The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-20 00:00:00

of from fifteen to twenty percent., but such was
the unanimity of the Chamber in repelling
it, that, the motion had to be withdrawn.
The citizens were in raptures with the firmness
displayed by the REGENT in the case of M.
SALVANDY, and talked with seeming pleasure of
a probable rupture with France.
The Five per Cent. Actives were on the 11th
at 33 per cent. cash.

The whole of the French Journals of Tuesday
have reached us, but there is nothing in their
contents of much interest. On that day the
Court of Peers condemned the responsible Editor
of the Siecle to one month's imprisonment and a
fine of ten thousand francs, for an exceedingly
temperate article, written and avowed by M.
CHAMBOLLE, a member of the Chamber of
Deputies, reflecting on the indecent attacks of the
Peers upon the liberty of the Press. As the Siecle
is a supporter of the dynasty of July, this act of
persecution may serve for a warning to the
ultra-Liberal Journals. Compared with the
present enslaved condition of the Press of
France, the German Censorship may be re-
garded as an encouragement to the licen-
tiousness of public writers. Wherefore, then,
does not the French Press, since it can-
not shake off the crushing nightmare of
the Peerage and the September laws, seek
refuge in demanding the restoration of the Cen-
sorship ? Why does it not implore chains to es-
cape the scorpion 'tortures to which every lordly
apostate in the State hospital of incurables
now dooms it at his pleasure ? While we pity
we almost despise the Press of France. When
an ally is to be abused, how loftily it
elevates its crest; but what a contempti-
ble figure it cuts when some domestic
tyrant places his iron heel upon its head! If
the French Journals were not traitors to each
other, they would simultaneously cease to appear,
and leave all France without an organ of
opinion, rather than submit to the tyranny of
those contemptible tools of IGovernment—the
members of the French Peerage.

The Breton of Nantes contains an account of a de-
structive fire which broke out in that city, at ten o'clock
on the night of the 11th inst., on the premises of an ar-
mourer named Chenard, situated near the Fosse. At
eleven o'clock at night, by which time the fire had made
considerable progress, about eight pounds of gunpowder
which were in the warehouse exploded, but without
causing any additional injury. The fire was now rag-
ing with great fury, for the evening was so cold that very
few persons were in the streets to give assistance, and the
cries of " fire" were scarcely heard at a distance. By the
time, however, that the flames had communicated with
the adjoining warehouses, which were filled with colo-
nial produce, a considefable crowd, able and willing to
render assistance, had collected together, and the firemen
with their engines were on the spot, with a body of mili-
tary, to assist in extinguishing the fire and to maintain
order. Bales of cotton, bags of sugar and coffee, and
casks of wine and spirits, were removed with all possible
promptitude, but unfortunately the fire continued to
rage and to destroy a vast amount of property. The
danger to the Rue de Biaise becoming imminent, the
inhabitants began to remove their effects, many of which
were thrown out of window, and several persons leaped
out upon matresses which were placed in the street to
break their fall. One woman resolved to perish in the
flames rather than abandon her property, and obstinately
resisted all the entreaties of the people to leave her most
perilous situation. At length a ladder was raised to the
window by two gendarmes, and she was torn away just
as the flames were about to destroy her. The Prefect, the
Mayor, and other municipal authorities, were on the spot,
rendering the most zealous and judicious assistance, which
was the case also with the military. By half-past two
in the morning, the fire had extended to several other
warehouses, and was still raging furiously, although the
firemen, notwithstanding the intensity of the cold,
worked with unceasing zeal, and the engines were iu
good order. At four o'clock they had succeeded in pre-
venting the further progress of the flames, but the fire
still raged in all the buildings which it had attacked. By
nine in the morning, the fire was nearly got under, and,
fortunately, no loss of life, or any very serious acci-
dents, accompanied the vast destruction of property
which had taken place. The Breton states that the
warehouses which were attacked formed a large square,
surrounded by sheds, and that it is impossible to esti-
mate the loss of property at less than six or seven hun-
dred thousand francs. Great as this calamity is, how-
ever, it is almost astonishing that it was not more
extensive, for immediately adjoining the quarter in which
the fire raged, were immense timber-yards and ware-
' houses filled with combustible materials.

The Archbishop of Paris has published a pastoral
letter, ordering a general collection to be made in all the
churches of his diocese, for the raising of a fund to pur-
chase the buildings of the Carmelite convent, Rue de
Vaugirard, for purposes connected with the diocese.
The Prefect of the Seine has obtained a vote from the
Municipal Council for the erection of a palace for the
Archhishop of _Paris on the Quai Napoleon, opposite to
the Hotel de Ville. The plan has been submitted to the
Minister of Public Worship, and the execution of it is
to be intrusted to Messrs. Lassus and Violet Leduc, the
architects. The building will harmonise in style with
the church of Notro Dame, and be in accordance with
the design for improving this quarter of the city.
having given permission for
eNuasnucayl,midnight mass in the church
th eTpheerfmoramg
of St. Epore, on Christmas Eve, it was attended by a
iashtrcaeteosf othf
crowd, who committed the irregularities which have but
too frequently disgraced this solemnity. The police,
when somewhat irritated by what had taken place, ob-
served that Mr. C. Beales, a young Englishman, about
eighteen rears of age, the son of a gentleman of great
respectability at Cambridge, was sitting with his cap on.
The officers took it off, and in attempting to put it into
the hands of the wearer, it fell to the ground. This gave
rise to an altercation which ended in the arrest of Mr.
Beales, and his being brought before the Correctional
Tribunal of the town on tho 31st ult. Mr. C. Beale's
defence was, that he entered the church out of curiosity
to see the ceremony, and, so little disposed was he to dis-
turb it, or commit any offence, that he placed himself near
the door, uncovered, and among a party of the gendarmes
on duty ; but observing that they wore their hats, and
feeling cold in his head, he conceived that he too might
put on his cap. He declared that, if they had told him
civilly to take it off, instead of rudely throwing it un-
warned on the ground, he should have obeye. The
Court, however, fined him 200 f.
Several Apposition papers in the departments have been
recently given up, in consequence, it is said, of the Royal
Courts confining the privilege of publishing judicial ad-
vertisements only to the Ministerial journals. A Minis-
terial paper, the Presse of Versailles, has also ceased to
appear.
On the 10th instant the house of the porter at the
powder-magazine of Marseilles was destroyed by an ex-
plosion. It was one storey high, and was completely
knocked to "'pieces by the force of only six pounds of
powder, which became accidentally ignited within it.
i‘lost fortunately no injury was done to the central maga-
zine, which was quite eloSe at hand, but detached, or
otherwise the consequences might have been more disas-
trous. The wife and daughter of the porter were so
severely injured that their lives are despaired of. It
appears that, contrary to the rule prescribed to him, he
had allowed his wife and daughter to aid him in taking
powder out of the magazine, and that these females were
impriidently making up the powder into packets while
they bad chaufferettes wider their feet. Some of the
powder falling upon one of the chaufferettes caused the
explosion.
M. Jules de Joly, architect of the Chamber of Depu-
ties, has just received from the Emperor of Russia ta,
splendid ring set in brilliants, in testimony of the satis-
faction of his Majesty at M. de Joly's work descriptive
of that edifice:
The .journal de Frankfort states that Princess Mary
of Prussia, youngest daughter of Prince William, and
just betrothed to the Prince Royal of Bavaria, has boon
suddenly attacked with the measles, and compelled to
keep her bed by a violent fever.
The Phare of Bayonne states that the Duke of San
Carlos, who was accused of participation in the late
movement in Spain, has succeeded in crossing the French
frontier, and has arrived at that place
Prince Paul Esterhazy set out from Vienna, for Lon-
don, on the 9th inst. His Excellency is charged with
the special compliments of the Emperor of Austria to her
Britannic Majesty, on the birth of the Prince of Wales.
It was affirmed to-day that Cabrera was to arrive at
Paris this afternoon. Russian
This morning there was a great bustle at the
Legation, and it was said that instructions had arrived
which were not without importance for the Russians re-
ria re-
siding at Paris. The Austrian Ambassador had a pretty
long conference this morning with Lord Cowley. _
The Tonnirre steamer which was sent to Mahon to
effect the salvage of the Brandon, has returned the crew to Tou-
lon. It has only been able to bring back ,
vessel is totally lost. We learn with pleasure, and
think it our duty to state, that the Spanish troops which
were in the neighbourhood of the place, when the vessel
was wrecked, behaved with great hospitality to our
countrymen. The crew of the Brandon were perfectly
well received on shore.—Commerce.
/34I'TBSE-134,f1ig, TUESDAY, JANT. 18.
First kitg.hest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price.
rPrice Pus 117 90 . 118
mob 5, per Cants ii e• 1174,9,0 "' jay 25 ":
107 a .... 107 25
4% per Cents. ...... Ivl.- '''..% ''.. lo? 20 ..... 102 21 .... 102 '.O
4 per Cents ....ft.', 102
~,,4v "' 78 el 78 90 "' 79 95
8 pet Cents. ............ 78 Yu "' —".
711 35 79 45
"mu .. 79 50 ... •••3375
Sank of France .... , .. •1300 ...51175 ..0340 ""c25
Witte Bank I.ooof. Sharer 1093 •••"6 —19'25 ' --i;
Belgian sank ~ ........ A 73 ... 175 .. 772 50 ... 77,
Neve '";:* 165 wlegs —1025 ...1025
/Mean 5 per Cent 5.........-" irialA .„ 104% ... 1044 .. 1041§4
a per conts. 163fi ... 103,t, ... 105ri ... log
3 pet Cents ...„,..... 72 t 3... Ig 23 ..• 7g 23 .• •72 28
t
Spanish Active ...... ... ........ 211 "' 155 ..., 25
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2,64
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Portugueses percents. ... 21 ••• ', "• m o.*
Dutch 2% per Cent 5..,,,..,,, /.2,,.. ~. it..,°‘ ..• 107 in i 52
Neapolitan ....... .. ..... N.H... 107 eu -. 1`,,,,Th., "' to ''' iinalniCi
R0eutu........................ 104 ... ''''',. N. .., .".74
RAILWAY SHANE&
Versailles, R. B. .......... 337 50 .. 340 ... 337 50 ... MO
4Ln.......... 205 9,5 .. 208 25 .. 200 25 ... 2011 25
gown ••••••••fr,"”a”,, ass ... 485 N. 485 ... 483
Orleans . ;.... '"" .15 bl 5 N. M 5 pp. 315
............. .. ...
Straeburer9/We,.. —",-- gao ~, 230 ... 2,Pi 75 .. W 3 75

It is announced. that Lard Ashburton_ is to
leave London on the. 28tk to remain- three
months at liVa*hiegton, then to visit Philadel-

phia, and return to England about the end of'
July. This is a nice arrangement for a party of'
pleasure. It looks very little like business.
How can Lord Ashburton and the Tories tell
whether he may transact all the affairs, for
which he is going to Washington, in three
weeks or six months? Is he to stay three
months at Washington, and then travel into
Pennsylvania, whether the American Govern-
ment will negotiate with him or not? Such a
nice arrangement, so suitable to enable the
Noble Lord to visit his transatlantic possessions,
seems very like a nefarious job. Lord Ashbur-
ton is to visit America at the expense of the
country.

PROJECTED ADDRESS OF THE
ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—The leading Ministerial organ protests
it was not he; it was " the matronly." It is
hard to settle such differences ; the probability
being, there was a little of both. One thing
is clear; that jealousies are felt in one or
more portions of the Tory camp, at the visit
of the King of Prussia. And a single word in
the protest alluded to, is decisive of the reasons
why. An error is dreaded somewhere, which is
to consist in taking certain events or things to
" imply a political predilection for Prussian opi-
nions on matters of commerce and administration."
And as nobody supposes the danger of anti-libe-
ral opinions on commerce to be the subject of
alarm, it. must needs be the danger of liberal.
Suppose then the Anti-Cern-law League or a
delegation from them, were to present themselves
to the King of Prussia and to say—
" Persuaded that your Majesty will lose no
opportunity of becoming acquainted with the pro-
gress of opinion in the country which you visit,
the representatives of a considerable portion of
the commercial classes in Great Britain, present
themselves as the advocates of principles which
your Majesty will assuredly not hear from the
' administrators of the government."
" Seeing in your Majesty the sovereign of a
foreign state, they are conscious that as citizens
of a state which is foreign in respect of your Ma-
jesty's dominions, they are bound to advance no
arguments but those in which they believe the in-
terests of all independent countries to be equally
concerned."
" What they would announce as the belief of
the commercial classes of Great Britain, or such
portions of them as they represent, is that no
commodity is ever created in one country, when
it might have been obtained at a cheaper rate
from another country through the intervention
of foreign commerce, without incurring a na-
tional or aggregate loss, equal to the ,difference
of price concerned."
" They know how far they are from the pro-
bability of seeing a government in their own
country, by which this arithmetical truth shall
be admitted. But they do not despair of gaining
supporters in other countries, where the frame
and organization of the government have been
less expressly directed to the suppression of the
principle."
" The ground on which the remonstrants rest
their conviction of the fallacy which now go-
verns nations, is that there has been an over-
looking of one of the parties concerned. Every
consumer who gives three shillings to a
home fabric, for what he might have ob-
tained through foreign trade for two, takes
the third shilling from the custom of some honest
trader, to whom it would have been precisely as
beneficial as to the dishonest. This honest
trader, is the man who has been overlooked.
And, setting off his loss against the other trader's
gain, the final result is that the consumer gets
nothing for his shilling, instead of what he might
have had for it from the honest trader. It mat-
ters not within what circle, national, colonial, or
federative, the folly takes its range; he who re-
jects a cheaper road by foreign commerce, courts
aggregate loss to his community, and not gain."
" The French government has invented a term
for the prosecution of this national loss. It
styles it ' conquest.' The remonstrants believe,
that it is such conquest as a cultivator would
make out of his fen or his sand, by expending
his resources on them with the consequence of
leaving uncultivated some portions of his better
soil."
" Resisting the admission, that a trade on
which there is a loss at every turn, is
.gainful to
a nation, the remonstrants equally resist the de-
lusion which has been attempted on them,under
the name of ' Reciprocity."
" They know that if a foreign government
would remove the impediments to the, introduc
tion of British commodities, at the same, time
that the home government would remove the
impediments to foreign produce, the advan-
tages to the inhabitants of their own and of
that foreign country, would on each side
be two instead of one. And they are
well aware that two governments actu-
ated by zeal for the interests of their respec-
tive nations, might employ the contemporaneous
removal of restrictions on the two sides, as a pow-
erful machine for diminishing the opposition on
both. But they absolutely and totally deny, that
the inability to obtain the gain whic would
arise from the removal of foreign restrictions, is
any reason for preserving the loss which results
from continuing those at home. They know the
mockery this may meet from the interested ,•
but they look into their ledgers, and they find
that it is true."
"In all countries, there are proverbial ex-
pressions, for that species of revenge a man
takes for his sufferings, where the consequences
of his anger fall on his own proper person. The
remonstrants believe, that when a government
shall be found sufficiently intelligent to disavow
this proverbial impolicy in the matter called of
Reciprocity,' it will take the lead among the
commercial states of Europe, and justly claim
the pre-eminence, which a man with one eye is
said to have among the blind."
" The certainty that your Majesty will not
hear anything of this nature from the govern-
ment appointed to watch their interests, is the
reason of the remonstrants taking the liberty to
introduce it in the present form. If they shall
have succeeded in their desire to involve no prin-
ciple which is not common in its operation to
independent states, they will rejoice in having
discharged a courtesy, which the position of
your esty as their nation's guest, appeared
to call for at their hands."
I should like to know, whether something of
this kind, would not be very germane to the
occasion, and be a fitting use to make, of what
the Tory vessels have permitted to leak out.
Yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, Jan. 20, 1842:

THE STRAW BEGINS TO MOVE.

SIR ROBERT PEEL SOLICITING DEPUTATIONS OF
THE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS.
NOTTINGHAM, JAN. 19.—50 at length the
Corn-law men and their Prime Minister are
coming to their senses, and are inclined to pay
some'attention to the cries of woe and misery
that echo through the land. The Midland
Counties' great meeting of merchants and manu-
facturers, inserted in The Sun at great length,
has excited the fears of Sir Robert Peel. The
tales of distress related there, and the tremen-
dous blows aimed at the sliding scale by. Mr.
Cripps (an American manufacturer now resident
in Nottingham), have made too great an impres-
sion to be disregarded by the Premier and his
supporters. Some statistical details given by,Mr.
Cripps to Mr. Mitchell, the High Sheriff of Lei.
cestershire, have been forwarded by that gentle-
man to the Duke of Rutland, who, as Lord
Lieutenant of the county, has transmitted them
to Sir Robert Peel. Sir Robert Peel has sent
for Mr. Mitchell, John Head, Esq., of Notting.
ham, and Chairman of the Derby meeting, Mr.
Biggs, of Leicester, and Mr. Cripps. The Depu-
tation saw Sir Robert on Wednesday, and de-
clared to him the evil workings of the Corn-
laws. He heard them patiently, but made no pro-
mise. The triumph is, however, great. Sir
Robert sees he can no longer trifle with the dis-
tress, and therefore he calls in the manufacturers
to consult them. The deputation were to wait
on the town Members on Wednesday night, as
well as many Anti-Corn-law Members of Par-
liament. The agitation works well. Thousands
are becoming converts to repeal. The Mayor of
Derby has convened a meeting for Monday, to
petition for a total repeal. Mr. Curtis, the Ame-
rican lecturer, is lecturing in Nottingham, to
crowded audiences, against the Corn-laws.

FLEET DITCH.—When the late improvements
on Blackfriars-bridgo were commenced, an attempt was
made at the same time to abate the nuisance in Chatham-
place, and indeed in the whole region from Printing-
' ',Ouse-square to the Temple, caused by the effluvia
*ng from that noxious stream the Fleet river. The
18gni' '‘,e, stream, from the termination of this cloaca
bed 4. , metropolis towards the river was deepened
maxima of to, ,* great expense for the escape of the Water
and covered ovi_er :nst part of London, and in order to
"Ming from the "nth- more salubrious. The attempt,
render the neighbourhoola- a, At low water now the
however, has completely fail -•nd if something is not
effluvia is absolutely insufferable,
the stagnation,
dons-to, correct the bad effects caused v, - „man beings.
the place-wilibe unfit for the habitation of ht._ ed tc,
Property ip that quarter cannot fail to be deteriora,... •
great extent, if tha nuisance continues. The City autnv
whabavetha,xealegementof the property, would
do well toionave tile floodgate, as well as the covered
way, and allnw the waxer free cOurgeas formerly.