The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-20 00:00:00

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The Courrier Francais states, that Count Pahlen will
not return to Paris to resume his functions as Ambassa-
dor to the Court of France. Letters from St. Peters
burgh leave no doubt upon the Emperor's intentions on
that subject. The Russian Government would merely
retain a Charge d'Affaires at Paris. It is added, that
M. Cassimir Perier (the French Minister at the Russian
Court) finds his position so unpleasant at St. Peters-
burgh that he has requested to be recalled.
The French Government is much displeased with M.
de Salvandy's precipitate departure from Madrid, and
still more with his absurd conduct while there. He him-
self so dreads the ridicule of being pointed at as a diplo-
matic harlequin, that he is said to be quite ill in conse-
quence.
In the Chamber of Peers on Tuesday, the editor of
the Siecle appeared at the bar in conformity with the re-
solution of tho Chamber. After having heard the de-
fence of the editor, the President sentenced him to im-
prisonment for ono month, and a fine of 10,000 f. This is
indeed sharp practice. Imprisonment for a month and a
fina of 10,000 f, for speaking the truth of the Chamber of
Peers I The people of France richly deserve to be made
slaves and wear the garb of felons, if they tolerate such
monstrous abuses of the charter by a conclave of political
apostates so utterly contemptible as the Chamber of Peers!
The Univers contains a letter from Cayenne of the
Ist of November last, announcing that "the proceedings
instituted against the Captain of a French slave ship,
captured off Bahia in September by the British ship-of-
war Rose, were progressing with activity. Upwards of
200 letters had been found concealed in the, hold, with
orders for bales (meaning children) of 12 years of age."
The Univers expresses astonishment that the Govern-
ment should allow a case of that nature to be tried in a
colony where slavery exists, where the magistrates are
slave-owners, and whero the inhabitants daily deplore
their inability to recruit their black labourers.'
The investments in the Savings' Banks of Paris, on
the 16th and 17th inst., amount-pa. to 1,014.733 f.. and the
sums withdrawn to 581,000 f. This excess of lodgments
was, we are told, caused by " the funding of the New•
Year's gifts received by the lower and middle classes."
From Madrid, a letter of the 11th inst. states that
Count de Salvandy's avant courier was robbed at a short
distance from the city gates by highwaymen, who took
from him the money with which he was provided to pay
the postilions as far as Bayonne. He returned and ap-
prised the Count of his danger, who immediately applied
for, and was provided with, an escort of five hussars.
The Augsburgh Gazette of the 14th inst., announces
the departure of Prince Paul Esterhazy frem Vienna for
London on the 9th inst. The Prince was commissioned
to present a congratulatory address to Queen Victoria
on the birth of the Prince of Wales.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Advertiser has a leading article on the
subject of the insidious encroachments of Puseyism ; in
which, after stating, that the Paseyitee will be signally
defeated in the approaching contest for the Oxford Pro-
fessorship of Poetry, our Contemporary goes on to say
that " one of their present most cherished designs is to
overrun the whole of Scotland with Puseyite, alias Roman
Catholic, principles in their most despotic acceptation.
Of course, they are too deeply versed in the arts of
Jesuitism to do this openly and honestly ; they know
that in that case the Scotch would reject their proposals
with abhorrence. The contemplated Episcopal. College
in Perth is one of the moans to be employed with the
view of Romanizing Scotland."
The Chronicle is of opinion that Government will do
nothing, as regards an alteration. in the Corn-laws ; and
says that the refusal of all concession is supposed to be
mainly attributable to the Duke—not of Buckingham—
but of Wellington I " Thus much," adds the Chronicle,
" we may, we think, be sure of, that a fortnight ago the
chances were in favour of a relaxation of. the.inonopoly
of food ; and that now there is no great likelilioaof its
being ever seriously attempted by the Government. Tho'
hopes of a relaxation, however, have.,been ;so ,general
and so strong, that much and serious AliaaPpointment
will be felt when it is believed that Government_means to
do nothing in the matter."
The; Herald states that the affair of the Creole may be
reasonably regarded as a step towards the abolition of
slavery in the;United States, as it will increase the risk
of the slave trade now carried on along the American
coasts ; and that the success of the mutiny will doubtless
stimulate similar risings.
The Times insists that the lower classes have a great
fancy for aristocratic Government ; observing that
" though very democratical in some of their theories, they
are doggedly aristocratical in their habits. They are
jealous of their superiors, but they are much more jealous
of their equals. They do not much like to be governed
at all ; but if any thing so odious as a Government is
perforce to be endured, it must be one conducted by. per-
,
sons who were born to it."
The Post renews its attack on the question of Corn-
law Repeal, and remarks :—" Let the price of corn be
permanently lowered, and down must come, permanently,
the price of meat. The price of meat being permanently
lowered expensive modes of rearing.cattle must be aban-.
doned—hence the abandonment of our inferior soils would
be inevitable." _

We take the following from the Worcestershire Clu•o-
-nicle---" While we look with the deepest sorrow and
anxiety at the long annals of wretchedness and the con-
comitant catalogue of crime which each succeeding day
serves to develop, we cannot but attribute the greater
part of this misery, and the vast amount of guilt it en-
genders, as flowing primarily from those laws which
cramp the commercial enterprise of our country, dimi-
nish the demand for our manufactures, by preventing
their being exchanged with foreigners for the produce of
the soil, and thus crowd the labour market with unem-
ployed workmen.
The York Courant thus remarks on the heartless
conduct of the Tory Government.—" There is a sort of
heartlessness in the Government, seeming to be all alert
to the gay and the festive, whilst a censurable and
almost unaccountable state of apathy is manifested to
the dark part of the picture. Their policy at present
seems to be, to keep the evil in the distance—to throw
veil over it—and to attempt to conceal the fact 1 But
this will not avail, and if the deaf ear is still turned to
those honest men who give them every information as
to the true state of the case, they may expect to hear
the groan of anguish rising above the noise of rejoicing,
and calling in tones that will not be resisted, for that
succour for which they have a just claim at the hands of
their rulers !"
MONEY—IMADICI—COMIVIERCE.
Distress in Manchester and its vicinity is greatly in-
creasing. At Skipton, out of a population of 16,610,
there are 4,038 individuals subsisting on an average of
only 17d. per week a head, and 1,697 on an average of
only 1044. per week.
'the condition of Wigan is becoming much worse, and
the reduction of wages increasing. Two of the largest
cotton-spinners have given notice of an intention to reduce
them, as also the agent of Lord Belcarras. The colliers
on his Lordship's estate exceed 2,000 in number.
The now Austrian bank-notes are are said to be al-
most too fine and beautiful for bills of credit. The en-
gravings on them, by the principal Viennese artists,
equal the steel-plates of our English Annuals, and in-
crease in beauty in proportion to the sums they represent.
Further examination into the affairs of Messrs. Hop-
kins and Drewett's bankruptcy, at Arundel, has been
adjourned to the 14th of next month ; the total amount
of debts proved, to the present time, is 32,4181. 6s. 10d.
The quantity of sugar brought direct to the port of
Bristol from the 'West Indies, has been so inadequate to
the demand, that from 2,000 to 3,000 hogsheads have
arrived there from London and Liverpool.
A crowded meeting of the working-men of Leeds was
held on Tuesday, when a resolution was passed, thank-
ing the Short-time Committees of the West Riding of
Yorkshire, and the deputation for their conduct in the
conference with Ministers on the Ten-hours-bill, and
other measures calculated to benefit the working-classes.
A Chartist amendment was moved, censuring the depu-
tation for not pressing on Ministers the subject of the
People's Charter, but negatived.
The best bread at the present moment is dearer in
London than Paris by fourpence, and the fraction of a
farthing, the four-pound loaf; and the second-best three-
pence halfpenny and one-fifth of a farthing.
NAVA.X. AND
.The Provost and Council of Wick have resolved to
erect a lighthouse on the Craighead, Elginshire, and a
beacon on the Covesea Skorries.
The 13th Light Dragoons have been selected to act as
a guard of honour to the King of Prussia.