The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

TiILE SUN, I,4tThrbON-, -TITESDAy - mORNINCT, mAN 17 1842.:

`merit, we content ourselves with quoting the resolu-
tions .with Which it concludes, and which necessarily
include the result to which the Committee has come.
Congress had ordered 10,000 extracopies of this Re-
port to be printed :-
Ist. That it is the policy and the desire of the United
States to observe the regulation of the commercial in-
tercourse between the United Stat 6 and other countries,
on principles of equity, reciprocity, fair competition, and
mutual adavntage to both parties.
2d. That the existing arrangements regulating the
commerce between the L nited States and the British co-
lonies in the West Indies and on the continent of Ame-
rica, are unequal, unjust, and injurious to the interests
of the United States.

3d. That so long as Great Britain persists to apply to
the vessels and productions of the United States, in the
ports of the British colonies in America, peculiar regula-
tions of commerce, other than such as regulate the
commerce between the United States and the British
territories in Europe, it is the right of the United States,
and the necessary consequence, to apply peculiart regu-
lations of commerce to British vessels and their cargoes
in the ports of the United States, entered from or pro-
ceeding to the British colonies in America.
4th. That the continued imposition by Great Britain
of discriminating duties upon the productions of the
United States imported into the British colonies in Ame-
rica in vessels of the United States, will justify the im-
position by the United States of discriminating duties
upon the productions of the British colonies in America
imported into the United States in vessels of Greatßri-
tain or her colonies.

sth. That the continued prohibitation to the ♦essels of
the United States by Great Britain of, the indirect voy-
age between the United States, the British colonies in
America, and the British territories in Europe, or be-
tween the United States and one and another British
colony in America, will justify the prohibition by the
United States of such voyage to the vessels of Great
Britain or her colonies in America.

6th. That if Great Britain see fit to adopt and pursue
a system of prohibitations and restrictions against the
United States, it behoves the United States to protect
our citizens, their commerce, and navigation, by counter
prohibations, duties, and regulations, and to decline to
give free commerce and navigation in exchange for re-
strictions and vexations.

7th. But that, before having recourse to measures of
legislative restriction, as the certain means of effectually
guarding and securing the rights of the United States,
in our commerce with British colonies, it is due to na-
tional comity to recur, for that purpose, to friendly ne-
gotiation with Great Britain.

And in conformity with these conclusions, they sub-
mit the following resolution, the adoption of which they
recommend to the House :

Resolved—That the President of the United States
be, and hereby is, requested to enter into negotiations
with the British Government, for the purpose of effecting
a permanents equitable, and just conventional arrange-
ment of the commerce between the United States and
the British Colonies in America.

The action brought by the French Post-office
authorities against a courier, for conveying an express
for the London Journals, and the obstacles raised
by them to speedy and even safe communication
of intelligence through France, cannot fail to have
attracted the attention of the British Government.
A remedy against the evils of the present system is
imperiously called for ; and if the new Finance Mi-
nister of Frande be determined to follow in the foot-
steps of his predecessor, and not only charge enor-
mously for couriers and post-horses, but also for letters
and papers, and delay or stop them altogether,
at his pleasure, a new line for the conveyance of the
Overland Mail must be found through some other
countries. It has long appeared to us that the route
by Malta, Marseilles, Paris, and Boulogne is not by
any means either the shortest, or the most
convenient, and that one very preferable might
be adopted—that, ..namely, by the Gulf of
Venice, through Bavaria to the Rhine. The route
in that direction would form almost a straight
line from Alexandria to London, and, of
course, is considerably shorter than that by
Malta and Marseilles. The German authorities
would rejoice at the change, and would willingly
grant immunities and make concessions in our,
favour, which we have no chance of obtain-
ing from France. We trust, therefore, the
Government will take up the question without de-
lay. The intelligence from China and India becomes
every day of more Importance ; and even were
the French Government to make concessions equal
to those we might expect from the German
Powers, the route by the Adriatic should still be
preferred. Letters and papers might be delivered
some days sooner, possibly even before the tele-
graphic despatch through France could reach London
—a matter of vast importance to the Government as
well as to commercial men, newspaper proprietors,
and the public in general. The route we propose is
from Alexandria to Trieste, by the steam service,
and thence by post road to Munich, Ulm, Stuttgard,
Frankfort, Cologne, and by the Belgian; railway to
Ostend, across the sea to Dover, and by the South
Eastern railway to London. By this route there
would be a great saving of time; the distance from
London to Alexandria by Trieste and through Ger-
many, being 2,300 miles, while that from Alexan-
dria to Marseilles, and through France, is 2,800
miles.

An interesting report of the proceedings at a pub-
lic meeting of the British residents at Hamburgh, for
the purpose of preparing an address to her MAjEgTY,
praying her to sanction an appeal to the charity of
the British nation on behalf of 30,000 persons ren-
dered destitute by the burning of that commercial
city, will be found in another part of The Sun. Co-
lonel HODGES, the English Consul-General, presided
on the occasion, and discharged the functions of
Chairman with feeling and ability. He took notice
of the malicious calumny imputing to the English
the firing of the city—lamented that it had led to some
acts of violence—deprecated any intention of visiting
upon the suffering inhabitants outrages provoked by
the madness of despair on the part of a few des-
perate wretches—and read a communication from
the Senate, thanking the British engineers for their
invaluable services in rescuing what remains of the
city from destruction. The calamity at llamburgh
has happened most inopportunely as regards this
county. Only a few days have elapsed since the
QUEEN sanctioned, on the part of the Clergy of the
United Kingdom, an appeal to the charitable from
the pulpit on behalf of our own starving poor. As the
wealthier classes are generally suspected of sympa-
thising more with distresses abroad than at home, the
result of a double appeal to their benevolence is not
likely to obliterate the hostile impressions of our
starving operatives in the manufacturing districts. It
is, however, in the poWer of the monied aristocracy to
produce a far different result. Generosity to the
people of llamburgh is quite compatible with the
most liberal bounty to the starving Poor of England.
At all events we shall be glad to announce her
MAJESTY'S gracious assent to the prayer of the
British residents in Hamburgh in favour of a
general subscription on behalf of the sufferers.
Commercial men need not be told how much it is the
interest of England that Hamburgh should be speedily
restored to her pristine prosperity. We are a money-
making and a money-loving people ; and yet we
think we may assume the merit for our countrymen
of being as free from selfishness in acts of charity as
any people under the wide canopy of heaven.
It is exceedingly creditable to the moral character
of the people of Hamburgh, that though thirty thou-
sand of them were houseless on Friday the most per-
fect order prevailed. Not a complaint was heard in
the smouldering streets, although hundreds were wan-
dering amid the ruins of their late houses. Their
confidence in the wisdom of the Senate and authori-
' ties was unshaken amid the terrors of so awful a cala-
mity. The Kings of Prussia, Hanover, and Den-
mark, and the Senate of Frankfort, have been among
the first to succour them. The Liberal Deputies
of France are raising subscriptions ; and from the
well-known liberality of the King and Royal family
considerable assistance may be expected from that
quarter. Belgium will contribute something; Hol-
land more; and even Austria and Russia will co-
operate in raising llamburgh, like a phcenix, from
her ashes.

The Madrid Journals received are to the 9th inst.
There is nothing of importance in their contents.
Letters from Bayonne of the 1 1 th, speak of an ex-
pected CHRISTINA insurrection in the course of the
summer, with a view to compel the Government to
bestow the hand of the young QUEEN upon a BoußuoN.
We trust the intimation will not be lost upon the
REGENT, and that timely representations will be
addressed by Lord ABERDEEN to M. GUIZOT upon
the subject.

The Three per Cents, were done on the 6th at 22 for
the 14th of June, and the Five per Cents. at 26. for
cash, and at 27 26 15-16 27 1.16 24 27 1.16 26 at
vaiious dates.

On the 7th four bargains were concluded at 221 for
cash, and 22 for the 28th inst. The Five per Cents.
sold for 261 for cash, and 27 261 at 60 days.

The destruction of the :city of Hamburgh by fire
Is exciting considerable interest in Paris. Subscrip-

tions have already been commenced by the Liberal
Deputies in favour of -the sufferers. The Journals
received this morning are principally occupied with
the Railway Bill and Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff. The
former is now safe ; and as for the tariff, the great
fault found with it is that it is not favourable to the
French wine and brandy growers. But for the stupid
nonsense of such journals as the National, a special
treaty for benefiting these branches of trade would
have been long since signed by the Governments of
England and France. The National now threatens
retaliation, and recommends the increase of the duty
upon English thread. It were well for the National
to pay a little more regard to the principles
of political economy, of which it daily exhibits
such deplorable ignorance. That species of retaliation
which inflicts greater injury upon a nation's own
subjects than upon foreigners, is only to be found
invariably recommended in the columns of the French
Republican organ. The Courrier Francais only
takes a sensible, just, and moderate view of this im-
portant subject. What is called protection is the bane
of commerce, and is no more than the robbery of one
man, or class of men, to enrich another man or class
of men. Protection against foreigners, means the
robbery of some body at home. The juggle, how-
ever, succeeds with such political guides as the
National.

A Bayonne Correspondent, under date the 11th inst.,
confirms the intelligence of the probability of a now at-
tempt of the Christinos to excite a new civil war in
Spain. A letter from Frankfort asserts that the Regent
proposed that Queen Isabella should marry a subject—
the son of the Duke of Medina Celi. This would be at
once to provoke the war with which the King of the
French threatens Spain, should her Majesty wed any
but a Prince of the house of Bourbon. Din Carlos is
still opposed to a " transaction." The idea of marrying
the Queen of Spain to the eldest son of Don Francisco
de Paulo is, however, entertained in every other in-
fluential quarter in which interest is felt in the question,
and seems, on the whole, the most likely to be the solu-
tion of it.

Despatches have been received by the Government
from the Governor-General of Algeria, dated Oran, May
2. He announces, from information received from some
deserters from the camp of Abd-el-Kader, that the
Etnir received no kind of support from the Emperor of
Morocco, and that, since his defeat near Tiemecen, he
had been abandoned by -most of his troops, and that,
when he presented himself to the inhabitants of Ne-
drouma, they repulsed him with a discharge of fire-
arms. General Bugeaud further states, that Mustapha
Ben-Thamy, the ex-Kalifa of Mascara, is still in the
field, with about 150 to 200 cavalry. In a recent combat,
four cf his men were killed by a French detachment.
A letter from Oran, of the 29th of April says--
"M. Souverix de Montdragon has just discovered
in this province, a mine of gold, two of silver,
two of lead, one of antimony, and several of
iron. All -these discoveries are exceedingly valuable,
and measures will speedily be taken to work them. The
Governor-General who happens to be at Oran, intends
to pay great attention to these matters."

Another letter from Oran states that a Captain of the
15th Regiment of Light Infantry has been condemned
to death by a court-martial at that place for striking a
Lieutenant-Colonel.

The Toulonnais publishes the following extract of a
letter from M. Bandouin, now a prisoner with Abd•el-
Kader :—" I was made a prisoner by the Arabs on
April 9, near Bouffanik, with four other persons, who
were travelling with me. We were stripped of our
goods and money, and after a forced march of five•days,
we arrived at Zaroura, overcome with fatigue. How-
ever, thanks to the attention of M. Noel Mamonche,
Abd-el-Kader's agent, who happens to be here, we are
well treated, and several persons belonging to the Emir's
suite pay us great consideration.".

HAMBUROH, MAY 11.—Yesterday afternoon 120 pio-
neers arrived from Potsdam. They were mustered bv
the King on Monday, and despatched on the same day
from Potsdam on board the Falcon steamer. Eight
hundred troops, with several pieces of artillery, sent from
Rendsburgh, received counter orders on the road, as
their presence in Hamburgh and Allowa is no longer
necessary. Yesterday evening a courier from Ber-
lin brought word that the King of Prussia had
sent 25,000 dollars, 2,000 blankets, &c., to relieve
the immediate distress. We mentioned yesterday the
generous present of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg.
The gifts from Bremen and Altona continue to be sent
to the Commission formed to receive and distribute suc-
cours.

P.S. The King of Denmark has sent a present to-day,
as we hear, of 10,000 marks. Besides the losses already
enumerated, two Jewish Synagogues are destroyed, and
several libraries, among which ara those of the Patriotic
Society and of the Harmony.
It is said that the sitting of the Senate will be held
for the present at the Orphan House, in the Admiratitats-
Stress.

The olief Committee gives notice that the great
liberality of the environs of Hamburgh, has furnished
such complete supplies of provisions, that no more at
present are needed, and therefore think it their duty, in
order not to abuse the generosity of their neighbourA,
to request them not to send for the present any provi-
sions, except potatoes and pulse.
The King has written a most kind letter to the Senate,
expressing his grief at the disaster our city has sustained,
and assuring it of his sympathy, and that of his subjects.
The Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and the Grand Duke
of Mecklinburg-Schwerin, have sent similar letters.
We have just this moment (7, P.M.) received informa.
tion from our correspondent at Hanover, that the
Chambers have held sittings with closed doors, to discuss
a motion immediately to offer $lOO,OOO from the publie
treasury to the city of Hamburgh.
lIAMBURGH, MAY 12.—The foreign troops have mostly
left us. The Prussian pioneers from Potsdam and Mag-
deburg will remain for some time longer, to assist in
clearing away the ruins. The Hanoverian cavalry which
have so greatly contributed to preserve order, left us
yesterday afternoon. The Infantry of Bremen still
assists in occupying the site of the fire, and the Cavalvy
of Lubeck patrols in conjunction with ours.
HAMBURGH, MAY 13.—Business was again dull to-day
in the New Exchange.
BOURSE—rents, SATURDAY, MAY 14.

hrst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prick Prier.
•rench 5 tier Cent 5........ • 119 50 .„. I lit 55 ... 1,9 45 ..,. 119 50
4% per Cents lO7 50 ... In 7 50 .. 107 50 ... 107 50
4per Cents.
3 per Conti. Bl 80 .. 81 80 ... 81 CO ... 81 CO
Intii of eratice
taffitte Sink 5,000 f Spares 5061 ~.5060 . 5060 —.5060
...van Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
S ;.er Cents., 1840 lO5 ... 105% ... 105 .. 105%
'vanish Active 13% ... ‘..14 ... 23%, ... 24
Passive...« ..... ..
'ealolitan
filaian.... ......
... 43%
... 102%
RAILWAY SHARES.
it. Germain .«.41....m..” 830 ." 831 .. €B3 .. 830
ifersmiica.K. P.
L.B
R'susn 552 50 ... 551 75 . 552 50 ... 553 'is
Orleans
SA asburg to 8a1e.... 233 75 ... 233 75 ... 233 75 ... 233 75

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF
GREAT BRITAIN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Since the manufacturing population of the na-
tion has been virtually declared, by Sir Robert Peel's
proposed GREAT National Charity measure for the re-
lief of their distress, to be in a state of helpless pau-
perism, (if not, too, in a galloping consumption ;) and
since, by this and other great measures, it has also been
virtually declared, to the commiseration, not " the
envy, of surrounding nations," that the British Govern-
ment itself is in a state of virtual pauperism and general
incapacity, of the most desponding and helpless nature,
I would beg to recommend that the measure of our
GREATNESS be forthwith consummated, by the circula-
tion of a begging petition, of the Charity-sermon and
Soup-kitchen order, among our better fed, and not yet
bankrupt neighbours—the French, Germans, Russians,
Prussians, et hoc genus omne. •
The appeal ought, of course, to be made by the
British Peel Government, in propria persona, as the
begging mouth-piece and head of the distressed bojy
corporate, which all its own-wise cogitations cannot teach
it how to succour and recruit. And this, I 'doubt not, it
will willingly do, with little pride and less shame, since
it has already made the begging petition scheme a Go-
vernment measure, and has therefore, to all intents and
purposes, already taken its first grand step as a Begging
Government.
The petition might run in something like the follow-
ing simple but pathetic lingo, the petitioners, of course,
" humbly showing," and "ever praying," and so on :
" That, whereas your humble petitioners, the Eng-
lishers, are in great distress from want of food, God help
them, tor they cannot help themselves ; and they, there-
fore, humbly
hope that your Honours will take their
and get up a National Charity-sermon for behoof
destitute case into yOur kind and charitable considera-
tion,
of your helpless petitioners—for which may God reward
you ; and your petitioners shall ever pray," &C., &C.
Perhaps Brother Jonathan, being a kinsman, would
be readiest to take pity on us, and contribute his mite.
He has already shown his good will, and his sense of
ourpitifu/condition, as you very well know, by charitably
sending across the big pond, gratis free for nothing, I
don't know how many barrels of beef-bones for our
behoof, all of which the Government, you may also re-
member, generously permitted, contrary to custom, to
pass inward to the mouths of the starving millions (as
well they might, to keep them quiet) without partaking
of a single mouthful of the God-send themselves, pro-
vided always the bones did not stink, in which case,
though as unfit for the starving multitude as any diseased
carcase of a resurrected cow they have ever eaten of late,
these aforesaid stinking bones were to be thankfully
devoured, at least in part, by the equally hungry,
if not equally starving Government itself'.
aheyuv 't:llll2a,°n u 1
affection,
Itlii;EnD•
In the lively hope, Mr. Editor, that the GREAT mea-
sure which I have now proposed fin. the RELIEF of the
starving community, will hand NE dO‘l n to immortality
in
ns
Glasgow,to} riwe vn.hnd hlnaf: PEEL —I am, Sir, yours,
ONE OF TIIE STARVING MULTITUDE.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.— Yesterday, about half-past
two o'clock, a destructive fire broke out at the residence
of Mr. Firth, surgeon, No. 11, Suffolk-place, Lower-road,
Islington; in a very short time after the alarm was given,
several engines
arrived, but a considerable time elapsed
before the progress of the flames was arrested. The
house of Mr. Firth was nearly destroyed, and a great
quantity of valuable furniture consumed. His loss is
estimated at nearly 1,000/. The residence of Mr. Paul
adjoining was also greatly damaged, and a considerable
portion of furniture destroyed. The parties are fortu-
nately insured.