The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch.

We are delighted to perceive from Mr. DUN-
COMBE'S speech yesterday, at a meeting of the
National Association, that the late discreditable
Charges of Lord A BINGER at Liverpool and
Chester are not likely to be soon forgotten or
forgiven. If no one else, observed the Hon.
Member for Finsbury, would bring them under
the consideration of Parliament, he would do so.
This is manly and straight-forward ; in fact, just
the course of proceeding that might have been
anticipated from a gentleman who, through
evil and through good report, has ad-
hered unflinchingly to the popular cause,
and supported it in the Senate with a zeal
and ability that few have equalled, and none
surpassed. Mr. COBDEN has also recorded his
abhorrence of the obnoxious Charges in ques-
tion; many other Liberal Members arc known to
entertain similar strong opinions on the subject;
and greatly indeed shall we be surprised and
mortified, if a large majority of the Whig,
and the whole of the Radical, section in
the House of Commons, do not read such
a lesson to his Lordship as shall effec-
tually sicken him of delivering one-sided
political homilies from the judgment-seat.
Doubtless, Lord ABINGER—Iike other small men
who are apt to assess their talents and influ-
ence at too high a valuation—thought that by
formally recording his protest against Chartism,
he would be crippling its energies, and putting
it, as it were, without the pale of respectability;
but if such were his notions, never was man
more mistaken; he has shown by his
Charges, not that the Chartists are reckless
anarchists, but that he is a wilful Ignoramus;
not that they are contemptible in point of num-
bers and ability, but that he is a bigoted
alarmist. We by no means hold with all the
six points of the Charter, which is, we think, in
many respects unsuited to the wants of the pre-
sent day; but this we will say, that we have seen
nothing in the document that in the slightest de-
gree justifies Lord ABINGER'S declaration, that it
strikes at the root of the monarchy, and
advocates a spoliation of property. But were it
even otherwise, and as anarchical in its charac-
ter as it is simply impracticable, still, his Lord-
ship is not the man to extinguish it. It requires
a Hercules to crush a Hydra. But to return to
Mr. DUNCOMBE. Alluding to the conduct of the
MELBOURNE Ministry, the Hon. Member
for Finsbury observed, " Much blame is
due, and justly due, to them. They were
told, when in the zenith of their power, that
they were not then making the most of their
time, but that the reform which they had
effected, was incomplete. They heeded not the
warning, but talked of finality, and hung on the
skirts of the Court, instead of supporting them-
selves on the strong arms of the People."
There is but too much truth in these remarks.
The Whigs, without absolutely arraying them-
selves against the People, yet neglected, when
they had the power, to befriend them; and the
consequences of this neglect have been, first their
own irretrievable defeat; and secondly, the acces-
sion to office of a set of men whom circumstances
have armed with all but despotic power, and
whom it is necessary to watch With the utmost
vigilance, inasmuch as they are by no means re-
markable for their Liberal tendencies. If it had
not been for Whig supineness, we should not
now, among other blessings, have been saddled
with a Tory Income-tax, and a locust-plague of
tax-gatherers, a thousand times worse than all the
Plagues of Egypt put together.

The news foom Port Natal, of which we gave
an abstract yesterday, will be found detailed at
length in The Sun of this day, and will be read
with lively interest. The intelligence in general
is very satisfactory, though we have to regret
the loss of many lives in this unfortunate affair
with the Boers. Without including the sol-
diers shot when the landing was effected
under Colonel CLOETE, there have been
twenty-five killed and forty wounded, making
a total, including prisoners and those miss-
ing, of eighty-six. The emigrant farm-
ers, however, seem now reconciled to their
fate, and are making atonement for their rash
attempt by unqualified submission. They have
released all the prisoners, whether soldiers or
civilians, given up all the captured cannon, and
restored all public and private property which
they had seized. This is highly characteristic
of these simple and honest people, and we re-
joice to find that this conduct is met with be-
' coming kindness and forgiveness by the Go-
vernor at the Cape. He has granted a general
amnesty, including their leader PRETORIOUS,
persons who had
ofinfivreesisting the British
takenwitlt thean active exception
part
troops—promised to defend them against the
natives, and assured them that their lands shall
not be interfered with till the determination of
her MAJESTY'S Government is made known.
That, we trust, will be equally liberal and
humane. These people have many claims
on the sympathy of our Colonial rulers. They
left the Cape settlement owing, as it is well
known, to their dissatisfaction with the
laws and institutions of that colony, and
occupied the territory where they are now
located under the firm conviction that it did
not belong to the British Government.
If they had any doubts on the subject, was it
likely that they would have given up their lands,
and removed, at great expense, to a distant
settlement where they might be again sub-
jected to the same treatment from which
they had fled ? The disappointment felt
when they found themselves still under British
dominion excited them to madness, and forced
them into an unequal and hopeless contest with
this country. They have suffered the penalty,
and it now remains for our Government to do
them justice, make the amnesty complete, and
allow them to retain their existing administration
and civil institutions.

Accounts from Lisbon, brought by the Liver-
pool steamer, which arrived at Falmouth yester-
day, state that Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN had
had interviews with the Duke of PALMELLA and
Senhor GOMES DE CASTRO upon the Tariff ques-
tion, and another meeting was expected soon to
take place between the Commissioners. The
Treasury bills on the Decima were expected
shortly to come out; they were to be drawn for
a year, and to bear interest at 71 per cent. per
annum. The issue to be under the charge of the
Board of Public Credit.
It appears from a list of the paid up amount
and selling price of the shares in the banks of
Lisbon and Oporto, steam-boat, omnibus,-insur-
ance, fisheries, and other companies, that those
of the Bank of Lisbon are at 175 dollars pre-
mium, and the Fideledade are at 15 per cent.
premium. The Oporto Bank shares are a trifle
below par; all the other companies are at a con-
siderable discount, and some, such as the fishery
and earthenware companies, are at merely a no-
minal price.

Great complaints were made of the proceed-
ings of M CAPACCTNI, as tending to excite schism
and. disobedience to the constitutional bishops
and clergy.
The French Princes were daily expected at
Lisbon from Brest.

The Paris papers of Sunday, which had been
delayed for several hours by the boisterous
weatherin the Channel, have been received, and,
as might have been expected, some of them
express great indignation at the article in the
Journal des Debits on Lord ABERDEEN'S letter.
The Commerce and the National are quite furious
on the subject, and seem quite at a loss to con-
ceive how a Frenchman can defend, or even
palliate, the conduct of the British Government.
" The Journal des Debits," says the commerce,
',cis the. Ministerial journal, and the Ministry have
received from public opinion the title which they it

deserve, the Ministry of foreigners. No one there-
fore can be surprised at finding this neorning in the
columns of that Ministerial paper, an article
which some might imagine was drawn up by an
English writer. Whenever France has any af-
fair to settle with foreigners the Journal des
Debats is sure to place foreigners in the right; it
reserves all its solicitude for foreigners, and to
them it addresses all its praise and congratula-
tions. It is, in fact, the journal of 1814 and 1815."
The same journals express great dissatisfaction
at the appointment of General JACQUEMINOT to
the command of the National Guards.

As for the appointment of General Sebastiani, it is
not yet inserted in the Moniteur, but it seems not to
be doubtful. On this subject the Siecle has the fol-
lowing remarks :—" The nomination of General Ti-
burce Sebastiani to the command of the military di-
vision of Paris, in the room of General Pageot, is cer-
tain. By way of indemnification, General Pageot has
been offered the place of one of the King's Aides-de-
Camp, doubtless that which is vacant by the death of
M. Alexandre Laborde.

Gen. Pageot not having at first received this offer
with much eagerness, which M. Guizot had under-
taken to induce him to accept, the latter said to him
—"Don't you know, General, that Marshal Villars
was one of the aides-de-camp of Louis XIV. ?" We
do not know what General Pageot answered ; hut he
might have reminded M. Guizot that Lous XIV. had
Ministers rather more jealous of the honour of the
country than his Majesty Louis Philippe's Ministers,
who in times of reverse, as well as of the most bril-
liant events, made all Europe respect the honour and
the name of France.

It is reported that the Due d'Aumale, when he
returns from Africa, will be appointed to the command
in chief of the National Guards of the department of
the Seine, and that General Jacqueminot will be only
second in command.

The Tartare, which has arrived at Toulon, has
brought news from Algiers of the 15th. Still the
Ministry has not yet published any report of General
Bugeaud.—Le Commerce, Oct. 23.
We have a letter from Algiers, of the 15th, which
says :—" Since the departure of the last mail we have
no news of the column under the command of the
Governor-General. There is every reason to sup-
pose that it has entered the province of Constantina,
but we have nothing certain on the subject. The
greatest tranquility continues to prevail in the Mitidja,
and the Arab and French markets are very well
supplied."
The Echo de la Frontiere, under the head of Valen-
ciennes, Oct. 22, has the following passage :--
" The Chamber of Commerce of the Department of
the North have resolved to send delegates to Paris to
represent to the Government the injury vhich would
result to the several manufactures of our country from
the projected Customs' union with Belgium. They
have applied to the Chamber of Valenciennes to know
whether it is intended to imitate them. If we are
rightly Wormed, the Chamber of Commerce has re-
solved not to send delegates, but to go in a body to
Paris to support their opinions to the utmost of their
power. M. de Marngoval, deputy of Valenciennes,
will, it is said, be requested to present to the Minister
the members of our Chamber of Commerce, who will
be joined by some of the chief manufacturers of our
district."

The Moniteur of the 23d has no official part.—Le
Constitutionnel, Oct. 23.

DUTCH FUND.s.—Ammanam,locT. 21.
Money. Bills.
Actual Deb , 2)4 per Cent ..... 52i1 69
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. ........„.«.» «..... 101 N 112
A mot t Svndic,4% per cent.... ..... 94 04%
PAtto. ditto, 3% per cant 77 77%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent......... 135% 1381).,
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per tent...„........ 100 100%
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. •. ...... ••••••••••••• 99% 100
Exchange on London, sine month l2 22r
Twomontha 12 17%
Hamburgh, One 35 87),
Two months 35 6311
Dutch Papers, Oct. 22.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, OCT. 26.—Wind this day at noon,
southerly, light breeze, with rain at intervals.
DEAL, OCT. N.N.W., fresh.—Arrd.
Fairy Queen, Cousens, Ceylon ; Apprentice, Caden-
head, Mauritius; Duke of Roxburgh, Collard, South
America ; Bonne Mere, Peele, Berbice ; James
M'Queen, M'Coll, St. Kitts ; D'Auvergne, Forbes,
Honduras ; Coronet, Bute, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick ; Lady Nepean, and Mariner, Quebec ; Isabella,
Geale, Demerara ; Trio, Hall, New Ross ; Pilgrim,
Lindstrom, Havannah • Cairo, Sydney; N uma, Van
Diemen's Land ; Fairfield and W. G. Anderson,
Quebec ; Duke of Wellington and Cleveland barques.
Orr DOVER, OCT. i23,—Lord Stanley, Quebec.
24. Progress, Schmidt, Rio, for Antwerp elurelia,
Ames, Miramichi.
OFF THE WIGHT, OCT. 21.—Sarah Barry, Quebec.
OFF MARGATE, OCT. 24.—Orion, Quebec.
SHEERNESS, OCT. 24.—Arrd. Sarah Burrows,
Quebec.
RAMSGATE, OCT. 24.—The Ann and Elizabeth,
from Hamburgh to Liverpool, has put in here with
loss of foretopmast, &c.
COWES, OCT. 24.—Arrd. Thomas Naylor, Fast-
ing, Havannah; Union, London, for New Zealand;
Spartan, ditto, for Jamaica.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind T.W.i to N., strong
gales with violent squalls.—Arrd. Liverpool packet,
with Mediterranean mails, Palmyra, Cousens, Gam-
bia, short of provisions, and crew sick.
MILFORD, OCT. 23.—The Astrea, arrived here
from Quebec, is very leaky; has lost sails, sprung
bowsprit, and received other damage.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 24.—Wind N., fresh,—Arrd.
Magnolia, Johnson, St. Lucia, sailed Aug. 8 ; Swa-
tara, New Orleans ; St. Andrew, Quebec.
SHIELDS, OCT. 22.—S1d. Columbia, Aden.
SWANSEA, OCT. 22.—Arrd. Castor, Jack, Cuba.
CLYDE, OCT. 22.—S1d. Lavinia and Scotch Lass,
Newfoundland; Constellation, Calcutta; Active, De-
merara.
GALWAY, OCT. 19.—Arrd. M. Jane, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
CORK, OCT. 22.—S1d. Celia, Large, Trinidad.
JERSEY, Ocr.l7.—Sld. Andes, Brazils.
LLANELLY, OCT. 22.—Arrd. Tagus and George,
Quebec,
MUMBLES, OCT. 21.—Sld. Cubenia, Cuba.
WATERFORD, OCT. 21.—Arrd. John Bell, Quebec.
OFF PORTLAND, OCT. 21.—Arrd. Arminia, Otto,
Havannah, for Hamburgh ; Gustav Wasa, Nordn all,
Rio for Gottenburg.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind off;
Johan George, Geerken, New York for Bremen ; Jane
Lockhart, Demerara.
STANGATE CREEK, OCT. 24.—Arril. John Brown,
Ruglcss, Calcutta.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind N.N.W., fresh.—
Sld. Margaret Hardy, Algoa Bay.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.*
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET.-MONDAY NIGHT.
ENTRY FOR TUESDAY'S RACES.

50/., last three miles of 7yrs—Ajax, 4
yrs—f out of Flambeau dam, 3 yrs—Tho Biddy, 3 yrs—
The Ladye of Silverkeld Well, 3 yrs—Prosody, 3 yrs—
Topsail, 3 yrs—c by Bolero, out of Captain Rook's di, 2
yrs—Rice (Rhodocantha filly), 2 yrs—Nylghau, 2 yrs,
and Barbarina, 2 yrs.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, last half of Ab. M.—
Chilson, 6 yrs—The King of the Peak, 5 yrs—The
Jewess, 5 yrs—Sister to Glencoe, 4 yrs—Pelerime, 4
yrs—Rapture, 3 yrs—Bridale, 3 yrs—Sweetmeat, 3 yrs—
c by Plenipo, out of Marefield's dam, 3 yrs—and Badwell
Ash, 3 yrs.
Handicap Plate of 100/. Francis, aged—
Roscins, 6 yrs—Tamburini, 6 yrs, 9st 21b—Belissima,
6 yrs, Ist 12113—Discord, 5 yrs, 9st -21b—Una, 4 yrs,
7st 81b—Fama, 4 yrs, 1st—Snowdrop, 4 yrs, 7st—The
Ladye of Silverkeld Well, 3 yrs, Est 31b—Prosody, 3
yrs, Est 71b—Ma Mie, 3 yrs, 7st 51b—Arcanus, 3 yrs,
7st 21b.

Acceptances for the Nursery Stakes.—First Class :
Testy, Bst 81b—Cotherstonc, 8t 41b— Bessy Bedlam f,
7st 131b—Rook's Nest, ist 131b--Galata c, ist 111 h
Minx's dam, 7st 101b—Nylghau, 7st 71b—Botheeern,
7st 61b. Second Class : Queen of the Gipsies, Bst 101 b
Sister to Combat, Est 41b—Fanny Davies f, 7st 1 11b—
Redshank colt, 7st 111b—The Saddler filly, 7st 61b—
Fidelity filly, 7st 51b—Marquis, 7st.

THE FUNDS-(C

iOSING PRICES.)
FUNDS.

BRITISH
Rank Stock - .1651
3 per Cent. Red. ...., 93
3 per Cent. Cone 934
3i per Cent. Red. looi
New 31 per Cent... lOll
New 5 per Cen.
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 .. l2 5-16
Oct. 1859
I
Jan. MO l2a
FOREIGN

India Stock .253 pm
Ditto Bonds .... 50 pm
Ditto Old Annuities ...
Ditto New Annuities...
Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 59 pm
Ditto 500/...... 59 pm
Ditto Small ...... 59 pm
Bank Stock for Acct.
India Stock for Acct...

!Consols for Acct. --
934
f FUNDS.

Portuguese, 5 per cent 5B
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 pei cent —
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent l7i
Ditto, Deferred .
French, 5 per cent —f.
Exchange —f —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
, Dutch, 2 per cent
Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 104

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent lO4
Brazilian Bonds... 64i
Buenos Ayres6 per cent.
Chilian, 6 per cent.
Colombizn, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1124
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 791
Daiiish,'3 per sent
Greek, 18:5, 5 per cent
Mexican, 5 per cent 321
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. 151
SHARES.
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid ..
London and Brighton (50 paid) 361
London and Birmingham (90)
London and Greenwich Railway ( I 21 Iss 4dpd )
Ditto Preference, or Privilege l7
London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) bei
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 94
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid ) ...
south Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 221
Ditto Scrip (15 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid)

D.tto N.w Shares (20 paid)