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

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FORMICA%
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Ilare
(I/1 t' ona, after a bombardment which commenced
the the morning of the 3d inst., and continued during
NetaY, capitulated on the 4th.
he French telegraphic dispatch, announcing a
stileel rising in Catalonia, is considered a very dis-
truth tni affair, as there app ears to be not a word of
elect it. The Funds fell, which no doubt was the
the parties who sent the dispatch.
iay-4e Lyons papers state that on Monday and Tiles-
thick fog covered that city and the neighbour-
s& °Untry. It was impossible to see the opposite
,;101 the street. The navigation of the river was
sa3lsletely interrupted. On Wednesday the weather
s°
T,e tnevvhat clearer.
heitin works On the Paris and Tours Railroad have
l
begun in the department of the Loir-et-Cher.
:11,1t week 50 workmen commenced operations in the
(ssnine une of Onzain, where a great number of land-
ye ,s rs have accepted the terms offered by the GO-
's„nlent.
The administrators of the Versailles Left-Bank
Correctional
were acquitted on Saturday, by the Court
Police, of the charge of negligence or
th4ractenee, on the occasion of the dreadful accident
i,,necurred on the Bth of May last. •
The King of the French and his family are about to
. n
several
days at Fontainebleau, and in consequence
the tly intended visit two companies of Grenadiers of
hay 59th 'Regiment of the Line, each of 100 men,
(ilie been dispatched by the railroad to Corbeil to do
ltit during the King's residence.
tiee Commerce announces the death of Count Tha-
Mostowski, ancient Senator and Minister for the
toner of the Kingdom of Poland, at his country
se near Paris.
os;st Commissioners appointed at Madrid to report
14,7 commercial treaty With Great Britain had fre •
iti." interviews with Senor Calatrava, the Minister.
110,,inance, and, it was said, with Mr. Aston ; but
ilof the stipulations of the treaty had transpired.
ite ship of the line Suffren, bearing the flag of
tear ;Admiral Casy, sailed from Brest for Lisbon on
th just., and on the next day the brig of war
.IZs left that harbour for Senegal.
11;:te -Rhenish Gazette copies the following from an
riottrian journal Russia ought to reflect se-
tew Y ‘on the unpleasant consequences which may
from her plan of 'attacking the rights of the
40' of Hungary in the principalities of the D'anube.
10t1redly, should a war arise on this subject,
Hungarian volunteers, united with a French
het Jiritish force commanded by some of the Polish
$441 now in exile, would deal Russia such a blow,
Bne would not easily recover."
PUBLIC OPINION.
ttipm an article on the subject of the recent agriculs
be a changes, the Post observes :—" There seems to
cosh great difference of opinion among gentlemen
Sysceted with the land as to the degree of influence
p. the landed interest which the Government pro-
likings of the last twelve months have had. The
kease or Rutland appears to hold the opinion that the
Parrares proposed by Government, and passed through
thatiament, have not had any in:urious influence, and
rkt Protection might be made a little lower still with-
1144Produeing any injury. The Duke of Bucking-
tislt on the other hand, avows his belief that the
theseges which have taken place have deeply affected
cp interests in which the British landowners and
ate
of are most deeply concerned. Again there
4s,,Otillers, such as Mr. I'. D. Acland and Mr.Dickin-
Jtsh,wno, without tasking their information or their
cciilent to decide what has been the practical
ttt
of diminishing protection, hold out the theory
legislativespon protection is no longer to be relied
' and that owners and cultivators of land must
•
stl4to something else. The tide, they say, has set
Tien favour of free trade, and cannot be stopped.
therY, therefore, evidently look to the time when
tide will be no protection at all, and have made up
total minds (if mind it may be called) to submit to
tpiri,
%,.,abolition of* protection. This was clearly the
likit':.of the Yeovil harangues, though a poor place-
tlng sycophant, in an evening print, whom a
ths eraporary has justly, though coarsely, termed
4 artful dodger of the press,' has had the effrontery
kqe.fterld them on the ground that there is protection,
hi that they support the protection'now by law esta-
tit4,el. Our own view of the changes winch have
It. -1,44.131aCe is, that, taken by themselves, the country
qi,n'" be able to sustain them, but that looked upon
14,47seaminencement of greater changes in the same
s-cwon, which, on account of the declaration of
144.°1 principles in favour of free trade by which
9 is
is ere accompanied, we may fairly consider them
Pre,'lQ' they have fearfully affected the interests of
titt,,ive industry."
terlip'ollowing is from the Chronicle :—‘, The Quar-
IPiks—ifietv for December, 1842, just published, de-
41ta,f,"° fewer than seventy pages to the subject of
,the ornslaw Agitation. Now that the object of
n(s-tlstiti-Corn•law League is sanctioned by Sir Ro-
Dririe; eel, who has promulgated in Parliament the
trade-Pies adopted 1w the League, and that free-
Etier
and anti-protection doctrines are broached at
ters' agricultural meeting by the very Tory Mem-
istfliernWito, two years ago, denounced the Whig
fititac of an Bs. fixed duty as pregnant with ruin to
agriculture--it seems somewhat late in the
tato `°, enter into a minute and laborious inquiry
, hatne conduct of the Anti-Corn-law League.
has been confidently reported that Ministers
oft employed special reporters to attend the meetings
irk: Anti-Corn-law League, and have placed ex-
IviC from the speeches before the Crown lawyers,
s.' a View to ascertain how far they would justify
ckiceution. Are we to understand the article in the
(pdc,,tell.Y Review as a feeler to try how far the public
411174 relish the proposed course ? What could
Isters propose League On their own showing
14-1 nti-Corn-law have done much good.
thrn`ue,Y mean to take this mode of proclaiming that
fri,,Lsnall he no more agitation in the British do-
ff ZIA for any object whatever ? That if a number
Pulf", en are convinced that by a certain course of
Asl,tbe country can alone be saved, they shall be
lota a`ted from giving utterance to their convictions,
vieltexerting themselves to make converts to their
l'flo This would be striking at the very root of
are cal freedom. All great questions in this country
Itarried by agitation.
"o're, Times, speaking of the Affghan war, says t—
ttaa-s4onday last we stated Lord Auckland's case.,
itselPplied one or two facts which were necessary to
401.!,e8tand the merits of that statement. We did not,
Shi,r we, think it necessary to disprove the alleged
47rit; of Shah
•Soojah in his late dominions.
Seth, and the general question of policy, events have
tllt'tl for us more conclusively than arguments.
alts,
with these exceptions, we take Lord Auckland's
arns,,as our basis, and on that ground would ask, as
,il,l,"'",.ter of ordinary justice and honesty, what pos-
•tir,,unsiness our army ever had in Affghanistan?
Ist,"l We freely acknowledge that the question was
Oe ,:„veen a de jure and de facto authority—such as
tit,,,''e and de facto authorities are in Central Asia—
tlieZne resting on a now extinct tenure of two or
generations, arid destroyed in fact by the same
the 't'ee to which, not so long ago, it owed its origin;
NI I.'l4ler rough and some What indeterminate, based
tssi,l„4ividual energy and influence, and holding out
(414 promise of order and improvement than any
Na „"te! settled, and systematic form of Government.
oo ah had certainly the' claim of birth—the
azl(l4l.ze family and Dost Mahommed at their head,
~fo, session and the ability to keep it. Now, we
alQt*deny'that there are occasions upon which it is
ject'.4l4 to interfere between a Prince and his
sub-
betil' In Europe, where all nations are boundto-
foZ by sympathy, by treaty, by the relations of
to
fierce, we may find ourselves occasionaly 1 bound
assist a tottering, sometimes even to replace ade-
Isssci... ~oVereign on a throne to which we have ever
est'‘atned his right. But it is only by peculiar and
be -erne circumstances that such an interference can
•ever justified."
skMONEY—TRADE—COMMERCX.
tstd Bradford, Burnley, Halifax, and Huddersfield,
hp,:.tas been slack during the past week. At Black-
sis: `rade has been more-animated. ; .the woollen bu-
all kinds of Rochdale has increased, and at Manchester
Tbunts of cloth continue in'good demand.
meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of
frZand.took place on Saturday, when it appeared
afieilthe Report that the receipts amounted to 4,540/.,
44,17 expenditure, including the purchase of 1,000/.
, left a balance of 1,6001.
Ars, , THEATRICAL.
e S opera of Artaxerxes is to be among the first
kr:als at Covent-garden, after Christmas, in which
*• Alfred Shaw sustains the leading character.
: s Adelaide Kemble has consented to perform
Christmasop to on a sharing system. The produce
4,t Tuesday's performance amounted to about 6001.,
of
4.
''",e whole of which Miss Kemble was entitled, but
quevctnieli occasion she requested e treasurer to de-
the usual expenses of the evethning.
Uer SPORTING.
tajesty's stag-hounds met on Friday at Har-
de,7'n'eommon, upwards of 200 being present. The
Qe,t-.' after a run of fift'T minutes, was taken at East-
Ilip The fixtures for this week are—to-day, at Salt
and Friday, at Woking Station.
C OtrAT--PASIZIONIII37,E.
le ejiuk6Aind, Duch6ss of Buccleuch and family
110ue,,,-ualkeith Palace early in the ensuing month for
'4l4°n House; Kettering.
° Dowager Duchess of Cleveland is passing the
,?r at Newton house, Yorkshire.
Sing
Marquis and .Marchioness of , Donegal are
iing the winter at Ormeau, his Lordship's seat in
-esstand.
404:he Marquis of Bute has arrived at Dumfries
Use, Ayrshire, from Rothsay Castle, Isle of Bute.