The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1841.

pies of civil and religious liberty, from the eon-
joined activity of Puseyisin and Catholicism. Tile
present age exhibits a great struggle going on
between ecclesiastical power and the freedom of
the human mind. We had thought that eccle-
siastical power had been fairly put down, and
kept within its proper limits; but we behold it
reviving once more, and contending for the
mastery." That is true ; but we must accuse
our Contemporary, and the majority of the
Liberal press, of having contributed to bring
about such a result. They have continually—
especially when the Whigs were in office—
spoken with approbation of the Church of Eng-
land; and they have, by upholding that institu-
tion, sanctioned and strengthened the claims of
ecclesiastical power. If they expected to put
down the power of the Romish priesthood by
nourishing the power of another priesthood,
which resembles the Romisk in everything
but the name, they have been much mistaken.
The true corrective of ecclesiastical power is not
an Established Church, but free inquiry; and
many of those who advocate the principles of
civil and religious liberty, ought to be filled with
regret at having countenanced and supported the
Church of England. She has long been only an
auxiliary of Rome, a helpmate in nursing super-
stition ; and now her proper office of preparing
men to embrace Romanism, is alike revealed in
the doctrines of the Tracts, and in the conversion
of Mr. SIBTHORP. If our Liberal Contempora-
ries wish to see ecclesiastical power fairly put
down, they must begin with the . Church of
England.

We stated on June 5, 1840, that " there are two
immense bodies of men in this metropolis who
have an interest in delaying causes, and prevent-
ing their clients from obtaining a settlement of
their disputes, and so long as that state of things
exists, the multiplication of Courts and Judges
will only enable them more effectually to
fleece their clients." We have now two new
Courts and two additional Vice-Chancellors, and
this description of their proceedings was given
in the Post yesterday : "A t nearly three o'clock,"
it said—

" The Vice-Chancellor's Court was already up' for
the day. The Lord Chancellor was still sitting and
listening to a gentleman who, from his mode of proceed-
ing, may be presumed to have quite forgotten that the
life of man has bees somewhat abridged since the great
flood. We next found our way (by dint of great
.perse-
verance) to the incommodious chambers above stairs,
where Mr. 'Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce and Mr.
Vice-Chancellor Wigram hold their Courts. These
Judges were still sitting, and apparently very anxious
to go on with the business in the paper ; but the
barristers appeared to be anxious for only one thing,
and that was, to draw the attention of their Honours
to the clock upon the wall, which indicated that the
hour of three was very near at hand. In vain did
Mr. Bight Bruce sweep the Court perpetually with his
double eye-glass, and look as reproachful as his extreme
urbanity will permit him to look. In vain did he hint
that he was not particular to a minute when business
was to be done. At last a junior was prevailed upon to
open a case, a task with which the said junior appeared
to be by no means well pleased, while seniors stood
up, and seemed fidgetty to get away. As for Mr.
Vice-Chancellor Wigram, he answered plainly to the
clock remonstrance, that he did not mean to rise at three,
but wished to go on with his work. Ile could not, while
we remained, get the work to do. Cause after cause
was called on, but the professional gentlemen engaged
were not there, or were not prepared to proceed."

The two new Judges, now that they are ap-
pointed, have no business to perform. Bar-
risters and Solicitors are not anxious to get
through causes. They have got two Courts to
make a show and promise of getting a decision.
They have obtained, therefore, an additional hook
to catch their prey, but they will no more now
allow it to escape till they have devoured it,
than they did when there was only the LORD
CHANCELLOR'S Court in full practice.

The French Journals, received this morning,
give no quarter to the Regent of SPAIN and the
Exaltados who support him. One would sup-
pose, from the rancour displayed by them, that
he had vowed the conquest of France, and the
restoration of the elder line of the BOURBONS.
Had he solemnly invited the Duke of BOR-
DEAUX to reside, in the Madame MUNOS
fashion in Paris, in the capital of Spain,
he could not be worse treated. They shout
that all is anarchy in Spain, because the Barce-
lonese and the Valencians have taken it into
their heads to demolish two old fortresses, the
memorials of the tyrannical oppression of former
Spanish Monarchs, Now we challenge the
French press to produce from the Spanish papers
an instance of gross, brutal oppression committed
in violation of the law in Spain, equal to the
following record of atrocity perpetrated under
and in the name of the law in France, which we
find recorded in the columns of Galignani's Mes-
senger? What liberty can be said to exist in a
country where a Journalist, for a bare charge of
libelling a Government, can be so treated ? Mark
how justice is administered in civilized, and
moral, and loyal France :
M. Mullet, the responsible Editor of the Emancipation
of Toulouse, having addressed a letter to that journal
from l'lle en Jourdain, stating that he and his fellow
prisoners, arrested upon a charge of having excited the
populace of Toulouse to revolt, had been, as already
stated, removed with chains round their necks, and
dragged on foot to rile en Jourdain, where they were
thrown into dungeons, with only a little straw for their
beds, being, says M. Raulet, the treatment of fox-cats, the
Courrier Francais comments upon his letter as follows :
" M. Raulet in stating that he and his companions
were treated like forcats, commits a mistake • forcats are
no longer chained by the neck, and compelled to pro-
ceed on foot on the public road. This treatment is now
reserved for political writers only. Malefactors are sent
to the bagne in cellular carriages, and en poste; their suf-
ferings on the way are abridged by concealing them from
the public gaze. But the Government has no motive for
showing the same humanity to men who have not been
condemned by public justice, and who are the enemies
of the Government, although they are not the enemies
of society. The Restoration became odious and ridi-
culous fur having chained Magalon to a forcat, and
for having sent Fontan to Poissy between two gen-
darmes; Cut Magalon and Fontan had been sentenced,
and had become legally the victims of the Government.
The eight prisoners who have just been conducted from
Toulouse to Pau, with chains round their necks, have
not yet been declared guilty of any crime by a Jury,
and are to be regarded as innocent. The rigour with
which they have been treated is a savage act, unworthy
of the age in which we live. We do not regret it so
much on account of the Press, for persecution ennobles,
and does not kill; we deplore it on account of the Go-
vernment, which is degraded by such ccnduct, and ex-
poses itself to the imputation of being influenced by the
basest and most furious passions."

After publishing such a statement as this, the
Courrier Francais ought to feel some shame in
continuing its attacks upon the Spanish Regency.
ESPARTERO'S administration is quite as humane
as that of LOUIS PHILIPPE.

An account from Oran states that on the night of the
21st, the Douairs of two tribes friendly to the French,
were attacked by the enemy, most of the male Arabs
being in the town, passing the feast of the Ramazan.
The enemy pillaged the Douairs, killed a man, and car-
ried off 58 women and children. These Douairs were
within the ditch which surrounds Oran, and which the
enemy crossed in great silence and unobserved. As boon
as the alarm was given, cannon were fired, and troops
were sent in pursuit of the marauders, but they were by
that time out of reach.

The Moniteur Algerien also contains the account of the
march of the troops of General Changarnier on the 27th
ult., with a second convoy for Medeah, from Haouch-
Mouzaia. It says

" The expeditionary column arrived at Medeah with-
outor any accident, notwithstanding. the
badness
ofi
fgthhtergoad, from the quantity of rain which had
fallen ; but on their return, when at the ravine of Chita,
the enemy, in considerable numbers, appeared disposed
to dispute the passage. A force of 300 Arabs on horse-
back, which was posted in the Wood of Olives, was
attacked by a part of the French army, and driven into
the bed of the Chiffa, and after this, the whole of the
enemy having given way, presented only a confused
mass of about 1,000 regular infantry or Kabyles, and
100 cavalry. These were attacked with such vigour that,
being surrounded on all sines, they threw away their
arms, and even some of their clothing, in order to escape
Over the heights, leaving eighty dead. Thirty horses
and some mules fell into the hands of the French, and
it would appear from the rich saddles and splendid arms
of the dead, that several officers of rank of the regular
troops of Abd-el-Katler had keen killed. The French
had only one man killed and eight wounded, and arrived
at Blidah on the 30th." Only 22 men, says the account,
were sent to the hospital after the fatigues of this expe-
dition.
Li( ute::ant-General Baron Aymard is appointed to be
one of the King's Aides-de-Cam
Lord a
Lord Cowley, her Britannic p.
sy je t Ambassador to
with his family and suite
the King of the French, arrived in Paris onWednesday af-
rteicrne'osoHn9otel, where his Excellency' waillnd alighted
re at Men-
main until the
repairs of his official residence, in the Rue du Faubourg
St. Honore, are terminated.
Count Pahlen left Paris on Thursday for St. Peters-
burgh. The Russian Embassy during the absence of his
Excellency is composed as follows:—M. de Kisseleff,
Councillor of Legation; M. de Spies, Consul; Messrs. de
Labenski and Wookersam, Secretaries of Legation ;

and the 13gron Ittlyendorff;977o cl'Aff‘'n"F fisr
CoinaiLee.al niutters.

The Siecle says:—" It has been shown by the discus-
sion in the States-General on the budget that Holland
has to pay annually as the interest of her national debt
the stun of 45,950,405 florins, to which must be added the
annual charge of the deferred debt, which was converted
by the last law, and which is 1,750,000 florins, making a
total of 47,700,450 florins. Belgium pays five millions
annually, but on the other hand the State has guaranteed
the payment of the loans called Indian loans. The florin
is worth 2f. 10c. The population of Holland is 2,600,000.
The interest of the debt therefore amounts to 31f. per
head, per annum. The amount paid in France per
}load in the general taxation, taking the budget at twelve
hundred millions, is 36f., of which 10 francs are for the
interest of the public debt.

The fishermen of the coasts of Normandy and Brittany
have a superstitious notion that the quantity of fish in
their seas has diminished ever since the death of the
Emperor. The unusually large draughts lately made off
Treport and the neighbouring coast have not destroyed
this prejudice, but given rise to another ; for now they
belive that the fish have returned to France with the re-
mains of Napoleon !
Prince Frederick, of the Netherlands, Commander of
the 15th regiment of the line of the Prussian army, has
ordered a complete set of horns, trumpets, and other
instruments, to be made in silver, for the band of his
regiment. The Elector of Hesse made a similar present
to the band of his regiment some time ago.
The consumption of animal food in Paris during'the
last month was 5,849 oxen, 1,814 cows, 5,583 calves,
and 39,755 sheep. In October, 1840, 661 oxen and 186
calves were consumed more than on the last month, and
115 cows and 1,738 sheep less. The general diminution
cn the consumption of October, 1841, as compared with
October, 1840, was about 380,00Dlbs. although the price
of cattle in the markets of Sceaux and Poissy has lately
been on the decrease.

The Commerce publishes .a letter, addressed to it by a
'National Guard, complaining, in rather strong terms,
that, on going upon guard at the Louvre on Wednesday,
he found that on the Order of the Day was an express in-
junction against the National Guards, while standing as
sentinels, conversing with the soldiers of the line at the
same post.
The police having received information that a number
of professed thieves, who have been repeatedly con-
demned and under surveillance, had taken up their quar-
ters in Paris, have been on the look•out,'and have suc-
ceeded in capturing several, and among them three of
the most audacious character, named Caillebotins, Car-
pentier, and Larcheveque. Whilst they were being con-
ducted to the Prefecture, the latter, who was the most
daring of the party, and who had succeeded in effecting
his escape from several prisons, laughed, e.nd said to his
escort, " I am now in want of a little repose, after that we
shall see what is to be done."
CO3IMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON.—An erroneous im-
pression having prevailed that this bank was connected
with the Commercial Bank of England, which (esta-
blished in the manufacturing districts) some time since
experienced pecuniary difficulties, we are authorised to
state that no connection has ever existed between the
two Banks, and that the Commercial Bank of London
has never had any establishment or branch, excepting in
the metropolis.
The body of the Prince of Monaco, Honore V., which
had been deposited in the vaults of St. Thomas d'Aquin
was sent off to Monaco two days ago. On the same day
the body of Prince Honore IV., which was interred at
Pere-la-Chaise in 1819, was exhumed, and it accompa-
nied the body of Honore V. The Duke de Valentinois,
Hereditary Prince of Monaco, goes with these remains to
his Principality.
Immense numbers of woodcocks have made their ap-
pearance near Boulogne-sur-Mer within the last few
days, and some of the sportsmen of that town have killed
from 20 to 30 each in the day.
" M. Couret, a notary," says a letter from Castillon
(Ariege), " has been committed to prison at St. Girons,
on a charge of forgery."
A few days ago, as the President of the Court of As-
sizes of the Loiret was pronouncing condemnation to im-
prisonment and the pillory upon a man named Marseille,
for forgery, the prisoner exclaimed—" Gentlemen of the
Jury, you have condemned an innocent man," and im-
mediately drew a razor across his throat. In a quarter
of an hour he was dead, notwithstanding all the efforts
of the medical men who were called in.

A few days ago a man employed in the Orleans Rail-
way, near Etampes, was buried by a falling in of the
earth and lost his life, a horse and cart which were near
him were also buried under the immense mass which
gave way.

An impudent robbery, as the Droit states, was effected
a few days since, at the expense of Mlle. N—, one of
the dramatic celebrites of the capital. A stranger, of
gentleman-likc appearance, introduced himself to her
one morning, under pretence of being commissioned, as
an artist, by a lady of high rank, to obtain a drawing of
a set of ornaments in brilliants, which she had worn on
the stage, and which the lady had greatly admired. 11,•:
solicited leave to draw them, and Mlle. N— obligingly
complied, by putting the ornaments on the table. The
artist drew them carefully, and replaced them one by
one in their cases, while Mlle. N— was occupied in va-
rious manners, and once or twice quitted the room.
When the artist had finished, he gave the cases back to
Mlle. N— with many polite acknowledgments, and took
his leave. In the evening. when she went to put on the
ornaments in question, they were found to have bees
changed for a set in paste and imitation-gold, of identi-
cally the same pattern.
An English gentleman was, some time since, looking
at a shop in the Place de la Bourse, when he felt that his
pocket was picked of his purse containing thirty sove-
reigns. Ile at once saw the thief endeavouring to run
away with the prize, and went after him. The rogue, in
his flight, dropped the purse, which a gentleman picked
up, and he had the impudence to turn back and reclaim
it. Meantime, however, his pursuer came up and secured
him. When taken to a Commissary of Police, he was
recognised as an old offender, named Justa, who had
previously been under sentence at least ten times for
similar attempts. Ile has been tried by the Correctional
Tribunal and sentenced to five years' imprisonment, and
the same term of surveillance.

As an upholsterer's man was two nights ago returning
home with a loaded cart along the Boulevart de l'Hopital,
he was stopped by two thieves who, on his jumping out
of the cart to hinder them from holding his horse's
head, stabbed him in the back with a knife. His cries
brought to his assistance two Municipal Guards who
happened to be returning to their quarters, and who
not only saved his life, but arrested the assailants.
The men have been committed to take their trial for
the attempt.
The Courrier des Etats Unis states that Captain Ro-
berts, of the brig Francis, lately arrived at New York,
in 38 days from San Juan de Nicaragua, with the follow-
ing intelligence :—lt will be recollected that some months
ago, the King of the Mosquitos, an Indian tribe in the
province of Honduras, died, bequeathing his kingdom to
the Queen of England. According to Captain Roberts,
her Majesty has considered this legacy as valid, and, on
August 15, the new king of the Mosquitos arrived at
San Juan, which is within the dominions, in an English
brig of war, and accompanied by the English Governor
of Belize. his Majesty ordered all foreigners to quit his
kingdom before Ist March, 1842, threatening them, in
case of disobedience, with the vengeance of England.
Thence he proceeded to Bocotoro, another port, where
he issued a similar injunction, with a similar threat.
This Journal adds, that a letter of August 29 announces
the arrest of the Galen, of New York, by the authorities
of San Juan. The Galen arrived at San Juan on June
29, had discharged part of her cargo consigned to that
port, and was preparing to proceed to another, when she
was stopped under pretence of her having violated the
Customs laws, and taken possession of by an armed
force. The cargo, it is said, was given up to plunder.
The iTloniteur Algerien gives the following from
Biidnh, dated the 27th ult.:—
" The troops, under the orders of General Barraguay
d'llilliers, resumed the campaign on the 23d, when
they started for Medeah, with a large convoy of mules
and waggons. On the 24th four battalions, commanded
by General Bedeau, took possession of the heights of
Teniah, without opposition. The whole convoy then
continued the route to Teniah, and arrived at Medeah,
without meeting with any resistance, except a little
firing of no consequence from some scattered Arabs.
The stores brought for the use of Medeah having been
housed, and about a hundred sick soldiers having been
removed from the hospital of that place to the field-hos-
pital of the army, the column commenced its return
march. About 200 of the enemy were seen, but they
made no serious attack upon the rear of the army.
The whole loss of the French in the slight skirmishes
which took place during the whole expedition, was two
killed and eleven wounded ; but some very heavy rain
having fallen, and the road having become slippery,
some casualties took place. About twenty Arabs were
killed or wounded in the skirmishing of 24th and 25th.
The Paris Globe states that the three steam-ships,
Gregeois, Cerbere, and Meteore, though entirely em-
ployed in the conveyance of sick from Africa to Toulon,
, are unequal to the service, on account of the increasing
number of invalids ; and two transports are about to be
joined with them, as soon as they can be fitted up for the
purpose.
M. Mendizabal has passed through Bordeaux on his
way to Paris. •
is asserted, says the Temps, that General Concha,
cl.'.ef of the insurrection of Madrid, has arrived in
France. A letter from Burgos,
on the other hand,
soles he has crossed the frontier into Portugal.
It was asserted, yesterday evening, that two ships of
the line had been ordered to repair to Barcelona, to re-
inl'orce our squadron and protect French interests.
A gentleman attached to the British Legation went
yesterday to St. Cloud, to announce to the King the arri-
val of Lord Cowley, the English Ambassador in France.
Lord Cowley has brought despatches, which he will deli-
ver to-day to M. Guizut.
It is said that M. Salvandy has certainly received the
title of Count.

The Spanish Consul at Bordeaux has begun, as he is
authorised to do, to deliver passports to the subaltern
off: cers, corporals, privates, and peasants, who had
tai:en arms in the late revolt, in the Biscayan provinces.
Those who had previously belonged to the Carlist ranks
are excepted from this measure.—Constitutionnel.
The letters from Toulon of the 6th of November do
not announce any movement,, in the port. It was said to
be intended to make in all the quarters of the three ma-
ritime arrondissements extraordinary levies of ship
boys and novices ; but those
young men not being
classed cannot be taken unless as volunteers, and with
the consent of their parents. This measure, it is evi-
dent, is not calculated to make up for the losses which
the discharge of seamen will cause in our navy.—
Commerce.

BOURSE—P
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Prick. Price.
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Neapolitan lO6 7% 15 100 106 15
Boman, ex. div 102% ... 102 X ... 102% ... 10.4
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Versailles, ........... 25 201 25 21.:0 .- 200
K. B 312 51: ... 312 50 ... 312 50 ... 312 50
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OPERATIONS AGAINST CANTON.-Mr. Wyld
has just published a second edition of his Map of
the Canton River, with additions, including the
late operations north of the city, and some de-
scription of the island of Hong Kong. The map
of the river is accompanied with an admirable
description of the attacks on the Bogue forts, on
the city of Canton, and the principal batteries
and fortified positions, taken or silenced by
the British Naval and Military forces. it
is the best account by fitr that we have seen
of the operations in that quarter. The Chart
gives a
.distinct view of the British fleet,
first. on the station at Macao before start-
ing; hen the positions at the various points of
'attack from Chuenpee to Canton, with the posi-
tions also of the land forces on the west and north
of the city at the moment when the Mandarins
looked over the walls and called out " surrender."
In addition to these we have a summary of the
number of troops engaged—those killed and
wounded, with well-executed plans Of the
Chinese Forts. on the different islands and along
the banks of the •river: The description of
Hong Kong. is remarkable. The island is, in
fact, a miniature representation of Great Britain,
lying east and west, with land on the opposite,
side of the Lyenun Passage, bearing a strong
resemblance to the coast of France. On the
north, too, is a group of islands resembling
Shetland; and on the west an island called
Lantnia, which might he mistaken for Ireland.
The sketch altogether is full of interest, and
beautifully executed.