The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—l congratulate you on the torrents of abuse
which the publication of my letter has brought upon
you from the " Liberal" papers. The fact is, they
want to keep all liberality to themselves, and are
dreadfully annoyed when they see you at all inter-
fering in their professed vocation. They know full
well, that should you adopt the course I ventured to
recommend, their " occupation would be gone," for
I hesitate not to affirm that the people will rally
round and support any Government that will satis-
factorily settle this vexata questio of the Corn-laws,
and, what is more, that' no Government who shall oppose
such a settlement can by any possibility remain long in
power, whatever may be their present numerical ma-
jority. Hence, Sir, the rage and wrath of your Con-
temporaries, lest you should by your powerful efforts,
now put forth, prevail on the Conservative party to play
I this golden card.
Sir, the constituencies, in giving such a majority to the
Conservatives, did it, not because they would at all
hazards maintain the existing Corn-laws--no, but
because they mistrusted the Whigs ; were tired
of them and their do-nothing policy ; suspect-
ed their motives in their proposed measures ;
doubted their honesty in carrying them out, and de-
termined that they would have the Government of
affairs placed in other and abler hands, such as they
could trust and implicitly rely upon ; and, Sir,
having effected this object, they are, doubtless, pre-
pared to give their support to such a Government in
carrying out whatever measures they shall recom-
mend, ay, even though they shall be more liberal
than those proposed by the Whigs. Let Sir Robert
Peel look fairly into the various departments of
the national affairs—come forward, and tell us
honestly the true state of the case; and such will be the
confidence placed in his statement, that, as I said before,
whatever may be necessary the people will support him
in effecting. But let him do less than this—let him lean
a little to this or that party in order to meet their views
—adhere inflexibly to the favourite sliding scale of some,
or the " No surrender" of others, and he will have lost,
I will not say the confidence of the country, but the op-
portunity of conferring as a gracious benefit what will
one day or other be extorted as a right.
I trust, Sir, I have said enough to induce zou to give
the Conservative party at large the benefit of your own
views on this matter, fully assured that, coming into power
as they do without a single pledge, in spite of all the fish-
ing and pumping of their opponents, there never was such
an opportunity for a Government to work out the salva-
tion of a people, and no one is so able to strike out the
path they should take as yourself. You have led the
people of England before—do so again, remembering
that to do so effectually you must go with the stream of
public opinion, and not against it. Only settle this Corn-
law question on such a basis as to cause it to become an
article of regular commerce, like other things, and
such will be the relief given to commerce—such the
benefit accruing to the revenue—such the employment
given to the operative, that I do not believe it would be
possible to get up an agitation on any other subject
whatever. But, on the other hand, neglect or refuse to
do this, and every other grievance, real or imaginary,
gives force to each and all, and their combined pressure
may become intolerable.

beg pardon for thus trespassing on your space, and
conclude, as I commenced, by subscribing myself,
CONSERVATOR.
Our fellow-labourers in the cause of Corn-law
repeal, will rejoice to hear that, in the opinion
of the Times, no Government can remain long
in power, whatever its majority, which refuses
to settle the Corn-law question. But how settle
it makingßy makin corn a regular article
of commerce," says the Times, like other things,
that is doing away the sliding scale, which
is to give relief to commerce and improve the
revenue. It is to supplyemployment o
topics—evenym et
to render agitation on all o
new Poor-law—impossible. We would say
nothing more favourable to the Ministerial scheme,
of which the Times thus avows itself a defender
It takes this view, also, because that is coincil
hdent with the stream of public opinion,—because
the bulk of the people will rally round a Govern-
ment which adopts this course, though that is
the course the Tories and the Times have for
months zealously opposed, when recommended
by Ministers. This letter, therefore, short
though it be, will be an infusible conductor to
carry away harmless into the ocean of oblivion
all the thunder-bolts which the Times has been
hurling against the Ministers for the last few
months.
But can Sir IL. PEEL act on the principles of
the Times? Impossible, without confessing
himself to be the most stupid and ignorant, or
the most knavish politician that ever pre-
tended to guide the affairs of a State.
Against settling the Corn-laws in the sense
of the Times Sir ROBERT PEEL has ar-
gued over and over again, and no person has
shown more forcibly than he has the mischief of
a fixed duty. He cannot come into office to
settle the question in that way, without
making a complete§ wreck of his yet float-
ing though half dismantled hulk. Nei-
ther can he propose the total abolition
of Corn-laws, though there is less in his
way to that end than Lord MELBOURNE'S,

without forsaking and destroying his pb.rty.
Nevertheless, in spite of both these leaders—in
spite of the landed aristocracy—in spite ofall the
ruling powers of the State, we have no hesita-
tion in now saying that the total abolition of
the Corn-laws must be granted and whether
that be undertaken by Sir R. PEEL or Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, whoever proposes it shall have our
support. Another thing, too, is quite certain,
namely, that the Times cannot and will not sup-
port Sir R. PEEL unless he swim with the stream,
and settle the Corn-law question, by making
corn an article of (free, qy.) commerce.

The express from Paris published in The
Sun of yesterday, anticipated much of the
news contained in the French Journals of
Monday. The reported death of the SULTAN,
though not generally credited, created some
stir in the French capital. His High-
ness was supposed to be much worse, and as
some eminent physicians have given it as their
opinion that the habits in which he indulged
would soon put a period to his life, the question
naturally occurs, what is to be done with the
Ottoman Empire? The heir-apparent is a mere
boy, who will require by law to be many years
older before he can be permitted to sway the Im-
perial sceptre. A Regency is therefore inevitable,
and among the candidates for that office already,
in the field are HALIL PACHA and -MEHEMET
ALI. The Viceroy of Egypt has purchased
powerful friends in the Divan, including some
members of the Imperial family, and could he
but overcome the scruples of the Moollahs, there
is little doubt that the great bulk of the Turks
would be delighted to see him invested
with the Regency. But would the ambi-
tion of the wily Albanian soar no higher?
Would he with the sword of the Prophet
within his grasp hesitate to enrobe him-
self in the Imperial mantle? Would the mur-
derer of the Mamelukes scruple for an instant
to crush the spark of life out of a child stand-
ing between him and the attainment of the very
summit of human ambition ? Reports of con-
spiracies among the great officers of State to in-
vest him with the command of the Ottoman
army and fleet during the life-time of the SUL'.
TAN, and so place the Regency entirely at his
disposal, have for some time been rife at Con-
stantinople. They may be unfounded, but
they advance the interests of the Vaissal, by
making the public ear familiar with his pros-
pective greatness. Thus everything indicates
the commencement of a new era in Oriental

politics.
The Toulouse affair has had its day, and the
Parisians begin to get sick of it. They want
something fresh, and Madame LAFFARGE sup-
plies the newest topic of conversation. Not that
they take any deep interest in her fate, but they
have nothing else just now to talk about. A re-
port of the trial, so far as it has proceeded, will
be found in another part of The Sun.
The Courrier Francaise of Monday has rather
an extraordinary article on the state of Europe,
the purport of which is to demonstrate that
every nation is going to the dogs but France.
It will be difficult to make the starving poor of
France believe this.
The Emancipation of Toulouse states that, in con-
sequence of the arrest of its responsible editor, the pub-
lication of the Utilitaire has been for the moment sus-
pended. M. Arzac had been summoned to give evidence
concerning the disturbances before the competent autho-
rities. This journal publishes an angry document from
its responsible editor, M. Raulet, who is detained in the
prison of the Senechal in that town (the warrant for
his arrest having been changed into a warrant of deten-
tion), protesting in strong terms against the proceedings
adopted against him. The Journal de Toulouse, of the
sth instant, says that numerous arrests were simultane-
ously effected that morning in various parts of the town,
but does not specify the persons thus apprehended.
The Municipal Council of Marseilles has decided,
by a majority of four to two, that a representation should
be made to the superior authorities, requesting that the

new measures concerning the assessment should be put

an end to, since they appeared to the Council not con-
formable to the formalities established by the laws and
regulations with regard to the direct taxes.
The Courrier d' Indre-et-Loire asserts that at
Nevers and Tours most of the inhabitants have refused
to admit into their houses the fiscal agents charged with
conducting the operations of the census.
The Journal du Havre quctes advices from Monte
Video, of May 27th, which state that Commodore Coe,
with his squadron of six ships, had attacked Commodore
Brown, of the Buenos Ayres navy, who had only three
ships ; but after an obstinate battle of upwards of three
hours, Coe received so much damage that he was obliged
to return into port, with twelve men killed and twenty
wounded. The Argentine artillery and crews are said

to have been much superior to those of Monte Video.
The Armoricain of Brest states that the military
and naval authorities have become so fully aware of the
tremendous effects produced by the guns a la, Paixhans
upon batteries of all kinds, as shown during the late
operations in Syria, that they have determined on
mounting all the batteries in the ports of France with
artillery upon this plan. It has also been found neces-
sary, it adds, to change the position of the powder-ma-
gazines, and they will all be put under ground, or under
works casemated in an extra manner, since common
bomb-proof masonry is not proof against Paixhans'
shot. The actual magazines of Brest, it observes, would
all be immediately blown up, and the upper town do-
stroyed, if an attack were now to be made with such
artillery.
The Gazette du Mudi states that General Changar-
nier passed through that city a few days ago, from Al-
giers, on his way to Paris.
A correspondent of the Prase, writing from Con-
stantinople, on the 17th ult., asserts that a conspiracy
has been detected in the capital for calling Mehemet Ali
to the Ottoman capital, and creating for him a post com-
bining the functions of Grand Vizier Seraskier, or Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Army, and Capitan Pacha, or
Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, so that, in case of the
Sultan dying, he might assume the post of Regent at
once. It is added, that several persons in high places
were concerned in this plan, but that no proceedings have
been adopted against them.

Ad-vices from Aleppo of the lit ult. in the Augs-
burg Gazette, state that Zekariah Pacha, governor of that
district, had succeeded, at the head of six thousand Al-
banian troops, in putting down some insurrectionary
movements which had broken out in the district of Orfa,
but that tranquillity was not yet fully re-established in
that of lliabekir.

A letter from Alexandria, of 19th ult., in the Augs-
burg Gazette, quotes advices from Beyrout to the 14th,
according to which numerous mountain tribes have
broken out into open revolt, and hare not only refused
all payment of tribute, but have claimed 300,000 pias-
tres; which they advanced to the Porte last year.
ACCIDENT TO TIIE DUKE DE BORDEAUX.—A letter
from the from the frontiers of Austria, of 30th ult., states
that the Duke of Bordeaux, while riding, on the 18th,
near Kireliberg, met a waggon full of peasants and
covered with a cloth top. Ills Royal Htghness's horse
was frightened at the cloth, reared, fell on the Prince,
and broke his thigh in the upper part. The physicians
and surgeons assure that the fracture is only a simple
one, and that there is no danger. Two surgeons were
sent for from Vienna, to aid the usual attendant of the
Royal Family. The family of the Duke de Blacas, M.
de Levy, M. Ducayla, and the Count de Montbel were at
Kirchberg.

M. Ouiaot left Paris for Eu, on Saturday evening.
The Havre Journal mentions that, about two months
ago, a gentleman and lady, having all the appearance of
respectaility, went across in the steam-boat froth Havre
to Hontieur, and there abandoned a little girl only three
years old, whom they had with them. The child, though
able to talk, could give no account of her parentage, nor
even give her name, and, no trace of those who brought
her being discovered, she was placed in the Hospice.
Fortunately for the poor deserted creature, a M. and
Mme . Carreau, of Paris, being in easy circumstances,
but childless, happening to be at Honfieur, have adopted
the foundling, and engaged to bring it up as their own.
On Thursday last the following accident occurred
on the line of the Paris and Rouen Railway, between
Rolleboise and Bonnieres. Three men were being
drawn up in a basket from a shaft 320 feet deep, and had
just reached the surface, when it was perceived that a
young man, also a labourer in the shaft, had, from fool-
hardiness, and unknown to the men in the basket, clung
to the under part of it. He was so exhausted that be-
fore he could be taken off, he lost his hold, and fell to the
bottom of the shaft, where he was instantly killed. On
being taken out it was found that nearly all his bones
were broken.

—" M. Humann," observes the Siecle, "appears de-
termined not to carry into effect before the end of the
year the loan which was authorised last session. It is
even possible, so report says, that the Minister may wait
for the meeting of the Chambers in order to present to
them a new plan combined with a positive aut,mentatioia
of the taxes. The treasury is in no want of funds; specu-
lators for a fall will get tired, and the loan, if it is indis-
pensable, will be contracted for on conditions favourable
to public credit."

The Augsburg Gazette, quoting its Paris correspon-
dence, says :—" The marriage of the Princess Clemen-
tine with the hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg is fully
decided on. The trosseau is in actiN e preparation, and
it is said that an application to the Chambers for a dower
for the Princess, as in the case of the Queen of the Bel-
gians, will be made next session."
We find, in an article of the Quotidienne, the fol-
lowing on Mr. O'Connell :—" Mr. O'Connell astonishes
us by the efforts of his genius, but, whatever may be his
zeal, we think he errs frequently, He errs when ha se-
parates the Catholic Royalists of France and Spain ; he
errs when he takes us for bigots, who offer up their
prayers to kings before God; he errs when he makes ab-
straction of political authority as the fundamental condi-
tion of the liberty of nations ; he errs when be mixes up
the defence of the Church with the cries of a faction