The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-16 00:00:00

• ey the difficulty of devising guarantees
lot the 'maintenance of the undertaking, after its
.elinpletion, as a strictly commercial high ro,,d. • open
!3'31t0 the trade of all the Powers who should have
.'"8 their part in its construction (a matter of :doge"-,
'4 delicatY, la reference to their jarring interests am_
o‘ea hostile relations as members of the gi.eat European fa-
n'ilY
(ifilaticsts), it is not easy to determine. But it is very
,throilehout
fa-
ce that an infant republic of Central America bas shown
into la this
all the negotiations which have been entered
cal existence af.rar, since she first sp into rung
, a d poliegree *Of foresight, a spirit, a liberality,
ti-
at,read'illess to sink minor considerations connected with
the Present, in an enlightened appreciation of te us
llefits she must derive from that sacrifice in fuhture, enorwhimoch
tth,B moat established and best administered monarchies of
ue
creastern hemisphere might have imitated with signal
edit
v„; - u advantage. Guatemala will take rank among the
.se
dates which have formed a true estimate of their pre-
sent dne"
and interests, amidst internal distractions and
external troubles.
The announcement, in our commercial intelligence of
Saturday
Ikt • evening last, touching the conclusion of a contract
%e'en the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and our
Government for the conveyance of the mails on the west
efaast of America, between Valparaieo and Panama, and
asil Panam
to tr a, across the Is:limus, to Chagres, there
aesfer them to the West - India Royal Mail
emarety, virtually involves nothing less than the
realisation of the great problem we have alluded
t°, tif approximating the most distant islands of the Pacific
and great Seuthern Oceans, and the remotest shores of Western
America and
.Asia to Great Britain ! Without even a
hid road of 'lonian-like selidity and vastness, or the more
costly highway of a canal, or the stupendous but
bloat Chargeable auxiliary of a railway, here are
4 little combination of great investments of private
British capital, and a few preliminary arrangements neces-
%try to make the saerifice of a powerful commercial rivalry
profitable to both prties, a fusing of antagonistic interests
into a community a
- Purtiose, and a settlement of the details
remarkable an undertakin
indispensable to be organised for the successful working of so
the most sanguine, the most purely theoretical speculations on
g ' and, behold ! the day-dream of
the junction of two oceans is as to the transmission of letters,
treasure, and the lighter kinds of merchandise, accomplished,
without ceremonial or notice to the world at large. The
l!itei;e South American Governinent not only acquiesces in
the Neat, and the mode of its execution but invests its n-
rtakers, in the shape of inciteinent and re' ward,with rare. and
nlost v 11'21'1 -.
h ----'e Privileges. T e
connected either
..y ,„.
To hose who are con
personal residence, occa.sionally, or by.
Zereavntile,or official nature with China, with Australia, withh_..
°lYilesia, with the ' • ds of the Indian Arc i
I.lllas o, and. the South Pacific ; the
remoter islands
mightycorrespondence of a
and opulent
, Minunicate with under many weary
to co .
-81°113 which they could hitherto hope neither to visit nor
and only
boister-
"Y protracted eu..
%lent to gages, across stormy seas,
months,
the
time
in.
(1.118 Pasaage of Cape Horn, and the loss
thence run,of to be
the great southing usually needful
coasts of
Prior to shaping a course along the
ulky
Chili and Peru, will be avoided, save only
still
Zrg°e3 of our regular commerce, which must, ofco
the
older
carried by the ancient sea route first tracked by
and Britain.
as to tuhreseb,
krigators of Spain and Portugal, Holland
The completion of this contract,
B,llati°ll as to its admirable purposes. I t
Royal Mail
c'eaal Navigation and the West
India
event of histo-
ande _ . thhee
Pacificrn -
.° a Vei. nie s , we are disposed to regard as
ananked side by side
rleal ai
these;: AS mercantile importance,
te.berCompanies in the reign
with ~,
of SinLejunetion of our rival India
rt...west with the
i.,g WILLLim 111., or that of the No h
IV.",,eographicai
old lludson's Bay Company, under GEoll'Eas u
our commercial
aeiertee and human civilisation, as -
event.
Pr°BPeritY, are equally interested
auspicious
(Ineeces that must assuredly. ensue from this
vow in the beneficent conse-
ow
upon us the
It is not fair in the Tory journals to
thrchoice. When a
task of defending the men of their
Tory talks common sense, and
When Sir
the
bound-
„ People, we praise him, as in
a Yure we observe the
showds°7 self the friend of
.oanitr PEEL brings
over ninety and nine
Wets One repentant sinner than 8441 e rule, remembering a that there °tdhenrme
over
to be more joy
so the bigoted
that
need no repentance.
days of Tory
now
and that happily .
thane that would restore- the palmy
r°rtiiption and TNT misrule,
of a broken faction..
unbelief in their
tePresent only the
symptoms of
. remnants
Bheuld one of their elect shot:
doctrines, or have the sagacity
adored
as
; the
perfection
and
Rich fifty yearsto inerceive thatrfecthteionidoolf,
now ago
wasvery dilapidated condition,
he is
Rill fall
splendid taie.
and
all his
eon_
eautY' is
to pieces without without timely ree ~,its and
and State are
the safety of Church
General
knounced as a rvnegade,
high aspirations for
Great rejoicing took place whenßous
sue-
Verted into crimes.
Westminster, and Captain
that
everything
was
%Ns was driven from
The
%Med to his place.He
was gallant, he _
es
Iras great and good.
iful in his manoeuvres, he
atraightforward, he was ski Captain was
and the worthy electors
took the old General by surprise,
their judgment,
skies for
Ilu.,taiinster were praised to the
to the true
--',l.r 41seretion, and their return from.
.Radicalism
enduring
Natical faith. But, tv
alas ; popular' . is not more
noble lords than
ars°llg high born ladies and . .
in fact,
breeze,
4log the love- vulgar.'The patrician.
it have
Is more '
ore tickle, and the parties .1%
and the other qua-
!ot the excuse of ignorance, low birth, .
race. Cap-
lilies which they usuall attribute to the plebeian
and gives
lain Roos is admitted Ytbe a man of fair abilities,
li
arties,
very geaeral satisfactio his constituents
of
a Pake a
yet the Post of this morning,lltbecause he happened to min
not
18e.„113„„ib, Cl BPeeeh the other day at an agricultural meeting
ofgtheir
e-j".".ison with its ct'otchets, thus falls foul of theam
Member of
;o°liic :---" A verY gallant sailor, %who
..13 also
has been talk-
tut flient, and a very foolish one,
% Suffolk,
Nr111,114 4 wild and nonsensical strain at a meeting
. nro-
Drietota' presided over by a noble relative, who is " r
it
w,i3 , oft land. We took no notice of this nonsense when
* pro-
ne'
but
we find the free-trade
Jatathi,, ,now we must do so, as.
readers it is a speech
w hi
~-'3 'lave seized on it, and tell their .
ce
„-
nape
14 Alt COIIIDEI might have spoken. This is no
lilelit t, m -
It is very
Iro l'ti r. COBDEN." This is very ungrateful.
will
11°1 -e, to, because it shows that these Tory bigots
hot liste
all but
n to reason, and discard from their society
tile
such
hei Worii-ont statesmen of the day, represented by
lit ght luminaries as the Duke of NEWCASTLE, the Earl of
racuiLsEa, and the Earl of ROUEN. They are in • fact doing
alith
b. -"ey can to reducethe party to a state ofnonentity. To this
"e have no objectian ; but we must protest against a system
by which honest men are calumniated, and the best interests
of
weal thy the peod ple
amaacrificed flat' the benefit of a monopolising and

Ity the Royal Tar steamer, Which arlved from the Penin-
sula at Southampton yesterday, we have accounts from
Gibraltar to the 6th and Lisbon to the 10th in„L4tant. The
intelligence is not important. The Queen of PouTuGAL'
accompanied hy the KING CONSORT, left the capital on 12..t,e
3d for Thomar, on a visit to Cos CABRAL, the Minister of
the Interior, who has a magnificent seat and large landed
Property in that beautiful district, perhaps the finest in all
Portugal. As royal progresses are becoming fashionable, and
ought to be encouraged, it is only proper to let Donna
AIARIA. DA GLont.A have her share of the merit. The Diario
do Govern° gives the following account of her MAJESTT's
vOyage up the Tagus :
" On Wednesday last, amidst the roar of cannon from all
the ships of war in the Tagus, the QUEEN and lima Cox-
siotrr embarked from the royal dockyard in this city, on board
the Terceira steamer, and proceeded up the river to Villa
'eater
on their way to Thomar, to honour with a , visit the
Mter of the Interior. On arriving off Villa Nova, her
l'IJI:-YrT Was visited on board the steamer by the municipa-
t atul other authorities of the place, who presented an ad-
dressayeathing, of course, the most loyal sentiments. On
the 4th she arrived at Santarem, where the same scene was
iteted. On the following day the royal party set out by
viltrdfor Azumbuga, where, according to the Diario, they
t
v_4l.t ,tteived with enthusiastic demonstrations. of
visitak4, the next stage of their journey, their MdAjoejnEs.atriteEns.
At Rel the hospital, where they left a handsome . . .
il, -"ntrein they were received, according to the Diario, in
." ttkost brilliant Planner. A numerous Nv(:ln out
to meet them, and escorted them into the town,
party of horsemen
tlvi 1 they entered under a superb triumphal arch, erectednd
for the ocasion. Next day her DIAJEsTY held a levee,
tab°.
4fterwards admitted the principal civil and military au
tities to the honour of dining with her."

wiAlitl. extraordinary meeting of the Grand Council of Berne,.t
The etl was very fully attended, took place on the 10th ins
t. lixtarAvs, who represented the Canton at the
Which'-'1 thet, addressed the Assembly, and stated the motives
gaud had induced the Executive Council to convoke the
I afir4j,(l Council. The continual attacks of the press, he said,
1— forced the Regenc to demand if it was worthy of the
en all opinconvocation of the Grand
Co ce 4 the people• By the .
8_
lens could be freely expressed, and the discu
stun. would show the real position of the country. The pro-
r''tions that 'were to be brought before the Grand Council
theret()r the revision of the Constitution, would prove that
~ Was no desire to remain stationary. They are
7"8e(1 under six heads :-1. The situation of the canton
t~•
April 1. 2. Tile strong opposition existing in the co. un. -
i'Y' 3. The vices of the Constitution. 4. The actinium-
‘;,..The tendency to
~1116‘"e c of the Government at the present critical moment.
popular associations which exists. And
iNji,le allarehy of the periodical press. After other speeches,
i''." led to no result, the Council adjourned till next day.

...1.111 . ,
Ir.We have counts from Madrid of the Bth inst. Genera'
42. was expected to arrive in the capital
l2th
on the
, and the n
-,ualor, with her mother and sister,
pith or loth. The Gazette publishes instructions from the
about the
Pnlauce Minister to thecolleetors of the income-tax through-
';),4,,,t the kingdom. On lands, the tax is to be taken accord-
e, 0 the net profits from agricultural produce; and as re-
trade, professions,
144' eniere accordin to the profits L 7,1
favour
,as in the income ding this country. it t;;; ;?f, not.ap,
Dcar fr
-^4
, om these instructions that any important modificatu,,-
-(ave he
un-
en made in this tax, which is viewed in the most
t the
able br,h,
b ~, and proLablywill yet give some employment
:ist le artnY under NARVAEZ. The Spaniards are little ac-
,Zineill, !rued to taxation for State purposes, and in the inland
ts, More especially it -will meet with strong resist-
vortbo The following decree, creating the mother of General
110,10,,r‘;411 a PeereSs, appears in the Gazette :—" Wishing
whoto
to' allbittide,iln!lnniT Of the illustrious•Gener.al C0.RD0,1., ,
titled e 4 111 chief at the battle of Mendtgoria, Irlueh de-
the fate of the throne and country, and taking also into
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