The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1844

the old, and the helpless, fled before our victorious
army, which covered itself with glory. I regret to
say that our troops have also suffered severely, and
that three of my best generals and a number of brave
officers of all ranks have fallen in the action. We are
busily engaged in levying contributions." This is
the language of robbers on a grand scale ; and when
the NAPOLEON of peace contrasts his reign with the
NAPoLEos of war, when he reflects on the miseries
which Germany and Russia, and Italy and France
suffered during the bloody scenes of NAPOLEON'S
career, and the peace, commercial industry, and vast
national undertakings which now bless his native
country, he may, without vanity, regard his reign as
the most honourable and dignified in the annals
cf France. Happily, the people of England
coincide in his views. The three addresses presented
to him from Portsmouth, IVindsor, and London, all
breathe the same sentiments ; and, had he time to re-
ceive addresses from every county, city, town, and
hamlet, of Great Britain and Ireland, they would only
re-echo the cry for peace and the progress of civilisa-
tion. The French people cannot mistake such an
exhibition of public feeling ; neither can they fail to
contrast the reception of Louis PHILIPPE with that
of another great Potentate who lately visited the
Queen of ENGLAND.

At the Bingley meeting—a meeting memorable in
more than one respect--the most satisfactory testi-
mony was borne to the success of the Allotment sys.
tern, which was first introduced into that parish about
twelve months since. Mr. EDWARD SMITH, who was
himself one of the allotment tenants, expressly observed
that " it was the best thing for the inhabitants that
had ever happened. Before it was commenced, they
had to fetch their vegetables a distance of from twenty
to thirty miles, and it was consequently very difficult
to get them fresh. During the present summer the
occupiers, and not only them, but the whole parish,
had the pleasure of having fresh vegetables daily. He
had been married twenty-six years, and never till
last summer had fruit earlier than October ; and
before the Allotment system was commenced, al-
though born and bred in Yorkshire, he had never

seen a potato either cut or set. He was an operative,

and never had the chance of following any agricultu-
ral operations; but now he understood a good deal
about them. When trade was good, they were sup-
plied with wholesome vegetables; and if it slackened,
they had enough laid by to keep them and their
families till spring.". Homely, unadorned facts like
these are worth a thousand showy arguments, and
go far to prove, not only that the Allotment
system is perfectly practicable, but that it is
one of the wisest and safest measures ever
projected for the benefit of the humbler classes.
It is not merely that it supplies them with
work, but that it gives them a direct, personal, en-
grossing interest in that work, which is the best
stimulus to exertion. Again, by keeping their atten-
tion usefully occupied, it prevents them from lapsing
into idleness and dissipation ; strengthens their phy-
sical energies ; gives a sunny, cheerful tone to their
feelings ; and confirms them in habits of order and
regularity. We trust that, ere long, we shall find
the Allotment system carried into general practice,
convinced, as we are, that the great landowners
and farmers will find the measure not less
beneficial to their own interests, than to those of the
labourers whom they employ.
We have said that the Bingley meeting was a re-
markable one. It was so from the circumstance of
its being the first direct attempt yet made by rank
and affluence to break down that odious system of
exclusiveness which for years has been productive of
so much mischief to the social community. Not
only did high and low, rich and poor, all dine together
without distinction—not only did operatives and la-
bourers propose toasts and make speeches as well as
more distinguished individuals—but at the cricket-
match which was played in the morning,
Lord JOIIN MANNERS-with a manly, un-
affected, old-English contempt for aristocra-
tic pretension which does infinite honour to
his head and heart—took an active part in the game,
and enjoyed it with as much relish as any of the pea-
santry. The sight of this high-spirited young Noble-
man with his coat off, and the cricket-bat in his hand,
so struck the fancy of an elderly Yorkshire labourer
who was looking on, that he exclaimed_in the excess
of his astonishment, " I declare if the great man has'nt
doffed his coat, and is going to bat our JEM'S ball I
Well, to be sure, who could have thought it ?" Aye,
who could have thought it in the haughty, finical, arti-
ficial days of the Regency, or even ten short years
since, when the absurd system of exclusiveness
was still in full vigour ; and the higher classes, in con-
cert with their sycophantic imitators, the middle
classes, cordially agreed in one thing—namely, the
propriety of keeping the poor and the humble at an
awful distance ? No one in those convential days
could have ever thought that a Nobleman would so
far forget what he owed to his own dignity, as to
engage in a cricket-match with a set of mere vulgar
peasants, innocent alike of cash and respectability; and
the naive remark of the old Yorkshire labourer
—which, brief as it is, is full of significance
and affords food for melancholy reflection—cl.tarly
shows how perfectly novel the spectacle
was to him,
and the hundreds who witnessed it; itut,
thank GOD,
a nobler and more Cathol_is., spirit is coming over the
influential classes 1 the first faint streaks of day are
reddenin-
in the east, after a long and gloomy night.
.an this simple—and as superficial people will regard
it, trivial—circumstance of the cricket-match we
trace the germ of a liberal and enlightened feeling
which will at no distant period work a moral revolution
in the country, and atone for that great social
blunder of years, the Exclusive system—that is to
say, the division of society into castes. And here
perhaps the Political Economist—that rare quint-
essence of self-conceit, pedantry, and narrow-mind-
edness—may exclaim, " a cricket-match, indeed
What business bad these poor people playing
cricket, when they should have been hard at work
providing for their families, and endeavouring to
make more money—the great object of exist-
ence ?" Our reply is, harmless recreation, when
it does not interfere with the day's duties, is often-
times the truest economy—the most productive work ;
for by giving a relief to the mind, invigorating the
physical system, and imparting a cheerful complexion
to the feelings, it renders the operative or the labourer
better able to grapple with his laborious lot—to toil
with more diligence and readiness, and consequently
with more effect. Besides, the accumulation of
money is not the sole business of exis-
tence. Life was given us for nobler pur-
poses than merely to heap up pounds, shillings,
and pence. Wealth, reverently as it is regarded by
the majority, is not the summum bonum. It is—or
should be—merely a means to an end,—and that end,
the promotion of our own rational happiness, and that
of our fellow-creatures. When Lord FRANCIS EGER-
TON said to Mr. D'lsnAxLl, " I have founded a
cricket-club for my cottagers, and you have no idea
how they enjoy almost the first sight of the
sun ! " he urged a poetical and convincing argument
in favour of his club, to which the most dexterous
Political Economist that was ever spawned, would be
puzzled to make a reply. We shall probably return
to the subject of the Bingley meeting to-morrow.

Madrid journals of the 6th inst. have been received,
and if some are to be credited a serious misunder-
standing has taken place between certain members of
the Cabinet. According to the Globe, about thirty
members of the Chamber of Deputies met on the sth,
in consequence of a quarrel between NARVAEZ and
Senor MoN the Minister of Finance. MARTINEZ DE
Ls. ROSA, among the rest, used his influence and re-
stored apparent harmony, but little doubt remained
that the differences of opinion in the Cabinet were
such that an explosion would soon take place. Tho
Tiempo, a Ministerial paper, expresses the confident
hope that the quarrel will not aggravate the
serious position in which the questions about
to be submitted to the Cortes will place
the Administration. The following are said to
be the measures in contemplation :-1. The preamble,
which speaks of the sovereignty of the people, Rill be
suppressed, with a view to give more strength and
prestige to the Royal authority. 2. The creation of
Peers will be for life. 3. The jury will be suppressed,
under the idea of incorporating that institution into
the new Bill on the liberty of the press. 4. The
article relative to the National Guards will be re-
moved from the fundamental law; this force will be
created under another organic law, which is to be
submitted to the Chambers.

The Opposition journals have recovered courage as

the assembly of the Cortes approaches, and spare
neither WAR VAEZ nor the QUEEN. MOTHER--called by
one of them " the invisible power." "It is affirmed,"
says the ClamorPublico, " that the invisible power
neglects no means of accomplishing its penitence.
What enormous sin can it have committed ? But
the nation never will consent to its calming its
scruples at the cost of the blood and sweat of the
people. Our readers will guess that we are adverting
to the concessions made to the clergy." We shall
soon hear of strange scenes in the Spanish capital.
The Three per Cents. were done at 27i for
cash, 27g at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 20g ;
and the Coupons at 27, at 60 days.

Several of the Paris journals give full details of the
arrival of the French SOVEREIGN at Portsmouth, his
journey to 11 indsor Castle, and the hearty and en-
thusiastic reception his MAJESTY met with at every
place, and from all classes of the British people. " We
hasten," says the Journal des Debats, "to publish all
the particulars of the brilliant reception given by Eng-
land to the KING of the FitENca. This reception so
enthusiastic and so cordial, does honour equally to
King Louis PHILIPPE and the great nation of whom
he is the guest, and will without doubt be an object
of the most sincere sympathy in France." The C'on-
stitutionnel, says " the KING'S journey to Windsor is
accomplished in the midst of the most earnest mani-
festations of British courtesy and politeness. The
English journals exhaust all the forms of praise, and
place no limits to their enthusiasm. They style our
KING the greatest, the most glorious, and the best
Monarch that ever reigned on the earth. These
praises, even if they were less hyperbolical, would
affect the French people if they believed that they
were really addressed to the person of Louis
PHILIPPE. But France knows too well that their
sole object is the policy of the Ministry. It isithe:disa-
vowal of M. D'AUBIGNY and the evacuation of Mogadore
that appear to English journalifts as the greatest, the
most glorious, and the best thing that could be done."
Every impartial reader must be struck with the bad
taste and ingratitude of such remarks at the time
when the people of England, who care not a straw
for Mogadore or M. D'AUBIGNY, were spontaneously,
and with their usual national, warmth giving the most
decided proofs of their regard for the KING whom the
French people themselves had placed on the throne.
The Siecle surpasses even the THIERS' journal in
malice and falsehood. " The visit of the KING to
England," says that journal, " the official demonstra-
tions which await him there, and the earnest con-
gratulations which M. GUIZOT will not fail to receive,
are not considered at Paris as a subject of pride and
of triumph for France. There is not a little cause
for atonishment that it should take place at a moment
when the same voices which sing hymns to the praise
of the preservers of a peace humiliating to us, but
profitable to England, overwhelm our seamen with

insult, denounce our admirals as assassins, and ac-
cuse our country of being the abode of meddlers or

thieves. He amongst our princes whose energy has
to the present moment best responded to public opi-
nion in France, has not been himself spared, and it
was considered almost a favour to apply to him the
term of buccaneer, whilst his companions in arms
were styled cowards." The National, of course, is
equally violent, but there is so much same-
ness in the remarks that it is needless
to quote them, and we shall therefore close our ex-
tracts on the subject with the following excellent
article in reply from the Journal des Debats :—" We
had praised the KING for being a humane, liberal,
and pacific Prince. This is what the journal of M.
TRIERS calls gross encomiums, dangerous panegyrics,
provoking formidable polemics. Let us understand
each other clearly. M. TmEns' journal does not
allow praise, but it permits blame and abuse, more or
less adroitly cloaked. Let it, for instance, meet
with some generous expressions in favour of peace in
a speech of the KING, and it will seize on these words,
so humane, so touching, and so rare in the mouth
of a Prince, to turn them into ridicule and disfigure
them by an insulting commentary. Our eulogiums
had not, however, provoked this discussion, not very
formidable in truth, but not less unbecoming than un-
constitutional, and it is not the only time that M.
TRIERS' journal has attacked the KING. It is well
known that M. TUIERS, in his speeches, in the
Chamber, as in the journals, is partial to this kind of
polemics; it is tbererort -tulogium, and eulogium
alone, that its prohibited. Formerly the Radical
journals pretended that when some cried Vice le Roil
others had a right to cry A bas le Roi M. TRIERS'
journal, in that as in many other things, now goes
farther than the Radicals ; it allows itself to blame,
it forbids us to praise ; it is well inclined to have per-
sons cry A bas le Roil it will not sanction Vice le
Roi ! It authorises us to admire ALEXANDER the
GREAT entering into Babylon, 'hiatus CIESAR, Louts
XIV., and NAPOLEON, but to assert that the KING
is humane, liberal, pacific, and that he has not sullied
his reign with any of those crimes which policy has
too long excused, and which the folly of men has
sometimes elevated to the rank of grand actions,
is what M. TILLERS' journal calls gross encomiums.
And we are not to have the right to laugh
at this dynastic and constitutional opposition ! Con-
tinue as you have begun ! Advance every day
more in the evil path in which you are! Ex-
cite passions which you do not feel ! Urge to war
without wishing to have war ! Irritate national
susceptibilities, envenom the slightest incidents, for-
get nothing likely to make the country believe that
the peace which it enjoys is a disgrace, that its pros-
perity and happiness are not worth the price which it
,%frahrichfroamrerpeaalcdtinigiimon, France, are a
and the
Englandsym-
pathySaypays for them ! Does the limo go to
that t theshown
n ohui rms
new prouf of the hatred which the English bears for
us. If there is in any London journal, as there often
is in ours, an article unjust, violent, bragging, calum-
nious, give that article as the expression of the general
opinion in England. Does an English sailor take it
into his head to seise on a cigar in a shop without
paying for it, in place of simply allowing the cor-
rectional police to act, say that the English in France
already imgine themselves in a conquered land : de-
scend to that Above all, invent dialogues between
Guizot and Lord ARERDEEN4 in which M. Gni-
ROT will sacrifice France, and will represent us as
a nation of disorderly fellows and Mad fools I Blow
the fire, in fact. You would not be the persons to
extinguish it, once that you have lit it up ! You
would perhaps be secretly inclined to do so, but you
would not have tither the posvet or the courage. But,
we repeat it to you, happily you are not Prankie I'4

TIIE BOURSE—SATURDAY, OCT. 12.
117 st DriAeit Loiest Last
,
FirO, Price. File. rtice•
Fanch rie,r•r reittr .1' 14, 4.b • • 118 IA •• 118 25 118 25
Thice per Cents.— .• 82 30 .. 82 35 .. 82 30 •• 62 35
Bank of France 3062 50 .. 3062 50 .•3060 .. 3060
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Shares 1107 50 —llO7 50 • • /19Z 50 "1107 50
Belgian Bank ...........„ „ 657 50
.. 6,5: 110.. 6b5 .• 6%5
Belgian Fives,lß3l.
18(0 •,t ii...• 103 i .. 103 f •• 1031 • • 1031
Somali the15ive............ 5/ .. 51 .. bi .. bi
Portuguese Five per Ceuta.. 50s .. 501. .. sft • • 1501
Neapolitan ..... ........ .. 88°75 .. ga go .. 98 15 .. 98 st)
Roman ..
... • .. 106 .. loft
RAILWAY SHARES. .. 106 ••10.6
St. Germain •••• •• .. ii:l'i •• 01 4. huh

Rouen to Havre. ...........
Versailles, R,8.......-..... 3';,5 ~3n .. 395 .. 395
L'D''' "" •••• •• 276 25 .. 276 25 •• 275 .. 275
Rouen .1012 50 . 1012 50 ..1007 50 ..1012 50
Orleans .............. ..... 1017 50
—1022 50 —ion 50 ••1017 50
276 25 •. 280
Strasburg to 8a1e........',. . 275 •.275
765 .. 765 -. 762 50 .. 763 75
Avignon to Marseilles.... •• 775 . 780 .. 775 .• 777 50
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER !t,
St. Germain . ............. 930 .. 980 •• 1-741,..° e' m
Versaill"'/"*""•• •• •• •• 397 50 .. 397 50 •• 395 •• 395
280 280
..275 .• 275
-

••• _,„ ••
Rouen • • • • • • • • • • • • 1015
.:1015 ..1007 50 • • 1007 50
Rouen to Havre ..... ....... 762 50 .. 765 •• 762 50 .. 765
Orleans .•• • • • • ..... • •• • • ••1020 ..1025 ••1017 50 ..1020
Strasburg to Bale•••• ••• • •• 276 25 .• 273 75 276 .. 275
Avignon to Marseilles...... 780 .„ 780 • • 777 60 .. 777 to

ST. GEoi!Gi`s, liAt.rovo-tealAßE.—The Rev. H.
Brown, M.A., ineutnbent of St. James's, Curtain-road,
Shoreditch, atm in-law to the Bishop of London, has
been presented by his Lordship to this valuable living,
vacant by the death of Dr. Hodgson. It is a curious
coincidence, that at the time of Dr. liodipoti's ptetenta-
five he was himself soh-in-law to the then Bitlop of
London, Dr. Porteus.
SAILING OF THE STEAM-SHIP GREAT WESTERN.---
LIVERPOOL, STYNDAY MORNING.—The Great Western
steam-ship„-under the able command of Captain
Matthews, left the Coburg dock yesterday morning about
eleven o'clock, and proceeded on her voyage to New
York. Amongst her passengers, 140 in number, were
his Excellency M. de Bodisca, Russian Minister at
Washington ; M. Jung, bearer of dispatches from Paris,
and Mr. Hapman, Dutch Consul at Charleston.

DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL COTTON.—We have
to record the demise of Major-General E. R. Cotton,
who expired at Ellwall Hall on Thursday. The de-
ceased served at the Helder, including the actions of
tLe 2d and 6th of October, 1799, and in 1808 proceeded
to the Peninsula, and served with much bravery and dis-
tinction in the Spanish army. His commissions were dated
us follow:—Lieutenant, 11th Oct.. 1797; Captain, 9th of
July, 1803 ; Major, 4th of March, 1807 ; Lieutenant-
Colonel, 4th of ~rune, 1813 ; Colonel, 22d of.lnly 18.30 ;
and Major-General, gad of November, 1841.