The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-21 00:00:00

HAMBURGH MAIL.

Nicu, JCLY 7.—We have just learnt that the Pro-
vicial Council of Upper Bavaria has, according to a re-
solution adopted in its last meeting, proposed to the
King to introduce again the order of the Jesuits. The
public is in anxious expectation of the King's decision,
which however cannot be doubtful. The next Govern-
ment Gazette will probably give the particulars, unless
it should be thought better not to publish the decision.
In the night of the 3d of this mouth, the Rev. Francis
laver Lusken, President of the Episcopal College, and
the Senior of the Diocesan Clergy of Hildesheirn, died in
that city. He was born at Paderbourn, on the 3d of
February, 1750, and went in 1767 to Treves, to enter on
his noviciate in the College of the Jesuits. lie was
Member of the Order of the Jesuits which was sup-
pressed in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV.
The summary list of ships, of all nations, which passed
the Sound in the month of May. this year, makes them
amount to 1,125 from the North Sea, and 999 from the
Baltic ; in all, 2,124. Of these there were from the
North Sea.
English 246
Hanoverian. 58
Danish 5l 56
Swedish
Norwegian
Prussian ... 275
Russian 3B
Mecklenburg. 91 85
Dutch
French 22
American... 15
—Hantburgh Papers, July 16.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, JULY 16.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares l6lO --
Anelo-Itussian Loan lOl4 1044
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 9714
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% 86
Dutch Actual Debt, 2yi per Cent LO34 5';3,(
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bondi
New Picket
Anglu-Danish I.oan, 3 per Cent 7534 7531
Nmwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent.... l, '234 10S%
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l6 %
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, JULY 16.-13 7.—Two months, 13 5%
PETRIIRBURGH, JULY 9.—Two months, 38 15.16 pence.
RIGA, JULY 8. —Three Months, 33 13-1,;.
STocanoisi. JULY 9.—Seventy-live days, 12 0
BERLIN, JULY 13.—Three months. 6. 1914 Bills
nLLGIAN U JULY 17.
Actual Debt, 236 per Cent.
Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Ccnt lOO%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92
--- 3 per Cent.
Thirty.seven----- 70%
(I _;to) leOjei
Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent B2
Society of Commerce, 4}; per Cent 93%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. 74y,,
National Society .
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, July 17.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JULY 10
rise per Cents. Metalliques • 10514
Foat per ................... %
'three per Cents.
Rank :Mares
—Allreurrine &Rune. July 14
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY 13.
Bills Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 454 per cent. 1041,0 10.324
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. lol3‘ 101)3
Nat:flange on London, three months 6 193 i
_Prussian State Gazette. July 14.

SETTLEMENT OF THE EASTERN
QUESTION.

" REPLY or :MEHEMET -ALI TO THE GRAND VIZIER, DATED

7 D.TEMAMELEUEL, 1,257 (JUNE 25, 1841).
" I have had the honour to receive the letter of your High.
nets, which announced to me the sending, by. the Councillor
of State, Kiamil Effendi, to the Minister of Justice, Muhib
Effendi, in mission here, charged to remit it to me, of an. Im-
perial hatti scheriff, containing the following clauses :
" The Government of Egypt is confirmed to me with the
power of transmitting it hereditarily to my male descendants
from eldest son to eldest son. For the future, in case of the
first becoming vacant the Government will pass to my male
descendants from eldest son to eldest son, and the Sublime
Porte will confirm their succession.

" In the event of the male line becoming extinct, the male
children of the daughters of my family will have no right to
the succession.

" The dispositions of the hatti scheriff of Gulhane, and of all
the treaties concluded and to be concluded wit h friendly
Powers, shall be fully executed in Egypt. The administrative
laws established and to he established in the empire shall be
equally observed, with the modifications rendered necessary
by local circumstances. All taxes, tithes, and revenues raised
in Egypt shall be raised in the name of his Highness, and ac-
cording to the equitable system adopted by the Sublime Porte.
Care shall be taken to pay at the fixed periods the annual tri•
bute specified in another Imperial firman. The stock of grain
and pulse which the Egyptian Government has been in the
habit hitherto of sending annually to the two holy shies
(Mecca and Medina) shall be continued to be sent to them
punctually. The very important regulation of the specie cur •
rency beine• about to be fixed by the Sublime Porte so as to ad-
mit of no future variation in the standard, as well in:respect to
the alloy as to the nominal value of the coin, the gold and silver
pieces which it permitted to me to be struck in Egypt in the
name of his Highness shall be similar to those coined in the
Imperial mint in every respect. As in time of peace 1.'3,000
men suffice for the interior service of Egypt, that number shall
not be exceeded only as the land and naval forces being destined
for the services of the Sublime Porte they may be increased in
titre of war in the proportion which may be thought proper.
With respect to the duration of military service, the habits of
the inhabitants of the country will be attended to as well as the
principles of equity. The distinctive decorations and flags of
the Egyptian troops shall not differ from those of the feller
troops of the empire, and the distinctive decorations of the
officers of the Egyptian navy, as well as the flags of their
vessel., shall alto be the same as those of Constantinople.
" • The nomination of the land and naval officers up to the
rank of Colonel, inclusively, shall appertain to the Governors of
Egypt, but those of a superior rank shall depend on the will of
his Highness, whose orders shall be taken on the subject. The
Government of Egypt will no longer build any ships of war
without an express permission of the Sublime Porte.'
" After having first rendered a thousand thanks for the sig-
nal benefit of which I was the object, I occupied myself to re-
ceive the hatti scheriff with marks of respect and suitable
honours. A numerous cortege were to fetch and accompany it
from the dwelling of Muhib Effendi to my palace. As soon as
1 perceived it I marched to meet it, filled with gratitude and
veneration, and 1 received it in my hands and touched it with
my lips respectfully. The above-named Minister having at-
tached to my breast the honourable decoration conferred upon
me, the hatti scheriff was opened and read publicly before all
the Uleraas, legal and religious chiefs, and all the servants of
the Sublime Porte, who testified their joy and expressed a
thousand thanks for the eternity of the empire and the dura-
tion of the glorious reign of his Highness. In order that all
the subjects of his Highness might partake in the latisfac-
tisatisfac-
tioncaused by such happy news, and in order that the
piroardyeervsedfosir tAhieexpaerpodluitof the empire might be general,
land and byc reiterated salvoes of artillery both by
sign
nof hoisted.
rejoiaaceniatin,:d I ordered all the flags of the vessels to be
equal the favour gra
Was also fired at Cairo, and other cities as a
jaAlthough my grateful efforts can never
howeveterd by his Highness to this feeble vassal
of his empire ;
mainder of my days t'h'e and proud to consecrate the re-
over, to accomplish byt 'august service, and certain, more-
happiness in this woftladitantuumconrse a sacred duty, and to merit
ttiiiie next. I shall earnestly and
honourably execute
e econditions stipulated in the
Imperial firman mentioned Yabov
univ;earssalalvsnio,e aofftetrhemive
conduct,, my e-
scendants must find therein the
and to become in their turn the vassals
submitted to the Sub-
lime Porte; their only wish, like mine
should be to be able, at
everSy time and place, to deserve die good graces of their
::elrteiigns With these sentiments that this humble letter has
been written by the return of the Minister mentioned above,
who will have the honour to deliver it to your Highness
When it has been received, I beg that you will deign to obtain.
in my favour, however unworthy I may be of it, the continua-
tion of the ordinary goodness of his Highness and of yourself
to preserve for me your great and precious kindness." ,

DEPRESSION OF TRADE AT GLOUCESTER.
Upon no occasion scarcely since our city has become a
port has there been such a general depression of trade as
that which has existed here for the last six weeks. Busi-
ness of all descriptions seems literally suspended, and
there are now, in the midst of summer, a far larger num-
ber of persons out of employment than there were when
the intense frost of last winter put a stop to inland navi-
gation. Tradesmen universally complain that their
shops are unvisited by customers and their wares can-
not be disposed of, whilst so destitute are the poor, that
numbers of children are kept from the British and other
schools and left to roam in idleness about the streets,
lieeaue, their parents cannot a Word to pay the small
o ly •kuni rgefl tin tii iriAlne:i6in. 110 conf''s
see hut little prospect of an im media tc vml. and we
are sorry to believe that our own neighbourhood is not a
solitary instance of this gloomy state of things.—Glou-
ccsfPr Jomrnal.

THE LATE RIGHT HON. THOMAS P. COUIt-
TE NA Y. —The funeral of the above highly respected gentleman
took place on Thursday last, when his mortal remains were de-
posited in the family vault in Powderham Church, Devon. The
funeral was quite private, the unfortunate death of the Right
Hon. Gentleman having cast so deep a gloom over the Devon
family, that several months will elapse before their affliction
can be dispelled. The Earl of Devon, Lord Courtenav,
and Mr. Cotirtemiy, eldest son pf the deceased, and other mein-
hers cl the family, attended. the obsequies of their revered
relative.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—The Tories have been signally defeated
in Banffshire after a severe contest, in which the Liberal party
had to contend against the combined influences of the two
powerful houses of Richmond and Seafield. His Grace of
Richmond has played a very double part in this county, not by
any means calculated to add to his laurels, or to make him
more popular with his own tenantry or the independent
farmers of Banffshire. His Grace gave a written assurance to
Set Alexander Duff that he would observe a strict neutrality
in Banffshire, being desirous that his tenantry should exercise
their franchise freely and conscientiously ; but, notwithstanding
that pledge, his factors have canvassed for Lord Reidhaven,
the defeated Tory candidate, without intermission. The
tenants, however, would not be coerced, and stood out like
men, regardless of every effort to induce them to vote against
their principles. This honourable conduct excited the fierce
ire of the Tories, which they could not long conceal.
Their hopes received new vigour after the nomination, by the
tidings that the rising sun, the young heir of the Ducal coro-
net, my Lord March, was to come to the scene of action and
lead on his followers in person to the poll. The young scion
of the house of Richmond did accordingly appear at the Keith
station, and left no stone unturned to induce the Richmond
tenantry to vote for Lord Reidhaven ; but in 'pits of all his
exertions, personal entreaty, threats and cajolery, these ho
nest men were immoveable, and the great majority came boldly
forward to his face and voted for Mr. Duff. Supported by the
strength of sound Liberal opinions and popular enthusiasm,
the house of Fife, single-handed, has defeated the two houses
of Richmond and Seafield united in this county, and es=
tablished a rallying beacon besides in the adjoining
county of Moray, which will enable the Liberals
of that district to free themselves from the yoke of
Toryism at the next election. The victory in Banff-
shire is of immense importance in this quarter. The sway of
monopoly extends from Aberdeenshire to Caithness, and Banff-
shire is like an oasis in this cheerless desert. Nothing can ex-
ceed the dismay and disappointment of the Tories. They cal-
culated on a certain victory, and the small fry of Tory lairds
were all at the polling-booth at Banff on the first day very early,
full of freshness, and flushed with the hopes of coming triumph.
As the expresses, however, arrived at intervals, from the two
stations of Keith and Cullen, their countenances drooped, and
br four o'clock they had entirely, vanished from the scene.
The Laird of Haddo, the beaten candidate for the Elgin
burghs, was an active partisan, and seemed to expect a com-
pensation for his own defeat in the town of Banff in the better
luck of his friend in the county ; but he soon lowered his tone,
and disappeared with the rest. The farmers of Banffshire are
intelligent, shrewd agriculturists, and the family of Fife highly
esteemed and popular with them.
TIMES.—We are grieved to see, from various significant
symptoms, that the Conservatives of Scotland are by no means
in a good state of organization. Let us now tell them, if they
are anxious for the maintenance of their principles, that they
can do nothing to any purpose without the most systematic
concert and cordial co-operation. Had the garrisons of Wig-
tonshire and Renfrew been sustained by a fitting commissariat
and a proper complement of officers, they would never have
been lost. The Stranraer estate, apart from its political value,
was worth any man's purchase. In future, the Conservative
gentry of such Scotch counties as are nearly balanced
in party divisions, should keep a jealous eye and a
joint-stock purse for all the disposable properties of aey im-
portance that may happen to be exposed for sale. The differ-
ence between Mr. Blair and Captain Dalrymple was, as near
as possible, thirteen votes ; the former count irg upon 211 sup •
porters, leaving a majority of 20, or thereabouts. The latter
candidate, having only 198 available pledges, was obviously
sure of defeat. Rut in virtue of the desperate purchase of the
Stranraer domain, obtained at the eleventh hour, the Whigs
were put into a condition for commanding the votes of the pre-
cise number of electors necessary to insure their success.
They therefore bought the estate, and carried the election.
This is a salutary lesson to the Conservatives, which we trust
will not be thrown away.
ADVERTISER.—The more we reflect on the serious re-
verses which have recently befallen the Liberal cause, the
more satisib d do we feel that the people of England have
not, on the whole, any reason to regret those reverses- Had
the doom of the Melbourne Ministry, instead of being sud-
denly and irrevocably sealed, as it has been by the result of
the late elections, been postponed for an indefinite, though in
the nature of things no very protracted period, by the return
of a small majority of Members in their favour, the pro-
bability is, judging from the past experience which the coun-
try has had of that Ministry, that they would have persisted in
that timid, truckling, compromising course of policy which
has characterised their whole career, and thus have vir-
tually suffered the Tories, though sitting on the Opposition
benches, to carry on the executive government of the country
for several years to come. That such has been the anoma-
lous, and to the Whigs discreditable posture of affairs for three
or four years past, is too notorious to be denied. Hence, when
Sir Robert Peel, on several occasions in the course of the
last two Sessions, twitted Lord John Russell with the
humiliating circumstance, the lssoble Lord was compelled to
make a virtual admission of the justice of the charge by not
adventuring a word in the way of denial or disclaimer. With
a Ministry which could thus tamely submit to the indignity of
being openly, and on repeated occasions, taunted with choosing
to occupy this inglorious position, rather than to relinquish the
patronage and the pay of office, it were impossible the coun-
try could have the slightest sympathy. And if any
doubt had previously existed on the point, the result of the
elections now concluded must have utterly and for ever dis-
pelled that doubt. Had Ministers only adhered to the princi-
ples which they professed when they first took possession of
Downing-street, the popular support then so spontaneously and
cordially accorded to them, would have preserved to them till
the present hour the overwhelming majorities which crowned
with success the various measures they brought forward in the
earlier stages of their official career, and enabled them trium-
phantly to carry, without any dissolution of Parliament, those
very anti-monopoly measures, the bare announcement of which
has proved fatal to their Administration.
HERALD.—Wu do hope that since good St Swithin was
so capricious as to present himself in the garb of Jupiter
Pluvius on his calendar day, he will be at least so obliging as
to rain out this crying nuisance of travelling corn agitators,
as if O'Connell were not already a sufficient bore in all con-
science to all mankind, in his particular line of state tinkering.
Not that we intend any libel se great upon the Member for all
Aleath and half of Cork as to put him in the same
category with these transcendent dunces,—these
trious obscure. It is by the way an amusing effort which
they make to fly above the atmosphere of their conscious ob-
scurity by the marvellously fine proenontina which they all
seem to affect. They tack• to the grub surnames, butterfly
wings of surpassing radiance. After the fashion of Lis-
ton's " Henry, Augustus,—lllug," we have John Julius
Caesar—Smith ; Horatio Nelson—Timms ; and Modestus,
Ernest—Blackman ; or some such appcllatives. We
believe that a single confederacy,—the spawn of our times,—is
chargeable with all these sad consequences. It ought to be
thoroughly ashamed of them. The Anti-Corn-law Association
must have been sadly put to it for "kelps," if some of those
who wear its livery and give themselves out as recipients of its
wages have really received their delegations from it. We know
nothing that is at once so impudent and so absurd, so ludicrous
and so dishonest as the agitation-machinery which the Anti-
Corn-law people had got up in the shape of their " leaeue" and
their " lectures." It would seem from the gross and berotted
ignorance of some among the staff employed,—their factious
deportment and ferocious vulgarity,—that only two conditions
are essential in the eyes of their employers to qualify destitute
men for this service; first, that they should have nothing else
to do; secondly, that they should be able to do nothing else.
POST.—In England, Ireland, and Scotland the progress of
Conservative principles has been marked by the positive trans-
fer of seats from Whig-Radicals to Conservatives, and marked
still more strongly by the numbers polled for the two parties
respectively at the different contested elections. In England
the Conservatives have dispossessed their opponents of sixty_
four seats, and been dispossessed by them of only thirty-two,
leaving a clear gain of thirty-two seats. In Ireland the Con-
servatives have dispossessed their opponents of ten seats, and
have been dispossessed by them of only one, leaving a clear
gain in Ireland far surpassing the most sanguine ex-
pectation, and the value of which it is impossible to overrate, of
no less' than nine seats. In Scotland the Conservatives have
dispossessed their opponents of seven seats, and have been dis-
possessed by them 01 four, leaving a clear gain in this part of
the United Kingdom of three seats. The gain in the three
kinedoms is thus seers to be forty-four seats, equivalent to
eighty-eight votes on a division; and in this summary we have
given the Whig-Radical party credit fur the permanent occu-
pation of the two seats for Thetford and the Cardigan boroughs,
;n respect to each of which there is a double return. Both the
seats were occupied in the late Parliament by Whig-Radicals,
so that the final result may prove a gain, and cannot prove a
loss to the Conservative party.
GLOBE.—We are well aware that to qualify the ad-
mitted triumph of opponents by the adjunct " tempo-
rary," is one of the oldest and most hackneyed resources
of a disappointed party, and few positions can be more
difficult to prove ; yet we do seriously hold the opinion
that the present supremacy of the Tories, backed by the
landed interest, will not be of extended duration. To
effect this result, we are far from reckoning on any sud-
den ebullition of popular discontent to reverse or intimi-
date the present Parliamentary majority—this is not pro-
bable, and still less desirable, involving as it does the em-
ployment of most dangerous elements. No ! we think
that the present majority will decline as surely, though
not of course so rapidly, as it has arisen. Observe the
conjuncture of circumstances to which it owes its crea-
tion—an almost entire rupture between the Whig G 0...,
vernment and the landed interest ; great previous r- th -ea y
amongst Liberal electors, as evinced by their -,,iegimt of
registration ; discontents amongst many clssentients from
the Poor-law, or assentients to Chartism who seek under
a Tory administration for relief or preponderance which.',
they will not find. Add to `which the discontents which
follow every •GovernmOit, us such, and we have a vaeiety•
of causes, the subtraeedon of any one of which (and how
long does their trost sanguine partisan dream they, will
all remain in force ?) will strike a blow at the edifice of
Tory power that now rises so fair on the eye out of the smoke
and turneilt of a general election. Will the landed interest
find the acts of the new Ministry consonant to its wishes? Or
again, if this sacrifice be made, how can the Chartists find
under the forthcoming Government the fruition of their hopes?
The first responsible acts, then, of the Tory administration
will, we think, tend to bring parties to their late
equal balance, and undoubtedly all the chances of the
future are in our favour. We have risked much in the
advocacy of a great principle; our vessel has indeed been
sorely buffeted by the waves of faction, but the cape is doubled,
and for the future we shall gather as our opponents will lose
strength in their onward course. We have enumerated what
we consider rational grounds for supposing that the recent vic-
tory of the Tories will not be permanent in its duration ;
and while these supply matter for hope to the Liberal
party, they should be warned against cherishing the idea
of any sudden arinhilation of the results of the elec-
tions by an outburst of popular indignation; Such sudden
ebullitions are, happily for the stability of our institutions,
foreign to the character of our nation, which is patient, and Will
bear much ere it turn against oppression. But, on the other
hand, mad indeed would be the fully that could reckon on this
national forbearance in order to indulge in oppressive policy.
It the interests of the masses are sacrificed to those of a few, the
day of reckoning will some, not the less sus ely because it is
Slow ; and if the new Ministry proceed on the old exclusive
system, dear to the rctrosrections of Tories, its doom will
be pronounced without appeal. Let, then, the forthcom-
ing Premier lay this to heart, and dispose as best he may
of the alternative of disaffectiou among his more eager fol-
lies ers. Will these latter bear delay ?—e ill they broek mode-
ration? will a dogged resistance to all changes in the C 0111.•
sent with Sir It. Peel's habi teal prudence'? will his elan
for grivereing Ireland satisfy the lilies of his 1ta11i55115, in that
gat.ensTA oxiDttiAe
scotrjilietxl ''reslaottiocnreeaftctdhebYß.
country? If
. __ere are heaps of difficulties tor the new Asenine-
trtiitei:iiVelimiepsi'r'—e.the last and falsest, alto.
ItTD°7l.nietessi-s—wbuitthdleoryiavlinregiutchteainrcesowurecegtfiroctien
the
following paragraph from the Ministerial journal On dit
that the Queen has heard of the vain boast of Sir Robert, that,
if he came into power, he would make her a Tory (a Conser-
vatives as he said) in six weeks ; end that the i3arcnet is, con-
t
sequently, more disliked than ever at bead quarters."
Let it he remarked that this paragraph is taken fro:n the ..F"ing
Journal which .ati flounced, in May,
1839, that the Ladies of
the Bedchamber were not to be remove l—makine; the an• '
noullement one hour before the tact was C01111111121iC;toil to Sir
Robert Peel by her 11.1i;jwy. There cats be littlg doubt, there..