The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1841

the signatures. Sir R. PEEL used to be called telegraphic despatch published by the French
L:_lko of ,2ad; but, the state of
is nobody so low, according to the old saj Navarre:—
but somebody is lower, the Duke's cad has
found a cad in Sir J. GRAHAM, and the cad's
cad did the dirty job of ascertaining who of all
the Premier's neighbours had lifted up a voice
against him.
The result of the inquiry, though very rigid,
was, that of the whole 2,058 names, only about
30 were of a doubtful character. The tools of the
Government who undertook the investigation
could ascertain who every subscriber was,
except about thirty. Few petitions, nume-
rously signed, could come so well out of
such an ordeal. Accordingly Sir JAMES GRA-
HAM, after making the investigation, did not
think himself authorised, he said, to withhold
the petition from her MAJESTY. If, however,
he had found any pretext for it, he would have
withheld it; his assertion that he had not, imply-
ing that he thinks he has the right to stop any-
petition on its way to the Throne.
We do not object to an investigation into the
signatures of petitions ; on the contrary, that is
frequently necessary, to keep away improper
signatures. The parties, however, to make the
investigation are not the Secretary of State, nor
is it to be done by his orders, unless some recla-
mation be made, but the neighbours and persons
on the spot interested in not being misrepre-
sented. We are not surprised, however, that
the new office of inquisitor should be assumed
by the Home Secretary. Such rapid inroads
have of late been made by the Government
into all the departments of society that
Sir JAMES GRAHAM has only, we regret to
say, followed the bad example which
has been set him. In our country the Govern-
ment, whatever it might have been, is now no-
thing more and nothing, better than an instru-
ment to serve the ourposes of a party, and
whoever gets hold of it uses it to that end.
At the same time we must say that Sir J
GRAHAM'S conduct is not conformable to custom.
At least he ought have communicated his sus-
picions and his intentions to the gentleman who
placed the petition in his hands, even if he were
not disposed, as is generally the case, to rely im-
plicitly on the honour of those—if they be known
and responsible persons—who place petitions in
the hands of the Home Secretary. We have now,
then, a political inquisition; we shall soon have,
probably, a censorship of the press and the pass-
port system ; and then we shall have a Govern
ment in conformity with the pattern Govern,
ments of the Continent.

The French Government, on the 6th instant, received
the following telegraphic dispatch :
"Bayonne, Oct. 5.
" THE SUB•PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.
" The Captain-General Ribeiro is still at Pampeluna.
The National Guard obeys him. O'Donnell is in the
citadel : they watch each other's movements. General
Ortigosa makes common cause with O'Donnell. Some
defections in the army are spoken of. A part of the
garrison of Estella and the Commander are said to have
declared in favour of O'Donnell. The federal depu-
tation was to have a meeting extraordinary yesterday at
Ascoi tia."

The accession of the Tories to office in Eng-
land has quite revived the hopes of the Chrisli-
nos and Carlists in Spain. Already do they exult-
ingly dwell upon Lord PA LMERSTON'S retirement
from office as an omen of victory, and quote the
speeches of the Duke of WELLINGTON, Lord
ABERDEEN, Sir ROBERT PEEL, Mr. FENTON,
Mr. PETER BORTIIWICK, Mr. MACLEA N, and
Lord CA RNA RVON, in favour of Don CAR-
LOS, to show what they have to expect
from the sympathies of the Tories now in
office. The French Government evidently sup-
ports the designs of the Christino insurgents. In
the following article from the Journal des Debats,
interesting from the account which it gives of
General O'DONNELL, it manifestly labours to
justify the seizure of Pampeluna :
It is notorious that since the protest of Maria Chris-
tina against the guardianship, great agitation has
manifested itself in Spain, and particularly in the
army. The resignation of General Palafox, Duke of
Saragossa, as Commandant of the Guard, and the public
manifestations of General Diego Leon and a great
number of officers in favour of the Queen, indicated
an approaching re-action in the army, which appears
to be much disgusted with the part it has been com-
pelled to assume by the Exaltados of Barcelona. Ge-
neral Leopold O'Donnell, who has just taken possession
of the citadel of Pampeluna, is the same who lately
commanded the army of the centre in Valencia. Ile
is of Irish origin ; his father commanded a corps
d'armee in the war of independence. Three of his bro-
thers embraced the interests of Don Carlos. One was
made prisoner and murdered by the people of Barcelona;
the other, who was Commander-in-Chief of the cavalry
of Don Carlos, died of his wounds during the cam-
paign ; the third entered the Constitutional army
after the Convention of Bergara. Leopold O'Donnell
first served in the Royal Guard. During the last war
he was chiefly employed in Biscay and Guipuscoa,
where he acquired a fair military reputation. Last
year, as soon as he heard of the movement of Barce-
lona, and the conduct of Espartero towards the Queen,
he gave in his resignation ; but the Queen, who re-
posed all her confidence in him, refused to accept it, and
soon afterwards proceeded to Valencia to place herself
under his protection. General O'Donnell remained at Va-
lencia, struggling with energy against the revolt which
was getting up there, and commanded the army till the
Queen abdicated. He has since then passed some time in
France, and on returning to Spain applied for permission to
retire to Bilboa,but Espartero, who was jealous of the repu-
tation and influence of O'Donnell in the army, fixed upon
Pampeluna as his place of residence. It appears that for
some time past the Regent has been uneasy as to the
garrison of Pampeluna, and under the apprehension of a
revolt, had sent thither troops from Castile. These
were the first troops to join O'Donnell. The National
Guard of Pampeluna, which remains faithful to the Go-
vernment, is composed of only one hundred men, who all
to the party of the exaltados. The institution of
the National Guard has never taken root in Navarre and
the Basque Provinces, where it is considered as contrary
to their fueres. General O'Donnell is a man of thirty-
five or thirty-six years of age, tall, and of a martial,
severe air. His character is cold and reserved, but
very decided."
The opinions of the French Journals generally
upon this affair will be found in our Summary.
The following are the most interesting extracts:
The responsible editor of the National has received a
summons to appear before the Court of Assizes on the
22d instant for trial, upon an indictment founded on the
article of 24th ult., for which it was last seized.
The troops composing the camp of Compeigne began
their march yesterday for their different cantonments.
The following speech was made by the Duke de Nemours
in presence of his staff and the superior officers, at the mo-
ment of his Royal Highness breaking up the camp :
" Gentlemen,—On coming to the termination of this mili-
tary reunion, it gives me great pleasure to pronounce the
congratulations you have merited by the good results you
have obtained. These results, which must be to you the
most noble reward for all your pains, are owing to
your discipline, your constant zeal, and the perse-
vering good will which each of you has shown.
Proud of having presided over your efforts, I participate
in the praise and glory of your success. Several of you
have added lustre to our old standards, and others
have come to receive new ones from the hands of the

It is very singular that the English, who, in
general, are such matter-of-fact person:, should
tolerate, in some of their most important con-
cerns, a series of fictions and mystifications
that seem more like the superstition of LAMA
worship than the reason which flows from obser-
vation. The people who object to compliments,

which please individual vanity, because they are
insincere, give their approbation to the most
barefaced fabrications, when uttered in the name
of the public. The practice of subscribing
one's-self " Your humble servant," and the
practice of telling servants to say you are out
when you are at home, have found rigid moral-
ists to censure them, and both have been abated,
if not abolished, by the censure. But the practice
of calling the speeches delivered at the closing
and opening of Parliament, by the name of the
SOVEREIGN, while they are avowedly the
speeches of the Ministers, is still cherished and
honoured. We still, also, call those Ministers
the QUEEN'S Ministers, when they are no
otherwise her Ministers than they are forced
into certain offices in order to procure her
signature to certain measures which they,
or the party which forces them into office,
approve of. All kinds of deeds and actions
which that party perform, however repugnant
to the SOVEREIGN'S disposition, are said to be
done with her approbation. She not only, as is
said, appoints Lord STAN LEY and Sir JAMES
GRAHAM to offices, but she promises, months
beforehand, that she will cordially concur in
measures of which she has never heard nor
dreamed. The fictions of Westminster Hall

King, and have sworn with a noble spirit to remain
faithful to them. Thus has been rendered sacred to
all that collective existence which renders you consoli-
dated in honour, and which connects with the ensigns,
as living symbols, your common dangers and common
glory. Yea ! on this occasion the new regiments
have worthily followed the examples given them by
their elders. On this, as on all occasions, the army has
shown itself to be the severe guardian of all those vir-
tues which constitute the glory and stability of nations.
Modest and courageous, accustomed to seek distinc-
tion in the rigorous performance of your duties,
you have comprehended, even in times of peace,
how important your services are to the country, and
you have assumed a position which gives assurance to
France of respect abroad, and security at home. Happy
is our country to have you for its firm and devoted
defenders. For myself, gentlemen, ever proud of par-
taking in the labours of the army, I shall rejoice on
all occasions in participating in your future destinies.
May you preserve the same recollections of the
time we have passed together here, which I shall
bear away deeply engraved on my heart. Now, gentle-
men, as I must leave you, convey to your regiments, and
accept for yourselves, assurances of my lively satisfaction
as your Commander-in-Chief, and my attachment as
your brother in arms. In separating, let us remain
more than ever united in our desire to attain the noble
object at which we all aim."

have often been reprobated, but they are sur-
passed by the fictions of the State.

In private life no person of common sense ever
expects to obtain success or happiness by basing
his conduct on fiction. Our families, our
household, buying and selling, building, repair-
ing and pulling down, warming and ventilating
our dwellings, clothing and educating ourselves
and our children, are all based on realities, and
we keep falsehood and fiction from contaminating
them as much as possible. In every walk of
private life, falsehood and fiction are poisonous
ingredients. In public affairs, do they change
their nature ? Are fictions and fklsehoods, which
corrupt and destroy private happiness, the es-
sence of public virtue ? We conclude not ; and
just in proportion as the matters are weighty,
which public men attempt to regulate by fic-
tions, so great will be the extent of the ruin ulti-
mately brought about.
When we compare the actions of Government
with the almost perfection of a workshop, such as
Mr. MAUDSLEY'S, we see that all its business (that
is, all the functions connected with the fictions we
have adverted to), are in a sad state of disorder.
The poverty, distress, and criminality of the
people, are the condemnation of the law. While
the present results are disastrous in the extreme,
results still more disastrous can only be expected
from continuing the system. We want truth and
reality as the basis of all public as of all private
affairs.

iNlarshal the Duke de Reggio has retuned to Paril;,
and taken up his residence at the Palace of the _Legion
of Honour.

The Baron de Barante is gone with his family to the
Chateau de Barante, near Clermont, in the Puy de Deoe.
Workmen and painters continue to be actively engag,ed
in making repairs and decorations in the Chamber of
Deputies, the committee-rooms, &c. Several journals
have stated that the opening of the Session was likely
to be hastened this year ; but there is every reason
to believe that it will not take place before the end of
December.

" Several persons," says the Revue du Havre, "hare
been to the Custom-house of this port, to inspect a ma-
chine of singular construction lately brought over from
England, to be used in raising the Teleniaque. It re-
sembles an immense harpoon with three prongs, which
expand and then approach each other at the will of
those using it, each prong having at its point a sharp
and powerful hook or cramp, which must hold with
great tenacity."
The statue of Marshal Brune was inaugurated at
Brives, in the Correze, his native place, on the 3d inst.,
with much ceremony. A speech was delivered by the
Sub-Prefect of Brives, who was followed by M. Meu-
nier, Prefect of the Department ; M. Bourgoin, a vete-
ran officer, who had been one of the Marshal's aides-de-
camp, and then by M. Dupin. ATe Deunt was per-
formed in the church, and in the evening there was a
grand banquet.

Her MAJESTY'S masters express in their speech
deep concern at the distress which has prevailed
for a considerable period in some of the principal
manufacturing districts. The gentlemen who
express that concern have been for many years
leading Members of Parliament. They either
knew of the existence of the distress, through

the whole of that considerable period, or they
did not. If they did not, what precious hum-
bugs are they to pretend to govern a people
of whose condition they are deplorably ignorant !
If they did, as they took no measures whatever
to remedy it, but opposed all in-quiries into the
Corn-laws, and all,,nicasures calculated to give
relief, how dishonest was their conduct, and how
unworthy are they of public confidence ! On
either supposition the acknowledgement that
distress has prevailed for a considerable period,
is a condemnation of the Ministers. They are
either political charlatans or political rogues—
very ignorant, or very wicked.
What have they been doing all the time that
this distress has prevailed ? Did they inquire
into its causes? They resisted inquiry. Did
they check the profuse public expenditure,
which is partly to blame for the distress ? They
encouraged it. They urged on the Whigs in
every measure which was likely.to increase the
distress, and never proposed a single measure to
relieve it. Lord STANLEY was assiduously em-
ployed in insulting the Irish, and all his party
were aiding him. Their whole minds were in-
tensely bent on the means of turning out the
Whigs, and, to succeed in that, all regard for
that public distress which now afflicts them with
such deep concern was cast aside. It is not
enough for their reputation that they have, by
implication, denied the present existence of dis-
tress ; to admit that distress has existed fora con-
siderable period, is as fatal to their character as
its present existence.

The Marseilles mail has been unusually late in arriv-
ing at Paris during the last few days, the delay having
been caused by their being obliged to take circuitous
routes, the regular line of road having been in
several places broken up by inundations. The
Lyons Journals of Tuesday represent Chi Rhone
and Saone as still increasing, and beginning to over-
flow the quays, but express hopes that the inundation
will not exceed the usual floods. In the course of Sa-
turday night, three houses and other buildings in the
environs were struck by the lightning, and some totally,
some partially destroyed. At Vaise, it killed twenty
sheep belonging to a butcher who had housed them.
A barge was sunk near the Brotteaux, and a great
many trees were thrown down at St. Foy. At Verna:4°n,
it killed five horses employed in towing a barge, L'aid
seriously affected the man driving them. These journals
hare accounts from Vienna that the same storm fell at•
Cour-et-Buis with such violence, that there was every
apprehension of the whole village being swept away by
the torrent, which ploughed up roads, fields, and every-
thing that came in its course. It invaded the church,
and the water reached to the steps of the altar.
The wife of the cabinet-maker in the Rue du Roi de
Sicile, whose child was a few days ago burnt to death by
the boiling over of some varnish, as we mentioned, is dead,
and her husband lies in the hospital in a desperate state.
The female servant, whose injuries were not at first con-
sidered dangerous, expired 36 hours before her mistress.
M. Liszt has just received from the ladies of Hamburgh
a silver goblet, richly chased. It was presented to him
by the Hanseatic Minister in Paris, accompanied by a
handsome letter. •

The translation of the Memoirs of Madame Laffarge
has just been prohibited in Prussia.
The new American tariff has been voted by the
Senate, and sanctioned by the President. In conse-
quence, dating from September 30 last, all articles im-
ported into the United States, which were admitted duty
free, or subject to a duty of less than twenty per cent.,
will have to pay 20 per cent. duty, with the exception
of the articles designated in this new tariff, most of
which are materials necessary for the manufacture
of works of art, &c. It is known that the
chief object of this act is to affect French silk
manufacturers. Another article of the act imposes a
duty of 6 cents. per gallon on the red wines of France
in the wood, of 10 cent& on white wines in the wood,
and of 22 cents, on every description of French wines
in bottles.
The representations of our Envoy, M. de Bacourt,
have therefore been of no avail. It might, how-
ever, have been hoped that our diplomacy would
have profited by the existing differences between
the United States. and England to increase our influence
with the American Congress. But unhappily the recent
conduct of our Government in the affairs of the East
and of La Plata, has shown how we support our allies ;
and it is thus that our deplorable foreign policy reacts

Among the official despatches from China
which we this day publish, from the Londoi:
Gazette Extraordinary of last night, will be
found one from the late lamented Captain Sir
H. FLEMING SENHOUSE, from which only
extracts were given in the despatches from
Lord AUCKLAND, which appeared in The
Sun of Thursday. The dispositions made
for an attack on Canton by this gallant officer
cannot be perused without enhancing the deep
sorrow universally felt for his loss. All the
other despatches from China published in the
Gazette, and not found in our columns of this
day, appeared in The Sun of Thursday.

The whole of the French Journals of Thurs-
day have been received. The following is the

on our commerEal relatiuEs. After the disdain with
tlzi, C. :
'WC

American flag the privilege of being admitted
into our ports on the same footing as the na-
tional flag, and thus give to its mercantile navy
the monopoly of the conveyance of goods between
France and the United States, to the prejudice of our
navigation ? At the expiration of the treaty the solu-
tion of this question cannot be doubtful.

As for reprisals affecting American productions which
are used, raw materials in our manufactures, we cannot
advise them, their efforts would fail directly in our own
manufacture, which cannot compete with foreign manu-
facture except by their cheapness.—Le Commerce.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, OCT. 7.

NEWSPAPER STAMP RETUIINS.

Extract from a Return of the Nuniher of
Stamps issued to the several Newspapers in Eng-
land, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist day of
April to the 30th day of June, 1841, inclusive;
ordered by the House of Commons.:—

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prick. Price
French 5 per Cents. ex. div. 114 75 ... 114 95 ... D 4 75 ... 114 95
4 per Cents 97 0 ... 97 •(/ ... 97 20 ... V 7 20
3 per Cents..... .....« 79 40 71/ 60 ... 79 40 79 60
Bank of rrance
Latlitte Bank,..
5,000 f. Shares 1952 50 ...5062 50 ...5062 50 ...5062 50
nelgian Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per Cent,, 1840 102% ... 102% ... 102% 11:2%
Spanish Active 22 ... 22 iii ... 2174
Passive 5% ••• 5%
Portnguese3 per Cents.
Neapolitan
........ 103% ... 1t3% ...103% ... 103j6

Average Daily
Circulation.
SUN 314,000
Globe 260,000
Standard 250,000
Courier 48,000

A Return of the Amount of Advertisement
Duty paid by each Newspaper from the sth of
January to the sth of July, 1841:—
SUN £673 17 6
Standard
Globe 582 9 0
Courier

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The insurrection in Navarre is noticed in the leading
columns of all the Paris Journals of Thursday. The
Gazette de France, a Legitimist Journal, says:—" The
telegraphic despatch announcing the movement at Pampe-
luna arrived at four o'clock on Monday afternoon. It
was instantaneously forwarded to St. Cloud, and thence
to Maria Christina in the Rue de Courcelles. Maria Chris-
tina immediately convoked her Council, Martinez de la
Rosa, and Count.de Toreno. The question discussed was
whether Maria Christina should go to Spain, and place
herself at the head of the troops in St. Sebastian and
Pampeluna. It was resolved that the Queen should re-
main in Paris, sending two agents to the frontier.
General O'Donnell, who commenced the movement, was
a month ago in Paris, where he passed sixty days with
the influential personages of Queen Christina's party. It
is said he carried three millions of francs with him from
Paris. Since Monday evening, the Queen's residence has
been constantly filled with people. The Government did
not publish the news until it was in a measure constrained
by the. interpallations of M. Olozaga, who had received
despatches from the frontier. A rumour is current that
Gomez and Villa Real have entered Spain, and that the
Basque provinces are up."
The Journal des Debats, the Court organ, has no de-
cided opinion upon the subject of the Spanish revolt. It
merely thinks that it is not of a nature to bring on a
civil war in Spain. The Debats, however, betrays that
the leaning of the Court is entirely in favour of Maria
Christina. We think the King of the French would do
well to attend to his own affairs, without intriguing in
matters which wholly concern Spain. We trust the
Cortes will have the spirit to declare the property of
Maria Christina in Spain forfeited to the State. It is
the immense wealth of which she plundered Spain that
now enables her to make war on its institutions.

The Constitzitionnel, the organ of M. Thiers, who is
now in Paris, observes, that the state of Spain is such as
to require few efforts to convulse it on any point. It
is evident that every movement against Espartero, and
for the purpose of preparing the way for the return of
Queen Christina, will be seen with pleasure by the
French Government, which the Constitutionnel regards
as a moral accomplice in any intrigue or outbreak in
favour of the exiled Queen.
The Presse, another of the journals which receive the
inspirations of Louis Philippe, very significantly tells
us that Espartero has committed so many blunders
since his accession to supreme power, that there is a
strong feeling of indifference towards him in Spain, even
amongst those who were,until recently, his most zealous and
active partizans; and that his conduct towards France has
been such as to shut out all hope that the French Go-
vernment will lend to him any support or encourage-
ment in his efforts to maintain himself. The Presse
doubts also whether he has anything like support to ex-
pect from England, although he has done so much for
that country; for, according to the Presse, gratitude is
a virtue unknown to the English ; and even if Espartero
should receive support from England, the Presse says it
would do him more harm than good. We may well here ask
whether the Presse means to insinuate that if England
supports him France will declare for Maria Christina ?
Some such threat appears to be implied.
The National thinks that the insurrection is the result
of an intrigue between Maria Christina, O'Donnell, and
the French Government, and is very severe on the
French Cabinet for its perfidy towards Spain. We adopt
for once the opinion of the National. General O'Donnell
did not move a step in the direction of Spain without the
approbation of the principal personage at the Tuilleries.
The Courrier Francais considers that there is little
chance of success for O'Donnell, unless he can find
money to carry on a civil war. None of the Sovereigns
of Europe will, it says, assist him, and Queen Christina,
who has, if our Contemporary's information be correct,
placed eight or ten millions of francs in the French
land's, wilt not be much drsposed to draw them out on
such a venture as a civil conflict in Spain.
The France, a Legitimist paper, sees in the insurrec-
tion in Navarre another chance of the restoration of
Don Carlos, and the triumph of absolutist principles in
Spain. Constitutional Spain has therefore open enemies
and false friends in abundance in France.

Baron cl'Est, the late defaulter on the Paris Bourse to
the amount of 500,000 francs, has been arrested at Brus-
sels by two of his creditors. The Belgian Government
has been applied to for permission to remove him to
Paris.

The Archbishop of Cologne has solemnly resigned
his diocese, which he has engaged never to visit so long
as he lives. This was one of the conditions upon which
the King of Prussia agreed to settle the question of
mixed marriages.
A Malta paper says, that on the 30th of September
" a Court-martial was held on board her Majesty's ship
Howe, by order of Rear-Admiral Sir John Ommanney,
to try Mr. H. B. Beresford, mate of her Majesty's ship Van-
guard, upon a charge preferred by the captain of said ves-
sel, Sir David Dunn, K.C,H„ for 'not having executed an
order repeatedly given to him by his captain, in the pre-
sence of the officers and ship's company of the said ves-
sel, on Wednesday, the 21st day of July, 1841.' The
Court, after hearing two witnesses in support of the
charge, and a very able written defence, read by the
prisoner with great emphasis, declared the charge not
proved, and acquitted him thereof accordingly. Captain
Basil Hall, and several other distinguished travellers, now
at Malta, were present throughout the trial ; and, indeed,
perhaps no Court-martial ever caused, particularly among
the junior officers of the navy, greater excitement, or de-
light and gratification at the justice of the result."