The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

r much of a desire to deceive, as of ignorance of
the deceptions they practise. The fact, we be-
lieve, is, that the Tories have been so long accus-
tomed to speak of things as they wish to find
them, and as they think they ought to be, that
they have lost the power to discriminate between
the suggestions of their own fancy and actual
facts. They have talked themselves into a be-
lief that their laws and their rule must confer
blessings on mankind, and they therefore ascribe
all the miseries of the people to something else—
be it what it may—than to Tory enactments.

sovereignty over the seas, of which France is merely the
humble vassal."
The Journal des Debats has an article prais-
ing the Court of Peers for the justice and firm-
ness it displayed during the trial of QUENISSET
and his accomplices. It is plain from this, that
the KING has some other dirty job to bring be-
fore the Peers. One of the darling schemes of
the KING is always to ruin his tools in public
estimation by converting them to the basest
uses, It is his pride to have no public man in
France with an undamaged reputation. Bad as
his own political character is, he may safely
boast that it would be very difficult in France
to contrast it with a better.
From Madrid the latest accounts are of the 2d
inst. M. SALYANDY was still there, but had not
delivered his passports. The Spaniards were
taking the affair quite coolly, and appeared proud
of the firmness exhibited by the Regent.
The Bulletin of the Laws publishes the ratification of
the treaty of the 13th of July.
The same Bulletin contains the ordinance which raises
the Bishopric of Cambray to the rank of an Arch-
bishopric, followed by the bull on the subject in Latin,
and the French translation opposite.
The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies for draw-
ing up the address has adjourned till to-morrow, in or-
der to hear again the Minister of War and the Minister
of Marine. It is possible that it will immediately after-
wards choose its reporter.
The members of the Committee are to examine to-day
individually the papers and documents furnished by the
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
This morning M. de Butenieff, in his official costume,
paid his visits to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and -
the principle members of the diplomatic body.
We find the following statement in the Journal de la
Manche :—" We are assured that Admiral Baudin, dis-
satisfied at not being able to depart with the troops that
were promised him, has asked the King to give the com-
mand to another officer. He expects his successor, who
is Admiral Baron Mackau.
" The day before yesterday, the Superior Officer of
Engineers, who was to embark in La Gloire, set out post
for Paris, probably to inquire into the reasons of the
change in the opinion of the Ministry relative to the
affair of La Plata.
" Admiral Baudin has quitted the Hotel d'Angleterre
with his family, to reside in a private house.
" The troops embarked on board La Gloire frigate
will be landed (for the present) on Monday. The ma-
rines will be placed in the barracks, and the 50 engi-
neers will be quartered in the town, in the houses of the
citizens.—Constitutionnel.

The article in another part of the Paper, on
"Cures of Deafness," taken from Chambers'
Journal, is full of interest. That weekly pub-
lication transferred from The Sun an account of
Dr. TURNBULL'S remarkable success in curing
many diseases hitherto considered incurable, and
at the same time contained some remarks of the
Editor, in which he described these cures as
" unreal mockeries." We were rather surprised
to find in a journal which deserves the highest
praise for the good sense and intelligence which
pervade its columns, such a remark, and wil-
lingly attributed it to the weakness of human
nature and the prejudice which men who have
made a noise in the world generally entertain
against competitors. We are glad to find, how-
ever, that this was no‘ the reason for the super-
cilious treatment of the " first merely human
being who caused the deaf to hear." The Editors
of the Journal, as became honourable men, have
since instituted...a trict and laborious inquiry;
they hafe collected evidence from every quar-
ter whence they could get information, and so
convinced are they of the erroneous opinions
which they promulgated, that they have or-
dered that " not one other copy of the num-
bers containing these notices shall be given out
to the public, but that a new edition of
the numbers shall be prepared, from which
the notices in question, shall be omitted."
They further confirm their own opinions by the
evidence of persons who witnessed the operations,
and of many who were operated upon; among,
others, the late President of the Court of Ses-
sion, who says, " Dr. TURNBULL did me all the
good he ever pretended he could do, and that
benefit still continues." The profession, in ge-
neral, however, did not act so honourably, for
they either kept aloof, or threw every obstacle
in the way, affording another remarkable
proof of that cruel persecuting spirit which
would crucify every rival. But Dr. TURNBULL,
to his honour, was not to be put down or abashed
by the coldness or malignity of profes-
sional envy. He felt assured in his soul
that the discovery which he had made
would benefit mankind, and he went on rejoicing
in the spontaneous gratitude of those whom hisskill

ISLAND OF AMOY.-116: Wyld, of Charing-
cross, has published a beautiful!' little chart of
Amoy and the numerous islands in its vicinity.
It appears from the soundings given that the ap-
proach to Amoy and the channel between it and
Ko-long-soo are commodious and fit for vessels
of any size, the depth varying from nine to thir-
teen fathoms. The chart is accompanied by lists
of the British vessels engaged, and the number of
guns found on the different Chinese batteries.

THE LANDLORDS AND THE
POOR-LAW AMENDMENT ACT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR—A factitious prosperity was acquired by
ie land during the war, when corn could not
be imported, and when, notwithstanding the Ber-
lin and Milan decrees, issued against our trade,
manufactures were freely exported; our navy
protecting the seaboard,
,and, we being the only
carriers for the world, also coerced the commerce
of other countries not in amity with us. The
landlord in consequence of this factitious pros-
perity, changed his retired habits and a coun-
try-life, to indulge in ostentatious and expensive
pursuits,—the land being also required to supply
food for a rapidly-increasing population, en-
couraged by relaxation in 'the practice of the
Poor-laws, which began at this time, to fill up
the gaps in the army and navy, and to supply
food for distant armies, and the colonies which
did not grow sufficient corn. In the absence
of freedom of supply from other countries,
price, being entirely governed by demand,
bankers and capitalists freely, and without risk,
lent money to augment the produce of the land.
Agriculture was then in its palmy days, and in
high prosperity; so also was commerce, Great
Britain heir'," at that time the workshop, com-
mercial warehouse, and mart of the world. But
this prosperity of the land was factitious, not
stable ; since the capital borrowed to increase
the supply of food to the demand, in the
absence of the competition of foreign supply,
was lent in a paper circulation, and a base and
depreciated currency ; upon mortgages of estates,
which, whilst their products commanded war
prices, wore a false lustre, beguiling only the
owners, and not the wary banker, and money
lender; and has been repaid, if at all, by the
lender's foreclosing upon land bought at that
time, or upon which money was borrowed :
and these injuries and this improvidence
are now attempted to be redressed, by fraud,
committed upon : poverty, which being the
weakest, and having few, scanty, and
protected rights, is thus driven to despair ; and
also by the protection of land, to sustain the pro-
fligate and ostentatious career of the landlord.
Taxation was not complained of, till the land
became oppressed, when the landlord invaded
the estate of poverty, and not contented with
the mischief he has thus perpetrated, is sordidly
acting upon the excitable misery he has caused,
by an outcry against the Poor-law; the only
treacherous help he has left to poverty ; all the
while the landlord being the lawmaker. Thus in
aggravation of injustice, is perpetrated a gross
and fanatical delusion, that the sin may be more
easily covered and connived at; the first might
have been generously forgiven, and attributed to
ignorant and blind legislation, had not its true
character of fraud become exposed in the second.
by continuing the injustice under a base and
wicked disguise.—Your obedient servant,

relieved, and his unbought practice made whole
and happy. Having relieved thousands and
tens of thousands in the Metropolis, he
made a tour to Paris—exciting the wonder
and admiration of the faculty in a strange land.
Subsequently he went to S.otland, and visited
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, &c., in all

which places he made unwilling, because interested
converts to the simplicity and efficacy ofhis happy
discovery. If " seeing is believing "—hearing
is not less convincing; for those who but a few
minutes before were dull to the sweet magic of
sound, almost instantaneously started up, and
marvelled that a new sense was added to
their existence. Those who came doubtingly,
departed in thankfulness and sincere joy—and
many who came to scoff, at the hopeful certainty
of Dr. TURNBULL'S failure, remained to ponder,
and finally believe. This is the true triumph
of mind over matter—the test of genius and
of skill. It was under the impression of
this previous doubt and subsequent conviction,
that the Messrs. CHAMBERS laboured, and have
since acted so nobly, by the generous recantation
of their error. They have done more—they
have endeavoured to repair the damage done
by applying a prompt and cordial antidote—
thereby proving that genuine merit is not
ashamed to avow its error. Honour to such
men 1 They well deserve the homage which a
discerning public awards to their literary labours.
Dr. TURNBULL has now, we are happy to
learn, returned to London to resume his pro-
fessional practice, and we heartily wish him
all the success he so amply deserves.

The Paris Journals of Sunday continue to dis-
cuss the right of search, under the milder name
of "visitation," set up by Lords PALMERSTON
and ABERDEEN in the case of American vessels
trading on the coast of Africa. They unani-
mously espouse the side of the Americans, and
contend that no such " visitation" can be esta-
blished without the voluntary consent of the
Washington Cabinet. We yesterday published
the substance of an article which appeared in
the National of Saturday upon this question,
and we this day present our readers with the re-
marks of the Royalist Quotidienne upon it.
From the prevailing tone of the French papers,
it is quite clear that were we so mad as to go to
war with the United States to enforce a right of
search, France would be one of the very first
Powers to declare against us:—
"It is for the third time since 1830 that the French
Government cedes, to the pressing instances of England,
the right of mutual search, under the pretext of putting
an end to the abominable Slave-trade. The first conven-
tion was made the 30th November, 1831 ; the second, the
22d March, 1833 ; and the third one in 1841.
"The stipulations of this last treaty are not exactly
known. It is said that in it the Slave-trade is declared a
piracy, and that, consequently, the vessels engaged in it
which may be seized are to be adjudged by the tribunals
of the several ports to which they may he taken. But,
without searching into the mysteries of the convention
concluded by M. Guizot, let us examine into the disposi-
tion of preceding engagements.

LLO YD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 11—Wind this day at noon, southerly.
DEAL, AN. 10.—Wind W.N.W, light.—Arrd. from
the River and sld Conqueror, Madras ; Mersey, St.
Helena. Remain Iris, Ceylon; Elizabeth, Sierra Leone;
Hendrik Hudson, New York.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 10.—Wind S.—Arrd. Baboo, Stew-
art, Ceylon, sld. 20th Sept. ; Leonard, Dobdin, Cal-
cutta ; Quintin, Leitch, Bombay, sld. from St. Helena,
Nov. 25 ; Wm. Lushington, ditto ; Plumstead, Buenos
Ayres, sld. Nov. 2 ; Ellen, Jenkinson, Monravia; Com-
merce, Cumming, and Nero, Grant, Bonny; Ibaide,
Thayer, New Orleans ; Echo, Hill, New York ; Eng-
land, Johnson, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Lanca-
shire Witch, Monte Video ; John Horrocks Berbice ;
Mary, Demerara. Arrd. off, Argyle, Bombay; Port-
land, Tinamara ; Renewal, New York. The Hope, Stew-
art, hence to Ostend, was run down Bth inst., off Holy-
head, by the North America, bound to New York ;
crew saved. Shenandoah, West, bound to Philadelphia,
was not on shore on Burbo yesterday, as supposed. The
Margarets, from Rio to Venice, sailed from Pernambuco
after being repaired 9th Nov., put back leaky, and had
discharged her cargo.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 9.—Wind E. to N.E.—Arrived the
Margaret steamer, Gibraltar, left 30th ult. ; Cadiz, 31st;
Lisbon, 3d inst., with Malta and Peninsula mails ; Bra-
ganza, steamer, for Vigo. Sailed the Elizabeth, Jamaica.
OFF MILFORD, JAN. B.—Maidstone, Clark, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
Coax, JAN, B.—Arrived the Ringdove, Candlish, and
England, Grief, Monte Video ; Falcon, Day, Quebec,
leaky, with loss of rudder, having been struck by a sea.
YARMOUTH, JAN. 10.—The Eleanor, Cay, of Seaton
Sluice, 'got on the Crois Sand yesterday, is full of water,.
will become a wreck ; crew and part of the stores saved.
ITABWICII, JAN. 10.—The New Maria, Davis, of Scar-
borough, for London, with fish, was wrecked on the Long
Sand on the Bth' inst. ; two of the crew drowned,
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 10.—Arrived the Margaret,
steamer, Gibraltar.

" The right of mutual search could, according to them,
be exercised along the western coast of Africa, from
Grea Cape to the Ist degree of south latitude, and the
30th west longitude. 2d. All round the island of Mada-
gascar. And 3d. within a given radius of Cuba, Porto
Rico, and Brazil. It results from these regulations that
the English cruisers have a right of search over at least
three-fourths of our merchant shipping ; because they
are established near our colonies in Guiana, in the An-
tilles, Senegal, and Bourbon—that is to say that English
cruisers can examine at all times the state of our com-
merce on these stations.

"By an article evidently constructed for the advantage
of Great Britain, it is stipulated that the right of search
cannot be limited to any given number of vessels of
either nation. This condition renders ridiculous the
stipulations of reciprocity. It .is clear that henceforth
the police of the ocean is in the hands of the nation
which owns most cruisers ; and one can count on the
tenacity, inborn in the English, for their drawing all the
advantages possible from this police.
" France has for some time past begun to under-
stand the true motive which influences England under
its affected zeal for the suppression of the slave trade.
In 1822 M. de Chatesubriand explained their views. He
said It is because England, which possesses India, the
Cape of Good Hope, the Isle of France, the Canadas,
and the Mediterranean isles, has no need of Dominica
and the Bermudas for its shipping or sailors, that we
are to abandon Bourbon, Cayenne, Martinique, and
Guadaloupe.' Now it is no longer because England
does not want its Antilles that it seeks to immo-
late our maritime power, but because that it is neces-
sary for it in her immense Indian establishments to have
the monopoly of colonial produce. For fifteen years the
manufacturing industry of Ilindostan has been completely
sacrificed for the advantage of England, but England has
drawn from India in return for her manufactures an im-
mense and an increasing supply of tea, indigo, sugar,
opium, &c. ; so that in 1839 the exportation of Bengal
sugar alone amounted to ninety millions of kilogrammes.

A GIRL BURNT TO DEATH BY HER BRO-
TuER.,--An inquest was holden yesterday by Mr. Baker,
at the Prince Regent, Salmon's-lane, Limehouse, on the
body of Elizabeth Jane Boyce, aged nine. From the
evidence of deceased's parents, residing at No. 1,
George-street, Limehouse, it appeared that between one
and two o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, the mother
had occasion to leave tho room, in which was de-
ceased and her brother, a child four years of age.
She had barely turned her back before she heard de-
ceased scream out, " Mother, Tommy is burning me."
She immediately ran into the room, and found the de-
ceased with the whole of her clothes in flames. They
were put out, and Mr. Cummings, a surgeon, sent for,
but so serious were the burns, that she died soon after.
Before her death, she stated that her brother set fire to
her dress with a lucifer match. The Coroner said the
child who committed the act was too young for the law to
take cognizance of the offence ; and the Jury returned a
verdict of—Accidental death.
PAUPER RIOT.-011 Tuesday, about forty of
the inmates of the Worcester Union Workhouse, being
refit, e l a Christmas holiday, made their escape by
scaling the wall of the building. At night they returned,
suppressed by the police.
pro-
duced a relieving officer's order. This led to msider-
atudmmuliss4iownhilevhas
wasre onlyfused to them except they babulte
The next morning the disturbance was renewed, anti
about twenty of the most noisy were apprehended. Of
these, five or six of the ringleaders were sent to the
treadmill by the Magistrates.—Bristol Mirror.
ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.--We hear that
Sir J. Burgoyne and Mr. Pym are coming over from
Dublin to be present at some experiments on the Atmo-
spheric Railway, with Sir Frederick Smith and Pro-
fessor Barlow, at Wormwood Scrubbs. The object is
cRt oeasiaslsvi,tc,oae
yrj tuasiitnnifywehtxheteet hnDedriirnetghaeortrhoseioisrfsufficientlinliDkaaeinlikdheyo
dupoofn Kingstownstuhee-
atmospheric principle, and whether the Commissioners
of Public Works in Ireland would be justified in lendinc,
money to the Dublin and Kingstown Railway for this
purpose,—Railway Magazine.

" All the efforts of the British Government are there.
fore directed to secure the markets for this ever-increas•
ing production of Hindostan ; and it is easily seen that
in the war with China she is not scrupulous much about
the means, nor impeded by whatever obstacles may pre-
sent themselves.

" The French Ministers, since 1830, have assisted Eng-
land with a complaisance which amounts almost to
treason. They abandoned, by the convention of 1831,
this ancient rule of our existence, that the flag pro-
tects the merchandise.' We forced the rest of Europe
to follow our example, and now it is the Navigation
Act of Cromwell which has become the law of nations.

" Then France is no longer at the head of that great
European league which shed so much blood for the
liberty of the seas. She is no longer the safeguard of
neutrals—the protector of the weak. She follows mo-
destly in the wake of Great Britain, in company with
Denmark and Sweden.
"It is now the American Union which protects the
secondary powers that France and M. Guizot will not
defend ; and at the side of the Union is seen Spain—
Spain broken to pieces by revolutions, but in which
apparently lives the remembrance of its glory and former
dominion.

" Never was a more fatal blow struck against the influ-
ence, dignity, and honour of our country. The right of
search constitutes for the advantage of England a vast

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1842.