The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, I'4l.

they appear as if they were fclse both to themselves
and their friends.

The letter which appeared in our Journal of Sa-
turday, from a Member of the League, advocating a. ii
union of all Reformers for the repeal of the bread-'1
tax, was judicious and well-timed. The Weekly
Chronicle, we observe, advocates a similar policy.
It is quite certain that unless the Reformers are
united they will gain nothing, and equally certain it?
they can unite on any given subject, be it what it
may, they will command success. Their opponents,,
divided amongst themselves, distracted by the con-
flict of their dishonest practices with the principles
they pretend to teach, cannot offer any determined
resistance to men enthusiastic in the cause of free-
dom. The one thing essential for the Reformers,
therefore, is unity—or resolved unanimity in seek -

ing one object.
From the programme of the great meeting whiclr,
is to be held at Leeds, we see that different subjects;
are appropriated to different speakers. Mr. Hum E,,
for example, is to speak to the condition of the!
people, Sir W. MOLESWORTH is to handle the de-
licate question of the Suffrage, but we do not sea
the important subject of unanimity appropriated to
any speaker. Perhaps Mr. WARD, though not the
very likeliest man to bring it to pass, may think the
subject worthy of his talents, and on no occasion
can it be more fitly urged than at the Leeds meeting:..
On what Reformers are to unite, is the difficult
question. It augurs ill for the household suffrage
that the Chartists of Yorkshire are to meet on the
same day as the Leeds Reformers, in order oc
oppose household suffrage, and foster agitation for
the five points. They think that it is impossible
to have organic changes every Session, and that
consequently such a change as household suffrage„
which they denominate unjust—though we believe
it could be shown that household suffrage would
embrace all classes—would impede their chance o:f
obtaining the suffrage for every adult male, anC
therefore they are resolute in opposing househole
suffrage. In the same manner many of the Char-
tists believe that the repeal of the Corn-law, giv-
ing the people good wages, and filling their bel-
lies, would put an end to discontent, and
take away the food of agitation. They
oppose the repeal of the Corn-law, but the
reason why they oppose it ought to recommend
it to those who wish to sec our institutions calmly
reformed, not swept away by a revolutionary whirl-
wind.. On every question there are great obstacles
to a union between all classes of Reformers ; btu
as union is the one thing necessary to success, all
honest Reformers, who prefer the good cause to a
' personal triumph, should essay, above all things, to
bring about union.
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The Tories, very much to our satisfaction, are
becoming quite purists in election matters. If they
will only be consistent in their purity, there will be
no need of the Ballot. Every man will be allowed
to vote just as he likes, and the meanest tenant of
the Duke of NEWCASTLE will never again even
receive a hint of the manner in which his Grace
expects him to vote on pain of ejectment. Mr.
SCHOLEFIELD, for example, the Member for Bir-
mingham, has addressed the following letter to Mr.
SMITH, the candidate for Walsall ; and the Tories
cry out against it as intimidation, as an unwar-
rantable interference, and as calling for the severest
reprehension : •

" Birmingham, ;ran. 4, 1841.
"My dear Sir—Most heartily do I rejoice in your
coming forward to represent Walsall, believing, as I do,
that unless the cruel and unjust Corn-laws be repealed,
one-half of :he manufacturers and operatives of England
will be left to perish for want of employment. Almost all
the nations of the earth would be our customers if we
could take in exchange for our goods the only commodity
which many of them have to give in return. A long pull
and a strong pull to get rid of these iniquitous Corn-laws,
and England may once more see what she has long lost—
commercial prosperity. Any friends with whom lam ac-
quainted, or with whom my house has dealings, cannot
better promote their own interests, and gratify my feelings,
than by voting for yourself. Sincerely wishing you success,
" I am, dear Sir, your sincerely,
"JOS. SCHOLEFIELD."

If it be intimidation to tell the people of Wal-
sall, who deal with the men of Birmingham, that
they cannot better promote their own interests, and
gratify the feelings of their customers at Birming-
ham, then we are afraid that every newspaper has
been guilty of the same offence. Scarcely one of
them, we believe, but has addressed stronger repre-
sentations to the men of Walsall, than those Mr.
SCHOLEFIELD expresses to the candidate. But
when honest and just remonstrances awaken the con-
sciences of the electors, they become intimidation !
We suppose, from the anger of the Tories, that Mr.
SCHOLEFIELD'S letter has had a good effect. It has
contributed to open the eyes of the electors to their
true interests. What injures Birmingham does not
promote prosperity at Walsall. Similar assurances
to those given by Mr. SCHOLEFIELD are given to
the electors, by addresses and deputations from all
parts of the empire ; and should they not listen to
such friendly remonstrances, and elect Mr. GLAD-
STONE, they will injure, if not destroy, their own
prosperity, and the prosperity of the rest of the
country.

We have received the Paris Journals of
Saturday. The weather had impeded the com-
munication in France as well as in Eng-
land, and the mails from London, Havre,
Bordeaux, and Marseilles had not come to hand.
Some alarm was felt at Paris from the rising of the
Seine, which had flowed over into the Champ de
Mars. The Dehats says that apprehensions were
entertained that the waters would rise still higher.
The Commerce asserts that they began to subside
about mid-day on Friday.
The political news contained in these Journals is
of little importance. All the Morning Papers of
Saturday published a telegraphic dispatch, dated
Strasbourg, the 14th, announcing that a serious
contest had taken place at Argau, in Switzerland,
between the Catholics and Protestants, upon the
occasion of revising the Constitution, the revision
having been rejected. The Commerce, however,
affirms that the despatch is inaccurate, and that the
inadmissible pretensions of the Catholics caused
the civil war.

The Constitutionnel contains a long letter on
the Rhenish provinces, the object of which is to
keep up the irritation of the French, and insist on
the necessity of France assuming the energetic atti-
tude she had taken up under the late Cabinet. The
proclamation of peace always, and peace every-
where, is said to have caused a complete change
in Germany, and made both the people and Princes

eager for war.
The National contains extracts from the German
Papers, under the head of " Continuation of the
Arming Abroad," which also tend to keep alive
alarm, and excite the national animosity of the French.
The garrisons of Warsaw and New Georgiewsk
have been completed. The Bavarian army is to be
put on its complete war footing by the month of
March. More than 150,000 men will at that period
he collected in the Rhenish provinces. All these
Papers, at the same ti►r,e, contain the Speech of
the Grand Duke of HEsSE DARMSTADT, on
closing tl►e Session of the States, in which
he says that he is convinced that peace will
be maintained. He asserts that every European
Sovereign now on the throne wishes for peace. He
expresses great regret at the possibility that his
efforts to increase the prosperity of the country
should be disturbed by military preparations, and
he relics on the support of his people, should sacri-
fices be required for the security and honour of

Germany.
The ,Debats has a long and able article on the

Report of M. THIERS on the Paris fortifications,
and that journal does not approve of the Report.
The Debats is alarmed, lest the fortifications should
drive the opulent classes and commerce from the
city, and leave the poor without employment and
without food. It is not yet too late for the French
to awaken to a true sense of the folly of fortifying
such a city as Paris, and the ridicule which the
Dehats throws on those patriots " who express
alarm at the movement of every Prussian regiment,
and who will in the end make all Europe believe
that fear is universal in France," may help to at-
tain so desirable an object.

The French Journals of Sunday are before us,

The debate on the Bill for the fortifications n

Paris was fixed for Thursday, when a member 01
the Opposition, M. LARABIT, was to move tha

the continuous line should be erected before the
detached forts. It was expected that this motion
would be supported by M. ODILLON BARROT
and the Left, and opposed by the Government,
by which the relative strength of the different
parties in the Chamber would be at once ascer-
tained. Already has the suspicion arisen among,
the Opposition that the Government has no inten-
tion of erecting a wall of circumvallation round

Paris, and that only detached forts are wanted,
the guns of which will easily bear upon every ds-
trict of the capital. Nothing but the sheerest stu-
pidity on the part of some members of the Oppo-
sition, and a corrupt betrayal of the liberties of
their country on the part of others, could have so

long concealed this fact from every member of the
French Legislature. A line of detached forts is all
that is required by the KING to bridle the revolu-

tionary party. The Government only wants such
forts to be in a condition to reduce the Parisians
to the most unqualified submission. The KING,
Marshal SOULT, even M. THIERS himself, know
the project of surrounding such a city as Paris with
a wall to keep out an invading army to lie wholly
preposterous. But it is necessary to gull the popu-
lace ; and for such a purpose no better instrument

could be chosen than the leader of the war

faction, the ex-Minister THIERS. This man has
sold himself and his country to the Court. We stated

at the period of his last resignation that he had
done so, and that he only resigned to avoid the
consequences of his own rash and puerile policy.
The majority of.the journals, French and English,
contended at the time that there would be war to
the knife in the Chambers—that M. THIERS, ap-
pealing to French passions, would place himself at
the head of the war faction, and, after storming the
Cabinet, plunge all Europe into war. We knew
the ex-Minister better than to share in such a de-
lusion ; and accordingly intimated that having op-
posed the Government enough to save:appearances,
he would grow quiet, and seemingly resigned to a
state of things which he could not change. Sub
sequent events have shown that we were not at all

mistaken.
The French Journals contain ample details of
the unfortunate disturbances in Switzerland. Ex-
tracts from them are given in another part of The
Sun.

We find in one of these papers a letter from
Semlin of the Ist instant, which states that the
Porte had refused to revoke the deposition of

MEHEMET ALL This statement is untrue. On
the 27th ult. Captain WALKER sailed from Con-
stantinople to Alexandria, charged to bring back
the Turkish fleet, accompanied by an officer of high
rank from the Divan, who was to deliver to the
VICEROY two Imperial firmans, the one revoking
the sentence of deposition, and the other conferring
upon him the hereditary Government of the
Pachalic of Egypt. This news we have reason to
believe has been officially communicated to the

Four Powers.
The Criminal Court of Bamberg, in Austria, lately sen-
tenced to 5, 10, 15, and 20 years' imprisonment in the
fortress 01 Spiclburgh, a number of Poles, convicted of
having belonged to secret societies.
The Temps and Quotidiehne announce that Governor
Rosas intends to come to France with his daughter, on
board the French squadron.
The celebrated Bertrand Barrere, formerly member of
the National Convention, died, on the 13th inst., at
Tarbes, his native place, in the 85th year of his age.
After making himself conspicuous as a lawyer in the Par-
liament of Toulouse, he became a journalist and a political
man. Barrere was a member of the States General, of
the Constituent Assembly, of the Ttibunal of Cassation, of
the National Convention, of which he was President in
1792, of the Legislative Body, and of the Chamber of
Deputies of the hundred days, and took a most active part
in the political struggles of the last 50 years.
The Courier Francais attacks the Ministers en the sub-
ject of the convention concluded between France and
Buenos Ayres.
Tho Courier forgets that this convention, which besides
fulfils all the conditions laid down in the ultimatum of
France, was signed by Rear-Admiral Mackau and the
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Rosas on the 30th of Oct.,
that is two days after the accession of the present Ministry.
Perhaps, too, it forgets that Admiral Mackau has followed
in every point the instructions which he received from the
Cabinet of the Ist of March.
The Commerce speaks this morning of the omission said
to have been pointed out in the applications for supple-
mentary and extraordinary votes of credit, and which it
says amounts to no less than 150 millions. This asser ion
is inaccurate, no omission has been made; the project of law
which the Minister of Finance is to present shortly to the
Chamber of Deputies, is that which he has announced and
which related to the distributions of the proceeds of the
loan among the various branches of the extraordinary pub-
lic works.—Moniteur.
Reports arc in circulation at Toulon which say that the
English ship of the line Bellerophon, the same which, in
1815, conveyed Napoleon from Rochefort to England, has
perished on the coast of Syria , and that an English
frigate is also lost. We need not add that these state-
ments want confirmation.—Le Constrtutionnel.
VIENNA, JAN. B.—The island of Candia was restored to
the dominion of its Sovereign, the Sultan, on the 17th of
December. Mari Bey, the Turkish Commissioner, arrived
on the 15th io the bay of Suda, on board of the Austrian
brig Montecuculi, and made his entry into Candia on the
14th. The fir man was published on the 17th, by which
the island is restored to the immediate dominion of the
Sultan, and Mustapha Pacha, hitherto: governor for Me-
hemet Ali is continued in his office, in consideration of the
important service which be had rendered to the island by
his administration.
BO URSE.—PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 16.
I !rat Highest Lowest Last
Price Prise. Pricy. Price
French 5 per Cents ll2 20 112 30 ... 112 15 ... 112 2C
4 per Cents 99 99 911 .. 99
3 per Cents 77 25 7? 30 ... 77 25 ... 77 30
Bunk 01 r'rance ........ 3260 ...3260 ...3255 ...3255
f.nffitte flank :0:10f. Stares 5130 ...5130 ...5130 ...5130
,eigian Bank
5 per Cents 99 99 99 1-9
New Loan
sp.m.tt Active ... 25% ... 25yt ... 25%
Passive 6A ... 6% ... 6% ...
NTeapolitan
;Inman .... lOU ... IGO ... 100 ... IUU
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles,it R 415 416 25 ... 415 ... 416 25
L.B 3lO ... 312 50 ... 310 ... 32 LO
Youen
O. lemis . . 484 75 488 75 488 75 ... 488 75
Strasburg to Bale 316 25 ... 3i6 25 ... 345 ... 216 ,5

DUTCH FUNDs.—AmeTEttoeta, JAN. 15
11.1oney . Bills,
t cum' Debt, _Sy per Cent ........... 5O 50k,
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amoit Syndic, 41. e per cent S"'4 Si
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent 7054 7114
Commercial Company, 414 per cent l6l ti ;6. %
Ditto (1A35 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1937, 3 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month lll 0 -
Two mon tha
Dutch Papers, Jan. 13.
HAIiIBU R(.l BONSENHALLE, JAN. 12. '
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. ... lO5
Bank Shares 1675
Anglo-Russian Loan lO7 10tA
Russian 3 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series lO5l
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series - 91,,,, 96
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, XY,,', pef Cent 49 •
Ditto 5 per Cent — -
1
Poliqi Bondi'
New ticket
'74 7316
Anglo. Datlibli Loan, :3 per Coot
N..vt wegi all Loan, 1834, 4 per Cs-nt...
Spare h, New .1 per Cents. l9 18,4
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JAN. 12.
Bills. liloney.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4!4 per cent. IO3N li :116
Prussian Engifth Loan, 18311,4 percent 1005 1(0!4
li:itch:age on London, three montbs 6 le%
—Prussian Stale Gazelle, Jan 13.

We have advices from Lisbon of the 11th, and
from Madrid of the 10th inst. In both capitals
apprehensions were entertained that the dispute
between Spain and Portugal would lead to unplea-
sant results. The Madrid Gazette of the 10th
contains an official article, commenting in very
severe terms upon the Queen of PORTUGAL's
Message, a rumour both in Li, bon
and Madrid, that the Regency had refused to with-
draw the ultimatum which led to the offer of Bri.

fish mediation. The Duke of VICTORY, who is
supposed to he anxious for war, in order to find
employment for his army, was reported to have
directed the concentration, on the Portuguese
frontier, of a force consisting of sixty battalions
of infantry, nine regiments of cavalry, and 160
pieces of cannon, ready to cross the frontier on the
31st of January, the date of the expiration of the
ultimatum, provided the question was not previ-
ously settled. The DUKE'S plan of campaign is
said to embrace a division of his army into three
corps, and so march simultaneously upon Lisbon,
Oporto, and Santarem. The Portuguese o❑ their
part are preparing for hostilities, although the Pro-

vinces bordering on Spain are already in a state of
insurrection in consequence of the levies of fresh
troops required by the War Minister, and enforced
by the local authorities.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN A LSAGER, M.P.—We regret
exceedingly to state, that Captain Alsager, M.P., for
the Eastern Division of the county of Surrey, expired
this morning, after a tedious illness,—Standard.

GENERAL ANNUITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION.—
We have before us a copy of the letter lately addressed
by Mr. Heighain Rogers to the Directors of the Gene-
ral Annuity Endowment Association, relative to the
accounts of the Association and calculation of the an-
nuities, the publication of which is announced in another
part of our paper of this day. Considering the very fre-
quent losses and disappointments sustained by many indi-
viduals, who have been induced to form themselves into
companies, and which losses and disappointments have
been found to arise from the mismanagement of those
who take upon themselves the office of Directors, we
feel it our duty to call the attention of the public to the
very clear statements and calculations which this letter
contains, particularly the attention of the subscribers,
their nominees, and the annuitants belonging to the As-
sociation, as well as of all others who arc disposed to
become members of it.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

COLONIAL MARKET.

The public sales of produce were large; there was a
fair spirit in the biddings, and most of the goods off;red
were sold at full market rate's.
TEA MARKET.
The biddings were languid at the public sales, and former
rates were barely supported ; but a small part of that of-
fered was sold.