The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-05 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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carded with contempt, but their testimony to ti
present. condition of the people under Ike
benignant rule of the landed aristocracy, will be
a lasting memorial of the utility to them of a so-
called protecting and paternal Government.
They told Sir ROBERT PEEL, so long ago as
October 23, that—
,. The females at the factoriel get little if any educa
tion." " They grow up in total ignorance of all the true
duties of women." "They are totally unfitted to attend
to the care of home or to participate in its employments."
" They neither learn, in the majority of instances, to
make a shirt, darn a stocking; cook a dinner, nor clean a
house." " The system is an inversion of the order of
nature and Providenee." " Disaffection and discontent
must be engendered amongst parties so situated."
" Throughout the manufacturing districts mills are
nearly closed. The capitalist and middle classes are in
difficulties—insolvent or bankrupt ; while the operatives
are in a state of destitution which must make every heart
bleed, and which arises from causes over which they
themselves have no control. As a proof that we are not
overstating the facts, we beg to present you, Sir Robert,
with one illustration of many which might be offered.
It is a printed copy of the Report of the Unemployed
Operatives' Enumeration Committee of Leeds, in which
a detailed statement of the condition of the operatives in
the several wards of that town, the emporium of the
woollen district, is given. The summary of that ap-
palling statement is, that nearly 20,000 human beings
are now living upon an average weekly income of I Ifd.
per head. We leave to your own judgment what must be
the ultimate end of such a state of things."

They told Sir JAMES GRAHAM, on the 28th of
October, that our ascendancy in foreign markets
could not be maintained by

" Reducing; much lower the wages of the adult
operatives. That class of labourers were as near the
bare 'subsistence level,' when in full employ, as it was
possible to place them. . . . . You have just these
alternatives-7-either to commence this measure (a sys-
tem of home colonization) now gradually and peaceably,
and thus avert the evils we have been anticipating, or to
let the present system take its course, spreading destitu-
tion, pauperism, discontent, and disaffection, more
and more widely, until it terminates in general disorga-
nization and anarchy, and then to be forced to begin de
novo, amid the wrecks of former institutions - The
humble- comforts of the operative's cottage have disap-
peared. The middle class of tradesmen, who depend
upon the lower classes, are in all but an insolvent state,
and trade is concentrated in the hands of a few over-
grown capitalists, in consequence of the inability of
smaller capitalists to contend with them. Such is the
state of our towns at the present moment. We have
given you our reasons for bclieving that the
increase of our foreign trade under the present system
would permanently increase neither wages nor profits,
nor arrest their downward tendencies ; and we leave to
you the consideration of these, reasons.

Upwards of two months ago, therefore, was
lite•terithle condition or hilt,- operative eiaskes
clearly awl i•voit,ht limier the Ito-
het.; of• these t, I. ..‘lllll,l, ‘S.flitt.t. littVt
tll ‘c dime 14) ;.10,..A15l ur I•eliv!v•2 it'

airototcly hothio. They hz,ve jllttetkeyed from
iiiittor to I.9iidoti, loll' from Loudon to Lim-
worth ; they have dined and spouted at Dor-
chester; they have raised their own rents; but
they have left the people a prey to this deep
distress, and they have allowed the system to run
on—they have even accelerated its progress—
Which dooms the people to this distress, and
which threatens such disasters.

We do riot suppose that the members of the
Short Time Committee, who ascribe their suffer-
ings to the employment of machinery, are any
more to be relied on in trachw out the
cause of distress than in suggesting its cure. It
has been more than once proved in The San that
the use of machinery has very much increased
manual employment. Every new machine, in
fact, is the creation of a new art or a new trade,
and increases the sum of employment. We do
nut blame the Ministers, therefore, for not be-
lieving that the distress of the operatives was
caused by the use of machinery, nor do we blame
them for not acceding to the recommendations of
the Short Time Committee as to the means of
cure ; but we blame them—knowing as
they must, otherwise they are the merest
quacks and humbugs that ever assumed the
name of statesmen, the real causes of dis-

tress, and knowing as they must the means of
cure, or the Tamworth Doctor and his friends
take very large fees for performing that which
they must then admit they cannot perform,—we
blame them with all the energy at our corn-
tpand for allowing two precious months to elapse,
when the severity of the season must enhance
the sufferings of the people, without using time
smallest exertions to relieve their great distress.
The Ministers might have allowed the free im-
portation of food by order of Council which
would set the mills to work, as well as re-
duce the price of bread, but that would
have lowered rents, and that rents may be
kept up, the people are doomed by the Tories to
remain x prey to poverty, famine, and despair.
Such, admiring people ! are your honoured and
almost worshipped Tory statesmen.
The remedies suggested by the Short Time
Committee are also indicative of great suffering.
They ask the Legislature, which has never
meddled with trade but to injure it, to restrict
the hours-of work. Surely they can and ought to
do that for themselves. Let them say that they
will not work more than eight hours a day if
they like, and we apprehend the law will not
compel them to work more. They also asked
for the repeal of the new Poor-law, which they
told Sir R. PEEL was now inoperative, and never
could be carried into operation in the manufac-
turing districts. To Sir JAMES GRAHAM they
recommended—
" The adoption of a comprehensive and efficient plan of
home colonization; for which purpose we would advise
the passing, at the expense of the nation, of a General
Waste Land Enclosure Bill, which should make provi-
sion for reasonable compensation to all those interested
in these lands. We should then have a Parliamentary
grant raised by loan, or by Exchequer bills, to be applied
under a Board of Control to the settling down upon these
uncultivated but improvable wastes our now unemployed
population; and if the waste lands were insufficient we
would recommend that the Government should have re-
course to the Crown lands for the same purpose and in
the same way. This would increase real wealth at home,
direct the energies of the people in the first place to pro-
vide food and shelter for themselves, and the surplus of
their labour would form a gund for defraying the neces-
sary expenses, and ultimately repaying the principal
advanced.

" Sir J. Graham—Ah ! that might do very well if we
were beginning de novo, but under present circumstances
seems quite impracticable."
Sir JAMES does not like the notion of squatting

on the landlords' manors, and on the Crown pos-
sessions. If that were to begin, and if home
colonization were to be promoted by the issue of
Exchequer bills, Sir JX3tEs knows that the

parks at Netherby and Stowe, and even Windsor
_ _

Parks, which arc Crown lands, and admirably
adapted for cultivation, would soon be required
to feed the increasing population, if it had to be
maintained by our own-§oil. Sir JAMES and the
monopolists will always find it, more impracti-

cable, the Short Time Committee may be
well assured, to relieve the suffering labourers,
by dividing the wastes and Crown lands
amongst them, than by allowing the free-
est importation of corn, conjoined with
drafting off the people from the land into the
manufacturing towns. That the Short Time

Committee, the protegees of Lord ASHLEY and
the Tories, should have dared to make such an
extraordinary proposition to a Minister of the
Crown as that of taking away the manors of the
Nobility and the QUEEN for the sustenance of
the people, indicates, in our opinion, a deeper
distress amongst them, and a more resolute
earnestness to obtain relief than is to be found
in the narration of their sufferings.
Before we quit the subject, it seems necessary
to remind the Short Time Committee, and
the public at large, that the Legislature, not the
master: manufacturers and .millowners, are re-
sponsible for the condition of the labourers. The
millowners do not pretend to protect them.
They take no large payments for performing
that service. They have no monopoly of land
granted them in order to watch over the interests
of the nation. No large part of the national in
come, like tithes, and like rent, is set apart for
their especial use, in order to enable them to
provide for the public welfare. The millowmers
are mere traders, busily and openly employed,
like retail dealers, in providing for their
families, and making a fortune; and they are no
more responsible than any other class of traders
for the gelfare of the persons with whom they
deal, whether they buy of them labour or cotton.
The landowners, who have had a monopoly of

law-making as of laud, the great Peers,; the
Clergy, including the Bishops ;,in short, the well-
paid but terribly inefficient governing classes,

and not the industrious millowners, are respon-
sible for the condition and sufferings of the la-
bouring classes. . .

Though now greater than ever, they
did not commence in 1836, or even in 1830;
and then the millowners, as such, had not
even votes for the Members of the House ofCom-
mons. Before Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham,
&c., were enfranchised, the factory masters, un-
less they happened to be freeholders or free-
men, had not any direct electoral power, what-
ever influence their wealth might have given
them over the landlords. That was, un-
doubtedly, considerable ; and we do not deny
that the landlords lent themselves to the
avarice of the masters, and prostituted legis-
lation to oppress the people, whom the law-
makers ought to have protected. That the mas-
ters are selfish men seeking wealth nobody
denies, but that is neither dishonest nor dis-
honourable. All men are selfish, and they all
seek wealth, though to some are denied the
means and opportunity of gaining much. Be-
tween their conflicting and rival claims, it is the
business of the Government to stand neuter, be
strictly impartial, and do justice to all. Our
great misfortune is to have a Government which
is a rabid partisan, which never is neuter, and
which is actually ,constituted at present to per-
petrate injustice. The Short Time Committee,
therefore, and its constituents, should vent their
wrath on the Government, not on the mill-
owners who, like, themselves, are men struggling
with one another in trade and with the world.

A horrible murder has been committed in Ire-
land. A poor idiot has been smeared with tur-
pentine, and roasted to death. Law and autho-
rity have been mocked by holding a pretended
inquest on the body. The culprits are said to he
chiefly OFFICERS OF TIIE ARMY, a class of men
who belong to the aristocracy, as well as to the
military; and who learn from their class, and
their profession, to be habitually regardless of
the lives of the people. Our indignation is justly
roused against such a monstrous piece of bar-
barity practised on an unoffending lad ; but
how slight were his sufferings, how speedy and
beneficent the end, compared to the protracted
sufferings which the landed aristocracy inflict
on hundreds and thousands of our not merely
unaffending, but most useful and valuable mann-
faourin:, a.rtisau..F; tioly and litik oliffs'-!
Wheit the LtAriAature sets the ,hoittiliaibir
ample of slusvly,
the ihttitittlictlicen.: to death, sve onot be at all
surprised, however greatly we are indignant, that
the sons and relations of the landed aristocracy—
that the military servants and dependents on
that aristocracy and Legislature, should roast a
poor simple lad to death. Nor are we surprised
at the ferocity which is now occasionally dis-
played by. individuals, for it is practically
taught them by the example of the law-makers.
We have long and perSeveringly exposed and
denounced the wicked cruelty of those who
raise their rents by taxing their starving neigh-
bours' bread ; and we now call on society to
mark well, before the passions of the people
break through all bounds, the growing cruelty
and ferocity which have been inculcated by the
Legislature, and which, we much fear, society
will yet have to deplore in tears of blood.

We invite the attention of the public generally,
and of her 'MAJESTY'S Government in particular,
to a communication headed " War with China,"
which will be found in another part of The
Sun. The plan of operations suggested by
Mr. Wises Correspondent in China, may at first
excite alarm by their extensiveness; but some
acquaintance with the history of the Celestial Em-
pire, since it became known to Europeans, ha-
presses us with the conviction that it is by no means
impracticable. The only thing which we
could not readily accomplish is the
preventing other nations from profiting
by our military achiev_ements, and perhaps
the interests of humanity would be best con-
sulted by our being content with a fair share of
the Chinese trade. With regard to the good un-
derstanding likely to spring up between the
English and the native Chinese, intimated
by Mr. WisE's Correspondent, a remark-
able instance of it was supplied by
the intelligence brought by the last
overland mail from the island of Hong-
Kong. This island, though only a few weeks
in the possession of Captain ELLIOT, was
crowded with Chinese peasantry, some hun-
dreds of whom were quietly employed
as day labourers in marking out the site
of a new town. Nor were these labourers
confined to one or two trades ; masons, car-
penters, joiners, and workers in brass, iron.
and other metals, all tendered their services
to masters so willing to treat them well,
and to pay them fair wages—objects the most
highly prized by a Chinaman. We repeat, the
suggestions of Mr. WisE's Correspondent de-
serve the attention of Ministers and the country.

We have Madrid Journals of the 27th ult.
On that day the Chambers were occupied with
the election of their Presidents, Vice-Presidents,
and Secretaries. In the Senate the four follow-
ing Members were appointed Secretaries :
Senors TORRES SALANOT, ONIS, MUGNIZO, and
CLIACON. In the Chamber of Deputies the fol-
lowing elections took place;—Senor AdUNA,
President, elected by 69 votes ; Vice-Presidents
—Senor ALcox, by 53 votes ; Senor LILLO, by 48
votes; Senor SAGASTI, by 46; and Senor VIA-
DERA, by 44 ; Secretaries—Senors CABALLERO,
FERNANDEZ CANO, GALVEZ CANERO, and MA-.
REDERO.

A Jury has authorised the prosecution of the
Correo Nacional and the Huracan, for libels
upon the Government. One of the articles to be
proscuted, recommends the abolition of the Con-
stitution and the Regency, so that it is both
libellous and treasonable. But the press is yet
in its infancy in Spain, and very, imperfectly
comprehends its high mission.
On the Madrid Exchange, on the 27th ult.,
four bargains for 1,450,000 reals took place in
the Threes at 211 for sixty days, 14} for fifty-
seven days, and 23i for cash. In the Fives eleven
bargains for 6,100,000 reals at 321 for cash,
35i for sixty days. Exchange upon London,
90 days, 37,1 ; Paris, ditto, 161ibs. 3s.

We are indebted to Grzlignani's Messenger of
Monday for the following news from Turkey :
A letter from Constantinople, of the Bth ult., in the
Augsburgh Gazette, states that the Sultan intends nomi-
natinr, Hussein Pacha to the post of Seraskier, or Com-
mander-in-Chief of the army, and Hafiz Pacha to be
Minister of Finance. Zekeria Pacha is to be recalled
from the Pachalic of Diarbekir, and is to receive the
command of the army in Routnelia. The corps is to be
carried up to 50,000 men (regulars), with 15,000 Alba-
nians, 2,000 Spahis, and 3,000 Ba.schi Bosuk. It is to
be divrded into an army of observation, and an army of
operation. The former, 30,000 strong, is to be concen-
trated on Adrianople, Philippopoli, Sophia, Varna, Silis-
tria, and Schumla, and is to watch over Bulgaria and
Servia. The latter is to be stationed at Salonica, and on
the frontiers of Greece. It is also stated that an army
of 50,000 men will be concentrated on the capital. The
two naval divisions now in the Bosphorus are to be com-
pleted to six sail of the line each, with smaller vessels,
and are to sail, one for the Gulph of Volo, the other for
Candia. The Capitan Pacha is to command one, and
Walker Pacha (Admiral Walker) the other. It was
said at Constantinople that one or these divisions was in
reality destined for Tunis. The new Armenian
Patriarch had been recognised by both parties of his
countrymen, and all difficulties among them were in fu-
ture to bo arranged by 24 notable persons, selected from
the Armenians in general.

The Speech of the Spanish REGENT on opening
he Cortes is discussed in all the Paris papers
of Monday. The Court organs praise its mode
radon ; but even their praise is not without a
leaven of jealousy, excited by the contrast
which it offers to the King of the FaExcn's
fulminations against the domestic enemies of
his dynasty. " There reigns in the speech," says
the .Journal des Debuts, "a certain degree of
optimism, to which we do not, however,
allude ill-naturedly, for we cannot but sin-
cerely desire that the prospective of better
days for Spain, which the REGENT promises, may
be realised. The long and complicated amount of
reforms which the REGENT proposes to intro-
duce, shows, however, but too clearly the inex-
tricable confusion in which every department of

the State is plunged. The Government which ►
may be able to introduce light and order into
this chaos, whatever that Government may be,
must be the best that Spain can desire." There
can be no doubt of this. The difficulties which.
the ,REGENT has to encounter are more than
Alpine in their magnitude, more insurmountable
than the highest pinnacle of the Jura; and if he
surmount them, great indeed will be his glory,
and most legal his Government. We will not
trouble the Journal des Debats to remember
what share the French Government has had
in confusing and disordering' Spain ; nor will we
ask our Contemporary what thanks are due to
the REGENT for his delicacy in not raising the
veil which shrouds the discreditable conduct of
the Court of the Tuileries. But if a degree of
" optimism" reigns in the REGENT'S Speech,
" pessimism " is the characteristic of that of the
King of the FRENCH.
The Constitutionnel is cordial in its approba-
tion of the Speech. The following are the re-
marks of M. TniEns' organ :
The Regent's Speech appears to us to contain excel-
lent passages. It is moderate; it announces the reso-
lution .to maintain the Constitution and Royalty against
the manceuvres of the factious ofevery party, Republicans,
Christinos., or Carlists. It gives to the measure by which
the fueros were modified its true sense. It shows that the
Spanish Government is endeavouring to close all the
wounds of the country, and to organise society on new
and solid bases. Everything that can render Spain pros-
perous and powerful becomes for France an augmenta-
tion of strength and credit in the world. Shall we then
violently snap asunder the bonds of union which were
to become so firm for a question of etiquette?"

Notwithstanding the REGENT'S denunciation of
the abuses of the Spanish press, the Republican
National praises very highly the Speech of the
REGENT. The following is an extract from a
clever, laudatory article in that Journal :

We have read with great interest the speech of the
Regent, which forms another contrast to the sorry docu-
ment which Ac. Guizot recently sent forth to the world..
The Peninsula is rising by degrees from the abasement
into which it was plunged by civil war. The Govern-
ment encourages industry —devotes itself with solicitude
to public instruction—and is about to consecrate by law,
after having already practised them, the doctrines of
good government. The judicial hierarchy is to be orga-
nised on new bases ; the registrars and escribanos, who
are one of the curses of the country, are to have fixed at-
tributes, and deeply-rooted abuses are to be attacked by
severe regulations. Espartero speaks briefly and without
pomp of his last victory over the rebel Christinos. Cle li
-
mency has been mingled with his policy; and if in his dif-
ficult position the Regent has not dune all that we might '
have %;pected from him, it cannot be said that he merits
the reproach of having kolonged the system of chits-
ti.,ement, and curses tiro' himself by hi'' ernelly.
S,Entin. governed by the Melt who were chosen by ilt
nation, Spain happily pres,rved from - all Court
nuenc,, for her Roy:4y is but nusninal, has for eighteen
months tasted all the blessings of • a free and strong Go-
vernment. The calm which the nation enjoyed has been
disturbed by intrigues which had their birth in
France, but the result of the odious insurrec-
tion which was got up has been defeat and
shame. In less than a month the insurrection vas
fully put down, and the Regent was able to resume
the direction of the great interests which are entrusted
to him. The Spaniards have again proved that they
are ready armed for the defence of their revolution, and,
although even at this moment the partisans of Christina
are endeavouring to renew their unworthy agitation, they
will doubtlessly remember the severe lesson which has
been inflicted upon them. What is incontestable to al
honest men is that the Regency of Espartero is the sin
sere expression of the national will. The sovereignty of
the people created his rights, and
,these are the rights in
the name of which the Government is acting.
There is no domestic news of any interest: in
the Paris Journals of Monday. Conjectures are
a float As to what the Opposition may do or not
do, but we apprehend that nothing is yet re illy
known upon the subject. The following extracts
from them contain all the miscellaneous news

of any interest :
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
The Chamber of Deputies met in its Standing Com-
mittees on Monday to appoint the Committee which was
to draw up the reply to the King's Speech. All the Com-
missioners appointed were favourable to the Ministry.
They were the following :-
Ist Standing Committee—M. Hypulite Passy, the Mi-
nisterial candidate, obtained 24 votes; M. Berrille, the
Opposition candidate, had only 9. •
2d—M. Delessert was returned by 19 votes ; M. Bil-
lault by 16.
3d—M. Lacave Laplagne, 19; M. do Came, 16.
4th—M. Muret (de Bord), 21; M. Vivien, 16.
sth—M. Dupin, 26; M. Duvergier de Ilauranne, 10.
6th—M. Dumont (de Lot et Garonne), 22, out of 37
votes. _ _ _ _ _ _

7th—M. Jacques Lefevre, 25 ; M, Moreau (de la
Seine), 10.
Bth—M. Fould, 17; M. %Neville, 10.
9th—M. Bignon, 21; Messrs. Rivet and Odilon Bar-
rot, 19.
The Russian Government has established savings'
banks at St. Petersburgh and Moscow, in connection
with the banks of those cities. The minimum of a
single deposit is to be half a silver rouble (2fr.), and
the maximum 10 roubles (41fr.)
The Moniteur Belge publishes royal decrees which
order General Daine to be put on the non-active service
list, and M, Feigneaux, member of the Medical Commis-
sion of Brabant, to be revoked from his functions. These
measures are caused by the supposed implication of these
persons in the late conspiracy. A letter of General
Daine's was said to contain the phrase—" Comptez sur
moi, je serai pret avec tout ma meute."
The letter from the Queen of England to the King
of Prussia, inviting his Majesty to the christening of the
Prince of Wales, is stated by the Ilamburgh Correspon-
dent to have been couched in the kindest terms. Among
other expressions occur the following :—" I shall regard
it as a favourable augury for the happiness of my child
if your Majesty and my very dear cousin will hold him
in person over the baptismal font."
The St. Petersburgh papers remark that the winter
has hardly ever been known to be so mild in Russia. At
Wassili Ostrow, some daisies and primroses just blown
were gathered in the open air on the 13th ult.
At a recent sitting of the Grand Council of Argau, in,
Switzerland, the sale of the possessions of the convents
was ratified by a formal vote. This measure was
adopted, as the Narrateur of St. Gall states, in conse-
quence of the vacillation shown on this subject by the
Helvetic Diet.
A correspondent at Rome writes to the Augsburg Ga-
zette on the 21st ult., that official notice had been com-
municated to the Auditor-General, Mre. Acton, and the
Governor of Rome, Mre. CaSOni, that they were to be
immediately created Cardinals. Mrs. Trollope had been
presented to his Holiness.
A Vienna letter, 25th ult., in the Gazette of Upper
Germany, says that Sir Robert Gordon had presented an
invitation on the part of the Queen of Great Britain to
the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg to come to London
and stand as one of the sponsors for the Prince of Wales.
His Serene Highness, it adds, is to be represented by
the Saxon Minister at the Court of St. James's on this
occasion, and the Duchess Dowager of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha by the Duchess of Kent
It has just been decided in the Constituent Assembly
of Geneva that' the sittings shall be public, but that no-
body under eighteen years of age shall be admitted. On
a motion being made that women should be allowed to
be present at the sittings, there were fifty-two votes for,
and fifty-two against the measure, but the President gave
his casting vote in favour of the ladies.
The festival of Ste. Genevieve commences this clay, and
lasts till the 11 th inst. inclusively. During this period,
several grand masses will be pertbrmed in the church of
Saint Etienne-du-Mont, whore the shrine of the' Saint is,
and a solemn procession will take place in the edifice on

the last day.
A young woman, fashionably dressed, was detected,
three days ago, in the act of stealing a rich inkstand from
the show-rooms of Messrs. Susse, on the Place de la
_Bourse. She had entered with the apparent purpose of
making purchases, and had seized the opportunity of
secreting the object in question under her cloak, without
being. perceived as she unagined. She was immediately
taken into custody, and on her lodgings being searched
numerous articles of the same kind, obtained by similar
means from other shops, were found. The Commissary
of Police for the quarter has committed her for trial.
Itsismo THE WIND.—A gay youth of
Paris, having
by his extravagance worn out the liberality of his pa-
rents, and exhausted his credit even with the usurers,
was on the point of " yielding to his fate," when the
following bright idea struck him. He went to a cunning
little Isaac, and proposed to
give him a bill foi• 2,000 f.,
upon which the Jew, without advancing a single sous,
was to arrest him and confine him in the debtor's prison,
,young Hopeful being convinced that his father would im-
mediately pay the money and
release him. Upon this
Isaac was to retain all his costs with a handsome pre-
mium for his agency, and hand over the rest to his prin-
cipal. The first part of the plan was executed quickly
but the second failed ; for the young man's friends, de-
termining to punish him for his follies, resolved to leave
him in his new lodgings, and Isaac was obliged to let
him out, or continue to pay the monthly allowance of 30f.,
ordered by law to be paid by every creditor fur the sup.
port of his incarcerated debtor.
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Belgian 5 per Cents. - - 1024 ••• 11.14 ... 1024 .. 1(91.
5 per eclat., 1840... inni ... 1034 ... 102% io 44
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passive siti ••• 534 ... 5% .:. pi
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35 ... 106 25 ... 1(6 33
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Versailles. L.ls 2lO ••• 210 ... 210 .
210
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".312 ,0
town .......... ....... ........,,,_ 465 ••• 465 ... 465
... 463
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513 75
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GREAT MEETING OF VIE MINISTERS AT STOWE.
—Rumour says that the purport • for which the
Ministers have met at the mansion. of his Grace
of Buckingham is to persuade him to give up a

large part of his beloved Corn-law ; and rumour
says that the Duke is not likely to yield. If he
wants the talents, he has all the stubbornness of
the Grenvilles. It is confidently expected, there:
fore, says Madame Rumour, that there will be a
break-up in the Cabinet, and a reconstruction of
the brittle patch-work immediately upon, or
even before, the meeting of Parliament.

WAR WITH CHINA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin—As the war with China occupies a considerable
share of public attention at the present moment, and as
you have ever been an :advocate of the justice of such
war on the part of Great Britain, since the death of the
Gallant Lord Napier, I beg you may give publicity in
your widely circulated paper, to the following extract
taken from a letter received by me from the writer on the
spot, and who is qualified to give a sound opinion on the
subject. I am, your obedient servant,
ROBERT WISE.

Allonby, near Carlisle, Jan. 1, 1842.
(From a Correspondent in the China Sea.)
My belief is, that so soon as the Chinese find that their
Tartar rulers have not thepower to interfere in any islands
or places occupied by the British, but, on the contrary,
that the British protect the Chinese from Tartar op-
pression, that they, the Chinese, will find our Go-
vernment so mild, so preferable, and so profitable
withal, that they will at once throw off the Tartar
yoke; but we have yet much to learn in China ; time is
required, and I look upon past events as favourable to
our obtaining possession of valuable points on the Chinese
coast and Chinese rivets, N‘ Web, if well selected, will
enable Great Britain to hold a very considerable con-
trol in the councils of the Chinese Court at Pekin. Ido
not pretend to be a good judge of war operations, but it
must be evident, to every thinking Englishman at
least, that the Chinese forces, however numerous, have no
chance with the British. The point arrived at, therefore,
is this—not how far can the British go—but, how far
will they go ? I presume to state that it would be
for the ultimate advantage of both China and
Great Britain, that the whole of the islands on
the coast of China, together with the command of the
mouths of all the great rivers in China, and the principal
harbours, should be placed under our control and pro-
tection by subsidy, certain puints being ceded to 'us de
facto. This would enable us to protect the Chinese coast
from foreign, European, and American aggression ; it
would give employment to a large number of English
forces and civilians, who would, of course, be paid out of
Chinese subsidiary, revenue ; but, what is still of more
value to England, it would open a trade with one-Third
of the family of loan, whom we can clothe at one-
third less cost price to the wearer than the Chinese can
do themselves. The amount of this trade is almost
beyond one's grasp to comprehend; it is capable of being
made to infuse such life and vigour, by its magnitude,
into our commerce, shipping, and manufactures, as would
produce almost a new eta in Great Britain. All that is
wanted is the above. and to compel the Tartar Emperor
to comply, and to give us a free, fair field, for intercourse
and trade. his Chinese subjects are but too willing to
trade with us; but, while the Tartar Mandarins .hold the
iron ride and forbid their Chinese 3nbject3 to tnide with
progress can be made. M laid, the T,rtar,
will never give its any thing till foreed. must t heri,
fore take wh:a ,% ant by force, ld by force keep it,
and when we are ~;atisfied, force the Emperor to cede
mid substantiate it. I think possession of the Great
Canal, at its head, at Hang Choo Foo, and its heads
where it crosses the Yang and Yellow River, and where
it enters the Pekin river, would alarm the Tartars ;
these are the most vulnerable points, but you want more
troops to occupy the points taken.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 4.—We have had
a fair demand fur Cotton to-day, the sales comprising
4,000 bales,. at firm rates. Nothing to report in export
or speculation.
LIVERPOOL SHARE 'MARKET, JAN. 4.—A very limited
business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange this
day. The quotations are :—Grand Junction, 195. ;
Birmingham and Gloucester, 631; London and Binning-
ham, 170 ; London and Brighton, 381; North Midland
Half Shares, 364.
• MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHA.NCIE, JAN. 4.—We have
had only a limited businass to-day, owing chiefly to a want
of stock, through the confidence of sellers in the prospect
of farther improvement. Our sales are -.—London and
South Western, 59 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 281
and 28i ; Manchester and Leeds, 714 and 71k; Ditto
Quarters' 3/. 17s. 6d. ; North Midland Thirds, 167,-;
Ardwick Cemetery, 24.
No intelligence of the Overland Mail up to the present
time. Two ships have arrived at Penzance from China,
viz. the Bassorah Merchant, and the Thomas Lowry,
but the papers brought by them ar© not of so late a date
as those previously received.