The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON) THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMI3ER 8, 1842.

which they derived their title to the throne of the •
realms, or view it simply on its own- merits,
it is entitled to the highest commendation.
The first three Sovereigns of the House of Bruns-
wick never could forget or forgive the ardent at-
tachment of the Scotch nation to the unfor-
tunate family of the STUARTS. They seemed always
afraid of some fresh outbreak, or some open insult to
their line; they heard of the ardour and enthusiasm
with which Jacobite songs were repeated in every
mansion and cottage in the north, and on the occasion
of any serious disturbance in England, Tooled with
fear and trembling to some more dangerous move-
ment among the Highland clans. This dislike, or
rather dread of the Scotch people, displayed itself in
various ways. They refrained from visiting the
country, and enforced the same rule on the different
branches of their families, for we are not aware that
any member of the Royal family, up to the reign of
GEORGE IV., entered the country on a friendly visit.
One Royal Duke, it is true, was sent to the north,
but he was sent as a scourge, and his name will long
be remembered. The fourth GEORGE visited the
Capital only when he was old and infirm. The display
was magnificent ; everything that could give effect to
the scene was amply provided, and the people received
him with enthusiasm, but still it could not be con-
cealed that personal vanity and love of show
were mixed up with the whole proceedings. The
journey of the present SOVEREIGN is of a very diffe-
rent character. Her MAJESTY, on the first conve-
nient opportunity, and while in the bloom of youth,
departs for the North with as little display as the loy-
alty and attachment of her people would permit. It
was her wish that the visit should be conducted as
privately as possible, and she consented to imitate the
conduct of her uncle by a grand procession, rather to
gratify the inhabitants, and make amends for the hur-
ried manner in which' she entered the city, than for
any personal gratification. She does not limit her
journey to the capital, but proceeds to the interior,
to mix with her people, and visit scenes rendered
illustrious by deeds of former times. From this
Royal progress, as it has been called, the best results
may be anticipated, both as regards the attachment of
the inhabitants to their youthful Sovereign, and the
respect and esteem of the QUEEN for their enthusiastic
loyalty and peaceable demeanour.

We received Dutch papers last night of the
6th instant, but with the exception of accounts
received from Batavia of earthquakes in the
Molucca Islands, and the breaking out of the
yellow fever, caused, as was supposed, by the
extreme heat, their contents are unimportant.

The appearance of a French squadron in conjunc-
tion with the British fleet on the coast of Syria, is the
subject of long leading articles in most of the French
journals of Monday. "If Admiral LA SUSSE'S
squadron," says M. ODILON BARROT'S organ, the
Courrier Francais," appeared on the coast of Syria
to support the Christian population, every person
would applaud the expedition; but our vessels are
only there in virtue of a convention with England,
and to satisfy British honour. To determine the
tribes of the Libanus to rise in insurrection against
MEHEMET ALI, Lord PALMERSTON'S agents made
them certain promises, and England took their local
interests under her protection. When the Porte, in
the intoxication of successes due to others, trampled
under foot the rights of the Tribes, manifested
an intention of forcing a Turkish ,Governor on
the Libanus, and let loose civil war on the
mountains, the English Government felt that
the excesses of the Turks would cast a
reproach on it, and accordingly addressed to the Di-
van exceedingly strong remonstrances. The - Porte,
instigated by Russia, who advised it to withdraw
from the guardianship of the other Powers, has re-
sisted up to the present time all the intreaties and
even threats of England: and matters have arrived at
such a point that England ought to be tempted, in order
to fulfil the engagement she had entered into, to in-
terfere a second time, and act against the Turks as
she did before against the Egyptians. This would be
an enterprise altogether English in its character, as
far as we are concerned, and in which we should have
to interfere merely to protect the independence of the
Ottoman empire, and to prevent any fresh encroach-
ment of England in the East."
The idea of leaving England alone to undertake
the tranquillity of Syria proves how pitiful politicians
some of our Gallic Contemporaries are. For what
would be the result ? Why just this. England
would protect the Syrians by force, if necessary, and
thus would become the rightful and only recognised
guardian of the Catholic Christians of the East. In
fact Syria would become virtually a British province,
as, in order to maintain the peace of the mountaineers,
it would be necessary to keep an English garrison at
Beyrout. But neither Louis PHILIPPE nor M.
GUIZOT are such fools as to follow M. ODILON
BARROT'S line of Oriental politics. They do not
want to make us a present of Syria after this
fashion. They are aware, also, that whatever
promises were made to the Syrians by Mr. WOOD
and Commodore Sir CHARLES NAPIER, they were ex-
ceeded by the accredited„Christian agents of France,
at that time travelling among the tribes in the moun-
tains.

The Constitutionnel attributes all the misfortunes in

the East to the fatal treaty of the Four Powers,
which exalted Russia at the expense of France.
Whose fault was it that France did not sign that
treaty, which in that case would not have led to the
shedding of a drop of blood ? Why, her own. The
miserable vanity of M. TRIERS alone prevented the
adoption of a policy, on her part, which would have
settled the Syrian question without one drop of blood.
But upon this question it is worth while to attend to
the language of the mouthpiece of this political
harlequin :
In everything that is done at present in Syria, we
recognise, and so will every body, the hand of the
Muscovite. What is of importance to Russia is to
see the Turkish empire grow weaker and weaker, and
dwindle away. She wishes to see this Power, which
has fallen so prodigiously within the last centuryi
reach her last degree of degradation. The Turkish

empire, well constituted, full of life, and filled with a

population animated by a common patriotism, would
slip away from the grasp of the successors of the Great
Catherine, and that is not what they want. In order
that the great termination, so anxiously desired by
Russia, should. arrive, there must be nothing
else in the old empire of the Sultans but dis-
order and anarchy ' • and Russia desires that a con-
siderable portion of the subjects of the Porte, even
that part which . has lived in oppression, should in-
vite and summon the Russians to come forward as
their deliverers. Then, almost without a blow being
struck, the intended usurpation would be accom-
plished. This will explain the conduct which the
blindness
d Divankidniesehsai lhoaipenth and corruption
affairs,it\
hsressiiiuta
pr
tetihsopeney forcesc t to
on Shyorri,a
a;
nidt is II
such
s iasr
the
oofbstthineatTleyn
asatsitsht easheiadnucli
as they can in this work of destruction. England has
taken fright at the progress of the Russian influence,
and France cannot see without grief the miserable fate
that is prepared for those populations which always
turned their eye towards her. Rumours are now
current of a manifestation to be made in commons to
force the Divan to adopt a more humane policy towards
Syria. We have no inclination to deny the claims of
humanity, but we are at a loss to comprehend how
France could, without conditions, agree to aid the
plans of England in the East. We received in 1840
a lesson that nobody—Government or people—ought
to forget. What is taking place at present was fore-
seen by France, and she even tried to prevent the
evil of which England now complains. The increase
of Russian influence was generated by the treaty of
1840; and at present, when the sad consequences of
that proceeding are displayed in the full light of day
the Cabinet of London is anxious to snake use of
France against Russia, as she made use of Russia
against France two years back. This ought not to be
allowed, and the feeling of our insulted nationality
ought, in this circumstance, to have greater weight
with us than those instincts of humanity which have
been so often taken advantage of against us.
So then, there is a class of persons 'calling them-
selves politicians and statesmen in France, who would
see the streets of Jerusalem running with Christian
blood rather than forego the indulgence of a petty
spite against England ; These 8a228 culottes of the
revolution of July, would coolly look on while Tur-
key, at the instigation of Russia, was saturating the
mountains of Libanus with Christian blood— the sure
and inevitable prelude to her own extinction by the
merciless arm of the Cult—and all this to gratify a
malignant feeling
against this country ! The confes -
sion is a miserable one, at once betraying hatred, jea-
lousy, and fear. It is not thus that a great and chi-
valrous people should act. It is not thus that apeople,
strong in their own valour and their own resources,
would propose to act. In the face of such an ewer-

gency we sl •ad expect to address England
something to the following effect A common
friend is in danger. Let us cease our petty disputes,
and save him. When we have discharged what a
common duty requires at our hands, we will return
to the settlement of our private quarrel." A man
may dislike his neighbour, and yet hurry with him
to save from the flames the house and family of a third
person living in the same street.
The Presse, the organ of Count MoLE, defends the
conduct of the Government. It takes nearly the
same view of the question that we have done, and
had we seen it previous to making the few obser-
vations which appear above, an extract from it would
have embodied something of our meaning. But it is
evident that the Eastern question is again rising into
great importance, and that unless a Change take place
in the councils of the Porte, it will be all to settle

• over again.
The Moniteur of the sth of September, publishes
in its official part a Report of the Minister of Public
Instruction to the King, followed by several ordi-
nances on the subject.
We find the following passage in the Courrier de
Lyon of the 4th :—" For some time past much has
been said of the lamentable state of the manufactures
of Lyons, in which the amount of the goods manu-
factured daily decreases. This inaction of our work-
men is, doubtless, only momentary, but it is, neverthe-
less, to be greatly deplored at the approach of winter,
which brings with it so many expensive wants. It
may be said that at this moment all the principal
branches of manufactures are in a depressed state,
only two in three give some signs of life, these are,
shawls, and plain and figured velvets."—Le Consti•
tutionnel.
It appears from the statistical tables drawn up by
the War Department, that the provinces of Algeria
contain about 5,600,000 inhabitants, including the
French and foreigners who have settled in the coun-
try since our conquest in 1830. The army is not
included.
On the 2d of September M. Thiers passed through
Cantray, returning to Lille. We see that he did not
stay long in Holland thoroughly to study the system
of embankment draining, and as a Hague journal said.
It is true M. Thiers studies quickly ; we have not
forgotten that in his excursion to England some years
ago, he told the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he
would spare half an hour to make himself acquainted
with the financial system of Englanil.—Commerce.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 5.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents 120 60... 120 80... 120 60... 120 80
4 per Cents 105 ..; 105 ... 105 ... 105
3 per Cents 80 ... 80 10... 80 ... 80 5
Bank of France 3260 ...3260 ...3260 .. 3260
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1037 50 ..1037 50...1037 50...1037 50
Belgian Bank 7BO ... 780 ... 780 ... 780
Belgian Fives 1034 . 1031 . 1031 103 i
1840 lO4l ... 105 ... 1044 104 i
Spanish Active 22 ... 221 ... 22 ... 221
Neapolitan .. lO7 107 10... 107 —. 107 10
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, L.B 95 ... 95 ... 95 ... 95
Rouen
Orleans. 575 581 25... 575 ... 581 25
Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 25... 202 50... 201 25... 202 50
DUTCH k UNDs.—AmsTErtoam, SEvr. 5.
Money. Rills.
Actual Debt, 21i per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Arnett Syndie,44 per cent ...... ........ I;4ki !41(
PAtto, ditto, 334 per cent 171.4 7,
Commercial Company, 4'. per cent 741% :42q
Ditto (1835 and 1837) S per cent lO% 10U%
Loan 1837, 5 per cont... ............... 10J%
Exchange on London, One month l2 kA
g
Twomonths 12 15
Hamburgh, One month 35 814
Two months 35 Ws,
Dutch Papers, Sept. 6.

A GREAT MAN. —That the Anti-Corn-law
League, says the Examiner, is a body of some im-
portance, nobody can doubt who sees the labour the.
Tory press bestows upon its defamation and destruc-
tion. That Joseph Sturge is by the same rule a great
man, indeed a very great man, nobody can doubt who
nr
sees the labour that both the Tory and the Whig
Journals
Times,
Herald,
Globe,onhi s s
writings
and Post, all in turn,Titino-s and proceedings. The
defame and try to destroy Joseph Sturge. Peel and
Palmerston, great as they were at the close of the
session, and great as one of them is said to make him-
self every day in a Contemporary, do not receive half
the attention that does Joseph Sturge. While their
laboured orations are forgotten, his address to the Irish
nation, his Circulars to the Complete Suffrage Society,
are daily commented on, as much as is the new Bible
by the Mormons. Joseph Sturge has seized hold of
the movement by the right handle, and fixes the at-
tention of the mere politicians of all parties by alarm-
ing them. Feargus O'Co:mor is making way for the
man of peace, and it seems not inconsistent with the
progress which society has made in knowledge, that
the next great change should be headed by a benevo-
lent Quaker.
We have received a very bitterly written letter in-
veighing against the curtailment, at the permit office,
of the time usually allowed to give the permits, from
two hours to one, previous to the boat sailing. We
cannot admit the letter, but, we are confident, if the
party will write to the Mayor a temperate letter,
stating the inconvenience himself and family suffered,
and their losing the boat in consequence, it will receive
every attention. For ourselves; we cannot see why
the permits are not delivered, during the day, to all
who choose to apply for them.
an hour pre-
vious to the boat sailing would be sufficient to supply
all travellers arrived after the bureau closed.—Bou-
logne Gazette. [No one can be surprised that the
correspondent writes bitterly. Can anything be more
absurd than to restrict passengers to one hour for re-
ceiving permits to embark when the number generally
exceeds one hundred, and the officers at the passport
office cannot possibly supply all in that time ? If the
official authorities at Boulogne wish to prevent all in-
tercourse with foreigners, why do they not state so
openly, without allowing persons to come there and
spend their money, and then insult them as they
leave ? The system is disgraceful to a civilized country.
—ED. Sun.]
EARL RADNOR ON THE CoaN-LAWS.—This up-
right and honest Nobleman has published the speech
which he made on moving the second reading of
his Bill for abolishing the Corn-laws. Like all the
Noble Earl's speeches it is plain, sensible, and
pithy ; coming at once to the point, and stating in
a few sentences the arguments which diffuse
spehhers expand into a long column. The Noble
Earl's well-timed speech will enforce the still more
eloquent language of facts which are now, both in the
manufacturing and agricultural districts, demanding,
trumpet-tongued, the abolition of the Corn-laws.

Royal IJLAR.
park, the residence of her Ma-
Her C OHUighßnTess ethießkehess of Kent left
yesterday, for her resi-
jßesutsyhyth-heouQsae,eeßnusphy-o-wager,
dence, Frogmore Lodge, near Windsor.
Sir James Graham has arrived in town from Cowes,
Isle of Wight. Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Military Se-
cretary to the Commander-in-Chief, visited the Right
Hon. Baronet yesterday afternoon at the Home-
office. The Attorney-General and Mr. Maule had
also interviews with Sir James Home-
office yesterday afternoon. Graham at the
Lady Holland has left town on a visit to Viscount
Melbourne, at his seat, Brocket-hall, Herts.
Hon. R. Clive, M.P., transacted business yesterday
at the Home-office.

Sir Henry Mildmay,
Bait, has left Farrance's
Hotel, 13elgrave-street, for Dogmersfield-park, Hart-
ford Bridge, Hants.

REPORTED DEATH THE KING

OF HANOVER.
We have just received the melancholy intelligence
of the death of the King of Hanover, from a gentle-
man who reached London this afternoon direct from
Dusseldorf.

His Majesty attended a review on Saturday last at
that place, and appeared in perfect health during the
day ; but having taken some
ice, or other refresh-
ment, was suddenly seized with illness, and diedeither
on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning.
The melancholy fact was matter of common con-
versation at Cologne.—Eveningr
Paper.
[The Dutch and German papers of the 6th instant,
received last night, make no allusion to this report.]

SUICIDE IN THE SERPExTWE:—Yesterday morn-
ing, at an 'early hour, a
person of gentlemanly appear-
ance, was seen to throw himself off the bridge of the Ser-
pentine, in Hyde Park, into the water. The men be-
longing to the Royal Humane Society, on receiving in-
telligence of the suicide, commenced dragging for the
body, and about five o'clock they succeeded in finding it.
The deceased, whose name is unknown, was taken to the
receiving house of the Humane Society, and medical as-
sistance wag rendered, but life was found to be quite ex-
tinct. The deceased appears to be 40 to 45 years of age,
stout built, and about 5 feet six inches in height, and
was dressed in a black coat, black silk waistcoat, dark
trowsers, and Wellington boots. His appearance denotes
that he has moved in a respeotable sphere of life.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON TILE RlVER.—Yesterday
evening- a lamentable accident, attended with loss of
life, occurred on the river, nearly opposite Rother-
hithe, as the Waterman steamer No. 2 was proceeding to
Woolwich. A vessel called the Eden, from Newcastle,
having just cast anchor at this spot,' the Captain was
about. to proceed on shore in the long boat, and in the
act of crossing the river, the bOat, which also contained
three sailors, was struck by the prow of the steamer,
and immediately swamped. The four persons strug.
gled for some time in the water, until several boats
put off from shore and succeeded in saving the three
sailors, but we regret to state that the Captain sank al-
most immediately after the collision, and never rose
more. The engineer of the steamer saved one of the
sailors at the risk of his own life.
THE NIGER EXPEDITION.—Her Majesty's steamer Al-
bert, belonging to this unfortunate expedition, was lying
at Ascension prior to July 2. Her Majesty's ships
Rapid and Waterwiteh were also lying there.

SUM 'ARY OF NEWS

AND
littbltc It pluton.

" Who runs may read.'

POREIGMT.

The reports from the East by the last Levant mail
an intended co-operation of the English and French
iquadrons on the coast of Syria, with a view to com-
pel the Porte to do justice to its subjects in that
country, and fulfil the promises which were given to
the Great Powers, have furnished the Courrier Fran-
.‘xis, the Constitutionnel, and the Presse with occasions
or again ripping up all the old sores about the Treaty
of the 15th of July. We have noticed their argu-
ments in a leading article.
M. Eugene Bore has been appointed Consul for
France at Jerusalem. He is at present at Bagdad,
and will not proceed to his new post till towards the
end of the year.
The Barcelona journals of the 30th ult. are filled
with distressing accounts of the ravages occasioned
in Catalonia. Rain fell in torrents on the 24th, when
the Llobregat and Noya overflowed their banks, and
soon formed but one immense sheet of water. The
districts of Iguallada, La Pobla de Charamunt, Ca-
pellades, Vallbona, San Quintin, San Pedro de Riu
de Vitelles, Monistrol, and others, were entirely laid
waste; many of the inhabitants, surprised by the
floods, were drowned, and the damages caused in that
quarter only were calculated to amount to 4,000,000
piastres. The wasters of the Llobregat had not risen
to so great a height since the year 1740.
The cantons of Berne, Soleure, Argau, and Basle,
have formed a kind of commercial union for the abo-
lition of all international duties. Valais is threatened
with an explosion. A liberal print having been se-
vere on the clergy, the latter have accused the Go-
vernment of tolerating such calumnies, have raised
the cry of Catholicism in danger, and have appealed
to an extraordinary convocation of the Great Council.
The Cantonal Government has answered by a long
proclamation.
The Commerce Beige mentions a report that the
King and Queen of the Belgians are about to visit
France again, and that they will embark at Ostend
11 direct for the Chateau d'Eu.

The German papers are barren of news. They tell
us of everything but what we want to know. They
register reviews, Royal and University fetes, but by
looking through them all no one would discover that
the Congress of the German Union is at this moment
sitting, and that their most important interests may
be affected from day to day by the opinions that may
prevail.
Accounts from Rome of the 25th ult. announce
that the three steamers built in England for the Papal
Government had at last reached that capital. They
had already given proofs of the solidity of their con-
struction, having in the space of a few hours towed
three vessels, heavily laden, from the mouth of the
Tiber to Rome. The banks of the river were lined
with an immense crowd of people, curious to witness
a spectacle so novel to them. Cardinal Fosti, and
several other Prelates, were present at the arrival of
the steamers.

According to letters from Bagdad of the 27th of
July, tranquillity was far from having been restored
in that city. The Sheik Soliman Ganam had been
murdered by the Agheles Gusmen, and the popula-
tion had been thrown into a state of considerable
agitation in consequence of a report that the Persians
were marching upon Bagdad. Those fears, however,
were soon allayed when it became known that the
British Minister at Teheran had protested against all
violation of the Ottoman territory by the Persian forces.
MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.
The Duke of Buceleuch has become proprietor of
the Wanlockhead lead mines, which for the preceed-
ing 87 years the :Marquis of Bute rented.
"Work is not yet general at Manchester, but peace
is preserved. At one of the Salford factories the hands
have resumed work without obtaining their additional
demand. It is calculated that 8,000 power-loom
weavers are still out. At Glossop, where the attack
was made on a factory last week, everything is
peaceable.