The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-16 00:00:00

port measures which will ensure to the poor
plenty of food, cheap clothing, and comfortable
dwellings. There is some reason to suppose, that
if they do not bring forward such measures, the
Tories will, and they will reap the harvest of free
trade, as in 18=29 they reaped the harvest of tole-
ration, which had been sown by Whig• statesmen
and Whig writers. Reports of a dissolution of
Parliament arc rife, and probably Sir R. PEEL
and the Times are already appealing to the com-
mercial and manufacturing interests. We hope
that the Ministers will not lose the opportunity
which is now in their power, and that they will
seek to recommend themselves to the town popu-
lation by at once proposing measures to abolish
the discriminating duties on timber, sugar, coffee,
and to get rid of those obnoxious imposts which
impoverish the people without enriching the
Exchequer. For a considerable time past the
Tories have on many occasions appealed to the
people ; they are now bidding for their support
against the Whigs, who appear to us to have no

time to lose. Let them take to themselves the
merit of abolishing, the Corn-laws, and equalizing
the timber duties.

Madrid Journals of the ith inst. have reached
us. In the Gazette of that date we find the f()':-
lowing decree of the Regency relative to the dis-
banding of the Army :

Art. 1. Absolute dismissals shall be granted to all indivi-
viduals belonging to the Army of 1831, and to all who volun-
teered into the Army during the war.
Art. 2. Every soldier en being dismissed shall receive a
month's pay.
Art. 3. Those who receive this defigite conge shall have a
certificate of goad behaviour, with a list of service, signed by
the Duke of Victoria, which rapers shall serve them as letters
of recommendation for any other cause they may embrace.
Art. 4. A similar certificate shall be granted to all who
shall have received their conge during the war, or since that
period.

Not a word about pensions or rewards for dis-
inguished services !

the elections were proceeding with the greatest
apathy on the part of the people. It was not
expected that half the electors would take the
trouble of voting.

There is nothing to excite public attention in
the French Journals of Sunday. The Courrier
Francais is out of humour with the Minister of
Marine for allowing the French fleet to be at sea
during the late storm. Cannot the Courrier de-
vise some plan for caging the fleet, after the
fashion of the capital, in stormy weather? It
would certainly be a novelty to find the move-
ments of a fleet of the line regulated by the
barometer of the Minister of Marine at Paris.
But, in truth, we advise the Courrier Francais
not to venture beyond the walls and the fort-
resses. The writer evidently knows no more
about the duties of a Minister of Marine than he
does about that constitutional freedom which he
asserts will flourish best within the range of the
guns with which little THIERS 15 So eagel to sur-
round the capital.
The Monitenr Parisien contradicts a statement
in the Univers that the commercial treaty be-
tween France and England was about to be
signed. The Univers, however, repeats its state-
ment, which it affirms will be found to be well
founded. We trust it is.

There is some talk of the dissolution of the
Chambers in the French Journals.
(From the Gazette de France.)
It must be acknowledged that in the situation of the Go-
vernment with respect to foreign Powers there is something
obscure and illogical, which authorise them to demand a
change in the attitude that has been assumed.
The affairs of the East are terminated. The treaty of Lon-
' don has been carried into execution. The Pacha has with-
drawn his army from Syria ; he has restored the Turkish
fleet. He is reduced to the condition of the governor of a
province. We cannot see anything in those countries which
could give occasion for new questions.
France does not protest against these faits accomyes ; she
accepts them ; and with them the increase of the power of
England and Russia, which is the result of them. France
seems to have sacrificed her predominance in the East ;
and we have not heard that any claim is pending before
the Council of the Sovereign that she may receive
by some means or other the power which she has lost by the
late events. France does not protest, and yet she continues
her armaments. Why is this ? What is the object? What
claim, what remonstrance does she mean to support by military
preparations? This is what Europe has a right to ask, for if
France alleged motives for her armaments, they might be lis-
tened to, and we might thus obtain a disarmed peace, the only
one which is real and profitable. But can we see an attitude
indefinitely prolonged, which is threatening to the peace,
ruinous to the finances, alarming to the interests of all. This
is what cannot be asserted without exposing ourselves to arro-
gant notes, to humiliating demands. We think, then, that the
French Cabinet ought to have shown by protests or demands
of some kind, reasons for the armaments which it has resolved
upon. Assuredly there would be no want of good reasons to be
alleged, and of just demands to be brought forward. It was
all powerful at Alexandria and in the Levant; now even its in-
fluence is destroyed. Would it not be just to give some com-
pensation for all that it has lost? If such a demand were made,
we should understand its warlike preparations—we should see
their object and their limit. But to accept everything, to bear
everything, and to take up arms, is, we repeat it, a line of con-
duct which is inexplicable."

THE ORDNANCE ESTIMATES for the year
1841-184'2 amount to 2,160,303/., being 223,809 i.
more than for the year 1840-1841.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

COLONIAL MARKET.

There was little business doing, and prices were a shade
lower, but upon the whole they are much better supported than
could be expected. The Raw Sugar Market bring very fair of
sample, prices in consequence rm. The Cofee trade was in
very dull state, and prices on the decline. Rice firm, and in
fair demand. Pepper dull, and declining in value. Cassia
Lignea in good demand, and prices looking up.

TEA MARKET.
There was only a limited demand for free trade, but prices
underwent little variation at the public sale. The speculative
market was flat ; Company's Congou at Is 7d per lb.