The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-05 00:00:00

Our accounts from Madrid reach to the 25th ultimo,
and are meagre of information.
The protracted discussion upon the Address was still

proceeding, with no prospect of its immediate termini'•
tion. The Bills of Loan and Levy had encountered
much opposition in the Standing Committees of the
Chambers, but the majority ultimately decided that Go.
vernment should be supported through its present diffi-
culties, on the understanding that the demand of
50,000 recruits were diminished to 25,000.

Queen CHRISTINA and her spouse, the Duke DE
RIANZARES, were expected to quit Madrid on the Bth
of the present month ; their arrival in France is not,
however, anticipated till much later than might be cal-
culated from the above announcement.

Carlist movements are still reported to be rife in many
of the provinces, and to have extended even to Guada.
lajara. Notwithstanding the blustering positiveness of
the Herald°, there seems to be some likelihood in the
current rumours.

MADRID Boe.s.t, FEZ. 25.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 31 for paper ; the Five per Cents, at 19% fur cash ;
the Debt without Interest, at 6; and the Coupons, at 17.

The Paris journals of Tuesday have reached us.
Scarcely anything of importance is contained in the
Opposition papers beyond commentaries upon the recent
reconciliation between the British Ambassador and M.

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Guisor. More improbable conjectures or insinuations
could not well be conceived than those uttered in rela-
tion to this singular transaction. Among these we
must mention the amusing insinuation contained in the
Nationa4 " After what we hare already recounted in
regard to the reconciliation between Lord NORMANBT
and the Minister for Foreign Affairs," says this organ, ~ ie
must be ostensible that the initiation in the conciliatory
movement was undertaken by a very different personage
from the Austrian Ambassador, :and one much more
august in position." Considering that his Majesty Ring
LOUIS PHILIPPE is almost invariably, though secretly,
implicated in the state movements of the French Go-
vernment, the inuendo is natural enough. In this case,
however, it has no foundation whatever.

Another rumour which was prevalent in the capital
Was, that a semi-official statement of the renewal of
amity would be published, with the sanction of M.
Guzzor, in the o°l=4 ef the Mwsiteur. The non

, for twelve hours a day in ceaseless toil in the cies°,
heated atmosphere of the factory ? No; we
have the testimony of many medical gentle-
men that such prolonged labour is in the
highest degree prejudicial to health, and tends to
promote premature decay, and in many cases leads to
early deaths. This alone should be decisive on the
question, but, in addition, we find clergymen of all
persuasions pointing out the injurious effects pro-
duced by these long hours of labour on the social,
moral, and educational interests of the people. We
find that, out of 260,000 operatives engaged in cotton
factories, no less than 230,000 have petitioned Parlia-
ment for a restriction in the hours of labour, that their
families might avail themselves of the facilities for
improving their minds afforded to them by evening
lectures, mechanics' institutes, and schools for
children, or in taking healthful exercise or re-
creation in pure air, or enjoying themselves round
the domestic hearth; but, in addition, we find menu-
Lcturers employing a full moiety of the opera-
tives, and including such men as Mr. FIELDEN and
Mr. BROTHERTON, strongly advocating the change,
and not fearing the pecuniary losses which its oppo-
nents assert would be the inevitable consequences of
can we hesitate as to its
pitrsoapdroiepttyi7.
THhoew , then,spee
speech of the Honourable
Member for Salford was of the most convincing
character, and in the highest degree creditable,
to the speaker; he avowed with honourable pride that
" when he was a boy he had been acquainted with
this wearisome toil, that he knew the sentiments of
those who were employed, and that he had resolved,
if ever he was in a position in which he could be lo-
strumental in shortening factory labour, he would-
endeavour to accomplish that end." Such testimony
is more valuable than almost any that could be ob-
tained. We sincerely rejoice at the favourable pro-
gress of the measure, the final success of which may
now be looked upon as certain, and we doubt not
that, when time shall have tested its efficacy, it will
be found to fulfil the warmest anticipations of its sup-
porters, and not have led to the injuries prephecied
by its opponents.

The intelligence which has reached us from India,
rid Marseilles, will be found generally interesting in
its contents. To those who only take a delight in
the current history of the vast Eastern Peninsula so
long as the sword is kept unsheathed, and pieces of
ordnance continue to belch forth their destructive
missiles against the enemies of British rule, the cha-
racter of the information just received will be neither
exciting nor gratifying. But to such as have accus-
tomed their minds to identify the joy which has
filled them, whenever our arms have been crowned
with victory, with the prospect it held out to England
of introducing the blessing of refined reace and the
choice fruits of civilisation to millions of human
beings, will the serial intelligence from India—that
general tranquillity prevails—be welcomed as the
most refreshing that could be conveyed. Injurious
as was considered, at the time, the result of the great
American war to the supremacy of British power, the
future historian and philosopher will view in a very
different light the establishment of the independence
of America. In the extensive population which had
sprung from our loins, and settled on the expanded
area of the United States, speaking the same language,
imbued with feelings of reverence for political princi-
ples which have proved the mainstays of the greatness
of the British Isles, and characterised by manners,
customs, and habits for the most part identical with
those of their progenitors, we had the safest guaran-
tees that the great work of universal civilisation
would satisfactorily progress, whether the inhabitants
of the states remained as colonists or assumed
the reins of self-government. When, how-
ever, the great republic reared its front,
and placed itself among the leading nations of
northern and western Europe, there can be no doubt
that England was thereby better enabled to concen-
trate her mighty energies in the east, and to shed
the fulness of her light upon the benighted races
that peopled the Indian continent. A greater task of
regeneration was never undertaken by any country
whose means and appliances were, like our own, at
all commensurate with the end to be attained.
Confidence in a foreign ruler is ever a plant
of slow growth in the mind of the native ; but, not-
withstanding the abuses which are, more or less in-
separable from conquest, still, such has been the stern
dignity with which we have, to the utmost of our
ability, from the time of WARREN HASTINGS, re-
pressed any attempts at rapacity and arbitrary ty-
ranny on the part of the servants of the Crown
against the natives, that, as well from our equitable
governance, as from the manifold advantages which
have been developed and gained by them beneath our
imperial sway, do we, at length, find ourselves come
to be frequently regarded and looked up to by va..
rious hereditary sovereigns as the paternal pro-
tector through
i whose good faith and alliance, sta-
bility can be imparted to their just rights, and the
general welfare of their respective dominions can be
best promoted. Of this we have recently had a re-
markable instance in the Punjaub, which we com-
municated to our readers little better than a month ago.
Whilst we refer generally to the summary of the
latest Indian news, which will be found in another
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cruiting will be prohibited till each native regiment
be reduced from 1,000 to 800 men. Our mili-
tary expenditure will thus be curtailed by between
300,000/. and 400,0001. a year. This saving will be
disposed•wch, of in completing the great canals, from
h by means of irrigation, an inappreciable sti-
mulus will be given to the agricultural resources of
India in considerable portions of territory adjacent to
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Sufinished by 1851. Instead of the miserable
tlej and the Ganges. The Ganges canal
will be
annual outlay of 20,0001., there will be now furnished
yearly for its construction 250,0001. It is computed
that 2,000,000 of people will be thus beneficently
protected against the visitations of famine to which
they have been periodically subjected. Of such a
gigantic cast are the splendid projects conceived by
the Government of India for the welfare of its in-
habitants. Future generations will revere with
reason the brilliant career, military and civil, of Iris.
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