The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1835.

pressions, styled him " traitor" and" incendiary," had for '
the time completely eclipsed his better judgment. How-
ever, if he has sinned, he will now pay the penalty. An
awful retribution awaits him for—Mr. DISRAELI has
publicly threatened to extinguish him ! " I expect," says
this truculent and ferocious young man, "to be a re-
presentative of the people before the repeal of the
Union. We shall meet at Phillippi ; and rest assured
that, confident in a good cause, and in some energies
which have been not altogether unproved, I will seize
the first opportunity of inflicting upon you a castigation
which will make you at the same time remember, and
repent the insults you have lavished upon BENJAMIN
DISRAELI." The modesty of this threat is only to
be equalled by its absurdity. The writer, it will be
seen, compares himself to Ccesar—only conceive,
Cir.S.lll DISRAELI I—whose ghost, it may be re-
membered paid Brutus a visit one night in his
tent ; and, of course, if Mr. D'ISRAELI be Ca-
sein Mr. 0' C 0 NNE', r. must be Brutus, an
unwilling testimony to his patriotism, into which the
writer has been betrayed by his love of fine phrases.
We purposely refrain front comment on that part of
Mr. DISRAELI'S letter which alludes to the challenge,
which, it seems, he sent yesterday to Mr. O'CON-
NELL'S son, and which that gentleman very properly
declined ; for any thing in the shape of serious remark
would be utterly thrown away on such an absurd affair.

Our readers will see with pleasure that, at a Court
of Common Council held yesterday for the purpose of
considering the propriety of presenting an Address to
his MAJESTY, expressive of the satisfaction which
the City of London felt at the dismissal of the late
Administration, and the accession to office of the pre-
sent Ministers, the resolutions in favour of the Ad-
dress, &c., were carried by a majority of 38, the num-
bers being-98 for, and 60 against, them. Among
the speeches delivered on this occasion was a singu-
larly absurd one, by Sir PIETER LAURIE, who in an-
swer to some taunt about his connection with the
Caledonian Chapel, thrown out by Mr. STEPHENS,
said that the instant Mr. IRVING " ceased to talk
common sense, he cut him." If the worthy Knight car-
ries this practice into private life, and cuts all his
friends, the instant they cease to talk common sense, he
will have very few Tory Aldermen left among his ac-
quaintance.

It will be seen by the Gazette of last night that
Mr. CHARLES GRANT has been raised to the Peerage
by the title of Baron Glenelg, as we originally stated
in The Sun, and not Inverness, as stated by several of
our contemporaries. The Duke of SUSSEX is Earl of
Inverness.

Lieutenant-General Sir RICHARD HUSSEY
VI-
VIAN has been appointed Master-General of the
Ordnance.

Lord GRANVILLE has been appointed Ambassador
to the French Court.

His Majesty's schooner, Viper, arrived at Fal-
mouth on the sth, from Lisbon, bringing letters and
papers from Portugal to the 19th ult. The country
was then in a state of perfect tranquillity, and nothing
was talked of but the future marriage of the young
QUEEN. The ordinary session of the Cortes will
close on the 20th of May, when the QUEEN will
dissolve the Chambers in person by the usual speech
from the throne.

The Paris papers of Monday are filled with obser-
vations, conjectures, and discussions, respecting the
trial of the prisoners of April. The new Court opens
to-day, and probably at the very instant at which we
write, the Peers have entered upon their judicial func-
tions. All the leading journals, not in the immediate
keeping of the Government, reprobate the conduct of
the KING in thus bidding defiance to the whole moral
influence of the French people. The fifth legion of
the Metropolitan National Guard have entered a pro-
test both against the trials, and against the duties
which the Government, in order to prosecute the trials
successfully, imposed upon the army. Of this docu-
ment a copy appeared in some of the Paris papers of
Sunday, and failed not to produce a powerful sensation
in the capital. The Government became seriously
alarmed, and it was at fist resolved that the fifth
legion should be immediately disbanded. This resolu-
tion was not, however, acted upon ; and some of the
Ministers, suggesting that it might be the safest
course to consult the officers of the legion respect-
ing the sentiments of the men, the PRESIDENT
of the council-had the Colonels summoned before it.
The communications made by these gentlemen con-
siderably allayed the fears of the Cabinet. They
stated that the fifth legion would support the Govern-
ment unless it commanded an attack upon the people ;
and they further intimated that the course about to be
adopted by Ministers—namely, the disbanding of the
legion—might produce serious evils at a period of such
universal excitement. M. THIERS was not slow to com-
prehend the sound policy of this advice, and at once pre-
pared to act upon it. The previous determination of
the Council to give orders for disbanding the fifth
legion was therefore abandoned ; and intimation given
to the subordinates of the Government, that no fur-
ther notice should be taken of the protest. The
KING will not forget the conduct of this section of
the National Guard ; and it would be hazarding little
to assert, that the fifth legion will be cashiered before
two months, provided the citizen KING continue to
sit so long on the Throne of France. The worst
fault of Lovis PIIILIPPE is, that he knows not
what it is to forgive an enemy—a fault common to
all men of a maliciously obstinate disposition.
When the Allied Armies entered Paris in triumph,
it was not more environed with the insignia of con-
quest, than it is with the regalia of despotic power at
the present moment. There cannot be less than one
hundred and twenty thousand of National Guards, one
-hundred thousand troops of the line, besides five thou-
sand police, all under arms, within and around the
immediate vicinity of the French capital. The KING
has left nothing to the spontaneous good feeling and
loyal sentiments of the citizens of Paris. His first
care has been to treat them all as the confederates of
the prisoners, by providing against any attempt which
they might make to impede the visitation of his wrath
on the supposed plotters against his Crown and dig-
nity. This is in unison with the general policy of
this infatuated SOVEREIGN. Ever prepared to sacrifice
the better and more generous feelings of his nature to
his love of power, he judges all mankind by himself,
and presumes them ready to conspire against him when-
ever they see before them a prospect of making their
treason the ladder to.wealth and distinction. There is
no quality more required in a Prince than prudence,
but jealousy and constant racking suspicion is neither
a
prudence in itself, nor in any way whatever allied to
that virtue.

It is yet doubtful as to what course the KING will
pursue respecting those Peers who refuse to preside at
the trials, and still more with regard to such of that
body as pronounce the trials unjust and unconstitu-
tional. A protest against the trials, by any member
of the Chamber of Peers, must go a great way to in-
validate the whole proceedings ; inasmuch as the Peers
have to decide both upon the existence of crime
and the extent of the punishment. In a legislative
capacity the question at issue is generally a matter
of opinion ; but in a judicial one it can only b•

a matter of fact, especially where the will of the '
judges constitutes the only law applicable to the case
under or before the Court. But however this may be
decided, the KING will find it a rather difficult matter
to deal with the refractory Peers, in a case where the
constitution has armed him with no power. The
Peers may, or may not, give their attendance, just as
they please, without incurring any recognized respon-
sibility. The Marquis de DREUX BREZIS has ad-
dressed a very able letter to the President, Baron
PASQUIER, in which he protests against the trials as
altogether unnecessary ; and by implication proves
that there was not a jot of difference between the con-
duct of the prisoners, and that of the KING himself,
so far as he was assisting at the expulsion of
CHARLES X.

The number of prisoners now under sentence of trial
for high treason amounts to one hundred and ninety-
two. Of this number one hundred and ten are accused
of open rebellion ; nineteen are public writers, charged
with inciting the populace through the public press,
to dethrone the KING ; and the remaining sixty-three
are to be tried as accessories, they having contributed
by their fortune and interest to forward a rebellion for
the overthrow of the ORLEANS dynasty. For all these
crimes the legal punishment is death.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Pants, MAY 4.
Five per Cents., 107 f. 70c. 85c. 70c.
Four per Cents., 99f. 20c.
Three per Cents. 81f. 90c. 85c. 90c.
Bank Actions, 1,980 f. 1,985 f. 1,990 E
Rente de Naples, 98f. 80c. 55c. 90c.
Roman Five per Cents., 10254 %.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 51 50%.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 31% 32.
Royal Spanish Loan, 50% 4.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 50 50%%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102,4.
Portuguese Loan, Six per Cents. 100% 101.
Haytian Loan, 497 f. Ioc.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25E 40c. ; money, 251 40c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 25f. 30c.
—Cours Authentique.

BOURIR, THREE o'CLo-cm.—Another blank day. The 3 per
Cents. opened at 82f. 15c., and remained at that price till
this moment ; 82f. 10c. buyers, 82f. 15c. sellers, for the end
of this month. In Spanish securities there is scarcely any
difference since Saturday, except in the Differ6s, which have
fallen to 20+. The news from the frontiers is not to be de-
pended upon; much of it is made up for stock-jobbing pur-
poses, but none of the Spanish securities have latterly been
affected by reports.
QUARTER TO FOUR O'CLOCK.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 10c. ;
Three per Cents., 82f. 10c. ; Five per Cents., Spanish, 50i;
Three per Cents. Spanish, 32 ; Cortes, 504 ; Coupons, 3l};
Guebhards, 50 ; Differ6s, 204; New Loan, 66k; Ducats,
99 20 ; Romans, 102 ; Belgians, 102 i ; Dutch, 59 ; Hay-
tian, 447 f ; Brabant Bank, 194.

Brussels and German Papers have been received.
Extracts from the former will be found in another
column. The German Journals do not contain a
paragraph of the slightest importance.

Cape Qf Good Hope papers to the 22d of Feb-
ruary, and Madras papers to the 4th of January, have
been received. The following extracts contain all the
latest intelligence from the Cape, relative to the late
insurrection of the Caffre hordes in the interior :

Despatches have this moment been received from Colonel
Smith, the Commander of the Forces, giving the details of a
series of operations against the enemy, all, of which have
been successful, though we are sorry to add, with the loss of
five killed on our part, and of several wounded. We now lay
before the public the following particulars :
" The Head-quarter Division crossed at Frampeton's Drift,
River rather high ; it was formed into three divisions. One
under Capt. Halifax, 2 Companies of the 75th Regiment,
20 Cavalry, and 60 Infantry Sharp Shooters ; marched up to the
bank of the river, and penetrating a kloof about four miles
above Frampeton's Drift, laid quiet till morning. Another
corps under Major M'Lean entered another kloof about a mile
and a half up the river, and also lay quiet. The Head-
quarter Division marched to the Chusie, rested an hour and
a half, and at daybreak came upon the rear of the enemy's
position. The thick bushy kloofs were studded with the
enemy's kraals. On seeing us they raised their cry of alarm,
and turned out their cattle, which were soon in the bush and
out of our view. We cannonaded them where most of the
Caffres seemed assembled, and immediately penetrated the
thick bush at three points. The enemy defended himself de-
sperately ; and disputed every inch of ground—but the gal-
lantry of our troops overcame all obstacles, and in the course
of a few hours, the two divisions emerged from their respective
kloofs, sweeping before them large herds of cattle. On the
right, Colonel Somerset crossing at Caffre Drift with a three-
pounder and 415 cavalry, turning to the left, attacked the
enemy in his strong holds, capturing 750 head of cattle. Co-
lonel England, on the left, crossing Committy's Drift, with a
six-pounder and troops, turned to his right, and engaged the
enemy with vigour.
" The result of this well-combined and successful operation
is 2,500 head of cattle, several horses, sheep, and goats cap-
tured, 73 of the enemy killed, and many wounded. This
success has been attended, on our side, with a loss of 5 killed
and 8 wounded. Among the former is Mr. Goodwin, a fine
young man, who joined as volunteer."
The Madras papers are filled with the trial of Captain
Dickinson, for embezzling 20,000 rupees. He is to be trans-
parted for seven years.