The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-31 00:00:00

may be put up with, but we have no hesitation
in stating our conviction - that, were Ministers to re-
commend the adoption of the amendments which per-
petuate the political existence of the freemen, limit the
burgesses in their choice of councillors to one-sixth
of the rate-payers, fix the aldermen and town clerks in
their offices for life, and stigmatize the Dissenters as un-
worthy to exercise the rights which they have always
enjoyed. Were the Ministers, we say, to recommend
the adoption of these alterations, they would forfeit,
and justly forfeit, the public confidence. Far
rather would the people wait than have Municipal
corruption thus clenched and rivetted. They know
they would not have to wait long, and they are
equally sensible that, an imperfect and inefficient
measure once passed, there would be no chance of im-
proving it afterwards.

Sir ROBERT PEEL arrived in town this morning.

The numerous public Meetings on the subject of the
deficnct Municipal. Reform Bill—for it is ridiculous to
talk of it as a thing still in a state of healthy existence
—which will be found in another part of The Sun,
present a very fair sample of thelsort of spirit that is
now generally prevalent throughout the country. We
invite their Lordships' particular attention to these
Meetings, for, if they have the slightest glimmering of
reflection left, they will find in them abundant food for
serious, and, it is to be hoped, serviceable meditation.
More particularly do we beseech them just to glance
an eye at our Report of the proceedings now in course
of progress at Birmingham ; and, after having perused
it with the deliberate attention which its importance
deserves, to ask themselves the question—Whether,
with the Political Union of this great mid-land metro-
polis in a state of active re-organization, to be fol-
lowed, passibus cequis, by those in the North and
South, to say nothing of those in Scotland and Ireland
—whether, with this vast social confederacy arrayed
against them, they still think they will be able to cram
their aristocratic Corporation Bill down the throats of
the people? If their Lordships put this question to them-
selves, in the spirit in which it ought to be put, there can
be but one reply. We fear, however, that they will do
nothing of the sort, but act on the present, as they
have done on all past occasions ;—that is to say, de-
lude themselves with the belief that the gathering, of
which they daily hear so much is not the gathering of
a nation, but of a faction ; and under this impression,
persevere in their suicidal course of conduct, till it be-
comes too late to retrieve themselves. Even as it is,
their case is almost hopeless, for their strongest holds
are already carried. We have compelled them to sur-
render, one by one, the Test and Corporations Acts,
the Catholic Emancipation Bill, and the Reform Bill--
those three great external lines of defence behind which
they had so long entrenched themselves—and we are
now advanced right under the very walls of their citadel.
Why, then, with a beleaguering army hemming
them in on all sides, do they not accept our
offers of parley ? We exact no unreasonable
conditions. We propose no terms which it is dis-
honourable in them to grant. All we ask— and
on this we will insist—is, that they respect our rights,
as we respect theirs. The Corporation Bill which
has forced us into our present hostile position, is no
affair of their Lordships. They do not supply the
Municipal funds ; they have nothing to do with the
election of common councilmen ; the question is ex-
clusively a popular one, and in this light, and this
only, should be discussed and adjusted. Is it
to be supposed for an instant that we struggled
through a thousand difficulties for Reform, merely in
order that an aristocratic Corporation measure like the
present should be palmed upon us ? Did we insist
on a House of Commons of our own choosing, merely
that all its best plans of relief might be thwarted by
the House of Lords ? Not so. We fought for the
substance, not the shadow, of Reform ; and that sub-
stance we will have, let what will be the conse-
quence to those who would keep it from us.
Duped for so many years, we will be duped no longer,
especially when we find, as in the present instance, in-
sult added to injury. After a Session of unusual
length, not one only, but every liberal measure of
importance which our Representatives have sent up to
their Lordships, have been sent back again by them,
not "carved as a dish fit for the Gods," but " hewed
as a carcase for the hounds." The Dissenters are still
in statu quo—the Universities still retain all their
exclusive privileges—the Imprisonment for Debt Bill
is burked—the heart has been ripped out of the Cor-
poration and Irish Church Bills ;—and all this because
the hereditary wisdom of our Tory legislators cannot,
and will not, allow them to see beyond their own noses I
But, thank God, their hour is coming. John Bull is in
earnest at last. The old fellow's choler is roused ; he
is buttoning up his breeches' pockets ; grasping his
stout oaken cudgel ; putting himself in attitude ; and
resolved to have it fairly out with his antagonists.

The accounts from Spain contained in the Paris
Journals of Saturday are not so important as. we were
prepared to expect. In Madrid
all is tranquil ;
in Saragossa the Junta cont...slues to exercise the
functions of civic Gov P;nment without opposition ;
and throughout fLatalonia the people are pati-
ently awaiting the course which shall be adopted
by the Madrid Cabinet. The Moniteur states that
G--nerals EVANS and ALAVA were at the head of
4,000 men at St. Sebastian, preparing to re-open a com-
munication with France, by the occupation of the towns
between their head quarters and the frontier. The
Carlists suffered some losses in Navarre in the course
of last week, and it appears that the leaders of the in-
surgents are greatly divided upon the question of their
future operations. IVIouENo is for crossing the Ebro,
and marching directly to Madrid, but he is opposed
by ERASO and some of the more influential Carlist
chieftans, who think they are not in a condition to
quit their mountain fastnesses. Don CARLOS was on
the 20th at Estella.

In The Sun of the 18th inst., after dwelling at
some length upon the apostacy of King Louis PAIL-
' LIPPE and the leading members of the French
Government, with respect to the freedom of the Press
and trial by jury, we called upon the Opposition in
the Chamber of Deputies to rise in a body, protest, in
the name of the nation, against the projects of law
then under consideration, and at once quit an assembly
whose acts would inevitably lead to another Revolution
fatal to the Orleans dynasty. The course which we
then recommended to the Opposition has been since
followed by the honest patriots of that section of the
Chamber. After vainly endeavouring to awaken
Ministers to a sense of the dangers to which they
were exposing the throne of Louis PHILLIPPE—
after the, most solemn denunciations of a scheme of
policy fatal to the liberties, the honour, and the fame
of regenerated France—after exposing the personal
tergiversations of Ministers, and, in a strain of• elo-
quent invective, holding them up to the scorn, ridicule,
and contempt of every honest, liberal Frenchman—
after doing all this, and whatsoever else, as Deputies,
they possessed a power to do to arrest the revolution-
ary movement in France, the leaders of the Opposition
rose together, during the sitting of Thursday last, and
having stated that their consciences would not permit
them to sanction by their presence acts which they
found it impossible to oppose successfully, they walkee4
out of the Chambers, leaving Ministers to share ainc,ag

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGusT 31, 1535.

themselves the fruits of their apostacy ! More truly
dignified conduct than this never distinguished the
advocates of constitutional freedom in any country.
We had counselled the Deputies to withdtaW at an
earlier stage of these projeedings, but they thought
proper—and we are now persuaded their course was
the better one—to wait until the Chamber should have
passed the first article of the Bill against the Press into
a law. While it was before a Conituttte'e, and even
after the Report had been brought up, they judged
it prudent to keep their seats, not knowing but that
circumstances might arise which would compel the
Government to withdraw the Bill altogether. No
such circumstances having arisen, and the first article
of the law being carried by a large majority of the
Chamber on Thursday, the leaders of the Opposition
indignantly withdrew from the presence of men prepared
to sacrifice the liberties of one of the greatest nations
in the world to the ambition of an apostate, made Royal
by the breath of revolutionary republicanism.
It is difficult to determine what effect the retirement
of the Opposition from the Chamber of Deputies will
have upon the inhabitants of the more remote Depart-
ments, but in Paris the sensation which it has created
is scarcely credible. Clamour of any kind there has
been none, for the Government has taken care that
the voice of clamour be no more heard in the metro-
polis ; but it has convinced Frenchmen that their
liberties are in jeopardy, and that nothing but physical
force—nothing short of a rising of the people en
masse—can deliver the country from the clutches of
those who are now enslaving it. The recent defeats
which the Republican party has suffered, has only
convinced it of the necessity of imitating the caution of
the GovernMent. The more moderate class of liberals
who previously avoided a junction with it, are now driven
to join it, and even some of the old Royalists arc will-
ing to ameliorate an event which, terminate as it will,
must present a dreadful warning to the usurpers of the
kingly prerogative. The French Government may
rely upon it, that the next Revolution will be preceded
by no premeditated scheme capable of being defeated
by the vigilance of its numerous spies and informers.
The Minister of the Interior—the youthful panegyrist

of all Revolutions—may ramify the system of secret
espionage as much as he pleases—may go on poison-
ing the fountains of justice by corrupting the electoral
colleges, the national guard, and the provincial magis-
tracy ; but there will still remain a body incorruptible,
powerful enough to strike down for ever the House of
Orleans. One blow only will be struck, but like the stone
cut out of the mountain without hands, beheld in the
vision by the prophet DANIEL, it will shiver into
pieces the monstrous system against which it shall be
directed. No apparent listlessness on the part of the
people of France shall persuade us that the country
has patiently and positively resigned itself to the
despotical sway of Louts PIIILLIPPE. We are con-
vinced that, however indifferently Frenchmen bear
themselves 'at the present moment, they are revolving
schemes for the speedy delivery of their country from
the yoke under which it now groans.
By the Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday we
learn that Ministers deigned not to notice the retire-
ment of the Opposition. On the contrary, it afforded
them facilities of which they took care to avail them-
selves, for hurrying the Bill on the Press with more
expedition through the Chamber. In the course of a
few hours no fewer than eleven articles of the law, all
of the greatest importance, were passed without a di-
vision. Some trifling amendments were proposed,
which, as they touched not the principle of the mea-
sure, were adopted. The following are the articles
adopted by the Chamber in its sittings of Thursday and
Friday—the first only being passed when the Opposi-
tion retired :

FRENCH FUNDS.—Paats, AUGUST 29.
Five per Cents , 109 f. esc. 60c. 65c. 55c. 50e.
Four per Cents., 99f.
Three per tents. 79f 20c 25e, Me,
Natiotiol
miik Actions, 2,035 f.
Retire ee IJ:tides, 97f. 10c. 15c. Vne.
Romaiiliie per Cents., 101 %34
Heine .I'Espagne, Five per Cents., 344 3-1.
Rente (Pk:vague, Three per Cents., 23 234 23 22N.
Royal Spanish Isati,6!.4
Rentl2Perpet..dpagne, Fire per Cent., 4 411314.
Portuguese !man, Five per Cent., 874.
Portuguese Three ner Cents 514.
Dutch Two and a half per Cents., 55f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.

" Art. 1. All provocation, by any of the means named in
the law of May, 1819 (writing, speeches, prints, cries, pla-
cards, &c.), to the crimes foreseen by Articles 86 and 87 of
the Code (plots against the life or person of the King, or
to arm citizens, or to change the Government), shall be
deemed an attentat, and hence cognizable by the Chamber of
Peers. The provocation, if followed with effect, shall be
punished according to the law of May, 1819. If not fol-
lowed with effect, shall be punished with detention, and from
4001. to 2,0001. fine.

" Art. 2. Offence against the King, by the same means,
tending to bring• his person and authority into hatred and
contempt, is also an attentat, to be tried and punished as is
laid down in Art. 1.

" Art. 3. All other offences against the King shall be
punished according to the law of May, 1819.
" Art. 4. Whoever shall blame the King, or render him re-
sponsible for the Acts of his Government, shall be subject to
imprisonment from one month to one year, and to a fine of
from 20/. to 4001.

" Art. 5. Any attack against the principle or form of go-
vernment, is an attentat, to be tried and punished as in Art. 1.
" Art. 6. All other attacks shall be dealt with as laid down
by previous laws.

" Art. 7. The preceding article and its penalties include all
persons who shall style themselves Republicans or Carlists,
or who shall express the wish, the hope, or the threat, for the
destruction of monarchical order.
" Art. 8. All attacks against property, the oath to the
King, the respect due to the laws, all apologies for acts quali-
fied as crimes and offences by the Penal Law, all provocation
to hatred amongst the different classes of society, shall be
liable to the penalties provided for by the Article 8 of the Law
of May 17, 1819. Nevertheless, in the cases provided for by
the preceding paragraph, and by the Article 8 of the law be-
fore cited, the Tribunals may, according to circumstances, in-
crease the penalties to the double of the maximum.
" Art. 9. In all cases of defamation provided for by the
laws, the penalties annexed to them may, according to the
gravity of circumstances, be raised to double the maximum
both of imprisonment and of fine. The offender may also be
deprived of the whole or part of the rights mentioned in Art.
42 of the Penal Code, during a period equal to the term of
imprisonment.

'' Art. 10. All journals and periodical publications arc pro-
hibited from giving accounts of trials for outrages or insults,
or of trials for defamation, where proofs of the truth of the
defamatory facts are not admitted by the law. They can only
announce the complaint upon the demand of the complainant.
In all cases they may insert the judgment. It is forbidden to
publish the names of the jury, except in the report of the sit-
ting during which the jury is constituted. It is forbidden to
give any account of the private deliberations either of the
jury or of the courts or tribunals. Infractions of these pro-
hibitions shall be prosecuted before the Correctional Tribu-
nals, and punished with imprisonment for a term varying from
one month to one year, and with a fine varying from 500
francs to 5,000 francs.

" Art. 11. It is forbidden to open or announce subscriptions
for paying fines, costs, damages, or interests, assessed by ju-
dicial sentences. An infraction of this article shall be sub-
ject to the same penalties as set forth in the preceding article.
" Art. 12. The provisions of Art. 10 of the Law of the 9th
of June, 1819, are applicable to all the cases provided for by
the present law. In case of a second or further judgment
against the same gerant, or the same journal, in the course of
one year, the courts and tribunals may pronounce a sus-
pension of the journal, for a period not exceeding two months.
This suspension may be extended to four months, should the
condemnation be pronounced for a crime. The penalties as-
sessed by the present law, and by the previous laws on the
Press and other modes of publication, shall not be confounded
together, and shall all be enforced when the facts which give
rise to them are posterior to the preceding prosecution.
" Art. 13. Tho deposit-money which the proprietors of
every journal or periodical publication shall be bound to fur-
nish shall be lodged in specie in the Treasury, which will pay
the interest at :he rate regulated for the deposit-money. The
amount of the deposit-money is fixed as follows :—Should the
journal or periodical publication appear more than twice a
week, either on stated days, or by numbers and irregularly,
the deposit-money shall amount to 120,000 francs. It shall
amount to 90,000 francs if the journal or periodical writing
appears only twice a week ; to 60,000 francs if the journal or
periodical publication appears only once a week ; and to
30,000 francs if the journal or periodical publication appears
upwaids of once a month. The deposit-money which the pro-
prietors of every journal or periodical publication shall be
bound to deposit or pay into the Treasury in specie shall be
equal to the nominal capital in rentes required by the law of
the 14th December, 1830. A delay of four months shall be
granted to the proprietors of journals or periodical publica-
tions now existing, to effect the conversion into money of the
rentes deposited by them."
We trust it is quite unncessary for any journalist to
denounce these articles as comprising the very essence
of political despotism. They bear upon them an
impress which cannot be mistaken even by the most
ignorant of the people. Liberty cannot co-exist with
such a law. France must repeal it.
There is no other domestic intelligence of any
public importance in the French Journals of Friday
and Saturday, with the exception of the arrest of PE-
PI7A',, the grocer, who, was 4ccused of being an acorn-

pike of FIESCIII, and particularly with supplying him
with the means of constructing the infernal machine.
His arrest took place on Friday but he cont6yed to
male his escape in the course of the following
night. In the examination which took place imme-
diately after he was taken into custody no inatcrial
facts were elicited: His escape 10Ft e*dited 05t21,-!ions
of in not being right in certain quarters"; in fact, it is
thought, that he was caught sooner than was agreeable
to the Minister of the Interior: The Government will be
contetit to 'remain in ignorance repecting the Ficschi
plot, while the law for abolishing the liberty of the Press is
under consideration. The safest time for proceeding
against the Press is while a crime may be imputed to it
of which it tail have ii means of proving itself innocent.

One month, paper, —4l ; money, Of 52 c.
Three months, ivaper, —e. money, 25t: 40c
BouttsE, TIIREk o'CLocK.—The approach of the settling-
day keeps up the price of the French funds. The continua-
tion is at 20c. to 22,}c., which is 7ic. less than several months
past. Spanish Stock is steady.
QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 109 f. 50c. ; Three
per Cents., 79f. 10c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 341; Three
per Cents. Spanish, 221 ; Cortes, 34; Coupons, 17i ; Gueb-
hards, 35,-; Differes, 14i; New Loan, 401 ; Actives, 40 ;
Passives, 121; Ducats, 97 25 ' • Romans, 1011; Pedros, 871 k ;
' Belgians —; Dutch, 55 ; Haytians, —f. ; Miguels, —;
Brabant Bank, —.

We have received Dutch, Belgian, and German
Journals of the latest dates, They bring accounts of
the breaking out of the cholera at Teheran, in a man-
ner so dreadful as to spread the greatest alarm through-
out Persia. On the 19th inst., the Emperor of RUSSIA
arrived at Kalitsh, accompanied by the great officers
of his Household. His Imperial MAJESTY was met
by several of the Princes and Potentates who had ar-

rived before him. Don MIGUEL is at home.
HAMBURG BORSEN I4ALLE, Atm. 24.
GRAIN.
Wheat, Marks 216 to '231 Oats, Upland ~ -
-- Mecklenburg 192 to 240 Nlecklenburg to -
- Magdeburg 195 to 216 -- Elder
Eider lBl to 225 Holstein 96 to 140
Anhalt, white... to Petershurgh & Riga to
--- red 210 to 22•2 Malt, Pomeranian.. 120 to 126
Holstein
Rye, Mecklenburg . 174 to 189 Pease, Upland, yellow 180 to 193
—...-- Holstein . 165 to 166 Beans to -
- Archangel —to 1 Tares to
Barley, Mecklenburgh... 126 to 1351 Rapeseed to
Magdeburgh .... to —; Ditto Cakes
Lower Elbe
IWO Att.
Bahia, White, line ..... .... $1,4 to 9% , Pernamb., White, ord..— 0 too
mid G 0 Brown 6% 7'A
ord ... ...... 0 0 Havannah, White, fine In% 12
Brown, fine 7 '7% mid... 0 0
mid 0 0 ord ... 0 0
ord 0 0 I Hammett, Yrllow, fine ... 0 0
Rio, White, tine, .... ... ~.: 3t4 N mid. & ord 0 0
I mid.
ord.
Brown, fine 631: 7%1 Refined, fine ..... 0 0
mid. 0 0 fine mid. 0 0
ord..
Pernamb., White, .., n!‘ 9 Ilettarin, Brown 0 0
Mid.... 0 0 English lumps in loaves
COTTON.
Carolina and Tennessee-10i tol 1 i 34 Georgia, 3d and 4th sortlol to 1114
Georgia, Ist sort 12% R.% I Madras and Surat 8 9%
2d 12 1234 Domingo ll% 12
FOREIGN FUNDS. Bills. Money.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. —
Ditto Bank Shares 1313 1311
Anglo-Russian Loan 11.5! 103
Ditto, b per cent 99% 99%
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent. —
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent B2 81%
Ditto, 3 per cent 52 51%
Dutch 2% per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents —
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 75 74%
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents lB% 1834
Ditto 4 per Cent. —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent
EXCHANGES ON LONDON
HAMBURG, Asia. 28,-13 12 ; twomonths, 13 12%.
Sr. PETEKSBURGH, AUG. 21 —Three months. Li 17-32.
CHRISTIANIA, AUG. 19.—Three months, 5 15.
&rook tioLm, AuG.l2l.—Two months, 12 4.
BERLIN, AuG. 25.—Three months, 6. 28%.
—Hamburg Papers, Aug. 28.
DUTCH FUNDS—Astsmtnam, AuousT 28.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 21% per Cent. 53% 54u
Loan (1830) 5 per cent.
A mort Syndic, 4% per cent 92% 9314
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 77+34 77%
Commercial Company, 4',, per colt —
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per •cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 22N.
Two mouths
PRUSSIAN FUNDS...—BERLIN, Am 24.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 41 per cent. lOl% 1a1.,,,,,
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 99% 9914
Exchange on London, Two months 6 27%
Prussian State Gazette, Aug. 25.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Aua. 19.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Bank Shares 1,322
—4llgemeine Zeitung, Aug. 25.