The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30, 1842,

A with China, at a moment when nobody looked
I for it, on most advantageous terms, opening a
new and a ready peopled world to our trade, and
stimulating enterprise in all our ports, is another
piece of good fortune. Unfortunate delays in
sending the avenging army into Caubul, and a
hesitating policy in the Governor-General, had
excited painful apprehensions. The skill of our
officers, and the undaunted valour of our troops,
have again accomplished a great victory, which
spreads the halo of success and glory round
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Administration. The
Tower guns have been fired by its orders;
bells have been rung ; the animation, or
perhaps we may say the intoxication of unex-
pected good fortune, has infected the public, and
there has been a general clearing up of clouded
countenances, and a general exhiliration on
public 'changes and commercial marts, such as
have not been known for years. Reports already
prevail that the army is to be somewhat reduced;
taxes, it is clear, may be remitted, as the war
in Affghanistan is at an end, as the whole ex-
pense of the Chinese war, for which they were
levied, has been reimbursed, and a large sum
paid into the Treasury ; the people may be
soothed, and the lucky Administration, which
boasts of its strength, may possibly become po-
pular. Nevertheless, we adhere to our opinion,
that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government is a failure,
and that, though equally lucky and strong, it
must give up the policy it was established to
carry through.
In the Times of yesterday appeared a letter,
duly leaded, signed " Conservator," dated Man-
chester; and calling on our Contemporary boldly
to advocate a moderate fixed duty on corn, as-
suring him that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S late measure
has only whetted the appetite for further
changes; that every Conservative in Lancashire,
and perhaps in the country at large, is for a
moderate fixed duty, and implying that nothing
else can serve or save the nation. But Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL was forced into office far more on
account of our domestic distresses, than our
foreign relations, and it was to cure them that he
took his great fee. On being placed in office,
he cast aside, as a useless nostrum, the Whig
recipe of a fixed duty; but he adopted and re-
commended the sliding scale, and a high rate
of agricultural protection, and his prescrip-
tion has made matters much worse than be-

the directing genius of the Cabinet, was at Ghent
—not because he was the editor• of the Ghent
Moniteur—not because be was the Secretary of
the Abbe MoNTEsQuiou, but because he was
Ambassador in London, where he betrayed his
Govern ment.—(Cries of ' Bravo, bravo!' for some
minutes.) I oppose the Ministry because it is in
office, thanks to English influence. I oppose it
because it is sustained by British influence.—
(' Bravo, bravo 1')"
The supporters of General JACQUEMINOT,
though not so violent, still direct their attacks
against Engl2nd, and appear only to wait for a
misunderstanding among the Powers of Europe
to make France what she ought to be—the ar-
biter of nations. England is a dreadful bug-
bear to these gentlemen, and seems con-
stantly to haunt
,their imaginations. "Every
prudent and sincere person," says M. ADAM,
in a published address, " admits that the
consequences of our late wars and revo-
lutions have placed us in a situation, with respect
to The rest of Europe, full of difficulties. These
are the legacy of a past marked by reverses. Let
us make allowances for a Government so situated.
France resembles a great lord, who has embar-
rassed his fbrtune by the extravagance of his
youth, and would reconstruct it by prudence and
economy. Let us support this prudent and
reasonable policy, and let us not be carried away
by the adventurous illusions of revolutionary
policy. When Europe, restored to confidence
by our calm, shall have ceased to remain united
in mistrust of us--wl►en the great Powers of
Europe shall have recurred to their old quarrels
—when .England and Russia shall fall to logger-
heads about Persia and Asia, and Austria
struggle for the mouths of the Danube, then
France, becoming their natural arbiter, may re-
sume the rank which her children would like to
see `her take, and which must be the result of
time and patience."

We should be delighted to see Europe restored
to confidence by the calm of France, but fear that
day is far distant.

The following telegraphic dispatch was received
by the French Goverament on the evening of
Saturday :

" MADRID, Nov. 21.
" The Regent left this morning at two o'clock.
Madrid is tranquil."

fore. Now friends and foes, Conservatives
and Whigs, join in declaring that he has mis-
taken the disease, and that a moderate fixed duty
is the true panacea. In spite, therefore, of an
unexpected good harvrst, and in spite of unex-
pected successes abroad, the main shaft of Sir R.
PEEL'S policy is broken in twain, and he must

The last accounts received at Madrid from Barce-
lona were to the 18th.

The French Government have also received the fol-
lowing intelligence :
" The movement, which broke out at Valencia on
the 20th, was suppressed on the 21st.
"The Regent was to reach Saragossa on the 24th."
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 5... 119 5... 119 ... 119 5
Four per Cents 101 40... 101 40 .. 101 40... 101 40
3 per Cents 89 1... 80 45... 80 40... 80 40
Bank of France 3295 ...3295 —3295 .. 3295
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1057 50 ..1057 50...1057 50...1057 50

have a new one, or the machine will soon come
.o a still stand.

The distress of the people renders vain all his
schemes. " The Anti-Corn-law League," says
"Conservator," " are only powerful as long as the
manufacturing population are distrtssed." That
is the fulcrum, working on which the lever of
agitation will tumble down PEEL'S Administra-
tion, unless PEEL changes his policy. He must
satisfy the manufacturers
.; the bulk of the people
must have employment and reasonable wages;
and if these things be not accomplished, as they
cannot possibly be, either by a sliding scale or
a fixed duty, he must come to a perfectly free
trade. On any other principle he will make the
Government responsible for all the wants of the
manufacturers and the merchants; for all the
uncertainty and sufferings of the, farmers; and
for all the distresses of the people. Such a re-
sponsibility, now that the pretensions of Sir R.
PEEL to cure all national diseases have fixed the
attention of the public on him, and justified all
the demands it can make for ease and health,
will speedily convince him that he has no other
alternative than to set trade entirely free, shake
from the Government the awful responsibility he
has assumed, and tell manufacturers, merchants,
fiirmers' artisans, and labourers, to provide for
themselves.

5,0001...5080 ...5080 —.5080 ..5080
Belgian Bank
Belgian Fives 103 f ... 103 f ... 103 f ... 103 f
1840 lo4f ... 104 f ... 1041- ... 104 f
Spanish Active 9.3± ... 23f ... 23i ... 23d
Passive ..• 3L 3L
New Deferred 9/ ••• •••9 ... 9/
Portuguese Fives 3l- ... 31f ... 311
Neapolitan . lOB 55... 108 85... 108 85... 108 85
Roman, ex div. ...... 104 i ... 104 ... 104 k ... 104 k
RAILWAY SHARES

St. Germain 827 50... 830 ... 827 50... 8.30
Versailles, LB B7 50... 87 50... 87 50... 87 50
,
Rouen
Orleans....
Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 202 50... 202 50

THE LATE EXTENSIVE BANK ROBBERY.—We are
happy to learn, from good authority, that almost the
whole of the large sum lately lost by the London
Joint-Stock Bank has been recovered. it was left at
the Bank at a late hour last evening, and great hopes
are entertained that in a short time the person
accused of misappropriating it will be in custody.

The history of those remarkable proceedings
which led to the snit of CHESTERFIELD v.
BA-
THYANY, copied from a weekly paper, will be
found in another part of The Sun. The compiler
of facts, if we may use such an expression in re-
ference to these very discreditable negotiations,
has apparently taken great pains and time to as-
certain the truth, and certainly places the de-
fendant in a very different light from that in
which he had been represented by certain jour-
nals. 'We have heard from other quarters that
this view of the case is correct, and that through-
out the whole transaction Count BATHYANY
conducted himself in a manner so honourable,
as to form a remarkable contrast to that
exhibited by his English friends. The plaintiffs
are now convinced of the fact, and in order to

hush up the affair, which prudence and regard
for their rank should for ever have concealed,
they have withdrawn the action put down for
trial in the Queen's Bench on Saturday before a
Special Jury. This is fortunate, for possibly
some further details might have been furnished

little creditable to the parties themselves, or the
order to which they belong. If these are a
specimen ofour hereditary legislators, and as they
are nearly related toPeers who are constantly bawl-
ing out " Church and State for ever" we may take
them as a tolerably fair sample, can we wonder
at the enormous extent of class legislation, or the
outcry raised occasionally by the lower and
middle classes against the two Houses of Parlia-
ment? If Peers and Peers' sons and Members of
the House of Commons be parties to such acts in
private life, what security is there that they will
act more honourably when they perform the
functions of legislators ? To lay heavy taxes on
others and screen themselves, to uphold an
enormous Church establishment in which they
have an interest, to vote pensions to their relatives
out of the people's money, and to make severe
laws which they know cannot reach themselves
in one case out of a hundred, are only matters of
duty compared with those deeds which, within
the lust six months, have brought such merited
disgrace on the higher classes. But the injury
done does not only affect them. They are re-
garded us the leaders of fashion, a 3 models for
imitation in all the walks of life, and aspirants to
rank and titles, so that even the plebeian multi-
tude are corrupted by their bad example. We
would, therefore, recommend such worthies
as Lords CHESTERFIELD and MAIDSTONE to
the especial care of the Bishops, and chiefly
to him of LONDON, who would find • quite
enough of work on his hands without lec-
turing the poor on the immorality of playing at
skittles, or wasting his precious time in counting
the boats that pass by his country palace on
Sundays.

Madrid journals, of the 21st, have been re-
ceived, and are chiefly occupied with the dis-
turbances at Barcelona. No further accounts
have been received from that place of the
slightest importance. ESPARTERO left Madrid
on the 21st, with an army 0f1.5,000 mon, to put
down the insurrection. The march will occupy
at least ten days, and the general belief in the
capital was, that the REGENT, in order to prevent
such mad outbreaks for the future, would make
some severe examples.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the
election of a Deputy for the first arrondissement,
which had become vacant by the appointment of
General JACQUEMINOT to the command of the
National Guards. The General again offers
himself to the electors, and from all accounts
will be the successful candidate. No less than
seven are in the field, namely, the General, M.
de VAUFRELAND, formerly Secretary-General at
the Ministry of Justice in 1830, a Royalist;
Lieut.-General Count GIRARDIN, Royalist; M.
AUGUSTE PORTAL'S, formerly Deputy for Meaux,
a Liberal; M. BOINVILLIERS, an advocate, a
Liberal; M. CONSIDERA NT, editor of the Pha-
lange; and M. FOISSAC, a physician, a Liberal.
A numerous meeting of the electors was held in
the Rue Duphot on Sunday, when some amusing
speeches were made. Most of the speakers de-,
nounced England and her protegee, M. GUIZOT.
All the English, said
one, were not at the other
side of the Channel, a remark which excited
shouts of laughter; and PORTALIS announced his
political creed in the following words. " I op-
pose the present Ministry not because M. GUIZOT,