The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-21 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NE :1

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" Who runs may read."

A letter from Paris announces that the dividend. on the
Three per Cents., due on the Ist of July next, would be paid
in due course by the Spanish Government. On the 12th, the
Bank of San Fernando forwarded for this purpose to London a
sum of 125,0001. The bank is to be allowed 6 per cent. on the

amount of its advances, and to receive 1 per cent. commission.
The Censeur de Lyon of the 15th inst. describes the appear-
mace of the different crops in the neighbourhood of that city to
be most promising. The rape-crop, which was extraordinarily
abundant, hati betn gathered. The price of wheat showed a
tendency to rise, but should the fine weather continue, a fall in
the market was considered certain, as travellers from all parts
of France state that the wheat crop was everywhere superb.
The vintage promising to produce wine of very superior qua-
lity, it was found difficult to dispose of any of the wines of
1840 or 1841, although the former was beginning to find ad-
mirers in the market.
The sentence of the Court of Correctional Police of Paris,
by which the editors of Le Temps had been condemned to pay
a fine of 102,0001., and by whien that journal was to be altoge-
ther suppressed, was reversed on Saturday by the Cour Royale,
presided over by M. Sylvestre do Chanteloup. The fine was
reduced to 20,000 f. That part of the sentence which went to
suppress the paper was reversed. The paper, however, ceased
to appear on Saturday.
The Moniteur of Friday promulgates the law relative to the
establishment of the great railroad lines throughout France,
and appropriating fur their construction a sum of 13,000,000 f.
for 1542, and another of 29,500,000 f. for 1343.
M. Tamatiz, the Secretary of Don Carlos, has by order of
that Prince, addressed a letter, dated %urges, June 14, to the
France, declaring that the letter inserted in the Times, and
said to have been sent to Don Carlos by Queen Christina on
the 14th of March last, is an unfounded invention, and that the
Prince " has never, up to the present moment, charged any
person with a message of any kind for his august sister-in-law,
who, on her side, has manifested the same reserve."
The Phare des Pyrenees of the 3d says, that the wealthy
proprietors in the neighbourhood of Vich, in Catalonia, have
abandoned their country seats, and taken retuge in the town,
from fear of falling into the hands of the guerilla bands, which
are daily increasing. Between Ripoll and Berga thirteen sol-
diers were captured by the Chief Felipe ; two wore killed, one
wounded, and the nine remaining he disarmed and sent back
to 13erga. There is in the mountain another band of 100 men,
commanded by one Gomez, and a third of about 50 men, under
the command of the Carlist chief Piandemunt.
'1 he Madrid Patriota, of the 11th inst., says—" We learn
that yesterday t: e liovernment signed a contract with the Bank
of St. Fel ciinand fur a loan of 15,000,000 reals, destined to the
payment of the next half-year's dividends of the Three per
Ceut. Debt, both home and foreign. A courier extraordinary
was despatched last night with different remittances, among
which are 7,000,000 reals placed in the bank to the order of
Messrs. Rothschild, of London, by Mr. Daniel Weweller, re-
presentative of that house at Madrid."
P.A.UX:IAIVEkINTANCIT.

The Lords did not meet yesteroay.
In the Commons Captain Berkeley inquired whether it were
true that the ship's company of the Pique had been paid their
wages in light sovereigns, and Sir G. Cockburn assured him that
the statement was unfounded. This was reiterated in the
course of the evening, and we hope, for the honour of the Go-
vernment, that the tale is not ti ue. It is more likely that the
sailors were imposed on by some of their usual friends.
Sir J. Graham announced that he should introduce a Re-
gistration Bill for England this Session, but nut think of pass-
ing it. Sir R. Peel stated that the Government would not
introduce a Registration Bill for Ireland this year. Poor Lord
Stanley, how his zeal against perjury has evaporated.
Mr. C. Buller brought the light sovereigns, and the procla-
mation concerning them, under the notice of the House, which
provoked Air. Goulburn and Sir Robert Peel to enter into a
lame defence of their conduct. The motion ended in nothing,
except the information given by the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, that any person refusing to receive the legal coin of the
realm is liable to imprisonment. Many persons would be
amazingly glad to have the opportunity of refusing it.
The House was engaged for the remainder of the evening
about the Poor-law. The motion to go into Committee was
opposed by Col. Sibthorp, Mr. Ferrand, and ethers, who divided
twice, resisting the motion. Both divisions gave large majori-
ties in favour of proceeding with the Bill, and the House went
into Committee, but resumed without making any progress.
The House rose at Quarter to One.
OPINION.
We take the following from the Herald :—" Lord Mel-
bourne attributes the present position of the country—not to
our restrictive or protective commercial system, such nonsense
he leaves to Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston—but to
the evils which he describes as afflicting nations in times of
peace !' With the Roman poet he sighs apparently
.for war
•as a remedy for the great evils of peace. This is quite
characteristic .of the Noble Viscount ; careless, inattentive, and
indifferent as to the present, the indolence of Lord Melbourne's
cultivated but abused mind seeks for the causes of present dis.
aster in the classical reminiscences of his university life, lie
defends his Government by a trite dictum of Solon, and ex-
plains away all national difficulties by reference to Homer or
Virgil. How wholesomely contrasted with this political epi-
curism is the strong, practical, common-sense grasp of passing
events which the Duke of Wellington displayed. The evils
of peace !' The Noble Duke's stomach rejected such miser-
able sentimentality; the emergency under which the nation
staggers, replied the aged warrior and statesman, are evils, not
of war, but of something as like war as any thing he ever saw;
they are not measures of war the Duke truly discriminated, but
they are measures which entail the cost of war, and that .cost,
he added, we are now called on to pay."
The Times recurs in the following terms to the hackneyed
question of the Poor-lasts :—" It is not possible that a law
should continue (however the period for its repeal may be
delayed) which, being maintained against the general sense of
the people of England, and not without a considerable breach
of faith on the part of the governing party, can find no better
arguments for its support than those advanced by Sir James
Graham in favour of the New Poor-law on Friday. Mr.
Pakington and the Right Hon. Baronet were its only de-
fenders in the debate, ;.though 260 members recorded their
votes on the side of Government in the diuision. If we may
judge from the speeches delivered by Mr. Liddell, Colonel
Wood, and Mr. Stuart Wortley, there were many votes in the
majority which those who gave them will find much difficulty
in explaining to their constituents, if not in reconciling to their
own consciences. With their professed principles and con-
victions, such votes cannot be reconciled at all. So far, there-
fore, from being discouraged, we draw a favourable omen from
the result of this debate : we are rejoiced to find that 61 Mem-
bers are still prepared to take their stand in favour of consti-
tutional principles, even in one of those too frequent cases in
which, as Sir Robert Inglis says, the coalition between the
chiefs of the present and the late Administration, Sir Robert
Peel and Lord John Russell, makes any opposition to Whig
principles of government useless.
The Post observes, in reference to the Church-rate clues-
tion—" We are sorry that nothing has been .:one in Parlia-
ment to give the k to ch reason to believe that it would be re-
lieved from the harassing strife and vexation which continually
recur in many parishes on the subject of Church-rates. We
think it is clearly the duty of a Conservative Government to
take the lead in inducing the Legislature to put an end to the
existing grievance. We do not see why clergymen and honest,
earnest friends of the Church, should in many places be almost
continually harassed because the law is in a defective state.
Common sense points out that there should be some certain
and effectual means of keeping pariah churches in repair, and
of providing what is needful for Divine worship. The nation
has often contributed money for building churches, and now it
suffers them in some cases to go to decay for want of proper ri -
pairs. This ought not to be. Wherever there is a parish
church there ought to be some certain Means of upholding it
and keeping it in a decent condition. At present there are no
such certain means. In the majority of cases a Church-rate is
obtained without difficulty. In some cases it is obtained with
great struggle and difficulty. In some it is not obtained
at all. The Government being cognizant of this, ought to pro-
vide a legislative remedy.
The Chronicle contains the subjoined passage, suggested by
Mr. Ward's announced motion on the Ballot for to-night :
" Mr. Ward brings on the Ballot to-morrow ( Tuesday).
It is so long since this question has been discussed that
the debate will have something of an air of novelty. We
expect, of course, to find the sound arguments, by which the
expediency of the Ballot must always be recommended, form-
ing the chief materials of the speeches of its advocates; and those
will as necessarily be met by plenty of those stale sophisms by
which the real grounds of the selfish aristocratic opposition to this
protection of the voter have always been cloaked. But the
circumstances under which the present discussion is coming on
will of necessity give a new character to the debate. This,
like almost every other question, has assumed a new aspect,
and has quite different bearings from those of four or five years
ago. The events of this interval have deeply and generally
impressed on the Liberal party the necessity of counteracting
those evil influences of corruption and intimidation which have
been recently exercised with such fatal effect against the li-
berties of the country. Even Parliament is sensible of the
disgrace and mischiefs of bribery, and is taking measures,
which, we trust, will prove effectual, for the repression of this
evil. But the grievance of intimidation no measures now be-
fore Parliament affect to touch."
The following is from the Morning Advertiser :—" While in-
sisting, in defiance of popular clamour, upon the necessity of
extensive modification in the principle and administration of
the old Poor-law, under which pauperism had spread itself so
rapidly over the land as to threaten the absorption of the entire
wealth of the country, we never crated to denounce those ob-
noxious clauses Mr the new law which, making no distinction
between misfortune and crime, rending the holiest bond of
nature, and vesting unconstitutional and despotic powers in a
central Commission, violated the most sacred dictates of hu-
tertained of the real
tnanit y and sound policy. Whatever doubt teay have been en-
principle and object of the new Poor law,
must be dissipated by the debate of Friday evening, and espe-
cia lv by the luminous and temperate exposition that was given
of its provisions, and of the proceedings of tl.e Commissioners,
by 111 e. Sharman Crawford. The late Lord Eldon, who is not
wont to be remembered as one remarkable for the depth and
intensity of his kindly sympathies, characterised the New Poor-
law Bill as 'the most infamous Bill that was ever passed in
says--"
any Christian country;' and each succeeding year furnishes ad..
improvement in the Condition of
the coil
ditional evidence of the justice of that severe condemnation."
In reference to Sir Robert Peel's tariff, the Leeds Times
a
n'Tthr;tte wariell
not
tect
sanguinea enough to expect. A good
harvest would give a revival to trade, but after all it would be
merely temporary. There is a canker eating at the heart of
the country, which must be removed' before society can be re-
stored to health and soundness.
The Dublin Evening Post pays the following compliment to
Sir Edward Sugden's energy :—.." It need not be repeated here
that the breaker a-head—the great object of the dread, horror,
and deadly hostility of the Xail. has been, and continues to be,
the Lotd Chancellor of Ireland. Lie is a raw, it seems, that,