The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 18-H.

interest, it confers no benefit on ti
people; it is a concession to a few opulent mid-
dle class men, and may be made with advantage
to the Tories. It will detach a few interested
persons from the large scheme of general com-
mercial reform and free trade, for which some
other men agitate,and.it will strengthen the Go-
vernment to resist the demands of the people.
We have frequently adverted to the evil effects
of our present timber duties on ship-building,
and should be much rejoiced to see them abo-
lished, but a drawback on the Baltic timber used
in ship-building would only add complexity to the
evil, and increase those partial laws of which the
community has now so much reason to complain.
A striking anomaly belonging
,to the timber
duties takes place in the Isle of Man, in which
they are only one-twelfth of the duties paid
in the other parts of the empire. In another
part of The Sun we insert an article on the subs
ject from the Liverpool Journal, which show-
how the matter is taken up in that quarter.

The importance of the subject at the present
eventful crisis must be our excuse for giving at
such length a letter on " The Financial Move-
ment :" the language of the writer is occasionally
quaint and peculiar, but he furnishes many facts
and arguments which merit the attention of the
public. Decay of trade, and an empty Exchequer
are not only inseparable companions,but, as all his-
tory informs us, are the fruitful sources of convul-
sions or revolutions. History, described by
HUME as the mistress of wisdom, has always
been treated by infatuated rulers as an old
almanack. Maywe hope that the rulers of this
country will in time learn wisdom from her les-
sons, remove the shackles which cripple our
trade with foreigners, and thereby grant relief
to an intelligent, industrious, and ill-used people.

The Madrid papers received are of the sth
inst. The Spanish Government had agreed to
pay at once two dividends on the Three per
Cent. Capitalised Stock, in order to put the
foreign creditors on a par with the native holders
of securities, This just determination contrasts
most favourably with the dishonest conduct of
the Portuguese Government, which, provided the
native claimant receives his dividend, cares not
a straw about the demands of the foreign creditor.
Amongst the extracts from the provincial papers
in the Madrid journals, we find an article from
Valencia, of the Ist, stating that the Junta of
Vigilance, which had been installed there, had
removed several public inscriotions in which the
Regency of Queen Christina was mentioned,
and commenced the demolition of the citadel
facing the town. It is stated from Barcelona, 2d
inst., that the 20 persons imprisoned in the
tower of the citadel, as hostages for the
safety of the two Commissioners of the Junta, had
been released by the Junta on payment of 500 oz.
of gold. The Junta had published a decree that
all capitalists who would not pay up their portion
of the contribution levied upon them within
forty-eight hours should forfeit their civil rights,
and be imprisoned, awaiting the pleasure of
the Junta. It is stated, in a letter from Pa-
lencia of the 30th ult., that the convicts who
had for two years been working on the road of
Nogaz, revolted on the 29th, and nineteen of
them having broken their chains, and armed
themselves with muskets, made their escape; a
pursuit was set up, but it appears that they got
clear off. Two corps d'armee have been or-
ganised, one in Navarre, under the orders of
General AIa:RIM, the other in the Basque pro-
vinces under the orders of General ALCALA.
A Madrid letter of the 4th announces that M.
SANCHO, the new Ambassador to London, was
to set off that day with his Private Secretary,
N. LYS.

One of the leading mutineers in the northern pro-
vinces, Oriceta, together with a Captain and eight men,
were captured, and will be shot. Brigadier-General
Liorente, an ex-Deputy, and emigrant to England
in 1823, has been conveyed to Murcia, where he is
to reside until further orders are issued. Colonel
Arce, the late Brigadier-General Quiroga's " fiscal,"
has been sentenced to two months' arrest, on account of
his leniency towards that wretched man ; and Colonel
Don Fernando Cordova, a brother bf the late General,
has been cited, through the journals, to appear before
the General and Permanent Court-Martial on or before
the 18th, when his trial comes on, or he will be adjudged
par contumace.
The Infante Don Francisco de Paulo has arrived at
Burgos, and intends remaining there until about the 10th
instant, by which time the Infants Donna Luisa Carlota
and family are expected to join his Royal Highness from
Bordeaux.

The Funds closed at 271- at 60 days, and 27+ for cash,
and operations to the extent of near 330,0001. sterling
have been done.

Only the Paris Journals of Friday have
reached us this morning, and they bring no po-
litical news not previously adverted to in our
columns. The only exception is an article in
the Constitutionnel, replying to the journals
which have been attacking ESPARTERO for
having established the fueros of the Basque
provinces, and which have based tliis at-
tack chiefly on two grounds—first, that it is
an illegal act of power, and secondly, that
it is calculated to injure the trade of France
with that part of Spain. In refutation of the first
argument, the Constitutionnel quotes an:article of
a law of the Cortes in Oct. 1839, and sanctioned
by the QUEEN REQENT, which says—" The Go-
vernment, as soon as itshall judge fit, shall prOpose
the modifications in the fueros which are indis-
pensible. In the meantime, in order to con-
ciliate
the interests of the said provinces with
those of the nation, and with the constitution
of the Monarchy, the Government shall provi-
sionally, and in the form expressed, take mea-
sures for removing all doubts and resolving all
difficulties which may present themselves,
on condition of rendering an account of
them to the Government." Our contempo-
rary contends that ESPARTERO has not ex-
ceeded the power conferred upon the Govern-
ment by the law of October, 1839. On the
question of the injury said to have been inflicted
upon the trade of France by the abolition of the
fueros, the Constitutionnel observes that the jour-
nalists who say this are wholly ignorant of the
facts of the case. They assume that French mer-
chandise imported into the Basque provinces, paid
no duty, whereas, says the Constitutionnel,
there was a regular line of Custom-houses
on the frontiers. Duty was charged on
everything imported, the only difference be-
ing that the Custom -house officers were not the
employes of the central Government, and the"roi
venues instead of going to the State, went to
enrich the little Basque aristocracy, for whom,
and not for the inhabitants, generally, the fueros
were a source of power and wealth.
A correspondent of the Debats at Tulle writes, on the
Bth instant:—" Mine. Lafarge, since her last trial, has
fallen nearly into oblivion ; even her Memoirs, which
she expected would keep up her interest in the minds of
the people of this country, have been treated with neg-
lect, if not with contempt. Yesterday, however, the
attention of the public was again turned to her by the
arrival of an order for her removal to the central female
prison of Montpellier. On being made acquainted with it
in the morning, she received it at first with calmness, but
afterwards became so much affected, that she was forced
to go to bed, and send for her physician. The prepara-
tions for her departure were continued by her advocate,
and Clementine, her faithful servant. Mine. Lafarge,
in the mean time, wrote to the Procureur du Roi and the
Vice-President of the Tribunal, protesting against her
removal before the decision on her appeal to the Court
of Cessation. She was to have departed at eight this
morning, but she had a nervous attack, which induced
the authorities to defer it till three in the afternoon.
At that hour, a calesh with three horses, drew up to
the door of the prison, and attracted a large crowd.
In half an hour Madame Lafarge came out, dressed in
black, and wrapped in a cloak, and entered the carriage,
accompanied by Clementine and to o gendarmes, and
drove off by the Toulouse road. The crowd remained
perfectly mute and quiet. On taking leave of her curator,
she pressed his hand and said, ' Isbell triumph after all
over the wicked league which has caused the condemna-
tion of a poor innocent woman. The day will come
when my innocence shall be made apparent in the eyes
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Memoirs,esrtamteon
, of an, to the confusion of my executioners.' She is said
to have delivered the manuscript of the third and last
revise in her new prison. She was most deeply affected
the proofs of which she will
by her being transferred to Montpellier, as she reckoned
given by Messrs. Arago, J.ai
that
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M. Caries Senior and Mine. Caries, sister of Barbes, and
presented to the Procureur du -Rol of t.vranches pro-
testingofThtlelelepaornlietideaclopt_irniss'eoldeers.
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clare that the general
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mitted-au abuse,of power by the exceptionable,prolong-
ing for several months of this punishment. Messrs.
Marie, Berryer, and'' Odilon Bitrrot have concurred in
this opinion, and' the question will no doubt be brought
before the Chambers,- where Messrs. Odilon Barrot and
Berryer will explain the grounds of their conclusions.
The Moniteur Parisien says, " We learn from Bayonne
that the partizan Leguina has been arrested and shot by
order of Zurbano. The Brigadier Pezueli,. one of the
chiefs of the movement at Madrid, -on the 7th ult., has
taken refuge in Portugal. It is stated that the Ayunta-
mienta of Vittoria has protested against the contribution
of two millions of reals levied on that town."
BOURSE—PaIus, :FRIDAY, NON-. 12.

first ~ Highest -Lowest Last
Price Price. Prick prier.
reach 5 rer Cents ll5 95... 116 ... 1 5 93 ... 116 '0
434 per Cents
4 per Cents lO3 73 ... 1. 0 75 1 0 75 ... 100 -5
3 per Cents...
Loan .... BO 90 81 10 .. i 0 90 ... 81 0
tank of France
Laffitte Bank 1.0004. St arcs 1140 ...1(1) ...JO4l —lO4O
s.oialt. S!,.ares 3030 _5033' —.3080 • —5OBO
,elgian:BanP,lBll ...... 745 ... 745 - ... 74 ... 745
S per Cent.., 1840— 101% ... 1025, ... 10214 ... 11.12%
zpmish Active 32% 32% 2.% 22!4,
Reapolit.in
Bomar, ea. div. lo2li 102% ... 102% 10 %
RAILWAY sHARES.
St. Germain: •.. 747 50 750 ... 745 745
erbaides, L 44 2,0 2CO 2.0 200
R. B 312 50 212 5(1 ... 312 50 312 50
lowan ........ ......... 45 ... 455 ... 453 455
strasourgtottali shares red. 211 25 . 231 25 ... 231 25 231 25

Lord Abiuger has intimated his wish to retire
from the office of Lord Chief Baron of the Court
of Exchequer on account of the state of his
health. His Lordship will ba succeeded by the
Attorney-General. That Sir W. Follett, the
present Solicitor-General, will be the new At-
torney-General may be regarded as a matter of
course. It is not yet, we believe, decided who is
to be the new Solicitor-General. We have
reason to believe that it is inteMded'to' elevate
Mr. Cresswell to the bench on the next vacancy
that may occur.—Morning Post, [Mr. Cress-
well's desertion of the cause of the Danish claim-
ants is not, therefore, to go unrewarded. Szl-
dom are Governments unmindful of the services
of those who, in the hour of peril, desert the.
cause of the oppressed and plundered people ;
and we are not, therefore, at all surprised at the
contemplated elevation of Mr. Cresswell to the
judicial bench.--ED. Sun.]

• , ol .••• otrta c) ,t. prince of
ales, says—"V o are glad that our fellow-citizens
have decided against an illumination. The cost and in-
convenience of such a mode of exultation, are formidable
objections, especially during the present depressed state
of trade. Many families would, we know, regard it as
a serious hardship. The proposal to scare off for a brief
season the distress of the poor by some substantial offer-
ings, is at once more rational in itself, and certainly
more in harmony with the occasion. By this means the
rejoicing will, we trust, be hearty and unalloyed."
The Dover Chronicle thus writes of Sir-Robert Peel :
—" How grossly the country has been deluded by the
quack pretensions of the Tory leader, is now becoming
pretty apparent to all who are not stone blind ; and we
confidently look forward to the time when reason shall
resume its seat, and when the quack who, now ensconced
in the fastnesses of Downing-street, snaps his fingers in
defiance in the face of millions dying of hunger, will be
hurled from office by a united effort of a deceived and
indignant people."
The following is from the Derby Chronicle :—" The
distress of our manufacturing population becomes more
aggravated as winter approaches, and the sufferings of an
inclement season add new pangs to the endurance of
want. The evil long since required a quick and decided
remedy ; it deepened every day from neglect ; it in-
creased from the unchecked course of the morbid spirit
by which it was first generated—that spirit, was the
spirit of monopoly, of unjust and grinding taxation."
The Cambrian says The Conservatives make it a
boast that they are the money-power ;' that the
money-power' represents all the worth, talent, pa-
triotism, and industry of the country ; therefore
that no Conservative Government can be aught
but a wise..aed beneficent one. ,Is it so ? Then
what becomes of our practical illustration of
fifty years standing our French wars, Irish re-
bellions, WaLcheren expeditions, Peter-
too sabreing, Bank Restriction Acts, Gagging
Acts, Habeas Corpus Suipension Acts, and National
Debts ? Surely we have but a miserable prospect to
look forward to under a ,'Government of the middle
elasses-.(not to say the Chartist classes), when such was
the. Government of the monied classes I But accumulated
property is not permitted by our Constitution to prevent
accumulation of property. Grant it all rights and inatnn-
nities that are proper ; but not the right to invade right
of labour by selfish legislation."
In reference to the present distressed state of' the
country, the Berwick Advertiser remarks as follows :
" The unparalleled depression in trade and manufactures
which has been so widely and severely felt for many
months past, seems now to have reached an extreme
which renders it more than probable that, if some prompt
and efficient remedy be nut applied, the direst conse-
quences must ensue, not only as relates to the commer-
cial prosperity of the country, but to the preservation of
order and of property."
We quote the following from the Dublin Evening
Post:—" We are acquainted with all the canvassing which
has taken pla2e, and which has been going on now for
months, by the friends and family connections of Lord
De Grey, to induce persons of Liberal opinions to fre-
quent his Levees and Court. Every blandishment has
been held out, every inducement has been offered, even
to the extent, that the ultra-Conservative party should
be wholly thrown over, and not be seen at the Castle.'
These promises were made before Lord De Grey took
up his residence amongst us, but the conduct of his Go-
vernment since has so belied not only those promises, but
all other professions more directly made by himself and
Lord Eliot, that every sentiment akin to confidence or re-
spect has been utterly and irretrievably annihilated."