The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-20 00:00:00

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tent to submit to an illegal drain on their pockets,
in addition to all other rates which they are com-
pelled to pay. If we rightly comprehend the ex-
tent of the powers vested in these Commissioners
of Sewers, the sooner such a nuisance is abated
the better.

In fact, the Constitution of the whole Court
ought to be inquired into simultaneously, or ra-
ther, before the Bill for a better drainage be pro-
ceeded with.

The Marquis of NORMANBY, after reading the
Report in The Sun of this day, will at once see
the necessity of looking to this subject.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S speech on the Danish
claims, like that of his colleague the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, shows how the facts
of a case may be wrongfully assumed, for the
purpose of giving clap-trap answers to them.
His Lordship asserted that the seizure of British
property by the Danes was simply a case of ordi-
nary capture, and that it had been argued for the
claimants that the public money ought to be paid
to them in compensation. Now he well knows
that the real question is whether a Government
is to seize on the private property of foreign in-
dividuals trading in our ports, and trusting to our
good faith, without any provocation or cause for
war on their part, or on that of their Go-
vernment, and appropriate the proceeds to its
own purposes or that of the public, while the
property of its own subjects is to be left unpro-
tected, to be sacrificed in reprisals for that act,
without any compensation, out of the confiscated
foreign property, which occasioned the loss of the
British sufferers. Lord JOHN will never be able
to persuade the British nation, still less the
world at large, that the seizure of the private
property of the Danes in our harbours in 1807,
without any cause for war on their part, was
" in accordance with the law of nations," or " the
usages of war;" and yet he must prove that
first before he can assert that the consequences of
that Act, namely, the seizure of British ships in
Danish waters during the period of reprisals, can
be designated the " occurrences of ordinary war-
fare." The claimants had strong grounds to prc-
.test against the legality of captures in the Neu-
tral Baltic Sea; for its neutrality, even in case of
war, had been recognised by the Danes in trea-
ties and conventions, but they were debarred
from this plea by the antecedent illegal conduct
of their own Government. This is very distinctly
stated by Sir WILLIAM POLLOCK in his written
opinion. '' I think it quite clear," says this
high legal authority, " that the circumstances
under which the losses in question were
sustained, do not in any respect bear
the construction given to them in the reply to
the memorial of January last—viz., that the
losses were in conformity to the practice and usage
of war prevailing among the nations of Europe ;"
but that, on the contrary, all " ordinary prac-
tice and usage was violated." In this opinion
Sir F. POLLOCK, Sir' W. FOLLETT, and Dr.
LUSHINGTON coincided. It agrees also with that
expressed by Lord SIHMOUTH, in 1810. Lord
JOHN knows that the nation is not called upon to
pay money out of its own pocket without value
received, and that the question is simply that of
refunding what has been unjustly withheld from
the claimants.

The Paris Papers of Thursday have all reach ea
us, but their contents are unimportant. The
Committee of the Peers on the Fortifications
Bill, after adopting, by a majority of six votes to
one, the principle of the Bill, proceeded, with
singular inconsistency, to appoint the only dis-
sentient, Count MOLE, reporter of the Commit-
tee, and named as secretary Baron MOONIER,
one of the most lukewarm advocates of the mea-
sure ! Still that the Bill would be adopted by
the Chamber was doubted by nobody. The fol-
lowing paragraphs from the As'iecle show the ac-
tivity with which the Court engages in promot-
ing the passing of the Bill by a large majority :
The Ministry is rather anxious as to the fate of the discus-
sion about to begin in the Chamber of Peers. It is said
that ail the agents of Government who are members of the
Peerage, have received the order to come to 1 aris to vote.
Even the Ambassadors are not exempted from .this order.
The arrival of I. Bresson, Ambassador at Berlin, is expected,
and that of AI. de St. Aulaire, who is destined to the embassy
of London.

The Duke of Orleans, expected at St_ Omer. h. (1,13y.A
his departure in order to assist at the discussion of the bureaux
on the project of law of the fortification —a discussion in which
he has taken a very active part. The Duke was present at the
discussion at the opening of the session of the Chamber of
Peers, and voted toe the nomination of General Firlet.
The Presse has joined the Commerce in oppo-
sing the Fortifications' Bill. The following is an
extract from that Journal of Thursday on the
subject :
" Count Mole has been three times Minister for the last ten
years. He has closely examined men and affairs, the passions
which agitate us, the predilections which lead us astray, the
parties which divide us, the Governments which observe us,
and he fears, as we do, the project to fortify Paris, which
with difficulty obtained 209 votes in the Deputies, thanks to
the condescension of M. Guizot, the interested zeal of M.
Thiers, the scandalous tergiversation of M. Barrot and the
Left party, and, finally, the coalition formed by all the
Journals—from the National at the head, and the De-
bats at the tail. Count Mole fears that the fortifying
of Paris is the abandonment of the policy of - the
last ten years, and is the inroad of a system fatal to peace, to
our political preponderance, to our national independence, to
our institutions,, and to: our dynasty, and these apprehen-
sions of Count Mole are shared by the most eminent, the
most experienced, and most cautious colleagues in the
Chamber of Peers. If the majority of the Commission pro-
poses an amendment, and it should be rejected by the Cham-
ber, Count Mole, like M. de Lamartine, would at least have
proved, that they are not the servile followers of the Court,
as calumniously charged on the Cabinet of the 15th of April.
If the Peers adopt the amendment, and the Deputies then
reject the Bill, it will establish that the former vote arose
from a surprise, a complaisance, or want of reflection. If
the Bill is thrown out Count Mole will have rendered
the country and the tax-payers a real service."
The Moniteur Algerien of the 9th inst. contains the follow-
ing report :

" THE GOVERNOR OF MEHEAH TO THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.
" On the sth inst. 800 Arabs of the regular army were ob-
served in the East, and a reunion of several hostile tribes was
discovered in the south. 7he garrison hastened to beat to
arms, and marched against the enemy, who have been routed,
and much injury inflicted upon them by the mountain artillery.
We had one man killed and sixteen wounded ; our success has
been complete."
The following is the copy of a despatch from the Minister of
Marine and Colonies to the Mai itime Prefect of Toulon,
dated the 27th of January last :
" have the honour to send you herewith the copy of
an anonymous letter, without any date, which has been re-
ceived at the Department of the Interior, and which desig-
nates Joaquim Vicira-dos- Santos, a Portuguese, as being on
the point of proceeding to France with the intention of pur-
chasing a ship, and then going to the coast of Africa for the
purpose of carrying on the slave trade under French colours.
'f his letter does not indicate either the port in which the ship
is to be fitted out, or the time when the person in question will
arrive.

" Conformably to the instructions contained in the Ministe-
rial circular of Bth April, 1831, relative to the execution in
the ports of the law of the 4th of March preceding, for the
suppression of the slave trade, I invite you to transmit the
news of this project to the proper Ministerial &payment, that
it may he able to prevent the execution of it, should it be at-
tempted in one of the five ports of the `sth division. You
wilt also have the goodness to communicate to the shipowners,
through the Chamber of Commerce, the name and the project
of the individual in question,"
The English journals have not yet arrivel7Le Commerce.

Seville 35

PRICES OF IRISH STO
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 97
Ditto Reduced
Ditto New, 1830 ...... 97i
36 per Cent. Debs.

heavy rates, construct them without orders ? If
the numberless Boards, Commissioners, and Offi-
cials, who are already in existence, were to do
their duty, we should not want new Boards with
more extensive powers, nor any new laws.
Workmen are busily employed in paving
Duncannon-street with wood, in order that
Divine Service in St. Martin's church may not
be interrupted by the noise of public vehicles on
a Sunday, and that passengers may not be put
to the inconvenience of going out of their way
by the interference of the police. Why do not
the parish authorities connected with the two
churches in the Strand adopt the same simple
remedy, and not torment sick and dying people
in the narrow by-streets by the intolerable
rattling of omnibuses and coaches for four hours
every Sunday ? If their object really was the
convenience of the clergymen and hearers, they
would have done this long ago, and we can,
therefore, only conclude that their object is to
make a show of godliness. It is certainly, sur-
prising that the public should submit with such
patience to this arbitrary conduct, and be
stopped or turned back on a thoroughfare by
policemen, as if they were committing a
trespass.
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MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK.-Mr. Beuler,
so .well known for his songs and his peculiar
manner of singing them, has just published some
verses under this title, which have been set to
music by Mr. J. Clinton. They possess some of
the characteristics of Mr. Beuler's style, striking
antithesis, natural hurnour, and the ludicrous use
of words of similar sound with different mean-
ings, but. in order to be duly appreciated they
must be heard from the lips of the author him-
self. He alone can do them justice, and those
therefore who wish to judge of their real merits
ought to take the earliest opportunity of hearing
him recite them in public. No muse has been
more prolific than his, she disdains no sub-
ject, and seems to rejoice as much in picturing
the beauties of "Sukey Snubs" as in describing
the
.majesty of King William and the British
navy. They are' all written in the language of
humour, but free from expressions likely to. give
offence in any society, and contain not the
slightest allusions of an immoral tendency.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, FEn. 20.—Wind this day at noon, light breeze
at south, with tine clear weather.

RA at GATE, FEB. 19.-1 he Success, Wheeler, from Shields
for Littlehampton, got in contact with the Elizabeth and Jane,
Hart, of London, off the South Foreland, and has put in here,
with loss of bowsprit and leaky.
DEAL, FEB. 19.—Wind S.S. W.—Sailed the Hindostan,
Redman, fur Madras; Cognac packet, Saulter, Buenos Ayres;
Cato, Scot, St. Vincent ; Lagoda,fiLincoln, Charleston ; Scio,
Teasdale, Syri.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 19.—Wind S. S. W.—Arrived Thomas
Lee, from Calcutta ; Indus, M'Farlane, ditto ; Paragon, Little
St. Jago de Cuba ;..Ambassador, Kilby, and Mary Kingsland,
Weir, New Orleans ; New York, Mack, Mobile ; Shannon,
Pike, ditto; Bengal, Baker, ditto ; Cabinet, Sinnel,' Charles-
ton ; Ben Nevis, Bayland, St. John's, New Brunswick ; 3lar-
garet Parker, Dunn, Newfoundland; Sylph, Hunter, ditto;
Sam Slick, M'Dowall, Halifax. Sailed the Patriot King,
Roddick, for Calcutta; Bahamian, Strogan, ditto; Timoleon,
Windsor, '
New Orleans • Tremont, Gillespie, New York ;
Suveah, Moody, ditto; Governor Fenner, Andrews, ditto ;
Loo Choo, Whippen, Boston.

CowEs, FEB.l9.—Arrived the Adonis, Morel, Rio Janeiro.
BRISTOL, FEB. 19. s ship or a barque, waterlogged, was
passed on the 14th inst. in lat. 47, lon. 12, she hailed from
Newcastle, but could not make out her name, by the Racer,
arrived here.

CLYDE, FEB. 17.—Arrived the Bethea, Campbell, from
Nassau. Sailed the Terranova, Nurweek, for, Sydney, New
South Wales.

DunLitt, FEB. 17. krrived the Ctlista, Major, Honduras.
PETERHEAD, FEB. 17.—The William Gray, Gay, from
Inverkeithing to Oporto, is stranded at Cornier Bay, six mi'es
south of this port, but is expected off when the weather mode-
rates.

SHIELDS, FEB. IR.—The Bee, Storey, hence to London,
put back yesterday leaky.
CROOKHAVEN, FEB. 16.—Arrived the Royal William, Dris-
coll, from St. John's, New Brunswick.l
WHITBY, FEB. 18.—Arrived the Marathon, Davidson, of
and from Newcastle, sprung a leak and sunk off Robin Hood
Bay this morning, crew saved. The Anna Polowna from
Ostend to Hull has discharged her cargo partly in a damaged
state.

REDCAit, FEB. 17.—Arrived the True Briton and Hope,
both of and from Stockton, run on the rocks off this place yes-
terday whilst in tow of a steam tug-boat, were got off.
WATEREO RD, FE B. 17.—A considerable part of the cargo of
the Maria, from Antwerp to Belfast, is in a damaged state, and
will be sold.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
We have received the New Zealand Gazettes to Sept. 13.
GOVERNMENT NOTICES.
_ .

The Lieutenant-Governor desires it to be not' fied, that the
lands of Mangonni }lave been purchased for her Majesty the
Queen ; and he therefore cautions the public against building,
cutting timber, or trespassing thereon. Those persons who
have established themselves on these lands, either by building
or enclosing grounds for cultivation, will be permitted to hold
such tenements or lands un iisturbed until the Commission, to
be hereafter appointed, shall decide upon the rights of the re-
spective parties.
We witnessed on Saturday last with much satisfaction the
arrival of a French whaler : it is the first whaling vessel which
has resorted to Port Nicholson to refresh. She belongs to
Havre, has been out 13 months, and has 2,309 barrels of black
oil, and 7 tons of whalebone.

The city of Adelaide, including parks and reserves, covers
more than 3,300 acres.
Accounts from Frankfort state that the Government of the
Grand Duchy of Hesse has contracted with the house of
Messrs. Rothschild a loan of 1,500,000 florins for the expenses
occasioned by the armaments.
Accounts from Berlin, of the 10th of February, state that
up to the present time the Prussian Government excluded
the Israelites from all situations under their nomination, but
that unjust exclusion has now ceased, and the King has named
a Jew, Benjamin Mak, as Justice of Peace of Heinsberg (ar-
rondissement of Aix-la-Chapelle), and h's Majesty has con-
ferred on him the honour of the decoration of the Red Eagle.
Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of
yesterday, 883 4, both for Time and the Account ; Exchequer
Bills, 5 7 prem. ; Bank Stock, 165 167.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 233 A 24; De-
ferred, 125 1 ; Passive, 55 64 ; Portuguese, 315 32 ; Three
per Cents., 194 3A; Colombian, 225 ; Mexican 273 28 ;
Chilian, 62 64 ; Brazilian, 715 725 ; Dutch Two. and-a-Half
per Cents., 505 5 ; Five per Cents. 991.
SIIA RES.—Great Western, 241/2 25% ; New, 101/ 111/2
prem. ; Birmingham, 83 85 prem. ; Southampton, 571/2 58%
per share.
LivEitrooL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.--We have had a
large business transacted daily through the week, the trade pur-
chasing freely, and speculators being by no means inactive,
having taken 17,300 bales of American and 700 bales of Surat.
For export 450 bales of American have been taken. The mar-
ket has fully recovered the depression we noticed in our last
report, prices of American being quite 1g per lb. higher than
they closed on Friday last. The last accounts from the United
Sta'es continue the report of a short crisp. A large business
is bring done to-day at very full prices, the sales of all kinds
being estimated at 8,000 bales.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FER. 19.—London and
South Western, 58 581; Manchester and Leeds, 75 ; Ditto,
Halves, 325; Manchester and Birmingham, 25; London and
Birmingham New 32/. Shares 205 205; Midland Counties,
New, 155; North Midland, 74 75 ; Rochdale Canal, 86.
PRICES OF SHARES TillS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
. . _ _ _

Birmingham and Derby
100 . ..
Ditto Thirds
Great Western 65
Ditto New 50
Ditto Fifths .. 4 .. 91 to
London and South Western 3B& 58k..... to
Manchester and Leeds ... 70

Ditto New Shares
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.)

Amsterdam C F. 12 5i Gibraltar... ....... ....... 413
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 2 U. 12 6 Genoa 25 85
Antwerp l2 51i Milan
Hamburgh... ....M. B. 13 WI Venice
Altona l3 11 Naples ... 401
Paris, 3 clays' sight-- 25 45 Palermo, per oz 1191
Ditto, 3 months 25 70 Lisbon ... 51
Marseilles... .. ...... .... 25 75 Oporto . . 52i
I3ourdeaux... . .... 25 75 Rio Janeiro 2B
Frankfort on Maine.... 1491 !Bahia 27
Petersburgh, 3 U 5..... 37-1, !Buenos Ayres —
Berlin 7 0 INewYork,2l days' sight 46 1-
Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M lO 2 !Philadelphia - 46
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilboa
Barcelona
_..

Silver in Bars 0 5 Oi

,CKS, DUBLIN, FEB. 18.
Bank Stock 166
Grand Canal Stock —
Ditto Debs. 6 per cent...
Ditto 4
per cent •.
Ro3•al Canal Stock

HALEPAST ONE;
We have just received Jamaica Papers, by the West Indian
mail, to the 21st of January, by the Delight, sailed from St.
Thomas on the 21st of January, from Cape Horn 26th of
January.
Appearances bid fair for a desperate struggle at the next
lelection in this city. Vaes are being registered from every
quarter, and those who never before took an interest in such
matters are anxious to secure to themselves the right of exer-
cising the franchise.
TossAno.—We have but one paragraph to extract relating
to the Ireland, and that is an account of the weather. The'
Tobago Gazette, on this head reports, " This day and pre-
ceding night, the rains long wished for during the parched
stale of great part of the island, have caused vegetation to be
partly copious."
'I he following is an extract of a letter, dated Barranguilla.
Deo. 24 :—" Private advices from Bogota it form us that on
the 9th of the present month General lberran had gone from
Apaguira, at the head of 3,600 men, in pursuit of Gonzalez,
which routed Gonzalez on Ithe 25th October, and 1,000 re-
cruits. Barrero is marching against Cordova, from
Antigua. We have not learnt anything from Trinidad. 'llw
rains which have succeeded the hot weather of October have,
with slight intermission, continued to ' fall throughout the
whole of that month.
Accounts from Carthagena state that affairs are in a very
disturbed state in that quarter. Imprisonment takes place
daily. The British Consul there states that for the protection
of British property it was absolutely necessary that a vessel of
war should be stationed at that place.
Consols have been during the morning alternately buyers
and sellers at 833 for the Account. There is not a feature it,
either of the Markets worth attention to the prelent hour.
Consols for Money 833 ; have bet 884 ; Exchequer Bills,
6 prem ; India Bonds, 14 9 dis. ; Bank Stock, 1661.
In the Foreign Market only two bargains have been done
'luring the morning, and that was in the Portuguese and Dutch
Portuguese, Three per Cents., 19* i ; Dutch Five per Cents.,
•,:.9;

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1' Arad:et very title doing; prim; much tlt,
GI cat V;esto 11, 614 ; I ;
South Western, 513 i Manchester and Leeds New Shares, 33/.
The Peru steamer arrived at Lima on t;.ie 7th Septemb,--
.....,0.