The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1844.

Madrid journals of the sth have been received, but
they contain no news. The Court was not expected
to return from Barcelona till the 22d instant.

The Three per Cents. were done at 27,1, at GO days
and the Five per Cents. at 20.

On Sunday the French Government received the
following telegraphic dispatches :

" TANGIERS, AUG. 2

" The EAIPEROIt, who is coming from Rabat, is ex-
pected at Alkazar, within a march of a day and a
half from Tangiers. It is said that Mr. HAY is
with him."

" TANGIERS, AUG. 3.
" The Governor of Larrache has received from the
EMPEROR full powers to negotiate. The Prince DE
JOINVILLE has delegated, on his side, M. DR NION.
All hostilities are suspended, and a pacific solution is
anticipated."
In addition to this intelligence we learn that on
the Bth inst., a telegraphic dispatch from Paris reached
Toulon, ordering the immediate departure of three
ships of the line, the Ocean, Inflexible, and Neptune.
These vessels were to put to sea next morning, and
sail without delay to Tangiers. The object in
ordering :this reinforcement to the squadron under
the Prince JOINVILLE, is probably to give more
effect to the negotiations and bring the affair to a
speedy conclusion.
Most of the Paris journals make fresh comments
on the discussions in Parliament relative to Otaheite,
and, we are glad to find, in a more peaceable tone.
The Siecle, though it cannot conceal its hostile feel-
ing to England, thus adverts to the awful conse-
quences of a war :—" When one reflects on the ad-
mirable progress made by our manufacturers since
the re-establishment of peace, on the frightful misery
which would oppress our operatives if our manufac-
tories were closed by war, on the enormous amount
of sums voted for railroads, on the difficulties and em-
harrassmeats which make a regency to he feared, one
is certainly disposed to wish for the maintenance of
peace. For these reasons we are far from reproach-
ing our Government for sincerely endeavouring to ac-
complish that object. But we cannot without pain
see the continual sacrifices in vain made by France.
It is a singular fact, that whilst we are told that
England is our only ally in Europe, it is with her we
are continually quarrelling—on the question of the
Marquesas Islands, on Otaheite, on Algiers, on the
right of search, on Egypt, on Syria, and on Spain.
To pretend, therefore, that between her and us there
exists a cordial understanding is a real derision."
The Journal des Debats expresses satisfaction with

the reserve manifested by Sir ROBERT PEEL and the
Earl of ABERDEEN, and confidently hopes that the
exertions of the two Governments to preserve peace
will be successful. " Sir ROBERT PEEL," it says,
" following the wise advice which he gave to Lord
PALMERSTON—that second thoughts are best—re-
fused to enter into any discussion relative to a sub-

ject which requires the utmost reserve. Lord ABER-
DEEN, in the House of Lords, was similarly discreet.
It may be permitted to us to believe that the example
given by M. GUIzoT in the French Chambers was
not unconnected with the change effected in the atti-
tude and language of the British Ministers. We
cannot but congratulate the two Governments on
this fact. There existed already so much cause of
irritation between the two countries, that it became
necessary for the men who were to direct public
affairs scrupulously to watch their words. Lord
ABERDEEN expressed a hope that the moderation of
the two Governments would still frustrate the designs
of the enemies of peace, foreign and domestic. The
reproach made against the Conservative Governments
is, that the good harmony existing between the two
countries has been compromised by the mutual con-
cessions made. In truth, we admire the patriotism
of the Opposition, whether in France or in England.
Their efforts appear to be directed each to sacrifice
the honour and dignity of their country, and to see
which of them shall represent it as the most humi-
liated, the most sacrificed, or the most dishonoured.
Fortunately these accusations,' as absurd as odious,
neutralise each other. Let the two Governments,
which, in the midst of so many critical circumstances,
have succeeded in maintaining peace, so gravely coin- ,
promised, continue advantageously their exertions,
and they will be supported, we are certain, by the
great majority of the two nations."

Even the Courrier Francais has become pale :
" The maintenance of the dignity of the country is
not to be found in war. In spite of the management ot
M. Guizot and his colleagues, France is not yet fallen so
low as to require a remedy so heroic. War no longer
enters into her manners nor her ideas, and peace is no
more threatened by the party which has exposed M.
Guizot than it is maintained by the eloquent theories
and the problematic capacity of that orator Minister.
Thanks to the diffusion of wholesome democratic ideas,
to the conquest of the civilising over the brutal and war-
like element, war has ceased to be popular, and will not
break out unless English arrogance has the madness
to place us in the alternative to draw the sword or to
submit to insult."

The Commerce announces that three telegraphs are
now being constructed at Paris which are to be placed
on three ships, which will be stationed between Dover
and Calais, during the KING'S stay in England. By
this means the London telegraph will directly com-
municate with that of the Home Department at Paris.
At TORTONI'S on Sunday the Three per Cents. were
quoted at 81f. 55c.

Mr. Thomas Baker, superintendent of the C division
of metropolitan police, has been allowed by the Secretary
of State to retire from the force on a pension of half-
pay, after a period of 15 years' service. He was formerly
sergeant•major in the Coldstream Guards for upwards of
twenty-five years, and was present in Egypt in 1801,
where the sight of one of his eyes was injured, and is
now entirely gone, and throughout the whole of the
Peninsular war, ending with the battle of Waterloo.
Upon his being pensioned from the army he was made a
warden of the Palace, and presented by his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge with a very handsome gra-
tuity, and by the officers of the regiment with a piece of
plate and a clock, with an inscription of his services, as a
testimony of their high opinion of him, and of his con-
duct and bravery in action.
WEST INDIA PlNES.—Yesterday afternoon there '
was a last sale for the season at Monument-yard, of
5,000 pine apples from the Bahamas. The fruit was of
excellent quality, and the prices averaged from Is. Ed. to
55. each. The pine season in the West Indies is now
over, but it is probable, judging from the success of the
present speculation, that there will be a very large im-
portation of this esteemed fruit in future years.

carriages of all classes, running down "at early
dawn" to Dover or Brighton on a Sunday
—a delicious, holy, sunny Sabbath, in its truest
and most sacred sense ; a Sabbath of calm
and innocent enjoyment, and, therefore, of
inward thankfulness and praise to the vast majority
of those who participate in its pleasures—with what
emotion the mitred master of the palace at Fulham
reflects, on his river terrace, or amidst the luxurious
repose of his saloons in St. James's-square, on the
abomination of 1,000 people—of the middling and
lower classes—(for this meekest of Christian prelates
never objected to the Sunday travelling of the rich,
in their own carriages, nor even to the vicarious of-
fences of railway carriages in locomotion on that
day, provided always they were " first-class" passen-
gers who were to be carried, his Lordship's repu-
diated amendment having been levelled at third-class
trains)—we know not; but we do care. We are
anxious that he should practically learn "the luxury
of doing good," by contemplating, on a Sunday, the
happy faces assembled at a railway station. We
strongly advise him to book a place in the next
" railway excursion" at reduced fares, taking care to
secure himself a " return" ticket by a train that shall
bring him up in good time on that day se'nnight, for
the service at the Chapel Royal, or any other equally
courtly duty.

We have given elsewhere a short article from the
Times, relative to the announcement of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, that it was not the intention
of the Government in future to furnish a return of the
stamps issued to each individual newspaper, but
merely the aggregate of those used by all. Our
Contemporary justly admits the fairness of this re-
turn to the old custon„ and, we may add, in a hand-
some manner, willingly gives up any advantage that
may be derived to the proprietors of the journal by
a publication of the returns. As regards ourselves
it is a matter of indifference whether they are pub-
lished or not; but it is not so with newly-established
papers, or with those which, from some temporary
circumstances, or unforeseen accidents, may have
fallen off in their circulation. To the proprietors of
such papers, the quarterly returns caused great in-
jury—the country papers, in particular, suffered
severely from the practice ; and we are, therefore,
glad that Mr. GOULBURN has admitted the evils of
the system, and resolved to abate them.