The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-27 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

. LITERATURE.
THE RED BOOK, or a PEEP AT THE PEERS,
This is a picture of the hereditary wisdom
drawn by the author of the " Black Book," and
published at the small charge of fourpence by
Mr. Cleave. It gives the title, age, marriage,
Church patronage, pensions and pay in the army,
navy, or civil offices, of each Peer, together with
the income of the different branches of the
Royal family, and a fearful picture it is. Some
parts of it may be overcharged, and the com
ments occasionally too severe, but it contains too
much truth, and shows that the Upper House,
in the division of the people's money, has taken
the lion's share. One has a snug pension of
9,789/. 17s. 4d., another has 2,0891., Ins brother
5,4961., with the odd shillings and pence; a fourth
has pensions to the third generation, and some
few have immortal pensions. King Ernest's
share, independent of what he takes from his
own subjects, is thus described
" Has received an annuity of 15,000/. for sixty-three
years, 945,000/. ; has received another annuity of 6,0001.
for forty-four years, 210,0001. His son, Prince George
of Cumberland, has an annuity of 6,0001. which he has
received for thirteen years, 78,000/. ; making a total cost
to the country of one million two hundred and thirty-
three thousand pounds sterling ! !
The enormous incomes, and still more enor-
mous patronage of the successors of the apos-
tles, are also carefully chronicled. Only think
of one of this lowly race having an annual in-
come of 19,0001. a-year, with two palaces ; the
patronage of 172 livings, with prebends, preach-
erships, and other ships out of number. Some
few of the fighting Lords have pensions for ser-
vices rendered to the country, and one or two
civil Lords have resigned theirs, when their own
private property became too enormous to be
concealed. This does not apply to the Marquis
of Camden; and the compiler, therefore, justly
selects him from " the proud throng,a with the
following well-merited tribute :
" CAMDEN, M. OF.—George Charles Pratt, (four other
titles) b. 1799 ; mar. dau. of Bp. of Rochester, 1,459 L ;
Vice-Admiral and Deputy-Lieu. of Kent. This noble-
man's father was one of the tellers of the Exchequer, at
a salary of 2,7001. In 1817, he resigned to the Public
Treasury the fees of the office, amounting to 25,000/. per
annum ; for which he received a vote of thanks from the
Commons. He then retired on a pension, 3,683/. for the
remainder of his life. The present Marquis has returned
the money received as fees since his father's death, and
has nobly resigned all claim to future fees. He holds
12,000 acres of woodland in Kent. Patron of Llanspy-
thid, V., Brecon, 100/."

PRESTON AND WYRE RAILWAY HARBOUR
AND DOCK COMPANY.
TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUG. 21, 1841.
PASSENGERS.
Ist Class. 2d Class. 3d Class.
1,043 1,593 4,439
Goods

Total
7,075 £638 18 11
130 4 2

£769 3 1

At Paris. a young woman, passing over the
Pont d'Austerlitz, instead of the sou she ought to have paid,
deposited, with an air of absence of mind, her cambric pocket-
handkerchief at the money-taker's seat, and walked on. The
invalid on guard walked after her with it, and mentioning her
mistake, abe took a sou from her pocket and received back her
handkerchief. The man was about to return to his seat, be*
reflecting that she might have some sinister intentions, changed
his mind, followed her, and was just coming ap to her when
she stopped, raised her hands and eyes to heaven, and sprung
over the parapet into the river. He immediately gave an
alarm, and some men in a boat succeeded in bringing her to
shore before life was extinct, but the shock she had received
was so great that she died in half an hour. Her body was
taken to the Morgue, where it was recognised as that of a
young milliner, who had been deserted by:a faithless seducer.
A man named Belin was tried before the
Court of Assize at Paris, two days ago, for an assault
under the following circumstances. On March 30, a young
man knocked at the door of a person named Belin, employed
by the Stockbrokers at the Exchange, and finding, or rather
knowing beforehand, that he was not at home, gained entrance
under pretence of having a message. Getting Mme. Belin
into a room by herself, he seized her by the throat, and, draw-
ing a knife, threatened with violent imprecations to murder
her if she did not give him all her money. She .made so stout
a resistance that she dragged her assailant to the landing-place
and there called for assistance. Upon this the rebher at-
tempted to make his escape, but was followed and brought
back. To the astonishment of Mme. Belin, who, during the
struggle had not recognised him—he proved to be Paul Bolin,
a nephew of her husband, scarcely twenty years of age, who
had been aiong time discarded by his family for misconduct,
and only lately released from prison. where he had been con-
fined on a conviction of forgery. The circumstances of the
case were proved, and the prisoner acknowled his guilt, but at-
tributed it to the instigation of two malefactors with whom }•,e
had made acquaintance in prison, and who, in fact, accorr.pa-
nied him to his uncle's house, hen he committed the P ssau It,
but effected their escape. Paul Belin was found grf;ttv with
extenuating circumstances, and sentenced to hard (;.pour at the
hulks for ten years, and to be exposed on the 'glory.
The upper part of the site of ancient Car-
thage has received the name of Mount/Louis Philippe, since
the donation made to the King la:st year by the Bey of
Tunis, of a tract of land west of the Goletta, between the sea
to the north, and the Roman apd Carthaginian ruins to the
south. On this spot has beer, erected the chapel which the
King has dedicated to the memory of St. Louis, who died
there on 25th August, 1270. The first stone of the intended
edifice was laid some time age by a French priest of Tunis,
with much ceremony, and the edifice has since been built of
the stone called Soliman's Marble, fitted in with the Tufa,
which forms the bed of the bay of Carthage, and vaulted with
Genoa bricks, coated with stucco. The principal entrance into
the chapel faces the sea, and over it is a bronze tablet, on which
are to be inscribed in French :—" Chapel of Saint Louis.
Louis Philippe L;King of the French, has erected the monu-
ment on the spot where his ancestor, the King Saint' Louis,
expired.-1841." On a pediment, the border of which is of
an oriental character, is to be the following inscription in Ara-
bic :—" Here died the magnificent and just Sultan, Louis, son
of Louis, King of France. May God be merciful to him!
This ground was granted in perpetuity to the Sultan of the
French, by the illustrious Emir Ahmed Bey. Whoso re-
spects this monument, God will bless him."
The fall in the prices of corn in the market of
Brussels has at length enabled the burgomaster and Magistrates
of their city to lower the price of bread.
BRUSSELS, Auo. 23.—The Belgian schooner
Rembrandt, Capt. Gasling, has sailed for Antwerp, with a full
cargo of military stores, bombs, and cannons, for Alexandria ;
it is another portion of the articles ordered of the Royal foundry
at Liege, for Mehemet Ali. The department of the interior
has just received for the foreign department the new Portu-
guese tariff of customs, mentioned by a Royal decree of the
14th of March, 1841.

-
VIENNA, AUG. 16.--His Majesty sets out to-
morrow on his journey to Styria. On this occasion the new
road to Styria will be opened and used for the first time, by
which the steep ascent over the Semering is wholly avoided.
Near to the great bridge, which is built over a deep s'oyss,
forming a communication below 'granite rocks, the 111r)st re-
markable point in this new road, a triumphal arch hr.s lately
been erected, where his Majesty will be received by an Aus-
trian and Styrian deputation. Preparations are likewise mak-
ing at Gratz for the splendid reception of their Majesties.
Prince Molosch of Servia has had to-day the honour of an
audience of the Emperor at Schonbrunn.
M. Firmot, coach-master at Vaugirard, two
evenings ago sent his son, a boy about twelve years old, to the
stables, to see if the horses had been properly Ted. As the
lad remained away an unreasonable time, the father went to see
what he was about, when, on entering the stable, he found him
hanging by a halter from the rack of one of the horses. His
senses were gone, but, as his feet rested upon the manger,
life was not extinct, and, due means being instantly taken, he
was recovered. On being questioned as to the motive of this
desperate act, the boy declared that he had done so from no
other than a sudden and irresistible impulse, for which he
could not account.
THUNDER STORM.—On Saturday morning
this city was visited with a severe thunder storm, and heavy
rains; it was previously heard in a westerly direction for se-
veral hours; at eight o'clock we were nearly in a state of dark-
vitreibsuteta.rnrymstoorerazs,
and serious
which was
apprehensionsrender ed more r
were
awful
entertained
the vivid
that
theig h t
anrgk,
watery cloud would burst over us. From the rapid rise in the
we have
had been
hbeeaenrdmoofreansyevaercecid9.enntth?er
having struck several trees.—York Courant.
dstructiou of property in the vicinity, except the electric fluid
A. HOAX. Considerable amusement was ex:
butth NeV
cited among some of our townsmen by an occurrence which
took place on Sunday last. About elevd opposite the Pen o'clock on that_lough
day
Hotel, and on inquiry a number of persons were congregate
we found some poor simpleten was within
who had bee_n advertising for a wife in one of the London
that some of our young sparks, about equally
PaPeni and
simple himself, had, by maintaining afeigned correspond-
ence,
induced him to come to Cheltenham to obtain an &nig_
nation. When here, through imprudence on the part of his
tormentors, the plot exploded, and the poor dupe made his exit
about twelve o'clock, amid the jeers of those assembled.._.
Cheltenham Examiner.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The half-
yearly meeting of the Proprietors of this railway was held at
Bristol yesterday, when a lengthened report was read. It ap..
pears that it is the intention of the Directors to raise an addi-
tional capital, to the amount of half a million, by creation of
loan notes. The Directors express a firm conviction that this
sum will be sufficient, and that the cost of the line altogether
will not exceed 6,250,0001. The dividend is settled at PA
per cent. on the half-year, to be paid in proportion to the
sums called on,the respective shares at the former half-yearly
meeting, and which obtained the sanction of the Proprietors
as being the most equitable. Mr. Brunel appends an able do-
cumentto the report, which explains in detail all the matters
in reference to which so much difference of opinion has existed.
It is in contemplation to erect a large number of house at
Swindon, also an hotel, engine-houses, goods' depots, &c. ;
in fact, to render the entire establishment the most complete in
the kingdom.

A VESSEL NEARLY DESTROYED BY FIRE
AT SEA.—SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.-011 Friday the
following particulars were received by the various insur-
ance offices in the City, relative to the brig Ant, master
Captain Paine, belonging to Liverpool, which was
nearly destroyed by fire on the morning of Monday
last, supposed to have originated from the spontaneous
combustion of some damp straw in a crate of hard-
ware, stowed amongst the cargo in the after-part of thee
vessel. It appears that the Ant, which is a fine-built
vessel, sailed on Saturday fortnight from Liverpool for
Milford, and on Sunday night arrived off the har-
bour at that port, and the master, Captain Paine, having
safely moored the vessel retired to bed, as did the crew.
At about two o'clock in the morning a pilot, narn(A
Phillip, in sailing past the vessel in his smack, the Mray
Ellen, was greatly surprised in discovering,flames brast-
ing forth through the deck, and apparently no one en
board of her. At ono time the destruction of the
vessel appeared certain, as the flames communicated to
the mainsail boom, and the greater part of the rigging.
was enveloped in a blaze. On the following day the
agent; of Lloyd's, quartered at Milford, inspected the
burnt vessel, as well as examined the master and the
crew, and from the report they have forwarded to the
authorities in the City, there appears no doubt but that
the damp straw stowed in a crate, as above alluded to,
was the cause of the accident.

FRANCE.

SPEECH OF M. GUIZOT, FRENCH MINISTER OF

FOREIGN AFFAIRS AT LISIEUX.

A grand dinner was given on Monday last, by the con-
stituents
of M. Guizot, at Liseux, in the department of the
Calvados, of which place he is the representative in the
Chamber of Deputies. It was attended by all the principal
inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, and passed off
with the utmost harmony and good feeling. The Mayor of
Liseux presided, and, in answer to the toast of M. Guizot's
health, given by that functionary, accompanied by a handsome
eulogium on his public and private character, his Excellency
M. Guizot made the following speech :
In truth, gentlemen, 1 cannot reply to the honourable and
flattering expressions whiCh you have just heard—expressions
the value of which are increased in my eyes by the high
merits of him who pronounced them. Allow me to see
therein the frank expresiion of that sympathy which has sub-
sisted between us during the last twelve years, and
that has remained unchanged through all the varying
circumstances which hive naturally occurred to divide men's
minds before and after a great revolution. Gentlemen, far
from estranging us from each other, it has united us even
more closely. Many of you may still recollect that ten years
back In this same place I addressed you, and stated my
political views. Such a meeting as then took place, such a
public discussion all these forms of free government
were at. that time a novelty and cause of astonishment.
Yet already how natural do they seem? What a proof
exists in this of the progress of our institutions. I congratu-
late you and myself, gentlemen, upon the result. I consider it
as a great honour to have from the first accepted and wel-
comed openly and completely these powerful institution's.
I have confidence in them and faith in them. I respect
and love them. The events which have passed before our
eyes, and which do not permit us to doubt of their worth,
have twice saved the country. Previous to 1830, these in-
stitutions sufficed for the defense of our liberties. Since 1830
they have effectually preserved us from anarchy. We may
boldly say that our constitutional monarchy has gone trium-
phantly through the trial. It has the right to govern us; for
in a few years it has met and satisfied the most diverse, the
most contrary wants and necessities of society. A year ago
France was very anxious and very excited. Great mis-
trust and great irritation on both sides. A revolution was
almost in prospect, and yet no legitingate motive for
such a war ; no great national interest to prescribe or
counsel it. We had a foreign policy more or less able,
more or less fortunate, blunders here, checks there, but
nothing from which war ought to have resulted. Neither
was war the wish nor the interest of the country. France
did not desire it, nor did Europe. And yet war seemed
imminent, so difficult was it to render apparent what were
the genuine wishes and interests of the country, and to raise it
stove the superficial passions and prejudices which agitated us.
How have we been extricated from so critical a situation ?
The King, making a firm use of his prerogative, changed his
Cabinet ; and at the same time, acting up to the spirit of the
charter, he carried before the Chambers that great question of
peace an i war which, for his own part, he had already re-
salved in his mind, and within the limits of his power. The
new Cabinet appealed in the Chambers to the fullest discussion
and publicity, a publicity which appeared excessive to many
sensible minds, and contrary to good Government habits.
From all this, gentlemen, has there resulted one of
those sudden and violent re-actions which carry from
one extreme to -.another the policy and conduct of
Governments and countries? Has any great interest
ofi the country. been sacrificed to a lesser one ? In reject-
ing war at all price have we flung ourselves into the system of
peace at all price, as the antagonists of the Cabinet have so
often tried to prove ? Not in the least. All the interests of
the country have been amply provided for ; its dignity as well
as its prosperity—its force as well as its repose ; and-the re-
sult has been that policy of armed peace and temporary isola-
tion which has prevailed in the Government as in the delibe-
rations of the Chambers. This is the true policy of the juste
milieu, of which at length the w isdom is acknowledged,
but of -which it has been predicted that it could
neither endure nor succeed. But it has both lasted
and succeeded. Peace has been maintained without any sacri-
fice of dignity. The isolation of France exists no more, but
not without having lasted long enough for all the purposes de-
sired, and upon conditions perfectly compatible withthe honour
of the country. Here you will, I trust, approve my reserve.
There are controversies which ought not to be provoked, facts
which ought not to be discussed, save by the Chambers,
constitutionally charged with debating them. I shall
not be wanting to my duty in this respect, and shall
.also abstain from every expression likely to wound
the susceptibilities of any foreign Government or nation.
I should not forgive myself, were I to let drop one word which
might foment or keep up between France and England, •r
between France and Europe, worn-out prejudices or bitter
feelings. To every sensible man, to every sincere friend of
European peace, such language must appear a grievous
wrong. Situated as I am, it would be to sin against justice,
prudence, a,Jd tact. I will not incur the reproach. I will
limit myself to eesuminf, the simple result of the policy which
has prevailed, and the lesson which it teaches us. France has
been enlightened and tranquillized. She comprehends that
neither her honour or interest required more than precau-
tionary armaments and a temporary isolation. Europe has
been warned and reassured—reassured by the evi-
dence of our pacific intentions, and the loyalty with
sshieli our acts have accorded with our intentions; warned
that France will never allow herself to be towed along by a
policy not her own, but will separate herself decidedly from
what she does not approve, without, nevertheless, rusliing to
the extremity of war. Aware of the inconveniencies resulting
to all the world from the isolat ion of France from the policy of
• Turope, it must be admitted that a general good understand-
ing. is for the interests of all. It is thus that a very critical and
a ver)' serious situation, as far as our foreign affairs are con-
cerned, _has been put an end to. And this result has been
attained by a sc. upulous respect for our 'institutions, and by
their regular e'levelopment. At home, and as far as domes-
tic policy is connTieds The merit of these institutions has
been rendered more ',manifest and conclusive. What is now
passing before our eyes shows this fully. The events of last
year, gentlemen, have nepeeseti heavy burdens upon us, some
temporary and likely to tearer with the situation which caused
them ; others more permanent, for they preceed from the ne-
cessity of restoring our military estale'ishments, too long neglect-
ed, upon agood footing. Obliged to pre-vide for these charges,
Gov; rriment feels, at the same time, the L'ecessity of bringing
back the Budget within normal conditions—in other words, to
restore the balance between the revenue and the expenditure.
Credit is a powerful means, but at the same time one tenet is
delicate, and requires cautious management. A Logs ought
not to be had recourse to except in extraordinary and pressing
circumstances. The permanent receipts of taxes ough tto meet or-
dinary expenses. At the present time there are elementary max-
ins which must guide every wise Government, In this situation
what ha; the Finance Minis:er done? He has advanced measures
already announced and sanctioned by the law, and which have for,
their only aim, first, to ensure the equal repartition amongst the
tax-payers of existing interests; secondly, to enable the Chamber
to legislate with a full knowledge of facts in all that relates to
the voting of these taxes. Can aught be snore legitimate,
Gentlemen, er more consonant with justice, and the necessi-
ties of a good financial administration ? And yet loud cla-
moors have been raised, not amongst you, Gentlemen—not
amongst those who take truth as the basis of their judgments—
but amongst a population less enlightened and less informed
with regard to public affairs and the condition of a Govern-
ment. Errors, absurd and strange, founded on popular pre-
judice, have been circulated ; and at the same time the factious
have endeavoured to make the most of these, and turn them to
their own advantage. They have endeavoured, oat of these
prejudices, to give rise to resistance ; and, out of resistance,
insurrection. The third error of the people, and the hypo-
critical efforts of factions, are the true causes of the late
disorders. How has the Government opposed these disor-
ders? By two means only;: the simple execution of the
laws, firm and temperate, mild even in the form—powerful
but patient in demonstration; the other means have been
full discussion and explanation of the aim of these mea-
sures, in order to dispel popular errors respecting them.
Look at what is this moment passing. The Municipal
Councils have assembled -throughout France ; the Depart-
mental Councils are abOut to assemble. France is
at this moment full of elective bodies, debating, approv-
ing, or condemning these very measures. And in the midst
of this universal examination, Government is engaged in re.
pressing disorder, in appealing to public opinion and to legal
tome, in order to snake the law respected, taking care at the
same time to enlighten men's convictions. Is not such a spec-
tacle a striking homage to our institutions ? Does it not prove
that Government places its full reliance, and seeks its support
in the complete and energetic action of these institutions. This
action alone is salutary and efficacious. In order that our
institutions should attain their aim, all the powers com-
posing them should act together, each in its part and within
its limits. Every weakness,, each act of hesitation of one of
these great parts of the state, must diem range the whole poli-
tical machine. It cannot be denied, that at the present time
a tendency to weaken one of the great powers of the state,
viz., the monarchic principle, by sapping its two foundations—
royalty and administration. When I say royalty, I mean the
institution and the royal person, the Crown and the King. It
is a fundamental maxim of law that the King can do no wrong.
The King is inviolable, ministers are responsible ; every fault of
government is imputable tethe councillors of the Crown, not to the
Crown. Such is the admirable principle which guarantees
order and liberty. But to the maxim of the King done.
DO
wrong, it is sought to substitute that of the King doing
nothing—ass idea as false in right as in fact, and ener-
vating royalty under pretence of covering it. Fortunate
it has been for our country, that Royalty n not been al-
lowed thus to become enervated, and that it has per-
formed in our affairs the part which belongs to it. To its
persevering influence we ewe a
_great portion of our success.
I have already expressed my opinions on this point. The
wisdom of the King and the wisdom of the country be-
came united; and this union, which is the definitive
view of the charter, leas been the safety of France. Let us
be grateful to the King ; in doing so, we shall only be just.
Gratitude is a duty for nations, which serves and honours
them ; for it encourages devotion both of the Prince towards
his country, and the country has need of the devotion of the ,
Prince as much as of that of all its citizens. The second ele-
ment of monarchies has that which ii always present and ac-
tive throughout the country—l mean, the administration
is one cf which the 'country has a pressing and
continual need. Throughout our history, or at least
throughout its last fifty years, the administration of the
country has been the , principle and pledge of national
unity, public order, and civilized progress. France has become
compact under its action. Schools have sprung up, roads have
been opened, towns embellished, and prosperity scattered
everywhere, terough its instrumentality. Let us not weaken,
gentlemen, its salutary influence. Let us maintain its rights
by the side of the public liberties, watching these and watched
by them. It is the duty and interest of al sensible men to
defend them against hostile tendencies. Government cannot
march alone. It has need of being surrounded and supported.
Representative Government is said not to have been formed
for the repose of Ministers ; neither should it be for
the inertness of good citizens. For no person is it a tent
erected for sleep; it is a career opened before us, where-
in we must all progress and act. You all wish for order in
your families, order in your towns. Remember, that these
blessings are inseparable from each other. In 1830, when we
vindicated our rights, our rights infringed, we promised to
France and to the world to found a regular and stable Govern-
ment, and at the same time a free one. Let us keep this pro-
mise, and let us take without hesitation all the pains that its
accomplishment requires. Success cannot fail us if we do so.
We shall surmount the obstacles that still impede us, as we
have surmounted during the last eleven years all those which
so often menaced us with shipwreck.

At Marlborough-street Police-office, yesterday,
an elderly grave-looking person, named Theophilus Waters,'
Roman Catholic priest, was remanded on a charge of having
attempted to obtain from Mr. Fitzgerald, of High-street,
Bloomsbury, surgeon, a charitable contribution, by falsely
representing that he was appointed by the Roman Ca.
tholic Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Dr. Griffith
of No. 5, Golden-square, to go on a mission to China. MN
Fitzgerald having received information that a person answer-
jog the prisoner's description had, for the last six months, been
levying contributions on the charitable feelings of the nume-
rous tradesmen at the West-end, gave him in charge to the
polices.

Advices from Ancona, sth inst., mention that
a British ship had come in tiom the Levant with, as it was
supposed, the plague on holed, five passengers having died
during the voyage. The vois4l had been put in strict qua-
rantine.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
(FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.)
CHRONICLE.—Mr. Stuart Wortley knew what he
was about in moving the amendment to the Address. He
showed plainly, in the commencement of his speech, a
distinct consciousness of the insult which he was fling-
ing in the face of his Sovereign and his country. Hav-
ing stated that her Majesty had put a certain question to
the House, he says that he will put another question ;
and his question shall be answered first ; and on the an-
swer to his question shall depend the reply to her Majes-
ty's question. We do not exaggerate the insolence of
the procedure. Our statement closely follows his own
words. "It was not long since her Majesty, by the
advice of her present Ministers, put a question to the
country as to the policy which should be pursued in the
, public administration of affairs ; " but "he would ask
the House to consider, in the first, instance, whether
it was right that persons sitting in the position of
her Majesty's Ministers should be trusted with the future
conduct of public affairs." And so, Queen Victoria,
with her inquiries, must stand by, until King Wortley
has made his demands and received his answer. To
such lengths may persons who should know something of
courtesy be carried by the drunkenness of success, the
consciousness of numerical strength, and the rabid eager-
ness for power and place. All the arguments for the
amendment resolve themselves substantially into this
ones—" We, Tories, are the majority ; and we will dis-
cuss nothing, do nothing, promise nothing, until we are
admitted into office. Let the
inquiries
wait, knock-
ing at our doors, with her ; awl let the
people wait, while their trade goes and their loaves
dwindle ; not one inch shall the Great Council of
the nation advance towards the treatment of the
most vital questions unless the Treasury be first, and
forthwith, opened to our cravings." A more marked ex-
hibition of rapacity and insolence has never been pre-
sented. But at present both Queen and ,peoole are un-
der the landlord's Parliament, and must bear this bully-
ing quietly. Let any one put side by side the language
of the Royal Speech and that of the amended Address.
" Her Majesty is desirous that you should consider the
laws which regulate the trade in corn." What says the
Tory majority to this most reasonable and opportune re-
quest? "That it is essential to the satisfactory results of
our deliberations upon these and other matters of public
concern, that her Majesty's Government should possess
the confidence of this House and the country, and re-
spectfully to represent to her Majesty that that con-
fidence is not reposed in the present advisers of her
Majesty." What in the world has the reply to do
with- the request 2 Nothing whatever. It is totally
beside the mark. It is a most flimsily veiled refusal to
comply. It tells the Queen that a Tory majority has
other, and (to it) much more interesting business in
hand than attending to her wishes for the relief of
her subjects from the landlords' taxation on their bread.
They must have power first, and then they will discuss.
If her Majesty will put the staff into their hands, then
they will reason about humanity, justice, and such mat-
ters. They will then be as courteous as now they are
insolent. But their insolence must previously be gra-
tified to the full extent of its demands. This is very
likely, indeed, to conciliate confidence in any quarter !
POST.—As we cannot agree in the opinion expressed
by that brilliant senator Mr. Brotherton that the people
of this country like the Parliamentary debates in pro-
portion to their length, we think the House of Lords
• deserves much commendation for the speedy and decisive
conclusion to, which it came on Tuesday night. We do
not admire, however, that method of shortening discus-
sion which Lord Melbourne adopts. We think that so
long as a man is Prime Minister he ought to have some-
thing weighty and important to say upon all great ques-
tions which come before the House of Parliament in
which he happens to sit. We do not think that, even
for the sake of saving time, flippancy and levity on the
part of the first Minister of the Crown are proper sub-
stitutes for the information and the argument which the
public have a right to expect from a chief Minister
when matters of high importance are under discus-
sion. It is pretty well known that, not very long ago,
Lord Melbourne said he entertained views about the
Corn-laws extremely different from those which, for the
last three months, have been acted upon by his Govern-
ment. Of this the Duke of Wellington took notice on
Tuesday night, remarking, in his Grace's simple and
forcible manner, " that fourteen months ago the Noble
Viscount (Melbourne) made use of the very strongest
language which he (the Duke of Wellington) had ever
heard, in opposition to a motion merely for taking the
Corn-laws into consideration ! As to the abolition
of the Corn-laws, the Noble Viscount had de-
clared before God that he thought the man must be
mad who could think of such a thing !" And what says
the Noble Viscount now, in reply to the observations of
the illustrious Duke ? Why, that he has changed his
mind, a thing which, in his opinion, most people do, and.
that he thinks Noble Lords are a great deal too much in
the habit of taunting one another when they happen to
change their mind ! This might do very well for a
drawing-room—it might be thought, perhaps, an agree-
able piece of candour if said to a pleasant party after
dinner, but this kind of language from a chief Minister
in the House of Lords is offensive.
HERALD.—It might have (been anticipated that the
amendment which was moved, on Tuesday night, on the
address to the Crown—in the House of Lords by the
Earl of Ripon ; in the House of Commons by the Hon.
Mr. Stuart Wortley—would have supplied a text plain
and intelligible enough for all those supporters of her
Majesty's Ministers who might have determined upon
undertaking " the desperate emprise " of vindicating the
conduct of the hardest-dying of recorded Administrations,
" while yet they lived ' to power. There was nothing,
to be sure, very evivocal in the noble Earl's proposi-
tion, affirmed as it subsequently was by a majority
of 72 Peers, (168 to 96) and now pending, in the same
terms, before the Commons :—" That it is essential to
the satisfactory results of our deliberations upon these
and other matters of public concern that her Majesty's
Government should possess the confidence of this House
and of the country, and respectfully to represent to her
Majesty that that confidence is not reposed in her pre-
sent advisers." We have been much amused, however,
to observe—on looking back to the debate—the very
elaborate care with which the Whig-Radical speakers
severally, shunned the home straightforward ques-
tions raised by that amendment, on the fact of
the " no-confidence" reposed by the Parliament
and the people in the Government. Avowed
and notorious as was the determination to moot
it, Earl Spencer never seemed to imagine that such a vi-
sitaton as an amendment in such terms was possible. He
never, throughout his dreary argument, came nearer to
the main point than Westminster is to Althorp itself. As
for Lord Melbourne—who might have heard, surely, some
little whisper of such a visitation being contemplated and
at band, he absolutely declared " that the amendment
came upon him like a thunder-clap." With great de-
ference, we can assure the Noble Viscount that the start-
ling nature of that declaration was much more calculated
to electrify all who heard it !
TIMES.—When incorrigible reprobates have once pro-
ceeded beyond certain limits, the mere consciousness that
their character is irreparably ruined often renders them
indifferent to appearances, and hurries them into every
excess. It is precisely thus with the Whigs. Having long
transgressed the ordinary bounds of decency in their in-
numerable jobbings and malversations, they hare for
some years sunk into irretrievable, disrepute ; and ever
since the termination of their official career appeared to
be near at hand, they seemed to have dedicated its con-
cluding days to a breathless gallop of corruption. Venal
as they have always been, and chiefly engrossed with a
petty pedlarship on behalf of their family and party con-
nexions, they have managed, within the last week
or two, to rush into a greater number of flagitious trans-
actions than had yet disgraced any similar period of
their history. What with their waste of public money,
their nefarious bestowal of peerages, their open abettor-
ship of Repealers, their encouragement of illegal Whig
votes at the late elections, as well as their wholesale
promotion of hungry relatives and hack partisans—we
must really say that in the prospect of being expelled
from office they have wound up matters with a romantic
licence which reminds us of the preferments bestowed
by Sir Walter Scott upon the large family of °shades-
tons, whom, with two or three dashes of his pen, he in-
discriminately elevates to the rank of disembodied
spirits, and dispatches them on sundry unknown mis-
sions, with the usual allowances and outfit.
GLOBE.—The reports of the morning are anything
but favourable to Sir R. Peel's prospects of success, in his
efforts to preserve the heterogeneous elements which con-
stitute what is called his party in a state of apparent cohe-
sion : as to positive union, the thing is too unnatural to be
regarded as possible. 'The Duke of Buckingham, "the
Farmers' Friend," it is now pretty well understood, is
o be cast aside as impracticable. his Grace has re-
fused his assent to any change in the Corn-laws ; and
protests against the deception practised upon the agri-
nrwearevheanthgee
cultilral interest,
to be essential to Pnes
t'
cionnithmoesrecilaalw
laws
is
interestsintimated fr from
embarrassment, and to satisfy the country—even by those
who were among the foremost
to condemn the existing
Government for proposing a similar change in the sys-
tem. The " last of the Plantagenets," and his double,
Sir Richard Vivian, ros-
V again seek their rural retreats,
and sigh over their abandoned Corn-laws, and
the irreclaimable perfidy of Sir Robert Peel. We hear
that tha wrath of the Duke is terrible, and his threaten-
ing denunciations fierce. The Duke of Beaufort
is also reported refractory, and
talks of ven-
geance. Promises of the first vacant garters have been
made to each ; but these objects of desire have not
charms sufficient to calm the indignation of the dis-
appointed and deceived chiefs. The secret is out. The
influence of the irepricticables was useful to aid the
moderates in scaling the walls of office ; but their intro-
duction to office would embarrass and eventually destroy
the party. They are to be thrown overboard. A few empty
honours are to be promised, in the hope of stopping their
clamorous complaints ; if they succeed, well ; if not, any
consequences must be hazarded, rather than the certainty
of the whole concern being blown up by the Ultra policy
they insist shall be Adopted as the condition of their
support.
STANDARD.—We understand that there is little or
no doubt that the division on the amendment in the house
of Commons will take place to-night. The debate would
have terminated last night, but that it was discovored that
a number of the general supporters of the Melbourne
Administration had not qualified, and the Government
naturally desired to make as strong a muster as possible
on their last appearance in an official capacity. We have
not learned whether the omission of this indispensable
Parliamentary form was accidental or intentional, but there
is a very prevalent rumour that there are serious defections
from the Ministerial phalanx, more particularlyas regards
their usual Irish adherents. Among the Members
who up to last night had not qualified, the names of
Mr. O'Connell and of the Irish Attorney-General
were mentioned ; the total number was estimated at
about twenty. There is no doubt, however, that this
omission will be remedied before the division takes
place, which in all probability will be to-night. It
behoves every Conservative to be at his post. It is un-
derstood to be the wish of her Majesty that the
Addresses from the two Houses of Parliament, in

answer to the Speech from the Throne, should
be presented on the same day. An intimation to
that effect has, we have heard. been conveyed to
the Conservative majority in the House of Lords,
and there is nationbt that their Lordships will make such
an arragement as to time as will enable the other branch
of the Legislature to lay their answer to the Royal com-
munication at the foot of the Throne on the same day
that their Lordships may select for that purpose. •
COURIER.—The task of vindicating the conduct
of the Whig 'Cabinet throughout its devious career
was certainly a formidable one, and therefore, per-
haps, it is not much to be wondered at that expe-
rienced hands, as well as novice politicians, shauld have
preferred a discussion on free-trade crotchets, to a
defence of the Whig Cabinet. But, although the novelty
of Mr. Cobden's position may be some apology for his
laborious but reiultless wanderings, for the extra-
vagance of his pointless declamation, and the abundant
display of his purposeless facts—the scrapings of offi-
cial tables—neither the Noble Lord the President of the
Council, nor the Right Honourable the President of
the Board of Trade can avail themselves of such an
apologetic plea for refusing to grapple with the question
raised in the amendment, or to accept the challenge
it so distinctly and unequivocally offered. From
such small fry as the Wards, the Cobdens, the
Crawfords, and the Bowrings, men of one idea,
and that neither profound nor brilliant, a rambling
incoherent discussion on the Corn-laws, and free-
trade projects in general, was to have been expected.
A miserable collection 'of isolated facts, gathered from
unsold pamphlets or unpublished speeches, and carefully
curtailed of their fair proportions, constitute the stock in
trade of these pretenders to political science. With facts
and figures, shaped after the true Procrustean fashion,
and tortured into a thread of forced agreement with
their preconceived notions and pet projects, they came
prepared to prove anything and everything ; to trace
the connexion of cause and effect between the Corn-laws
and every imaginable calamity ; to demonstrate the pre-
valence of universal distress, and at least satisfy them-
selves that the country is on the brink of confusion and
ruin.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE-11.10RNENG PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.=—We stated reasons yesterday which
operated forcibly against a rise in prices, and since then
the debates in both Houses of Parliament have certainly
not tended to (rive confidence to speculators, or to induce
men of capital' or merchrnts to make investments. If
Sir Robert Peel intends to conceal his policy until spring,
the country will be in a state of most alarming privation
and discontent throughout the intervening period. During
the interval of suspense, however, there are some things
which he will find himself compelled to do. He must
raise money ; and the question is, how can the new
Government Within it ? The deficiency bills are all
gone—the savings bank money is not to be touched.
The City monopolists, some of whom are very- wise in
their own conceit, and all of whom are constantly brim-
ful of nothings, pretend, to know the whole arrange-
ments, They say, -" wait until you see. Sir Robert
Peel has got the whole money concern arranged ; all
cut and dry, and no mistake. There is a great secret ;"
but what it is, of course, " they are not at liberty to
communicate." We do believe that there is a plan for
" raising the wind" in course of concoction. Let the
Bank Directors beware of being concerned in any under-
hand operations. , They pawned a portion of their " dead
weight" to the Bank of France for a loan of 2,000,000/.
They may soon require similar assistance, and had better
keep their securities as a nest egg for a rainy day. If
they give them baclq. Peel on loan, to enable him to
carry on the Government, they may repent it when too
late. It is certainly rumoured that there is a negotiation
on foot between Peel and the Bank Parlour. Such a
thing is spoken of, and is not improbable. We shall
wait the development of the secret" with composure.
Mr. Baring stood high in public estimation, precisely
on account of his openness of character and clear prac-
tical style of dealing with the finances. His budgets
were always simple, and arranged with such lucidness
that the generality of the tax-payers could follow and
appreciate them. His plan of increasing the per tentage
on the customs and assessed taxes was well received in
,the City, mainly on account of its plainness and sim-
plicity. There was " 110 juggling " about it, and as
money was seen to be needful, the people were satisfied
that it was better to raise it by taxation than by a loan.
The result of that experiment proved that the tax-bear-
ing resources of the country were exhausted, and that
the revenue must, in future, be improved by adopting
a liberal system of commercial policy, and lowering of
the duties on imports from foreign countries. That plan
has been also proposed by Mr. Baring, and having been
fairly and plainly brought forward, no scheme of a loan,
or for imposing new taxes, will meet with public appro-
bation or support. All new taxes, rotes of credit, issues
of Exchequer Bills, and loans, are justly considered as
the mere sweepings, the refuse of the office in Downing-
street ; the rejected offal of the Whig Chancellor of the
Exchequer, which he spurned with contempt as a
wretched system of patchwork and a gross delusion on
the country.
TIMES.—It was a matter of surprise at the time, that
the assignees of Nlessrs. Whitmore, Wells, and Co., should
have been refused by the Manchester Commissoners act-
ing in the estate of Daintry,
,Ryle, and Co., to have a
voice in the choice of assignees, although they had so
large a claim, upon the pretext that they could not come
in under the estate of Daintry, Ryle, and Ravenscroft,
which was in faeLtlie estate under which the choice of
assignees was being Made, but only under that of Dain-
try and Ryle. The facts of the rejection of their voice
in the choice has since been submitted to the Court of
Review ; and the judgment given to day removes the
assignees already appointed, orders a fresh meeting to
take place for new assignees under the joint fiat of
Daintry and Ryle, and also that the assignees of
Whitmore, Wells, and Co., go in and prove for
such debt as they can establish against Daintry
and Ryle, and vote in the choice of assignees.
Several of the merchants connected with the trade
with China aee beginning to speculate whether the ap-
pointment of Captain Elliott to the Consulate of Texas
will lead him at once to proceed to that republic, or
whether he will first appear in England. The latter
course, it seems, would be preferred, as an opportunity
would be afforded to thoe who feel inclined (and it is
understood there are some) to settle the question respect-
ing the indemnity bills drawn against the Treasury, and
which were given for the surrender of the opium to the
Chinese authorities.
ADVERTISEX—The system of exclusion on the
Continent is gathering strength with age, one country
after another finds the friendship and alliance of its
, neighbours more worth having than that of England, and
yet we make no effort to prevent desertion, which ever
swells the ranks of our opponents. It is in the nature of
things, as . far as present appearances would show, that
the whole of the vast European continent must be sooner
or later drawn into that formidable confederacy which
dates its origin from Prussia, a power indebted to us for
Millions of treasure badly spent in its sause alone, and
which confederacy, before a very distant day, will no
longer be designated the "German, 'but the "European"
Customs Union. It is the fear of thinking men that no
Legislative measures henceforth adopted can remedy the
past, but few, we believe, will deny their power to control
the future. What course remains, then, open to us ?
The course which policy would seem to mark for us is
reciprocity. The country which may be inclined to fa-
vour us should receive favours in return, and these
must init. be waited fur, but sought after. Under our
existing fiscal laws, no Government, no Ministry here
has it in its power to make concessions at all worth
having, even if a foreign Power offered us the most
liberal terms, or absolute freedom of entry for our goods.
The fairest way of settlement would be to establish
treaties with every and any country that would give and.
take. Now, however, we arc so cramped and fettered
by monopolist interests, that we have really nothing to
offer worthy of their acceptance.
HERALD.—Complaints are made among the foreign
houses in the City of the Post-office, mismanagement or
remissness in the deliveries of letters brought by the
steam and other packets from the United States. Take,
for example, the Great Western, which reached
Bristol on Friday morning, but whose letters were
not distributed in town until the next (Saturday) morn-
ing, although New York papers were received here in
various quarters by private parcel from Bristol early on
Friday afternoon. The prejudice resulting to foreign
merchants in this case was that, instead of being able
to forward such letters as might be addressed to
their friends abroad through their earn by that night's
foreign mail, they were obliged, in the case of correspond-
ence to the north of Europe at least, to keep it until the
next foreign post day, or the Tuesday following. The
inconvenience would be still greater in the event of busi-
ness operations on bills to be advised of to the Conti-
nent on receipt of transatlantic letters. The grievance
clearly wants, as it is easily susceptible of, a remedy.