The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-22 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Pubitt fa ptuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

A Grenoble Paper of the 15th inst. publishes a letter
from Rome, stating that his Holiness the Pope was on
the night of the 10th seized with an apoplectic fit, and
was speechless when the letter was written. The death
of Gregory XVI., a Pontiff of irreproachable morals,
and of an amiable disposition, will excite a great com-
motion among the hierarchy of the Church of Rome.
King Otho is not always unmindful of benefits. M.
Guizot having just gratified him with a million of dol-
lars, his soap-locks Majesty has requited the Minister
with the Order of the Saviour, of which M. Piscatory is
a Commander.

The Court of Peers considers the affair of Quenisset
so important that it did not allow itself to repose from
its labours on Sunday. No fresh sentences of guilt have,
however, yet been pronounced.
M. Salvandy, the new French Ambassador to Spain,
entered Madrid at ten o'clock on the morning of the
12th instant. His Excellency was to be introduced to
the Regent on the following day, to present his creden-
tials, after which he was, according to etiquette, to visit
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the corps diplo-
matique.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Herald, reverting to the fraudulent Ex -
chequer bill affair, makes the following strange re-
marks :—" But it is with deep and unaffected reluctance
that we advert to rumours which are rife in those quar-
ters of City intelligence, where ' beacon fires are seldom
false.' The two Noble Lords,' whose names have
reached us as not intact by the disgraceful 'on dit' which
obtains of' this affair—are representatives of the great
contending parties in the political divisions of the coun-
try. They are, neither of them, deficient in the three
so emphatically predicated properties of plausibility—
talent—and power.' They are, we fear, proverbially de-
ficient in other more tangible properties—

Arcades arnbo
Et cantare pares, et resonare parati.'
The social liberalities of the one—the political libe-
ralities of the other—much as we have to object
to them both, on the score of morality, and of consti-
tutional propriety—cannot extinguish the feeling of
pain and mortification with which we are compelled
to dwell, for a moment, on the report of their having
been participators in the desperate preliminaries to, and
desperate practices Of, the 'most nefarious fraud, per-
haps, ever practised on the fiscal departments of the
country. We rejoice to hear that one Noble Viscount,
who seems to have almost as many personal, as he may
have found political or diplomatic, enemies,—has cleared
up every imputation which an unlucky combination of
circumstances at first was calculated to throw upon him,
in connection with the memorable bills.' We shall
indeed deplore the substitution (in the event of facts
justifying the intelligence of our informant), of another
peer, in his place, of rank not less eminent,—of attain-
ments not inferior,—and of certainly superior personal
influence."—lf the Herald has any_thing to say upon this
strange Exchequer bill affair, it should speak out boldly,
and not deal in hypothesis and insinuation, which mean
every thing or nothing, according to the fancies of its
readers.
We take the following from the Morning Chronicle :
"All Tory Journals desire to serve the cause, not only
of the Church, but of Church extension.' Very good,
so do we. And we, further, agree with those Tories
who repudiate any application of the public moneys to
Church building and endowment, as the means of ex-
tension. A Church co-extensive with the nation is de-
sired by all who know the worth of religion. Coercion,
hypocrisy, and taxation, are, in our view, most hostile
to that consummation. The Church-rate persecution
disgraces the Church. The practice of the Dean and
Chapter of Westminster, of making dissenting worship a
forfeiture of the leases held under them, is a disgrace
to the Church. So is the Oxford squabble about the
chair of poetry. And so, moreover, is the extortion
which represses the formation of cemetery grounds be-
yond the boundaries of the metropolis, exposing the
inhabitants of its crowded streets to the pesti-
lential vapours that flow from piles of rotting car-
cases. We oppose 'these things as detrimental to the
spiritual character and influence of the Church."—
Had it not been for the Church-rate persecutions, which
the Chronicle here speaks of, the Establishment would
not have been reduced to the state of exhaustion and de-
bility in which it now is ; and which disables it from
making a vigorous head against any of the numerous
schisms with which it is embarrassed. It has alienated
many of its best friends ; it has conciliated none of its
enemies ; and in this untoward condition, can no longer
hope to derive benefit from raising the old war-cry of
the " Church in Danger," for none will rally under that
cry but a pack of old women in the last stage of dotage.
Alluding to the approaching Session of Parliament,
the Advertiser says :—" At present the people are en-
during their sufferings with more than philosophic forti-
tude, because they are fondly clinging to the hope that,
on the re-assembling of Parliament, the Premier will
announce some measure or measures for their immediate
relief. Heaven grant they may not be disappointed !
It will be the most portentous opening of any Legisla-
ture within the memory of man, if the people shall, after
all, find that they have been cherishing unfounded ex-
pectations. The position of the Premier, if he suffer the
proceedings of the first night of the approaching Session
to come to a close without some explicit announce-
ment of remedial measures, will be more peri-
lous, both for himself and his country, than that
in which any previous Prime Minister ever stood.
It is because we look forward with fear mid'
trembling to the probable results of a disappointment or
the people's hopes, that we wish to press on Sir Robert,
Peel, with peculiar force, the urgent expediency of being,
prepared by that time with some tangible and substan-
tial measure for the modification, if not entire extinction
of the Corn monopoly.".--Whatever our Contemporary
may expect from the fears or the sagacity of Sir Robert
Peel, we have no other expectation than that he will do
no more than he can possibly help—in fact, do just
enough to keep the people in a state of feverish excite-
ment. He will just throw a tub to the whale ; and hav-
ing done this, he will rub on from day to day, till, all his
trickery expedients failing, he will be sent to the right-
about, with all his congenial faction.
The Post says :—" Tho wretched folly of men who
abuse the landed aristocracy, and call the production of
landed produce ' robbery,' is not less apparent than the
wickedness of their conduct. When devoting their time
and talents to these idle, aimless calumnies, practical
men lose sight of what good they really might do. They
know very well that the Legislature is not disposed to
give way upon the principle of agricultural protection,
and they know that the party now in power is pledged
to a system of graduated protecting duty, according to
the price. But they know also, or they may know,
that it is only to these two points the Legisla.
tore or the Ministry stands pledged, and they must
also know (if they be intelligent) that even within these
conditions there is room for much speculation as to pos-
sible improvement. Adequate protection does not neces-
sarily imply exactly that kind and amount of protection
which is now established, nor does it follow because
there is to be a graduated scale, that thq existing one is
the very best possible. If manufacturers and their ad-
vocates would direct their attention to such alterations as
might be made consistently with the principles to which
the present Legislature and Government are pledged,
they would have far better chance of practical success,
than in such wild denunciations as they waste their time
upon at present."
The Times thus comments on the late important Anti-
Corn-law meeting at Manchester:—" We recur this
morning to the subject of the Manchester cotton meeting,
not because we ascribe any weight or value to the argu-
ments used there,if arguments they can by any courtesy
be called, but because, observing the continuous efforts
of the Radical press to set up these windy nothings as
matters of substance, we think it necessary to guard
against any conclusion in their favour which might
be raised from our silence. Perhaps, if the persons
who make the speeches and who write the commen-
taries were content to state merely their facts and
inferences, and so leave the subject to the dispas-
sionate judgment of those who would take the
trouble of calmly reading it up, the whole matter
might be most usefully dealt with by the professors
of political economy on the one side and on the other.
But the tone taken against the landed interests, both
by the orators and by the journalists, is so little that
of science, and breathes so fiercely of inflammation, that
what ought to have been a philosophical controversy has
now been perverted into a passionate struggle, of which
unreasoning 'hunger is called in as the arbiter. We.
deeply deprecate such appeals ; and though it may not
be so easy to quench an incendiary's handywork as it
was for himself to set it flaming, we will not at least be
passive spectators of the combustion."—These " windy
nothings"—as the Times calls the late Anti-Corn .law
meetings—will yet prove a hurricane that will sweep the
monopolists to destruction, if they do not promptly take
measures to avert the storm. Even now the wind is
freshening to a stiff gale, notwithstanding our Contem-
porary's sneering allusion to windy nothings."
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
It has been proposed that a better view of St. Paul's
Cathedral would be obtained by the removal of a great
number of houses at the west end of Cheapside. The
estimated loss of property on this change would be about
150,0001.
Workmen are now employed in forming the new pri-
vate drive from Frogmore Lodge to Windsor Great
Park, which will be finished in the spring. The ride
will pass by the Old Hospital,
the
double
and through
the fields,
entering thecGreat Park throughc
L REFORM.
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district on Monday, to the number of 600, attended a l
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to it, recollecting that the question concerned
them as
Barons' who obtained for them the great charter of
their liberties were unable to write, and therefore af-
fixed their marks,' instead of their signatures.'
FINE ARTS.
It is a singular feature of the Chantrey bequest, that
the purchases to be made out of the yearly sum of
2,500/. at the disposal of the Royal Academy, on the
death of Lady Chantrey, are to be both from the pro-
ductions of dead and living artists. But the artist who-
soever he may be, must have resided and produced his
works in this country. Thus it will allow of the pur-
chase of the works of a sculptor like Roubiliac, who had
his studio in London.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
At a meeting of the Phrenological Society held on
Monday, in the room, at Exeter-hall, Dr. Elliotson read
a communication on the relative proportions of the organs
of the skull between Blakesley and Couryolsier, and it