The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-19 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch

The hostility of Louis PIIILIPPE to the RE..
GENTjOf Spain is now assuming a serious aspect, I
and unless that Monarch:be deterred by the other
Powers of Europe, will, to a certainty, lead to a
war between the two countries. Every fresh
circumstance tends to confirm the suspicion that
the conspiracy at Barcelona was the work of the
French, and that it was got up with a view to
ulterior and hostile proceedings. Spanish jour-
nals, and, what is of much more importance, Spa-
nish functionaries have advisedly proclaimed the
fact, that the French Consul was implicated
in the plot, and, but fbr the part lie
took in the affair on the 3d inst. by landing from
the French ships a band of desperadoes, no bom-
bardment would have taken place, and the city
would at once have returned to its allegiance.
This is a grave charge, and, therctbre, demands
the most searching investigation, but, without
waiting for inquiry, the King of the FRENCH has
adopted the acts of the Consul as iiis own, and
has rewarded him for his services by promoting.
him to the rank of officer in the Legion of
Honour. Such a•hasty step bears all the-marks
of premeditation, and leaves no doubt in
our • minds, that the King of the FRENCH
will have recourse to the last extremities
to put down ESPARTERO'S Government, and
marry one of his sons to the Queen of SPAIN.
Private letters from Paris affirm that active
measures are in progress for coinplciing the
rupture, and that an official communication was
made on Thursday to the Spanish Charge
d'Affaires at the Court of France, announcing
that if the charges against the French Consul
were not withdrawn his passports would be deli-
vered to him—in other words, war Would be
declared. Will the rest of Europe suffer this?
Will England stand by and allow such a wanton
act of aggression upon a country not only at
peace, but closely allied with this country? We
have every reason for answering in the negative.
Sir ROBERT PEEL, in the House of Commons,
stated distinctly that the British Government
would take no active part in establishing
any particular Government in Spain, but at
the same time would suffer no attack
upon the independence of that country. This is
a fearful crisis; but, thank GoD, it is not brought
on by the English nation, or by her rulers.
If the French nation be determined on war, and
the blind rage against England which has lately
pervaded all their journals leads to the inference,
the wish must he gratified. LOUIS PHILIPPE with
M. TRIERS raised the war storm iii
.1840, and to a
certain extent calmed it by yielding to the
Allied Powers. He has raised it a second
j time, but the feeling of humiliation still
rankles in the breast of the war party,
and a second concession might cost him MS
throne, and perhaps his life. It is for this coun-
try, however, to be prepared for the worst, for
it is our firin conviction, that nothing short of a
miracle can preserve peace for twelve months,
between England and France.

A case, which we consider one of a very cruel
description, was decided on Saturday, against
a publican, by Mr. (GREENWOOD,on, the Police
was instigated
edTlbi The accuser
personal motives; the Magis-
accuser (a policeman), evidently
irate was aware of the fact, for he intimated that
the course proposed by the informer" looked so
mtichi like making
t by the cabman
attecda, except and though really
cep
dadnigtnNivty of two police con-
as fined five pounds.
swt ha
bo
es,
e tnhdee dd e thefen
no offence was comunPli
Two of these functionaries, it appears, on
hearing a noise, "such as talking loudly,"
knocked at the door of the defendant about halt=
past two in the morning which was instantly
opened, and on entering they found several
cabmen at the bar, two of whom they positively
swore were drunk. None of the party were
seen drinking—no complaint was made by the
neighbours of any noise, and, as they also swore,
the landlord refused to serve out more liquor at
that time of the morning. On leaving the house
these gentlemen also swore the cabmen booted
them as they went along. This was very im-
proper, and very indiscreet, for the grievous
offence probably gave rise to this cruel and ini-
quitous proceeding- We call it cruel, because
two convictions for such a venial fault as this, if
fault it can be called, may deprive the publican
of,his license, and ruin him and his family. It
is iniquitous, because, looking at the merits
of the case, the defendant's conduct was
rather praiseworthy than otherwise. If all
publicans were fined, and further punished by
the loss of their license, fin. conduct like this,
not one in London could escape. It is a common
practice for policemen to have two or three
counts in their charges against prisoners, one of
which is generally drunkenness, and when the
rest fail they fall back upon this. The Magistrate
knows the fact, and he should therefore have
been cautious in believing their statements, and
still more in imposing a penalty of such serious
consequences. The old law allows only a fine of
ss. for drunkenness, but this merciful new Act
imposes a fine of 5/. on a publican for what he
could not possibly prevent. Our readers will re-
member that the Magistrate who gave this deci-
sion sent a boy of eleven years of age to prison
for selling prints in the street to gain a liven-
heiod for himself and his widowed mother.

The half-yearly examination of the masters in
training at the National Board of Education was
held on Thursday last at Dublin, on which oc-
casion the Lord Lieutenant attended, accom-
panied by the Countess DE GREY ; and the
platform was crowded with visitors of various
religious denominations; amongst whom were
several clergymen of
the Established Church
and the Presbyterian body. The Archbishop
of Dublin, Doctor WHATELF,y, was also present,
and addressed the crowded auditory with much
effect in a forcible and argumentative speech,
in the course of Which, alluding to the opposition
that had been raised to the National Board of
education, and its
was, no doubt, system of tuition, be said, " it
a precious privilege to have the
Bible, and the
Power of reading it ; but was it
not melancholy to reflect that by some it was so
shamefully abused? There are men who talk of
it, who have it
perpetually on their lips, who
glory in it, and yet display a character quite op-
posite to the spirit of charity and forbearance
which it inculcates. He would exhort the in-
structors of youth before him to have the Bible,
not merely in their. hands or mouths, but in their
hearts." This is a home-thrust at the bigotry of
those High-Churchmen—among whom we
timr we must number the majority of the
bench of Bishops—who, for mere party
purposes, have distinguished themselves by the
inveteracy of their opposition to the system of
education adopted
by the National Board. No
calumny was too absurd—no abuse too gross
for these interested Intolerants to launch
against the Board
in question. In Parliament,
and out of Parliament, they asserted that it was
opposed to the dissemination of the Scriptures
among its pupils, or, that if it did permit them
to be disseminated, it was in a garbled and muti-
lated form, so that more harm was done than good
'b'y such a qualified permisSion. They stated
moreover, these deperate High-Church bigots,
that the new system of education would neveran- I
swer, but that, after doing as much mischief'as pus-

sible, it would be put down by the common sense
and right feeling of the Irish community. Alas,
for the prophecies of Intolerance! The National
Board of Irish Education has answered—and
more than answered—the expectations of those
who originated it Instead of sowing dissensions
among the pL,ople, it has materially assisted to
heal them; instead of tending to encourage a
laxity of religious principle, it has strengthened
and confirmed such principle to the utmost;
instead of sinking quietly and gradually into
insignificance, it has slowly but surely acquired
a vast moral influence in Ireland.

Viscount CLIVE has just issued an address to
the freeholders and other electors of the Northern
Division of Shropshire, the representation of
which is vacant in consequence of the elevation
of the late Member, Sir RowLAND HILL, to the
peerage. In this address the Noble Viscount
says :—" Should I be honoured by being chosen
as your representative, I shall anxiously endeavour
to support the honour and dignity of the Crown,
and to maintain the privileges and efficiency of
the Church. I shall study, to secure the rights
arid liberties of the people, and to protect the
institutions to which they owe their origin and pre-
servation, both by resistance to those who clamour
for their destruction, and by a' readiness to adopt
such improvements as altered circumstances may
require." In these remarks, his Lordship dis-
plays true prescience and sagacity. He sees that
Toryism can no longer stand still or retrograde;
that the signs of the times indicate material
changes; and, like a man of good common
sense, he throws out a pretty broad hint
that he is willing to yield to what
can no longer be successfully resisted, and
legislate for the age in accordance with the
spirit, of the age. Thus, if it should be
found imperatively necessary for the great land-
owners and agriculturists to give up their darling
Corn-laws, Lord CLIVE—Tory though he be, and
surrounded though be be by Tory connec-
tions.—will not hesitate to throw them
overboard, thereby evincing—to quote his
own significant words—" his readiness to adopt
such improvements as altered circumstances may
require." Symptoms of a similar conciliatory
and 'acquiescent spirit on the part of the
Tories are daily developing themselves in
all quarters, and Ave really almost begin
to think that Providence has, fbr wise pur-
poses, at length. vouchsafed to endow them with
something like foresight and common sense.
At the Christmas meeting of the Isle of Wight
Agricultural Society, which was held on Thurs-
day last at Newport, a gentleman named
WALTON WHITE, who is first, a Tory, secondly,
a parson, and thirdly, a great land-
holder, declared boldly and unhesitatingly
that the farmers " must not look for-
ward to protection, for that principle
was broken down ; they must look to their own
exertions." Sound observations these, but who
could have supposed a year ago, that they would
ever issue from Tory lips ? Henceforth, we shall
incline to the charitable opinion that to be a Tory,
is not absolutely to write one's-self down an ass!

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 10th
inst.. The REGENT still remained at Sarria,
according to the latest accounts from Barcelona,
but was expected in the capital about the 15th.
The Herald() states that orders had been issued
for the departure of the Infant DON FRANCISCO
DE PAULA from Spain, and also that the Cortes
would be again assembled immediately on the
arrival of ESPARTERO. The following remark-
able accusation against the French Consul by the
Political Chief of Barcelona, dated the 2d inst.,
appears in the Madrid Gazette :---

" After the favourable reaction; the result of which
was the dissolution of the revolutionary Junta, and
the embarkation of its members, and after the rabble
called the Patulea had been disarmed, there followed
another reaction from the conduct of the French
Consul, who landed the revolutionary Junta, and all
the men who had promoted the rebellion. The revo-
lutionists assembled anew in the course of yesterday,
many of the National Guards quitted the town; leav-
ing it at the mercy of banditti. These commenced by
raising the standard of Christina, and ended by plun-
dering the streets called Ancha and Las Platerias.
Finding the city in this deplorable condition, given
up to Vandalism, fomented by the Moderados and the
French Consul, orders were given to open the bom-
bardment," &c.
The Three per Cents. were done on the 9th at
21i for cash, and the Five per Cents. at 26 1-16th
for cash, and 201 at 60 days. On the 10th, the
Three per Cents. sold for 22 at CO days, and the
Five per Cents. at 26 for cash, and 261 at 60 days.

The Paris Moniteur has the following an-
nouncement :—" By ordonnance, dated the 16th,
M. FERDINAND DE LESSEPS, French Consul at
Barcelona, has been promoted to the rank of
officer in the Royal Order of the Legion of
Honour." LOUIS PHILLIPE, therefore, makes
himself responsible for the acts of his agent, and
as the Political Chief of Barcelona has denounced
the French Consul as the chief author of the
rebellion, and the cause of the bombardment, the
two Governments are directly at issue. We have
made some remarks on this important crisis in
another part of the paper, and here subjoin ex-
tracts from the Paris papers, in order toshow that
the wild rage against this country which has per-
vaded their columns since the bombardment of
Barcelona, is still on the increase. Liberals and
Conservatives and Legitimists are alike hostile.
The Government journal, the Debats, says:—
The English Press has not discovered any other
means of justifying the pitiless neutrality of her Bri-
tannic Majesty s representatiVe than in calumniating
the conduct of the representative of France..A print,
which has .mado itself the ready organ of the party
rancour of the ex-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and
which, besides, appears to be inspired on the present
occasion from sources existing nearer to ourselves
(the Chronicle), contains a most violent accusation
against our Consul at Barcelona. The English jour-
nal states grave facts, but we do not think ourselves
obliged to place faith in its assertions ; and in consi-
dering from what source it has drawn its pretended
information, we are exceedingly disposed to believe
the contrary of what, it affirms. A light will be
thrown over all these matters ; the calumnious recri-
minations which the Spanish authorities already allow
themselves cannot remain without reply. Explana •
' lions must be given, and it must be fairly known on
which side have been intrigue, ingratitude, and on
which a too enduring patience—the patience of a
neighbouring Government, having peculiar claims upon
Spain.
The Commerce throws all the blame on Eng-
land. " The more the facts are elucidated," says
that liberal journal, " the more it becomes evi-
dent that it was England which bombarded Bar-
celona by the hands of ESPARTERO. This is a
fresh crime to be added to the list of those which
pollute the history of that sanguinary and sordid
policy which exists solely by the dissensions and
disturbances of the Continent 'and which has al-
ways reckoned upon interior discord and civil
war amongst her most certain means of in-
fluence. All Europe has been moved at this
scandalous spectacle of a Government which
suffers foreigners to place in its hands a torch to
fire its own cities. Public reprobation is divided
between the REGENT and those who excited
him; and it must be said that England enjoys
the greater part of this reprobation. England
is aware of this fact, and the English,Press, with
that common accord which characterises it when-
ever national egotism is concerned, are united in
displacing the responsibility of this ferocious act,
and attributing it to the French Consul."

" We approve," says La Presse, " and all
France will unite with us in approving, the con-
duct of Government, which has promoted the
French Consul at Bitrcelona to the rank of officer
of the Legion of Honour. Under existing cir-
cumstancPs it is more than justice, it is a noble
reply made to the calumnies published in the
official journals of Spain and England."
" M. GuizoT," says the National, " replied
last evening to the accusations of the English
Press by appointing M. LESSEPS officer of the
Legion of Honour. This would not be too much,
it would not be even sufficient to recompense
the COnsul's humane and honourable conduct,
and the more meritorious as he acted under very
difficult circumstances. But it is necessary that
the fact of M. LUMPS having been calumniated
should be well established. If it-were otherwise,
this mark or favour conferred on an agent of
whom the Spanish Government complains bit-
terly, would. be a certain cause of rupture, and

create fresh difficulties between the two coun-
tries. M. GUIZOT is not so prompt to reward
merit, nor does Ise on ordinary uceasion,f display
so much energy; we are apprehensive, theretijey
that this appointment conceals some new act of
perfidy, or is meant to prepare us for some fresh
check offered to our national honour."

Le Sleek observes, that the Government, by
promoting M. LESSEPS to the rank of officer of
the Legion of Honour, demonstrates its appre-
ciation of the calumnies of which the French
Consul was the object. ." We applaud (says Le
Siecle) this act of justice. But as the attacks
against M. LESSEPS originated with the official
organs of the Cabinet of Madrid, we trust that
satisfaction will be demanded for such an out-
rage, and that it will not be refused. We are
not disposed to suffer any attack against the dig-
nity of France from Spain more than from any
other country."
The Courrier Francais says :
"The English journals must imagine all Europe
to be most stupidly credulous. For several years
their Government has been labouring to make
of Spain, as it has of Portugal, an English. pro-
vince. To gain this end it spares neither gold, nor ho-
nours, nor flattery—it buys Linage, seduces Espartero,
meddles in every intrigue, interposes in every differ-
ence; Instead of entering into free and fair negotia-
tions for treaties of commerce, it arbitrarily imposes
them, and would have them signed by the light of the
flames raised by the guns of Montjuich; when all
this is done, when the whole world points at Eng-
land as the author of all the evil—as the only party
profiting by the evil—it finds journals sufficiently
complaisant or of sufficient bad faith to accuse—
whom ?—the French Government, whose only wrong
has been in remaining a passive spectator of this per-
tinacious usurpation. But the falsehood will no
longer have its dupes ; Europe must at length believe
its own eyes. England may derive profit from this
conduct, but to obtain honour by it is impossible."
The other journals which have articles on this
subject regard the charges brought against the
French Consul at Barcelona as calumnies.

The 2Ltoniteur publishes the following telegra-
phic dispatch :
" PERPIGNAN, DEC. 15.—Thirteen soldiers of the
Corpos Francos were shot on the esplanade at Barce-
lona on the 12th. No Spaniard was allowed to leave
the town."

The same official journal announces the occu-
pation of the M:.;rquesas island by Admiral
THOUARS in the month of June last. The sub-
joined is his report addressed to the Minister of
Marine :

"To Admiral Baron Duperre, Secretary of State for
the Marine and. Colonies.

"Bay of Taiohae, June 25, 1842.
"Monsieur l'Amiral—l have the honour to inform
your Excellency that the taking possession, in the
name of the King and of France, of two groups form-
ing the archipelago of the Marquesas, was this day
happily effected. The recognition of his Majesty
Louis Philippe, first, has been obtained by means of
conciliation and persuasion, in conformity with your
orders, and has been confirmed by authentic acts
drawn up for triple expedition.
" I add to these official documents the circumstan-
tial report of the cruise of the frigate la Reine Blanche,
from her sailing from Valparaiso, and that of all the
events which took place for the acknowledgment of
the King's sovereignty, and for the taking possession
of the archipelago of the Marquesas.—Accept, &c.,
" The Rear-Admiral Commander-in-Chief of
the Naval Station of the Pacific Ocean,
"A. DUPETIT THOUARS."

The subjoined is an extract from the Com-
merce, giving an account of another razzia in
Algeria :
The packet Amsterdam which left Algiers on the
10th, and arrived at Marseilles on the 12th, brings
letiers and journals. We find the following in the
'Mbar :—" On the 6th Arabs from the interior brought
the following news of the army. On the 29th of
November the Governor-General penetrated into the
mountains of Orianseris. The Kabyles
.fled, their
villages have been burnt, and on the return of the
army to the plain several tribes sent horses in token
of submission.

" The Governor then made a razzia in the country
of the Beni-Zentes, which was completely successful
—women, children, flocks, horses, and a rich booty
fell into his hands. After this happy coup de main
several tribes submitted."

Two Aghas have forsaken the Emir, and waited on
the Governor-General, who treated them with dis-
tinction.

BOURSE—PARIS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17.
First Highest -...owest Last

Price. Piles Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 1g... 191 20... 119 5... 119 15
4% per Cents 106 60... 106 60.. 106 60... 106 60
Four per Cents, 101 ... 101 ... 190 95... 100 9b
Threes, ex div. 78 85... 78 90... 78 75.. 78 90
Bank of France 3350 ...3350 ...3345 ...3345
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1052 50 ..1052 50...1052 50...1052 50
Belgian Bank, 1841 1075 ...1075 ...1075 _1075
Belgian Fives 103* ... 104 ... 103 k 103
1840 1044
... ... 1044 ... 104 i 104 i
Spanish Active. . 24 24 ... ... 23/
Passive 3 ... 3/ ... 3i 3/
Portuguese Fives 32 ... 324 ... 324 ... 324
Neapolitan
Roman lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104