The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1840.

eler,,yirren, because of the Clergy Reserves, which I
the B,shop-i will not allow to be done away, are
the enemies of the Church. The great Whig
party, which the Anglican clergy have calumniated
and endeavoured to destroy, must, since it finds all
forbearance useless, be the enemy of the Church.
The leaders of that party, not yet seeing in any
pubiic demonstration a sufficient reason for declar-
ing against the Church, may keep on terms
with it ; but the alliance must be hollow, and
it can only need [a public demonstration to
induce them no longer to submit to the insults of
PHILPOTTS, CROLY, and Co. The bulk of the
people begin to see through the guile of those who
preach contentment under poverty to others, while
they wallow in wealth and incessantly grasp after
more. With so many enemies against her, the
time is most favourable for Mr. O'CONNELL to
make an attack, and the Church in Ireland being
a monstrous mass of abuse, is the most vulnerable
point. We hope, therefore, that he will rouse his
countrymen to retort Lord STANLEY'S attack on
their franchises for behoof of the Church, by an at•
tack on the Church itself. So will he obtain sup-
port from the great multitudes we have just enu-
tnera►.ed, and insure justice for Ireland, while he pre-
serves the peace and the unity of the empire.

When the spirit of faction is carried beyond a
certain point it becomes comparatively harmless. It
is only when a faction observes some degree of mo-
deration in its proceedings—when it disguises its
selfishness under the cloak of prudence, and pre-
tends to act as if it really held in respect the prin-
ciples of justice, truth, and honour, that it is dan-
gerous to the public weal.
Had the Tories possessed sufficient temper and
skill to keep the cloven foot out of view, they might
have been successful in deluding, and drawing over
to their side, many of those persons who, in this as
in all other countries, look no farther than the sur-
face of things. But happily for the national inte-
rests they have pursued a different course. Grown
desperate by the defeat of all their attempts to get
possession of place and pelf, they have thrown off
all the restraints of decency, and laid bate to the
most superficial observer the unmitigated sordidness
of their motives. He that runs may read their
character. Whoever does not purposely shut his
eyes must see that their sole object is to turn out
the present Ministers that men of their own kidney
may succeed them. No matter what the means
are by ‘i hich this, their surnmum bonunt, is attained
—no matter at what risk to the lasting interest and
honour of the country—no sacrifice of national
welfare is too great to purchase even a few months'
lease of the premises in Downing-street.
Look at the conduct of this unprincipled faction
in regard to the great questions of policy which now
engross the public mind. First there is the Chinese
question. So long as they thought that Ministers
would patiently put up with the insults and out-
racs of the Chinese authorities, they denounced
;liem as spiritless creatures, poltroons afraid of their
own shadows, betrayers of the national dignity, of
the interests of British commerce—of everything,
in short, that they ought to defend and protect.
Are :Len, they asked, in the exuberance of their
patriotism, to be tolerated any longer as the rulers
of this gr2at country, who suffer a parcel of barba-
rians to trample with impunity upon all the rights
recognised, and all the usages observed, among the
nations of the earth? who are so dead to every
feclin of duty as to see the imprisonment of our
RxpreEentative, and the Zobbery of our merchants,
w thout demanding redress at the cannon's mouth ?
Had a Conservative Administration been at the
helm, .what a different spectacle would have pre-
\ sentet.l itself ! They would soon have taught the
yellow-faced opium-eaters better manners I They
would have made the thunder of the British artil-
lery the messenger of British vengeance to the
Ct!cstial Empire !

Such was the language which it was the cue o;

the party to hold before they knew what measures
the Government had determined upon. But when
they found that the Ministers had, contrary to their
expectations, taken the course dictated by sound
policy, as well as in harmony with the sense of the
country—when they found, that at the very time
when they had been abusing the Government for
its supineness and pusillanimity, it had a powerful
armament actually on the way to China, their rage
kmw no bounds. They saw that a harvest of

honour was about to be reaped, in which they
could have no share ; that their politic-al opponents
wculd acquire new claims to the national confi-
de•nce, and that the period of their own exclusion
from the sunshine of office would, in all probability,
be somewhat extended.

Then it was that, with a dereliction of principle
unexampled, an effrontery of profligacy unmatched
in the history of political tergiversation, they
turced round and assailed the Government for
pursti-ing that very course which they themselves
hod recommended as the only one that was con-
sistent with the honour of the Crown and the wel-
fare of the country I Then it was that from being
barbarians, idolaters, a people addicted, above other
notions, to all manner of vice, even whose law allows
the practice of infanticide, the Chinese were all at
once transformed into beings little short of celestial.
Wc arc not sure that their very complexion was not
cried up to the skies as the finest specimen of the
pure and delicate red and white to be found among
the chndrcn of men. At all events, to corrupt the
morns of so interesting and innocent a race was
iepresented as a crime of the deepest dye.
In one column of the Times you might some-
times find a learned lucubration on the dangers to
the Monarchy to be apprehended from the cessation
of drunkenness in Ireland, and in another a virulent
denunciation of her MAJESTY'S Ministers for in-

roducing habits of intoxication into China. The
measures that a little before were so essential to
vindicate the honour and assert the rights of the
Country, arc now discovered to be a most inhuman
and unwarrantable aggression upon a people who
have committed no offence ; while the pious orator,
who is horrorstruck at the enormity of our supply.
jug the Chinese with a drug which they themselves
produce in immense quantities, sees no immorality,
not the least harm, but rather matter of approba-
tion, in the poisoning of the wells out of which
British sailors were to drink ! So consistent is
Toryism—so even-handed are your evangelical po-
liticians in meting out justice.

The horrible persecution now raging against the
Jews in the East, is not confined to the city of Da.
mascus. The following extract from a letter ad-
dressed by the Hebrew community at Rhodes, to
the Grand Rabbi of Constantinople, satisfies us
that the persecution—unless vigorous steps be taken
to prevent it by the enlightened Governments of
England and France—is intended to be general.
lie object of this persecution is plunder. As we
n.tve again and again stated, in their wealth consists
the only crime of the innocent Israelites. No less
clumsy mode of plundering them of their property
could be devised by the semi-barbarous Govern.
ment of Egypt, because by no other could
the prejudices of the ignorant and superstitious
Oriental Christians be enlisted against them. We
pity the Christian capable of believing that the
Jews were ever guilty of the horrible crime which
the Pacha of DAMASCUS has laid to their charge ;
and when we bear in mind that this highly_
favoured land has yet to atone for setting an ex-
ample of the persecution of the Israelites, we feel
surprised that no Christian meetings have been
held to denounce the revival of an exploded fable of
the monks for the fiendish purpose of shedding the

blood and confiscating tht property of an innocent
community: We had extracted ftoni the Journal
des Debats the details of the cruelties td which the
Damascus Jews haiie been subjected, but want of
space prevents ns ffotn insuring them in our
columns of this day. We shall entleaoni to make
room for them to-morrow, or Monday at the
The following is the extract from the letter from
Rodes above alluded to :
.• We hasten to infortil yot of the: unhappy position in
which our community arc placed, o*ilig th vome calumny
of which they are the victims.
• • -

" A Greek child, ten years of age, son of a peasant,
is stated to have hung itself a few days since, and we are
accused by the Christians of having sanctioned this child's
death. The European Consuls assembled to demand the
true explanation of this affair, and the only one absent was
the:Austrian Consul. They assembled at the Pachri's to
demand of him the process which was given to them,
in consequence of which they caused to appear
before them two Greek women of the environs of
the town, who stated that the Jews went on Tuesday from
the village to the town, and that one of them was followed
by a Greek boy ; in consequence of which the Consuls
caused the Jew to appear before them immediately, end
questioned him on the subject. He answered that he could
prove that he was on the same Tuesday in his village,
and he only went .o town on the Wednesday, but his de-
fence was not listened to by the Consuls ; the accused
was put in irons, he received the bastinede, hit nostrils were
pierced with iron-wire ; they put burning bones on his
brains, and a heavy stone on his heart, which reduced their
victim to the last extremity ; their intention was to make
him confess by these tortures that the rabbiu was implicated
in the affair, as well as the whole of the community ; this
unfortunate Jew being at the point of death by the agonies
he suffered from the tortures, he was obliged to implicate
several Jews, most of whom were found to be absent some
days] from Rhodes. They arrested those who could be
found.; seven of them were put to the torture, and their
lives despaired of. During three days we have been refused
the necessaries of life for our families, and it was only with
the greatest efforts we could obtain the favour to have
some salt fish and black bread at a very high price. All
that we can learn is through the Europeans who have busi-
ness with the Pacha, who knows nothing of our sufferings, but
that all that has happened is through the Adjutant of the
Pacha, who agrees with the Consuls. The Austrian Con-
sul, who wanted to defend us, was at length obliged to
follow the example of the others.

The Hamburg papers of Tuesday received this
morning, bring the annexed intelligence from Alex-
andria, Copenhagen, and Hanover :
ALEXANDRIA, MAacii 27.—The English steamer, the
Gorgon, which lately arrived, remains stationed here, as
well as the Daphne corvette, which has arrived since. Most
of the Consuls have applied to their courts for ships of war
to secure themselves and their countrymen, in case an
attack should be made. Accordingly a Sardinian and an
Austrian corvette are expected. In all probability they
will not be wanted.

A French corvette has been lying in the harbour for
:hose two months.

M. Cochelet, as usual, waited on the Pacha after the
arrival of the packet. It is not yet known whether he had
any particular communication to make to him from M.
Thiers.

In August next a direct communication with England
by steam-packets will be opened ; four large steamers will
perform the voyage in fourteen or fifteen days, twice in
a month. As passengers by these steam-boats have not
to perform quarantine in England, this will be the most
agreeable mode of travelling, not only back to England,
hut to France, and the North of Germany ; for the per-
formance of twenty-one days' quarantine at Malta is a
severe trial on the patience of those who have come in
twenty-nine days from Bombay to Malta.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 14.—The thirtieth half-yearly
payment in discharge of the Danish English three per
cent. Loan has been again made for the last half-year,
with the sum of 40,0001. It seems, therefore, that the
Finance Department means to continue to pay off largor
sums than stipulated by contract.
HANOVER, APRIL 15.—The Chamber sat to-day for the
last tune before the holidays. It is understood they will
meet again on the 27th inst. It is to be hoped that by
that time the number of Deputies, which has hitherto not
exceeded 40 or 41, will be increased. The elections that
have lately been made are-1. Harbourg (the person
elected is said to have declined); 2. Luneburg, M.
Albers, w e hear, has accepted ; 8. Hoya and Diephele ;
4. Furstenau, which has chosen M. Stuve, Burgomaster
of Osnaburg ; and L. Schultorf, which has elected Dr.
Dilmold.

The Brussels Papers of Wednesday state, that
at the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on that
day, the new Ministers presented themselves in
their official capacity, occupying the benches of
their predecessors. The attendance of Members
was inconsiderable, and but few strangers appeared
in the galleries. The Secretary read a Cabinet
Message, acquainting the Chamber with the com-
position of the New Ministry. After which M.
CHARLES LIEDTS, Minister of the Interior, spoke
to the following effect in the name of himself and
his colleagues
\Vo must lay before the Chamber a statement of the
line of conduct which the new Cabinet intends to follow.

' The new Cabinet thinks that it shall be able to satisfy
allmoderate opinions. It will make a point of hastening
the impatiently expected discussion of the law on primary
instruction, which the Cabinet will endeavour to get adopted
on the most liberal basis. Penetrated with the most pro-
found respect for the Parliamentary prerogative, the new
Ministry will, however, never consent that the respect due
to the Royal prerogative shall be forgotten for a moment.
The greatest zeal will be shown in promoting public works,
agriculture, the arts and manufactures. The new Cabinet
considers it as its duty to present as soon as possible a law
on indemnities ; it will be absolutely independent with
rep and to its powers; it will never deviate from the faith-
ful observance of the treaty ; its policy will be conserva-
tive; not stationary, but progressive, of which the Cabinet
desires to take advantage to ensure the prosperity of all
classes."

AnploiH—l find only one thing wanting in the pro-
gramme of the new Cabinet—it is a declaration that it
will exert itself to introduce the greatest economy into the
budget. The Hon. Member took the opportunity, as he
was ❑ow speaking, to say that his opposition had never
been systematic, and would not be so in future, if the
Cabinet follows a line of conduct conformable to all
interests. _ _ _

The Minister of War presented a project of law asking
for a vote of credit for three millions of francs for the ex-
penses of his department.
The Prince of SAXE COBURG was to set out
for Paris with the Princess his daughter on Wed-
nesday. King LEOPOLD will not be present, as
was expected, at the marriage of the Duke DE
NEMOURS, the celebration of which is fixed for
Sunday.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AWSTERIAM, APRIL 21
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 23( per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amert Syndic,4si per cent - U('%
Ditto, ditto, 3yti per cent 7534 7534
Commercial Company, 4 per cent ISO IWy.i
Ditto (1ft.92 and 1033) 5 per cent.
Ditto 1,437, 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. -Y74 1177.4
Exchange on London, One month ll 97.
Two months
—Dutch Papers, April 22.
BELGIAN k UNDS—BRUBSELS, Aram 22.
Actual Deist, 2,4 i per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lt Qsy
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. 74N
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 94%
Societyof Commerce, 4!iper Cent llO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .............
National Society .
Exchange on London (short)
_Brussels Papers, April 22.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, APRIL 21.
Bills. Money,
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares
Ando.liussian Loan 1('8. 10N
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series lo:*i
Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th
- • 8110/

Series —
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2y, per Cent 52
Ditto 5 per Cent 9B
Polish Bonds
....._

New ticket

Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75 74%
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent. lO2 101%
Spanish. New 3 per Cents. 21;4
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, APRIL il.-13. 6—Two months, 13 Oi.
STOCKHOLM, APRIL 20.—Seventy-five days. 12. 0.
PETERSBURGH, APRIL 10.—Two months, 38 % pence.
BERLIN, APRIL 18.—Three months, 6. 19%.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—MIRLIN, Arm 18.
Bhls. Money,
St. Schuld. Sch., 4,,,, per cent. ....•••••••••1044 103%
Prussian English Loan, 101
I 830, 4 per cent. 1035 ~,
Nxchange on London, three months... 6 19}
—Prussian State Gazelle, April It?.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 11
Five per Cants. Metalliques - ION
101
Four per Cents. .. ....................................... .•"..
Three per Cents. . .......... .
. •••••••"'" ..... 1'2.4
Bank Shares ...... ........ .. .. ........ ........... ................. 1831
...Allgemeine Zellung, April 19.

There is very little news of interest in the Paris
Journals of Wednesday. In the Moniteur of that
date we find the following telegraphic despatch
from the Spanish frontier :

" Bayonne, April 20.

TIIE SUB-PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF TUB INTERIOR.
" There were in the fort of Aliaga four pieces of artil-
lery and a great quantity of ammunition. 260 officers
and soldiers have been taken prisoners."
The same official organ confirms the statement
of the Constitutionnel of Tuesday relative to the
sulphur question, in the following paragraph :
" Several Journals have announced that France had
offered her mediation to England in the affair which
divides the Cabinets of London and Naples. This an-
nouncement is true. It is very true, as they stated, that
the mediation offered by France has been accepted by
England, that hostilities are to be suspended during the
negotiatior and that a steamer has been despatched from
Toulon with a similar offer to the King of Naples."
The Semaphore of Marseilles of the 19th inst.
publishes a mass of correspondence from Naples,
representing a war between Great Britain and the
King of the Two Sicilies, as inevitable. This
correspondence is rendered worthless by the
more authentic pacific intelligence from Paris.
A commercial house at Lyons had received the
following news from Naples, brought by the Pha.
ramond steamer, which left Naples on the 14th
instant :--" The sulphur monopoly is abolished.
Everything is on the point of being amicably

settled. The Neapolitan Rentes have in conse-
quenec risen from 98 to 104."
The Conversion of the Reines Bill occupied the
Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday. The Bill
was opposed on Tuesday on the ground of expe-
diency by M. DUPIN7 and on principle by M.
GAISNIER PAGES. M. TIMERS ascended the

tlibtirL.l itnd made a good speech in favour of it,
in which he tiii-M3f4sttd a determination to carry
the measure. When he 1-at flown the first article
of the Bill was put to the vote, alxi carried by a
maiority. The second was under discussion
when ttiti left Paris on Wednesday.
The following St4i titttrwts from the Papers :
The British Cabinet, says cke Courrier Francais,
hesitated during two months to re3art-,1 the commercial
n"gotiations with France, which had been :,..4.4os,Trded. At
last; cv,:t., the opinion of liberal and cornp.ltelit men
has triumphed o'it:t that unexpected resistance. It arpeara
that the bases of the ifeeti have been approved by all the
members of the Cabinet, and that :he Commissioners who
commenced the negotiations have been fUllj empowered to
conclude an arrangement. Mr. Porter, the 2etrer of
those instructions, arrived to-day in Paris. It is t& Le
hoped ditt the French Cabinet will not now throw any
obstacle in the 1,10.7 of the settlement. The Customs
13111 is to be presented to tha Chamber of Deputies in a
few days. It is incumbent on the Ministry to hasten the
conclusion of the negotiations, so as to be able 5e embody
in the Bill the reforms about to be stipulated by the trts..ty."
The last feturne from the corn markets, within the cir-
cuit of Paris (says The (frioniteur Parisien), announce a
tendency towards a fall. 'the prices have given way at
Beaugency, Nemours, Nogent-sur-Seloc, and Fevers. At
Melun, Nantes, and Noyon, they have been maintained,
but with difficulty. They have sunk at Arcis, Bar.nt2r.
Aube, and Sezanne. The stock of flour in Paris was
augmented on Monday by 400 sacks. The entrance of
several vessels laden with wheat into the port of 'Dieppe
caused a fall in the last market of the town of lf. 20c. the
hectolitre. Several ships with cargoes of corn were, on
Sunday, in sight of Havre. On the 15th, at Damburg,
the price of corn experienced an additional fall, in comes
quence of the same state of the English markets.
The National states that as M. Cormenin has refused
to accept of any present from the Committee of the sub-
scription got up to celebrate his triumph in the affair of
the Dotation Bill, beyond a small copper medal, it has
been resolved to appropriate the amount raised, 7,500 fr.,
to the marriage portion of five poor girls, to be taken from
each of five large towns, and to be drawn for by lot. M.
Cormenin has stated his intention of adding SiOofr. to the
above sum.
The accounts from Madrid of the 14th, contain riflthing
of much importance.
Tho Royalist chief, Balmaseda, whose name has become
illustrious in the events of this war, completely defeated,
on the 6th of this month, the column commanded by the
Christino Colonel, Redriquez, and almcst entirely de-
stroyed it. The action took place in the province of Gua-
dalaxara. The Christinos fled along the road to Madrid.
It is said that Balmaseda is in close pursuit of the remains
of that division.
Another Royalist chief, Arnau, after having passed in
triumph through the province of Cuenca, has returned to
Morella with immense booty.
CONsTANTINE.—On the 2d of this month a Batancelle
coming from Collo arrived at Philippeville, which had on
board a sailor and a cabin boy belonging to La Formigala.
An English schooner from Malta, laden with wheat and
printed calicos, which was wrecked about six leagues from
that port, on the strand called:Bon-Jakar, from the name
of the Cabyle tribe, inhabiting that coast, near Cape Bon..
prone. These two individuals were the only persons
saved; all the others perished in the waves. The old
Sheikh Mourbyck sheltered and took cr,re of them for
three days, and then conducted them to Collo, from which
place the principal inhabitants brought them to Philippe-
ville. This conduct of the Cabyles deserves encourage-
ment. The inhabitants of Collo behave well, and begin
to be accustomed to us. —Le Constitutionnel.
BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
trench 5 per Cents ll2 15 ... 112 15 ... 111 90 ... 1 I 1 95
4i per Cents lO7 25 107 25 107 25 ... 107 25
3 per Cents B3 45 8.3 45 83 30 ... 83 30
Bank of trance 3150 ...3250 ...3250 ..,3250
Lattitte Bank 1,0001. Sl). 1052 50 —lOB5 ...1082 50 ...1 85
5,000 f. 583 5195 ...5197 50 —.5193 ..5197 50
Belgian Bank BBl ... 8-5 ... 880 882 50
514er Cents 103% ... 103% 103% .., 103%
New York
Ohio lO2 102 25 102 'l5 ... 102 25
State of New York
vanish Active. 2914 ... 2914 ... '2E% ... 25%
Passive 7 7% ... ...
Neapolitan
Roman 104% 10454 104% ... 104%