The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-09 00:00:00

upon.

PARIS, FEB. 9.
No confirmation of the rumoured insurrection al
Constantinople has yet been received.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 8

The President of the Council and Minister of
Justice, M. Rottwitt, was attacked with apoplexy
at ten o'clock this evening, and died a few minutes

BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY,

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Delta, Captain Black, has arrived with the heavy
portion of the above mails, 42 passengers, £14,720
in specie, and a large cargo of general merchandise.
She left Alexandria, 26th, and Malta, on the 30th
ultimo.

The Euxine arrived at Gibraltar on the 3d ins'

The Delta spoke the Valetta on the 30th, and the
China on the 31st alt.

At Alexandria the Egyptian fleet ; at Malta the
fleet of Admiral Mundy ; at Gibraltar Admiral
Fanshawe's squadron.
News from Morocco is to the 2d.
The Spanish artillery were occupied iu shelling
the Moorish camp.

Numerous steam and sailing transports were off
Port Martin discharging ammunition, provisions,
and clothing for the army.
The Moors commenced an action on the 31st, and
were three times repulsed, but returned each time
with increased fury to the attack. They closed
with the Spanish in a hand-to-hand combat, but
were defeated, and retired obstinately disputing
every foot of ground.

In a cavalry charge the Spanish found their re-
turn intercepted by 2,000 Moorish horse, and had
to cut their way through, aided by other squadrons
which were sent to their assistance.

Gen. Prim with four battalions stormed a height
commanding a field of battle. The Spanish charged
four times with the Dayonet before gaining the

position.

The Spanish loss in the affair was reported to be
considerable.

Brigadier Lorenzo Milano del Bosch had been
sent for by Marshal O'Donnell to command the
second brigade under Prim.
The French steamer Seine, and the Spanish
steamer Villa di Madrid, were in collision on the
29th ult., off Cax de Gata, and both were seriously
damaged.

Two hundred and fifty men and seven officers,
wounded, arrived at Algeciras on the 2d inst. from
the Spanish camp.
Since the commencement of the war with
Morocco 11 journals devoted to military matters
have been established at Madrid.

The next steamer arriving in Southampton from
Gibraltar will bring full particulars of the taking
of Tetuan.

THE COMMERCIAL TBEetTY.

" Diogenes," in a letter to a contemporary, says :
—ln olden times I had some little hand in the Corn
Law agitation and the establishment of free trade
principles, and the leaders of the League were not
unwilling to let me have my say ; but when the
day was carried, and Cobden crowned with glory
—lasting glory; as I thought, I retired from the
world and returned to my old tub. The strange
news of our day has brought me out again, together
with my lamp, in broad daylight, to look for honest
men and honest principles—apparently as scarce as
ever. I find men and things strangely altered.
Freetraders used to vote reciprocity and commer-
cial treaties visionary and clumsy contrivances ;
now I am told that Mr. Cobden has negotiated a
treaty of reciprocity with France. Freetraders will
have, then, to eat a vast deal of dirt, but I don't
mean to attend the feast. Let them do their dirty
work as best they may.
Protectionists may triumph, but cannot sanction
this treaty. To abolish our duties on French manu-
factures that our own may pass at a charge of 30
per cent. ad valorem is a strange kind of recipro-
city. Not that I want reciprocity, but the advo-
cates of reciprocity surely cannot swallow it of this
kind. To remove the wine duties that France may
avail herself of our iron and coal for the improve-
ment of her manufactures ought to send the nego-
tiator to the madhouse. A fair stage and no favour,
implied iu the absence of export duties, is sufficiently
liberal ; no rational man helps his rival in trade in
the establishment of a shop next door to his own.
Tho gracious permission to extend to other nations
the reductions contracted for resuscitates the old

practice of differential duties, and will justify
other people, nay—our own colonies, in pesteringus
and the world with an ample supply of protective
measures of the antique and most approved pat-
tern. If, in short, the treaty be right, then our
clamouring shipowners are and were right, then
the Corn Law was wise and beneficial, then the
early lives of Cobden, Bright, and all that sort of
folk were folly, delusion, ignorance, and wickedness.
In what the taking off of the duties on cotton and
wool concerns us, and what this has to do with the
treaty, is not easy to discern ; it cannot benefit our
manufacturers, who would rather see these things
prohibited in France or charged with a cent. per
cent. rate. If that was a condition insisted upon the
negotiator's understanding must have been much
shorter than his ears.
But I am told that this is not a commercial but a
political measure, meant for the attainment of great
political considerations, no less than the friendship
of France and security against invasion—and that
love and fear justify in this case departure from
the principles of national economy. Now, friend-
ship must be based on respect, which we forfeit by
this great inconsistency and apostacy; and security
is not to be bought by imbecility, but is the result
of wealth and strength. The commercial treaty is
to make not us, but Franceotrong and rich; it is
to teach the French to be as we are. It is to in-
duce them to avail themselves of our iron and coal,
the essentials of our greatness, that they may have
better machinery, cast more guns, and build ships
at a lesser cost. Do we want to thrust greatness,
wealth, and power away from us into the hands
we are afraid of ? If I am on this score to de-
part from the principles of free trade, let it be_ in
the right direction. Put an export duty, and
bit
a
heavy one, on coal and iron ; that would be a
of national tinkering I might understand.
As for
the friendship of foreign nations, it ilia
like
y stoo that ofd
the
the Stock Exchange, which never
test of one-eighth per cent: The French are a
numerous and powerful people, ambitious, aggres-
sive,e grasping, capricious—so fickle that in three
generations they have had two dozieicongt.tu tons, c;
and three dozen Governments ; their friendshipbe read in the history of a thousand years, and is
not to be relied upon.
Their respect maybe se-
cured,weaknes and vacillation, but by
not by
nss
for safety we had beat
high moral qualificatio
look to ourselves.
Where are the apostles of free trade ? Where is
Villiers, where Bright, where Milner Gibson ?
Have office and emolument, have a few shillings
less duty on iron, coal, and printed cottons demented
them Cannot they muster courage to risk place
or Parliamentary honour when their place in public
estimation, when their own and their country's
honour are at stake ? Is their occupation gone ?
To disregard domestic affairs, to sacrifice revenue,
principle, character, that our narteuartal
yl cadrnvPa nee te
principle,
tors (to use a gentle phrase) may
in wisdom, wealth, and power, is an absurdity
impolitic, dishonest, disgraceful, weak, dangerous,,
treasonable. I say this without hesitation, and
I say so to Lord Palmerston, even at the foot
of the
Throne, and within hearing of her Majesty Is the
noble lord appointed to govern Franco or hie own
country ? Has he not had a sufficient lesson
but two short years ago, that his officiousness for
the 36,000,000 over the water annoys the 30,000,000
at home ?

(Row the :Meriting Advertiser.)
In answer to a question put last night by Mr.
Fitzgerald, Lord John Russell admitted that the
statement in the Independence Beige, which was
given in our own and other journals yesterday, re-
specting the previsions of this treaty, was substan-
tially correct. Under these circumstances, we lose
not a moment in sounding the trumpet to the
people of this country, to prepare for war with
the authors of a treaty so obnoxious,—we will
even say iniquitous ; for it is no less than a re-
gular and deliberate sacrifice of the best commer-
cial interests and social comforts of the people
of this country, to please the Ruler of France.
It is discreditable, nay it is degrading to the Eng-
lish nation, to see our Government thus ingloriously
truckling to the ocoupant of the Tuileries. In
humble deferences to his -wishes, the trading
classes of this country are to pay 30 per cent. on
the raw material of various articles manufactured
in France, while French goods and articles are to
pay no duty to this country. But this is not all.
In order to make up for the deficiency of £2,000,000
in the revenue caused by the abolition of duties
received on articles imported from France, we
are to have an income tax of ninepence in the
pound. And the middle, and even a portion of

the working classes will have to groan under
this heavy burden—to some almost intolerable—
solely because it is the order of the day in Downing-
street that Louis Napoleon must be pleased. Will
the people of this country submit to the monstrous
injustice as well as deep indignity to which it is
intended to subject them, as a peace offering to
French Imperialism We do not believe it. At
any rate, it will not be our fault if they do. The
people must be up in arms—we mean moral, not
physical arms—to defeat this monstrous measure,
eves should it be at the risk of overthrowing the
Government which has proposed it.

LITERATURE.

New _Relations and Bachelor's Hall. By Urbin

Rug. 1 vol.

Westerton.

In this volume we meet with two very smart
sketches of social life. One is of the town and the
other of the country. In the first tale the troubles
of the unfortunate Mrs. Vivian are most forcibly
narrated. How after her brilliant marriage she
discovered the serpents in her Eden were her new
relations, who one and all conspired to plague her.
Laura was a charming girl, and no one could find
a fault with her, so her griefs and annoyances were at
all events not envenomed with the sharp sting of
family jars and recriminations. The various mem-
bers of the family did not differ in their estimate
of her, yet they made her their confidante, at all
times, a thankless office in the jarring of family
disputes, and a most disagreeable infliction. Again
these harpies seemed to consider the house of the
young couple as their rallying point and piece de
resistance whenever they came to town. The needy
and fashionable Grace expected her to give the
fashionable entertainments that were to make the
family famous, and enable her to execute
sundry little plans for the benefit of her
sisters. Jemima, on the contrary, another
of the sisters-in-law, was of the domestic-
interference-style, and living in the country she
liked to rush up to town occasionally and bring
her children with her. On these occasions she
made poor Laura, her hostess, nolens volens. To
crown all, the elder brother of her husband at last
took up his abode with them. Hyde Vivian was a
very fascinating person, but he was a very danger-
ous companion for Herbert, who, being very fond
of his brother was, of course, the more likely to be
swayed by him ; as Laura feared, her husband soon
became involved, to a serious extent, in the affairs
of his extravagant relative, and it was only through
the instrumentality of Laura's aunt that they were
enabled to arrange their affairs at all. This story
is taken up with the account of trivial things for
the most part, but a deeper feeling than that of
merely recording the career of a fashion-
able pair, is apparent in its course. The author
evidently wishes to display some of the evils
that militate against the welfare of many, particu-
larly the insidious vice of gaming. In the second
tale called " Bachelor's Hall," this is also aimed at,
and the account of the slippery course which
Arthur O'Hara so long had trod, brings the
dangers and difficulties of the practice fully before
us. Besides this incident there are several strik-
ing occurrences mixed up in the story, which
gives it some point and purpose. Particularly.
to be noticed is the downfall of the crafty and.
selfish Mrs. O'Hara, whose conduct was always un-
natural to her youngest son, and whose absurd
deference to the eldest one met with its due recom-
pense. The reader will find in this book two
very readable stories which are quite worthy of
notice, and which possess sufficient vivacity of
style to render them an amusing acquisition to the
library table.

Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1860.
19, Wellington-,street.
We are told in the preface to this valuable work
of reference that some five years ago the conductors
of the Clerical Journal resolved to put in practice
an idea which had been suggested to them of com-
piling a biographical dictionary of the clergy of the
Established Church. The plan had been proposed
by friends and subscribers to the journal ; and IA
they continually felt the need of such a work in
conducting the journal, they resolved to attempt
the task, though fully prepared for the labour and
research, as well as the great expense, of such an
undertaking. Their expectations of success have,
however, been fully realised. The reception of the
first edition of the Clerical Directory was most
favourable, while the subscriptions to the new and
improved impression before us have reached throe
thousand. We are not surprised; at so satisfac-
tory a result. Such a work of reference has long
been wanted, and the editors have spare
no pains to make it as full and as authentic as pos-
sible. The seventeen thousand five hundred name*
in the book have been arranged in strict alpha-
betical order—of itself no light labour; each has
been revised and corrected by the aid of Parlia-
mentary Blue-books, University Calendars, returns
of the clergy, and similar publications. A com-
plete index to benefices mad curacies has also been
added to this edition, in strict accordance with the
biographical portion of the book. A chronological
list of bishops, from 1774 to 1859 inclusive is given;
with the name in full of each clergyman, the col-
lege where he took his degree, the date at which hi
was ordained, the amount of his income and the
population of his parish, together with a list of any
volumes of sermons or other works he may
have published. Tho editors do not pro-
fess [perfect immunity from error, but they
claim the indulgence of the public for the early
editions of so extensive a work, and they promise
a continuance of their careful supervision, so that
from the success which has hitherto attended their
labours we may satisfactorily anticipate still further
improvement. It is a most useful and compendious
volume, and every library should include it among
its works of reference.