The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-14 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1829.

Despatches were received at the Foreign
Office this morning frown Lord BLOOMFIELD,
our Ambassador at Stockholm, and also from
Paris and Brussels.

The Paris Papers of Saturday hare been re-
ceived by Express. The Turks have at length
evacuated Ghiurgevo
:
(From the Monitevr of Saturday.)
NON-OFFICIAL PART.
(CRIVATE CORRESPONDENCF. )
SEMLIN, NOT. 23.

As we have already mentioned, the grand Russian
head-quarters are fixed at Aidos. Count Diehitsch
has received an express from St. Petersburgh with
despatches, wide]) arc supposed to relate to the Em-
peror Nicholas. The General keeps up a very
active correspondence at Constantinople, for Russian
Couriers and Tartars are constantly seen on the
road betweeu Aidos and the Turkish capital.

It is affirmed that the Pacha of Scutari has ar-
rived at Adrianople, and that no kind of re-action
has taken place. It is added that he has had a long
conference with the Colonel whom Count Diebitsch
has left to protect the Russian hospital, in which
there arc about 9,000 men.

PARIS, DEC. 11.
His Majesty the King arrived at the Tuilleries
about one o'clock today.
Prince Polignac arrived to-day from his estate at
Mi'lemon%

I !is Excellency the MiniAter of War returned to-
day to Paris.

(Flout the 211essoger des Chambres of Saturday.)
(SEMND EDITION.)

BUCHAREST, NOV. 11._

Ghiurgevo is at length evacuated by the Turks,
and de!irered up to the Russians. The detachment
which is to form the garrison of the fortress entered
the town in admirable order, and was received with
enthusiasm by all the inhabitants. On the 27► h
inst. the Turkish garrison, which is provisionally
mooned in the suburbs, will be sent to Rudsehuk,
with its ammunition and provisions. General Kis-
seleff is still expected.

CONSTANTINOPLE, NOY. 11.

In the neighbourhood of Phillippopoli extreme
distress prevails. The inhabitants of several villages
have come to blows with the Albanians, who com-
mit the greatest excesses. The defeat of the Turks
in the last engagements with General Paskewitsch, in
Asia, has made a great impression on the Sultan,
whose temper for some time past causes great un-
easiness.

Within these few days we have had the singular
sight of several merchantmen under the Greek flag,
which passed through the Canal to enter the Black
Sea. Most of these vessels were laden with oil and

nine.

PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE, Drc. 12.—Five per Cents.
1091. 15e. 1091. 1081. 85e. ; Four-and .a-Half per Cents.
105 f. 40c. ; Three per Cents. 84f. 65c. 60c. 65c. 60c.
50c. 30c. ; fink stock, 1,9171. 50c. 1,9151. ; Rentes de
Naples, 921. 91f. 90e. 921. 911. 60c. ; Rente Perp.
d'Eepagne, 604114. Exchange on London—One
month, 251. 60c. ; three months, 251. 45c.
_ .

VIENNA, DEC 5. —Metalliqufs 1024 ; Bank Shares
,237#; Four per Cent. Aletalliques 914.

Our City Correspondent says, that very af-
flicting accounts have been received from Alex-
andria of the great damage done .by the sudden
overflowing of the Nile. It is stated that not
less than thirty thousand persons have perished.
Such was the effect produced on the mind of
the VICEROY that he did not leave his room for
three days-after. bring of the melancholy catas-
trophe.

The following are extracts f-om Hamburg and

Dutch Papers :

HAMBURG, DEC. 8.
BORSEN HALLE, FOUR O'CLOCK.—Bills on Lon
don and Amsterdam are eagerly demanded.
End of December.

Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent
Anglo-Russian Loan
Hamburg-Russian Loan 99N
Polish Bonds llus4
Austrian Bank Shares 1'241
Austiian Metalliques 102%
New Austrian 4 per Cents.
STOCKHOLM, NOV. 27.
The palace of the late Princess Sophia Alber-
tina, is henceforth to be called the Palace of Duke
Charles, (the eldest son of the Crown Prince.)
The State Gazette gives an account, from Chris-
tiania," which says that on the 4th November, be-
ing the anniversary of the Union of the two king-
dom, and also on the Bth, the Queen's birth-
day, salutes were fired by the fortress of Agger-
shuns, and grand entertainments were given by the
Governor of the kingdom. The election of repre-
sentatives to the Storthing continue.
DEC. I.—On the 27th ult. in the afternoon, the
Land Marshal and the Speakers of the Estates had
an audience of his Majesty, in order to declare their
opinion respecting the time when it would be pos-
sible to close the Session of the Diet.
ODESSA, NOV. 18.

Among the ships that have arrived here, is the
English frigate the Blonde, with 300 Russian soldiers
and 50 officers from Constantinople and Sebastopol.
STERNBURG, DEC. 2.

The number of members present at the Diet has
been decreasing for some days, though most of the
subjects brought `before it are not yet discussed.
Tha new law relative to mortgages in cities was
passed with a few alterations in the sitting of the
28th November, and thus a oubject concluded which

has occupied tl►e Dict for several years. s People
general are of opinion that this law will have the
most beneficial effects on credit and the security of
real property, and great praise is bestowed on the
completeness and systematic arrangement of the law.
The law on the settlement and maintenance of the
poor has caused animated debates, as the interests of

the several provinces are so various.
Only three extraordinary contributions will be
levied next year, and yet as the amount annually
increases, and the collateral tax greatly exceeded the
estimate last year, an extraordinary redemption of
50,000 rix dollars of the debt will be effected. On
the whole 200,000 dols. of the debt.will be paid off.
SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES-GENE-
RAL, DEC. S.

THE HAGUE, DEC• 10.

A royal message was read, accompanying a cor-
rected project of law relative to the distribution of
the capital sum of the land-tax for the year 1830,
the first project having been rejected by the Cham-
bers. The Central Section brought up its report
on the annual and decennial Budgets, commencing
with the year 1830. The report is to be printed,
and the debate on it was fixed for Monday, the 14th
instant.

The day before yesterday the ofl•'icers of the Burgher
guard gave a grand entertainment to his Royal
Highness the Prince of Orange, as Colonel-General
of the Burgher Guard of the whole kingdom. His
Royal I iighness was accompanied by his two eldest
sons, and was received with all military honours by
a numerous body of the guard. His Royal Highness
Prince Frederick was also present, as well as a great
number of officers and persons of distinction.

The following are extracts from Oporto Papers
of the 28th Nov. :

COIMBRA, NOV. 24.

His Majesty the King of England has sent a
present of books to his Most Faithful Majesty Don
Miguel L, for the Library of this Univers►ty. The
Librarian received notice of this consignment, and
the Consul at Lisbon has never sent word that the
books have arrived.

OPORTO, NOV. 26.

Yesterday morning there arrived in this city 20
criminals, brought from the prisons at Lisbon, from
which they sailed on board a Portuguese yacht,
which wa■ forced by stress of weather to put into
Villa de Viana, whence the prisoners were conveyed
by land, and lodged in the prison of the Relacao,
under the orders of the President of the Alcada.
OI'ORTO, NOV. 28.

The Correio of to-day gives the names of the
prisoners brought from Lisbon and landed at Viana ;
among them are Antonio Jose Claudino Pimentel,
Brigadier of the Royal Armies, Knight of the Order
of the Tower and Sword, &c., aged 53; Luez
Claudino de Oliviera Peinandel, living on his pro-
perty, aged 54 ; the Rev. Antonio de Parva Mon-
teiro, Abbot of St. .John the Baptist, in the town
of Jabugal, aged 60 ; and three other Ecclesiastics,
one of whom is 67 years of age.

We received this morning the following from
our Paris Correspondent :

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" PARIS, DEC. N.
"Every new arrival from the French possessions
in the \Vest Indies confirms the account of which I
gave you some notice in a recent letter, of the dis-
turbances and disagreements between the white and
coloured population, which have latterly assumed
rather a serious character. Attempts have indeed
been made to contradict these statements, but if
credit is to he given to the letters from Point a Pitre,
which have lately arrived at Havre, and which are
generally written by reluctant witnesses, it appears
that the former statements were far from being over-.
charged, and that something like an insurrectionary
spirit has shown itself both at Guadeloupe and Mar-
tinique, so that the actual disturbances which had
broken out at Marie Galante and St. Anne, must be
regarded as an indication only of the general
state of feeling throughout the French - West
Indian possessions. The habitual distrust and jea-
lousy which is on all occasions manifested towards
Englishmen, has with perverse ingenuity found the
means of ascribing these insurrectionary movements
to the rival influence of some of the inhabitants of
the English colonies, one of whose emissaries is
said to have been arrested at Point a Pitre, and to
have escaped punishment by the affectation of insa-
nity. It is strange, however, that while the white
inhabitants are constantly labouring under the real
or affected dread of massacre and insurrection, the
only symptom of disturbance which has yet trans-
pired is not among the negroes or the slaves, but
exclusively among the mulattoes and freemen of
colour, many of whom are known to be in the pos-
session of considerable property, which would
seem to offer a proportional security against
their engaging in such insane procedings. At
Guadaloupe, also, it is remarked, that the men
of colour, who have repeatedly behaved as good
citizens during periods of alarm, and have always
beer► treated with much more respect than at Mar-
tinique, are also much less prone to insurrection
than the coloured population of the other islands.—
It is the result, in fact, of all the information I have
been able to collect on the subject, that the perpe-
tual state of fermentation which has for some time
existed, is to be ascribed to the degradation and
dependance in which the coloured population are
held, or attempted to be held, by the Colonial Aris.
tocracy. The two classes are not equal before the
law, in regard either to evidence, or the quantum of
punishment ; men of colour arc not capable of inhe-
ritance, and what, perhaps, is a still more galling
mark of degradation than either consideration, is,
that the title of Minaieur is denied to
them, although so liberally bestowed in the Mother
country on every clown with a decent coat on his
hack. It is not wonderful that the mulattoes should
be annoyed at the air of superiority assumed over
them by Europeans, many of whom may be far in-
ferior to themselves :n moral, if not also in personal
qualities, while some of those by whom they are thus
maltreated, may have left the mother country after
having offended the lawe, or even after having been
subjected to penal inflictions. Under such citt
cumstanees it would be surprising if men conscious
of no crime, and with all the confidence inspired
by a well-lined purse, should occasionally display,
as they are said to do on the public walks of
Guadeloupe and Martinique, some ridiculous airs of
presumption ; and if they were even to elbow and in-
sult some inoffensive individuals who had not been so
prosperous in the world, but who bore the marks of
the oppressor in the whiteness of their skin, it
-night fairly be ascribed to a moral re-action, arising
from the sense of previous indignities, if not of po-
sitive acts of injustice. This view of the matter is
in some measure confirmed by the fact, that
although the men of colour are more free to act at
Guadeloupe than elsewhere, there .is there much
less of an insurrectionary disposition than in other
places, evidently because they are there better sa-
tisfied with their lot, and less anxiousto change it.
" A little hunch-back, of the name of Pierre Ga-
briel Pol, seems to have been regarded by the
one party as the leading incendiary, and is now
treated by the other as a victim of the vindic-
tive feelings or the vengeance of the whites.—
This Mr. Pol had sailed for Point a Pitre about
eight months ago, and his finances not being in
the best condition, he was assisted by a man
of colour, with whom he had sailed as a fellow
passenger. It was Mr. Pol's intention to have
connected himself with some public academy at
Point a Pitre, or, if possible, himself to have formed
one; and, after several unsuccessful attempts, the
men of colour patronised him, and sent their chil-
dren to the school he had opened. In his ignorance
of the manners of the Colonists, Mr. Pol sa►v no-
thing but absurdity in the prejudice which separated
the whites from the men of colour, and thought
himself able to brave it. In this, however, he
found himself mistaken, so that he naturally
identified himself with the views and feel-
ing; of hie pato% and became the pro-

pagator of their ideas. This alliance.'was sa ex;-',
traordinary as to excite the alarm of the police, who
gave hini notice that in consequence of his public ,
intimacy with the coloured classes, he would be
placed under surveillance. Having disregarded this
hint Mr. Pol, it appears, had been sent home to
France, where he will probably soon arrive, and be ,
regarded as a martyr in the cause of humanity, al-
though it seems that those, in whose cause he has
suffered, have shown themselves not ungrateful for
his services, by providing "him with an ample supply
of every necessary, and making a subscription for
him of upwards of 12,000 francs.
" On the occasion of the difference between the
Commandant of Marie Galante, and the judicial
functionaries, the proprietors of the island appeared
to have been in a state of the greatest alarm, excited
it is said by the proceedings of the Judge and the
Procureur du Roi, who are accused of having tra-
velled over the country, visiting the work shops,
asking the people if they were well treated, and
offering to the slaves to defend them if ill-used by
their masters. To this conduct is ascribed a belief
on the part of the mulattoes that orders had arrived
from France for the recognition of their rights, and,
as might have been anticipated, all the symptoms
were manifested of a violent fermentation. The
Commandant opposed the proceedings of the Procu-
reur and the Judge, which resulted, as mentioned in
my former letter, in his being sent to answer for his
conduct at the principal seat of Government, at Bas-
seterre. To inform himself as to the true state of the
fact, the Governor sent an officer of his staff to Marie
Galante, who, on his return to Basseterre, made a re-
port unfavourable to the proceedings of the Comman-
dant. Rumours having arisen of further disturbances, a
new commission of enquiry, consisting of several indi-
viduals, was despatched to Marie Galante, who
looked on the matter in a more serious light than the
first reporter. In consequence of these contradic-
tory reports, a third commission had been sent by
the Governor, and with it the Judge and the Pro-
cureur du Roi. The inhabitants, however, had re-
solved not to receive or obey these functionaries in
future, and on their appearance had shut up their
shops and warehouses. On this being reported to
the Governor, and that the President of the Town
Council, several officers of militia, and other
functionaries, had refused to act, he issued
a proclamation, calling on the inhabitants to reopen
their shops and warehouses, and on the functionaries
to resume their official duties, under the penalty of
the merchants' licences being withdrawn, and the
others being sent to Basseterre for trial. This pro-
clamation bears date the 26th of September. While
these proceedings were taking place at Marie Ga-
lante, the men of colour in other quarters, supported
by the declarations of the men of principle,' as
the friends of emancipation are called by the colo-
nists, were said to have been seen to assemble in ex-
traordinary numbers at St. Anne, under various
pretences. Anonymous information of these meet-
ings had been sent to Point a Pitre, and at length,
on the 18th of September, at seven o'clock in the
evening, a man of colour made his appearance at
a meeting of the whites, who had that day been
reviewed, and were dining with the Commandant,
telling them that at the rising of the moon they
were all to be ma-sacred in their own houses. They
immediately put themselves in a posture of defence,
sentinels were stationed at various places, and six
of the ringleaders earned by the mulatto were
seized, the others having escaped. Their project is
said to have been for two or three of them to have
been placed near each house in the town of St.
Anne, and provided with poignards, bayonets,
and other weapons, were to have called on the in-
habitants, who, on leaving their houses, were to
have been stabbed. Detachments were then to

have been posted at all the outlets of the town, and
the tocsin to be sounded to bring the people from
the country, who, on their arrival, were also to
have been massacred. They were then to have
made known at Point a Pitre what had passed
at St, Anne, and were to have availed themselves
of the general consternation to set the town on fire.
This of course is the statement of those whose inte-
rest it is to make it appear that-a serious conspiracy
has really existed; in confirmation of which it is
asserted that depots of arms and ammunition had
been found in various places. Yet strange to say it
never seems to enter their minds that, true or false,
such statements afford an unanswerable argument in
the bands of those men of principle' who insist
that such an unnatural state of things as negro sla-
very, and a distinction in civil rights, in consequence
of a difference in the colour of the skin, should never
be suffered to exist."

The projected establishment of a new Col-
lege at Bristol is an event that must be hailed by

the well-wishers of education as one of consi-
derable importance, being the first instance of an
attempt in the country to follow the example
given in the metropolis by the founders of the
University of London. The great population
of Bristol itself, and the abundance of capital
it possesses, must ensure the raising of a suffi-
cient subscription to commence the undertaking,
independently of the support that may be ex-

petted from the west of England in general, to
which the locality of Bristol so strongly recom-
mends that city as a convenient resort fur the

youth of those districts, who are desirous of
the benefits of an University education.
That two Universities, numbering together about
5,000 students, are any thing like adequate to a
population of thirteen millions, will hardly be con-
tended. But, that population being industrious,
rich, and intelligent, the want of academical in-
stitutions is so much the greater. The higher
classes, who can afford the heavy expenses of
Oxford and Cambridge, and also the great loss
of time that is there sustained by studying (after
a fashion) the classics, to the exclusion of the
more useful branches of knowledge, do not feel
any want of this kind ; but persons in a middle
rank of life, as commercial and professional men,
complain generally of the obstacles that exist to
sending their sons to either of the ancient Semi-
naries "-of sound learning and religion," as the
Homily expresses it, and of the danger arising
from the profligate habits:contracted by associ-
ations with youths of rank and fortune, who
regard the ceremoity of spending two or three
years at College merely as a sort of practise,
which, like belonging to a club, has by custom
become necessary fur a gentleman. The students
of the London University are a different kind of
persons, and have very different views ; so must
the members of the Bristol College, and of any
other establishment, whose principle and design
are to afford the means of acqUiring the various
branches of knowledge in the best manner they
pe canr prejudices learned,
of
with equal disregard of the
intolerance, and of the frivolities
of fashion.

If we turn our eyes to surrounding nations, of
which we have so often proclaimed ourselves to
be " the envy and admiration,"- we Shall see In

kiany,'a 2ea „our the superior education of the'
people well worthy of our imitation. The six
Universities of the Netherlands are increasing so
fast in their numbers, that in 1824 they contained
2,275, and in 1826, 2,752 students. Germany
contains at least thirty Universities, and as an
example of their flourishing condition, the num-
bers at the seven in the Prussian dominions rose
from 3,382 in 1820 to 5,954 in 1827. In
Russia, of whose barbarism people arc in the
habit of talking so much, and so ignorantly,
within the present century four new Universities
have been established, viz.—that of Dorpat in
1802, Kharkof in 1804, Kazan in 1814, and
St. Petersburgh in 1819. These four, with the
older ones of Moscow and Wilna, contained
1,077 scholars in 1808, and in 1824, 2,667.
Between the same years, the number of the
schools in general under the controul of the
Russian Government had risen from 1,132 to
1,411 ; and that of the pupils in the same, from
46,695 to 69,629. These arc facts which• dis-
play an ardour in the great work of education,
well worthy of imitation in this country, where
the means are so much greater when the will
once excited.

The Bishop of the diocese had, it is said,
refused his sanction to the College, because in-
struction in the Theology of the Church of
England is not intended to be made obligatory.
'I he Bishop's hostility will, however, no more
retard the scheme, than the omission he com-
plains of; will affect its utility. It would be ex-
tremely unworthy and impolitic to exclude Dis-
senters from the institution by any such regula-
tion ; and there is no doubt arrangements could
be made to give orthodox religious instruction to
those pupils who wish for it, by subsidiary lec-
tures to be delivered under the approbation of
the Council, as is now done at the London
University. We would recommend to the Bris-
tol Association to avoid as much as possible the
giving offence to the Clergy, or any other influ-
ential persons ; but let them found their College
on fair and liberal principles, and select Profes-
sors of ascertained learning and character, and
their success will soon enable them to laugh to
scorn the calumny of their being actuated by ill-
will to the Church, or a desire to pull down the
Established Religion, and to defy the denuncia-
tions of the Hierarchy against institutions con-
ceived in the most Christian benevolence, and
designed to promote the same end as Christi'',
nity itself—the happiness of the present and fu-
ture generations of mankind.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK.

The following account, dated Dec. 12, has been
received from Liverpool :—The import of Cotton,
this week, is 8,873 bags, and the sales are 5,260
bags, at lute prices for Sea Island, but at a decline
of fully id. per lb. in other descriptions. The
Boweds at auction declined id. per lb. The sales
of Plantation Sugar this NI eek are 700 Wills., at
steady prices. In Foreign and East India nothing
has been done.

Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 24th Sept.,
Sydney to the sth July, and Mauritius to the 23d
Aug., have been received at the North and South
American Coffee-house, but they are not important.
The folio wing, from the Cape Paper of the 24th
September, is an extract of a letter from Somerset :
—" There are many reports here of Caffres stealing
the cattle ; but they appear to be nothing but re-
ports, and the frontiers are in a state of profound
quiet. The CafTres, instead of invading the Colony,
appear likely to be invaded themselves. His Excel-
lency the Governor arrived at Worcester on the sth
inst. The Commissioner and Magistrates xvent to
meet him. His Excellency visited the public offices,
prison, &c."
(From the Sydney Papers to the sth July.)
Money seems to be gradually increasing, several
of our lately arrived emigrants having brought out
their capital in cash; and they have also wrote to
their friends at home, who are to follow them, to
bring with them specie instead of goods ; this is
sound advice.

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The Abeille, of New Orleans, s tys a Frzuch paper,
states that General Garza has been arrested, and
conducted to :Mexico under a strong escort, for his
bad conduct at Tampico.
Letters from Port-au-Prince of the 31 October
state that business was at a great stand there, and
they were much surprised in not having as yet re-
ceived the treaty of commerce with France, which
caused great anxiety.