The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1844.

Lord HEYTESBURY has hardly yet set foot in Ire-
land, and already the more rampant members of the
Orange party are beginning to snarl at him. Indeed,
they showed their teeth, and set up a sharp, snappish
bark, before he had quitted the shores of England ;
for, at a meeting of the Protestant Operative Associa-
tion, which took place at the Rotunda in Dublin, on
Thursday last—the very day before his Lordship
arrived—the following was the language held by one
of the principal speakers :—" Lord HEYTESBURY was
just about to arrive, to-morrow was appointed for his
entree, and how would he come ? Not as the Viceroy
of a Protestant Government, but as appointed to carry
out the policy of Sir R. PEEL—a policy quite as bad
as that of Earl GREY or Lord MELBOURNE. In
fact, Lord NORMANDY deserved just as much of Pro-
testant support as Lord lIEYTESBURY. The Roman
Catholic Lord Mayor, it appeared, would go and meet
him ; but he supposed that the Protestant operatives
would stay at home, and he (Mr. GREGG) would
follow their example. -They would not simulate any
enthusiasm that had no existence. They would not
give their applause to those who dealt nothing but
blows to the Protestant Church. Lord HEYTESBURY
would find plenty to pay their court to him. As for
men of Protestant principles, they were thrown over-
board." There is no need to point out to our readers•
abhorrence the bitter, malignant animus that,per-
yachts the above remarks, and we should not have
taken the slightest notice of them, had we not been
desirous of giving further proof of the incorrigible
bigotry and wrong-headedness of the Irish Orange
faction. All attempts to conciliate them
are clearly unavailing ; they will be satisfied
with nothing short of an uncompromising
submission on the part of Government to their
political and religious intolerance. Acting on the
maxim that all who are not wholly with them are
wholly against them, they treat as an inveterate enemy
every Minister who presumes to steer clear of ex-
tremes, and advocate a juste milieu system of policy!
Full fraught with recollections of the past ascendancy
of his faction, when Ireland was at his mercy, and the
degraded Catholics were mere hewers of wood and
drawers of water; when county after county was pro-
claimed and subjected to all the unceremonious rigours
of martial-law, just according to the will and pleasure
of some bigoted, despotic magistrate—fraught, we say,
with all these recollections so flattering to his pride as
a partisan, your genuine Orangeman, stiff-necked
as the Jews of old, cannot and will not conform to the
altered circumstances of the times, but thinks it a
hard, an unjust, an extraordinary case that he cannot
compel circumstances to conform to his views. The
Catholics having been for so many years in his power,
he deems it but right that they should till continue
to be so; and to this moment resents the Emancipa-
tion Act—just as the horoughmongers resented the
Reform Bill—as a base, unprincipled infringement on
his legitimate authority. He talks indeed of justice
and moderation, but with these honied words on his
lip, he is at heart the most systematic—the most
tyrannical—the most inveterate of bigots. With
such a set of men who—as TALLEYRAND

said of the BOURBONS—have " learned no-
thing and forgotten nothing," what is to be

done ? Clearly nothing. You cannot enlighten
them—you cannot rub off the rust of their preju-

dices which, like the Ethiop's sooty skin, bids defiance
to alt the efforts of the scrubbing-brush; find the best

thing, therefore, to be done is to fling them overboard,
and legislate for Ireland in contemptuous disregard
of their Cassandra-like prophecies and remonstrances.
It must come to this at last, and the sooner Sir R.
PEEL makes up his mind to act in this decided
spirit the better. Far too much allowance has

been made for Orange sensibilities, just as though
the Catholics were not possessed of feelings
which had an equal right to be consulted ! We are

not without hopes that Lord HEYTESBURY, who is an

experienced man of the world, and whose experience,
not confined to English politics alone, has been of an

unusually comprehensive character, will see the thing
in its proper light, an 4 pursue a just and rational

course of policy, careless of the maniacal wailings and
gnashings of teeth
.of the disappointed Orangemen,
. . _ _ _

who for all their noise and bluster have no more real

substantial influence over the popular mind in Ire-
land, than those hosts of threatening phantoms whom
Ur.vssEs, as HOMER tells us, encountered in his sub-
terranean journey to Avernus.

The present state of Spain exhibits a most remark-
able anomaly. It is the finest kingdom in the world,
and yet the most miserable and contemptible. It is
surrounded by the ocean, with the exception of a
small stripe on the west, and the lofty barrier of the
Pyrenees formed as a natural boundary against
France. It has magnificent rivers, rich vallies, sea-
ports without number, wine and oil, and almost every
production of the habitable globe. The inhabitants
are brave, the peasantry, in appearance and in muscular
strength too, are superior, perhaps, to the peasantry
of any other country in the world. It was once the
first kingdom in Europe, and now it is the last
All the training which it received during the
invasions of BoNAPARTE, and the triumphant
march of the British troops through the country—
all the lessons of adversity since have been
thrown away. Spain has tried almost every
possible form of government that could be devised,
from despotism to Radicalism, and it still remains in
the same abyss of helpless misery. The condition
of the people excites the strongest feelings of sym-
pathy throughout every nation of Europe. Mankind
are amazed ,at finding a nation possessing such capa-
bilities so utterly lost to all sense of honour, for in
whatever way they are viewed, there is not one re-
deeming feature in the whole scene. They have
broken faith with their creditors—they have com-
mitted cruelties towards each other, at which
all civilised people shudder—they have robbed
the Church without benefiting the State—they
have been persecuted and trampled upon by
France, yet trust to France as their deliverer,
and receive with open arms the very woman who, by
her intrigues at Paris, and by the wealth of which
she had plundered them, destroyed the government of
the only Spaniard fitted to regenerate the country. It
would be impossible to draw such a picture of any other
nation ; but even their last acts are worse than their
first. While ESPARTERO ruled according to the laws
of the Constitution, and held out a fair prospect that
Spain would be again admitted into the brotherhood
of civilised nations, provinces, and towns, and Alcaldes,
and generals too, his own friends, and the very army
which he had raised to eminence, rebelled
and drove him from his native land. His
suceessor destroyed the Constitution, abrogated
the Cortes, proclaimed martial law through the whole
kingdom, extinguished ever liberal paper, yet all the
warlike bullying desperados who expelled the Re-
gent, because he was not sufficiently democratic, are
now, in the midst of this wreck of liberal principles,
silent as death. Even the fanatical Progressistas
have not courage to show themselves at the general
election. They have given up in despair, and despotism '
now reigns triumphant throughout Spain. The

curse of the Jews has fallen upon them :

•" The

whole head is sick and the whole heart is

faint." What is to be done with such a people ?
Lord ABERDEEN seems inclined to leave

them to Queen CHRISTINA and LOUIS PHILIPPE,
and perhaps, in the present state of affairs, he is not

wrong. He did not interfere in time. The enemies

of good government, when expelled &tun Spain,
found shelter in France, and waited only a favourable
opportunity to be let loose, with the aid of LOUIS
PHILIPPE, on their devoted country. England
merely looked on while the Pyrenees were removed.
^.•,1 PALMERSTON would not have been so passive.

Most of the Paris journals contain articles on the
debate which took place on Mr'. Sames motion rela-
tive to Algiers and Morocco, and with one or two
exceptions express satisfaction with the tone of the
speakers and the result of the discussion. "It was,"
says the Journal des Debates, " after all, little
more than a family squabble. Whigs and Tories
mutually reproached each other with not having pro-
tested against the retention of Algeria by France.
The Whigs says to the Tories, It is you who have
spoilt the business. You acknowledged the Govern-
ment of 1830 without demanding the evacuation of
Algeria, and remained four months in power without
making the least remonstrance.' The Tories retort
upon the Whigs : It well becomes you to accuse us
of negligence ! Did not you remain eleven years at the
head of affairs, from 1830 to 1841, without making
any protest ? Did you not give your tacit assent to
the conquest of France during the whole,duration of
your Ministry ? How can we, after your long silence
for elevenyears ask the Government ofLonts PHILIPPE
to perform the promise, of Prince POLIGNAC ?' From
these recriminations, it is evident to us, that neither
Whigs nor Tories wish to take the lead in this, but
leave to each other the ungrateful task of making pro-
tests which they know must be perfectly ineffective."
The Constitutionnel takes nearly the same view.
"The affair of Algiers," it says, " was after all only
a pretext, and the discussion has clearly proved it.
The Whig Opposition wished to bring the discussion
on the situation of the navy, and they in fact in-
veighed strongly against the reductions effected by
the present Government in the navy, of which the
men have been reduced 7,000 since 1840. This is a
family dispute between the Whigs and Tories, in
which we have no temptation to interfere. England
may take, in the interest of her safety and dignity,
such measures as shall suit her Government. France
will find nothing to say against it, only as she has
also to preserve her interests and her honour, she
must be permitted by England to provide against
being taken by surprise."
The Presse, the Courrier Francais, and the Na-
tional, consider the question of the right of France
to retain Algiers as definitively settled, and the latter
journal intimates that the only point wanting to the
settlement of the affair is the exequatur of the English
Consul. It thus breaks forth against the English
and French Governments for allowing this question
to remain so long in abeyance :
"Can the presence of M. St. John at Algiers be endured?
Will he be permitted to issue and authenticate acts under the
exequatur which he holds from the late Dey? Will this
scandal which is evident to all the world, never strike M.
Guizot ? We certainly cannot prevent the English Parlia-
ment from protesting against our remaining in possession ;
but while this protest remains in a living evidence upon our
territory—when it is denounced—when we are told that we
are not at liberty to exercise our right of sovereignty—is it
possible for us to remain any longer under such a state of
things? To permit a consul who exercises diplomatic func-
tions, to preserve his authority among us in virtue of a power
granted to him by a sovereign whom we ourselves have de-
throned—is not this we say, submitting to lay under doubts
of our rights? Is this even a matter of indifference in the
eyes of the Arabs? Under such circumstances, may not our
enemies derive more than one motive for entertaining hopes
and gaining strength."
The Legitimist journals, Quotidienne and France,
persist in denying the truth of the assertion, that the
Government of the Restoration ever pledged itself not
to retain possession of Algeria ; but no doubt remains
that POLIGNAC did give such a pledge to the English
Minister.
Dispatches from:Marshal BUGEAUD, giving details
of the late action with the Moors, have been received
by the Government, and appear in another part of
The Sun. The Siecle accuses the Government of
concealing a portion of the dispatches, and that
the circumstance gave rise to a false report that cer-
tain of the auxiliary troops with Marshal BUGEAUD
had gone over to the enemy. It adds :
" The events in Morocco have this day rendered a Cabinet
Ccuncll necessary. Immediately afterwards General Fov
was sent off, travelling post, with instructions. He is to take
the Chateau de Soultberg on his way, in order that he may
communicate the instructions to Marshal Soult. The absence
of the President of the Council, and the division which has
arisen, since his departure, between the two principal personS
in his administration, are worked upon just now by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, who hopes now for the pro-
motion which he could not pretend to during the sitting of
the Chambers."
The following letter, dated Gibraltar, 10th of July,
appears in the Journal des Debats:—
" In the several encounters of the Moors with the troops
of Marshal Bugeand, on the banks of the Tafna, the losses
of the former were much greater than the French bulletins
stated. The first families of Fez are in mourning. Most of
those who perished in the attack of Ouchda were natives of
Fez and Mequinez. Nearly all the wounded died for want of
surgical relief—mortification generally set in and progressed
rapidly, in consequence of the excessive heat. To be
wounded or killed was the same thing, for the Moors have
no surgeons, physicians, or medicine for the sick. These
combats have excited to the highest pitch the fanaticism of
the populace, and the people breathe nothing but revenge.
'The Kabyles, or rather the tribes, have taken arms en masse.
At Tangier, the people broke into the Government stores
and removed therefrom 300 barrels ofgnnpowder, which they
divided among the Mejeclins (the valiant), who have gone
to reinforce the tribes of Ouchda. It appears that the first
affair took place in consequence of a formal order from the
governor, and that it was not a deviation from his instruc-
tions, as hitherto believed. When tne news of the attack
arrived, there were public rejoicings at Fez and Morocco,
although the result was disadvantageous to the Moors. That
event redoubled their fury, and has complicated the Franco-
Moorish question."

THE BOURSE—SATURDAY, JULY 27.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five peremts...... 121 20 .. 121 35 .. 121 20 .. 121 35
iourper Cents...... 106 5U .. 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 60
Three per Cents.— .. 81 50 .. 81 60 .. 81 50 81 65
Bank of France... •• —3115 ..3115 . 3115 ..3115
Laftitte Bank, 5,000 f. Shuresso7s • • 5075 ..5075 ..5075
Belgian Bank
Belgian Fives.lBlu • • 105/ .. 1051 .. 1051 • • 1051
Srauish Threes ••• • • •• • . 33; •. 331 .. 33/ • • 331
Active •. • • •• • • 30f • • 31 .. 30f • . 31
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 44 ...44 • . 44 .. 44
Neapolitan .• ••• • • •• 98 50 • . 95 70 .. 98 50 .. 98 70
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.

Versailles, 11.11•••••••• .• •• 385 .. .. 385 .. 385
245 .. 245 .. 243 75 .. 243 75
Ronen to Barre.. ..... 757 50 . 761 25 .. 757 50 761 25
Orleans •• ••••• .• •• ••• •• 980 .. 981 25 .. 978 75 981 25
Strasburg to Bale.
Avignon to Marseilles.....: 765 .. 766 25 . 765 .. 765

RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31st OF JULY.
Versailles, L. 11.• .
Rouen ••••• • • • • •
Rouen to Havre........., . 762 50 .. 762 50 . • 761 25 .. 761 25
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale . • .. • • 240 • • 241 25 .. 240 .. 241 25
Avignon to Marseilles.... • • 765 765 .. 765 .. 765

THE ROTEISCHILDS.—I mentioned the Rothschilds,
which reminds me that Frankfort is the stronghold of
the Jewish race. The " peopulsh" abound here, there
being one quarter of the town almost exclusively occu-
pied by them. They are very much despised, but, of
course, Rothschild himself is regarded as King of the
country. Ilis wealth is so enormous that he acknow-
ledged, not long ago, it was more than he could count.
Some idea may be formed of the wealth and influence of
the family when I tell you that they have already pur-
chased so much property in the place that the Senate of
Frankfort not long since passed a law expressly to
forbid their buying one inch more ground in
the territory of Frankfort, fearing that they
would buy up the whole state, and sell it to
Russia! The old fellow lives in grand style and
occasionally gives large parties. Each lady, on her
arrival, finds a pair of gloves and white satin shoes ready
for her acceptance, and dress shoes acd gloves are also
prepared for each gentleman that .may be invited. Roths-
child and his brother, Charles, have each a town house
and a country house at Frankfort ; but the inhabitants
of Frankfurt call a country house one that is situated
just outside the city gates. .For instance, the country
house of the elder Rothschild is not more than a quarter
of a mile from Rockenheimer-gate, is by the roadside,
and surrounded by a garden. Charles Rothschild's villa
is still nearer'the town, and has a grass lawn in front.—
Correspondence of the Brighton Herald.

QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Robert Bowing, who was described as a lawyer's
clerk, and who assumed an air of considerable importance,
was placed before Mr. Bond on the following charge:-
142 B said that about ten o'clock last night he met the
defendant at the corner of .New-street, Horseferry-road. He
was drunk and disorderly. Witness persuaded him to go
away with his wife, who was with him, and he accepted his
advice and went away, but came back a second time and
began to abuse witness, and as he continued to create a dis-
turbance, and to turn a deaf ear to his persuasive powers, he
took him to the station-house.
The defendant admitted he was intoxicated, but intimated
that he had a counter-charge to make against the policeman,
whorri he charged with striking his wife, and with exceeding
his duty, as he was at his own door at the time, when that
with which he was charged was disposed of.
The defendant was about to proceed to cross-examine the
policeman on the charge he brought against him, but he was
Stopped by
Mr. BOND, who said, that if he had a charge against the
policeman he must make it to the Commissioners of Police,
from whom it would meet with all due attention. He
could only decide upon the case before him. Persons in
his situation of life ought. to set an example to those in an
inferior station of life, and not imitate their vices. He must
pay a fine of half-a-crown.
The defendant paid the fine, and having politely bowed to
the Magistrate, who, however, did not return the civility, he
left the Court with his wife, apparently under the impression
that justice had not been done to him.
A middle-aged man and a boy, whose faces were brown
with exposure to the sun, were charged with destroying their
clothes in St. Margaret's workhouse. They had, of course,
to he supplied with others.
They said their Clothes were filthy, and that they could
not wear them.
Mr. BOND committed them to the House of Correction for
fourteen days.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
There were an unusually large number number of " drunk
and disorderly" charges, but none of them possessed the least
interest.

ISINKING OF THE " STARLIGHT '9 IRON STEAM BOAT.
—An accident, providentially unaccompanied with loss of life,
occurred at Westminster-bridge at nine o'clock last night to
the Starlight steam-boat, which plies between Chelsea and
, London-bridge. On her passage from Chelsea, at which
time she was crowded with passengers, she ran foul of the
bridge, and received such injuries as caused her to leak so ra-
pidly, that before she could be got to near the pier by several
feet she sunk, but it being nearly low water at the time,
she was not completely covered with water. By the time
she went down all the passengers had, through the timely
aid of the persons on the pier, the captain of the boat, and by
the use of planks, succeeded in leaving it. Had it been high
water at the time, it is impossible to say what cataQtrophe
might not have occurred ; no doubt many lives would have
teen lost. At twelve o'clock to-day, at which time the tide
was running up, workmen, with the aid of the empty barges,
were still actively engaged in raising the boat, which they
will probably succeed in doing in the course of the day. Oc-
currences of the above nature are so frequent in the Thames,
that means should be taken by the proper authorities to as-
certain that the steam-boats which ply on the river are sound
in every respect, and to put a stop to the reprehensible prac-
tice of overloading boats. We fear, however, that those who
have the means of remedying the evil will only become sen-
sible of the importance of the subject, and the dangers • to
which the public are exposed, when an immense sacrifice of
life has taken place.
COPENHAGEN, JULY 22.—His Royal Highness the
Crown Prince returned yesterday afternoon, on board the
Flora corvette, from his visit to Scotland and the Tara islands.
The Russian fleet is still at Elsinore, wind bound.