The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-28 00:00:00

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Madrid accounts indicate the dissolution of the
Cortes as inevitable, and a modification of the Minis-
try as likely. Nothing, however, is certain on this
subject till the return of the Regent.
Letters from Athens of the 7th inst. announce that
the new Minister of Finance, M. Lillevergo, having
become insane, the King had not yet been able to
supply his place. All those to whom his Majesty had
offered that department refused to accept it. "The
Treasury," say these letters, "is in a state of bank-
ruptcy; the public functionaries have not been paid
for the last three months. A crisis is fast approaching
in Greece."
The Leipsic Gazette of the 20th inst. states, that
notwithstanding it is more than a year since a Royal
ordinance appeared at Berlin limiting the power of
the censors of the public press, no mitigation of their
severity had ensued.
Accounts from Alexandria of the 6th inst. state,
that Mehemet Ali was still in Lower Egypt, and not
expected to return to Alexandria for some time. His
son, Ibraham Pacha, had arrived at Cairo. The
mortality continued among the cattle. The Pacha,
it is said, inteads to purchase the Great Western to
convert her into a steam-frigate.
PLTSZIO OPINION.
Iu reference to the President's Message, the Times
says :—" We have seldom had occasion to peruse a
document in which the feebleness of the individual by
whom it is promulgated, and the foibles of the people
to whom it is addressed, are more conspicuously dis-
played than they are in the last Message of the Presi-
dent of the United States. To assert that the Ame-
rican States under their free and wise institutions
are rapidly advancing towards the consummation, of
the high destiny which an over-ruling Providence
seems to have marked out for them'—that the Ame-
ricans have a Government, the strongest in the world,
because emanating from the popular will, and firmly
rooted in the affections of a great and free people,
and whose fidelity to its engagements has never been
questioned'—and that the name of General Jack-
son was placed, by the defence of New Orleans,
amongst those of the greatest captains of the age'—
is to provoke a smile throughout the civilized earth,
and to speak in a tone which is the more ludicrous,
because it is contrasted with the humiliating facts
which even this pompous discourse cannot altogether
conceal or contradict. 'With some few exceptions,
there is hardly a paragraph in this Message which
does not convey some arrogant assumption very
ill-suited to the present condition of American so-
ciety and American credit ; and, however reluctant
we may be to pass a severe or unfavourable judg-
ment on the concerns of our friends on the other
side of the Atlantic, it is impossible to withhold
the expression of our dissent from many of the
propositions laid down by President Tyler for
the edification of the Congress and the nation.
The part, however, of the President's Message which
will excite the greatest interest in this country, as
well as in .the United States, is that which relates to
the state of the finances of the Union. From the
estimates which it contains, it would appear that the
principal defalcation in the revenue is expected to
arise on the present quarter. Indeed, if these round
statements are to be relied upon, the decrease in the
Customs for the fourth quarter is equal to the whole
anticipated decrease on the revenue of the year. Our
limits, forbid us to enter to-day upon the discussion
of the scheme which, under the name of a national
exchequer, is put forward with the hope of improving
the currency and retrieving the credit of the country
But, whatever be the merits of the project, it can
hardly be doubted that no such scheme can be suc-
cessfully carried into execution, except by a Govern-
ment and a party of overwhelming and incontestible
power. That power, it is needless to add, Mr. Tyler
and his friends never possessed; and already the ap-
proaching elections of Congress and of the future
President have roused political feeling in America to
a height which must at least suspend all effectual
legislation on these important subjects."
The Herald thus speaks of the American President,
Tyler The present position of President Tyler is
most singular; accidentally elevated to the Presiden-
tial office, when therein he quickly deprived himself
of the support of the party by which he .had been
elected to the Vice-Presidency—and if, his motive for
deserting the Whigs were to secure his re-election by
the Democrats he has failed to secure their support,
and the Whigs appear to be still numerically the
stronger party in Congress had they,a chief, to com-
bine and govern them. The Presidentis now isolated
from both parties, and is furiously attacked by the
ultras of either ; possessed of a strong will, decided
personal opinions and unbounded courage, and un-
fettered by party connections, he . has shaken party
combinations in the Union to their foundation with.;
out gaining personal advantages, and the certainty
that under no probable contingency will Mr. Tyler
be re-elected makes his presidency one of more than
ordinary struggle in the republic, and of tumult, cons
fusion, disorder and intrigue in Congress. The
misery of all this is, that during this preparation fot
the next presidential election, this violence, this dis-
cord, and these intrigues, national questions of the
utmost importance and principles, full of future hap-
piness or wretchedness, are in agitation ; and the ne-
cessities of the country do not produce one man of
commanding intellect or superior intelligence. To
us, distant spectators indeed, bad as Mr, Tyler's op-
ponents assert him to be, there seems as much, pro-
bably more, sterling good sense in his views, than in
those of any other politician in the Union."
The Post has the following remarks, suggested by
the American President's Message:" With respect
to the new American tariff and the probabilities of its
early modification, it may be right for us to utter a
word or two of caution to English manufacturers.
There is no doubt that the free trade party in the
States was in a majority at the late State elections,
and that a re-action has set in against the opinions,
on the strength of which President Harrison was
elected. But we must not calculate too confidently
that, therefore, the next President will be a Locofoco
President, and that Congress will abolish the import
duties. Political re-actions, we beg- to observe are
(taking the widest range) things of about semi-
annual occurrence in America ; and no man knows
how many there will be between this year of grace
and the next presidential election at the close
of 1844. Another important consideration is, that
the Democratic party is divided within itself.
Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Van Buren are already an-
nounced as rival candidates on that interest, and even
Mr. Tyler himself may try his chance on the same
professions. Disputes of this kind are usually settled
by a convention of delegates, a majority of whom fix
on the man who is to stand.' But it is now ru-
moured that whether Calhoun or Van Buren be the
one chosen, the friends of the other will not abide the
decision ;and thus, though in an absolute majority, it is
just possible that the Democrats, after all, will not
bring in their man, and that some one favourable to
protection will be elected. This, of course, is merely
problematical; but we thought it only fair to state
the facts of the case, that our merchants and manu-
facturers, engaged in the American trade, may form
their own judgments, and watch the progress of
events."

MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.
On Saturday next the Liverpool cotton-brokers
make up their annual statement of imports, &c. of
cotton during the year, from January to December ;
from sources at hand it appears in the imports there
has been an increase this year of 69,968 bales, and in
the exports, 18,680 bales : the increase for consumption
is about 600 bales weekly.
It is calculated that if the opium trade were en-
tirely suppressed, there would be an actual loss of
15,000,000 or 16,000,000 dollars per annum as re-
gards the direct trade with China; besides several
millions more for which produce is obtained in the
Archipelago.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
A new police-court is about to be erected at the
Newington end of Kennington-lane, and is intended
to relieve the Union-hall Magistrates, and it is to
have a new district assigned to it. The cost of the
site will be 6001., and the contractor is to complete
it by March, 1844.
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LAW' AND POLICE.
John Frederick Fulford was charged at Lambeth-
street with stealing 401. in notes and silver from his
employer, Mr. Robert Norrish, baker, Ratcliffe-high-
way. He was fully committed.
Michael Barret, a coal-whipper, was charged at the
Thames-office with beating several policemen of the
K division in a very brutal manner, and sentenced
to one month's imprisonment.

X um ARTS.
A handsome monument was last week erected to
the memory of Mungo Park, the enterprising tra-
veller, in the burial-place of the family at Galashiels.
The inscription is—"ln Momory of Mungo Park, the
celebrated African Traveller, who perished in the
Interior of Africa in 1805, aged 35; also, Mungo
Park, of the 11.E.1.C.5."

A white marble statue of Mme. Malibran has just
been placed in the mausoleum which M. de Beriot
had erected in the Cemetery of Lacken, to the memory
of the celebrated cantatrice.

TELEATIZICAL.
The drama in Manchester has been revived, by the
opening of the Theatre Royal, under the manage-
ment of Air. Robert Roxby, a comedian of consider-
able talent. Shakspeare's play of As You Like It
began tke campaign on Saturday.
CO URT—FASMION.A.IILE.
Viscount and Viscountess Howick, and the Earl of
Durham and the Ladies Lambton, have arrived at
Howick Hall, on a visit to the Earl and Countess
Grey, from Lambton Castle.
The Marquis of Granby, M.P. has returned to