The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-24 00:00:00

Zixo gima.

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1835.

We understand that the various Ministerial appoint-
ments will appear in this evening's Gazette, with the
exception of the Board of Control.

The events of the next eight or ten days will do
much either to strengthen or weaken the hold of the
new Administration, on public opinion. It has made
an appeal to the people by sending back nearly twenty
of its members to their constituents ; and there can
be no doubt that their re-election, or their rejection,
will be generally regarded (whether justly or not, is of
little consequence) as the criterion of its popularity with
the country. Of the many rude shocks which the late
unprincipled Administration received, perhaps none
damaged it more than the successive defeats which it
sustained in the individual persons of h 0 fewer than
ELEVEN of its members. That we may not be ac-
cused of exaggerating the degree of discredit in which
these Tory officials were held by the people of England
Scotland, and Ireland, we shall, as well to sub-
stantiate our own statement as to refresh the memory
of our readers, lay before them a list of the casualties
which occurred in the course of the late electioneering
campaign :

GENERAL OFFICERS.
Sir G. Murray, Mauled
RANK AND FILE.
Sir G. Cockburn, hors de combat
Sir C. Rowley ditto Portsmouth.
Sir C. Owen ditto Sandwich.
G. R. Dawson ditto Devonport.
J. Planta.. ditto Hastings.
M. Fitzgerald... ditto... Kerry.
Sir A. C. Grant ditto... ......... ... Grimsby.
Lord Elliot .. ......... ditto Bodmin.
Hon. J. S. Wortley ditto Forfarshire.
Lord Tullamore, ditto

This is no doubt a lamentable sight, at least to the
eye of a Tory. So extensive a Ministerial carnage
was never seen before, and will never be seen again ;
for we hold it impossible that such a set as the late
Ministers, can by any chance ever be again brought
together, except on their way to Tyburn. But that is
a ,point which we have not time to discuss at present.
Of this we are quite sure, that the result of the pre-
sent ministerial elections will exhibit to the
Tories a mortifying —to the Reformers a
triumphant—contrast with that of the last. We
continue to receive the most flattering accounts
of the successful progress which the Reform
candidates are everywhere making in their canvass.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, supported by the people, is
effectually struggling against the concentrated power
of Tory gold and Tory bigotry, and must ultimately
prevail. In Cambridge Mr. SPRING RICE has as yet
met with no opposition, and, we believe, will meet with
none. The Right Hon. Gentleman has published
an admirable address to the electors, breathing the
same spirit of freedom as that of his Noble Colleague to
his late Constituents, and pledging him to the support
of the same measures of Reform. The following pas-
sage, in which the new CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER states, so happily, the course which
a wise Reformer should pursue, will, we are
sure, give general satisfaction to the friends
of genuine Reform, while it must at the same time be
little less bitter than wormwood to those who would
be, above all things, glad to see their prophecies
about a course leading to revolution, anarchy, &c.,
fulfilled. "To these great questions my best attention
shall be given, not with any disposition rashly to inno-
vate, or madly to destroy, but with a resolute determi-
nation, as far as my humble abilities will permit, to
assist in the work of constitutional improvement, ad-
hering, under all circumstances, to those principles of
Civil and Religious Liberty, which have governed
the opinions and regulated the conduct of the politi-
cal friends with whom it has been my pride and satis-
faction to act."

We understand that Mr. D'ISRAELI, junior, has
just set off post haste for Taunton, in order to oppose
Mr. LA BOUCHERE'S re-election for that borough. A
richer joke than this we have not heard for many a
day. The young gentleman in question possesses ac-
tually not one qualification for the part he has under-
taken to play at a moment's notice. He has no poli-
tical experience ; not an atom of sound judgment, as
, his various publications show ; he is neither more nor
less thin a puppet, whose wires are pulled by the
Duke of BUCKINGHAM. He seems, however, to

have a wonderful hankering after Parliamentary emi-
nence, for thrice has he attempted to carry the borough
of Wyckham by storm, and thrice has he been re-
pulsed with contempt. This, we suspect, will not add
much to his value in the eyes of the Taunton electors.
Besides, who knows him there ? Where are his
vouchers of ability ? Where his testimonials of expe-
rience ? Is it because he has showered a deluge of
flashy, coxcombical novels on the Circulating. Library
world—melted the hearts of love-sick servant maids—
and showed a footman-like acquaintance with West-
end habits—that he is entitled to come forward and
claim the suffrages of such an intelligent body of men
as the electors of Taunton ? No, no. Taunton, like
other boroughs, must have statesmen, not crazy senti-
mentalists, to represent it. It is for this reason that
we advocate the claims of Mr. LABOUCHERE. He
at least is known. He is respected. He can ad-
duce the past as a voucher for the future. No
man knows better than he, how to direct the
movements of Reform ; when to bid it halt ; when
to propel it onward. He is no flincher—no Tory
tricked out in the disguise of a Liberal. All
he says and does, is plain and above board. Can
his opponent say as much ? He whose every work—
except such as are decidedly incomprehensible—are
tainted with the haughtiest, and most exclusive aristo-
cratic spirit ? When puling lady's-maids, and simper-
ing boarding-school girls have a voice in the election
of Members of Parliament, then may Mr. DISRAELI
step forward with some chance of success ; but till that
period arrives—and we fear it is yet far distant—we
would recommend him to confine himself to the perpe-
tration of such harmless indiscretions, as Vivian Greys
and Young Dukes, which many may read, and some
few may perhaps admire.

We call on the Reformers of the " good town of
Berwick" to be on their guard against the arch-whip-
per-in of the Tories—the redoubtable " BILLY
HOLAIES"—who has just started to oppose their
late Gallant Representative. Though the Ultra-
Tory candidate be well backed by the golden argu-
ments of the Conservative Club, we have little doubt
that the honest Reformers of the Border-town will
send him back with empty pockets and forlorn hopes.

We have received a copy of a printed hand-bill, ad-
dressed to the " Farmers of the West Riding of
Yorkshire," and signed by a (self-styled) " Farmer ;"
which we are informed has been most industriously
distributed and posted up by the Conservatives of that
district, from whose head-quarters at Doncaster it has
emanated. As may be expected from such a source,
the old, worn-out hobbies of the Corn Laws, and the
Church in danger, are the subjects resorted to in this
contemptible twaddle, which concludes by recommend-
ing the Hon. J. S. WORTLEY to the Electors as
" a Protestant and a Farmer's Friend." We
should consider it insulting to the electors of the
West Riding to suppose that any arguments
could be necessary to convince them of the gross ab-
surdity of such charges against Lord MORPEnt as
that he is an enemy to agriculture and the Protestant
religion, and desires the ruin of the farmer and the
downfall of the Church. The electors know full well
that the political doctrines of Lord MORPETII and his
colleagues arc founded on the sound principle, that as
all the various interests and branches of our national
industry are dependent on each other for support and
prosperity, so it is the duty of a wise Government to
extend equal protection to them all. They are also
well aware that it is not for the safety of the
Protestant religion, but for the preservation of
the loaves and fishes of the Church for
its sinecures, rich benefices, and overpaid dig-
nities—that the Conservatives arc raising such a hue
and cry. Even putting principles entirely out of the
question, Lord MORPETIT and the new Ministry have
too great and direct an interest in agriculture and the
Protestant Church to be their enemies. The Hon.
J. S. WORTLEY, mentioned in the hand-bill, is, we
believe, the same who contested, on the same pre-
text, the county of Forfar, in Scotland, against Mr.
HALLIBURTON, at the last election. We should
have imagined that his failure there would have cooled
his zeal for such enterprizes ; and we will venture to
predict that he will meet with a still worse reception
from the electors of the West Riding.

We have received the whole of the Paris 'Papers of
Wednesday. The Chamber of Peers will commence
its judicial sittings for the trial of the prisoners of
April on the sth of May, provided the number of
Members required by the Charter are in attendance.
As the KING'S birth-day falls on the 12th of May, it
furnishes a most favourable pretext for marching the
troops to Paris, under pretence that his MAJESTY
purposes to review them. For this purpose, as
alleged in the instructions issued to the Commanders
of Divisions, several regiments have already entered
the capital, and those quartered in the provinces are
marching thither with all possible expedition. Al-
though the good citizens of Paris appear to understand
no more about the movements of the army than the
KING pleases, yet there is not an individual among
them who is not as fully aware of the purposes of the
SOVEREIGN as THIERS himself. On the subject of the
trials, a new difficulty has arisen. The Court of Peers
waiving its own promulgated ordinance, when it found
itself unable to cope with the Bar of France, granted
the prisoners permission to choose their own counsel,
only stipulating that the persons chosen should be Ad-
vocates regularly called to the Bar. Against this
stipulation the prisoners have entered a protest. They
insist that they have a right to choose their own coun-
sel, without regard to legal qualification, and that, un-
less they are permitted to exercise this right, they will
enter a solemn protest against the whole proceeding, as
unjust and tyrannical. This question is the first that will
engage the earnest attention of Ministers and the
leading Members of the Chamber of Peers.

The right claimed by the prisoners is unquestionably
one which belongs to them ; and which they ought to
be permitted to exercise freely, provided the advocates
chosen by them be subjects of France. Legal objec-
tions can have no weight here, for the established law
has been dispensed with by the prosecutor ; and it
would be nonsense to talk of legal forms in a Court
which places itself above all law and all precedent.
The defence ought to be conducted on the same prin-
ciple as the prosecution. If neither the ordinary
Judges, nor the established Courts of Criminal
Judicature be thought requisite in the prose-
cution of the prisoners, why call upon them
for a defence conducted by individuals who are only
cognizant of the forms of the Courts in which they
plead ? But the answer is sufficiently evident—or
rather the answers; for the Court of Peers is influenced
by two motives in desiring that none but advocates
should be selected to plead the cause of the accused.
In the first place, the KING, his Ministers, and the
Court of Peers, are afraid that if the prisoners are per-
mitted to choose whom they please as counsel, the per-
sons chosen may beard the Court, and so defend the
republican principles of the conspirators as to endanger
the existence of Monarchy in France. It is possible, too,
that such advocates might, from their station in society,
be placed beyond the reach of Royal revenge, no mat-
ter how directed. Now this being the case, the second
motive for permitting none but regular practitioners to
plead is quite clear. The Court could interfere, and

call them to order ; and if they persisted, a hint of ex-:
pulsion from the bar would soon tie the tongues of a
majority among them. This is the question upon
which the Court has first to decide ; and, in fact, it is
rather a puzzling one. Had it been proposed to try
the prisoners before the ordinary tribunals it would
have been easy enough. But the established usages
having been cast aside in the prosecution, it is rather
difficult to ' undertake, in the face of Republican
France, to insist upon their strict observance in the
conduct of the defence.

The domestic intelligence received from the French
capital is unimportant. Lord COWLEY returns to
London this week, and will immediately be succeeded
by Lord GRANVILLE, for whose arrival preparations
ar being made at the Hotel of the English Legation
at Paris.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, APRIL 22.
Five per Cents., 107 E 70c. 50c. 60c.
Four per Cents., 99f. 25c.
Three per Cents., Slf. 95c. 82f. SI& 95c.
Bank Actions, 1,965 f. —c.
Rente de Naples, 99f. 98f. 90c. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 10214 102 10214.
Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 49%% 50.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 31%%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 48%56%
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 4h%% 49.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102.
Portugue,e Loan, Five per Cent., 98%%.
Haytian Loan, 430 f. —c.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f 45c.
Three months, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25E 32%c.
—Coors Authentique.

BOURSE, WEDNESDAY, 3 o'CLocx.—.This has proved another
blank day in the different Securities. The Three per Cents.
have been at one time at 82f. sc. to 10c., but they have receded
to 81f. 95c., buyers, the present price. The Spanish Stock
is also without much fluctuation, and scarcely any business is
doing in it.
QUARTER TO FOUR O'CLOCK.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 70c. ;
Three per Cents., 81f. 95c. ; Five per Cents., Spanish,
49 ; Three per Cents., ditto. 31/ ; Cortes, 50 ; Coupons,
311; Guebhards, 48k ; Differes, 224 ; New Loan, 68i ;
Ducats, 98 90 ; Romans, 102 f ; Belgians, 1021 ; Pedros, 98i •
Miguels, 26k ; Dutch, 57 70 ; Haytians, 430 ; Brabant Bank,
20f pm.

We have received German and Brussels Papers,
with advices from the Swiss Cantons, to the 10th
inst. The Northern Powers are greatly alarmed by
the overthrow of the Tory Cabinet in England. This
unexpected event has upset all the plans which they
had arranged for the last four months, so that they are
almost distracted with rage and disappointment. The
Autocrat of all the RUSSI AS, the Kings of PRUSSIA
and HOLLAND, the Grand Duke of BADEN, and
some of the minor potentates of the Holy Roman
Empire, are among the most rabid vituperators of the
newly-appointed MELBOURNE Administration.
The Emperor of AUSTRIA has been ill, but hap-
pily his indisposition was not of such a nature as to
create any serious alarm, and at present he is reco-

vering.
The local Government of the Canton of Bask has
passed some excellent regulations for augmenting the
utility of its University. After a very careful
and minute examination, for four days, the Great
Council not only approved in all its essential
points the plan for the organization of the Univer-
sity, proposed to it by the Government, but ex-
tended it by founding a fourth Faculty, that of Medi-
cine, which was not proposed according to the new
plan, which does not materially differ from the old
one. The Faculty of Philosophy will have nine ordi-
nary Professors—that of Divinity three, that of Medi-
cine four, and that of Law three. The sum required
for the maintenance of the University, and the school
annexed to it, amounts to rather more than 40,000
Swiss francs per annum, of which the State will have
to pay 30,000.
BELGIAN FUNDS.-13E1178SELS, Aram 22.
Actual Debt, per Cent ,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOl%
Loan of City, 1632, Four per Cent
Socie!y of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 1204
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cenr 121!4
—Brussels Papers, April 23.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA APRIL 14.
Five per Cents. Mctalliques lO2 9-16
Four per Cents.
Bank Shares

It is with no ordinary feelings of pleasure—with no
common wish for endeavouring to promote the diffu-
ion of knowledge, and to excite a spirit of industry
among the most neglected of our species, that we call
public attention to an advertisement in another column
for the establishment of a Steam Packet Company in
the Mediterranean, under the patronage of the Greek
Government. Genius, scholarship, and taste, will hail
with delight the prospect of a direct communication with
Greece—the birth-place of liberty, and the cradle of the
Arts. The following extract from the Prospectus is a
brief exposition of the plans proposed by the Company:
" If we consider the capabilities Greece possesses,
by the fertility of its soil, by its large and magnificent
seaports, and by the industry of its inhabitants, it may
naturally be concluded that she will again rapidly rise
to opulence, and to an important position in the scale
of nations, if only proper means are adopted to render
the passage to that country as short as possible from
the ports of England, France, and Italy.

"In order to afford the most desirable communica-
tion it is proposed to establish a line of Steam Packets,
making the port of the Pirnus (Athens) the centre of
the line. One line of packets to leave Marseilles,
touching at Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, and Malta, at
which latter place anotlfcr line of packets will meet the
former and proceed to Athens, and from thence, touching
at the various islands of the Archipelago and Smyrna,
to Constantinople. Thus a person embarking at Mar-
seilles will reach Malta in five days, visiting the interme-
diate ports of Italy, and remaining at each six hours.
On the eighth day he will arrive at Athens, and three
days afterwards at Constantinople, making the whole
journey in eleven days. By the above arrangement an
entire communication will be completed, through France,
between England and the principal ports of the Medi-
terranean, as well as with the British possessions of
India, as a Government steam-boat runs regularly be-
tween Malta and Alexandria.

" The above plan has been entered upon under the
sanction of his Majesty King OTHO and his Govern-
ment, and has received their warmest approbation and
encouragement. They have, in consequence, granted
to Mr. GEORGE COCHRANE, who has been some
years in their service, the privilege of running steam-
vessels between the port of Pirwus and the ports and
places above mentioned, exempt from harbour dues in
the Greek ports for twelve years, which will give great
advantage to the Company."
The great importance of carrying the above plan
into full effect must be evident to every person, who
regards it either in a commercial or a political
point of view. The connexion which at present
happily exists between England and Greece, can
only be maintained with advantage to both the
countries, by increasing communication between them.
The more Greece advances in civilization and the
knowledge of the arts—the more she will act as a
check upon the mutual encroachments of the SULTAN
and the CZAR, and the more she will confirm the power
of England in the Government.

Lord Plunkett arrived in Dublin on Tuesday.
By the Bermuda Gazette we learn that 78 slaves,
on board an American vessel which had been blown into the
port of Hamilton, by stress of weather, while on its voyage
from Alexandria to Charleston, were released and made free
by the authorities of the colony.
The mail from London to Worcester is to be acce-
lerated, so that the letters will arrive at the latter city an hour
earlier and may be sent off an hour later. A short time since
Lord Foley transmitted a memorial to Lord Maryborough on
the subject, and measures were immediately taken to accom-
plish the desirable object.
ENNUI.—A French lady has just bequeathed
20,000 francs to the Royal Academy at Paris, the interest of
which, 1,000 francs annually, is to be given for the best trea-
tise on the baneful influence of chagrin in causing illness and
death.—Paris Advertiser.

Hop polling has commenced at Ticehurst--the ap-
pearance of the young bines is healthy and promising.

COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

THE SWEARING-IN of the LORDS COMMISSIONERS

of the GREAT SEAL.

It being generally understood thatthe Lords Commissioners
would be sworn in this morning, the Court was crowded by Barris-
ters and spectators. At ten o'clock, the Master of the Rolls,
the Vice-Chancellor, and Mr. Justice Bosatiquet entered the Court,
preceded by Mr. Butt, carrying the Mace, and the Principal Se-
cretary of the Master of the Rolls, carrying the purse. The oaths
having been administered,
The MASTER of the ROLLS addressed the Bar as follows In
taking upon ourselves the duties of Lords Commissioners of the
Great Seal, our first object has been so to arrange the business of
this and the other two Courts, as not to infringe on the portion
of that time devoted to the administration of justice in any of
them. The arrangements, as far as effects this Court, will be, that,
this Court will sit on Saturdays and Mondays every week, during'
term, and in the period after term, which has usually been a
period of recess, we propose to devote as many days to the'
business of this Court, as will make up the number of days, which,
in the ordinary course, would be devoted to the business of this
Court. There has been four days in one week and three in the
next, that will leave four days after the expiration of this term to
be provided for. By this means we hope to devote to each Court
as much time as has hitherto been devoted to the business. We
hope that this arrangement will be as little inconvenient as
possible to the Bar. The first sitting here will be on
Saturday, and it is proposed on Saturdays to take motions
in this Court ; of those motions it will be desirable
that a list shall be made, and that in that list it should be specified
from which Court the motion comes, if it is an appeal motion.
Appeal motions will have priority over others, as it is the wish of
the Vice-Chancellor and myself, as far as possible, not to be pre-
sent at the discussion of appeals from our own decisions. The
making of the list will enable us to select those motions which each
will hear, and the same rule will be well to be applied to the hear-
ing of appeals. Their Lordships then left the Court.