The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LON DON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1835.

but as these rates are too high for the English market, it is
probable they cannot be maintained.
" Notwithstanding the order of the- Chinese Government
for re-opening the trade, as announced in our respects of the
Ist inst., the Chinese officers at Macao took upon them to re-
fuse granting pilots for a time to the numerous British ships

waiting outside of the Bogue, the first of which was, con-
sequentl), prevented from reaching Wampoa till the 17th inst.
" The East India Company's Finance Committee have an-
nounced their intention to grant advances on shipments of
goods to London, to be repaid by bills, at 53. 7d. per dollar
six months after sight ; but have as yet only a small amount
realised for their bills in Bengal, although they have raised the
Exchange from 204 to 206 per 100, at 30 days' sight. It is to
be apprehended, this facility of obtaining cash will have a pre-
judicial effect in keeping up the prices of all exports to Great
Britain.

upon principle, will be so continued, and that no op-
portunity will be allowed to escape their adversaries
for following up the success which attended their first
efforts, by every new defeat which there may be a pros-
pect of accomplishing. There is not a measure they can
introduce that will not be so mangled by alteration, and cut
up by amendments, as to give it an entirely different Cha-
racter ; and as_ there is nothing bad they can propose
which would not be successfully rejected, so there is
nothing good which would not be made so much bet-
ter, as to render its parentage a matter rather of denial
than of doubt. Have they made up their Minds to sit
contented after defeat, and maintain their thwarted
course still undismayed by the obstacles . that will' be
continually thrown in their way—or do they imagine
that it will be allowed them to carry such a resolution
into eireet, that the KING and the Commons will he
passive beholders of their perverse clinging to power ?
It fairly baffles any reasonable person to conjecture
what the Tory Government are really meditating. To
suppose that this reckless adhesion to place would be
permitted is of course ridiculous. Upon what, then,
are they depending? If they are seeking to establish
the sovereignty of the oligarchy, will the throne ac-
quiesce if the throne acquiesced, would the

" Imports generally are at low nominal prices.
" Freight to London is about 5/. per ton of 50 cubic feet.
" We regret to announce the death of Lord Napier at
Macao on the 11th instant, from a lingering illness brought on
by the arduous performance of his dutica at Canton, aggra-
vated by the treatment received from the Chinese Government,
when on his passage in a sick state to Macao.
" Mr..l. F. Davis, formerly of the East India Company's
factory, has succeeded as Chief Superintendent. We under-
stand it is not his intention to take any steps in negotiating
with the Chinese Government, until he received fresh instruc-
tions from England."
In addition to the above we insert the following ex-
tract from the Canton Register, which shows that we
have had a brush with the Chinese, after the fashion
of Sir MURRAY MAXWELL, and that that is the
only sure way to make them listen to reason :
( From the Canton Register (Extraordinary) of Oct. 14.)
Died, at Macao, at half-past ten o'clock on the tight of Sa-
turday, the 11th of October, the Right Hon. William John
Lord Napier, his Britannic Majesty's Chief Superintendant in
China; his Lordship experienced a lingering illness, brought
on by the arduous performance of his duties at Canton,
aggravated by the treatment he received from the Chinese.
Action off the Bogue Forts at half-past twelve on the 7th
of September : —His Majesty's ships, Imogene and Andromache,
in command of Captain Blackwood, got under weigh to pro-
ceed through the Bogue. A stir was immediately perceived
among the war junks in Anson's Bay, and the fort, commenced
at first firing with blank cartridge, tout afterwards with round
shot, which, from the distance, fell short of his Majesty's ships ;
when they neared and got within range of the Bogue forts,
the British fire silenced the forts. The action was most brisk
in getting into the middle of the channel ; but the Chinese
fired like men in a panic. The Lascars behaved extremely
well on this occasion. Soon after attacking and silencing the
batteries, the wind obliged his Majesty's ships to anchor below
Tiger Island. The Andromache had 1 killed and 3 wounded.
The Chinese loss must have been very considerable. The
ships afterwards anchored below the second bar, for want of
wind.

We hear that the Commerce is again open, and all is going

on well.
About eleven o'clock on Sunday night, a very alarming fire
broke out, a short distance above the Foreign Factories, and
continued to burn with great violence for nearly five hours.
The damage sustained must have been considerable.
We insert the Governor's edict, directing the opening of the
British trade. This is a remarkable document. The edict,
which permits the export in British bottoms of the staple com-
modities of the Empire, is addressed to a body of Asiatic-
British subjects, who are but partially concerned in that branch
of the trade.
It is, however, a reply to a petition from the Parsees. How
far this tribe of men are justified in petitioning the Chinese
government on behalf of the whole British trade we shall not
now stop to enquire, but it would seem that the Hong mer-
chants cajoled the Parsees into presenting a petition, because
they well knew that no European would do so.
The Governor, in his edict, seems to abandon the long esta-
blished and constantly observed system of responsibility; if an
individual sows dissensions he is to be driven out ; all are not
to be involved.
This is an approximation to common sense scarcely compa-
tible ; we think it nothing more than a sneer against the want
of unity amongst the subjects of Great Britain during the late
rupture.

people ? The object of the Tories—that combination
of Lords and Ladies, Magistrates and Parsons, as
Mr. HUME designated his opponents—is clearly
enough power and pension ; but the means—there is
the difficulty. By what agency do they 'intend to at-
tain their object ? As reason cannot conjecture this,
it may be supposed that reason has nothing to do with
it. A strait-waistcoat is the best argument to convince
a _madman, and the sooner the Tories are so :waist-
coated, 'the stronger will be the safeguard of the nation
against their maniacal outbursts.

We call the earnest attention of our readers to the
admirable plan adopted by the Reformers of London,
for organising their strength, so that it may tell with
the most powerful effect against their enemies, when-
ever the circumstances of the country shall call it into
action. How soon such a necessity may arrive nobody
can tell. The Tories threaten a dissolution—let the

country be prepared, and the best possible preparation
is to follow the example of the CITY OF LONDON
REFORM CLUB, and form similar clubs everywhere
throughout the kingdom.

The Paris Papers of Saturday have all been re-
ceived. The intelligence of the triumphant appoint-
ment of Mr. ABERCROMBY to the Speakership of the
House of Commons was communicated by telegraph
to the French Government early on Friday, and pro-
duced' a most singular sensation in the Ministerial
circles. Strange enough, little THIERS imagines that
the Reformers of England have taken it into their
heads to displace him, and positively sweats that the
" dear Duke" and himself will be forced into retirement
at the same time. What the historian of one revolution
meditates to while away the hotirs of his exile we
know not, neither can we guess, unless it be to write an
account of his own unrewarded services to the Sta e,
with some additional illustrations of the proverbial in-
gratitude of nations to their chief benefactors. The ex-
Foreign Secretary, and illustrious Duke, is provided
with two or three other employmens of a very secret
nature, whenever his present fails him, which he ex-
pects it will in the course of a week at the utmost; but
we are not at liberty to state what these reserved em-
ployments really. are. Should the illustrious Duke
require the assistance of an amanuensis, we shall have
great pleasure in recommending the ex-Minister of the
French Interior to his Grace's especial favor. Seriously
speaking, we can discover no grounds for the fears
entertained by the French Ministry. Unless they are
prepared to sacrifice the liberties of France, they must
derive strength and stability from the triumph of Re-
form principles in England. A Tory Ministry would
throw this country into the arms of the northern
despots : a Liberal Cabinet will be ever willing to culti-
vate reciprocal feelings of amity between the Govern-
ments of London and Paris.

There is no important news in these journals. All
that we deemed worth extracting is given in our ex-
tracts from the French papers.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PAnts, FEB 21
Five per Cents., 1081. 70c. 55c. 5Cc.
Four per Cents., 96f. 60c.
Thr.u: per Cents., 78f. 63c 6 c. 5", c.
Bank Actions, I,Blof.
Rente de Naples, 93f. Mc 93c. 65c.
Roman Five per Cents., 98,97%.
acute d'Espagne, Five per Cents ,
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 27%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 44% 45.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents , 14%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 101% 4.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cent., 92ys.
11aytian Loan, 39;f. 39 f. 3851.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 23f .:'Cc. ; money, 25f. 9.7!4c.
fliree months, paper, 25f. 17c.; money, `.751. 17Nc.
—('ours Authentique.

BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.-Five per Cents., 108 f. 60e. ;
3 per Cents., 78f. 60c. ; 5 per Cent. Spanish, 441 ; 3 per Cent.
ditto, 271; Cortes, 441; Couponi; 231 ; Royals, 45 ; Dif-
feres, 15a ; New Loan, 651; Ducats, 96 5 ; Ronvms, 973 ; Bel-
gians, loll; Pedros, 921 ; Haytians, 335 ; Dutch, 56 90.

Madrid Papers to the 12th instant have been re-
ceived, together with private intelligence to the 12th
inclusive. From these various sources of information,
we learn that Austria, Russia, and Prussia have at
last resolved upon the pacification of Spain ; and that
the Representatives of these Powers have already
re-
ceived instructions to communicate with the Duke of
WELLINGTON on the subject, as nothing can be done
without the concurrence'of this country. It is stated
that the Northern Powers, who, at the commencement
of the civil war in the Basque Provinces, were sanguine
in their expectations of the immediate triumph of DON
CA RLOS; now despair of his success, and that seeing he
cannot dethrone the QUEEN, and that there is no way by
which they can render him any direct assistance,
without hazarding a war with France or England—
they, as the only means of extricating him from certain
ruin, are now favourable to a compromise, on such
terms as shall secure the Crown to its present rightful
possessor, and at the same time satisfy the ambition
of the infatuated Prince. Most sincerely do we hope
that some arrangement will be speedily entered into,
whieh shall put a stop to the effusion of innocent
blood in Spain—which shall terminate an unnatural
warfare, in which brother butchers brother, and the
hand of the child deprives the patent of life—which
shall extinguish rebellion, and banish all its attendant
horrors from a distracted famished land. It is high
time that some effort were made to heal the suicidal
wounds of Spain—to repress brutal and ferocious
crime in its headlong progress through the entire king-
dom—and to restore order, before the entire population
have grown familiar with carnage, and learned wholly
to depend for subsistence on the fruits of lawless ag-
gression, and marauding dexterity, No evil, under
Heaven, so soon succeeds in driving a country into a
state of barbarism, and plunging her into an abyss of
universal crime and corruption, as civil war. It strikes