The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-31 00:00:00

success.

A Gazette Extraordinary contains the formal ap•
pointment of Mr. VIGER to be President of the Exe-
cutive Council, and of Mr. SHERWOOD to be Solicitor-
General for Canada East. It seems that under the
new arrangements this latter office does not command
a seat in the Cabinet. The Hon. W. DE BLEURY,
and the Hon. W. MOFFITT, are the Constitutional
candidates for the city of Montreal. The latest par-
ticulars of election movements in Lower Canada is
decidedly favourable to the Constitutional party.
The cotton trade in the United States was very
dull. txchange on London, 1091 to 110; Paris, sf.
221 c. to sf. 211 c.

We find, in the last files of American papers
which have reached us, very intelligible indications
of a desire, on the part of some of their conductors
and correspondents, to get up an Anti-English ex.-
citement—in humble imitation of that which has
been cultivated with so much success in Paris, and in
other of the prime cities of the departments of
France. The American article, however, is a clumsy
and ill-devised affitir. Its spurious metal and coarse
workmanship are developed on the surface. There is
no glitter and finish about it, to make it pass, ahnost,
fur the gold of truth itself—like the clever Parisian
counterfeits stamped "English perfidy" and " aggres-
sion," with the details so minutely and circumstan-
tially made out that they stagger the most deter-
mined incredulity. The mint of a petty, vindictive
jealousy, a morbid and quarrelsome envy, is alone
apparent on the face of the American fabrications,
unqualified by the astute and masterly suggestions of
vraisetablance which the hand of the French " de-
signer': so skilfully introduces into his work. We
have, in, the Jornal do Comercio (of Rio Janeiro),
details of an affair, in which the skipper of the be
Cyrus, of New Orleans, describes himself as having
been overhauled, off Cabinda b 11:irl.11.h1A.TEsTys brig
of war the Alert, on a suspicion,
own account tends to show h'arl elver the
skipper's,' probability
which appearances and his conduct could give it, of
which this
the Cyrus being, in some way or other,
with a slave-trading venture. The course'
transaction took, according to the master of them
Yankee craft (whose account only is, as yet, before I
us), was this :—On Captain BOSANQUET, of the
Alert, insisting on coming on board—the skipper

(Dumas) tried to intimidate him by a little small
shot of the jus gentium kind—he vowed that " a
protest should be made for the captain's violation of
the treaty !" The captain, very properly, persevered,
went down the hold, and finding "nothing but water
ballast" (a suspicious preparation enough for a slaving
cruize), desired to see Dumas's papers. DUMAS,
after some expressions of personal impertinence to the
British officer, refused to produce them, and made a
speech very much after the style of some PAUL
JONES in a melodramatic spectacle at ASTLEY'S.
Captain BOSANQUET, taking no heed of this balder-
dash, said he must now go into the cabin and make
further search ; and that he believed the Cyrus had
been sold. Hereupon Dumas (who must certainly
have dabbled in small theatricals) got up a tableau
vivant after this fashion :—" Immediately I placed the
American flag before the cabin door, which was held
tight by myself, the mate, and two of my men ; an I
I observed to him that he could not step into the
cabin without trampling on the United States flag."
(T. P. COOKE could not have done the thing more
handily.) "The answer was, It made no difference
to him ;' and he rushed into the cabin, followed by
his officer and a negro, who trampled the flag under
their feet, in presence of my crew." (The negro is
a capital hit, in an appeal to a Yankee public in a
Southern State.) " Then I said, 'Boys our flag is
insulted. It will cost dear to the English na-
tion.' " (! !) The three seditious tailors who hung
out in Tooley-street a brown paper placard, com-
mencing, " We, the people of England," and signed
it with their own signatures, were modest and rea-
sonable men compared to this " awful smart" skipper,
who thus devotes the whole English nation to the
vengeance of the United States, for the disrespect
shown to his little bit of stage property and decora-
tions, so uncivilly treated after the manner he had
himself challenged. A demand for his log-book is
met, in a like vein of -ranting bombast—but the
sequel is rich. The skipper and his crew had seen
the British officer, his mate, and one negro, go down
the hold—in spite of their protest and Dumas's
foolery—and overhaul and return. But now—the
Yankee boys fall back, on the skipper's desiring them
to stand to their arms—" handspikes and knives"—
and the captain of her MAJESTY'S ship Alert turned
pale (! !), and, with the voice of a coward (!), said,
" Stop your men. I don't want to see any bloodshed
or butchery !" Whether Captain BOSANQUET, with
that humanity so constantly allied to the calm, but
intrepid, courage of our service, did make any ob-
servation with a view to avert the inevitable destruc-
tion in which the men must have involved themselves
by more active resistance, or whether this speech se
attributed to him be matter of pure invention, we
need not inquire. The deliberate and palpable false-
hood of the noisy ruffian who tells this impudent
story, has probably been an after-thought, to resent
some personal chastisement administered—or some
contemptuous notice taken, and exposure, of his in-
solence, by Captain BOSANQUET. The latter taking
away his papers, maugre all the death-and-glory
vaunting of the redoubtable JONATHAN DUMAS (who
had just before sworn 'to die, in that event, "with the
ensign-halliards in his hands," the New Orleans
skipper bethought him of a " tarnal 'cute" move, to
found a grand claim on the English Government for
compensation, to a tune which all the ventures of the
Cyrus would never have' come up to. So, he says,
" Thereupon me and my crew abandoned her, leaving
everything on board—trunks, chronometer, instru-
ments," &c. Now, the pendant to all this is amusing
enough, "if true," as they say in the States; for
another account adds—" The Cyrus had been sold to
some Portuguese traders, who, immediately after the
skipper and crew had quitted, filled her with slaves."
How very remarkable a coincidence that the Cyrus
should have had, when boarded by Captain BOSAN •
QUET, "nothing but water ballast in her ;—no-
thing else !" Was the water intended for the slaves ?
Or were the slaves procured to consume the water ?
From an amusing article in the Boston Daily
Times, with the taking heading
.in capitals of " One
Thousand Mexican Tents Manufactured in Boston,"
we learn, that in consequence of a statement made
by that journal, in September last, "that a mercantile
house in Boston had contracted to supply this number
of tents to the Mexican Government within 30 days,
and that the contract was understood to have been
made through British agency ;"—a real State func-
tionary—a Mr. DEXTER, " United States District At-
torney"—had written a most affable letter to the
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part of the Secretary of State, with any evidence that
could be furnished to prove this fact. The editor,
with much self-complacency and solemnity, does ac-
cordingly deliver himself of his information, from
whence it results that the house referred to was
that of GREELY and GUILD, of Boston ;—the vessel
that carried off the tents, the Ramon de Baldo;—and
the instrument of payment was a draft on the great
house of BARING, BROTHERS, and Co., in this country.
"The whole case is one," writes the Boston Times,
" which reflects no honour upon the 4 liberal' institu-
tions of our country. We should like to know 4by
what right' Mexico or England fits out munitions of
war in our city, and manufactures and exports in our
very midst the means of defeating the gallant little
republic of Texas, which is striving to maintain its
national independence against the despotic Govern-
ment of Mexico and the insidious and grasping
power of England ?" This is really pretty well
for the Boston Daily Times, which could see
• no impropriety in the permitted transport of arms,
cannon, and other ordnance and ammunition, over the
United States' frontiers into Canada, with the avowed
object of assisting and abetting the revolt of Canadian
subjects of Great Britain. VAN RANSLAER and the
other brigands did not imagine, as the Yankee editor
does, that oiled-skin tents were the sort of " means
for defeating an enemy ;" but plundered the arsenals
of their own Government for more available muni-
tions of war to be used against the Britishers. But
let that fact—and the talk of " liberal institutions"
in juxta-position with the ill-concealed and rancorous
prejudice against England which pervades the whole
article—let them pass. We will answer the editor's
question by reminding him that Mexico and Great
Britain are allies. But the United States and Mexico
are also under similar friendly relations. Mexico
herself has never recognised the independence of her
revolted province of Texas. There can be no sort
of doubt, therefore, on any principle of the
law of nations, that the Mexican Government
had a perfect right to order the Boston
house of business a perfect right to manufacture
—and any British agency a perfect right to negotiate
the payment for—these oiled-skin tents for the ser-
vice of Mexico. To Mexico, Texas stands not in the
light of a " gallant little republic fighting for its na-
tional independence," but of a tumultuary and li-
centious portion of the Mexican dominions, the de
facto Government and the people of which, so far
from having any feelings of national independence to
plead in their justification, have long been, and are, at
this moment, trying to execute a dishonest sale and
transfer of their allegiance, and consequently a
merger of all national identity, as well as rights, on
their part, to the Federation of the United States,
whereof they desire to form a component element.
Now, it is very true that we may be attaching too
much importance to these " explosive materials" of
Yankee excitability. But we look to the evil animus
with which they are scattered about, not to the kn..
mediate amount of mischief they may be calculated
to work ; and we are of opinion that such indications
should be noted in time, however absurd their ori,

gin.

The late public meeting of the Anti-Corn-law
League at Manchester, while it has roused the bile
of all the Monopolist journals, has had the effect of
wringing the following reluctant acknowledgment of
its great moral influence from the Morning Post, in
answer to a flippant remark in the Herald; that it
was fast declining in public estimation :—" Our honest
Contemporary has, within these six months repeat-
edly proclaimed, that the League had died a natural
death. Not only, however, has its spirit been
without intermission active in the economical
policy of our Conservative Ministers, but the
League itself—the extinguished League—the League
which, according to the Herald, all men despised and
had abandoned—is once more openly in the field of
agitation. The leaders of the Conspiracy have made
their influence felt in more than half the Borough
Registration Courts in the kingdom; and they are
now preparing to wrest from landowners that pre-
ponderating
power which they have hitherto exercised
in counties. Does the Herald deny that the
League possesses the
power of multiplying, almost
without limit, forty-shilling
freeholders in a ma-

jority of English counties ? No, our worthy
Contemporary may not venture to deny that the
dead' League is more full of vitality than ever, nor
that the power of the landed aristocracy of England
totters on all sides." This unequivocal testimony to
the fast increasing political influence of the Anti-
Corn-law League is the more valuable, as proceeding
from a journal which has always been conspicuous by
its uncompromising hostility to the principles of Free
Trade. From the first establishment of the League
down to its last great meeting at Manchester, who so
decided as the Post in its opposition to it? Who treated
it with such supercilious contempt? Who threw
such unmitigated ridicule on its proceedings ? Who
so warmly repudiated the notion that it would ever
be able to gain a settled influence over men's minds,
or become a •really dangerous antagonist to Mono-
poly ? Not two years—nay, not six months=since,
nothing could be more loftily contemptuous than our
Contemporary's language, when speaking of the Anti-
Corn-Law League and its members. Mr. COBDEN
was a mere vulgar, uninstructed cotton-spinner—a
man of one idea, and that one a humbug;
and, as for Mr. BRIGHT, he was a political
quack of the first water, who supplied by impudence
what he wanted in ability—a long-eared Ignoramus
worthy only to bray in Brobdignag, or play the part
of a Professor in SWIFT'S flying island of Laputa.
Talk of such men—the Post used to observe in its
most trenchant style—ever gaining an influence over
the mind of the community, or giving a shake to the
proud fabric of Monopoly ! The idea is perfectly
preposterous, and can be seriously entertained by
none but fools and madmen ! Such was our
Contemporary's language but one short year ago,
or even less. But now, how changed his
manner—howcrest-fallen his spirit—how meekly sub-
dued his tone ! The Confederacy that he once des-
pised, he has at length learned to treat with deference.
lie now dreads what he formerly ridiculed. Messrs.
COBDEN and BRIGHT have ceased to be mere brawl-
ing, uninfluential quacks in his estimation. He now
discovers that they are men of tact—of energy—of
perseverance—" the undoubted authors"—we quote
his own words—" of the clamour for agricul-
tural improvement, and of the conversion of
England into a corn-exporting country ;" and if they
be inconsistent and self-contradictory, "it may not be
impossible"—urges our Contemporary in their de-
fence—" to point out self-contradictions on the part of
other public men not less startling than those which
Messrs. COBDEN and BRIGHT have found so profit-
able." Here is a change of sentiment with a ven-
geance ! Not a mere partial reform, but a regular
revolution, in opinion ! But we are far from de-
siring to blame the Post for this alteration in its tone,
as regards the League and its members. On the
contrary, we respect our Contemporary for his can-
dour—for his manly, though, doubtless, reluc-
tant, surrender of a prejudice in obedience
to the prornptings of common sense and jus-
tice—for hia acknowledgment of the increasing
power of the Anti-Corn-law Confederacy and the
decreasing power of the Monopolist landholders.
We fear, however, that it must have been with an
exceedingly wry face that he bore the above testi-
mony to the influence of the Leaguers in the Regis-
tration Courts ; and sure we are that he must have
twisted and' twirled and wriggled, like a half-
skinned eel in the hands of a fish-wife, before he
could have brought himself to speak= we
here again quote his own words—of the
" mighty progress which the League is making!"
" Mighty progress !" The expression is a striking
one, but not in the slightest degree exaggerated. The
League is making " mighty progress;'' and the day
is not far distant when Sir ROBERT PEEL--true to
his favourite system of expediency—will cry Peccavi
at its dictation, and yield submissively to its autho-
ritative demand for a Repeal of the Corn-laws.

The Madrid journals of the 22d instant contain a
great many rumours, and stories of plots and con-
spiracies, for which there may be some good founda-
tion, for it would be singular if the Spaniards, who
look upon a pronunciarniento followed by a rebellion
as matters of amusement, should allow the old Con-
stitution to be smothered without raising even one
cry in its behalf. The Heraldo publishes a letter
from Valladolid, which asserts that a conspiracy has
been discovered in that town, the object of which
was to proclaim the Constitution of 1812,
and to prolong the minority of the QUEEN
trio-m
were Military men, had been arrested.
The northern provinces were also said to be in a
most unsatisfactory state. Carlist refugees were
constantly entering the Spanish territory in spite of
the authorities.. It was added that 25,000 muskets
were ready to be introduced into Navarre, upon the
breaking out of the first disorder. A letter from
Perpignan of the 19th states, that orders were given
on that day for the formation of a cordon upon the
frontiers. It was said that Senor SALAMANCA had
bought the palace of Buen Vista from the the Prince
of PEACE, for four millions of reals. It is intended
for the future residence of MARIA CHRISTINA and
MuNoz, when their marriage is acknowledged. A
dotation of four millions of reals per annum and the title
of Majesty are to be confirmed to the Queen-Mother.

On the 22d an indictment was brought against the
Espectador journal, for a libel on the Government,
when a verdict. of acquittal was returned by eight votes
against four. This will give an additional impulse to
the determination of NARVAEZ and Co. to put down
trial by jury. The decision was loudly applauded.
The Three per Cents. closed at 26 3-16 at sixty
days ; Five per Cents., 20 at sixty days ; Passive
Debt, 6 cash.

GUIZOT'S paper, the Globe, has at last spoken
out without reserve on the new Spanish Constitution.
It adopts it altogether, and sees hr it one great beauty,
a twin-likeness not to the French Constitution of
1830, but that of the present. The French Foreign
Minister evidently had a large share in the labour of
reconstructing the edifice, and we live it will do him
credit. The Spanish people are so lost to all sense of
real freedom, patriotism, and honour, that other States
begin to look upon them with an apathy bordering on
contempt, and regret no experiment that can be tried
to put down insurrections without an object, and re-
volutions which, as they follow each other, only
become more fatal to free institutions. The Globe
thus winds up an article in defence, evidently infer-
ring, and possibly with truth, that the Spaniards
prefer slavery to freedom :—" It must not be supposed
that we are of opinion that no Constitution is neces-
sary in Spain, merely because that country is Monar-
chical and Catholic. She must have a Con-
stitution, but it must be Monarchical and
Catholic ; Catholicism must be declared the
religion of the State, and the sovereignty
of the people must be expunged from the Consti-
tution. Has the Spanish Government gone too far
in this course—has it really proposed an unreasonable
Monarchical reaction ? Persons who entertain such
an opinion cannot have read the Bill. The sove-
reignty of the people is effaced, and, as the basis of
the Constitution, is given, the unanimous will of the
Monarch and the representatives of the nation. Such
are the expressions of the preamble. -- Can anything
be more moderate ? Is it not rather French than
Spanish ? The Government consents to a life peerage
in a country in which the institution of hereditary
nobility is still in its force. This aleo is more
French than Spanish. We comprehend, besides, the
reserve of the Spanish Cabinet in its reform of the
Constitution. It has been anxious to give effect to
French ideas, whilst it was acting for old Spain. It
has had an eye to the future. The reformed Consti-
tution is still in advance of the nation, but it indi."
cates the object to be attained by the nation, and to
which, without doubt, it will attain. If there should
he any tumult in Spain in consequence of this reform,
we may be sure that the people will have nothing to
do with it. Agitators will have laid hold of the
reform as a pretext to satisfy their ambition. The
people will not fire a musket for their own sove-
reignty; they would sooner do so for the sovereignty
of Don CARLOS."

The Carlist QuoVienne takes a very different
view of the affair, and in the same spirit which ani-
mated the Jacobite ballads of Scotland, proclaims
that there will be no peace in Spain till CARLOS is
installed in the Escurial :

" The men, who at this moment think they can re-
establish a monarchical Government in Spain by en-
t deavouring to efface from its Constitution the principles
of revolution, are undeceived in the most striking manner
even by the very factions who are contending for power.
To men who have shouted 'Long live Narvaez !' other
men reply with acclamations of Long live Espartero !'
and should Espartero set his foot 04 :toy one point of

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the Spanish territory, he would find partisans and draw
to himself troops, and a new Pronunciamiento would at
once put in jeopardy both reform and reformers. In
what position then is the monarchy in a country where
its Constitution and its Government are thus at the
mercy of two rival influences—where the sword of two
warriors, superior to the sceptre itself, must decide the
destiny of the State? We have teen amongst ourselves
formerly in the times of minority and regency conten-
tions of ambition between our great men ; but the Con-
stitution of the State was never shaken, and every one
knew that on the day when the King should take the
reigns of Government into his own hands, the moral
authority of his royal rights would at once restore peace
to the, country. In Spain the monarchy, although at
its majority, is without its due power, because in that
martial country the disastrous attempt of combining
usurpation with the distaff is being tried. In Spain, at
this moment, the real Sovereign is Narvaez, to-morrow
it may be Espartero, and nothing but civil war can be
the consequence of this perpetual rivalry. One is not
less revolutionary than the other, and for both the
sword is the ultimo ratio of Government. In a country
where the passions are so easily inflamed, where adven-
turous and warlike men are always so prompt in having
recourse to the terrible arbitrament of trial by battle,
law and justice ^^ust interpose-between the champions
who are contending for power. Nuw justice protests
against the will of Ferdinand,' and the royal right, as
regards both -Narvaez and Espartero, is not at Madrid,
but at Bourges."

The Senate, as will be seen from the following
telegraphic dispatch received at Paris, has made quick
work of the address :

"MADRID, OCT. 25.
" The discussion on the address was terminated this
morning in the Senate. The paragraphs of the project
of the Committee were adopted almost unanimously."

The following are miscellaneous extracts from the
papers. The Presse says :

"It is known that when M. Guizot received from the
hands of M. Martinez de la Rosa, the Spanish Ambassa-
dor in Paris, the Order of the Golden Fleece, several de-
corations of the Legion of Honour were given to the
Ministers and other important personages of Spain ; but
in this number M. Martinez de la Rosa was not included,
although he was certainly not less entitled to it than
them. This omission can only be explained, by sup-
posing that the Government imagined that the Grand
Cordon Rouge of the Order of Christ of Portugal, which
M. Martinez de la Rosa wore at the time of the inves-
titure of M. Guizot, was that of the Legion of Honour.
" The Governor of the Island of Bourbon opened the
session of the Colonial Council on the 20th of May last.
In the speech which he delivered on the occasion, he
announces the intention of making an experiment of the
system of free labour in the colony. He says The
relations which are about to be established at the ex-
tremity of the East, by a representative of the King,
will enable you I hope, to call in the use of free la-
bourers in aid of your agriculture, and augment its
wealth and activity. With your enlightened co-opera-
tion, I feel a conviction that I shall accomplish the diffi-
cult but valuable work of the establishment of the system
of hired labourers on firm bases.' It had already been
reported in France that it was intended to hire labourers
in China and the East Indies for the French colonies.

"The Belgian Minister of Finances has just presented
to the Chamber of Representatives the Budget of Re-
ceipts and Expenditure fur 1845. The receipts are esti-
mated at 111,198,170 francs, and the expenditure at
109,961,790 francs, showing a surplus revenue of
1,236,380 francs.
" We read in a letter from Berlin of the 21st The
King has just granted permission to M. Gneist, one of
the professors of the Royal University of Berlin, to open
a course of lectures on the nature and operation of trial
by jury. This measure has given great satisfaction to
the public, as it looks like the announcement of an in-
tention to introduce, at no distant period, into western
Prussia the institution of the jury, which exists in our
Rhenish provinces.'
"A Frankfort journal announces that M. Pezyluski,
Administrator-General of the Diocese of Gnesen, has
been elected Archbishop of Posen."
THE BOURSE--Mormer, OCT. 28.

First Highest Lowest Last
. _

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cants..
• Four-and-a-Half lll 70 .. 111 70 .. 11l 70 .. 111 70
Three per Cents B2 20 .• 82 25 .. 82 20 .. 62 20
Bank of France
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslo97 50 —1097 50 ..1095 ..1095
5,000 f. Sharesso42 50 —4042 50 ..5010 ..5040
Belgian Bank. • 655 •• 655 .. 655 655
1841. llOO ..1100 ..1100 ••1100
Belgian Fives,lß3l.
1840 •••••• ion .. 1031 1031 .. 1031
1842 .. •
Dutch Two and-a-Half.•••. 63 .. 63 .• 63 • 63
Spanish Threes..
Portuguese Five per Cents• • 54 • • 65 .. 521 .. 521
Neap01itan............. .. 98 60 .. 98 60 .. 98 50 .. 98 50
Roman ...... 1061 •• 1061 .. 106} .. 101

RAILWAY BHAREIS.
St. Germain. • • •• •• •• • 915 .. 915

•• 915

.. 915

Versailles, R. 8... •••• • • • • 398
.75 .. 400 • • 398 75 .. 398 75
283 75 . 287 50 .. 283 7i .. 287 50
Bonen

Rouen to Havre 767 50 .. 768 75 .. 767 50 768 75
Orleans ..

Strasburg to Bale•• •••• •• 278 75 .. 280
Avignon to Marseilles— 790 • 790

.. 278 75 . 280
.. 781 25 .. 790

RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 31.
St. Germain ............ 915 .. 515 •• 915 .. 915
Versailles, R. 8....... ..... 400 •• 400 .. 348 75 .. 398 75
L.B. ...... 283 75 .. 287 50 .. 283 75 .. 287 50
Rotten •• •• • • •• •• •• •• •• •• ••1035 ..1035 ••1030 ..1033 75

Rouen to Havre•• •.. • 767 50 .. 767 50 .. 767 50 .. 767 50
Orleans .•.......1021...

Strasburg to 8a1e....
Avignon to Marseilles— •• 790 792 50 . 790 .. 791 25

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. The total
number of deaths during the week gnditur,S..---3---
zu, UthJ, F. ..cuu. week, uchl-LlV,...tge for
five autumns, 990. The first class still exhibits a
large amount of deaths, chiefly caused by two dis •
eases—small-pox and scarlatina. The number of
deaths from small-pox was 54, exceeding the preced-
ing week by 19 ; from scarlatina, 88, exceeding the
previous week by 7—average respectively, 17, 45.
There has been a slight increase in deaths from bron-
chitis ; but in almost every instance the numbers are
considerably below the average. The number of
deaths from small-pox during the nineteen weeks end-
ing Oct. 19, has been very great, amounting to not
less than 797. The following is an analysis of the
list of violent deaths :—Fracture or contusion, 8 cases,
of which 3 were by horses and carriages' and 4 by
falls (of which 1 was manslaughter). Wound, 2
cases (of which 1 was murder). Burns, 1 case.
Overdose of Medicine, 2 cases. Drowning, 3 cases.
Hanging, 1 case (suicide). Suffocation in bed,
1 case. And wilful murder by means not stated,
1 case. Total, 13 males and 6 females.