The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-24 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.
With one or two exceptions, and those altogether un-
importaut, the leading articles of the Paris Journals are
all on the discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, re-
lative to the non-ratification of the treaty for the Right of
Search. We have already given so much from the columns of
the Opposition Journals on this subject, that we will now
merely state that all the arguments against ratification, and all
the abuse of M. Guizot for having entered into the treaty , are
on this occasion, and probably not for the last time, repeated.
The Toulonnais of the 17th instant states, that it was re-
ported in Algiers, that General Belleau had defeated the army
of the Emperor of Morocco, with the loss of 300 killed, and a
great number of prisoners.
We have received advices from Madrid to the 15th instant,
which reached Paris on Saturday by special courier, but their
contents are principally confined to lengthy details of the grand
dinner which was given on that day by the Regent to the In-
fante Don Francisco de Paulo. The,Ministers of State, the
Presidents, the Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the Senate
and of the Chamber of Deputies, the Members of the Corps
Diplomatique, the Captain-General, the Political Chief of
Madrid, the Commandants of the National Guard, and the
Municipal Authorities, were among the distinguished company
present. Senor Arguelles, as the Queen's guardian ; Senors
Cortina and Gamboa, of the Regency Ministry; and Senor
Olozaga, as an intimate friend of the Regent, received special

invitations.
The Corresponsal has the following :—" The Bill relative to
the capitalization which was laid before the Chamber by the
Minister of Finance, at its sitting of the Ilth, is thus worded—
"G Art. 1. The Treasury Bonds which have been issued in
payment of the six months' dividend of the interest of the fo.
reign debt which expired on the Ist of November, 1536, will
be received for capitalization according to the decree of the
Provisional Regency of the 21st January, 1840.
" ' Art. 2. The interest of the capital represented by the
said bonds will be increased at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum from the Ist of November, 1836, to the 31st of 1)e-

cember, 1840.' "
It was rumoured in the financial circles of Madrid that the
Government contemplated to issue a new loan, bearing interest
at 3 per cent. to the amount of 1,500,000.000 reals. Govern-
ment proposed receiving in payment of it 1,000,000,000 reals of
existing securities (5 per cents. ), and 100,000,000 in specie,
and provides out of the proceeds for the payment of the divi-
dends down to the month of June, 1843. The Government
would moreover deposit iu the bank of San Fernando
160,000,000 reals, guaranteed by the revenues derived from
tobacco and quicksilver, and bills on the Government of Cuba
and Porto Rico, in order to secure the payment of the subse-
quent dividends to the 30th of June, 1845, inclusive.
A letter from Berlin, 13th inst., in the Augsburg Gazette,
states that M. de Rochow will continue to act as Minister cf
the Interior until the Ist July, when Count d'Arnim will com-
mence his functions. This letter mentions a report that the
King of Prussia has offered to lend a million of crowns to the
city of Hamburg for three years, without interest.
M. Pateot and his lady, according, to announcement in the
Berlin Journals, had arrived in that city, Query— Is the
worthy gentleman still beating about the bush, respecting the
marriage of the young Queen of Spain?

PARLIELAIENTARY.
The Lords sat for only a short time, and received a few
petitions. Lord Campbell inquired if it were necessary
to sanction by law locking passengers up in railway
carriages; but the Lord Chancellor, who said that he
had be n locked up in one yesterday, as well as his
Noble Friend, could nut answer the question.
In the Commons, after the presentation of numerous
petitions, Mr. Rushbrooke moved that a new writ be
issued for Ipswich. Mr. Wynn opposed the motion, and
after 'a short debate it was settled that the Right Hon.
Gentleman should, on Thursday, move a resolution in-
structing the .attorney-General to prosecute those per-
sons who are accused of bribery, and till that period the
issue of the writ should be suspended.
On the motion for going into a Committee on the Cus-
tom's Act—the Tariff—Mr. Callaghan moved a re-
solution which went to impose a heavier duty than is
now proposed on salted meat, but after a brief, though
not uninstructive debate, withdrew his motion.
On the House going into Committee, Mr. Miles moved
his resolution that the tax on cattle be levied by their
weight, and not by the head. The debate which ensued
was dull, though pregnant with more proofs of the in-
consistencies' of the Ministers. Mr. Gladstone again
advocated cheapness, and proved that the distress of the
people required relief. Sir Robert Peel laboured most
assiduously to calm the fears of his followers, and con-
vince them that the people would get no benefit from the
reductions he proposed. Lord John Russell taunted the
Ministers with their inconsistencies, and pointed out
that their arguments in favour of cheapness were appli-
cable to corn as well as cattle. Mr. Villiers took a
similar view, and reproached the Gentlemen on. the
Ministerial side with thinking of nothing but
how to keep up their rents. This produced a great
explosion in a House that, through the whole even-
ing, was not remarkable for silence and attention, and
the last half hour of the debate was passed amidst noise
much like the bell, te ing of the cattle which were under
discussion. At half-past twelve o'clock the Committee
divided, and Mr. Miles' motion was lost by 113 to 318.
The first four items of the tariff, as far as oxen and bulls,
were agreed to. On oxen and hulls Major Vivian has an
amendment ; the House therefore resumed, the Chair-
man reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again.
The House adjourned at a Quarter past One o'Clock.
• PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Herald insists on the nece,sity of Mr. Roe-
buck's Committee not being limited in their inquiries, observ-
ing :—" Mr. Roebuck's Committee, at first an object, in cer-
tain interested quarters, of poorly affected ridicule, is now
looked on with well-grounded apprehensions; and the motion
of Sir John Walsh to restrict its investigations to the fact of
compromise is warmly supported—the Honourable
.Baronet
himself, is, however, roundly and rudely censured, because he
did not attempt to carry his limitation on Friday night. There
is something miserably selfish. and ridiculously mean in this
' opposition, which, though speciously obscured, cannot deceive
any one. The corruption and bribery which disgraced the
last Nottingham election must be concealed, no matter at what
cost of principle or sacrifice of purity; that concealment is
an object before which troth vanishes and honesty disappears.
Nottingham must. be screened, thought the Constitution suffer,
and the House of Commons be disgraced in public estimation.
We are, however, very much mistaken if the House will con-
sent to any such limitation of the Committee's inquiries. If it
do, then was the Committee appointed for no good purpose, and
the House will stultify itself, and trifle with its own character
and the purity of election."
The Times remarks, in an article suggested by M. Guizot's
speech on the Right of Search question The inference to
be drawn from the present conduct of France and America on
this subject is of more importance tit:in the occasion of it. It
is henceforth clear, that in deMocratic communities, where
public opinion, misdirected by a profligate press, invests the
prejudices of the people with a paramount authority over the
diplomatic rela,ions of the State, the faith of the most honest
statesman, and the conclusions of the most enlightened, will
at any time be broken and set at nought by a forced compliance
with popular clamour. In the judgment of mankind and of
history, it is less shameful for a nation to keep an ignominious
treaty, than to violate an honourable one ; and in the annals
of diplomacy, there is no one convention which it is so irra-
tional and dishonourable to evade, as that which has given
rise to this discussion, since it is a convention in which no
party to it has any selfish object to accomplish. Personally,
M. Guizot is less to be blamed than ttio,e who have allowed
the tide of public feeling to turn them against him on this sub-
ject; but what are we to think of a state of society which im-
poses on a Minister the sacrifice of his own convictions and of
the good faith of the country ?"
The Chronicle contains the following remarks :—" The
more that transpires of the feelings and movements of the
Tories, the more we are inclined to believe that a large number
of them will take part in the rebellion of Miles. Some will
do this without regard to consequences. But the greater part
will not, in shaping their conduct in this matter, overlook the
interests of their party. They know that their defection will
be more than supplied by Liberal votes for the tariff. They
will give a safe vote against the Minister; and without damaging
him or their own interest at the Treasury, will play off another
trick in addition to the many by which they have already de-
luded their rustic constituents. The Minister himself will look
with iadulgence on a hosti'e vote given by his supporters in
order to retain their seats. We hear some surmises that the
forces of the discontented Tories may on this occasion be
swelled by some accession of Liberal country gentlemen. We
do not believe that to any great extent they will. A few
Liberals may vote against the tariff, a few stay away ; but the
otal number will be small. We trust, however, that the better
thinking mass of the Liberal party w ill attend in force."
The Post says :—" A Whig-Radical Member of the House
of Commons has given notice of his intention to move for
leave to bring in a Bill for the abolition of Church-rates. Of
,tourse this is only a little bit of agitation.' The respectable
senator who proposes to bring in the Bill is shrewd enough to
snow that he wilt never either set the Thames on fire or carry
any such Bill. But his name may be mentioned in connection
with the agitation of the Church-rate question, and that will
answer his purpose. We do not complain that the subject of
Church-rates is to be brought under the notice of Parliament.
We should prefer that a ConServative Member had brought it
forward, but if the beginning is with the other side, that is no
reason why the Conservative Menibers of the House should net
do what is right when they have the subject before them."
The Advertiser strenuously advocates a further Parliamen-
tary Reform, and adds :—" Events hate now fully established
the fact that the Whig Reform Act has by no means fulfilled
its object. It has introduced more corruption into the people's
House than has been known from the days of Walpole ; in-
stead of answering expectation it has blighted every hope
formed of it, and has emphatically proved itself to be a
means of assailment of the popular rights, immeasurably more
than of their protection. Probably, never before the period of
Mr. Duncombe's bold confession, did it occur for a Member
of the House of Commons openly to declare that he gained
his seat in that Assembly by the disbursement of so much
gold. Not that the Honourable self. incuipator is to be deemed
the worse for his daring disclosure ; but taken as an index of
public circumstances, and of the Constitution as it exists in
these times, what opinion is to be entertained of that mea-
sure of Parliamentary Reform under whose sanction st.ch an
avowal is made—such undeniable abuses perpetrated? It is
only likely that if the whole of our Parliamentary annals were
cited, there would be nothing exhibited equal to the corruption
f the present period."

STATISTICS.
The number of associations established in Great Britain at
present for the circulation of the Scripttaes is 2,228; in Ire-
land, 550 ; Continental Europe, 1.500 ; Asia, 8:3 ; Africa. 16;
America, 2,800 ; Australia, 17 ; and the West Indies, 226, 69
of the last beicg con ucted by freed negrocs.
ELECTIONEERING.
The inquiry into the contested election for the county of
Cork concluded on Saturday, when the sitting Members, Mr.
O'Connell and Sir. E. Roche, were .affirtned to have been
duly elected.
NAVAL ND MILITARY.
Prince George of Cambridge, on taking his farewell of the
12th Lancers, in which he served three years, entertained
the entire regiment at dinner, and made presents of money to
the troops, women, and children.
IIAW AND PO LICE,
Another murder has taken place at Neriagh, on the person
of Michael Laffan, whose business was to summon trespassers
on the Bowen estate. The Lords Juoices have proclaimed a
reward of tool, for the discovery of the perpetrators.
Mr. Charles Matthews, the late manager of Covent-garden
Theatre, was discharged from the Que,n's Bench Prison on
Saturday, till the .9th of next June, the day appointed for his
hearing. His two sureties were Mr. Levy, wine-merchant, of
Norf.lk-street, Strand, and Mr. Bernarno Goldshede, of No.
95, Piccadilly, for the amount of 5,0001.
FIZIE
The colossal equestrian statue of George 111, in Windsor