The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-08 00:00:00

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Captain Elliot's latest doings in China 'are calling
down upon us the reprobation of the French press.
Our Gallic Contemporaries should, in all fairness,
wait to know what •the English people think of
e vagaries of this functionary. Our readers re-
not to be told what The Sun has always

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thought and still thinks of Elliot's achievements. If any
of them do, we refer them to our leading columns of
this day. To show the animus of the French press wg.4
quote an extract from the Courrier Francais upon which
it is unnecessary that we should offer any comment :
" The capitulation of Canton is a piece of good for-
tune for the English, for it will fill up a portion of the
deficit occasioned by their expensive armaments. It will
be thought perhaps that a harsh ransom has been exacted
from the Chinese, but the English are not in the habit of
going to war merely to show their disinterestedness,
If the inhabitants of Canton, who had never given to
England the slightest ground of complaint, and who only
desired to renew the relations which had been broken off
by order of the Emperor, are to be treated in this way,
what treatment is reserved for the Chinese Government,
and in particular fur the Emperor ?"
The Journal des Dcbats, the organ of the King, pro-
claims that there will be no disarmament of the
Navy, but rather an increase of that description of force.
This Journal, which speaks the sentiments of the King,
says:--" We cannot entertain a project of reduction of
the navy until France shall have what she now has not,
viz. a navy proportioned, not to the jealousy of England,
which the English press persists in imputing to us, but
to the real wants of France, and the elevated rank which
she holds in the world."
The Courrier Francais and the Constitutionnel unanim-
ously implore the French Government to have nothing
to do with the Christina movement now attempted by
General O'Donnell in Spain.
The Presse has a furious attack on the Government of
the United States. We have not room for it to-day,
but the, substance of it shall appear in our columns of
to-morrow.
On the 29th ult. the young
.Queen of Spain and her
sister appeared in deep mourning, that being the eighth
anniversary of the death of Ferdinand VII.

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Herald, after expressing its opinion the.
the Royal Speech is " distinguished by a very unusual
tone of simplicity and frankness," proceeds to say :
" The two announcements with which it commences
could scarcely have been compressed—without disadvan-
tage—into terms more brief or direct. The character
of the measures to be propounded, next Session, is indi-
cated without further comment ; and to be sure the
multiplied interests which they involve—the mighty ends
to which they are to be directed—are such as, perhaps,
required not to be further enforced, having been once
distinctly noticed in a paragraph of her Majesty's Speech.
When it is said of measures which it will be expedient
to adopt' that they will be calculated to accomplish the
purposes of equalising the public income and the an-
nual expenditure—and other important objects connected
with the trade and commerce of the country,'—nothing
more, surely, can be .requisite to secure for them
the gravest attention of Noble Lords and Honour-
able Members 'at an early period after the recess.' "
The "simplicity and frankness" of the Royal Speech,
which the Herald so highly praises, we are at a loss to
discover ; but one thing is very evident throughout it
—namely, that its character is in beautiful accordance
with that of the Session which has just closed. The
ono is an apt comment on the other. The Speech says
nothing worth noticing ; and during the Session nothing
has been done worth a moment's consideration. The
Speech is short; so was the Session. The Speech is, fur
the most part, taken up with common-place cant ; and
during the Session nothing else was talked but cant.
The Speech is ungrammatical ; and the Session was
equally remarkable for displays of indifferent ortho-
graphy. The Speech is high Tory ; and such was the
character of the Session I In a word, the Speech illus-
trates the Session as correctly as George Cruickshank
has illustrated the Tom-fooleries of Jack Sheppard.
The Post thus refers to the Royal Speech --" The
Speech read yesterday, by the Royal Commissioners on
the prorogation of Parliament is adapted to the peculiar-
ity of the present position of affairs. It is more concise
than usual—less general in its review of topics. Instead
of using words about various important matters, which
are usually framed so as to mean nothing, it spares the
words and avoids the topics altogether. We do not know
that we should decide all at once upon this being an im-
provement, if we supposed that it was
,to be taken
as the commencement of an innovation upon esta-
blished usage as regards Royal Speeches to Par-
liament. But we do not suppose any such thing."—
The Post seems somewhat puzzled in what terms to
write about the Royal Speech. We are surprised at
this, for we should have thought it every way suited to
our Contemporary's Tory tastes. What more—or,
rather, what less—would he have, in a Speech concocted
by a Tamworth Quack ? Is it not canting enough for
him ? Does not its delightful nothingness charm his
Tory fancy ? As a party journali3t, he must be very
unreasonable not to be perfectly satisfied with a Speech
which binds MinisterS to nothing—absolutely nothing
at all !
We quote from' the Chronicle the following elle
''e speech :—" Here, in this do-
cument, which would be were it
not shamelessly indecent, we have announced—what
A great change in our commercial policy ? A great
prospect for national industry ? A great relief to suffer-
ing millions ? No ! a change of Ministry ; and this
change is—completed ! Positively, if men were not fa-
miller with what has transpired during the recent short
and shabby Session of Parliament, such an announce-
ment, constituting the very head and front' of the
Speech; ware enough to knock them down. A Parlia-
ment assembled, with the cries of suffering thousands
ringing in its ears, and recommended, in a Royal Speech,
to enter on the best and most effectual remedy for these
sufferings, is dismissed with the announcement that there
has been a change of Ministry, and that the change is—
completed I A completer and a morn heartless insult was
never flung in the face of a people calling themselves
free l" The most sagacious remark we have been able to
discover in the Royal Speech, is the statement that the
" arrangements for the formation of a new Ministry
have been completed." Yet there is nothing brilliant or
original ate_ e, though we demur not to its accuracy. It
is really a fact that the new Ministry is completed ; but
who did not know this already ; and knowing it, who
required to be told it a Svcond time, in the very first
paragraph of a Royal Speech i With quite as much
propriety might Ministers have told is that Queen Anne
eves dead I—When we compare the amount of matter
contained in thelWhig Speech which opened the Session.
with that contained in the Tory one which closed it, ire
are forcibly reminded of Falstaff's famous tavern-bill.
The Whig Speech is his " ten shillings worth of sack";
the Tory Speech le his " halfpenny worth of bread."
The one is bold and full ; the other, sneaking and empty.
The Times, like the Post, is exceedingly modest and
moderate in its praises of the Royal Speech, observing :
—" The first Session of the new Parliament has been
brought to a close, and, although the. Royal address des-
livered on that occasion partakes of a brevity commen-
surate with the shortness of the Session, and with the
necessary disability of the newly installed Government
to expatiate upon affairs which they have not had suffi-
cient time to pronounce upon, it at least declares her
Majesty's perfect harmony with that Government,
as well as their own steady determination to pro-
ceed in a deliberate and rational manner in devising
their plans for the general welfare of the country."—
The Times, it will be observed, contents itself in the
above passage with simply alluding to the " brevity" of
the Royal Speech. It is brief enough certainly; and if
—as the old adage says—" brevity is the soul of wit," it
ought to be remarkable for its brilliancy ; but, alas, it is
an exception to the general rule; for anything duller or
more stupid was never yet spoken, even by a Peter
Borthwick—which is saying a great deal for it.
The following is from the Advertisers—" Parliament
is prorogued, and the Royal Speech by which the act
was accomplished, read yesterday by the Lord Chancel-
lor, surpasses any similar document yet on record in the
utter inanity of its expression. It may be summed up in
the announcements that her Majesty deems it advisable
to close the Session of Parliament—that she thanks the
Commons for the supplies—that she sympathises in the
public distress, and will give her cordial concurrence
to any measures which shall appear, after mature deli-
beration,' best calculated to prevent its recurrence—
hich are all very fair in appearance, but being more
plainly interpreted, mean nothing more than that the
shooting season having arrived, it is more agreeable to
the Members of the Legislature to take to the sports of
the field than to stop in town, deliberating in long and
heartless debates, whether it he better to leave the peo-
ple a prey to actual starvation, or to ease their sufferings
by removing, even in part, the restrictions which exclude
them from food."
The Dublin Pilot, alluding to Lord Shrewsbury's re-
cent pamphlet, observes :—" That a man pretending to
discuss and condemn our Repeal agitation should know
so little of us, our agitation, our clergy: or our country,
as to say that the Irish people bad no grievances to com-
plain of, that her clergy were satisfied with the condi-
tion of their flocks, and knew no secret for future pro-
tion and improvement, han submission to, and confidence
in, Peel—argues a man besotted in his own conceits, but
totally ignorant of the country."
The Nottingham Review makes the following remarks,
on the subject of the good understanding between the
Church and the present Ministry :—" Until we see the
friends and advocates of an Established Church, carrying
out the true principles of Christianity, we cannot accord
them credit for that sincerity which is due to the honest
assertion of principles ; and while we see the people
neglected, thousands furnishing, and thousands willing
to work and unable to obtain it, one has no hesitation in
saying that the present Government, if friends of the
Church, are only so for political purposes."
The following is from the Sherbourne Journal :—"Thu
people are justly served ; they have returned a large ma-
jority of Conservatives, and have placed the coinage of
Reform under their oontrol ; and if they find it conside-
rably adulterated, it ought not to surprise them."
The North Devon Journal observes, in an article on
the Whig New Poor-law---" Right gladly did the Tories
join them in the undertaking, although they had not the
moral courage to originate the plan. The Whig Ministry
dared •the ta§h, and. accomplished it. That there are
blemishes in the New Poor-law which mar its useful-
ness, .is merely saying that man's work is not perfect.
When some of its harsher lineaments are softened
down, working men will recognise in it the face of a true
friend."

IVIONLY—TIZADZ—C o :cam zn, cr.
The silver coin and bullion shipped at Dover in Ser-
shoAetrnarerttsi,nignhamt.
tember. 1841, amounted to 280,655 oz.
here
consequenceis oaf an
AGZICULTIMAL.
narattitaelmsptrt
South
The annual ploughing match and dinner of the
Buckinghamshire Agricultural Association took plane in
that county on Wednesday. Fifty-three ploughs "re.
tested the prizes, and there were six winners. '
LITERARY AND SCILNT2ITICC • d
itkoeabriallite"wgagtehse.
A congress of wine and fruit tasters was to be opene .
at Wurzhurg on the 6th instant. Many small casks of
the best wines from the Maine and Rhine have been
sent
for competition, and numerous baskets of fruit werni.°'
follow. We recommend the British Association to Intl°

Wurzburg their head-quarters next season.
NAV.i AND ZUCLITAZIr•
The sloop Good Fa
Hope was wrI
ecked on Tuesday last
on the rocks underneath Teignmouth Castle Shields.
The Captain's wife was washed overboard, and perish
Admiral Sir George Cockburn has taken possession ei
the residence of Sir Wm. Parker at the Admiralty. S.
George Seymour will occupy Sir C. .A.dani's late r
ll's.
deuce, and and the Hoe. Captain Gordon, Sir J. B.
recbe
W A.
A commissionMA
of lunacyND
wasPOLICE held at Chatham, °III
Wednesday, before Mr. Commissioner West, en t
Stewart Carlow, a gentleman of large landed property
Rochester. Among other instances of his ab erratioN
was related, that his servant having mixed up a qAmsTYr
of white arsenic to kill the fly in some sheep, his moil er
ed not
i 1,5
wanted him to take it ; that he had discharg
because he had refused to eat some burnt bean e after 1,-1
dinner, and that he himself, though he had five or s"„
servants about the house, had scrubbed his own. Passftgi.
and cleaned his own stoves. The Jury returned ar
diet that " Mr. Carlow had been of unsound- mind c
the Ist of December, 1839."
THEATRICAL.
The unsuccessful farce entitled CateghtNapPiagilv met
was produced last night at Covent-garden Thdatr' e
with a peculiarly appropriate fate, for long before its 3sir,
minato 1, half the audience were caught napPinq
Cooper, in consequence, announced its withdrawn
UHBA: E.D
Lord Eliot, O
the new IriT-PASHIONA
sh Secretary, lef,; over-street
yesterday for Liverpool, en route for Dublin.
We hear with sincere re
The Duke regret that his GrAce, the Dui°
b
of Cleveland,
of Wellingt is seriouslyon
isdisshoportly expected 161'-Jul'sed. r
Castle for the season. a
giving t
Lord and Lady Maryborough purpose
Deal Castle early in the ensuing week.
The Earl of Minto left the Admiralty on liVedliesdlif
evening for Minto House, Roxburghshire. var-
The Queen Dowager honoured the Marquis: an" kArk
chioness of Ilastings with a visit at Donnbsgt°3
last week. A btol
The Duke of Bedford returned yesterday to :12
Abbey from Oakley House. to
bees)
The Countess Dowager of Essex (late Miss
has taken an hotel in Paris for the winter.
217ISCELLANEOTTS. „e. one
On this day in 181, died the Hon. Henry Er 52","
of the greatest ornaments of the Scott.ish 03"1 was
brother at the same time led the English bicx.
yord
Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, when lac, Wa
Advocate of Scotland. •
eor4,, tile'
The Thames Tunnel is rapidly advancing ;to
ed solve
tion, the sub-marine cutting having been finish
months. fe-
Since the opening of the Brighton railway, 'sel-beieg;
nerals, per railway, have taken place, the be tlies ;par
placed in hearses on the line, and the mourners 3'-
panying it were e railway carriages. 1563.
Knives first made in England in the year --;,,tioe,
In a late speech at the Dublin Repeal A-soc
in
Mr. O'Connell said, "I have not unfreqa ently.hecilloo
France; and thero is a certain excellent Vraotl,,:etttheY
among families, of having, on particular dap, "1111,",0
call la grande lavesse—that is to say, a yreal,,,' esol
ing."—The Tories are sadly in want of a "'wf,ts.±crean'•
this sort, for some of their bands are anything ',;00
It would be as useless, however, to attempt ii",eallti
Sir James Graham by any process of ablution, a eit,"tsey
be to wash a blackamoor white. The taint of isPnt ea
is not to be washed out, any more than the red', /sr -
Lady Macbeth's hand. 081
It is evident from the short period that the P
it
House of Commons has sat, that Ministers think
do the country no harm to put it on short comm.leeo
A 'Worcester paper says that " a man hag Hof
missing for some weeks at Newent."—There are
Tory consciences in the same predicament. a ,
Mr. Stultz, the celebrated tailor, has contributebree
handsome sum for the yearly support of tbirtrtt as
decayed tailors.—This is not so generous a beTle;
may be supposed ; for if you divide thirty-flit;je
nine—the number of tailors which it takes to
man—then Mr. Stultz will only have provided Or t -
men and a fraction the
It is calculated that the whole of the line,ee6ter
Eastern Counties Railway will be opened to Coteer
to
about a year hence. The works are proceeding (31''s,
poraneously from Brentwood, the present tornllolll toter
Chelmsford, and the cuttings from thence to Cole
are in forward progress.
The Brighton Railway was again obstructed for t °4l-8
time yesterday, in consequence of a fall of earth 3, des
south entrance of the Patcham Tunnel, about Wl' '
from Brighton. It was fortunatelobserved in there, ent
no accident occurred. Professor Barlow has Aube
down by the Government to inquire into the en'--
late fatal accident.

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL pCA J
CITY, TWELVE(IOO are
LIVERPoOL COTTON MARKET, OCT.Thy IDC- 4
t,otton to-clay has been eAtremely
than 2,000 bales having been disposed of at.yes".-n ta"
ds
rates. The business transacted has been entireli
trade. triali
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, OCT. 7.—T,.0 wane
tions at the Stock Exchange are thus reported flet.
Junction, Quarter Shares, 254 ; Great llresterPlaipa
Shares, 75* ; London and Brighton, 424 ;
Counties, New, ; North Union, 75k. vvr :151
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 7.-- -;lo•l‘c-
had little business transacted to-day, and our
still wears a dull appearance. London and Dion ilit'yoll'
159 160 ; Ditto, New, 321. Shares, 23 231 ; a F'
don and South Western 50i- 51 ; Manchester an g.159'
minghtun. 211 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quallerrl,
prem.; Alliance Bank, la 155.; Manchester Ass°
ve
91 ex div. &list t
Cape of Good Hope Papers to the Ist Ansr,ps
been received. The paper of the 28th July,,i.st;
the public here are at present petitioning on bu'—denr:
jects—for favour to the wine trade, for a 511,07"
rency, and for a Representative Assembly. e
Treasury bills, 30 days' sight, 1k per cent. preel' for th,
Consuls opened at 88-7-, 89 for Money, and Ighti-t
lit
Account ; Exchequer liills, 13 15 prem., with I"' _1•
business doing. los, hfre
The news published yesterday from ParnPa";ost,
though not yet confirmed, acts very much agli-fortui
Spanish Secureties. Spanish Active Stock hasd,
declined this morning to 21/ sellers ; Defer 30 511
Passive, 5 4 ; Portuguese, Five per Cents. are
Ditto Threes, 181- 19. The market fiat and he;,,er‘
The India letters and papers brought by the `—
Mail were delivered this morning. Otii‘
liALF-PAST n for 11.•
Cons are fiat at 884 89 for Money, and 87
and
Account. Exchequer Bills 13 15 prernit.lo
Bonds par. t 211
Spanish _Active Stock continues depressed
Mexican Bonds are 25 ; Brazilian, 60 ; Dutch
a-Half per Cents. 514 ; ditto Fives, 99.
qtyt
London and Brighton Shares havedeclinedofr-
North Midland Thirds are 9/1-; and York and I"
d
e.,
15
land, 78; ver little business ding. art4l,
The Hamby urgh Mail due to-oclay has not ye' ;veil
The Canton Register, of the 15th June, rece Col
morning, at the North and South American
01
house contains the following important table. Crew,
Thethe
o tQuantityhoentreer-
oapneoenfhi Tea exported
anchorages
sxt
hpoeofrttreaddet
China,o fGroremat
to the 15th June, 184.1
; and sin-
/0111
ing of the trade ,40‘;
Black Teas
Green Teas
the Te 6

Total 6
Cargoes of several ships not yet des- 456,5'
patched, estimated at
na.94SP

Total

The exports in the same lime to tho United .0419°'
States has been, Black 19')",, 105
..................... 3ul
Green
.
"------., 4,317
Total . 5 OP. '
,1 .TO i.,
see(2mUsAinßarvEerjly
The Money Market •
Consols, Account, 1
888 89 ;Ditto INToyenibc 14 .
Portuguese, 30-1- ; Mexican, 95 1 s anisb, 2Vti •
-;i• ; P
CLOSING PRICES. old
BRITISH FUNDS. ..-- ilt
Bank Stock ...... .. ._ , ,
, India Stock ......
..•...-
3 per Cent Red.
New 3i per Cent \ Ditto Bonds ......... . .
3 per Cent ConsuTuLs'ettlerd 58t110 i.
89 Dittoi Old Annuities •• ~...
New 5 per Cent .. ibe
3L:ouonps Ditto Sala' •.• % •
Jan. 1860 - e ' t ..
per cent.... India Stock for Ace
.. 0
Jan. 1860.
:Ilan, 6
Belgian, 5 p.r cent cent' 'suf
Ditto New A.,,c,nnuti.t !loci I:Fp:,
per
.FOREIGN
Ditto,Bp ConsolsFoa U kt
tsSII :it for
oeeS te.5lA:
jecocrer. t.
c.o.e. •
0.7. .t. ... :.
... '. I, , i
Brazilian Bonds 59 Prussian se
n'tto ....... • %. l•
Ditto, NOV ,--1 .. "1 ,
Buenos t ....
' r cent ••'•''
....,,
Ch' ' ' yres, 6 per cent Russian:., g- .... oi
t ......
Colombian, 6 per cent t. n ••• • 5 Crer cen
5 per . .
Spanish, P
... .... ...
Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred .. • 4 7,.:
~
per cent. *—f• .:--f,'
gteertrAi a pent e,nBnussti: Reie s dt
0.
.e
x.
.p i r

Danish, 3 per cent French, .
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange ............ :-..1, i
Mexican, 5 per cent 25 French, 3 per ..gent. ~ ,°,, 4,
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825, Dutch, 2i per cent. .
.. ' •
Peruvian, 1625, 6 per et. Ditto, 0 per cest ...... • A'
SHARES , Oq''
Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) .. .......
Eastern Counties Railway (23 pai) ..... ..
Great Western Railway (65 paid) ........... 404..`,1
London and Brighton (50 paid)........ "' ' 9,,i''
London and Blackwell Railway ('25 paid);6 - '1.4 .
London and Greenwich Railway C2O r.l 66,A ,'
14 '
North Midland Railway (100 paid) ....... ''
Ditto Thirds (10 paid) .....................
South Eastern and Dover (38 paid)••• id) II
, 5...
York and N....:l2lfi.cland va“.s°lr to . '
------"A ~,,,ger0115„... 100
PROROGATION Of PARLIAMENT.---z,- "'"" ph lip aoti
ing was held last night at the King's ArniSP 1.,, 42i. :
Wood-street, to take into consideration:fa, Att'yer
Speech on the proro;Lation of Parliainwit, ,",, 50 Po '
long and very able discussion, it was decided 700
whelming majority, that "in consequence u° ibe Qviii.';
liament proroging before the Speech wilic' tillcOr'-ille•
addressed to them on the opening had heel' drip
- 414
Consideration, the present Speech WAS deserw
public censure.