The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-23 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

PONLEIGN.

The French Journals state that there is no longer a
doubt of the condemnation of M. Dupoty, by the, Court of
Peers. This is the crowning atrocity of that infamous
Tribunal. M. Dupoty had just as much to do with the
attempt to assassinate the Royal Princes, as he had with
the assassination of Henry IV. of France, or the massacre
of St. Bartholomew, or any other crime committed a cen-
tury before he was born. The Peers know this, but they
want to establish a precedent for crushing the last re-
mains of the freedom of the press.
The prosecution of Dupoty has even stirred the phlegm
of our German Contemporaries. The Augsburgh Gazette,
with the approbation of the Censor, comments thus
strongly upon it :—" The prosecution in progress against
Dupoty is a serious affair, and we are not astonished at
the energetic complaints made in that respect by the
Opposition prints ; on the contrary, in fact, we feel bound
to admit that they are just. It cannot be denied that
the French press at this moment is placed in a position of
extreme danger."
The Constitutionnel announces that a promotion of
Peers would be made before the opening of the session.
Among them are to be two or three members of the
Institute, and M. Gasco, President of the Chamber of the
Court of Accounts. A French Peerage will soon be a
mark of infamy. To stamp the character of a political
scoundrel, the King will only have to create him a Peer.
To be enrolled in the list of Peers will be to have reach-
ed the lowest depth of political infamy.
The Journal des Debats has the following observations
on the comments provoked by the change in the Cabinet
and diplomacy of Russia :—" Several Journals, in an-
nouncing the nomination of M. de Boutinieff to be Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary from Russia to the French Go-
vernment, have attached to it a great political impor-
tance : but there is nothing in it but what is very simple.
A long time ago the Emperor Nicholas decided that he
would have only Ministers Plenipotentiary or Charges
d'Affaires at the several Courts of Europe. Prince
Lieven, Ambassador at London, has, in consequence
been replaced by M. de Brunow, and M. de Tatischeff,
who was Ambassador at Vienna, by M. de Medem. Yet
this has not prevented England and Austria from keep-
ing Ambassadors at St. Petersburgh."
The Madrid Gazette of the 14th inst. announces that
50 negro slaves in the Island of Cuba revolted, and shut
themselves up in a factory. A detachment of troops was
called out, fired upon the poor wretches, and killed 6
and wounded 10 of them. None of the soldiers were in-
jured, from whence we may infer that the revolt might
have been put down without this murderous effusion of
blood.

A letter from Madrid, of the 13th inst., contains the
following:—" M. de Salvandy has since his arrival here
already received several important personages, particu-
larly the President of the Council, and Sir A. Aston, the
British Minister, to both of whom this day M. de Sal-
vandy returned their visits. The conference between
Sir A. Aston and M. de Salvandy was of long duration.
M. de Salvandy is to be presented to the Queen and the
Regent at the same time in two or three days. The pre-
sentation will take place with great state.
The Madrid Gazette contains a circular to the poli-
tical chiefs of the different provinces, ordering them to
set at liberty all persons who, in consequence of the
affair of the 7th September, were arrested by way of pre-
caution, unless there be charges against them which it
is intended to bring before the tribunals.
The Castellano states that the Jury of Accusation for
offences of the public Pres 4 has decided that there are
grounds for the prosecution of the Correo Nacional and
the Conservador, for articles inserted in those Journals.
A letter from Mahon, of the 21st November, in the
Correo Nacional, announces the arrival there of an Ame-
rican squadron from the Levant, consisting of the
Brandywine frigate of 60 guns, the Cyane corvette of
24 guns, and the Preble corvette of 24 gans.
The Diaria di Roma says that a fresh persecution of
Catholic Missionaries has taken place in China, and
that the Vicar Apostolic, M. Ignace Dalgado, has been
put to death with the most excruciating tortures. Up-
wards of 20 other Christians are said to have also been
put to death.

PIIIIIAC
The Morning Post says :—" It is a pity these Whigs
are so deaf to reason, and so blind to the signs of the
times. If it were not so, they would have discovered,
long ere this, that the British public are weary of pro-
mises, and think that an ounce of performance is not
only worth a pound of promise, but any other measure-
able quantity. The Conservative Ministers, notwith•
standing their refusal to make pledges, or to state what
they were going to do, before they had means of consi-
dering what ought to be done, are really believed to in-
tend to do much more than their predecessors, with all
their fine promises. True, the Whigs said that if they
were continued in office they would confer prodigious
benefit upon the commerce of England by the encourage-
ment of free trade. True, they said that they would re-
plenish the exhausted Treasury by relieving the public
from the payment of taxes. True, they said that the
British public was very sensible of the soundness of their
policy, and would record their approval if they had an op-
portunity, though the late House of Commons would not.
But what signified all these sayings ? Were the people
thus to be beguiled for ever ? No ; they judged of the
truth and sincerity of what was said by what had been
done."—The Tories are yet to be tried, and if they ac-
quit themselves on their trial with but half as much suc-
cess as the Whigs have done, notwithstanding their fre-
quent errors of policy, they will take the country as
much by surprise, as it' on some fine morning they were
to turn patriots. But, as we have already taken occa-
sion to observe, we have little hope that the Tories will
falsify the notions generally entertained of them.
The Herald recommends the immediate expulsion of
the Rev. Mr. Palmer from Magdalen College, Oxford, in
consequence of his late declaration in favour of unmiti-
gated Puseyism :—" We call on the President and Fel-
lows of Magdalen, if they have any regard and reve-
rence for the memory of Hough, to take immediate
steps to ensure the removal of this hater of Protestantism
from their society. They are bound, as they value their
own character, to make this appeal to their visitor. The
College tutor who dares to anathematise the principle of
Protestantism, can have no feelings of loyalty to the
House of Hanover. He must secretly detest the Revolu-
tion, which expelled a Papist, and which can alone be
justified by the principle of Protestantism. Is this the
man that should still be allowed to remain a tutor in the
University of Oxford ? Is this the man to instruct our
young divines in the principles of our Protestant
Church ? We lately pointed out a case in which the
Bishop of Oxford was called upon to examine into the
charge that auricular confession was notoriously admi-
nistered by some of the Puseyite clergy in his diocese.
But the present case is, if possible, still more flagrant.
It is that of a Fellow and tutor denouncing the principles
of our reformation from Popery."--If the Puseyites have
any regard for consistency of character, they will all, to
a man, quit the Protestant Church, for it is highly im-
proper—to use the most courteous term—to continue to
receive the emoluments of an Establishment to which
they are opposed on more than one vital point. Advo-
cating Catholic doctrines, let them go over to the Ca-
tholic Church, and then, however we may differ from
them, we shall at least respect their manliness of spirit.
We take the following from the AdvertisAr :—" Our
Paper of yesterday recorded another death from starva-
tion. The unhappy victim was a poor woman residing
in Chelsea. Such deaths are—we write it with horror—
becoming matters of hourly occurrence in all the manu-
facturing districts. We can scarcely glance our eye over
the columns of a provincial journal without encounter-
ing one or more instances of mortality from this cause.
No one will ask, what produces the starvation which ter-
minates in death ? There are not, and cannot be, two
opinions on the point. Even the monopolists themselves
know, though they will not acknowledge the fact, that the
great cause of all our commercial embarrassments, and of
the penury and destitution which now prevail to so
dreadful an extent—terminating in so many instances in
death—is the odious impost on foreign corn. That tax
is a hideous English Juggernaut, the workmanship of a
cruel Legislature, and the monopolists are so many
priests for whose special benefit thousands of our coun-
trymen are daily crushed beneath its ponderous wheels."
—There is scarcely a large town in England in which, dur-
ing the last few inclement weeks, many deaths have not
occurred from absolute starvation, with all its train of
protracted horrors. Apt comment this on Tory legisla-
tion, and Tory monopoly ! Starvation at Christmas !
There is a world of impressive meaning in these few
words.

The Chronicle gives the following seasonable hints to
the great Tory landholders:—" The landowners may
depend on it that the nation will not long submit to the
injustice which, in order to swell already inordinate rents,
does not scruple to sacrifice the best interests of the
country. A terrible retribution awaits them, if they do
not in time listen to the demands of a people who seek
only to exchange their industry for the bread which they
cannot obtain at home. Pride will have a fall,' if they
do not take warning in time. Let them bear in mind that
laws derive their force from the conviction that all are
benefited by them. Desperation is eating into the heart
of the poor workman, who, looking into the faces of his
starving children, envies the fate of those who have suc-
ceeded in effecting their escape from a country afflicted by
all the evils which follow in the train of Corn-laws."
The Times thus expresses itself on the subject of an
alteration in the Corn-laws, which was alluded to in a
speech lately delivered by Mr. Christopher to his Lin-
colnshire constituents :—" A speech which has just
reached us, delivered by Mr. Christopher, M.P. for Lin-
colnshire, to his constituents, on the subject of the Corn-
laws, will be perused with no inconsiderable interest.
The connexion to which that gentleman alludes as sub-
sisting between himself and the Duke of Bucking-
ham, the information which he quOtes as coming to him
from ' a gentleman who is in communication with the
Government,' and the distinct tone of his proposals,
mark it out as almost affording pretty clear indications
of what may be expected from the Conservative Ministry,
and from the agricultural interest. Mr. Christopher consi-
ders that the law should aim at fixing the price of wheat as
nearly as possible between 665. and 655. per quarter. This
he pronounces to be the extent of protection which may
be justly claimed as necessary to the farmer's well-being,
and conceded without unfairness to the rest of the com-
munity. And this, or something like this, he proposes
to secure, by affixing a minimum duty of ss. per quarter
on wheat, when the averages amount to or exceed the
sum of 655. ; and then, as prices decrease, increasing the
duty (at what rate he does not mention) till it arrives at
its maximum of at least 205., or at most 30s. For our-
selves we could scarce suppose that Sir Robert Peel would
suggest even the least of these sums—an anticipation
which would not be weakened by considering the body
to whose tastes Mr. Christopher was adapting bis pro-
posals. But taking it at 205., it rust be allowed bat

this would be a very material change. As the scale at
present stands, the duty on wheat when selling at 655.
per quarter is 21s. Bd. ; when at 50s. is 365. Bd. ; when
at 365. per quarter, it mounts to the absurd height of
ps. Bd. A. concession which substitutes ss. for 215.,
and 20s. for 535., is certainly no inconsiderable abate-
ment of the claims: of the agriculturists, and we may
probably consider Mr. Christopher in a great measure
as speaking in the character of their representative. It
will be observed that Mr. Christopher proposes to pre-
serve intact the principle of a sliding scale. Acknow-
ledging, however, the evils to which it gives occasion,
and the fraudulent tampering with the averages which it
invites, he proposes to remedy these mischiefs—first, by
the change just mentioned in the details of the scale, in
no part of which is any- such rapid rise of duty to be in-
troduced as existed in the previous scale at the prices of
705., 715., 725., and 735., where the duties were respec-
tively 10s. Bd., 6s. Bd., 2s, Bd., and Is., and, secondly, by
drawing the materials from which the averages are
to be compiled from the grower, instead of the
dealer, demanding, indeed, separate returns from
each party, but using the latter only as a check
upon the former. With all this, however, Mr. Christo-
pher states himself to be decidedly opposed to any alte-
ration of the principle of the Corn-laws, to which he
considers that we owe the important fact, that from 1815
to 1838 the price of wheat has varied less in England
than in any other country except Sweden, and very con-
siderably less than in any of those countries and cities
which he quotes, except, St. Petersburgh, and perhaps
Trieste. Now this is very much the kind of measure
which we expected from Sir Robert Peel's Govern-
ment. And all those who, with this paper, have advo-
cated the gradual relaxation of the existing restrictions,
—whether they are or are not prepared to acquiesce
in this as a final arrangement,—have great reason to
congratulate themselves at the amount of concession
which is at once tendered. How far this scheme will
meet the views of certain of our Conservative Contem-
poraries who were filled with virtuous indignation at our
daring, some few mouths since, to predict something of
the kind, we will not venture to divine, but will leave
them to settle with Mr. Christopher at their and his
leisure. With regard to the amendment proposed in the
means of taking the averages, we have little to say.
It is a practical question, full of minute difficulties,
which we hope his scheme may be effectual in over-
coming. At the same time we may be allowpd to
say, that his statement of what he almost avows to
be the Government scheme, seems likely to involve
a good deal that is artificial and complicated. Of
this, however, it is plainly impossible to judge
till we have the details before us. On the amount
of evils resulting froin the system in its present unmodi-
fied form, he and every one else have and can entertain
but one opinion. The sliding scale may not be incurable,
but the attempt to cure it is an experiment which we
look on with considerable diffidence of its success. It
would be unjust both to our Contemporary, whose san-
guine prophecies of Corn-law inviolability we are ven-
turing to discredit, as well as to Mr. Christopher, if we
neglected to confess that this latter gentleman somewhat
energetically disclaims the character of ' pilot balloon'
with which we may seem to have saddled him. We are
far from wishing to throw doubt on his disclaimer, yet
still we cannot help thinking that we do owe this
expression of sentiment on his part to some of those
unconscious sympathies between members of the same
party which we may continually observe developing
themselves in the strangest and most incredible coinci-
dences. Whether by a mysterious intuition, or by mere
similarity of principle, or by any other process (short,
of course, of the obvious and ordinary modes of commu-
nication between man and man), we cannot but expect
to find that the mind of Mr. Christopher and those of
our Conservative governors have been moving in unison
in this matter of the Corn-laws ; and we shall be content
to bear the blame of some presumption in our claim to
divine that able gentleman's mind and motives more
clearly than he is himself able to analyse them, if events
do not before long bear out our predictions.i'
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.

At the meeting of the East India Proprietors, held
yesterday,. Mr. Montgomery Martin presented a memo-
rial to the Court, signed by every East Indian mercantile
firm of consequence. Its import was to show the trade
and manufactures of India to have been utterly ruined
by the competition of this country ; one instance of which
he gave in the fact, that a piece of bandannas, which costs
at Madras 205., costs only Bs. at Glasgow. His object
was to obtain a reduction on the piece-goods of India,
particularly those of cotton manufacture and on shawls.
The motion was seconded, but finally withdrawn, on the
suggestion of the Chairman that a petition would be the
most effectual way of carrying out his views ; and the
measure was left in the hands of the Directors.

COMMERCIAL REFORM.
Upwards of 1001. have already been subscribed by the
Manchester Penny-a-week Anti-Corn-law Subscription
Committee. A noble example for other towns.
At a lecture delivered last night, on the Corn-laws,
by Colonel Thompson, he stated that the prospects
of the Corn-law Repealers were every day becoming
brighter. Free-trade principles must and do keep pace,
and the energies of the people are daily rallying.
Mr. Taylor delivered a lecture last night, at the Metro-
politan Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Association, on the
Corn-laws, after which the meeting adjourned to the
3d of January.

NAVAL ANDIparLITARY.
Lord Saltoun, with the three ships appointed to carry
out troops to China, sailed from Plymouth on Monday.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have
placed at the disposal of the Council of the Royal Naval
School, two annual nominations of volunteers of the first
lass in the Royal Navy to the two most meritorious scho-
lars of the establishment destined for the naval service.
LAW AND POLICE.
The commission of lunacy which was expected to have
been issued against Daniel Gundry, Esq., who has signa-
lised himself so much lately by assaulting his servants
and the police, and for which he was put under restraint in
a lunatic asyluth, will not take place, a caveat having
been entered at the Lunacy-office, preventing such inquiry.
A Jury, composed of thirteen benchers of Lincoln's
Inn, was empanelled yesterday, at Stone-buildings, to
inquire into the circumstances attending the death of
John Miller, Esq., Q.C. The examination of witnesses
elicited nothing further than has before been stated in
The Sun, and the verdict returned was " Natural death."

Robert Johnson, a man in the employment of Messrs.
Davies and Co., of the Westminster-road, was yesterday
charged at Union Hall with robbing his employers to the
amount of 1001.; 75 duplicates of various articles pledged
by him were produced, and he was fully committed.
Dr. Mullins, who was dangerously stabbed about 10
days ago, by a lunatic gentleman, named Griffith Evans,
applied to Mr. Burrell yesterday at Queen-square, to
know whether, upon the depositions of Dr. Mullins, the
Magistrates would send Mr. Evans for trial, or make a
representation of the case to Sir James Graham. The
latter will be pursued, and the case stands adjourned
to Tuesday week.
Mr. Leaky, a Solicitor, brought an action yesterday
in the Court of Common Pleas against the Marquis of
Westmeath, for the recovery of an Attorney's bill of
costs incurred in the various suits taken by the Mar-
chioness against his Lordship, in the Ecclesiastical
Court, the English and Irish Courts of Chancery, and
the House of Lords. The case occupied the Court the
entire day, when all parties agreed that it should be
turned into a special case. The amount claimed amounts
to nearly 4,0001.

SPORTING.
Sudbury Park contains a herd of nearly 1,000 head of
deer.

Friday, the 10th instant, was the last day of grouse
shooting. Though there has been no scarcity of game
on the Derbyshire moors, a sort of epidemic among the
birds has strewn them about the heather, helpless and un-
able to move.

THEATRICAL.
We see by the Madrid papers that Rubini continues to
be a great favourite in Madrid, and that the Queen and
her sister are generally present when he performs. His
engagement has expired, but he has undertaken to appear
twice for the benefit of the charitable establishments of
the capital.

- COURT-FASHIONABLE.
Sir James Graham left town yesterday on a visit to
her Majesty at Winds9r Castle.

Lordßag ot will entertain—a
large circle at Blithfield,
his seat near Stafford, next week.

Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday afternoon for his
seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. The Right Hon.
Baronet travelled by the London and Birmingham Rail-
way, and left the terminus in Euston-square by the two
o'clock train.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch arrived at Dal-
keith Palace last week.

Viscount Castlereagh and party have arrived at
Malta from Gibraltar, in their yacht.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby have
given up their projected Continental tour for this year.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and.
the Ladies Vane arrived at Wynyard Park, near Stock-
ton-on-Tees, on Saturday last, from Mount Stewart,
Newtownards, Ireland. The Noble and Gallant Mar-
quis and his amiable Marchioness receive a succession of
visitors at the former seat during the holidays.
The Earl and Countess of Gainsborough will receive
company at Exton during next month.
The Earl and Countess of Limerick are assembling a
large circle of distinguished relatives at South-hill Park,
in Berks.

The Marquis of Salisbury is entertaining a numerous
and distinguished circle at Hatfield during this week.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Six large corn stores are being builtinin the town of
Headford, Limerick, at the sole expend of the benevo-
lent landlord, R. St. George, Esq.
The Visiting Justices of the county gaol, of Brecon
are stated to have drawn up a memorial fur presentation
to her Majesty in favour of the six Chartist prisoners
now undergoing the sentence of two years' hard labour
each in that prison, and praying her Majesty to be gra-
ciously pleased to remit the remaining portion of their
sentence.

• RUMOURS OF THE DAY.
The Duke of Buckingham, the Duke of Beaufort, and
Earl de Grey, are candidates for the blue riband vacant
by the death of the late Earl of Westmorland. It has
not been definitively arranged upon whom the selection
will fall, but it is understood that the claim of the Duke
of Beaufort will probably lae, preferred.
A rumour has prevailed this week at Brighton, that
her Majesty is expected to arrive here in the course of
the ensuing month ; but no intelligence to that effect has
been received at the palace, and we believe that there
exists no foundation for the report.
It is stated that Sir A. Aston, British Ambassador to
the Court of Spain, has been recalled, and Lord Burg-
hersh, now Earl of Westmorland, is spoken of as his
successor.

Tuesday's Gazette contains a list of seventy-
three addresses of congratulation to the Queen on the
birth of the Prince of Wales. These addresses were
presented to her Majesty through the medium of the
Home Secretary, Sir James Graham, with the exception
of one from Tamworth, which was presented personally
by Si; Pool,

EVENING SUN

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CI7 Y, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 22.—We have
had a fair demand for Cotton to-day, the sales amount-
ing to 4,500 bales, of which 150 American were taken for
export. In prices there is no change.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 22.—The trans-
actions at the Stock Exchange comprise Great North of
England, 67i; London and Birmingham 321. New Shares,
26i ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 51k.
No later arrivals to-day from any quarter.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 22.—Railisiti
Stock continues in demand, and prices are firm. The
following sales have been reported:—Midland Counties,
85; Ditto, Quarters, 211; North Midland, 721 ; No
Union, 751; South Eastern and Dover, 201.
THE "FONDS.
Consols opened at 88i 89 for the Account ;
per Cents. Reduced, 89 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 pret°A'
Towards the close of business yesterday, SP"'
Active Stock advanced to 24* +, but opened this morn.,,, ,1
ing rather flat at 23i 24* ; Portuguese Five per Cent :01$
are 321 33; Ditto Threes, 191 20. fpi
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. f
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western ... 65 -
.4t
Ditto New -
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton 5O ...... 37/...... to --
London and Blackwell
Ditto New 41. 6s. Bd. 6l. b. i
London and Birmingham
ttt Ditto New
London and South Western 3Bi sBfr to 59 °u"
Manchester and Leeds
Midland Counties ...
Northern and Eastern
North Midland
South Eastern and Dover
Ditto New
York and North Midland...
Ditto New Shares...
.HALF-PAST ONE,'
Both the English and Foreign Markets are intion!%
and prices remain without alteration. Consols for 7;
opening are 88i 89 ; Bank Stock, 1651 ; Three-and o.
Half per Cents. Reduced, 94; Three per Cents. l!'e;
duced, 89 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 premium ; SPant
Active Stock, 24 ; Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cell "".
511 52+ ; Ditto, Five per Cents., 991 ; Belgian, 1011.
The Share Market is steady without alteration. 11
don and Brighton were last done at 371, ; London sU,-
Birmingham, 165 ; Midland Counties, 85i ; North gl°
land, 70i.
HALF PAST TWOS
Consols, 84 89 ; Colombian, 201 ; Spanish, 2,31"
QUARTER TO MTh, ..,„5
It seems it must be left at last to Foreign
ulatl°t3:l,-g
to teach us sound maxims of policy in reg
our domestic trade. Sweden has just effectedoflB
most material reduction in the import duti,ot
all descriptions of grain, and will allow foreign vi,
for instance, to come in at the reduced rate of one,,Tn
dollar. The plan the present Ministry of Sir Robert .rif
intend to give us, is oozing out by degrees, buL.
it be what report says it is, a new sliding scale, the riTet
mier will be much in the position of the man in the fly'
who, trying to please everybody, could please no one.