The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-03 00:00:00

E SUN,* LONDON, THURSDAY. JUNE 3, 1841.

the bates were opened to him by the marines and seamen
who had obtained possession of it.
Now this, instead of being a " notorious fact,"
is a notorious falsehood. At the storming of Si-
don Sir CHARLES NAPIER was actually at the
head of the Marines who forced the gates, and
was one of the first to enter the town. We speak
from the testimony of an eye-witness who was
near the person of the Gallant Commodore. So
much for falsehood the first.

Whilst at Acre, although he rendered good service,
he took up a position, in his too great eagerness to have
the victory all to himself, which prevented one of the
finest ships in the fleet, the Revenge, commanded by
Captain Waldograve, from using her guns.

The position which Commodore NAPIER tool:
up at Acre was the position which, as Comman-
der of the leading ship, he was entitled to take—
namely, abreast of the first large battery. The
Battle of the Nile afforded him a glorious pre-
cedent, as in that engagement the leading Brit-
ish vessel anchored alongside the headmost ship
of the French line. What is said about the
Revenge being prevented from using her guns,
is a sheer calumny. So far is that from being
the case, that when the Gallant Commodore
saw that the Admiral had neglected to order
in the Revenge to support him, he made
a signal to Captain WALDEGRAVE to ad-
vance, which that brave officer did in a most
masterly manner, taking up a position a-head
of the Powerful. The Standard is of course
aware that Admiral STOPFOR n's plan of attacking
Acre was with three line-of-battle ships, three
steamers, and a number of troops. Had this plan
been carried into effect the expedition would have
proved a miserable failure. The country need
not be told whose influence caused it to be aban-
doned.

We have nothing but the glory of the results
to oppose to those who delight in whispering
about that Sir CHARLES NAPIER was not :he
most blindly obedient of subalterns. Were Sir
CHARLES NAPIER of so accommodating and
submissive a nature as Captain l3oxEn, for
example, and in the habit of having no
will or understanding but that of his immediate
superior in command, neither BEYROLT, nor
SIDON, nor ACRE would have yet fallen, and we
would by this time have been in the thick of as
" pretty a scrimmage" with France as we ever
were under the Republic or the Empire. Dis-
obedience of orders—since the truth must be
told—drove IBRAHIM Pacnn out of Syria, saved.
the Prince of the Mountains from being utterly
destroyed, the battalions which NAPIER had
passed in the rear of the Egyptian Commander
from being cut in pieces, and, in fact, the liss
of all the British forces. Pity it was that NAPIE&S
disobedience did not extend so far as to carry into
effect his own brilliantly-conceived plan fbr cap.
turing the whole army of InnAntm PACHA. And
yet the great wonder is how any man, circum-
stanced and situated as he was, could have ac-
complished such glorious achievements.

We have said before that the friends of Ad-
miral STOPFORD would best consult his fame aid
his repose by avoiding any comparisons between
himself and Commodore NAPIER as Naval Com-
manders. There is but one NAPIER in the .er-
vice—there are fifty STOPFORDS. NAPIER is the
NELSON of his day—STOPFORD is an Admiral
whose distinguished services are exhibited
in the honourable flag at his mast-head.
But these are unpleasant topics, and we
advise the Standard not to provoke their
further discussion. To Sir CHARLES NAPII:It
they can hardly be less painful, on the score of
good feeling, than to Sir ROBERT STOPPORD, for
whom HE has ever expressed the kindliest
feelings.

According to our view a protecting duty on
the production of corn is wholly unwarranted;
according to Mr. M'Cummen's view an Bs. duty
is three-eighths too much, and is only considered
to be expedient, because it defers to the mis-
takes of those who imagine corn to be very low-
priced abroad. The Ss. duty, therefore, does not
meet the justice of the case, either according to
those who declare against all protective duties,
or those who, having examined the subject, con-
clude that agriculture should be protected to the
extent of ss. per quarter. Now, as Lord JOUN
RUSSELL'S proposition meets the views neither
of the landlords nor the manufacturers, neii her
of the absolute free traders nor of compromising

expedient free traders, let us seriously ask, why
is it proposed?
The just and proper answer to this question i 3,
because the Ministers suppose the Bs. duty is
likely to receive the support of Parliament and
of the constituent body. On the one hand it'is re-
presented that it is impossible for the country to
stagger alongunder the present Corn-laws, some-
thing therelbre must be done; on the other, it is so ',-
posed that the landlords will never consent to tile
total abolition, and Bs. is selected, therefore, as
the sum to which they may possibly consent,
under the terror of otherwise seeing the law
totally abolished. The Bs. duty is proposed,
therefore, simply and purely because it is sup-
posed that it may receive the support of Parlia-
ment. If this be correct, it follows that Mini-
sters would as readily propose the total and im-
mediate abolition of all the Corn and Provision-
laws, as a new scale of duties, provided they
were likely to receive the support of Parliament.
It follows, also, that the electors may command
the total abolition, and that it will be their fault
if they do not now for ever extinguish the Corn-
laws. Let them only elect a majority of the
House of Commons pledged to a 'total repeal,
and resolved to take nothing less than a total re-
peal, and they will be as sure to obtain that as
the Bs. duty. Hu Trait, then, for total repeai
and if we cannot now command that, we may
always fall back. on the Bs. duty, looking
forward to a time when total repeal will be con-
ceded.

There is a remarkable passage, we think, in
the preface to Mr. M'CuLLocn's pamphlet, to
which we yesterday adverted, that should inspire
the total repealers with'fresh zeal:—

" Those who are anxious," says that gentleman,
" that this great question should be settled on fair and
equitable principles, would do well not to neglect the
present opportunity. One so favourable may not
speedily occur. It is only when prices are moderate,
and there is every prospect of a good crop, that this
question can be properly treated. It is at once unsafe
and unwise to trust too much to the public forbearance
and judgment. The longer a reform of any abuse or
grievance is delayed, the more sweeping it becomes in
the end. Few persons, we believe, suppose, after what
has recently occurred, that the Corn-laws can continue
for any very considerable length of time on their present
footing ; and the fair presumption is, that if they be not
properly reformed and amended, they will be abolished
altogether."
The Corn-laws then, are an abuse and a griev-
ance, and the fair presumption is, that if they be
not properly reformed or amended, they will be
abolished altogether. And why, if they be an
abuse and a grievance, should they not be aim.
fished ? Why should we cherish abuses? Why
content ourselves with half a felony?
Why does Mr. M'CuLLoox anticipate the possi-
bility of these laws being abolished? He does
not expect or fear that the law tbr punishing
theft will be abolished, or that the law, under
which the representatives of the people are elec-
ted—though it may be enlarged—will be hastily
swept away. Mr. M'CuLLocn's anticipation that
this grievance will be abolished altogether, if not
reformed, is a striking, though, as it were, an ex-
torted evidence of the magnitude of the abuse•
and that nothing can save it btr; that amend-
ment and relbrrn of which he is the advocate.
A change, which will fix this grievance on the
• country fnr some years longer, is, on this show-
ing, much to be deprecated; and the assurance
given us by Mr. M'CuLLocx that if the law be
not reformed it will be swept away, ought to
make all the constituencies of the empire at
least careless about its being reformed, and re-
solved at once totally to get rid of it. Let them
have no fear that such a resolution will injure
the Ministers. We will take it on ourselves to
assert that they, as well as the cause of truth and
justice, will be more effectually served by the
people demanding the total extinction of the

abuse and the grievance than by requiring that
some of its enormities should be pared down, so
that it may appear a little less unsightly, and, by
exciting less horror, be preserved some time
longer.

The late case of Captain TUCKETT arid Mr.
WORSLEY .itt the Mansion-House, in which Mr.
Alder Man PIaIE refused to interfere, because
the assault complained of was not committed in
the City. of London, suggests the necessity of
some new regulations to meet the peculiarities
of railways. The English law is very strict in
enforcing correct descriptions of all offences, and
if an indictment charged a man with having com-
mitted an offence in Middlesex which was com-
mitted in Kent, he would escape, or at least be
transferred to the county where the offence was
committed, and where alone exists -a tribunal
having the power to try him. Such accuracy is
a great saftuard against false accusation, and
it ought not to be lightly dispensed with. Ma-
gistrates, on the same principle, ought not to act
where they have no jurisdiction, and as Mr.
Alderman PIRIE has no jurisdiction at Green-
wich, which is in Kent, he is rather to be praised
than censured for refusing to entertain the com-
plaint.
But other offences much more serious than
common assaults, may be committed in railway
carriages; property may be stolen, life may be
taken, and the crime may not be discovered till
the arrival of the train at the end of the journey.
During the transit the motion is so rapid, and the
machine altogether is so huge, that it cannot be
arrested by a constable, if one could be got at, to
complain of an offence on the spot where it was
committed. It must be very often impossible
for persons to appeal to,the Magistrates in whose
jurisdiction an offence may be committed, even
if it were possible to ascertain it when inclosed
in a railway carriage. Such circumstances sug-
gest an alteration ; arid Magistrates who have
Jurisdiction at either end of a line, or at any of
the intermediate stations, should probably be
authorised to take cognizance of all the offences
committed in the carriages at any part of the
line. The persons who travel by railways must
have, as well as other persons, the common and
general security given by law.
With respect to the particular case, about
which communications have been sent to us, we
beg to decline offering any opinion. Mr. Alder-
man Pram evidently supposed that Captain
TUCKETT would not make a wanton assault, and
probably he placed more confidence in the asser-
tions of Captain TUCKETT and his friends than in
those of Mr. WoasLEv'. and his witness. The
charge of a wanton assault committed from that
insulting, overbearing spirit which is sometimes
found in youLT military men, requires to be fully
inquired into ; and we should hope that Mr.
WORSLEY will be encouraged by the support of
his friends to institute an investigation. Slch
rudeness as he describes ought not to pass un-
punished. But giving no opinion on the parti-
cular case, we refer to it in order to draw atten-
tion to the peculiarities of railroads, in respect
to the jurisdiction of Magistrates, as it must, in
many cases, be impossible to fix the commis
sion of an offence, during transition, in any one
county.

Monday being observed as a holiday in France
very feW of the Paris iournals were published,
and those which have reached us merely an-
nounce the execution of the regicide DARNIIis.
Consecrated as Monday was to religions obser-
vances in Catholic countries, the French Govern-
ment scrupled not to sanctify it by an oblation
of human blood, as if it followed, not the com-
memoration of the Ascension of a merciful and
all-forgiving Redeemer, but the kindling of the
flesh-consuming fires on the altars of Moloch !
An eye-witness of the execution relates that
when DAttmEs was brought to the foot of the
guillotine a conversation of some four minutes'
conversation took place between him and the
executioner, and that had he then consented to
make any revelations his lite ,could have been
spared. If this be su DAIIMES was decal&
wed, not because he attempted the :Kiu•,•'s
life, but because he declined to consign supposed
participators in his guilt to the block. His ci ime
was his fidelity to his wretched accomplices. His
silence, and not his treason, cost him his life.
Well, abandoned, hardened wretch as he was,

we would not have his blood, legally as it has
been shed, upon our head or hands, for the
crown of France ! His guilt was undoubted, but
his trial by the Court of Peers was a mockery,
and a disgrace to a civilised country. Baron PAs-
QUIER, the President, inure resembled in his
conduct during the trial a matador at a Spanish
'bull-baiting, than a grave and impartial J udge
holding in his hands the balance in which wa3 to
be weighed the fate of a fellow-creature. But
this is so akin to the whole system of trying pri-
soners in France, that it excites no surprise
among our Gallic neighbours. In England, the
presiding Judge is, de facto, counsel for the pri-
soner, and never sutlers him either to be brow-
beaten or hurried into dangerous admissions by
the Crown prosecutor; in France, on the con-
trary, all the ingenuity of the Judge is exercised
to assist the prosecutor in entrapping the unfor-
tunate accused. There impartiaiity in a J udge
is rarely witnessed, and a leaning towards the pri-
soner never.

6{ A passenger on board one of ' the last steamers from Al.
Bier:," says the Toulonnaise, informs us that the Spanish
Government is sending troops into the Balearic islands, and
especiaiiy to Pcrt Maht.n. The garrisons of these islands are,
it is said, to be put on a war footing, on the suggest VII. as it is
supposed, of England, who is apprehensive of seeing art
Mahon occupied, sooner or later, by the French." The send-
ing of troops is confirmed by the Madrid papers.
A letter from Paris, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that
the King of the French had promised the northern courts ih ,t,
as soon as Espartero should have been declared liegeot of
Spain, Don Caries should be liberated from his detention at
hourges. The letter also states that efforts are making to
effect a matrimonial alliance between the Duke d'Aumale and
Queen Isabella, but that the northern courts will not consent
to her marriage with a French prince, and desire that she
should espouse the eldest son of Don ';:strlos.
M. de Bellemare, the delegate of the French inhabitants of
La Plata, arrived on the 28th at Havre. He comes from Esg-
Isnd, where he has been on account of the negotiations pending
between the French and English Governments, in older to
offer their joint mediation to the republics of Buenos Ayres and
Monte Video.—Journal du Havre.
The Seutinelle des _Pyrenees of the. 27th, announces that
Jose Soroa, formerly Governor of Irun, under the Carlists, has
just been arrested at Bayonne, and lodged in the prison of that
town. A Spanish priest, whose influence is well known, has
also been arrested. It seems that the greatest vigilance is ex-
ercised with respect to all the Spaniards who go to Bayonne.
The Gazette du Dauphine, a legitimist paper, published at
Grenoble, informs us that an advocate, a notary, and a coun-
sellor, who were suppiised to have been acquainted with the
letter of M. Simon Dither, previous to its publication, have
been summoned, as well as the printer, to appear betore the
examining judge, in order to be interrogated. Tile same wiper
informs us that several advocates have likewise been sum-
moned.— Le Constituitonnel.
SPAIN.
The Madrid Journals are to the 24th. In the sitting of he
Chamber of Deputies on the 23d, an address from the Munici-
pality of Burgos, relative to the allocution of the Pope on the
affairs of Spain, was referred to the Committee of Petitions.
Inthe same sitting a proposal was read, recommending that
the Government should give its attention to the indemnities to
be granted to those places which have been p!undttrett and
burnt by the factious. This proposal was adopted immedi-
ately. The President of the Conned said that he thought it
useless to discuss the subject, because the Governmenti
was ns
dined to attend to this affair as soon as possible.
Thanks to the repeated entreaties of Espartero, Senor
Chacon, ex-Minister-of-War,
has accepted the appointment of
Captain-General of Madrid.
The transactions in the Five per Cents. amounted to
27,200,1.00 teals, and were negotiated at 27 5-16ihs for cash,
and at 28 at 60 days.
We have said that the Minerva frigate has sailed from
Toulon on the 27th for the Levant. We learn by private
letters from Toulon, that this vessel is gone to Candia. —l.e
Commerce.

BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, MAY 31.
Httt Highest Lowest I.ast
Price Price. Pilo- Price
rte,ich f. per Cents
4% per Cents
4
Lattice 3Onrk(lrii(iili.Sharus 1. 751 50 ...1e57 53 53 ......1(.7:78, 50) .......10:.i7 9..03
;:si 11.).)lewirrictc!„):4,:a;i:It11,11::.t......ir.. a res 5115)95 11.51:59 11154::: ..1.4-4.1:1..:
Belgian Bank
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...............1117)c0v37,411.1,1i:
..............1017i7::1;
11 ... 71 ... 71 ... 71
* ••
ipanish Active
Passive
Seapolitati
Koroan jc..2.%
.. 10.4 i ... 10‘2,Ai ... 10.?%
rAiLwAI SHARES.
Versailles. L. 8.. On .., )90 ... 177 30 ... 117 541
.... ..... .
K. B 33i) ... 1432 50 ... :•:27 50 ...:127 50
Orleans .. 44,7 50 ... 487 50 ... 18; 50 ... 41,7 :0
(tr3sourg to Bale 930 . 2:41 ... '47 50 ... 2'7 LO
lonian 4CO ...4€o ...46U ...40)

From the Gertnan papers received this morn-
ing we extract the following news of the revolt
in European Turkey :
MurNs,
MAT 12.—Though the Governintnt does every-

thing in its power to.prevent the natives of Candia from going
to that island and taking part in the insurrection, many, how-
ever, succeed in escaping its vigilaw.e. Not only natives of
Candia, but other Greeks hasten to that island to assist their
brethren in their great undertaking. The same fermentation
exits in Thessaly, and many Greek subjects go likewise to
that province. Even some soldiers on the frontier have de-
serted. A similar excitement prevails in Macedonia, end it is
affirmed-that all these insurrections in Samos, Candia, Thessaly,
and Macedonia are directed by the same club. Collections of
money are likewise made (of course in secret), and we may
soon expect important events. The Conrrier says that Mr.
Baries, a Greek from Pesth, who is now here, has subscribed
for • 159 shares in the National Bank.

The official paper says, in praise of this man, that his name
appears in all enterprises tending to the improvement 41 the
country. The Government has likewise received from other
quarters offers to take shares, and it may therefore be expected
:hat the National Bank will shortly commence its operations.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AmErrEaDAm, Mme C 9.
Money. Bills.
tctual Debt, 2)4 per Cent ..... 5114 52
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Await Syndic, 4 );, per cenL..... ............
Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent 7 ,)4 74%(
Commercial Company, t' per cent l's) If 6
Ditto (18:15 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Lout) 18:37, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 05
Two months
Dutch Papers, May 30.
A USTR: A N FUNDS.—Vmsra, Mal* 21
five per Coats. Metalliques - 10914
lose per Cents. 995i
Three p.r Cents.
Bonk Shau,s 1650
---,Wren/eine Zeironr. May 27
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— 131tactsr, MAY 24.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4',, per cent. lO4 If 3t4
Prussian English Loan, 18.30, 4 per cent 102)4 101%
Ismeliange on London. three months 6 i 9
—Prussian State Gazette. May 29

CORN-LAWS, St. LUKE'S.—We are glad to see that
the metropolitan parishes are taking up the good cause
of abolition of the Corn-laws. A numerous meeting was
held at St. Luke's, the day before yesterday, and some
spirited resolutions were adopted. Clerkenwell had be-
fore met. Why has the rich and populous parish of Is-
lington no voice in the great question ? When will it
imitate the good example set by its neighbours ? It
ought not, pious and religious as it is, to be the last in
protesting against the legal murder committed by the
Corn-laws.