The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-22 00:00:00

THE ROCKS.

THE GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH
(From the Strand Theatre)
fo inform the Nobility and Gentry that he performs his
GREAT FEATS d MAGIC EVERY MORNING at Two
o'clock, and EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock, at the
GRAND FASHIONABLE
PALACE OF NECROMANCY,
ST. JAMES'S BAZAAR, ST. JAMES'S-STREET.
Dress Boxes, 3s. Upper Boxes, 2s.
Childred under Ten Half Price.
Morning, doors cpen at Half-past One, Carriages at Four.
Evening, doors cpen at Half-past Seven, Carriage at Ten.
Entrance, St. James's-street.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
BEETHOVEN'S BATTLE SINFONIA ! !
THIS DAY, TO-MORROW, and THURSDAY NEXT,
June 212 d, 231, and 25th,
THREE GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET
C II A MPET RE S
Will be given, when the celebrated Grand Battle Sinfonia,
conycisrd by Beethoven to commemorate the Battle of Vittoria,
and vividly describing by musical sounds all the stirring inci-
dents of that famous Victory, will be produced with its original
effect and grandeur, havittg been arranged from tlw MS. scot e,
in the possession of Sir George Smart, for the Band of this
Establishment, to which many eminent Instrumentalists have
been added.
The.new animated illustration of Perils and Adventures in
the Frozen Seas! CARTER'S KONIAPHOSTIC."
ERUPTION OF HECLA, &c., during the Evening.
Admission, One Shilling.
Concert commences at Six.

11 . WA! Lit AT LONDON fifiltAiF. THig DAY.
Morninz .3; minutes alter e. I Evening 0 minutes atter 7.

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LONDON:
MONDAY, JUNE 22, 18w.

The remarks which we mane on Saturday, con-
cerning the Friday debate, had a merit which we
did not dream of when we wrote them. They
served to refute, in anticipation, some observations
of the Morning Post of Saturday. That slip-slop
journal, little in thought and big in phrase, feeble
in matter and pompous in manner, was pleased to
find in our straiqht-forward mode of dealing with
the Dish Registration question a disregard of cer-
tain moral principles. What we complained of, how-
ever, was that the Tories considered nothing in
the Irish Registration question, but that they were
kept out of office by the independent Irish vo!er,
and, under the hypocritical pretence of a holy regard
for morality, they wanted to pass a law which would
so harrass the humble man that he should never be
placed on the registration, whatever might be
his rights, except as that might suit his opulent
"fury landlord. We condemned the whole pro-
ceedmg on tae part of the Tories 'as another ex-
a•rple of that detestable hypocrisy which is the dis •
tinvishing feature of their political sayings and
d:Jings.

O. r efence of the Irish electors amounted to
this, tl at they, according to the worst accusations
f their foes, imitate once every three or four years
•he daily and habitual practices of the 'rories.
Even that defence, however, was not put forth in
Lehouf of the Ministers, for in our' remarks on
Friday we cordially and sincerely reprobated the
► orntenance which they give, by Mr. PICOT'S
B I, to the mumbling hypocrisy and calumnies of
the Tories. We si elk. of them as politicians, not
as private individuals, when we say that they have
no epugnarice to false swearing—witness Cambridge
and Ludlow—to the most detestable bribery and
corruption ; they only sham a horror at such vices
wi.en it suits their purpose. Their whole case, so
far as the arc concerned—Lord POWERS-
COURT'S as onion, to wit, of false statements—
consists of falsehood, calumny, spite, selfish
bigotry, and subornation of perjury. We have
no partiality for such vices, hut the political system
of the country teems with them and encourages
them. To attain political eitds they are habitually
tied !y all political patt;es. We see no reason why
the Irish Catholics &one should he the objects of
the v Lupus indgnation of the Tories, except it be,
as we have a:ready said, because those vices are not
piaciised for behoof of the Tories. For them to
preet:d an aversion to the ordinary means they
employ to attain their political ends, is only adding
li-spocrisy to all the sins of which they accuse the
Cu holies.

We will add, as an illustration of the character
of the TwieF, who prwe about perjury and an in-
and a dominant priesthood,
that the debate of Friday night revealed to every
o!istlv,r that in Ireland such a thing as an inde-
pt ndent franchise is rarely net with. Mr. SIT TEL,
1o: example, spoke of Mr. FA UCITT'S freeholders
as if the votes belonged to 'the landlord, not to those
who are nominally intrusted with the franchise. Dr.
LEFRoy and Mr. Sergeant JACKSON, unques-
tionable authorities, spoke repeatedly of Lady
Loss's voters, and Mr. LEFROY'S voters, and other
Meintlei-s spoke of other landlords' vottrs, con-
vincing us, mote certainly than if they had so said,
that,the- votes, though given by the tenants, are re-
gariued as belonging to the landlords. The voters are
only the vehicles for carrying the landlord's wishes to
the 11011, and then registering thei:i. Sometimes
the voters have had the audacity to regard the
votes as their own, and have disposed of them
according to their own fancy or conscience, and then
the, rage of the landlords that their slaves should
dare to rebel is boundless. In fact, and in short,
the whole case may be stated in one se,nertieunicyg:
meanTh
landlords, while they complain of p
independence, and while they talk of immorality,
mean that they are not allowed to bind the. con-
sciences of men in their fitters. But the licks of
their tyrannic chain are broken, and their hypo-
critical screaming will never again rivet them on the
people.

We received la,t night the Flanders and Dutch
nails. They contain no news. The Funds have
not materially varied since our last accounts.

We have received the Flanders and Hamburgh
Mail, but their contents are !destitute of interest.
The only circumstance deserving notice is contained in
a letter fro:r.l3,,rlin to a Hamburgh journal, which states,
that the late King of PRUSSIA enjoined his son above
all things to use his utmost endeavours to preserve the
peace
of Europe, to maintain a strict alliance with
Ausr,ria and Russia, and to beware of innovations, with-
out g.,,i;),-; into the contrary extreme of being swayed
without reason in favour of whatever is old.

The French Chamber of Deputies voted the Tram.
atlantic Navigation Bill on Thursday. The lines are
to be established baween Bourdeaux and New York
between Marseilles and the
fur North America, and

River Plata for the South. The Opposition Journals
sae no advantage to the country in this measure. They
appear persuaded that the English Companies beat
the French out of the field. This is not at all unlikely.
The following extract of a letter from Constan-
tine, contains the only news of the slightest interest in
the Pais Journals of Thursday :
CONSTANTINE, MAY 23.—The ex-Bey Achmet, who had
stil 1,500 horsemen, has just been driven from llyr, where he
Lai taken refuge, and robbed by his own people, who were near
bringing his head to Constantine, as a proof of the good faith of
the Aras, who hive made their submission to the Lieutenant.
General. _ _ .

Fifty Chiefs of various tribes situated on the frontier of Tunis,
in the environs of Tepsa, with the Kaid of that last place at their
head, have come to announce to the Lieut. - General that they re-
present theNemenchas and the Amarons, and that they submit to
the French authority. We have hitherto had no intercourse with
these tribes. The Arab chiefs told the Lieutenant-General
that they had attacked Achmet Bey, had killed several of his
people, and forced him to retreat into the mountains on the
frontier of Tunis, after having captured his tents, several
camels, and a part of his flocks; that the ex-Bey had
a horse killed under him, and that he narrowly escaped
falling- into their hands. This event deprives Achmet
cf all hopes of recovering his power ; he lately
received, it is said, the diamond insign'a of some order from
tlie Sultan ; and he boasted of it in order to gain credit for
a report which had spread, that he was going to receive
Turkish troops to make war on the French, lint now he must
consider his cause as tot ally ruined. A column of 1,200 men • com-
mand d by Col. Livasseur was sent against Achmed-el-Cherif,
which perfectly succeeded. The chiefs of tribes of Riga, which are
subject to us, have been protected against the hostile Arabs ;
the flocks which had been taken from then have been
restored, and the column brought back a good number
of cattle. Achnied-el-Cherif fled, and the chief: who had not
yet acknowledged El-Mokrany, the Kalify of Medjana,
threw themselves at the feet of the Lieutenant, asking
pardon, vs hick was granted on their furnishing hostages. This
p irtion of the Medjana is now tranquil. Tho.,e tribes will stop
the battalions of A bd-el- Kader, should they attempt to move to-
wards Biscara.— Ls Constitutionnel.
BOURSE.—PARIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 18.

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First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
nench 5 per Cents ll7 5... 117 116 90._ 117
454 per Cents lll ;5 111 75 ... 111 75 ... 111 75
4 per Cents ..........« 105 Q 5 )05 15 ... 105 ... 105 25
3 per Cants Bl CO . 84 60 ... 84 60 84 60
Bank ofr ..

... _
Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1115 ...1115 ...1110 ... I 1 IU
5,000 f. Sh 5250 ...5250 ...5250 ..5250
Belgian 5 per Cents 104% ... 101% ... 104% ... 104%
Spannh Active ...:.... 27 ... 27W, ... 27 ... 271 i
Pa55ive............ ...... 6% ••• 6% ••• 6% ••• 6%
Old Deferred 63,4 ... 6X, ... 6%, ... 059
Neapolitan lO4 25 ... 104 ... 104 25 ... 104
Roman
_ 104 104 104 ... 104
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Portuguese 3 per Cents

..._ 24 ... 24 ... 24

RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain
Versailles, It. B 525 525 ... s‘,:u ... 542 50
LB. ..... ...... 20
Orleans . .
lloritpellier to Cette
StraAmr,-; to Bale 420 ... 4 1 25 ... 415 ... 421 25

THE POOR•LAWS AND THE CORN-LAW.—The fifth
Annual Report of the Poor-law Commissioners, just
published by order of the House of Commons, gkes ac
ample account of the amount and expenditure of the
poor-rates for the year 1838, or for the year ending
March 25, 1839. At present we must content our•
selves with stating that, as compared to 1837, there
was an increased expenditure for the relief of the poor
in England and Wales ; in 1838, of 283,3031., or in
England an increase of seven per cent., and in Wales
of twelve per cent. Unfortunately the tables, though
compendious, do not include the average number of
persons relieved in the two years, and therefore we can-
not tell—which we, however, think should be knoWn—
how much of the increased expenditure is due
to an increase in the number of persons re-
lieved, or how much is due to the rise in ihe
price of provisions. We apprehend, however, that
there has been no great increase in the number of
paupers, particularly as the increase is greater in the
agricultural than in the manufacturing districts. This
fact bearing on the Corn-laws, and demonstrating that
there is neither a great increase of employment in the
agricultural districts nor a lessening of their burdens with
the Corn-laws, is we think of considerable importance.
Thus in Lancashire, the head quarters of our manufac-
turers, there was no increase wl.atever ; in the %Vest
Riding of York an increase of two, in Stafford two,
and in Northumberland one per cant. In Chester
there is a decrease of one per cent. ; while in Sussex,
the Duke of Richmond's flourishing county, where there
is such an abundance of work for the labourers, the in-
crease is eighteen per cent ; in Berks it is twelve, in
Bucks nine, in Cambridge fifteen, in Dorset twenty,
in Kent fifteen, and in Somersetshire twenty per cent.
In Middlesex, again, almost wholly covered by a town
population, the increase is only one per cent., while in
Wiltshire—where we know the standard, not of living
but of starving, if the workhouse dietary be not greatly
superior to the food of the labouring man, is very low—
the increase is fourteen per cent. The only instance
we see of decrease amongst the agricultural counties is
Huntingdon one, and Westmor:and two per cent. ;
for Nottingham and Leicester, in which the decrease
is three per cent , and Derby and Cumberland, in which
it is two per cent., are as much manufacturing as agri-
cultural counties. The next year's returns, when they
come, embracing high prices through the whole. year,
for in the first part of' 1838 the effects of the Corn-
laws were not felt, will, we have no doubt, be still more
instructive, and still more demonstrative that the Corn-
laws add to the burdens of pauperism.