The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-01 00:00:00

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1841 was decidedly deficient, both in quantity and. qua-
lity ; and that the stocks of old wheat,of our own growth
were, by the time that the new came into consumption,
in a very exhausted state. The present position of things
is in many respects singular, and even the best informed
have been grieviously out in their calculations. Not
three months ago, it was confidently expected that prices
of wheat would have got up sufficiently high by Febru-
ary or March to reduce the duty to a very low, if not mi-
nimum point ; the time has nearly arrived, and so far
from these predictions being fulfilled, the returns of each
week come lower and lower, and we have at present a
duty of 245. Bd. per quarter."

It ascribes this disappointment to the opinion
that Sir R. PEEL will make an alteration in the
Corn-laws, to admit foreign grain on easier
terms than at present,—but it is more likely to
be caused by the greatly diminished means
and diminished consumption of the people. The
speculators calculated the consumption and the
price by ordinary years, but in consequence of
the diminished employment in the manufactur-
ing districts and lowered wages throughout the
country, the consumption of the lower classes
has been reduced to the smallest possible quan-
tity. Hundreds and thousands of the popula-
tion have ceased to consume wheaten bread;
and the corn-growers are now feeling, in their
own purses, a slight taste of that misery that
they have suffered themselves to be made instru-
mental in inflicting on the labouring classes.

,We agree with.c. Correspondent, whose letter
will be fbuntlele•ewhere, that the people will ne-
glect, their own interest and their duty if they do
not inform her MAJESTY, on the day after to-
morrow, of the great unpopularity of the Minis-
ters. Since her accession to the throne, no voice
but of gratitude and praise has reached her.
Indeed, she has never deserved anything else,
Her MAJESTY has always done her duty well,
consistently with her station; but she is now un-
fortunately surrounded wtth Ministers who have
taken office for the purpose of maintaining an un-
just and ruinous monopoly. To convey that truth,
with certainty and effect to her MAJESTY, is the
duty of the people. On that point there ought to'
be no mistake. The aristocracy have reduced the
Royal authority to belittle more than a pageant
for their purposes; but the 'democracy may use
that pageant to bring the Royal authority on
their side, and make it a substantial power for
good.

That the aristocracy, and particularly the
Tories, fear the honest and peaceable expression
of the people's opinions, is evident from the in-
struments and plans they have used to coax
them into quietness and subserviency. What
are all the Short-time Deputations and inter-
views, we. have lately heard of? what the
promises of a Ten-hour Bill ? what the
talk about emigration ?—but lures to carry
the people over to Toryism, and make them
acquiesce in their own and their country's
degradation. We have said before, and 'we re-
peat it, that a nation cannot be enslaved against
its will ; and if the people continue hereafter
under the yoke of the landlords, it will be their
own fault. A peaceful and 'respectful exterior
on Thursday may serve the QUEEN as well as
save the country.

New York Journals to the 10th inst. were
received yesterday morning. They contain no
political news of importance. We subjoin the
latest account of the state of the Money Market :
The sales of the Stock Board presented the usual fea-
tures, and prices fluctuated to some extent. Delaware
and Hudson fell 1 per cent; Indiana Bonds, i; Harlem 4;
Long Island rose. At auction a sale of 3,571 shares of
Harlem Stock were sold at 91 a 91, which is Ito above
the market rates. They were bought in by Mr. Gourlie.
This Stock was pledged with J. Ward and Co., to secure
two loans of 44,500 dol. each, made in 1835 and 1837.
These loans fell due Oct. 10, 1841, and Jan. 10, 1842.
They were issued at 50 per cent., consequently, the 3,571
shares amounted to 89,000 dols. This stock is now
transferable, and forms an addition to the quantity upon
the market.

The packet ship Albany, for Havre, carries out 96,000
dols. in specie.
The ship Albany, which sailed to-day for Havre, car-
ries out 96,000 dcils. iii specie.
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
$2,000 Corporation Bonds
'l4 • 2,000 Illinois Bonds 1570 3 16
4,000 Indiansanbad; ..
150,Shares-Delaware and Hudson...
50 Ditto Mechanics Bank
25 Ditto Phenix Bank.
50 Ditto Farmers' Loan...
50 Ditto Ohio Life and Trust 55
10 Shares Merchants' Exchange Bank 25
10 Ditto New York and Erie R.
25 Ditto Canton C 0........
25 Ditto Mohawk A. R
975 Ditto ......
100 Ditto L Island R
50 Ditto Stonington R
10 Ditto New Jersey
SECOND BOARD.
100 Shares Harlem.... ..... ......-
2,000 Ditto Indiana
2,000 Ditto Illinois...

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We have received Madrid Papers of the 22d
inst. There was a stormy debate going forward
in the Chamber of Deputies on the. Address, but
no other news of interest.

The Paris Journals have all reached us.
The tedious debate in the Chamber of .De-
puties on the Address has at last been brought
to a close. It was adopted on . Saturday
by a majority of 84-240 votes being given
for, and 156 against it. On Friday M. BiLLOUV
made a regular attack on the Government on the
subject of the Press prosecutions. The Ministers
pretended to be taken by surprise, and never
did they make a more miserable defence. We
shall to-morrow' endeavour to do justice to the
spirited conduct of the Opposition on this oc-
casion.
The Augsburgh Gazette says :—" We learn from St.
Petersburgh that Count Cankrin has left the Adminis-
tration of the Finances, and that the department is to be
divided into different sections, each having its own
chief."—lt is reported that on the 13th inst., New Year's
Day in Russia, the Empress of Russia was so much in-
disposed that no Court was held.
" The Emperor of Russia," says a letter from St. Pe-
tersburg, " has resolved to allow several more Poles who
took part in the revolution to return home. Among
them is Prince Oginski, who, for several years past, has
subsisted in France as a bookbinder."
A letter from the Island of Bourbon, written on the
13th October to the Messages, says :—" The interesting
solemnity of administering the communion to • 120
blacks has just taken place at St. Denis, in the presence
of nearly all the public functionaries.—At the Assizes of
St. Denis just finished, two persons have been con-
demned for ill-treating slaves : the one to twelve months'
imprisonment, and the other to the same durance for
r five years. Both are deprived of the right of possessing
slaves' for ten years."
The.'Court of Caseation will be engaged to-day in
'considering the appeal of M. Ledru Rollin and M.
Ilaukeau against the decision of the Court of Assize of
the Department of the Maine and Loire.
„Tile affair' of the Gazette de France and the National
is.fi4ed. for the 14th of February.
=4The M'oniteur of yesterday, the 28th, publishes the
following note, the object of which is - difficult
to divine :—" Sweden, as one of the eight contracting
Powers at the Congress of Vienna, had taken part in the
act, by which it was agreed, in the month of February,
1815, to arrange measures for the total suppression of
the negro slave-trade. On the 15th of June, 1814, a
treaty to this effect was -concluded and signed at Stock-
holm with''England. Subsequently the accession of
between
Sbut weden and
1836, a F
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declined
con-
formable to that which has been concluded with Eng-
land."--Constieutionnet.
A Commissary of Police went on Saturday with a writ
to the resipence or a Mr. G—, who arrived at Paris a
few weeks since, and there seized numerous papers.
and various articles, among which was' a tele-
graphic alphabet,, traced upon an an. autozincographic
plate, from which several copies appear to have been
taken. In his examination, which took place almost
immediately, Mr. G— declared that what he was
more
re-
possession was nothing-
iliaroin a re-
proached
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We have received the Barcelona journals to the 21st.
The Captain-General Van Haien, had just received from
the Regent the Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic.
El Popular, a republican Journal of Barcelona, fol-
lowing the example of its colleague, El Huracan of
Madrid, has suspended its publication.—Commerce.
BOURSE--PARIB, SATURDAY, JAY. 29.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price Prier.
French 5 Per Cen4i..... ... lie 54 ... 118 55 ... 118 30 ... 118 35
3 per Cents... ."
79 4U .. 19 40 .. :9 20 ••• 79 25
Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Shute 1017 40 ...1017 50 ...1017 50 ...lel7 50
4.ink of Wfulee 3370 ...f 370 ...2370. ...3370
6,000 f. Shares 6027 50 —5030 ...5027 50 ...5030
4elglan Bank ............ 790 ... 792 50...90 ... 792 50
18'1 ... 50...103250
Belgian S per Cents. ..... lO4 ... 104 ... 103% .. 1031,
6 per Cents., 1840.« 105% ... 10514 ... 10514 ... 102
ipsmsh Active ..... 2::.% ... 25% ..„ 24% ... 24%
Passive.•......" 5% •.. 5% ... 51 ••• 5%
Neapolitan
Itoman 103% „, 103%
... 103.5
.. 103%
RAILWAY sHAREs.
it. Germain 110111•••••••••••••••••• 887 50 ... 887 50 ... 885 ... 885
Versailles R. ht ...........
L. 8............» 2OB 75 ... 208 75 ... 208 75 ... 208 '75
LOS ... tO5 498 7' 75

- - ••• 15 499
oilcans ..... 532 5., . 532 50 530 A. 530
-4trasburgtoßale. e26'ls 228 73 227 50 227 50

SUMMARY OF NEWS
AND
pttbltt eptitton.

,6 Who run may read."

roRZIGN.
The French Chamber of Deputies voted on Saturday
the Speech from the Throne.
n in
umber of was 396, of which 240 were
Thethe Address
whole answer to
for the Address, and 136 against it.
There was a-most stirring debate in the French Cham-
ber of Deputies, on Friday, lin the question of the Crown
prosecutions•of the press. N. Billout headed the attack
on the Government and the Peers, and acquitted himself
with singular ability. Ile was opposed by the Minister
of Justice, who cut a very sorry figure on the occasion.
PUBLIC "OPINION.
The Times concludes an article on the Dublin Elec-
tion with the following remarks on the apparent pacific
termination of the Liberal and Tory contest.:" We
cannot but congratulate the country on the quiet with
which this election has passed over. How much of this
is owing to the consciousness which all entertain of the
presence of a Conservative Government, and how much
to the hope expressed by the Lord Mayor that the con-
test might go off in good humour, and how much to
actual fatigue and satiety in those whose profession it is
to provide against such a tame contingency, we-do not
pretend to
.pronounce, tlionOt our readers will probably.
divine that we do not attribute any very extraordinary
weight to the second. of these. influences, which we may
feel pretty sure would scarcely have been exerted if the
contrary course could have been advantageously pur-
sued. But, Whatever be the sCeourit of this tranquillity,
we hail it warmly, ind heartily hope it may prove a
happy omen and example."
The Morning Chronicle has the following remarks on
the perplexity of the Tory Cabinet :—" It is perfectly
clear that whatever assurances party newspapers and
party runners may impudently give us as to the un-
paralled and unbroken unity. of the party; the Tory party
is at the present moment agitated_ by the most violent
internal conflict of opinions. The whole party has,
undoubtedly been changed, and materially changed, by
the Reform Bill. lt_musti.be.a very small, and, from its
stupidity, a very insignificant portion of the party, that
believes that the Reform Bill had made no change ex-
cept that of rendering it less necessary to conciliate some
few boroughmongers, :and more requisite to spond a good
deal of money in bribery' i'iind _that, . with- the exception
of this difference
.in the mode of obtaining aParliamen-
tary majority, the poliey of afe party will be tonse and
to keep power,just after the same fashion asin the days
of Perceval
,and Castlereagh, The -great mass of the
party, though meaning to govern in the same spirit, and
with the same objects as before—though as determined
as ever to repress the. people, and enjoy the sweets of
corruption, are convinced that their task is one of far
greater difficulty than it used to be, and can only be suc-
cessfully achieved by the wise conception and steady
execution of a definite and consistent policy."
The following insolent attack upon the honest Pro-
testants who have addressed the Archbishop of Canter-
bury against the Papistical ceremonies of the Puseyites,
is quoted from a leading article in the Morning Post:—
" We hear that the laity in some parts of the country
are signing addresses to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
calling upon his Grace to institute an inquiry into the
schismatical conduct and heretical teaching of the Low
Church, or self-styled Evangelical clergy. Some sueh
addresses are greatly needed to counteract the Low
Church heretics, who are petitioning against those whom
they call Tractarians. One person in every parish can
draw up an address and getting it signed in the shape
of a round robin, direct it to his Grace at the Palace at
Lambeth, to which place many such will, we apprehend,
be addressed during the ensuing week. The instances
of clerical irreligion among Low Churchmen, or Evan-
gelists, are glaring. • We have heard of a church in
Birmingham in which the preacher never condescendS to
be present at the prayers. Despising prayer, he remains
in the vestry conning his sermon."
The Morning .Herall thus hints at the expediency of
the Tory Premier opening the Session of Parliament by
having recourse to the Walpole system of extensive
bribery. Granny forgets, however, that it is now the
country, and not its representatives, that must•be bribed;
and that the first bribe must be the repeal of the Corn-
laws :—" Sir Robert Peel may, it is quite certain, have
the support of a considerable body of the nominal Oppo-
sition if he choose to bid for it. There is, indeed, no
doubt that many of the older Whigs who still -attach
themselves to that fragment are in his heart even now,
and will reruse to be driven into any violent Opposition.
The influence which Lord Stanley and Sir James Gra-
ham still have amongst their former associates is great ;
and the deadly blow aimed by Lord John Russell at the
landed interest has shaken the allegiance of many of his
adherents. Moderate measures from Sir Robert Peel
will complete their secession from the Opposition benches
in the course of a session .or two. But the Right Hon.
Baronet will not, it is to be hoped, be too eager to secure
at once that support which, is sure to come at last spon-.
taneously. Sir Robert's first duty is to keep his own
party together—his next to conciliate his opponents."
The following sensible remarks on the Corn-law ques-
tion are from the Morning Advertiser :—The question of
the Corn-law monopoly is now much narrowest. For-
merly the ground of conflict between the free traders
and the monopolists was, whether or not there should
be a fixed duty or one variable on a sliding _scale ' • and
had the point, , been settled in favour of a fixed duty,
the other question, What ought the amount of the fixed
duty to be ?'.would have started up and led to an equally
fierce contention between the -people and the landed in-
terest. Now it is a simple ....question of repeal or no
repeal. The monopolists have to thank themselves for
this. refusal of Lord john. RUssell's proposal of
a fixed duty of eight shillings, has brought the question
to this shape. Bitterly must the landed interest regret
their folly—folly for themselves, but crime as regards
the people: It is a wise ordination of Providence, that
injustice always hrings its own punishment. If the oli-
garchists still persist in their opposition to the extinction
of the corn monopoly, they will inevitably ensure their
own: destruction. • The -only source of regret is, that in
the eonvulsion which- would necessarily follow the re-
jecting of a motion for- Corn-law repeal, the whole
country would be involved in the same ruin. To the
country, hoivever, it would be some satisfaction to think,
that even in the assumed case matters could not commer-
cially be in a Much worse state than they now are."
The IMshinan, after proposing the question Whit
is Puseyisrn," supplies_ for
.answer—" It, is Popery some-
what diluted—diluted and partially disguised for the pre-
sent, in order to render it the niorepalatable.to those whi
may still have some misgivings about receiving it pure‘
and unalloyed as the article issues front the 'grand lab&
ratory on the banks of the Tiber ;, but' containing tire
genuine quintessence of all that Constitutes the ' myk-
tery of iniquity.' , •
The Dublin Eveninq Post, after making stria calcula-
tions on the true amonnt of numbers that , should have

polled atAhe election, shows that by the proceedings-at
the hustings in the booth M alone, " 1,000 electors have
been disfranchised, as practically and effectually 'as if
Lord de Grey had placed a regiment of soldiers at the
hustings, to drive them off at the point of the bayonet."
" This splendid opening," says the Leeds Times, " of
the bread-tax Parliament will be highly appropriate at
the present season of calamity and distress among the
people. The display of the Royal and Aristocratic mag-
nificence will be a comfortable sight for the millions who
are in want of food. The dress' Peeresses and La-

dies will be a joyful thought to the many mothers who are
now weeping in agony over their starving children."

MONEY—TILABZ--C OIVIMEIZC E.
The Delight packet, from Mexico, arrived at Fal-
mouth on the 28th, with a freight of 900,000 dollars,
the greater part of which is to be trans-shipped into the
Shannon steamer, for London.

At Bolton trade has had -no improvement ; at Brad-
ford the market has been dull, with few buyers; at Hud-
dersfield improvement may be reported, but not extensive;
at Halifax gloom prevails, a; also at Leicester; Leeds
has been brisker in the cloth trade.

THEATRICAL.
Monsieur Perlet, and the entire corps dramatique ofthe
French Theatre, arrived at the Custom-house on Saturday.
SPORTING.
At the turn out of the Royal staghounds on Thursday,
two hinds were killed after short runs : on Friday a fast
run of only two minutes brought down the stag ; to-clay
the hunt will be at Stoke• common. unless Prince Albert
and the King of Prussia hunt in the Great Park.

. .
COURT-PASXIXONABLE.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford have arrived in
Belgrave-square, from Woburn Abbey.
Lord Pahnerston left town on Saturday for Pansanger,
to visit Earl CoWper.
The Earl of Westmoreland left town on Sunday fin•
Apethorpe, the family estate in Northamptonshire.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel left Whitehall•gardens on
Sunday, on a visit to the Queen at Windsor.
It is fully expected that -her Majesty will, on the
Court leaving Windsor, give permission for the public to
be admitted by tickets, under proper regulations, to
view the state apartments, furnished and embellished as
they are at present •

The Cominittee of the Baronetage for Privileges earn-.
meneed their meetings for the season on Saturday.

A messenger arrived at Woolwich on Satuicrif;, con-
veying intelligence that the King of Prussia had post-
poned his visit to that place until Friday the 4th inst.
The Queen DoWager has recently presented, a gold
watch, chain, and seals, to Mr. Robinson, the head of
the booking department at the Euston station of the
London and Birmingham Railway, for the attention
shown by that gentleman on the occasions on which her
Majesty has travelled upon that line. Her Majesty has
likewise honoured Mr. Creed, the Secretary of the Com-
pany, with a similar mark of her Royal consideration.