The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCT. 14:
The Queen, Princ Albert, the Princess Royal, and
Princess Alice, attended by the Viscountess Canning,
Miss Hildyard, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Hon. C.
Grey, and Colonel F. 11. Seymour, left Windsor
by a special train of the Great Western Railway, at
nine o'clock tbis morning, to visit the Exhibition of the
Works of ItiAustry of all Nations, in Hyde-park.
The Royal party returned to the Castle at half-
past twelve, having quitted the Exhibition at twenty-
three minutes before twelve o'clock.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended
by the Rev. Mr. Birch, took a drive in the parks this
morning in an open phaeton. The remainder of the
Royal children took their usual exercise.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert proceeded to
Clay Hall Farm yesterday, immediately on his return
from London, to distribute the prizes awarded by the
Royal Association for Improving the Condition of the
Labouring Classes.
The Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, the
Chevalier Bunsen, and Baron Von der Heydt, are
expected on a visit to her Majesty this evening.
Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour has relieved Colo-
nel the Hon. Alexander Gordon in his duties as
Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness Prince
Albert.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived
at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at half-
past five o'clock yesterday aftesnoon, from Crewe,
having travelled to town by the London and North-
Western Railway. Her Royal Hiiness was attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce and Colonel Sir George
Courer.
A Cabinet Council was held at one o'clock yester-
day afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers
present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir
George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring,
Lord Broughton, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere,
the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and
the Right lion. Fox Maule.
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interviewo'cloek with Lord
John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing- street.

Mr. Divett had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing-
street, yesterday.
Lord Seymour had an interview yesterday with
Lord John Russell. Earl Granville also had an in-
terview with his Lordship.
Sir Francis Baring arrived at his residence in the
Admiralty yesterday morning, from his seat in Hamp-
shire.

The Right. Hon. Fox Maule arrived in town on
Monday night, from Dunmore.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday
morning, from his seat, Broadlands, Hants.
The Earl of Clarendon had an interview yesterday
riih Lord .ichn .13m,sc11. The Solicitor-General
abo an interview wi!n ,hr. Noble Lard.

John Harold Barry, jun., E s, si j;ilisvourns;
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county.•. Cork ,Examiner.

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LONDON, WEDNESDA.Y, OCTOBER 15, 1851.

We are not surprised at the great agitation at pre.
construction
sent prevailing among all classes of
te community
on the subject of the suspension of the
the projected railroad between Cairo and Suez. The
hot
maintenance and the improvement of the overland
route to India is a matter in which almost every in-
dividual in the United Kingdom must feel a personal
interest, for there is scarcely to be found a family in
any class of society, the members of which have not
either relations or friends or correspondents in some
portion of our Oriental dominions. As was well ob-
served by the chairman of the meeting of merchants,
which was yesterday held at the London Tavern to
consider the means to be adopted to avert the conse-
quences likely to ensue from the stoppage of the
construction of the railway, and from the endanger-
ing the f
s'ety and the continuance of the
exiBting facilities for the transit of pas-
sengers and parcels a
" the in cross the Isthmus of Suez—
" of that communication in any
way would be calamitous to the great interests of the
commerce of this
government of our
kill:a?' and
prejudicial to the
Eastern Empire, em•
bfirrassing to her I‘IAJtsT/nsse.A.linisters, and distress-
and° have their relations
ing to thousands of families
there
friends so far from theirnw.'hi
u na inedzatt i o n mayis danger
that this most necessary conuaa'
the
overland
by gine!
terzupted, and that we may be
nouncement of the stoppage of the an-
nication to India. The following extraanntdf"nanZ
speech of Mr. BARTON, the chairman of therm"l
gives a summary view of the present
held yesterday,
state of the question. Ha says--,, 'ibis line of eco---
munication has been czrricd on most satisfactorruil
for more than ten years. It was established by the
great ruler of Egypt, that wonderful man, MEHEMET
AL; whose penetrating mind foresaw that great

prosperity was sure to accrue to his country by
making it the highway for all the world. Under
his successor, IBRAHIM PACHA, this state of
things continued, and our relations with
his Government were satisfactory. Up to
the present moment, also, under his Highness ABBAS
PACHA, not only have those relations been in a satis-
factory state, but the PACHA, emulating the energy of
his grandsire, now proposes to improve that com-
munication by introducing into his country the
greatest of modern improvements—a railway across
the desert. The SULTAN, to the consternation
of all parties in this country, has interfered and
has prohibited the construction of that railway." We
do not believe that this prohibition is the act of the
SULTAN. ABDUL.MESCHID has always shown him-
self liberal•minded, honourable, honest, and chival-
rous ; he is no obscurantist, no bigotted opponent of
civilization and progress. The protector of Kossurs
is not of his ewn free will the opposer of the railway
across the isthmus; he is the victim of the false
and fraudulent misrepresentations and intrigues
of the Austrian and Russian representatives, who
desire nothing so much as the dismemberment of the
Turkish empire, and who having succeeded as they
hope in having raised the wrath of the SULTAN
against his vassal, have dispatched an Austrian
agent to Egypt for the purpose of endeavouring to
inflame the anger of ABBAS PACHA against the Porte.
As regards the abstract right of the Porte to inter-
fere for the purpose of prohibiting the construction
of this railway across the isthmus, it is clear that by
the treaty of 1841 the Porte has no such right. The
opinion of Mr. MACGREGOR, who, as a member of the
Board of Trade in 1841, assisted in negotiating this
very treaty, is decisive on this point. The Hon.
Member for Glasgow, in addressing the meet-
ing at the London Tavern yesterday, said,
that with respect to the interference of
the Porte for the purpose of preventing the con-
struction of the railway, "he was decidedly of
opinion, having been for several years one of the
Board of Trade, and a member of it when
the treaty of 1841 was negotiated, and having
bad the whole commercial interests of the British
empire and of the world perpetually under his view,
and especially all treaties which might in any way
interfere with the usual channels of British trade and
navigation—it was, he repeated, his decided opinion,
and he could also say it was the opinion
of the Government that succeeded that which
ratified the treaty of 1841, that the Porte had no
right whatever to interfere in the internal affairs of
Egypt. The Government then thought that
the treaty of 1841 merely demanded, as
quid pro quo, that the hereditary rulers of
Egypt should pay out of their revenues a certain
sum to the Porte, thereby acknowledging that the
Porte had no right to interfere with the internal
affairs of the Viceroy of EGYPT. That was his (Mr.
MACGREGOR'S) decided opinion, and he was very much
mistaken if that was not the opinion of Lord PAL-
MERSTON, not only at the present time, but at the
time he ratified the treaty of 1841. Ten years had
now elapsed, and, as his Hon. Friend the Member
for Orkney bad stated, that which had been done in
practice had become binding by usage, and showed
what the effect of that treaty was. He believed that
this movement did not emanate from the Porte, but
from sources not friendly to British commerce and
navigation." There cannot be a doubt as to the cor-
rectness of this last assertion of Mr. MAC-
GREGOR, the movement does not emanate
from the Porte, and when the matter shall
have been properly explained to the SULTAN and his
Ministers, they will at once perceive that, to use the
words uttered by Lord PALMERSTON in the House of
Commons on the sth of August last—" The Pacha of
EGYPT was entitled to make the railroad out of his
own funds according to the firman which was granted
to him in 1841." That Lord PALMERSTON has
already taken up this question we cannot for a mo-
ment doubt; neither can we doubt but that he will
bring it to a satisfactory and honourable conclusion ;
in the meanwhile, however, it would be desirable, in
order to strengthen his position, that the demonstra-
tion made yesterday by the merchants of London
should be followed up by similar demonstrations in
every town of the United Kingdom.

The views of the veteran Reformer, JOSEPEL Hums,
on any contemplated or suggested amelioration, must
at all times be received with respect and attention.
Time has been, before it was fashionable to be a Re-
former, when he stood, if not alone, at least with but
few coadjutors, to insist upon the constitutional rights
of the people, and the removal of the glaring abuses
that had sprung up during successive ages. The
most bitter attacks were made on him. Assailants
sprung up on every side,

" Thick as leaves on Vallombrosa."
And why ? It was believed that the most
acceptable service that could be rendered to
the Ministry for the time being, was a for-
midable onslaught on " the Radical," par ezcellence,
of the House of Commons. Ridicule was freely
resorted to, but the barbed arrows fell harmless on
the sevenfold shield with which the intended victim
was protected, or recoiled on those by whom they had
been transmitted. Honour and honesty, sound
common sense, great practical experience, a thorough
appreciation of the wrongs of those of u whom
he was the champion, a clear knowledge of the
causes to which those grievances might fairly
be ascribed, and, above all, a zealous and
unflinching determination to devote all his energies
to the removal of these causes, were the materials of
which his buckler—more impenetrable than that pos-
sessed by the son of TELAMON—consisted. He was
equally impregnable to the other methods of taming
refractory Members. All the persuasions of the
whipper-in of the:day were as useless as the per-
sonal attacks. He could not be silenced either by
bullying or cajolery, or by the more substantial re-
wards at the disposal of the " patronage secretary,"
Under every circumstance, and at each stage of his
useful and varied career, he maintained his position
as the steady, consistent, judicious, incorruptible, and
efficient advocate of the popular cause. His fair
fame has never for a moment been tarnished, and the
sagacity of his views have generally been established,
even when opposed for a time by some of his coadju-
tors and disciples.
Recognising fully the importance of popular sup-
port, it is by no means surprising that the Hon. Gen-
tleman should have been desirous of ascertaining
the opinions of so important a body as the
citizens of Edinburgh on the two great
questions of Fiscal and Parliamentary Reform.
He was also anxious to vindicate his own consistency
in the course which he had adopted in reference to
the Income-Tax Bill, which led to the Ministerial de-
feat of last session, and the appointment of a special
Committee, notwithstanding the defection of some,
who should have been ashamed to desert the banner
under which they had previously arrayed themselves.
A meeting was accordingly held on Monday, at the
Nlerchantai Hall, Edinburgh, when that spacious
apartment was crowded to the utmost degree to hear
the address of the Hon. Gentleman on the above in-
teresting topics.
The first point alluded to by Mr. HUME was the
anxiously
looked-for revision of taxation, He
,
showed that his
motion
of last year, that 'hand
his successful motion
opposed by some ipersons bean so strenuously
ProPerty-tax should themselves the names of ii Re wi-ho arrogated to
view
of
givingt.
he continued for
rmers
the income and" was, that
one year, "with a
revise the
pledged
f
whole system of taxation." That
to which every man vide ai:o. the object
vthe Honourable Gentleman wdheoliberateldl y edwith
himself. Had he proposed the total rejection
impost, in consequence of the stupid and unmeaningo
the
opposition of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
and his colleagues to any alteration that could ren-
der it more equitable, he could have commanded an
equal majority. But it was not his purpose to
damage the public credit by converting the expected
surplus into a deficiency, nor did he think that a
mere alteration in the rates charged under the different
schedules would be sufficient. It was not by taking
lIP any tax separately that a just and politic
operation system' could be introduced, or that the free-trade
principlessanec that had been deliberately recognised and
practicaloned by the Legislature could be carried into
d e elrheed
It
no
u r
far t
.0 permit any but Co
'
result.
1 - the disease had gone too
Effective but the boldest measures to prove
• We should strike at its very root, if we
obtainabllry
ntWman 4150 proved that these

were no new opinions, taken up for the moment,
or for the purpose of inflicting any injury
on the Government.:ln 1842—when theßill was first
introduced under the :pleasing delusion that it was to
be continued but for three yeers, while the national
revenue was recovering from the state of collapse into
which it bad fallen—Mr. HUME declared his opinion
that it would prove unequal and unjust in its opera-
tion, and pointed out clearly and distinctly how ma-
terially it varied from the principles of the Act of
WILLIAM and ➢IARY (the most equitable fiscal
measure that was ever carried), and which
should form the precedent of all future le-
gislation on such points. That might be re-
garded as the great experiment in direct taxa-
tion, which would have proved eminently successful
if the spirit of the law had not been perverted from
its true intent and meaning, under the blighting in-
fluence of indirect imposts, which were favoured by
the tax collectors, because the people, less observant
and less intelligent than at present, were ignorant
of the enormous sums extracted from their
pockets by such agencies. His opposition
was repeated in 1845 and 1848, but it,was only in
1851 that he succeeded in obtaining a majority. He
was not bound to inquire into the motives by which
some of his supporters were actuated, and it would
be strange, indeed, if he withdrew a proposition, just
and reasonable, because it was advocated on unstates-
manlike or untenable grounds. He triumphed—we
rejoice to say—and it is for the people of England to
turn that victory of their faithful and efficient friend
and advocate to the best purposes. They must not remain
sluggish or apathetic. They must exert themselves
vigorously and energetically, if they desire that the
first success should lead to propitious results. This
is the time for activity, and any professing Reformer
who now remains indifferent will have; himself to
thank for any grievances to which he may be subject
in the interval between 1852 and 1855.

OVERLAND MAIL

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Our advices from Trieste of the 13th instant an-
nounce the arrival of the Italia from Alexandria. Her
dates from Calcutta are to the Bth of September, from
Bombay to the 17th, and from Hong-Kong to the
23d of August.

The frontier was undisturbed.
The troops in the Punjaub were suffering to an
unprecedented extent from fever.
Commodore Lusching has resigned the command of
the Indian navy.

Dost Mohammed was intriguing for the posses-
sion of Kandaha, but Persian troops already occupy
Herat.

A fourth outbreak in Malabar of the Noplo fanatics
had occasioned great loss of life.
The gold market was light.
Funds and Bank Stock rising.
Five per Cent. Loan, 105.
Four per Cent. Loan, 92k.
Exchange on London, at six months' sight, from
ls. 11td. to 2s. per rupee.
Export market flat.

Cotton from 92 to 95i rupees per candy.
Freights on London and Liverpool, 21. to 21..55.
per ton.

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Exchange at Hong-Kong on London, 4s. 9d.—
Herald.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

RESIGNATION OF THE FRENCH
MINISTRY.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
All the Ministers have tendered their resignations,
and those resignations have been accepted by the
PRESIDENT. The new Ministers have not yet been ap-
pointed. The cause of disagreement was the deter-
mination of the PRESIDENT to propose the repeal of
the law of the 31st May, and to restore universal
suffrage. This is evidently a bid on the part of the
PRESIDENT for republican support, but, like all such
concessions, it comes too late. The Avemblie Na-
tionale has the following on the Ministerial crisis :
" We have been informed in the most positive manner
that the resignations of the Ministers and of the Prefect
of Police have been accepted, and that the President will
make known to-morrow (this day), at the Council, that
he shall form a new Ministry, charged to present to the
Assembly the repeal of the law of May 31. It is
thought that Messrs. Fould and Rouher will
enter into the new combination. If principles are
to change, it will be still a patching up as to
persons. The new Cabinet will have no other
mandate than to demand the abrogation of the
law of May 31. We have had a Ministry of
transition; we were threatened with a Ministry of solu-
tion; end we shall have one of abrogation. It is not yet
known what will be the composition of tbis Cabinet, but
it is positively stated that M. Billault, who supported the
Right of Labour, has been charged to propose a
Ministerial Combination."

The only remark made by the Conatitutionnel on
subject of the Ministerial crisis is contained in the
following short paragraph :—" Reports of different
kinds as to the present state of affairs are circulated
among the public, and repeated by several journals.
We abstain from publishing these rumours, some of
which are very vague, and others not even probable."
Political rumours of various kinds were in circula-
lation at the Bourse and in the Salle des Conferences
of the Legislative Assembly. It was said that the
General BEDEAU, whose turn it is at present to pre-
side over the Permanent Committee, was to convoke
it extraordinarily, should the present situation become
more grave ; that the Ministers were to be called be-
fore it, and that according to what they might state,
the Assembly should or should not be called on to
meet forthwith. It was said also that a coup (1' &at
was certainly to be effected; that General MAGNAN,
the head of the army of Paris, and Generals CAR,
RELET and LEVASSEUR, in command of two divisions
of that body of troops, were to be replaced, and that
their successors, as well as that of M. CARLIER, were
all decided on.

The Moniteur publishes the following :
" Serious disturbances broke out on Sunday the 19th
inst., in the arrondissement of Sancerre (Cher). The
magistrates of Sancerre having arrested and imprisoned
at Sancerre three inhabitants of Percy, among whom was
a discharged mayor of Percy, the inhabitants rose and at-
tempted to rescue them. A body of 500 men, armed
with muskets nod scythes, assembled and marched to
within a few miles of the town. The authorities, on
learning what was going on, assembled all the troops
they could, and dispersed the insurgents. Twenty-six
of the insurgents have been arrested with arms in their
hands, and have been sent to Bourges. The whole of the
public functionaries behaved well. Although the mili-
tary force in the department of Cher is considered suffi-
cient, the Government yesterday sent off a battalion of
the 41st Regiment from Paris by the Orleans Railway
for Bourges. By the latest accounts the disorders had
been completely suppressed."
The Bourse was much agitated. The Five per
Cents.! opened at 90f. 60c., and rose to 90f. 90c.; but
towards three o'clock an announcement was made to the
Commissary of the Bourse, on what was considered re-
spectable authority, that the resignation of all the Mi-
nisters had been accepted, and the Five per Cents. fell
suddenly to 90f. 45c. They rallied again on the belief
that M. Fould would hold office in the new Ministry, and
they closed at 90f. 70c. for the end :of the month;
the: Three per Cents. closed at 55f. 65e.; Orleans
Railroad Shares, 855 f. ; Rouen, 565 f.; Havre, 212 f.
50c.; Great 'Northern, 455 f.; Avignon, k 218 f. 75c.;
Vierzon, 422 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 381 f. 25c.; Paris and
Strasburgh,3sof.; Tours and Nantes, 260 f.; Amiens to
Boulogne, 260 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 14.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1043—Luxembourg, I%—Maria
Antonia, 734 ex div.—Ditto, New, 31/4 ex div.—Northern of
France, 14—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4%—Rouen and Havre,
BN3—Sambre and Meuse, 3—Tours and Nantes, 6M.