The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-15 00:00:00

coalition would have the majority, and thus over-
turn the Administration.

It appears from the Paris papers that the
question relating to the right of search has at
lait been settled, and that the treaty of 1841 will
not be ratified by France. What else could M.
GulzoT do, after a great majority of the Cham-
bers had voted against the treaty, and the
general voice of the country was opposed to it ?
The following article on the subject is taken from
the Presse:—

"From information which has reached us, and
which we look on as authentic, the Powers have at
last come to the determination to definitively put an
end to the protocol, which was opened for the ratifi-
cation of the treaty of December 20. We hasten to
give publicity to this intelligence. It is a primary
compliance with the wishes of the Chambers—it is a
triumph—the whole honour of which appertains to
them. But all their wishes are riot yet satisfied. In
the memorable sitting of January 24, the Chamber of
Deputies, the severe and faithful guardian of the
honour of the country, demanded two things from
the Ministry—first, not to ratify the treaty of De-
cember 20, and next to prepare and conclude mea-
sures as speedily as possible for annulling the previous
treaties. The cancelling of the protocol only fulfils
the first part of this task ; the second remains as it
stood. It cannot be doubted that the Chambers will
persist in their first resolution. If the annulling of
the treaties of 1831 and 1833 appeared to them de-
sirable and possible ten months back, to annul them
will still appear necessary and easy, when England,
by her own line of conduct, has changed the face of
the question."

A meeting of about 80 of the manufacturers
and merchants of Paris was held on Wednesday,
and agreed upon a petition against •the Customs'
Union with Belgium, which is to. be presented
to the President of Commerce. M. LEROY, one
of the Judges of the Tribunal of Commerce,
took the chair.

A Frankfort journal mentions a report that
accounts have been received from the United
States of the intention of putting an end to the
privileges which the vessels of the Hanseatic
towns have hitherto enjoyed in the American
ports. The report, however, does not appear to
rest on a good foundation.
The Frankfurter Journal contains a letter
from Breslau, which says :--" We have just re-
ceived from Berlin the important intelligence
that the Committee of the States have been
consulted on the question, whether a Constitu-
tion of the States of the kingdom was necessary
lbr Prussia, and that a negative reply had been
given by 57 votes to 47."—The accounts from
Berlin make no allusion to this circumstance.
BOURSE—PARIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 5... 119 5... 118 90... 118 95
41,1 y per Cents 105 95... 105 95... 105 95... 105 95
Four per Cents 101 50... 101 50 .. 101 50... 101 50
3 per Cents 80 20... 80 25... 80 15... 80 20
Bank of France 3270 —.3270 ...3270 .. 3270
Belgian Fives 1034 ... 10.31 ... 103% ... 103%
1840 104% ... 104% 104% ... 104%
Spanish Active 23 ... 23% ... 23 ... 23%
New Deferred 9% ... 9% ... 9 ... 9%
Passive -31 3% 3% ... 3%
Neapolitan... lOB 80... 108 80... 108 80... 108 80
Roman, ex div. 103% 103% ... 103 a ... 103%

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Nov. 11.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent ................ 3.2% 52%
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Atom t Svndic,4% per cent.......... ........
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent..•. ........
Commercial Company, 4% per cent...»
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.......... ...... ...« 119% 103
Exchange on London, One month l2 20
Two months .....» l2 "15
Hamburgh, One month 35 87%
Twomonths 35 86%
Dutch Papers, Nov. 11.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bnusam.s, Nov. 13.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent, S3X
Rothschild's Loan, Five per' Cent. lO3
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent SI%
Three per Cent.
-- Thirty-seven Millions, ditto
----- (1810)•••• ..... - IP4
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 92 .
Society of Commerce. Four and a Half per Cent B6
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 76%
National Society - —
Exchange on London (short) 01100•••••••••••• -
-Brussels Papers, Nov. 12.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 4
Five per Cents. Metalhques . . 108 X
Four per Cents. lOO%
Three per Cents. •••................. ...... ••..... ........ 77
Bank Shates .•. ...... .. ..... •••••••••••••0110111 •••••••• ...... 1621
Allgemeine Zeitung,.Nov. 8.

MR. MACAULAY AND 4i THEISUN."
For many, many a century, the sun-god, Phcebus-
Apollo, has been deemed the friend and patron of
poets. 'Limes are changed, however. The Sun will
not smile on Mr. Macaulay ; not although he has as-
sumed the character of a dev6ut worshiper of the
heathen divinities, and has sung in such strains as re-
sounded to their honour in old times. The Sun has
issued a command, not from the blue arch above, but
from the office, No. 112, Strand, that Mr. Macaulay
shall sing no more, or, in other words, shall " sing
dumb." The fiat has een issued with ma;estic stern-
ness and severity. The words of poor Keats came to
mind when it fell under our eye :
" Fine was the mitigated fury, like
Apollo's, when in act to strike"—
the serpent. Such is the close in the poem. Mr.
Macaulay is the object of attack to this modern
" Pythian of the age.'
Seriously speaking, we have to animadvert on
some strange and inconsistent remarks of The Sun
newspaper on the volume of verse lately issued by
Mr. Macaulay. The late Secretary-at-War is
taken to task most bitterly for refreshing his lei-
sure hours. with poetry. In one breath, the writer
makes allusion to the " great talents" of Mr.
Macaulay, accuses him of sins of omission and
commission which " inflicted heavy blows on the
welfare of his country," and concludes.by telling him
that the people of Britain have " to some extent con-
ferred on him the leadership of their cause." The
whole of this article, in short, which appears among
the leaders in The Sun, is full of absurdities. In the
simple assumption that Mr. Macaulay's poems are
the production of the present moment, a great error
is in all probability committed. They may have
been written at college, or on the way home from
India, for anything The Sun knows, and may have
been produced at present merely because the period was
convenient for a little revision. At all events, it is
most ridiculous to assume that public men are to have
no moments of relaxation, and that a Member of
Parliament, even during the recess of that body, is
acting culpably if he gives one hour to those elegant
studies which, to serve the public, he perhaps tears
himself from, against his inclinations, for the greater
part of his time and life. It is most unworthy of a
Liberal Journal to put forth such sentiments. Mr.
Macaulay is the representative of Edinburgh in Par-
liament, and we are not aware that any party here
have to charge him with neglecting their interests, in
order that he may cultivate the literature which he
loves.—Scotsman.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sna,—l consider your animadversions upon Mr.
Macaulay, for employing his talents, and occupying
his leisure at the present tremendously appalling crisis
in our country's fortunes in writing doggrel rhymes,
perfectly just, and to have been imperatively called
for. However highly Mr. Macaulay's admirers may
estimate his services, both by pen and tongue, to the
community at large, none can deny that those ser-
vices have been munificently remunerated. Now, Sir,
what should we think or say of an officer in command
of a vessel at sea, when a hurricane was fiercely
blowing, and the foaming billows sweeping across her
decks, and the hissing breakers boiling around her,
retiring into his cabin, stretching his person luxu-
riously along a well stuffed settee, and presently be-
coming absorbed in the metrical mechanism of bal-
lads upon ancient Rome, or, peradventure, his mis-
tress' eyebrow ? The fact is—and a deplorable one
it is—the primary cause of our beloved country's
present critical position, and the but too certain fore-
runner, it is to be apprehended, of horrors which
make tho blood curdle to think of, or the most faintly
shadow forth, is, that our aristocracy, and their tools
and hangers on, their sycophantic followers and
apeing idolators, have no sympathy with, or faith in,
humanity and its inexhaustible capabilities of amelio-
ration. They love and cling to their class more than
their country ; and estimate and lionour more the in-
trigues of a partisan than the disinterested services of
a patriot. Sir, our country needs a new and nobler
order of statesmen— men whose hearts shall swell in
behalf of the common weal; whose measures shall
embody the Christian law of love ; men who, in the
thrilling language of the lamented and ever-to-be-
honoured Channing, can "look through the disguises,
envelopments of ranks and classes, to the common
nature which lies below them," and feel that "it has
noble powers to cultivate, solemn duties to perform,
inalienable rights to assert, a vast destiny to accom-
plish ;" and that it is their most bounden duty and
highest privilege, to assist it in its glorious efforts and
high calling.—Your obedient servant,
Affleck-street, Aberdeen. JOHN ESDAILE.

ST. PETERSBURGH, OCT. 31.—0 n Tuesday last
(the 25th) Lady Stuart de Itothsay had the honour
to be received by her Imperial Highness the Grand
Duchess Helena.—Journal de St. Petersburgh.
A letter from Leipsig of the 30th of October,
contains the following statement :—" We have just
learned a piece of intelligence which, if true, is of
great importance. It is, that the German Customs'
Union contemplate the using of reprisals against the
American tariff. It is added, that our Government
especially unites in the adoption of this measure, be-
cause several articles of our manufacture are entirely
excluded by the high duties imposed by the new tariff.