The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-17 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Viabiir Opinion.

t‘ Who runs may reud."

In the space of 139 years, that is from 1700 to 1839
the population of France, notwithstanding the revolu.
tionary wars, has increased 13,830,680, nearly an annual
average of 100,000.

AT HOME.
MISCELLANEOUS.

A little child, on Thursday, was playing on the
parapet of. London-bridge, when unbalancing himself he
fell over. A cry being raised he was discovered clinging
to the coping, and had it not been that a man rescued
him immediately from this perilous position, he must
have inevitably been destroyed.
The contest for Church-rates at Hackney closed
yesterday. Church-rate supporters disposed to vote,
and who were accidentally short of cash, found
no difficulty in borrowing it. The votes for the rate,
208 ; against it, 206. But as the check-book of the
parties disagreed, a scrutiny will take place.
James Adams, who, for the last thirteen years, has
haritOnnet.Toiver. of Windsor Castle, died last night, at
rather an advanced age. Adams received his appoint-
ment from William IV., as a reward for his general good
character and military bravery at Copenhagen, Corunna,
in the West Indies, and at the Havannah.
The three Committees that grew up like mushrooms
in a night, to dD honour to the name of Sir David Wil-
kie, have, with great propriety, united themselves into
one, and Sir Martin Archer Shee, Sir William Newton,
and Mr. Allan Cunningham, content for a time with
starting the subscription, and finding an active treasurer
in Sir Peter Laurie, are waiting till Parliament assem-
bles, when Sir Robert Peel has kindly consented to pre-
side at a public meeting. A statue like that of Flaxman,
after Sir Joshua Reynolds, in St. Paul's,
and for the
same building, is talked of.

Col. Howard Vyse has been elected at Paris Cor-
responding Member of the Academy of Fine Arts, in
the room of the late Sir David Wilkie.

MONEY, TRADE, AND COMMERCE.
The following are the receipts of the principal rail-
ways in operation for the last week—that is to say, up
to the date to which the respective returns are made :
London and Birmingham, 17,4351. ; Greenwich,
9261. 17s. 6d. ; Birmingham and Derby, 1,2571. 17s. 3d.:
South Western, 6,307/. ss. sd. ; Northern and Eastern,
9061. 13s. Bd. ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 1,9091. ;
Midland Counties, 2,930/. ; North Midland, 4,4061.95. 10d. ;
Hull and Selby, 810/. 13s. Id. ; Manchester and Bir-
mingham, 3231.; Great North of England, 1,422/. 17s. 6d.;
London and Blackwall, 1,004/. 75. 10d. ; and Great Wes-
tern Railway Company, for the week ending for July 11,
12,8261. 14s. Bd.

ELECTIONEERING.
Since Monday week Nottingham and its neighbour-
hood have witnessed a series of splendid festivals to cele-
brate the triumph of independent principles in the per-
sons of Sir J. Hobhouse and Mr. Larpent. Dances and
tea parties have abounded.
At the Rutlandshire official statement of the poll the
Under-Sheriff took it into his head to announce the Tory
name first, because the party was the son of a Peer,
though Mr. Heathcote was above him on the poll. This
raised a great outcry. Mr. Heathcote warmly protested
against this proceeding, and insisted on the inversion of
the names.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Chronicle exclaims against both the
craft and impudence of Tory policy in appointing the
thirteen new bishoprics proposed. It looks on the pro-
position as a cunningly-constructed scheme for creating
and securing to itself a huge mass of ecclesiastical
patronage, and upon the obtaining of this; to render that
patronage independent of the Crown and people.
" Toryism," in the writer's own words, " speculates upon
purchasing the spoils of office, by transferring a portion
of the prerogative of the Sovereign held for the people
to an ecclesiastical corporation ; and thus to form a
power too strong for both Sovereign and people." This
is, in fact, an attempt at creating a new monopoly, and to
secure to Toryism not temporary, but permanent power.
The Advertiser urges on the Reformers of the country
the infinite necessity of registering before Tuesday.
The last election, it asserts, was a struggle for power, not
for principles. The next election must necessarily be of
another order. This may draw nigh sooner than is ex-
pected, and it behoves every man to beware that, having
a qualification for the franchise, he be then in a position
to exercise it.

The Times is grievously annoyed at the result of
Le Scotch elections, and politely describes the inferior
portion of the middle classes as sunk by pride and con-
ce:t almost to a par with the swaggering braggadocios of
the United States. It is alamentable reflection for the brib-
ing Tories that they can make no impression on Scotland.
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenock, Paisley, Aberdeen, in •
dependent of Kilmarnock, represented by St. Colquhoun,
all places of great importance, have returned staunch
Liberals; and, notvvithstanding the outcry raised against
the enemies of the Corn-laws, throe counties, Caithness,
Renfrew, awl Wigtoun, have wrested three votes from
the Tories. Honour to Scotland
The Post thinks to be very taunting by endea-
vouring to show that the Whig Radicals are but false
prophets, and that though they have framed a political
chart, with abundance of rocks and shoals, on which the
Conservatives are to shipwreck, clear steerage will be
made in spite of such prophecy.
-- The Herald would be jocular at the idea that the
Whigs have been defeated by the very reformed system
of election which they themselves established. It asks
whether this be a proofof the popular -affection for their
party ;' for if so, it-marvellously resembles that of the
.
poet who was kicked dow Lairs' by his mistress, and 1
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no mistake." But the do of the Herald should be

ABROAD.
I'OREXGN—COLONIAL.
The French Government has appointed M. Mau-
rice Duval, who, it will be remembered, arrested the
Duchess of Berry at Nantes, Provisional Prefect of Tou-
louse. M. Duval is a man noted for his severity, and, if
we be not much mistaken, snore likely to stir up an
oneute than to suppress one.

The Toulouse rioters destroyed the telegraphs on
the 13th instant. The destruction of public property is
one of the most foolish acts that an enraged populace can
commit, as the charges of the repairs must come Out of
their own pockets. There is much shrewdness in the
Hibernian remark, that " a man's self is the last person
upon whom to think of committing suicide !"
In the riots at Toulouse one young man was
and sixty persons wounded. Upwards of an hundred
individuals were arrested, but the mob compelled the
authorities to release them. The Government is en-
gaged in a most inglorious contest, from which, defeated
or victorious, it cannot retire without disgrace. Blood
may flow, and M. Humana remain master of the field,
butt will he dare to collect taxes, the imposition of which
is thus resisted to the death ?

Gavin Scott is still imprisoned at Marseilles. The
French _llinister. of the Interior is desirous of dclivering
him up to the British authorities. The large sum of
1,8001. has not been recovered. It was stolen from him
at the hotel, so that even the pilferer has been pilfered.
Colonel Hodges, Consul-General at Syria. has
just arrived in London from Constantinople. Ile shortly
proceeds to Hamburgh as British Consul there.

The Spanish Government, for a sum of 60,0001.,
is about to cede some useless possessions on the coast of
Guinea to Great Britain. In our hands they will con-
stitute useful stations for vessels engaged in suppressing
the slave trade.

'rho Ultra-Liberal party in Spain begin to be very
dissatisfied with Espartero. It is certainly enough to
make men shrug their shoulders to see.his partisans in
the. Cortes vote him 21,000/. h year as Regent, at a time
when the navy of Spain is so reduced, that shipping can-
not be found to carry 10,000 men at one trip to the Ba-
learic Isles—when Spain has not even a packet ship to
carry the Havannah correspondence ! During the Penin-
sular war the annual cost of the Regency did not exceed
2,000/., and yet the necessary expenses of the office were
greater then than they are at present. Then there is a
marriage settlement of 32,5001. a year to be provided for
the ex-Regent Christina ; and all this at a time when
Spain is unable to pay the half-yearly recurring interest
upon her public debt. When patriotism allies itself to
such immense revenues as now accrue to Espartero, in
one of the poorest nations in the world, it becomes an
object of suspicion.

The Spanish Minister of Finance proposed on the
Bth instant, in the Chamber of Deputies, to lower duties
payable at the gates of large towns upon wines, spirits,
and oils. This is a wise and pcpular measure.
The ecclesiastical schism gains ground in Spain.
Thirty Canons of the Chapter of the See of Saragosst
have been imprisoned for adhering to the allocution of
the Pope. Unless the Vatican display more sagacity in
Spain than it has hitherto done, Espartero may signalise
his Regency by entirely separating the Church of Spain
from the Holy See.

A traveller in the French Versailles Railway,
alarmed at a little derangement in the train, fancied that
destruction was at hand, and tried, though hindered, to
leap out of the engine. He persevered, and the iron steps
coming in contact with his neck, severed the head from
the body.