The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, StPTEMJAIIR 11,

Hopkins and the other directors present would pledge
themselves to give a cora. mittee of the shareholders, if
appointed, all the informati on in their power ?
Mr. HOPKINS said that as far as he was concerned,
every information should be given.
Mr. MORRISON, another director, was willing to adopt
the same course. He was willing to bear his part of any
expenses that had been incurred through mismanage..
ment. The engineer had received 12,0001., the solici-
tor 6,0001., and several otheT sums had been expended.
A long and personal discussion took place, which
ended in nothing; after -vaich,

The CnAinmkii stated that there were more voters
present than were sufficient bp constitute a meeting, but
as it was necessary to aP.certain that no parties had
voted twice, it was not competent for him then to dis-
solve the meeting. It was sufficient for him to say that
the majority wa.", in favour of a dissolution of the coin-
par.y without l'Jankruptey.
Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the
meeting broke up.
Subsequently Messrs. Pocock, Lewis, Davis, Courtenay,
Cohen, and Smith, were appointed a committee to meet
the directors.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

The affairs of Mexico, though no fresh intelligence
has been received, continue to occupy a prominent po-
sition in City discussion. The stock is flatter than it
has been since the late rise, and there seems a general
belief; supported by the opinions of persons who evi-
dently pay much attention to the movements in the
Spanish American Republic, that the return of Santa
Anna to power is a contingency for which every one
ought to be prepared. His departure from the Haven-
nah at the special invitation of the inhabitants of Vera
Cruz, and the known fact that for a length of time his
friends in this country have been most sanguine as to
the success of an organised scheme of revolution
by which they might profit, with the additional cir•
cumstance that the declarations in his favour through-
out the republic, are making a decided impression on
the public mind, and the fear of the consequences that
might result from such a change, will explain in a mea-
sere the quotations of the present day. Even when
the public accounts from America stated that Santa
Anna had abandoned all ambitious projects, and in-
tended to live in retirement at the Havanna!), a numerous
party in this country denied the truth of the assertion,
and stated that he was only " biding his time" for the
special developement of his plans. It is now rumoured
that so confident is he of being again placed by the
Mexican people at the head of affairs, that he has ar-
ranged a kind of regency, which, having himself as the
chief actor in the background, would make another
person (some say, Senor Almonte) the representative of
his views. Should Paredes be deposed, and Santa Anna
elrevated to power, it remains to be seen how affairs
would stand between Mexico and the United States.
This is the way in which the matter is talked of in the
City among parties whose information in affairs of the
sort is generally found to be pretty good.
When people who have entered into a contract
find themselves imposed upon, according to the
principles of common sense, they frequently turn to the
contract itself to discover if there is any technical
quibble that will put them out of court. Thus the
English creditors of Portugal convinced of the utter
absurdity of a country levying an income-tax on the
interest which it pays on its foreign debt, have been
looking over the decree endorsed on the bonds of 1841
(5 per cent.), to find if there is any unlucky clause that
will make a special case of their position. Nothing of the
sort is to be seen, the words of the decree being as
plainly against the new tax as possible. We give the
last clause:—

" And I do hereby further declare for her said Ma-
jesty Donna Maria the Second and her successors, Kings
and Queens of Portugal, Algarves, and the dominions
thereof, that this present obligation shall be kept in-
violable, and shall in no wise be affected by any poli-
tical change or circumstance whatsoever, and shall be
held equally sacred in peace as well as in time of war
between Portugal and any other country in or out of
Europe, and I hereby bind her said Majesty Queen Donna
Maria the Second and her successors, Kings and Queens
of Portugal, Algarves, and the dominions thereof, in
the mast solemn manner to the faithful performance
of all the foregoing engagements ; and do declare
that no judicial pleas whatever, privileges in suits,
or any pretence, shall avail her said Majesty and
her successors, Kings and Queens of Portugal,
Algarves, and the dominions thereof, in pleading and
counter-pleading, all which I formally and deliberately
renounce, as well as any plea by whatever name it may
be called, and which is contrary to this bond, by virtue
of which all laws, opinions, and decrees to the contrary
notwithstanding are declared of no effect, and as if each
had been separately declared and specified.
"In faith of which I, Manoel Gorcalves de Miranda,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, in Lisbon, on the
13th day of February, 1841."
There it stands, as plain as can be, that no "political
change or circumstance whatever" can affect the obliga-
tion in questien ; and yet, in the face of this contract,
and in opposition to all notions of international right,
the Portuguese have cut off one fifth of all the foreign
creditors' interest. We are glad to hear that the prin-
cipal bondholders keenly feel the injustice of the arbi-
trary measure by which their property is invaded, and
that they are about to call a general meeting to express
their dissent. Then, no doubt, the truth will be spoken
without disguise.— Times.

THE ARMY.

Orders have just been issued to the chaplains and as-
sistant-chaplains in the East India Company's service to
the effect that all correspondence between them and the
Government must take place through the channel of
their bishop or archdeacon, and that applications other-
wise made will not be attended to, except in special
cases. Orders have also been issued to the effect that
all applications for leave of absence on account of
ill-
health must be accompanied by a medical certificate,
signed by the medical officer who has been attending
the applicant, and countersigned by the superintending
surgeon. _ _

Several complaints have lately been made to the
Indian authorities of the meagre allowances and accom-
modation made to the wives of soldiers while serving in

Major Parkinson, of the native veteran battalion, has
submitted to the Court of Directors a memorial, repre-
senting in the strongest terms the severity of two or
three regulations in existence affecting the interests of
the officers of the invalid establishments, and praying
that they may be placed upon a more equal footing with
their brethren of the effective list. The substance of the
memorial is PS follows:-1. That invalid officers be ad-
mitted to commands of local corps. 2. That they be
considered eligible for certain staff situations. 3. That
veteran corps, in common Ni the corps of the line, be
permitted to share tent allowance. It is understood
that the prayer of the petition has been backed by the
Commander-in-Chief.

Her Majesty's 22d Foot, from Poonah, are to relieve
the 2d European Regiment at Belgaum.
By the last accounts from Bombay, Dr. Stovel was
expected to accompany Sir George Arthur, Bart., the
Governor, on his return home, owing to continued ill-
health. Sir George is now in his 63d year. He is a na.
tive of Plymouth, and, previous to his appointment as
Governor of Bombay, in 1842, filled the office of Lieu-
tenant-Governor of Upper Canada, his Connexion with
which ceased only on the union of the provinces. He is
a colonel in the army, and possesses the local rank of
major-general.

A European court-martial assembled at Poonah on the
6th of July, for the trial of Cornet H. H. Scott, of the 3d
Light Cavalry (Company's regiment), for having spoken
in a disrespectful manner of his commanding officer. He
was found guilty, and ordered to be suspended from rank
and pay for three months. The Commander-in-Chief,
however, partly on the recommendation of the court, and
partly on other considerations, remitted the penalty
awarded, and Cornet Scott was directed to return to his
duty.

FRANCE AND SPAIN.
(From El Espectador.)
The policy of France is recorded in our contempo-
raneous history in mournful pages. Immense evils have
invaded us from the other side of the Pyrenees ; twice
has the liberty of the Peninsula expired in the hands of
France ; for years and year has our nationality been
absorbed by the influence of the Tuileries ; our despots
have constantly received all their inspirations from the
Court of the Seine, and when this occurs—when the
Spanish people know that it occurs—French diplomacy
dares to present a French candidate for the hand of the
Queen's sister, as if the. Queen and her sister were
capable of placing themselves in open hostility
towards the opinion of a country which has lavished for
them its treasures and its blood ; as if the Queen and
her sister were unaware t hat the injuries which the Spa-
nish nation has received from France, must per force
have left in all parts of the country profound wounds and
inextinguishable resentments. No ; amongst all the
matrimonial candidates whom the foreigner can com-
bine for the purpose of destroying our nationality, none
is so utterly repugnant as a French Prince. What
matters it that the rulers of our unfortunate country
level the Pyrenees to the policy of France, govern with-
out any inspiration of their own, and consent to retain no
more vitality than what France lends them, and no more
ideas than what France imposes upon them? Reminis-
cences have raised other Pyrenees more inacessible than
those levelled by our rulers. Saragossa is one chain of
Pyrenees ; Gerona, another ; the 2d of May, another!
—Will our Afrancesadm be able to level these Pyrenees?
But it is rot the animosities engendered during the
War of Independence which principally mark the fron-
tier which separates us from France. These animosities
would have died away, had not new and continued
injuries been perpetrated to exasperate them afresh.
The wounds which our nationality had received would
have eventually healed up, had not fresh assaults torn
them open again when they were already on the point of
being cicatrized. France has always been our enemy;
the same when she threatened us with an armed in-
vasion, as when she discovered her covetous looks under
the veil of fraternal friendship. The same when she
sent us her soldiers, as when she sent us her advice; and
she has assuredly cost us fewer sacrifices by her baronets
than by the exotic principles which she has sought, in
spite of us, to acclimate on our soil.
France has always been our enemy, and it is certainly
repugnant to our ideas to have to express ourselves in
this manner in reference to a nation which has, more
than any other, bequeathed heroic deeds to the history
of liberty. " No, France is not your enemy," we shall,
perhaps, be answered by those who reject in France the
system of lies which oppresses them as we reject it in
Spain. "France is not your enemy ; the country which
gave birth to Voltaire and a reception to Rousseau—the
country of Mirabeau and Manuel, of A. Carrel and La-
fayette—the country which has given for apostles of
liberty such men as a Dupoty and a Lamennais, cannot
be the enemy of those who, with less force and talent,
but with equal zeal and constancy, oppose the tyranny
of man over man, profess the sacred principle of the
sovereignty of the people, and anxiously hope that the
world may become rejuvenescent, and recover new life
under the beneficent rays of the sun of liberty. No,
France is not your enemy, nor can France be the enemy
of Spain. In the nineteenth century there are no such
things as hostile nations. It is not France, 0 miserable
Spain ! that opposes the development of your felicity
and the reconquest of your rights ; it is her Govern-
ment—perhaps her dynasty ; but nothing but her
Government and her dynasty."
Yes, it is true, we will reply, it is nothing but her
Government, nothing but her dynasty ; but they are all
dynasties and Governments. Napoleon, that is, the
empire, crosses the Pyrenees, enters Spain, penetrates
the fastnesses under friendly pretences, and forthwith
intimates his will to us from the heights of the ramparts,
with the cannon on the batteries and match in hand,
and says to us, " You are mine." Spain is filled with
corpses. Napoleon falls. The Bourbons recover their
throne in France. During their reign, Spain, weary of
suffering, makes a desperate effort, breaks her chains,
and a sanguinary struggle is established between new
ideas and old musty prejudices. The liberals are aban-
doned to their own strength. With all this, the enthu-
siasm is great, and the triumph secure ; already is the
balance turning in their favour, when Louis XVIII.,
that is to say, absolutism, flings 100,400 soldiers into
the opposite scale, and the ancient system is triumphant!
Spain is filled with scaffolds. At a later period the re-
volution of 1830 hurls the Bourbons from the territories
of France, and an Orleans occupies the vacant throne.
He cccupies it constitutionally.
French absolutism gave to Ferdinand VII. bayonets
to destroy the constitution ; but French constitution.
alism does not give the Liberals of Spain bayonets to
destroy absolutism. Ferdinand VII. dies ; Isabella 11.
finds a support in the constitutionalists, in order to
triumph over I)on Carlos' who disputes the throne with
the assistance of the absolutists. The cause of Don
Carlos is that of absolutism ; and Louis Philippe, that
is to say, constitutionalism, only combats it in appear-
ance ; and whilst he offers Isabella 11. his sympathies,
the Spanish Liberals have opportunity to remark that
the cannons and mortars which pour death and destruc-
tion upon heroic Bilboa are of French construction !
The absolutists are divided and debilitated ; they are
already unable to dispute the victory with the Liberals ;
and, in their desperate situation, they put an end to the
war by means, of a convention. This convention is a de-
cisive victory for the Liberals. Liberty remains tri-
umphant in the plains of Bergara. In spite of this,
liberty succumbs after having overthrown Pon Carlos.
It succumbs in the bands of a faction inspired by France
—by a faction that M. Guizot himself designates by the
fraternal qualification of " French party ;" it succumbs to
the mephitic influences of France. With all this, it is
not France which has entailed upon us all the evils which
we have just enumerated ; it is her Government, her
dynasty ! Yes, it is her Government—it is her dynasty
—we allow ; but, we repeat, all are her Governments, all
are her dynasties—the empire, absolutism and constitu-
tionalism, Napoleon—Bourbon, and Orleans.
And since it is not lawful for us to accuse a nation of
the fatal influences which its Government exercises over
another, let us nevertheless be allowed, on the marriage
question, to separate the cause of France from the per-
sonal cause of Louis Philippe. We reject the candidate
which the latter presents us for the hand of one of the
daughters of Ferdinand, not as Spaniards, but as Pro-
gresistas. The present situation is insupportable, and
this situation would be perpetuated, if, unfortunately for
the country, the candidate of Louis Philippe should
prove triumphant.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ON THE EASTERN
COUNTIFS RAlLWAY._Although little more than five
months has transpired since the first step was taken to
erect this important medium of communication on the
above lines, upwards of 167 miles of wires has been fixed,
and 70 instruments erected at the various stations, all of
which are in active operation.
TIIE:EARL GROSVENOR.—Hugh Lupus, the eldest
son of the Marquis of 'Westminster, will attain his
majority on the 18th of October next. It is said that
public rejoicings in celebration of the auspicious event
are to take place in Chester, and throughout the ex-
tensive estates to which the Noble Earl is heir; but what
the nature of them is to be, has not transpired.—Chester
Chronicle.

REMOVAL OF THE TOWER ARMORY.—Wednesday
he removal of the collection of ancient arms and armour.
hitherto kept within the ante-loom of the Tower of
London, commenced. They will now be deposited in
that part of the fortress formerly used as a menagerie,
and which has been fitted up for their reception. The
ante-room, old guard-house, and the celebrated canteens,called the Stone Kitchen and Golden Chain, are all
being demolished to make way for the improvements.
CHILD STEALING.—Information has been received
by the police, that as a girl named Ann Williams was
walking in Samuel-street, St. George's in the East, with
an infant twelve months old in her arms, she was ac-
costed by a woman who induced her to give up the child
while she went to purchase some sweetmeats. On her
return the woman had absconded with the child and has
not since been heard of.
A MISERABLE Exp.—Mrs. llarriet Pounder was
on Sunday found dead in her own house, lying on three
chairs. Her husband, a pilot, was sitting near the body,
with his head resting on a table asleep. They had both
been seen during the afternoon drunk, and it is sup.
posed she died from suffocation. About eight o'clock
their son entered the house, and found his parents in the
gosh delcribed.—GutomatZt Obren'er•

WONDERFUL PERFORMANCES
OF THE RABBI HERSH DANNEMARK.
On Monday evening, Professor Rabbi Hersh Danne-
mark gave an exhibition of his " marvellous powers of
sight and memory," in the Hebrew school, St. Mary's-
street. In the small circulars which were issued, the
rabbi professed to be able, " looking at any Hebrew
book, never before shown him, after the number of the
page and line had been pointed out to him, without open-
ing the book, to read the passage occurring on the page
and line." It was also stated that he would exhibit other
powers of sight bordering on the marvellous and super-
natural. In order to test this occult power, there was
(notwithstanding the high charges for admission of ss,
and 2s. 6d.) a large number of persons present, among
whom we obierved Mr. Braid, Mr. D Noble, surgeon ;
Mr. J. A. Franklin, surgeon ; Mr. William Bally, Col.
Wemyss; Mr. Alderman Bancroft, Mr. J. P. Lynill, Mr.
Lucas, &c. For • the purpose of his experiments the
rabbi had five of the thirty-six large volumes of the
Talmud, in the Hebrew text,' with Chaldaic commentary
on each side, which had been lent to him by Mons.
Theodore, professor of languages, Upper Brook-street.
Mr. Israel Levi having been appointed chairman and in-
terpreter, the rabbi, through him, intimated his wish
that the audience would allow him to 'go through the
extokbition in his own way, without speaking or ques-
tioning him upon any subject. They would be allowed
to draw their own conclusions, but they were not to
mention•them to their neighbours, as it might cause a
disturbance which would be injurious to the brain of the
rabbi. He would go through all stated in the bill, but
nothing else. The rabbi having expressed a desire that
a Hebrew book should be handed to him, Mr. Braid said
he thought it would be satisfactory to the company, and
to the credit of the rabbi, if he would at once perform
an experiment, which would show him to be possessed
of the extraordinary power named, such as reading at
that part of a book where the page had been doubled
down. He then produced a Hebrew psalter, with an in-
terlinear English translation, which he put into the
hands of the rabbi. He professed to be able, if a pin
were stuck through a number of pages of any Hebrew
book, to recite the words on which the point rested; but
Mr. Braid objected to putting the pin through the book
in a perpendicular manner, as there were many pages on
which it might be said the point of the pin rested, so
that it would be impossible to determine which in re
' ality was the proper one. Instead of that, he proposed
to fasten the pin horizontally on one of the leaves, to
close the book, and then ask the rabbi to tell the word
which was pointed ; butt Ids he declined to do,-as it was
not in the bill. Mr. Braid then, according to the rabbi's
instructions, put his finger on the cover of the psalter,
and asked the rabbi to tell him the word at a point on
page 56, corresponding to the situation of his finger.
The book, however, was opened at that page, though
not directly in presence of the rabbi, before he told what
words would be found there. lie stated that on page 56,
under the doctor's finger, would be found a Hebrew
word, signifying " from the wicked." On opening the
book, the word was found on that page, though about an
inch &um the point indicated by Mr. Baird. This first
exhibition was received with great applause. A volume
of the Talmud was then produced, end a number of gen-
tlemen were requested each to select a particular page,
the first words of the first line of which the rabbi would
tell them, without opening the book. Page 100 was first
selected, and the rabbi stated that in the first line would
be found characters signifying "he who exchanges,"
which, on examination, proved to be the case. The book
remaining open at page 100, a gentleman asked for the
first word on page 80. This, the rabbi said, would be
three large characters, the translation of which was,
" he who hireth:" and he also stated that there would
be two linen more in that page than in the one which was
then open. All this was found to be so, and was con-
sequently received with great acclamation. Still it af-
forded no illustration in the " inexplicable and appa
rently wonderful supernatural powers of sight," to which
the rabbi lays claim. Admitting his wonderful memory,
which it would be folly to question, it is not at all diffi-
cult to imagine that he may have made himself familiar
with the first words of every page of the Talmud, and
their distinguishing features, hence the surprising re-
sults. It might have been observed, that before com-
mencing his experiments the rabbi opened the book, and
thus had an opportunity of making himself acquainted
with the particular volume which he had to operate upon.
Let a Hebrew volume be produced which he has not had
an opportunity of seeing before ; let the experiment be
repeated, and on no account let the rabbi open the
volume till he has answered the questions put to him as
to the words which will be found on particular pages ; if
the result in that case be the same, there will be some=
thing more inexplicable and nearer the supernatural
than at present. The rabbi next requested a gentle-
man to read a verse or two from a small Hebrew book
with a German translation, which he put into his hands,
and stating that he could repeat the lines which were
read to himself in silence by the gentleman. He did so,
but in this case he opened the book himself, so that he
had an opportunity of seeing the page, and he also in-
sisted on the person reading the first lines of the page—
again displaying, not only an occult power, but his sur-
prising memory. Mr. Bancroft underscored a few words
in a Hebrew book, at d requested the rabbi, if his
powers of sight were so extraordinary, to tell him, by
looking at the book, the words that were underlined.
As this was not " in the bond," the rabbi declined to
venture on the experiment ; indeed, he confessed his in-
ability to do so. A piece of paper was placed before
the rabbi, closely written upon, and he was requested to
tell the number of lines it contained. In about 30 se-
conds, according to a gentleman's watch, he said 84 or
86, and being counted it was found to contain 84. This
may, perhaps, display a rather quick sight, but cer-
tainly nothing superhuman. The whole exhibition did
not display a single extraordinary faculty but that of
memory. In the rabbi, that is certainly astonishing ;
but till future experiments convince us to the contrary,
we must conceive that, on the strength of that, he rather
unwarrantably endeavours to induce his audience to sup
pose him gifted with some "apparently wonderful" en
perhuman and occult power.—Manchester Guardian.