The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-04 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.

According to the returns laid before the French Cham-
bers the retention of French Africa costs France about
sixty-seven millions of francs annually !
Her colonies only produce to France a direct income
of six millions of francs per annum. This of course re-
fers only to direct income. No estimate can be formed
of the commercial advantages of the colonies to the
mother country.
The French Minister of Marine's budget is of consi
derable importance. The war policy of M. Thiers
obliged the Minister of Marine to arm no fewer than 225
vessels. He has endeavoured, by a new organisation, to
reconcile this increase with the Treasury without dimi-
nishing in any great manner the naval strength of France.
He consequently divides the vessels into three cate-
gories :-Ist. The ships at sea ; 2dly. The vessels in the
roads ; and idly. In commission at the ports. Thus
there will be 140 vessels ; of which there are eight ships
of the line, 12 frigates, 8 corvettes, 21 brigs, 26 smaller
vessels, 30 gabares, and 35 steamers, always at sea ; four
vessels of which, one of the first rank, and three of the
third rank, will be in the roads ; fourteen vessels, of
which six are ships of the line, three frigates, three
steamers, are to be in commission at the ports. The
Minister of Marine, Admiral Duperre, contends that this
organisation presents celerity of execution, strength of
discipline, and economy. Thus, although the budget of
the navy is divested of more than thirty-seven millions
of francs, the Minister keeps up 158 armed vessels, and
22,589 sailors, and 20 302 infantry and artillery for the
service of the ports Apt, colonies.
The French Min ter for Foreign Affairs, in his
budget, proposes various increases in his department,
principally the creation of two Consuls of the first class,
one at Canton, with a salary of 40,000 francs (1,6000 ;
and the other at Port Louis, in the Mauritius, at 20,000
francs (8001.) Ten Consuls of the second class, at
salaries varying from 10,000 to 20,000 franc namely—
Moscow, Newcastle, Mazatlan (Mexico), Monterez
(capital of California), Panama, Jerusalem, Jedda (lied
Sea), Erzeroum,Mossul, and Janina.

The Prefect of I'olice gave 415 permissions to hold
public balls in Paris during 1839 ; in 1840 this number
amounted to 628 ; and in 1841 to 650. During the pre-
sent year it is said that 703 public dancing-places are
open in the capital.
The Swabian Mercury gives the following table of the
increase of the population in the capitals of the German
States, between 1821 and 1841 :—Vienna, from 273,242
to 357,927 ; Berlin, from 192,217 to 315,541 ; Munich,
from 60,024 to 106,351; Dresden, from 52,000 to 80,989;
Hanover, from 24,000 to 29,000 ; Stuttgardt, from
27,600 to 42,217 ; Carlsruhe, from 16,021 to 23,434 ;
Cassel, from 23,692 to 31,349 ; Darmstadt, from 15,450
to 29,007 ; and Weimar, from 8,917 to 11,485.
The Archbishop of Toledo has resigned his pastoral
trust, because, though a Progressista, he does not ap-
prove of the Government's last projects of law submitted
to the Cortes on the subject of the existing relations with
the Court of Rome.

PARLIAMENTARY.
MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

We gave her Majesty's Speech yesterday in the whole
of our Evening Edition, and conveyed to every part of
the empire the intentions of the Ministers. Her Majesty,
we may add, was never more enthusiastically received,
and never did a greater crowd wait on any Sovereign on
going to meet her Parliament.
In the Upper House, after the Marquis of Clanricarde
had stated that he would on Monday ask a question
about the marriage law of Ireland, the Marquis of Aber-,
corn moved an Address is answer to the Speech from the
Throne, which was of the usual character. The Earl of
Dalhousie seconded the motion.
Viscount Melbourne made a very happy attack on the
Tories, all whose forebodings of evil had been disap-
pointed, and who now found, after they had been some
time in office, that the difficulties they had imagined did
not exist.

The Earl of Ripon defended the change in the mind
of the Ministers, from the lugubrious to the sunny.
Their own merit and advent to power had miraculously
put all things to rights.
Lord Brougham declared against the Corn-laws, gave
an explanation of the law as it affected the case of the
Creole, expressed a warm desire to see a cordial friend-
ship with the United States, and advocated an extension
of the Suffrage, though it were ever so gradual. lie de-
clared, with great truth anti great emphasis, that
neither the Throne, the Aristocracy, nor our Insti-
tutions, would be safe while our representation was
wholly confined to property, and numbers were, by being
excluded from all share in it, placed in conflict with the
other orders of the State.

Earl Fitzwilliam insisted on the necessity of making
the alteration in the Corn-laws a comprehensive mea-
sure, and called for an explanation, which he said would
be asked by the country, of the causes why the farmers'
friend had left the Cabinet.

The Duke of Wellington declined to enter into any
description of the measure which the Government was
to bring forward on the Corn-laws.
The Duke of Buckingham said, that when a measure
was proposed of which he could not approve, he had
thought it his duty, as an honest man, to leave the Ca-
binet. He should oppose his late Colleagues' measure on
the Corn-laws with all his power when it came to that
House, but on other subjects he should continue to give
them his support.
The Address was agreed to, nem. con.
In the Commons, new writs were moved for the
Western Division of Cornwall, for Leominster, Bandon-
Bri.lge, Dublin liniversity, King's Lynn, and Liverpool.
Notices were given of motions, on the part of Ministers,
for Bills to apply grants of the two last Sessions to the ser-
vice of 1841, to amend the Passengers Act, to regulate
the sale and survey of lands in New Zealand and Aus-
tralia, to regulate the salaries of Bishops in Jamaica
and Barbadoes, and to consolidate the laws on Colonial
Trade, to amend the Railway Act, and to provide for the
more effectual suppression of lunatic asylums. Tho Mi-
nisters arc chalking out plenty of work for themselves
and for Parliament.

The Earl of March, Member for West Surrey, in a
neat, but very short speech, and much to the purpose,
moved the Address.

Mr. Becket, the Member for Leeds, seconded the
motion, and assured the House that the distress in Leeds
was increasing.
Mr. Ewart reminded Sir Robert Peel of the necessity
for giving the people relief on the articles of sugar and
coffee as well as corn. He expressed his approbation of
a property-tax.
Lord John Russell, while he expressed his cordial
concurrence in most parts of the Address, could
not refrain from pointing out to the House the satis-
faction he felt at finding the Tories had embraced
the opinions of the late Alinisters. The Noble Lord
broadly and boldly asserted the principle that taxation
should be got rid of which mas not levied for the pur-
poses of State, and happily ridiculed the attempts which
had been made to deceive the people about Corn-laws
and Short-time Bills.

Sir Robert Peel followed Lord Johnßussell, but while
he justified himself for receiving the Short-time Commit-
tee Deputation, not knowing the persons, he took no
notice of Lord John Russell's remarks on the Corn-laws
and a property-tax.
Mr. Villiers expressed, in a few and pithy sentences,
his satisfaction that the landlords had been made aware
that there was a power greater than theirs.
Mr,Esteourt deplored the banishment from the Cabinet
of the farmers' friend, and the friend of Lord Ashley's
friends.

The Address was agreed to without amendment.
The Commons rose at-Seven, and the Lords at Eight
o'Clock.

PUBLIC OPINION'.

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Spirit
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of the Public Journals ;" we need therofore only state
here that the Chronicle contains a second article on the
pernicious effects produced by the Corn-laws, wherein
our Contemporary remarks :—" Corn does not reach the
rate at which the ports arc open and the warehouses un-
locked, but by an ascending scale of suffering. Priva-
tions among the poor, of graduated severity, are the
steps of the ladder from whose top the approach of
foreign supply is to be discerned."
The Herald, in remarking on the speech of the mover
of the Address in the House of Lords, takes occasion to
observe that " the necessity for expanding and invigo-
rating the sources of income without (so long as it may
be possible to avoid it) the imposition of any new fiscal
burdens on the people, becomes the most sacred of prin-
ciples among those which should govern the policy and
measwes of her Majesty's servants."
The Post, in an article on the subject of free trade,
expresses itself to the effect that the monopoly enjoyed
by the Canadian timber-trade entails no loss on this
country.
IVIONET—TEADZI—COMMERCE.
The journeymen shipwrights of Limerick, aware of
the work which the late hurricane has prepared for
them, struck last week, and refused to go to work at
7s. 6d. a-day.
The glove trade of Worcester is reviving, and during
the past week many orders have been received by the
manufacturers there, both on foreign and home account.
There now at work in Belgium 1,300 steam-engines,
with a total power of 33,100 horses.
A meeting of the iron trade, held on Friday at Wol-
verhampton, advanced the price of manufactured iron
10s. per ton.
A letter from Genei'a states, " our clock and watch
trade is more flourishing this winter than it has been for
several years past."
Ea c loss iits'X'SCl.A.2..
The members of the Marylebone Tradesmen and Ope-
ratives Protestant Association, had addressed a memo-
rial against Puseyism to the Bishop of London, stating
that there are at present, in their borough, places of wor-
ship and officiating? clergy who follow the ceremonies of
the Romish Church, and praying his Lordship to ac-
quaint them with the measures he will adopt against
them, by the time of their next meeting, on the 28th inst.

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LXTERA.R.Ir A.NII. C TIFIC
The progress of literature in Russia may be gathered
from the fact that there are at the present clay Russian
5,000 to 6,000 roubles for
merely
authors who have bought estates several square leagues
in extent with the produce a their pens : there are
others who receive from
giving their names to periodicals : many of these
latter circulate 20,000 copies. The largest modern un-
dertaking is the great National Encyclopedia, on which
several hundred literary men are employed, at the rate
of from 100 to 200 roubles a sheet.
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