The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Times has uleading article on the subject of the
constitution of the Court of Bankruptcy, wherein it ex-
presses its opinion that. the Commissioners ought not to
be entrusted with the power of commitment for contempt,
adding, " the more we see the irritability in these gene-
rally useful and valuable athninistrators of the law, the
greater is our repugnance to the project of increasing their
power over the liberty of suitor, spectator, or witness."
The Morning Herald contains some remarks on the
subject of the approaching Dublin election, in the course
of which it states that a great probability exists that Lord
.
Morpeth will be returned for. that. city. ”,It is =pos.:
Bible," observes our -Contemporary, " that the Conserva-
tive.electors of the Irish metropolis can ever be taken by
surprise, except by their own supineness and intestinal
discords; and for them to permit the election of a Radical
candidate, when they have the ability to prevent it, is to
desert the cause of good government:"
The Post is loud in its reprobation of the manufac-
turing system, which, it states,
_'t is enough. to bring a
curse upon any country," and observes, in, addition, "that
what it looks to at present is a gradually increasing con-
viction of the public mind that the system is fraught with
terror and inhumanity ; and that a set of men counte-
nancing one another in cruelty, and competing with one
in cheapness, have degraded the English work-
ing-people to a position in which they ought not to be
placed."
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The Advertiser speaks,of a project entertained by some
of the members of the Anti-Corn-law League, for uniting
the middle with the working classes, in an endeavour to
obtain sound Radical Reform, and observes, "it is
more likely to succeed than any similar project we have
yet heard of "

The Chronicle, speculating on the measures to be pro-
pounded in the approaching session, of Parliament, states
that Sir R. Peel's ancient language of vague and nega-
tive generalities must now be exchanged for that of
positive and explicit explanation of practical measures ;
and that instead of amending and opposing, he must
make his own suggestions, and propound his own plans.
Our Contemporary, however, expresses himself by no
means sanguine as to the efficiency of Sir Robert Peel's
measures.

Alluding to the desperate efforts made by the Tories
to get a Tory candidate for Dublin, the Darn Evening
Post says.:—" They have been scouring the empire—
they have been refused by Attwood, by Crichton, by
Jocelyn, by Blaekburne, by Colquhoun, &c. &c. And
now we are told confidently that the fraudulent mana-
gers of the concern have actually laid violent hands on a
youth who has barely reached his majority, for the pur-
pose of delivering him over, pinioned and skewered, to
be plucked and excoriated by the famishing Orange free-
men of Dublin."

In an article on the present state of the finances, the
Birmingham Journal makes the following remarks :
" The pinch is severe ; but it is not yet severe enough to
produce that general and determined combination
amongst the suffering, which is essential to a thorough
and permanent change. Things must be worse before
they are effectively better. And we consider it not
merely probable, but almost certain, that, before the
worst come, there will be a glimmering of revival."
We take the following from the Bolton Free Press :
" Partly from ignorance of the exact value of money,
and partly from want of sympathy, and of due respect
for human nature in the persons of the poor, our gran-
dees receive, with a degree of apathy which is fearfully
ominous, the appalling statements of misery arising
from low wages, now published throughout the length
and breadth of the land. In. the relative position of
the higher and lower classes of. society in this respect,
England, at the present moment, forcibly reminds one
of the intolerable. state of things in France, which
brought forth her bloody revolution of half a cen-
tury acro."
The Manchester Times remarks,_ in reference to the
approaching struggle on the Corn-law question :
" There will be a desperate struggle, for the monopolists
are strong and firmly banded together, and will fight as
if for life and death. In the meantime there is a strong
corps de reserve in course of organization for the Corn-
law repealers. Thousands of electors have already signed
the declaration issued by Joseph-Sturge, of the right to
complete serage; and we have the fullest conviction
that this new movement' will proceed with all the quiet
moral energy which characterised the Obits to abolish
slavery."

The Cumbriari says :—" It will one day become in-
credible to the historian that such a monopoly, as now
exists in the article of its food, was endured by a nation
calling itself free. The Corn-laws have worked well
only fo'r the monopolists, without benefiting the farmer
in the slightest degree, and producing incalculable misery
to the people."
The Scotsman, speaking of the selfish conduct of the
landowners, remarks as follows :—" They have plun-
dered the class whom it was their duty to cherish and
protect, and, adding insult to injury, their orators and
journalists are now spitting out their malice and con-
tempt against it."
The Devonport Telegraph thus alludes to Sir James
Graham's address to his constituents :—" Nearly all
that Sir James Graham has to state, respecting the Mi-
nisterial policy, is that the Government will endeavour
to meet the wishes of the public.' Thus are stern
necessities put off by a paltry common place which
means anything or nothing ; it is, indeed, perfectly in
keeping with the most unpopular Member of the Mi-
nistry. Such gross apostacy as that of Sir James
Graham may meet with political success, but never
with respect."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
he Canton treasure, brought by the Conway, is in
dollars of Sycee silver, and weighs upwards of 60 tons.
The dollars are ordered to ba conducted to the Mint.
The distress at Paisley is on the increase. A letter
quoted by a Ministerial paper says—', The number of
claimants on our funds is increasing. The people are
actually dying of starvation—no beds to lie on, no cover-
ing even—the boards only to rest on. These are facts."
Dullness has pervaded the trade of Leeds and Hud-
dersfield during the last week. At Rochdale there has
been another failure of a manufacturer. At Bradford
the sales of wool, and other goods have been limited.
The. total number of signatures obtained to the me-
morial of the women of England, for the repeal of the
Corn-laws, in Manchester, Salford, and Hulme, amounts
already to sixty-five thousand woman. In many large
towns, villages, and country districts the memorial has
been adopted, and the canvass is carried on with spirit.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
The late chivalrous and unfortunate Don Diego Leon,
by his will has bequeathed his sword to General Evans.

ECCLESIASTICAL.
The inhabitants of the city of Worcester are signing a
memorial to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the sub-
ject of the spread of Puseyism.

TheTis'iop of Chichester, who died on Friday, was
sixty years of -age.- In 1803 he gained the prize for a
Latin poem at Oxford ; and has enjoyed his Bishopric
but fifteen months.

At the meeting of the Presbytery of Glasgow, held
on Wednesday last, Dr. M'Leod gave notice that, at
next meeting, he would bring under the notice of the
Presbytery the demoralizing effects of the Church agi-
tation, the formation of Church Defence Associations,
and other forms of the present controversy.
The parish of Kettle, in Fife, of which the Crown is
patron, having become vacant by the death of Dr. Bar-
clay, the father of the Scotch Church, certain parishioners
made application to the Home Secretary, with a view of
submitting a list of candidates out of which he might
• choose one, on the Non-Intrusion principle ; but they
received a sad rebuff. Sir James Graham directed the
Under-Secretary to write that he did not require their
assistance in advising the Crown.

pirrm Juvrs.

The King of Prussia has ordered his Court Jeweller

to take several decorations of the Red Eagle to London,
and a decoration of the Black Eagle, in diamonds, valued at
nearly 2,000/. is also making : but for whom it is in-
tended is not known.
LxTExamr AND SCIENTIFIC.
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Miss Isabel Hill, whose literary labours gave her a
good position in the world of letters, died on Thursday
at Brighton.

THEIITRICAL.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Kings of Prussia and Belgium, will very soon after their
arrival honour Drury Lane and Covent Garden with
their presence.
Mercadante's opera, Elena Meth, will be produced
at Covent Garden on Saturday next, when Miss Adelaide
Kemble will sustain the principal female character of
Elena.
Private theatricals have been performed during the
Christmas season at Ravensworth Castle. The pieces
selected were the popular.burlesque of BornbastcsFurioso,
and the glee of Witches and chorus in Macbeth..
Rubini, the singer, after visiting London, will
,go to
St. Petersburgh, whither he has, received a personal in-
vitation from the Emperor Nicholas.