The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1835

is excellent, so that the statement of M. RAYNEVAL
to the contrary is proved to be utterly unfounded.
The Memorial Bode Ails publishes, in a con-
spicuous place and type, the following
We learn positively that the Juntas which formed
the old Camarilla, have addressed to the QLtEaN
REGENT (after learning the change of the Ministry)
to demand that the Council of Government, created
by the will of FERDINAND NIL, 'Alan be dissolved,
as being composed of men suspected of enmity to the
national cause.

'These
untas are daily astntlitlg, a More decided
character of Osapaion and insurrection."
The Moniteur of this morning says—
" It is announced that EnA.zo, the Chief of the
faction of Navarre, who had the most influence, died
on the .c!2nd.
" At Valencia the Urbanos restored order on the
20th. Count ALMODOVAR, who was forced to hide
himself, has resumed his functions, and the Junta of
Government is dissolved.

" At Carthagena General VALDEZ and the Go-
vernment have been forced to take refuge with the
French Consul.

" IVlurcia and Lorca have followed the revolutionary
movement."

The Bordeaux Journals say—

" A sanguinary action took place at Oracco on the
20th between the insurgents and CORDOVA and
ESPELETTA, who effected their junction in spite of
efforts of the Carlist army. We have no details of
this affair, which appears to have been serious, and
to have ended to the disadvantage of the QUEEN'S
troops."

This is merely a repetition of the telegraphic dis-
patch published four days ago ; but the Bayonne pa-
pers of the 26th do not mention the affair, and only
say that the Carlists seem to have renounced the siege
of Bilboa.

A letter from Paris brings the French Five per Cents.
108 f. 30c. ; Three per Cents. 81f.15c.; Ardoins, 39i;
Actives, 39i- ; Portuguese Five per Cents, 872 ;
Three per Cents. 562. It does not quote the Cortes
Bonds.

We have received several letters from Bilboa, dated
the 24th ult., but their details are uninteresting. The
conduct of General EVANS has secured for him the
respect and admiration of the Spanish officers. The
British auxiliaries are in excellent health and spirits.

German Papers of the lastest dates have been
received. The following article—the most important
in these Journals—is under the head of Vienna :

" We have learned since yesterday, on good autho-
rity, that Duke FERDINAND of Saxe Coburg, re-
siding here, has received from his brother LEoPoLD,
King of the Belgians, overtures of a proposal for the
marriage of his son Prince FERDINAND, a very ac-
complished and handsome young man, with the young.
Queen of PORTUGAL. It is said that her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of KENT seconds this proposal,
which, in addition to the alliance that has subsisted
for centuries between England and Portugal, would
unite the Royal families of the two kingdoms by the
bonds of affinity; the Princess VICTORIA being
cousin to Prince FERDINAND, who has had a most
excellent education, under the direction of Professor
DIEZ, one of the most esteemed of the German literati.
Duke FERDINAND of Saxe Coburg, the Prince's
father, is married to the Hereditary Princess ECIIARY,
whose father stipulated, in the marriage contract, that
all the children should be educated in the Catholic
religion."
The following extracts are likewise worthy of no-
tice :

". The Hungarian Diet will shortly close. The
Royal resolution is already drawn up, and only the
accustomed formalities are now wanting to carry it
into effect. With respect to his MAJESTY'S title, as
King of HUNGARY, he has been pleased to decide that
the custom hitherto observed shall not be departed
from, and he will therefore be styled FERDINAND 1.,
Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, &c. &c.
" Whether the Army in Italy will be reduced, after
the turn that the affairs of Spain have taken, is doubt-
ful. At all events, it may be interesting to state the
actual amount of our Army. It is at this moment
395,000 men, including the officers of all ranks.
There are 239 Generals (not including those who
are out of employment), about 10,000 staff and
superior officers, 31,200 subaltern officers ; civil offi-
cers, 1500 ; horses, 70,000.

" The Duke of LUCCA will set out for Toplitz to-
morrow. The meeting there will last till the sth Oc-
tober at the most, after which his Imperial MAJESTY,
with the Emperor and Empress of RUSSIA, will go
to Prague.
" VIENNA, SEPT. 22.—Though the latest accounts
from Italy respecting the cholera are less alarming, yet
the fear of it causes many persons to fly before it.
Among these is the Princess of BEIRA, who, with
the three Infants, Don JUAN, DOB FERDINAND,
and Don SEBASTIAN, have arrived at Liebach. It is
not known whither they will go. Some say they are
coming to Vienna."
VIENNA, SEPT. 22.-5 per Cents., 102; 4 per Cents.,
981- ; Bank Shares, I,327.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 27.

We have received Dutch and Brussels Papers to
the Ist inst. They bring no intelligence of the slightest
political importance. The Brussels Journals state, that
a line of telegraphs is going to be established from
Antwerp to Lille. Ground for the site has already
been purchased, and the preliminary operations have
commenced.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussnLs, San. SO.
Actual Debt, 24 per Cent,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOO%
Loan of City, 1832 Four per Cent. 9B
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent l2B
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent IIOX
—Brussels Papers, Oct. 1.

In another part of the The Sun will be found a do-
cument to which we invite the particular attention of
our readers. It is a Return to an order of the House
of Commons, in which are set forth the names and
titles of the Bills which, during the last three years,
after having passed the House of Commons, have been
smothered in the House of Lords. The number of
bills thus strangled by the hereditary law-makers amounts
to fifty-three ; but who can calculate the extent of the
mischief inflicted on the country by so perverse and reck-
less an exercise of power? Is it possible for the
most obstinate stickler for the hereditary Peerage
to castlhis eye over that list, and not be convinced that
it is absolutely necessary to impose some restraint on
a privilege which has been so abused, that instead of
promoting the public welfare it has been converted
into an instrument of faction, and directed against
the best interests of the people ? We confidently
answer in the negative. We are sure the most stupidly
prejudiced Tory that can be found between
the Land's End and John O'GroaVs, has sense
enough to see, though he may not have honesty
enough to confess, that the House of Lords
ought to be reformed, even if there were no
other evidence of its delinquency, and no other proof
of its want of harmony with our improved and im-
proving institutions, than the list we have
alluded to
affords. Into the particular charges of this bill of
Indictment laid by the Commons against the L
maw,
it is not our purpose to enter at present ; but the sub-
ject is too important to be passed over with a slight
and general notice like this, It furnishes many inate-

rials which may be advaritagethisly employed in the
gecidt work Of legislatorial Reforin and of these we
shall on future occasions avail ourselves.

We give in another part of The Sun some interesting
particulars respectitig the Of Mr: O'CONNELL
in Ireland. The }lonourable and Learned Gentleman
reached Dublin on Tuesday, and was welcomed by the
thotisands who Went out io meet hini if prissible,
more enthusiasm than ever. In his address to the
people, from the balcony of his residence in Merrion-
Sipiate, Mr. OIdoNNIAA. expressly .stated that it was
not his intention to agitate the Repeal of the Union ;
observing, " all the Orangemen want is, that Ireland
should agitate for the Repeal ; but I think we know
our own interests better than to gratify them in that
particular. Our first step must be to put down the
Orange faction." This is well said, for though there
may be partial, there can be no hope of any general, hn-
provement in Ireland, till the incubus that has so long
oppressed her, is wholly shaken off. It will be ob-
served that Mr. O'CONNELL alludes to his late tri-
umphant progress through the North of England and
Scotland, in terms of fervid gratitude, which made a
sensible impression on all who heard him.

We perceive by some of the Tory Journals that the
Conservatives—as they call themselves—have been
trying to get up an anti-O'CoNNELL exhibition in
Lancashire. A more miserable concern than they
have made of it cannot well be imagined. We are
really surprised that the Tories should not see the im-
policy of thus exposing their weakness to the world.
It is unnecessary to say more of 'this Bull Inn affair
at Preston, than that the man who once boasted the
classical pronoun of Bootle and the Israelitish cog-
nomen of Wil-braham, and who now rejoices in the
euphonous tide of " Skehnersdale," presided at this
meeting of the club ; and that " Church and King"
was the first toast

A spirit of enterprise—unwonted even in England
—prevails among all classes of commercialists. Not
a day passes in which some new scheme is not set on
foot, or in which some fresh attempt is not made to
perfect the operation of one which promises to deserve
public approbation, encouragement, and support.
There is besides one remarkable feature in most modern
projects—one point in which they justly claim the pre-
cedence of those of which our forefathers were the pa-
trons : they not only diminish labour, and so save ex-
pense, but they look to the augmentation of human
happiness, not in the individual but in the aggregate—
in the mass. Before the gratification of individual
ambition or caprice was the principal motive, and
where this was not an object, the diminution of ex-
pense was solely attended to. Now projectors form
plans with no other view than to facilitate social inter-
course, diminish manual drudgery, and so ,increase the
happiness of the whole human race.

This fact will hardly be questioned, and it is equally
as evident that in the practice of mbdern times we have
the strongest assurance of a wonderful improvement in
the very principle of moral action. The intention is
everything in morals ; and it is astonishing to reflect
how soon actions themselves take the hue of the de-
sire which prompts their performance. Men rarely
act from a single motive. The concurrence of several
feelings, many of them very different in themselves, is
necessary to prompt men to perform several
works which the public will only attribute to sor-
didness, because the expectation of gain may have had
some influence upon the individuals engaged in them:
For our own part, we are exceedingly indulgent on all
matters of this kind. We believe it quite possible that
speculators may be actuated chiefly by a desire to
benefit their country in carrying on all their projects ;
and that men may engage in the most chimerical
schemes, with thoughts equally balanced between a
longing to enrich themselves, and an ardent hope to
confer a lasting and priceless favour upon all mankind.
It is in this light that we have always contemplated
the untiring efforts of Railway Companies, to facilitate
the means of social intercourse between all parts of
this great Empire : it is in this spirit that we have
uniformly supported them with a devotion unexampled,
and but indifferently imitated by any of our numerous
Contemporaries. Nothing daunted by the mean rivalry
between Companies struggling into legal existence, we
did all in our power to explain away differences, and to
soften down asperities, which we knew must militate
against the great principle for which alone we were
contending. We do not mean to cast any unworthy
imputation on the great bulk, or even on a
respectable minority of the Railway projectors.
In general, we should say, that their conduct
as a public body, has been, and continues to be,
worthy of men who look more to the good of their
country, than to the chances of sordid individual emo-
lument. That they are assailed by the grossest abuse
is not to be wondered at, especially as their success
must affect a number of existing interests. But the
public is sufficiently powerful to do them every justice
demanded by their. motives, their labours, and the
extent of the service which they are rendering to the
British nation.

In the rapid increase of the number of Railway
Companies, we arc glad to find that one is in the act
of being established for carrying a line of road between
the City of London Docks and Blackwall. There is
no sense in which a public work can be called im-
portant—unless designed as a commemorative orna-
ment—which would be inapplicable to such a line of
road, if perfected. It would save expense—diminiSh
labour of the most oppressive kind—facilitate com-
merce—and prevent a sacrifice of human life to an
amount almost incalculable. At present not a day
passes in which disastrous accidents do not happen
from the concussion of steam-boats, luggers, and other
vessels employed in the freight of goods from the London
Docks to Blackwall. Unless a line of Railway is
made to communicate with the latter place these acci-
dents, &c., must increase, as the Railways which will
centre in London, from all parts of the country, will
increase the quantity of goods to be transported down
the river. For example, all within reach of the great
Southern and Western Railways will take advantage
of them for the conveyance of heavy goods to. London ;
and as much of these may be destined for exportatioa,
the bed of the river will be, of necessity, more densely
crowded to effect their carriage to Blackwall. Judg-
ing from the Mansion House police reports—we can-
not judge by more correct data—the steam navigation
of the river is even now a work of great danger. What
then would it be, if the number of steamers plying on
the river was doubled or trebled, and if it was found
necessary to double the speed to which their sailing is
now restricted ? Under such circumstances no plea-
sure boat could live in the river, and the citizens of
London would for ever be deprived of one of their
most innocent sources of healthy amusement, as well
as one
of their most inviolable civic privileges—the
right of navigating and fishing in the River
sole right

The several other advantages which would arise from
the establishment of the line of railroad referred to above
are amply detailed, and ably expatiated upon, in an
advertisement which will be found in another part of
, The Sun. To it we refer our readers for the particu-
srs. Regarded only in the light of pecuniary specu-
*
;t is well worth being prosecuted at any con-
laticut, ns e . With this part of the subject,
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