The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-20 00:00:00

Aw-
Wan

SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch.

Some uneasiness was occasioned yesterday in town
by a report that a party of rioters had attacked
Drayton Manor, but the latest accounts received
from thence, and dated Friday evening, show that
the report was utterly without foundation. Not the
slightest symptoms of an attack had been manifested;
indeed, all was quiet in the neighbourhood, and con-
tinued so up to the period when the last ac-
counts came away. From other quarters the intelligence
is nearly equally encouraging. The Potteries, where
some of the most serious disturbances took place, ex-
hibit everywhere indications of returning order, and,
indeed, generally throughout the disturbed districts,
matters are wearing a more cheering aspect than they
have worn for the last ten days or a fortnight. To be
sure, attempts were made on Thursday, at Leicester,
to get up a riot, and in the dusk of the evening a large
mob assembled in the market-place, where they were
addressed, in most inflammatory language, by one of
their chosen orators ; but the activity of the civil au-
thorities soon dispersed them, and since then the town
has remained perfectly quiet. At Nottingham, a
similar attempt at disturbance was made yesterday by
a Chartist lecturer from Stockport, who addressed the
mob in the most valiant terms, observing that he
would fearlessly do his duty, even "if a dungeon was
the result," and would " exercise his right while he
had a tongue to speak and an arm to raise." Un-
luckily, while the orator was thus boasting of his
perfect readiness to become a martyr in the
cause of patriotism, a body of police made their
appearance, which occasioned a total and instanta-
neous eclipse of his courage ; and he disappeared from
the meeting with a speed that must have greatly pe7-
plexed and disconcerted all those whc, but the moment
before, had been applauding the boldness and disin-
terestedness of his sentiments. With these two ex-
ceptions, there have been no fresh outbreaks, or
attempts at outbreak, in any of the mining or
manufacturing districts. The good sense of the
Turn-outs seems at length to have convinced them
that nothing is to be got by setting order and decorum
at defiance, and that their sole chance of bettering
their condition consists in their keeping strictly
within the limits of the law. Meantime the late
serious disturbances—for nothing can well be more
serious than the aspect they assumed about a week
since—will not be without a beneficial effect, if they
shall serve to impress upon Government the necessity of
legislating henceforth for the interests of the many, in-
stead of the privileged few. Sir R. PEEL must now,
we should conceive, be persuaded that he can no
longer with safety consult the feelings and prejudices
of party, but must be guided in all his remedial
schemes by a consideration of what is due to, and
what is wanted by, the community at large. It
is not by making one timid, hesitating step,
in the right direction—as in the instances
of the Corn-law Bill and the Tariff—that he can hope
to restore peace and prosperity to the country; he
must advance boldly and promptly forward, careless
whether the Monopolists walk side by side with him
or not. We look upon the late outbreaks in the
North, as ominous signs of the times, which no Mi-
nister—no matter how overwhelming be the majority
that he can command in the House of Commons—
can neglect, without endangering the very fabric of
society.

The Paris Papers of Thursday have arrived. They
are altogether destitute of political news, except-that
the debate on the Regency Bill had been opened in
the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, when the fol-
lowing took place :
M. Ledru Rollin began the debate, who opposed it on
the principle of its being necessary, in his opinion, that
the nation should sanction it through the medium of a
constituent assembly. M. Hello, who succeeded M.
Ledru Rollin, said, that he should not follow
him in his subtle theories about the alleged
rights -of the nation, but maintained that the
present Legislature had full power to pass such a
law. M. de la Ruchejacquelin, who spoke next, began
by entering into a sort of protest against the legitimacy
of the reigning dynasty, which, he said, had been seated
on the Throne by a victorious popular insurrection, and
a Chamber only consisting of 219 Members. This
declaration excited loud murmurs in the Assemby,
and M. Larochejacquelin, refusing to retract the
offensive expressions, was twice called to order by
the President, and ultimately compelled to quit the
tribune, without being able to conclude his speech.
Afier the uproar occasioned by M. Larochejaquelin's
words had subsided, M. Schuzenberger read a manu-
script discourse in favour of the Bill, and was succeeded
by M. Lamartine, who advocated the right of the Duchess
of Orleans to be the Regent of the Count de Paris, and
was still speaking when the despatch left.
Sub:oined are extracts :

The Council of Admiralty has just adopted, with
some modifications, the plans of M. Bernard for the
works of defence and improvement of the port of Algiers,
as recommended by the mixed Commission which had
been appointed on that subject.—Galignani's Messenger,
Aug. 18.
The Courrier Francais observes on this subject—" It
is difficult to comprehend the conduct of the Ministry.
A month ago it thought M. Bernard's plan impracti-
cable, as in fact it is, without incurring an expense out
of all proportion to the result that may be expected from
it. Marshal Soult even sent to Algiers M. Parrel, the
engineer, with instructions to execute the plan which he
had proposed, which is an efficacious and not expensive
plan. Is this decision revoked ? Is M. Parrel, after
being preferred to M. Bernard, to be abandoned in his
turn ? Is spending time in giving orders and counter
orders the way to carry on the Administration ?"—Le
Commerce, Aug. 18.
The Madrid' Journals publish the text of a law pro-
mulgated at the Carraccas, in virtue of which the mortal
remains of Simon Bolivar, the Chief of the Independence
of South America, are to be removed from Santa
Maria, where they lie at present, to the metropolitan
church of Carraccas. The anniversary of the funeral
is to be henceforward a day of public mourning, and
the statue of Bolivar is to occupy an honourable place
in the Parliament House.
The Prince of Leiningen arrived at Cologne on the
12th, on board one of the Cologne Company's steamers.
He continued his journey. the next day for London,
where he is going on a visit to his august mother, the
Duchess of Kent.

BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, AuG. 18.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents 119 60... 119 60... 119 50... 119 60
3 per Cents 78 60... 78 65... 78 60... 78 60
Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5047 50-5047 50...5047 50...5047 50
Belgian Bank 775 ... 775 ... 775 775
Belgian Fives 1840 lO3 ... 103* ... 103 ... 1031
Spanish Active 214 ... 221 ... 21i 21i
Roman

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain B4O • ... 840 ... 840 ... 840
Versailles, R.B 290 ... 290 ... 290 ... 290
L.B 9l 25... 91 25... 90 .. 91 25
Rouen
Orleans. 560 ... 560 ... 560 ... 560
Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 25... 201 25... 200 ... 200

BELGIAN FUNDS.-BRUSSELS, Aug. 17.

. .
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , 524
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOO%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 9l
Three per Cent.—
---.Thlrty.seven Milli, ns, ditto 70%
(1840) lOl%
Loan of City, 1832, Four p?r Cent 92
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 80
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 77
National Society . ......
Exchange on London (short) ,„—
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 17.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA,

Am 8,

•
Five per Cents. Metalliques- -. 119
Pour per Cents. lOl%
Three per Cents. 761/4%
Bank Shares •••• • 00000000000 00..1w ...... " ••••••••••• ...... 16S0
Allgetneine.leitung, August 13.
EIAMBURGH BORSEN HALLS, Atm. 16.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
110 169 X
Bank Shares 1655 1650
Anglo-Russian Loan l, 9%4 16014
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificzte lo3li RS%
Inscription, Ist series IC3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 69 97l
Ditto in Certificates OB 97!‘
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 69% 59 i 4.
Dutch Actual Debt, IA per Cent. .........
Ditto 5 per Cent.
_
Polish Bonds
New Tickets l6B
80
Anglo-Dan.sli Loan, 3 per Cent.
18 Stku:ish, New 5 p,r Cents.

EXCHANGES ON LONDOI,'.
Auo. 111-13 UM, Two months 13
Acu. P.—Seventy-five days, 12 14.
ViEr:NA. A UC. 9.—Three moaths. 9.42.

PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-BERLIN, AVG. 13.

Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent.
Pru.,,ian English Bond 0830, 1 per cent. I 2%
Exchange on London
--- 22%
Prussian State Gazette, Aug. 14.

EMIGRATION rrom THE CLYDE.--The number of
• emigrants who bare sailed from the ports of .Glesgow,
Gree•7oelc, 'lnd Port Glasgow, during the first six months
the present year, amounts to 7,707. A vast number
of the above belonged to die very poorest class of ope-
ratives, who have been assisted to emigrate either by
the public bounty, or by the charitable
aid afrorded by
those socie.i?s inio which they bad asscciatal themselves.
ch.on.'elr.
The Duke o 1 Richmond, accompanied by the Earl
of Alrrcli and a p r.y of 'friends, has, during the week,
been at Cln 1:1(13ich. end some hundred heed of game
have !:ill -d. The Duchess and family had reached
rlordoa Ccs ell in excellent health when the last
letters were received 11:oni tile north.

Li M VI S

AND
Vtat tic aptuton.

" Who runs .nay read.'

ronziGig.

The riotous proceedings of the working classes in
England are noticed at considerable length by most of
the Paris journals. Some of them take a very gloomy
view of the subject, and seem to anticipate a deter-
mined and well-organised resistance to the Govern-
ment ; whilst others, judging from the past, and ap-
preciating the powerful means of repression in the
hands of the Government,, imagine that whatever
may be the ultimate consequences of the present
lamentable state of society in England—with luxury
carried to the utmost limits of refinement on the
one hand, and a mass of human misery on the other—
the struggle against law will be of short ddration. -
The Courrier Francais, after reviewing the causes
alleged by the English papers for the breaking out of
the present riots, concludes thus :—" We have no
doubt that the public force will triumph over the agi-
tations which the English journals relate in such
frightful colours ; but the disorders, though put down
in one point, will break out in another. England
is entering on a period of domestic troubles, which
is pregnant with embarrassments and perils ; and ere
long she will be in a state not to express pity for na-
tions living in a state of social commotion. This na-
tion, which used to be represented under the figure of
a ship at anchor, is henceforward delivered up to
storms, and tossed up and down in the midst of the
deepest seas."
The proclamation of the Queen, offering a pecu-
niary reward to informers, is noticed by the Presse
almost with an expression of contempt. It observes
that everything is done with money in England,
even to the means of enforcing the law. The Courrier
says that in France such an act as putting a price
upon the head of an enemy, and rewarding the
betrayer, would be regarded as immoral and odious.
A private letter, received in Paris from Madrid, un-
der date the 11th inst., contained the following pas-
sages :—" The days of the present Ministry are
numbered. The Conde Almodovar in a private con-
rersation lately declined to enter into a money matter
left unfinished by Surra and Gonzales, candidly de-
claring, that he was old, in poor health, and begged
to be left at peace for the few weeks that he yet must
remain in possession of his office." Two doubles (as
you call them at the opera) are, however, said to be
already placed in private nomination, with the good-
will of those chiefly concerned.
A Paris letter just received dwells, at considerable
length, on the alarm which the increasing heat of the
weather was beginning to occasion. At four o'clock
on Thursday the thermometer (Fahrenheit) marked
94 in the shade.
Our Madrid accounts are of the 11th inst.

The Gazette contains a circular of the Minister of
Finance, relative to the application of several holders
of the floating debt. The Regent had consented to
extend by one month (to the 7th of September next)
the period fixed for the centralisation of their claims.
The Patriota states that it was agreed, at a recent
Cabinet Council, to reject all the financial propositions
submitted to the Junta, and that, considering the
urgent wants of the Treasury, the Government should
dispose ofthe Treasury Bonds as it should think proper.
From Madrid we learn that the heat was much
greater than at Paris, and at Seville still more intense.
The thermometer (Reaumui) stood at Madrid at 32
degrees (104 Fahrenheit), and at Seville at 38, or
1174 of Fahrenheit.
According to a return published in the Madrid
Gazette, 52,619 lots of national property had been
sold down to the 20th of June last, and their pro-
ceeds amounted to 1,960,740,133 reals (nearly
20,000,0001. sterling).