The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-19 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

Iti,mr, Nov. 30..—0ne event has occurred here which
has produced a powerful sensation. A person gave notice
to the Government that a conspiracy was on foot, and
demamied a certain reward for the discovery of the same,
which, together with a full pardon, was promised to him.
lie directed the police to go to the palace of Prince Erco-
lani, in Bologna, whose wife is the daughter if Lucien
Bonaparte, where they would find a quantity of arms in
a reccss, the entrance to which was behind a certain
picture. The alarm of the family may be imagined, at
seeing the police arrive at night and search every part
of the mansion. Every picture was immediately
removed from the walls, but no arms were found.
The informer was given over to justice, and has
been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Some sup-
pose that he has been himself deceived. In consequence
of this the Government has resolved to establish a Special
Court of Justice, to judge all political offences. The
papal army has suffered a severe loss in Colonel Lazzarini.
In consequence of neglect of duty, a courtmartial has sen •
tenced him to he degraded from his rank, but to retain
his full pay. The affliction caused by this sentence put
an end to his life yesterday. According to report, the
papal army is about to be newly organized. It will in
future consist of four brigades, which will be commanded
by four Generals.

VIENNA, DEC. 4.—To-morrow there will be a grand
reception of the nobles by the Empress. M. Celto, the
Bavarian Ambassador, has visited Prince Metternich, and
the diplomatic corps, and to-morrow he will present his
credentials to the Emperor.
DEC. 7.—The British Ambassador, Sir F. Lamb, has
returned here from Milan. An English courier has arrived
from London. His despatches, it seems, relate to the
affairs of Holland and Belgium. The Hungarian Chamber
is constantly occupied with the agricultural interests. A
deputation will shortly arrive at Vienna to lay before a e
Government the result of its deliberations. In and around
Presburg several persons have been robbed within these few
da) e. The authorities have ordered the severest vigilance on
the part of the police, and many suspicious individuals
have been arrested.

NAN-Es, Nov. 28.—Our artillery mancouvres are
ended, but the troops are still being exercised, going through
their evolutions twice every week in the Champ de Mars, The
King a few days ago gave a banquet to several regiments
in the open field, partook of it himself, and expressed his
satisfaction with the spirit of the troops, their discipline,
and attachment to his person, in the most flattering toms.
The privilege of the Steam-packet Company of the Two
Sicilies ends next year; we hear it will ❑ot be renewed.
The Government has two steam-vessels now building in
England, which are intended for regular communication
MI ith the coast of Calabria and Sicily. On the Ist Ja-
nuary, 1834, two newly-built steam-vessels, of a hun-
dred-horse power, with machines made in Glasgow,
will ply three times a month between Bircelona, Genoa,
and Naples. The Marquis de Bassecourt has received his
credentials from the Queen Regent, but remains here i

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1833.

Three days Paris Papers have arrived. They
contain little news of interest, however, except
from Spain, which is, to use an American
phrase, " important if true."_, It is stated in a
letter from _Madrid that Don CARLOS, after
having entered Spain at the head of 200 men,
and being driven back to Portugal, was pursued
by General Roptr. as far as the tow❑ of Mi-
randa, from which he fled to Chaves, where the
Miguelites were in force to protect him. We
are told that the Spanish Government not only
approved of this violation of the Portuguese
territory, but had also announced its attention
of sending such a force into Portugal as would
secure the capture of Don CARLOS, or compel
him to fly by sea. If this be true, the Spaniards
are not great sticklers for the respect due to
territorial limits as regards other states, however
jealous they may be of an infringement of their
own. Don PEDRO, well aware that the pursuit
of CARLOS in Portugal by the Spanish Govern-
ment would be beneficial to him as regards his
contest with Miguelites, may not protest against
this violation of territory—he may even have invited
it ; but it would be a bad precedent, and would
probably make PEDRo unpopular with his own
party, for the natural hatred of Spaniards by
the Portuguese is extreme.
We are assured in letters from Madrid of the
Bth inst., that the road from Madrid to Bay-
onne is now quite open, and the band of
MERINO was supposed to have dispersed.
The Car/Ist bands in other parts of Spain, are
said to have dwindled away to an extent which
has removed all anxiety from the Government,
and nothing is wanting but a change of Ministry
to secure the stability of the QUEEN'S Govern-,1

ment. We are glad to find that the success of
the QUEEN'S troops in putting down the rebel-
lion, is not likely to be serviceable to M. ZEA,
and the partisans of ajuste milieu system in Spain.
The Constitutionalists, without whose aid the
QUEEN could not hare maintained herself
against the Carlists; are resolved to gather the fruit
of their exertions; and therefore demand the dis-
missal of ZEA. the QUEEN seems to be aware
of the necessity of his retirement, and either the
Duke of SAN FERNANDO, or PIZARRO, who
was in office some years ago, is likely to be made
Prime Minister, 1 U°, however, is said to
be only ft cat's-paw of ZEA, put forward to pre-
vent the accession of the Duke of SAN FER-
NANDO, whose weight and influence would
enable him to establish a Constitutional system
on so firm a basis as to defy the attacks
of the juste milieu. SAN FERNANDO him-
self is not exactly the man whom the Con-
stitutionalists would choose, if they could have
their own way entirely ; but it would be a great
step towards liberalism to displace ZEA.

The French Funds maintain their late rise.
This is a pretty sure indication that there is not
much alarm in Paris as to the warlike prepara-
tions of Russia. Indeed, were war with Russia
to be declared to-morrow, we do not think the
funds would be materially affected, provided the
British and French Governments should go
hand in hand in the contest.

The accounts from Lisbon in the Morning
Papers add little to what we gave yesterday
in our city article. Private letters state that a
great deal of intrigue is going on in the Portu-
guese capital, and that a change of Ministers
may be expected. The partisans of the Duke of
PALMELLA are increasing in number and influ-
ence. Don PEDRO is said to be rather unpopular;
but whatever may be his views as to the Regency,
it is admitted that he is doing all in his power
to ameliorate the conditions of the people, and
to introduce civilization among the lower orders.
He has ordered the creation of public schools,
and for the purpose of providing the artisans
with employment, has made material improve-
ments in the Palace of the Necessidades, which
he wishes to purchase from the State. He has
ordered the building of a hospital for the recep-
tion of wounded and aged soldiers, on the model
of the Hotel des Invalides at Paris. He has
also given directions for the cleansing of the
streets, as in the time of JUNOT.

The health of the young QUEEN is stated, in
opposition to the Tory accounts, to be very good,
and, so far from being kept in a state of seclu-
sion, she dines every day with the REGENT, and
her mother-in-law, and all the aides-de-camp
who are in service. She is not only allowed,
but urged by her father, to throw aside all the
formal customs of previous reigns, and to mix
freely with persons of her own age. It is only
on state occasions that any ceremony is observed.
The finances of the Government are said,
like those of MIGUEL, to be in rather a low con-
,INll42Re,, of the general officers have
though the REGENT had ordered it, and
are obliged to content ;themselves with the
2/. 10s. per month, which they] received in
Oporto. The arrears of the private soldiers are,
however, pretty well paid up, and the officers
bear the privation without manifesting the slight-
est discontent.

There was a report in Lisbon of a seditious
movement having taken place in the rebel army
at Santarem ; but it does not appear to have been
of any importance.

The German Papers represent the news from
Greece to be favourable with respect to the
interests of commerce generally.

Prince TALLEYRAND is expected to arrive in
town, from France, to-morrow or Saturday.
Immediately after his arrival he will hold a con.
ference with Lord PALMERsTON, at which the
course to be adopted towards Holland, in con-
sequence of the new impediments thrown in the
way of the negotiation on the Belgian question
will be determined upon, the Belgian Plenipo-
tentiary, M. VAN DE WEYER, having already
obtained sufficient information from the King
of the BELGIANS and his Government as
to the extent to which they are willing to go
in the way of concession, to enable the British
and French Governments to come to a decision.

The public in this country care very little, we
believe, for the Belgian question, abstractedly
considered; but as the King of HOLLAND seems
to have been acting throughout with the sanction
and encouragement of the Emperor of RUSSIA,
the British and French Governments will do well to
take this opportunity of convincing the Autocrat
that they are not to be deterred from bringing
the Belgian question to a close by the intrigues
or threats of the Russian Cabinet. Had they
done this before, we doubt whether the Emperor
of RUSSIA would have proceeded so boldly as
he has done in the prosecution of his ambitious
views with respect to Turkey. Our forbearance
on the Belgian question must have made him
believe that for the preservation of peace we
should hesitate at no sacrifice.

As advocates of the interests of the many as
opposed to those of the few, we have repeatedly
lifted our voice in favour of an equalization of
the duties imposed upon sugar, whether it comes
from the East or the West Indies, as gradual as
may be necessary to break the fall of the West
Indians, or to allow of an increase in the con-
sumption of sugar by this country. We must
confess that we do not apprehend that the injury
to the West Indians by an admission of East
Indian sugar upon equal terms with theirs,
would be so great as they imagine. In the
first place, unless they anticipate a time when
the colonies which now send sugar to us upon
the most favoured terms will under supply us,
how can they ever look forward to any great
permanent rise over present prices ? Any one
acquainted with the resources of British Guiana
must be perfectly aware that it has virgin soil,
fit for the cultivation of sugar, greater in extent
than the whole of the British West Indies. It only

wants a maintenance of the present prices to bring
the whole of that fertile colony into cultivation.
Whether those prices will be maintained, depends
partly upon the degree in which the present
supply from the old colonies will be kept up,
and partly upon circumstances abroad, over which
we have no control, for it is clear that as long as
we export sugar to the continent, the price in
England must be regulated by that of
foreign countries. But, supposing the present
price of sugar to be maintained, we cannot
doubt that, in a very few years, labour and ca-
pital will be applied to the fertile territory of
Guiana now lying absolutely waste. The ques-
tion is not, therefore, whether the West Indians
can exclude East India sugar from the English
market, and so maintain prices, but whe-
ther it be more desirable for them to have
sugar of the finest quality brought from
their near rivals on the coast of South
America, or sugar of inferior quality brought
from their distant rivals in India. Their short
sighted cupidity threatens them with the inflic-
tion of the first evil ; whereas a simple adoption
of the common principles of justice would bring
upon them only the second. We use the word
evil, because we have been arguing as a Jamaica
planter anxious to keep the monopoly of the
English market ; but we think that the result
would be far from evil. The West Indians
would not be much affected one way or the
other, except insomuch as they are benefitted by
everything that tends to promote the prosperity of
their customers. Let us see how that prosperity
would be affected by receiving sugar from the East
Indies. Every child knows that the manufac-
ture of cotton was at one time the staple of
India, that it maintained a large population,
and that its exports of it were immense. It is
equally notorious that, at the present moment,
England is able, by the aid of her ma-
chinery, to send back to India, in a manufac-
tured state, the very cotton which she sent to
us raw. This has been the case for some years
past, and the consequences are, that large masses
of the people are thrown out of employment.
They could find employment in the cultivation
of sugar, if we would receive it ; but that
we refuse to do. Whilst labour is thus de-
preciated, another operation is going on—
viz , the purchasers of our cottons are gra-
dually becoming, from that and other restric-
tions imposed upon their industry, less able to
purchase them. But labour being cheap, cheap
as we said before in consequence of our refusal
to let it find employment, and the cotton being
grown upon the spot, it must at last strike some
one as a good speculation to set up a cotton
mill in India. It was in this way, by refusing
to take the corn and timber of Prussia, their
only means of paying us, that we compelled her
to set up manufactories of her own, and it is
by continuing to force her manufacturers to have
cheap food, that we maintain those rivals in their
present flourishing state. That by refusing to sake
the sugar of India we are fast cutting off that great
Market for our manufacturers, may be judged of
'Lon, ta*,.• ••••••.e. V...
a minute of the Governor-General, dated 30th
May, 1829, and is to be found in the 275th
page of the " Appendix to the Report of the
Committee of the House of Commons," which
sat upon the affairs of the East India Company
last year. After detailing the state of misery to
which the East Indians are reduced, the Go-
vernor-General proceeds to examine how it may
be relieved, by the settlement of Europeans in
the country. He thus commences :
" No stronger argument can be adduced in favour of
the present proposition than is exhibited by the effects
which European skill and machinery have produced
against the prosperity of India. In the last despatch in
the commercial department from the India House, dated
3d September, 1828, the Court declare that they are at
last obliged to abandon the only remaining portion of the
trade in cotton manufactures, both in Bengal and Madras,
because through the intervention of power-looms the Bri-
tish goods have a decided advantage in quality and
price. Cotton-piece goods, for ao many ages the staple
manufacture of India, seem thus for ever lost. The
Dacca muslins, celebrated over the whole world for their
beauty and fineness, are also annihilated from the same
cause ; nor is the silk trade likely long to escape equal ruin.
In the same despatch the Court describe the great depression
of price which this article sustained in consequence of the
diminished cost of the raw material in England, and of
the rivalry of British silk handkerchiefs. The sympathy
of the Court is deeply excited by the Report of the Board
of Trade, exhibiting the gloomy picture of the effects of
a commercial revolution, productive of so much present
suffering to numerous classes in India, and hardly to be
paralleled in the history of commerce.

" If all the ancient articles of the manufacturing pro-
duce of India are swept away, and no new ones created
to supply this vacuum on the exports, how will it be
possible for commerce to be carried on, and how can any
remittances on private or public account be made to Eu-
rope ? If bullion alone is to supply the balance, soo❑
will the time arrive, when, under the increased value that
scarcity must give to money, it will no longer be possible
to realize the revenue at its present nominal amount. It
is, therefore, the bounden duty of Government to neglect
no means which may call forth the vast productive powers
of the country, now lying inert from the want of ade-
quate encouragement. It may be confidently asked,
whether to the natives singly we may look for success,
and whether any great improvement has been ever intro-
duced not exclusively due to European skill. To those
who 59 feelingly deplore the misery of the Indian manufac-
turer, it will be consolatory to know that a prospect exists of
better days, with a hope also that her staple cermnodity, the
cotton manufacture, may still be rescued from annihilation.
Mr. Patrick, an 'Englishman,' is at this momenterecting
a very large manufactory for the spinning of cotton-twist
by machinery, to be moved by steam and it is not irre-
levant from the object of the present paper to observe, that
these great works are erecting upon his own estate, held
in fee-simple, under a grant from Warren Hastings. Hi-
therto the Bengal cotton has been held unfit for conver-
sion into twist, but an improved kind has been lately
cultivated, which it is suppobed will be quite fit for the
purpose."

Read that, ye cotton spinners of Lancashire!
Read that, ye silk manufacturers of Hudders-
field, of Congleton, of Manchester ! When
this magnificent market has been snatched from

your grasp, ye will regret that ye suffered the
blind fully of your Government, guided by the
base selfishness of the slave owners of the West
Indies, to exclude the article upon which the East

ndians might have employed their labour, with

equal advantage to themselves and to you.
When this mine of wealth is closed to you,
when your factories fall to decay, when your
workmen cry aloud for food, remember that it

was because you suffered injustice to be per-
petrated that the punishment was brought upon
you. The woollens of Belgium are now com-
peting with us almost every where ;—we may
thank our restrictive system for supplying the
English capital to manufacture them with.

The saws of Molsheim are driving ours out of the
American market;—we may thank our restrictive
system for enabling the workmen of Molsheim to
take low wages, by refusing the food ready to be
sent to us. Cotton manufactories are being esta-
blished in India, and, should they► succeed, again
we shall have to thank our restrictive system.
What more warnings do we want
The above observations have been made with
reference to the petition which was agreed to
yesterday at the East India House, praying for
an equalization of the duties on East and West
India produce. We earnestly hope that the
Government will not continue deaf to the re-
monstrances of reason, policy, and justice.

It is to much to the credit of Gateshead, that
it has been the first since the prorogation, to
stir the question of the removal of the Bishops
from the House of Lords, at a public meeting
got up expressly for that purpose. As this
meeting is well-timed, it will not be without its
influence on the country ; other towns and cities
will promptly follow the same example ; the cry
of " remove the Bishops," heard first in the
North, will be echoed back by the South ; the
East and West will not fail to swell the chorus,
until, by the time Parliament meets, the whole
kingdom, we doubt not, will be uplifting its
voice in one resolute, irresistible demand
for the expulsion of the Reverend Prelates.
The men of Gateshead are by no means
squeamish on this subject. They speak out
with an energy—a directness inseparable from

the cause of justice. Like sportsmen in a
rookery, they fire their shots with singular preci-
sion ; pop, popping away at the lazy, black
rooks with a perseverance that it does the heart
good to witness. A few more such shots, and
the whole rookery is cleared.
It is idle for us at this time of day to assure
the Bishops that, as regards their seats in the
Lords, they must be of " the movement party."
They know it themselves ; none better. They
have seen the sword, suspended only by a
horse-hair, hanging above their heads for these
two years past, and must now be in hourly
expectation of its fall.

Yet the time was, when, if they could not
have averted, they might at least have protracted,
their doom. A manly, liberal part played by
them during the Reform question, might have
induced their grateful countrymen to put up
with the absurd anomaly of their position as
Legislators, for some time to come ; and saved

the majority of them many a severe fit of spleen
and dyspepsia. But they chose to play the
double game of party. They would not say
yes, and they were afraid t o say no. They

leered now at the Whigs and now at the Tories,
and by thus combining cowardice and cunning
to a degree unparalleled in all but ecclesiastical
annals, have met with the usual fate of intriguers
and sycophants.
But setting aside the question of retribution,

the disembarrassment of the Bishops from the
false and painful position which they now oc-
cupy in the House of Lords, is to be insisted on
as a matter or justice. It. is vu UM,
conviction only, that we ground our arguments.
We would not expel them as a punishment for
past sins, but as a means of prevention against
future ones. Like Othello, we would be " cruel,
only to be merciful." The Reverend Prelates never
had, they never can have any right, founded on
common sense, to a seat in the Upper House of
Legislature. They are priests, not politicians.
The community at large knows, or should know,
nothing of them, as members of this party or
that party, but simply as the spiritual heads of
their respective dioceses. By emancipating'
them, therefore, from the trammels of politics,
we conceive we are doing them an act of cour-
tesy ; for we are making them more trustworthy
men, and, of course, better Christians. That
their Reverences may not be of this way of
thinking, is natural enough ; what school boy
could ever be brought to believe that the birch
which his master flourishes above his head was
intended to do him good ? But this is nothing.
As we " chasten" the Bishops because we " love
them," we are resolved, please God, to lay on
the stripes with spirit.

Conceiving then that the expulsion of the
Rev. Prelates is necessary, first as an act of
kindness to themselves ; secondly, as an act of,
justice to the country, we feel bound to do our
best to bring the people to the same persuasion ;
to exhort them to peruse the observations of
Mr. C. RIPPON with the attention their great
importance deserves; and above all, to follow,
as soon as possible, the example of the bold and
enlightened men of Gateshead. " Fling but a
stone, the giant dies." Let the people but make
one bold effort, and episcopal politicians are ex-
tinct for ever.

The Lord Chancellor will not continue his
judicial sittings after to-morrow or Saturday at latest.
It was his intention to have sit till Christmas Eve, but
Mr. James Brougham's lamentable state of health causes
his Noble Brother's anxiety to proceed to Brougham Hall
earlier than otherwise he had resolved upon.
ILLNESS OF MR. JAMES BROUGHAM.—
The account received this morning in town of the st tte of
Mr. James Brougham's health, we regret to say, is most
unfavourable and distressing.
An old maiden lady named Witham, of
Alounjoy township, Pa., in the 80th year of her age, a
few days ago mowed and made an acre of heavy grass into
hay.—American Paper.
On Sunday last the new Prebend, the Rev.
Dr. Hunt, read himself in at the cathedral in this
Kentish Gazette.
The Western Luminary says, " We are sorry
to state the loss of the Jane of Salcombe has been received,
and that the master and crew, with three passengers, have
perished."

CHINA TRADE. The Gipsey, Captain
Highat, sailed from Liverpool, on Friday, for Bombay,
with a cargo selected for the Canton market. The Ea,t
India Company's Charter will expire on the 22d April,
and this vessel is expected to arrive at Bombay, so as to
clear at that port on the 23d for Canton, which is the
day on which the trade to China and India will be
opened to the merchants of this country. The Gipsey
belongs to Sir John Tobin, one of our most active and
enterprising merchants, and as she is a swift sailer she
will most likely be the first vessel which will reach:this
country with a cargo of tea from Canton.—Liverpool
Times.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, DEC. 17.
—We have had a fair demand for cotton to-day, and the
sales are 4,000 bags, at very steady prices, bay iihranhams
at 10d. ; Pernarns, 91d. to 10id.; New Boweth, at 9J. ;
and Nev Orleans, at 10d, per lb.

COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

FORMS OF PRACTICE.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, and their flonours the 311",,,
TER of the ROLLS and VICE-CHANCELLOR, had a con9°Tl
Ertion td-day on the subject of the new rules that bB5
lately been and are about to be issued foi• the regulaell
of Chancery Practice. The six clerks, secretaries, Et
of the public offices were likewise in attendance in on
Hall, and occasionally referred to for points of information'
The conference Was held in his Lordship's private rooPs
and continued till 12 o'clock: