The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-01 00:00:00

UN, LONDON, - WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRVARY 1, 1860.

quite pleasant that all the world should look
upon us as delivered to SATAN•
The EMPEROR, however, has his turn—he can
sentence to temporal perdition, at least—so the
Univers—the Univers which exulted in the laws by
which it is put down, when they were turned only
against Protestant and liberal journals—the Uni-
vers, which bearded the EMPEROR at the close of
the Italian war, and contributed towards compel-

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ling him to finish it—the Univers, which thought
itself a fair match for the EMPEROR—the Univers
is warned and warned again, and at last ex-

tiuguished! As Englishmen we, of course, should
like the Univers and any paper in Paris to write

and publish what opinions it pleased—but there
is one old text which commends itself to every

judgment by its own weight, as well as by that of
him who gave it. " With what measure ye mete
withal it shall be measured unto you." And this is
the judgment which the Univers has received.
It is too equitable not to be approved in England.
All free or none free, is the only rule we can tole-

rate here or abroad.
What follows must be awful, indeed, at Rome
and in Ireland. The leading Paris journals all
seem as if the blow which had knocked down the
Univers had struck off their fetters. Above all,
the Constitutionnel argues out the whole case with
the most unflinching audacity—an audacity bor-
rowed, of course, from Imperial inspiration. And
the EMPEROR is right,—politically right we
mean—not supposing that EMPERORS can care for
any other right. He has appealed to a principle
no one can impugn, and to traditions of which
France has reason to be proud. It is notorious
matter of history that the Gallican Church has
always been proud of its liberties. Frenchmen
would be good Catholics, but not slaves, to a pope
who transcended his spiritual jurisdiction. The
Catholic principle that his jurisdiction is purely
spiritual no intelligent Catholic could deny ; the
fact that France had in her best days always de-
nied any other, is equally incontrovertible.
In this great controversy, therefore, the EMPE
ROE has all whom he wants on his side. The
army, for they are angry that the POPE and the
clergy cheated them of the glory of finishing the
Italian war according to its original programme.
The people, for they love their traditional
ecclesiastical liberties more than they do the rabid
Ultramontanists of the day. The Italians—they
of course are ready to worship him for holding off
from them the brutal hands of Austria, and of the
murderers of Perugia, while they are consolidating
their liberties. The intelligence of England and of
all Europe, for the absurdity of the Pope's temporal
rule is the laughing-stock or the hatred of all lovers
of freedom. Napoleon has, besides, 60,000 men in
Italy to bid all would-be interveners keep their dis-
tance—and now he has plainly told the POPE that
no one shall hurt him if he keeps quiet at Rome, but
that all his subjects outside its walls may choose
a better master as soon as they please ! This is
clearly the meaning of the last clause of the
Imperial article in the Constitutionnel, which our
readers will find in another column. We can only
say, the sooner the better. Rome is too much to
be sacrificed to the temporal despotism of a spiritual
power ; and the first step will probably soon be,
that Rome will acknowledge in the POPE its
Bishop only.

THE NEW COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC

WORKS.

(FROM A CORRESPONDRNT.)
Mr. William Cowper, now \gee-President of the
Board of Trade, is to be appointed First Commis-
sioner of Public Works. The place has been kept
open for hive for nearly two months. It will be
recollected that Mr. Cowper was appointed
to his present office in Augast last, and his
election consequent upon his taking that office
did not take place till after Parliament closed.
Mr. Cowper took his seat on Tuesday, the 24th
ult., the day that Parliament assembled ;
but as the electors of Hertford have the
power of petitioning against the last return, and
that power exists for 14 days after the opening of
Parliament, no new writ can be moved for the
borough of Hertford before Tuesday, the 7th of
February ; and in case a petition should be pre-
sented, the writ must be postponed till after the
petition has been disposed of. It is probable that
no such step may be taken, and in that case the
electors of Hertford will receive the writ on Wed-
nesday, the Bth of February.
Mr. Cowper, who is nephew of the late Lord
Melbourne, a former Premier, and stepson to the
present Premier, was born in 1811, and became a
Cornet, and soon afterwards a Lieutenant, in , the
Blues or Royal Horse Guards. Ho has had the
good fortune to fill the following offices :-
1. Aide-de-Camp to the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland in 1832. He soon after left his regiment.
2. Private secretary to Lord Melbourne, 1835.
3. A Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital, 1839.
4. A Lord of the Treasury from 1841 till Sir R.
Peel's accession to office.

5. A Lord of the Admiralty after Sir R. Peel's
resignation in 1846 to Lord Derby's first Ministry
in March, 1852.

6. Gazetted a major in the army, 1852.
7. Re-appointed a Lord of the Admiralty, De-
cember, 1852, which he held till February, 1855.
B.4uUnder-Secretary, Home Department, Feb-
ruary, 1855, to August, 1855.
9. President of the Board of Health from August,
1855, to February, 1857.
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10. A Privy Councillor, 1856.
11. Vice-President of the Council of Education
from February, 1857, till Lord Palmerston's resig-
nation, February, 1858.
12. Vice-President of the Board of Trade,
August, 1859.
13. To be First Commissioner of Works, Feb-
ruary, 1860.
The above is a wonderful list of appointments for
any one man to hold, however endowed he may be
by Providence with varied and super-eminent
talents, or favoured by connection.

The Duke of Argyll arrived in town, yesterday,
from Windsor Castle.
The Duchess of Sutherland returns to Stafford
House to-day, from visiting her Majesty at Windsor Cagle.
ITis Excellency Admiral von Dockum, Danish
Minister at this Court, has returned to London from
Copenhagen.
The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town yester
day, from Windsor, to attend the Cabinet. His grace afteip
wards returned to the Castle. _ _

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Their Royal Highneises the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary are expected to honour the
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminton, early in the
ensuing week.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury and
family come to town to-morrow, for the season, from Hat-
field House, Hort&

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, TUESDAY.

The Pays of this evening says, " Numerous de-
putations from Savoy, composed of persons of high
standing, arrive daily in Paris. The demonstration
in Chambery on Sunday last was of no importance."

MADRID, JAN. 30.

The steamer Madrid has been run into by the
steamer Seine. Great damage was caused by the
accident, but no lives were lost.
Latest intelligence received from the seat of war
announces that the fortification of the Spanish en-
campment before Tetuan continued.

AMERICA.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office :

QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY.

The Canadian mail steamer Hungarian, Captain
Jones, which left Portland, Maine, on Jan. 21,
arrived here at 5 a.m., landed the English and
Scotch mails, and proceeded on to Liverpool.
The Circassian, from Galway, arrived at New-
foundland on the 20th inst.

The Anglo-Saxon, from Liverpool, reached Port-
[and on the 19th inst.

The Hungarian brings intelligence from New
York to the 20th inst.
The non-election of a Speaker was operating uB-
- on business.
The Viceroy of Egypt had made a largo contract
for Sharpe's rifles.
Mexican advioes are to the 12th inst.
It was rumoured that General Janon had pouted
himself at Attenique with 6,000 men, and intended
to dispute the passage of Miramon.
At New York on the 20th the cotton market was
active, and prices advanced Sales 8,000 bales.
Middling uplands quoted 111. Breadstuffs were
generally lower. Provisions and freights un-
changed.
The stock market closed heavy at lower prices.
Money easy ; exchange dull.
ORLEANS, lAN. 20.
Sales of cotton to-day amount to 15,000 bales, at
an advance of ke. Middling lle. to 111 c. Sales
of the week 95,000 bales. Receipts during the

same period 67,000, and export 61,000 bales. Re-
ceipts here, 251,000 bales ahead of last year. Re-
ceipts at all the Southern ports, 405,000 bales
ahead of last year. Sugar has declined to ;c
Exchange 71 to 8 9-16ths.

MOBILE, JAN. 19.
Cotton market buoyant. Sales to-cay 1,100 bales
at an advance of lc.
Business and freights at Havana dull. Sugar
crops as largo as last year. Exchange in London
14} to 15 premium.

THE WEST INDIA, MEXICAN, AND

PACIFIC MAILS.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tasmanian,
Captain Jellicoe, arrived at Southampton yesterday
evening with the abovenamed mails, in charge of
Lieutenant Scriven, R.N., Admiralty Agent. Her
dates were :

Tampico .. .. Jan. 3
Vera Cruz .. 4
Havannah 10
Puerto Cabello .. 6
Santa Martha ..
Greytown (Mos-
quito) ..
Carthagena 11
Colon .. 8
Kingston (Jamaico) 11
Jacmel (Hayti) 12
San Juan (Porte
Rico)
Berbice 9
Georgetown (Deme-
rara) ..
Tobago

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Port of Spain (Trini-
dad) Jan. 9
Bridgetown (Bards-
does) 11
Grenada _ 10
St. Vincent's . • 10
St. Lucia 12
Martinique 12
Guadaloupo • • 13
Dominique 12
Antigua 13
Montserrat 13
Nevis 13
St. Kitt's 13
Tortola 14
St. Thomas's .. 18

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Valparaiso (Chili) Dec. 16 } Lima (Peru) .. Dec. 27
Cobija (Bolivia) .. 20 I Payta (ditto) 30
Arica (Peru) .. —2l Guayaquil (Elena-
Islay (ditto) —22 dor) .. Jan. 1
Callao (ditto) 27 Panama (N.Granada)
The Tasmanian brings 67 passengers. The
freight on board comprises specie to the amount of
742,185 dollars, of which 549,845 dollars value are
in silver, and 192,840 in gold. Also, pearls value
i 3,130, plata pina value £1,546, precious stones,
&c., value, £6OO ; and cargo comprising 154 serons
of cochineal, 673 serons of indigo, 28 serons of
jalap, 160 cases of cigars, 171 bales of tobacco, 6
cases of arrow-root, 84 bales of sarsaparilla, 5
packages of vanilla, 9 cases of bark, 13 cases of
succades, 30 boxes of limes, 154 bags of cocoa, and
91 packages sundries.
St. Thomas's was generally healthy. A few cases
of yellow fever of a mild character had lately shown
themselves among the shipping, but the disease was
rapidly declining.
Her Majesty's ships Gorgon and Racer were at
Greytown ; also the United States' steamer Sabine.
The St. Louis sailed for the Colorado River on the
2d of January.
Her Majesty's ship Cossack, and the schooner
Kingston, and 'the. United States' ship Prebble,
were at Carthagena; her Majesty's ship Imaum at
Jamaica.

Jamaica advices are to the 10th. The legislative
session closed on the 30th of December, all subjects
of dispute with the Executive having been ami-
cably settled.
In consequence of the unsatisfactory manner in
which the Assembly disposed of the question of
transferring the control of the Post-office Depart-
ment from the Imperial to the Local Government,
the Governor anticipates the necessity of summon-
ing the Legislature at an earlier period than usual.
The Legislature was prorogued to Feb. 2. The
special commission for the trial of the Falmouth
rioters had terminated. Several of the rioters
were convicted, and sentenced to various terms of

imprisonment.
The weather had been dry. Reports of the
crop were generally favourable, and business was
rallying.
At Demerara the Court of Policy had passed an
ordinance to transfer the management of the Post-
office from the Imperial to the Colonial Govern-
ment. A Bill to raise a loan to defray the cost of
Chinese emigration had also been introduced. The
ship Sir George Seymour had arrived with 298
Coolies from Calcutta, and was followed by the
Canning, with 350. The Tres Amigos had arrived
from Madeira with 40 Portuguese emigrants. The
weather had been very wet during the fortnight,
and several estates in Essequibo had been inun-
dated. The rains had also been unusually heavy
in Berbice ; they had put a stop to manufacturing
operations, and a continuance would seriously in-
jure the forward canes.
The markets at Demerara had been very dull ii
consequence of the holidays. Breadstuffs in large
supply. Some considerable exports of flour had
been made, which tended to keep prices from de-
clining.
Governor Hincks opened the Barbadoes Assem-
bly on Dec. 28, in a brief speech, which contained
nothing of importance. The Legislature was to
meet on the 11th, when addresses would be adopted
in reply to the speech. Business was improving
in all departments, and active preparations were
being made for crop operations.
Business at St. Thomas's had slightly improved,
but was still rather dull. ProviSions in slightly
better request in consequence of stocks of American
imports being reduced.
A letter from San Domingo of the 23d of Decem-
ber announces the return of the English and French
Consuls to that place. The Dominicans having
acceded to all demands made upon them relative to
the matter of the paper money issued by the late
President Baez, the offensive conduct of the Go-
vernment regarding which compelled the Consuls
to withdraw from the city in May last, the flags of
Great Britain and France were saluted on the 3d of
December by 42 guns as a satisfaction for the acts
previously committed, and the salute was returned
by 21 guns each from the Cossack and the Mercure.
The Consuls afterwards landed and rohoisted their
flags. The Spanish Consul subsequently arrived,
and the claims of the Spanish Government are
placed on the same footing as those of France and
Great Britain.
From Valparaiso the news is unimportant, and
very little change to report in the business of the
fortnight. Buyers from the Argentine Republics
had completed their purchases, and business was
generally dull, exchange at Callao falling 18 per
cent. on United States, 42d. on England.
The steamer Guatemala, from the Central Ame-
rican coast, arrived at Panama on the 7th. Among
her passengers were Sir William Gore Ousoley,
lady, and daughter, en route to Havannah, and ex-
President Mora, of Costa Rica, who was not per-
mitted to land at Punta Arenas. The various
republics were quiet.
A severe earthquake did a great deal of damage
in the State of Salvador on the Bth of December.
No lives were lost.
The indigo crop this year will average 10,000
serous, in price from 8 to 16 seals per lb , according
to quality, There was considerable animation in