The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, Ih4l.

long endured nor The penal laws

agaiLt the Catholics, on account of their injus-
tice, provoked the resistance of the people, and
they were then abolished. But the Corn-laws
are now regarded, both by friends and foes, as
similar to the penal laws against the Catholics.
At the above-mentioned meeting Mr. COBDEN
said—

You remember that, for many years, some of the most
eminent ari3 most eloquent men in the country were
pleading the cause of the Catholics in the House of Com-
mons. There was Grattan, who has been so immor-
talised by Byron, speaking for many years, almost with
the voice of an angel, but. he effected no conversions.
But when O'Connell=—(Loud cheers)—who was not al-
lowed to come into that House at all—and it was a great
mistake to keep him outside—(Applause)—when he had
got up his two or three millions of emancipators, then
they passed the Emancipation Act, and without any con-
versions, mark you. They said, "We are still of the
same opinion, but we naust pass this Bill."—(Cheers.)
And if you will only get a couple of millions too—and
mind, you must have, what I do not think you will
easily find, as clever a leader as he was in those days—
then you will get the repeal of the Corn-laws from Peel
himself—(Loud cheering)—and Sir James Graham,
and Goulburn, and Knatchbull, and the rest, will all
dance after him, saying, " Oh, we are of the same
opinion, but we must repeal these laws."—(Cheers.)
I think many of you will have read, in Sir Walter Scott's
novel of " Ivanhoe," the account of how the aristocrat
of those days got poor Isaac, the rich Jew of York, into
his dungeon, for the purpose of extorting the shekels
from Isaac's purse. He threatened him with the slow
fire, and other torments. The Jew begged and implored
for mercy, in the name of religion and humanity ; but
the aristocrat of those days, as of the present, wus quite
dead to such appeals, he was determined to have Isaac's
shekels.—(Applause.) But in the midst of this affair,
when he was just ready to place Isaac on the bars, he
was stunned by a loud knock at the portals of his castle,
and the Knight of the Black Mail, with a hundred fol-
lowers, assailed him in his stronghold. He instantly
quitted his hold of poor Isaac to defend himself, and
then he was beaten.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, you may
dependiupon it the aristocracy will never give up their
hold of your shekels, till you assume such a position in
the country, and knock at the stronghold in a way that
cannot be misunderstood.—(Loud cheers.) You need
not go armed ; you will require no battle• axes, spears,
swords, or shields ; you only need to be united in moral
force, as our friend from America has said ; you have
only to unite, and the moment you are all united, that
moment the Corn-laws are repealed.—{Loud cheers.)

The Standard, from a living conviction of the
similarity of the laws' for starving the labouring
classes and the laws for degrading the Catholics,
coupled the two together on Saturday, and told
its readers that they " were to be haunted by
corn and Catholics fur the rest of their lives."
Naturally enough, for men are generally
haunted by the recollections of their evil deeds.
Twelve years ago the Tories vainly endeavoured
to lay the Catholic spectre, but the frightened
fools in emancipating the Catholics by name and
by Act of Parliament, continued to degrade
them in fact, and to exclude them from civil
rights by a vicious administration of the laws.
For twelve years, and even for twice twelve
years, the injustice done to the Catholics by the
Tories was the torment of that faction, and is
now a source of doubt whether it will be able to
retain possession of the Ministry. The Corn-
law will serve them in the same way, should
they not abolish it, or by some mock or
fictitious abolition, to attempt to cheat the people
into the belief that they have given them free
trade and cheap bread, as they attempted to be-
guile the Catholics by a decree of emancipation
which they took care should never be carried
fairly into execution. Catholic emancipation
was achieved in spite of the Tories, and it is a
happy augury of our success that both friends
and foes now compare the unjust restriction on
the supply of food, to that unjust restriction on
the freedom of worship which the same tyrants
who now curse us with a Corn-law were in 1829
compelled to abandon.
But the language used by Mr. COBDEN at that
meeting, greeted by enthusiastic cheering, was a
still more favourable augury of the success of
the rigteous cause. We have already informed
our readers, and, as far as we could, have
informed the public, including the obligarchy
and the skilful tool they have placed at the head
of the Ministry, that many persons had drawn
a distinction between obedience to laws and obe-
dience to the will of a body of avowed monopolists
and plunderers, and would set the latter at de-
fiance, though they endeavoured to clothe them-
selves with the sanctity belonging to the former.
Now let the reader, and particularly let the aristo-
cracy, mark and deliberate well on the language
used by Mr. COBDEN :
But now comes the grand admission which his Grace
has made. What does it all amount to but this—that
we, the landed oligarchy, have the power both of the
Crown and the people in our hands.—(Cheers.) We,
poor ignorant people, thought that when the late Parlia-
ment was dissolved, and the Queen made an appeal, it
was to the people.—(Cheers.) But it appears that it was
nothing of the sort. The Duke of Richmond has dis-
closed the secret, and it seems that it was merely an
appeal from the Queen, or the executive, to the landlord
oligarchy ; and they have decided, naturally enough, in
their own favour.—(Cheers.) Now, the principle in-
volved in this admission just amounts to this, that the
landed aristocracy claim the right of controlling the
Crown, and trampling upon the people.—(Applause.)
The principle of that declaration, thus openly avowed,
if carried out in practice, amounts to a practical usurpa-
tion, and a virtual revolution.—(Loud cheers.) I do
not know how you may stand in this matter, but when
I went into the House of Commons, I took a certain oath

of allegiance—allegiance to whom ?—(Applause.) To a
band of greedy oligarchs, of sordid monopolists.—
(Cheers.) No—l took an oath of allegiance to the
Queen, and I owe no allegiance to any other autho-
rity.—(Cheers.) And, more than that, I say, let it be
shown, let it be put in:practice, let that usurpation which
is implied in the Duke of Richmond's declaration be car-
ried into effect, let me see it, let it be tangible, and I
will yield to such usurpation only by force.—(Loud
cheers.) I will pay no taxes—l will render no services
unless they are exacted from me by force ; and I would
sutler martyrdom itself before I would submit to the des-
potism of the proudest, but the meanest and most sordid
oligarchy that the world ever saw.—(Loud and prolonged
cheers.)

Well done Mr. COBDEN, speaking out in that
bold and manly way will soon bring the question
to a decision, and bring the sordid oligarchy on
its knees to the outraged people for forbearance
and mercy. Power, beneficially exercised, ex-
cites no inquiries into its origin ; but power,
exercised to enrich itself at the expense of
starving the people, provokes such inquiries.
Can the oligarchy bear the investigation ? Can
it show its patent ? Dare it bring before the
public the deeds signed and sealed by which it
has authority to pass a Corn-law ? Is it not
aware that its power depends altogether on
rotten prescription ? Does it remember that
this prescription was interrupted, and shown to
be rotten, in 1832 ? Can it forget that the Consti-
titution of the House of Commons, as it at pre-
sent exists, by which the oligarchy is enabled to
trample both on the QUEEN and the people, was

the child of popular commotion, and that the
same people who were beguiled in 1832 to pro-
mote a reform, which has turned out worse
than valueless to them, can, whenever they
choose to arise in their might, achieve
a still greater reform, by which the
most sordid oligarchy the world ever saw may
be hurled into that nothingness it so richly de-
serves ? Political power is correlative. It is
measured by obedience ; and when obedience is
refused, power is at an end. It is plain, from
the language used by Mr. COBDEN, and the en-
thusiastic cheers it met with, that the oligarchy
has disgusted the people by its rapacity, and that
the day of the extinction of their obedience and
of its power, unless it act wisely and ,beneficently,
cannot be far off.

The whole of the French journals of Friday
and Saturday have reached us. Nearly all
the Liberal journals oppose the disarmament,
but want of space prevents us from antering to-
day into an examination of the futility of their
objections. Ti►e following extracts from them
will be ibund. interesting :
The Pope, at five in the afternoon of the 30th ult.,
arrived at Civita Castellana, where Cardinal Pianetti,
the Legate of Viterbo, atd several Bishops, were in wait-
ing to receive him. His horses were taken from his
carriage by the people, who drew his Holiness to the
Episcopal Palace, where he alighted with loud accla-
mations.

The banquet to M. Gallait, the painter, and to M.
Debiefve, the sculptor, which was announced by the
Brussels papers, took place on Wednesday. Several
members of the Legislature, and all the artists of note
in the capital, were present. Speeches were made, and
some verses in honour of the two guests were read.
The Toulonnais has the following from Algiers :
" The inclosed wall at Coleah is being carried on with
great perseverence. The battalion of Foot Chasseurs
has joined the other four battalions, who have been at
work upon it for the last month eight hours a day. Dis-
eases have within the last few days become numerous,

and fl'• hospital at c.: 7.'• has already l- olJllged to
relkv, itself by sending Ai:,wards of 400 (0 its sick to
Algiers. Abd-el-liader has sent numerous emissaries into
the east of Regency, to endeavour to excite the tribes
to rise. Fifteen mounted Spahis, sent from Bona, on
the 16th ult., to make a reconnaissance as far as Cap de
Fer, were driven back into the town, with a loss of three
men and several horses.

" The Belgian Minister of the Interior," says the Com-
merce, " lately applied to the persons engaged in the
cotton-manufacture and trade of Ghent, for their opinion
as to the effect of the admission of cotton goods into
Belgium and France, reciprocally at a duty of 5 to 10 per
cent. They replied that, however formidable the com-
petition of French goods might be, they would accept
with gratitude any measure which should tend to pro-
mote the shipping interest, and augment exchanges with
their neighbours of the south."

Dr. lie'tmold of Hanover, according to the Hamburgh
papers, has been condemned to be imprisoned for six
weeks, or to pay a fine of 300 crowns, as the author of
a Memorial to the Germanic Diet against the New Con-
stitution.

A Royal Decree has been issued at Copenhagen, stat-
ing that the Danish Government will not henceforth
send out Ambassadors but on extraordinary occasions,
but will be represented at the Courts of France, Eng-
land, Russia, Austria, Prussia, and Sweden, and at the
Germanic Diet, by Ministers Plenipotentiary only. At
the capitals of the other Powers, it will have resident
Ministers, Charges d'Affaires, or Consuls-General.
The new Tariff Bill presented to the American Con-
gress has given rise to the following observations in the
Federal of Geneva :—" This measure is of great interest
to Switzerland, which on an average exports to the
United States manufactured silks, chiefly from the can-
tons of Zurich and Bale, to the value of 12,000,000 f.
annually. These silks are embarked at Havre, and are
received in America as French produce. The news that
this merchandise was to be charged with a duty of 20
per cent., and that, contrary to ;Al usage, this new law
was to be carried into execution almost as soon as it was
passed, has produced a disastrous effect on our trade.
Fortunately the accounts are not correct ; for, in the
first place, it could not be brought into force, as stated,
on the Ist instant, because it has not yet received the
sanction of the Senate ; and, in the next place, because
it is probable that the Senate will not give its assent
without reducing the proposed duty from 20 to 12 per
cent. It is nevertheless true that our commerce and in-
dustry is thus threatened with the loss of one of its
greatest markets, and, it is anew burthern on our trade
and manufactures without relief to any other."
A letter frOm Dresden, of the 4th instant, states that
on the preceding evening, during the performance of a
drama at the national theatre, a young romance writer,
named Gerstenhaye, in a fit of insanity destroyed him-
self in the lower boxes by discharging the contents of a
pistol at his breast. He died almost immediately. The
performance was suspended for about twenty minutes,
when some persons in the pit called out for the play to
proceed, and the actors went on as if nothing extraor-
dinary had occurred.
A letter from Zurich says:—" Six travellers, M. Du-
chatelet, a young geologist of Nantes ; Professor Agas-
siz, of Zurich ; Professor Forbes, of Edinburgh ; Mr.
Heath, of Cambridge ; Etienne Dessoer, of Liege ; and
Prury -Shod, of Neuembourg, ascended on the 27th ult.
to the highest point of Jungfrau-Horn, a glacier of the
Canton of Berne. They were obliged to cut steps with
their hatchets in the ice. They had six guides with
them, one of whom was a shepherd, eighty years of age,
who had already ascended the mountain three times. On
arriving at the summit, the travellers took some meteo-
rological observations, and planted a flag, on which are
inscribed their names and the date of thir ascent,"

The Toulinnais publishes the following private letter
from Algiers of Sept. 1 :
The whole tribe of the Medjehars has declared for
the Bey, Hadji Mustapha Oulid-Osman Bey. Other
tribes having manifested the intention of submitting to
France at the same time, Abd-el-Kader, alarmed at
these desertions, has addressed a proclamation to the
Musselman population, to warn them to be on their
guard against the snares laid for them by the new Bey,
who is supported only by a few hundred infidels, and
who will soon experience the same fate as all the other
Beys appointed by the French.
General Bugeaud, being informed of this circumstance,
and desiring to give some marked support to the new
Bey, has given orders to the 23d regiment of the line
(which was to return to France), to embark on the 3d of
this month on board the Marengo and Triton, to proceed
to Mostaganem.
The first battalion of the Zowares, commanded by
Captain de Flo, will shortly set out for the same direction.

The line of block-house; between Coleah and the sea
is complete. The ditch is dug to the length of 2,500
yards. An excursion to Churchell is organised ; it will
take place on Sunday the 6th of September. A steamer
will convey the passengers, who will probably be
numerous.

Nourri Effendi, late Ottoman Ambassador at the Court
of the Tuileries, has arrived at Marseilles, on his way to
Constantinople.
The steam-vessels Veloce, Cameleon, Papin, and
Vautour, took their departure from Toulon on Thurs-
day, for Port Vendres. On the preceding day the Dili-
gente advice-boat sailed from the same port for the
Levant.

" Before leaving Brussels," says the Moniteur Parisien,
" for Paris, to negociate the Treaty of Commerce, the
Belgian Commissioners applied to three princir al book-
sellers of Belgium for information on this important
branch of commerce. in order to be prepared to treat with
the French Government upon it, should the question of
the reprinting of the works of each country be brought
into discussion. The chief of one of the three companies
in possession of re-impressions is said to have been dele-
gated to come to Paris, and assist the Commissioners on
this point."
The Giornale delle Due Sicilie, 28th ult., contains the
Ministerial appointments :—Don Joseph Lanza, Prince
of Travia, Counsellor of State, to be Minister f Public
Worship, with a salary of 6,000 ducats ; Don Fernando
Ferry, President of the Court of Accounts, to be Minis-
ter of Finances, with the same salary. The salary of
the Duke de Lorenzano, Minister of State without a

portfolio, is raised from 2,400 to 3,600 ducats. Several
other Ministers of State without portfolios are named
and are to have votes in the Council.
On the 7th inst., the members of the Scientific Con-
gress of France paid a visit from Lyons to Vienne, in
the Sirius, and another steamer. Between 600 and 700
persons embarked, and the band of the 29th regiment
enlivened the party on the voyage. On arriving at
Vienne, after a run of only an hour and twenty minutes,
the Members of the Congress were received, under a
triumphal arch, by the Sub-Prefect and other authorities,
and conducted to a fine avenue of trees, on the banks of
the Rhone, where a splendid breakfast had been pre-
pared for them. After breakfast they visited all the
curiosities and manufacturing establishments of Vienne,
and at two o'clock sat down to dinner with the au-
thorities and principal inhabitants of Vienne, in the
Champs de Mars. At four o'clock the Members of the
Congress embarked, on their return to Lyons, under a
parting salute of cannon.
We learn from Blois that, a few days since, during a
violent storm of hail, which ravaged the country for
some extent, the phenomenon was observed that the hail,
which spread over an extent of twenty kilometres, or
twelve miles, came from only one small cloud, the rest of
the sky being perfectly'clear.
The Quotidienne gives the following :—" A person
named Girard and his wife established a cafe at Lyons
some years ago, on the Place Bellecour. One of the
customers having noticed a great resemblance to Marie
Antoinnetta in the countenance of Madame Girard, men-
tioned it to others, and at length Madame Girard, who
is a very handsome woman, was induced to adopt the
costume of Marie Antoinette, and her cafe was con-
stantly crowded. This resemblance to the unfortunate
Queen has been ruinous to Madame Girard, for the po-
lice, alarmed at the crowds who frequented the cafe,
have driven M. and Madame Girard from their esta-
blishment.
" A duel with pistols," says the Independent of Brus-
sels, " took place on Sunday last, near Merlin and
Ahluin, between two officers, the Baron de Noe, Captain
of Hussars, and son of the Count de Noe, Peer of France,
and a Sub-Lieutenant of Hussars, in consequence of a
quarrel at the Camp of Compiegne. The Baron had his
artn dreadfully fractured, and was removed to Ahluin
for medical aid. His adversary, who was slightly wounded
in the side, immediately returned to Compiegne."
A few days ago two thieves were arrested on the roof
of a house in the Rue St. Martin, as they were trying to
get in at the garret window. The circumstance caused
some excitement in the neighbourhood, and in particular
so affected the mind of an old lady, that she constantly
fancied that thieves were entering her apartment, and
two nights since, under the impression that they were
breaking in, she rushed, in a moment of insanity, to her
window, and having opened it threw herself into the
street, and was killed on the spot.
Two evenings since a
young lady, named Jourdan.
only 15, after lighting a candle with a match, threw it
on the ground, still burning, but so near her dress that it
caught fire, and she was instantly enveloped in flames.
Overcome with terror she threw herself on the bed,
while her sister, who was present, fainted away. Their
father and mother shortly after entered the room, but it
was too late, for the injury their daughter had received
was so great, that after passing the night in the most dis-
tressing tortures, she expired next morning.
HEARTS OF FLINT.—A poor woman, having been
convicted of some infraction o f the forest laws in the
country, near Rouen, was fined 25f. Being unable to
pay the money, she, though herself enciente, and having
already five small children to support, was sent on
Tuesday last with all her progeny at her heels to ex-
piate her offence in person, by a month s durance in the
prison of Bicetre, at Rouen. Her deplorable appearance,
'
as she passed through the streets, in charge of two gen-
darmes, with her numerous train, excited general pity,
but no one thought of assisting her,
until, on her arrival
at the prison, the gaolers were so struck with her dis-
tress, that they immediately made a collection, paid her
fine, and sent her and her children home rejoicing.
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, SEPT. 11.
Beat Highest Lowest Last
french:. per Cent!, ex. div Price Price. Pric. Price.
114 70 ... 114 70 ... 114 55 ... 114 70
4 per Lents ............ t,O 97 80 t,7 80 .. 81
3 per
...... 77 811 77 80 ... 77 70 ... 75
dank of .. -... ... :260 ...526i!
Laltittesank 1,11001.. Scares 1,30 1e:30 ...1025 -.10 5
%rum Shares t 09,1 **5149" ...10
90
...I"
Holoßn /Sank ................ 771 ••• -:0 77e 7.0
Belgian 5 per Cents. ....... 10:33, ji%3N 103 N .. /03'4
3 per cent,., 1840._ . 104 N ... 104% ... 114%
3 per Cents. .71 40 71 40 ... 71 40 ... 71 40
Spanish Active........,..... 22% 52 .. 22%
Neapolitan ........................ 105 2tl ... 105 30 ... M2O ... 05 30
Roman
.... K 2% ...103% ...103
itAILWA., sHAHE.
Versailles, LB. .................. 205 205 203 75 205
it. B ........... ..... 307 50 307 5) ... 307 50 ... 307 50
Rouen4 0 410 ... 45J ... 450

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Immigrants continue to flow in. Within the
week there have arrived a ship and a brig from Madeira
bringing upwards of four hundred, besides a schooner
from Dominica, and a ship from Barbadoes.—Guiana
Gazette of July.

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" Who runs may read."

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The Commerce has a letter from Vienna, in which we
find' the following important announcement :—" The
general disarming of Europe has been resolved upon.
The Cabinet of Vienna has recently addressed a note to
that of the Tuileries, to invite it to reduce its military
force conjointly with the other great Powers. The Ca-
binet of the Tuileries replied that, so soon as the other
Powers should be ready to disarm, it would do so too,
and would begin by a reduction of 40,000 men. The
Austrian Cabinet, consequently, immediately ordered a
reduction of its army ; but, as the autumnal reviews are
to take place almost immediately, the measure is not to
be carried into execution until the 15th of October. It
is thought that the Landwuhr will be disbanded, which
will be a reduction of 80,000 men."
The Courier says—" M. Guizot has promised to dis-
arm ; shall we have the grief of witnessing the perform-
ance of his promise ?" This Journal is for an increase
of the armaments, as if France, reeling under a load of
taxation, was only anxious to add to its weight.
The National is as much opposed to the reduction of
the French navy, as the Courrier Francais is to any di-
minution of the land forces. "We know very well,"
observes this organ of republicanism, " that England
sees with displeasure the augmentation of our naval
force, and that there is nothing which our Government
would not do to be agreeable to her ; but to reduce the
navy at such a mome-nt, when there is danger on every
hand, and precaution was never more necessary, is a
project so monstrous that, notwithstanding all the re-
ports in circulation, we can with difficulty believe in its
existence."

The Journal des Debats urges the Finance Minister to
lose no time in negotiating the loan, on the ground that
if it be not wanted to meet the demands upon the Trea-
sury, still it is required to stimulate the prosecution of
public works.