The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-10 00:00:00

with a general regard to the honour and interests
of the British nation. Could we blot from our
recollection the prostration of Poland, the affair
of the Vixen, the agreement with Russia rela-
tive to the occupation of Constantinople by a pro-
tecting force, and the delay in recalling Pleni-
potentiary- ELLIOT from China, we should not
hesitate to pronounce Lord PALMERSTON'S foreign
administration as one of the most faultless in our
history. The list of painful recollections is long
enough to entitle us to claim for The Sun the
merit of impartiality. But when we see order
and constitutional liberty established in Portugal
and Spain; Belgium raised to the dignity of an
independent State; Turkey saved; British in-
fluence extended and extending in Central Asia;
and the peace of Europe preserved despite of
the late French Cabinet, we can make a large
allowance for errors originating in a love of
peace, family influence, and a misplaced confi-
dence in the talents of agents and the good faith
of allies.

We have only room to call attention to the
great Anti-Corn-law meeting held at Liverpool
on Thursday, of which a full report is given in
another part of The Sun. The extracts from the
Country Papers, which we also give this day,
will be read with the highest interest and delight
by every enemy of monopoly, and every friend
ofthe poor. The Provincial Press is doing the work
manfully, deterred neither by the frowns of the
landlords nor the dire hostility of the aristocracy
and the,Church. Men who thus lend their aid in
the cause of the starved and oppressed will meet
with the reward promised in Scripture, " Blessed
is he that pleadeth for the poor and needy."
In Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S admirable speech last
night, this topic was handled with great skill
and eloquence. His words will make a deep im-
pression throughout the country; and in order
that they may have full effect, we advise the
Anti-Corn-law Association to print the whole
speech in a cheap shape, and distribute it in
every city, town, and hamlet in the United
Kingdom.

Having received and published in our Edi-
tion of Saturday the only important news in
the Paris Journals of Thursday, nothing remains
for us but to quote the following additional
extracts from them :
The grand mass on the anniversary of the Emperor Napo-
leon was celebrated yesterday in the Church of the Invalides.
The choir was hung with violet velvet, enriched with escut-
cheons emblazoned with the arms of the empire, flags, and
trophies. Above the high altar was an immense banner with
the arms of the empire, surmounted by a golden eagle with the
wings displayed. On the altar, resting on a cushion, was
placed the golden coronet presented by the town of Cherbourg.
On each side of the choir was stationed the King's Aides-de-
Camp, the Peers, and Deputies, including Marshals Moncey,
Grouchy, and Gerard, Admiral Duperre, Generals Gourgaud
and Petit, Messrs. de Las Cases arid Marchand, and the Abbe
Cnquereau. Under the dome was collected a large body of
officers, among whom were some who wore the uniforms of the
empire. The Cure of the Invalides performed the service, and
the music was executed by the band of the 66th of the line.
After the absolution, Marshal Moncey, supported by General
Petit, awl attended by his aides-de-camp, was carried into the
Chapel of Saint Jerome, and there received the golden coronet
from the hands of the Mayor of Cherbourg, and deposited it on
the coffin of the Emperor. This duty being performed, nu-
merous persons were admitted into the chapel to do honour to
the remains it enclosed.
We have often said that the surrounding of Paris with bas-
tiles was a precaution taken, not against foreign enemies, but
against the interior. We have; repeated this to the National,
we have repeated it to M. Barrot, all our representations have
been in vain ; they stopped their ears to the very clear decla-
ration of M. Guizot in the Chamber of Deputies, and to the
still more explicit revelations of several Members of the Court
party in the Chamber of Peers. Now the mystification is
complete—the law is voted—the treason of M. Thiers has suc-
ceeded by the aid of those on whom he had the least reason to
reckon—the Ministry no longer fears to make known the idea
which predominated in this fatal law, and the following
are the clear and precise terms in which it expresses
itself :—" As for the faction, as for that handful of agitators,
enemies of the Government, and so often admired and pro-
tected by the Journals of the Opposition, the GoVernment has
proceeded with vigour against it wherever it has shown itself.
It is especially against the hopes of this faction, it is in spite
of it, it is for ever to destroy the only probability of its future
triumph, that the Ministry has asked and obtained of the
Chamber the project of law on the fortifications of Paris."
The Journal which contains these avowals is in some mea-
sure more than an official Journal, it is the expression of the
real opinions of M. Guizot—it is the Memorial de Rouen.
This paper has always been the faithful organ of the party of
the Doctrinaires. It was to the Memorial de Ituzzen that M.
Guizot, when Ambassador at London, addresss:d those
confidential notes which presaged the fall of the Cabinet of
the Ist of March, and which excited so much anger in
the journal of M. Thiers. When the Memorial advances a
I fact, we may say that it is the echo of M. Guizot and the pa.
lace, for it was established a: Rouen to represent the ideas of
the personal Government. Thus, then, according to M,
Guizot, the fortifications are directed especially against intes-
tine parties. We believe, for our part, that they menace them
alone. The Courrier Francais, the confident of M. Thiers,
had made confessions nearly similar, by declaring that they
would be good against internal and external enemies, But
whocanbelieve that the Government would think of expending
a thousand millions to fortify itself against that handful of agi-
tators of which it speaks, isolated from the population, and
which the National Guard alone would always crush by its
numbers and spirit. It would be an act of extravagance, and
the affrays in the streets, which we have witnessed during the
last eleven sears, abundantly prove that the Constitution and
order have no need to defend themselves with fifteen bastilles and
2,000 pieces of cannon, with which it is intended to surround
Paris. It is evidently to keep the Parisian population in awe
that the fortifications have been planned, and now that the Mi-
nistry has obtained the law, it no longer condescends to con
ceal its thoughts. —Le Comma ce.

BC) URSE.--..PARIN, THURSDAY, MAY 6.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
,re ,cri 5 -.- et Cents ll4. ... 114 50... 114 ... 114 50
4 per Cents 99 20 ... 99 20'
... 09 20 .... 99 211
3 per Cents 79 35 ... ;9 55 ... 79 3) ... 79 53
?ant of r rance. 3182 50 ...3182 50 ...3180 ...3180
geigian Bank
1841.... . lO4O ...1040 ...1040 ...1041
5 per Cents
3 per Cents 7l 20 ... 71 20 ... 71 20 ... 71 '2O
New Loan lOl% ... 111% ... 1014 ... 101%
nanish /tame 24% ... 24% ... .4,4 ... '2 %
Portuguese 3 per Cents 2.;% ... 20% ... 2.,% ... 20%
Neapontan lO3 60 ... 103 75 ... 153 60 ... 103 75
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
St Germain
Versa, lace, L.B ..... ... ..... ....•• 240 ... 240 ... 240 ... 'l4O
louen 460 ... 460 ... 4.:7 50 ... 457 50
Orie.uts ;•
4trasburg to Bale 226 25 ... 236 25 ... 216 25 .. 236 25

The official despatches giving an account of
the actions in Canton River appeared in the Ga-
zette of Friday night, and are precisely the same
with those we published on Friday morning,
and which were communicated by the respective
Commanding Officers to the Governor General
of India.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council on Satur-
day afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Council was
attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord
President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal,
the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State
for the Foreign and Colonial Departments, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, the Lord Steward, the Lord Cham-
berlain, and the Master of the Horse.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Hon. William Lord Bateman to be Lord Lieutenant of
the County of Hereford, his Lordship took the oaths ap-
pointed to be taken thereupon.
Sir Augustus Foster, a member of his late Majesty's
Privy Council, was re-sworn of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting. - -
At the Court, Mr. Van de Weyer, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of the Bel-
gians, had aii audience of her Majesty. His Excellency
WAS introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Ma-
j esty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Her Majesty gave audiences to Viscount Melbourne
and the Lord Chamberlain.

AMSTERDAM, MAY 7.—We have a letter from the
Hague, which says—" A general subject of conversation
here is the discovery of highly important state papers,
which throw an entirely new light on preceding events,
and which have come, by a particular chance, into the
possession of our Government." (The writer then
makes conjectures respecting the state papers, which
show that no dependence could be placed on his commu-
nication.)

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTELDAM, MAT 7.
Money. Bills.
ictual Dsbt, '234 per Cent 51%
alit°, ditto 5 per cent.
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. ........».»....» 74% 741(
Commercial Company 4% per 16531
Ditto (1835 and 1837) & per cent. 101% 102
Loan 1837, 5 per cent . ........ 92 97%
Exchange on Londe', One month..... 12 02
Two months ••••••••• 11 92%
Dutch Papers, May 8.
BELGIAN U NDS-11nonszie, MAY 7.
Actual Debt 2% per Cent. ..... 53
Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent., 100%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per 412%
3 per Cent .....
(140
7(.15i
.00%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent) 1 81%
Society of Commerce, 4%pe r Cent lOO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent..... ....... 78
NationalSeciety.

The Court was attended by:the Earl of Listowel, Lord
in Waiting ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; Sir
Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting ; Lord Alfred
Paget, Equerry in Waiting, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry
in Waiting on Prince Albert.
After attending her Majesty's Court, his Excellency
M. Van de Weyer had an audience of his Royal High.-
ness Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen and. Prince Albert attended Divine Service
yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Mills. The
Service was read by the Rev. Mr. Packman ; the Lessons
by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Communion Service by
the Key. Dr. Wesley and the Rev. Mr. Packman. The
Musical Service was Barrows in F., the Sanctus, &c.,
Davy. The Anthem was " Bow down thine ear."
The Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of the
Closet in Waiting. The Royal Suite consisted of the
Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady Caroline Cocks,
Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl of Listowel, Lord Robert
Grosvenor, Earl of Morley, Sir Frederick Stovin, Lord
Alfred Paget, Captain Francis Seymour, and Colonel
Wylde.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday and on Saturday.
The Duke of Sussex visited his Royal Highness Prince
Albert yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge visited his
Royal Highness on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an
airing yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
Her Serene Highness the Princess of Leiningen at-
tended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Royal
German Chapel. Baroness Spaeth was in waiting on
his Serene Highness. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Kuper. MR.
HENRY THOMAS HOPE'S BALL.--
The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Hill had au- After a lapse of five years the celebrated mansion in Mansfield-
diences of his Royal Highness Prince Albert on Saturday. streetwas re-opened last evening to the fashionable world for
Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Duchess of I
I
a ball and supper, and the visitants exceeded five hundred per-
Kent honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on
sons. The dancing commenced at about half-past eleven; the Saturday evening. supper took place at two o'clock this morning.
Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of EXPECTED DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.I
Leiningen accompanied her Majesty and Prince Albert. —we have received the following intimation from a source on
which we have every reason to rely :—" It is understood that
The Royal Suite included the Countess of Mount Edg e- the Queen wdissolve ament immediately if the Minis.
cutube, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl of Listowel, Right tets are beaten on the sugarParli duties. Tablet.

Thirty.seven

Exchange on Condon (short) ..... it 175
—Brussels Papers, May 7.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visniu, APaIL 29
Five per Cents. Metalliques
•Centr

.....••••••••••••• 1071
deer per Cents. 1111110116.110011.1111110.011.••••••••••• oo 00000 NCH. 99
Three per Cents• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••. 77
Sank Shares .....•••••••••••••••••••••••................... 1847
AileßmUeSanbelAZNllBl7Ug. May 4
NDS.—Betrtie, MAY 4
Bills. Money.
StlSchuigld. Sch., 46 per cent. ...... ..... 1045 i 103%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 101
Exchange on London, three months... 6 19
—Prussian State Gazelle. May 5,
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, MAY 4.

Austrian 5 per Cents. Bills. Money
............... 1073i
Bank shares
1655
Anglo-Bussian Loan .............................. 109 1031,E
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist SesiGs
100 - Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (18-10) 97% 97
Ditto 5 per Cent — 87% 87%
Dutch r.ctual Debt, 2%, lie, Cent sl!‘ 51
- Polish Bonds
141
New ticket
166 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cep' 7514 75
Not wegian Loan, 1834, 4 per C.fg. ...... —
Spanish, New Der Cents. 1636
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MAY 4.-13 65i.—Two months, 13 5
LRIPSIC, APRIL 30.—Two moths, 6. 20%.
STMEHOLM, APRIL 25.—Seventy-five days, 12. 0.
Cuttismous, APRIL 21.—Threc,months, 4 60.

I Hon. George Stevens Byng, Sir Frederick Stovin Lord
Alfred Paget, and Colonel Wylde. Lady Anne 'Maria
Dawson was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal,
St. James's. Lady Anne Maria Dawson was in waiting
on her Royal Highness.
The Duke of Cambridge had a dinner party on Sa-
turday at Cambridge House. The company included
Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Major Stephens, Co-
lonel Keate, and twenty officers of the 60th Royal Rifles.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the residence of the Marquis of Normanby (the Noble
Marquis being indisposed) in Hillstreet. All the Mi-
nisters were present with the exception of the Earl of
Minto.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
Mr. Thornton, the Chairman of the Spanish and Por-
tuguese Committee, attended at the Foreign-office on
Friday, and again on Saturday, on the subject of the
claimants on the Government of Portugal.
A Deputation, consisting of the following gentlemen,
from Manchester—Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Sir Thomas
Potter, the Boroughreeve of Manchester, Mr. William
Read, Mr. William Gibb, Mr. Thomas Townend, the
Town Clerk of Manchester, and Mr. Thomas Ogden
Lingard, had an interview with the Right Hon. H. La-
bouchere, at the Board of Trade, on Saturday.
The Russian Minister transacted business on Saturday
at the Foreign-office.
Despatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands, and also from the Governor of Gibraltar,
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON AIARKET, MAY 7.—The sales of to•
day are 2,500 bales to the trade.
LIVERPOOL SNARE MARKET, MAY 7.—The Share Markel
to-day has been limited, without alteration of prices to any ex-
tent :--Eastern Counties are quoted at tia ; Ditto, debentures,
7 ; Glasgow, Pai.ley, and Greenock, 29* ; .Great Western,
51. Shares, 44; Manchester and Leeds, 52*; Liverpool Union
Bank, 12.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 7.—The Share
Market still continues depressed, and prices have an inclination
to give way : —Manchester and Leeds, h I to 531 ; Ditto, New,
21 to 22; Manchester and Birmingham, 254 ; London and
South Western, bS 58% • Ditto, Tenths, 44 ; Eastern. Coun-
ties, Si to 9i; Bank of danchester, 7 ; Manchester and Sal-
ford Bank, W.

By the Hamburgh Mail received yesterday afternoon the
Exchange upon London comes 13 5; Gold, 432; Metalliques,
107 a; Bank Actions, 1,655.
Its consequence of what Viscount Melbourne stated in the
House of Lords last night respecting the affairs of China, teas
got up 2d. in the lb. This is a godsend for the tea holders.
Consols opened this morning at the leaving off price of yes-
terday, 90 to A for the Account ; Money, 89} 90. Up to the
present time there is not a feature worth attention in either of
the markets. Exchequer Bills, lower, 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock,
168 169 ; India Stock, 250 252 ; India Bonds, 1 3 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 244 ; Deferred,
12} ; Passive, 54 b ; Portuguese, 344 ; Three per
Cents., 20i ; Colombian, 2234 ; Mexican, 29} ;" Bra-
zilian, 68} 69 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52$ ;
Five per Cents. 99a.
Bn...um—Great Western 28 29 prem. ; New 14a
prem. ; London and Brighton 2} dis. ; Blackwell 6* 54dis. ; Birmingham 70 72 prem. ; Southampton 57} 58} per
share ; Croydon 134 144 per share ; Greenwich 81 per share ;
Manchester and Birmingham 15 14 dis.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New ...
London and South Western 3B} 574..... to
London and Croydon ( Trunk)... 134 144...... to
Consuls are * lower than in the early part of the morning,
and may be quoted at present 90 for the Account ; Money,
89a 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 9 6 8 5 7 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 ;
India Bonds, 2 prem., 2 dis.
In the Foreign Market scarce anything doing. Spanish
Active 24} ; Passive, 513 ; Portuguese nothing done ; Colom-
bian, 224 ; Mexican, 294 ; Dutch nothing done.
The Share Market is inactive. Great Western, 92 93} ;
New, 64; Croydon and Trunk, 144.
Consols, Account, 90} ; Mexican, 284 29 ;. Portuguese
34} $ ; Spanish, 24a. No business doing.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bulk St ock l6B India Stock
3 per Cent Red ... Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons 896 Ditto Old Annuities ...
3} per Cent Red 97s Ditto New Annuities...
New 3} per Cent 984 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 7pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 7pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7pm
Jan. 1860 l2s Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859
Jan. 1860
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... 109 Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent loo* 'Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds. — Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent....:. Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 24a
Ditto, 1824. . ..... Ditto, Deferred ...
Danish, 3
.per cent French, 5 per cent. —f. —c
Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent — Exchange . —f. c,
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent. —f. —c,
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2} per cent. ...
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent.......... 991
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)
Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid) 7l
Great Western Railway (65 paid) ... 9.3fr
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 64
London and Brighton (50 paid) 47s
London and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 144
North Midland Railway ( (00 paid)

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FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
BRUSSELS, MAY 6.—On Tuesday afternoon great
damage was done in various places by a violent thunder
storm, accompanied with a deluge of hail and rain. At
Binche the hailstones were as large as pigeons eggs ;
several sheep were killed. At Namur and the environs
the roads in various directions were inundated so as to be
wholly impassable. We heir that cows and horses were
killed in the stables. Much damage was done in some
places to the iron railway.
GHENT, MAY s.—On Monday last, the Nestor of all
the prisoners in Europe, died in the prison of Ghent.
Pierre Joseph Tocte was condemned in 1773, to be
broken on the wheel for having murdered a young girl.
He was then 17 years of age. On a petition presented to
the Empress Maria Theresa, his punishment was commu-
ted into imprisonment for life. In
_18.14_ he was

I set at liberty by Count Bichaliff, Hetman of the Cossacks,
I whose head quarters were in this city, but being desti-
tute of means of subsistence, of relations and friends,
after thirty-six years' captivity, he solicited as a favour
to be suffered to return to the same prison which had
been so long his abode. The request was granted, and
and he remained in the Rasphaus twenty-seven Years
more (in all sixty-three years), and died on Monday, at
the age of eighty years.
BRUSSELS, MAY 7.—The papers of this morning con-
tain the most affecting details of the damage done by
the storm on Tuesday ; the chief mischief was done by
the sudden inundation, but besides that several build-
ings were struck by lightning.
POLISH FRONTIERS, APRIL 24.—The news that
' Russia will send this year a considerable army against
the still unsubdued tribes of the Caucasus is entirely '
groundless. Russia has at all times had troops, but the
nature of the country renders the development of great
.nasses of troops wholly impossible. The contest will
continue this year as heretofore in the only way that can
be successful ; forts will be erected at certain intervals,
a.nd by that means more ground, be gained from the
enemy. .We must hear in a few days whether the hopes
will be realised of the publication of an extensive amnesty
on the marriags of the Imperial Prince.
AMSTERDAM, MAY 6.—The Prince de Joinville,
third son of his Majesty the King of the French, is ex-
pected here on a visit between the 10th and the 15th of
this month.