benefit of the Govern-
ment, or the present representatvies.

In a letter from Constantinople of the Bth ult.,
published in a German paper just received, we find
the following paragraph :

. - - -
A serous difference between the Turkish Ministers
threatens new difficulties. While Chosrew Pacha is de-
cidedly in favour of the intervention of the European
Powers, the others would negotiate directly with the
Viceroy without Foreign intervention ; and Redschid,
fatigued with the exertions that he has lately made, hesi-
tates between both parties, and threatens to resign. This
will doubtless lead to important consequences. Either an
attempt will be made to come to an agreement with the
Viceroy, or to ascertain the ground of this sudden change
in the opinions of the greater part of the Divan. In the
last case, there will be probably many persons dismissed or
banished ; for every body sees that something extraordinary
must have occurred.

In the Brussels Papers received this morning
we find the following intelligence relative to the
Belgian army, which may interest our military
readers :
BRessELs, MAI 2.—A Royal decree of the Ist of Ja-
nuary last reduced the pay of Colonels of the army to
6,300 francs, of Majors to 4,500, of Captains to 2,500;
and another recent decree revokes this reduction from the
officers above-mentioned, and raises their pay to 7,100,
4,600, and 2,800 francs. No augmentation has been made
of the pay of Lieutenants and Sub-Lieutenants, who, how-
ever, are the greatest sufferers by the reduction of their pay.
A Ministerial regulation of the 16th of April reduced
the battalions of infantry to 300 men under arms. All
the rest are sent home on furloughs. This measure, re-
solved on by General Willmer two days before be left his
office, leaves only the conscripts of 1838 under arms, who
were called out on the Ist of March. This class is like-
wise the only one that remains in active service in the Dutch
army. Thus an important saving will be made in the War
u
partment. Other retrenchments will be made in the
cavalry, the hospital service, &c.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday,
the whole of which have been received, contain very
little news of interest. In the Moniteur of Friday,
the following telegraphic despatch appears, which

confirms the tiew3 published in the London Jour-
nals of Wednesday last :
" Government has received a telegraphic despatch,
dated Naples, April 26th, announcing that the King of
Naples had accepted the mediation of France. The cm-
b ergo laid by the King on English vessels had prevented
Mr. Temple from ordering the immediate suspension of
hostilities. It is announced that several Sicilian vessels
had been already captured."
The KING'S birth-day was celebrated on Friday
with extraordinary pomp. The diplomatic body,
the Chambers of Peers and Deputies, the Muni-
cipality of Paris, and the Presidents of numerous
Institutions, presented congratulatory addresses to
his MAJESTY. These addresses were more cordial

than usual, and in all the KING was congratulated
on the marriage of the Duke DE NEMOURS
with a Princess so worthy of the love and admira-
tion of France. We pass over the bulk of these
addresses, and the answers to then, as our readers
will find the spirit of them all in the following ex-
tract from the address of the Chamber of Deputies,
presented by the President, M. SAUZET, with his
MAJESTY'S answer thereto :

44 SIRR,
" This day is a day of both joy and hope for all. Your
Majesty has another daughter worthy as her whom the
Prince Royal had previously given you. Both are dear to
the country, because they bring happiness into the bosom
of the Royal family, whose virtues are the pride of France
and the admiration of Europe. Both, Sire, have had their
first steps on the soil of France bailed by acts of your in-
exhaustible clemency."
After some observations complimentary to the Royal
Duke's readiness to share the labours and dangers of the
army, M. SAUZET added—
" France, Sire, ardently wishes for peace, so dear to all
the world. She is anxious for it in order that she might
give full force to all her powers, and activity and intelli-
gence. She wishes for it that she may render productive
that tendency to civilization which excites animation with-
out creating disturbance, and enriches a country without
enervating it. But while it abandons with confidence the
direction of these pacific labours to the wisdom of the King
and the Chambers, France also turns her eyes towards her
children, who are fighting for her, and repeats to herself
with pride that none of her energies have become dormant,
and that time has not disinherited her of any of her an-
cient glory."

The KING answered—
" I am much affected by the sentiments which you have
expressed to me in the name of the Chamber of Deputies.
It is grateful to me to find the zeal of my children in the
service of their country appreciated as it is by you. Ani.
mated with the purest and most interested devotion, they
will at all times be ready to shed their blood for France,
and fight in the ranks of her brave army, in support of
the honour of our flag, and for the maintenance of
our institutions—the guarantees of both order and li-
berty. You know that such is the constant object of
my endeavours, and that my whole life is devoted to
secure to France the enjoyment of that calm security
of which your President has given so satisfactory a pic-
ture. lam happy in being able to put the seal of ob-
livion on the past by a new aet of clemency. May it ex-
tinguish old animosities, and calm those passions which
are perhaps the only danger we have now to fear. It is a
genuine source of happiness to me to have been able to
efface the last traces of those days of grief, which I hope
will never more re-appear on the soil of the country. This
has long been the wish of my heart, and I thank you for
participating in it. I take a pleasure in repeating that,
having no other object of ambition than the happiness of
France, no sacrifice, no act of devotion for her shall ever be
wanting on my part."
Loud cries of " The le Roi !" followed his Majesty's
reply. The attendance of Deputies was very numerous.
No disturbance of any kind interrupted for an in-
stant the tranquillity of the capital. The Duchess
of ORLEANS has been ill of the measles, caught
from her son, tHe Infant Count de PARIS. Her
Royal Highness is recovering, and it was rumoured
that on her restoration to health she would publicly
renounce the Protestant for the Catholic religion.
Five of the nine Bureaux of the Chamber of De-
puties to whom M. REMILLY'S motion for exclu-
ding public functionaries from the Chamber was
referred, had on Saturday declared in favour of it.
This will create a great stir among the placemen on
both sides of the channel.
The following extracts are from the papers :
The Courrier du Bas Rhin mentions that a report was
in circulation at Strasburg, that the Prince of the Asturias,
son of Don Carlos, who had been closely watched for some
time by the police of our city, had been arrested on his ar-
rival at Strasburg. We know positively that a young
Spaniard arrived last Saturday at one of our principal
hotels, and that the police considered it their duty to keep
him prisoner at the hotel. It is stated that a telegraphic
despatch communicated orders to have him sent under an
escort to Paris. On Monday afternoon this young man
was put into the mail to Paris, and left our city attended
by a Gendarme."
The Sentinellc des Pyrenees, of the 28th of April, had
announced a renewal of hostilities by the Carlists in
Navarre.
The Phare des Pyrenees, in a second edition of the
29th, has the following article
" The Liberal Guipuzcoan says, that on the 25th, in
the morning, the Commandant-general went with his
staff to Tolosa, where reports were soon circulated of a
rising already commenced, or on the eve of taking place.
This journal confirms the news of the imprisonment of
Garro, and adds, that it is probable that officer would
soon he shot. Lastly, it says, on the credit of a confiden-
tial account, that 14 armed individuals had attacked the
receiver of the provincial duties, on the line from Irun to
Navarre, plundered him of all he possessed, and ill-treated
him, with horrible threats if he continued to exercise his
functions.

P. S.—We just learn officially that Garro was shot on
the 27th. The Commandant has published, on this occa-
sion, an order of the day.
TOULON, APRIL 28.—The Volage brig, and the Etna
steamer have put to sea. It is said that the Volage is
gone to ascertain the presence of an English frigate,
which the guard stationed on the coast think they have
seen cruising between Toulon and Marseilles, doubtless
with the intention of capturing Neapolitan ships. The
Etna is supposed to be gone to Naples with a telegraphic
despatch.
The Ocean is still in the roads ready to sail. —Le
Commerce.

TOULON, APRIL 27.—The Grondeur steamer cast
anchor to-day in the roads. This vessel left Algiers in
the night of the 24th. The news was generally spread
that the Marshal-Governor had captured a large herd of
cattle, and then taken his revenge on the tribes which
lately carried off the cattle near the Maison Carree. Mi-
litary operations have commenced. —Le Constitutionnel.
BOURSE.—PAMS, SATuRDAT MAY 2.

, .
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 3 per Cents ll3 95 ... 114 15 ... 113 90 ... li3 90
4% per Cents IOS 50 ... 108 50 ... 108 50 ... 108 50
4 per Cents.—
3 per Cents 54 40 _. 84 50 ... 81 15 ... 84 15
Bank of France 3350 —.3350 ...3350 _3350
Latfitte Bank I,ooof. SM lO9O _lOOO ...1190 _1 90
5,000 f. SO 5200 —KM ...5200 —5200
Belgian Bank 9,0 ... 907 50 ... 903 ... 907 50
5 per Cents
New York
Spanish Active 295., ... '29%....... 29y4 ... 297.,. ,'
Passive 7% ... 7% ••• 7% —7%
Neapolitan
Roman lO5 ... 105 ... 104% ... 105

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, R. 13 6CO ... 605 ... 600 ... 605
L. 13 390 ... 391 25 ... 390 300
Orleans . 5lO ... 515 ... 510 ... 513 75
Strasburg to Bale 415 ... 425 ... 415 422 50
Niulhausen to Thann 485 ... 485 ... 485 ... 485

Madrid papers of the 25th ult. publish a Roya
decree, appointing Count DE CLONARD Minister]
of War.

News received from Aragon, of the 29th ult.,
states that General Van HALEY had obtained a
complete victory over 21 Carlist battalions. In
the engagement one of the Christino commanders,
General A SPIROZ, was killed. Van lIA LEN'S
victories are inexhaustible. It was only on Friday
last that we announced, on the authority of the
French journals, that the Aragonese rebels were all
defeated, and that, beyond the walls of Morella and
Cantavieja, there were not twenty-one Carlist bat-
talions in all Spain. But it is time that we should
cease to be surprised at any intelligence from the
Peninsula.

The Cortes were sitting on the 25th, talking
about Municipal Reform, but doing nothing. On
the bourse a good deal of business was done. The
five per Cents. active were iu demand at 29 fo
cash.

TRAFALGAR SQUARE,—Great alterations are about
to be made in this square under the direction of the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests. This morning
a number of workmen commenced the operations by
taking down the wood-work around the site intended for
Nelson's pillar ; and by removing the fence on the
south side of the square, for the purpose of extending
it about 80 or 90 feet into the open space ; about
half way between the square and the equestrian statue.
The present foot pavement will be stopped, and another
formed in a curved line from ;Morley's Hotel, towards
Cockspur-street. This part of the plan appears ob-
jectionable, as it must narrow the carriage way
so much in front of Northumberland House. No
preparations are vet made for laying the founda-
tion-stone of the pillar, but it is said the work will
be commenced forthwith. We 'nave heard that still
further alterations arc intended in the square, and that
it is to be levelled all round the pillar, and on the north
side about half way from the site of the pillar to the
road, leaving
Gallery. Four large granite blocks, about four feet
a high terrace in front of the National
high, arc prepared, and will be placed at certain dis-
tances in the curved lin on the south side.
Sir Alexander Grant, ex-Chairman of Committees in
the House of Commons, is mentioned as the Tory can-
didate for Cambridge when the House of Commons
allows a writ to be issued.
MR. FIIZIVILLIAM'S BENEFIT.--This
performer, so
well known for the humour and spirit with which he
sings a comic air, take his benefit this evening at the
Haymarket Power will represent the Irish Ambassa-
dor, and Fitzwilliarn will exhibit his talents in the con-
cluding piece, which has the euphonious title of llubbs,
Dobbs, and Stubbs.

THE MARKETS—(THIS nAt.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
Last week's arrivals of English grain were moderate, but of
Foreign Wheat and Barley considerable. The fresh supplies
were moderate. The finest parcels of English Wheat wore
taken off at rather higher prices ; other qualities sold slowl y at
former rates. t. or Barley little demand, and again Is. per
quarter cheaper. Beans and Peas Is. per quarter dearer. Good
Oats being scarce advanced Is. per quarter. Flour dull sale.
The duty on Foreign Wheat will probably rise again on Thurs.
day to 16s. Bd. per quarter.
PRICES ON B(,
Wheat, Red (old)
----White (old) —s. —s.
—Red 1839) 565. Gls.
- Fine PGs. fiSs.
Superfine ;Os. 725.
-- White (1839) 625.
------- Fine 68s. '74s.
--Superfine —Gs. '785
—Foreign free (302. 60s.
Ryt• 465. 40s.
Barley 303 386 •
Grinding 30s 345.
Malting 38s. 435.
Malt sfis. fiss.
Fine New (ids. 725.
Pease, Grey, New 965. 335.
-- Maple New . 42s.
-- White 38s. 40s.
--- Boilers 40s. 425.
ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LC
Wheat. R
English
Irish .......
reign

A RD OF SFIT
Beans, Small knew) 449.48 s
(old)
Tick (new) 37s 40..
(old) 425.44s
Harrow (new) 405.42 s
-------- (old) 44%46g,
Brank
Oats, Feed —s.—s.
New 04, 2Bs
Poland —s
New '7,29
Potatoe 30 335.
Now 30'.335.
-
Scotch :30..325.
Irish 225. ... .27t .
Flour Town (per sack).— 593.6.2+.
Seconds 54%56s
North Country 50s 32
Bran lO .11 •
INDON DURING LAST WEEK
(Ml,. r r.
,2111 qrs. 5,310 qrs. 7,922 snit,
308 8,t,8 t
,263 1,0.0 3,233 rls.

SMITHFIELD.
A brisk trade in general, at the currency of last market day.
The salesmen, as on Friday last, sheered a disposition to pur-
chase to some extent. The inferior descriptions of Beef and
Mutton were about 2s. lower, but other sorts unaltered. Veal
steady, but Lamb and Pork declined 4d. per stone, for the in-
ferior, and 2d. for the finer kinds. Price per stone, Sibs.,
sinking the offal :—Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal, ss. to
ss. Bd. ; Mutton, 3s. 10d. to 4s. Bd. and ss. ; Lamb, 6s. Bd.
to 7s. 2d. ; Pork 4s. to 58. 2d. Head of Cattle at Market—
Beasts, 2,167 ; Sheep and Lambs, 20,010 Pigs, 545 ;
Calves, 96.