The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-27 00:00:00

- When the 113/Mouth job was brought under the
consideration of the Hottse of CiitifirioUsi Lord
ASHLEY, who seemed to be taken the
exposure of the pranks of his subordinate officer
DAWSON, and quite unprepared to make any defend,
resorted to the old Tory trick of throwing out insinua-
tions against the character of the persoti tOttiplaining.
Mr. PEARSE'S offer to supply the stone for the
Breakwater had been rejected, his Lordship said, be-
cause he had been a bankrupt; and Mr. SCOTT had
got the contract, not for any political merit of his, GOD
forbid I but solely because he was a better man. Since
we last alluded to the abject, we have learnt a few
facts, which we shall state without comment, leaving
our readers to judge from them whether the probabi-
lities are in favour of the absence of all political motives
in this transaction.

Mr. PEA RSE never was a bankrupt or insolvent.
At the time he tendered for the supply of the lime-
stone, he was the proprietor of a very large quarry at
Plymouth, which he was then and is still working.
Mr. PEA RSE was and is a staunch supporter of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL. He supported the Noble Lord in
1832, 1834, and 1835.

SCOTT is a Tory, and a partisan of DAWSON
He is a member of the Plymouth Corporation—

PEARSE is not. SCOTT is it large beer brewer, and
owns as such a great many public-houses both in Ply-
mouth AND DEVONPORT. This enabled him to
assist DAWSoN at Devonport during the late election,

by the exercise of his influence over his tenants in
these houses.

Private letters from Madrid to the 19th inst., re-
ceived in Paris, announce the arrest of a number of
persons of the highest rank, ,who are suspected of
having been leaders of the recent insurrection in
that capital. Among these is the Duke AP-
RANTEs ; the Marquis de la-s- NA VAS, recently a mem-
ber of the Cabinet ; M. GALIANo, a Deputy ; and
M. CABALLERO, one of the Clerks of the Chamber.
The deputation, sent by the insurgents with the copy of
certain propositions to be adopted by the Government,
were likewise seized, and handed over for trial before a
court-martial. The four battalions of Urbanos have been
disarmed, and the publication of the Opposition Jour
nals suspended, till tranquillity is restored in the Capi.
to

The QUEEN has not been unmindful of the
services of General QUESADA, who has received the
appointment of Captain General of New Castile, and
the honour of being a Gentleman of her MAJESTY'S
Bed-chamber.

The whole of the Parii Papers of Tuesday have
been received. The debates in the Chamber of De-
puties on the Fieschi Laws, as those relating to the
Press are called, begin to be more animated. On
Monday the Duke DE BROGLIE made a long speech
in favour of these laws, to the utter astonishment of

the people of Paris. The Duke was one of those
straight-forward upright men, in whom all parties
consider they may safely trust where a_ distinct
pledge is given, and his secession from the cause
of liberty has excited considerable surprise in the poli-
tical circles of the capital of France. The debate was
opened on Tuesday, by M. ROYER COLLARD,
who, forsaking the Ministerial party, with whom
he hitherto voted, attacked the principle of the new

law with great vigour, learning, and eloquence. He
maintained that the Press was the price of the Revo-
lution of 1830—leaving it to be inferred, that to abo-
lish it would be to place the country in the same
state in which it was during the reign of CHARLES
X. •M. THIERS followed, and attempted to defend
himself from the charge of apostacy, brought
against himself and his colleagues by the opposition.
His speech was not concluded when the Evening
Papers went to Press. The following able article from
the pen of M. CARREL (as we are informed) appeared
in the National of Monday. One suggestion con-
tained in it may be serviceable to Louts PHILLIPPE :
" In the Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, the centres ap-
plauded the following passage in a speech of one of the Mini-
sterial Members Remember what was generally thought
of the Imperial Government some years ago, and observe how
similar the way of thinking is at the present day.'
" The applause of the centres proves how greatly the
gentlemen who compose them would wish to turn against
the freedom of the Press the sword of some military
dictator. Doubtless, a military dictator would soon get
the better of the liberty of the Press. Bonaparte employed
no other means than the mere promulgation of a decree, or-
daining the suppression of all the Journals which had spoken
ill of the usurpation of the 18th Brumaire, and forbidding
the publication )f new ones without express authority from
the Consuls. But the day before the majority of the Council
of Five Hundred had been bundled out of the windows of the
Orangery of St. Cloud, and it is likely enough that a mili-
tary dictator, who would at the present day put down the
Press, would begin also by kicking- the gentlemen of the
centres out of the Palais Bourbon (Chamber of Deputies),
not for being anarchists, but because of their being a set of
incapable and babbling meddlers. The liberty of the Press
and that of the tribune are inseparable; they can only prosper
or fall together. They ought to exercise forbearance towards
each other, notwithstanding the jealousy subsisting between
them. It is possible, however, that the gentlemen of the
centres care no more for the one than for the other. At all
events they care for peace, as they have sufficiently made it
appear. Now, military dictatorship and peace at any price
are irreconcilable. The gentlemen of the centre wish to have
nothing to do with the Press. " The Press," say they, " has
been the cause, in five years, of the insurrections of April,
June, and November." This is untrue. The Press has kept
back instead of preparing the explosions of those unlucky days.
But let us compare those deplorable occurrences with those of
the last five years of the empire. In 1410 Napoleon was at
the height of his power. He was united to a Princess who
was won by the French bayonets in the fields of Essling and
Wagram. The bourgeoisie of Paris were mad with
joy. From 1810 to 1812 Napoleon buried 200,000 French-
men in Spain. From 1812 to 1813 he lost 300,000 of them
in the snows of Russia. From 1813 to 1814 he dissipated in
the plains of Saxony, Westphalia, Bohemia, Italy, on the
Rhine, and beyond the,Pyrenees 500,000 men, the reserve of
25 years of war and revolution. In 1814 he gave up France
to the coalition, moneyless, without soldiers, without a Go-
vernment, without liberty, without public virtues, and without
patriotism. In 'lBl5 the same things occurred ; and after all,
we have had to bear the Restoration, the emigrants, the priests,
the massacres on the part of the Royalists in the south, the
payment of 1,500,000,000 to Europe, a billion to the men
of Coblentz, and all that for no other good than to get
finally at the ordinances of July, and the patchwork of the
7th of August. It is true that during the interval of
thirty years, from the coup d'etat of Brumaire to the coup
Vial of July, the Press was almost always in fetters. The go-
verning principle lied been respected, but that principle de-
voured and ruined whole generations. And who can say how
many now dead would be living still, how much France would
be more powerful and rich than she is now, if the Press had
not been destroyed on the 18th Brumaire, and if France had
not been guilty of the cowardice of suffering herself to be
trampled upon by a soldier? It was found twice necessary,
in order to get out of the yoke and the ruinous schemes of
that soldier, to throw ourselves into the arms of the English
and the Russians. The promoters and accomplices of the
usurpation of the 18th Brumaire are eternally reproachable
with their crime."'
FRENCH FUNDS.—PAine, Auouvr
Five per Cents , 1091. sc. 10c. 15c. 10c.
Four and a Half per Cents., lull. 85e.
Four per Cents., 99f. at.
Three per Cents. 78f. 65c 70e. 60c.
Bank Actions, 2,0251.
Rente de Naples, 96f. 9'c. 80c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101%54%
Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 33% 33. •
Rente d'Espagne, Three por Cents.. 22 2114% 21.
Royal Spanish Loan, 3.3541( 33 32M%.
Bente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per t cat.,3l 334 f 33 32N 33.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 102 u.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cent., 87?.4
Portuguese Three per Ceuta. 55% as.
Haytian Loan, 360.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, -4 —c. ; money, 25f 52%e.
Three months, paper, —f. —c. money, 25f. 40c.
Barka, TRUE o'CLocK.—The news from Madrid has

and• lutie therefore decided in future to petition- the
csirritrions for a redress of grievances ! The patriotic.
Aleweastle men Were, it may be remembered, among the
Most enthusiastic supporters of the Reform bill ; their
array of thotisands did infinite service to' the cause ; and
they now assure us that, should the deedsion require
It; they are ready to make a similar array of strength.
The North thus detite's find the test of the kingdom
ready at a day's notice to follow its egrirrlpie? will their
Lordships still persevere in their present course of
conduct ? If they do, they will assuredly fall ; and
will fall unpitied, because they have been thrice
warned I