The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-13 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEVIS

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Petbitr OPtntOlt•

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The news from the United States is to the 23d of
Dec., being seven days later than the last arrivals.
The Secretary of the Navy in his 'Report, recom-
mends a largie increase in the number of war steamers
and heavy frigates, but none of ships of the line.
The Postmaster-General in his Report states that,
the expenditure in his department has exceeded the in-
come during the last year. But how does he propose
to cover the deficiency ? By increasing, as the Tories
talk of doing, the rates of postage? 0 no ! By reducing
the salaries of the servants of the Post-office.
The " Right of Search" question is producing quite a
ferment in the United States. From the President down
to the humblest labourer at the foot of the Rocky moun-
tains all are resolved to resist any attempt to overhaul
American merchant-vessels, or to compel them to exhibit
their papers. The question is indeed a very troublesome
one, and pernaps had better be at once abandoned.
The ship Creole, from Richmond (Virginia) to New
Orleans, with 135 slaves on board, put into Nassau
(New Providence), on the 14th ultimo, when it was
found that the slaves had, for the purpose of obtaining
their freedom, murdered the captain, the owner, and
one or two others. They then insisted that the ship
should be taken to Nassau. She was so, and all the slaves
set free according to English law, except a few who were in-
culpated in the mutiny and murder. The American Consul
demanded the slaves as cargo, but the authorities of the
island could only consider them as passengers, and there-
fore free to go where they pleased, and most of them ac-
cordingly•shipped for Jamaica. The point chiefly dis-
cussed is the ltueration of the slaves ; and the Southern
Papers are very warm upon the subject, and urge it as a
topic for the immediate consideration of Congress, as
well as the claim of search.
The Mexican Papers state that the whole of the Texan
Santa; Fe expedition, consisting of several hundred men,
had been captured ; but adviees from Galveston doubt
the truth of the report. Two arrivals from Vera Cruz
and Havannah, however, seem to confirm the capture in
a very circutnstantial manner.
The Courier and Enquirer states that the union of
Texas with the United States would be brought under
the consideration of Congress during the session.
The packet-ship Sheridan, from Liverpool for New
York, struck on the Jersey shore on the night of the
17th ult., during a snow storm, but happily was got off,
after throwing about 40 tons of zinc overboard.
From France the news is not important. The Courrier
.du Bas Rhin of the Bth inst. states, that the members of
the bar at Colmar had entered a protest against the sen-
tence pronounced by the Court of Peers m the case of
M. Dupoty, and forwarded it to M. Marie, Chairman of
the Bar of Paris.
Toulon letters mention the loss of the new French
steamer Brandon, lately equipped at Rochefort. It was
lose at Mahon, all the crew saved.
In a letter from Vienna of the 3d inst. we find the fol-
lowing news relative to Turkey :—" The elevation of the
Grand Vizier Izzet Mehemed Pacha has produced a
crisis. The Porte is dreaming of her power and glory
in former times, confirmed in those illusions, it would
appear, by false friends. She already anticipates
a re-conquest of Greece. The apprehension of an
explosion is so strong here, that Prince Metter-
nich has felt himself called upon to despatch a note
to the Divan, recommending them to abandon their
hostile demonstrations against Greece, as the Five
Powers were determined not to suffer any, attack: to be
made on thltt kingdom. The question is, can the Sultan
adopt this advice whilst he finds himself surrounded by
fanatic and ambitious Musselmans anxious to raise the
banner of former days? The opinion universally enter-
tained in the best informed political circles in this city
is, that the idea of peace, and order having been re-es-
tablished in the East is vain and premature."
PUBLIC OPINION.
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The Herald, in commenting on the Emigration ques-
nn, states that the wisdom and expediency of Govern-
Bent establishing the machinery of a national plan of
emigration, "to be worked by the voluntary and spon-
taneous agency of the people themselves, have obtained
a strong hold of the public mind."
The Post has a leading article, the object of -which is
to show that the manufacturing system may be overdone,
Our Contemporary observes, " the Manchester warp-
houses are full,. the cupboards of the Manchester work-
people are too empty. Because the masters in Leicester
have produced too many stockings, the workmen cannot
earn the means of providing their children with the stock-
jugs which they require."
The Times, in an article suggested by the death of the
131-SEO—p—Tii —Chichester, observes that the present is a
,p2.9inent
.of very serious import to the Church; and that
.411eleinent which has lain in the Establishment almost
*noticed by observers, has sprung up in the course of
,-tenye.ars into unparalleled energy, and its sudden ap-
pearance has induced a contest on which the most san-
guine must look with no slight apprehension. Our Con-
temporury adds—alluding of course to the progress of
Puseyism---" We cannot modify our feeling that in the
history of the English Church the present is one of those
Cardinal occasions which may affect its character for
centuries."
The Advertiser is of opinion that Sir Robert Peel must
be seriously einbarassed by his junction with Sir James
Graham and the Duke of Buckingham ; and adds, that
Sir James, in particular, is likely, before many months.
have passed, to be the destruction of the Tory Cabinet,
" assuming that no other cause shall expedite the
catastrophe." _

The Chronicle, speculating on the probability of the
Duke of Buckingham's surrendering his prejudices on
the.subject of the Coro-laws, and regarding it with Sir
Robert Peel's eyes, says :--‘‘ A report, which has been
current for some days, and is now very generally ere=
dited, induces us_.to think that the bargain has been

made on these terms—that we are speedily to have the
happiness of counting-the Duke of Buckingham among
the friends of free trade ; and that henceforth he is not
to be considered the mere Farmer's Friend,' but rather
The Farmer's Judicious Friend.' This report is, that
. .

it is suddenly discovered that Lord Cowley is upwards
of seventy years of age ; that an Ambassador ut Paris,
in these days of quarrelsome etiquette, ought to be in
the vigour of life and intellect ; and hat the Duke of

Buekiii'gham, the Farmer's Friend, is to be Ambassador

at Paris.'

MONEY—TRADE—COIVIDTERCE.
The annual produce of the private gold mines and gold
works in Siberia, has increased since 1829 to a weight of
8,5001 b. English.

ZOCZESIASTIC.A.X..
The new Bishop of Ossory will most likely be Dr.
Tonson: Archdeacon Stopford taking the see of Mlleloe.

MEDICAL.
The Times of Tuesday says, " Chamber's Edinburgh
Journal, in an article of great length, makes the amende
to Dr. Turnbull for its former attacks upon his system
of practice. We are induced, from information within
our own knowledge, to concur with the editors in the

conclusion at which they have arrived, that Dr. Turnbull
has, by patience and ingenuity, obtained a grasp of
certain new medicaments and methods calculated to cure
cases of deafness such as were never cured before ; and

certainly, the fact that he has made no secret of his re-
medial means, but has always invitod the investigations
of his professional brethren into their nature and efficacy,
affords, prima. facie, a very favourable presumption for
him in any controversy about the legitimacy or value
of his system.' "