The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-12 00:00:00

PETITION TO TIIE QUEEN.

We have great pleasure in laying the following peti-
tion to her Maiesty before our readers. It was carried
by a very large majority at a public meeting at the King's
Arms Tavern, Philip-lane, Wood-street, and it does
great honour to tho gentlemen assembled upon that
occasion :

TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
The Petition of certain Merchants, Manufacturers, and
ir - others, agreed to at a public meeting, held at the
King's Arms Tavern, Philip-lane, in the City of
London, on Saturday, the 9th of October, 1841,
Most Humbly Showeth,
That your Majesty's petitioners, with hearts full of
gratitude for your Majestys expressed sympathy for
your suffering people, have learned with sorrow, alarm,
and indignation, that the Parliament has adjourned with-
out taking into its consideration the humane and wise
• suggestions so earnestly recommended in your Majesty's
gracious speech on the assembling of the present Par -
liament.
From our daily pursuits, being all engaged in, and
depending upon trade, your petitioners can, of our own
knowledge, bear witness that There is a large portion of
your Majesty's subjects, and that the most productive.
and deserving, unable to obtain a sufficiency of the neces-
saries of life, in consequence of the artificial price to
which they have been raised by unjust legal enactments,
and the great reduction that has been made, of late
-Years, in the price of human labour.
.Your petitioners, with thei perfect knowledge that
there are hundreds of thousands of our fellow-subjects
in a condition bordering on starvation, and that daily
,numbers are dying from actual want, cannot contemplate
the coming of winter without the most painful fears.
Your petitioners, therefore, humbly and most earnestly
Pray your Majesty, that your Majesty will be graciously
pleased to use your Royal authority; and dismiss the pre-
.l, sent unfeeling House of Commons, the majority of which
has not faithfully represented the desires and wants of
your Majesty's people; but, to the great dishonour and
injury of the nation, has disregarded alike their prayers
and your Majesty's benevolent and just recommendation.
Your petitioners earnestly pray your Majesty to call
- together a new Parliament, that the cause of the present
wide-spread and still spreading misery be immediately
considered and some remedy found for your people's
Sufferings, that they die not for want, surrounded by
plenty, the gift of an all-bountiful Providence, and the
results of their own industry; nor, like a neighbouring
nation in the last century, be goaded by hunger and in-
justice into revolt against the institutions of their
country ; institutions which your petitioners believe
capable, if administered by your Parliament in the spirit
ofjustice, of giving protection, encouragement, and hap-
piness to all living under them.
Fervently imploring the God of all to bless your Ma
• •
jes.y s efforts for the good of your people,
Your petitioners will ever pray.

INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.

It has been ascertai,,ed that the whole is the work
of secret French agency • the Commerce taxes, not 111.
counselled t
Guizot onlyhe movement , but a 'higher personage, with having
.
The latest telegraphic despatch says that O'Don-
nell had already begun cannonading Pampeluna, and
that the city not being able to resist the attack,
had declared for him. At Vitoria no struggle at
all took place. The Marquis de la Alameda and Ge-
r mend Piquero declared for Christina on receiving an
.L order brought by Senor Egaua, and probably emanating
from the provincial deputations. At Riboa the same
41, determination was shown ; this city is one of the strong-
`• holds of the Moderado party.
St. Sebastian still held out for Espartero, and General
Alcala, commandant there, having gone on towards Ber-
gara to suppress a movement, on his way to succour
Ribero, retrograded to Tolosa on receiving a telegraphic
despatch.
Alunagorri, according to the Moniteur Parisien, has
ahor
espoused the cause of the insurrection. Don Carlos is
,tly to publish a proclamation to his partisns, enjoin-
them to strict neutrality in this quarrel,a which was
not their's. But it is not the less certain that a great
number of the officers who have rallied since the Ber-
taxa convention, already follow the banner of O'Donnell.
The Gazette de France states that the French Go-
11ln:tent had received hostile communications from
r, 4drhl, and that, in consequence, troops were sent off i,ll Saturday to the Pyrennees, immediately after a
'Doneil of Ministers.
a The Bayonne Journal, the Sentinelle des Pyrenees,
dates up to the 7th, and states that on Sunday, the
3(1,.; two hundred men of the 12th Light Infantry
entered the citadel of Pampeluna to reinforce O'Don-
4alf ell- In the afternoon a squadron of lancers and
••b a company of infantry, the garrison of Tafalla,
five leagues from Pampeluna, reinforced General
Ribero. On the same day a convoy of rations was
intercepted; it was sent by the Alcade of Los Arcos
,t 1) O'Donnell, with a letter, offering Lim that he might
have all he wanted. O'Donnell then intimated to the
Captain-General that if his communications were inter-
; 'tepted he would bombard the city; but the Captain-Gene-
ral on his side sent far the relatives of Senores Carriquiri
and Ribeo, merchants at Pampeluna, and who had retired
-to the citadel with O'Donnell, and told them that they
should answer with their lives for any harm that should
'come to the city.
On the 4th a battalion of about 500 strong from the
regiment of Gironne came to augment the garrison of
.itnapeltina. It remained twenty-four hours at Villaba, two
kilometres from Pampeluna, undecided whether to de-
,.elare for Christina or for Espartero; but a detachment
cim. the same regiment persuaded them to return to
• 'ay. On the same day several officers, amongst whom
Wse•O'Donnell's brother, entered the citadel.
!IliAccording to correspondence from Bourdeaux, Gene-
Leon was to proclaim the Regency of Christina at
at
zdaVitordrid 'ia.whilst General Piquero should do the same
- One of O'Donnell's first acts was to hoist a standard
on the citadel, bearing the device—" Isabella the Second
for ever, and the Regency of her august Mother." It
appear that this is the preconcerted cry of war.
General Ribero has ordered all the detachments of
;:„4,11c4F105, Roncevaux, Urdax, Zugarramurdi, Elisondo,
un whers in the five towns to concentrate their force
Pampeluna.
111 The citadel of Pampeluna was built by Philippe
e Second to keep the Navarrese in subjection It
one of the strongest in Europe, being situated on
it rock, and having five bastions of stone, with
ditches, lunettes, tenailles, and ravelins; every ditch is
Icaandeil, In the midst of the citadel is au arsenal,
llgence by five streets communication may be had with
pe five bastions, which have casemates to lodge 10,000
en with three months' ammunition. It is separated
full the City by an esplanade, which leaves the cannon
ILI room to play upon the ity, and towards the oen t)lintry it is surrounded byc
marshes' which render p
ap-
-14'aolles impracticable.
:TIDE

XPEDITION TO CHINA.
The (From the Bombay Times.)
em' roncy to be pursued by the new expedition is
peY as much the reverse as possible of that previously
oee-lated ill The conditions primarily propounded are
flu:pore to be offered. These of course will be re-
, stri,. and ulterior measures proceeded with. The
vintst blockade along the southern and western coast
hiltte,e ialtnediatel'y instituted. No ships will be per-
il% ti to enter or to leave the river. Peace and war can-
the ; and we have now for the first time to teach
'Paltesihinese that we are really in earnest; that we are not
,f4rts, -ng with them in a double sense—battering their
by theand more than paying for the damage we have done
al':enormous prices given in specie for their teas.
at care will be taken to avoid unnecessarily irritating
- WhoraPla of Canton, who are understood to be on the
less :'avourably disposed towards us. It is not with a help-
ll. Populace but with an arrogant nation that we war.
eups.
eqedition after this will sail northward, and oc-
thr the beautiful island of Amoy, deeply embayed in
I.orillutoasin land opposite the middle of the great island of
the ~ a. From this a part of the force will proceed in
Aepeuirection of Chusan, which will not, however, we
e,i'!ft, be taken possession of till a good many months
teelrse ; the sickness having been so prevalent last Sep-
thes:r and October that it is considered better to let
le„1:,illontlis pass over before we trust our troops into a
where last season so many of them found graves.
igil°, however, on the main land, opposite Chusan,
:.the be occupied as a place where communication with
luretuterior, and good provisions may probably be se-
,ilaiddrand whence a descent on Chusan can easily be
whenever such a measure is considered expe-
Asiii* Uere and at Amoy the expedition will re-
c't six months—the delay at home of making
'sign 11.ew appointments after Admiral Elliot's re-
;then
had been intimated, and his namesake's
(1
is iduct admitted, having cost us another year.
low ()11 as the tempests blow over, and the Yel-
win ea becomes again accessible, the Plenipotentiary
trell:neeed in person to Pekin, accompanied by the
r'Part of the squadron as far as ships of such bur-
l% be navigated in safety, and will probably have
jeacset be
with the Emperor under the 68-pounder
Plifte:e.s of the Nemesis, Phlegethon, Proserpine, and
eeers_ iron, steamers. Ulterior measures after this, of
istit bee, tnust as yet be matters of conjecture, but what
he,relikeaa•j_tist stated, so far as it extends, may, think,
•Tlie un•
stiei -nteution, of course, is to compel from- the Cc •
P~tatallistant indemnification for ell our public and
losse.
axped. s , compensation for the expense of
Isaity., Ilion required to constrain their own in-
!Nle and to chastise their crimes ; with full and
wnOured calement for the insults which we have
hei,list..,at their hands. These things refer alone to
044hr,_ oeel,4' Te_ho, Plenipotentiary is authorised to insist on
e fend treaties as may ensure the maintenance
14,-"°.41, -the 0.101 equitable footing for the future, so as to
Zn lens t_auce of such misunderstandings and col-
assity, of.ucise which have already occurred, or the
Laapplied such rough remedies as that just about to
eogskises t(2 cuye them. Of course, with a power which
i7Pstsser.,::lo virtue in treaties—no obligation in the
`‘lfeficia,'tt agreements longer than they are considered
1,4444. .to
to .ctaelf ; which from the Emperor d0wn-
..414;f the meanest mandarin is not only false
gaiseho. the
of lies, but ostentatious and proud of
ttte74.,' erely diplomatic document, however
e°laNt::rs„v. ain
vailrvauce, us ; and force or fear alone must
We cannot for ever keep our
eher,,.l Chinese seas to protect us
; aryl from trea-
seise 4 A tnerefore, we are left no alternative but to
ourseiv!" retain portions of territory adequate to protect
venial, against the practice of those tinciples of uni-
eps_., ad faith which the Chinese havoP chosen to pre-
tr44l: themselves in all public arrangements, in con-
e iniction to the rest of the human race throughout
ha earth, The vaireewtsi expressed by the mission which
uc,tivJust left us
the tiro those of men not to be trifled with ;
line since Tartar arroo-ance ruled
44.tina' will the ft:tal error into which we have so in-
etirt,a_l,lepra, corrected, of fostering the belief that
em we
is above and beyond the rules which