The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-28 00:00:00

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! join in the suspension, had declare 4.4 iel=4._
continue specie payments permanently.
"The suspension at New Bedford,
haven, Augrista, Worcester, Portland, 40-nc
Petersburg, Lawrence, Methuen, BangoTrookihn,
Brocklyn, and Albany is announced. The Pacific Mills
Corporation at Lawrence is reported suspended. At
New Orleans the Louisville Central Bank is announced
to have suspended, also J. L. Johnson and Ce."
An Albany paper says :
" We understand the auditor of the Canal Depart-
ment has male arrangements with the different banks
holding the canal funde, whereby the checks of the
forwarders are taken, the banks taking the bills of
lading as security. By this means the checks will lie
forwarded by the different banks taking them to- the
points of destination ; and upon payment the cargos's
can be discharged=thus moving the produce ea-st with-
out delay, and forwarders save the length of time of the
trip."

There was au improved feeling in cotton, aad
prices were unsettled. Prices of common bran is
of breadstuffs had advanced 10c. to IZic. por barrtl,
under the feeling of relief from pressure which has
followed the bank suspension ; but buyers did not
meet this advance readily, and, although there was
a good demand, not much was done for export.
The offerings of wheat were light, and there was
a demand for prime parcels for export. Anadvauce
of 3c. to sc. was in some cases obtained.
Corn advanced lc. to 2c. per bushel, and closed
firm.

Provisions continued dull, and nothing but a few
parcels were sold at irregular prices.
Freights to Liverpool firmer.

THE FRENCH DISLIKE OF ENGLAND.

(From, the Examiner.)

A month or two ago most of the French journals
took the most gloomy views of the posture of things
in India. They gave our countrymen full credit
for their bravery in attempting impossibilities, in
the vain hope of maintaining the honour aid
prestige of their flag, but that was all. They de-
monstrated the impossibility of strug2ling against
the odds of twenty to one or mere. They showed.
how idle it was t') suppose that mu small force
could hold its ground before Delhi, and ho
hopeless would be its position when it would be
its turn to stand on its defence, a repetition of
the Cabool disaster. They proved that Luoknow
must share the fate of Cawnpore, and that
General Havelock would not be able to save his
own little band beset by hosts of enemies on all
sides, much less to succour the beleagured fortress.
Finally, our excellent friends found it too certain
that our reinforcements would arrive too late to
save even a wreck of our army, and that their
number would be found to.) small to undertake
any great operations against an enemy by that
time in complete undisputed possession of the beat
half of our territory. Such was the calculation of
most of the French journals, especially of the
Univers, the Gazette de France, and the Press;
the only exception having been the Siecle, which
has always friendly faith in those energies which
make the fortune of England.
Some, like the Univers, assured us that our
coming ruin was due to our offences against heaven
and earth ; others professed to be concerned for the
fate which they too clearly foresaw, and " with.
sorrowful ditty promised their pity." Well, with-
out inferring the " wish father to the thought,"
or reproaching these Job's comforters for not being
more sure of their facts before they resigned all
hope of us, we ask them to observe bow matters
stand now in India, and to reconcile our present
posture with their previous view of our resources,
and the declared impossibility of our endeavours.
What do they think now of the men who have held

their ground against the odds pronounced over-
whelming ? What do they think of the admired au-
dacity which has reduced the pronounced impossi-
hility to a matter of fact possibility. Let us not be told
that our enemies have wanted military skill and
daring. A month ago we were told not to pre-
sume on such deficiencies, not to build any expec-
tations or hopes on the inferiority of the sepoy, or
the want of conduct and cohesion in the bands of
discordant races and religionists. We were then
assured that numbers and animosity would make
up for all soldierly deficiencies, and overwhelm our
scanty and exhausted forces. There was only one
error in this reasoning, and that was in the estimate
of what Englishmen are capable when mighty exi-
gencies mad peril call forth all the powers and re-
sources of the national genius. The sort of wreck
which disbands and demoralises most people is the
wreck which exhibits all that is noblest and bestin
the English character—the order and devotion
which prevailed is that noble example of the ship
of war carrying Lord Amherst to China, cast away
on Ler passage, and which Frenchmen themselves
compared with the very different conduct presented
in like circumstances in the instance of their Me-
dusa. Nof that the French are less brave. No
people are braver, but their bravery has different
seasons and occasions. It is gay, impulsive, and
active, and delights in meeting danger oraffronting
it. The British courage is more sedate and passive,
more obedient to calls, and with its funds more
amply reserved to meet heavy demands.
If our present trial has revealed to us the dis-
agreeable truth that we are not liked by our neigh-
bours, we hope at least it will serve to make us
bettor understood by them, and that the spectacle
of _British conduct in India will inspire a respect
compensating the avowed dislike for we know not
what, and so tend to the great end of preservation
of peace between us. It must be clear that we
are not a pleasant people to war with, even
when most unprepared, and unprepared henceforth
we do not intend to be. We have learnt a lesson
of caution, and of precaution. As the Revue de Deux
111ondes observes, our instincts instruct us to confide
in ourselves alone and to provide by our own sure
means for our own safety. When a province is in
arms against us we do not, like an European power,
implore the aid of an ally's army to restore our
authority and secure the integrity of our empire.
It is, however, to say the least, unpleasant to
find that national prejudice still survives where it is
most to our interest that it should be eradicated.
The French admit that all prejudice against them on
the part of the English has ceased to exist, and
let us observe that this admission is a confession
of an advance in true civilisation on our side,
without any corresponding progress on theis
where national antipathy still prevails. And mani-
festations of this feeling, most petty and illiberal,
are observable. In French fiction the Englishman
is always held up to ridicule and odium, not as as
individual, but as the Britannic type, hideous in
person, ungainly, unmannerly, selfish, vulgir,
mean, uuintellectual.
.A. novel ("Silence"), by Paul
Fevel, a popular author, happens to be now before
us, in which several pages are devoted to a descrip-
tion of the Britannic characteristics, physical and
moral, in contradistinction not only to everything
agreeable, but we might almost add, to everything
human. And, no doubt, a seasoning of this sort ill
thought, if not necessary, at least conducive to the
success of any work of amusement for the French
public. It feeds the dislike confessed by the Revue
de Deux 3londes. These straws indeed show the
set of the wind. Retaliation cannot be threatened.
We cannot return to our illiberalities because our
neighbours have not emancipated themselves from
their wretched prejudices. And if any calamity
befel France to-morrow, England would be as ready
and forward to succour her as she was on the occa-
sion of the inundations, and net a thought would
be bestowed on the ill feeling manifested when it
was our turn to expect at least sympathy and good
wishes.