The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-31 00:00:00

FOREIGN,

Count Pelet (de la Lozere), Peer of France, and
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, died at. Paris on
Wednesday, in his 83d year. Count de la Ferronays,
formerly Minister for Foreign Affairs in France, died at
Rome on the 18th inst.

The Moniteur publishes a return of the negroes
emancipated In the French colonies from the close of
1830 until 1842, from which it results that their number
was— In Martinique
In duadaloupe 11,531
In French Guiana
In Bourbon

Total in January, 1842... 38,517
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Chronicle has a leading article on the subject of
Dr. Gilbert's appointment to the Bishopric of Chiches-
ter, wherein our Contemporary observes that this ap-
pointment is a distinct declaration of the hostility of the
present Ministry to the doctrines of the Puseyites—a
most intelligent advertisement to the world, that while
Sir Robert Peel is in power, Puseyism will not be the
road to preferment in the Church. The Chronicle adds,
that this will settle the question of Puseyism.
The Times praises Sir Robert Peel for his appoint-
ment of Mr. Cresswell to the vacant Judgeship, ob-
serving, "a new election must, of course, take place for
Liverpool, and although the existence of the Ministry
would not be at all affected by the loss of the seat, yet
a severe moral blow would be inflicted on Conservatism,
were the Liberal party successful in returning their can-
didate. Sir R. Peel, therefore, runs a risk in enabling
the Whig party again to contest the representation of
the town ; but this does not for a single instant influ-
ence his Government in the selection of a person whom
they consider in every way competent to administer the
laws of the land."
The Advertiser remarks, in an article on the subject of
our commercial restrictions :—" Let the cry of industry
be not for short time, but for plentiful food—not for mo-
nopoly, but for freedom of trade—not for restrictive laws,
but ;or fair competition. Artificial regulations are com-
plicated and injurious. Our national level will speedily
and certainly be attained by the withdrawal a the un-
righteous interference of legislation. What that level
will be, it needs but little consideration to determine."
The Post, alluding to the efforts of the Puseyites to
strengthen the discipline of the Church, says :—" At
the very time Wten it is quite evident that the greatest
exertions of the Church are necessary; when an extra-
ordinary spirit of mental activity is abroad, which must
produce immense results for good or for evil, according
as it is guided by a devotional and reverential spirit or
the contrary, the religious world would banish from the
field of labour those who are willing to devote great
learning and great talents, and to sacrifice anything or
everything, for the good cause of the Christian Church."
The .Herald comments on the Times' recent support
of Puseyism, as a proof of its tergiversation, and ob-
serves, "there are not in the whole range of modern
periodicals any lectures in which the doctrine of sacri-
ficing principles to expediency, and the justification of
means by their proposed ends, can be studied with greater
effect than in the pages of the Tracts and- the broad
sheet of the Times. The political tergiversations of the
Journalist are, so to speak, kept in countenance by the
religious backslidings of the Tractarians.?
MONEY—TRADE—CONIMPRCE.
From late inquiries into the condition of the working
population of Stockport, it has been ascertained that the
heads of no less than 1,150 families who are destitute of
work, were brought from the agricultural districts.
The hosiery and lace workmen at Nottingham are
at this moment in a state of great excitement, conse-
quent upon the attempted reduction by the master-
manufacturers of their wages.
No less than 6,375 persons were carried down by the
Great Western Railway on the day of the christening.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
Mr. Braidwood has been busily investigating the dock-
yards of Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, and Ports-
mouth, to erect water-works, and whatever else may be
necessary for their defence from fire. Plymouth and
Pembroke have not yet been visited.
NAVAL AND PIZEILITATLY.
A Dutch galliot, sugar laden, from the West Indies
was lost on the coast of Dungeness on Friday morning
the Crew, of seven, were fortunately saved.
Orders have been given for preparations to be in-
stantly commenced for- a grand review in Hyde Park,
expected to be on a scale equally grand with that
which took place before the Allied Sovereigns in 1814.
A boat with nine men was lost off Derry a week
ago ; another boat, with ten hands, is reported to have
perished at Dungloe.

LAW AND PO LICE,
At Bow-street on Friday Michael Haplon, a City
policeman, was fined 31., for assaulting, on the 24th
instant, William Crispin, one of the keepers in St.
James's Park, and also obstructing him in the perform-
ance of his duty.
A young girl of the name of Sarah Lewes, in great
distress, applied to Mr. Maltby at Marlborough-street,
for his interference with the authorities in St. James's
parish, that they might take her into the workhouse.
Nicholson, the relieving officer, having been sent for
stated that he knew nothing about the girl, but he would
do as the officer of St. George's had done and give her
a shilling to go and sleep that night in the parish from
-hich she had come last. " That will not do for me,"
Magistrate, " you must take her in ' now,' and
if you do* not take her into the house immediately, will
enforce stn.:-tly the provisions of the Act of Parliament,
and inflict the .4'1411 lialty upon you. The destitute
'towed to perish in the streets, or
tho Petty squabbles of different
poor are not to be
ana took the girl with him.
bandied about through
parishes." The officer obeyb..4'
of the cab No. 1,121 was
At Union-hall, the driver
fined 20s. for four offences—nan:.3l3:4ir being intoxicated,
for a man on the
box without permission of his fare, .
for driving too fast, and lastly for de,:nanding 6s. more
than his legal fare. He was ordered, of ;tnurse, to re-
fund the over-charge, and -at the same time his license
was impounded.

PINE ARTS.
Several ancient tombs hi Lye just been discovered at
Malta, containing urns, lac .hryrnatories, and sepulchral
lamps. In one of them, net Civita Vecchia, a quantity
of pulverised dust was found, and among it the strange
relic of a v hale, nearly sevc al feet in length, with frag-
ments of other bones. To hind a monster of this species
in the centre of an islanct in the Mediterranean sea-
waters, where the living whale was never found, is ac-
counted very extraordiivary by the Maltese geologists.
LITERARY JUTE SCZENTITIC.
The moon exhibited a very beautiful phenomena on
rriday morning in E pgland, which was 91served 0149

We may well say with a French Journalist that the
question of the census appears fated to raise storms. Of
, the tempests produced by it in the provinces our file for
the last year contains a painful and disastrous record.
It excited in the French Chamber -of Deputies, on Wed-
nesday a hurricane hardly less disastrous than agitated
so long the quiet city of Toulouse. When the article in
the Address relating to it was under discussion, the
Minister of the Interior boasted of the comparative po-
pularity of the measure. Another Deputy rose to cor-
rect him, confusion ensued, and the President putting on
his hat rushed out of the Chamber. We will here quote
the observations of a few of Thursday's journals relative
to this affair :
The Courrier Francais says :—" Amongst the most
dramatic, if not the most important, incidents of the
sitting on Wednesday, was the circumstance which in-
terrupted the studied speech of the Minister of the In-
terior. K Duchatel boasted of having obtained the con-
sent, or rather the silence, of 37,000 municipal councils
to the operations of the census, when M. Dussolier de-
manded to speak in order to controvert the Minister's
assertions. The President and the Chamber had a right
to object to this interruption, but after having authorised
this digression, the matter ought to have been suffered to
take its course. The trial was too severe for the impar-
tiality of the Centres, and for the firmness of M. Sauzet.
They permitted M. Dussolier to state, that when it was
falsely reported that the municipal council of Noutron had
agreed to the form of taking the census, the Minister of
the Interior presented 500 f. to the charitable fund of the
town, but when the Hon. Deputy wished to add that the
fact having been contradicted, the gift was withdrawn,
the cries of the Ministerial Deputies drowned his voice.
We shall not'attempt to describe the scene which en-
sued. M. Dussolier scaling the tribune to maintain his
right—the President called upon by the C entres, and
calling the orator to order—the Opposition alone pre-
serving a calm and dignified demeanour, in the midst of
the awful confusion which prevailed—the Deputies, in
fine, quitting their places, and thus compelling M. Sauzet
to adjourn a debate which he was incompetent to direct.
The President's incapacity was never exhibited in a more
prominent manner, and the Ministers had reason to re-
gret the concession they made to their equivocal friends
of the left centre, by adopting such a candidate."
The Presse after regreting the affair remarks :—" In
order to do all parties justice, we must observe that
we have already accused M. Sauzet of being deficient
in the most essential qualities of a President, and it
would appear that he was determined to give the
most extraordinary proof of the justice of our
observation. His conduct during the disturbance in the
Chamber was beneath description. Never was any Pre-
sident so deficient in energy. M. Sauzet exercises no
influence over the assembly. It was solely his fault that
the public time was totally lost on Wednesday, and in
this assertion we shall be borne out by the testimony of
every member who was present."
The Univers observes that the question of the census
is decidedly fatal to good order. It excited a Parlia-
mentary disturbance in the Chamber of Deputies on
Wednesday, as it excited popular riots throughout the
country. The debate was proceeding heavily, and ap-
peared about to close, when a scene took place in the
Chamber nearly as scandalous as that which occurred
last year during the debate on the address. A Member
of the Opposition, M. Dussolier, having endeavoured to
keep possession of the tribune against the President's
declaration that he was out of order, M. Sauzet was at
length obliged to put on his hat and adjourn the debate.
The Moniteur Parisien states, that out of 223 National
Guards composing the company of which M. Dupoty,
the editor of the Journal du Peuple, was an officer, 85
only presented themselves to elect an officer in his room.
Of these 53 voted for M. Dupoty. " The Mayor could
not proclaim the validity of this election," continues the
Moniteur Parisien, " for the very best reason, M.
Dupoty having incurred the loss of civil rights by the
sentence of the Court of Peers, he was no longer entitled
to serve in the National Guard as an officer, or even as
a private." It must gall the King excessively to find, on
the part of his darling National Guards, such an open
contempt for the assumed prerogatives of the Cour; of
Peers.