The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-17 00:00:00

With the maintenance of a high character for honour and
integrity. Greek stoolc, adyaneed about, one per cent. yes-
terday near the close a business. A letter from Calcutta,
of the 15th of Juneonentioris some curious particulars of
the etVect of the panic there, produced by the re-action of
the commercial crisis in this country. The greater part of
the' mercantile houses had largely entered into subserip-
tions for the Company's 5 per cent. loan, then in progress,
expecting in the usual manner, as' soon as the list was
filled, to sell the scrip at a profit. As the list, howeVer,
did not fill, the books were kept open, and the scrip con-
sequently was unsaleable. When the pressure, for mosey,
brought on by the news from England, began, they were
deprived, for the time, of the power of paying up their in-.
stalments. On a representation being made to the Go-
vernment of their situation, the books of subscription to
the loan were closed, the, future instalments were provided
for, and money advanced on the scrip they bad taken at
8 per cent. interest. This timely aid enabled them to de-
vote all their resources to trading affairs, and confidence
was soon,pretty generally restored. The exportation of
raw cotton and cotton twist is going on at as great an ex-
tent as ever. The following is the account of the exporta-
tion of cotton twist from the ports of London, 'Liverpool,
and Hull, for the week ending the 14th inst.:—
. _

Loudon
Liverpool 69,340
1,454,652

1,677,133 lb.
There was exported from the port of London 4,157, and
from Liverpool 330 bags of cotton within the same period.
The sales of spice and other articles at the East India
House produce rather better prices.—Timex.
The French have been alWays distingniihed for 'that
happy facility of fancy which dispenses with any attention
to facts. Whatever changes of political system this lively

people have experienced,—their intellectual character

Pears to have undergone no revolution. They are. still
the same' volatile enthusiasts, that must ever have some

jdol to dance round one day and discard the next. A few
days ago they were all in a state of inconsolable sorrow for
the loss of TRIMkil ; they poured forth their effusions of
poetry and affliction, in every form of elegy, monody, and
monologue, as if Paris had been one vast Parnassus of
weeping bards and cypresi-bowers. To-day the departed
actor is as much forgotten us if his tomb were among the
antiquities. Sir Walter Scott visits 'the desponding city.
Instantly a new object of fantastie adulation occurs to
them. These
,funeral strains are changed into the soft
tones of flattery—all the genius of verse and prose ex-
hausts itself in finding out " original" compliments for the
writer of Romances. 'He is likened to every thing great
and splendid that France has produced; but the most co-
mical of all the amusing instances of ingenuity which the
Parisian literati have displayed on this occasion, is that
in which it was gravely stated " Sir Walter had the fore-
head of Homer, and the mouth of Rabelais." The author
who made this discovery must have been a profound phy-

siognomist. It has hitherto been ainatter of regret, that
antiquity had left no likeness of the father of Epic poetry—
even his name is to this day a matter of disputa among the
learned, and the place of his nativity has never been ascer-
tained. But we have no doubt that the Frenchman who
has hit upon the . very dimensions of his, forehead can set
the world right on the other particulars, and remove all
obscurity respecting the person and life of the " Great
Unknown" of the Eastern world. There is, indeed, a
bust which bears the name of Homer; but we, in our
simplicity, had always understood this was a " fancy
head," invented ages after the writer of the Iliad had
ceased to exist. As to the countenance 'of Rabelais, we
do know something of that; and the month is as much
._ _

unlike that of the author of Marmion as their talents and
dispositions were. .Rabelais attached vice and folly in the
high places, 'but especially among, the Clergy of his day,
with caustic and unsparing satire. Sir Valtel is a wor-
shipper of things as they are, and never did he venture to
oppose himself to authority tin a recent, instance, where
submission would have been a disinterested virtue. Then
let us consider. for a moment a fare in which the distinc-
tive lineament* of limner and Rabelais were blended.

What a tragic-comic vount<•ic it must be. Something
'more extraordinary than Gilivray ever designed, or Liston
represented. If any of our managers were fortunate enough
to get such a head upon his boards, he need insert no other
novelty in his bills for the next three months. But we fear
nature is not half so inventive as the imagination of a
genuine; Frenchman.—Morning,lleraki.
We Alluded the other day to the symptoms of a clime-
lution of 00441 order now manifesting themselves even in
the principal toyina pf the manufacturing districts. We
then observed, that Pefilern.ent never before asiembled un-
der circumstances of a more 411194Ftening nature. The
manufacturing population have been so icing state of
destitution, that we are only astonished at the patience
with which the poor creatures struggle with their
.mise,
ties—when even the hope of better times must, one
should think, have abandoned them. The diminished
ability of the manufacturers is felt seriously by the other
classes, and more particularly by the farmers, who are
suffering very much fromthe fall in the price of stock.
Whichever way we turn ourselves, signs of distress and
want of eonfidence meet the eye. \ire perceive from a
new edition of the Pamphlet of Sir James Graham, which
we have just receLved, that the Honourable Baronet,
whose estate is in the vicinity of a • manufacturing town,
deems the distress of the poor weavetoto have now at-
tained a height which threatens the security of property.
Sir James endeavours to reconcile their peculiarly desti-
tute condition with his own theory ; and though he allows
that a improvements in mathinery may have partly su.
peoeded the
,use of manual labour," yet be cYitlently eon-
,idere the fate of the weavers as the result rather of
changes in the currency., than of the power-loom. Hero
we cannot agree ;with him. The condition of the weavers
has. no parallel in that pf any of the other industrious
classes; during the late " proapprity," as it was called,
When combination was the order of 'the day, their wages
were positively Wing; and we ate therefore warranted in
concluding, that the cance of their distress cannot be of a
general nature, but must be lief:tiller to themselves. WC
need seek no farther than the power-loom, every improve-
ment in which necessarily sinks them deeper and deeper
in misery. An additional demand for weaving emild not
raise their wages; it would only have the effect of in-
creasing the number of power-looms. But we will allow
Sir James Graham to speak for himself , .
" it might be enough for me," he Nays (p.. 12, new edition),
" to have shown, both front theory and repeated experience., that
sudden contractions of the currency, with a fall of wages, and
without a diminution (If taxation, hannot fail to produee anarchy
and want throughout the working classes of our community ; but
jc.annot here refrain front illusstrating this truth by a st.atsment of
the pwill condition of the coon weavers in my
neighbourl,oo ;
bot ln
and I have every roman to we,belu°wthn immGlasgow ediate
•
at the state
and
-
ment is strictly applicable to the same 4,11 ea,
iu Lancashire, couquisjug a large portion of the p.44pfaeturing
population of Great Britain,
" The average nett earnings of the lest we4Ver, in full employ,
do not meted six shillings a week : for thje be labours fourteen
hours in each day ; and Out of this pittance he pit only. Must
supply himself, hiewjfe,, mid children, with feel, fond, and. r.raiment,esi ment.,
but he must defray the thn ae al house rent, which, in e
s
exorbitant. His daily fare is pan f
neal pottage and potatoes: or.
a
his oatmeal he pays, *t this moment, 3a. bd. for the stone of four-
'teen pounds ; and for his potatoes, Is, fid. the imperial
" The work of the week is generally paid for at its elute : and
the little fund of the preceding week's labour is constantly exe
-
hausted before the fresh return of money on the Saturday. Th
credit of the poor man fails always in proportion as his wants are,
urgeot; and, unless charity interpose, the interval is feariPl
tween the exhaustion and supply of the weekly earnings. I have
mum to know, that when ' the handful of meal in the barrel
and the little oil in the cruse' have failed, pinching lainger, too
often, is endured for.many hours by entire families,.
44 It is vain to add reasoning to facts like these ; they cry
aloud, d
an- proclaim approaching danger. Patience still endures,
becaue. the hope emi
lingers that the causes of these evils may
pass away but if they he inherent in the present imam of our
policy—in:the weight of . our taxation-:--in the enhanced value of
our currency—in the axtificial price of articles of first necessity,
and in the low rate of woo contrasted with that price, either