The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

_CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 26. The troubles in Albania
being entirely suppressed, the Porte has appointed a Com-
mission to inquire into the causes of them, and to ascertain
the extent of the damage done to the insurgents.
Sir Stratford Canning had an audience of the Sultan, to
express the satisfaction felt by Queen, Victoria at the happy
termination of the differences respecting apostacy, and at the
assurance given by the Sultan in favour of his Christian
subjects.
The Divan has made an agreement with the Paella of
Egypt, for a regular communication by steam-boats between
Alexandria and the capital. As there are at present no
Turkish steamers that can be spared for this service, two
Egyptian steamers will be employed for the present.
The troubles in Albania are, indeed, considered to be ended,
but while the fire is extinguished (to appearance, at least) on
one side, it breaks out on another. Disturbances have now
broken out among the Kourds in the paclialick of Musch.
The Kourds have taken up arms to tesist the pay-
ment of the taxes, which, on ad-count of' the decrease of
the population, become more and more burdensome in Asiatic
Turkey. The same causes have led to a Movement of the
mountain tribes in Lasistan, so that the communication be-
tween Turkey and Erzeroum is now interrupted. The dif-
ferences between Turkey and Persia are in the same state as
before. Colonel Farrant, who has visited the frontier dis-
tricts in dispute between the two countries, has returned
from Bagdad to Erzeroum. The conferences will become more
active, but the end of the negotiations seems to be remote, as
neither the Porte nor the Persian Sovereign are at all di:-
posed to make any concessions.—Allgemeine Zeitung, July 10

BEDDG ELEA; NORTH WALES, JULY 12.—His
Majesty the King of Saxony, and suite, arrived here last
night, from Aberystwith, anti slept at the Goat Hotel. His.
Majesty ascends Snowden this morning, and afterwards
pursues his route to Bangor and Chester.
LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INsTiTunorc—The di-
rectors of this institution have just issued a prospectus of a
Girls' School, on a large scale, which they intend to open on
the sth of August next. There are already two day schools
for boys connected with the institution, which are attended
by upwards of eight hundred pupils, and whose success has
been even greater than theirprojectors anticipated. The com-
parative neglect with which female education has hitherto
been treated, and its great importance to the welfare of the
human race, appear to have induced the directors to take the
bold step of establishing a school capable of giving instruc-
tion to four hundred girls, at such a charge as to make it easy
for those who require education most to avail themselves of
its advantages. The course of instruction, as detailed in the
prospectus, is very comprehensive, embracing little that is
showy and ornamental, but all that in education is solid and
useful. A large, airy building, surrounded by extensive play-
grounds, has been, by the timely munificence of Mr. George
Holt, one of the directors, secured on highly advantageous
terms for the use of the school. There can be little doubt
that such an establishment will not only be successful in
itself, but will, it is to be hoped, have an important bearing
on the cause of female eduCation generally, and set a worthy
example to. other institutions

TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD
MONTEAGLE.

17, Carlton House Terrace, July 15, 1844.
MY LonD,—As it appears from the Morning Chro-
nicle of Saturday last, that your Lordship has thought
proper to avail yourself of my signature being attached;
as Chairman, to a circular emanating from the Society
for the Emancipation of Industry, publicly to make a
personal allusion to me, on Friday, in a place where I
could make no answer, the only adequate channel left
for that purpose is the public journals ; and as you used
my unimportant name in an effort (however abortive) to
bring into contempt the principles of a benevolent So-
ciety to which I belong, I feel bound to enter my pro-
test. Your Lordship misrepresents me when you say •'that
a few sessions back I brought forward several schemes
for a new arrangement of the representative system of
Ireland, and also of this country." The Society to which
I then belonged, neither professed nor practised any-
thing of the kind, but the very reverse. It was formed
for the purpose of checking, in a constitutional manner,
a systematic violation of the law, which, under the fos-
tering care of the political party to which your Lordship
belonged, had become a crying evil. The country,
from one end to the other, responded to our call, and
we succeeded in putting down the nuisance. In the
" other occupation" which "it rejoices your Lordship
that I have now found, Icalculate upon your. Lordship's
assistance, either by taking the trouble to understand
our principles (in which case I am confident you will
approve them), or by pursuing the line of opposition
which you have commenced. In either case I feel no
small confidence that we shall be successful in freeing
this country from one of the greatest curses that was ever
inflicted upon it, viz., the bullionist-system of currency.
I beg to assure your Lordship that the
.principles of
the Society cannot be controverted, nor its members
diverted from propagating them, by the stale trick of
holding up a paper, and calling it " prodigious non-
sense." This piece of acting answered its purpose in
another place on the introduction of the Bill, but your
Lordship has blundered sadly in the imitation. Sir
Robert Peel held up a thick volume, which would have
taken the House three days to read—you, a short paper
that might have been read in three minutes. Sir Robert,
amidst a sweeping condemnation of many opinions, did not
venture to attack or in any way characterise the prin-
ciples of the Society for the Emancipation of Industry,
nor did he even refer to them. It is possible that, al-
though they have been laid before him, he has never
made himself acquainted with them. You extracted a
single passage, and put your misconstruction upon the
whole paper. Had you read it through, the House
would have found that, at any rate, it was not liable to
the objection made by Lord Ashburton to your own
speech, viz., that one part contradicted the other.
I warn your Lordship that, however available this sub-
stitute for argument may be among those who do not
yet sufficiently feel the ruinous effects of the measure of
1819, it will not stay the progress of our opinions among
the intelligent portion of the community out of doors,
where they are spreading with that steady progress
which is the accompaniment of truth and the assurance
of success.

Your Lordship may conceive it to be " nonsense" to
suggest an inquiry into the subject of the currency
previously to legislation—nonsense, to suppose
that the national debt has any existence—nonsense,
to imagine that the taxation arising out of it is
of any consequence to those who pay it—nonsense, to
think it unwise and unjust to insist upon the payment of
all engagements in a commodity which cannot be pro-
cured in sufficient quantity—nonsense, to suppose that
such a demand, if enforced, will lead to fluctuations,
panics, and bankruptcies—nonsense, to suggest that if
you engage to sell your gold at a low price nobody will
be likely to give you a higher relative price for your
produce or manufactures, whatever they may be—
nonsense, to avow that taxes levied upon a pro-
ducer increases the expense he incurs in producing—
nonsense, to suppose a definite quantity of an article in
universal demand like gold, can at one and the same
time express the untaxed expenses of the foreigner and
the taxed expenses of this country, even when the latter
are 50 per cent. higher than the former—nonsensto, to
deny that two are equal to three—nonsense, to prefer a
system which, previous to 1819, made the nation happy,
wealthy, and loyal, and was in the course of rapidly
paying off the national debt, and reducing taxation, to
one which since that time has produced a decline of
revenue, undue speculation, panics, bankruptcies,
pauperism, incendiarism, and crime, to an extent pre-
viously unexampled. As, however, the Society cannot
concur in your views, they must leave it to the public to
judge whether there be more " nonsense" in their circular
letter, or in your Lordship's speech.
I have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
ANDREW SIOTTISWOODE.