The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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The'Overland MaiIPOREIG
from India bri"gs no news from
China, except that the settlement at Hong Kong pro-
mises to be healthy and convenient. Abundance of
Chinese labourers and artisans have entered the service
of the British, as assistants in the erection of the-neces-
sary works.
Sir Henry Pottinger has ordered Canton River to be
strictly blockaded.
A war with the " golden- footed" monarch of Burmah
Tharawaddie, is regarded at Bombay as imminent. On
the Gt h of September the Kin.' of Burmah left his capital
for Rangoon, at the head of a well-appointed army,
variously estimated at from 100,000 to 200,000 men.
Lord Auckland was preparing for the worst with his
usual promptitude. Two ships of war, two war schooners,
and eight finely-appointed steamers, were in readiness to
destroy the naval force of the Burmese in the Irrawaddy.
There is no doubt that the Burmese monarch is acting
under instructions received from the Celestial Court of
Pekin.
We have a good deal of miscellaneous news from Cen-
tral India, the substance of which cannot be compressed
within the limits of a paragraph.
The disturbances in Syria are over for the present.
The trial of Quenisset for an attempt to murder the
Royal Princes commenced in the Court of Peers in Paris
on Friday. The Court sat from twelve o'clock to six
in the afternoon. Nothing transpired of any interest.
We have an account of another revolution in Mexico.
The President Bustamente has been deposed by General
Sahta Anna. Never was there such a quarrelsome set of
fellows as the men who aim at being the rulers of the
South American Republics.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Chronicle has the following remarks in a
leading article on the subject of Chancery Reform :
" We do not object to the not having a commission ; and
we think on the whole that the continuance of the quiet
and unpretending course pursued under Lord Cottenham
promises us the surest practical results. But can there
be conceived a more contemptible fraud than that of the
organ of a Government taking credit to its friends for
the good acts of the preceding Goveratment, and endea-
vouring to get them a spurious credit by giving a
pompous and incorrect description, calculated to make
the continuance of measures already in active progress
pass for the commencement of a new and great re-
form ? The Times, in the article of the Bth of Novem-
ber, after its high-sounding misdescription of the measure
contemplated by the Government, goes on, in its-.usual
execrable taste, to draw odious comparisons between Sir
Robert Peel's reforms and those of other men. Sir R.
Peel's reforms,' it tells us, are not of the kind that fill

the pockets of the Reformers. The reforms here contem-
plated tend, on the contrary, to the retrenchment of pa-
tronage, and the reduction of expense ; and if they repay
their authors it will be only in the approbation and
respect of the public." Half of this praise—and that
the larger half (for it is just before admitted that the
Chancery inquiry holds out the prospect of advantages
still more important,' than that relating to the revenue),
we claim for the late Ministry, and expect the repentant
Times to enforce our claim.-'" When we have shown that

the act praised is one attributable entirely to the late
Ministry, and not at all to the present, our Contem-
porary's praises will, as a matter of course, descend on
the heads of those who did the praiseworthy act."
The Post, in default of some more attractive theme,
thus sings the praises of the Irish Viceroy, and his sys•
tem of policy :—" The Lord-Lieutenant appears to have
managed admirably. He appears to combine firmness
with frankness, and a determination to be reasonable,
with a disposition to be not only courteous, but kind.
Human nature is not so bad but that a man in a very
elevated situation may almost always succeed, if he will
but carry himself in this way. However, it too often
happens, either that the man of kindly and generous dis-
position is wanting in prudence and deliberate justice, and
so becomes a partisan, or that, having the gift of pru-
dence and the habit of calmly weighing what is best,
he is destitute of the frankness which begets
esteem, and the cordiality which inspires affection.
After the truckling explanation or apology volunteered
to Mr. West, the Orangeman, for not giving him the
Sergeant's coif in preference to Mr. Warren, the less the
Post says of the Lord Lieutenant's " firmness" the better.
Equally injudicious is it to eulogise his impartiality, for
he has already made it manifest that he is a decided par-
tisan, though not perhaps to so desperate an extent as
were the Tory Irish Viceroys in the days of the borough-
mongers.

The Times still continues to cavil, with evident sore-
ness, at Lord John Russell's late reply to the Plymouth
Address, observing:—" If Lord John Russell had never
produced anything better than his answer to the Ply-
mouth Address, we certainly should not have troubled
ourselves to notice it. A more fretful, fractious, froward
little manifesto, and more utterly devoid of merit, either
solid or showy, has never obtruded itself upon public ob-
servation. But Lord John is not really so ineffective a
personage as might be supposed from the mere perusal
of that paper. He is. out and out, the most influential
person of the party he leads—nay, he is himself the party
—and in that view of him his failures are, perhaps, as im-
portant as his SIIPeOCCPC di.posod on Saturday of
that ludicrous passage in which he gives credit to the
Whigs for having died- of patriotism. He then goes on
to console the people with the assurance that if they be
hut united, the great cause which those virtuous States-
men perished in the attempt to advance, will finally tri-
umph, and prohibitory duties share the fate of religious
disqualifications, negro slavery, and other works of
darkness.'"—After vainly endeavouring to convince its
readers that Lord John Russell's reply was a
most insignificant affair, and created not the slightest
sensation, the Times discovers that it is by no means in-
significant ; but that, as proceeding from his Lordship,
it is, in reality, a matter of considerable importance !
What faith can be placed in the opinions of a Journal,
which thus blows hot and cold with the same breath, and
which flatly contradicts to-day, what it said but yester-
day ? The fact is, Lord John, in his Plymouth address,
has inflicted such hard, straightforward blows on the
Tories, that they will wince under them for some weeks
to come. Hence the repeated attacks of the Times on
his Lordship.
The Herald, after praising collectively and individu-
ally the present Tory Government, goes on to observe
that—" There is gradually arising in this country a
powerful and a somewhat neutral party, conservative in
principle, but practical in views. This party desires to
see the country governed in accordance with the spirit of
the Constitution ; but governed in that spirit for the be-
nefit of the mass of the people ; its primary test of good
government is legislation on the Church. It desires to
see the Church made available for the moral and reli-
gious instruction of every human being in the kingdom.
This party is not content simply to deplore the evils of
dissent and sectarianism ; its object is to draw the peo-
ple within the pale of the established religion. It sees in
the inefficient means at the disposal of the Establishment
a continual provocative to Dissent, and it will never be
satisfied until the accommodation of the Church, its
means of doing good, and its ability to instruct, be com-
mensurate to the increasing population of England."—
The allusion in the above passage to the inefficient means
at the disposal of the Church, though urged in all seri-
ousness, wears an aspect of the most cutting irony.
Who does not know that, even with all the retrench-
ments lately made, the Church is the richest religious
establishment in the world? What though the Bishop
of London, with an income of at least ten thousand a
year, lately pleaded poverty and almost insolvency ; and
his Grace of Canterbury has been reformed to the tune
of fifteen thousand a year ?—still the Church pos-
sesses funds sufficient, and more than sufficient, for
all beneficial purposes, would it so apply them. llas it
not an exorbitantly wealthy staff of deans and chapters,
rectors, pluralists, canons and minor canons without
number ; and cannot ample means be found among these
for effecting that further good to which the Herald re-
fers ? We have no patience with this incessant canting
cry about the poverty of the Church ; and think it quite
as ridiculous as the heart-broken lamentations of the
Bishop of Exeter when he was deprived of his fat rectory
of Stanhope !
The Devonport Telegraph remarks as follows on the
Emigration question :—" The objection to emigration,
on the ground that it is an expedient to stave off the
grander remedy of a repeal, or an extensive modification
of the Corn-laws, accompanied by an enlightened re-
vision of our tariff, we hold as groundless—for this
reason, no scheme of emigration, however extensive,
will render the continuance of the Corn-laws in their pre-
sent form possible. The demand for a change must and
will go on till it forces itself irresistibly on the attention
of the rulers."

In reference to the late Brevet, the Liverpool Chronicle
remarks:—" At last the miseries of the people have
reached the hearts of our Tory rulers and they have
begun to relieve their wants in good earnest. We know
not how many Admirals, Blue, White, and Yellow; nor
how many Generals, Colonels, Majors, and so forth have
been snatched from the verge of starvation, and had
something added to their wretched pittance to carry
them through the rigours of the approaching winter.
Now, therefore, since the work of feeding the hungry
has so merrily commenced, we trust that it may not be
confined to the gentlemen who wear red coats and blue
coats, but may be extended to those also who have no
coats at all."
The Dublin Evening Post says :—" Suppose Parlia-
ment will turn a deaf ear to the appeals which will be
made to it next Spring—how is Sir Robert Peel to carry
on the Government ? He will change discontent into
disaffection, and he will be obliged to call, meantime,
upon the nation for means to relieve the Exchequer
from its financial difficulties. It is not two millions and
a half alone that he must ask. Half a million more will
be absolutely necessary to supply the deficiency caused
by the Exchequer frauds, and to rebuild that part of
the Tower -which has recently been consumed. Will he
borrow ? What, in the present state of the market ? If
not, what tax will he lay on ? Upon beer, spirits—
exciseable articles, in, short ? They can bear no more."
We quote the following from the Scotsman :—" The
scurvy conduct of the Duke of Wellington to the Paisley
deputation has occasioned general surprise. When Sir
Robert Peel gave a donation of fifty pounds to the
Paisley Relief Fund, the Tory papers alluded to the
circumstance as a triumphant refutation of the charge
against the Government, of indifference to the sufferings
of the people. What will they now say of the Duke ?
The niggardliness which sometimes accompanies great
wealth may be alleged as an apology ; but -the position
of the Duke, as leader of the House of Peers, the fact
of his having received enormous sums from the public
purse, and the suspicion attached to his party, of indif-
ference to the distress existing among the working-
classes, all demanded a different line of conduct."
The Cambrian makes the following Comment on the
Chartists ;—" The Chartists are impressed with an

erroneous beliefof their own power, and that tb eir chance
of carrying their favourite ineitsure is much i 3 carer than
the world believe it to be. We are not or the opinion
of the Times, and other Tory organs, who, having long
since broken the hollow truce which they had formed
with them, now denominate the majority of the Char-
tists a "set of incorrigible scoundrels r On the con-
trary, we, who know them better, consider them like
their neighbours, of the average honesty, but sorely
misled as to the state of public opinion, arid the relative
strength of parties in Great Britain."

MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.
The Committees for the formation of the Great National
Anti-Corn-law Bazaar at Manchester have commenced
active operations. Not fewer than 200 ladies of that
town and neighbourhood are lending theii services in aid
of the good work. The general distress appears to have
made a great impression on the female mind, not only
there but at Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, and generally
through the manufacturing districts.