The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-31 00:00:00

EAST INDIA.

The Strath Eden, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailo m
Calcutta July 19, Saugor the 21st, Table Bay Oct. 20, and
St. Helena Nov. 3.

The Australia, from Manilla, arrived at Cowes, sailed from
Anger Aug. 23.
TABLE BAY (CAPE OP GOOD HOPE.)
AhRIVAL9.—The Broxbournbury, Oct. 0, from London,
and sailed the llith for Calcutta; the Ear= le, Oct. 9, from
London, for. the Mauritius; the Rosabella,'Oct. 9, from Bos-
ton, for Batavia ; the Fairy Queen, Oct. 10, from London,
for Ceylon ; the Duke of Northumberland, Oct. 10, from
London for Calcutta; the William Nicol, the 11th, from
Greenock, and sailed the 14th for Bombay ; the Le Cousen,
the 11th, from Delagoa Bay, for Whaling; the Le Triton,
the 11th, from Bordeaux, for Bourbon; the Strath Eden, the
16th, from Calcutta, and sailed the 20th for London; the Su-
perior, the 17th, from Calcutta, for LitiCITOOL
DEPARTURRS.--.The Erstcling, Oct. 6, the John, Oct. 7,
the Good Return the 9th, the Neptune the 9th, a!al the Lon-
don Packet the ii,th) all for Whaling. A htitivY gate was exz
periented on the Ist of October in Algop. Bay from the S.E.,
and three brigs were lost in consequence, viz.—the Urbania,
Cape Breton, and Atlantic.
ALGOA BAY.

ARRIvAt.i.--•.TllC.Oletialvon Oct. p, Table Day,
Sr. 1-61,1114, NOV. 6.--The ithoon en Pendricht, whielt
arrived yesterday, and sailed from Batavia Sept. 9, reports
that, according to the Java Shipping List, the Gulnare, which
sailed from China May JO, passed the Straits or Sunda on the
sth of September, and the master's name reported Johnson.

TWO Aires hi Jersey, one on Wecinesday,and another
the following Friday (Christmas-day) have occurred. The
first broke out at the house of a Mr. Lyte, in St. Helier's ;
the second.at a grocer's in St. Peter's Valley. - No lives,
and but a small amount of property were in either
case lost. It .appears, that in the parish of St. Helier's,
which contains upwards of 2,000 houses, there is only one
fire engine at the command of the inhabitants.
BRIBERY.---No li,onder that the faction should die
hard in their struggle to get the representation of Dublin
into their hands. Why, a large fortune must have been
expended in bribery alone, at this single election, and the
recklessness, the barefacedness, with which it was, adminis-
tered, surpasses all the notorious doings in the most corrupt
of the boroughs of England, and Carrickfergus itself sinks
into the shade,
of the Irish tropolitau 0 ngeists.-I,Thb/in Post
ra
';Alen compared with the wholesale profusion

The further returns of the Municipal Elections re-
ceived since our last, are additional evidences of the
great and all but universal triumph which the good
cause has achieved throughout the kingdom, and the
zeal and ability evinced by the people iri Selecting
proper officers to protect those rights which a corrupt
and flagitious system had too long withheld from them.
For our part, seeing the lamentable condition
to which the poor old Corporators are reduced,
and the ungracious manner in which they are
deserted and abused by their ancient friends of
the Tory Press, we are almost disposed to feelings
of compassionate sympathy. The Standard, in its
usual candid manner, sermonizes upon their fall
and its causes, and politely pitches them all to
an " illuStrious" personage, who cannot be politely
named; and the weathercock Times—which, however,
it may change in other respects, never fails to do its
best to run down a falling man—pours upon them all
the flood of its virtuous indignation, recalled into use
for this express occasion, and lectures as charmingly
as the " respectable" Mrs. Cole would have done to a
termagant and less "reputable" member of the sister-
terhood. However, we leave the Corporators and
theii "friends" of the Press to settle their quatrels,
satisfied with the undeniable proofs which the elections
have now afforded, that whether quarrelling or agreeing
the Tories can do no permanent injury to the Liberal
cause, if its supporters are only henceforth united and
true to themselves ; and the conviction of this truth must -
be felt by none more completely than by the thinking
members of the Tory faction., It will be seen from our
returns that Banbury has elected the whole 12 Re-
formers ; Barnstable, 14 Liberals to 4 Tories ; Car-
lisle, 24 decided Liberals ; Chester (which the Tories
have claimed) 20 Liberals to 10 Tories ; at Hereford
we have 14 Reformers and 4 Tories elected; at,

Ipswich, 20 Liberals to 10 Tories ; at Kendal the
whole are Reformers ; so also at Liskeard ; at Maid-
stone there are 12 Reformers and 6 Tories-; at Pon-
tefract 10 out of 12 are Liberals ; at Preston, 26 out
of 36; at Scarborough, 17 out of 18. Totnes has
has elected 9 Reformers and 3 Tories ; Truro, 14
Reformers and 4 Tories ; Worcester, 34 Liberals and
2 Tories ; Yarmouth, the same numbers ; and York,
21 Reformers and 15 Tories. Such is the sum-
mary of the victorious returns from the above
cities and boroughs. At Chichester and North-
ampton the numbers elected by each " party are
stated to be eqnal. The places in which it appears
the Liberal party have been defeated, are stated to be
Harwich, Hastings, St. Leonard's, and Salisbury.
We have inserted a letter from a Correspondent at
Dover, which explains pretty clearly the defeat of the
Liberals in that place. Our Correspondent states that
" the Liberals had all the influence of the Packet Esta-
blishment, the Ordnance Office, and Engineer Depart-
ment, the Barrack Department to a man against
them ;" and this independently of the influence
of the Lord Warden. He further states, " the
men would have most willingly supported us, and
promised to vote for us, but they were spoken
to by some one of the department, who lead them to
vote against us." This is " too bad.;" the servants,
be they high or low, who thus treacherously turn
against those from whom they get their bread, ought
to be sent at once about their business. It is only
surprising, under such circumstances, that the Liberals
mustered so strongly as they did, and that the victory
purchased for the Tories, by the knavery of the em-
ploye or employes alluded to, was gained by so petty a
majority as our correspondent's letter mentions it to
have been. This matter ought to be inquired into.—
Morning Chronicle.
Our readers have, doubtless, all seen, if they have
not perused, the Message of the President of the
United States, which was published in the Times of
yesterday. Our transatlantic brethren, in the true
spirit of " cheap Government," seem resolved to have
their money's worth, even in the article of official do-
cuments, and, accordingly, a Presidential message comes
but seldom within the compass of less than six or
eight hours' diligent reading, for a politician however
keen. This recent message is longest among the
lengthy, but we are bound to add, that among the able,
it is the ablest also. There are not many English-
men, of any party, who, before the appearance of the
message had failed to express their strong disapproba-
tion of the petulance evinced by the French Chamber
of Deputies towards the American Government, and
connived at, if not openly encouraged, by the Court.
But had there remained any change to be wrought in
the opinion of the people of this country in favour of the
United States, or had there been anything wanting to
satisfy us as to the justice of the American quarrel, the
Message would have abundantly supplied such deside-
rata by its clear and forcible, but calm, temperate,
and frank exposition, of the causes in which the dis-
pute with France originated, and of those which, on
the part of that Government, have hitherto 'obstructed
its adjustment. All the world is aware that the claims to
indemnification made upon France by America arose
out of a series of depredations upon the commerce of the
latter, continued during 'a period of ten years under the
iron rule of Napoleon, and among the other blessings
bequeathed by him to France, left to be atoned for by
whatever parties might succeed him. That atonement
has not yet been made. After a tedious course of ne-
gotiations, the gross claim of the United States was
compounded for by a sum of 1,000,000/. sterling,
which the French Government bound itself to pay over

to America by a treaty signed on the 4th of July., 1831,,
and solemnly ratified by the King, Louis Phillippe,
the ratification being exchanged at Washington, on Fe-
bruary 2, 1832 ;four years ago within a few weeks.
Official intelligence of the exchange of the ratifica-
tions being conveyed to Paris while the Chambers
were sitting, in the early part of 1832, it appears that
neither during that session, nor in the two suc-
ceeding ones, was any step whatsoever taken by the
French Government to obtain a rote of money from
the* Chambers towards fulfilling the obligations of the
Treaty ! tt was not until the summer of 1834 that
" the Bill for the execution of the Treaty was pressed
by Ministers to a vote—and rejected.' That was
almost three years after the signature of the Treaty.
Such was the deep satisfaction of men's minds in Ame-
rica on the arrival of this last-mentioned fact, and
such the extreme prudence and caution of General
Jackson, that under the apprehension lest Congress,
then sitting, might resort to immediate and irrevocable
measures of redress, the manly President forbore to
call the attention of Congress to the subject, trusting
that he would receive assurances from France of a na-
ture which should enable him to satisfy his own sense
of what was dne to the honour of the United States,
withotit haring recourse to so doubtful an experiment
on the temper of his jealous countrymen. Such assu-
rances were conveyed to him from the French King in
person, expressive of his profound regret at the decision
of the Chambers, his Ministerpromising in the most un-
ambiguous manner that, so soon as the Charter permitted,
another vote should be submitted to the Chambers for
granting the appropriation of the necessary sum, and
that the question should be pressed at a period suffi-
ciently early to permit information of the result to be
communicated to Congress at the commencement of
their next session. Neither were those promises re-
alized. The French Government was guilty of delays
which rendered the fulfilment of the last-mentioned
Stipulation impracticable. The President then, in the
discharge of his indispensable duty, laid the whole
case before Congress, throwing no more blame upon
France than was implied by a lucid statement of the
facts ; " saying all that was necessary to a correct un-
derstanding of them,". and "going out of his way to
preclude a construction- of the Message by which the
recommendation that was made to Congress might
be regarded as a menace to France, in not only dis-
avowing such a design, but in declaring that
her pride and her power were tom well known;

to cfpert any thing from her /ears." Now,
will it be Credited hereafter, that oti language so
considerate and resplalful as this—after initirjes_ so
long endured by America--41cr just hopes disappointed
—and such rei:erated pledges made by France so per-
versely forfeited the French Ministry, instead of
hastening the redress which they had so obstinately
and unhandsomely withheld, were unwise enough to
recall their Ambassador ? What is worse, the Cham-
bers appeared to outstrip this phrenzy. When a re-
medial bill was soon afterwards introduced by Minis-
ters, proposing the required appropriations, the Legis-
lature tacked (wantonly we must call it) an amendment
to the measure, of a character little short of insulting
to the United St rtes—demanding satisfactory expla-
nations of the President's las't Message to Congress
—a domestic communication from one branch of an
independent State to another, which had already been
disposed of (even were it tangible by foreigners) by
the recall of the French Minister from Washing-
ton. Such, then, is the hinge on which this un-
fortunate question turns. The language of the Pre-
sident throughout is firm, dignified, and becoming,
He approved officially the declarations made by
the American Minister at Paris, that no offence of
any kind had been intended, and.no expressions used
by the President but such as his duty demanded.
General Jackson himself repeats this disavowal of any
disrespect towards France in his present Message.
Further explanation he will make none, nor is it con-
ceivable to us that any should be seriously asked for.
It appears that the result of Mr. Barton's last applica-
tion to the French Government was not known to the
President before the delivery of the message. The in-
structions given to that gentleman were, that in the
event of the refusal of France to pay the money, be
should at once withdraw. It is possible, though we
think not very probable, that some strong measure may
ba proposed in America in consequence of Mr. Barton s
communications ; but we .place a solid reliance on the
steadiness and temper of the Congress, and we trust
that no final step will be adopted until after the receipt
at Washington, of the official answer of the French
Government to this fair and.manly explanation of the
causes of this—on one side—superfluous, and foolish
quarrel. The mediation of
England,alwhich has been
accepted by France, and which, it appears from the
Speech of the King of France, has been offered also to
the United States, seems to us to afford a pretext for
very unnecessary delay on a very plain question ; un-
less, indeed, it be an ingenious expedient,. originating
in a suggestion of French diplomacy, for the purpose of
enabling Louis Philippe to evade any comment on the
matter in issue till he had seen the American message.
If so, it was extremely kind in Lord Palmerston to
oblige the adroit 'Monarch with this little harmless
scheme for saying nothing where saying almost any-
thing might have been mischievous.—Times.
To whatever cause different parties may ascribe the
distressed state of Ireland, it is admitted on all hands
that the suffering and misery prevailing throughout
that country is unparalleled in the annals of civilized
nations. Every post brings. fresh tidings of destitu-
tion, dissensions, outrage, robbery, and bloodshed,
and the question perpetually recurs—what is the
cause of such a lamentable state of society ? Resist-
ance is ever the offspring of persecution :—and though
other collateral causes may exist, the oppression and
unrelenting barbarities exercised by the landlords and
the Church have not only mainly originated, but, to
an intolerable extremity, aggravated' this calamitous
condition. The agricultur;l, the staple interest of
Ireland is not only burdened with exorbitant. rents,
but the pittance which may escape from the gripe
of the absentee's agent is seized, or attempted to be
seized, by the fangs of a tithe proctor. How is it pos-
sible for peace to exist amidst such a state of things ?
When men are plundered, in the name of law, of
the fruits of their industry, and sent adrift houseless,
pennyless, and famishing, what claim has society upon
their forbearance ? It was recently stated at a public
meeting in Ireland that one landlord had ejected from
his estate nearly a thousand individuals I Similar in-
stances may be adduced in every county in Ireland.
We know not what has been or may be the fate of
these victims of heartless tyranny ; but let any man
suppose him Self included in the proscription, banished
from his home, and the land which his labour fertilized,
and robbed of the means of existence, and he cannot be
mistakeh as to their feelings. The sympathy mani-
fested towards the Irish Clergy by the recent subscrip-
tions, was merely a debt due to them by those who fac-
tiously deprived them of the benefit of theßill proposed for
their relief. But the Clergy do not stand alone in their suf-
ferings. The millions of the Irish population appeal
with equal force to our commiseration, and with what
tenfold force do they not appeal to our justice ? The
one in being the instrument of intolerance, has been
accessory to its own afflictions--,the other in being
the prey of persecution,- offers even a palliation of its
crimes. However, in the Irish Church Bill, embody-
ing the appropriation principle, which must inevitably
be introduced next Session, we have confident hope of
the removal of one cause of evil. The House of
Commons is pledged to this principle—the Ministry
owes its existence and preservation to it. The country
is determined that it shall be carried into operation.
The recent Municipal triumphs have crushed the
hopes of its opponents ; so that, even in the depths of
her desolation, Ireland may recognize in these pre-
' sages the dawn of prosperity and peace.—Morning
Advertiser.