The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
public Optittost.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
M. de Lainartine, the poet and deputy, has declared
himself a candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber
of Deputies in opposition to his old friend M. Sauzet.
But in politics, as in business, there is no real friendship.
The National has the following remarks on the ap-
proaching dissolution of the French Cabinet :—"Alarmed
for its existence, shaken on all sides, undermined by
Count Mole, menaced by M. Thiers, kept in check by
M. Passy, the Ministry, through the medium of M.
Hebert, has called to its aid its last resource, fear, and
its only means of governing—reaction. But everybody
now knows that comedy by heart ; M. Guizot is
seen through, and we doubt his being able to make any
more dupes. Besides, his mission is at an end, in the
eyes even of those who had judged him to be the only
man capable of accepting and signing the shameful
Treaty of the 15th of July. The Ministry of foreigners
is now out of date, but its passage through office will
have been marked by the debasement of our nationality
abroad, and the greatest possible confusion at home. In
retiring, it will carry with it, on the one hand, that
miserable Treaty of the 15th of July ; and, on the other,
all the requisitories, all the prosecutions of the Press,
now trying before the Courts of Pau, Marseilles, and
Paris ; and all those innumerable prosecutions out of
which the Press got off triumphantly."
The creation of a batch of Peers by the present Mi-
nistry is the subject of much grave ridicule in the Oppo-
sition Journals. The National sarcastically recommends
various candidates, possessing special claims on the sym-
pathy of the present order of things, and observes that
"if Marshal Gerard becomes Duke for having bom-
barded and taken the citadel of that city, with the leave
of an English Commissary, there was no reason why M.
Hebert, the Attorney-General, should not assume, with
as much right, the name and armorial bearings of
" Prince of the Press," General Bugeaud those of
" Baron of Transnonain," and M. Guizot of " Count of
Ghent ? "
The trial of Quenisset and his accomplices occupied
the Court of Peers the whole of last week. It is po-
sitively asserted that M. Dupoty, the editor of the
Journal du Peuple, against whom a tittle of evidence has
not been brought, is to be found guilty because the con-
spirators read his paper at their meetings Of all the
Criminal Courts in France the Court of Peers is the
least regardless of justice, and the least worthy of public
respect. The Peers only think they perform their func-
tions when they condemn all who are brought before
them, without regard either to guilt or innocence. They
are right so far. The only function for which the King
summons them is to send heads to the guillotine, and
bodies to dungeons.
In a Paris letter dated Friday, and addressed to
the Times, the writer states that the following
facts were officially communicated to the Regent of Spain
by the English Ambassador at Madrid. " 1. Tliat Great
Britain not only would not suffer an armed intervention
in Spain, but that she would not even permit any con-
siderable military force to be concentrated along the
Pyrenean frontier. 2. That'she would not oppose any
arrangement for the marriage of Queen Isabella 11., pro-
vided her intended husband should not be a French
Prince. 3. That Great Britain was determined to take
no part in any European Congress convoked for the ad-
justment of the Spanish question, and that if such an
assembly should be held without her co-operation she
would oppose the enforcement of all coercive measures,
and of all other resolutions of such Congress which
should tend directly or indirectly to interfere with the
rights and dignity of Spain as a free and independent
nation."

We are glad to learn that a spirit of enterprise is
abroad in Spain. Undertakings of every sort are formed,
forming, or about being entered into. Roads are making
in every direction, bridges are being constructed, so that
every inducement will be held out for people to travel
about, communications will thus be rendered easy, safe,
and economical.
A copper mine in the neighbourhood of Colmenar
Viego, eighteen miles from Madrid, is being worked by
the company Constancia, recently formed here with a
nominal capital of about 17,0001. sterling.
Rice is being cultivated in various parts of northern
Spain, amongst others in the north of Arragon ; it is
likewise being done on some waste lands in the province
of Oreuse, with every probability of success.
M. de Salvandy, the new French Ambassador, was
expected in the Spanish capital on the 11th. M. Pageot,
the French Charge d'Affaires, had sent Count Daure-
mont, the only Attache of the Legation in Madrid, to
Bayonne, to meet M. Salvandy, and conduct his Excel-
lency to the capital.
Vienna letters of the 4th continue to afford the most
satisfactory assurances of the mutual goad understand-
ing existing between' the Courts of Vienna, Paris, and
London on all foreign questions, but more particularly
in respect to the course of action to be pursued in the
dispute between Turkey and Greece. Prince Metter-
nich, Sir Stratford Canning, and Count Flahaut, the
French Ambassador, have had several conferences at
Vienna, and the result of their deliberations has afforded
the highest satisfaction to the French Cabinet.