The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SAMDAY, JULY 11, 1830.

they value the best interests of their country, to exert
themselves to the utmost during the ensuing week—to
strain every nerve to defeat the plans of their enemies ;
and to bear in mind that this object can be attained
only by REGISTRATION.

The subject of the Thames Tunnel was brought be-
fore the House of Commons last night by the Hon.
Member for Berkshire, who made a motion, to which
Mr. SPRING RICE acceded, for the production of
copies of all Treasury minutes, and other documents
under which any sums of money had been advanced to
the Directors of the Thames Tunnel Company. In
introducing his motion, the Hon. Member travelled
not a little out of his way, for the purpose of throwing
discredit on this great national undertaking ; stating,
among other things, that "he had received a letter
from a gentleman who had taken a great interest in the
building of the new London Bridge, and who was per-
fectly competent to give an opinion on such a subject,
assuring him that there was no prospect of ultimate
success in the completion of the Tunnel." This
anonymous opinion ought not to be suffered to
have too much weight ; for it is directly at
' variance with the avowed opinions of some of
the most eminent scientific men in the country,
many of whom declared, at a public Meeting, at
which the Duke of WELLINGTON was pre-
sent a few years since, that though the Tunnel was
certainly a difficult, it was by no means an impracti-
cable undertaking ; and that there was no earthly rea-
son why it should not be brought to a successful issue,
provided sufficient funds were raised for the purpose.
Why, then, does Mr. WALTER endeaiour to throw
obstacles in the way of its completion ? The real
cause, we suspect, is to be found in his desire to em-
barass a Government which was bold enough to pass
the Poor Law Bill, in direct opposition to the princi-
ples laid down in a long pamphlet which he perpe-
trated last year on the subject. He thought possibly,
if he could once prove " that 240,0001. had been ad-
vanced from the public purse under the sanction
of a private Bill," he should be able to em-
broil Ministers with some of the more rigid economists ;
but was disappointed in his benevolent intentions by
Mr. HAWES, who showed that the advance was not
made under the sanction of any private Bill, " but
under a general Act, which directed the issue of one
million for the purposes of public works." We trust—
no matter what -may be the obstacles that present
themselves—that IVlinisters will give every encourage-
ment to the completion of the Thames Tunnel. On
such a subject, no niggardly, cheese-paring notions of
economy should be allowed to have weight. It is an
enterprise worthy of British skill and British perse-
verance. Even in its present condition, the fame of
the speculation has made its way through every part of
the Continent ; so much so, that when a foreigner
comes to London, the very first thing he inquires
about, and to which he pays his first visit, is the
Thames Tunnel.

In the last Number of the Quarterly Review, just
published, there is an article on Municipal Reform, of
so doleful---so desponding a character, that we take for
granted it has been written by a descendant of John-
son's Suspirius, or Goldsmith's Croaker, The Re-
viewer evidently gives up all for lost. There is no
longer, he pretty broadly intimates, a Constitution—no
longer a Monarchy—the Church is going ; ditto, the
Funds ; ditto, everything that is rational and respect-
able. Never, he says, since the birth of time, was
known such an anarchical measure as the Corporation
Bill. Catholic Emancipation was bad—Reform worse
—but this is worst of all. How the people can allow
such a Bill to pass, or even hear of the frightful
proposition with common patience, he, cannot, for the
life of him, make out. What ! extinguish Aldermen
in October ; take from them their immemorial privi-
lege of feasting off venison and turtle-soup, at the pub
lic expense ; prevent them from reversing the New-
castle principle of " doing what they will " with that
which is not their " own ! "—such a proposal could
have originated only with fiends, who, we are here led
to suppose, constitute by far the major portion of the
present Government I We really feel—notwithstand-
ing our political differences—for the anguish that the
Reviewer must have suffered while penning this dis-
mal article. Jeremiah weeping over the approaching
fall of Nineveh, could not possibly have presented a
more affecting spectacle. The sorrows of Werter were
touching ; but the sorrows of this Quarterly sentimen-
talist touch a far finer and deeper chord in our hearts.
Tu shov,-; that we have not been affected without good
cause, we quote the following passage, which the Re-
viewer must have written with the pocket-handkerchief
at his eyes, indulging all the while in sighs that might
sink a schooner

" If it be asked why the Conservative party, so powerful
in the Commons and so predominant in the Lords, seems dis-
posed to content itself with these feeble palliatives and amend-
ments, instead of opposing at once, and in principle, a Bill
founded on such inquiries, fabricated by such machinery, and
directed to such purposes ?—let the truth be told—these are
no times for a false and treacherous delicacy—that in the
House of Commons they cannot ; and in the House of Lords
they ought not, for anything short of an extreme and vital
interest—risk a collision which, they are well aware, their
Radical enemies are anxious to
_provoke For such an in-
terest—for the existence of the CHURCH in Ireland, and con-
sequently in England, for instance—all considerations of tem-
porizing prudence must give way to higher considerations;
but for less sacred objects, we most earnestly deprecate any
proceeding likely to lead to a crisis, from which, in the present
state of things, the most sanguine could not hope for a suc-
cessful issue, and of which, therefore, no man or set of men,
in their senses, would incur the responsibility.
" We speak not now on theory, reasoning, or foresight—we
speak from recent and conclusive EXPERIENCE. The late ex-
periment of a Conservative Government, under Sir Robert
Peel, was made under auspices and with prospects more fa-
vourable than we, a year ago, had thought possible. On the
one hand was an- imbecile and disjointed' ministry—dis-
carded by the king, and universally and unexceptionably
odious and contemptible' to the country at large ; and, strange
to say, most so to those who have been all along their strongest
supporters—in whose severe language, and not our own, we
thus designate the Melbourne Ministry. On the other hand,
was a Cabinet possessing the full favour of the Crown, the con-
fidence of the House of Lords, the enthusiastic support of the
vast majority of the property and intelligence of the country_
nay, a larger share of general popularity than any Minister since
Mr. Pitt's earlier days has enjoyed. The head of the Government
and its leader in the House of Commons was the first man in
England in all the requisites of a great Minister; its leader in the
House of Lords, the first man in the world. Their foreign policy,
at once liberal and conservative, inspired general confidence
abroad and at home : not a charge, not a whisper, was heard
against their capacity, their integrity, or even their liberality_
not one objection to any of their measures, their projects, or
their motives ; even by their opponents they were admitted
to be the ablest and—if they had not been called Conserva-
tives—the fittest men to conduct the public affairs. The elec-
tions held under such favourable impressions appeared at first
sight satisfactory ; and—whatever might be the soberer judg-
ments of those who looked below the surface—it cannot be de-
nied that, according to all former experience, and the standard
by which the stability of political power had been hitherto mea-
sured, Sir Robert Peel's Administration had a fair prospect of
some degree of permanence--yet it vanished like a dream !
It was beaten the first night, in the largest House that ever was
assembled, and on the most favourable question that any Mi-
nister could have desired; it was beaten the second night on
the Address (an Address, to no word of which was any objec-
tion pretended)—an occurrence which had never before ap-
peared in the Parliamentary annals of England ; it was beaten
on every point on which its opponents chose to beat it ; and
after a struggle (which could, from the first defeats, have had
no other object than to satisfy the country that all had been
done that talents and character could do to avert such a re-
sult), the Ministry—which had the confidence of the King,
the Lords, and the Country, and even the respect of their
very opponents—was turned out by the House of Commons ;
and the smaller fragments of the former ' odious and con-
temptible' Ministry were replaced in office : and all this for
no tensible motive--no acknowledged reason—except the
vagti words of Lord John Russell's letter to Mr. Abercrom-
bie-4 a public principle required it.' The expression was,
indeed, vague, but the meaning is now clear and precise—
that public principle is DEMOCRACY—that principle which has
ever been, when once called into action, victorious over all
merely Constitutional power.t.of which the present Ministers
are but the puppets; and which, in spite of them--in spite
even of the House of Commons itself (the majority of which
has assnrecily no such intention)—will ultimately and inevita-
bly,—though at an interval of time greater or lass, according
to accidental and incalculable circumstances,—overthrow
the Church—expel the Aristocracy—usurp the Monarchy_
and seat itself in solitary ciespntimt on the hereditary
throne of all democracies—THE RUINS OF THZ UOUNTRY
which will, we say, infallibly pursue its natural course to its

natural and faithful termination,.unless it be arrested by some
public principle of a totally different character, and a yet
deeper power. Need we add, that it is in the religious feel-
ing of our Protestant countrymen, and in that feeling alone,
that we can discover any remaining ground of hope ?"

It would appear that we are threatened with more
unstamped newspapers, Evening as well as Morning.
Really, matters have come to a pretty pitch if smugglers
are to receive protection at the expense of the fair
dealer; for what is it but protection, if offenders against
the laws be suffered to defy the Government with im-
punity ? The Morning Advertiser of this day contains
the following precious announcement, which we recom-
mend to the consideration of the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER ; for it seems the Board of Stamps can-
not in the present anomalous state of the law reach
the real offenders in these matters. It is worse than
useless to be hunting down the poor starving
wretches, who are made the ready tools of the
nefarious proprietors of these unstamped publica-
cations. Severity towards such destitute creatures, who
are naturally glad to earn anything to escape starva-
tion, only serves to beget public sympathy in their
behalf. Their guilt is lost sight of in the extremity
of their poverty. The Advertiser says :

" In addition to the Daily National Gazette, the unstamped
publication to which we referred. the other day, we under-
stand it is intended to establish two evening papers on simi-
lar principles, without stamps, and to contain all the infor-
mation of the evening stamped journals, and be published
in time to be sent to the country as parcels by the evening
mails. Now, we should be truly rejoiced that all fiscal impo-
sitions on printing and publishing were at once abolished ;
but it is evidently most unfair that not only dearly-bought in-
formation should be pirated with impunity, but that the fair
trader should be burthoned with an impost which the law is
inefficient to levy on the bold buccaneer. We demand from
the Government, in the name of common justice, a similar
exemption, or, at least, such a reduction of the duty as will
render unnecessary the evasion of the law ;—otherwise the
stamped journals have no alternative but to follow, in self-
defence, the example of the daring defenders of a free un-
shackled communication of knowledge.
" It is utterly impossible that the present duties can con-
tinue to be levied ; for independently of the odium which
would attach to the Government in any attempt to strain a
law which is manifestly inoperative and inefficient, and in
which, we are given to understand, there is such a flaw as
to allow of the publication of Newspapers without a stamp,
it is clear that the present House of Commons would not
give their consent to any Bill becoming the law of the
land which was calculated, however justly, to have a more
stringent effect than the present ; or, in other words, to
grant a more effectual protection to the stamped Press
than it at present enjoys. This is a fair statement of the
case ; and it becomes imperative, in consequence, both
upon the Government and upon the proprietors of NeWs-
papers, to determine in what way and by what means the pro-
perty of the one can be saved from further spoliation, and the
character of the other vindicated ? Is there any other effectual
mode than such a reduction of the stamp duty as will deprive
the illegitimate trader of all pretence and all temptation to
pursue his dishonest traffic?

" Never had a Chancellor of the Exchequer such an oppor-
tunity of rendering himself popular—never did a Government
run such a risk of losing its popularity, as the present will, if it
shall fail in adopting the only feasible course of doing justice
to itself and to the legitimate press."

We can add nothing to the above very just obser-
vations, but to assure our readers that, if Evening
Newspapers be suffered to publish without stamps, and
consequently at a lower price than we can afford to
publish on stamped papers, we can have no alternative
but to follow the example, and trust to the justice of
our cause for the support of the public. When laws
cease to be effective they ought to be amended or re-
pealed. That Government ceases to command respect
the moment it is unable to afford protection. Surely
the Government of Lord MELBOURNE is not envious
of such distinction ?

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of

Thursday. The Moniteur of that day contains a
telegraphic dispatch from Bayonne, which states that
General CORDOVA marched out of Bilboa on the
sth instant, with the divisions under his orders, to
attack MoitENo, the commander of the troops of Don
CA RLos. The Messager infers from this that not
only has the command of the Carlists been con-
ferred on MORENO, who is thus the successor
of ZIYMALACARREGUI, but that CORDOVA has
had a superior rank conferred on him by the
QUEEN'S Commander-in-Chief. The question how-
ever is not worth being further investigated. The
Revorateur bestows the command of the Carlists on
ITURRALDE ; the Madrid Gazette on either Count
D'ESPANO or Marshal DE BOURMONT. A few
days will decide the matter, without leaving room for
cavil or conjecture.
We have otherwise no important news from the
frontiers. The Indicateur estimates, in the following
manner, the state of affairs:—

" Lately disciplined, strong and confident, the faction was
advancing ;it had a rallying point—it was formed under the
orders of an able Chief. Now we see it demoralized, falling
back into t:,e mountains, despairing of ever reaching the terri-
tory, which Bilboa protects like a wall of brass. It has, in-
deed, a will, an object, that of maintaining certain franchises,
but no Chief to direct this will, no Chief to keep in check sol-
diers whose numbers and courage are daily decreasing.
" The civil war is not ended ; but you will see that the
siege of Bilboa which is raised is the last brilliant action which
does honour to the factions. The importance of the events in
the Peninsula will diminish in a very striking manner. No
decisive battle will be fought amidst the rocks of the Bis.
cayan provinces. The hopes, the fanatic enthusiasm, the
boldness of the party, are all dead with Zumalacarregui. We
shall scarcely have a few skirmishes to record."
The Government does not give any explanation re-
specting the famous conspiracy : we merely find in the
Journal des Debats—
" For two or three days reports have been spread in Paris
of the discovery of a conspiracy against the life of the King.
The persons indicated as the authors of the plot, are said to
have been arrested. We have learned nothing on the sub-
ject. The authorities will doubtless soon let us know what
we are to think of this news."

The same Journal says----" Almost all the journals speak
also of the report which was circulated on 'Change yesterday,
of the death of the Duke of Bordeaux. From all that we
have been able to collect on the subject, we are inclined to
believe that this news has no better foundation than the thou-
sand reports which are daily spread. All the Carlist journals
formally deny it."—Messager, July-9.

FRENCH FUNDS —Yams, JULY 9.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 10c. 109 f.
Four and a Half per Cent, 102 f.
Three per Cents., 79E 50c. 45c. 35c,
Bank Actions, 2,030 E
Rente de Naples, 97E 30c. 20c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 4IU fi% 42.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 25% g
Royal Spanish Loan. 43
RentePcrpet.d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 4% 42N.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 101 N.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 93% 91g.
Ditto, Three per Cents, 62.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —f —c. ; money, 25f. 42i4c
Three months, paper, 25f. 32 4c. ; money, 251; 30c
Authentique.

Bovasz, THREE O'CLOCR:—The Market is heavy to-day,
but no particular reason exists for this. The first quotation
was 79f. 65c. ; but it is now 79f. 50c. Spanish stock looked
very brisk at the opening, but prices have since declined, in
consequence of sales to realize the profits made by purchases
at lower prices.
QUARTER TO FOUR. Five per Cents., 109 f. 10c. ;
Three per Cents., 79f. 35c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 42 ;
Three per Cents., Spanish, 281 ; Cortes, 42; Coupons, 221 ;
1
Guebhards, 43k ; Differes, 174 ; New Loan, 51 ; Definitives,
48 ;
passives, 15 ; Ducats, 97 20; Romans, 101; Belgians,
;
Pedros, 93} 91k; Miguels, —; Dutch, —; Haytian,
; Brabant Bank, 14i.

German Papers of the latest dates have been re-
ceived. They contain no intelligence of the slightest
importance.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JULY 7.
FOREIGN FUNDS. Bills. Money.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. —
Ditto Bank Shares 1340 1347
Anglo-Russian Loan lns4, - 1054
Ditto, 5 per cent. lOO 99%
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent 77l
Russian inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 86% 86
Ditto, 3 per cent 57 57
D
55( 55
Ditto 5 per Cents
,
po _
Bonds, 3 per cents.
138 4 138
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents.
Anulisclo hh 'A per Cents. -
Danish Loan, 3 per cents
spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents.... ..............
Ditto 4 per Cent. —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent
43 42%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAmRtiRG, JULY 7.-13 10%; two months, 1310.
CHRISTIANIA, JUNE 27.—Three months, 5 10.
STOCKHOLM, JUNE 31.—Two months, 11 42.
ST. PETERSRURCH, JUNE 30—Three months, 10144.
—Hamburg Papers,"July 7.
PIitJBBIAN FUNDK—BARLIN, JULY 4.
Gazette, July 5. Bills. Money.
St. Sehuld. Sch., 4-I per cent. IOIN loot
1830, 4 per cent -98% 98%
PruspsiguiEanglsistahreLoGaanze,
AUSTRIAN FUNDa.—VIENNA, tlvror SO.
Five per Cents. Metillique;
VeOrl9a Ce 44. .... t: . ',":.: :.. . ...... ........ . ,..l9iill'N
Bank Shares •''. .- ' • • "-"' 1,54774
—Allgemeine Zeitung, July 6.

SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JULY 10.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Beeswing,
Smith, from Oporto ; Governor, Corney, from Cork ; Alert,
White, from Belfast; Economy, Walker, Newcastle to Ply-
mouth ; William, Gainsborough to Littlehampton ;
Industry, —, Slacklin to Weymouth.—Sailed this morning,
the Prince George, Shaw, for Madras ; Slakesby, , for
Quebec ; Michael, , for Tobago, since put back.—
Remain the outward-bound.—Arrived from the River and
remain, the Augustus Caesar, Wiseman, for Hobart Town ;
Alexander Henry, Plume, for the South Seas ; Cornwall, Bell,
for Calcutta ; Charles Keer, Arnold, for Hobart Town.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 10.—Wind W.

DOVER, JULY 10.—Arrived the Martha, Robson, from Riga.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 9.—Arrived off port, the Eleanor, Davi.
son, from St. John's, New Brunswick.

WHITEHAVEN, JULY 9.—Arrived the Breayant, Ellice, from
St. Petersburgh.
RAMSEY, JULY 8.--Arrived the Robert, Brandt, Stettin.
CLYDE, JULY B.—Arrived the Hanover, Paton, Jamaica.
NEwRy, JULY B.—Arrived the Royal Mail, Robertson, from
Alicant.

WATERFORD, JULY B.—Arrived the Regulator, Angel, from
London.

FALMOUTH, JULY 9.—Wind W. to W. S.W., strong breezes
and squally.
GENOA, JULY 2.—A1l vessels from the Ports of France in
the Mediterranean, from the 18th ult., are to be subject to a
quarantine of fifteen days, after landing the susceptible goods
into the Lazaretto. Vessels from places where the cholera
exists, as Agete, Cette, St. Thomas's, Toulon, and likewise
such other places where it may manifest itself, are to be sent
to the Lazaretto of Arignan, to perform the above quarantine
there.

The Esther, Jones, from Limerick to Liverpool, was upset
on the 7th instant, off the Orms Head, and sunk. The master
and a boy saved.

ADVICES, ARRIVALS, AND DEPARTURES AT
THE SCOTCH WHARFS.—JULY 10.
HOARD'S WHARF:—Arrival : the Alexander, James Weal-
lum master, from Fraserburgh, with cattle.
DOWNE'S WHARF.—Arrival : the Montrose Shipping Com-
pany's smack Hawk, David Murray master, from Montrose,
with a general cargo. Departures : the Peterhead Shipping
Company's smack Eagle, John Walker master, for Peterhead,
and the Inverness Shipping Company's smack London, John
M'Kenzie master, for Inverness, both with general cargoes.
MILLER'S WHARF.—Arrivals: the Aberdeen and London
Shipping Company's Company's smack the Nimrod, J. Philips
master, and the Bon Accord, James Kerr master, both from
Aberdeen.

ABERDEEN STEAM WHARF.—Advice : the steam-ship Queen
of Scotland, J. Pearson commander, arrived at Aberdeen from
London, on Tuesday, 7th inst.
LEITH AND GLASGOW WHARF.—Arrivals : the Leith and
Glasgow Shipping Company's steam-ship Royal Adelaide,
William Allen commander, from Leith, with goods and pas-
sengers. .

LEITH AND BERWICK WHARF.—Advice : the Berwick
Shipping Company's smack Ceres, Ralph Mossman master,
sailed from Berwick for this Wharf Bth inst. Arrival : the
London and Leith Shipping Company's smack Sir William
Wallace, John Tulloch master, from Leith, with a general
cargo.