The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1841.

this gratuitous instruction of the PEELS has been ►
made to serve a political purpose. One boy was
taken to task for signing a memorial displeasing
to Sir ROBERT, and it is acknowledged by Sir
ROBERT'S 'advocates that several dismissals from
the school have ensued front that memorial. It
had been stated, too, that some of the electors
had felt themselves aggrieved and ashamed by
the use made of the school to influence their
votes ; yet, in spite of these bad effects of the
PEEL bribery, the Spectator advocates it, and
expresses a wish that such bribery should be
tried more extensively. It would have education
given to the people, as livings are given to
priests, on condition that they entertain one se-
ries of opinions. A scheme better calculated to
substitute falsehood for truth cannot be con-
ceived; and if the Whigs had, as the Spectator
implies, acted on that principle, they would have
deserved general execration.
Our Contemporary seems to have grown lax
in his stern morality, as he has become a Peelite
in order to adapt himself to his new principles.
Besides sneering at our characterising the scheme
of the PEELS as bribery, he undertook to show,
at considerable length, that it is of no use talk-
ing about the virtues of justice and humanity,
and that nothing is done by the dissemination of
sound principles and the spreading abroad know-
ledge, unless our present ignorance were incor-
porated, as an Act of Parliament. On the Spec-
tator's doctrine the whole scheme of a Church
may be dispensed with, for that only preaches,
at best, about the abstract virtues of justice and
humanity. We were foolish enough to suppose
that the dissemination of sound principles and
correct knowledge amongst the people was of
more importance than getting the two Houses of
Parliament to pass a law. We know laws may
be formed on very erroneous principles, and may
be very mischievous ; but correct knowledge and
sound principles never failed to bring forth good
fruit. The lesson of our teachers was the reverse
of that of the Spectator. They said give the
people knowledge, let them be well informed,
and the strongholds of corruption and tyranny
will fall away as by enchantment. To
have a well-informed people is, according
to our Contemporary, " to have a mob col-
lected around some strong fortress that they
would demolish, howling with rage, and
shaking their hands with impotent anger, but
destitute of the implements for breaking in
and the skill to use them." The Spectator for-
gets that the whole world of politics rests on
opinion, which will, when ripe, subdue landlords,
as it has heretofore subdued bigots and slave-
owners. We side, therefore, with the Anti-Corn-
law League, and think it is wise to preach about
the abstract virtues of justice and humanity; and
have no doubt that the devoted system against
which the indignation of the people can be ex-
cited by an appeal to these virtues, must fall
whenever their indignation shall be roused.
Our Contemporary says that no parley has
been demanded by the Parliamentary majority.
What then does his favourite's talk about mature
consideration mean? Is the Spectator sensible
that it is all humbug; and does it, at the same
time, hold the charlatan up to public approba-
tion ? Was the Duke of WELLINGTON'S late re-
mark in the House of Lords, that he must look
into the Corn-law question with new light,
no advantage? Is not the Spectator in error
also when it says, that not one advocate
of a restrictive policy has recanted his opinions?
Have there not been several instances in the ma-
nufacturing districts of such recantations ? Was
not Sir GEORGE MURRAY one ? Was not Mr.
Dawsort, at Plymouth, one ? Is not Lord LoN-
DONDERRY prepared to recant? At the meeting
of the Blofield and Walsham Agricultural Asso-
ciation, recorded in the Norzoich. Mercury, we
find Mr. BURROUGHES, one of the Members for
Norfolk, using this language:—
With regard to the Corn-laws his opinions coincided
with those of the President—that this country ought to
be provided with corn at the cheapest rate at which it
can be produced ; but he did not think it could be pro-
vided with corn entirely grown in our own country now,
or that it can be made to do so on the average under all
circumstances. What would be done he was not pre-
pared to state, but he was quite sure that it was not the
policy of this country to admit foreign corn, otherwise
than under a moderate graduated scale.

We see many symptoms, therefore, of benefits
to come from preaching about the abstract vir-
tues of justice and humanity; though we are
afraid that those who doubt the utility will not
be very likely to support the doctrines. The
Anti-Corn-law League has made great way in
the country by such preaching; and we trust it
will not give up its scheme to try for a general
modification of the tariff under the leadership of
the Spectator.

Some of the Tory Journals express great exul-
tation at the termination of a meeting held at
Leeds, ou yesterday week, for the purpose of
promoting a union between all classes of Re-
formers. At this distance of time we cannot
copy a full report of the proceedings, but we
will give a brief outline of them, to enable our
readers to judge whether the result is such as to
make good men, and particularly the good men
amongst the Tories, exult.
The meeting was called by the Leeds Parlia-
mentary Reform Association, and Col. THOMPSON
was invited, as possessing the confidence of both
the Anti-Corn-law Repealers and of the Char-
tists, to negotiate the terms of a mutual under-
standing. A deputation from the Chartists met
the Committee, for the purpose of seeing the
intended Resolutions, which were as follow :-
1. That this meeting views the defective state of the
representation as the source of the suffering under which
the country labours.

2. That' the confiscation of the property of the indus-
trious classes, inflicted by the existing. Corn-laws, is the
most prominent of the practical grievances arising from
the actual condition of the elective franchise.

3. That this meeting invites the co-operation of all
who, desiring the improvement of the representation
generally, are disposed to move against this practical
grievance as the means. And it particularly impresses
the adviseableness of those parties, who hold different
opinions on this point, taking each their several ways,
without attacking or interfering with the other.
The deputation intimated that the Chartists
would not move any amendment to these resolu-
tions, but they afterwards changed their minds.
The place of meeting, the large room of the
Commercial Building at Leeds, was crowded to
excess, and Mr. J. G. MARSHALL was in the
Chair. The first resolution was unanimously
carried, which can scarcely afford any reasonable
ground of satisfaction to the Tories. On the
second resolution being put, a Mr. JOSEPH LEES.
moved, as an amendment, that the whole Charter
be adopted. After several gentlemen had ad-
dressed the meeting, some urging the adoption
of the Charter, others the abolition of the Corn-
laws, as the subject on which Reformers of all
kinds should unite, the amendment was carried
by such a mall majority, that the CHAIRMAN
was obliged to request the Ayes to go on one
side, and the Noes on the other, in order that he
might decide. We are assured on the unques-
tionable authority of a gentleman present, and
well qualified to judge, that the proportion of
the meeting in favour of the amendment was as
six to five. Six-elevenths of this numerous
meeting preferred agitation for the Charter to
agitation for the Corn-laws, and the other five-
elevenths were for Corn-law agitation. The
whole meeting, though not united, was decidedly
opposed to the Tories.

In the course of the discussion, Mr. LEES
openly avowed the object which he and his party
had in view. c, We will not allow," he said,
" anybody to get their rights till we have got
ours." Do the good men amongst the Tories
find any cause for exultation in the success of
those who act on this principle? No improve-
ment will the Chartists allow to be made till
Universal Suffrage is conceded. They are re-
solved to march to victory through destruction.
They will not, in the words of the third resolu-
tion, allow other men " to take their own way,"
but they will attack them, and interfere with
them ; and their momentary success, though it
be the success of violence and anarchy, is boasted
of by the Tory Journals. Their approbation will
give the Chartists strength, and will, if any-

thing can, enable them to realise their own
schemes.

We will, in conclusion, take the opportunity of
saying that the active part which Mr. J. G.
MARSHALL takes in all these proceedings, com-
pletely identifies this opulent and enlightened
man with those admirable papers which bear his
signature, as Chairman of the Leeds Reform
Association.

We are glad to see that tie soul of our Navy
begins to receive public attention. Timber and
iron can always be, had, if there be only men to
use them. Never was the material of our ship-
ping, we believe, in greater readiness for any con-
tingency, and nothing is wanted but hardy hands
and willing hearts to serve her MAJESTY. To
get them, we must urge on the public the pro-
priety of doing., justice to the seamen. Their
services must be bought at their worth and
price in the market, like the services of
any other class. of men. Shall the owner
of a log, however much the country might
require timber, be secure that not au inch of
wood will be taken from him, but by contract,
and at a fair price, and shall the owner of a sea-
man's skill have no security that the whole of
his possessions—that he himself; shall not' be
taken for the use of the public ? That security
is yet wanting to induce men to become seamen,
as they will willingly become when they can,
like the owners of timber, be sure that they will
be allowed to enjoy their property. Once that
security shall be bestowed, our country will
have quite as many seamen as it requires.
Whatever tends to do them justice shall have
our warmest support; and we cannot avoid, there-
fore, expressing our approbation of the order of
the Admiralty recently issued, which grants the
seamen their pensions when serving on board her
MAJESTY'S ships. These are the rewards of past
services, and those who again serve are entitled
to the same pay as the other men filling the
same station. If they are not to receive pay in
addition to their pensions, none of them will
serve in the navy. They will enter the merchant
service, they will engage in other occupations,
and make what they can by their industry in
addition to their pensions. It is just and wise,
therefore, to allow them to keep their pensions
in addition to their pay, when they re-enter the
Navy.

ESPARTERO'S proclamation to the people of
Spain, announcing his determination to proceed
in person against the Christino insurgents in the
Northern Provinces, will be found in another
part of The Sun. We rejoice to find that the
REGENT is resolved to make Europe acquainted
with the names of the real instigators of the mur-
derous attack on the Royal palace. Not
that we are ignorant who they are, or have
allowed our readers to remain so; but
an official announcement made by the Spa-
nish Government would overwhelm them with
the obloquy of every established Govern-
ment in the world. The names of Louis PHI-
LIPPE and CHRISTINA MUNOZ will figure very dis-
creditably at the head of a list of the instigators
of rebellion and Murder in Spain. " The gene-
rous men of all nations," says the REGENT,
"who are interested in the cause of liberty, which
we defend, will demand a strict account
of the instigators and perpetrators of an attack
in which the descendants of an hundred
Kings might have perished. The world shall be
made acquainted with the names of the traitors,
no matter what cloak may cover them. The
time for respect, which has been requited with
the blackest ingratitude, shall cease. The salva-
tion of Spain requires that the veil be withdrawn,
and the whole truth appear, however terrible it
be." We shall await with impatience the fulfilment
of this pledge. The time has, indeed, come for
unmasking the treasons of the ex-Regent and
her accomplices. Never did a generous people
suffer more from the ingratitude and perfidy of
a worthless woman than have the people of
Spain from the infamous conduct of CHRISTINA
MuNoz. The Espectaclor, a Madrid Paper,
states, truly, that as Regent of the Kingdom and
guardian of her daughter, she saved, inde-
pendently of large bribes, during the seven
years of her administration, a sum equal
to four millions and a half sterling. After her
departure from the Palace a number of the
crown jewels were found missing, as well as large
quantities of gold plate, which it is needless to
observe, have not been recovered. "If these
treasures," says the Espeetudor, " were re-
tained by CHRISTINA and expended in quiet
life, and she left in repose, the Spaniards,
who have sacrificed themselves to enrich her,
we, and all our countrymen, would consider
them well employed. But when they they are
used for the purpose of kindling discord and
civil war, which will occasion the shedding of
torrents of Spanish blood, and consummate the
ruin of the country, we cannot help feeling
and denouncing such conduct as cruel in the
extreme." We trust the day of reckoning is at
hand, which shall consign CHRISTINA MuNoz
and her partizans, to the contempt and scorn of
Europe. Loaded with the hatred of a gallant
nation, whose generosity she so shamefully
abused,CHRIsTINA MUN oz will pass the remainder
of a disgraceful life exiled from the society,
and cut off from the sympathy, of all great
and good men. Her solitude will be haunted
with visions of the gallant but misguided
victims of her ambition and avarice. The bloody
shroud of the chivalrous DIEGO LEON will some-
times disturb her slumbers; for though she can
bid defiance to the power of men, neither wealth,
security, nor the absolution of a ghostly con-
fessor can stifle the voice of conscience.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all
been received. Notwithstanding the disgrace-
ful part taken by France in the insurrec-
tion in Spain, the last courier from Madrid
brought from the REGENT large remittances
for the payment of the arrears due to the
French Auxiliary Legion. This was judicious
on the part of ESI'ARTERO, who by this act has
enlisted the sympathies of all honest men
in France in his favour. A telegraphic
despatch from Bayonne, dated the 2:2d instant,
states that General O'DONNELL was then on the
French frontier, demanding permission to cross
it, at the head of it,ooo rebels. On the following
day, the subjoined despatch was forwarded to the
French Government

" Bayonne, Oct. 23.
" THE SUE-PREFECT TO THE lIINISTEIL OF THE iwrzitroa

" O'Donnell arrived yesterday at two o'clock, at
Urdax, with about 2,500 men. Generals Ortigosa and
Jauregny (El Pastor) are with him. Count Monterron,
and a few Members of the Provincial Deputation, also
entered France yesterday."
M. Merentier, principal of the mercantile firm of Me-
rentier and C0.,-of Marseilles, Paris, and London, who,
after the recent' failure of their house, absconded, was
arrested in Paris on Friday last in an obscure lodging,
which he had taken in a false name. In endeavouring to
escape by the window, the wretched man fell and broke
his thigh.
The Gazette de France of Thursday evening, says :
" A person who comes from Saragossa informs us
that the Spanish Government. has decreed a levy of
150,000 men ; viz., 100,000 of the class of 1841, and
50,000 of the class of 18.10. It is said that the execution
of this measure is already commenced in Arragon. If
this statement is correct, it may be conceived what
new derangement' it will cause in the finances of
Spain, at a moment when the Treasury, in the utmost
need, seeks to introduce retrenchment in the expendi-
ture. Spain, too, will not suffer alone, from the facilities
which the authors of the attempt have found in the con-
nivance, or if you will, in the blindness of the French
authorities, who suffered this movement to be organised
under their own eyes. It is said that on learning the
measures taken by Espartero, to send an army to the
Northern provinces of Spain, and perhaps to keep it
there, when he sees the encouragement which the insur-
rection meets with in organizing itself in our territory,
our Cabinet has resolved to assemble a corps at Ba-
yonne, and another at Perpignan, besides a reserve at
'Toulouse. _ _ _

" All these cannot be done without additional votes of
credit, and the Chamber, before which the question
must come, will perhaps think fit to penetrate to the
bottom of the affair. It would be a fitting occasion to
exercise the right of inquiry, in order to know the na-
ture of tho encouragement given to this enterprise,
which has so miserably
failed ; but which will, never-
theless, lead to deplorable and expensive consequences.
" It seems that in,attacking the Palace at Madrid, the
conspirators followed a programme which was not a
mystery to everybody. The Gazette of Genoa, giving, on
the 13th, news from Barcelona, brought by the Phoceen
which left that port on the 9th, said, " At Madrid the

business of the insurgents will be to carry off the two
Princesses, for whose two lives O'Donnell has manifested
some fears."

A. private letter from Toulon, of the 9th, says that
Rear• Admiral Casey has received orders by the tele-
graph to prepare to put to sea with four ships of the
line. It is said that this division is to go to the coast
of Spain.—Commerce.
The Ministry continues to dream about iron railways.
It appears that it seriously intends to cover France with
them ; this proves that people may seriously intend the
greatest follies. To undertake at once 1,000 or 4,000
leagues of iron railway at fifteen hundred thousand francs
per league, without delaying the fortifications of Paris,
and without reducing the standing army, while there is
a deficit of a thousand millions, when no more than a
credit of 150 millions could be asked for, when a re-
assessment attempted to increase the revenue has every-
where excited the opposition of the people, and could be
continued only for form's sake ; all this is so far remote
from possibility and reality, that a Government which
entertains such projects is quite oqt of the region of real
business.—Gazette de France. _ _

The Plwre des Pyrenees (Bayonne) of the 2Otb pub-
lishes in a supplement the following news :
" We received yesterday very important news from
the Biscayan provinces.
" The insurrection is quelled. The approaching
arrival of General Roth!, the" 'presence of Zurbano
almost at the gates of Vittoria, had thrown the inha-
bitants of the city into consternation. The Ayunta-
miento met, in which the Marquis D'Alameda, Deputy-
General of the Province, presided ; it was decided that
Vittoria should not make any defence.
" The Militia and the troops at the garrison pro-
claimed the counter revolution.

" Montes D'Oca, the Marquis D'Alameda, Brigadier-
General Echaline, Colonel Leiba, and some other leading
persons, immediately left the city and proceeded to Ber-
gone, where Montes D'Oca was arrested. The others
reached Metrico, where they embarked for France and
arrived at Bayonne this morning."—Constitutionnel.
The 7'oulonnais, of the 24th, says, " The steamer
which should bring the mail from Africa, has not yet
arrived in the road. .

" It is supposed that this packet, being surprised at
sea by the storm which prevailed last week, has been
damaged, and that it was unable to continue its voyage.
" This delay leaves us in the greatest uncertainty re-
specting the expedition of Medeah, which must now be
euded.—Commerce.
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, OCT. 23.

iirst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price,. Price
French 5 per Cents ll4 95 ... 115 ... 114 90 ... 115
4% per Cents lO4 45 ... 101 45 ... 104 45 ... 104 45
4 per Cents 9B 50 ... 98 50 .„ 98 50 ... 98 50
3 per Cents.„ '79 40 ... 79 45 ... 79 35 ... 79 45
Bank of trance
Laffitte Bank I.ooof. Shares 1035 ...1035 ...11.53 ...1035
Belgian ISank, 1811 .... '702 50 ... 752 50 ... '762 50 ... 762 50
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per Cents., 1840 lO2 ... 102% ... Ice ...192%
Spanish Active 22 ... '2% „. 'll% ... 21%
Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5%
Neapolitan lO5 ... 103 ... 195 ... ,05
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