The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-21 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock

IMPORTANT NEWS
FROM CHINA.

TREATY OF PEACE.

The following important news from China was
published in the French Government paper, the
itiessager, of Saturday.evening

"ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 5,

" A treaty of peace has been concluded be-
tween the English Plenipotentiaries and the
Chincse Government. It is as follows :--

" 1. China consents to pay in three years the
stun of 21 millions of dollars.

"'2. The ports of Canton, Amoy, Ningpo, and
two others shall be open to English commerce.
" 3. The island of Hong-Kong is perpetually
ceded to her Britannic MAJESTY.

" 4. The prisoners shall be restored.
" 5. An amnesty published.
" 6. The officers of the two nations shall be
treated on a footing of equality.
• "7. The islandslofChusanand Kolong shall be
occupied till full payment of Ile tribute."
We congratulate the country on this glorious
result. England has obtained her objects, compen-
sation for the wanton destruction of property,in-
suit to the British nation, and the expenses of the
war; but she has gained more than all these. Five
commodious ports, some of them connected with
the most populous and trading districts in China,
are to be opened to British commerce, the Eng-
lish are no longer to be treated as barbarians,
but as brethren, and, placed on the same footing
with the " Celestials " themselves. Tliis agree-
able intelligence now accounts for the flying
post sent off in such haste to old
HowQuA by the EMPEROR. He saw the
rapid approach of the British forces to the inte-
rior of the country, the apathy of his people,
trembled even for the safety of the capital, and,
therefore, knew no time was to be lost. In all
probability he• gave- this 'Vet:Verable eater, so 'well
k 0 W 't
the' En glish
pint
Se4nton',. '.poWe k. to
treat for peaeb, and pitiniVindlOAd *Tar at any
price. Sir HENRY POTTINUER had full powers
also, and has used them to good purpose. We
were blamed with some others for urging the
Government to act with energy, and avenge the
wrongs inflicted on English men. Certain parties
not only exclaimed against the injustice of
the war, but foretold that the Chinese
would never yield, that their resources were
equal to their obstinacy, and that in a few
years we should be involved in a ruinous and
hopeless contest. Had the voice of these pro-
phets been listened to, the British name would
have become a bye-word and a reproach in the
East, our trade would have been more crippled
than ever, and, by submitting patiently to insult
and robbery, we should have provoked only fur-
ther loss and disgrace. We congratulate, there-
fore, Lord PALMERSTON and Sir ROBERT PEEL
on the true national spirit which both displayed,
and on the bright prospects this treaty opens
up not only to Englishmen, but to the Chinese
themselves. Is is for the present Government
now to do its duty, by encouraging commerce
in that quarter, • and also, by employing
the spare forces in China, to settle with equal
success our relations with the nations on the
banks of the Indus, The whole of that splendid
river must be thrown open to English enterprise,
forts should be establiihed in fit places to over-
awe the Affghans, steam-boats supplied for navi-
gating the river into the heart of the country,
and ,a strong barrier erected on the west
of our , Indian possessions, which may defy
any enemy whatever. We also eXpect
another . result. We shall see in a short
time waggon loads of Sycee silver, in long
trains, moving in the direction of the Mint, which'
will ultimately find its way into the Treasury,
and thereby enable the Premier to modify or.
abolish altogether that cause of universal com-
plaint—the Income-tax. The sum of-twenty-
one millions of dollars, or five millions sterling,
in the shape of tribute, from the proudest nation
on earth, is a rare sight for a Prime Minister,
and we hope he will make good use of the goci,
send.

INSURRECTION AT
B RCELONA.

The Moniteur Universal of Saturday publishes
the following important news, announcing an
outbreak at Barcelona :

"On the evening of the 13th, thirty workmen at-
tempted to introduce through one of the gates some
casks of wine without payment of duty. The popu-
lace took part with them, the guard was disarmed,
and a soldier was killed. Reinforcements having ar-
rived, twelve persons were arrested. The editor of
the Republican was thrown into prison. On the 14th
the workmen quitted their work, and paraded through
the city (10,000 of them belong to the National Guard).
At five o'clock in the evening the approaches to the
Town-hall were guarded by the National Guards,
who refused to allow the regular troops to replace
them. A regiment of the line was drawn up in order
of battle on the Rambla with six pieces of cannon.
All the troops were under arms. A collision was ex-
pected. An officer had a musket pointed at him by
one of the National Guards.

" On the 16th no carriages or travellers arrived at
Figueras from Barcelona. The gates were closed.
The cavalry and infantry in garrison at La Jonquiera
had left for Barcelona ; orderly soldiers were con-
stantly moving between Barcelona and Figueras with
dispatches.

" A person who left Mataro on the morning of the
16th reported that at Figueras no news had arrived
from Barcelona, where the gates were closed. At
Mataro the noise of cannonading was heard."
Our letters from Paris of Saturday afternoon
announce that the French Government was in
receipt of telegraphic dispatcheS from Perpignan,
where advices have been received from Barcelona
one day later than the above account.
Martial law was proclaimed on the 15th in
Barcelona, and from the firing, which was heard
at a great distance, it was presumed that a serious
conflict was going on, although no official infor-
mation had reached the Spanish Consul, at Per-
pignan.

ZunBANo was last at Gerona, and was expected
to march to the assistance of.the Captain-General,
VAN HALEN.

From the excess of satisfaction displayed, say
our Paris advices, by the partisans of Queen
CHRISTINA, it was guessed that they were no
strangerS to the Barcelona disturbances; the Re-
publicans of that town having, it is known, long
been urged to acts of violence against ESPAR-
TERO'S Regency.
The regular advices from Barcelona are only
of the 12th, and at that time, it appears, that
Don FRANCISCO'S party was very popular with
the Propagandists.
Saturday's Moniteur has also a telegraphic dis-
patch from Bayonne, stating that the Spanish
Cortes was opened on the 14th, and that the RE-
GENT W 4 not present, an announcement pub-''
lished in Mu. colimns of Saturday.
Since writing the above we have received the
following by extraordinary express :
.
" PERPIGNAN, Nov. 19.
" A letter from. Barcelona, from a cavalry
officer, arrived on tIT 18th, by ordonnance to
La Jonquiera, says, After a sanguinary
combat we have been obliged to evacuate the
.town. The inhabitants seized the artillery. We
bivouac for the first two days at the foot of the
ramparts; the Angel-gate was the first carried ,

by the National Guard. Women were armed
with lances. Detachments of troops of the line
still occupy the Atarazanas Montjinct, the port.
It is rumoured that the insurrection has reached
Solsona and Lerida. "

DEFEAT OF THE RODIL CABINET BY
THE PARLIAMENTARY COALITION.
The Messager has also the following :
" MADRID, Nov. 15.

" Senor OLOZAGA has been named President
of the House of Congress by a majority of 82
against 41, obtained by Senor ACUNA, the former
President, who was proposed by the Ministerial
party. Senor CORTINA was nominated Vice-
President by 80 votes."

Better late than never. The Scottish Re-
formers are at length about to have that justice
done to their memory which should have been
done years ago—say, when the Reform Bill was
passed into law. At a meeting of the Maryle-
bone Vestry, which took place on Saturday last,
it was decided by a majority of thirty-three, that
a column in honour of those martyred patriots,
should forthwith be erected in the Regent-
circus. Thus then justice and good feeling
haVe, however late, triumphed over prejudice
and bigotry; and the claims on public gratitude
of the sworn opponents of the PITT system of Ter-
rorism and political espionage, are formally and
deliberately recognized by a large and influential
body of their fellow-citizens. Fifteen years ago,
when Toryism—wholly unsuspicious of its fast
approaching fall—was exulting in the full con-
sciousness of power; when an ELDON kept the
Royal., conscience, and a SIDINIOUTH—the man
who publicly and officially thanked the Lanca-
shire yeomanry for the Peterloo job—was Home
Secretary ; when a PEEL protested that, if he
knew himself rightly, he did not think the day
would ever arrive when he could possibly be
guilty ofan act of justice to the Catholics, and a
majority of the House of Commons applauded
the magnanimous sentiment;—at this period of
gloom and discouragement to the cause of Refbrm,
if a man had predicted that the time would
shortly arrive when the Radical principles of the
Scottish patriots should not only be looked on
without a shudder, as being atheistical and re-
volutionary, by the respectable middle classes of
the metropolis, but even be sanctioned by an
influential portion of them, and honoured with a
lasting, testimony of their approbatioti_
.by a
eolLi!n,4 in gent- circus, , kat he memory
of those who upheld them in the flays' di Tory,
persecution ;—i f, we say, at such a bigoted period, a
man had haiarded a prediction like this, he
would have been looked on as a decided madman,
and subjected most probably to the tendermer-
cies of a commission " De Lunatico Inquirendo."
But Time, the true, though often tardy, friend of
merit—Time, the inflexible judge from whose
verdict there is no appeal—Time, who draws forth
the truth, though it lie deeper than ever plum-
met-sounded, and raises or depresses all man
to their fitting level;—Time has at length stifled
the voice of faction—silenced the, loud hiss of
slander, and taught us to regard and cherish the
memory of those Reformers who, in 1794, we
should have looked on—in compliance With the
political prejudices of the day—not as public
benefactors, but as mere anarchists and infidels,
to be held in profound, orthodox abhorrence.

We call upon our readers•to watch the move-
ments of those schemers who are getting up the
cry for " More Church." They can have no
doubt as to the object in view, nor the parties in-
terested. The salvation of souls is not the ob-
ject; for if money is of any value in that respect,
or has the least efficacy in instructing and hu-
manizing the lower classes, England would be a
paradise on earth, and every peasant a moral and
educated being. We have often asserted that the
English Church is the richest in the world ; yet,
with all her wealth, one half of the unforitinate
people tried for crimes can neither write nor
read. Many of them can repeat the LORD'S
P rayer and the Catechism, if allowed a re-hearsal,
but as to any knowledge of the great truths
of Christianity, or the blessings of a vir-
,tuous life, they are as ignorant as the
beasts that perish. Whom, therefore, will this
Church Extension scheme serve ? The Bishops
and their friends. And what is the character of
these Bkhops? What have they done for the
improvement of mankind, for the reform of
abuses, for the spread of the Gospel, for the cause
of humanity ? We do not attack individuals, for
some of them are excellent and able men ; but
we blame the system which yokes those who
should be the pastors, the protectors, and the
consolers of the people, with a set of political ad-
venturers looking only to wealth and aggran-
disement. What good measure has the Bench of
Bishops yet patronised? Did they not, to the
last, resist WILBERFORCE in his humane plans for
abolishing the slave trade ? Did they not resist
the diffusion of religious knowledge till the Dis-
senters shamed them into acquiescence ?
Did they not, with other Tories, resist the
diminution of capital punishments till ROMILLY,
and BROUGHAM, and JEFFREY, painted the atro-
cities of our criminal code in such a light,.tliat
the most blood-thirsty Home Secretary had no
other alternative but to yield? Did they not re-
sist the Reform Bill—the darling object of a
greater mass of the community than ever agreed
on any one measure—and at last submit with
others only when they feared some greater evil,
but in reality some greater good ? Have they
not resisted every rational scheme for general
education, and convinced the world that what-
ever may be their -professions, they are the stop-
gap in the moral progress of society, and are
placed on the Bench by the inscrutable de-
crees% of Providence, rather to retard than to
advance the object for which they were
appointed ? Yet they, and the party to which
they belong, are asking for more patronage and
more power, and will use them, as they have
have hitherto done, in attempting to control and
check the growing desire for useful knowledge.
The wealth of this State Church, which is con-
stantly crying for more, is well known ; but the
enormous value of its patronage is comparatively
hid in darkness. The Archbishop of CANTER-
BURY alone has 162 livings in his, gift, which,
reckoning them at the annual value of
3501., a very moderate estimate, produce
56,000/. a-year. This is independent of the pa-
tronage of stalls, prebends, precentors, and all
the other offices continued from the Catholic
Church. It is, independent of a salary of
20,000/. a-year, and confers no small power on
one humble individual, and also contributes
not a little to his wealth. We hare never heard
that these appointments were sold for money,
but it is well-known that they are bestowed on
sons-in-law, nephews, and cousins.; and can be
disposed of, too, in a variety of ways for equiva-
lents. The total number of Church livings in
the gift of the, Episcopal Bench amounts to about
3,000, independent of the Cathedral patronage,
producing an annual revenue of more than one
million sterling. No other twenty-six men in
the country have power equal to this; and will
the State increase this enormous patronage, by
voting large sums for " more Church ?"

We have accounts from Lisbon by the Liver-
pool steamer to the 14th instant. The tariff
question remained in the same state, but it was

understood that some additional proposals had
been made by Lord ABERDEEN for a lower duty
on woollen-cloths and salt fish, which would pro-
bably be agreed to by the Portuguese Govern-
ment. The hostility to M. DIETZ, the Court
favourite, still continued. The election of twenty
Deputies, to supply vacancies occasioned by
double returns, was about to take place, and was
anxiously awaited. Baron TOJAL had effected,
it was reported, a small loan in England, to
guarantee the newly issued Exchequer bills.

Accounts have been received from Spain of a
serious di3turbance at Barcelona on the lath,
which has been caused by political intrigues
tbreign or domestic, and probably by both.
Queen CHRISTINA does not remain at Paris
without an object. It appears that an attempt
was made by some workmen to introduce
several casks of wine without paying duty,

a pretence evidently for exciting a tumult; the
people in great numbers joined them,
and the
guard was disarmed. Next day the workmen
filled the streets, and at five in the afternoon the
National Guards occupied all the avenues to
the Town Hall, refusing to surrender their posts
to the troops of the line. On the 18th a sun'
g,uinary battle took place, when the troops were
worsted, and forced to evacate the city. Accord'
ing to the latest accounts they were bivouacked
outside the ramparts, and waiting for reinforce'
ments. jjl
Senor OLOZAGA had been chosen President a
the Cortes, and CORTINA Vice-President.

Nearly all the Paris journals have articles re-
specting the closing of the Anti-Slave Trade Treaty
of 1841. That treaty is now cancelled as regards
France, and the four other Powers seeing 0° ,S
hopes of bringing the affair to a satisfitctory
eon
elusion with the French Government, have re
solved that the treaty shall be preserved Vs:
them to the full extent. On this subject tile
Messages has the following paragraph :—"
Government of the KING having declared that
it believed it could neither now nor later ratilts
the treaty of the 20th December, 1841, the re;
presentatives of Austria, of Great Britain, °'
Prussia, and of Russia, met in conference on
Wednesday, the oth instant, decided that the
protocol was closed, and that the treaty pre-
served, so far as these four Powers were Oa'
cerned, all its force and value."
Though we regret the result, no blame is t° be
imputed to M. GUIZOT and the French Gore',
ment. With a hostile vote of the Chamber 01
Deputies, and nearly all the press against lillllll
1
he had no other alternative than to ,
As, however, the most violent opponents to
treaty approved of the course America hall
adopted, we trust that France will imitate her
example, and make amends for this singular eln•
.
hibition, by keeping at least as many vessels tle
the African coast for the suppression of the 81ave
trade. The following are the remarks of the
Journal des Debats on the subject:—
" The protocol is entirely closed. The Goret;
ment has fulfilled the engagement which it niade,,ie
the Chambers. The treaty of 1841 has not been-'i-lii?
is not to be, ratified by France. Everything .14'14,
end on that point. That this should be laid ho 101
as a new opportunity for the Opposition journaisd
abuse the Ministry does not surprise us. The tfiefrit
of 1841 is not ratified, but ,the Ministry is
power. The majority in the Chamber has gained
cause, but the Opposition have lost theirs. '-rhePii-the
col is closed, but, thanks to the confidence wh'cbiast
upright, kitestgons:of the; French C 3 Uri
this•act ihas: takenspltase.without bin
üblic
This delicate affair terminates pacifically not;
opinion is satisfied, though the Opposition iSt
for can it be supposed that, after having le,ors,
question of the right of search slumber for ten ) for-
the Opposition would have suddenly brought it the
ward in the simple interest of our, commerce °liiestl
independence of our flag? We cin well cowl:11'1p
the ill•humour of the Opposition. For six .I°„sas
their tactics have been to declare that M. Galz°,." the
deceiving.the Chambers, and that he would ratifY the
treaty after the closing of the session, wilenbios
(Ambers should be no longer present to sort! .dry
from doing so. We believe even that once tneper
arose that the ratification had taken place. 11°1;11
accustomed the Opposition may be to receise s'th.et
contradictions, and hoWever little importance Duch
may attach to their character for veracity, Ifroli
compromised. as it is, the moment when, a .eitt,
denial arrives is always disagreeable. At P7,:esit
therefore, where can the Opposition journatajlock
their ill-humour, if not on the Ministry? fr,s&'s,t-
as they could assert that M. Guizot would ratiTios
withstanding his promises and engagements, it oud
all very well. Now that the ratification is iNt al.
the range of possibility, they will maintain tha tbst
Guizot personally ought to have ratified it, ana
r, tei-
his honour was pledged it. If this affair has hee.,."o-
minated pacifically, and to the satisfaction of the the
jority of our Chambers, it is not the fault did .not
Opposition that such has been the case. It, bielieve
depend on that body that the Powers did not he
their henotiF,interested thi insisting on the ratlfuraish
by France. Our, great patriots undertook to
wo is
England sy4h, her plan for the campaign she !plot
undeitake.. She was to say that M. Guizot 0%04
decently refine to ratify a treaty which he ha!
l's 4 end
Every thing that could impede the negotiatojnase
render it more difficult and thorny, was put inraliaa•
ment. The Opposition hoped for a different to otiti•
et iaotnio,
na.
onfd
tebseptercetaet(yl
and
thelt wanted,
overtbro ilsn, fact, thee; i'strY'
M. Guizot has doubly disappointed their°liethdPle
1101 on Inc!
this is the cause of their present ill-humpur•,l4n
it is evident there is nothing but pec w'r'who
in their opinion, can do justice uponp the .iiniste
has not ratified the treaty of 184110.", its
The Courrier Francais thus display s otf
humour against the Ministry, . for break"';
leis
the treaty, and at the same time retaining
soe
seats in the Cabinet. does not omit at the • lie
1, ye
time to abuse the English, whom ire eoor
they would still abuse if every point of ,-
and advantage were yielded to France "y of
,6 M. Guizot has struggled with all the strenfr/,'to
his talent and his influence to induce the Chart,"37ol:
adopt the treaty of December 20, 1841; he %ets°
tended that the engagement which he bad eqii,
was an engagement of honour for France. tote i 3
doubtless an error ; but what is undoubtedlyo' ins4er
that he was himself engaged as seriously as sir
could be, not only by the formal placing ni
nature by the side of the four other Powers; he iso
the deep conviction so loudly proclaimed that aim
engaged so to do. He has not, therefore, the re'ect are
of declaring that his convictions on the sallodolo
changed. He withdraws his signature, he, about;
a convention which he had sought to brulbs thing
which he regarded as a serious engagement, ;ng re:
at once useful and honourable. After barbls. Piet
ceived one slap in the face at the Palais 131. •
is going to seek another at the Foreign-en",i; loom
this embarrassment would have ceased, all t'3se
liation would have disappeared,
come easy and natural, if the Minister, a...L(1 often
refusal of the Chamber to ratify the treaty, case °`
in his resignation, and left to other hands tlien isss
terminating a negotiation to which he a ;);e. re"
all would oiler the
bound. More than one of. hispredecess°l-3
tired from office on less serious grounds. i•st d°es
" The obstinacy of M.. Guizot on this 51'0 ios the
not compromise himself alone; it comPrloce the
whole Cabinet, for in an affair of this inwor
corapso:
responsibility must rest on all; and it also, da
miser to a certain extent the Government, 'ool°
not make use of its prerogative in copro;
where it appeared necessary ; and it 0111(1 to the
mise the nation itself, if any attention were
ecaltS" the
words of the Minister in imputing to chs-s ire,
refusal of a ratification which it would not istl!;
the importance of this affair did not suffie'cilord ha,`l,
case the right of the French nation, wes. dlint wit
11
sufficiently warned of it by the o's rese no,
which certain portions of the English, frter haYi*
affect to speak of the right of search. v. to cool;
endeavoured for the last quarter of a centurlbey •
11,t7r
bine in it all the European maritime Power's. Tiler
call the Quintuple Treaty a little ecno7entio
secret del;
badly concealed anger, however, reveal' thenco
signs of England, and the vast conseqn, e se4 of t
her ambition' hoped to draw from, the OW
treaty."
store; at
oere
The same journal states that ove Great
made by the Cabinet of Washington. in uptler
Britain and France, in order to place 'rexf of 011
the protection of the Three Powers in ca'<<g•
invasion from Mexico, and adds that Salt
G vizor received this suggestion favciuraujj'asal'
decided re'
that Lord ABERDEEN gave it a sfor
The interest which Great Britain profess: gala
Mexico may be explained by her deaire.roiseive
possession of California. But we eanont '''perate
why Lord ABERDEEN'S refusal to 4P-conduct
should have prevented M. GUIZOT. The , our
friendly Mexico towards us , has not been.iel!dtec, our
friendly nor so equitable as to entitle I,e,,Liist to
good wishes in her invasion of Texas,.e_e„Jent
abandon that Republic is to make her LIFL _en
on the United States, which
good policy to avoid. The American vrecpe
Texians .11
inent will certainly aid the ,ce wt
consequence
be, ANNA'S invasion, and the
will fora,
Texas ivain
be, that before many years
• tead rent
it would 1 •G° vein'
province of the United States, ins
_;_or
shuigitasbnieintdoeFperenndceiattinStteartees,
en"
the long-P
It is now understood that .
.essi6ll6 by
claims of British merchants for .
amgg:hicii
uego-
the French at Portendic, respecting are
seers, -are
tiations have been going on for et
interests."
would .ne
clusksb Tbe
at last brought to a satisfactory con.reed
two Governments have, it is said, 6
athe gurn trtiut:
all matters in dispute relating. to of
of Portendic to the arbitration of
e!,_.„';:i.Tbe:
PRUSSIA • and a convention to that
_n_e"2„sisaild
lieved to 'have been signed by Lord (-)0711"
s 9:
M. GUIZOT. HOVE fl' Cist
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY,
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• Price. Price. i I
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french Five per Cents. 119 . 119
405: 101 4°... IUI
Four per Cents. 101 40... 101

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