The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TYIURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1(344.

moved the previous question, Mr. SMYTHE, and Mr. 1
ROEBUCK, displaying some new political features, and
also some personal allusions, Lord HOWICK depre-
cated the -course proposed: It would, in his opinion,
be better to pass over the affair in silent contempt,
and follow the example set by the House when the
Member for Knaresborough made a similar un-
founded charge againSt•Mr. COBDEN.
After Slime remarks feora, other Members, Lord
JOHN MANNERS withdrew his'amendment; and the
original motion was agreed to.
The 'County Coroners Bill went through Commit-
tee ; and, while Mr. FRENCH was making a motion
respecting the Dublin jury lists, the House was
counted out, at a Quarter to Eight.

There is nothing so infectious as a row. It is
more catching even than the small-pox. Tuesday's
proceedings in both Houses of Parliament form an
apt illustration of this assertion, for about the same
time that the Commons were engaged with the
squabble between Messrs. FIIIIRAND and HoGo, the
Lords were engaged in listening to an equally
edifying squabble between the Duke of RICHMOND
and the Earl of RADNOR. The row com-
menced by the Noble Earl asking his Grace
whether a certain pamphlet, published under
the auspices of the Pro-Corn-law League, was really
sanctioned by them, "for in his opinion, a more dis-
creditable work never emanated from the press."
There was surely no great offence in this question ;
yet the Noble Duke instantly fired up at it, and re-
plied—with as much acrimony as if he himself had
been the' author of the vituperated pamphlet—that he
" felt that the proper course to adopt was not to an-
swer so paltry a question, further than to say that be-
thought the work a most excellent one. He thought
his Noble Friend was quite as much in error in
the . present instance, as he was when he last
attacked him.. The author of the pamphlet was long
known, and although of similar politics to the Noble
Lord, yet he did not seek to destroy the agriculture of
the country. It was true the Noble Lord had
taken the chair at a late meeting of the Anti-Corn-
law League, where he certainly exhibited as a great
actor, and therefore it was natural that he should wish
to impugn a document which so successfully exhi-
bited the Anti-Corn-law League in its true
colours." This is hard hitting, especially the
insinuation that the Noble Earl was one of
those who sought to " destroy the agricul-
' tore of the country ;" yet it does not seem to
have produced the impression which his Grace evi-
dently anticipated from it, for the House, instead of
laughing, or cheering, or evincing the slightest sym-
pathy with his disinterested wrath, heard him with
the most frigid indifference; and as for the object of
all this acrimonious bitterness, he sat by smiling and
unconcerned, and apparently entertaining not the
slightest notion that the Noble Duke had been endea-
vouring to extinguish him by his sarcasm! His Grace
nettled, we presume, at the idea of having expended
his righteous choler in vain, wound tip his philippic
by the following alarming threat For his own
part he would say, in reply to the observations of his
Noble Ifriend, that he would never leave the Agricul-
tural Protection Society until they had completely
succeeded in putting down the Anti-Corn-law League,

than which he believed there never existed in
Englana a more unconstitutional body." This is, in-
deed, a inenace of tremendous significance ! Hear it,
ye COBDENS and BRIGHTS, and all ye minor lumi-
nries Of the League, his Grace of RICHMOND will
never desist from his labours, until he has " succeeded
in putting down" your confederacy ! Close as wax
wilt he stick to the Agricultural Protection Society,
until he has trampled you, by means of that wonder-
ful Society, into dust, ground you to atoms,
and scattered you to the four winds of hea-
ven We can imagine the consternation
that this ducal menace will produce" among
the members of the Anti-Corn-law League.
We can imagine, also, the wailing and gnashing of
teeth, and the strewing of sackcloth and ashes on the
head, that it will occasion in Covent-garden—the
tribulation and despair of the audience, the subdued
and faltering tones of the speakers, conscious of their
approaching extinction. In mercy to a meek and
unoffending confederacy, we implore this tremendous
Duke not to carry his dreadful resolution into effect.
If it be absolutely necessary to his happiness that he
should extinguish some man or body of men, in
Gore's name let it be Sir ROBBAT PEEL, and the mem-
bers of:her MAJESTY'S Government, and not the Anti-
Corn-law League ! What harm has this amiable con-
federacy ever done to him ? It has never, that we
know ef, falsely and wickedly accused him of being
a statesman of superior capacity ; it has never
ip far sported with the sacred interests of truth as to
express its conviction that he has two ideas in his
head ; on the contrary, it has always made a point
of doing strict justice both to his motives and his un-
derstanding ; and to our thinking, it seems to be the
blackest possible act of ingratitude that he should
now strive to blot it out from the book of political life.

It is to be hoped that Mr. CUARLES BULLER, or
some other Member of the House of Commons, who
has devoted an adequate portion of his own time and
his powers of investigation to the study of our colo-
nial relations and policy, will speedily bring before
Parliament a series of definite and practical propositions
for the extension and consolidation of the one, and
the exposition of the other. Of all the political res-
ponsibilities attaching to that foremost rank which
Great Britain occupies among the nations composing
the dominant Governments of Europe, those which
regard her parent and protectress position toward her
immense colonial possessions and settlements in Asia
and America, in Africa, New Holland, and the Southern
Ocean, ate among the most enormous and the most
sacred, . Beyond doubt, of all the systems of depart-
mental administration which ever aspired to the de-
signation of a scheme of " policy," that upon which
our "empire beyond sea" has been conducted, from
the accession of the house of BRUYSWICK to the pre-
,ent time, has been the most undigested, ill combined,
conflicting, wasteful, and ignorant. We write this
advisedly. Not is it any answer to the charge—any
disproof of the accusation we bring against a scheme
of management so destitute of principle, so innocent
of consistency, so capricious, disjointed, and uncertain
as our Colonial Government has been and still is—to
point to the rapid growth of this or that colony—to
indicate here, the astonishing increase of trade—to in-
sist there, on the prodigious extension of. revenue.
That young colonies should wax vigorous and opulent
despite the- erroneous treatment they may receive at the
hands of the distant mother country—that the remotest
offshoots of the _lmperial State should flourish and
make progress in the remotest regions of another
hemisphere,—these are anomalies which only show
that, under _ favourable conditions of circumstances,
the develOpment of thei: power and resource:, may
advance steadily and surely, although neglect, misma •
nagenient, or incapacity at home may have done their
hest to impede their march and restrain their inhe-.
rent energies. But that colonies or settlements, with
an ample commerce and pernianent sources of public
income, neither few in number nor meagre in their
amount, should be unable to meet the burden of
their own expenditure, or to maintain unimpaired
domestic peace and . tranquillity within their own
boundaries ;—these are facts which inevitably pre-
suppose vices of home administration, the- corruption
or incapacity of local legislatures,•or the misconduct,
excessive staff, or excessive pay of the Colonial Exe-
cutive.

annually contemplationall of the enormous sums which are
charged on the revenues of the United King-
dom (whether on the Consolidated Fund, or on
certain duties on colonial and other produce), to
make good tke balances in excess of expenditure over
income, in some of our richest and most important
colonial possessions ; and of the large votes annually
passed by the British Parliament (in one class of the
)liscellaneous Estimates) on account of Colonial
Services ;—this will suffice to justify the language
we have applied to the general results of our Colonial
Government. We do not propose here to point out
the most eligible course of proceeding for the attain-
ment of an object so extensively beneficial in its
b eageneral revision of the existing system
oftrihantgsasa Government, and its administration. But we
could not propound, either to the Learned Member
for Liskeard, or any gentleman of the same class of
qualifications, an undertaking more worthy of his
research and sagacity, his industry, his legal know-
ledge, and that sound good sense which is the pri-
mary element of all statesmanship. The revision of
many commercial statutes—now operating as absolute
interdicts on the commerce of some colonies, or
elaborately depriving others of commodities and

supplies which they most need, 'and of which it was
obviously our true wisdom to facilitate their acqui-
sition ; the more extended encouragement to be given
by specific remissions of existing duties and imposts
on native produce ; and the opening up more liberal
and extensive markets in the ports and harbours of
our colonies for the commerce of the world, by
retaining no protecting duties in favour of the
mother country not absolutely essential, or not
beyond the point to which they -may be proved
essential to the protection of British manufactures,
merchandise, &c., against the competing merchandise
and manufactures of the same kind, imported under
foreign flags ;—these would be some of the more im-
portant details in any such scheme of colonial revision
as we would call for. The assimilation of local laws,
customs and usages, currency and money, to the
greatest extent which may be expedient or practicable,
would form another, though more gradual, operation
in the range of such a plan. But such a plan—ably
carried out to the full extent to which it would
necessarily expand—would embrace, concurrently
with the amelioration and enlargement of our trade,
guarantees of the very highest importance as to
political and territorial interests. We should cease to
hear of the absolute non-application or the partial
diversion of duties levied—in some instances during
almost a century past—for the reparation of forts
and the improvement of harbours, which duties have
too often, been, after strict collection in the West
Indies, shamefully and illegally applied to very
different purposes in England. In this way n system
of revision and reform honestly discussed; ably or-
ganised, and impartially and fearlessly carried. into
execution would ensure, both to the colonies and the
mother country, in peace, all the advantages and the
I wealth derivable from a greatly extended commerce ;
in war, all the benefit and protection of forts, batteries,
and harbours in an effective condition for defence and
occupation. There is no question but that whoever
shall undertake such a task as we' have sketched out
for him, must propose to himself certain distinct, well
considered principles of economic as well as imperial
policy,frorn which he must not be lightly moved by an-
tagonistic claims of East and West India, Windward and
Leeward Islands, Jamaica, and Mauritius interests.
Giving due consideration to all, he must not be seduced
into exclusive preferences for any; and for any tempo-
rary which he maydraw upon himself frompar-
ticular.quarters, he will be abundantly compensated
by the reflection of having laboured to procure for the
entire empire the incalculable advantage which must
flow from the calling into more unobstructed action
its immense, and hitherto much mismanaged, colonial
resources, by a system combining something like
harmony of working with unity and compatibility of
design in its principles.
To the want of such a general scheme of colonial
policy are attributable the anomalous condition of
New Zealand ; the insecurity of a part of our Cape
territory; the decline of Australian prosperity in
many of our New Holland settlements ; the aggres-
sive encroachments of the Dutch upon our commerce
in the Indian Archipelago ; the hazardous position of
our interests in the Oregon ; a vast proportion of
our Canadian difficulties ; and the loss of our most
profitable branch of the gum trade in Western
Africa.

Accounts from Madrid of -the 16th state that the
QUEEN, with her mother and sister, would shortly
leave for Caldas, a watering-place, about seven leagues
from Barcelona, in consequence of the advice of her
physicians. On that day NAEXABZ reviewed 8,000
troops on the plains of Alcoron. Several of the jour-
nals state that hostile demonstrations are made along
the French frontier by the Carlists ; and, according
to the Phare des Pyrennees, several Carlist refugees,
who furtively quitted the residences assigned to them
in France, have been arrested at Bayonne by the
authorities, and forced to return to the depots in the
interior of the country. A correspondent, who writes
from Perpignan on the 17th, says, the numerous ar-
rests of Carlist refugees along the French and Spanish
frontier, are connected with the discovery which the
Spanish Government have made of an extensive con-
spiracy.
The Three per Cents. were done at 361 for cash,
and 37 at 60 days ; the Four per Cents. at 20 for
cash ; and the Five per Cents. at 22k for cash, and
23 at 60 days.
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If the Paris Opposition journals are to be believed,
considerable discontent prevails in the army. Some
weeks since part of a regiment in the garrison of Paris
was shipped off to Africa for an attempt at mutiny;
and, according to the National, similar symptoms
have manifested themselves in some regiments quar-
tered in the south. At Toulouse several non-com-
missioned officers had been arrested, and the regiment
to which they belonged had been ordered to proceed
to Perpignan, Toulouse being regarded as a place
little favourable to the present dynasty. Arrests also
had taken place in the Bth regiment of Artillery, which
had been marched from Toulouse to Besanqon. No
cause is assigned for this disaffection. These journals
still dwell at considerable length on the Otaheite
affair, but from all accounts the public are quite sick
of it, and there is little chance of any further discus-
sion in the Chamber on the subject. On Monday the
Chamber of Peers commenced the debate on the Edu-
cation Bill, when the Marquis of Boissr attempted to
divert the Chamber from the subject, by putting ques-
tions to the Government about the dispatches of Ad-
miral DUPETIT THOUARS. The PRESIDENT called him
to order, and the debate proceeded. The KING had
left Paris for Dreux, where he was expected to re-
main for a day. The Funds continue firm. On Mon-
day the Five per. Cents. closed at 1221. 40c., and the
Threes at 83f. 70c. The Armoricain of Brest thus
adverts to the visit of the Prince DE JOINTILLE to
that place :

" On Tuesday, the 18th, his Royal Highness inspected the
transatlantic steam-packets Christophe Colombo and Canada.
The Prince then went through every department of the
Arsenal, examining all the details with great precision. He
afterwards went out to the roadstead, and inspected the naval
school on board the Borda. Not being expected, the pupils
were engaged at their different studies and occupations. He
would not allow them to be interrupted, but went down
among them, and while they wore at work examined their
progress, and required an account of the conduct of each.
The report made to him being very favourable, he requested
as a personal favour that all those under punishment should
be pardoned. Commander Prddour replied that he could not
accede to the gracious request of his Royal Highness, for it
happened that there was not a single pupil in the predica-
ment of availing himself of it. The Prince expressed his
satisfaction, and declared that he would consider of some
other means of showing his gratification. He then proceeded
to the Pluton, on board of which he was to make his excur
Sian. On Wednesday he went out in the Canada, accom-
panied by the Christophe Colombe, to make the trial trip,
and was, it is said, fully convinced of the superior powers of
their engines. On Thursday he embarked in the Pluton and
sailed for Rochefort."

embled round the mosques, uttering cries, and arising
heinselves with stones and sticks. Riza-Pacha had some
difficulty in escaping, and even left in their hands one of the
skirts of his coat. On some points the. troops were obliged
to give way, and the prisoners escaped. however, the haul
was a good one, and only some hundreds got off. A cir-
cumstance occurred which calls to mind the proceedings of
the thieves of Canton, in order to pillage houses and carry off
goods, notwithstanding the measures taken by the English
to prevent them. All the Albanians who were at Constanti-
nople having got wind of the matter, hit on a mode of escap
ing from it. They got several coffins made, divided them-
selves into so many sections, placed their arms in the coffins,
and every day funerals of some Albanians were teen to defile'
through the streets of the city ; four carried the coffin on
their shoulders, the rest followed. They were allowed. to _pass,
and, once outside the walls of Constantinople, they resumed
their arms, and took to right. Not a single one,remained iu
the city. Last Sunday, whilst-the Sultan was repairing to
the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed, on the anniversary of the Pro-
phet's birthday, a crowd of women met him on his passage,.
and uttered loud complaints and accusations against Riza-
Pacha. It is believed that the measure which he has just
taken, and which has caused great dissatisfaction, will shake
his credit with the Sultan."
THE BOURSE—MONDAY, APRIL 22.
First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Pi;lce. Price.
French Five per Cents.. • • 122 20 • • 122 30 • • 122 20 122 25
Four-and-a-Half.. • llO 50 .. 110 50 .. no 50 no 50
Three per Cents.• •• • 83 70 • • 83 70 83 65 .. 83 65
Bank of France...• • • 3095 • • 3095 • • 3095 3095
Latlitte Bank, 5,000 f. Bharesslss .. 5155 —5155 —5155
Belgian Bank. 695 •• 695 ~ 695 695
1841. ...... .1110 ••1110 ••1110 —lllO ..
Belgian Fives, 1831.. • • lO3 • • 133 • • 103 .. 103
1840 •• • • lO6/ • • 1061 • • 106 JO6l
1842 ••
Spanish Active .••• • • •
.341
Threes •••••• • • • • • • 37 • • 37 • • 37 ..- 37
Passive • 61 • • 61 .
Old Deferred• ••• • • • 74 • • 71 • • 71 • • .71
New Deferred ••.• • 15 •• • 15 ••
• 15 •
.. 15
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 451 • • 451 • • 01 .. 451
Neapolitan .• . ..... .. 102 05 102 05 • • 102 .. 102
Roman ••••• • .• • • .. 106 • • 106 • • 106 .. 106