The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTE

THE OCTOBER NUMBER OF

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
and LEECH. CONTENT&
RICHARD SAVAGE,
By CHARLES WHITEHEAD.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY LEECH.

Chapter VII.—In which Mr. Myte is presented with a par-
ticular occasion of surprise, with his behaviour thereupon.
Chapter Vlll.—Ludlow recounts a story which is no longer
than is necessary; wherein, and in his manner of telling it,
he reveals his whole nature.
Chapter IX.—An apostrophe which seems to indicate the
author's parentage. He waits upon a certain Colonel. His
reception, and in whose presence.
Chapter X.—ln which may be seen a hot friend cooling.
With some occurrences which appear, as yet, to pertain solely
to Ludlow.
Some Account of Donnybrook Popular Administration of
Fair, with the Donnybrook Great Thieves. By Charles
Jig. Mackay.
The ?deem Grange—Story of The Days of Olden Time.
the Picture. By H. Cur- The Heart and Key : a Story
ling, h. p. 52d Foot. of the Fens. By Dalton.
The Enthusiast at the Pyra- With an Illustration.
mids.
AIERRIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME.

With Three Churches all of a Row, and the Death of Bartlemy

Fair.

By GEORGE DANIEL.
Guy Fawkes. By W. H. Ains- I The Mystery. By Isabella F.
worth. With Illustrations Romer.
by George Cruikshank.
THE AUTO-DA-FE.

A Legend of Spain.
By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

LIOYAL SURREY THEATRE.

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE
AND MR. WILLIS JONES.

Unparalleled success of the Military Old English Equestrian
Spectacle, " Blenheim," the Waterloo of the 18th Century.
Overflowing Houses.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 28,

Will be presented the successful Equestrian Spectacle, called
TIIE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, I'HE HORSE
OF THE DISINHERITED; introducing Mr. Ducrow's mag-
nificent Stud of Forty Horses, highlly-trained Palfreys, Fairy
Roney., Equestrian Troop, and Companies of both Theatres;
embracing all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of
Marlborough, Grand Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories.

After which, NEW SCENES IN 'THE CIRCLE, in the
Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow, Sig-
nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman,
Signor Felia.Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear.
To conclude with THE HAUNTED WRECK.

HlflH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TV-MORROW
Morning...... 4 minutes after 1. I Evening `,5 minutes after 1.

Radicals and Whigs, like the Frenchmen and
their Allies, to be hunted to death without
mercy. It is new to us also to find the popular
demand for cheap bread, by extinguishing the
landlords' tax, compared to the arguments pro-
pounded by JACK CADE "that henceforth seven
lialfpenny loaves should be sold in England
for a penny," when the humble fact, stripped of
all fancy and all the allusion of analogy, is, that
the Bread-tax Repealers require, the bread
to be sold at its just marketable price; while
the landlords, the very reverse of JACK
CADE, whose purposes appear to have been
benevolent, though mistaken, insist on making
the people pay 4d. for every 2d. loaf, and having

more power than CADE, they have been enabled
to carry their wishes into effect. There is a simi-
larity between JACK and the landlords. Both de-
clare that bread should not be sold at the market
price ; but JACK said it should be sold to the
poor for a less sum, while the landlords say the
poor shall not have a 2d. loaf without paying 4d,
for it. Both arrogantly intend to set aside the
honest laws of the market, but JACK would have
set them aside for the benefit of the poor, the
landlords set them aside for their own benefit.
Of the two, JACK was decidedly the zzare bene-
volent, while they are on a par for honesty and
justice.

We may, however, leave the Whigs to the
mercy of the Reviewer. They did too many good
timings, such as reforming Parliament and the
Corporations, settling the tithe question in Eng-
land and Ireland, establishing Poor-laws in Ire-
land, giving us the Penny Postage, &c., &c., to
have their names erased from the public affec-
tion by the blunt soft pen of the Reviewer. In
after tithes, they will be remembered as political
benefactors, while the Tories will only be known
as detractors from the merit they could not pos-
sibly equal.
We knew beforehand pretty well what the
Reviewer would say of the Whigs, and we were
more anxious to learn what he would promise the
public in the name of the Tories. The sum is,
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy ought to be the re-
verse of that of the Whigs. He must, therefore,
augment instead of remitting taxes, and must
resist instead of promoting useful reforms. He
is to exercise dutiful fidelity in the business of the
State towards the SOVEREIGN, and is not to allow
any of her subjects but the Tories to have access
to herpresence. To foreign Powers he is to be calm
and conciliating, elevated and courteous, and
imitate the lofty example set by LOUIS PIIILIPPE
and M. GulzoT, and so probably expose her
MAJESTY or himself to be shot at like that arch-
traitor to the people, the French Monarch.
As to our finances, Sir ROBERT is slowly- and
cautiously to develop his means of meeting the
difficulties and to restore our prosperity.; he is
to imitate LOUIS the FOURTEENTH of France in
building palaces. The following paragraph con-
tains all which the Quarterly Reviewer says
about restoring our national prosperity. The
spinners and weavers mustbe delighted equally
with the philanthropy and candour of the sug-
gestion in the present state of the country.
Connected with the state of our finances is a subject
of general interest, and of great, and, we are glad to say,
growing, importance to this country ; and while our first
anxiety is for the safety of the State—to see our expenses
and our revenues brought to a due balance—our next
wish is for such a surplus revenue as may enable Sir
Robert Peel to indulge not merely his own well-known
taste and feelings, but those of her Majesty and her
Royal Consort, in the liberal encouragement of the
fine arts, and in enabling the reign of Queen Victoria
to rival the reign of Queen Anne in its noblest distinc-
t tion of being the Augustan age of England. Eng-
' land,, so generous and so wise in works of practical uti-
lity, has too long looked at the imaginative arts with the
jealous eye of parsimony. She is but slowly learning
that, in addition to the intellectual pleasure, there is no
inconsiderable degree of financial profit to be derived
from works that may, at first sight, seem to be mere os-
tentatious embellishment; but the examples of Rome and
Florence, and, above all, of Munich, Berlin, and Paris,
are beginning to open our eyes. It was the great Col-
bert, we think, that, on some objection to one of Louis
XlV.'s costly Carousels., showed by calculation that it
would prodfp.:e from the influx of strangers ten times
more profit to the industry of the kingdom than it would'
cost to the Royal purse ; and we have little doubt that
the sums spent on the embellishment of Paris, great as
they have been, are already producing, if not a full, at
least a satisfactory return, which, if the King can sober
down the minds of his people to a spirit of peace, will
every day become more considerable. We should not i
forget how and amongst whom the cost of public works
is distributed—not to the idle and the rich, who receive
from them only an intellectual enjoyment, but to the
artistic and industrious classer, who find in them the
actual means of livelihood :
_

" For hence the poor are clothed, the hungry fed,
Work for himself and for his children bread

The fal;Wurer finds."

The people, therefore, are to be additionally
taxed to build palaces and buy pictures, in or..
der to feed the people. Arrogance, long in-
dulged, has driven these political charlatans out
of their senses. They tell the industrious classes
of England, as the Earl of SHREWSBURY tells
them, that the aristocracy is the tree from
which they have gathered the finest and most
abundant fruit, and the people can do nothing
better, therefore, than allow it to draw all
nourishment from them, and grow itself to a
poisonous greatness.
Even if there were not, in the present condi-
tion of the Arts, and the lives of artists in
France—in the past conduct of the French, in
relation to their fellow-countrymen and country-
women, and to the rest of Europe—in their
savage thirst of blood, and reckless dis-
regard -of human life—abundant reason to
believe that palace-building and picture-paint-
ing are not civilization, and do not promote
it—even if there were no reason in the condi-
dition of France and Italy to distrust patronis-
ing the arts as a means of civilisation—to
write about such matters at. the present time is a
deep and bitter insult to our long-suffering- and
patient people. The author+ must be some
person of great mental inferiority, who has
probably attained a sort of coterie celebrity by
puffing some second-rate poets and artists into
notice. He can' conceive no higher dignity for
literature than to be taken in tow by the sister
arts. Being himself unable to conceive any-
thing original or grand, he attempts to reach
fame by fastening himself on to some respectable
artist. A more contemptible meddling with the
great " Condition of England Question," of which
the writer has no more conception than a " critic
fly" has of .the old dome of St. Paul's, never fell
under our notice; and we recommend Mr.
LOCKART to get somebody else to do the politics
of the Review than the old broken-down poli-
tician, who, through a long life, and having filled
many posts, hai never by any chance had the
epithet of honest or comprehensive applied
to him.

Letters from Athens of the 7th inst. are loud in their
condemnation of the dismissal from office of Prince MAR-
RACORDATO by King OTHO. So ridiculous, contemptible,
and, on many occasions, subversive of the national
liberties, has been the general conduct of OTHO since
his elevation to the Throne of Greece, that he can be
guilty of no extravagance—no outrage upon public
liberty, or public opinion capable of exciting in us the
slightest astonishment. We therefore hear unmoved that
the KING, to get rid of MAVHACOnDA.TO, boldly set forth
that a Minister, in perfect health, was too seriously
indisposed to perform the duties of his office. We
learn with equal calmness that his MAJESTY, with a
vindictiveness worthy of an old crone who let furnished
lodgings, and who was resolved to gratify a grudge by
insulting an outgoing tenant, condescended to dismiss by
a Royal Decree M. LEON MELAS from the Ministry of
Justice, after he had the resignation of that Minister
in his pocket ! Yes, contemptible as this little trick
appears, it was not unsuited to the gratification of the
miserable vengeance of King OTHO. When, by the fabrica-
tion of a bare-faced lie M. MAVRACORDATO was dismissed,
M. LEON MELAS at once sent in his resignation. The
KING received, but suppressed it ; and in order to have
the credit of being the first in the field, he so far forgot
the dignity of a Constitutional Sovereign, as to dismiss
the Minister ; but having deolared MAVRACORDATO an
invalid, the next step taken by the KING was to evince
his own munificence by providing for the worn-out pa-
triot. He therefore ordered him a pension of 257/
per annum out of the public. Treasury ! This
miserable pension, which was intended to ruin
MAVRACORDATO 111.,
the eyes of his countrymen,
and which assuredly the KING would have taken care'
never to have Tati4 :was indignantly declined by the
Prince, who stated.' in a letter to the Government, that
he was wealthy enough for his necessities, and healthy

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enough to be still capable of serving the cause of Greek
independence. .

But the Great Powers must at last take some steps to
arrest the ruinous career of OTHO. It is time to remind
him that in guaranteeing the independence of Greece,
the Great Powers had for their object the happiness of
the Greek people, and not the gratification of the petty
and malignant passions of a handful of Bavarian adven-
turers. But as France is now mixed up with the in-
trigues in Greece, we fear that the British Government
will not speedily receive much support from the Cabinet
of the Tuilleries. However, the interests of the Greeks
and the repose of
.Turkey require that some strong mea-
sures should very soon be taken to repress the domineer-
ing insolence of a Royal Imbecile, and to give to Greece
those institutions which shall place her liberties beyond
the reach of an alien faction behind the Throne.

The Paris Papers of Sunday contain very little gene-
ral news of interest. The seizure of the National on
Friday, and the circulars of the Minister of Justice, oc-
cupy the leading columns of the whole French metropo-
litan press. No act of the Government since the Revo-
lution of 1830 has been so strongly denounced by
the Opposition journals as is the issuing of the
Ministerial circulars, published in our columns of
yesterday. They are denounced as intended to abolish
the freedom of the Press and the constitutional right of
petition. We more than question the wisdom of the
Government in thus exasperating not only the Press, but
the advocates of an extended suffrage throughout
France. We fear the result will little accord with the
expectation of the Km, Court, and Cabinet.
The Moniteur says, a letter from Beyrout, announces that
the English troops have completely evacuated the fortress of
St. Jean d'Acre.

The Sud of Marseilles of the 23d, has the following para-
graphs : Captain Espanet, commanding the Auguste
Etrenne, coming from the Isle of Bourbon, has arrived in our
port. He states that on the Bth of this month being off Cape
Sacratif, he met an English squadron of five ships of the line,
and seven frigates steering towards the West. Cape Sacratif
is on the South Coast of Spain, a little to the East of Malaga.
It must be inferred from the direction in which this squadron
was steering, that it was going to leave the Mediterranean.
Captain Portal, commanding the brig La Bourse Adele,
who quitted Tunis on the 10th of September, and arrived on
Tuesday at Marseilles, left at Tunis, five French and three
English ships of the line.
The Bishop of Algiers arrived on the 23d at Bordeaux.
There is a report in that city of the nomination of that prelate
to the see of Cambray.
The Eclaereur de la Mediteranee announces that a manu-
facturer, Mr. Joseph Gauthice, who has been travelling for
these two months in Algeria, has discovered among other
mineral riches some iron mines, which can be compared only
to those in the Isle of Elba.—Le Constitutionnel.
The Count Kolowrat, a packet belonging to the Austrian
Lloyd's, which arrived on the sth from Syria, brought to
Smyrna the following intelligence, which has caused a great
sensation:—" The Austrian frigate La Venero, bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral Bandiera, ran aground on a rock before
St. Jean d'Acre, :five miles from land. It seems that the fri-
gate was in such danger, that the Admiral found it necessary
to throw overboard his guns and his ballast, and to send im-
mediately to Beyrout for assistance. The English ship of the
line, Cambridge, and the Phcenix steamer left on the 29th for
that purpose. The captain of the Kolowrat says that up to
the 30th the sea had been very calm, and that if the assistance
from Beyrout came in time the frigate would be easily got off,
but that since the 30th there had been a very heavy north
wind on the coast of Syria, which excited great apprehensions
for the safety of the ship.—Le Commerce.

From Spain we have letters and papers of the 19th
instant. The Expeciador, a Madrid Ministerial paper,
has some very cutting observations upon the report
that the King of the FRENCH has sent M. SALVANDY to
Spain to watch over the safety of the young QUEEN
This Journal observes that the Spaniards are not regi-
cides, and that the King of the FRENCH will find enough
to do to protect himself and his family from the assassin
bullets of his own loving subjects.
There were reports in circulation of an intended mar-
riage between the young Queen of SPAIN and her cousin,
the second son of Don FRANcisco DE PAULA. The
rumour went that Great Britain had consented to the
match. No Bourse.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE o' CL CK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 27. There has
been a pretty good business done in the Cotton Market to-day,
the sales amounting to 4,000 bales, of which Exporters have
taken 250 bales, and Speculators 200 American.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, SEPT. 27. Only one
transaction has been done at the close of the Stock Exchange
this day, viz., Paris and Rouen, 81t.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 27.—Our market
exhibits more firmness today. London and Birmingham,
1551; Ditto, New, 321., 22 ; Hull and Selby, 39i ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 2134 ; Manchester and Leeds, 55k;
London and South Western, 501/.

MONTREAL, Atm. 31.—Considerable sensation has been
produced in town in consequence of the evident determination
of the Government to press forward the Bank of Issue Bill.
A public meeting will be immediately held to discuss the me-
rits of this measure.

There appears to exist a well-founded apprehension that if
the present Banks are compelled to purchase their supplies of
bills or notes with specie, it will be tantamount to a law
obliging them to pass a dollar in silver for every
dollar of their circulation ; and it is further urged,
that they will suffer a heavy loss of interest in conse•:
quence of the supply of those notes they must necessarily re-
tain for their ordinary business. The proposed Bank is not in-
tended to augment the banking capital of the colony. It must
effect a large reduction in the circulation of every Bank under
the control of the Provincial Parliament, and should the
charter of the Bank of British North America be exempt from
such jurisdiction the stock of that Institution must rapidly rise
in value.
It may prove interesting to recapitulate the names of our
present Banks with their paid-up capital, viz.:—
Bank of Montreal ...£500,000
City Bank 200,000
People's Bank
Quebec Bank
Upper Canada Bank
Commercial Bank ..
Gore Bank
People's Bank
Farmers' Bank 50,000

Total £1,660,000
Those Banks, under the present system, are authorised to issue
their notes to an extent three times greater than their paid up
capital ; hence the province has now at its command all the
available benefits of circulation, equal to 4,800,000/. ; inde-
pendently of these facilities, nearly fivefold greater than those
offered by the contemplated Bank of Issue, the Bank of
British North America can enter the market supported by a
capital of 2,000,000/. sterling.

The Hamburgh mail has arrived, with the letters and papers
of Friday. Exchange comes schilling higher. Gold the
same as before.

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