The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-22 00:00:00

THE N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1-'4l.

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Vtaltt Optilioa.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGT.T.

The emission of a portion of the French loan and the
disturbances in France, occupy a prominent place in the
columns of the French Journals of Monday. The
Debuts regrets that the loan was not sooner issued, and
observes that commerce has suffered from the delay.
The Constitutionnd says that the Government in issuing.
the loan was influenced by a fear of a decline of its credit
in consequence of the emeutes. The Courricr Francois
is of opinion that the Government had recourse to the
trick of delaying the emission, in order to lead the
capitalists to suppose that it would not issue at all, in
order to procure better terms. The Sieth complains
that with all the artifices of the Minister of Finance,
the State will be a great loser; as before a single franc of
the loan can be touched the Treasury will stand indebted
to the lenders four months and six days' interest, which
will amount to 15,030 francs. Thus after all no portion
of the press is satisfied.
We noticed in our summary of Monday the indignant
contempt with which the French Journals hurl back
upon the Tory press, the malicious attempt to
find in the reputed Atheism of the French people the
origin of the murderous attack upon the Royal
Prityes. The Constitutionnet has very successfully
turned the tables on the hypocritical Tines, the stupid
Courier, and the flippant Ca,bc. The evangelical purity
and poverty of English churchmen; the unbought pa-
triotisin of the English aristocracy, and the high, ho-
nourable impulses NVhiCh the cat-o'-nine-tails commu-
nicates to the back of the English soldier, supply
materials for a picture, the survey of which ought to
teach the Tory and V.'hig Pharisees more modety in
speaking of their nc:.::i'-)rnrs. When the attempt to
assassinate Lord 11-01ViC known in France it. will fur-
nish the Erench press with means of retorting with
ten ibid effect the iibels of the British Anti-Gallican press.

The Courrier Francais is not less bitter than theCon-
stit2itiounfi. That our readers may bo made acquainted
with the mass or bad blood engntierc,fl by these foolish
attrt!:ks upon the religions character of our neighbours,
and that they may likewise be in.ttlo sensible of the
absurd figure which even an Englishman may be made to
cut in the hands of a French satirist. we extract the
article from the Courrier :—" The English Journals look
upon us as a nation of Atheists, because we do not, like
so many English, divide on, Sundayz between the Church
and the gin-shop. We will merely observe, that if we
were to judge of the influence of religion on the
hearts of men, we must not take the English as an
example. There is certainly no nation which ob-
serves with greater rigour the external forms of re-

legion. The— brow of the Englishman is gray: and
Foruhre, -like the per!leo of a church ; but if we
look under the envelope we shall frequcntly find the
heart rotten. iiow well did Byron know these Pharisees
of Europe who of virtue practice only the appearance ;
Av:to have mark-:17; for votes as for sugar and collee ;
who call themselves
.honest men, w hilst 'they corrupt
poor electors, and who have even gone so far as to
change the natural signification terms as to say of a
thief, if he be well-dre,:sed, that he looks repectahle.7

Here we have caricature !hr caricature. The English
are not without true religion, neither are their hearts
rotten. But iu the misrepresentation we have the usual
penalty of a claim to ultra-righteousness. To have our
many good qualities. c.:titnated at their full value we
must not pretend to be better titan others.
The French frontier contraband trade with .Spain is so
considerable, that in one month 2,744 bales and pack-
ages of French goods fmnd their way into Spain by Irun
alone ! This was in the month of August last. And
yet the French journals rail against British smugglers.

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There are said to be discovered in the prosince of
Tarragona, in t3pain, 1 gold mine, 4 silver mines, 5 of
iron, 72 of lead, 17 a coal, 7 of sulphur, 1 of mercury,
and 1 of magnesia. Mining is all the rage now in Spain,
but we trust the infection will not seize upon Bri-
tish capitalists. The most productive mines in Spain
are on the surface of the country, if the agricultural po-
pulation were only industrious enough to work them.
Last week witnessed the (petting of the two first im-
portant lines of railroads in Prussia, that between Co-
logne and Aix la Chapelle, and that between Berlin and
Cothen, where it unites with the line from Magdeburg
and Dresden. The latter line was eNectued within a
remarkably short period, the works having only been
seriously begun in November, 1839. The length of this
line is 25 German miles, or about 120 English, and the
distance was performed in seven hours and a half.
The Corresponsu 1 relates that while the young Queen
and the Infanta Dona Luisa were riding in their carriage
on the 11th, they met a priest bringing back the Host
from a visit to a sick person. Her Majesty and the
Princess immediately alighted and followed the Host on
foot to the church of San Giniez, to which the priest
belonged. A large crowd accompanied the Queen and
her sister.

Belgium and Hamburg have concluded a Commercial
Treaty, which guarantee:. to the citizens of each recipro-
cal equal rights in their rytipective territories. The text
of this Treaty will be found in another part of The Sun.
Letters from Constantinople of the 2d inst., state that
by advices from Erzrourn it was known that the Persian
Court had received intelligence of the submission of Me-
hemet Ali. This news had an extraordinary effect
upon the Schah and his Ministers, who all at once exhi-
bited a greai affoction for the English. Preparations
were ordered to be made to receive Sir John
our Ambassador, with every mark of distiuction. Fear
works wonders.

now work it by means of the Chandos•clause. In fact.
they are once again firmly seated in the saddle, and will I
never be unhorsed, except by some such vigorous, united
determination, on the part of the people, as carried the
Reform Bill. And this determination, forced on by in-
exorable necessity, will manifest itself, ere long, for Re-
form, at present, is a mere cipher—a name, not a thing—
a shadow, not a substance.
The Chronidi contains the following remarks sug-
gested by the Corn-laws :—" More time, more time,'
is still the cuckoo cry of the Tories. And while the To-
ries are taking time, the monopolists are taking money.
There is no suspension of the Corn-laws or import
duties while Sir Robert Peel is considering. The bread-
tax returns upon the. poor man every meal time, unless
the time return without the meal. The landlord allows
not the delay which is claimed by the Minister. At
this very moment a loaf of bread in London costs just
twice the price of a loaf of equal size and quality in
Paris. Tae Spitalfields weaver pays tenpence fur his
fivepenny worth of bread while Sir Robert Peel is taking
time to consider. And this consideration .is to endure
ihr months. This extortion is to endure for months.
Whether Parliament be sitting or prorogued, that. goes
on just the same."
We quote the following from the Post :—" If we may
judge from the variety of delusive, and even false state-
ments, with which the ex-Ministerial party endeavour to
mislead the public mind, they are very inuah at a lose
for any valid matter of objection to the proceedings of
the present Government."—God knows there are valid
objections enough to be urged against the Tory Ministry!
We object to them—and so does every right-thinking
man iu the community who is not jaundiced by preju-
dice—that they are anti-Reformers under the flimsy
disguise of Reformers ; that they have deluded us on the
Corn-law question ; and practised a gross fraud on the
people, by turning out the Whigs on the pretext that
they had done little or nothing during the Session ; and
then forcing themselves into chive, and, if possible, doing
still less. We object to them, moreover, that they are
men, not of principle, but of expediency ; and that the
only man among them all whose straitforward character
may be depended on, is the only one who holds no office,
and is coneequentiv irresponsible.
The Beret/ twallles with its usual happiness on the
subject of the Corn-laws, observing:—" A repeal of the
Corn-laws is sought that the legitimate influence of the
landed interest may be destroyed, and that coarseness,
vulgarity, and despotic democracy may rule the roast.
The " standard of rent" is said to be " lowering the
standard of everything else in the kingdom;" and rent
must therefore be got rid of. Home grown corn is
valueless; all that we want are home made cottons. The
landlords are the support of Conservatism, and there-
fore landlords must be destroyed ; if a repeal of the
Corn-laws should not realise that destruction, the Ra-
dicals would then demand an agrarian law. The
creed of Radicalism has become as terse as was that of
the great enemy of Carthage; rent must be destroyed."—
Nonsense like this is unworthy even of the Ihrabl. Is
it likely that such vast landowners as the Dukes or Bed-
ford and Devonshire, Earls Spencer, Rad:sor,
Ham, and others of the great Whig aristocracy, would
like to see rent destroyed, and so reduce themselves
from affluence to comparative poverty? And yet there
men are all opposed to the present Corn-laws—all equally
anxious with the Radicals for a material alteration in
the impost !
The following is from the Dublin Pibt :—" We have
now the prescription of the state quack, and it consists in
—nothing. Postponement, postponement—hurabug, dis-
honesty—in the Minister—ruin to the nation. How the
charlatan wasted himself upon the question of a flew thou-
sands' expenditure, while the House and, country were
breathless to know what secret of public salvation had
this state doctor ready which could warrant him in re-
moving men who proposed a plan for the object, and in-
sulted and outraged the country, by involving it in a
desperate struggle, if he had not something tangible of
his own to substitute for that which he superseded."
The Devonshire Chronicl: says—" What the British
nation may choose to endure, we are not aware ; but that
any civilized nation wirl treat the Peel Cabinet with cor-
dial respect, is morally impossible ; the means by which
• they obtained power is as well known in other parts of
she world as they are here, and the Government will un-
derstand and weigh their value to a very great nicety ;
we shall very soon witness a change in our foreign rela-
tions, which will show the value that is set upon Eng-
land, under a bigotted and despotic rule."
The Brighton Guardian comments as follows on Sir
Robert Peel's course of policy :—" He is placed in power
to preserve the aristocracy and our aristocratic institu-
tions, and he will act on this principle as long as possible.
• His office is that of resisting the onward march of de-
mocracy, not of submitting to time and circumstances ;
and he will quietly resist it as long as he can. He will
now do nothing, therefore, till he learns what are exactly
1 its demands, and what is its power."

CPTATIVZLMCIAL

Great public meetings have within these last few
days taken place at Salford, Reading, Paisley, Bath,
Stratford, Marylebone, Mile-end, and a host of
other considerable towns and boroughs, for the
simultaneous purpose of petitioning the Queen not to
prorogue Parliament till the Corn-laws have been
thoroughly investigated. Petitions are also lying for
signatures in at least fifty of our different metropolitan
towns, and signatures to the amount of many thousands
are already appended.

Matthew Baillie, the eminent author ; he was brother to
Joanna Baihie, and nephew to the celebrated John and
Hunter.

Last night about ten o'clock, Mr. Bourden, landlord of
the King's Head public-house, Eastcheap, was murdered
by a man of the name of Blexley, married to the sister
of the unfortunate man's wife. The assassin first
attempted the life of his wife, and then rushing at Mr.
Bourden, who had awoke out of his sleep, from the noise,
stabbed him to the heart with a butcher's knife. The
murderer immediately made his escape. - •

The population of Belfast, according to the present
census, is 100,000, In 1331, it was under 62,000. - The
increase is 63 per cent. in ten years.
The Carmarthen Journal states that " as a youth of
the name of John Taylor, was walking last. week on the
banks of the Tivy, he, to his great astonishment, saw a,
fine trout lying on its back, and playing all sorts of strange
antics. After a little difficulty he succeeded in getting it
ashore, when he found, on examination, that it was right
royfdly drunh, and that it had a large quid of tobacco in
its mouth, which had doubtless been dropped by some
person into the river, and which must have occasioned' its
vagaries."—Father Matthew should administer the tem-
peranco pledge to this drunken fish. It will not be the
first odd fish to whom he has administered it.

:a G aixia 0 T. 131." :, 1311:7.

We hear it whispered that Bernard Cavanagh, the extra-
ordinary fasting man, 11:16 L:iti an interview with Sir R.
red, who, at the inAigntion of the Duke of Bucking-
ham, has commissioned him to go among the manufae-
tnring districts, and i,istruct the operatives there in the
highly useful art of (sting " without the slighteSt in-
conveniene:‘," as he represents to be his own case.

We understand that •there is no truth in the rumour
that Colonel Sibthorp is busily engaged in writing a
Treatise On the Wisdom of Solomon.

We learn that the new Tory Premier, in allusion to
his refusal to give they people cheap bread, is already
known by the soubriquet of "President of the Total Ab-
stinence Society."

MONEY and COM 41EilCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. he market
to-day has been very quirt, the saes not amounting to more
than 3,000 bales. the whole of which. has been purchased by the
trade, exporters and speculators eingperf-etly inactive.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, SEPT. 21.--The Share
Market continues exceedingly depressed; Grand Junction of-
fered at 199 to 200.' In other Stock nothing to report.

There are no later arrivals today from any quarter.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 21.—The busi-
tit ss don in our Market to-day has been considerable, and
our transactions mould have been still more exten,ive, had
there been a larger supply of Stock. Our real trant,action,
are :—London and Birmingham, 168 , Ditto New, Thin's, 23 ,
North Midland, 61; Manche,ter and Leeds, Halves, 25i ;
Ditto, Quarters, 16, 3d., 15s. ; North Union, 764. ;
land Counties, Quarters, 19; Bank of Sto•Aport, 4