The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-07 00:00:00

the consequence of our fierce competVion with naticns ,1
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not yet heavily chained by restrictive Jaws, to ascer-
tain the cause of the diminished consmnption. T 1 e
more the Corn-laws are investigated, the greater are_ 't
the evil effects brought to light. We hope, that the Noble
Lord to whom Mr. ItawsoN's letter is addressed, will
cause the truths it conveys to be heard in high places.
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We have received a curious piece of news fro n Spain.
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It is a statement, by a member of the Madrid Cabinet; -_,961
made in the Cortes, to the effect that Lord ABgRDEEN" - 7 13'1f;40
had at first espoused the side of M.*SALS-ANDY in the —ltso,lo
etiquette • quarrel, but finding his pretensions un- 4/01
founded, his Lordship declared for the REGENT
The Noble Foreign Secretary was doubtless start- Scrtijibi
led at the way in which the Liberal press
dealt wit:: the instructions which he vas reported to have
transmitted til:rough Lord COWLEY to the British Am-
bassador at Madrij: Certain we are that but for the
English press the Tory' Government woald at that time
have joined France against Sapain.
The duties on home-made brand; are to, be abolished in
Spain from the Ist July, 1813.
Madrid Bourse on the 26th closed at 28i for* cash, and 29i
for 60 days.

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Nothing can exceed the rage with which ta.'n French
Opposition journals comment upon the stateme.n," of Sir
ROBERT PEEL in the House of Commons last wcek, that
Lord ABERDEEN had not recognised the claims of yra!ico
to the possession of Algiers. Some of their paroxysms
of passion are really ludicrous. They hurl defiance at
England in one sentence, and affect in the next to treat'
decisions respecting Algiers with the utmost contempt.
They tell us that we want Algiers for ourselves, and
they invite us to take it, if we dare. There is litthi
dignity in the employment of such language respecting
a nation like England. However, that is a matter o
taste, about which we are not disposed to quarrel with
our Gallic contemporaries. We are sufficiently satisfied:
with ourselves to care very little what the French Oppo •
sition papers say about us. Did they not dread us in
Their inmost hearts, they would never take the trouble
they do to tell the world how much they despise us.
M. CouslN, the French Peer, awl Member of the
institute, is appointed Member of the :Royal Board of
Instruction, in the room of M. JOUFFREY, ci,?ceased. No
uan in France is better qualified for a seat at that •
3oard than M. Conn/it whose works on popular ethics,' .
don have obtained an European celebrity.
The number of French Peers at present is three hun
dred and six. Of these one hundred and twelve were
created before the Revolution of July. These have 01
;eats in the Chamber. Of the Peers, ninety-nine are ,
;enerals, or superior officers in. the army or navy ;
twenty-five are diplomatists ; twenty members of the:
Institute ; twenty-four who are, or were prefects ; and:
hirty-six who are magistrates. The rest are landed pro-
?rietors, paying taxes to the amount of three thousand
'rants. 'ln proportion to its numbers, there is far. more
earning, knowledge, and practical habits of legislative
)usiness in the Chamber of Peers, than in that Gf
he Deputies, but as the Peers are for the most part the
,übmissive slaves of the Court, these properties °nil
' .nake them the more dangerous to the people. The ma--
ority of them are p,:or and unprincipled.
The Chamber of Deputies adopted by a majori,'l of
229 votes against 10, the Bill for calling out, in lb'-43'
30,000 men of the class of 1842.
The arrival of Bishop ALEXANDER in Jerusalem 15
ioticed as a most important event in all the French
ournals. The Journal des Debals says :
" The Anglican Bi,hop is more the representative of the
British Crown than of the Protestant religion. We were right
in raising the cry of alarm. Need we repeat that religious
conversion is a political conquest for Great Britain ? And
wherever the Anglican religion prevails, it absorbs the nation-
ality of the country. Behold a Bishop, who has come to take
possession of Syria, Chaldea, Egypt, and Abyssinia, and whoh
receives his investiture from Queen Victoria. The End
,lag 3ag will follow the English Bishop, and under the shade of that
dag will grow the tree, just planted on the Mount of Olives.
At the moment that the Anglican prelate was entering Jeru-
salem, cannon was announcing the celebration of the Coarban-
Bei, am. Was not this a sign that the sterile and stationary
spirit of Islamism is about to give way before the fruitful and
invading spirit of Christianity ?"
A missionary cannot leave the shores of England
without attracting the notice pf the French press. And
y,:t the Journals which denounced so angrily the ar
oearance of a Protestant Prelate in Syria, wonder tho
England should have the shadow of an objection to the
icizuro by France of several provinces of the Ottoman;
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BOURSE—PAnig, SATURDAY, MAlirll 5. t' >,. 1,1,,
First Highest Lowe..t Last r ~' V
Pric. Price. Prsc. F,r,;—.; . ; 11,,0f
French 5 per Cents 4 • 119 80 ... 119 93 ... 114) 81 «. J,,,,.' ''" ~:oe
Cents. ... 103 ... 103 ... 103 ... l'-'l,, At ' ' ''s
9 per Cents BO 20 80 40 .. 80 30 ... su. ',', " ;14.,'
.nk cn c'rance
Atha, nap', 5,(10!1 Slams 5C47 LO ...5047 50 —MIS ...5C43 ' ... Tf
'elan Sant
1811 ....
elgian 5 per Cents. . . .
5 per 'enc.. 4440 11614 .. 106% ... 106% l',.!;70::; ''r.4
Dutch 234 per Cents.' .... - r ,ro ,
.iiiish ne.ne
ralifivc 5% „„„ 5% ... 5% ... 54,,,,,' 41,t
e tvolits•
4i"-an IC4% ... 10434 ... 1C4% ... 104. '„O) tAi
LIA!LWAY SHARES .4,- , iv,
Vt. Germain ... .....
Versailics IL B
L.ll 2 6 25 ... 2.6 '25 ... 216 25 2.16 25'
touen 551 ... 525 ... 510 ... '25
Ie a . 560 ... 56.3 71 ... 56.1 _ , 562
Montpellier to Cette
i ...wig oßalc . 212 50 ... 245 ... 242 59 ... 245'

GOOD NEWS FOR TRAVELLERS.—We have great sa-
isfaction in informing our readers, that regulations hay('
,ust beenissued by the Board of Customs for increased
facility and despatch in the passing of passengers' lug-
:age at the London Custom-house. A second landing-
:mailer is to be appointed to assist in the examivatiou
the luggage, whose duty is to be confined to the
examination of such of the passengers' luggage as shy
tot exceed one packet. Thus, it appears, that what the.
Whig Government would not, or could not accomplish'
aa.s been quietly done by the Commissioners under thee
iew Government, but this is only one instance out 01
hundreds. in which the Melbourne Ministry brought 011
themselves. well-merited reproach for not compellil
Tory officials to do their duty. The 'annoyance cause
to passengers by needless delay, has been repeatedly c‘"
posed-in this journal, as well as in some others, but tiTe
Chairman of Customs was deaf as the adder it_
wilderness, till he could help the Tories.

HAN G-CHOO-FOO.
THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF CHINA.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT WHO HAS LONG RESIDED
IN INDIA.)
If Hang-Choo-Foo (capital of Chekiang, the rich
Ind most populous province in China,) be really tal'e°
by our forces, they are now progressing in that couf4
which will most alarm his Celestial Majesty. Haag"
Choo-Foo is, by Sir John Barrow and aliens,
sidered the best built city (of granite) in China. It
s!tuated at the north head of the Imperial Canal, °ll
the banks of a deep river three to four miles broad*
'apposite the city, from which one canal runs to Ning"
po, another canal to Cha-po, forty miles off, and fre'."
whence the whole trade between China and Japan
parried on ; another canal,. the Imperial, runs to r 4
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kin, and by the Hang-Choo-Foo river and the Canton
river there is a communication by water (the 11011
Pass excepted), and by which Lord M'Cattne,%.
Embassy travelled between the two Proviiicial capital-c
The Imperial Canal from LlangChoo-Foo t° t,ir
Great River Yang-Tzee-Kiang,-: is navigable 1,„
• 2ssels of 200 to 250 tons; loaded with rice, hence 0,1!17,
if our largest steam-vessels can traverse this, part Of 00
the canal in this part is very broad. Ilang-C'hee-,lii°o'4,
was once the seat of the Emperors of China. -L„ ,*,61
times are stirring in India and China; it is n°;;H, '0
sense to hesitate any longer ; our Goverrirnethre,-04
should at once call out the subsidiary forces,
hundred and -fifty thousand,and take Biitha (its fll7,
tier to seaward I mean, and a hundred miles inland)
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take Napaul and subsidize it ; occupy Oude de )c•
lad not, as at present, by an imbecile and ciPre,,,,,—t-,l‘ c 1
shadow of kingly native Government ; and C°"l4;
he Punjaub to become subsidized. China and ,T;tl
;hanistan is then only a flea-bite. India will nev—e,l;o,
be thoroughly tranquillized till these thorns in °
side are plucked out. If it be contended, what righe.)l tolt
has Great Britain thus to usurp power over tiles. 4'l
comparatively independent states, the answer is, it
for the good of the human race, that anarchy, int-.411,t1i
tide, and abominable cruelty should be extinguish
in those wretched and ill-governed and 0151° 'he
kingdoms; and as they are continually harassing t.r
British possessions in India, and endangering the,11,1;;;,6
repose, and as our occupation of these misgovern, *7
kingdoms would guarantee an extinction of these anc:,
minations, and substitute order, civilization, Pea or,
and tranquillity, and the blessing of the S
truth, it is the duty of England to bestir herself,
put an effectual end at once to the present unsatisfa R. W•
tory state of affairs in those' kingdoms. eripturesni

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ALARMING FlRE.—This morning about haif-pnsht
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one o'clock, an express reached Watling-street fire station vi it
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information that a fire had broken out at Alinetva House, near , ' r
?sew Cross, Deptford, the residence of the Duke of NormsPZ ,'
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Mr. Braidwood repaired to the spot with three engines al ,,
strong party of the brigade, and found the fire' existed tn.& , P
building recently erected for the purpose of making expert: 4,',
mental bomb-shells and other projectiles. The greatest *tart" sal ,•
existed in the neighbourhood, as it was supposed that *Van- ' -dd
tity of combustibles were in the place, Jich would extilnde ' tr;;
Mr. Braidwood immediately brought his force into opefs_ti" ii,
but no water could be obtained except by buckets frig° the 7' u, •
neighbouring houses, and it was only by unwearied exertion , ~10
, and judicious management that the fire was extinguished. The ~ho',
1 building, which is detached from the mansion, and its con
tel ..1();"
were nearly wholly destroyed. Not the slightest idea can
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present be formed as to the cause of the fire, which was i') • ~I
SO'
discovered until the flames burst forth. k coop. 4
MESMERISM.—CAUTION TO TILE LAD1135.--,'" '
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in a gentleman's family having heard Mesmerism much sP,();a-a „,,T
of, and many strange s'ories told of it, took ,it into her " a r yb•
she would be Mesmerised, and for that purpose aPPl;eatall& .011.
noted professor in a country town; being a very hale„,s, •oiai
healthy subject the surgeon had some difficulty to inducOlV,ln
merit sleep, but he eventually succeeded. The lady nOrf,
.:jatal‘'
.tlepf hut talked, her first words were rerfectly opt ural, but iits4,--, sr
faltering tone the fair one said—" Coachulau, oh 1 take:Plt •
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cold feet away !"