The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-06 00:00:00

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An advertisement appears in The Sun this day
on the subject of the Corn-laws, to which we
call the attention of our readers. The time is
now come to make a great struggle for the abo-
lition of this oppressive tax, and we confidently
trust that the Association will find their unwea-
ried exertions duly appreciated by the public.

COLONEL THOMPSON AND THE OTOS-
Nom"'Es.—We do not know -
that we should have noticed
the O'Connorites, or their doings, but for their recent
e would'Thompson
has,
safe from the attacks of a
it seems, been honoured with the
conduct towards a man who, we should have thought, of
all the public characters of the age,
party professing to advocate
tharast
the cause of the non-electors. c
Why, if there be one man who, more
moraebtuhsae of
than another,
S
made sacrifices of every kind in his consistent devo-
tion at the altar of popular freedom—that man is
Colonel Thompson. Yet he is denounced as a traitor and
renegade by this tool of the Aristocracy, for having
lectured against the Corn-laws--a question with which
his name was gloriously identified fifteen years before
the Charter was framed or thought of. We are half-
inclined to regret that the author of the Catechism of the
Corn laws should have condescended to notice and ex-
pose the falsehoods of the Northern Star. We think he
might safely have left his well-earned reputation for ho-
nesty to have shielded him from the assaults of such de- ,
tractors. We are right glad, however, that they hare
over-shot their mark, in aiming their poisoned darts at
such a man, believing that it will do more than anything
to open the eyes of the working-class to the true cha-
racter and designs of thefellows who are doing the bid-
ding of O'Connor and, his brother landlords.—Sheffield
Iris. - --..77,4 ~.- .

SUMMARY OF NEWS'

AND
Public eaptlttost.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

Citizens are no longer admissible to the august pre-
sence of the Citizen-King, without disfiguring them-
selves with the mummer costumes of old monarchies.
Thus, on New Year's day a deputation of citizens was
denied access to the King because they did not wear
court dresses ! There were no Court dresses in fashion
during the Three Glorious Days !
The absence of all the Members of the Russian Lega-
tion from the King of the French's Levee on New Year's
day, has greatly irritated and annoyed not only the
French Court, but the French Ministerial Press.
The following remarks of the Courrier Fran-
cais embody the sentiments •of the Court :
" The Emperor of Russia has adopted a singular method
for showing his political antipathy for the French Go-
vernment. The Russian Minister excused himself from
attending the King's levee with the other members of
the diplomatic body.under the plea of indisposition, but
was that a reason why no other member of the Russian
Embassy could be present ? Was it on account of indis-
position that the Russian residents in Pads, so numerous
last year at the Tuileries, refrained from showing them-
selves this year ? Or was it not in consequence of orders
received from their Sovereign ?"
The Ministerial Presse has the following upon the same
subject :—" M. de Kisseleff was not among the members
of the corps diplornatique who went to the Tuileries on
Saturday. This absence has given rise to interpretations
which,if they had any foundation, would be too puerile
France and Russia cannot forget that they are in the
first rank of the Great Powers, and that the whole world
has its eyes constantly fixed on them both."
The Constitutionnel, M. Thiers' organ, thus notices
the slight offered to the King :—" The absence of the
Russian Minister from the presentation of the address of
the corps diplomatique occasioned much surprise. The
Minister had excused himself on the ground of indispo-
.sition ; bu what is no less surprising is, that no member
of the Embassy was sent to supply his place, nor did any
Russian subject require to be presented to the King.
These facts have given rise to numerous comments.
The most accredited version is that the Minister's in-
disposition and the conduct of the Russian subjects
were both prescribed by instructions from St. Peters-
burgh."
M. Gaugain, the editor and proprietor of the Pilote de
Calvados, has been sentenced by the Police Court of
Caen to pay a fine of 500 f., and to imprisonment for one
month, for having published in his journal an account of
the deliberations of the Court of Peers
The National states that the receptions at the Tuile-
ries on New Year's Day were-cold beyond example. It
was remarked, according to that journal, that the visi-
tors were less numerous than on any preceding year,
and that there was less enthusiasm than usual even
amongst the official attendants. " The King himself
appeared affected at this change, and at the absence of
the Members of the Chamber of Deputies, of whom not
more than forty were present besides those who attended
officially."

PUI3LIC OPINION.

The Times contains a leading article on the subject of
African slavery, the object of which is to show that by
not taking a decided part, America renders herself
liable to the charge of being friendly to the disgraceful
traffic, notwithstanding the bouncing disclaimers of her
Ministers in Congress. " Should America," adds the
Times, " unhappily determine neither to exert her own
powers, nor to co-operate with other countries in sup.
pressing the abominations •of the stave trade, she may
rely on it that the common object of the European States
will not brook to be thwarted by any ordinary restive-
ness. A s4ngle war with Great Britain she has already
tried; a war on her part with all Europe will be a novelty."
The Post labours hard to prove, in an article suggested
by some comments that recently appeared in a French
print respecting Puseyisin, that Mr. Newman, and the
Puseyites generally, so far from being favourably dis-
posed towards the Church of Rome, are,in fact, strongly
opposed to its tenets, and have earnestly protested in
their " Tracts for the Times " against the Romish errors.
The Herald, referring to a strange article that ap-
peared in its columns on the 21st ult., respecting the'
Exchequer bill fraud, and in which it spoke of rumours
implicating certain distinguished and noble individuals in
that fraud, now makes its retractation in the following
terms :—" The result of inquiries which we subsequently
instituted on the subject, now leads us to the conviction
that we have been imposed upon, and that such rumours
had gained no such circulation as our informant confi-
dently stated."
The Chronicle, in an article on the subject of Lord
Ashburton's proposed mission to the United States, ob-
serves that the objections in the City to his Lordship's
appointment, so far from abating, are urged with more
force than ever.

Alluding to the, Government Commission on the Ex-
chequer bill affair, the Advertiser states :—" We find
everything being done by the Government to render the
promised investigation as fruitless as possible."