The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-21 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1835.

SUN OFFICE. Quarter to 3 oClock.

An Express has arrived from Madrid of the 12th
inst. The Cortes have agreed to the Minister's plans :
800 convents are to be suppressed : the proceeds to go
to pay off the internal debt. There are other finan-
cial plans of a favourable character.
VALDEZ has departed for the Army.
This information has improved the Spanish Stock
to 694 4,-; Spanish Scrip, 9 premium.

The subordinate departments of the Administration
are proceeding towards completion. Last night writs
were moved for the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the
room of Lord MORPETH, who, as we stated last Sa-
turday, is to be the Secretary for Ireland—for Had-
dington, in the room of Mr. ROBERT STEUART, one
of the Lords of the Treasury. This appointment must
be highly flattering to the Reformers of Scotland, for
Mr. STEUART is one of the staunchest and most
public spirited champions of the good cause of Reform,
and as such will be returned with acclamation by his
enlightened and liberal constituents.

Writs were also moved for Taunton, in the room of
Mr. LABOUCHERE, who, instead of being Secretary
to the Admiralty, as formerly stated, has accepted the
double office of Vice-President of the Board of Trade
and Master of the Mint, for which his business habits
eminently qualify him.

The Electors of Berwick-on-Tweed will have another
opportunity of testifying their cordial approbation of
their late consistent and talented Representative,--by
returning Sir RUFANE DONKIN, to fight the battles of
Reform under the banners of a sincere Reforming Mi-
nistry. Nor will the Electors of Sandwich be slow in
following so good an example, by re-electing Sir T.
TROUBRIDGE. The other writ was for Inverness-
shire, in the room of Mr. GRANT.
The additional appointments which have taken
place are Admiral Sir W. PARKER and Sir T.
TROUBRIDGE, Lords of the Admiralty;
Mr. CHARLES WOOD, Secretary to the Admiralty;
The Duke of ARGYLE, Lord Steward of the
Household ;

The Earl of ALBEMAII LE, Master of the Horse ;
The Marquis WELLESLEY, Lord Chamberlain
and—

The Marquis CONYNGHAM, Post-Master General,
as we originally stated in The Sun, on Saturday.

It is fresh in the recollection of every body to what
shifts the Tories were driven to find out something like
a plausible pretext for the abrupt dismissal of the
Melbourne Administration in November last. The only
thing they could allege as having led to so extraordinary
a proceeding, was the unexpected death of Earl SPEN-
CER at the premature age of fourscore years, and the
consequent removal of Lord AL THORP from the
House of Commons, where it was said his presence was
absolutely necessary, not merely to the well-being,
but to the very existence of the Ministry. He who
could believe that Tenterden Steeple was the cause
of the Goodwin Sands, might put faith in such
a pretext—no one else could. Yet, though the trick
was seen through, and the miserable subterfuge a
thousand times exposed, the hireling retainers of the
Court have continued to reiterate the falsehood up to
this very moment. How will they now contrive to
extricate themselves from the difficulty in which they
are involved by the re-construction of the MEL-
BOURNE Cabinet ? By what twisting, and writh-
ing, and slipperiness, will they attempt to crawl
out of the dilemma, in which Lord MELBOURNE
has placed them by forming an Administration of
which Lord SPENCER forms no part ? We are really

curious to ascertain this point, and we hope some of
our Tory contemporaries will gratify our curiosity.
We are also anxious to know why it is that there
appears so little sympathy between the leading Mem-
bers on the Tory side of the House of Lords, and an
evening print generally supposed to concur with their
political views. When Lord ALVANLEY got up and
catechised Lord MELBOURNE respecting the terms
the Noble Lord had made with Mr. O'CONNELL, there
was nothing but exultation on the Opposition benches.
A glorious triumph for Toryism was anticipated, for the
only answer which it was supposed the Premier
could give. Lord BROUGHAM'S interference to dis-
suade his Noble Friend from answering questions put in
so disorderly a manner, raised expectation to the highest
pitch, when lo ! out comes Lord MELBOURNE'S re-
ply, which stated, that he had made no terms
with O'CONNELL—that he had had no com-
munication with the Learned Gentleman I What a
contrast was then perceptible between the countenances
and the speeches of Noble Lords. Not a Tory
Lord or Lordling but was overjoyed at the most
satisfactory answer of the Noble Lord, while the pre-
ternatural elongation of their visages gave the lie
to the words they were uttering I Lord MEL-
BOURNE'S answer to the mighty Duke of BucK-
INGAAM was, we are sure, quite as satisfactory,
when he declared in his own straightforward, manly
way, that he and his colleagues were determined to
carry into effect the late resolution of the Commons,
respecting the appropriation of the surplus Church
property in#lreland.

The notion that the Tories entertain of office may
be gathered from a cursory remark that fell, quite un-
consciously, from Col. SIBTHORP last night. In
opposing Mr. F. BARING'S motion for an adjourn-
ment of the House to the 12th May, the Hon. and
Gallant Colonel took the opportunity of observing that.
" it would require many months before the new Minis-
ters would be, what he called, comfortable in their
places." The word " comfortable" is Tory all over.
It is associated in the minds of the faction, with the
snug, easy days of borough-mongery, when the chief
duty of those who then occupied the Treasury Bench
was, to receive their quarter's salary, and instruct their
subservient majority how to vote. Office by them
never was, and never will be, accepted with any view to
promote the public interest. They never looked on it
in the light of a serious responsible charge, under-
taken for the benefit of others ; but solely to further
their own personal convenience. Provided they were
" comfortable" in their births, what mattered it

how the people might be incommoded ? It was
the duty of the governed to submit--of the
governors to make themselves " - comfortable."
Things are altered now-a-days, yet still, we see,
the old ideas clinging, like burrs, to the minds of the
Tories. When, therefore, Colonel SIBTHORP re
joiced that the Whigs would not for some months to
come, be " comfortable in their places," he only ex-
pressed the notions of his party, as to what should be
the legitimate condition of a Ministry. He could not
imagine that men took office for any other cause than
to make themselves " comfortable;" and was of course
in extacies to hear that the new Government was
likely to be seriously inconvenienced by their novel
and most unaccountable disinterestedness.
Thus much for the Hon. and Gallant Member's
Tory definition of office. Come- we now to a sample
of his logic. " Trade" he observed, by way, we pre-
sume, of justifying the proceedings of the late Minis-
try, " was never so bad as now ; agriculture was
without hope, commerce without support " Granting
this to be the case, who are to be held responsible for
such disasters ? The prospects of the' country were
flourishing enough when the Whigs quitted office; in
November ; if then-they be row blasted, it is clear
that none but the Tories can have been the cause of it.
Yet Colonel SIBTHORPE urges the ill-success that has
confessedly accompanied their Government, as an ex-
press argument in their favour ! " Call you this
backing your friends ? A plague on such backing I"
So says FALSTAFF to Prince HAL, and so with
equal truth may say the Tories to Colonel SIBTIIORPE.
It is a thousand pities that the Honourable and
Gallant Member for Lincoln cannot be prevailed
on to hold his tongue. He never opens his mouth,
but to let drop some nonsensical remark or other.
And the worst of it is, he is always talking. His folly
does not blossom, like the lilac, once a year, but once
a day. It is ever in full flower. Last night he was
more than ordinarily luxuriant in his show of absurdity.
As if it were riot enough for him to ape the logician,
he must needs affect the wag. "He was no party-
man," he observed, " but he must say he did not like
the countenances of the gentlemen opposite, for he be-
lieved them to be the index of their minds." Now really
the Gallant Colonel is the last man who should talk
in this way ; for if the face be the index of the mind, his
mind has no great cause to boast of its index. The
latter being a mere blank, it is manifest, on his
own showing, that the former cannot be much better.
We regret these lavish displays of jocularity on the
part of the Hon. and Gallant Colonel, quite as much
as his best friends can do, but at the same time we
must confess that we are by no means surprised at
them ; for gentle dullness ever loves a joke," which
is the reason, we take it, why he is so inveterately ad-
dicted to the facetious.

Mr. O'CONNELL retorted on Col. SIBTHORPE in a
smart but gentlemanlike spirit, and alluded to a certain
" bloated buffoon," who had taken on himself to be
sarcastic at the expense of the Irish Members, in a
way that must cut right to the heart of the fat jester.
This brought forward Mr. SINCLAIR, who having no-
thing severer to urge, accused the Hon. and Learned
Member for Dublin of being a giant ; and proved at
the same time that he was no David to grapple with
the Goliah. The House adjourned at an early hour,
being no doubt ennuyed with the nonsense that had
monopolized its time, to the exclusion of graver matters.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Sunday. On Saturday the debate in the Chamber of
Deputies, on the American Indemnity Bill, was brought
to a close ; the Bill itself being carried by a majority
of two hundred and eighty-nine votes against one hun-
dred and thirty-seven. All the amendments proposed
by the Opposition were rejected. The Bill carried
remains precisely as it was presented to the Chamber
by the Committee, with the exception of an article,
which was not oppos.ed by Ministers, to the effect that
no part of the debt shall be paid till the Government
of the United States shall have offered an apology to
that of France for the offensive passages contained in
the PRESIDENT'S Message to Congress. We stated
yesterday, that the Bill would not pass without
such a clause, and the result has not proved
us ignornnt of the feelings paramount in a
French Legislative Assembly. After the Bill for
the payment of the twenty-five millions of francs was
passed, two new amendments were proposed—first,
that the debt should bear no interest ; and again, that
it should only commence bearing interest from the day
on which the Bill was carried. Both these amend-
ments were lost, so that in point of fact the debt, in-
chiding nearly three years' interest, exceeds thirty
millions of francs.

The only difficulty that now remains is the obtain-
ing from the American Government the apology de-
mandcd by France. This difficulty does not so much

arise from any hesitation on the part of President
JACKSON to remove whatever unplesant impres-
sions may have been made by the objectionable
passages in his message, as from the fact - that
Congress is not now sitting, and it is questionable
whether he could take any further step in this business
without the joint concurrence of the Senate and the
House of Representatives. By an Article in the Con-
stitutional Charter, Congress must meet at least once a
year, but as the meeting is fixed for December, another
year must elapse before the question, be finally settled,
unless the PRESIDENT were to summon an extraor-
dinary Session. This he may do whenever he is of
opinion that the safety of the Federal Union would be
endangered by a contrary conduct. And here again two
difficulties present themselves. The first is that in the
States of Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri, and Indiana, which re-
turn forty-eight Members to the House of Representa-

tives, the elections will not close before the month of
August ; and the second is, that in the month of May
there will be an election for the Presidency, so that
if General JACKSON be not re-elected, the apology,
how ample soever, will not sound so soothingly in the
ears of Frenchmen.

However, we heartily congratulate France on the
conclusion to which the Chamber of Deputies arrived
on this very important measure. The real grievance

is now removed, and we feel confident that the Go-
vernment of the United States will not be wanting in
endeavours to promote an a%nieable arrangement,
wherever the question turns on, a point of mere eti-
quette. Whatever might be, the motives of the
Republican party in opposing this Bill, we are
very sensible that the Ckh\rlists who supported
them, including their presear(leader the Duke of
FITZJAMES, intended to prom'. 't
the commencement
of a war which they imagined NN% lead to the recal
of the exiled branch of the Bourbtn fainilp.Hapu;:lY
for the country, the Ministers tool a proper positron
with respect to this Bill from th,„; commencerarmt•
They well knew that France would'in nothino by
a war no
hazardi 0 with the United State. They Yvcre
sensible that even if they could evade tti\
,3aymee-It of
the debt, and at the same time escape the WI e4ience
of a disastrous war, the character of Franc ( would
suffer to a greater extent, than would Imt cof'f'ers by
the payment of a sum fifty times as great as.that de-
manded. They acted wisely from the Arst with re-
spect to this single question, and we congratulate
them and the country upon their success.
It is probable that Mr. LiviNosT ONE who still
continues at Paris, will now return to Washington, to
give an account of all that has passed to the PRESI-
DENT. Nor is it likely that he will again visit Paris
as Ambassador from the United States. The publica-
tion of his dispatches by order of the: Congress, has
exposed his opinions of the French Government too
fully to render his presence extretnely- agreeable, either
to Louis PIIILIPPE or the leading ;members of his
Cabinet.

There is no other intelligence of any importance
contained in these Journals. The preparations for the
trial of the prisoners are nearly at au end.

Brussels, Holland, and German papers have been
received, but their contents are unimportant.

ST. PETERSBURGII, APRII, 3.—ln the course of the second
six months of the year, 1834, the produce, of the mines of gold
and platina were as follows
GOLD. Poods. lbs. Talmucks
Mines belonging to the Crown
Mines belonging to private persons ,_.. 75 38 681

• Total
PLATINA.
Mines belonging to the Crown ... . . 0 13 0
Mines belonging to private persons ..

Total
In 1834, the population of St. Petersburg amounted to
441,376 inhabitants, viz. males 288,766. females 152,612.

The population of Moscow of the Greek religion, from
1834, presents the following result :-
13i aTus.—Males
Females .. 4,141
Total
DEATHS.—Males
Females
Total

Excess of Deaths
—Journal of St. Petersburgh, April 4.

An earnest desire to co-operate in all labours for
the advancement of the public interest, induces us to
call attention to an advertisement, in another column,
for the establishment of a Company, which shall have
for its object the supplying the inhabitants of this -
vast metropolis with pure and wholesome water. The
names of the gentlemen who compose the Provisional
Committee are too well known—too closely associated
with upright honourable conduct, and a willingness to
advance the best interests of the community—to coun-
tenance a suspicion that this project deserves to be
ranked with the various schemes daily set on foot
either to obtain a short-lived notoriety, or, as is more
commonly the case, to sacrifice popular credulity to
the cupidity of needy adventurers. This is a great
matter in an undertaking so important, and so abso-
lutely necessary to the preservation of public health—
for we believe it is now generally admitted that without
undergoing some chemical process, the water with which
the capital is supplied is impure, and consequently
cannot be drank without injury even to the best con-
stitutions. But the purification of water by means of
filters, must, of necessity, be confined to a very small
quantity of what is consumed daily in private families ;
whereas, the poorest classes, who are constrained by
their poverty to drink simple water, cannot even afford
to provide themselves with filters, so that they are
under the necessity of injuring their own health by the
use of a necessary but unwholesome beverage. We, of
course, mean to cast no reflection on any of the
established Water Companies of London. We know that
they have done all in their power to procure a. supply
of wholesome water ; but the source being impure, and
no other being deemed adequate to the demand, it was
impossible for them to remedy the evil of which the
public has so long complained.
For the particulars of the plan about to be adopted
by the New Water Company, we refer to the Prospec-
tus—copies of which may be had gratis—and for the
plan itself, we direct attention to the Advertisement, to
which we referred above. Whether the project be or
be not practicable, is a question of which we have
personally no knowledge, but undoubtedly it is too
important not to be allowed a fair trial, and if found.
to answer, to receive from the Legislature every en-
couragement. The evils which must arise to an over-
grown population—such as that of London—compris-
ing thousands of wretches in the last stages of destitu-
tion and disease, from the use of impure water, are incal-
culable. Most of the distempers that shorten human
life may, for aught that has yet been discovered to
the contrary, originate in the use of filthy and putrid
water.

One of the great causes which must recommend this
Company to the support of the humane and the bene-
volent, is the consideration that the benefits arising from
its success must extend, in a very considerable degree,
to the poor and the indigent. It is not like a Wine
company, or an Indigo company, or a Banking com-
pany, where the persons more immediately benefitted
are the shareholders. The persons most interested in
the purity of water are those who are most under the
necessity of drinking it in a simple state ; and here,
as in all other eases, " virtue is its own reward," for.
by preserving the health of the poor, the Ns calthier
classes are themselves freed from the apprehension of
contagious diseases, generated by unwholesome food.

Indeed, when we consider what pains have bolt takeil.t
the sufferings that have been endured, and tlie iminensit
sums that have been hazarded in speculations for the
increase of some luxury, of no advantage whatever to;
the great mass of society—when we reflect upon the
human ingenuity that has been expended in plans for
the encouragement of a trade in drugs deleterious in
their effects on human life—when we enumerate the
vast regions that have been explored in search of some
toy to serve as a plaything to the sons and daughters
of opulence and ease—we are really astonished to think
of the little that has yet been done towards supplying
our humbler fellow-beings with those absolute neces-
saries of human life, which Providence has placed
within the reach of the meanest of his creatures. We

are, however, rejoiced to observe that Mi world begins
to grow less selfish ; and that almost every man, even
in advancing his own fortune, has a constant regard to
the general interests of his species.