The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-04 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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i)tibitt Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The political and financial prospects of England and
her policy at home and abroad occupy the columns of
the French Journals. Alluding to the embarrassments
of our Government, with regard to Syria, the Siecle
says :--" It is impossible for Englatd not to recognise
the hand that deals her the insults she is now receiving
at Constantinople. It is not the hand of the weak Abdul-
Metijid ; behind this phantom of an Emperor stands and
domineers the Czar, to excite and encourage him. All
the hopes and the aims of Russia have been attained.
She wished to break off the alliance between France and
England ; it has been broken. It was her interest to
weaken the Pacha of Egypt, who wielded the only ef-
fective Mahommedan power in the East ; Mehemet Ali
was vanquished. It was also urgent for Russia to draw
the attention of England from Constantinople, and to
create embarrassments for her in Asia and America ; that
also has been achieved. And now again Russia it is who
encourages the Turk in his fretful opposition to the de-
signs of Great Britain."

The Constitutionnel, in an article upon the same sub-
ject, observes :—" A most serious affair for England is,
that of her present misunderstanding with the Ottoman
Porte, and the checks which are given to British influ-
ence in the East. Still England cannot allow this re-
sistance to last, for then all the intrigues which brought
about the. Treaty of the 15th of July will have been got
up for nothing, and Great Britain would lose her influ-
ence in Asia Minor. Egypt and Syria are the two keys
of the East, and one, it not both of these keys, must
belong to England. This state of things irritate:, Sir
Stratford Canning, who is even more violent in his anger
than was Lord Ponsonby. The resistance of the Porte
must be overcome, and the Sultan must be brought to
grant concessions which England will know how to turn

to account. In the present state of weakness of the
Turkish Government it may succumb. But then Russia,
of whom it is more in awe, will not allow England to
reap a share of the spoils of the Ottoman empire. This
explains the obstinate resistance of the Porte, and the
irritation of Sir Stratford Canning.
The Courrier Francais thinks the income tax will be
carried, but that eventually it will destroy the Tory Ca-
binet. • It adds :—" It required the long wars of our Re-
volution to decide England to tolerate the income tax ;
but it must not be forgotten that peace was scarcely re-
established, when the House of Commons abolished it, in
spite .of the efforts of the Government to preserve it. An
income tax was the extreme measure to which Mr. Pitt
had recourse in 1798, to sustain a gigantic struggle.
The remembrance of the state of the nation at that
period is associated with such a tax, and this is the rea-
son why England considers herself humiliated in having
to support it at a moment when she is at peace with the
continent of Europe. Sir Robert Peel's plan humiliates
the national pride, wounds the feeling of independence
which each British citizen cherishes for his fortune and
his person, and strikes against those notions of distribu-
tive justice on which the tax is based. To combat these
powerful causes of opposition, Sir R. Peel has only his
will and the strength of his position. He is necessary at
present to the Government, and were he to abandon
power, Lord Melbourne would be more embarrassed than
he is."

The National thus records its lasting hatred of Eng-
lend :—" As for ourselves, we have not varied in our
sentiments on the subject for the last twelve years, and
even when public opinion, with singular imprudence, has
seemed to forget our old grievances, we have never
ceased to warn it that between British aristocracy and
French democracy there can exist no possible under-
standing ; that an alliance with England is nothing but
a monstrous dream, and that between her and us the
duel must be a mortal one."

M. Delaroche, responsible Editor of the National,
appeared on Wednesday, before the Court of Assizes, to
plead an arrest of the judgment pronounced upon hitn
on the 14th ult., whereby he was condemned to a year's
imprisonment and a fine of 4,000 f., for a seditious libel
published on September 20th. After the trial had been
gone through, and the indictment supported by the
Advocate-General, Thorigny, M. Marie pleaded in de-
fence. The jury, after remaining half an hour in de-
liberation, returned a verdict of guilty upon all the
counts, and the Court repeated its previous sentence.
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The number of bodies thrown on the coast of France,
from Boulogne to Dunkirk, in consequence of the storm
of the 10th ult., amounts, says the Courrier du Nord,
to 150.

The Constitutional Barcelona journal, of the 24th ult.
states that the Provincial Deputation had called on the
Captain-General to re-organise and arm forthwith the
three battalions of the National Guard, disbanded subse-
quently to the proclamation of martial law. The Depu-
tation observed that the arsenal contained 27,000 stand
of arms.

We find the following account of the Austrian army
is the " Austrian Military Almanack" for 1842. There
are 58 regiments of the line, 20 battalions of grenadiers,
17 regiments of national infantry, a regiment of Ty-
rolean chasseurs, and Illyrian battalion, 2 battalions of
Banats and Czaikistes, 12 battalions of provincial chas-
seurs, and 6 battalions in garrison. The cavalry con-
sists of 8 regiments of curiassiers, 6 of dragoons, 7 of
light horse, 12 of hussars, and 4of lancers. In the ar-
tillery there are 5 regiments, amounting together to
18,663 men, 4,471 in garrison, 42 companies of engi-
neers, miners, sappers, &c.,
5 companies of firemen, 5
rocket companies, the regiment of gendarmerie of Lom-
bardy, the frontier cordon of Gallicia, and 400 men and
6,000 horses of waggon and artillery train. In the navy
there are 2,454 men, and 6 companies of marines.
The Porte, in compliance with the joint remonstrances
of the Ambassadors of the Five rowers, has superseded
the Austrian renegade, Omar Pasha, in the Government
of Mount Lebanon, and committed the Administration
of the country to two native Princes—a Druse and a
Meronite.