The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER It, 1842.

punished wish the utmost rigour of the law ;" but
that is about the extent of intbrmation we obtain
on the subject, so eager is Lord ABINGER to record
at full-length his hostility to Chartism, and to'
point .out—what be conceives to be—the injurious
working of the democratic principle in the
United States. His Lordship's great horror
seems to be, that persons of property
should be legislated for by persons of
no property. The legislation of the well-
tilled breeches-pocket seems to him the
best of all possible legislation. This feeling
pervades every sentence of his Charge, and he
recurs to it again and again, with a pertinacity
and a solicitude that at length become quite ludi-
crous. As for knowledge,acspectability, and so
lbrth, forming a necessary portion of a legisla-
tor, Lord:Amxmat lays not the slightest stress
on these qualifications; firoperty is what he
chiefly looks for; he who has it- is every way
qualified to legislate; be who has, it ntit, 'is' a
dangerous member of society, who 1',4 nOtto be
safely trusted with the slightest'shred of power.

_ .
The speech of tfili.-FEATHERSTONHAUGH at
Falmouth, Kiven in another part of the paper,
knocks down all those castles in the air, built on
the faith that the Commissioners appointed to
survey the disputed territory would come to the
aid of the revilers of Lord ASHBURTON. In
fact the treaty, according to this gentleman, who
it cannot be denied is good authority, is more
favOnrable than the public have been led to be-
lieve. The territory has been divided into equal
moieties ; it secures to us every object that was
essential to the welfare ofour colonies; our corn-
munication between them, both civil and mili-
tary, are placed beyond hostile reach ; and all
the military positionsin the Highlands, claimed
by the Americans, without exception now belong
to Great Britain. He disposes in a like sum-
mary manner of the loud. talk about the exclu-
sive navigation of the St. John; but the different
points are so well stated, and the defence of Lord
ASHBURTON so complete, that we cannot do
better than refer our readers to the speech itself.

Accounts from Madrid are to the Ist inclusive.
Financial measures occupied the Government
beyond all other subjects, which can cause no
surprise. Empty pockets generally cause no
little anxiety to their owners.
The Gazette publishes the decree of the RE-
GENT, convoking the Cortes for the 14th of No-
vember.
It was believed that the session would be
opened without a speech from the REGENT, in
order to avoid a debate on the Address.

The Amnesty Bill, drawn up by M. ZUMALA-
CARREGUI, the Minister of Justice, was found
too liberal by his colleagues. The publication
of that Act was accordingly adjourned. M. ZU-
MALACARREGUI proposed to exclude only 25 per-
sons from the benefit of the measure.
Ti.e Government contemplated to reduce the
provincial militia by 25,000 men.

The Five per Cents were done on the 30th ult.
at 20i for cash, and 211 at 60 days; and the Five
per Cents. at Hi at 60 days. On the Ist the
Three per Cents. sold for 20i for cash, and t':e
Five per Cents. at 25i for cash, and 261 26 25i
at 60 days.

We have received the Paris papers, which still
dwell on the late accounts from Africa, evidently
with little satisfaction.

The Journal des Debats of Saturday informs
us that the Algerine war may last three years
more, which is not surprising, JUGURTHA and
others having resisted the Romans much longer
and that, consequently, the 75,000 men de-
manded by General BUGEAUD must be granted
him. Nevertheless, great results have been
gained, according to the French journal, and the,
war, but lately at the gates of Algiers, has been
displaced to fifty leagues distance from the coast.
The mission of Sir HENRY ELLIS to the
Brazils has excited some attention in Paris.
The Opposition journals contend that the ap-
proaching termination of the treaty between
England and that empire presented to the
French Government an opportunity for effecting
an alliance with the latter, which would neces-
sarily produce important advantages to France,
and inflict a heavy injury upon England.
La P resse calls the attention of its readers to
`he efforts now making by the British Govern-
men t
...
German, States. " This'
4.0 conclude commercial treaties with:
merits the most serious
it say s,
to believe what is said,
Atauctsitcr,i,a,
attention. 1 f we are
France
is
at this
ornent aking arrangements
to unite herself to Germany by ail' alliance based
on the commercial interests of the two nations
it becomes therefore necessary to inquire wht is
the true position of this country with respect to
a Power whose influence has always been so fatal
to us in the Germanic Confederation. It is an
evident fact that the movement which has been
progressing for the last fifteen years throughout
Germany is diametrically opposed to British in-
terests. Politically, Great Britain strengthened
herself by the division of the German people,
the result of which was to prevent them coming
to an understanding with Russia or with !I
France, and thus oppose an obstacle to the
alliance of the Continental Powers. Corn,
mercially, the consequence of the tendency
of Germany to unite her force and her in-
terests is naturally to withdraw that country
from the yoke of the British manufac-
turers. As long as the German States were un-
acquainted with the mode of combining the
elements of *their wealth, England took advan-
tage of their state of isolation. Thus she inun-.
dated all Germany with her manufactures in
exchange for agricultural produce, which she
received in return from the southern provinces.
The advantage which that part of Germany de-
rived from her trade.with Great Britain became
5u some measure a source of ruin and of misery
for the other German States, whose manufac-
tures were crushed by British competition. No
doubt all the advantages of the German Union
have not had time to be developed. Germany
still presents a magnificent market for British
produce, but everything proves that she is at the
eve of emancipating herself e.9ippletely."
The Courrior FrancaisOn adverting to the in-
crease of the British navy, thus remarkg
Although the relations between Great Britain and
Russia are not on a friendly footing, and the British
feeling towards France is v?t, warm, we believe that
Great Britain does not mealrto threaten any foreign
Power whatever. But such preparations, particularly
when we compare with them the desire shown by Sir
Robert Peel to arrange the differences with the
United States, prOve that the statesmen who govern
the United Kingdom regard the future prospects of
the country a§ gloomy, and that they do not wish to
he surprised by cOurfinioents.'. This increase of the
British navy is a formidable peace establishment,
approaching very nearly to a state of war. The Tory
Ministry, it is true, do not make use of the provoking
language of Lord Palmerston, but they are besieged
by the same apprehensions, and imbued with the same
conceptions. France ought not to cease to be on her
guard because her adversaries, although not on terms
of intimacy with her, observe a less hostile demeanour,
or use less acrimonious language.
At one o'clock on Friday, the various tenders
for supplying the Post-office steam-packets with
38,000,000 kilogrammes of sea- coal were opened at
the Council-chamber of the General Post-office,
by M. PIRON Deputy postmaster-General, when
the first contract for deliverino. 13,600,000 kilo-
grammes of coal at the port ofc" Marseilles, was
adjudged to M. CouuN, at 3f. 49c. the quintal.
The second, of 1,500,000 kilogrammes for Calais,
to M. 1
2EQUET DE BEAUREPAIILE, at 21. 54c. the
quintal ; *and the third, of 24,300,000 kilo-
gratntnes, for the five ports of the Levant, to M.
MACQUEUR CHATEMANN, at the price of 883,300 f.
The wheat crop of France in' 1842 is esti-
mated,
in a document just published by the
Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture, at
85,988,432 hectolitres. The produce of this im-
portant article almost doubled during the last 30
years, and that of potatoes increased to fivefold
during the same period.
The Nile steamer (one of the finest vessels of
the Egyptian eet) entered Marseilles on the
4th inst ; she had on board eight splendid Ara-
bian horses, and several shawls of great value;'
which MEHEMET 'ALT sent as presents to King
Louts PHILIPPE and his family. ARTIN BEY,
Secretary to the'PActrA Dr. LABAT, who had
completed his second historical tour through the