The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-11 00:00:00

HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, MARcii_s.

Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents
Plank Shares

Anglo-Russian Loan iiiiiN 1.6654
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, lstSe•ies lOl 100%
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 96%
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2,,9 pet Cent 4P
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Ilondr
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 73% 75y
N..twegian Loan, 1831, 4 per Cent. f.l
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. IS%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MARCH 5.-13 s.—Two months, 13 3%.
PETERSBURGH' FEB. 23.—Two months, 35% pence.
CLIRISTIANIA. FEB. 20.—Three months, 4 52.
STOCKHOLM, FEB. 23.—Seventy-five days, 11. 46.
BREMEN, MARCH 2 a—Two months, 014.

Madrid papers of the Ist inst. have reached us.
They are destitute of news. On the Bourse busi-
ness was somewhat active. The Five per Cents.
were done at 28; for cash, and 2S for sixty days

Sir Robert Peel has had a new office assigned
him by his Tory friends. He is said by a writer
in the Times to be " the arbiter between social
and political interests of such moment as the
world has never seen balanced before." Poor
Sir Robert, what awful responsibility ! The past
and the future are in conflict, the aristocracy and
the democracy are at issue, Church Establish-
ments and the Voluntary Principle are striving
for mastery., knowledge is in hostile collision with
faith, and of all these rivalries, only to be settled
by time giving the victory to truth, Sir Robert
Peel is now said to be the arbiter. The philoso-
pher in Rasselas, who was driven mad by the
thought that he was charged with the regu-
lation of the weather, did not assume such an
awful responsibility as the sane writer of the
Times heaps on Sir R. Peel. Arbiters, however,
are generally chosen for their impartiality.
Sir Robert Peel, on account of his par-
tiality, is repudiated by one of the great par-
ties. He is the liveried lackey of one party of
the aristocracy, and of Church Establishments,
and on no point, except, incidentally, on that of
knowledge, is he favourable to one of the con-
flicting parties and principles. To take a parti-
zan for an arbiter is absurd, and Sir Robert has
never been elected to that high office by the
voluntaries or the democrats. It is a mistake to
assign such an office to him, unless as dealing be-
tween the two factions of the Tories. The Mem-
ber of Parliament who ascribes this office to
him is a Tory, and has unconsciously revealed
the secret of his party. It is split into a hungry
crew who will have office on any terms, and also
a bigoted crew who will seek it, and only accept
it, on the uncompromising principles of religious
intolerance. Sir Robert has to steer his course
and balance his cause between these two parties,
which is, we presume, what the Tory Member
of Parliament means by describing him as the
arbiter between the social and political interests
of the Tories.

THE COWARDICE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES.—
The Scotsman justly says, "it is the cowardice of
the middle and wealthy classes which enables a
creature like Sir Andrew Agnew to assume the
privilege of prescribing to men of ten times his
capacity what they ought, or ought not, to do on
Sunday." Does the Scotsman include itself
amongst the middle and wealthy classes? We
ask the question, because we keenly remember
that the Scotsman and its friends succumbed to
the priesthood on another point, when the Lord
Provostship of Edinburgh was at issue ; and re-
flected very unnecessarily, we thought, some of
the odium which the. priesthood threw at Mr.
Harmer, on that gentleman. When such jour-
nals as the Scotsman lend their countenance to
malignant religious persecutions, we cannot be
surprised at the priesthood and their friends dic-
tating how the Sabbath should be observed. As
long as they are allowed to trample on the
liberty and fair fame of individuals, why should
they not prescribe to the slaves, by whose aid
they are enabled to persecute, how they shall
employ their Sunday ? The wealthy, middle,
and indeed all the mercantile classes who now
begin to groan under the dominion of the priest-
hood, affecting the conveniences of commerce, are
justly punished by that same heavy yoke they
have long laboured to fix on the rest of mankind.
God is just, and of our pleasant vices makes
instruments to scourge us.

THE DUKE DE BELLUNO.—The late Marshal
Victor was born at La Marche, Vosges, in 1766, and en-
tered the artillery in 1781. In 1793 he was made General
of Brigade, for his services in the attack on Toulon. In
1796 and 1797, he served in Italy, caused 8,000 Austrians
to capitulate at Provers, and t'jok Ancora with its garri-
son of 5,000 men. His conduct at the battles of Monte-
bello ar.d Yarengo was gallant in the extreme, and, after
the Peace of Amiens, he was sent as Ambassador to Den-
mark. He was wounded at the battle of Jena, and was
raised to the dignity of Marshal far having mainly contri-
buted to the gaining of the battle of Friedland. He
served in Spain in 1808, in Russia in 1812, and greatly
dist;nguished himself in 1813 at the battles of Dresden and
Leipsic. In 1814, he was wounded at the battle of
Craone, and, after the return of the Bourbons, adhered ',O
their cans'. During the 100 days, he passed into Bel-
gium with Louis XVIII., and was subsequently made
Major-General of the Gua"d and illinister of \Var, He
was raised to tke Peerage in 1816.