The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1840.

in Parliament, for redress. The Horse Guards,
though fortified by the Mutiny Bill, and all the
articles of war, will find these of little avail against
the voice of a whole nation. Subscriptions will be
raised on behalf of the sufferer ; meetings will be
held, and the subject will ultimately be forced on
the attention of the Legislature, in a way
that will redound little to the credit of
Lord HILL, or his protegee, Lord CARDIGAN.
Out of evil cometh good. The whole system at
the Horse Guards must undergo a scrutiny to
which it has not been subjected since the days of
the Duke of YORK, and means be provided for
protecting brave and high-spirited• men from treat-
ment that the lowest menial would resent.

A Correspondent, whose approbation of the per-
vading tone of the Foreign policy of The Sun is
very gratifying to us, thinks that there is some in-
consistency in advocating a peace with France,
and ridiculing the mission of Mr. CHARLES
ATTWOOD aid his friends to Paris, seeing that

their great object is likewise to maintain the
amicable relations between the two countries,
for which we are so zealously contending. Our
Correspondent has fallen into a mistake against
which we thought it unnecessary to guard the
least attentive of our readers. By turning back
to the few allusions we made to the ATTWOOD Mis-
sion, he will find that we did not find fault with it
because its object was pacific—an object of which we
could not but approve to that precise extent—but
because it had the folly and the abject meanness to
attempt to realize that object by the impeachmetit
of the official conduct of her MAJESTY'S Foreign
Secretary of State, not before the august and legi-
timate bar of public opinion in Great Britain,
but before a foreign, and, as its members had
reason to believe, a hostile tribunal. Not that
we would by any means, or under any circum-
stances, have countenanced such an impeachment
if made in England. Lord PALNIERSTON, while
in office, can incur no official responsibility apart
from his colleagues in the Cabinet. His error or
guilt is the guilt or error of the entire Mi-
nistry. All his measures, before being exe-
cuted, must be sanctioned by his colleagues
in Council, and, so approved of, are not more
his than theirs. Neither the laws nor the con-
stitutional usages of England make anv distinc-

tion between the acts of a Minister and the acts
of a Cabinet, nor would it be rational or equi-
table that they should attempt anything of the
kind.

These considerations would prevent us from ap-
proving of any step taken by the ATTWOOD mis-
sion, even if we were opposed to the general policy
of Lord PALMERSTON. But this we need hardly
inform our Correspondent, is by no means the
case, however much we may take the lead of
our Ministerial Contemporaries in ardently de-
siring peace with France. Lord PALMER-
STON'S policy, from the date of his Lord-
ship's appointment to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, has obtained, with the rare exception of
two measures, our unqualified and heartily ex-
pressed approbation. The first refers to the slow
execution of the conditions of the Quadruple Treaty

for the pacification of the Peninsula ; the se-
cond to the too sudden adoption of the Qua-
druple Treaty for tranquilizing the East. With
the object of the Treaty of London we quarrel
not ; neither do we complain of the way in
which it is proposed to execute it ; but we
contend that no definite step ought to have
been taken unknown to France, and above
all, that nothing should have been done
which could by any possibility spread the horrors
of war over the now fair and smiling face of Eu-
rope. Where the peaCe of the world is at stake,
the profoundest statesmanship, consists in the cal-
culation of, and the making provision for, conse-

quences.
Moreover, although we think that Lord PAL-
MERSTON was too precipitate in signing the
treaty of London,—seeing that M. TRIERS ex-
pressly denies being aware of its existence until it
was actually signed—we have sufficient confidence
in his Lordship's statesmanship and patriotism,:to
feel no inclination to witness the usurpation of his
ministerial functions by Messrs URQUHART, A TT-
WOOD, and. C ARGILL. These gentlemen may be
influenced, for aught we know or care, by the best
intentions in the world, but we feel no disposition
whatever to constitute them guardians of our hon-
our or our safety. In carrying an impeachment
of Lord PALMERSTON before M. ODILLON
BARROT, Mr. CHARLES ATTWOOD placed him-
self in a situation to hear reproaches cast upon the
proud land of his birth, which no true-hearted Eng-
lishman could have listened to without a breast
bursting with indignation.
While, therefore, we desire peace as much as
Mr. ATTWOOD, we must be allowed to decline the
honour of a fraternization with a mission which
has so ill supported the national dignity in Paris.
In offering the olive branch to France, we court
no rebuffs, providing that we should not want spirit
to resent them ; consequently it is impossible that
we could accept a pacific co-adjutorship with Mr.
ATTWJOD and his friends. Is our Correspondent
satisfied?

Two London Contemporaries who pretend to
great knowledge of the state of parties in Scotland
have for the last ten days been using every exertion
to fix Dr. CHALMERS in the Divinity Chair of
Glasgow ; and one of them closes a long article
this morni►ig with this triumphant boast :—" Thus
the last rotten plank upon which the Doctor's op-
ponents have ventured to place their feet is hope-
lessly broken beneath them. What will they do
next ?" Unfortunately the Rev. Doctor ventured on
the rotten plank which the Times and the Globe
prepared for him, and it has " hopelessly broken
beneath him." Dr. HILL, son of Principal
HILL (so long the ornament of the Church of
Scotland, and the most eloquent of modern preachers)
was elected on Wednesday without opposition,
and, it would appear, even without the
slightest allusion to the champion of the Non -
IntrusioniEts. The following laconic account
of the affair is thus given in a Glasgow
paper of Wednesday:—"This day having been ap-
pointed for the election of a Professor of Theology
in this College, in room of the late Rev. Dr.
M'GILL, Dr. JEFFRAY moved that the Rev.
Dr. ALEXANDER HILL, Minister of Dailly,
should be appointed to that office, which motion
was seconded by Dr. MEIKLEHAM, and, no
other candidate having been proposed, Dr. HILL
was declared to be duly elected." The electors
were threatened with the castigation of the Uni-
versity Commission if they rejected Dr. cum,-
MEB s, and, like men of spirit, they have despised
the threat, as we confidently anticipated, and una-
nimously elected his opponent.

There is no political news of any importance in
the French journals of Wednesday. What gossip
they contain in the way of general news, and their
remarks upon the abdication of the QUEEN RE-
' GENT of Spain, will be found under their respec-
tive titles in another part of The Sun. A telegra-
phic despatch in the Moniteur states that Queen
CHRISTINA, after landing at Port Vendres, went
towards Marseilles by Perpignan and Montpellier.
We find no new fact respecting the Eastern
question in Wed►►esday's Journals. An occasional
correspondent of a Morning Contemporary states

positively that on Tuesday night a confidential
agent was sent off by M. THIERS to St. Peters-
burgh with instructions to the French Ambassador
at that Court to do all in his power to effect a
friendly alliance between the French and Russian
Governments. The writer adds, that to detach
Russia from England the French Ambassador is
authorized to offer Russia very important advan-
tages, principally commercial. This statement is
by no means improbable. To detach Russia from
the other Powers has long occupied the serious
thoughts of the President of the Council. But
how is this to be done under existing circumstances ?
The adoption by Russia of the policy of France in
the East was an easy matter in 1839, but in 1840
it is an impossibility.
France gathers strength,
e w
arfeeling
desire. This in a great measure
is by no means subsiding
althougha
sahste as peacetll
could party in
w
is owing to the vast military preparations which are
everywhere on foot, and which serve to fix public
attention upon the ever-exciting question of war.
The Constitutionnel contradicts the reported in-
tention of proroguing the Chambers till the 15th of
November, and invokes for Ministers the support
of the Deputies. Before we know exactly n hat
line of policy M. TRIERS proposes to recommend
to the Chambers, we cannot say what support the
Cabinet is entitled to claim. M. THIERS has
pledged the Government to nothing but to uphold
MEHEMET ALI in Egypt, and to that extent it is
indifferent to us what support he obtains.
The following curious paragraph is from the
Quotidienne, a Royalist journal. If true, the
Cabinet has nothing to fear from the meeting of
Parliament
" Before the signature of the Treaty of the 15th July,
the Plenipotentiaries of the Northern Courts asked
Lord Palmerston if, in case the Whig Ministry were
overthrown, would the Tories adopt its politics in re-
gard to the affairs of the East ? Lord Palmerston ab-
stained from replying. We now learn that several
Peers of England, delegates from the Carlton Club, have
verbally given the answer to Prince Metternich, at
Marienbad, in presence of the English Ambassador and
the Ministers of Russia and Prussia, at the Court of
Vienna. They engaged, in the name of the Tories, to
continue the politics of the actual Ministry, and to en-
sure the execution of the Treaty."
A letter from Naples, of October 6, contains the
following passage :
" We are able to affirm positively that the little Ita-
lian Princes have formed a league with Austria for
the defence of their dominions, in case of war, and for
the suppression of any troubles that may take place.
Notes have been sent to the representatives of these
several States at Naples, instructing them to use their
utmost efforts to induce the King to enter into this
confederation.
" But Ferdinand has answered that he knew what
he ought to do to defend his kingdom, and that he
thought it strange that the other Sovereigns should in-
terfere in what did not at all concern them. All the
diplomatic body is in a bustle at language which it was
far from expecting ;
and it seems certain, that, notwith-
standing the arbitration of France, with which the King
had no great reason to be pleased, he is nevertheless
favourable to France ; and that his Majesty cannot en-
dure England,] against which he has great grounds of
complaint ; and that he will not hear of Austria,
which so basely abandoned him in h;s differences with
Great Britain, when it might have acted a very dif-
ferent part. —L'Univers.
A letter from Toulon, of the 17th, informs us that
the Ocean, the Morengo, and the Trident, ships of the
line, have returned from that port, coming from the
Hieres island.—Le Commerce.
BO UR SE.—.PARIS, WEDNESDAY, OM 21.
first Highest Lowest bast
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents lO6 30 ... 106 60 100 20 ... 106 60
4% per Cents 9B ... 98 ... 97 75 97 97
4 per Cent 5.......,,, 91 50 91 ... 91 50 91 50
3 per Cent 5.....„„.„ 72 75 „72 80 ... 72 45 72 50
Rank of trance ........ 2850 ...2550 2440 „. 2840
Lattitte Bank 1,0001. .. 1000 —lOOO 1000 _l6OO
5,(100f. Sk 5030 5030 ..54 30
Belgian BankBlo 810 805 805
5 per Cents 95% 95% ... 95% ... 95%
Spanish Active 21% ... 22 21% ... '2 2
Passive 5 5 5 5
Neapolitan t'9 99 25 99 99 25
Roman 9B ... 98 ... 98 ... 98

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, R. 8...........„, 350 ... 350 350
L.B. ..... 265 ... 50 262 50 ...
Orleans . 452 50 4t2 50 ... 452 50 ...
Strasburg to Bate ... 340 245 ... 340 ...

We have received Madrid papers of the 14th
inst. The news of the abdication of the Regent
had just reached the capital, where all continued
tranquil.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF MEATH—DUBLIN,
OCT. 21.—The Right Rev. Dr. Alexander, Bishop of
Meath, expired this morning after a protracted illness.
His Lordship, who was a relative of the Earl of Cale-
don, had been consecrated Bishop of Clonfert in 1801,
was translated to Down and Connor in 1804, and to
the see of Meath in 1823. It is stated that the deceased
Prelate was possessed of considerable wealth. It is ru-
moured—but as yet it is mere report—that Dr. Sadleir,
Provost of the University of Dublin, is to obtain the
vacant see.

LORD LIEUTENANT OF LONDONDERRY.—The Dub.
liar Gazette of last night contains the official notification
of the appointment of Sir Robert A. Ferguson, M.P.,
as Lieutenant of the city and county of Londonderry, in
the room of the late Lord Garvagh.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-.(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, •
OCT 23.—Wind, this day at noon, light
westegrAlL, y aoirsc,Landfine
22.—Windwe N. W.—Arrived the Ann
weather.
D
Burgess, from Tobago ; Napoleon, New Orleans ; Jersey
Tar, Stratford, Africa. Sailed the Rose, Stewart, for
Sydney, with the outward bound.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 22.---Wind N.—Arrived the Sarah,
late Adolphus, Honduras ; Mary, Draper, do. Bermuda,
Tynes, Barbadoes; Lehigh, Plumber, New Orleans and
New York ; Virginia, Barton, Philadelphia; Rochester,
New York ; Henry Bliss, Quebec ; Monro Monro,
Girgenti; Promplidao, Lias, Lisbon. Sailed the Char-
lotte, Graham, Boston. Put back, the Blundell, for
Trinidad, and Thestes, for Antigua.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 22.—Wind N. to N.N.W.—Ar.
rived the Gladiator, Britton, from New York.
DARTMOUTH, OCT. 20.--Arrived the George Sutton,
Archer, from Labrador; Somerset, Cleft, Teneriffe.
SCILLY, OCT. 17.—Arrived the Hesperian, Hooper,
'ram Malaga. Off port the Donna Maria, Surinam.
BRISTOL, OCT. 22.—Arrived the Lotus, Hammond,
from Quebec ; Andrew Shand, Rutland, ditto ; Lady
Rowley, Wright, Denia ; Elizabeth Ann, Bryant, Malaga.
Sailed the Robin Hood, Proctor, for Boston ; Pomona,
Smith, Trinidad.

CREEK, OCT. 22.—Arrived Tantivy, Butcher,Vostizza.
TORBAY, OCT. 21.—Arrived off, the Marmion, Harri-
son, from Quebec.
__

GLOUCESTER, OCT. 21.—Arrived the Ringdove, Firth,
Quebec.

NEWPORT, OCT. 21.—Arrived the Harmony, Tendell,
from Quebec.
SWANSEA, OCT. 21.—Arrived the Wellington, Gal-
braith, from Cuba.
LANCASTER, OCT. 21.—Arrived the Hellsboro, Lamb,
from Dalhousie.
KINGSTOWN, OCT. V.—Arrived the Vestal, Graham,
from Demerara.
• CORK, OCT. 20.—Arrived the Troubadour, Hubert,
trom St. John's New Brunswick; Springflower, Symons,
Richebucto. '
SUNDERLAND,
e OCT. 21. —Arrived the True Briton,
Foster, from Quebec.
KINSALE, OCT. 21.—Arrived the Edward, Bissett,
from Porto Plata.
RAMSGATE, Ocr. 22.--The Smith, Hughes, from Cork
to London, has been assisted into the harbour leaky, and
with stern stove, having been in contact with a vessel yes-
terday off the North Foreland, and must discharge part of
her cargo to repair.
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MUTINY, AND DEATH
OF ONE OF THE
the crew had been MUTINEERS.
The following is an extract of .a
letter received at
Lloyd's, from the agent at Cork, dated Oct. 20, 1840:
'' One of the crew of the barque Troubadour, Herbert,
arrived here from St. John's, New Brunswick, was shot
by the master on Thur d last. It appears that part of
that in a state of mutiny, and
upon that day, having made the land, a seaman went
previouslysa
aft, armed with a billet of wood, and stood over the com-
panion, daring the master to conic on deck. The latter
warned him of the consequences, and repeatedly requested
him to go forward, or he should be obliged to fire at him,
and upon the man's refu • t
g do so, he fired, and killed
him upon the spot, the ball
through his body. An
inquest will be held to-day, the master having surren-
dered himself up to the authorities.
V of I ---f .11

i ESSELS SPOILEN w The
ilnst, off Cape
ITII.--- 9, by the '
from Quebec, 18th lonAntelope,
inst., ht. 50, •
Apslett a • Woodhouse, of Hull, Ist
Economy, .. ipswich
arrived off Falmouth.
Marseilles, 10th, lat 43, 1 12, by the Indus, Walker,
arrived at Faltntuth.' C on.
C
dee aroP '
bell Clyde to Port
Adelaide, 30th June, 12.138 'S
, lon. -8 E., by the Ma-
Adelaide,
arrived at Calcutta. .
Trafalar and John Weavil, Swansea to
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CIRCASSIAN HosPITALITy.—What, for ex-
highest to the lowest, is attached
- t—,.....-----
a guest-house, where
ample, can appear more romantic and improbable than the
ever the respect he may
fact that to every residence in the Caucasus, from the
strangers (that is, Circassians or Turks) are received and
entertained in the most liberal manner for nothing, and
that the host, whatever vbe his condition, and
house, attend
upon them in person, and wait their per-
mission to be seated himself ?—Longworth's Year among
Me Circassians3
otherwise claim, mus.t, in his. own