The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock.

France is not the only country suffering from a war
mania. In the New York papers to the 20th ult. received
this morning, nothing is discussed but a prohibitive tariff,
and the necessity of preparing for a war with England.
" Ninety-nine men out of every hundred in this country,"
says the New York Courier and Inquirer, " without
reference to party, cry aloud to Congress for action and
protection. The cry is everywhere heard, 'Build war-
steamers—increase our navy—put our forts in a state of
defence—re-organize the militia—accumulate every-
where munitions of war—regulate the.. national cur-
rency—impose heavy import duties—tax all free arti-
cles—and, if necessary, lay on direct taxes to any amount
that the wants of the country may require.' This is the
language of the people." We are sorry for it. Such
language betrays much ignorance and great folly. The at-
tempt to raise a revenue by heavy import duties—or in
other words by a prohibitive tariff, can have no other
effect than to ruin the foreign, trade of the United States,
and thus add to the commercial embarrassments of the
country. In Congress an import duty of thirty-five per
cent. is spoken of as necessary to protect native indus-
try. With such a duty Congress will be obliged to grant
a premium upon exports, as assuredly European vessels
will not go in ballast to the United States to export her
staples. With respect to the question of a war with
England, nothing can be more absurd or more wicked
than the attempts which the press of the United States
is making to expedite such a calamity. To go to war
about a boundary line, or the right of search question,
would be madness. With respect •to a right of search,
for the purpose of impressing British subjects found on
board foreign vessels, we are decidedly of opinion that
it. ought to be given up. Such a national right ought to
be blottel out of the law of nations ; nor can an attempt
to enforce it be made by nations speaking a common
language, without acts of individual wrong being com-
mitted, calculated to lead to the most serious consequences.
• In Congress coshing is cluing ; but if we are to be-
lieve the Journals, public opinion, was never less repre-
sented at a Versailles Bed of Justice, in the good old
clays of the French Monarchy, than in the legislative
assembly of wise men at Washington. Hear what the
Courier and Inquirer says of them in a leading article .
Never was there such universal contempt felt by the people at
large for any Cody of men, as is everywhere openly expressed in,
regard to the present Congress ; and, in our opinion, this gene-
ral contempt is most richly merited. We do not refer to any
party in particular ; all are equally to blame, and at this moment
a majority of the House of Representatives and of both
parties in that House, are justly looked upon by the
people, as men who are alike void of the necessary
talents for the discharge of their duties, and of the
patriotism which should prompt them to discharge those
duties according to the best interests of their constitu-
ents. And just so certainly as they do not change their course
of conduct, and now, when an opportunity otters, come forward
and show that they have at least some little American feeling
in their bosoms, they may anticipate a burst of indignation from
the whole people, such as never before has been elicited in this
or any other country. It appears to us, that such a benighted
set of men never got together as is now assembled at Washing.
ton, or they certainly would be aware of the deep and uni-
versal feeling of contempt which their conduct has excited.
Let them beware that they do not convert that contempt into
indignation.

Lord KENYON, the last of his bigoted race, we hope, in
the House of Peers, attempted last night to get up a dis-
cussion oil that bugbear of Orangemen—Maynooth Col-
lege, but met with no support. The Bishop of EXETER was
silent, not one of the Ron Err school even gave him a so-
litary cheer ; and one of his own party in politics told
the Noble Peer in direct terms, that to petition Parlia-
ment to overthrow the grant was the " height of absur-
dity." This pithy rebuke drew forth cheers from
Whig and Tory Lords, and also from the Puseyite
Bishops. This circumstance forms a remarkable feature
of the present time, which every friend of his country
will hail as an omen of good, and as the most secure
pledge for the happy union of two religious parties, the
dire enemies of each other ever since the days of the
Reformation. While, but some dozen years ago, petitions
flowed in from all quarters of the kingdom, breathing
the most bitter hostility to Catholics, a large proportion
of the Commons, and a great majority of the Peers, re-
fused even to entertain their claims for emancipation,
and every attempt was intade by a bigoted priesthood,
and a ruthless press, to stir up the worst passions of
the people for erroneous or selfish purposes,
the wild rage has nearly died away, and only
manifests itself at certain periods of the years
among the old women of Essex, and Denbigh, and the
showy ladies that frequent Exeter-hall. If Lord KEN-
YON has really such a dread of Roman Catholics, why
does he not look at colleges nearer home than that o-
Maynooth ? Rank Popery has displayed itself in Ox
ford, it is all but openly professed by many of the mi-
nisters of the Protestant Church, and receives no check
from the Bench of Bishops ; yet this Peer, so anxious to
put down the base and demoralizing doctrines of
Popery, is blind to the perjury of his own Church,
vents all his rage on consistent Churchmen,
and wickedly and falsely accuses the learned
and moral professors at Maynooth, of teaching doc-
trines subversive of Christianity. In order to put an end
to this malevolent, attack on a respectable and numerous
class, we trust the advice given by Lord CLONCURRY and
the Earl of WicxLow will be followed, and the House
of Commons will mark its disapprobation of such mis-
chievous bigotry by increasing the grant tenfold. Such
a measure would tend to promote the tranquillity of Ire-
land, and at the same time induce men of a higher rank
,n enter the Catholic Church as priests. On looking at
the treatment which members of other Churches re-
ceive
from the Legislature, the Catholics have good
reason to complain. While a large sum every
year is voted to raise small livings in Scotland, and mil-
lions have been granted for building additional places of
worship for the richest Church in the world, these miser-
a:nle, envious bigots grudge a few thousand pounds to
Catholics, from whom the Legislature has taken the
whole of their ecclesiastical property. It is high time
to do away with such unjustifiable partiality, place all
classes on something like a footing of equality, and in
these times of danger unite them in one common bond of
unity for maintaining the independence and honour of
the country.

We must not omit the consistent part Mr. WALLACE
took last night in the discussion, and we would point to
the very different Constitutional opinions entertained by
the Member for Greenock from those expressed last
night by the crotchety Lord who represents Sunderland
We have always believed that when any question in-
duced the people to send " petitions to the House by the
cart load," that it was the bounden duty of the people's
servants then to pay fax more respect to them than
when they were few and far .between ; but this
is not the Howlex logic ; we perceive that scion of aris-
tocracy sneers at cart loads of petitions. We would
remind him that the conduct of his Noble Father was
very different when a Member of the House of,
Commons—the petitions of all ranks were ably handled
by that statesman, and the nearer their approaohnvas
to cart loads, the more zeal did Lord GRE* evince
in giving effect to them. What would/ his Lord-
ship's early friend, CIIAP.LES Fox, say, were
he permitted to wiiness the peculiar conduct of the son
to that friend of the people, so well known for many
years as Mr. GIIEY in the Common's House ? What
would Fox, and SIIERIDAN, and RONILLY, and GRATTAN,
think of those who now not only refuse to listen to those
who would plead the cause of the people, but who have,
by an immense majority, made a Standing Order
against a single word even being said, either in the way
-of explanation or confirmation of the contents o f petitions ?
They certainly would say they might call themselves
'Whigs, if they chose ; but they were not of the genuine
:iort, but a mongrel rare, more than half Tory. Mr.
-WALLACE, like Mr. DuNewinn, deserves the thanks of
the whole body of the people for his steady advocacy of
the untrammelled right of petitioning, and for the stand
lie has made, and will make again, in this sacred cause.
When the newly-passed Standing Orders come to be
read over at the commencement of next session, will
be the proper time for Mr. WALLACE again to fight
he battle, and we cannot doubt he will do so effectually,
for by that time the income tz.?.: will have had a
trial ; and we shall be greatly surprised If the constitu-
encies do not pledge their representatives to vote with
Mr. WALLACE in favour of discussing their petitions for

its discontinuance, from day to day, when so instructed,
in place of laying them on the table without one word in
kliSiti behalf of ;heir contents, and then seeing them coolly thrust
bag, for such use as the Committee may see fit to
em to. Like Mr. WALLACE, and the band who
upported him on both occasions, we solemnly pro-
ainst the, new-fangled notions oqr Tory-Whigs
71 !ii opted, and shall continue steadily to advocate
;k:,)126;!„. 'Alienable right of the people to the full, free, and

complete exercise of petitioning their own House of
Parliament, and having their wishes enforced by their
representatives.

From Madrid the latest news is of the 6th inst. On
that day there was some discussion in the Second Cham-
ber about a commercial treaty with England. M. GoN-
ZALES, President of the Council, said that the Govern-
ment, feeling the great interest attached to this question,
were not disposed to bring forward a special project
of law on the subject, until after a thorough
examination of the effect it would have on the dif-
ferent interests in the ?country, and this examination,
although prosecuted with the greatest assiduity, was not
yet completed. The Government, he said, had not yet
discovered the means of reconciling the many conflicting
interests connected with the question, but they would nut
relax their exertions to bring the matter to a solution,
A M. ZERMAN, a German swindler, who was said to
be on a secret mission from Prince METTERNICH, has
been ordered to quit the Spanish capital in 24 hours.
Madrid Bourse, on the 6th, was 28i for cash.

The French journals received this morning are barren
of news of any interest. In the Chambers the closing
business of the Session is rapidly progressing to a con-
clusion. A report was read in the Chamber of Deputies
on Wednesday, on the subject of M. GOLBERY'S foolish
project for the circulation of the Debates. It occupied
two hours, and was finally thrown aside, by the refusal
of the Chamber to appoint any time for discussing it.

M. Callier Aid-de-Camp of the Minister of War, set oui
by yesterday's post for Oran. _

The Corrimiitee on the Colonisation of Algeria, having ter-
minated its investigation, and availcd itself of all the documents
useful for the plans of the Government, has divided into four
Sub-Committees, each specially charged with important
labours. The first is the Sub-Committee which is to

inquire into and report on the state of property,
of which M. Laplagne Barris, Peer of France, is President.
The second has to inquire into the state of the inhabitants, the
civil law, justice, legislation, and municipal organisation; ount
Gasparin, Peer of t'rance, President. The third has for the
subject of its labours the public security, salubrity, draining
villages, enclosures ; Lieut.-General Count de Tehramur, Peer
of France, President. The fourth has far its share produc-
tion, cultivation, commerce, and tariff of customs ; Baron
Charles Dupin, Peer of France, President.
The Toulon journals of the 10th contain several letters from
Algiers and Oran, which announce the presence of a great
number of Moroquese in the Beylick of Tlemecen.
The Meteore steamer had just left Toulon for Algiers with
extraordinary despatches. It seems that it departed in conse-
quence of the arrival of a telegraphic despatch. Commerce.
BO ;IRS E—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pric% Price.
French 5 per Cents llB 50 .. 118 55 .. 118 40 —. 118 55
41,4 per Cenci, lO7 LC ... 1. 7 50 ... 107 `0 ... 107 50
4per Cents. ......

3 per .... Al .- 81
Rank of terance
Latlittc tank 1,0001. :slares lIVS

... Sit 95 ... SI
...J3i'! 5U..: :375
_II 25

.. .....__ ..... --
5,0011 r. stares te4o —5040 ...50-10 —5040
delgian flank
18:1..
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 l•erC,n,:., 1840 10..1i ... 10.1% ... I0(ii ... 104%
Dutch .t...., er Cents.
spiniai Active ll6 ... :16% ... 251' ... •..6
Passive 5% —5% -• *4%..---• 5U
,levolitait
Ronlars
HAILWAI ,HAtilt,S.
.. _.. .

..._...._ ..... .
t. Germain
v ers. Ti tic., 1... °Hi 25 .. 218 25 ... 215 .... 215
Konen SM 75 ... 5,3 15 ... 5.3 75'... :23 75
orikin.
Sn.atiurg to Bale '233 75 ... 375 . 232 50-;:.—.32 ..0

The Queen gives her first State Ball this season at
Buckingham Palace this evening. The AlembersW the
Royal Family, and also a numerous list comprising the
leading nobility in town, have been honoured with'iriVi-
tations. The fete is expeci.en Lo be one of the,most
brilliant since her Majesty's accession.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.'
CITY, QUAItT.EIt TO THREE.,,,i
Consols are firm at 91i 914 for Money, and 91/ 91a for tlw,
Account. The business on the Stock Exchange has been
chiefly confined to the payment of the daerences upon the late
settlement, which are generally of small amount. The New.
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 100 ; Bank Stock, 165
166 ; India Stock 242 244; the Londs, 18 20 ; and Exche-
quer Bills, 39 41 prom.

This is nominally the settling day in Foreign Bonds, but now
fortunately it is of no moment. The quotations are—Mexican%
41i ; Colombian, 27k; Buenos Ayres, 28; Peruvian from Iti*
to 21 for Money, and 20i1 for the Account ; Portuguese Five per
rents., 36 ; Spanish Active, 241- ;}the Three per Cents., 25%.
The price of the Dutch Five per ents. ,100 i
Railway Shares are all firm. Great Western, 95*, the New
Shares 654; Birmingham Quarter Shares, 59 59 ; South
Western, 60 61 ; South Eastern, 29i 30; Brighton, 37..
Two instances have occurred to-day remarkably illustrative
of the real nature of busineis carried or, in Foreign Bonds
Peruvian, which opened at 18* for Money, are at present quoted
21, and the New Spanish Three per Cent. Stock opened at 256.
roseto 26*, and ha, sincefallen to the first ofthese quotations. In
the first case an artificial scarcity of Stock has been created,
and in the other the decline has been caused by a party offering
to sell, and the belief that he really bad the Stock to deliver.
The Paris Stock Exchange Committee have literally kicked
the new Stock from the Bourse. and wi 1 tot recognise it until
Spain shall appear to be inclined to do justice to her foreign
creditors.

The North America packet-ship has brought accounts from
New York to the 19th March inclusive. Scarcely any altera-
tion in mercantile affairs had occurred. The amount of busi-
ness continued to be small, being wholly confined to transac-
tions for immediate wants, and for these money was abundant;
while for speculation the banks and capitalists refused to make
advances. The progress of resumption was going on steadily,
and as a natural consequence, the banks without capital were
obliged to wind up their affairs. If this plan be pursued, it
will tend more than any other to bring about a more healthy
state. A calculation made some time since showed that there
were in eighteen States one hundred and ninety millions of
dollars of banking capital wholly unconvertible and unredeem-
able in specie, and that according to the report of the Treasury,
upwards of three hundred and five millions of dollars had been
sunk by the banking system.
The debt due by • the Federal Gcvernment was still a chief
topic of discussion, and the necessity .of meeting it and provid-
ing for future demands universally allowed ; but the idea of
direct taxation was as universally repudiated. The only plan
which could apparently be tolerated, was that of raising the
duties on imports. If this should be carried into effect, it will,
it is supposed, add to the jealousy at present existing between
the southern and northern States, the former holding the doc-
trine that they should not be taxed for the sake of the latter,
and that the manufactures received in exchange for their raw '
produce should not be virtually prohibited, which would be the
case if higher duties be imposed. The duty on British Cotton
is nominally 20 per cent., but by the existing regulations, and
by extra charges, difference in exchange, &c,, it is in reality
much more.

The Stocks appear to be somewhat higher than they were by
the previous arrival; Indian Fives, 181 191 ; Itinois Sixes,
181 18k; Ohio Sixes, 58; Exchange on England, 71 74
premium.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Derby
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh and GlaTow
Great Western
Ditto New
London ant Brighten
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Ditto Thirds
London and South Western 3BL 6O
Manchester & Leeds (i- Shares) 2
Northern and Eastern
South Eastern and Dover
LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, APRIL 14.—The market
presented a very animated appearance, and fully, /0,000 bales
changed hands; prices, however, were much the same; 4,500
Americans were taken on speculation, and 74.:6 for export.
The sales were 500 Surat, 3i 41/1; 200 Peruvian, 5% ; 100
Egyptian, 77A ; 50 Maranham, 51 ; and 94150 American,
4i 6k.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 14.—Eastern Coun-
ties were in good request at 94 ; Debentures, 111,; New, 54 ;
the other shares were steady ; Edinburgh and Gla.gow, 50/ ;
Grand Junction, 190 ; Halves, 941; Liverpool and Manches-
ter Halves, 69 ; London and Birmingliiiti paid up 321. shares,
60 ; Manchester and Leeds Quarters, 5i ; Midland Counties,
791; North Midland, 70i ; Paris End Rouen, 16i ; and South
Eastern, '294.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 14.—The Share
Market remains firm, and prices are still improving. Stock is
but sparingly offered. The sales are—Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, 50i; Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 151 j;
Liverpool anti Manchester,,Half Shares, 881; Manchester and
Leeds, Half Shares, 36k ; Sheffield and Manchester, 33i.

LLOYD'S SEIPPING-(THIS DAY).
LONDON, Aran 15.—Wind this day at noon, N.H.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 14.—Wind L.N.E.—And. Leicester,
Ancona. Sailed, Osprey, Singapore; Argyle. Bombay; Stan-
dard, Demerara; Thomas Taylor, Havannah ; Caledonia, Ja-
maica; Garrick, Liverpool, and Britannia, New York; Gleaner,
Halifax; Lady Harvey, Madeira. Arrived off, North America,
New York, Golden Fleece, and Diana.
OFF CAPE CLEAR.—Francis, Barbadoes.
, DEAL, APRIL 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrived from the River,
and sailed, Caledonia, P. Phillip, Elizabeth, and Beulah (trans-
ports), Madras; Glaphyra, St. Kitt's.
PORTSMOUTH, APR IL9.—WindE.N.E. to E.—arrived Sir
John Falstaff, Gordon, New Zealand. Sailed Cornwall (trans-
port), China.
RAMSGATE, APRIL 14. Sir Walter Scott, Bermuda.
DARTMOUTH, APRIL 13.—Sid. Elizabeth, Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 13.. Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Eliza Ann,
Hamburgh for Newfound:and.
Mirsoan, APRIL 12.—The Atalanta, from Alexrndria, ar-
rived here this morning; in running for the Quarantine station
got in contact with the Lazarette, carried away her bowspi it,
stove her bows, and received considerable damage. The John,
Gilbert, arrived here from Newhaven to Dublin, was run into
by a steamer last night, had her,hows stove, and received 'other
damage.
DOVER, APRIL 14.—The Iltulah, (tpt.), from London to
Madras, is ashore in the East Bay of Dungeness. Two
steamers have been sent to her assistance. The Prince Leopold,
from Calais to Newcastle, which was ashore behind the South
Pier, has teen got off, and into the harbour.
HULL, Arum 14.—.-Sid. Conradine, Tampico.
LEITH, APRIL 12.—till. Triad and Acadia, Quebec.
KINGSTON, APRIL 13.—Arrd. Isabella Watson, London for
New South Wales.
DUBLIN, APRIL 12.--Sid. Naparino, Quebec.
CROOKHA FEN, Aram 11.—The wreck of a barque (from
St. John's) water-logged and abandoned, was passed in lat.
46 N., lon. 31 NV., by the Constitution arrived off this port.
CORK, APRIL 12.—Arrd. Barbara, Smart, Mauritius ;
England, Lewis, Sierra Leone, in 53 days.
STaost NESS, Arm 10.—The Rapid, M id, from Newcastle
to Montreal, has put in here leaky, and with rudder unshipped ;
has been ashore sin the Island of Stroma ; must di-charge to
repair. 'I he William Hannington must repair at Shields.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. APRIL 15, 1842

The West Indian was revived at the Haymarket last night,
and a new Major ('Flaherty was introduced in the person of
Mr. Mahone Raymond from the Liverpool Theatre. He was
quite successful.
C oUIitT—PASEIONAMLE.
The Earl and Countess Brownlovv are expected in Belgrave-
square in the course of the ensuing week, from Torquay.
The Marquis and Marchioness D'Harcourt have delayed their
visit to this country until the close of the season, on account
of the approaching accouchement of the Countess at Paris.
Lord and Lady Maryborough, Countess of Wilton, Countess
Dowager of Clarendon, &c., have been staying at Tunbridge
Wells. _ _ _

The Earl and Countess of Beauchamp, and Lord and Lady
Dalhousie, are among the fashionables still at Brighton.
The East India Directors will give a sumptuous entertain.
ment to Major-General the Marquis of Tweeddale, previous to
his embarkation, on his appointment as Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Presidency of Fort St. George, Madras.
The Earl and Countess of Surrey will riot take possession of
the Duke of Norfolk's mansion in Hyde Park-place until next
season. _ _

We are sorry to learn that the Earl of Coventry is in a dan-
gerous state.
We hear that Lord Bective, son and heir of the Marquis of
Headfort, wi'l shortly be united to the daughter of Alderman
Thompson.
It is stated that the King of Prussia, on his return from
Petersburgh, will hold a grand review at Col ,gne, at which the
Kings of Hanover, Holland, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Bel-
gium, with, it is rumoured, the Duke of Nemours and Prince
Albert, will meet on the banks of the Rhine to witness it.
AUSCM.I.LICtri Mt, u S.
A fancy fair, under the patronage of Lord Blomfield, will be
held in June, at Nightingale-vale, Woolwich, for the benefit
of soldiers' wives who have borne children, or who have been
left behind when their husbands are ordered on foreign service.
On this day in 1784 died Babe, the eminent French natu-
ralist. His " Natural History," consisting of thirty-six volumes,
occupied nearly fifty years of his life.
The Duke of Argyll kissed hands at the Levee last Wednes-
day, on his appointment as Keeper of the Seal, used in place of
the Great Seal of Scotland.

Mr. Robert Burt4n, of Kennington, and a personal fri.nd
of Prince George of Cambridge, was thrown from his horse in
the "ride" in Hyde-park yes‘erday, and has since expired un-
der the accident at St. 'George's Hospital. He was connected
with the first families,
and on his majority would have suc-
ceeded to a princely fortune;
A temporary and elegant room, to accommodate 1,100 per-
sons, will be erected on the lawn at the forthcoming tale of the
Strawberry-hill effects.