The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-29 00:00:00

WITH A

MAP OF CHINA.

TO-MORROW, THE 30th INST., WILL
BE PUBLISHED,

through the East, accompanied by peace and
happiness, is the foundation of the hearty re-
joicing which has pervaded the whole empire.
We hail that feeling with unfeigned delight, as
a complete proof that the sickly and hypocritical
sentimentality which certain Tory writers have
directed against commerce and a town popula-
tion, has found no response in the public mind.
The nation continues, practically and heartily,
faithful to the great principle of our ancestors,

that commerce is the soul of the national great-
ness; and it delights, above all things, in the
prospect which the treaty with China holds out,
of a vast extension of trade. _ _

It is impossible, after establishing this import-
ant truth, not bitterly to regret that this perma-
nent stream of truly British sentiment has not
long before now carried the Government - along
with it to extend our trade with other countries,
which offer, at least, as great advantages as
China. To effect that no war would be necessary.

A NEW CHINA SUN,

Far from engaging in conflicts, which we are sen-
sible many of the people disapprove of; it is
only necessary to preserve the relations of friend-
ship, cultivate peace, and allow our own people
free scope for their enterprise. No new
Consuls, or diplomatic relations, always costly,
and very often more mischievous than beneficial,
would have been required; there was no occasion
for any increased and expensive action of the
Government ; the silent and unobtrusive exer-
tions of individuals would have effected this great

CONTAINING
EVERYTHING INTERESTING
WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND
A DESCRIPTION OF THE
FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF
CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO,
NINGPO, AND SHANGHAE ;
TOGETHER WITH ALL THE GLORIOUS

AND IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE
LATE WAR IN THAT COUNTRY.

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end. No credit, perhaps, would have been
gained for any Ministers; there would have been
nothing for parasites to boast of; but the prospe-
rity and peace of the whole world would have
been promoted by what some high-souled per-
sons call the vulgar labours of the Sheffield cut-
lers, of the Manchester spinners and weavers, and
of the cultivators of the earth throughout the
wide continent of America. In setting labour
free, there is nothing to attract and dazzle the
world. All that the statesman can hope for is
the gratitude of an enriched posterity, which is
as nothing compared to the present applause of a
victory, and of their opening, by their own act, a
few ports some thousand miles further off.
One great advantage which opening and ex-
tending a trade with America, by making trade
free, would have over a trade with Asia, arises
front the fact that the former is peopled with
men of European descent, who have European
habits and wants which our industry is calculated
to gratify ; while the bulk of the Asiatics, sepa-
rated into castes, and drilled into slavery, have
peculiar wants and habits, which will require
some education on our part to learn, and some
new skill to gratify. It is said, for example, in
the Leeds Mercury, speaking with authority—
That the Chinese have religious, or quasi religious
scruples, against wearing fabrics which are made of
two different materials, as wool and cotton. We
know of a case in which a lot of worsted goods with
cotton warps was sent to Canton, and sold on arrival
by the pattern card; but •on the day following the
sale was cancelled by the Hong merchants, who
alleged that the goods were made of animal and vege-
table substances mixed, which was contrary to nature
as well as to their religion. In this respect the
Chinese act on the principle laid down in the Mosaic
law, " Neither shall a garment mingled ,of linen and
woollen come upon thee." Levit. xix. 19. It may
be relied on that mixed fabrics will not sell in China.

But manufactures may be made cheap in pro-
portion as there is an extensive demand for them,
and we cannot hope to obtain as profitable and
extensive a trade with people who have such
peculiar tastes, as with people who have tastes
somewhat like our own. Another consideration
is, that the bulk of the Asiatics are very poor,
live on very little, and pass from generation to
generation without making any material improve-
ment in their condition. We shall find some
better data, however, for reasoning on the sub-
ject in the actual state of our trade with Asia,
and in its developement, than in any conjectures.
It is now nearly two hundred years since
tea was known and used in Europe, and
the average quantity imported into Eng-
land during the last ten years is about
se,trt;,o{Mb..l,, ,Pit.;., ;-.J,:lag the average cost
price only at is. per lb., is 1,800,000/. we pay
to China for tea alone. This trade has for that
long period been gradually growing up, and tea,
which comprises only one article of our imports,
has swelled to that magnitude. In Mr. MACCUL-
LOCH'S Dictionary we find the value of our im-
ports of merchandise from China, set down in
1826-1827 at 2,264,726/.2 while our exports of
merchandise to that country for the same
years, was only 764,4181. In 1827-1828, the im-
ports from China were 1,981,4101., and our ex-
ports of merchandise to China 700,2611. In the
many years, therefore, that we traded with
China down to 1830, we only found means to
make them take from us about one-third of the
quantity of commodities or merchandise which
we took from them, and we had to pay for the
remainder in hard cash.

But this refers to the state of our trade with
China before the abolition of the East India Com -
pany's Charter. It happens, too, that all the ac-
counts of trade with China are mingled with those
of the trade with India. Before the abolition of
the Charter our exports to China were included
under one head with those of India, as exports
to Asia. Since the abolition of the Charter, the
interruption of the trade with China, and its un_
certainty, have caused the exports really intended
for that country to be sent to Singapore or some
other English settlement, and included, therefore,
in the exports to India. Thus the declared value
of our exports to the latter country rose from
4,295,829/. in 1836, to 6,023,192/. in 1840, while
the exports to China fell off from 1,326,388/. in
the former year, to 5.24,198/. in the latter. It
would seem more satisfactory, therefore, and
more elucidatory of the progress of our trade
with Asiatics, if we include the trade to India
and China.
The reader will remember that our empire in
Hindostan embraces a population of nearly
00,000,000 souls, and has now been for several
years of that extent. Scattered over
that empire is
no inconsiderable Euro-
pean population, and a
'nixed descent, spreading European popu ti on of
habits
and
nd
tastes throughout the Hindoo population. There
is an extensive European press; there are Euro-
pean merchants, indigo and sugar planters, and
all the varied population of a European trading
community, besides the servants of the Govern-
ment. All those are circiunstances which serve
to extend our trade with Hindostan to a degree
which cannot be hoped for with China. To trade
with the north of China, our people must learn a
new language, as well as acquire a knowledge
of the habits of a people new to them; and nu-
merous as are the Chinese, therefore, they cau
scarzely within a short period give the same ac-
cession to our trade as the inhabitants of Hin-

dostan.
In the " Tables of the Trade of the United King-
dom" from 1831 to 1840, we find the average de-
clared value of our exports to those two countries,
within that period of ten years, to have been
4,450,0001. We speak only of our exports, because
we look merely at the outlet which those countries,
and China in particular, may be expected to pro-
vide for our manufactures. In Mr. MACCULLOCH'S
Dictionary the average official value of our ex-
ports to Asia, between 1816 and 1822, is set down
at 3,219,4461. At that period, the official value and
the declared value of commodities was very nearly
equal ; so that in 22 years, with all the advantages
we have enumerated as to Hindostan, the con-
sumption of oux manufactures in the whole of
Asia has not increased one-fourth. Such a fact
holds out to the nation but a slender hope of any
very great extension of trade by means of the
new ports which have been opened to us in
China. We ascribe the slow progress made by
the Asiatics in the use of our commodities, par-
ticularly those of Hindostan, who are so much
under our control, to tlbe poverty of the bulk of
the people, to the gene ral slavery which pre-
vails, and to the compai ative unchangeableness
of their habits.
Although the United States scarcely contain
one-sixth of the population of our empire in
India, the average cledlarc_4l value of our exports
to that country during the ten years ending with
1840, hampered as •that trade has been, was
7,800,0001., proving ti le greater probability of
extending our trade with a population of
European descended men than with a population

LONDON :
TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 29, 1342.

We perceive with great pleasure the hearty
and sincere joy which the public express on ac-
count of the extension of our trade from the
treaty with China. Much as the nation has been
delighted with the prowess of our arms, it is
obviously much more delighted with the peace
in which success has terminated. The superiority
of our people in warfare was so great, that their
battles had in them something that appeared
rather like butchering than fighting, and the
nation heartily rejoices that they are at an end.
We have not heard any thing like a wish ex-
pressed that Sir Huck GouGn and Admiral
PARKER had been allowed and encouraged to
continue their career of conquest. The public
wished for honourable peace, and its delight
is, that peace, with such great advantages, has
been achieved.

Though desirous of money, generally speak-
ing, and anxious to spare its own pocket, the
public has not felt half the pleasure on account
of the money to be paid, which it has felt on ac-
count of the ports to be opened. THE EXPECTED
EXTENSION OF OUR TRADE, opening to Europe a
new world, enabling commerce to restore the
public prosperity, and to spread civilization

TI-1E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1841

of Asiatics. That comparative statement shows
also how much greater would be the benefit
of free trade, which we may command by
abolishing our own restrictions, than any other
trade which the direct action of statesmen may
procure for the country. If the opening of four
new ports in China be a proper occasion for
public rejoicing, as we think it is, how much
more ought we to rejoice if we should, by the
abolition of our own bad laws, open the ports of
the world?

We are not inclined to undervalue the new
opening which the success of our arms has ob-
tained for us, and delight to see the proof it
affords of the high value which the public, in
spite of Tory jeremiades, still, and we hope for
ever will, affix on trade. At the same time it is
good, even in the midst of success, to remember
moderation; and we have rather leaned to
an unfavourable view to guard the public against
unfounded hopes and rash speculations.

the city. They spoke of raising four corps, com-
posed each of several battalions, to be employed
in blockading Montjuich, and keeping VA.N
HAL-EN in check. In case the insurrection ex-

tended to the remainder of the province, the
Captain-General, who has but 6,000 men under
his command, would be obliged to retreat to
Molina del. Rey, on the road from Lerida to
Saragossa. It is already announced that several
towns have followed the example of Barcelona.
General ARISTIZABAL, who commands at Girona,
having received orders from VAN HALEN to join
him as quickly as possible with all his disposable
troops, the city of Girona took the opportunity
of his departure to rise. We find, likewise, by
our letters, that the Junta of Barcelona had re-
ceived deputies from Mataro, Sabadell, and
Reuss, the three most industrious and co►nmer-
cial towns in Catalonia."
The National contains the following sensible
remarks on the folly of the attempt, and the
course which the REGENT should pursue :

A proclamation issued by Lord ELLENBOROUGir
at Simla, on the Ist of October, has been re-
ceived at the India House, which removes all
doubts as to the evacuation of Affghanistan. The
British forces are to retire within the Indus and
the Sutlej rivers, and the Affghans are to be
left to settle their own affairs. His Lordship
further announces that he will not interfere
with their selection of a Sovereign, but will re-
cognise any Government approved by the Aff-
ghans themselves, which shall appear desirous
and capable of maintaining friendly re-
lations with neighbouring States. Though we
may condemn the bad taste displayed by the Go -
vernor-General in animadverting withsuchseverity
on the policy adopted by his predecessor, we cor-
dially approve of the resolution to evacuate that
country, and support only the Chief elected
by the people. Indeed, there was no other
rational course to pursue. To keep the Aff-
ghans in subjection, an army of fifty
thousand men would be required to be
kept up at the distance of a thousand miles from
the seat of Government, and at an expenditure
totally disproportioned to the object in view.
With the Indus as the boundary of the Indian ter-
, ritory on the west, and several military stations
I on its banks for protecting trade, as well as
checking the incursions of lawless tribes, England
may secure her possessions in the East against
all invaders. We have convinced the Affghans
that she is able and willing to maintain her
rights, and that no foreign Power, however distant
or difficult of access, can brave her with impunity.
This is one of the noble results effected by the suc-
cessful march upon Caubul, and will not apply
to that country only,but to every chieftain and
potentate in Asia. The country, therefore, cannot
be sufficiently thankful that the first orders
given by Lord ELLENBOROUGII to retreat with
disgrace were disobeyed by Generals PoLLocK
and SALE, that all the prisoners have been re-
covered, and the honour of the country
and the character of our brave troops
been triumphantly established. For this, there-
fore, the Duke of WELLINGTON deserves great
praise, and his conduct forms a noble contrast to
that of the weak and pusillanimous Governor-
General. But is it fit that a man who could
commit such a blunder should be intrust-
ed with authority over such a vast empire ?
We have no sgcurity that it may not be repeated,
and, by some other, new freak, thehonour of
England and the stability of our Indian
possessions be compromised. Some import-
ant movement evidently is in progress
in the Punjaub, and may require great skill and
judgment. Can any man give Lord ELLENBO-
ROUGH credit for either of these qualities, or for
that courage and grasp of mind requisite for any
great and complicated undertaking?

The King of SAXONY opened. the Chambers
on the 20th inst. with the following speech :
Gentlemen,—lf on this solemn day I cast a glance
at what has passed since the last Session, I am con-
vinced that political affairs have proceeded in the most
satisfactory manner both at home and abroad. My
relations with friendly powers have become more inti-
mate; the Zollverein has increased; the railroad to
Bavaria, so important for our commerce, is guaranteed
by a treaty; a part of it is already finished, and other
lines will be constructed in various directions. The
regulation of the land-tax is so advanced that you will
be able during the Session to terminate this affair.
Several omissions in our Legislation remainto be pro-
vided for, and bills will be laid before you for this
purpose. Several undertakings interesting to the
State will call for great expenses ; the regular state
of our finances, however, will allow you to provide
for them without difficulty, particularly in what re-
gards objects of public utility. Great misfortunes
have afflicted the country during the past year; prudent
measures, and the spirit of benevolence which charac-
terises the Saxons, have in part remedied the conse-
quences of those catastrophes. God will do the rest ;
but every one must act in the circle which is peculiar
to him by sacrificing his particular interest to the
general good. This is what I expect from my faithful
States.

It is sufficient to read the last news to perceive that
the victory embarrasses those who have gained it. A
movement planned and prepared by a political party
may produce political consequences; whereas, one
caused by a violent local discontent, stops of its own
accord when the conflict is over. Although we learn
that some small towns of Catalonia have declared for
the Junta, we do not see in that circumstance any
symptom which can seriously lead us to believe in a
general revolution. To induce the other provinces to
join, and even to interest deeply Catalonia itself, it
would have been necessary to proclaim principles, to
make an appeal to the sympathies of the people, to
take refuge under the ancient municipal rights, so
dear to the entire nation, to display a new standard,
and to join in the work men already known by
their political character, their power, and their in-
fluence. Nothing like all this has been effected. The
Junta appears to proceeed by chance, and is making,
we are informed, the utmost efforts to unite with it
influential men without distinction of opinion. . . .
We persist, then, in thinking that the present Govern-
ment will not be shaken by these events. The per-
sons who have been desirous of overturning the Re-
gent will, no doubt, have merely contributed to
strengthen his power. We regret these murderous
conflicts, which, in our opinion, can only produce, in
the present state of political feeling in Spain, a re-
action dangerous to liberty. The duty of the Re-
gent, if he re-establishes order, will be to be-
ware of being led away to severity or vengeance.
For our own parts, we shall recommend to the sincere
friends of the Spanish nation, that moderation which
calms down the feelings, and those easy concessions
which strengthen power by making it popular.
A Barcelona letter, in the same journal, the
date of which is not given, says :
All the streets were barricaded. The troops have
sustained great losses. Two colonels, a lieutenant-
colonel, six or seven commandants, 15 captains, and
more than 100 inferior officers. The total amount of
killed exceeds 500. The people have also lost great
numbers. The bombardment from the fort of Mont-
juich has not done any great damage. The French
Consul has afforded protection to his fellow-country-
men, and has also been serviceable to many Spaniards.
The Junta has taken measures to preserve order. It
grants, without hesitation, permission to all persons
who do not belong to the town to leave it. The pass-
port is in the following terms :—" Junta of Barcelona
—Suffer to pass out through St. Anthony's Gate
Citizen —. The Nation and Liberty." It is the 3d
battalion of National Guards that has suffered most
from the fire of the troops. Zurbano, in his sheep-
Skin jacket as usual, determined to make himself con-
spicuous. He charged down the street of Fernando
VII. at the head of the cavalry, but the charge was
BO badly executed, that he lost a great meny men,
and received a briwera which nearly killed him. It
is said that he has gone to Tarragona, to bring in the
soldiers from that place.
Under the date of the 18th, the Presse has the
following from Barcelona:—
The Burgos provincial regiment, with Colonel
Llegat at its head, has come into the tom n to join the
insurgents. A report is current that Zurbano has
caused two republicans to be shot. If this should
prove to be true, General Zavala, who is in the hands
of the insurgents, will undergo the same fate by way
of reprisal. I open my letter to add that the guns
are at this moment firing for the news which has ar-
rived, that Sarragossa has declared in favour of the
insurrection.
The following is an extract from a letter re-
ceiveeby Messrs. GRAFTON and Co., the gas con-
tractors of Paris, from their agent at Barcelona,
dated Nov.
Everything Ais again tranquil here, and business is
going on as if nothing particular had occurred. The
Provisional Junta is actively endeavouring to profit by
a success which has taken it by surprise. It is send-
ing emissaries to Saragossa, Valencia, and Tarragona,
in the hope of being able to create a similar movement.
Should it succeed, adieu to the ancient kingdom of
Arragon. Spain will lose four of her richest pro-
vinces. The Junta has sent to us to express its
satisfaction at the manner in which the service of
lighting the streets was performed during the three
days. The fact is, on Tuesday, and particularly
Wednesday, the lamps were lighted amidst vol-
leys of canister-shot, nor did we cease until
the balls rolled about the lamp-posts. The in-
habitants are hourly expecting the surrender of
the celebrated fortress of Montjuich, which is
situated upon a very high hill, commanding the
town. On Wednesday we were honoured at the gas
works with a few shells, which fortunately burst in
the air. You will probably be astonished at the ease
with which the troops were vanquished. Alas ! for
weeks they had been almost starving, and when the
conflict took place they had not an hour's provision in
any of the barracks, and the National Guard is com-
posed of the working classes, who are well armed and
have plenty of ammunition. When the troops capi-
tulated they received from the town provisions and a
month's pay. During the whole of the insurrection
there was no political rallying cry. It was a deadly
conflict between the troops and the National Guards,
without reference to party or politics.
A letter from Perpignan, in the Gazette de
France, states that 500 men were killed at Bar-
celona in the conflict of the 15th ; that the
movement was combined with one which broke
out on the same day at Solsona and Lerida, and
that, although the people at Barcelona respected
private property, all persons holding offices under
Government who ventured into the streets were
massacred.

Accounts have been received by the Levant
Mail, from Constantinople to the 7th inst.; from
Beyrout to the 30th ult.; and from Smyrna to
9th inst- Syria was-said to be tranquil, though,
accorOi ..g to some accounts, "an attack had been
made me Albanian troops in the Lebanon,
-by n 1) )f 14.1 p rnnites and Druses. We believe.
this to be the same rumour which reached Bey-
' rout, and which was published some days since.
The Seraskier MOUSTAPHA PACHA had left on
the 28th to return Sto Constantinople. In that
city public business had been suspended for a
week, as all classes bad devoted their time to
religious ceremonies.
Mercantile reports from the Persian frontier
mention rumours of an inroad, and counter-in-
road, made by Turkish and Persian Khurdsupon
the territory of both kingdoms; but the Pacha
of DIARBEKIR having refused to compromise his
Government by advancing his regular troops,
the affair ended, as it commenced, in a mere bor-
der feud.

The accounts from Lisbon are favourable. The
Government had carried the election of five
Deputies to supply the vacancies caused by death,
and at the elections in the provinces they would
be equally successful. A brig-of-war had been
sent to Madeira, with relief to the unfortunate
persons who had suffered by the late floods. A
Committee had been formed at Lisbon, with the
Marquis of FATAL at its head, to collect sub-
scriptions, to which their MAJESTIES have con-
tributed liberally. From Spain we have no
later intelligence than that published on Satur-
day, but some further details respecting the dis-
turbance at Barcelona will be found in extracts
from the French papers.

We have received Brussels papers of Saturday,
which contain the following important document
relative to the increase of import duties. It was
presented to the Chamber, by order of the Go-
vernment, on the 10th :
The importation and transit of cattle of all kinds,
and horses, which are suspected of being diseased, are
prohibited ; and, in order that the prohibition may be
more easily inforced, the number of offices through
which they may be imported is diminished. The new
project proposes to raise the duty on coffee, now Bf.,
to 10f. per 100 kilogrammes. The duty on eatables,
such as preserved vegetables, truffles, game, poultry,
&c., now charged at 2 per cent. on the value, to be
raised to 2.5 per cent. The duty on cast iron,
and pig iron, to be raised from 2 francs 12 cen-
times per 100 kilogrammes, the present duty, to 4f.
The exception made by the law of the 16th of June,
1839, in favour of the iron of the Grand Duchy of
Mecklenburg, is retained. Salmon and other fresh
water fish to pay 12f., instead of 6f. 36c. per 100
kilogrammes. Oysters, lobsters, crawfish, and sea-
crabs, to pay, instead of 6f., 15f. per cwt., with the
t-dbedas t
to andbe oaydsmt ear
e
exception of the oysters and lobsters intended for the
reservoirs
o thef the
lduty, o
f which
periclf shall
continue cent.
The duty on tobacco is also modified. The Govern-
ment proposes to raise the duty on European leaf
tobacco from sf. to Bf. per 100 kilogrammes. On those
of Brazil, Virginia, Maryland, and North America,
from 2f. 50c. to sf. On those of Porto Rico, St. Do-
mingo, the Havannah, Oronoko, Columbia, and the
East Indies, from sf. to 10f. On other leaf tobacco,
from 3f. to 6f. Manufaitured tobacco in carrots, pow-
der cut, &c., to pay 35f. per kilogramme, instead of
30f.; and a duty of 15 per cent. ad valorem on
cigars to be substituted for the present duty of 100 f.
per 100 kilogrammes.

Since writing the above, we have received the
Paris papers of Saturday, from which the fol-
lowing are extracts • •
PERPIGN AN, Nov. 24.—The Junta of Barcelona,
on the 21st instant, created some battalions of NlL-
tional;Tirailleurs, and has issued a proclamation to the
army, inviting it to join them. Such persons as hold
Government situations are to be allowed to retain
their places, if they recognise the authority of the
Junta. Some alarm was excited on the 20th at Va-
lencia by the news of the rising of Barcelona, which
arrived in the night time.
BAYONNE, .Nov. 23.—The intelligence from Sara-
gossa on the morning of the 19th, announces that
there was nothing new. The insurrection of Barce-
lona was known there. Great uneasiness was felt at
Lerida, on the 18th.
The National publishes the following letter
from a correspondent at Algiers, dated Nov. 15:--
The official reports have already informed you,
and in much greater detail than the subject de-
manded, of the result of the late expeditions ; but, as
usual, it was necessary to compensate for the insig-
nificance of the events by the grandiloquence of the
accounts. The only real consequence of all these
marchings is,
The number of submissions is a little unfortunately, that the army is quite
worn out.
in-
creased, but then what submissions! A rapid ex-
amination of the present position of affairs will prove
to you how deceitful and temporary is the incom-
plete pacification which we enjoy. It is assuredly
unpleasant to destroy the illusions fabricated here,
and adopted with confidence in France ; but when
the fatal consequences which may occur to the
country
from the error are considered, it is a duty to
tell the truth, even should .some private interests and
ambition be
impeded, or the national vanity be
wounded. First of all, let us declare that Ab-el-
Kader, who has been so often represented as crushed,
is still vigorous, still provided with an army, and
still possessed of means of attack and defence. The
scene of war is, it is true, removed farther off; but
this is not in our favour, for our difficulties increase
with the distance.
In a Malta letter, of the 15th, we find some
further information from Greece. It has been
already stated that the KING was about to make
some changes in the new customs laws of that
country. We have now the official notification
of this intention. After a preamble, in which
the KING states that lie has received from various
quarters observations on this subject, he orders-
1. That all the reports of the superior officers of
the Customs, Chambers of Commerce, and foreign
Consuls, relative to the new Customs-law, which have
been made to the Government, shall be takeninto con-
sideration..
2. That information as to the application of the
law shall be collected.
3. That, after a careful examination of all the in-
formation on the subject, a new law shall be pre-
pared, as speedily as
possible, for such reform, as may
be considered necessary in the interests of commerce.

Most' of the Paris papers are occupied with
the disturbances at Barcelona. The Commerce
says, notwithstanding the obscurity in which
this movement is involved, it appears certain
that it proceeds in a great measure from the
plans announced of a change in the customs'
duties. The Journal des Debats gives a succinct
account of tl►e late events, without hazarding
any opinion as to the cause of the insurrection,
or the plans' of the leaders. " Hostilities," it
says, " which were suspended by the departure
of the troops from Barcelona, appear ready to
commence again. The Junta has claimed the
intervention of the French and English Consuls.
The Consuls proceeded at first to the fort of
Montjuich, where they were informed by the
Governor that they should apply directly to the
Captain-General. A deputation was then ap-
pointed to proceed to VAN HALEN's head-quar-
ters, which was composed of two Consuls, two
members of the Junta, and two members of the
provincial deputation. The General replied, that
he would not commit any act of hostility against
the town, provided no attempt was made to cut
off his communications with Montjuich, where he
dispatched 2,000 men and a quantity of provisions.
It was not believed at Barcelona that the insur-
gents would remain inactive within the walls of

The Constitutionnel gives the following letter
front Constantinople, Nov. 7 :
M. de Bourqueney is to have to-morrow a confe-
rence with Sarem Effendi ; but as he is anxious above
all things to be on good terms with every one, it may
be declared beforehand that, at the issue of the au-
dience, he will praise the profundity and sagacity of
Serem Effendi, the matter under discussion still re-
maining at the same point. The Greek affair does not
advance. Some changes in the Ministry are talked
of. In the midst of so many contradictory reports,
what I believe to be true is, that Khosrew Pacha is
intriguing much, and that he has some chance of
being named President of the Supreme Council of
Justice, or even Grand Vizier. It is said that some
coolness has arisen between Egypt and the Porte.
Sarni Pacha is no longer so well received at the Pa-
lace, and the greater part of his demands have been
refused.

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