The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-31 00:00:00

S PARY G S

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" Who runs may rend.'

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By accounts brought from America by the Colum-
bia steamer, we learn that Sir Charles Bagot has.pro-
rogued the Provincial Parliament of Canada to the
18th November, and that Mexico had recommenced
war against Texas.
Dr. Lardner was lecturing in Philadelphia, on the
subject of the French Revolution.—A reward of two
hundred dollars has been offered by the Governor of
Illinois, for the apprehension of the celebrated Mormon
prophet, Joe Smith, the blacksmith.
All the Paris papers have been received but their
contents are not important.
The City of Rouen has expressed, through its legal
representatives, its opinion on thegreat question which
at present agitates French industry. The Chamber of
Commerce has decided on a course by which it pro-
nounces unanimously against the project of a Cus-
toms' Union with Belgium.
Count d'Arnim, the Prussian Minister, had an au-
dience on ThurSday of the King at St. Cloud, at
which he presented to his Majesty.. letters from his
Soveieign, announcing the marriage( of the Princess
Maria, daughter of Prince 'William of Prussia, with
the Prince Royal of Bavaria. A letter from the King
of Bavaria to his Majesty Louis Philippe, on the same
occasion, has been delivered by the Bavarian Charge
d'Affaires to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In a report made to the Governor-General from
General de Lamm iciere, dated from the bivouac'of
-Teneda, Oct. 13, the General relates a series of
unimportant affairs, all of which, however, were of a
nature to command the submisSion of the tribes which
had resisted, and he annpunces the capture of a very
large quantity of grain, not less, he says, that 40,000
quintals.
Dwarkanauth Tagore was received by the King of
the French on Friday. His Majesty was graciously
pleased on this occasiNn to dispense with the usual
Court etiquette, and did the Babuo the honour of ad-
mitting him into his family circle— After introducing
the illustrious Oriental to her Majesty the Queen, to
the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Duke and
Duchess of Nemours, and the Princess Clementine,
the King led his guest through. the various apartments
of the Palace, which was specially lit up for the occa-
sion. The :King during the evening conversed very
fully on the condition of India and the present state
of Indian affairs, during which his Majesty displayed
so intimate. an acquaintance with the subject as to
excite the Bahoo's admiration. . .

A. letter from ~ Madrid, Oct. 22, states that Don
Francis de Paula has requested to be allowed to re-
turn to Madrid, but his request has not been Complied
with.

Weyse, a, celebrated musical composer, died re-
cently at Copenhagen, aged 70.

PUBLIC OPXNION.

The Timm, speaking of the recommendation of the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners to suppress the Welsh
diocese of St. Asaph, says :--" We have been assured
'by benificed clergymen of the diocese of St. Asaph,
that if anything at all is to be done in the pre-
sent condition of the diocese towards restor-
ing, throughout the people, the true principles and
practice of the Church,—or; in the words of the Com-
missioners, towards promoting her efficiency, —it
must and can be done only by the Bishops. The
Welch poor, and among them even the most violent
Dissenters, entertain less prejudice against the office
and intervention &:aßishop, as being a scriptural office,
than they do against any other point of Church prac •
tice ; and when we see what has been effected, and in
how short a time, by the ability, the diligence, and
the zeal of Bishop Thirwall, we can well believe
that the episcopal office, in every point of view and
in every plate important, is in Wales the great instru-
ment by which the .efficiency of the Church is to be
promoted and restored—the last and sole support of
truth and unity."
We quote the following from the Chronicle :
" Heartily do we wish that we could induce our fel-
low-subjects of every grade, condition, and distinc-
tion in politics to drop for a brief space their party
views and party predilections, and to look ' with a
single eye' on that now really appalling question—
the condition of the country. For assuredly the con-
dition of the country is peculiar : it is more, it is
really alarming. The harvest is past, the summer
is ended, and we are not saved.' The new Corn-law
has done its worst, as well as its best, for this season.
The new tariff is at work, doing more damage to
minor tradesmen than good to the great bulk of the
consumers, the cause of which is its main and mani-
fest omissions. The importers of foreign cattle are
not gaining what our home graziers are losing. And
though wheat has fallen so greatly in price, bread has
not yet so diminished in price as to prove a, general
boon to the community. Trade is paralysed, yet
money is abundant. There is little speculation, yet
the means of forcing speculation are said to be a
drug in the market.
The Post says :—" The address which has just been
published from the Afagistrates of Tipperary to their
Lord Lieutenant proves the gratifying fact that one
year of firm Conservative Government—of a Govern-
ment whose object was not to conciliate a faction, but
to administer the law to a nation—has effected what
ten years of timid Whiggery, with all its flattery of
the worst propensities of the rabble, all its tacit con-
nivance at treasonable projects, all its misapplication
of patronage, and its general gaol deliveries could not
accomplish, namely, the tranquillization of that county
whose turbulence has been until now a stanoing re-
proach to the inefficiency of the law, and a corroding
ulcer in the side of the sister country."

MONEY-TRIIDE-COMIKERCE.
At Bradford, Rochdale, and Wigan, trade during
the past week has been brisk : at Halifax and ,Leeds
there has been no improvement: at Nottingham busi-
ness is greatly depressed: and at Manchester the cloth-
market is lower than at any other period during the
last four years.
The schooner Friends, of Carlisle, with four hands
on board, was wrecked and totally lost, with all its
crew in the Solway Frith on the 21st.
• 'ECCLESIASTICAL.
The n'ew Bishop of Meath, Dr. Edward Stopford,
is the third of the bishops of his family, who during
its last three generations, have successively held the
Bishopric of Cloyne. He is grandson to the Dr".
James Stopford of whom such honourable mention is
made in the letters of Pulteney, Swift, Gay, and Lord
Bolingbroke.
The amount already subscribed to defray the ex-
pense of restoring York Minster exceeds 5,500/.
Lord Hotham, M.P., has transmitted a subscription
of 1001.

NAVAL AND VIIMXTARY.
The last wreck of the Niger expedition has been
extricated from the fatal river, and the people at the
Model Farm, with the relics of the property, were
brought to Fernando Po.
LAW AND POLICE,
From a Parliamentary return, showing the decrease
of executions of late years, it appears that from 1828-
30 there were executed 52 criminals; from 1831-33,
12 ; from 1834.36, none.
The first Commission of Lunacy, under the new
statute, was held at the York-house Hotel, Bath, on
Friday last, to inquire into the state of mind of Miss
Isabella Cottrel, a lady many years resident in that
city. A variety of aberrations of intellect were de-
posed to, and the Jury returned a verdict of " un-
sound mind since December 1841."

:LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
The Rev. J. B. Morris, M.A.., of Oxford, has had
adjudicated to him the prize of 2001., bequeathed by
an unknown benefactor through the Bishop of Calcutta
for the best essay in refutation of Hinduism.