The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LON

Committee, that English shipowners are vesting
their capital in foreign ships, because they can
be built cheaper, and navigated cheaper than
English ships. But why is this? Our
shipwrights are as skilful as those of
any country in the world, and our ships
are navigated by fewer seamen in proportion to
their tonnage than those of other nations. It is
because our exorbitant discriminating duties on
timber nearly double the price of that commo-
dity, and our Corn and Provision-laws increase
the expense of victualling our ships 9.0 or 30 per
cent. Our Timber-duties and Corn-laws, and
our Cocxßuns-cherished claim to steal the sea-
men, when he and his colleagues choose to make
war, with various other devices which our law-
makers have fallen on to make sea-going hate-
ful, and building and navigating ships very
costly, are the true causes of the comparative
increase of foreign shipping, the true sources of
our maritime weakness, and will be, if they are
suffered to continue, the effective causes of our
national decay. _ _

The encouragement of our seamen, a subject
which is taken up by the Shipping Gazette, is
just now a proper object of national solicitude.
It will be best accomplished by setting our trade
free, and abolishing the hard usages to which
semen are exposed. An increasing demand for
their services, and the increased respect shown
them by the Legislature, would elevate them in
their own opinion, and make them better and
wiser. We do not agree with our Contemporary,
whose reasons will be found in another part of
The Sun, in desiring for our mercantile marine
any recognised standing. Our merchants, bank-
ers, and manufacturers need no recognition by
the Legislature to add to their respectability or
their usefulness; neither do our merchant sea-
men. Let them find protection, not grievous
oppression, from the laws of their country, and
they will take a dignified station in society cor-
responding to their usefulness.

From the list of subscriptions for the suffericg
work-people of Paisley, inserted in our adver-
tising columns, we are gratified to observe that
her Majesty the QUEEN has most generously
availed herself of the very earliest opportunity
for recording her name as a subscriber to the
fund. We believe this subscription has been
given spontaneously and unsolicited, and from
such an act her MAJESTY'S subjects have another
proof of the deep interest she feels in their wel-
fare, and of how very far it is from her wish
that any of them should either be suffering or
in want who are able and willing to provide for
themselves. We most sincerely hope that this
spirited and liberal example set by the QUEEN
will not be lost sight of by the Nobility, but that
the great majority of them will be ready to fol-
low the example of their SOVEREIGN in showing
their readiness to mitigate the sufferings of the
manufacturing classes, by devoting to that pur-
pose a small portion of the immense wealth at
their disposal.

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
I 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 Espectador, 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 Espectador, 66 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,CHuisTlNA MUNOZ 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 ESPARTERO, who by this act has
enlisted the sympathies of all honest men
in France in his favour. A telegraphic
despatch from Bayonne, dated the 9,-2d instant,
states that General O'DONNELL was then on the
French frontier, demanding permission to cross
it, at the head of 2,000 rebels. On the following
day, the subjoined despatch was forwarded to the
French Government :

Bayonne, Oct. 23.
" THE SUE-?REJECT TO THE MINISTER Of THE INTERIOR.

_
" O'Donnell arrived yesterday at two o'clock, at
Uriax, 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 Co., 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 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 3,000 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
from possibility and reality, that a Government which
in a supplement entertains such projects is quite out of the region of real
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