The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-13 00:00:00

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thiblic ®pinion.

" Who runs may read."

POREIGN.
There is little loss or gain in the French elections. The
only gainers are the Legitimist party, and they are likely to
support the Ministry. Of the result of 336 elections known in
Paris on Monday afternoon a majority of 45 were Ministerial.
The Opposition papers of Monday are in ecstaciea with the
result. M. Thiers' organ, the Constitutionnel, exclaims rap-
turously—" The electors of the department of the Seine have
replied nobly to the appeal wbich has just been made by the
Crown to the country. Twelve colleges out of fourteen have
made their returns ; ten of them are for the Opposition. All
the old Deputies who declared themselves against the Ministry
have been re-elected. In 1839, the Opposition obtained in the
elections for the Seine, a total advantage of 1,847 votes. It has
now a majority of 2,891. It is thus that the electors of Paris
have expressed their opinions as to the' dispute between the
Ministry and the Opposition."
The Courrier Francais says—" The electors of Paris have
nobly answered the appeal of the country, and have given a
great example to France. Not only almost all the Deputies of
the metropolis were Opposition candidates, but the Opposition
has seen its majorities increasing, whilst, on the other hand,
the Ministerial candidates have been either altogether aban-
doned, or have seen their best friends drop off from them in vast
numbers. Three years have been sufficient to effect this im-
portant change—three years of an unpopular and anti-national
Ministry have considerably increased in Paris the Opposition
forces. The political grand jury of Pads has pronounced a
solemn verdict against the Ministry ; the electors, with their
hands on their conscience, before God and before men, have
inflicted on the Ministry an irrevocable condemnation."
We read in the National—" The victory is complete, de-
cisive, and far exceeding our hopes. The whole country will
thank the capital for having shown itself worthy of its fame.
Whatever may be the general result of the electoral ballots, the
city of intelligence—the city where the Government itself
holds its seat—the place where persons can see most clearly
the morality of public men and the working of the system—
the spot, in fine, where all grand questions are de,cided—Paris,
where the great mass of the electors escape corruption, has pro-
nounced its solemn judgment, and the Ministry of Foreign
Powers has been struck to the heart—its course is run. This
wretched Cabinet, which for two years has been overwhelm-
ing France with humiliations and insults—which knew not how
to protect any class of interests, respected no liberty, awakened
all the re-actionary enactments--this Cabinet trusted to stupid
calumnies to deceive the intelligent population of Paris. The
result has been its defeat, as no Ministry has been defeated
since 1830."
The Quotidienne has the following :—" It is the general
opinion to-day that M. Guizot is a dead man, absolutely de-
funct. Some persons assert that he was so before the election,
and perhaps the Conservative candidates were secretly informed
of the fact. At least it is certain that they all disavowed him
before the electors, and in the preparatory meetings, circulars,
and professsons of faith, no person would be Ministerial."
The Debuts does not attempt to conceal that the result of
the Paris elections is not such as the Conservative party had
hoped for, but it finds consolation in the fact that the old Con-
servative majority has not yet sustained any loss upon the total
of the elections known. " The result of the Paris elections
(says the Debats) will, no doubt, produce cries of joy from the
Opposition Journals. We are the very first to acknowledge
that this result has not answered our expectations. The Con-
servative party has lost two votes in Paris, and one at Etampes,
and this is the whole extent of their loss. But we see at the,
same time that they have gained three votes on the total of the
returns of the departments as yet known. This equality be-
tween success and loss still leaves the balance in favour of the
existing majority. Such is the true state of the matter."
The Presse has the following :—" The Conservative party
haslost two of its representatives in the capital, but by a small
majority. This loss will be diminished by the election of its
candidate at Saint-Denis, which was represented by an opposi-
tion candidate. The elections in the departments, as far as they
are known, offer important compensations. We postpone all
reflections until the ensemble of the electoral operations can be
appreciated."
The Porte has finally sold the Constantinople Custom-house
for a sum which exceeds that yielded last year by 10,000 purses
(50,00010, which is so much clear gain to the Government.
As this arrangement must limit smuggling transactions, it will
greatly benefit the fair trader. The late Grand Customer
Tahir Bey has been appointed Master of the Mint.
Sir John M'Neil left Constantinople on the 20th ult., to
proceed home by way of the Danube. A fire broke out on
the 18th in the Jewish quarter, and consumed about 100
wretched habitations and shops, together with a few good
houses. Admiral Walker's house was very closely menaced;
he removed all his furniture and effects.
P.ILIZZIAIVEMITAILY.
Lord Wharncliffe announced last night that the Government
meant to remain perfectly passive in respect to the Collieries
Bill.

The Lords only received some petitions, and made some ob-
servations on Hu'lab's system, and on the system of education
generally. Lord Wharncliffe rather flattered the nation, we
are afraid, when he raid that would Parliament grant a suffi-
cient sum of money we should soon be the best educated people
in the world. Parliamentary grants can do much, but we
doubt their miraculous agency in converting an uneducated
into an educated people.
Sir R. Peel also, in the Commons, presented a petition from
Mr. Hullah's classes, and expressed an opinion favourable to
a grant.

Sir R. Peel, with the unanimous approbation of the Heine,
brought in a Bill for the better security of her Majesty's person,
which was read a first and second time.
The House was subsequently engaged with the Poor-law
Bill in Committee. On a division, an amendment, moved by
Mr. Sharman Crawford, to continue the Commission for one
year only, was lost by 164 to 91 ; and the Commission conti-
nued for five years.
The House adjourned at Quarter to Two o'Clock.
plinlac OPINION.
The Herald says of the recent debates in the House of
Commons on the subject of national distress—" It is indeed
quite impossible for any conscientious man to rise from an at-
tentive perusal of the recent debates without vexation of spirit
—without coming to the conclusion that, if human wisdom
have to emancipate this country from its present disastrous and
dangerous condition, such wisdom is not yet patent to the
nation, and that the necessities of the times demand a States-
man such as we have not. The country yearns for a great
Minister; and it is because of the immeasureable superiority of
Sir Robert Peel over his opponents that the country clings
to the present Premier. Sir Robert Peel would be a treat
Minister in tranquil and prosperous times ; it remains
to be seen whether he will be a successful Minister in
days of unparalleled difficulty and devastating calamity ;
whether he can rise to the emergency into which com-
mercial disaster and political misrule have plunged the country.
The Minister of England is held accountable—no matter with
what measure of justice—for the national prosperity or adver-
sity which accompanies his Administration ; and if he cannot
remedy distress and relieve suffering, his reputation suffers
and confidence in his capacity is shaken. No man knows this
better than Sir Robert Peel, and his knowledge thereof is the
best assurance the country can have, that if he sees any broad,
wholesome, enlarged, or permanent means of reviving pros..
perity, he will, at all sacrifices of party, at all risks of hostility,
careless of offence, and resolute in good intent, summon toge-
ther this Legislature, if a deficient harvest should be added to
our present misfortunes, and propound any plans which tranquil
reflection may suggest, after the prorogation of the present
session."

The Times says—" The attempt of Ministers to persevere in
carrying through the Poor-levy Continuance Bill in its present
shape (if, indeed, that attempt is seriously to be made, which
we very much doubt) cannot he too much regretted. It will
fail of its object, and its only result will be to embarrass the
Government, exasperate the people, and organize into syste-
matic action those obstructive tendencies which have of late
shown themselves with so much activity in the House of Com-
mons. We speak now, net in the character (which we shall
always most strenuously maintain) of opponents of thb New
Poor-law, but as well-wishers to the peace and good order of
the community, as friends, upon the whole, to the Conservative
Government, and as enemies to every disturbance of the settled
order of Parliamentary proceedings. Were we to regard the mat-
ter as mere factious opponents of the New Poor-law, we
should say, let Sir Robert Peel go on by all means ; let him
run his head against,this millstone ; let him weary out 1-;s friends
and the country by an idle endeavour to do what in the nature
of things cannot be done ; let him propose this new concession
to the Somerset-house tyranny, at a time and under circum-
stances which give us the best possible chance of defeating it ;
let him injure himself and the cause he patronizes by legislat-
ing for it in so indecent a manner as to produce among the
poor the feeling of insult as well as that of disappointment.
But these are lengths to which we cannot go; we should grieve
to carry our point at so unnecessary an expense of character to
the Conservative Premier. We shall be far better content to
see him, deliberately and of his own free judgment, defer the
consideration of this subject till a period when there will
be time and opportunity to do it justice, even though he may
then enter the field against us with a greater certainty of
success."

The Post, after taking Sir Robert Peel gravely to task for
his politeness towards his political opponents, goes on to ob-
serve—" Notwithstanding the urbanity of the Minister to
the mob calling itself the Anti-Corn-law League, which did
him the honour to call upon him on Saturday—notwithstand-
ing his thanks to that mob for the representations which it
made to him concerning the distress—we .can scarcely doubt
that the Minister was by no means in want of any information
which that mob could afford, and that he thought its visit ra-
ther intrusive than otherwise. It is said there is no disputing
about tastes, but, as a matter of judgment, we must presume
to doubt that any advantage whatever arose from the reception
by Sir R. Peel of the mob calling itself the Anti-Corn-law
League. The manners of the mob—judging from the reports
in the newspapers of what it said—were rather familiar and
offensive, and—considering what was notorious of its proceed-
ings—we think scarcely anything else could have been expected.
We humbly submit that if such a body as this League' were
not to be treated with stern contempt (which is the course of
which we should have most approved) it certainly was not
worthy of being received by the Minister, and attentively heard
by him."
We take the following from the Chronicle:—" It is a very
odd idea, which the Duke of Wellington seems to entertain,
that the evidence collected by the Commission of Inquiry into
the employment of children in mines and collieries, would have
been improved had it been taken upon oath. Not the least
valuable portion consists of that which made itself obvious to
the senses of the Sub-Commissioners. In a sufficient number
of instances amply to establish the fact of brutal treatment,
they saw its marks. Of bruises, maims, and disfigurements,
they themselves became the witnesses. They had the species of
proof which the patron saint of doubters was rebuked for de-
manding. Another part of the demonstration that reform is
needed arises out of the gross ignorance in which the juvenile
mining population grows up. Their minds are in a state of
darkness, thick darkness which may be felt.' The ignorance
they evinced could not be made more apparent by their hay-
inc, sworn to it. The children who can neither read nor write,
and' to whom church, Sabbath, and school are only unmeaning
words—N%hat could possibly be gained by administering zn oath
to them ?"

PUBLIC ZIVIqMOVENIZATTS.
A new and splendid arcade is about to be erected, extending
from Wellington-street North, immediately opposite to the
portico of the English Opera House, to Catherine-street
Strand. The boarding for it has been erected, and the pre-'
liminary clearings for it already commenced. It is to be named
the " Wellington Arcade."
AGnICULTIMAI..
The great anniversary agricultural meeting, at Bristol, has
commenced with much spirit. Upwards of ten thousand per-
sons are expected to be there to-day, and the show promises to
be very fine.

ELECTIONZENING.
Parnham Phillips, Esq., of Wendover, heir to a large landed
property, but a strong advocate for the repeal of the Corn-laws,
has commenced his canvass on the Liberal side against Captain
Fitzmanrice for the forthcoming election for the county of
Bucks. The nomination is fixed for Friday next, at Aylesbury.

SPORTING.
The Earl of Tyrconnell sailed his cutter yacht, the Intrepid,
for the 1001. cup at the Guernsey regatta on Tuesday last.
The winner, however, was Monro, Esq., in the Union
yacht, of Cork, his Lordship's vessel coming in third.

Prince Albert has purchased a pack of harriers, fifteen couple,
from Smith, Esq., in the Isle of Wight, which are to be
kennelled at Cumberland-lodge.
The splendid hunting-stud of the Mar pis of Hastings, con.
sisting of seventeen hunters, was sold at Tattersall's the day
before yesterday.
NJLVAL Ann WZILITAILIT.
The ordnance survey of Great Britain has reached, in its
operations, the town of Manchester, where notice was posted
on Monday, that the survey of the several towns there situated
would be commenced on that day, as a warrant for the sur-
veyors entering on private grounds.
At a Court-Martial held onboard the Camperdown at Sheer-
ness on Friday, Mr. James Balcombe, Master of her Majesty's
ship, Larne, lately from China, was found guilty of neglect of
duty, and sentenced to be dismissed the service.
_ _

LAW AND
At Abingdon, yesterday, John Lampert was indicted for a
felonious assault upon Emma Chamberlin, a girl of 14 years
of age. It was with great difficulty that the poor girl could
be induced to state the circumstances which constituted the
gravamen of the offence. The Jury found the prisoner guilty,
when Mr. Justice Erskine, in passing sentence, said, " a very
short time ago it would have been my duty to pass sentence of
death upon you, but the law has substituted another penalty.
The sentence is that you be transported for the term of your
natural life."

The Commission of Assize was opened at Northampton on
Monday, by Baron Parke. The calendar contains the names
of 21 prisoners for the county and borough, two of whom are
charged with capital crimes—viz. Marianne Goss, aged 21, in.
dicted for the wilful murder of Peggy Ward, in the parish of
Weekly ; and Matthew Ashley, aged 19, for an unnatural
crime. The other offences are of a minor character.

At Durham, on the I 1 th inst., Wm. Simpson was indicted
for feloniously wounding George Walter. It appeared that the
prisoner and some others, on being refused admission to the house
of the prosecutor's father's at klatc hour on Sunday,l9th Febru-
ary, to light their pipes, broke open the door, and, on being
followed by the prosecutor and his brother, a scuffle took place,
when the prisoner stabbed one brother on the breast with some
sharp instrument, and severely wounded the other, who cried
out, "Oh ! he's cut off my thigh." The Jury returned a ver-
dict of guilty, and the prisoner, who had a good character for
previous peaceable conduct, was sentenced to be transported for
15 years.
The assizes of the county of Louth, quite at variance with the
Limerick assizes, and others in Ireland, were closed on Thurs-
day, at Dunkirk, when Judge Perrin, addressing the Jury, said,
" I am happy to inform you, Gentlemen, that I think I am
entitled to a pair of gloves, as there has not been a single con-
viction at these assizes."

THEATRICAL.
The Brighton theatre re-opens on Saturday next. Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Kean are, we understand, engaged to appear
there for a few nights.
Perrot takes his benefit to-morrow at her Majesty's Theatre,
on which occasion Cimerosa's Matrimonio Segreto will be per-
formed entire.

CO 2T-FASHIONABLE.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk leave Norfolk House to-
day for Arundel Castle, Sussex.
The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham receive a large circle
at Stolse the week after next.

The Marquis of Londonderry has returned to Holdernesse
House.

The Duke and Duchess of Leeds have deferred their dept.,
tore from the Palace of the King of Holland, at the Loo, unti
the 18th instant.

The Duke of Rutland and party, in the Resolution schooner,
sailed from Cowes on Friday on a cruise to the westward.
The Earl and Countess of Eglinton left the Clarendon Hotel
yesterday for Liverpool races.
Lord and Lady Emlyn will leave St. Leonards in a few days,
on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Cawdor, at Cawdor
Castle, Nairnshire.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The annual performance of Purcell's sacred music takes place
to-morrow at ten o'clock, in Westminster Abbey.
The Half-yearly Court of the Members of the Royal Humane
Society took place yesterday, in Trafalgar-square, when the
Report stated, that since December 57 lives had been success-
fully recovered from drowning in Hyde-park ; and in Ireland
and other parts of the country, 51 out of 154 had been resus-
citated.

The splendid contents of the Earl of Lichfield's mansion,
Shugborough Hall, in Staffordshire, are to be open to view
during the next seven days, preliminary to sale.
The grand fete at Stafford House, for the benefit of the
Poles, which takes place on Friday next, will, in addition to its
brilliancy, have the attendance of Staudigl; Thalberg, Mario,
Persiani, Lutzen, and, it is expected, of Listz.
Miss Masson, the distinguished vocalist, has arrived in Lon-
don, having passed the last year in Italy.
A meeting of the members of the Colonial Society met yes-
terday at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's, to express
to Sir Charles Metcalfe the grateful sense entertained by the
society of the benefits arising out of his government of Jamaica.
An address and deputation were appointed.
During the excavations making for the great water-tank at
Windsor Castle, the arch of a deep and extensive well has been
reached, which was first discovered in George the Fourth's
time. Sir Jeffrey Wyattville then opened it, when bones of
animals and rubbish were found : it is supposed to have been
used formerly as a depository for treasure and other " valuable
moveables" during a siege.
The Pavilion, Brighton, is being repainted, by order of the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

PARIS, TUESDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK.

Almost all the elections are now known. The more
remote towns have elected Ministerialists, so that the
balance is restored, and the Chambers will be divided
much as the old, except that the Legitimists have cer-
tainly gained.

The Conservatives and Dufaure party united present
their majority. But even this is a blow to M. Guizot.

Of fourteen Members for Paris, twelve are Opposition.
But, on the whole, the losses and gains on eacb side are
pretty nearly balanced.
Three per Cents., 79f. 80c.

THE COURT.—The return of her Majesty and Prince
Albert, the Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg, the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Royal
suite, to town from Claremont, has been deferred' from
this day until Monday next.
The reigning Duke of Saxe Meiningen, brother to-the
Queen Dowager Adelaide, left town this morning for
the Continent.,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
An improved tone is visible in the money market to-day,
produced doubtlesi by the cause assigned last night, for
the depression having been removed, and this favour-
able intelligence received this morning from France.
Consols are 914 for money, and for Friday, and 914
for the August addount ; Three per Cents. Reduced
914 914 ; 1 bree-and-aHalf per Cents. Reduced, 1004 ;
New Three-and-a-Half-per Cents., 994 991; Bank Stock,
166 167 ; India Stock, 249 250; India Bonds, 26 28; Exche-
quer Bills, Old, 48 50, and New, 46 48 prem.
But little has been done in Foreign Securities, prices of
which are, however, firm. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. have been sold at 514 ; and the Five per Cents., 1018.
Some few bargains have been made in Mexican Bonds at
36 and 364.
I !Shares have been almost totally neglected ; an advance has,
however, taken place in Brighton, which have been suld at
344. The other transactions have been—Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 434 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 14* ; Manchester
and Leeds Quarters, 44; and South Eastern Scrip, 24.
Spanish are the only bends quoted to-day, the Five and the
Three per Cents. being marked exactly the same-214 214.
From a communication made by Lord Canning to the Com-
mittee of Treasury Bondholders, it may be surmised that these
long-neglected claimants have now a prospect that their case will
shortly be taken into consideration. At a late meeting it was de-
termined that memorials should be addressed to the Regent and
to the Finance Minister, which it appears were presented to Cala-
trava by our Minister, Mr. Aston,
,as soon as he was
installed. That gentleman promised that the peculiar
claims of these documents should have his earliest attention,
with a view of examining into and settling them. General
Sancho, the Ambassador from Spain, now resident here, has,
it is stated, urged the necessity of immediately adopting some
steps regarding them, and it is to be hoped, that a liquidation
may be entered into.
For many months so much animation has not been vi-
sible in the produce market as there has been to-
day. The business has been of the most extended
kind, and there has been scarcely an article on which the duty
has been lowered but what has been dealt in. The tariff may
now be considered to be in full operation, and although in many
respects it may net meet the necessity of —a perfectly
free trade, yet it has given much satisfaction
as ;approaching to an :approximation to it. Large quan-
tities of foreign corn have been cleared to-day, arising first
from the scarcity of English at market, and the belief that the
present duty of 9s. is not likely to be much lowered.
The only arrival to-day is from Barbadoes. The papers re-
ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house reach
to the 9th June, brought by the steam-ship City of Glasgow,
but they do not contain any news of the least interest. The
Royal Mail Steam-ship Tay, arrived at Barbadoes on the 7th,
in nineteen days and a-half, from Falmouth, all well.
CLOSING PRICES.
13R1TISII FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. ...... 914 Ditto Bonds .... 26 pm
3 per Cent. Cons 904 Ditto Old Annuities
34 per Cent. Red... 1004 Ditto New Annuities... ---
New 34 per Cent 994 Ex. gills, 1,000/....2d. 48- pm
New 5 per Cen'., — Ditto 5001...... 48 pn3
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 48 pm
Jan. 1660 ...... 124 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct. 1.59
Jan. 1860 Consols for Opg. 91.'"
N FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto 334
!Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 per cent ---
Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Spanish, 5 per cent. 2l
Ditto, Deferred....
'French, 5 per cent. —f —c.
Exchange --f —c.
,French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, 24 per cent....... 511
Ditto, 5 per cent. 1011
RES.
Railway (100 pd)

FOREIG.
Austrian, 5 per cent. —
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds... —
BuenosAyres6 per cent.
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per rent —
Ditto, 1824 2la
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 36
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. 17
SHA
Birmingham and Derby _ _ _
Ditto Thirds (25 paid) , .. 14i
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 43i
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid .
London and Brighton (50 paid) , 34
Lcndon and Birmingham (90)
Ditto Thirds (32 paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ........ 30
London and South Westei n (4116 s 10d pd) 60a
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
Paris and Rouen (16 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) ••• .• 2*

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 12.—The sales to-
day were moderate in extent, chiefly confined to the common
sorts of American. Prices were tolerably steady, and about
3,00) bales exchanged hands.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JULY 12.—There was a de-
gree of improvement in the business transacted to.day, but the
demand for Railway Stock continues dull, Thefollcwing were
sold :—Lancaster and Preston, 26 , London and Birmingham
paid up 321. Shares, 60 ; Ditto, Quarters, 46 ; North Union,
70 ; South Eastern New, 2i.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 12.—The rra.ket
is firmer ; there is more inquiry for Stock generally, and at the
late prices considerable business might have been Cone.—Man-
ehester and Leeds Quarter Shares, 41 Is. ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 24i ; South Western, 60 to 61 ; Liverpool and
Manchester, 184 to 185 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 44 to 44k.

HoThame
oxEcearl
of Radnor transacted
business at the
yesterday morning.