The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-12 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Public eptiitott.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The New York papers of the 19th ult. report the occurrence of a
serious riot at Cincinnati on the 12th, in which the Miami Bank,
and Bate's and Longee's banking offices were totally destroyed. The
riot was occasioned by the refusal of the Miami bank to redeem its
notes, by which the working classes were plundered of their earn-
ings. The mob seized in the vault of the Miami 224,000 dollars,
of which only 1,261 dollars were in specie. When the rioters had
destroyed the banks, and defeated a handful of military, without
either loss of life or limb on either side, they dispersed to their
respective homes, a crowd of nearly 4,000 persons looking on with
the utmost indifference,
Marshal Sault made his first appearance at the Tuileries on
Thursday since his iliness. He was most graciously received, suc-
cessively by the King, Queen, Madame Adelaide, and the Duke and
Duchess of Orleans.

The Archbishop of Parts has just published his pastoral letter for
Lent. In addition to the customary permission to use eggs, butter,
and milk, this letter grants a general dispensation of the maigre
for the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday of each week, up
to the Thursday in Passion Week inclusively. This dispen.
cation is limited to one meal (the dinner) on week days, but ex.
tends to two meals on Sundays. The Archbishop recommends
to all the faithful who avail themselves of this dispensation to place
double alms in the hands of the Cure of their parish, one of which
is to be given to the poor, and the other to go towards the purchase
of the monastery of the Carmelites, Rue de Vaugirard.
In the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, M. Gatineron's mot►on
on electoral reform was introduced. The subject was likely to oc.
cupy severaldays.
The Palinurd bilit'of war arrived at Toulon on the sth inst. from
Tunis, which she left on the 29th ult. She has brought the French
t:onsul-Geteral to the Regency of Tunis, and M. Pichon, who has
been visiting all the parts of the Regencies of Tripoli and Tunis on
a secret mission from the French Government.
'The Chief Judge of Bareelonea had made a report to the Go-
vernment, from which 'it appears that the tribunals of Catalonia,
during the year 1841, judged 3,861 criminal cases, amongst which
were 160 assassinations followed by death, 404 burglaries, 308 riots
in which wounds were inflicted, 49 cases of arson, 11 cases of per-
jury, 14 of suborning witnesses, 24 abuses of authority, 8 forge-
ries, 315 eases of smuggling, 2of poisoning, 1 adultery, 1 bigamy,
12 popular riots, 1 rape, 2 duels.
The Madrid El Correo National of the 3d inst. states, that the
Town Council of San Lucar de Barameda had addressed a petition'
to the Government praying a modification of the prohibitive system,
in order to prevent the total ruin of the provision trade. The
Municipal Council express a hope that, this measure being adopted,
Great Britain would reduce the duties on Spanish wines, and thus
facilitate their sale in the only market which is open to them.
We find the following in a letter front Cairo, received with the
Overland Mail :—" lam convinced you would be much disap-
pointed with Egypt (excepting of course, the:antiquities). It is
treason, I believe, in England or elsewhere, to hold Mehemet Ali
cheap; but I am sure that his people are the most wretched in
the world. I have seen nothing in the slave States so miserable,
no system so cruel, as that practised in this country. His service
is so unpopular, that he has formed companies of soldiers of men
who have put out their right eyes to avoid conscription. As for
the improvements introduced by Europeans in other departments,
you look in vain for it. The great desideratum in this country is
to irrigate, and the Polytechnic Schools and! Savans have not ap-
plied the commonest pump, even in the Pacha's own gardens, to
obtain water.