The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-13 00:00:00

MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1842.

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leading statesmen of the day have lent their
. countenance, or given their support. The people
are Chartists, Complete Suffragists, Anti-Corn-
law Leaguers, Monopolists, Dissenters, Church
Extensionists, &c., &c., while our politicians are
Whigs and Tories, and seem to have lost many
of the sympathies, and weakened their connexion
with the people.
Even that most durable of all connexions, the
tie between landlords and tenants, is becoming
very feeble. They no longer have the same
political views. Throughout the country the
tenants feel that they have been sacrificed to,
and by, the landlords, and they have ceased to
hearken to them as oracles which it would be im-
pious to doubt. The unenfranchised say that
they have been sacrificed 'to the ten-pounders,
and between them and the middle classes, to
whom they used to look for their political opinions,
there i§ even more estrangement than between
landlord and tenant. It has become in fact, ob-
vious to all that the interest of each class is the
parent of its opinions; mistrust and jealousy
have taken the place of confidence, and no one
class will any longer take another for its guide.
This general rule extends to statesmen, who
are the expounders rather of their own indivi-
dual opinions than of the opinions of a party.
The Peelites, Melbournites, Stanleyites, or Rus-
sellites are each amazingly few ; and the man at
he head of the Ministry is now rather borne with
from the opinion that society would fall into dire
confusion without a Government, and that he is
the only person who can at present administer
our affairs, than because the public coincides
with his opinions or regards him as infallible.
There is not a single journal which heartily sup-
ports him, and not an individual who swears by
him, or who does not, though nominally one of
his party, continually attack his opinions and
his measures. That the persons complaining of
the Income-tax are without leaders, therefore,
is only one instance of the general state of poli-
tical decomposition in which society finds itself.
For those who hate. the Income-tax, the lesson
this circumstance teaches is, that they must help
themselves.. They must plan something like an
Anti4neome-tax League; they must appeal to
,farmers, tradesmen, and landlords for support;
they must establish committees and societies in
di&rent places; and if they cannot get up the
steam themselves, we can venture to assure them
that they will receive no aid from any party
politicians. Both Whigs and Tories are too
desirous of a large revenue—the former are too
sensible that their proceedings gave a colourable
pretext to the Income-tax, and the latter are too
eager to appropriate it—for either of them to
take an active part in proposing its repeal. If
the tax payers cannot accomplish that object
themselves, they will probably have to bear the
tax for the whole three years.

only manufacturing town in Spain, the products of
which offer such an obstacle to the mercantile ambi-
tion of British subjects.
The National has the following :-
1 The bombardment of Barcelona is not merely a
fault, it is a crime, and we are not surprised that this
crime has caused the whole of Catalonia to rise. We
should not be astonished if the insurrection Were to
gain the other provinces, and become general. Why
did the Regent quit his usual place of residence ?
What was the use of his presence, if, when he arrived
before Barcelona, he was to conceal himself behind his
Generals and his Ministers, enveloping himself in his
glory like an Olympian Jove, and playing the ricli-
,ctdous game of representative sovereign ?
The Commerce asks—

What are the causes of this new and redoubtable
episode ? Could the Regent have avoided it ? These
are questions which ulterior information will enable
us to answer, no doubt. At present we do not
hesitate in declaring, that, if Espartero, by his impla-
cable threats, his refusal to give guarantees, or
at least to show some signs of clemency or modera-
tion, has driven the Barceloneso to desperation, he has
committed an enormous, and perhaps an irreparable
fault.

The Courier Francais, an ultra-Liberal jour-
nal, is equally severe on the REGENT, and as a
matter of course, implicates England in the
affair :

The dispatches which the Government has re-
ceived from Spain are of the gravest character. The
inhabitants of Barcelona, who were treating with the
Regent, and to whom Espartero dictated too severe
conditions, refused to submit. The Regent, in place
of reducing them, as he might easily have done by a
blockade, has come to the rigorous and deplorable
determination to bombard this populous city. There
are occasions where a government ought to avoid
urging to the last extremity the execution of the
laws. It is a sad renown for the first Magistrate of a
country to strew the soil with the smoking ruins of a
town which had raised him to the steps of the throne.
The Regent ought to have shown himself the more
humane in repressing this revolt from the knowledge
of its having been provoked by a national sentiment.
The project of introducing English cottons into
Spain was the first cause of this fermentation, and
the appearance of English vessels before Barcelona
increased the indignation of the people. At present,
if the telegraphic news be true, all Catalonia has risen.
The Presse thus attacks England and the
French Ministers:—

While France has thought only of saving Spanish
emigrants of all parties, England brings cannon and
gunpowder to ruin the industry of Catalonia. And
yet, notwithstanding all this, the French Ministry,
that it may dispense with taking a part against this
odious invasion by England, labours to disguise its
existence. God grant that this unfortunate business
of Barcelona may be shortly brought to an end, for,
if it last only a little while longer, it will give birth
to some terrible questions.

Madrid journals of the 3d and 4th inst. have
been received. Those of the Opposition in gene-
ral censure the letter of the English Consul for
refusing to receive Spanish refugees on board
English ships at Barcelona, though he had
offered a_reception to other foreigners. We can-

not see any good grounds of complaint against
such a principle. Are Republicans, and Chris-
tinos, and Carlists to be encouraged to harass

the established Government, by promises of pro-
tection when unsuccessful ? This would be hold-
ing out an inducement to rebel. The following
is a portion of the Consul's letter on the subject
to General VAN HALEN

Your Excellency having replied that you could
not extend the delay granted beyond the morning of
the 4th, I ordered immediately the English vessels to
hoist their flags, and to prepare for the reception
of English subjects, and also that of the subjects
of other foreign Powers who might seek an
asylum. At the same time I issued severe orders
that no Spaniard should be admitted, and I have
delivered no passport or granted the slightest pro-
tection to any of the subjects of her Catholic
Majesty. In replying, therefore, to the dispatch of your
Excellency of this day's date, and which I have this in-
stant received through the French Consul, I assure your
Excellency that I shall rigorously maintain the same
neutrality if any English vessel should enter this pert,
believing, as I do, that if I were to grant the protec-
tion of the British flag to any of the insurgents I
should be guilty of an , act of hostility against the
Government to which my Sovereign has accredited me.
(Signed) ,4 JOHN *'STRORY PELENCORE.
" Barcelona, Nov. 26.
At Madrid the Three per Cents. were done on
the 2d at 211 for cash, and at 211 at 60 days ;
and the Five per Cents. at 261 for cash, and 26+
at 60 days. On the 3d the Three per Cents. were
done at 211 11-16 for cash, and 22 at 60 days;
and the Five per Cents. at 26+ for cash, and 261
at 60 days.

The Journal des D•bats and the Constitu-
tionnel abstain from all comment. We admit
that the bombardment of the city was a measure
of severity, and ought to have been avoided, if
possible. But if the Barcelonese refused to yield
what could ESPARTERO do ? He had not ships
to blockade the place by sea, and he could not
grant an amnesty to men who had killed some
500 of his troops, for no assignable cause.
Delay, too, might be dangerous ; and after
all it is extremely probably that no great
injury was done to the town. The REGENT
too, has already shown his leniency by per-
mitting those implicated to quit the country.
" 'We learn," says the Constitutionnel," that the
REGENT had formally declared to the authori-
ties of Barcelona, that he would permit the per-
sons compromised in the revolt to withdraw from
the vengeance of the laws by quitting Spain. In
consequence of this declaration a great number
of persons, amongst others the President of the
Directing Junta, MANUAL CARSY, had left Bar-
celona, and retired to the French territory. It
is difficult to make this account square with the
bombardment, and yet it cannot be well doubted,
since the intelligence of the arrival of the re-
fugees at Perpignan has been received, and of
their having been sent to Clermont-Ferrand."
We shall be able, we hope, to give the full
particulars of this unfortunate affair to-morrow.
The French papers contain nu domestic news
of importance.

BOURSE--PARIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10.
First Highest Lowest Last
r. Price. rice. rice.
French Five per Cents. 119Pice 55... 119 60... 119 P 55... 119 55
Four per Cents 101 25... 101 25 .. 101 25... 101 25
Threes, ex div 79 29... 79 20... 79 10... 79 20
Bank of France 3340 —.3340 —.3340 .. 3340
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1057 50 ..1057 50...1057 50...1057 50
Belgian Bank BO7 50... 807 50... 807 50... 807 50
Belgian Fives lo3a ... 103 k ... 103 a ... 103 k
1840 lO4B ... 104 k ... 1041 ... 104 k
Spanish Active. . 231 ... 231 ... 231 ... 231
Portuguese Fives 32 ... 32 ... 31 ... 32
Neapolitan, ex div lO7 10... 107 10... 107 10... 107 JO
Roman,

olieriedn. e
The
driven on
We have received intelligence from Lisbon to
the sth inst., brought by the Royal Tar steamer.
There had been dreadful gales on the coast of
e.s
sO eunti tihe of QF6tihguuelirt.s„at theP e
sdiip
rlas
Portugal,
Negras, e
Chatham, SAnGENT, Master, from London to
s
Sidney with
and g cargo and ten passengers,
wasel stranded,
general
seamen with two pas-
barque Wexford, from
Newport to Malta, with coals, ran ashore inside
the bar of St. Übes, crew all saved. Hopes
were entertained of saving the cargo of the Chat-

- -
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain 837 50... 842 50... 837 50... 842 50
Versailles, R.B 270 ... 270 ... 267 50... 267 50
L.B B5 ... 97 50... 85 ... 92 50
Rouen
Orleans.

BELGIAN FUN.S.—BRUSSELS, DEC.IO.
Actual.pnbt,_2% peLCent, _

. _ _ ...... .....
Rothschilit's-LO;n, Five per Cent. ••••••
102%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent .... 92%
-------- Three per Cent. —
--Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto
.7214 ,ICIAAN - -
...........................--

ham; but it was very doubtful whether either of
the two vessels could be got off.
The municipal elections at Lisbon and Oporto
bad terminated in favour of the Government;
and throughout the districts of Douro and Aveiro
the general result, it was believed, would be
the same.

.11;J%
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. OB
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 76%
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Dee. 10.
A UsTRI A N I UNDS.VIENNA, DEC. 2
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. lOO5.
Three per Cents... 76%.
Bank Shares
Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 6.
HAMBURGH BUNSEN HALLE, Dec. 9.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents
Bank Shares lBlO
Anglo. Russian Loan lOB% lON
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate...— 103%
Inscription, Ist series
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates PS New 4 per Cent. (1840) B7 86%
Dutch Actual Debt, 5 per Cent. ........ 51 5u
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Bonds
New Tickets
-- —
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. — Sl3
Spanish, New 5 p 'l' Cents.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURGH, Dec. 9.-13 9%, Two months 13 71( .
PETERSBURG, Nov 29.—Three months, 37% pence.
RIGA, DEC. 1. Three Months, 37; .
STOCKHOLM, DEC. 2. Seventy-five days, 12 18.
VIENNA, Nov. 29.—'Three months, 9.411.

The Paris llionitcur of Saturday announces the
capitulation of Barcelona in the following dis-
patch, addressed to the French Government :
PERPIGNAN, DEC. G.—Accounts from Perthuis, re-
ceived this morning, state that Barcelona capitulated
the day before yesterday. The inhabitants of Girona,
who were marching on Barcelona, returned home on
hearing the news. There are neither letters nor pas-
sengers from Barcelona.
This result has been foreseen for some days,
for a more wanton andill-advised outbreak, or one
...
exciting so little sympathy throughout Spain, and ' GREENOCK.—At a numerous meeting of the Odd
even Europe, has never taken place in that coun try. Fellows, in the " James Watt" Lodge of this town,
The telegraphic dispatch received at Paris on last night,. Mr. Wallace, M.P., was presented with a
Thursday, and published in The Sun on Satur- splendid engraving of the insignia of the order, in a
gilt frame,
inscription :
day, announcing a general rising in Catalonia,
" PRESENTED
has turned out, as we suspected, a shameful stock-
jobbing affair. It bore on its face evident marks To ROBERT WALLACE, Esq., of Kelly, M.P.,
thatit was of French manufacture, and was not en- As a Mark of Respect,
titled to the slightest credit, yet it has answered By his BROTHER ODD FELLOWS.
its purpose. The intelligence published in a Greenock, 1842,"
'Government paper caused great alarm at Paris, The Prov: G. M., in presenting the emblem, delivered
a speech in
.which he highly eulogised Mr. Wallace
and occasioned a fall of I per cent. in French
for his attention to the interests of the order on seve-
1, ral occasion. Mr. Wallace, in returning thanks, ex-
used, not for
false,tran SucptanoinshtFhievepapretr
oCfentrie.
FTrheinseihs
pressed his entire approbation of such a benevolent
institution, and stated his willingness at all times to
conveying speedy and authentic in telligence, promote its welfare.—Greenock Advertiser of Tuesday.
rinlinde telegraph is now
disgraceful !o,
but as an instrument for depressing or raising the RETURN OF POPERY TO CHAWLEIGIL—The parish
founders, the Roman Catholics, dedicated to St. An-
church of Chawleigh, as tradition says, was, by its
faSuutiEdiclicso.ritailel''shde Government must be aware of this
drew, who, of course, is the tutelar saint of the parish.
as St. Andrew's day (notice having been given the
transmitted to Paris from Marseilles
Wednesday, Nov. 30th,a day marked in the calendar
and the Spanish
or at least greatly exaggerated
their agents—officers, we believe, of the army—_ Sunday previous, exhorting the inhabitants to return
afrc:noluntitise,
to retain their situations and delude the public, to that duty they had so
frontier, and as they still allow
long neglected), the bell
we can only infer that some of them have good tolled, the Rev. Divine with his Popish canonicals
reasons for keeping up this nefarious system. walked to the church; but fie! I
enlightened
inhabit-
The bombardment of Barcelona commenced at ants of Chawleigh, only two were found to do ho-
eleven on the morning of the 3d, lasted all the
order of. t e Bishop, and the inhabitants expect soon
day, and on the evening of the 4th inst. the to see lighted tapers on the altar.—Exeter Paper.
town capitulated. Next morning the troops STATE OF TRADE IN PAISLEY.—Work of all kinds
entered the
place. It appears that in the course continues
to get every day more difficult to be ob-
of the first day (the 3d) 520 bombs were thrown tained in this quarter, and the unceasing destitution
into the town, but no particulars are given of the of the mass of the population beggars all description.
damage done, or the number of persons killed. As a proof of this, the numbers on the relief list for
Some of the Liberal papers, and the Carlist the week ending the 22d of November was 8,626
week ending the 29th of November.—males, 1,594,
Quotidienne
, blame the REGENT for having re- dependents, 4,698-6 292 ; females 1 520 de endents,
,
course to this extremity. Though their remarks 1,748-3,268; total, 9,560. Increase,' 13
934. While
are in general so extravagant and so unjustifiable the numbers of the destitute are thus rapidly
aug-
as to merit only contempt, we however give a menting to the highest amount of last year, we are
few extracts, to gratify the curiosity of our truly sorry to convey the alarming intelligence that
readers. The Quotidienne infers that ESPARTERO the funds at the disposal of the relief committee are
was induced by the British Ambassador to born- ab out exhausted, and that they have already run
themselves so deeply in debt to preserve the peace and
bard Barcelona, in order that the only manufac- lives Spain of the inhabitants that it is now a serious ques-
taring town in
might beexterminated:— tion with the members whether or not they will con-
The explanation of Espartero's implacable conduct tinue their services a day longer.—Glasgow paper.
may probably be found (says this rabid journal) in We are glad to find that the London and Birming-
certain rumours afloat at Madrid, and which appear ham Railway Company have adopted the recom-
exceedingly likely. According to a letter in the ' mendation of the Jury who sat upon the body of the
Courrier de la Gironde, it was stated at Madrid that, unfortunate Mrs. Bye, and placed a luggage van be-
Mr. Aston had urged the Governinent to display the tween the tender and the first passenger carriage in
greatest severity against Barcelona, and even to de- their different trains by which it is hoped that fatal
stroy that town, if it darei to resist. We can con- consequences may be prevented from attending acci-
ccive the great interest of England to exterminate the , dents for the future.

PRUSSIAN FUNDS. .BERLIN, Dec. &
Bills.
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. lO4 4 Money
103%
Prussian English BoncN, IMO, 4 per cent 23 1 2
Exchange on London
---. 6 24%
Prussian State Gazette. Dec. 9.