The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1844.

interests at the expense of the common weal, and
while with a bray of mendacious impudence that
might well form a model for every bold vagabond
that seeks, by false pretences to swindle the public,
they assert that the public good is the main object
they have in view. They cannot imagine that other par-
ties can be anxious to do good to their fellow-men with-
out being actuated by the same base and disgrace-
ful motives." The grammar of this precious philippic
is somewhat in eclipse, like the consistency of the
Conservatives; but let that pass, our business at pre-
sent is rather with its sentiment than its syntax. No
one can doubt that the writer is of the monopolist per-
suasion, and as little, that his abuse—however dis-
guised under a lofty show of contempt—originates in
apprehension of the threat of the League to look
sharply after the register, and in jealousy of the
. .

hostilities might be not the easily repaired loss of some
millions, but the inevitable loss of his empire. But no !
whilst eur soldiers and seamen were courageously fulfill-
ing their duty on the double frontier of Morocco, your eyes
were fixed in another direction. A single idea
absorbed you, which was to secure England
against a contingency which did not regard
her, to give to her implacable jealousy a pledge
of a word of honour which she had neither the right to
inquire nor to solicit. And it is thus that, in -order to
avoid some immediate difficulties, you have spontaneously
excited others more considerable. The war is not con-
cluded, and the Emperor, who is aware that in any case
you will not attack him before next spring, will probably
not hasten to grant you what you demand. In this
position, what will you do ? Will you evacuate the
island of Mogadore, according to the word of, honour you
have given ? And then the bombardment will have been
a mere useless cruelty, which will give the Moors a right
to curse and mock you, or you will have violated your
sacred engagement—you will have violated your word of
honour—you will indefinitely have prolonged an occupa-
tion which ought to be but temporary ; and in that case
you will have admitted that England bad a right to
oecupy herself with a war so important for her, and you
will find in your road that systematic malevolence, those
exigencies, and those threats, before which you at pre-
sent fly."
Several of the journals express great indignation at
what they regard the ungrateful return made by
Belgium for all the blessings conferred on her
by France. In reference to the late commercial
treaty which the former country has entered into
with Germany, the Quotidienne says :
" The commercial tie which is about to bind Belgium
to Germany will, if it takes place, become a political
bond, and the powers who condemned Belgium to neu-
trality will willingly revoke their sentence as soon as
they think that they can make Belgium what they did
in 1815—the advanced guard of Germany against France.
Certainly it was not with this view that the Revolution
of July bestowed upon her daughter, Belgium, men and
money with so much prodigality ; it was not to this end
that the Chamber of Deputies endowed the Princess,
who was to be a bond of peace between the two people;
but Belgium looks rather to the future than to the past,
and seeks for guarantees in Germany, because the alli-
ance with and protection of the Government inflicted
upon us inspires her with no more confidence than it
acquires from the other States. This is daily revealed
by facts the weakness of the policy which presides over
our destinies ; every day our isolation is drawn closer
and closer, and the circle becomes more and more nar-
row. Can we then be astonished that our rulers should
be attached to England ; for if England should abandon
them what would remain to them?"
The National is equally indignant :
" We cannot blame Belgium for having thus attached
herself to Germany. The little kingdom of Leopold
cannot exist without the support of others. Severed
from Holland, she had to choose between Germany and
France ; and since France, from fear of offending foreign
Powers, and giving dissatisfaction to the magnates of her
own commerce and industry, seemed to be afraid of form-
ing a closer connexion with her, she was forced to throw
herself into the arms of Germany. We have long fore-
seen this result ; but it is nevertheless to be deplored. It
has been, indeed, a great fault thus to have allowed the
port of Antwerp to become de facto the port of the Con-
federation, of which Prussia is the chief. If we could
have granted to Belgium the same advantages as the Zoll-
verein has afforded her, she would, no doubt, have pre-
ferred holding fast to our alliance ; but we are governed
by a party which occupies itself very little with the poli-
tical interests of France, provided her cloths, her coals,
and ber iron be not exposed to any serious competition.
It is the same party which appropriates all the railroads,
and monopolises the power of domination in all things.
Let Antwerp become a Prussian port—it will cause no
concern to this party. It would as willingly give up Dun-
kirk and Bordeaux to the English, if, by doing so, it
might hope to see the coal mine and railroad shares
quoted on 'Change at higher prices."
The French Funds fell considerably on Wednesday,
the Three per Cents. 70 centimes, and the Fives 60
centimes.

" untoward" consequences that will accrue to his party
from such laudable vigilance on the part of the free-
traders. The language of the philippic is contemptuous
and swaggering enough, but the spirit is mean and
cowardly to a degree. The " hand is the hand of
Esau, buC the voice is the voice of JACOB." Did the
writer redly entertain the scorn which he professes
for the League—did he really believe that it consisted
merely of " notoriously selfish impostors" and " bold
vagabonds," most assuredly he would never have
taken the trouble to pelt them with such desperate
Billingsgate as he has done in the above passage ; but
would have contented himself with maintaining a
haughty silence, and laughing at the exertions of
those from whom he felt that monopoly had nothing
to fear. But, despite his affected contempt for the
Anti-Corn-law League, he knows and feels in his

inmost heart that it is an engine of infinite moral
power—that it is a confederacy whose influence is
daily on the increase—that every move it makes gives
a rude shake to the crazy fabric of monopoly—that,
even when apparently inactive, it is in reality as alert
as a vigilant sentinel on his post—and that its recently
announced determination to take a leaf out of the
Tory book, and look sharply after the register, is an
omen of the most disastrous import to the protection-
ists. The writer of the vulgar and intemperate letter
on which we have been commenting, knows and feels
all this, hence his exquisite alarm, which he would
fain, but cannot, disguise, under a show of lofty indig-
nation and contempt. To do him justice, his appre-
hensions are by no means ill-founded, and long ere
the present year shall have reached its close, he will
find that the interference of the League with the
register will have been productive of the most dis-
astrous results to the cause which he espouses. Sir
ROBERT PEEL, that consistent advocate of expediency,
will be foremost to acknowledge the moral influence
of this great confederacy's exertions during the re-
cess, and. will shape his course accordingly, no longer
declaring himself—as at the commencement of the
last session—in terms of open hostility to the League,
but discreetly moderating his opposition, and perhaps
even making a decided move in the direction of free.
trade.

We learn from Madrid papers of the 29th ult. that

the Opposition party began to show some symptoms
of life. The forthcoming elections have excited gene-
ral interest, and both Carlists and Progresistas were
in the fiEld. The former, it was believed, would be
successful.. in Old Castile, and at Palencia Senors
OLOZAGA ,MADOZ, LOPEZ, and SEOANE had come for-
ward as c andidates. The Government, it is said, are
busily er4;aged in framing measures for the delibera-
tion of th e Cortes, which, we believe, will assemble
next inorrth. The following notice appears in the
Gibraltar Chronicle of the 29th of August :

" The Governor has received an official communica-
tion, in waich it is stated that all the Moorish subjects
who had fled from Tangiers have been permitted to re-
turn, and that the gates will always be open to them.
It is added, in the same dispatch, that the British sub-
jects, who, in returning to Tangiers, may have no other
object than that of gratifying their curiosity, are im-
plored neither to enter nor remain in the town, so long
as the Morocco question shall continue in its present
state. This does not, of course, apply to the servants of
her Majesty, nor to those whom commercial affairs may
oblige to res ide in the town."
The Three per Cents. were done at 271- at 60 days ;

the Five per Cents. at 20, and the Coupons at 251
at 60 days ; and the Floating Debt at 60i at 50 days.

Certain .of the Paris journals, which must have pe-
culiar scan ces of information, gravely describe what
has taken :place at several Cabinet Councils in Lon-
don in reference to the settlement of the Otaheite
question. One of them states that the " Cabinet Coun-
cil held on Monday last was adjourned to Tuesday,
merely because it was deemed advisable, considering
the gravity of the affair under deliberation, that the
council should be as numerous as possible, and the
Duke of BticcnEucu, the Earl of RIPON, and Mr.
GLAnsTotil, were absent. There existed no differ-
ence of opinion between Lord ABERDEEN, the Duke
of WaLimscToN, and Sir R. PEEL. All three were
agreed that the satisfaction offered by France was not
sufficient. M. D'AUBIGNT ought to be recalled, because
he commanded the arrest of Mr. PRITCHARD, and M.
BRUAT for having ordered his expulsion. The Eng-
lish Cabinet declared against France, not only on the
question of fact, but on the question of right, How-
ever criminal the conduct of a British agent, it escapes
every interference, and the flag covers the Consul,
even should be fire,!or cause others to fire, against us."
M. TRIERS' journal gives rather a different report
of the deliberations of the English Ministers. "It
was reported?" says the Constitzttionnel, "on Tuesday
afternoon that the Government had received by ex-
traordinary express the substance of what passed at
the Cabinet Council on Monday last. After the
question pending between France and England was
introduced by Lord ABERDEEN, Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Sir R. PEEL proposed that the reparation
offered by the French Cabinet should be rejected as
insufficient ; the Duke of WELLINGTON was of the
same opinion; but Lord ABERDEEN observed, that to
refuse the reparation offered by M. GuizoT would be
to compel that Minister and his colleagues to resign,
and thus expose the good understanding existing be-

THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, ,SEPT. 4.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per C3nts • • • • .. 120 25 .. 120 30 • • 120 • • 120
Four per Cents. ..... 104 .. 104 • • 104 .. 104
Three per Cents. • • • 80 35 . • 80 35 •• 80 10 .. 80 10
Bank of France 3050 ..3050 • • 3030 ..3030
Latlitte Batik, I,ooof. Sharesif 80 ..1080 • • 1080 • • 1680
Belgian Bank ..•• 650 .. 650 • • 650 • • 650
Belgian Fives, 1831 103
.. .. 103 • • 1021 .. 1021
1940 lO4l 104+ •• 1041 .. 1041
Spanish Active 3o+ .. 301 • • 301 .. 301
Threes .... 331 • • 33+ • • 334 • • 331
Passive 51 . 51 • • 51 51
Portuguese FIN e per Cents • • 44* .. 441 • • 441 .. 441
Neapolitan . .. 97 80 .• 97 80 • • 97 80 .. 97 SO
Roman • •
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8... .......... 375 .. 375 375 .. 375
L.B 240 .. 241 25 .. 240 .. 241 25
Rouen ..... ........... 952 50 .. 952 50 .. 952 50 .. 952 50
Rouen to Havre•... ...... 725 .. 726 25 .. 723 75 .. 723 75
Orleans •• •• ••••• •• •• .... 947 50 .. 950 .. 945 .. 950
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 237 50 .. 237 50 .. 236 25 .. 237 50
Avignon to Marseillef...... 742 50 .. 745 . 742 50 .. 745
RAH•WAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, SEPTEMBER 15.
Versailles, L.B.
Rouen •• •• •• •••• 950 .. 955 .. 948 75 • 950
Rouen to Havre•• 728 75 .. 728 75 .. 725 .. 726 25
Orleans. 947 50 .. 951 25 .. 947 50 .. 955
Strasburg to Bale•• • • •• 238 75 .. 238 75 .. 237 50 .. 237 50
Avignon to Marseilles.. • • .. 745 741 75 745 .. 748 75

tween the two Governments. The Council adjourned
to the following day without coming to a determina-
tion. It is believed that the Minister for Foreign
Affairs will succeed in convincing Sir R. PEEL and
the Duke of WELLINGTON that what the French Go-
vernment proposes is sufficient humiliation."
The Opposition journals will, however, soon know
the result of these deliberations, from the speech of
one of the Ministers, and then the National, the Con-
stitutionnel, the Siec/e, and journals of a similar spirit
will raise an outcry against M. GUIZOT sufficient to
shake him out of his place. They will assert France
has been sacrificed, the " stranger" has yielded to the
menaces of England, and nothing is left for the country
but humiliation and disgrace.

There is no fresh intelligence in these papers from
the Prince Da JOINYILLE, but we find in the Consti-
tutionnel an extract of a letter from an aide-de-camp
of the Prince to the French Consul at Cadiz, dated on
board the Pluton, August 17, which is in these
words :

" The Admiral has received orders to keep possession
of the island of Mogadore, in which we have placed a
garrison. The possession of the island is equivalent to
that of the city, and fulfils all our desires, insuring us a
guarantee for the complete satisfaction of all our wrongs.
The city will remain in a state of blockade, and conse-
quently the Emperor will be deprived of the large revenue
he derived from its customs, which is wounding him in
his most sensitive part. The campaign is thus brought
to a close."

Other journals, however, take a different view of
the results, and infer that before the EMPEROR, yields
to the conditions of France, more battles and more
bombardments must take place. The National which
hates peace in every shape and in any quarter, thus
attacks the Ministry for leaving the work half done to
please England :--
"After the victory you retreat as you would have done
after a:defeat. In place of leading your army against the
epemy, you withdrew it. In place of occupying his fron-
tier, you return to your own. What do you expect that
lie should fear, unless he should become afraid of a
shadow ? By declaring that under no circum-
stances would France make a war of conquest
against Morocco, that she regarded as absurd and
insane, not only all extension of the Algerine terri-
tory, but all durable occupation of any portion of the
Moorish coast— that after the war, as well as previ-
ously, the French Government would never require from
Morocco, any cession of town or territory—that the
same motives which dictated this declaration still existed,
and that her word of honour was publicly pledged to
that effect in the face of Europe,—iit making that decla-
ration, the Government had acted directly against its
object. There are but two modes of conquering an
enemy—to do him injury, or to cause him to fear you.
It was precisely because you were determined not to in-
jure. the Emperor of Morocco that you ought to have
frightened him. This extension of our territory, this
permanent occupation of the towns, should have been
suspended over his head as the inevitable consequence of
encouraging our enemies on his frontier. It was neces-
sary to make him comprehend that the consequence of

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
ROCIIESTER AND CHATHAM RACES.
THURSDAY.
The Maiden Plate of 501. heats, once round.
Mr. Dockeray's Black-stockings, 3 yrs 2 1 1
Mr. Shelley's Gretna, 4 yrs 1 2 4
Mr. Wingfield's bf by Scroggins, 4 yrs 0 3 2
Mr. Coleman's ch cby Plenipo, 4 yrs
Captain Cockburn's Linda, 5 yrs
Mr. Wickham's bg by Pincher, 4 yrs 3 4 dr
Mr. Dixon's Capsicum, 4 yrs
The Rockingham Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, with 50
added; the second to save his stake, and the winner to
be sold for 300/., &c. Heats, one mile and a half.
Mr. King's Young Lochinvar, 4 yrs, ...... (Bell) 1 1
Mr. Dockeray's Auld Lang Syne, 4 yrs
Mr. Rott's Hampton, 5 yrs, 2 3
Mr. Coleman's The Devil-among-the-Tailors,s yrs, 4 4
Mr. Coleman's Lufra, 5 yrs, •
Mr. Death's Misdeal, 5 vrs,
The Rochester and Chatham Members' Plate of 50/.
three-years-old, 7st 41b; four years, Bst 71b; five years,
9st; six years and aged, 9st 41b; mares, &c. allowed
31b; winners extra. Heats, one mile and a half. The
winner to be sold for 2001.
Mr. Cooke's Molly Mogg, 3 yrs,
Mr. Langridge nd Discretion, 3 yrs, ..... ........ 1 2 2
Mr. Prescroft's Paradise, aged,
Mr. King's fby Pincher, dam by Rowton, 4 yrs, 2 4 dr
Mr. Verral's Rondo, 3 yrs,
The Steward's Plate of 501, added to a sweepstakes of
5 sovs. each, the second to save his stake. Heats,
five miles.
Sir C. Moncles Flagsman, 5 yrs
Mr. Osborne's Bonitace, 3 yrs
Mr. 0. Powlett's Blindfold, 4 yrs
MORPETH RACES.---WEDNESDAY.
The Borough Members' Plate of NI. Heats, one mile
and a half.
Mr. Cuthbert's Beaufront, 3 yrs
Mr. Cookson's Criky Billy, 4 yrs
Mr. Robinson's fby Sheet Anchor, 3 yrs
Mr. Crawford's The Netherton Maid, 3 yrs
Mr. Moore's Bagatelle, 4 yrs
Mr. Ramshay's Sister to Broadwate, 4 yrs
Mr. Carnagle's Hygoia, aged

3 2
2 3

FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 3.—The average price of Wheat last
week was 181. 46c.; and that of Rye 10f. 45c. The
import and export duties remain as before.
We continue to receive the most afflicting accounts of
the damage done by the overflowing of the Demer, and
the rupture of the dike of the Laek.
An account from Cologne, of the 31st August, informs
us that in July, 1844, there were 47,576 passengers con-
veyed by the Rhenish railway (16,970 more than in July,
1843). The quantity of gcods in the same month was
422,579 cwt. (304,236 cwt. more than in Jnly, 1843).
The receipts amounted to 65,697 dollars (28,149 dollars
more than in 1843). The total receipts in the first seven
months of 1844, was 279,819 dollars, which is an excess
of 128,508 dollars above the receipt in the first seven
months of last year.
The conclusion of the treaty with the Zollverein has
caused general surprise and satisfaction, being wholly un-
expected. At Antwerp the sensation caused by the
news which the Minister of the Interior sent as soon as
possible to the Governor of the city was very great, and
completely changed the idea of the merchants who dis-
approved the conduct of the Government with respect to
Prussia, but now acknowledge that if their system had
been followed in preference to that of the Government,
they would not have obtained the advantages which this
city promises.
STOCKHOLM, AUG. 29.—The question of the repre-
sentation is decided in the Diet. In the Chamber of the
Nobles the debate in this most important question lasted
from nine in the morning till seven in the evening.
Baron Nordenfalk first delivered a speech, in which
he stated the reasons for which the King's advisers re-
mained neuter in this matter. The result was the rejec-
tion of the proposed system of representation by a ma-
jority of 458 to 82.
In the Chamber of the Clergy the debate was con-
tinued to-day, the result as we hear was that the pro-
posal was rejected almost unanimously.
In the Chamber of the Citizens it was agreed to by
47 to 9, and in that of the Peasants by 89 to 14. The
proposal is, consequently rejected, because it cannot be-
come a law of the kingdom without the concurrence of
each of the four Chambers.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Sim 3.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1625

Anglo-Russian Loan ll3 113%
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 10514 105
Inscription, Ist series —. 105
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series .... 9814 93
Ditto in Certificates ... 99i 95
New 4 per Cent. (140) l,Xf % 90%
Dutch Actual DebBt, 2% per Cent. .........
Ditto 5 per Cent. —
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. —
Spanish, New 5Kr Cents. 16% 16%
Polish Bonds
New Tickets ....
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussELs, SEPT. 3.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent., —
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. lo2'
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per cent
.... Three per Cent....
----- Thirty-seven &Mit ns, ditto
—
_ 1844....... ........... ......... ....... ......... 103%
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent 102%
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 6l
Issue of 1841 -
-.Brussels Papers, Sept. 4
AUSTRIAN I. 'U NDS.—VIENNA, A tia. 23
Five per Cents. Metalliques . , 110%
Four par Cents. NON%
Three per Cents. 76
Bank Shares
411gemeine Zeitung, Sept.*
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SOUTHWARK LITERARY
INSTITUTION.

On Wednesday evening Mr. Charles Mackie, Se- 1
dretary of the Institution, delivered a lecture on the
" Five Senses" to a highly respectable and delighted
audience, who listened to his rich and varied, but
simple 'elucidations, which, stripped of all sort of
technicality, were made to bear on the most humble
capacity.
The research and industry of this gentleman was
made apparent in the luminous subjects before him,
which he grasped with a masterly hand; and the in-
formation and delight which he afforded the audience
will, we doubt not, be treasured by the many friends
he has created in the Borough, and appreciated by
every lover of science.
In the wide field of investigation over which he
gracefully travelled, he exhibited in his reflections the
acuteness and profundity of a highly observant and
philosophic spirit, while he had full scope for the
exercise of those disseetive and analysing capabilities
which constitute the dominant characteristics of his
highly cultivated mind. His account of the structure
of the eye was followed up at the conclusion of the
lecture by an exhibition of the eyes of oxen in the
various coats or tunics floating in water, the inspec-
tion of which elicited much approbation.