The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 184 b.

It would Almost seem as if the Spanish. Chambers
only met to vote an
,answer to the Speech from the
Throne. Sixteen days has the Chamber of Deputies
wasted in the discussion of an address, of which only
six paragraphs were voted on the sth inst.—the date
of the last Madrid Journals. Heaven only knows
when the real business of the Session will be-
gin, if the Deputies be allowed to indulge i❑
endlessstirades upon all manner of subjects in the discus-
sion of such matters as an address in answer to the
Speech from the Throne. We are aware that the forms
of preparing and voting addresses in the French, Spa-
nish, and Portuguese Chambers, do not admit of the
expedition observable in such proceedings in the British
Parliament ; but to waste the best part of a Legisla-
tive Session• in getting through them, is worse
than ritlindous—it is, us concerns the nation,
criminal in a very high degree. Good laws, not frothy
declamations, are wanted in Spain. Deputies, instead
of legislating, do nothing but indulge in dull harangues,
with here and there a spice of personal scandal ; so that
when their colleagues are not asleep they are together
by the ears, after the most approved - bsar-garden
ashion. And so little does the Opposition know about
acting in concert, and so saving the time of the Chamber,
th•.t as many as seven amendments were proposed upon
one article of the address ! As for the debates they
have not the slightest European interest.

On the Madrid Bourse on the sth, twenty-two trans-
actions took place in the Five per Cents. for 13,350,000
rta!s at 32i for cash, and 32 1-16th 32i at 60 days ;
the Titulos proceeding from the converted foreign debt
,old for 25i at 60 clays, and the Three per Cents. for
224- and:lli at 16 and 50 days.

The reform of the Chamber of Deputies is one of
those important measures which must precede the este.-
:)lishment of a really constitutional Government in
France. With nearly one-hftlf of its • Members in the
service of the Administration, and consequently tools of
the Cabinet, and a large proportion of the remainder
candidates for official appointments, it is morally impos-
sible that it could adequately represent the political
.)pinions; feelings, and wishes of the mass of the French
people. The Chamber of Peters, as a constitutional body,
is beneath contempt. It is neither more nor less than
LIl agglomeration of professional prejudices, popular
jealousies, Court sycophancies, and Ministerial sub-
iervencieS. In the days of the old Monarchy the
King's fool was just as important a state append-
age as King Lours PHILIPPE'S lack-land Chamber
of Peers, most of whose real estates are susceptible
of an umbrella covering. It has therefore been one of
the constant endeavours of the honest Reformers of
France since the Revolution of July to purify the re-
presentation of the people. Hitherto a sort of regular
Sessional motion has been brought forward on the
iubject, of which the Chamber disposed much after
:he fashion of the English House of Commons upon Mr.
BROTHERTON'S motion against after midnight legislation.
The hero of former defeats was usually M. DE REM USAT,
ina this year the proposition was brought forward by M.
GAN NESON, who, after two days' debate, was only left
in a minority of eight-190 votes being given in favour
of the measure, and only 198, headed by the Cabinet
against it. This the liberal French papers regard as a
moral victory on the part of the Reformers, and they are
right. It is a victory, and a very important one too.
The following are the articles included in the motion of
11. GANNERON

(Art. I.—The Members of the Chamber of Deputies who are not
paid public functionaries at the time of their election, cannot be-
come so whilst they are Members of it, or for a year afterwards.
Art. 2.—Excepts from the operation of Art. I the following :
Ministers, Ambassadors and Ministers Plenipotentiary, Procuren r-
Generaux at the Court i f Cessation, Cour des Comtes, or of the
Cour Royale of Paris, Governor of the French possessions in Af-
rica, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, Governor of the
Bank of France.
Art. 3..—The interdiction declared by Art, 1 is not to apply to
Deputies If ho should resume their public functions after having
quitted them during the existence of their legislative dutics.

Art. 4.—Deputies who are paid public functionaries at the period
of their election cannot be promoted, except in the cases provided
for by Art. '2 to higher functions.
Art. s.—Declares that the following cannot be Deputies, viz.,
Procureur-General, Avocat .General, and Substitute of the Procu-
reur-General in all other Courts than those excepted by Art. 2 ;
Procureur du Roi, and Substitute of the Procureur du Roi of the
Tribunal of First Instance, Engineers of Departments, Secretary.
General, Director, Chef de Division, and Employes of the different
departments of the Ministry.

Art. 6.—The Presidents and Judges of the Tribunals of First
Instance cannot be elected as Deputies by the electoral college of
the arrondissement in which they exercise their functions.
Art. 7.--These conditions to be put into force at the period of
the next general election.

The Ministers were severally obliged to admit that
the public functionaries swamped the Liberal votes in the
Chamber. All that they contended for was that the
evil was not increasing, and therefore there was no rea-
son for giving a more independent character to the Cham-
ber by abating it. Out of four hundred and odd mem-
bers composing the Chamber, the Minister of Public
Instruction was obliged to admit that the average num-
ber of paid functionaries in the Chamber exceeded one
:nindred and fifty. The Government tools opposed the
measure, on the ground of its republican tendency.

This plea was admitted, and stamps the character of the
Chamber. The representation of the people is, there-
fore, but a sham in France.

N.
Raman, delegate of the French residents in Rio Plata, has
just addressed a petition to the two Chambers, in which he states
three important facts. " The first,' says he, " consists in the case
with which Admiral Massien de Chuval has eluded all explana-
tions which the Government of the Uruguay asked of him, in the
audience preceding his departure for Rio Janeiro, with respect to'
the engagements entered int., by France to protect the Republic of
the Uruguay. The second is the solemn declaration made on the
30th of October last by the Government of the Uruguay, to the
Legislative Chambers of this country, of the certainty which it had
acquired of the total violation of the promises which the French
Government had made to the Minister of the Uruguay at Paris,
with respect to the pacification of the bank of La Plata.
Lastly, the third, the Importance of which you will all appreciate,
consists in the peremptory order which has just been sent to the
representatives of that republic at .Paris, to break clean intercourse
with the French Government, if the latter does not fulfil its pro_
mires in as efficacious and prompt a manner, as its honour and its
interest require."

We do not doubt that the petition whieh interests ten thousand
of our countrymen settled on the left bank of La Plata, will excite
ail the attention of the Chambers.—Canstitutionnel.

The Phare of Bayonne, in quoting a letter from Bilboa sayst
"The political chief of that town bas taken a measure which naa
excited general astonishment. On the arrival of despatches from
Madrid he went, accompanied by officers of the public force, to the
hotel where the Committee of Economy, which had been substi-
tuted for the Fora! Deputation, held its sittings—communicated to
it an order for its immediate dissolution and then closing the
room, carried away the key. We have not learned the motives
fur this step. The Committee was composed entirely of persons
belonging to the Exaltados."

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sistance—the legitimate assistance—of the people, who, by peace.
ably persevering, will become irresistible. Moral courage—moral
perseverance for a little time, and victory is Ours."
• The experience of the last twelve years confirms this
truth. The voice of the people subdued even the strong
rotten-borough Parliament, and caused the borough-
mongers, and the great patrons of class-legislation, for a
time to desert their seats. They now find they were
betrayed. The Reform Bill was mutilated, every mea-
sure in accordancewith its original spirit was resisted by
the Tories in both Houses, and at the present moment
they are now stronger, (if we reckon by figures) than
they were in the eventful autumn of 1830. The people,
however, will not be deceived a second time.
The mad resistance —to the repeal, nay, even
to the modification, of the Provision-laws has roused
them to action, and the MIKE and the PREMIERIViII find
that, as in the case of Catholic Emancipation and Par-
liamentary Reform, resistance to the redress of griev-
i antes has only increased the ratio of demand ; and that
a measure which would hare been received even three
short years ago with gratitude, will now be rejected with
indignant contempt, Tory statesmen cannot understand
the character of the British nation, and, while resisting
the general will, are happily, under the blessing of Pro-
vidence, made the iustrutnents of their own defeat. We
write not without good authority. Let Sir ROBERT PEEL
direct his Secretary to glance - at the country papers
brought by this morning's post (some fifty now. lie before
us), and he will find that we do not exaggerate the im-
portance of the movement. For the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet's convenience, we have selected a few extracts,
which are recommended to his especial attention, under
the head of " Public Opinion."

Polish Bonds
157
New licket
It 84
Anglo..ihmish Loan, 3 per Cent. 7BU 7814
N..twegiari L.an, 1834, 4 per 1O.:14
Spansh, New 5 per Cents Bl4
EXCHANGE.% ON LONDON.
lisrsevao, Fen. £l.--13 N.—Two months, 13 61.
Peranseustun, JAN. 23.—Two months, 3N% pence.
sTocKnowt, Fsa. I.—Sersinty.five days, 12. 14.
VIENNA, Frs. I.—Three months. U. 39

M FA OF
t; bitt ptriton.

" Who runs may read.'

Wheat. Grain. Flour.
Imports
Exports
In bond on Jan. 1, 1842... 133,596 20,555 13,194
The consumption of meat in Paris, during the last month, was
6,724 exit), 1.471 cows, 4.568 calves, and 39,128 sheep, being an
increase over January, 1841, of 492 oxen, and 420 sheep, but a
diminution of 713 cows, and 939 calves.
The k'ing of Prussia has increased his annual donation of
10,000 thalers, for the completion of the Cathedral of Cologne, to
50,000 thalers, about 200,000 f.
A Belli') letter says that the King of Holland will be cne of the
sponsors of thie young Princess Marianne of Prussia, and his grand.
child. His M(ajesty will make magnificent presents on this occasion.
The Empei-or of Austria has reduced the sixteen quarterings of
the nobility hitherto required for obtaining the office of Chamber-
lain to 12 ; viz., eight Vie paternal, and four in the maternal line.
We learn from Athens that the Greek Minister of the Interior
has addressed a circular to the Governors of provinces and provin-
cial councils, desiring that information may be sent him concerning,
the practicability of establishing large lines of roads from different
portions of the Greek territory to others, so as to afford easy com-
munications throughout t'ne kingdom.
The St. Petersburg!) papers publish an ukase, dated 6th ult.,
addressed to the Synod and Directing Senate, whereby the Catholic
and Greek clergy, and all the convents in the Northern Govern-
ments, are divested of their lands and estates, which are placed
under the management of the Minister of the Domains ; the clergy
and the monks being indemnified by fixed salaries and allosances.
The convents and churches of these provinces were richly en-
dowed, and they lose a large portion of their incomes by the new
measure.

Advice 'from Barcelona of the 4th instant state that bands of
robbers and rebels had re.appeared on various points of Catalonia.
The Cabecilla Felip had earried off the Alcalde and a rich proprie-
tor of SeVera, for whose ransom 1,500 ounces (5,0001.) had been
demanded, and a stage coach bad been plundered near Panadilla.
ISt the district of the Seu d'Urgel one et those bands had been
completely destroyed by the inhabitants.
PAILS EA?< XIV TPA Mr.
In the House of Lords last night, all the law Lords present, and
the Earl of Aberdeen, supported by the legal authorities he had
consulted, united in declaring, as Lord Brougtatn had stated, that
there is no authority or machinery for giving up or bringing to
trial the negroes who had carried the Creole into Nassau. Alter this
satisfactory opinion, Lord Brougham declined to press for the cor-
respondence on the subject.
Some routine business was transacted, and their Lordships ad-
journed.
In the Commons an immense number of petitions were pre-
sented against the Corn.laws.
A new writ was issued for South Salop, in the room of the Earl
of Darlington, now Duke of Cleveland.
In reply to Mr. Hutt, Sir Peel stated that the Stade Duties
were now the subject of a negotiation with Hanover,
In reply to Mr. Grantley Berkeley, Lord Stanley admitted that
the price of growing sugar in Demerara was mote than it would
sell for ; and the Noble Lord read the planters a lecture as to the
modeormanaging their estates, as if he were inclined to include
in the duties of a Colonial Secretary the task of administering gen.
tlemen's property.
Mr. Gladstone, in reply to Mr. Labouchere, intimated that it
was doubtful whether his proposition to levy a duty of 3s. per
quarter on wheat imported into Canada, would be carried into effect.
Mr, Roebuck is to bring the constitutional question involved in
this duty under the notice of the House.
Sir R. Peel, in reply to Mr. Labouchere, stated that he did not
man to continue the prohibition on importing flour into Ireland.
The House, for the remainder of theevening, discussed the Corn.
law, and we have elsewhere noticed the principal speeches and the
result of the debate,

PUBLIC OPIAIXON.
The Timm states, that if the members of the Anti. Corn.law
Conference had been really solicitous for the interest of the poorer
classes, they would not have chosen Mr. Villiers as their Parlia-
mentary leader, observing, " Truly if these gentlemen were
really SO anxious that the spare diet of the poor should be in.
creased, their comforts multiplied, their independence secured, it
might have been expected that they would haVe betaken them.
selves to some party rather lass identified with their gruel, close
cells, galling restrictions, and all the other enormities of the red-
brick Bastiles, than the Hon. Member whom they have selected, or
who has selected himself, to be their advocate."
The Herald says, that the resolution which Lord John Russell
moves to-night in the House of Commons is, after all, a clumsy
affair; and that " there is about as much lionegy in the Noble
utensil' making this motion, as there is in the Universal Con.
fusion Conference, at the shrill squeak of whose penny trumpets
the walls of Parliament are to fall down, in imitation pi the walls
of Jericho, at the blasphemous suggestion of a divine of the Esta.
blished Church attempting to wheedle or to purchase the co-opera-
tion of the Chartists."
The Chronicle does not anticipate any serious divisions among the
Tories from Sir Robert Peel's Corn-law Bill, but is of opinion that
the Squires will growl and yield, and Sir Robert will early his
measure, and retain oflice. "We should grieve," adds our Con.
temporary, "if we thought it would turn out otherwise:"—
" The Turning out the Tory Ministry will be useless unless we
break down the Tory party at the same time. And Sir Robert
Peel is doing this so rapidly and so zealously--he is working so hard
and so saccestfulty to discredit his party and restore it to its ancient
hold on the hatred of the country, that we trust nothing may
occur to stop him in his career until he has completely fulfilled his
mission."

The Advertiser expresses itself strongly of opinion that such a
speech as Sir Robert Peel's on the Corn-laws, never before dis.
graced the precincts of Parliament. " Flagitious in its funda-
mental falsehood, nothing ever approached the tissue of distortion
involving its merest elements. From beginning to end it was
either the invocation of lies, or the invocation of truth tortured to
lies—it was either presumption or cunning—either subterfuge or
contradiction."
The Post denies that Continental labourers, owing to the low
price of provisions, are better off' than British labourers ; and pro.
coeds to remark :—" Perhaps they do not suffer such pinching
reverses as our manufacturing labourers in some places are occa.
sionally. made subject to; but let them once be cursed with such a
manufacturing system as ours, and with masters so destitute of
every honourable and affectionate sentiment, as the puffed-up swag.
gerers of the Anti-Corn.law League appear to be, and then they
cannot fail to know the evils which we suffer, though they may
not achieve the good which we enjoy."
The Scotsman thus expresses itself on the subject of Sir Robert
Peel's Corn.law scheme :—" The bubble has at last burst! Peel
has out-peeled himself; and the most precious piece of humbug
ever offered to a suffering and insulted people now stands con-
fessed! The new Corn-bill, wrapt from its birth in such studied
mystery, and ushered in with such pomp and pretension, is neither
less nor more than the old Bill, with scarcely even the semblance
of a modification ! We doubt if the annals of imposture present so
impudent a delusion as the fourteen quacks, who have been per-
mitted for our sins to rule us, have attempted to palm upon the
British nation. We knew that the oligarchs had filled Parliament
with their creatures by dint of money, and that Peet was merely
their tool; but we did not believe that the tool would make himself
so cheap, or that his masters would display their rower so nakedly,
as he and they have done. The Landlords' Parliament is written
in every line of Wednesday's proreedioßs !"
The following is the opinion of the Bolton Free Press on Sir
Robert Peel's Com.law speech :--" Let the people of Englhnd re_
member that the 'boon ' now offered them, in Peel's new sliding
scale,' which we feel confident they will spurn with the contempt
and indignation it deserves—let them remember that this precious

pa
anndiedlol4wii-twheli,gigiiie:den-`choomoin um' is gh ---
itvee exemplary patience with whichn in acknowledgment of their
severe, protracted, and still unmitigated sufferings, and accom-
son
these sufferings have been borne! As to the speech in which the
proposed modification of the starvation-law is developed, we must
confess that we have read it with mingled feelings of pity, indigna-

'says „....... We are confident the
ee
Nstjo fw. Peel
lion, and disgust."
The Glasgow Saturday Post
:--
People o
Government.pl e w i will
Meetings e
everywhere and instantly take place
hieneic o n disgusted
dm il a tfiouarti ii,:otohhifieeriesrudP
reprobation,crohf
opmrotsheaal ssotnolrre should
hh
is the time for meetings and for petitions, and by this day week we
hope being able to record a general burst of popular indignation
on the contempt Which has just been
terings and patienvz of the people."
The following is from the Staffordshire Examiner:—" The Tory
measure is disclosed, and stands revealed to all eyes as an unparal-
leled insult and mockery. It was received with shouts of derisive
laughter by the Opposition in Parliament, and has subsequently
encountered the indignant yells of the stat ring millions without—
the millions who, with patience and fortitude, for which even
their Queen was instructed to commend them, had sustained the
deepest sufferings, whilst the Premier took ksifir vßo.mio,enetlli,ss
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g,ht forth, The sufferings and
endurance of the people have been most infamously trifled with ;
law speech, remarks; "The tact is, the Tories arc as much dis-
appointed, and infinitely more alarmed, than the Whigs, because
they see—it is even admitted by the Times—that the sliding scale
must eventuate in a fixed duty at last. They are beginning already
to say they are sold—that Peel, by diminishing the duties so inor-
dinately, has made the maximum Twenty—a stepping-stone to the
fixed duty of Ten."
The Leeds Times observes of Sir Robert Peel's speeeh__tc The
new scheme is such as was to have been expected from the man by
whom it was brought forward. It is neither more nor less than a
direct insult to the people. It is a bitter mockery from beginning
to end ; and can only aggravate the wounds which it was intended
boonle.s'tay, and
l,lt cannot tairtoi attic up the bUtisn4. bnitiiny and inciig-
1
nation of the poop' ~
•-•

A Tory Paper states, that " the Anti-Corn-law agi-
inors at Birmingham had a meeting on Thursday even-
, at which it was agreed to make a grand demonstra-
tion against the Government plan for importation of corn,
at a public meeting, when the physical force of the work-
men is to be exhibited." Our Tory Contemporary need
not take fright at the expression "physical force," for
Sir Robert Peel has taken good care that the operative
classes shall have little enough of such force left; and that,
•
if they exhibit anything, it shall be that physical weakness
which results from months of starvation and oppression.
Sir Robert Peel's late speech on the Corn-law griev-
ance, and his proposed remedy fur that grievance, pre-
sent such a marked contrast to each other, as to be abso-
lutely ridiculous. In his speech, the Tamworth. Quack.
acknoWledges that John Bull's malady is a serious—not
to say. an " awful"—one ; that his condition is such as
requires the gentlest and most, careful management ;
that he is languid, exhausted, feverish, and cannot bear
any rough or vigorous medicine ; and then--by way of
showing how perfectly in keeping his practice is with.
his professions—ie proceeds to administer a dose, which
has the immediate effect of throwing his debilitated
patient into strong convulsions ! He tells us that John
requiresßull b kept quiet, and that we must trust to
tune fur his i,fe t
cure ; and then throws him into
toe r
such a paroxysm of-agitation, that the helpless invalid
scarcely knows whether he is standing on his head or his
heels ! Is this the language of exaggeration ? Let the
present convulsed state of the country answer fir us.
Linder the pretext of soothing the irritation of his
patient, the Tinnworth Quack has increased his irritation
tenfold. Because he stands in need of repose, he has
galvanized him ! And this is the result of four months'
attentive consideration of John Bull's case ! Sir Robert
Peel need not have taken so much trouble, for far less
time would have sufficod to have shown himself the
thorough Quack.

• riMMZGAT.
The French Government has sustained a moral defeat upon M
Ganneron's proposition for exeuding the emplves from the Cham.
bee of Deputies. After a debate of two days, the proposition was
only rejected by a Ministerial majority of eight votes! The Oppo.
sition may well regard such a result as a triumph.
The following is a tablo of the imports and exports of wheat, grab:,
and flour, in France for the last year; the quantities being reckoned
in metrical quintals MI lbs.) :--

The following is from the Devonport Telegraph :—" The past
career of Sir Robert Peel gives no encouragement to the hopes of
consistency in him for the future. The man whose political life
has been one series of concessions to his enemies; of abandonment
of his most loudly vaunted principles to the exigencies of the mo-
ment, who has Hover defended a single cause that he did not at
last betray, is not the man in whom the thorough Tories can have
faith in such times as these, and the faith they have hitherto had in
him, the events of the past week prove to have been most terribly
shaken."

The Falmouth Packet says :—" Sir Robert Peel, who is the son
of a cotton-manufacturer, has deserted his ' order' to become the
parvenu of the oligarchy, and well he is doing the duties of his
vocation. After five months' consideration he has propounded a
scheme for the benefit of his friends, which Mr. Cobden justly
denounced as an ir.sult to the suffering people of this country. We
hope to see the people rouse themselves, and with one heart and
one voice demand Justice! Justice! Justice! which has been too
long denied them.
The Welshman comments as follows on the Tory Premier's Corn_
law project The Ministerial measure propounded by our plau.
sible Premier last Wednesday appears prima facie to be little more
than a juggle. The Conservatives seem to have had the face to at,
tempt to palm on the suffering people of the country, a paltry pet-
tifogging plan—a were claptrap expedient for getting rid of some
slight blemishes without eradicating the causes which have pro.
duced them. This will not do."
The .81ackburn Gazette says of the new Tory Corn.law scheme
This measure is a disgrace to the Conservatives, and they will
find it so before the country has done with it; and Sir Robert
Peel has prov. d that he has neither the moral courage to follow
the dictates of his owu mind, nor to swing loose from a party who
hate him for his deception of 1829; yet are afraid to Over their
interests frcm his keeping. Humiliating in the extreme is such a
position to both parties, especially to the Premier."
We take the folloWing from the Manchester Guardian :—" It
is impossible for any one who feels a proper degree of sympathy fur
the labouring class, to read, without disgust, the almost heatless
aqusions which Sir Robert Petl, in his speech of Wednesday even-
ing, made to the patience with which the great body of the people
have endured the sufferings to which the unfeeling and ignorant
policy of our landed aristocracy have so long subjected them.
When it is considered that he was virtually making a mockery of
their sufferings, by his statement that the measur,:s for which they
bad waited so patiently would not relieve them at all, his hollow
compliments and honied phrases can be construed into little else
than an Insult to the labouring population."
oxisralatcE.

The first gold coined in England was in the year 1:334.
At Bradford last week trade was moderate, as also at Failsworth
and Halifax ; at Huddersfield, Leeds, and Leicester dullness pre.
wails ; Manchester is inure gloomy ; the Oldham cotton trade pre-
carious ; and at Rochdale want of animation exists in the market.
.1161MICUZITUR.A.M.
In Covent.garden market on Saturday, a supply of new hot.
house grapes, grown in pots, sold at 20s. to 235. per lb.—a proof of
the progress of horticultural skill and improvement.

E I.ECTZONEE Li INC?.
The election of a Member for Dubhn University, in the place of
the Right Hon. (nov.. Baron) Laroy, took place last Friday,
when Mr. Joseph Devonsher Jackson, the Solicitor.Gebieral, was
elected without opposition.

LICCLESIASTICAL.
St. Alban's Abbey is about to be converted into a Cathedral : it
will be removed out of the diocese of London into that of Roches.
ter, and the Prelate of this latter place will take up his residence in
the Abbey.town.

ir .11V AND MIX: 'MARY.
A reinforcement of 5,000 troops is about to embark for India
without delay; and a similar augmentation of seamen and marinas
has been pronounced by Sir Win. Parker to be necessary for the
China expedition.
.ta'X'll:R.ll.l7.3r AND screavTrpre.
At Durham Cathedral, workmen are now cleaning out, under-
neath the Chapter Library, what appears to have been anciently a
prison. Names are scrawled on the walls, some with dates as
early as 1670, others as recent as 1805- Rings are found fixed in
the floor and roof, and a quantity of human bones taken out. It
ferms a strong-built cell, supported by pillars.