The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1841.

Laying aside the character of a mere wit—though there
is enough wit in his Letter to set up a dozen small wags
for life—Mr. SMITH shows, by terse, apt, and clinching
argument, how supremely absurd are the doc-
trines broached by Lord STANLEY in his
late hustings speech in South Lancashire • that,
in fact, he is an advocate for free trade without knowing
it, and damages the cause of monopoly by the very logic
which he presses into its service ! " I hail you," says
the Reverend writer, " as a guerilla partizan of the free
trade, who, if he cannot join the regular army, can
make independent war Upon the inconsistencies of par-
tial monopoly. When your Chief proposes his modifica-
tion of the sliding-scale, I shall borrow his colleague's
sneers at his flirtation with protection." We wish Sir
ROBERT PEEL joy of such a docile and consistent col-
league ! He will be a constant thorn in his side, and do
more injury to his Government than all the thick-skulled
squad of his country-gentlemen supporters put together.
With just enough talent to be mischievous—with just
enough ill-nature to multiply enemies—and just enough
wilfulness of temper to precipitate him into the
profoundest blunders—we predict that Sir R.
PEEL will find in Lord STANLEY a far worse
enemy to his policy than he will ever find on the Opposi-
tion bench. The hard, open, manly hits of a RUSSELL
wilt not do him half so much damage as the sly
stabs of a STANLEY. He can be on his guard against
the one ; the other will always have his hand raised
against him, at the very moment when he is least pre-
pared for the assault. It is a most providential circum-
stance for the cause of Reform, that Lord STANLEY has
enlisted under the Tory banners. With him and GRA-
HAM for their enemies, what need the Reformers fear
for the ultimate success of the great cause they have so
much at heart ?

We direct the attention of every friend of civil and re-
ligious liberty throughout the world to an appeal of the
Christian inhabitants of the Island of Candia, now in
arms against their tyrants, the Turks, addressed to the
Governments and people of civilised Europe, which will
be found in another part of The Sun. This brave and
long-suffering race, released from the iron despotism of
MEHEMET ALI, have taken up arms to recover that free-
dom which, but for the apathy and the treason of
the pretended friends of Grecian Independence they
never would have lost. We trust the aid which :they
will receive from ,our brave countrymen will blot out
from the memory ,of Greece the sad episode which
connects the English name with the ruin and dispersion
of the patriotic and chivalrous Pargiotes. Political con-
siderations may prevent our Government from an early
interference in the concerns of Candia ; but among the
subordinate authorities we anticipate no discovery of a
second Sir THOMAS MAITLAND to stain with the imputa-
tion of liberticide the annals of his native country. If
such a foe to freedom and the Candiotes make his ap-
pearance in the Mediterranean, in Greece, or at Con-
stantinople, we shall take care, be his rank what it may,
to hold him up to the execration of the English people.

We have received the whole of the French journals of
Wednesday, but most of the intelligence contained in
them was anticipated by the express from Paris, which
appeared in the Afternoon Edition of The Sun of yes-
terday. Another express of Thursday's date enables
us to gratify our readers with the most important news
which appeared in the Paris journals of yesterday. The
details will be found in another column. In our sum-
mary of Public Opinion we have glanced at the vile
abuse heaped upon this country by the French Liberal
press, because Lord PALMERSTON denounced at
Tiverton the inhuman way in which France is
extending her conquests in Africa. The Courrier
Francais, the Temps, and the Siecle attacked
us on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the Commerce and
the National had a fling at us. As the National is barely
the organ of a vile faction in France, and rarely, if ever
speaks the sentiments of the nation, we shall not here
condescend to notice its barefaced calumnies. But as a
specimen of the tone of the more moderate portion of the
French press, we quote an extract from the article in the
Commerce :

" Lord Palmerston would never have taken such a liberty,
if France had a Government which cared for her glory and
dignity. Even under the restoration no English Minister
could have been guilty of such conduct without meeting with
strong remonstrances. How is it, then, that our Ministry has
not yet protested in the slightest degree against these attacks
on the honour of the French army. But the Press, at least,
survives for the defence of the dignity of the army and the
country. Without doubt, our war in Africa is carried on
with an inveteracy and a spirit of reprisal at variance with,
the habits of Europe ; but has war ever been carried on dif-
ferently in the East? Have not the Arabs set the example of
cruelty and extermination ? Have they not, whenever they
were able, burnt our crops and farms, slaughtered our colo-
nists, massacred prisoners, and murdered the wounded ?
Were they acquainted with any other system of warfare,
and was it not a necessity for us to adopt their own course,
in order to be able at length to impose upon them more hu-
mane customs ? Have we not succeeded in this attempt ?
Have we not introduced and commenced a number of Euro-
pean customs amongst these half-savage tribes, habituated to
put to the sword their conquered enemies ? At the present
moment, prisoners are respected on both sides, exchanges are
made according to the laws of civilization, and it was French
influence which first impoeed this amelioration amongst a
people accustomed only to the work of destruction. Have the
English done as much? True it is that we ravage the country
of our enemies; but is not this a necessity of war?
This is a rare piece of political reasoning. The Com-
merce does not deny the truth of the statements made by
Lord PALMERSTON ; on the contrary, it confirms them,
and yet is indignant that the French Government did not
call his Lordship to account for them ! It admits the
savage character of the war, but with a simplicity which
must provoke a smile, argues that the Arabs were all the
better for it. The way to make ft truth-teller of the father
of lies is to beat him hollow in mendacity. By out-Heroding
HEROD—by surpassing the Arabs in atrocity, the French
charmed them into an adoption of the rules of civilized
warfare. Verily, the majority of the readers of French
newspapers must be a very simple race if such appeals to
their understanding provoke neither their indignation
nor their laughter.
Jt is stated in the Havre Papers, that a vessel just arrived
there frem Canton has brought a considerable collection of ob-
jects of natural history, and among them a white monkey. Its
eyes are red, its hair quite white, and its conformation, as the
Journal du Havre remarks, presents many analogies to that of
the Albinos among the African tribes.

A typhoid fever has broken out in the College at Auch,
where two of the pupils are dead, and twenty others are seri-
ously ill. All the rest have been sent home.
The Baron de Brabante, the French Ambassador at
Saint Petersburgh, is said to be engaged in writing a history
of the Parliament of Paris.

It is stated in a letter, quoted by the Constitutionnel,
that sixteen persons, who had arrived from Alexandria, had
died of plague, in the lazaretto of the capital.
The Zurich papers state, that the eastern part of that
Canton, and nearly the whole of Saint Gall, have been recently
devastated by a severe storm. In parts, the crops and vegeta-
tion were entirely destroyed, large troops were uprooted, barns
swept away, and liouss so much damaged as to be rendered
uninhabitable. A steam-boat in the port of Rapperschwy was
obliged to quit her moorings and stand out into the lake to save
herself from being driven on shore. The hail was so violent
and the darkness so entire, that for a time it was with the
greatest difficulty the crew could work the ship. Some Eng-
-1 sh passengers on board declared they never before thought
themselves so near being lost.

A French cot vette-arrived on the 26th at Syra, bringing
aceounts that the Turkish garrison of Suda had received a re-
inforcement of 300 regular troops, and that. 4,000 Albanians
had embarked at Constantinople for Suda.
A letter from Tulle, in the Commerce, says—" Madame
Laffarge is finishing the writing of her memoirs, which will
form four octavo volumes, and the copyright has been sold to
a bookseller for a good price, more, certainly, than it is
worth, as regards the morals of society. She is also preparing
her defence for her trial in the affair of the diamonds, which
will be brought belore our tribunal next month. We are as-
sured that she has subpoenaed more than fifty witnesses, and
the Procureur-General forty."
The Corsican journals give an account of a grand ball
and entertainment given on the Ist instant, by the city of Ajac-
cio, to Admiral Hugon and the officers of his squadron, at the
Prefecture, the front of which was brilliantly illuminated.
Three grand saloons were richly decorated, and the music,
partly composed of the Admiral's band, was peculiarly good.
The scene was dazzling, by the mixture of naval and military
uniforms, the costumes of many nations, and the tastefsal
dresses of the ladies. Dancing was kept up till day-break.
A journeyman silk-weaver of Lyons, being excited to
frenzy by the desertion, and marriage to another man, of a
woman who had been his mistress for several years, went, on
Thursday last, to the rooms of the new-married couple, and, as
the bridegroom came to the door, levelled at him a pistol, but
fortunately it missed fire ; at the same moment the bride made
her appearance, and at her Gillet discharged another pistol.
The ball wounded her ear, but did no other injury. Disap-
pointed in his aim, the desperate man rushed to a window,
which was on an elevated story, threw himself out of it, and
was taken up a lifeless corpse.
A most unusual case of fecundity is reported by the Courrier
de Lyon, to have lately been evinced in the canton of Thucyts
in the Ardeche. A woman, who had never before had a child,
and remained single till the age of 60, when she married to a
man reckoning about the same number of years, is now
enciente.
The feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, on the 20th ult.,
was celebrated at Rome with the accustomed pomp at St.
Peter's, the Pope officiating in person. On the preceding
evening, the facade and cupola of the cathedral were Illumina-
ted, and on that of the day itself the usual fireworks were dis-
played from the castle of St. Angelo. On the Ist inst., his
Holiness removed from the Vatican to the Quirinal.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS,—VIENNA, Jvui 7.
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,111gemeine Zeitung. July 11.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Jour 13,
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Austrian 5 per Cents.
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'Anglo-Russian Lean lO-14 10,%
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Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 8634 M%
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Spanish, New 5 per Cent5.....—_.......
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
1111411URG, AMY 13.-13 7.—Two months, 13 .N.
STOCKHOLM. JULY S.—Seventy-Ave-days; 12. 1.

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PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bitaux, JULY 7.
Bids. Money.
St. Schmid. Sch., 41, per teat. i.isq ,03%
Prussian English Loan, 1F f_7), 4 per cent IOIX, 101 s,
Exchange on Landon, three months — 6 ItL
—Prussian State Gazette, July 4.

ELECTORS !-REGISTER! REGISTER!

The 20th of July is the last day for sending in county
claims ; and for 101. voters paying poor-rates and assessed
taxes in boroughs.

County electors who are. not already registered for the same
property, or who have changed their places of abode since last
July, must, on or before the 20th of July instant, send to the
overseers of the parish in which their property is situated their
claims to vote, which must contain a description of their places
of residence, the nature of qualification, and its situation, or the
tenant's name; and they must send with each claim a shilling.
Borough electors who live in 101. houses will lose their votes
unless they pay, on or before the 20th of July instant, all poor-
rates and window taxes due prior to the 6th of April last,
whether demanded by the collector or not. Scot and lot
voters will be disfranchised unless they pay, on or before the
30th of July instant, all the poor-rates which have been de-
of them up to that day. '

The Times, no longer ago-than Tuesday last, could find
no other terms in which_to describe Lord Morpeth than
these,—" The tool of O'Connell, the slanderer of the
women of England." Yesterday, the smile journal. said
of the same Noble Lord, we- ' have uniformly felt sin-
cere respect for his many amiable personal qualities, and
unquestionable honour and integrity in private life,"—
with much more similar flummery. The " slanderer of
the women " is also " a generous enemy." The " tool
of O'Connell " is also, " of all the Whig statesmen, the
man of most .gentle disposition and most cultivated
mind." If Lord Morpeth and every other man, whether
Whig or Tory, be not equally insensible to the praise
and censure of the Times, that journal, by the reckless-
ness with which it abuses that man on Tuesday, whom
it praises on a Thursday, must leave him without an ex-
cuse for his sensibility.
The moral perversion of the Tory press is visible in
a remark of the Standard. On Tuesday that journal
said Mr. Burke was hardly a great man at fifty years
of age. Before he reached that age he had written
more than half the works which are a storehouse of poli-
tical wisdom ; but he had not then turned Tory, nor
been placed on the Civil List. He only became a great
man, in the eyes of the Standard, when he was on the
eve of being a renegade and a pensioner. Our Contem-
porary is privileged to misrepresent living statesmen,
but he has no right to take liberties with history.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

The Moniteur announces officially, that on the 13th instant
the final protocol and the convention relative to the closing of
the Straits of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus were signed in
London.

The same paper contains the following telegraphic despatch
dated Madrid, the 10th inst. :

" The two Chambers met to:day to decide the question of
the guardianship. Out of the 239 deputies and senators pre-
sent, 203 declared the guardianship vacant, and M. Arguelles,
having been elected by 180 votes, was vroclaimed guardian to
the Queen, and to the Infanta, her sister."

The Royal ordinance, supe;sedinc, M. Mahul in :the post of
Prefect of Toulouse, has appeared in the Moniteur.
We find in the same official organ the returns of the indirect
revenues of France during the half year ending on the 30:h of
June last, which amounted to 341,989,000 francs, showing an
increase of 28,241,000 francs as compared to those of 1839, and
of 8,273,000 francs over those of 1840.

The intelligence from Madrid of the Bth is unimportant.
Several extensive failures had taken place on the Bourse.
The Five per Cents, were done at 25i for cash, and at 26i at
60 days.
Accounts from the frontiers of Turkey, of the Ist inst., men-
tion that a conspiracy had been discovered in Moldavia, at the
head of which were several powerful Boyars. Its object was
to remove the great Dignitaries of the Principality, the Presi-
dent of Justice, the Chief of the Police, and the Metropolitan,
who were accused of various arbitrary and illegal acts. The
arrest of several of the conspirators here caused some disturb-
ances, which were immediately repressed.
The Second Chamber of the States of Baden adopted on the
9th inst. a proposition for increasing the import duties on Bri-
tish cotton goods imported into the States of the German Cus-
toms Union, with a view. to protect national manufactures.
The Minister of. Finance had acceded to the proposition, and
promised to exert himself with the Prussian Government for
its adoption.
The Philhellenic Committee of 1819 was about to be revived
in Paris under the Presidency of Chateaubriand. It was
to embrace all the illustrious of the legitimatist and liberal par-
ties, Messrs. Dreux Breze, Berryer, Geronde, Walsh, Latitte,
Arago, Dupont de l'Eure, Mauguin, Bastide, &c.
A tekgraphic despatch from Toulouse announces that public
tranquillity was noc disturbed on the 14th.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

1 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 15.—We have had
a quiet Market business doing in the Cotton Market to-day,
principally to the trade ; there is no material change in the
prices, but the quotations for inferior descriptions of American
sorts are barely maintained. Ihe sales are 3,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL. SHARE MARKET, JULY 15. The businais
at the Stcck Exchange continues exceedingly languid to-day ;
we have but two transactions to report, Great Western 204
Shares, 84; Newcastle and Carlisle, 98. It is staled that the
Stock and Share Bank Brokering business was never so de-
pressed for such a lengthened period. Nothing to report.
MANCHESTER. STOCK
.EXCHANGE, JULY 15.—We have
had more business doing in our market to-day. The low
prices have brought in Buyers.. Grand Junction, 202; Liver-
pool and Manchester, 200 ; North Midland Half Shares, 3124 ;
London and South Western, 55; Stafford and Rugby, ;
Bank of Manchester, 5r7„ Si, I9s. and Si. 18s. 91. ; Manchester
and Liverpool District Bank, 1(1/. (is. 3d.

We lave received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date.
Bourse of Amsterdam of the 13th July.
The National Funds have but little varied; the actions of
the Society of Commerce are more offered and remain lower.
We have nothing new to repeat respecting the Foreign
Funds, which have but little varied.
'1 he Java journals of the 27th March contain the account of
the defeat of the insurgents of Padang by Colonel Michels,
according to the accounts from Padang of the 26th February,
os the 24th an encounter broke out on the high ground
of Padang, which appeared to be of a serious nature, at the
head of which was the Regent of Batipo, and they attacked
the lines of Geogoe Malintang, as well as the fort of Kock,
and the camp of Padang Ribon-Reboe, but they were de-
feated by Colonel Michels.

THE FUNDS.

This being settling, day in the British Market, the brokers
litnd jobbers are chiefly employed in arranging their accounts ;
the extreme fluctuation being only one per cent., and the Ac-
count to settle being of a trifling description, there is no doubt
that it will go off well.
Consols opened this morning at the same quotations as they
left off, bfq both for Money and Account; for August,
89L, buyers ; Three per Cents. lteduced, 69;1 Z ; Three-and-
a- Half Reduced, 99-A ; New Three-and•a-Half 91 6: the
Market at present continues inactive. Exchequer Bills, 14 16
premium ; Bank Stock, 1691 1701.
The settlement of the Foreign Account went off well yesterday.
Ti.is morning the prices are nominal ; at present Spanish
Active 19?, 20, Deferred 91,4 3/4, Passive 41/2 4, Portuguese
29* ?.„ Three per Cents. 171 18, Brazilian 671,4 5%, Colom-
bian 191, Mexican 25%, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
50-:1 11,4, Five per Cents. 1001/ 4.
SHARES.—Great Western, 14 16 prem. ; New, 6 7
prem. ; London and Brighton, 8 7 dis. ; Blackv, all, 11 10
dis. ; Birmingham, 67 65 prem. ; Southampton, 5.155 prom. ;
Croydon 12L- 18 per share ; Greenwich per share ; South-
Eastern and Devon 191 19 dis.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE,
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... 60
-

Bristol and Exeter 6O .. ... 30 .. ... to

Great Western
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths ...
Gosport Junction
London and Brighton
HALF-PAST ONE.
The Ilamburgh mail due to-day has arrived. No alteration
had occurred in the rate of exchange or the priaa of gold since
the last mail.
The accounts from Madrid of the Bth instant state that se-
veral extensive failure. had taken ',lice en the Bourse. The
Five per Cents. were done at 25L- for cash, and 26i at 60 days.
The settlement of the English account is proceeding with-
out difficulty, and the market is pretty firm. Consols are now
quoted at 8914 for Money, and 61:It-I for the August account ;
Exchequer Bills 14 16 prem. ; India Bonds 5 rem ; Bank
Stock 170.

The ForeigrbSecurities continue very heavy.. Spanish Ac,-
tiv ai'tock is now quo ed at 19%, Deferred 9%, Portuguese
Five per Cents. :!9%, Ditto 'Threes 1715, Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. 50 51, Ditto Fives 1004, Mexican Bonds 25i.
A further decline has taken place in the Share Market to-
day. Great Western are down to 79, Landon and Brighton
41i-, Great Western new Shares 55i, Ditto Fifths 8, little
business doing.
QUARTER TO THREE.
There are at present very few matters of interest to comment
upon in the City. The American merchants are much engaged
with the consideration of the voluminous accounts brought yes-
terday, and it is probable that orders will be sent out to the
United States for shipments of grain to a limited extent.
The Hamburg mail brings no political intelligence of inte-
rest ; nor, as far as we can learn, have any further failures oc-
curred at Vienna on account of the stoppage of Steiners, the
eminent bankers.

Consols, 694 u ; Colombian, ; Mexican, 251; Portu-
guese, 29i 4; Spanish, 191

THE LATE STORM.--Dr. Forster, the astrono•
mer and meteorologist, who has been making the geologi-
cal tour of Great Britain, has traced this thunder storm across
the island. It began at Brighton, fell heavily in various parts
of Sussex, destroying in one conservatory alone, at Ilenfield,
3,000 panes of glass, the hailstones falling of the size of eggs ;
it then crossed the centre of Berkshire, and proceeding in a
curvillinear course, went across the eastern part of the island,
where the doctor lost sight of it. It appears, according to
some recent experiments of Dr. Forster, that the atmospheric
electricity is in less abundance than is usual this spring, while
an epidemic air prevails.
Preparations are making at Munich for a grand
concert to be given in the Odeon of that town, for the benefit
of the poor, by 500 performers, the elde-t of whom will not be
more than 15 years old, and among whom will he childen of some
of the first families of Munich and the province. Ihe pro..
gramme is not yet made out, but the concert is expected to take
place about the end of August.