The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-18 00:00:00

On the 25th assemblages commenced in the town, and
some persons were already arrested ; a struggle was ex-
pected even before the constitution of the new Chamber
of Representatives, which was to take place on the Ist
of April."
We are assured, says a journal, that those families in
the Rue Saint Denis, several members of which were
visitors to the disasters of Sunday, have summoned the
Directors of the Railway on the left bank, to pay to each
of them a sum of 50,000 francs damages.—Constitutionnel.
The National says "We are informed that Messrs.
Cremieux and Debray, advocates, and M. Plan, are en-
gaged to bring actions for damages against the Railway
Company."—Commerce.

There is no news of engrossing interest in the
Madrid Journals of the Bth instant:—

The Eco del Comercio publishes the report of the
Financial Committee of the Chamber of Deputies
on the budget of 1842, with the modifications intro-
duced into the original bill. The budget consists of
seven chapters, and is divided as follows :—Dotation
of the Queen, of the Infant, and the Regent,
33,500,000 reals. Private expenditures of the two
Chambers, 536,620 reals. Budget of foreign. affairs
—the Government proposed for the expenditures of
the personal and Materiel 10,196,120 reals, and the Com-
mittee 9,841,220 reels. • Ministry of JustiCe—personal,
16,745,718 ; materiel, 17,869,136. Budget of the War
Department—personal and materiel, 305,174,601. Ex-
traordinary budget— personal and materiel, 108,059,204.
The Committee reduced the supplies demanded for the
last two departn.-Aits by 39,342,380 reals: Marine and
colouies—the Government required 85,229,676, which
thu Committee reduced to 50,905,234 reals. •

DEATH or CoLoNEL P. VANS AGNEW.—We' re-
gret to learn that the above gentleman died yes-
tordav at, his house, in Lower Brooke-street, after a
short illness. Colonel Agnew served with distinction
for a long period in India, and was for many years a
Director of the East India Company. Ile was a
gentleman of very amiable manners, and great kind-
heartedness, and his loss will be long and generally
regretted by a large circle of friends.

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" Who runs marl read."

FOREIGN.
The Paris daily journal the Temps was sentenced in
a most severe manner, on Saturday, by.the Sixth Cham-
ber of Correctional Police, not for any political offence,
but for an irregularity with re.gaid to the registering of
its proprietors and the deposit of its caution money.
The Tribunal ordered the suppression of the journal,
with a fine on the gerants, Messrs. Cost and Couil, of
102,300 francs. Should this sentence bu confirmed on
appeal to the superior Court, the Temps must be given
up, and the gerants must either pay the fine or submit to
a year's imprisonment.
"We advance from step to step," exclaims the
National, "in the high road which leads to the destruc-
tion of the press. The Court of Correctional Police pro-
nounced a judgment, en Saturday, which surpasses all
that had been previously 'mown. Perhaps it may be
said that the Court were impelled by a species of rage
against the press. By no means. • The Court merely
applied the minimum of the tine • they might have in-
flicted a penalty of-231,000f., and made the proprietors
personally responsible for having been guilty of a mere
informality."
The Left Bank Railroad resumed its service on Satur-
day. Several ladies were in the:engines. The follow-
ing alterations had been made iu the trains :-
1. The discontinuance of the four-wheeled locomotives,
and the use of the six-wheeled engines only.
2. The baggage-waggons, usually placed behind the
train, are now placed between the engine and the passen-
gers, and, independently of this precaution, an additional
waggon, loaded with stones and sand-bags, follows the
baggage one.
3. The speed has been slackened.
4. The doors of the carriages can now be opened by
the passengers.
The Madrid Papers of the Bth state that the Commis-
sion on the Budget has made its report, in which a re-
duction on the Government estimates of the annual ex-
penditure is proposed to the extent of 24,324,441 reals.
The Alexandria correspondent of the Semaphore de
Marseilles writes, under date the 26th ult., that 21,000
stand of arms had been landed there by an English
steamer, and that the boxes in which they were con-
tained had been immediately forwarded to Suez. The
Russian merchants of Alexandria enjoy the privilege of
exporting produce on payment of a duty of 3 per cent.,
while all other merchants (English included) were com-
pelled to pay 12 per cent.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Post contains a leading article, the drift
of which is to show that the progress of liberal opinions
has been unattended with beneficial effect to the com-
munity. "We do not find," observes our Contemporary,
" that the poor are at all better pleased with the
' law for their relief than with that which existed
before the liberal reform had been effected. On the
contrary, they are snore dissatisfied, and, we fear, with
more reason. There is less roguery and abuse, but then
there is much more harshness and suffering. We do not
find that municipal councils have shed the dew of virtue,
and poured forth the sunshine of happiness, over their
several localities. Envy, bickering, and strife—malice,
hatred, and uncharitableness, abound as much as ever."
On the question of emigration, the Times thus ex-
presses itself :—" There is hardly any more tempting
remedy than emigration for the evils which we here
labour under. It seems so easy, so natural, so generous,
so safe, so convenient, to ship off a few thousands from
a crowded to a vacant country—to send labourers where
work Is to be done ; but we are apt to forget how
much goes to this little process and of this we wish to
remind all those who, with doubtless the best intentions,
are unwisely—sometimes, we fear, carelessly—exposing
our countrymen to disappointment, where disappoint-
ment is destruction."
We quote the following from the Chronicle :—" It has
been properly observed that the question of child labour
is of far too extensive and important a nature to be inci-
dentally disposed of by a clause in the Poor-law Bill.
We'think so too ; and the complaint we recently made
of the inefficiency. of Sir James Graham's proviso relative
to parish apprentices, was not a censure upon it for not
being a satisfactory settlement of the subject of child
labour, but for meddling with a great abuse to little
purpose, and giving a semblance of protection without
any of the reality.'
The Herald says :—" Our neighbours across the Chan-
nel have a very singular mode of estimating the princi-
ples of commercial reciprocity ; they seem to be
enamoured with what Sir Joseph Yorke was accustomed
to call one-sided reciprocity ; and think their country
very unfairly treated by British Ministers, because they
are not willing to concede trading advantages without
gaining equivalent coneessions in return. The French
commercial system is the reverse of the old Turkish
system, which admitted every thing freely, but allowed
nothing to be exported ; the Vrench clamour for ability
to export, but refuse freedom of import. Sir Robert
Peel offers to reduce British import duties on the agri-
cultural and manufacturing staples of France, if France
will only reciprocate the reduction. All England desires
an extension of commerce with France, hut France de-
termines that none shall take place."

WCONET—TRADII—CODZIVIERCE.
The Clarence Railway Company shipped during the
last week in April, 8,900 tons of coals, in the riser Tees,
the largest quantity ever shipped in that quarter.
The Society of Guardians for the Protection of Trade
held their diuncr in the roultry last week. The mem-
bers are increasing in number, and their purpose is to
expose the fictitious firms or trades in London. •