The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-07 00:00:00

He must either make a public profession of
faith to suit the views of his task-masters,
or proceed forthwith to Windsor Castle, and lay
his resignation at the feet of afflicted Majesty. When
our slippery, time-serving Premier, who is as difficult
to catch and to hold as an eel, next, receives pe-
remptory orders on the subject of the corn-laws, we
suspect they will come from 'Mr. COBDEN, with a
nation at his back ; and who doubts, notwithstanding
his present declaration, that he will obey those orders
to the letter ?

Madrid papers of the 29th ult. have been received,
but they bring no news, if we except some details
respecting the death of the Infanta LUISA. CARLOTTA.
She appeared on the Prado but a few days before her
death. On the morning of the 29th she made her
will, at noon received the sacrament, and in the even-
ing, at half-past. six, she was a corpse.
The Three per Cents. were done at 27/ for cash,
and 28 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 19i
at 60 days.

All the Paris papers give the QUEEN'S speech at the
opening of Parliament, with brief remarks on the
topics adverted to in reference to foreign affairs. The
speech, as well as the debates in both Houses, afford
great satisfaction to the Ministerial party, but are
very coldly received by the Opposition. Nothing
said or done, in fact, by the existing Ministers of
England and France, is approved of by the National
or Commerce. The former in adverting to it says—
" It is not France which has sought ' l' entente cordiale.'
It is not France that has opened her arms to .the
Tories. Her attitude is that of wounded pride and
of abused confidence. She has not forgotten all that
has been done ; the treaty of July is not rased from
her heart, nor from her memory. She is strong and
patient enough to wait her day, but while waiting for
it she does not seek an alliance which she dreads, nor
does she affect an unworthy hypocrisy." And in
another paragraph adds—" We declare without hesi-
tation, that when the Whigs were silent with respect
to France they showed less insolence and disdain than
the Tories."

" With regard to foreign affairs," the Journal des
Debats says, " thanks to the persevering efforts
which have been followed out for three years on both
sides of the Channel, the two Governments are able
to congratulate the two countries on the re-establish-
ment of good harmony and the consolidation of the
glse peace. We are glad to see that those
friendly demonstrations have come not alone from the
English Government, but that in the two. Houses of
Parliament there has been a really cordial eagerness
to give new strength to the expressions used by the
QUEEN."
The France makes the following remarks :

"In every point of view nothing can be conceived to be
more insignificant than the _ Queen of England's speech. It
is not, properly speaking, a political act, for no new idea is
seen to pervade it. There is nothing even to comment upon
in this tranquil and languid exposé of affairs ; there is no ex-
pression that characterises a situation. It would seem that
the Cabinet anticipated no danger. As to the phrase rela-
tive to the intente cordiale with France, it is very reserved;
speaking only of good understanding. There is also the same
phrase, as usual, relative to the inviolable union of Ireland
and Great Britain. The discussion of the address was some-
what wanting in substance. The alliance with France was
celebrated, and in the House of Lords threatening words
were uttered against Ireland. The Dublin trial ought to
have inspired the adversaries of Ireland with some circum-
spection ; but the hostility of the House of Lords is se de-
cided, that it could not wait for the verdict to give itself
vent."

Several of the Paris Opposition papers had stated
that M. GUIZOT bad continued in his functions of
Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Interior
during the hundred days, under General Count CAR-
NOT, that he had signed the additional Act, and had
been dismissed. The Moniteur, in reply, says, "We
are authorised to declare those assertions totally un-
founded. M. GUIZOT left, on the 20th of March,
1815, the Ministry of the Interior. He was re-
placed in his functions of Secretary-General by a
decree of the 23d of March, which transferred them
to Baron BASSET DE CIIATEAUBOURG, a former pre-
fect. It is not-to M. FRANCOIS GUIZOT that the note
inserted in the Moniteur of the 14th of May, 1815,
refers; but to M. J. J. GUIZOT, a chief of bureau, at
that time in. the Ministry of the Interior, who was
superseded in his functibns in May, 1815."
LOUIS PnrurrE, the QUEEN, and the Princei and
Princesses of the blood, paid a visit of condolence,
on Saturday, to Queen CHRISTINA, in the Rue des
Courcell es.

The French Funds continue to decline. 'On Satur-
day, the Three per Cents. closed at 81f. 80c. ; and on
Sunday, at TOBTO/dS, they were quoted at 81f. 55c.

PUBLIC INCOME —A return has just been laid be,
fore Parliament, on the motion of Mr. Baring, of the
nett public income of the United Kingdom, with an
account of the balances of money remaining in the
Exchequer on the sth day of January, 1843 and
1844. The total amount of revenue, for the year
ending January 5, 1844, derived from direct
and indirect taxes was, 51,069,978/. 7s. ; and from
other receipts, 1,512,839/. making, altogether,
52,582,817/. 10s. 2d. Of the latter sum the money
received from China forms the
The total charge
of the funded debt is 28,581,0761.45. 2d: ; ' for the
army, 5,997,156/. ; the navy, '6,606,056/. • and the
ordnance, 1,910,704/. The balance in the Exchequer,
on the sth day of January, 1843, wa51,390,059/., and,
thanks to the income tax, at the same period in 1844,
it amounted to 4,716,019/. Is. 4id.
Sir Robert Peel's declaration, that he neither
has, nor does• he contemplate, any change whatever in
the corn-laws," is likely to incline those, who before
were sceptical as to its utility, to offer their estates with
confidence to public competition. Our friend George
Robins was loud- in his complaints last year at the un-
certainty that prevailed, and operated so strongly that
he could not sell land at any price. It will be seen he is
now joyous beyond measure, and promises the great
capitalists ONE MILLION OF POUNDS STERLING in
estates during the ensuing months.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON
GAZETTE OF FRIDAY LAST.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 5, 1844.
Orders for the Court's going into mourning, on
Thursday next, the Bth instant, for his late Royal High-
ness the Duke of Saxe-Goburg Goths, father of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, and uncle and father-
in-law to her Majesty, viz. :
The Ladies to wear black silk, plain muslin or long
lawn, crape or love hoods, black silk shoes, black glazed
gloves, and black paper fans.
The Gentlemen to wear black cloth, without buttons
on the sleeves or pockets, plain muslin or long lawn
cravats and weepers, black swords and buckles.

LORD GRENVILLE v. SIR R. PEEL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sts,—The following admirably.drawn protest against the passing
of the Corn Bill in March, 1815, may, at the present moment he
worthy of insertion in your paper. It is knoWn, I belie►e, to
have been written by Lord Grenville. I have omitted the fifth
and last divisions of the protest, because they refer solely to then
existing circumstances and facts. I am, &c.
Feb. 5. W.
Dissentient-
1. Because we are adverse in principle to all new restraints on
commerce. We think it certain that public prosperity is best pro-
moted by leaving uncontrolled the freecurrent of national industry;
and we wish rather, by well-considered steps, to bring back our
commercial legislation to the straight and simple line of wisdom,
than to increase the duration, by subjectiwg additional and extensive
branches of the public interest to fresh systems of artificial and in.
jurious restriction.
2. Because we think that the great practical rule of leaving all
commerce unfettered applies more peculiarly, and on still stronger
grounds of justice as well as of policy, to the corn trade than to
any otker. Irresistible indeed must be that necessity which could,
in our judgment, authorise the Legislature to tamper with the sus.
tenance of the people, and to impede the free purchase and sale of
that article on which depends the existence of so large a portion of
the community.
3. Because we think that the expectations of ultimate benefit
from this measure are founded on a delusive theory. We cannot
persuade ourselves that this law will ever contribute to produce
plenty, cheapness, or steadiness of price. So long as it operates at
all its effects must be the opposite of these. Monopoly is the parent
of scarcity, of dearness, and of uncertainty. To cut off any of the
sources of supply can only tend to lessen its abundance; to Close
against ourselves the cheapest market for any commodity must
enhance the price at which we purchase it; and to confine the
consumer of corn to the produee of his own country, is to refute
to ourselves the benefit of that provision which Providence itself
has made for equalising to man the variations of season and of
climate.
And on all these grounds we are anxious to record our dissent
from a measure so precipitate in its course, and, as we fear, so in-
jurious in its consequences.
AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (Duke of Sussex).
WILLIAM FREDERICK (Duke of Gloucester).
GRENVILLE.
WELLESLEY.
ESSEX.
TORRINGTON.
DUTTON (Marquis of Douglas).
CHANDOS BUCKINGHAM.
MONTFORT.
KING.
CARLISLE.