The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-28 00:00:00

In coffee little has been done. We have received 300
tierces by the Emilie, from St. Jago : part has been so'd by
public sale, from 133 to 140 ; 159 sacs from B,hia, at 55
francs, E. F. We have had, by Rotterdam, 400 sacs from
New York, 12 from Bourbon, 36 tierces from Martinique, and
660 sacs of Java.
In sugars the markets have also been dull, 130 barriques
have been sold at 62f. for the refiners of our town and the
environs.
We have received by our first arrival from Bengal for this
year 218 cases of indigo, but which having been sold for de-
livery remains in second hands. There have been sold on the
Place 16 cases of Bengal from llf. 10c. to 13f., and one case
Java at 11 francs. The steamer from Rotterdam on her last
voyage brought 155 cases of Java, which is destined for the
interior.

DIVISION OF MONDAY NIGHT.
The division of Monday came on very unex-
pectedly for the Liberal party. They looked for
an adjourned debate, but the Tories, who knew
the completeness of their own preparations, hur-
ried on the division; Hence we findno less than
thirty-two Liberals absent and only eleven
Tories. Several of the Liberals could not attend
on account of illness in their families, or of the
death of relations; so that had the division been
postponed, and the absent Members on both
sides given their votes, the numbers would have
been equal, as stated below :
Tories and pairs 317
Absent ll

- 328
Liberals and pairs 296
Absent 32

Leaving the casting vote for the Speaker.32B

THE MANNER IN WHICH KINGS
DECEIVE.
A ROYAL SOLO. —How many a visitor to the Court of Valencay
has listened with admiration and delight to the playing of the King
of Spain. His vigorous bowing, his perfect intonation and
purity of tone, the tenderness of his andante, and the spirit of
his allegretts, have excited raptures. But Kings possess re-
sources unknown to ordinary Mtn, and when Ferdinand re•
ceiv'ed the adulation of his auditors, standing with an air of mo-
'.:iesty at the other end of the room, and relieved en profile
against a rich japanned screen, what was he doing? The King
of the two Spains and the two Indies was drawing his bow in
the air, and the auditors were charmed by the skill of Boucher,
who executed all the difficult passages while concealed behind
the screen. After this display, and while the room resounded
with expressions of admiration, while the enthusiasm of all was
at its height, the royal trickster would step forward, in the
coolest manner possible, to receive the rapturous applause
bestowed on his sham solo.— Theodore Rook's French Stage.
Might we not extend this to other things
Does not the Prime Minister, or some clever
man stands behind the screen and fiddle politics,
while the .Royal puppet bows and smiles and re-
ceives all the applause ? For the last century,
there have probably been about three monarchs
in Europe, Frederick the Great of Prussia,
Joseph 11., and Napoleon, who have not been
in all things—matters infinitely more important
than the poor theory of fiddling !—like FERDI-
NAND, no better than quacks and impostors.
The day of Royalty is gone bye. King-heroes
are at an end, but it is still thought necessary
for a purpose for some one to enact the part.
When will the public learn properly to value
the comedy ?

INFLUENCE OF INTEREST ON OPINION.—The
Liverpool Times states that Mr. John Gladstone,
formerly a merchant, slave-owner, and planter,
has lately become an extensive landowner like
Lord Ashburton, and accordingly, like Lord Ash-
burton, lie has become a defender of the bread-
tax. We could not possibly imagine what had
brought this gentleman from his obscurity to in-
dite and publish, in the Morning Post, as silly a
piece of twaddle as we have for a long time met
with. The fact mentioned by the Liverpool
Times explains all. The great merchant is not
yet hoisted into the House of Peers—he could
not get a constituency to place him in the Com-
mons, and he is obliged, therefore, to have re-
course to the press to obtain distinction. To
show the bread-taxers how worthy he is to sit in
their House by the side of Lord Ashburton, he
has done by writing what that Noble Lord has
done by speaking. We need not inform the
readers of The Sun what that is.

The Reformers of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
will celebrate the opening of the Vestry, and the down-
fall of the old sect, by a public dinner at the Artichoke
Tavern, Blaekwall, on the 11th of May. Sir G. De Lacy
Evans will preside on this occasion, supported by Leader,
Hume, and a hest of Liberal Members. Among the
stewards arc—S. Je.vis M.P., Tulk, Esq., Gordon,
Esq., with Messrs. Addington, Bainbridge, Cannarn,
Davis, Horne, Hunt, Kibler, Mulling, Pouncy, Simpson,
Skegg, Wallis. and Williams. This is the seventh anni-
versary.

Miss Day, a young lady of great musical ac-
quirements, had the honour of performing on the pianoforte
on Monday evening before his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge and a select company at Cambridge House.
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His Royal Highness, who is an excellent judge of music,
was highly delighted with the performances, said expressed
.his astonishment that one so young should I.)e able to go
tittouit, the most difficult passages with complete effect.
EARLY AND .RAPID VEGETATIO N.—A sped-
men of grass grown in a garth at Chester-le ...Street has been
shown at our office this week, upwards of t• Nave inches long.
It has grown from seed sown in August last , and is as vigorous
and green as if it had been produced by ;he influence of the
summer's sun. —Newcastle Journal.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFT,:. —The marriage
of Lord Bruce, eldest son of the Earl o' Elgin and Kincardine,
to Elizabeth Mary, only daughter of. D. L. Cumming Bruce,
M.P. for the'counties of Elgin and ',cairn, WA place at Kin-
naitd House, Stirlingshire, on the 24d inst.

city whose name he bears. What can Paris or
its Count want with swords, now that they have
walls to shelter them ?
The French Government has despatched a
frigate and corvette to China to demand the
establishment of direct relations with the Court
of Pekin on the same footing as those promised
to Great Britain. It requires no great foresight
to predict confidently that Commissioner LIN'S
seizure of the opium will in a short time
produce a moral revolution in China. If
France insist upon direct relations with the
Court of Pekin, the United States will do the
same, and their example will be followed by all
States trading with the Celestial Empire. Direct
communication cannot be carried on without the
presence of Ambassadors, and an Ambassador's
household being an epitome of the manners and
customs of the country which he represents, the
presence of one or more must exercise an im-.
mense influence among a people so imitat'ae as
the Chinese.
The acquittal of La France by a j ary, for pub-
lishing the alleged correspor.tence of Louts
PHILIPPE, is much commen"-,ed upon by the jour-
nals of Sunday. The legitimist organs regard it
as a great triumph, 'clnd they are unbounded in
the expression of their joy. The impression that
the corresporAence is authentic gains ground, so
that the ifoject of the Court in authorising the
prosecution has been completely defeated. It
Would have been far better to have advised the
-KING to take no notice of such publications.
Prosecution but increases their circulation and
predisposes the public mind to believe them au-
thentic. The KING who dreads libels so much
as to seek to repel them by punishment consults
neither his fame nor his happiness in appearing
as the prosecutor in a Court of Justice. His very
susceptibility proves him vulnerable.
A letter from Algiers of the 13th brings us the copy of a
notice published by M. Guizot, Director of the Internal Af-
fairs of the Province, to put into requisition conveyances for
revictualling Milianah, a notice which has caused a great sen-
sation by the terms in which it concludes.
" If, notwithstanding this notice," says M. Guizot, "there
should be found, contrary to expectation, refractory owners of
conveyances, the Governor-General will exercise towards them
the authority given to him, and they may expect to be punished,
if there should be occasion, even by expulsion from the colony,
since individuals who are not ready to bear their share in the
common burden ought not to partake in the benefits which
society affords them.
It is said that an English merchantman has been seen on
the coast, that it has a cargo of gunpowder for Abd-el-Kader,
and that information of the fact was given by the French Con-
sul at the port from which the vessel sailed.
Very severe regulations are imposed on the troops cantoned
in the barracks of the fortifications. An order of the diy
contains the following passage : " Every soldier belonging to the
garrison of the fortifications of Paris who shall be met in the
capital, without permission, shall be arrested and conveyed to
his corps, there to undergo severe punishment. The Colonels
of their regiments are to be very reserved in granting these
permissions, which cannot be for more than thirty-six hours.
To hinder the violation of this order, corporals are stationed
day and night at the gates of the several barriers, who do not
suffer any soldier to enter the city who are not provided with
a permission countersigned by the Commandant of Pa:.,s.
Thus the isolation of the soldier begins before the fortikatio„
are finished. —Le Commerce.
HAVRE, APRIL 24.—Judgment has been pro
Tribunal of Commerce to-day in the case of 7.ounced by our
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the Britannia, belonging to the Steam 'l;la.:ne Phenix against
vigation Company.
It is well there lies an appeal agair:
st this decision, for, truly,
it is as severe as any Shareho
'.aer of the Phenix Company,
expecting,A large dividend,
Coln-
pany are condemned to old desire. The Britannia Com-
pay to M. Guillon, the Manag-
ing Director of the Company of the Phenix, the sum of
700,000 francs, or: 28,000 i., with interest from the date
of the dema:,a being made, allowing in place of said
sum, the delivery of the said ship Britannia, and here
freight co Monsieur Guillon, on behalf of his company, or that
the ~.mount of such freight shall be paid before the expiration
of fifteen days. It furthermore condemns the English corn •
pany to pay all the expenses, costs, and charges incurred by or
arising from this action, and that in case the Britannia shall
be rendered-up, she shall be in good order, and free from any
lien or debt whatever upon her.
Our cotton market has been extremely dull during the
week. The sales have amounted to 2,658 bales, feeding' the
consumers at the rate of from 400 to 500 bales per day, at a
decline in the prices, but the sales have been so limited that
the decline has not had much effect ; it has ranged from two
to three centimes. The arrivals during the past week have been
6,769—the sales 2,658, and the stock in hand is about 80,000
bales.