The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-02 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We would willingly have inserted Mr. Hassard's excellent
letter, were we not fearful its publication would only aggra-
vate the evil so justly complained of.

THE WEATHER.-NOON, JUNE 2.

Klaf AL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer.— 66 j Highest 7O Lowest
Barometer 30.29.—Wind N.W.

HIW.I WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
49 minutes after 7 i Evening 17 minutes after 8.

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock.

We congratulate the country on the altered tone
which pervaded the speeches of Members last night,
when discussing Mr. PAKINGTON'S absurd motion, and
on the glorious victory obtained by common sense over
bigotry and tyranny. In a Souse containing 120 Mem-
bers, only seven voted for extending the Sunday blessings
of the Metropolitan Police Act to the country ; and to
the credit of the Liberal party, only one of their number,
Captain PECHELL, voted with the minority. The speech
of Sir JAMES GRAHAM was jest what might have been
expected from him, when unbiassed by political preju-
dioes ; it was liberal and judicious, and cast to the
winds all that Pharisaical horror of Sabbath desecra-
tion which pervaded the House when Saint AGNEW
was a Member. His rejection by the electors of his
native county was a great mercy, for had he been pre-
sent last night, and heald the debate, the result might
have been fatal. The speech: of the Home Secretary
would have made him shake like an aspen leaf. " A
glass of ale and a crust of bread and cheese," said the
Right Hon. Baronet, " would do no man any harm ; and
any endeavour to prevent that would be an attempt at
the curtailment of the innocent recreations of the people."
What ! Recreations on a Sabbath ! And those, too,
advocated by the especial guardian of public morals—
the Minister appointed by the Crown to preserve the
peace of the community, and also to take care that the
institutions of the Church be religiously upheld ! Let,
however, Sir ANDREW and the seven wise men say what
they will, the people throughout the country will be
thankful for the change, and will do honour to
a Minister who has the courage and the honesty to set
his face against these pests pf society. We trust, how-
ever, and indeed believe, that he will not stop here. If
a crust of bread and cheese and a glass of ale can do a
man no harm in the country, why should not the same
good things be allowed to the poor man at Highgate or
Greenwich ? Why should publicans in the metropolitan
districts be placed, to their great loss, on a different foot-
ing from those at Gravesend or Richmond ? Many in-
dustrious men have been ruined by this Sunday Act, which
such a vast majority last night voted would be injurious
'to the country. Sir JAMES GRAHAM is evidently aware
of its tendency, notwithstanding the opinions of the
Police Commissioners, and, probably, to please them,
will give it another trial ; but, if we are not mistaken,
he will in the end find that a law which is bad for one
district is bad for another, and abolish it altogether.
As a prOof of the tender mercies of this hypocritical sect,
Mr. PAKINGTON proposed that a publican should be
fined 51. for selling a glass of ale, and if he would not,
or could not, pay should be sent to prison for a month !

The Madrid Papers received this morning are of the
24th ult. The retirement of SURRA Y RuLL, the Finance
Minister, was the result of the following resolution,
adopted by a majority of the Cortes after a debate of
thirteen hours. The numbers were :—For the resolu-
tion, 85 ; against it, 78.
• " The Congress declares that in the position in which the
Ministry has placed itself, it wants, notwithstanding its good
intentions, the influence and moral force necessary to ensure
the well-being of the country. There remains for it no alter-
native save retirement, or the dissolution of the Cortes."

The Finance Minister resigned at once, as did Senor
CAMBA, the Minister of Marine. The other Members
of the Cabinet lingered on, as the Regent disapproved
of the conduct of the Cortes.

MADRID, BOURSE, MAY 24.—Spanish Stoek has declined
a shade, in consequence of many speculators wishing to realise.
The business done to-day amounted, in English money, to
about 237,1131. In the Tbree per Cents. nine transactions
were effected, for a sum of 4,800,000 reels, at 213/4 for cash,
and at 22i and 1 at 60 days. In the Five per Cents. 18,200,000
reels were negotiated, in 27 bargains, with 11 coupons, at 271
for cash, and at 271 # and 11-16 for the Accounts at 60 days.
Exchange on London, at 90 days, 374.

The French Journals continue to harp upon the vote
oc Saturday, for compelling Ministers to increase the
number of ships in commission. We can discover in it
no good ground for triumph, unless it can be proved
that a nation's happiness is increased by oppressing it
with taxation. As to the tirades about defending the
honour of France, they are sheer humbug. No one
seeks to attack France, nor would she be one jot more
secure than she is, had she a hundred ships of the line
in commission. As regards this country, we can con-
fidently state that there is no party or person in it, who
ever for a moment entertained the id ea of going to war
with France about a Right of Search Treaty. That
Treaty ti as as much her own as it was ours, and in
abandoning it she disgraced herself, not injured, or in-
sulted us. Why then should we go to war with her, to
compel her to perform a duty to herself ? With respect to
the boasted triumph over us, and the rage into which the
vote • of the Chamber is to throw the British press, we
tell our Gallic contemporaries that they are welcome to
a dozen such triumphs, and may enjoy them as heartily
as they please without putting us once out of humour.
The money has been voted, but when payment is de-
manded, we shall see whether the French people will not
be more out of humour than the London press.

BOURS—l'Anzs, TUESDAY, MAY 31.

• drat Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prtc...
french !. vet 120 15 ... 120 20 ... 120 15 120 15
4per Cents. 102 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102
per Cents.. B2 25 82 20 ... 8t 15 ... 62 15
Rant of ',ranee 2350 ...3350 —3315 ...3345
Janine Bank I.ooof. Shares 1,43 ...-1045 .1045 —1065
kooor. Mures 50 ...5065 5065 ...5065
Belgian 5 per Cents.
sur Cents., 1840 105% 105% ... 10 % 105%
,Wentsh Acrive ... 24 ..24,4
Portuguese 5 per Cents Ol% 3156 31% 313(,
107 90 IC7 90 ... 107 9J ... .07 90
Roman

HAIL W Ail SH IthYJ
Rouen 535 535 ... 53.5 ... 535
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale
_232 50 2itso «. 231 25 231 25

BELFAST ELECTION.—It will be seen our report
(
of the proceedings in the Belfast Election .:immuttee this
day, that both Members have been rejected, and mist-
juenly a new election will take place forthwith.
We have received two letters respecting the view we
have taken of the Scotch Church patronage .question.
Our correspondents have mistaken our opinions on the
subject. \Ve have never advocated patronage, but have
been opposed to the scheme of taking the right of pre-
sentation from .the patron, and giving it to the clergy.
Did not Dr. Chalmers, in the course of the late session
of the General Assembly, make himself sufficiently un-
derstood on that point ? ac tie had no faith in the in-
fallibility of the popular voice. To the Church Courts
belong the highest and most important part of this
matter."
If our correspondents be lieve not the great
Apostle of ..Non- Intrusion, they weni,‘ not believe one
risen from the dead.

EXPRESS FROM I''A►RIS

Accounts from Paris, dated yesterday,s
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intelligence from Madrid, which we
list.
received
and published yesterday, had produced
/he Bourse, but had occasioned considerable
in the political world.
Although the news in question does not al)?
Moniteur its correctness is unquestionable.
In the highest quarters it was deemed certa
Spanish Ministers must resign, for that they
dissolve the Chambers.
It was considered nearly certain that th
nistry would obtain the supplies as speedily i
and then dissolve the Chambers.
It was supposed that M. Olozaga would 1
sioned to form the new Cabinet.
The Paris Bourse was much agitated yestei
rejection of three railroad bills (Paris to
Strasburg to Basle, and Bordeaux to La Ter
ChamLier of Deputies on Tuesday. The ape
these undertakings proposed to pay their
which were immense, and sold out of the pub;
largely as to cause a decline in the,Three pe

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FRBNCE PLAYS.--There is now Nit om 1 more op-
portunity of seeing Dejazet in London this swoon - She took
her benefit last night in the two pieces of La
the
VA 'a de Ton-
mademoiselle d'Angeville. In the 11 pp `• amusing
moo and
little thing she had only played once before. The *qv lause at-
tendant on her performance scarcely left an idle hu id in the
house, which was a full and fashionably attende, dos ,e. Her
departure for the Palais Royal, where she is so est (*le ed a fa-
v ite, will only be atoned for by the arrival of B guff,) in her stead.

AND

Vut)ltt Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

owner, and the freight is less than pays the shipowner for na-
SUMMA-Rif vueuweel. h
avThise
infor
before inconceivably
exp lexplained,
preposterous
ferpoosmtet floe us state
combina-
tion NEWS ythlnagstilsheiss,
of the northern coalowners—of which union the operation
is to adjust the quantity of coal allowed to be sold to the home
consumer within a limit far below the powers of each mining
establishment, and thereby to greatly keep up domestic prices."
The Advertiser says—•' The complicated system of injustice
and.wrong which is at present working its fatal results in the
misery of the industrious classes and the exorbitant luxury of
the aristocracy, will remain wholly untouched by the measures
of the Peel Ministry. Although that injustice and wrong has
been fully recognised by the Premier, and the showing of more
righteous principles has been adopted, yet the deep curse that
grinds down the operative is unremoved. With an affectation
of cordiality and frankness the wily Premier puts on the pro-
fessions of truth and justice, and assumes the guise of honesty
and liberality, only to deceive his opponents, while he more
securely fences round the atrocious system of aristocratic plun-
der, and fastens it more tenaciously upon the vitals of the
people. That he knows and admits what is right, only aggra-
vates the iniquity of his course in committing the wrongs that
he does."

FOREIGN.
The vote of the French Chamber of Deputies, giving to the
Government, in order that the intended reduetion m the navy
might not be effected, a larger sum than was demanded for the
budget of the marine, continues to be the leading topic in the
original columns of the Opposition Journals, which regard the
vote as a signal defeat of the Ministry.
An Algiers letter, of the 20th instant, explains as follows the
liberation of the 84 French prisoners who arrived recently at
Blidah. The Kalifs in charge of them, finding his provisions
run short, proposed to Abd-el-Kader that the prisoners should
be killed, but the Emir replied by ordering them to be released,
and sent back to the French army
We find in the French Budget for 1843, the following ac-
count of the number of persons composing the Legion of
Honour, and the expense of this institution to the country.
The account is made up to October 15, 1841. There are
eighty-two grand crosses, of whom six are without pay; 202
grand officers, forty-one of whom are unpaid; 799 commanders,
565 of whom only are paid ; 4,494 officers, 2,151 of whom are
unpaid; and 44,101 chevaliers, of whom 25,624 are unpaid.
The total number of members is 49,678. Of the seventy-six
grand crosses with pay, five have 20,000 f. each per annum ;
one has 15,0001.; thirty-two have 5,000 f. each ; twenty-one
have 2,000 f. each ; twelve, 1,0001., and five, 250 f. Of the paid
grand officers, three have 5,000 f. each ; sixty, 2,000 f. ; sixty.
eight, 1,000 f., and thirty, 250 f. Of the paid officers, 808 have
I,ooof. each, and 1,535, 250 f. Of the chevaliers who are
paid; one has 1,500 f., as being the oldest of the order; all the
others have 250 f. each. Taking the population of France at
thirty-five millions, and deducting the usual amount for women
and children, it is found that one in 350 is a member of the
Legion of Honour.
The Sentinelle des Pyrenees has the following from Ainhoa,
May 26 :—" The valley of Bastan has been reinforced by a
battalion of troops, and a movement has taken place amongst
the French troops, the line having been reinforced between
Sara and Behobia. By a recent order of the day, the Spanish
officers and soldiers are expressly forbidden to enter the French
territory, General Harispe having previously issued an order
prohibiting French officers and soldiers from entering that of
Spain."
The advises from the Spanish capital, by telegraphic de-
spatch are of the 26th ult. The Moniteur thus publishes the
news :—"According to the latest accounts from Madrid, M.
Surra, the Minister of Finance, has tendered his resignation,
which has been accepted. The resignation of M. Camba, Mi-
nister of Marine, appears to be certain."
A letter from Hamburgh says, the number of libraries de-
stroyed by the fire was eleven, six of which were publie esta-
blishments. To these losses must be added the stocks of some
booksellers, containing, amongst others, 30,000 volumes of
modern German, French, and English works. The total
destruction of books, as yet ascertained, amounts to 300,000
volumes. Several collections of scientifie objects have perished,
particularly one, consisting of 4,000 models of machines be-
longing to the Patriotic Society, and which were used in the
evening and Sunday classes, instituted for the mechanics of the
town. The same letter gives the following as an estimata of
the quantity of merchandise consumed, viz. :-2,000,0001b5. of
coffee ; 5,000,0001b5. of sugar, three millions of which were
refined; 1,200 bales of raw cotton; 350 bales of spun ditto ;
300 tons of Carolina rice; 500 sacks of Java rice ; 100,0001bs.
of palm oil ; 500,000 quintals of rape oil ; 1,000 tons of
Smyrna currants ; 2,000 tons of cheese ; 250 sacks of linseed ;
30,000 pieces of linen; 8,000 casks of claret; 400 pieces of
corn and potatoe spirits•,. 400 pieces of rum and arrack ;
3,0001b5. of West India and American tobacco.

ELECTIONEERING.

On Tuesday the Reform and Tory candidates addressed the
electors of Ipswich, both parties urging on them activity aad
vigilance in mustering at the poll on Friday.

The case of brawling, brought by Burder against the Rev.
Wm. Langley, perpetual curate of Wheatley, Oxford, was
again opened before the Arches Court yesterday. The Rev.
Defendant entered on his defence, but the arguments will not
be resumed till next session.
_ NAVAL AND MILITARY.

The Lord Lowther transport has just sailed for China, laden
with upwards of a thousand tons of bread for the use of the
naval and military force there. She also carries out several
of the flat-bottomed boats required fur service in the Chinese
rivers.

Major Wathen, one of the military knights of Windsor, was
placed on the upper foundation on Tuesday last, in the room
of Captain Skelton, deceased. _

LAW AND POLICE.

The Emperor of Russia, says a letter from St. Petersburgh,
16th instant, has sanctioned the formation of a Committee to
receive subscriptions in aid of the city of Hamburgh. A sub-
scription has already been opened at Riga for this purpose.
The Helvetic states that subscriptions in favour of the suf-
ferers from the fire at Hamburgh have been opened in nearly
all the Swiss cantons.

The official tables of the duties received by the Customs
Union of Germany, for the year 1841, give the following re-
sults : The general receipt for Prussia amounts to 14,701,856
crowns ; being 500,833 more than in 1840. Bavaria, 1,681,171
crowns; an increase of 160,977. Saxony, 1,878,177 crowns;
a decrease of 186,972. Wurtemburg, 474,449 crowns; an
increase of 30,914. Baden, 846,364 crowns; a decrease of
38,666. Electoral Hesse, 408,673 crowns; an increase of
40,960. Grand Duchy of. Hesse, 515,415 crowns ;an increase
of 66,893. Thuringen, 348,213 crowns ; ass increase of 6,71'2.
Nassau, 34,142 crowns; an increase of 2,921. Frankfort,
1,026,461 crowns; an increase of 38,171. Consequently, the
receipts of 1841 amounted to 21,915,921 crowns, and in 1840,
to 21,293,232, showing an increase of 622,689 crowns. The
above receipts were for a, population of 27,142,323, thus di-
vided :--Prussia and her dependencies, as given by the census
in 1840, 15,159,031 ; Bavaria, 4,365,586; Saxony, 1,706,276;
Wurtemberg, 1,703,258; Baden, 1,294,131 ; Electoral Hesse,
666,280 ; Grand Duchy of Hesse, 820,907 ; Union of Thurin-
gen, 952,421 ; Duchy of Nassau, 398,095 ; Free town of Frank-
fort, 66,338.

Whole villages, including the rich as well as the poor, ai e
emigrating (says a letter from Mentz), from Germany to
North America. Three of those in Upper Hesse have, within
these few months, been entirely abandoned, and several in
Rhenish Prussia are preparing to follow the example. A short
time ago the whole population of one of these villages passed
through Mentz on its way to America, accompanied by its
pastor and its schoolmaster.

Thomas North was yesterday brought up for final examina-
tion at the Mansion-house, on the charge of obtaining upwards
of 440 prints upon false pretences, the property of Anne Tre-
gear and Thomas Cramp Lewis, the print-se►lers in Cheap-
side. The case was fully made out, and the prisoner committed
for trial.