The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-29 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

letter of " An Old Officer of the Royal Navy" has been
received, but it would be premature to publish any severe
comments on the Treaty tilt we know from authority what it
really is.

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Cluch.

The period is now approaching when opportunities
will arise of practically appreciating the value 'of the
extensive law reforms which have been effected
during the last session of Parliame4,; and as we
believe but one opinion prevails as to the important
benefits they are calculated to confer upon the public,
no party considerations ought to prevent a fair and
full acknowledgment of the services of those by whom
a result so satisfactory has been achieved. We only
regret-that Lord LyNnntlnsx, who lent his aid in
forwarding all these movements, did not view the
abuses in our Law Courts in the same light ten
years ago, as in that case the country would have
been saved a great deal of expense, and suitors and
insolvents no little inconvenience. But we .must be
thankful for what we receive, and make allowances
for the vast change which possession of office makes
even on virtuous statesmen.
No one who remembers the mode in which bank-
rupts' estates were managed, and the laws relating to
that subject aelmi4lttered, prior to 1831, can hesitate
to admit the vast improvement effected by the new
system, the least important result of which has been
the collection of a fund under old and neglected com-
missions, the mere interest of which is said to be more
than sufficient to cover the whole expense of the new
Courts. This measure which, as a matter of experi-
ment, was at first confined to a limited circle around
London, has now been in operation for eleven years,
and its benefits universally acknowledged. But no ,
extension of this improved system was carried until
the accession of the present Government to power,
when a Bill for that purpose formed one of the first
objects of Lord LYNDHURST'S attention.
In justice, however, to Lord COTTENUAM, it is ne-
cessary to state, that the Bill was in a great measure
Sounded on a similar Bill introduced by him during
the preceding session, and that the great merit of
the LORD CuANCELLOR consisted in giving full effect to
the plan. To this credit Lord LYNDHURST is cer-
tainly entitled; and consideging the opposition of
those interested in maintaining the present abuses,
inclukg no fewer than seven or eight hundred pro-
vincial Commissioners, it is obvious that nothing but
a firm determination to exert the whole power of the
Government in what he knew to be • a right course
could have enabled him to succeed as he has done.

A most important appendage to the bankruptcy ex-
tension is the Insolvent Debtors' Bill, introduced by
Lord-BaouGnAm, by which a considerable advance is
mad 4 towards the " Cosi° Bonorum" principle, and
by which the abolition of imprisonment for debt
.may
bc, said to be substantially accomplished. To this
pro2o4ion the Government willingly gave its sup-
prt, and by the combined effect of the two measures
hive given to the public a system of proceeding, which,
although perhaps still susceptible of some improve-
meat, will unquestionably enable the . law to be ad-
ministned with advantage and economy to creditors,
and ,without cruelty or injustice to those who may,
front misfortune, be reduced to a state of insolvency.

An Act by Lord LYNDHURST has also been intro-
duced, having for its object the diMinution of expense
and delay in the Court of Chancery. If we remember
rightly a similar atterapt was made in 1833, which,
h4wever, the then Government was unable to carry
against the powerful opposition it encountered, but
which, in the last session, was speedily overcome by
the willing veney of the LORD CHANCELLOR. The Law
ocEVi,,lence Bill: also, though introduced by an Opposi-
tion• Peer (Lord',PErimAN), received his support.
IVil!ing, however, as we are, to hear an unreluctant
testimony to the conduct of the Government, and to
the obligations which the country owes them for those
important improvements, we deeply regret they
should have been induced to postpone, even for a sin-
gle session, their County Courts Bill, a measure in
which the great mass of the people are • more itnine-
dietay interested than in any other of their legal
r; firm=. We do not believe that this postponement
is fairly attributable to party motives, but rather to
the interference whichbhe Bill would cause with the
private and local interests of certain individuals.
We trust, however, that only a very few unnths will
elap-;c: a4i4eci to th 9 athET rer,

so sueqt ""I f",* which
may rely upeo frill at ail tilltel•
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howe7er oppa,,c.t
Or to their generv.l political speculations.

The speech of Mr. COBDEN, at tilt), meeting of the
Anti-Corn-law League in Manchester, on 'Thursday
evening last, relative to the disturbances in the mann-
factoring districts, has created quite a ferment among
the -Tory Press. Mr. COBDEN'S hard hits at the Go-
verweint have told amazingly. The Tory Press doe 3
not like to be told that the infection has spread 'to the
middle classes, and that among them the consequences
of mal-legislation are numerous conversions to
Chartism. Such statements, made by practical,
expeAenced men, are calculated
.to alarm the
Ministry, whose policy must fall to the ground the
instant the middle and operative classes make com-
mon cause with One another. " With regard to the
proceedings here," said Mr. COBDEN, alluding to the
turn-oui, " lamentable and deplorable as they are, I
consider them to be a natural corollary from the pro-
ceedings in the House of Commons.- I told you this
question of the Corn-laws Was settled in the House of
Cammpns, so far as argumept and discussion went.
The country saw this ; but when the country saw that
truth and justice, though established in the House of
Commons, had no effect upon the measures of that
1.14..u5e, what was the conviction which was naturally
begot in the rnfnds of a people eminently attached to
the principles of truth and justice ? DEsrma ! I do

.not speak of the working classes only ; I speak also
of the middle classes." The lion. Gentleman then
went on to prove this by the number of electors
who voted for Chartist candidates at Nottingham,
'Southampton, and Ipswich. With regard to the
assertions of the Tories, that the Anti-Corn-law
League was at the bottom of the rising- in the manu-
facturing districts, and supplied the rioters with
funds, we quote with pleasure the ample and con-
clusive contradiction of Mr. COBDEN :

Now, gentlemen, I would venture to any, and if nothing
else that fell from me should go forth to the public, I
hope that this•at least will do so—l will venture to say,
in the name of the Council of the Anti-Corn-law- League,
that not only did not the members of that body know or
dream of . anything of the kind such as has now taken
place—l mean the turn-out for wages—not only did they
not know, concoct, wish for, or contemplate such things,
but I believe the very last thing which the body of our
subscriptiOn would have wished for or. desired is the sus-
pension of their busilms, and the confusion which has
taken place in this district. And I pledge my honour
as a man, and my reputation as a public man and a pri-
vate citizen, that there is not the shadow of the shade of
ground for the accusation which has been made against us.

It is not necessary for us, who haVe always de-
fendcd the proceedings of the League, knowing as we
did, that it-had riothitig to do with the strike, to publish
at length Mr. COBDEN'S speech. His arguments against
the Corn-laws are familiar to our readers, and the state
of the manufacturing districts are become too pain-
fully familiar to the whole of the inhabitants of the
British empire. It even excites continental attention,
and in. several of the French journals we find articles
on the subject which cannot influence the foreign
relations of this country. The Journal des Debate,
the organ of the French Court and Ministry, thus
commences a long article upon the subject in its num-
ber of ,Friday
The great manufacturing towns of England, which
for some days have been given up to anarchy, are gra-
dually returning to tranquillity. The masses of insur-
gents
having received some lessons, written in blood, dis-
perse, but murmur vengeance. The machines begin to
resume their perpetual revolutions, and the famished
workmen raise towards Heaven their henceforth useless
arms. Revolt no longer shows itself in the public places,
but it still murmurs, and increases in their ulcerated
hearts. The cries of hunger have been stifled, and the
outbreakings caused by misery have been repressed; but
these two hideous spec:res still dwell among the labo-
rious portion of the people.

We fear that there is too much truth in this de •
scription of the feelings of the operatives at present.
But the evil is not, as the Debats supposes, without a
remedy, and a sufficient one too. Our people are still
sound at heart ; and it is in the power of the Govern-
ment, and the two Houses of Parliament, to make
them as contented, as cheerful, and as happy, as they
are now discontented, distrustful, and wretched.

There is no news of any political interest in the
Paris journals of Friday and Saturday. The Cham-
ber of Peers are exceedingly out of humour because
the Deputies and the KING have left Paris, and left
them to pass the Regency Bill without doing them
the compliment to suppose they will propose an amend-
ment. It would be difficult indeed to manifest greater
, contempt for the Chamber of Peers.
The King left Neuilly for the Chateau d'Eu last even-
ing at seven o'clock. In his Majesty's carriage were the
Queen, Madame Adelaide, the Duchess de Nemours,
Princess Clementine, and the Duke de Montpensier.
The Duchess of Orleans, accompanied by the Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg, went in a second carriage with
the Count de Paris, attended by the Marchioness de
Vins. • The Duke de Chartres was in a third carriage,
attended by Dr. Blacke. The aides-de-camp and orderly
officers of the King, and the ladies of the Queen and
Princesses, followed in several other carriages. The
cortege was escorted by a picket guard of cavalry. The
Prince de Joinville remains at Neuilly, and the Duke
d'Aumale at Courbevoie. The King is expected in Paris
on Tuesday next. The Duke d'Aumale will shortly go
with his regiment to Compiegne, and at a later day join
the Royal Family at Eu.
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 27.
First Highest Lowest

Last

Price. Piice. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents 119 80... 119 85... 119 75... 119 85
3 per Cents 74 90... 79 ... 78 90... 79
Loan 7B 65... 78 85... 78 85... 78 85
Bank of France 3250 ...3250 ...3250 .. 3250
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1035 ..1035 ...1035 ...1035
Belgian Bank 775 ... 775 ... 775 775
Belgian Fives lO2l ... 102 i ... 102 k ... 102 k
1840 lo2i ... 103 ... 102 k ... 103
Spanish Active 2li ... 22 ... 21i ... 22
Passive 4 ... 4 ... 4 ... 4
New Deferred 9 ... 9 ... 9 ... 9
Portuguese Fives
Neapolitan lO6 50... 106 60... 106 50... 106 60

Ronian
RAILWAY SHARES

Versailles, R.B 287 50... 287 50... 287 50... 287 50

L.B 92 50... 92 50... 92 50... 92 50
Rouen
Strasburg to Bale 201.25... 201 25... 201 25... 201 25

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Ave. 26.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , 524
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOO%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ....... 91
--- Three per
--Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto 7O
(1840) 114171i
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 92
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent BG
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 77
National Society . .......
Excha,ige on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Aug. Q 6.
DUI Cd stemware, AUG. 26.
Money. Bins.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent .....«.»....«..... 52% 525(
ante, ditto 5 per cent.
Amen Svndic,4% per cent 9434 645(
P.tte, ditto, 3% per cent ............ 77 173 s
Commercial Company, 4% per ;43% :4334
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. .................. 1.2,s 101
Exchange on London, One month l2 20
Two months ..... 12 15
Hamburgh, One month 35 8714
Two months
.Dutch Papers, Aug. 27.
AUSTRI A N FUNDS.—VIENNA, AUG. 17

Five per Cents. Metalliques;
Four per Cents
Three per Cents .
Bank Shares ow* 000000 ••• 00000 ••• ...elm 00000 ••• •••••• 1630
Allgemeine Zeitung, August 21.
HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Atm. 26.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1652 1618
Anglo-Russian Loan 11,914 1012(
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% 1C3%
Inscription, Ist series
Russian s per Celt. Hope and Co., ad and 4th
Series 9B 973 w
Ditto in Certificates 9734 1.17)4
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 894 8914
Dutch Actual Debt, :4. per Cent. .........
Ditto a per Cent.
Polish Bonds —
New Tickets. hi 8
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Bl 803.
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
EXCHANGES ON LONDO.F.
HAMBURGII, Atm. •..6.-13 934, Two months 11 lA.
rRTERsPURG, AUG 19.—Three months, 37% pence.
Ittes, At G. 18. -Three Months, 2h.
STocanoi.m, Atx. 19. Seventy-tive days, 12 15.

PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Arc.
Mills. Money
St. &Mild Sch., 4 per cent.
Prussian English Bond-, k;39, I per cent 143% K 2%
Exchanye on London a k 37,
Prussian State Gazette, Aug. '24.

FERMENT AMONG TILE BISIIOPS.—We understand
that the serious illness of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury has occasioned an extraordinary ferment among
the Bishops, all of whom are as busy as a certain
notorious Personage is said to be in a high wind.
Exeter has laid aside his intention of paying a
second visit —at the public expense —to the
Scilly Islands, and is preparing, instead, a pam-
phlet, whose object is to prove that the present
Government is the best of all possible Governments,
and Sir R. Peel the best of all possible Premiers;
while London, equally on the alert,, has been seen
frequently, within the last few days, flitting uneasily
to and fro between Whitehall-gardens and Downing-
street, and yesterday had not even a spare hour to
himself to count the atheistical wherries that
floated past Fulham on a pleasure voyage to
Richmond. The Episcopal Bench has not been so
active as it is now since the death of the last
Archbishop, or rather since the majority of the
ghostly Prelates combined to throw out the Reform
Bill. The news of the Pope's landing at Dover with
a cargo of faggots would not occasion half such an
excitement among them. We sincerely trust that to-
et' tie ,ArchbishoVs flealth may be
t;iyi,tlrable, for he is reilv II:kiln-11v and tolerant clergy-
urdl!. ail(I convalescence 41 tend to calm
ffec.:tionat' and d!Sinterested. 'disquietude of hi ex-
pectant successors. •

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
we announce with regret that the accounts re•
ceived from Addington Park are unfavourable. A
bulletin, of which the following is a copy, was exhi-
bited this morning at Lambeth Palace
Ilis Grace the Archbishop has had some hours of
restless sleep, and is much weakerthiS morning.
" Addington Park, Monday Morning, 7 o'clock,
Aug. 29, 1842."

,
111 E ,UrttEAT WESTERN STEAMER.—TO the Editor
of the Times.—Sir, the paragraph respecting the Great
Western, which appeared in your paper of the 23d inst.,
and the iinperfcct account or the meeting of proprietors
in Bristol which has appeared in other papers, being
likely to affect passengers and freight, in the yet impel.-
termed voyages of the season, 1. beg to inform you that
the abandonment of the advertised engagements of the
Great Western has not been once thought of by the Di-
rec:ors, and that it is intended to despatch her from
Liverpool (as announced in the advertisements) on the
3d September, and from Bristol On the 22d October.
' Yours, &r., CILBISTOPHER CLAXTON,
Liverpool, Aug. 24: Managing Director.
The fete at ferny, Which is only one stage from
Paris, was saddened on Monday by a lamentable acci-
dent. A diligence drove up to the post house, and,
having changed horses, the driver mounted his box, and,
in his eagerness to start again, set his. horses off at full
gallop before he fastened the apron in front. By a
sudden jerk he was thrown down, the wheels passed over
his head, and crushed it so severely that he died install._
famously.