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London, England, 1842-04-02 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Three o'Cloch.

The House of Commons meet again on Monday,
for the dispatch of business, when not a few of the
Members will find great relief in escaping from the
angry growling of their constituents, and taking
shelter under their Tory leader. The Easter holi-
days have afforded them no enjoyment. Some
have been tormented with the upbraidings
of their own guilty consciences, others like Sir E.
KNATCHBULL and Sir THOMAS ACLAND have been
harassed by deputations from woe-be-gone farmers
and graziers, and a third party have remained in
town, or directed their steps along every
road, except that which leads to " sweet
home." Like an assembly of old, celebrated by
the immortal poet, they will congregate in great num-
bcrs with down-cast looks, or eying their leader
askance, reproach him for their woful plight, till
taking courage from despair, he calls upom them in
no pleasing mood to rouse themselves like men for
another great struggle. And a great struggle
it will be if the speakers do their duty. All accounts
confirm the fact that the greatest dissatisfaction pre-
vails throughout the country, that men of every shade
of politics, the supporters of the Government but a
short month ago, as well as their determined oppo-
nents, are resolved to resist the new scheme as a
whole, and that unless their representatives take
the same view of the question, and also act up to their
views, many of them will be called upon to resign
their stewardships. This is the proper course to
pursue. Let the constituencies throughout the
country, .Tory as well as Whig, assemble
without delay, for the purpose of stating
their objections, pointing out the duty of their re-
presentatives ; and at the same time announcing, that
those who disregard their appeal are no longer en-
titled to their support and confidence. The Liberal
Members, in general, will require no such impulse, but
still there are waverers among them; some of the
old Whig school, and some also of the Ultra-Radical
section, who seem more anxious to pay court to the
PREMIER, and to receive his fulsome praises, than to
earn the gratitude of the electors who placed in them
implicit confidence. These men, therefore, must be
urged on by fear, if by no other means, to follow a
leader who is pledged to
_resist the obnoxious
measures at every step. Lord
.JOIIN RUSSELL
announced his resolution before the adjournment, and
every post that has arrived during the holidays must
have more and more confirmed him in his purpose to
defeat by all constitutional means a scheme of taxation
unknown in a time of peace, unequal in its opera-
tion, harassing to every class except the owners
of real property, injurious to trade and commerce,
and calculated to clog or destroy the great springs of
national industry. Since the struggle for Parlia-
mentary Reform, no such occasion has occurred for
the united and vigorous exertions of the great body
of the people, and we confidently trust that they will
not be found wanting.

The Committee of the SCOTT Monument announce,
we perceive, a deficiency---.--to the amount of one
thousand eight hundred pounds—in the funds neces-
sary for erecting this great public Cenotaph. Above
eleven thousand pounds have been subscribed ; but in
order to complete the Gothic Tower and Marble
Statue in the style in which every -admirer of the
illustrious poet and novelist would wish that they should
• be• completed, it is necessary that eighteen hundred
pounds more should be collected. This additional sum
will, we have no doubt, be easily made up, for who is there
within the circuit of the three kingdoms, that does
not feel an affectionate regard for the memory of
SCOTT—the generous—the social—the high-hearted
—and; what is more to his praise, the friend of uni-
versal humanity ? For,. be itremembered, the author
of " Waverley" does not appeal merely to the sym.
pathies of . Seotchmen. His genius takes a far-more
comprehensive range. It is as cosmopolitan in its
character as SILIKSPEARWS, and not less cordial and
magnanimous. However sectarian SCOTT may have
been in politics, in his literary capacity he was
catholic to' an extent of which we have few
examples. A:Ten of all creeds and all classes met with
fair play in his pages. The rough, home-spun, well-
wearing virtues of the peasant, were there as warmly
insisted on, as the more refined sensibilities of the
Peer ; . and vice denounced with uniform indignation,
even though it might take up its abode in a palace,
and wear the crown of Royalty. Hence it is that the
writings of SCOTT are known and admired .wherever
the English language is spoken and that the pro-
posal to erect a MonuMent to his memory in the
magnificent city which he so loved in life, has been
received with acclamation throughout the three king-
doms. Were twice, or even thrice two thousand
pounds required for the completion of this great na-
tional undertaking, sure are we that it might be col-
lected without difficulty.

The policy of Great Britain, foreign and domestic,
excites just now great interest in Paris. Again it is
discovered that we are at loggerheads with Russia at
Constantinople, and that we find in her rivalry a
greater source of real uneasiness than in the hostility
of the inhabitants of Affghanistan and the continu-
ance of the war with China. The Constitutionnel
and the Siecle have both long articles upon
this subject. The former refers to the misadven-
tures of Bishop ALEXANDER in Jerusalem, , who,
it affirms, was not sent to make conversions to Pro-
testantism, but to engage in English,propagandisna.
It was this that is said to have alarmed the Porte.
All the deep- intrigues which -brought about the
Treaty of the 15th of July,- are represented as
having no other object on the part of England
than to obtain a predominance in Asia Tb'inor.
Without a predominance in Egypt or Syria,
the Constitutionnel contends that England has no key,
to her possessions in India. Russsia, however,
thwarts her policy by- her intrigues in the Divan ;
but, should she fail, then France is advised to inter-
fere. 'ln fact; this Journal assumes for France the
sole guardianship of the Turkish empire. She is
to make war, if necessary, to maintain the inte-
grity of the Turkish empire against England
on the one side, and. Russia on the other. ' It
seems that England and • Russia have agreed to a
partition of the empire. and are only quarrelling about
the division of the spoil. Russia is offended because
England seizes upon Syria, before an opportunity is
afforded her of clutching Constantinople.

Such are the statements in the Constitutionnel and
the Siecle, which we need hardly tell our readers are
sheer assumptions of dreams for facts. Bishop ALEX-
ANDER'S mission to Jerusalem was purely a religious
one projected by a knot of fanatics in Prussia,
and adopted by another knot of fanatics in England.
The establishment of a, Protestant Church at Jeru-
salem is an old hobby of the Protestants of the West,
and the important services rendered by England
to the Porte, by driving MEHEMET ALI out of
Syria, was deemed by the Protestant prelates
of England and Prussia, an excellent opportunity
for realising this devotional object. With this view
the late Government consented to the wish of the pre-
lates, and instructed Lord PONSONBY to solicit a firman
from the Porte to erect a church at Jerusalem. The
heads of the Greek and Armenian Churches were
consulted by the Divan, and, in the true sectarian
spirit of rival creeds, opposed the granting of the re-
quired finnan. When religious objections were found
not strong enough, the Patriarchs invoked political
ones ; which, of course, Russia secretly supported
with all her influence. The King of PRUSSIA, how-
ever, was so intent on the conversion of the Druses,
Maronites, and Jews of Judea, that he forwarded a
plan to England for sending out a Bishop with or
without a Church, offering to defray half the expense
of the mission. The fanatics upon this raised a cla-
mour for immediately appointing a Bishop, to which
the Government weakly, and contrary to its better
judgment, yielded. A Bishop was consecrated, a
roving commission was made out for him by- the.
Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and he was shipped oft

to Syria, to be stoned or idolized, according to th 6
current mood of the good inhabitants of the 11:41Y City
;
This is the true account of the appointment 0t
Bishop ALEXANDER. As to British :interest i°
Turkey, it is identical with -that of Frirtie; if the
latter look only to consolidation of the Ottoman
Empire. Our interference in Syria has no other ob-
ject than to establish firmly the authority of the
Porte over that province instead of leaving it, Mier
the blood and treasure it has cost us, ft prey to die-
affection, ready to be re-occupied at any
moment by
the Viceroy of EGYPT.

It is rarely that we, find a correct view of I q 1198..
tion of politics, purely English, in a French news.
paper. NOthing is so common among French Jour-
nalists as ignorance of all that constitutes the chose'
teriaties of the English people, and the peculiarities
of their domestic polities. In all, thereore,
that they have written upon the Tory inc°n'e
tax, we find only a few relevant sentence
in the Courrier Francais. This Journal predieti
that the tax will pass, but that it Pl9°
the downfall of the Tory Cabinet. If the first
part of this prediction prove correct, there en:
be no doubt of the second. In forcing on the incli
tax Sir ROBERT PEEL is digging the grave of
Toryism. May he live to read its (Pi*
But the Courrier Francais rightly says, that
it is the inquisitorial nature of the iticurad,
tax, rather than its amount, that °ll.l'n
the English people. This sentence shows some sin
"
quaintance with English habits little understood „
France: The worst.feature in the income to is I
prying inquisitorially into the individual nireul;
stances of a people peculiarly sensitive resPee.tl t;
any attempt to exact a knowledge of their Pr°
habits or their means of living. The 11:11r
violation of th7s principle in the chttr;:tpest
of the English people has, from the earliest
times formed the study of English jurists. It t
rt
which prevented the establ'shment of the pa- 44°01
system among us, and which made it a fundlrie°
principle in our Criminal Code that every offender
to be regarded as innocent till he is proven befn ,
Court of Justice, out of the mouths of witnesses, °r
his own voluntary and publicly repeated confessitinso,
be guilty. Were there, then, no other objection t°
income tax than that it violates the privy Of oi,
life in England, it could not stand, nor could A (I'
advocating it.

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The following summery of the latest news ,ro-
Spanish capital is from a Madrid letter of the
ult. :
,otis.
There is good reason for believing that the nef
tions for a commercial treaty between Great Brit"'" Are
Spain are not in a very forward state ; indeed, "friol
not over anxious for it, only aiming at obtaining
toe,
the Regency Governinent the admission of our
tured cotton goods on payment of moderate import "„,4.
and we shall certainly carry the point in this resl3`,:,,ig'
Messrs. Ardottin and Ricardo have caused it to
nified to Government that they will only hand Ove'boll
bonds (amounting to 500,000,000 of reals) the}
upon being paid the 27,500/. sterling they claim,
lance of account, and obtaining an official acknott sio
ment of the correctness of the said accounts, whictd
to
Minister of France, properly enough, is not disl3°'
issue.
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It is shown, in the Report drawn up and t- ilef
by the Palace Intendant, Heros, to M. ArguFelll:oo
Majesty's guardian, on the state in which
the . whole Royal patrimony, that the Queen' see'
ther received out of her daughter's annual '"1",.4 ?f,
from 1833 to 1840, no less than 37,122,378 rea'i;or •
about 390,0004 sterling, for what she was ro.: td
to call " secret purse money" besides selll„111; of
her youthful daughter, at her own price, the A
and
sheep (merino ones), 28,000 in number, which ros'iot ig
is, a losing concern. M. Items distinctly asserts
r,OOl
is not known what became of most of thetea
jewels, as well as of the documents showinkid4
p irtitions that had been made of the late LoWil
property among his daughters, though it 15 :;r) tir
ts) have been drawn up. He next gives a I,e'n'oitA
tailed and curious account of the different loyal u,l,f ti)e
the improvements now making, &c., as well as
present household expen :es at the palace, from 5
r;',
latter I select the following items during five men, OP
Personal expenses of her Majesty and sister,
reals ; household expanses, 746,743 reals ; stable °II°
214.585 reals.

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The whole of the Paris Journals havo read' ,0
~ •
They are, for the most part occupied with CO' ~.
upon British politics, which we have notacel,l-1.4 ;
where. The proposed new export duty on c°sool/:
quite delighted the miners. or France, Belgian'''. ..
Spain. They re mal k, and in our - °P1',1,4
quite Correctly, that the additional duty' '
* ; er3
give such an impulse to foreign coal no'
in three or four years to destroy our export cosi
•
altogether. The more republican the jour'"'.
the more they are delighted with such ap' .
BQURSE—P..I.IIIB, TuunsnAr, MARCH 31" 01, ,
e
First Higliest LoWIIO ti, :if
Price Price. • Prlrt„ . lis yf-
f,"rencti 51.er Cant! ...... .... . 117 70 ... 117 81 ... 117 'itl "'lei 0
4 per Cents. lOl 50 ... 101 5 0 ... 101 50 ••• Plie,
3 per Corm Si' 60 . S( 6:t ... 86 O.'''. 10 '
Loan
isnii of France
White Lank 1.0(a)t. 81 eras 102 ; ... It 21 ...ng _.
5,5,00)1. shares 50;2 50 ...5045 ...5045 ',., „,
.‘' . le: 0 ,
Belgian Bank ' .
....10,ss s
1841 l. 57 51 -.1057 50 ...1' 57 L" " 11".;i'
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 ter Cello., 1840 1(6% ... 106% ... VON
..--- • . '
Dutch 234 er Cents. ... 53% .. L 3% ... 53% 3 v .
•,,sutsti Active :ZS, ... 25k ... '6 ,91 ,
Passive 5 ... L% .
...
..,...
...,,'°'
qeapolltan ..... . . .........
... 106 0. tr.
It man .. lO . 105 ... 105. ... i. 7
RAILWAY 811.A.14114. . a '''i
St. Germain - '''.".'l6 0
Versatile's. ft. is .... .... 345 ... 345 ... 34,5 .4 ...... 7..1,1 ,
L.ll ..... 216 25 .. 21621 .. M. ;A filP,'
4.• men 522 50 ... 52i 50 ... 522, ''',,, ...
r 6
S., s' )u rg 1.4., Ita le - s,
,rle-.tris .. 565 ... 563 a ... 510 ...
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CASE OF JOHN TRAVIS.—This case, whicAlle'rsi°
readers will probably recollect, caused a coasiliver
sensation some months ago, came on for trial It t
pool on the 31st ult. Travis stopped a
on November 2 from hunting over his father ilii,)t)ft.
and in a sort of scuffle which ensued, wound poet
Entwistle's horse and dogs. For thjs 1).
the Magistrate, before whom he was carrl'ele
Rochdale, Clement Rovds, Esq. refused tO, reto
bail, and Mr. Travis was compelled to aPPIY„ bor,
Bail Court, which instantly liberated hirn ,c:(105 11
On his trial he was found guilty of 019bd(1 „lit°
wounding the animals, but was rccommen
mercy. The judge, Mr. Baron Rolfe, sentencbeiv
to a month's imprisonment. We shall Pr°b3thsti::i
vert to this case ;it is enough now to sat' e
anticipated a different verdict for wounding
in resisting an encroachment on a man's own P,el
Sir Robert Peel arrived in town this aThog
from Brighton, and is expected to hold A Mee
st
the principal abinet Ministers. atoJ
The party on a visit to the Duke of INTellinq Olaf'Strathfieldsaye is expected to break tis
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of C'll-I,9ta
and Prince George and the Princess Aub
Cambridge, took leave this morning.

LLOYD'S 'S SHIPPING —( T 14 I S ;AI
APRIL ftday at lieen'id; 'fit!'
MARGATE, APRu.'l. Lisbon, *17:11f. A.
w ---...--I—.lvAirnrdd.th3irsina,
lass damaged, and loss of anchors and chains. t „ii.'"
lAtirll::etuir,ALQC,
tlliaell,:nd.ni:v.Leclftu.o—rriNcaVliinmdarEeHiiie. N.N.W. to N.Wr'' 'fin tbe
slistialbeedlliiat,hHDoebCaCrltilbTeorw..n.
China
;
~ NEY, APRIL I.—Borneo,artley; oggt M4'iiritio,
OFF IZOM,itrj.
A,t.,iliiss
oair.Lprbiy;i::
riGcl. P:roioe:srtLsghl,ele. APRIL. Rnainnti
Canning,
-:e
Charlestonl' iillid W.N.NV.7 f r e s b . ,icy ,
Maranham • Sheffield, Allee,,,ote
Isabella, Preston, and Loch Ryan, for Sescitorft`i
is .
oreported t o b e lost loft the Br a azialns eltlinverir oTn:rl7ecel'tlsl:::;'ire:ol3:i
i o. the Ist tilt and the master and six of •-lviot.
drowned. There I:as a severeamper() at Igetiteitiad
on the 16th January, which' caused consAidSrrireda;brltal:ll,e4!
to the shipping. Te ThomasTyson4 of e Whithee)4crell„
ww.earsewfarleicelnceidno:itlhndiir
thßeobcokast,
05:111j:0051r:tit:
,rys
te;
etri'.iirari.:;l
Jamaica, and supplied by the Adelaide, PaciP -,
tit Mobile.
MaOjeisPtyl:sovsuhßip, APRIL I.—Helen and Jane, CAnric(lllttsedi
chPaodßwTi7NuTelliv, APRIL I.—Wind IST.W.---.--r FIP
Talbot, Mediterranean a
ill feedd ilt3e rtrhalndeta,n and
o'ilotitsoi,e;el,7l.2:4s;
for London. Arrd. off, George 4th,. ret,t,s,': Aigl6
sailed from St. Helena 6th of February. ..''''' boar•J
conic
from Dunkirk to Rochelle, has coc into the lia.rl%.erre'
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL I.—Sid. Great 1,
steamer, Alexandria ; Isis steamer, West Indies; stroll
FALMOUTH, MARCH 31.—Wind W.S.W. to iv doutll'
gales and squally.—Arrd. Hopewell, .Ancona ;
Leghorn ; Normanson and Mary, Marseilles.
TORBAY, APRIL 1.--Slil. Adele, Martinique. i fro:
BRIXIIAM, APRIL 1..--The Evenwood, le3r,toprl.
Seaham to Constantinople, has put in here with o,„offei
sprung, having been in contact with the Etnelie,4:3'oolo,
CORY, MARCH 30.--Vernon, Thomson, .- ~i. Olt;
sailed 17th ult. ; Sultana, Summers, Lagaayra, ,i",„ 00,
Jan.; on the 10th inst., she experienced a heavy 4.:4_''!„.,
was thrown on her beam ends, lost sails, bullyat,''‘,.bils
WHITBY, MARCH 31.—A small sloop or 1te,,14041
reaching in, with the wind strong at W.N.W., cal ,y
and sank. •eil °
The Argus, from New York to Havre is suppo,
be arrived off Torbay.

--.....•••••••••••1.11011!.....rom t
St°
The " Black Bottle" Colonel and his reginlen jvs‘
expected in York next week. A rumour is alloit.vai.
Prince Albert will be present at the review of tile es 4
shire I-Imsars, which will take place in Septembe.r
but of this we cannot at present speak with certailn)
Leeds 111tre.ury.