The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-11 00:00:00

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LONDON:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1841.

The Revenue Tables will be found in another
part of our paper. As we stated on Saturday,
the returns for the quarter are rather favourable,
the increase, as compared to the corresponding
quarter of last year, being 241,7211. That sum is
also very nearly the increase on the whole year,
048,1481., and is, we believe, in a great measure,
due to the influence of the general election.
The principal increase on the quarter is
in , the Excise, 244,6171. While the Customs
exhibit a deficiency in the year of no less than
667,5221., there is an increase on the quarter of
74,340/. Upwards of 2,000,000 quarters of grain
and flour have paid duty this quarter, and sup-
posing that they all came in at the ls. duty,
which is not the case, that would give for the
present quarter 100,000/., more than enough to
account for this, we are afraid, temporary and
small spirt 'of extended trade. Remembering
the increase of taxation which was laid on last
year, and which has been in operation the whole
of the present year, and remembering the in-
ereas e of the revenue caused by a general election,
returns indicate rather decay than prosperity.

The LORD MAYOR, Alderman of Portsoken
Ward, gave a grand entertainment on Satur-
day, to her MAJESTY'S Ministers, and they flew
like famished vultures to the banquet. It was a
subject of marked comment, it appears, that
there were ten, out of the fourteen, present.
The only matter of surprise, however, is,
that
they were not all present, with the exception of
the Duke of WELLINGTON, who had been ,tent
for by her MAJESTY. They have had only one
dinner of this sort for the last eleven years.
On that occasion, Sir ROBERT PE-EL, then, as
now, Prime Minister, was tottering on his
seat, looking upon every successive day as the
last of his official existence, and therefore not at
all in a fit condition to enjoy the good things of
this life. The last invitation previous to ]835
was in 1830, but that they durst not accept. The
KING and his Ministers were alarmed at the
signs of the times, and a polite note was therefore,
sent to the LORD MAYOR declining the honour.
No wonder, therefore, that the joy on this occa-
sion was excessive, and that the speakers
should have exceeded the bounds of discretion.
The LORD MAYOR certainly was a most
egregious offender in proclaiming that he
was a Tory, and wishing that the Tories might
long remain in power. He administers justice—
and a judge ought to be impartial--but what im-
partiality can be expected from a man who has
the indiscretion to boast that his party had pre-
vailed? The remarks of. the other, speakers were
nearly of, the ,sage stamp.
political dinner, mlt was,. in fact, a:
r..MASTER,MAN congratulated,
himself on,b eit. one of the "'glorious majority
of 91" who turned out the Queen's Ministers ;
and Sir CLAI:Dius
celebrated only for
his white charger, peas quite pathetic in describ-
ing the unexpected
themselves
safe The Corporation, no
doubt,: think
now. There will
be no reform in the C-
ity vvhiie s• ,
PEEL I:i"Sal9M/liii€l the hire Sir ILOBERT
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cipal manufacturing districts, while they had
done nothing when in opposition to relieve it, had
[ convicted themselves of being either political
charlatans or political rogues, we did not put the
case against them as strongly as ,we might have
put it. Not only did they do nothing when in
opposition to relieve that distress, but they refused
to listen to the plans proposed by the late Mi-
nisters to relieve it. Thinking of nothing but
how to thrust themselves into office, they threw
out the first part of the late Ministers' budget
upon a pretext wholly foreign either to the con-
dition of our people or the state of the revenue.
They rejected the proposed alteration in the
sugar duties, because that might perchance injure
the fat, sleek, and well-fed labourers of Jamaica.
The reduction in the sugar duties, combined
with the other measures proposed by the
Whigs, were calculated, they said, to re-
lieve the public distress ; and the Tories,
by refusing to discuss them in Parliament,
made themselves fearfully responsible for all the
distress which they now acknowledge has pre-
vailed for a considerable period in some of the
principal manufacturing districts.
We do not belong to that school which ex-
pects much from legislation. We agree with
Lord STANLEY and the Duke of WELLINGTON,
that it is impotent to extinguish poverty and
annihilate distress; but, though it be impotent
to effect good, it does not, therefore, follow that
it is impotent to cause these evils. We agree
with a writer in the Leeds Times, who gives a
frightful picture of the poverty and distress ex-
isting in that town, which will be. found in an-
other part of The Sun, that there are no natural
causes for the present sad condition of our peo-
ple, and that their sufferings are the fruit of
legislation, which, though impotent for good, is
by no means powerless to do mischief.
Whence, however, comes that mass of statutes,
and how can the Duke of WELLINGTON and
Lord STANLEY defend and maintain them, which
are directed against poverty, and intended to
annihilate distress, if legislation be as they say,
and as we believe, impotent to that end? So be-
lieving, we do not ask the Legislature to give food
to the people ; we do not aik it to employ them ;
we do not require it to ensure them good wages ;
we are much more modest, we ask it only to let
them alone, to allow them to feed and find em-
ployment for themselves, unrestricted and unfet-
tered by ignorant and mischievous laws, and
then they must be contented with such wages as
competition amongst themselves and amongst the
capitalists would give. It is quite impossible,
however, to look at the present condition of
society, and know that every branch of industry
is fettered by noxious regulations, without con-
cluding that the Legislature is, before GOD and
man, seriously and solemnly responsible, and
particularly the Tory legislators who rejected the
budget, for that distress which has prevailed and
is prevailing.

They have even postponed all inquiry into it,
and all means of relieving it for at least some
months, and have thereby proved themselves
the most heartless, cruel politicians that ever
governed the country. Yet these are the men
whom the Spectator praises, and whom Mr.
WAKLLY proposes to give a fair trial to. The
people are solemnly admonished, in a book
which the Tories pretend to reverence, to curse
those who withhold food from them, and the
people will probably curse those cruel Ministers,
who, acknowledging their distress, continue to
withhold food from them.

We are aware that the conduct of the Tories
finds some countenance in the conduct of the
Whigs. In fact, statesmen are judged by con-
trast and comparison, and the sole wis-
dom of the Tories is found in ti. a follies
of the Whigs. It is clear from the re.urns,
we have quoted of the health of different places
that the lower classes suffered more from disease,
arid the mortality was greater amongst them in
1838, 1839, 1840, than in 1841. During these
terrible years, however, when the people had
yet energy enough to try and help themselves-1
when their sufferings were manifested by great
meetings and intense excitement—the people,
feeling great pain, but being ignorant of the
means of helping themselves—during these ter-
rible years the Whigs refused, and by the aid of
the Tories were enabled successfully to refuse, all
alteration, and even all inquiry, into the Corn-
laws, which were called for generally by the
Liberal party. They were then as deaf
to the voice of distress as the Tories
now are, and it was only when that
distress begun to affect the revenue, after it had
nearly done its work on the people, thinning
their numbers, destroying their spirit, and ren-
dering them incapable of paying the increased
taxes demanded of them—it was only in 1841,
after the people had been for three years a prey
to great sufferings, that the Whigs proposed
their Budget.

Even then they based it on wrong principles.
To give relief to the people was its secondary
object; to increase the revenue was its principal
care. To do justice to the people did,not enter
into their hearts, and the people left them a
prey to their rivals, the Tories. They could
take no interest in a measure which appeared to
them, by increasing the revenue, to increase their
burthens.

The conduct of the late Ministers, who refused
to give relief in 1838, 1839, and 1840, and pro-
posed measures in 1841, of which relief to the
people was the secondary object, is the only ap-
parent justification we can find for the still worse
conduct of their successors. But Whig faults will
not excuse Tory crimes, and as the late Minis-
ters became thoroughly unpopular, the present
men will soon be thoroughly hated and bitterly
cursed.

While we are reminding our friends of their
serious faults, we must remind the mill-owners
and other capitalists of the North that IR ig3B7
1839, and 1840, before they were bumbled by
their losses, and before they saw their property
melting away as at present, they took an active
part against the people, and called even for more
coercion,than the Whig Ministers were willing
to gratify them, by employing. They acted then
on the true Tory principle of hating and fearing
tb,: people. They were then the best allies
of the Tories and the Corn-laws. Now the
Tories read them lessons on cruelty, reproaching
them with their avarice and hard-hearted-
ness, stigmatizing them as the oppressors of
the people, and even invoking destruction on
their abodes and factories. England, the Tory
Journals have told us, would be no worse
were half the manufacturing towns destroyed.
Every day almost the mill-owners are.
edvitu-
perat by the Tory Journalists,- who may
p
them
eobma bnl
oy
relief,
fol lr
formed
somethinge by y in t
th
oltrrauot , and
rkyer i
landlords
et
retributive
o ttihve e t
justice
sgt deter-
minationgive
eefor their conduct towards the working classes.in
the years we have mentioned. We are well
aware that they were aided and •
encouraged by
some portions of the Liberal and
respectable
Press, but we differed at the time froni our
brethren, and the present powerless condition of
the manufacturing classes, from the prevailin.•
conflicts between the represented and the u.l-
- have served to convince us of the
soundness of our views, and of the impolicy of
the course which the Whig Journals, the Whig
Ministers, and the manufacturing capitalists pur-
sued towards the working classes in the years
1838 and 1839.

We received last night Belgian and Dutch
papers of the Bth and 9th instant. The debates
in the Budget in the Dutch Parliament are
carried on with great spirit. A great number
of the Members are for retrenchment and a dif-
ferent scale of taxation, in order that the present
heavy burdens may press more lightly on the
lower and middle classes, and that the more
wealthy may be compelled to contribute their
full share for the expenses of the Government ;
but the Tory party have been victorious, and a
number of grants have beeavoted by consider-
able majorities. Another trial of strength, hoW-
ever, is evidently approaching.. The revellue is

not sufficient, taxation is heavy, and some
scheme, therefore, must be adopted to provide
more effectually for the expenses of the Govern-
ment and the interest of the enormous debt.
The mercantile community of Luxembourg are
greatly dissatisfied with the King for refusing to
rectify the treaty with Prussia. A numerous
meeting of manufacturers was held on the Ist
inst. to petition the King on the subject, and a
permanent Committee appointed to take such.
measures as they might judge- expedient for the
interests of trade and commerce.

A letter, sigued JAMES ACLAND, in another
part of The Sun, states, amongst other things—
There is in Tamworth a Grammar School, founded by
Sir Robert's father, for the gratuitous education of the
children of the inhabitants so long as a Peel shall re-
present the borough ; and I am credibly informed that
the *master (Savage by name, and, as it should seem,
servile by nature), informed the boys a few days since
that be had received a letter from the Prime Minister,
ordering him to discharge the children of all those who
had signed the petition ! The way being thus prepared,
the Relieving Officer and his colleagues went round to
the parents of the children to " inquire " if they had
signed that important document. And the public may
believe that some disclaimers were the consequence.
Can this be true? We quote it to provoke a
contradiction if it be not. We give no opinion
on any part of the paragraph, though the whole
of it is worthy of observation, till we arc assured
by the silence of the Ministerial journals that it
is true, or learn by their explanations and denials
that it is false. •

We have received the whole of the Paris papers
of Friday and Saturday, with full details of the
insurrection in Spain, which we have given in
another part of The Sun. The cloudy state of
the atmosphere prevented the French Govern-
ment from receiving the following despatches
before the afternoon of Friday :--

" BAYONNE, OCT. 7.
" THE GENERRAL COMMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY

DIVISION TO THE MINISTER AT WAR.

" On the sth O'Donnell, having been reinforced by a
battalion, summoned the town. Ribeiro refused ; the
citadel opened ita fire. We heard the cannonade during
the night.

"Tiie brigade of Concha, at Trafalla, declared for
Espartero."

" BAYONNE, OCT. 7.
" THE SOUS-PREFET TO THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.
" On the morning of the sth Bilboa declared in favour
of Queen Christina. The inhabitants, the National
Guard, and the whole garrison of 1,503 men, unani-
mously pronounced themselves. Santa Cruz, the' Com-
mandant of the province, alone dissented."

" BAYONNE, OCT. 8.
" THE SOUS-PREFET TO T,HE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.
" General Alcaia has fallen back from Tolosa to Ber-
gara. It is believed he returns to San Sebastian. Every-
thing was quiet at Madrid on the morning of the 4th.
The movement spreads in Biscay and Alava..
No one has any doubt that LOUIS-PHILIPPE
is at the bottom of this insurrection in favour
of the ex-Regent CHRISTINA, in whose name
all General O'DONNELL'S proclamations are
issued, and whose signature they bear.
This infamous woman has leagued herself
with the discontented clergy, of whose
alleged rights she proclaims herself the de-
fender. It is said that negotiations have been
for some time carried on between herself and
Don CARLOS, and that she is quite willing to be-
stow the hand of the young Queen upon the
eldest son of the Pretender, provided he
consent to wed her as Queen) himself bear-
ing the title of Prince of the AusttAiass To
this Don CARLOS will .not consent. Ile wants
the QUEEN to become queen in right of mar-
riage with his son, in whose favour he is
willing to abdicate his pretensions to the
sovereignty. We suppose that this deli-
cate question will be left to the arbitration of
the King of the FRENCH, for it does not appear
that it is so much as suggested that Great Britain
has any concern at all about the matter.

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"IA short time ago," says a letter from Alencon)
" some wretches entered the house of a person named
Gaine, at Beru, near Alencon, by the roof, and having
beaten him with sticks, and stabbed him with a knife,
strangled him by a rope, and placing the dead body in
a bed, which they surrounded with wood and tow,'set
fire to the bed. As soon as the fire was perceived, the
neighbours rushed to the spot, and succeeded in extin-
guishing it before the house was more than partially
burnt. A great portion of the body of the muttlered
man, however, had been consumed. On the following day
several persons were arrested on suspicion. of being the
murderers, and amongst them was a, man named Dran,
who, it is said, had purchased tie reversion of some
property belonging to Gaine, and had attempted to cut
down some wood upon itt
G but had been opposed by
Gaine. The murdered
',an had the reputation amongst
of being a sorcerer, and it appears
lentthe countrymon
e.atper7
people
Usurious rate of interest."
Mr. Buler has left Paris for London. The Hon. H.
Howati, ' Second Secretary of Legation, conducts the
business of the embassy in his absence. Mr. Bulwer is
expected to return in a few days.
M. Thomas, Chef du Perssnnel in the office of the
Minister of Finance, is appointed Paymaster-General of
the Treasury, in the room of M. Delafontaine, deceased,
Our Madrid Correspondent writes, on the Ist instant,
that Sir H. Aston had received his letters of recal from
London. The Madrid Gazette publishes an order from
the Political Chief of the capital, prescribing certain
formalities to be observed in the transfers of Stock on
the Madrid Stock Exchange, in. order to hinder stock-
brokers from speculating on their own behalf in opera-
tions for account ; and also another order for hindering
Stock transactions from being carried on anywhere but
on the Exchange.
The President of the Civil. Tribunal of Toulon, M.
Reymonencq, was thrown out of his carriage, a few days
since, near that town, and the wheel passing over him
crushed his legs and both feet in so dreadful a manner
that, after lingering 48 hours, he died in great suffering.
The tribunal of Correctional Police of Macon has sen-
tenced to various periods of imprisonment, from three
days to six months, twenty more persons, amongst whom
were four women, for the recent riot at that place.
The Progres tie Pas-de-Calais announces that Baron
de Coetdihuel, Government agent for purchasing horses
for the army, has, upon a commission from the Minister
of Commerce, purchased in England for the French Go-
vernment the fine stallion Physician, at the high price of
60,3751. The Government has also bought of Lord H.
Seymour his stallions Oak-stick and Chip of the Old
Block, at 9,000 f. each.
The Moniteur publishes It Royal ordonnance of 3d
inst., preceded by a report from tlie Minister of Public
Instruction, according to which no one can attain the
degree of doctor of inedicine in any of the Medical
Faculties witho-,-.1 -having followed a year at least the
service of 7..11 hospital either as an extern, or as a simple
Inedic::i-pupil. Other minor regulations connected with
',ills order are contained in the same document.
Some sailors were a few days ago at work in the
paddle. boxes of the steam-frigate the Lavoisier, lying at
Paimbeeuf, when the wheels turned and broke the thigh
of ono of them to dreadfully that he died soon afterwards
in the hospital. Six others were thrown into the water.
Two were drowned, and four were saved by boats which
put off immediately from the shore.
Saint Etienne was visited on the 2d instant by a vio-
lent storm, which inundated the town and terrified the
inhabitants; but we do not learn that any damage of im-
portance was done, At Saint Genest Lerpt, however, a
1 journeymzn ribbon-weaver was killed at his loom by the
lightning, and a farm at Moutchal was struck, and had
its barn and other buildings set on fire and three cows
killed. The railroads of the Loire and the Rhone were
stopped for a time by the earth brought down upon them
by the torrents. The body of a drowned man was found
in the meadows, where it had been thrown by the cur-
rent of the Giers. The flooding of the Rhone having
inundated the lower parts of the town of Gilboa's, the in-
habitants dreading a renewal of the disasters of last year,
removed their goods in all haste to the upper town,
where they themselves took refuge. The railroad is co-
vered in several places by the waters.
M. Raymond Coste, responsible editor of the Temps,
has surrendered himself to prison in execution of the late
judgment against him for violating, the laws of the press.
Among the trees on the south side of the Tuileries
Garden is now to be seen a chestnut-tree in blossom, as
if it were spring. _ .

The quantity of ices consumed annually at the re-
staurants, coffee-houses, and confectioners of Paris, is
calculated at 8,000,000 kilogrammes (16,000,0001b5.
English), and the estimated value about 600,000 francs.
The Rhone, a Lyons journal, says that the number of
persons arrested there is nine, and that they are accused
of belonging to a secret association, holding its sittings
at uncertain places and periods. " This society," it adds,
" was called the Charbomierie Reformee. Loaded arms,
proclamations, and other convicting evidence, were
found at the place of their last meeting, and leave no
doubt of the criminal views of the members."
The Infante Don Francisco de Paula, as is announced
by the Moniteur. Parisien, took his departure from Bor-
deaux for Spain on Wednesday. •
Quoting its correspondence with Bayonne, the Moni-
ten, Parisien says, that on the .4th inst. Gen. Piquerro
supported the movement of O'Donnell, by proclaiming
the Regency of Queen Christina at Vittoria, and the
maintenance of the Fueros. This journal adds that a
squadron of horse at Bergara had joined the insurrec-
tion, and that Ge-lerie Alcala had in consequence
marched there with two battalions.
During the last month,
the first since the opening of
the whole length of the road between Strasburgh and
Bale, the number of passengers has, amounted to 93,265,
and the receipts to 216,000 f.
Our Madrid correspondent writes on the 30th ult. that
it is now considered doubtful whether M. Onis will ac-
eept the post of Ambassador to the Court of St..James's.
In case of his not having taken the office, it Would pro-.
bably be offered; it Was said, to 21. Marliani.
A letter from Alexander of the 26th ult., in the Sud
of Marseilles, states that Mehemet Ali has acceded 'to
the.. proposition of the East India. Company for the
transit of !merchand e • acroEs the isthmus of Suez, on
is

payment on: per cent. duty,. and that all that remains
to be done is to fix the line
.which goods and- caravans
are to take. It was supposed that this would produce
the Pacha an annual revenue of 500,000
,talarts. M.
Cramer, the Russian Consul, has been forthally pre-
sented to the Pacha, and had a private, audience of an
hour. A dus was said to have taken place at Alexl
andria, betweeli•M. Barnatrand M. Arago, two French
gentlemen, in which the latter fell ; and a fracas was
talked of between Dr. CIOI Bey and
cording to another letter in the Quotidienotei- Colonel
N-apier has returned from the coact of Syfia to Alex-
andria, dangerously Hid -dysentery,- - • -
The Marquis de Pasteret -has;-sent in the following
letter:—" Sir—l have thiaarnent received a letter from
Kirchberg, which states, thothe Duke of Bordeaux is
getting I::ketter and. better ; that he got up to-day, the
29th of September, completely dressed himself, and re-,
ceived all the French who were at liirchberg. It is de-
sired that I should make this news knoqn to all our
friends, and I hasten to communicate thein to you,
begging to publish my lette,r,t-Aecept,
".The Marquis.de PASTORET."
—La Gazette de France.

It is said that the partizans of . the Qucen Christina's
Regency have plenty of money, and that they have long
since been endeavouring to influence the_ army against
Espartero,.but w•e must lover judge. except on positive
data.

The Pharr des Pyrennes of the 6th, says that Gene-
rals Jauregui (El rastor), Urbistendi, and Iturbide, have
declared in favour of Christina.

The Memorial de Pau, says it was General Espi-
nosa who aided O'Donnell in his enterprise, and Diego
Leon will probably declare in favour of it.

'The Memorial Boidelais of the 7th, has the following
letter • from the frontiers :—" The troops cantoned in
the sillage, in the extreme Spanish frontiers, Urdax and
Zugarsamurdi, left on the 3d at eight o'clock for Elisonde;
it is not known what• they intend to do, but everything
indicates a new war in that unhappy country."—Le
Commerce.