The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF PIF

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Advices from Paris, of yesterday's date, state that
riots in opposition to the taking of the census continue
throughout the South of France. The Paris Journals
discuss no other topic.

The Moniteur has an article stating that resistance to
the census is useless. There is in France, says the offi-
cial Journal, no obstacle, no embarrassment, sufficiently
serious to check the execution of the laws.

-The National asks if the resistance by tax-payers to
excessive demands be a new fact in history, and contends
for the right of Frenchmen to resist the census.
The Constitat ionnel admits that there was no truth in
the repprt that Espartero had refused to renew the lease
of the Military Hospital at Mahon. We stated from the
first that the project for abandoning the hospital was vo-
luntary on the part of the French Government, and
adopted to prevent the establishment of a similar institu-
tion by the British Government.
From Spain the news is of the 12th instant,
Conspiracies against the Regency were reported to be
organizing at Malaga, Valencia, Seville, and Granada.
The partizans of Christina and the Pope are busy in
every part of Spain, urging the people to take up arms
against usurpation and infidelity.
Rumours of a war between Spain and Portugal were
current in Madrid.`Were he not restrained by a dread
of France, Espartero wotilt4Qon break down the bas riers
which make two kingdoMs of what Nature intended 1
should be one.

PUBLIC OPINION,
The Times contains a lengthy article on the Speaker-
ship, the object of which is to accuse Lord John Russell
of inconsistency in having opposed the election of Mr.
Manners Sutton, on the ground of his personal conduct.
It also contains another article, referring to a recent dis-
pute between Lord Grantley and some of his tenantry.
The Chronicle makes the following remarks on the
present state of the law of libel :—" Something ought to
be done in the way of altering the law of libel, if it be
wished that enormotts injustice should not continually be
done in the . case of newspapers. But, at all events, the
justification of a defendant ought to be made less burden-
some. Connected as all countries are with each other
in our day, there is hardly a statement in a newspaper
which might not subject• it to an action, in which the
defence would be attended with enormous expense. If
newspapers are to exist, it is of immense importance that
they should exist in a state of honest independence."
There is no law that requires a more searching revision
than the law of libel. As it now exists, it is frequently
unintelligible, and always perplexing and vexatious ;
and so constructed as to benefit the rogue far more than
the honest man. Low, pettifogging attorneys, and their
congenial clients are chiefly the parties that gain by it.
The late Mr. Justice Bolland asserted that libels lurked
in almost every column of a newspaper, for that every
thing—according to the existing law—might be consti-
tuted into a libel which the party referred to might
choose to consider such. Surely it is high time that
this absurd state of things should be put an end to.
The Post compares the Whig-Radical party to the
" visionary political projectors" alluded to by Swift in
his sarcastic " Gulliver's Travels." The comparison is
a laboured one, but inapplicable ; but if our Contempo-
rary had gone a few pages further on in the volume, he
would have found an account of certain " Strulbugs,"
whom the Dean represents as a set of prejudiced, bigoted,
ignorant men, to whom age brought no toleration, and
experience no wisdom—whose leading principle of policy
was that everything should standstill—and who, in shirt,
were little better than superannuated imbeciles. In these
men our Contemporary—had he been so inclined—might
have found many peculiarities that resemble those of the
more inveterate Tories.

The Cork Southern Reporter remarks that but a few
weeks ago, Peel was firm at making no changes, or al-
lowing of alterations in his prescriptions, "but the harsh
outlines of things are softened by perspective, and a near
approach has revealed to Sir Robert Peel the stern diffi-
culties of his position. Heralds of his corning and
omens of his power, Cavalry and Infantry, are marching
upon Ireland. Ruined harvests are deepening the wail
of multitudes that starve. Bankruptcy spreads like a
plague ;on every side—in every form, the principles of
a Tory Government, the principles announced by Sir R.
Peel, are proving themselves fraught with horrible
wretchedness, as they are marked by monstrous folly."
The Doncaster Gazette, alluding to the high Wail:ll°-
1141 lately presented to Lord Morpeth in Ireland, thus ,
continues :—" The people of Yorkshire, animated by a
similar feeling, intend to present his Lordship with a
splendid testimonial—a gold vase, representing the Eme-
rald IFle in emeralds. For this purpose subscriptions,
nnlin,;,^:l :::&r amc,nntt have already been opened in
4-all the. polling distriiiis-r-oveir:the ...Tra of 2451. was sub-
scribed at the Bradford meeting, held yesterday week."
The Chelmsford Chronicle says :—" It is well known
that we strongly disapprove of the course which the
Ministry took on the Corn-laws, but having staked their
existence upon the question, they are fully entitled to
ask the new Parliament—they could not ask the old—
for a distinct and intelligible vote upon the subject."
The Wiltshire Independent thus aims a stone at the
Tory landholders :—" It is many years since the Quar-
terly Review (a Tory periodical too), warned the aristo-
cracy and the great gentry against carrying on the culti-
vation of their estates in too lordly a style, and against
aiming to have a race of little lords under them for their
tenants. We agree with that warning of the Quarterly
Review : for we think the policy it recommended, was
that of justice and safety and preservation for all classes." I

MONEY—TRADZ—C 0 IYINZERCE.
Horncastle horse-fair, the largest in the kingdom, com-
menced this year a day or two earlier than usual. On
Saturday Mr. Elmore bought the little steeple-chase
mare Flora for 100 guineas, which Capt. Skipworth sold
for 400 guineas. 'Mr. Whitlam sold two horses for 500
guineas, and-a great number of horses fetched from 100
to 200 guineas each. The fair ends on Saturday the 21st.
At Manchester the demand for yarn is better, and a
fair amount of business done, though no advance on the
already low rates. The goods' market is very limited,
and sales made at only ruinous prices.
At Nottingham the cut-up hosiery and drawer branch
seem the most depressed. The full-fashioned hosiery
branch, though extremely dull, feels the depression less
than many other branches of the hosiery manufacture.
As this branch is mostly carried on in the villages, the
harvest will give them some relief, as great numbers of
the stockingers know how to shear wheat, and are
usually employed at this season in that occupation. The
siik glove and silk hose trade is extremely flat.

A new American ship, the Hendrick Hudson, made
her first appearance yesterday in our river. She \vas
built of fir at New York, and is of 1,000 tons burden—
the largest liner that has ever been in a London port.