The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-27 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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publtt Optnion,

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The French Chamber of Deputies was occupied on
Monday with the Right of Search question. M. Berryer
delivered a very powerful speech against it.
Several of the Paris Journals state that a Royal or-
donnance, promoting the Prince de Joinville to the rank
of Rear-Admiral was issued on Saturday. The Moniteur
is silent on the subject.
All the influence of the French Cabinet was exercised
to keep M. de Salvandy from making a fool of himself
by reading his despatches on the Etiquette question in
the Chamber of Deputies. A Government which owes
its existence to the hurling of the paving stones of Paris
at the heads of the champions of legitimacy naturally
shrunk from such a test of ridicule.

As the Cameleon, French Government steamer, was
on her way from Alexandria to Toulon, she fell in with
and took in tow, off Cape Sepet, the Mermaid, from
Liverpool for Leghorn, which had been disabled by a
storm.

The Journal du Havre mentions a rumour that the
British schooner Camilla, which'used to ply with passen-
gers during the winter between that port and Southamp-
ton, was run down a few days since in the Channel by a
three-masted vessel, in a thick fog. The Captain and all
the crew of the Camilla are said to have perished.
PUBLIC OPINION.
In an article on the subject of the Oxford Professor-
ship of Poetry, the Morning Post takes occasion to ex-
press its regret for the defeat of Mr. Williams, observing,
" We think that he and his academical friends had fair
reason to look for another result. But as to the great
theological cause with which the late contest has been
associated, the result of the late Poetry Professorship
election matters not a jot. Theological truth is not all
dependent on popularity."
The Advertiser, contrasting the rejoicings at Windsor
on Tut aday with the distresses existing at Manchester,
Bolton, and elsewhere, states that this frightful state of
things is wholly the effect of class legislation—the result
of passing laws for the benefit of the few, instead of for
the interest of the many. "It is the adoption," adds the
Advertiser, "by Parliament of those narrow monopolist
principles by the Premier, and embodied in his measures,
which has produced the appalling commercial crisis in
which the country is now placed."
The Times, alluding to the stability of our institutions,
in an article suggested by the Royal Christening, says,
" The continuance of our prosperity must be expected to
depend on the fidelity of ourselves and our rulers to our
Protestant faith ; and the prayer that our Prince may
lead the rest of his life according to the beginning, which
he made yesterday, is one in which not only every cha-
ritable Christian, and every loyal subject, but every real
patriot, must fervently join."
The subject of the principal leading article in the
Herald is the Royal Christening, wherein, speaking of
the visit of the King of rrussia, our Contemporary re-
marks that immediate political or commercial results are
not to be expected ; but if there be not hereafter a kinder
there will most certainly be a more thorough under..
standing between England and Germany, for that the
reception given to his Majesty will have, for the greater
part of Germany, a national interest.
The Chronicle contains a leading article, suggested
by a memorial addressed to Sir Robert Peel by the
American Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool, from
which we make the following extract :—" The plain
question is, shall we allow the great agricultural people
of the United States to take our manufactures ? What
a question to be mooted, while both capitalists and work-
people are in their present condition ! The discussion
should be cut short by the procession of starving thou-.
sands to church to thank God for the existence of such
a market for the products of their industry. But we
cannot choose as to the medium of payment. We must
be content to exchange for that which they have to
offer. And the hungry wretch who cannot get work or
potatoes, would be well content to labour for American
flour. You shall not,' is the reply of Monopoly."
The Hants Independent observes :—"Poor-laws and
not Corn-laws keep up the standard of wages. The
latter aggravate ten-fold the severity of the former but
Corn-laws render Poor-laws the more necessary. It is
the only protection the labourer has against starvation,
for where a legal provision for the poor exists, wages,
however excessive the supply over demand, cannot fall
so low as to produce actual famine."
The Cambridge Advertiser thus alludes to the mis-
government of the Tories:—" The late Government
cannot be justly blamed for the financial deficiencies of
the country. If the saddle is to be places upon the
right horse, the burden of the blame must rest exclu-
sively upon the Tory Governments, to whom the people
are indebted for those legislative enactments, of which
it is the professed object to advance the interests of
particular individuals, to the total exclusion of whatever
is beneficial to the great bulk of the community."
The Brighton Guardian observes, in an article sug-
gested by the late ceremony of laying the first stone of
the -Royal Exchang,e :---60 But while the heads of the State
and the public mind honour commerce, we find the Mi-
nisters, both of the Throne and of Religion, conspiring
to put an end by law to one great branch of trade. They
have passed laws to prevent as much as possible all trade
in corn between England and other countries. In doing
that, they violate the very principles they consecrated
on Monday week, and prove that they are most incon-
sistent."

We take the following from the Dublin Pilot :—" Lord
Elicit and family sailed for England on Saturday even-
ing. It is said that his Lordship has been so disgusted
with the rampant Orang.ism of the law department—
as manifested in the advice tendered to the Lord Lieu-
tenant in reference to the removahof Sheriffs Porter and
Browne—that he will not return to this country. It was
very generally. rumoured
.yesterday that a serious dif-
ference of opinion had arisen between Lord Eliot and
the Lord Lieutenant, respecting the propriety of substi-
tuting Sir Edward Borough for the present Sheriffs."

COMMERCIAL REFORM.
At a meeting of the West Hackney Anti-Corn-law
Association, held on Monday, more than 150 females
attended the demonstration against the Corn-laws.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.

At the fourth annual meeting of the Adult Instruction
Institution, held in the Commercial-road, on Monday
evening, it was stated, that since the last report, 108 ad-
ditional scholars had been admitted to the school, many
of whom on admission could neither read nor write. Of
men, 145 had attended the writing and other classes.

PUBLIC REJOICINGS.
The residence of the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian
Ambassador. at Carlton-gardens, was brilliantly illu-
minated on Tuesday night, Its base Was formed of the
Prussian motto—" Gott mit uns," " God with us," in white
lamp-.
The debtors on Tuesday in Whitecross-street prison
were feasted to the number of 382 ; in the Marsbalsea
from 45 to 50 were regaled with beer ; in the Fleet
there are about 130 ; in the Queen's Bench, 140 ; in the
City prisons the Lord Mayor's bounty was also distri-
buted ; no allowance was made in Horsemonger-gaol,
where there are about 120.

Holidays, roast beef, and plum-pudding, were on Tues-
day given to the boys and girls of the following charita-
ble institutions :—Christ's Hospital, 750 children; Welsh
Charity School, 190 ; Freemasons' School, 65 ; Philan-
thropic Society's School, 50; Yorkshire Society's School,
50; Deaf and Dumb School, 280; School for the Indigent
Blind, 140; Caledonian Asylum, 78; Marylebone School,
115; St. Ann's School, Brixton, 300; Foundling Hospital,
250 ; British Orphan School, Clapham, 100 ; Clapton
Orphan Asylum, 430 ; Westminster National School,
500; the boys of the Royal Naval Asylum, Greenwich,
as also those at Wandsworth, Clapham, Richmond,
Kingston, Kew, &c. &c.