The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-07 00:00:00

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1834,

The Paris papers of Wednesday, which are all re-
ceived, announce the resignation of the Cabinet.
At six o'clock on Tuesday evening the Ministry,
finding it impossible to fill up the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of Marshal
GERARD, went in a body to the KING,
and gave in their resignation. Early on Wed-
nesday morning it was not known whether his
MAJESTY would accept them, and it was ru-
moured that the Cabinet would be re-modelled ;
but in the course of the evening a Ministerial
Journal appeared with the intelligence that the KING
had accepted the resignation of his Cabinet, and had
committed to M. MOLE the charge of appointing
the new Ministry. This event has produced but a
slight sensation even in the political circles of
Paris. M. TITTERS is most heartily despised
by every party, as a man without an atom of
principle, and most of his colleagues are in no bet-
ter odour with the public. The very day of his resig-

nation an article of his appeared in the Journal des
Debats, attacking Lord DURHAM for stating, at the
Glasgow meeting, that the alliance between Eligland
and France was commercial as well as political., Little
THIERS is an advocate for the old system of mono-
polies, and to support it levels' a puny attack on Lord
DURHAM. But we have not space t,o-day to enter
into this question. We will return to it, however.

There is no news of any importance from the
North of Spain.

We have received the DutrAl papers to the 4th
instant, extracts from which, will be found in another
column. The most intere.sting part of their contents
is the copy of a decree which has just been published
at Warsaw, and to wh;.Ch we would most particularly
direct the attention of ',our readers.
It would seem that something like a blush had at
last mantled to th'd cheek of the Autocrat of all the
Russias, and tidat, weary of cruelty, he had become
merciful thwingh sheer exhaustion. Merciful mo-
narch I He has imprisoned, and banished, and hanged
and slaughtered, till he has reduced Poland to the sha-
dowy skeleton, which it is his will She shall
ever remain ; and now that a handful of patriots
only remains in his power, he thinks it as well
to make a show of mercy to the world, and
call on the wonder-stricken nations to admire and
applaud his clemency I Oh, gracious Prince ! the
voice of justice sounded in vain in your cars, while your
deep and tyrannical designs were still unaccomplished ;
but now that you have succeeded to your heart's
content in trampling a noble nation to the dust, you
come forward, with a smirking look and a self-satisfied
air, and boast of your loving-kindness and your mercy.

Only admire the condescension of the Bth article of
this clement decree I The EMPEROR had condemned

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249 persons to be hanged, nine to be beheaded, and
seven to perpetual imprisonment,. for the monstrous
and abominable crime of revolt against his tyranny,
and now to show how much he loves them, he
decrees—

" The rights formerly enjoyed by each of these persons shall be
forfeited, and the sentence of death or imprisonment passed upon
them shall be commuted into perpetual banishment from this
our kingdom of Poland, and from all the other States of our
empire. Should, however, any of these criminals at a future
time, either secretly or openly, return to the empire or king-
dom, the sentence formerly passed upon them shall be carried
into effect, according to all the rigour of military law !"
However, we ought to be grateful—anything like
clemency from such a quarter was not reasonably to be
expected. Let the Poles, then, be thankful for this
unmerited kindness, and never breathe a syllable of
reproach against the wise and good Autocrat, who has
at length stifled his just resentment, and imprudently

listened to the dictates of mercy I
But to assume a more serious and befitting tone, we
can assure his Imperial MAJESTY that he has thought
of clemency rather too late in the day to render it
available to him. This weak attempt to ease his trou-
bled conscience be will find to be vain and futile, and
unable to retard for one single instant the swift and
sure approach of the day of retribution.

Brussels Papers of the sth inst. have been received

but they contain no particular news. It appears that
M. VAN DE WEYER had set out on his return to
resume his functions as Ambassador at our Court.,
A steam-coackwas started on Tuesday last, and
seemed to traverse the streets of Brussels to the perfect
satisfaction of the people. This is very gratifying in a
scientific point of view.
The official part of the Moniteur announces the
average price of wheat, per hectolitre, to be 15f. 48c.,
that of rye, Bf. 32c., the price of wheat being in the
scale above 15f., and below 20f. The import duty on
wheat is declared to be 37f. 50c. per 1,000 kilogrames.
According to the law of the 31st July the import duty

remains unchanged.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Nov. 5.
Actual Debt, 2 4 per Cent s2ls
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent
Loan of the City, 1832,4 per Cent... OB 2
_ . _

Yesterday evening at LLOYD'S the Spanish Perpe-
tuelles were done at 47-1,-; Cortes, 451 ; Coupons,
26/ ; Guebhard, 38.

Frankfort Papers of the Ist and 3d inst. have been
received, from which we make the following extracts :
Mcmcn, OCT 26.—1 t is said that M. Burgard, who has
brought to the Duke of Leichtenberg the sword, bequeathed '
to him by Don Pedro, is also the bearer of important commu-
nications respecting the marriage of the young Queen, Donna
Maria, to the Duke. It is said that the negociations which
have been carrying on are now concluded ; and that the in-
tended marriage of the Duke with the Queen will soon be
officially declared.
FRANKFORT, OCT. 30.—Lord Russell, English Minister at
the Court of urtembern2 has arrived here from London.
HESSE DARMSTADT, OCT. 27.—The dissolution of the
Chambers has made a disagreeable impression. Thus we have
had another useless Assembly of the Estates, which has sat
six months, and cost at least 60,000 florins. But it is mani-
fest, from all the circumstances, that the fault is not with the
Government.—Frankfort Papers, Nov. 1.
VIENNA, OCT. 25.—The accounts from Turin in a South
German Paper, which is much read, and in general well in-
formed, must not be unconditionally relied on, though the
writer assumes a half official lone, and perhaps has a right to
do so. Even statesmen are often imperfectly informed of what
is passing in other Cabinets, and take hopes for realities. A
recognition of Don Carlos as King of Spain by our Court is
certainly quite out of the question at present. It might be
different if the Cortes at Madrid should take such a revolu-
tionary course that all hope must be removed of seeing Spain
under their control organised on principles which should not
too strongly contrast with those of the West of Europe. Then,
indeed, the recognition of Don Carlos might show the Ere -
tados that the whole policy and organization of Europe must
harmonize, and that it is not without danger to run into
trcmes. Whether this will happen, time alone can show.—
Frankfort Papers, Nov. 3.

It has appeared, from what we have stated in a for-
mer number, that for forty years preceding 1815, the
trr.de in corn was free. It was not so intended, but a
natural cause was in operation beyond the power of
the Legislature to control, which rendered of no avail
the importation prices which it fixed. The result is
thus stated by the Agricultural Committee of 1821 :
" The necessary consequence of the trade in corn hav-
ing
been virtually open with the continent, and the
importation allowed at prices merely nominal during
the period of forty years, has been, that the general
price of the shipping ports of the Continent has not
upon an average been materially lower than the price
in England, except as to the amount of the charges
to he incurred in bringing the foreign corn to the mar-
kets of this country." In this state of things, the
dealer in grain could not purchase foreign grain cheaper
than he could purchase British grain, and if he pur-
chased foreign grain, he bought it at the hazard of the
price falling at home, before he could bring the grain
he purchased abroad to the market at home. He thus
always bought foreign grain at the risk of a loss, and
he therefore gave a preference to the purchase of Bri-
tish grain. The British grower thus always had an
advantage in the home market, until the price con-
tinued to rise so high, and continued to rise so long,
as to remove the risk to which the dealer was gene-
rally exposed by purchasing foreign grain. When an
advantage in the home market failed the British grower,
he was then enabled to export, and it is a remarkable
fact, appearing from accounts which form an appendix
to the Agricultural Report of 1821, that the amount
of British grain exported in the forty years which pre-
ceded 1815, was equal to one-sixth of the quantity of
foreign grain imported, while it appears from accounts
subsequently laid before Parliament, that soon after
16315 grain ceased to be exported. But this is not all
1
The home grower is deprived of the advantage of the
home market at a time when it is mr.,st necessary to
him. He is always obliged to '2;11 at the lowest price,
and the dealer in foreign rain is always enabled to get
the best price. A rew facts upon this head may be
more convincir.g than any reasoning whatever, though
we shall also show from reasoning, that the home
grower is thus exposed to a competition which he can-
not withstand. To go no further back than the year
before that in which the present law was passed :—ln
February, 1827, the price of wheat per quarter was
only 535. 4d., but it rose to 60s. in August. In January,
1828, the price, which was then only 51s. Bd., rose to
765. 7d. in December. It continued falling until Oc-
tober, 1829, when it was only 535. 7d. It then began•
to rise, but in January, 1830, it was only 545. 4d.,
though it rose to 725. 7d. in August, and again fell to
595. 4d. in October. We might pursue these fluctua-
tions, but enough has been stated to show the situation
of the home grower, who has no choice—he must sell
at the low price, because he must 1-:.ve the means of
paying his rent and his labo,-,frers. The dealer in
foreign grain need not sell, and does not sell in the
home market, until tl:,e price so rises as that he can
gain both by the rase of the price and the fall of the
duty, using the foreign grain he has warehoused for
the purposes of foreign trade, until the home price so
rises, and the duty so falls. He thus always gains,
and the home grower always loses, the former by always
obtaining the highest price, and the latter by being
always deprived of it by the dealer in foreign corn,
when it is most necessary to him, namely, when the
price rises from a deficiency in the home crop. Nor