The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-13 00:00:00

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1833.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday, which did not
arrive yesterday in consequence of the violence
of the weather, and also those of 'Wednesday,
have reached us this morning. They do no
contain any important news from Spain, but it
was rumoured in Paris on Wednesday afternoon
that a telegraphic despatch had been received

from Bayonne with favourable news. The
partieularF, however, had not transpired. A
Paris Correspondent, in a letter dated Wed-
nesday, says that very serious apprehensions
begin to be entertained at the Tuileries, lest the
affairs of Spain and Portugal may yet lead to a
rupture between the Great Powers of Europe,
and that the Congress of Ministers to be held
at Vienna will interfere in the Swiss ques-

tion, and thus compel France to assume
an energetic attitude. As the writer does
not state the authority on which he makes
this assertion, we must be permitted to
doubt its correctness. Affairs in Spain have
gone too far, we think, for the Northern Powers
to make them the ground-work of a rupture at
this moment, however desirous they may have
been in the first instance that they should prove
a source of difficulty and embarrassment to the
French Government.

The French Papers state that the Carlists of
Biscay and Navarre, to the number of 7,000
men, had intrenched themselves at Onarsun,
with the intention of giving battle to General
VALDEZ, who was advancing against them at the
head of a smaller but well organized force.
These papers also state that an expedition
against Constantine, to consist of 20,000 men,
under General CLA UZEL, will sail from Toulon
early in April. This is a larger force, perhaps,
than the service demands, but the French Go-
vernment find the war in Africa very useful as a
means of keeping the French army in practice.
The Paris journals contain extracts from the
Warsaw papers of the 26th ult., stating the
execution there of four more Polish officers, and
that a new levy of recruits had been ordered

by the Russian Government in Poland. The
French funds are very steady :

FRENCH FUNDS.—Pants, Dec. 11.
Five per Cents., 103 f. 6' c. 70c.
Three per Cents., 74f. 45c. 65c.
Bank Actions 1,750 f
Rente de Naples, 90f: sc.
Roman Five per Cents., SO4.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 178 i•
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 38%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 854.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 67;i
Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 96%.
Haytian Loan, 2651.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money, 25f. 30e.
Three months, paper, 25f. 25c.; money, 25f. 25c.
—Coura Authentique.

The attention of the public has been called
by the Times of this morning to the conduct of
Austria in encouraging the arbitrary proceedings
of the King of SARDINIA against his sub-
jects, and in endeavouring to obtain from the
French Government its consent to the interven-
tion of Austria in favour of the petty despot of
Sardinia, in the event of an application being
made by him to the Austrian Court for aid.
The answer of the French Government has, we
are glad to find, been in the negative, and we
may reasonably conclude that, after such an
answer, the Austrian Government will not dare
to interfere. All the encroachments which have
hitherto been'madelhy the Allied Sovereigns on
the principle of liberty, as affecting other states, are
to be attributed to want of firmness in the British
and French Governments. If they had spoken
out, not only would no new attempt have been
made by the absolute Powers of the Continent,
upon that principle, further, perhaps, than as
regarded the internal regulations of their own
dominions, but political freedom would have
taken a high flight—ltaly would have shaken off
the Austrian yoke, and Poland would have
been free.

We cordially concur with the Times in repro-
bating the detestable act of oppression and per-
fidy perpetrated by the Holy Alliance against
the Genoese in 1815, and in saying that the
Government of France would be perfectly justi-
fied in interfering with Piedmont in the event
of Austria lending assistance to the King of
SARDINIA for the subjection of the remnant of
liberty enjoyed by the people who by fraud and
perfidy have been brought under his control.
There are, however, many other parts of the
globe on which the principles of despotism have
been enforced by the Northern Sovereigns, and
respecting which a declaration, similar to that
which has been made by France in the case of

Piedmont, ought to be made at once by the

British and French Courts. How has it hap.
pened that the Belgian question, after discus.
sions and negotiations for two years, remains al

this moment in as unsettled a state as it was
when those discussions commenced ? Why is
Don MIGUEL still Sovereign de facto of a
great part of Portugal, and why has the intellect
of Spain been kept down so long, whilst bigotry
and superstition have been striding triumphantly
through the land ? If there had been no inter-
vention by the Allied Courts in favour of the
King of HOLLAND, the Usurper of Portugal,
and the priesthood of Spain, would the prin-
ciple of liberty have been so long stationary ?
But for this intervention—a diplomatic one, in-
deed, but not on that account the less successful
—the moral and political influence of Great
Britain and France would have been extended
for their own security, and•for the happiness of

mankind. It is high time for England and France
to use a higher language, not only against
projects of armed intervention, but against
Court intrigue—it is high time for the
British and French Cabinets to open their
eyes not only to the despotic principles of Austria
and Prussia, as regards the immediate object
which they have in view, but also as respects
the great fulcrum upon which they are moved.
If the King of HOLLANIO, the Usurper of

Portugal, and the Pretender in SPAIN are
puppets in the hands of Austria and Prussia,
those Powers are not less puppets in the hands
of the Autocrat of the North. The Cabinet
of Russia, the most subtle and skilful of all

the Cabinets of Europe, has been steadily and
rapidly pursuing its course. Whilst Austria
and Prussia have carried on the work of op-
pression in their own states, and upheld
despotism in Spain and Portugal, thus occupying
the attention of Great Britain and France with
diplomatic notes, Russia, the prime mover,
has been hourly strengthening herself in
Persia, in Turkey, and in Greece, and pre-
paring the means of striking a fatal blow
not only at the political influence but also at the
commercial greatness of Great Britain and France.
It has become, therefore, a question of personal
safety with us to resist the encroachments of
Austria and Prussia as the instruments of Russia,
against whose intrigues and almost open defiance
we have much more reason to be on our guard
than we had to be against the ambition of the
Emperor of FRANCE. NAPOLEON in the
height of his power, and amidst the roar of can-
non, had never made half the progress towards
undermining our political and commercial great-
ness that Russia, with her intrigues and those of
her instruments, has silently achieved. Every act
of tyranny by Austria and Prussia over the
principle of political freedom at home and
every act of intervention by those powers in favour
of the principles of despotism abroad, is a step
in favour of Russian ambition and spoliation.
Whilst we are wasting our time in diplomatic
remonstrances with Austria and Prussia, in

which by far too much courtesy is mixed, Russia
is waxing stronger and stronger in the means of
annoyance and political crime.
There is but one way of defeating the ambi-
tious schemes of Russia—let the Cabinets of
Great Britain and France assume the tone which

they ought long since to have held towards
Austria any Russia, and those Powers will either
cease to be the instruments of Russia, or they
will be compelled to throw off the mask, and
will meet the chastisement which is their due,
and which Great Britain and France united
would find it easy to inflict.

It will be seen from a circular in another part
of The Sun, that Lord ALTHORP is proceeding
to obtain information upon the subject of tithes.
It is clear, therefore, that Ministers are resolved
no longer to incur the risks that must result from
longer delay in the settlement of that important
question. We cannot forbear taking this
opportunity of warning the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER not to fall into the mistake he

did last session, when attempting to legislate on
this intricate subject. It will be recollected that
the principle upon which his Lordship's Bill went
was to take the average payments for tithes for
the last seven years, and make those payments
a kind of perpetual composition, subject
only to a deduction of ten per cent., at the
judgment of certain valuators. This would
evidently have been productive of monstrous
injustice both to landowners and clergymen.
It is notorious that many landowners have been
for years paying larger sums in the shape of
tithes than they ought fairly to have done,
in the hope that the Legislature would at
length deprive litigious clergymen of the power
to oppress which, in various parts of the country,
they have shown too ready a disposition to
exercise. On the other hand, many clergymen,
having property of their own, were able to afford
to take less than they were by law entitled to
take, and have actually for years taken less. In
cases of the latter description, and we believe
they are more numerous than those of the
former, the landowner would, by making
the payments of the last seven years perpetual,
obtain an undue advantage not simply over
the clergyman but over the public, whose pro-
perty the tithe is. This is one reason why
it is possible that our legislators, who never
forget their own concerns, whilst settling the
affairs of the nation, may agree to a less advan-
tageous arrangement for the public, than they
otherwise would. The only reason why Lord
ALTHORP was not able to pass his compulsory
measure of composition last Session, was, that
the parties who have been for years plundered by
the clergy, were rather more numerous than he an-
ticipated, and made a most unexpected outcry
at the proposed confirmation of their grievance.
The fact is, and it would be a folly to blink it,
that nothing leSs than the system of valuation
and commutation, proposed in the case of Irish
Tithes, will have any chance of decidedly settling
the question in England. Had Mr. GoUL-
BURN, when he brought in his Tithe Composi-
tion Act, been able to carry the plan of com-
mutation, brought forward by Mr. STANLEY,
the year before last, the Tithe question would
in Ireland have been long since dead and buried.
But the clergy were not then sufficiently
frightened to see the necessity of so effectually se-
curing their property by a sacrifice of a part. Our
readers will probably recollect that the plan pro-
posed for Ireland is to value the tithes and then
allow the landowner to redeem them at so many
years purchase, allowing him a discount in-
creasing according to the earliness of the period
at which they are redeemed ; the sums thus
accumulated being set apart to pay the clergy, in
fair proportions, for the discharge of their duties.
It is in this way that the Government may have
a chance of preserving tithes in England. Any
less liberal measure will render it as difficult to
rescue them from the gripe of the land-
lords as it has proved in Ireland. The
plan would, no doubt, meet with some oppo-
sition even from the clergy whose interest
is most concerned by its being carried into
effect, but the more enlightened portion of the
community would be in its favour, and there
are clergymen (the Rev. Mr. JONES, Professor
of Political Economy at king's College, for
instance), who have written in its support.

That a full and efficient Reform of the Church
in other matters, besides Tithes, will be insisted
upon by the people, may be inferred without
' much difficulty, from the temper of a vestry
meeting, which took place yesterday evening, in
the parish of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, to peti-
tion Parliament to repeal the Local Church Act,
together with all Acts respecting tithes and com-
pulsory payments for the support of the hierarchy.
Only four hands were held up against the
petition ; and can we wonder at the parish being
tolerably unanimous upon the subject, when
every man in it knows that the rector receives
2,0001. per annum for undertaking to do the
duty, and pays two curates 1501. each to
perform it ?

Brussels Papers to the 10th inst. arrived this
morning. Extracts from them will be found in
another column.

A letter has been received from Prince TAL-
LEYRAND, announcing his intention of returning
to London on or before the 20th inst. His
niece, the Duchess de DING, is to arrive in
London on Tuesday next.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.

FROM LLOYD'S.

DrAL, DEC. by N.—Arrived the
Dromo, from Batavia ; and Julian, from Virginia. The
Flora, for Jamaica; Cora, for Demerara ; and several of
the outward-bound, from the River, passed this morning
in a strong breeze at N.W.
PORTSMOUTH, DSc. 12.—Wind N.W. by N.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 11.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W.—
Arrived his Majesty's ship Pantaloon, from Plymouth.
MARGATE, DEC. I2.—Arrived the Fanny, Maxwell,
from Quebec.

RAMSGATE, DEC. 12.—Arrived off port the Jane,
Goldie, from Singapore; and Liberator, Angel, from Wa-
terford.

Cowes, DE c. I2.—Arrived the Harvest, Bradford
From Baltimore.

WEYMOUTH, Dsc. 11.—Arrived the Venus, Andrews,
from Lisbon.

Arrived off port the Mirea
IdAz—l:rived the Lady Turner, Turner,
from Demerara ; and Hero, Moorsom, from Mirainichi.
C e
BRISTOL,aPILi aN,VAi Ne
DEC.
E,cp. frome;
Cadiz.
Ltvaitrooc, Drc. 11.—Arrived the William Do-
nald, Murphy, from Savannah. The floating light was
driven from her moorings last night, but will be replaced
as soon as the weather permits.
GREENOCK, Dec. 10.—Arrived the Cecilia, Hepburn,
Enterprise, Brown, and St. Vincent, Brown, from Deme-
rara ; and Fagide, M'Arthur, from Nfirainichi.
DueLtN, Dec. 11.—Arrived the Pomona, Stevens,
from Quebec.

COAX, DEc. 10.—Arrived the Montagu, Turnbull,
from Pernambuco.

STROMNESS, Dec. 12.—Arrived the Forster, Forster,
and Magnificent, Campbell, from St. Petersburgh ; and
Zior, Scott, from Stettin.

MILFORD, DEC. 11. —Last night and this morning it
ha, blown a very heavy gale at S. W.
IlotmucAn, DEC. 11.—There area great many pieces
of corkwood floating off this place.

The Four Sisters, Clay, from Miramichi, put into
Sheerness with considerable damage, and very leaky,
having struck upon some rocks.
The John and Mary Johnson, bound to Mobile, has put
back to Liverpool, leaky.
The Lady Stonehouse, bound to London, which put
back to Singapore after being on shore, has been surveyed,
and reeommended to be sold.

FINE ARTS.

FIND ENS' GALLERY OF THE GRACP-41i

Nos. 8, 9.
Two numbers of average excellence, conts►tl'
ing six beautiful female faces, accompanied
illustrative verses from the pens of Miss Landoll
Barry Cornwall, Campbell, and the Editor,
K. Harvey.

PORTRAIT GALLERY, Nos. 22, 23.'
BULL AND CITUR7ON. LONDON, 1833. •

A collection of Portraits of the most beat'
tiful females among our English Nobility,. 01
forming altogether a galaxy of beauty, such,'
we verily believe, no other country in the woe°
can equal. The work is popular, and deserves
to be so.

FINI)EN'S -ILLUSTRATIONS to BYROII
filler XX. LONDON, 1833.

This part consists of four landscape illustts'
tions and one portrait. The landscapes ar°
views of Seville, Cephalonia—from a desigii
furnished by Turner—St. Mark's, Venice, at
Constantinople, from Pera. The portrait, 1s
that of William Gifford, the late caustic and
learned editor of the Quarterly Review, and Is
no other way remarkable, than as exhibiting an, es'
traordinary absence of anything like intellectual
expression. The lips are thick and sensual ; the
forehead low and retreating ; the eye dull, vaealit
and glassy ; and the nose as clumsy and massive
as a bludgeon. It would be a most unjustifiable
quiz to exhibit a picture like this at the Royil
Academy as the " Portrait of a Gentleman." it
looks just like that of a carcase-butcher at Hogs
Norton. As an engraving, however, it is
very highly-finished production.

TURNER'S ILLUSTRATIONS TO ;RO,
GERS'S PLEASURES OF MEMORY, iv.
We have just received a copy of this splendid
work, which we must notice on some future
occasion. At present we have neither space nor
leisure to do justice to it.