The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-21 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

" The French Government," says the Times, " have
thought fit to make their agent and representative in
the late disturbances at Barcelona the object of a
marked and immediate expression of the Royal fa-
vour. In conferring on M. Lesseps the rank of an
officer in the Legion of Honour, they have given an
open and unequivocal proof that they identify the
policy of France with the conduct of that individual.
At the very moment when the official organ of the
Spanish Cabinet, the Gazette of Madrid, pointedly
denounces the French Consul at Barcelona as the
main instigator of the insurrection—when notorious
and incontrovertible facts demonstrate that he took a
most active part in recognising the Junta of the re-
bels, in fomenting their revolutionary designs, in dis-
couraging and deceiving the commanders of the
Queen's troops, and, finally, in protecting the flight
of the poltroons who had incited the populace of Bar-
celona to their own destruction—and before any expla-
nation whatever has been attempted of these unparal-
led violations of the law and courtesy of nations—
the French Government declare that by these
acts M. Lesseps has shown himself to be a fit
object for a national recompense. To these facts
no comment is required. We cannot doubt
that the Regent of Spain will think himself
bound to make the strongest representations on
such an occasion. But, as if this state of things was
not already sufficiently serious, the Journal des Debats
thinks fit to taunt the Spanish Government with its
intrigues and its ingratitude' (ingratitude !) which
have well-nigh exhausted the patience of their neigh-
bour and creditor.' Is this the language of the Court
of France ? Is this the temper which a Government,
with M. Guizot at its head, can hold to an allied
Power ? Or is it some outbreak of disappointed
treason against the institutions of Spain ?—the pre-
cursor, possibly, of acts of violence which the whole
of Europe would view with indignation ? Time will
show. Time will probably mitigate the asperity
which now follows the failure of M. Lesseps's virtuous
exertions. Satisfied with having acknowledged the
value of such services, the French Government will
perhaps reflect that insurrections are double-edged
weapons, even when they are directed against the
cause of liberty and good government. But they
may rest assured that upon no former occasion has
the public mind in Europe required stronger evidence
to remove the impression that a gross national out-
rage has been committed : and no event could have
occurred more calculated to strengthen the interest of
all the Powers in the stability and independence of
the present Government of Spain.?
The Chronicle gives the, following .advice to the
members of the Anti-Corn-law League :—" Mean-
time, the Leaguers have but to complete -their work.
Let them be prepared for treachery--let,them beware
of false lights—and, above all, let them redouble their
exertions, even in the very hour of victory. In spite
of all the rapid conversions, there, are symptoms in
certain quarters that a fight may be: made over the
wounded and dying body of monopoly ; and though
the triumph of free trade is as certain as that the sun
shall rise to-morrow, let no false security lull them
into repose. We have no very great reverence for
the wit or the wisdom of the Past but we must con-
fess that it has maintained its anti-free-trade doctrines
with a stupid consistency which entitle it to some
consideration; and, therefore, when it lets out that
the Tory ranks are divided, scattered, and confounded,
we may draw from it tolerably sure indications of
ultimate triumph—indications more certain, by a
great deal, than are afforded by the twistings of the
slippery Standard, or the smile and tear cf the Janus-
faced l'irnes. In the words of the Post, then, we
conclude, by assenting to the fact, that the im-
pression is very general that the present Corn-law
must go.' "

We take the following from the Post:—" 'We are
under no apprehensions that the misunderstanding
between the French and Spanish Governments on the
subject of the conduct of their respective agents at
Barcelona will compromise the friendly relations
which have hitherto existed between the French and
British Cabinets. A quarrel of subalterns exists. An
inquiry has been instituted by the Madrid and Paris
Executives, and one or other of the functionaries
must be dismissed. Senor Guttierez,. the Political
Chief of Barcelona, and M. Lesseps, the French
Consul in that town, have to justify accusations and
afford explanations. The former, in a report from the
Regent's head-quarters, dated Sarria, the 3d, accuses
M. Lesseps of having fomented the insurrection, and
of having aided the insurgents. This report assumes
gravity, because it has appeared in the Madrid official
organs, and because there is reason to believe it has
been made, or will be made, the subject of a diplo-
matic communication from the Spanish Government
to the French Cabinet. The French Ministry, on its
side, has evinced no want of alacrity in supporting its
subordinate agent at Barcelona. He has already re-
ceived the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.
Perhaps this approval waa as hasty and indiscreet as
the conduct of the Spanish Government in publish-
ing prematurely serious charges against an agent of
the French Cabinet, without first -resorting to diplo-
matic means to obtain redress and reparation. It is
clear that Senor Guttierez and M. Lesseps cannot re-
main together in the same town. The latter must be
recalled or the former dismissed."

The Herald says :—" Complaints are made by the
Opposition Press that the Queen's Government does
not at once issue a programme of the measures it in-
tends to submit to Parliament, and by the Conserva-
tive alarmists that they do not know whether any
important alterations of the Corn-law of last session
are in contemplation. The grumbling of the former
is part of that incessant warfare of faction for which
Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues are perfectly pre-
pared, while the murmuring of the latter is but an
escape of querulous disappointment. A greater act
of folly than premature disclosure of measures to be
introduced for legislative consideration cannot be
committed by any Government in a country where
party politics run so high as this ; that considerable
commercial changes will be proposed in the forth-
coming session no one doubts who has attended to
the diplomatic efforts now making by her Majesty's
Government to improve our trading relations with
other countries; but that those changes are as yet set-
tled in all their details by Ministers is quite impossi-
ble, because the results of pending negotiations are as
vet unknown. Thus it is exceedingly probable that
a preposition to alter the sugar duties will be brought
forward ; but such alteration depends very much on
the conclusion of treaties of commerce with Spain and
Brazil, and for the Administration to announce a
measure for the reduction of duties on foreign and
colonial sugars before the return at least of Mr. Ellis
from Rio de Janeiro would be an act of the most cul-
pable precipitation. People, too, seem strangely to
forget that fiscal changes depend very much on the
state of the revenue, and certainly the deficiency 'ex-
hibited by the last Quarter's return is of itself cause
enough why Ministers should be most guarded in
pledges or disclosures of this description."
The following appears in the Morning Advertise?:
—" The recurrence of the frightful murders of which
Ireland has recently been the scene, has evoked an
interest in a subject which might otherwise have
continued in dangerous and deceitful slumber. As it
is, the voice of the public Press is nearly unanimous
in asserting that the true real panacea for the griev-
ances of Ireland must now be applied—and the re-
medy appears to be at hand when it is at length ad-
mitted, by the once most f
formidable foes of Ireland,
that the evil of her system is in the l
it aw subsisting be-
te. een landlord and tenant. Nowis impressively
obvious that this chord must be harped on till the
Legislature comes forward with a plan of certain
redress. We say this cause of the tremendous cala-
mity which has befallen the sister country must be
removed, now that public thought is once more
directed to it; and that to let it return into its previous
oblivion after the awful occurrences which have
roused it into its present notice, were as foul an act
of supineness, or worse, as the very perpetration of the
deeds which. havegiven to it new life, is atrocious and
deperato crime.

ELECTICYNEERING;
The election of the'metropolitan Chartist dele
gates, to serve at the forthcoming Birmingham Con-
ference, to be held on the of December,, took
place on Monday, at the subjoined localities, when four
candidates were chosen for each of the.xlivisions of the
City, Southwark, Marylebone, and Tower Hamlets.
NAVAL AND MILITARY.
An examination of the students of the Royal 31ili-
tary- Academy took place at Woolwich on Friday,
when sixteen gentlemen cadets were examined for
commissions, and considered pmficient ; 21 passed for
admittance to the first class studying at the Royal
Arsenal, and 28 were examined from private acade-
mies and adMitted to the school.
Her Majesty has confirmed the sentence passed by
the Court-martial at Chatham, in October last, on
private Robust Onn, for an attempt to murder a non-
commissioned officer of the same corps. He is to be
transported for life.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
A cave, containing a quantity of the bones of the
hyaena, has lately been discovered in a quarry on
Durdham-down.
Thalberg left London on Sunday for Brussels. Ile
will proceed to Paris, and remain there during the
winter.

THEATRICAL.
Miss Emma Murray, a favourite actress at the
Aulelphi Theatre, died on Sunday afternoon at her
residence in Upper Berkeley-street.
Dr. Arne's celebrated opera of Artaxerxes is in
rehearsal at Covent Garden. Miss Rainforth per-
sonates Mandane, and Mrs. Alfred Shaw Artaxerxes.
COURT-F,ASIIIONA.23I.E.
The Duke of Rutland's party, at Belvoir Castle,
will begin to assemble on Monday next. The Noble
Duke's birthday will be kept on the 4th of January,
with the usual festivities.
The Duke and. Duchess of Somerset will pas Gsraces
the
holidays at the Clarendon Hotel, where their
will remain until their mansion in Park-lane shall he
.. •
fit for their reception.
The Duke ani Duchess of Sutherland return to
StaLffoorrddalnidouLseadayfter the holidays.
I;'raunncteils
remain in Lancashire tlElegmereteTin
The last letters received from Wynyard Park state
meeting 0f
le
her recent severe illness,which
that Lady Alexandrina Vane had nearly recovered
from
alarm to the family. The Noble and Gallant Mar-
xaprecjialtendi,
quis had not entirely recovered from the accident by
which his arm was broken.
B.
eTI
hhaegDh
aumk Duke
roofpor
tproperty
adjoining Northumberland
to hashi 5 P.sucrict'slaelsudend,gbatechrhe-
land property. Lady
,
The Dowager Duchess of Bedford all arthumber-
Ra-
chel Russell are still at Howick Nall, No
land, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Grey.
Woburn Abbey is now full of' visitor;—the dinner.e
party on Saturday last mustered thirty-three. 1n..,
young Lords Francis, Cosmo, and
Lord WI a
were daily expected from a tour.
Russell had arrived from Vienna. • ling his
Edward Ruisisienill
The Earl of Belmore, who has been Iris'
estates in the county of Tyrone, has returned to
Castlecoole.
The Earl and Countess of Guilford and family
Waldershare
arrived at Old Aylresford, Hants, from
Park, Kent.
The Countess de Salisaarrivedin town on Saturday.
last, from Paris, after
Continent. have
The Earl of Mansfield is still at Scone Palace, near
Per lengthened absence on tiler
rth, where the Noble Earl has been entertaining
small party.
The Earl and Countess of Linierick are assembling
a large family circle at South Hill Park, in Berkshirke.
Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce left town last wees:
for Paris, on a visit to the Marquis and Marcion. ells
of Aylesbury. The Noble Lord will return previa
to the ng of arliaent.
Sir George MurrayP arrived at his mansion in Bel-
grave-square last week, from a.tour.
lwascELLarrzotis.
Stowe observes, that during the plague the eel°.
gion depended more on the disposition of the air that;
on the effluvia of men's bodies, and considere,.
the fact manifest by the sudden increase of it in 163 hp
from 118 one week to 927 in the next, and from ti':
sudden decrease from 990 in one week to 258
t I-
next, and then again to 852.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING. WeP
LONDON, DEC. 20.—Wind this day it; noon, ,
terly, light winds and hazy.
DEAL, DEC. 19.—Wind N.W. moderate.----A:113
Caiseir, Demerara; Glasgow, America. ,: Sld.,Ned, el,
waard, Batavia; Romance, Brazil ; Stratheden, °)
neY ; Sumatra, Ceylon; ames, Trinidad; GIP„..111:„7,-'
St. 'Kitts; Bonne -Mere, St. Thomas ; Ativi'lort4,ti
Jamaica ; Philadelphia, New York ; Mary, B
and Bombay, and the rest of outward bound.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19.—Wind N.W., fresh.--rii '
hHomely, Gibaut, Alaceio, left Nov. 17; Severn, "r 1;,:
ams, Pernambuco, sailed Nov. 11 ; Thomas Broce—,
Habsay, Charleston; Lady Milton, Quebec. ii,r""--ed
Governor, Jamaica ; Franconia and Don ifu Juan' '. hger
Orleans ; • Postboy, Azores ;
ArHriti.Lorff,,,,lndian Chief. Loo Choo, ' 11"3--. SA%a
DEC.l.7.—Arrd. Reward, Frost, QuehecA.,;ol
OFF DOVER, DEC. 18.--Eclipse, HaMburgh, '—
Rio. Janeiro; Lucie, Rotterdam, for Batavia-
=PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 19.--Wind
Ski. Pakenharn, Vera Cruz.
BRISTOL, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Catherine, y,'"iiiteway,
Monte Video. N.N.W. to W.---
DuNnAit, DEC. 18.—The Anna Catherina, Maack,
from Clackmannan to Altona, iS ashore
the eastward, full of water, and expected to become a
wreck. four,
miles to
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19.—The Renown, from Sydney
to this port, which put into Rio Janeiro with dainag,
had been repaired, and was to leave about Oct. li
The Oberon, hence to Callao, was spoken Aug 14 1,
lat. 57 S., lon. 70 W., with juryforeinast and loss.°lr
bowsprit, and was supplied with provisions and Warf_
by an American vessel arrived at St. Catharineeis,
Brazil. The Christian, from Valparaiso to Swansre'
after repairing at Rio Janeiro, sailed thence, but c;
turned dismasted Oct. 19. The Sea, M`Queen, of
to Messina, has put back with decks swept, lhoss v
boats, bulwarks, and stanchions. Rio
1 to
VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH..—.Asia LiVerpoo., ivea
Grande, 3d inst., lat. 46, lon. 13,1;37 the liebe,,,a,rhruit,,
at Cork. Hermann, of Bremen for 3.lessina, 2"" no,
lat. 38, lon. 7 ; Pallas, Odessa to Cork or Fahlice,3o;.
3d inst., by the Granville, .arrived at - 501
Lady of the Lake, bound to St. Michael's, let,
lon. 18 ; bark Eliza, bound to Granada, Idt• '1.'06-
17, by the Elizabeth, arrived off Dover. Bar" Terra
zen, standing to, 6th inst., lat. 49, ion- 1° ;,„,rall,
Nova, Bth, lat 50, lon. 8 ; bark Pilot, of 1101'70
9th, lat. 49, lon. 8, by the Resource, arrived 0° off
River. Water Nymph, of Newcastle, Sept 5,600 d
Cape Horn ; Precassus, Sws len to the Cape °` ived
Hope, 15th ult., lat. 5, lon. 29, by the Secret, arr.nst.,
at Liverpool. Satisfaction, of Newcastle. 13thrjvde.
lat. 51, lon. 14, by the Randolph, arrived in the ,`"1.1 9,
Ocean Queen, of London, 13th inst., lat. ,Je '
by the Isabella, arrived in the Clyde.
So'

STATISTICAL SOCIETY.---At il meeting Of tril:',,,-St
ciety, held on Monday evening, at the
the dly' :
Martin's-place, Mr. Thomas Tooke, itt othe_;
several new members were elected, am°l4t
MMr. George
Registrar-General of Somerset g0.,,,t1n.
Carr Glynn, of Lombarel-street ; Drs'
Al'. ison and Bushe, Benjamin Phillips, F.R.S.' art,
Mr. W. D. Drummond, of the Statistical Dep,ls
ment, Board of Trade. An interesting paper o`,
offices ~.
1.
then read by Mr. Porter, one of the honorary sect`'
taries, relative to the recent census of the inh-abitatht:
of Great Britain, from which it appeared tl:ttheir
proportion of persons living with reference t ended
various ages in 1841, very considerably e'l living
those of the year 1821. The number of
under fifteen years of age was now rnuePehrssincl'asilefirj't;s;
comparedh with those above that age, as 1.31. `-,,,,d its
tit the fluctuations of human life lore I°s' -7 n of
duration on the increase. The
the population was also greatly on the inereaseriti
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compared with the less profitable part of
nity. During the last fort years, from 1801, 000
number of the population had increased from B,°°°o' on
to 15,000,000, being an increase of 2 per cent' on
the census of 1801. Should the population go at
productive Pao° .
the COW
tiule
increasing at its present ratio, it was calculated I,'
the population of Great Britain in 1921, would
heap Il:
wards of 52,000,000, or 15,000,000 beyond , A
sent population of France. The paper conchinre
with some curious statistical comparisons between, tellot
population of the United States and that of Great
Britain, from which it appeared that the irOrw
v. 5
amongst the slaves and the coloured population ‘ '
far greater than it was amongst the whites.
na t Of
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.--A r.rffes-
- mans met the Directors and jr"teit
the
of this Institution on Saturday evening, t° to
powers of the colossal electrical machine. A.ll-b'e-e,
thesee were the Earl of Enniskillen Sir. 31. .1-1.,• 1,1,6-
t Professors Faraday and Brande, of' the Royiu -,-;00
u tion, Professor Groves, Messrs. Pepys (the cei.: the
Electrical
electrician), Tite, Cubitt, and several members o .
_t,
Society. In addition to the immense bon
eery of the Institution, those of the Royal and 1-0110.,
Institutions were put in requisition, presenting' 3° to
face of 200 square feet, the jars in all amounting' r
135. The plate of the great machine, offering' t 1341101
face of 60 square feet, was mounted with tw°l)3,:irjletl
rubbers, producing an electrical force of tillecl-: the
intensity. The deflagration of the metals wa.',l;
principal object of experiment, and presented resoe
of the most curious and beautiful description. „ oot
series of experiments was conducted by Profess
Bachoffner with much success. to°
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