The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1840.

respondent aware that Dr. LUSHINGTON and
Mr. RICHARDS have had the case laid before
them, and have given it as their deliberate opinion
that the marriage at Rome is unimpeachable under
that Act ? The truth is, that the Act in question
does not apply, and was not intended to apply, to
any marriages but those contracted within the limits
of Great Britain—we might, perhaps, safely say
within the limits of England and Wales. There
is abundant evidence in the Act itself—were there
none other—to establish this point, and we shall
take the earliest opportunity that the state of our
columns will allow to call the attention of the pub-
lic to it.

As to the contingency alluded to by our Corre-
spondent, of the separation of the Crown of Ireland
from that of England, in consequence of the Royal
Marriage Act not extending to the sister isle, no
one can deny that, independently of any reference
to the Duke of SUSSEX and his children, such an
event may occur even through the more limited
operation which we assign to the Act. 'I here are,
therefore, strong grounds, political as well as mo-
ral, for its repeal. It is a disgrace to the sta-
tute-book for its arbitrary and unholy restric-
tion of an inalienable natural right, while, as far
as any actual results have arisen from it, it is al-
lowed on all hands to have contributed greatly to
lower the standard of Royal morality by the ex-
cuse which it suggests in the public mind for those
whom it may be said to force, by its unnatural
provisions, into vicious courses. _

The hope which our Correspondent expresses in
the conclusion of his letter is one that we would
fain indulge. We cannot indeed conceive how,the
Duke of SUSSEX can reconcile it to his conscience
—to that sense of duty which every parent is sup-
posed to feel, and which every good man would
wish to be thought to feel—to withhold from his
children any assistance which it is in his power to
afford them for obtaining the recognition of their
legitimacy, and at the same time vindicating the
name of that nobly-born and noble-minded woman
whom he once loved so dearly and so deservedly,
and to whom he bound himself by ties of more
than ordinary solemnity. We earnestly pray, and
the public confidently trust, that better counsels
may yet prevail, and that the unhappy cloud which
now appears in the horizon may not be permitted
to overspread, and permanently darken the evening
of a life marked by many good and charitable
deeds ; and in the general tenour of which, there is
much more to approve than is usually found in the
conduct of Princes.

The Paris Journals of Sunday, the whole o►
which we have received, contain no news of absorb-
ing interest. On Saturday, as was expected, M.
RAY, in the Chamber of Peers, presented the re-
port of the Committee appointed to examine the
law adopted by the Deputies for paying off, or re-
ducing, the interest on the Five per Cents. The
Committee unanimously agree that it would be in-
expedient and unjust to pass such a Bill, conse-
quently the Rentieres are safe at least for another
year. We have, on more than one occasion,
pointed out the monstrous injustice of compelling a
nation willing to discharge its legal debts, to con-
tinue to pay an exorbitant interest upon them to
support jobbers and the umbrella aristocracy of the
Chamber of Peers. When money might be had
by France at 3 per cent. her labouring population is
taxed to pay 5 per cent. to the State cre-
ditors, who consist, for the most part, of
the individuals and their creatures, who have
clamoured so loudly in the Chambers against the
very trifling concession tihich the Government pro-
posed to make to the demands of public justice.
This is one of the consequences of the present
electoral system. France, with a population of
about 35,000,000 is represented by 175,000 elec-
tors, all looking up with hungry eagerness to• a
Government which has 25,000 places and appoint-
ments at its disposal. The Journals, we observe,
ask what will M. THIERS do, seeing that he main-
tained the Reduction of the Rentes in the Cham-
ber of Deputies to be a just and imperative mea-
sure ? Our impression is, that he will do noshing.
Whether M. THIERS was sincere in support-
ing the Bill at first we cannot tell, but
we are well assured that several of his col-
leagues were not, and also that they would not have
voted for it in the Chamber of Deputies had they
felt certain that it would be rejected by the Peers.
We have not forgotten M. JAUBERT's laconic
circular, nor the oft-repeated pledge of M. THIERS
to introduce such a Bill. It was moreover neces-
sary to bid for popularity by the introduction of
such a measure to cool the electoral Reform fever
which had begun to disquiet both the Court and
the electoral shopocracy.
In The Sun of yesterday we stated that Marshal
CLAUSEL presented to the Chamber of Deputies
on Saturday the Report of the Commission on the
project of law for the removal of the remains of
NAPOLEON to France. The National of Sunday
has an article upon it, in which it is treated with a
degree of levity equally discreditable to the taste
and feeling of that unscrupulous organ of sans-
culotteism, and anti-British prejudice. As the
Report of the Commission will be read with as much
avidity in England as in France, we quote it with-
out curtailment or abridgement
REPORT OF THE COMMISSION OF THE DEPUTIES ON THE
PROJECT OF LAW FOR REMOVING TO FRANCE THE ASHES
OF NAPOLEON—PRESENTED BY MARSHAL CLAUSEL.
GENTLEMEN,—It is with the emotion of an old soldier,
such as you may easily conceive, that I am to give an ac-
count of the conclusion of the Commission relative to the
bringing back of the ashes of Napoleon. You know the
unanimous and convulsive movement of joy and gratitude
which seized this assembly at the first word of this noble
and pious thought of the Government. There could
consequently be no difference of opinion between the mem-
bers of the Commission. With you, gentlemen, we join
in all the sentiment expressed by the British Government
on this solemn occasion. In the promptitude of its answer
you have recognised the desire to efface even the last trace of
those national animosities, which, during the life of the
Emperor, armed England and France one against the
other. France responds by an unanimous wish to that of
the English people, that such sentiments, should a vestige
of them remain, may be buried in the tomb where Napo.
Icon's remains are about to be laid.
" The Commission, however, was not unanimous as to
the manner in which this great act is to be performed, nor
in the choice of the place of sepulture. We have seen
with gratitude the King entrust to one of his sons the sa-
cred mission of transporting to France the coffin of the
Emperor. He has thus shown to the world how identified
his sympathies arc with those of France, an union that
constitutes the force of people and of kings. We thought,
however, that a single ship was not sufficient to take charge
of such a precious burden. The President of the Council
met our wishes : other vessels will accompany the Prince
of Joinville's frigate. We should have wished that a fleet
should go to meet the funeral convoy, and escort it to the
French soil ; and in this, too, we found Minis-
ters ready to meet our wishes. When we came
to consider the spot most fitted to receive the remains
of Napoleon we were uncertain of the right over
these buildings, or the claim of those buildings, to be
the receptacle of the tomb. There are the Pantheon,
consecrated to great men—the Madeleine, which, conse-
crated yet to no one, might be devoted to Napoleon ; the
Arch of Triumph, which would give as an epitaph the
names of all his victories and his generals; the column
of the Place Vendome, which he erected; and, finally,
St. Denis, might claim his remains as those of a legiti-
mate Monarch. After long hesitation, we at length
agreed to the idea of the Government, and consider the
Invalides as the fittest place. The quiet of the place,
the majesty of the edifice, the grandeur of its re-
membrance, the isolation of the vast portion of the
church where the remains of Vauban and Turenne were

alone admitted by Napoleon hiinseff,lustifytii;chOice.
But, above all, that glorious guard of veterans, commanded
by a Marshal of France, in the Invalides, point out this as
the fittest place for the Emperor's tomb. He is not for
us the great captain alone; wo admire in him the Sove-
reign and the legislator. The more we reverenced him as
a King, the less should we wish to see his tomb solitary !
and what other guard could be wished for him than that
military family, destined to perpetuate and recruit itself in
the ranks of those mutilated soldiers, who follow in the
steps of the soldiers of Austerlitz.?.. The genius of Na-
poleon is impressed upon the Invalines He placed there
the two illustrious lieutenants of Louis the Fourteenth.

He covered its vaulted roof with trophies, and there made
the first distribution of the cross of the Legion of Ho-
nour. Such are the considerations which lead us to ap-
prove of the idea of the Government. Napoleon will
repose in the Invalides, alone, under the dome, where no
other coffin can be laid. This shall be ordered by an ex.
press article of the law. We also recommend the erection
of an equestrian statue of the Emperor in one of the public
squares; and not deeming one million of francs sufficient,
we propose the vote of two millions.

We have marked in italics a sentiment which
impresses us with no very high idea of the Coin►nis-

sinners notions of what constitutes the tine sublime.

The grave of such a man as NAPOLEON ought pre-
eminently to stand alone. No human habitation should
overshadow• it, nor the world's care-fraught passing
voice be heard in its vicinity. If it were possible
the visible horizon should bound a space sacred to
the influence of is genius, and to the reflections
inspired by the recollection of his history, and the
sanctity of his mate presence.
The Buenos Ayres question has created a great
sensation in Paris. We quote the spirit of the
Journals of Sunday on the subject :
The news which we published yesterday on the state of

affairs in the River Plata, have made a deep impression.
Most of the Journals, even the Debut, agree in acknow-
ledging how disgraceful to France are the proposals ac-
cepted by Admiral Dupotet. Two papers only endea-
vour to dissemble the importance of the fat's, and these
are two Journals of the ancient Opposition converted to
the system of March I—the Constitutionnel and the
Courtier Francais.

The Constitutionnel questions the truth of the news
which we gave; this only proves that it is or pretends to
be ill-informed; it is not one letter only, but twenty
' letters, which have been communicated to us, and all
speak in the same manner, and in terms much more vehe-
ment, than ours of the conduct of Admiral Dupotet.
The Courrier Francais goes still further than,the Con-
stitutionnel ; it admits the facts to be correct, and endea-
vours to justify the proposals accepted by the Admiral.
We cannot suffer an article to pass unanswered which is
full of errors, and presents the question in a false light.
The Courrier thinks it very material that we should
raise the blockade, that we should renounce all the ad-
vantages of a position obtained with difficulty, without
obtaining any satisfaction besides a promise made by Rosas
to send a Minister Plenipotentiary to Paris. But this
is not all ; the Courrier carries its simplicity and ignor-
ance of the facts so far as to say, Not only will the
French be treated as was demanded, on the footing of the
most favoured nation, but reciprocity is granted us, and
the French will enjoy at Buenos Ayres, the same advan-
tages that foreigners enjoy in France. First, the conces-
sion made by Rosas is only temporary till the conclusion
of a.treaty ; secondly, in requiring to be treated like the
subjects of the most favoured nations--that is, like the
English and North Americans, we require to be wholly
exempt from military service. Rosas, by proposing
to apply at Buenos Ayres our laws relative to the
National Guard as far as foreigners are concerned, grants
us much less. Besides, the service in a country where civil
war always rages cannot be compared to the duty in our
National Guard. If such a proposal were accepted it
would be the source of incessant difficulties arising from
the difference in the manners and institutions of the two
countries. In its unhappy eagerness to approve every
thing, the Courrier finds that we have a right to abandon
the allies whom we have ourselves armed and excited, but
perhaps, it says, we ought to stipulate that there shall be
no further aggressions made on them by the tyrant. This
perhaps does not appear very moral. We say, that if the
French Government did not secure those whom it had
called to arms, it would be wanting in good faith and honour.
If all these innovations came from M. Thiers, they
rr ake a sad contrast with the language which be lately
held in the debate on a vote of credit for the operations in
the River Plata. The President of the Council ought to
give information to our merchants, who are iu a state of
anxiety ; it is his duty to lay the facts before the public,
and to declare his intentions.

The Licorne corvette is to sail for the Plata to take the
place of the Camilla, which brought to Brest the news
which has produced so unfavourable an impression. It will
doubtless take the answer of the Government to the com-
munication of Admiral Dupotet. It is to be hoped that
the Cabinet will comprehend what a sense of national
dignity requires under these circumstances.
P. S.—The Moniteur Parisien announces this evening
that the Alcyon brig sailed on the 22d from Brest for the
River Plata. We would willingly believe that it carries to
Admiral Dupot et the expression of the dissatisfaction of the
Government.—Le Commerce.

On Saturday last the King, Queen, and Royal Family
removed from the Tuileries to their summer palace of
Neuilly.

- HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, MAY 22.
Bills. Money,
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares lB6O 1q55
An.lo-Russian Loan lf r 9 109%
Russizn 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series 103%
Russian 5 per Cent, Hopa and Co. 3d and 4th
Se:ies — 9334
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 52 51%
Ditto 5 per Cent 99 -.-
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 76% 76%
Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per Cent...
Spanish, New :3 per Cents. 21%
EXCHANGES ON' LONDON. •
HAMBURG, MAY 22.-13. 6--Two months, 13 4%.
PETERSBURGII, MAY 12.--Two months, 31.1% pence.
STocs HOLNI, MAY 15.—Seventy-five days, 19. 2.
VIENNA. MAY 14. —Three months, 9. 50Mi.
BREMEN, MAY 19—Two months, 610 11.

The Madrid Journals received are of the 17th
inst. They bring no news of the least importance.
General Sir GEORGE EvANs was doing all in his
power to prevail upon the Government to liquidate
the outstanding claims of the British Legion. He
was warmly seconded by the British Ambassador.
who had several interviews with the Minister of
War on the subject.
The letters from Monroyo, ESPARTERO'S head
quarters, are of the 13th. The following is an ex-
tract from General O'DoNNELL's dispatch to the
Commander in-Chief, announcing the fall of Can-
tavieja

" Cantavieja, 12th May, 1840.
" Most Excellent Sir,—The rebels, who were doubtless
terrified at the preparations made for the attack of the forts
and fortified town of Cantavieja, abandoned them last
night, having previously set fire to the town—carrying their
barbarity to the extreme point of destroying by fire their
own hospital, as well as their wounded and helpless sick
who were not in a condition to march.

" The forts are in a perfect state, and within them are
the heavy guns, which, however, are spiked. It was evi-
dently the intention to blow them up, as the trains and
other matters for that purpose were found prepared, though
they did not take effect."

The inhuman wretch of a Governor, who thus
burned the wounded in the hospital, and fled almost
without firing a shot, is the same whom we de-
nounced last week as guilty of the brutal murder of
two Christin® peasants, the bearers of friendly
overtures, by chopping off their heads with a com-
mon hatchet.

CABRERA has thrown himself into Morella,
against which ESPARTERO was to advance with
all his forces on the 17th or 18th instant. The
besieging army was expected to consist of about
38,000 infantry and 2,080 cavalry, with seventy-
two heavy guns. The castle of Morella is one of
the strongest fortresses in Spain, and mounts about
fifteen heavy guns, independently of those on the
ramparts of the town immediately adjoining, and
which to some extent cover it. Before it is reduced
by force great must be the slaughter on both sides,
as the garrison is both numerous and well supplied
with provisions and stores.
The Madrid physicians having long since recommended
a change of air as indispensable for the recovery of Queen
i l's health, the Regent is said to have resolved on
sabe
bringing her to Caldos, in Catalonia, with the Infanta her
sister. Two Ministers, MM. Armendariz and Clouard,
were to accompany their Majesties in that journey.
The Carlists of La Mancha, who had joined the Chris-
tino ranks, and formed the squadron of public safety of
that province, revolted on the 13th, at Fernand Caballero,
and massacred their two commanders, Saturno and Tur-
qucleno, and another officer.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(T HIS DAY.

DEAL, MAY 25.—Wind N. W., fresh.—Arrived the
Jane Lockhart, Colford, from Dominica; Kingston, Ser-
geant, Jamaica. Sailed the Atlas, Rundels, for Jamaica;
Enterprise, Bartlett, Port Adelaide.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 25.—Wind W.N. W.—Arrived the
Dalmarnock, and Fama, from Savanilla; Moro Castle,
and Nashville, New Orleans; Agenoria ; Arcadia ; Eu-
ropean, M‘Lean ; and William Pirie, Reid, Mobile ;
Albion, Webster; Laurel, Leadbitter ; and Thistle, Ha-
milton, Savannah ; Brooklyn, Richardson, New York ;
Seabird, Smith, and Cypress, Farmer, Odessa. Off port,
the Mogul, Apalachicola.

PORTMOUTH, MAY 25.—Wind W. S. `V. to W. N. W.,
strong breezes and squally.—Off port, the Malabar, Dun-
lop, from Mauritius—sailed Feb. 20, Cape of Good Hope
March 17, and St. Helena, 30.

BRISTOL, MARCH 25..—1 t blew a gale from the west
south-westward all last night.—Arrived the Volta, Hig.
gins, from New York.
WRITEHAVEN, MAY 24.—Anyived the Campbell, \Vi!-
son, from Antigua. _ _ _

CORK, MAY 23.—Arrived off port, the Ardent, Hart-
grave, from Honduras and Bermuda. A vessel, bottom
up, of about 200 tons, with a deep keel and flat floor, and
about 8 inches of false keel not copperad, was passed 10th
inst. on the edge of Soundings, by the Ardent, Hartgravc,
arrived off Cork.
SUNDERLAND, MAY 24.—Sailed the Nile,' Moon, for
Quebec); Agres, Thekill, Cape de Verds ; Elizabeth
Holmes, David, Odessa.
HULL, MAY 25.—Wind W. by N., fresh gales.—Sailed
the Charlotte, Beckett, for Bombay; Aurora. Hunter,
Quebec; Calcutta, M'Kinnell, St. John's, New Brunswick.
WHITBY, MAY 23.—The Good Intent, of Lynn, which
was on shore on Rockliffe, has become a total wreck.

LOSS OF THE ENGLISH STEAM SHIP
VULTURE.
Extract from the Borsen Halle of the 22d May :
" By advices received from Riga of the 16th instant,
they write as follows :--
" The steam ship Vulture, commanded by Captain
Wylde, which sailed from London Ist May, and passed
the Sound on the sth, was stranded off Orendsburg, on the
island of Ocsel, about eight days since, on her first
voyage this year, and as the passengers arrived here yester-
day, it is supposed sho is totally lost. The value of the
cargo, mostly indigo, amounted, it is believed, to 150,0001.,
and that of the vessel to 40,000 i."
" A gentleman arrived here from Hamburg, reports
80,000 marks as being insured in that city."

Colonel itawdon, the new Member for Armagh,
has arrived in town from Ireland. The Dowager Lady Cre-
morne has also come to town.
The Cambridge (Conservative) Chronicle elated
by the ill• gotten successof the gentleman "wholly unknown to
the electors till within the last three weeks," advises its friends
" to strain every nerve and press forward with redoubled
energy until Mr. Pryme be released from his attendance in
the House of Commons, and the provisions of the Municipal
Reform Bill, a> carried into execution by the Liberals, be a
second time subjected to a strict revision, and a thorough and
complete reform.,, The same writer, with a modesty most
A/We suppose
marvellous, affirms that the election has been carried by " the
mere force of his (Grant's) political principle," and not by
bribery and intimidation.
(it is utterly im-
possible to believe any thing of the sort), we shall hear no more
of the foul calumny that dozens and scores of the electors of
Cambridge were seduced at the last contest from their public
duty, and induced, by bribery and intimidation forsooth, to give
their support to Mr. Manners Sutton !" For impudence, coal
unblushing impudence, commend us to the Conservatives—they
arc no less proficient in powers of face than in the habitual
practice of the hypocrisies and dishonesties by which they sup-
port a disgraceful political existence.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

HUNGERFORD MARKET.
Good supplies and a fair trade ; prices steady. Turbot,
4s. to 18s. ; Cod, 2s. 641. to Bs. ; Soles, 10d. to 3s. per pair ;
Lobsters, 10d. to 2s. 641. ; Salmon, ls. to 2s. 6d. per lb. ;
Beef, 7d. to 81d. ; Mutton 7id. to 81d. ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ;
Pork, 7d. to Bd. per lb.
CITY FISH MARKET.
The supplies were good and so was the demand ; prices
steady. Turbot, ss. to 18s. ; Soles 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ;
Salmon, 11d. to 2s. 6d. per lb. ; Mackerel, 4d. to Bd. ;
Whitings, 3d. to 6d. ; Haddocks, sd. to 10d. ; Lobsters,lod.
to 3s. 6d. ; Halibut plentiful and cheap.
HAYMARKET.
The supplies were good, but the demand not very brisk ;
prices much as before. Hay, 60s. to 935. ; Clover, 80s. to
110 s. Straw, 325. to 405.. per

TEA- MARKET.
Scarcely anything whatever done in this market, and the
nearest quotation which could be given was 2s. 20. for Com-
pany's Congou, cash.
COLONIAL MARKET.
The aspect of this market was heavy, but prices generally
were firm. 7,300 bags Mauritius Sugar sold at 50s. to 725.
4,229 bags Manilla, at 19s. to 225. At the two small sales of
Jamaica and Java Coffee, prices, where altered, were lower.
B.P. Coffee unaltered.

MONEYAND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—The sales of
this day are 2,500 bales. A very flat market. Prices
same as Saturday.

Arrivals this morning.—French mail, ship letters from
New Orleans, Mauritius, Feb. 20, and Cape of Good Hope,
March 16.

Accounts of the 28th March from Rio Janeiro state that
coffee arrives abundantly, and that the prices have de-
clined, superior coffee at 81 to 8/ cents. on board. Stock
20,000 bags. Should the next advices from Europe be
unfavourable, as expected, it will still go lower.
Accounts from Monte Video state that the Emperor
had an attack of convulsion, but is again recovered. Ex-
change on London, 30i.