The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-24 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch.

Though there is occasionally a strong feeling
of disappointment displayed at agricultural
meetings throughout the country, in retl!rence to
the conduct of Sir R. PEEL and the results of
last session, the great majority of the discon-
tented Svlsmit.:to their fate with a degree of re-
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signatadri XarAedenial which would do honour
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to a Sco.l7444VN4,ltpse who are inclined to rebel,
and wliA.llr44:ith the Duke of RICHMOND,
that tl4:l4eittep*lirone their own idol if he
failed,CO'i**lt. 4 protect them, now tremble
at the ter l'iiiie.! r. They are fairly saddled with
the IN '-.7'1 .7. three years, and to a cer-
tainty, :, I*,,Turiff and Corn-law Bills for
the sa. •
~- no Ministry, however much
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.v, 4lsm and monopoly, would, it'
they kotilkiv'' itli t fts " a fair trial, venture to re-
peal riie*atiis uf Jai a general and important
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charaCki.:, :.`fliu ta'rmers' friends, too, have
the fearvi4ftwo ilossible, or rather certain con-
sequencesbefOrelheir eyes, a division in their
own canqii and a,.;Coalition between the Liberals
and the free-trade'Conservatives. An Opposition
consisting of nearly three hundred Members is
rather a formidable body acting against a divided
enemy, and as Sir R. PEEL repeatedly declared,
that if his supporters rejected his measures they
must also reject him, it requires no powers of di-
vination to foresee what, in such an emergency,
would be his line of conduct. It would therefore
be vain to appeal to the friend of the Church,
Lord STANLEY, or to the Duke of RICHMOND,
the friend of the farmers, or to any other party
who would revert to the obsolete and exploded
system of protecting certain classes at the ex-
pense of all the rest. A small infusion of Con-
servatistn into the Liberal scale would soon turn
the balance, and then they would find a Conserva •
tive Government and something less. Vast de-
fects still remain in our commercial system.
We cannot afford to lose the trade with Brazil,
amounting, in manufactures from this country,
to six millions sterling, in order to keep up a
monopoly in &your of West India proprietors, to
whom the people of 11115 country, poor as well as
rich, have paid twenty millions. sterling, an
ample release from all obligations. We have
affairs to settle with the Americans. The new
Corn-law as regards them is a dead letter; and
if we wish to cultivate friendship with our best
cmtomers, and induce them to modify their
tariff, we must abolish the sliding scale, and put
meat, cattle, corn, and cotton all on the same
footing. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S principles on free
trade would lead him, even hampered as he is,
to go a long way to conciliate the vast and in-
creasing population in the New World, and
when he shall have on his right hand Lord
JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. ROEBUCK, and on his left
Mr. BARING and Mr. CIIAS. BULLER, with Lord
STANLEY, and the " remnant of a broken flue-
tion " in front, he will be inclined, as well as
compelled, to go much further. The German
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Union is another obstacle in the way, and as he
I professes himself a disciple of that clear-headed
and skillful commercial reformer, the late Mr.
HUSKISSON, he must make some concessions, to
counteract the plans of that powerful confede-
racy. As regards France, much cannot be done.
The prejudices of the people and the bigotry of
the press, as well as the selfish propensities of
the influential men in the Chambers, will, for
some time at least, prevent any extensive com-
mercial intercourse with that country. But some-
thing, however, may be effected; not by treaties
which are easily broken, as we know from
experience, and much more easily evaded,
but by reducing extravagant duties, by
consulting the interests of our own people,
without reference to those of other countries,
and by a general system of liberal policy, which
in time will - dispel the ignorance evil' Of the
most bigoted monopolists of France: It is need-
less to recount the other countries with which
we have commercial relations unsettled, for,
with the exception of the United States and
Brazil, they are of no importance as compared
with the vast field which is opening for us in
the East.. It is to that quarter we must look.
China and India, and the numerous islands in
the Asiatic seas, could furnish employment for
all the . hands and mills in Lancashire and the
West Riding of York, and it will be the fault of
our rulers if we do not profit by an opportunity
which may never again recur. The old
Tories are, therefore, in what our Ameri-
can friends call a " dead fix," and must
either stand stock still, or move in the line
chalked out for them by Sir ROBERT PEEL.
More tariffs are yet to come, and though it is
generally considered ungenerous to trample on
the fallen, yet we cannot pity men :who looked
only to their own interests, robbed the poor
and protected the rich, and were at last driven
to the necessity of choosing a leader who repro-
bates their selfish doctrines, and sets them at
defiance.

We extract an article on the "Restoration of
the Manufadture of Watches to GreAt Britain,"
which appeared in the Standard of Saturday, and
is copied into the Times and chronicle of this
morning. W e presume our last-named Contem-
porary does not mean by copying it to adopt the
false principles of political economy and often
refuted libels upon the Manchester manufac-
turers which it contains. Without meaning
to say one word against the business por-
tion of this article, of which we are inclined
to think favourably, or the respectability
of the gentlemen whose names are mentioned
as connected with the undertaking, which is
undoubted, we• must protest against the grounds
that are assigned for the loss both of our manu-
facture of watches and our manufacture of
cottons. The latter is not lost, but has been
yearly increasing, inasmuch as machinery has
enabled it to be so lowered in price as to place it
within the compass of all whom our restric-
tive laws will permit to receive it; and
the former has been only lost, not from
the causes assigned, but simply because
machinery has not hitherto been employed in
the manufactory of watches, and hand-labour
could be had cheaper in Switzerland than in
England. Now that machinery is likely, on a
large scale, to be applied to the different pro-
cesses of watchmaking, the trade will doubtless
grow up in the same way as the cotton-trade did,
under similar circutnstances; and if those restric-
tive laws on the iMportation of the chief thing
ibreigners have to give us in exchange be abo-
lished, there is little doubt that the cotton, the
silk, the cloth, and the watchmaking trades will
grow upoin' spite of FERRAND'S Devil's-dust, or
the Standard's hypothetical demolition of all our
manufacturing towns. We congratulate our
Morning and Evening Contemporaries on the
confidence they express of the restoration of one
great trade to this country by machinery, and
hope their conversion upon this subject to be sin-
cere, so as to prevent any further libels and inu
endos upon the communities and individuals con.
nected with it in this country.

The course adopted by the MaryleboneVestry
on Saturday in reference to the erection of a
monument to the Scotch Reformers, appears
very singular, and can be accounted to only by
supposing that members did not know fur what
question they were voting. The motion of Mr.
JOSEPH, too, for re-committing the Report was,
to say the least of it, very ill-timed. Had he
moved that the Report be adopted, the question
would have been settled, whereas it 'must be
brought forward at some future, perhaps dis-
tant, meeting, thereby giving the opponents of
the measure new opportunities of throwing
obstacles in the way. A. liberal Vestry should

have allowed no doubts to exist as to their,
motives for delay, and marked their high regard
for tl►e memory of the ',deceased Reformers by
carrying the motion at once.

Madrid papers of the 15th and 16th have been
received. Most of 'the Liberal journals devote
their leading articles to the memory of General
DIEGO LEON, it being the anniversary of the day
of his execution. Some of the journals appeared
in mourning, and it is impossible to give an idea
of [the reproaches uttered against the REGENT
on that affair. A very serious manifestation
took place in the capital in consequence of the
day—all the most distinguished inhabitants of
the capital appeared in mourning, and the
churches were thronged, the masses having been
appropriated to the deceased General. It was
reported that serious measures were in contem-
plation against the journals, and also against the
religious authorities, for not apprising the Go-
vernment of what was intended.

The gerant of the Postada has just been con-
demned to two months' ,imprisonment and 500
reals fine, fur publishing offensive articles against
M. GONZALES.

The Three per Cents. were done on the 14th
at 214 at 60 days; and the Five per. Cents. at 261
for cash, and 27 at 60 days. The Current Debt
sold at 111 for cash.

On the 15th the Three per Cents. were nego-
tiated at 20 fir cash, and 211 at 60 days; and
the Five per Cents. at 261 for cash, and 261 at
60 days.

The Paris papers of Friday and Saturday
contain long comments on Lord ABERDEEN'S let-
ter, but, with the exception of one article in the
Journal des Debats, and another in the Sleek,
which we have given elsewhere, they possess
little interest. The Moniteur of Saturday pub-
lishes three Royal ordonnances, dated 21st inst.;
the .first appointing Marshal Duke DE REGGIO
Governor of the Invalides ; the second appoint-
ing Marshal GERARD Grand Chancellor of the
Legion of Honour, in the place of the Duke DE
REGGIO; and the third giving the post of Corn-.
mander-in-Chief of the National Guards of the
Seine to Lieutenant-General jACQUEMINOT. Al-
luding to these appointments, the Moniteur says:
" During the four years that Marshal Gerard haS
been at the head of the National Guards of the de-
partment of the Seine he has nobly responded to the
confidence of the King, and added new services to
those which had long since rendered his name one of
the most glorious in France. The King, in his soli-
citude for the health and repose of the illustrious Mar-
shal, rcently tried by cruel afflictions, has again con-
fided to him the post of Grand Chancellor of the
Legion of Honour knowing well that, if difficult
circumstances were to arise, the King and France
could always reckon in case of need on the devoted-
ness of Marshal Gerard."

The Journal des Debats says that the visit of
the Commerce Minister to the south is for the
purpose of visiting the works on the. Rhone for
resisting inundation and rendering the river more
navigable. All the suspension bridges, too, must
be raised—a work of sonic difficulty. The con-
struction of a dock at Marseilles is considered
necessary to aid that town to compete with the
Italian towns that are taking away its transit
trade.

The Commerce publishes a speech made in the
Municipal Council of Carcassone, a cloth manu-
facturing town of the. south, on the proposed
treaty of commerce with Belgium. The re-union
of Belgium to France, under the empire, say the
people of Carcassone, caused the definitive loss of
their extensive commerce with the Levant
created by Colbert. The Belgian manufacturers,
and those of the Rhenish provinces destroyed the
cloth trade of the south of France. The Muni-
pal Council voted the sending of a remonstrance
of this tenor to the Minister.

Private letters from Paris contradict the report
that new negotiations for a commercial treaty
were on the point of being opened between this
country and France ; and also state, that the
attempts made to effect a custom3' union be-
tween Belgium and France have failed, and that
King LEOPOLD will leave St. Cloud for Brussels
on the 7th of November.

The National, which still rails against M.
Gutzor and the English, derives some consola-
tion from a report that an opposition has been
formed against the existing Ministry, under the
direction of Count MOLE, with M. DE SALVANDY
and M. DE.LAMARTINE as assistants. The oh-
:a to r=crc T::::.1ts -iv the Cabinet, and
from the wonderful change which that gentleman
has undergone lately, it may be inferred that
he is determined to make the attempt.
" That party," the writer adds, " will command
30 votes in the Chamber of Deputies, and are
determined to give a strong opposition to the
Government in conjunction with M. THIERS'
friends and the other fractions of the ancient
Opposition." It is added, that the Cabinet is
much shaken by the apPearance of this new
enemy, which would present itself with the pre-
tensions to arrange all questions of internal and
external policy upbn which the present Ministers
are said to sleep. The result of this combination
may possibly produce a Thu:as-Marx Ministry.
General Count DELABORDE, Aide-de-Camp to-
the KING, died at Paris on Thiwsday. He was a
member of the Academy of Science, and till last.
session one of the Questors of the Chamber of
Deputies, which post he resigned on account of
bad health. "He was a man," says Galignani's
Messenger, " of most benevolent character, of
amiable manners, a great encourager of the arts,
arid author of several important artistical works.
He was also a good English scholar, and was in
close correspondence with many of the most dis-
tinguished men in England.

A Berlin letter of the 12th inst. announces the
arrival in that city of the Duc DE BROGLIE, who,
it says, met with► a most flattering reception.

BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22.
First Highest Lowest Last
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Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 118 80... 118 80... 118 70... 118 70
41/2 per Cents. 106 60... 106 60... 106 60... 106 60
Four per Cents. 101 50... 101 50 .. 101 30... 101 30
3 per Cents 80 5... 80 10... 80 5... 80 10
Bank of France 3270 ...3270 ...3270 .. 3270

Belgian Bank 815 .... 815 ... 812 50... 815
Belgian Fives.
1840 lO4l ... 104/ ... 104 i ... 104/
Spanish :fictive 22 ... 22i ... 22 ... 22i
New Deferred 9i ... 9/ ... 9/ ... 9/
Pertuguese Fives
Neapolitan . lOB 30... 106 40... 108 30... 108 40
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES

St. Germain 847 50— 847 50... 847 50... 847 50
Versailles, R.. 13 265 ... 270 ... 265 ... 270

Rouen ' 567 50... 567 50... 565 ... 567 50
Orleans. 587 50... 587 50... 587 50... 585
Strasburg to Bale 207 56... 207 50... 207 50... 207 50

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.
NEWMARKET, SATURDAY NIGH2'.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
9 to 2 agst Florence and 15 to 1 agst Cabrera
Ralph (t) 16 to 1 agst Forester
8 to 1 agst Florence 17 to 1 agst Lady Adela
10 to 1 agst Ralph 18 to 1 agst Garry Owen
10 to 1 agst Kt. of Whistle 20 to 1 agst Busk mare
10 to 1 agst Melior (t) 20 to 1 agst Roscius
14 to 1 agst Belissima 20 to 1 agst Billingham Lass
15 to 1 agst Hawk (t freely) 30 to 1 agst Vulcan (0
The following are scratched :—Charles the Twelfth,
Wee Willie, Revel, Galen, Rhodanthe, Helpmate, Master
Thomas, Lucy Banks, Cecil, Recompense, Whistle
Binkie, The Conqueror, Endymion, Retriever, Clinker,
Eringo, Policy, Vibration, Augustus e, Nuncio, Bob
Peel, Mus, Flambeau, Canadian (dead). Ermengardis
Prince Caradoc, and Fircaway are not here.
CRITERION.-6 to 4 agst Cotherstone. The following
are expected to run—Cotherstone, Canton, Testy,
Bother'em, Gaper, Pine Apple, and one of Lord Exeter's.
DERBY.-30 to 1 agst Cotherstone.
The Match between Albion and Daddy Longlegs will
not be run ; the latter pays forfeit. Johnny has arrived
for his Match with Monmda, which, it is now said, will
come off.
The Haadicap for to-morrow has closed as follows :
Discord, 5 yrs, 9st 7lb ; The Shadow, 6 yrs, Bst 131 b ;
Bosphorus, 6 yrs, 7st 21b ; Archy, 3 yrs, 7st ; Per-
chance, 3 yrs, 6st 91b. Three others declared forfeit.
The Match between Garry Owen and Celia, in the
list for Wednesday, is postponed to Friday.
Tho town is very full, and betting brisk.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Carlisle hds., Tues., Armathwaite; Pa. Coathill-10.
' Aikton hds.,Wed., Dundrain ; Friday, Brigghouse-84-.
Wigton hds., Wed„ Braokenlands I Thurs., Cal&
beck-8.
Eamont hrs., Wed., Temple Sowerby ; Sat., Bull's
Head, Plumpton—loi.
Somerset Subscription hds., Tues., Buncombe Hill ;
Sat., Raleigh's Cross-10i.
Pembrokeshire hds., Thurs., Denant Mill-10.
Brushford hrs., Wed., Dulverton ; Fri , Bampton.
Torquay hrs., Thurs., Marc: Inn.
Whitecross hrs., Tues., sishupsiona
Lodge-10. ,
eat. Wendover