The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-09 00:00:00

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Putatt Optizzoit.

" Who runs nzay read."

FOREMN.
The French Ministerial Journals are doing a ill
•
can to represent the condition of Spain as most frightfu!
Why, we know not, unless it be actually true that Lot,
Philippe has determined to send a French army int°
Spain under the pretext of putting clown the Itepublican
-party, but in reality to overturn the established UO-

vernment. -
Notwithstanding the treachery• of the French. G9YeV.
merit, M. Olozaga, the Spanish Ambassador in rtniP,l)•
received from his Government a sum of 150,000 f. (6,5""4
to pay a portion of the arrears due td the officers 11,y
, , 0
soldiers of the French Auxiliary Legion. s
411.ja CPEIION.
The' 'Chronicle has an article on the subject of socqsl
remarks that appeared in the Times of yesterday',
fying Sir Robert Peel's do-nothing system of Pc)sic:pr:
From this article we quote a 'passage or two :
complete rnu:4 have' been the pitiful reliance of en
present rulers 'upon the chapter of accidents,
such occurrences as the misconduct of a cle
the breaking out of a fire, are seized as a:81-77.40 s
for the demonstration of their wisdom. flew'
more pitiful when even such accidents will not
their eulogists, except in such a remarkable untast
nee' as remarkably fails of any effect but sli'g
and derision. The repairs of the Tower will n
employ the multitudes whom the Corn-laws 1.
out of work and wages. People must eat, notwithsta",,
big the demolition of the armoury. Nor will stomachs
be filled, even though more bills should be `cornillg
from Hong Kong and Australia.' How long whit
take Sir Robert Peel to -obtain leave from his r;
ter to touch the Corn-laws ? And what sort els
hand will he lay upon them when leave is obtained
Let those questions be answered, and his wisd„t
may be better tested than by all the fires and fr
ao
in the metropolis. His prospect of success s,
take to be as vain in itself as his use of soecesh.
were it obtained, would be unsatisfactory and
'
less to the community. The delay is' a cruel de,„,
sion. The attempt to justify it is a paltry Moekeryof $
The answer to the Chronicle's question, what sort
hand will Sir R. Peel lay on the Corn-laws ?is Yell ,110
answered. He will touch them with the gentlest noss's
touch, so much so as to be scarcely felt in its effeets'A;rl!
manly, vigorous grasp will a party _Premiss- of ":r0
cate sensibilities dare to lay on a favourite Tory Ineas-ia,
like this. The very utmost we can expect from gad
that he will make a prodigious flourish of drumse,
trumpets, and a vast parade of effecting a mighty all*
and end coolly and quietly by doing little or nothing'oes
The Herald says—" The colonial empire of 911,:its
Victoria alone gives to her Ministers a great super'°"o,
in negotiating with foreign States commercial treatl_,
And seen through this medium, reciprocity on our
does not consist in offering to France, Germany, t.sts
sin, and the United States free markets in all Di. if.'
ports—including as such our colonial ports—for tirsee;
exports, in return for free importations of our nssal2,4i)
turing staples, because under the head of British 11,ie
are included markets far more varied and extensive
any those countries can present. Our colonies, Ye'ilie
expanding, give a preponderating influeuce to
;Ass,
country in the commerce of the world, which,
ciously and skilfully used, ought to be brought I%et:
on the reduction of European tariffs hostile ter_sw,,-
manufactures. We can exclude the wines, the brae
the silks, and the Paris frippery of France, tel
stockings, the cottons, . and the .woollens of Gertnitel
the hardware of Belgium, the wines of 5paii,,!..,101,
Portugal, and the grey domestics of the ulmouress
States; and in fact the staple product, be it ag",.o
turd or Manufacturing, of every nation, est
British North America, from the British los s
Indies, from Southern Africa, from Australasia, filijo,
the Mauritius, Ceylon, and- the peninsula of Ass,t'?
dostan. We can in these colonies and depeodellll/4
the population of which is rapidly becoming indiic!.afvel)
the largest
duties and consumers of foreign produce retalietveo
the high maritime e.s elusion, of Enr°Pisei3,
nations. But then Lord Aberdeen must not throws
self headlong from the advantageous position for nice
tiating new commercial treaties which the colonies PlB
him in, as did his free-trade predecessor." 'll
The following is from the Times That there sl'l'lot
henceforth be any serious fighting in China werinnote
at all anticipate. Our fleet and troops, in sueloie_
efficiency, are now lying under their walls in an aititi-
likely to prevent mistakes. The embroidered do' :0-
plays the part of Emperor may possibly issue a ,feW-rfeet
sionate proclamations, and may even take on s for
Mandarins' heads ; but, to all the practical purnoses feel
1i w s ch the British expedition -was undertaken, we ge.
quite sure that, under Sir Henry Pottinger's 111115,
went, the whole dispute is virtually at an end. toe
the menacing aspect of affairs, both in the rtsenetl
and western hemispheres, has at length hrig4l,7
up, and yielded to more pleasing pres<rwe''ssa
If affairs are brightening in the East, of which t 6 for for it,
be no doubt, it is nut the Tories.we have to thank no'
though they may reap the benefit. They have '1" a, to
thing to do will; the Chinese dispute, except, inuee istis
render it as complicated as possible, by their 11: ff.
,'ei
conduct in opposition. They did not appoint Sir
Pottinger—a tact, which should be borne iii mind bY
public ; for we have no doubt that in the next Sess pa
the Tories will dwell with infinite seW•complacencY„ if
the settlement of the Chinese squabble, and ended s,
r**
to have it supposed that it was settled under their aus
and that Sir H. Pottinger was their protegee.
COPEramm.crAz (to
A public meeting of the inhabitants of St. Luls'e's';a•
the number of nearly 2,000), was held yesterday °A-5,
ing, for the purpose of forming an Anti-Monopol;air,
sociation. Colonel Thompson presided_ in the (' less
The principle of the Charter—Universal Suffrage' eat
largely advocated, and Mr. Wakley made a state'-the
that " out of a population of 260,000 inhabitants in got
borough of Finsbury, and 13,000 voters, there Well' the
300, or at most 400 working journeymen who ha'niete
franchise. A Committee was then formed to. eoulr
the organization.
kIY,ZICTXOZIEER.I.
Mr. Wigram having been appointeNGd
Vice-ChanceoUgb
a vacancy occurs in the representation of the 13°rsod
of Hereford. Mr. George Arkwright has already in
an address to the electors.

NAVAL AND MILITANCY. regi'
Lieut.-Colonel George Macdonald, half-pay 161--procef
ment, a veteran officer of thirty-years full-pay
of
Leone.
has accepted the appointment of Governor 01 '-
Leone.
1.11117 AND POLICM. ta
Yesterday, a military court of inquiry was held ,v
amine into the conduct of-the sergeant and sent'ficen
duty at the Spur Gate, en the charges which bi•files•
made against him by the reporter of the SundaY .
The Court, having attentively considered the depos ~eil
was of opinion that the reporter was struck oil the ::cy,
by private 'Thomas Ellis, of the Scots Fusilier Gebeli-
with his firelock, but that the said private acted iii °rave
ence to his orders, which he had ,not dared to
disobeyed under pain of death. bekr°
A man of the name of Marriot was brought ; with
Sir C. Marshall at, Guildhall yesterday, chare, hiar,
attempting to commit self-destruction by throwirl,b, baa,
self from Blackfriars-bridge. The prisoner said "",
got drunk anti did not know what he was nbeut
the Alderman, to give him time to become sober' •
mitted him for trial. • 4/0
A woman named Thorne, the wife of a shoe° 015°
who had been married only three -months
Charged with attempting self-destruction by taidll,, li
acid. On inquiry, however, it was found that 'll.l ocl"
taken only a dose of Epsom salts. The Aldern'i%cil•
wised her husband to take her home and treat 110'1"
• resent
of
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In return for the present of twelve magnificent e°„serl
of alabaster, which Mehemet Ali lately sent as r;patli°
to Rome, the Pope is preparing to send soroc sreaier
tables executed by the first artists in Rome; ,tt' an
with coins and medals, some exquisite engravillositalist,
copies of an elaborate v. ork by the celebrated Orie-
the Chevalier di Lanir.
LITE:MART AND SCIIEWTIrIC' 610°,1.
In one of the ancient chimney-pieces in aldel'
Castle there is a rude carving in stone of a fox 0111jii be-
a tobacco-pipe, with the date 1510. As it is genert,„ool
hayed that tobacco was first introduced into tbis,c;ine;
by Sir Walter Raleigh, about the year 1585, it 15 seated
lar to find the common short tobacco-pipe repro
on a stone of.so much earlier date. rro-
At the Royal Academy last night, Mr. Gr,e,ein:, firq
fessor of Anatomy at this Institution, delivered `l,daieu
of the annual series of lectures. The Professor clic-best.
for the human skeleton the character of tb°,,,alY it
beauty, " for though-it pre: ented mankind eer„---beaVy
the sternest aspect, to scientific eyes it was stns 011,9
ful; and on contemplating it the whole form of It, frai
clearly discerned, even as a Parthenon might
its ruins to the imaginative eye of an artist.
,he
COURT—rASHIONABS.O. 1, for
The Duke of Devonshire left Geneva lasi Wee'
South. • ,outly
The Earl and Countess Grosvenor arrived 0, the}',to
ainpton from Lisbon on Saturday, and yesterou,:opia
departed for Motcombe Park, after an absence of " 1:4
months. COe-
The Earl and Countess of Carlisle are now at _s.
Howard, where they will remain till after Chrisful!'yea-
Field-Marshal and Viscountess Beresford lett Li'
dish-square yesterday for Bedgebury Park, Nent%eo of
Lord and Lady Dinorben iritcnd to leave Ole 'saatit
Sir John Williams, Bart., shortly, for Bute House'
Audley-street.

Peals were runignoBnCtEheLlibealligs Eat°ll:faild.st cic Chew: tong'l . 11
11,
Mendip, and other places, on Wednesday la.st, . terai
° ' eing the
day on :which the Earl of Waldegrave finished b''
of imprisonment. blight
The fire which remained in the Tower, of eery A' ole
eiconsequence, was finally quenched yesterday, an
Ihe. lord Mayor in meore. ancient times,
'glues have been remov d
waueed in the civic procession of this day, conlino,;(.. ~,It
called the ' Lord Mayor's Show." In the reign Id," . '`''
and
the Mayor rode on a " horse richly caParis°l'elf-- 'Rid
nclthat custom continued till the time of Charles ed, :41
The-custom of riding in. the " gold Coach " succee ~.,
and c • ontmues, as all know, to the present time. in.:60,1 ,
celebrated prints of the idle and industrious *101'4%0
1-10garth has represented the form of the old coanb u .
on Lord Mayor s day. seems to 11!
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A Biistol paper states, that " a most formidahlo
orAort
has been lately killed in the neighbourhood, awl istilits
in the Clifton Museum ; it measured one yard, an ve ,
weight was upwards of five pounds."—This inus 11°
been nearly as great a rat as Sir James Graham. I, j'. 111't
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do
nurizolras OW T 212: DAY. a Sir '''
We understand that Sir Clifford'COnstable an , 4
John Gerard; both -Roman Catholics and Conservaii'es'
are shortly to be raised to the Peerage•