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

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In the debate on Saturday in the French Chamter of
Deputies, M. Guizot having, in reply to M. Legentil,.
who had complained of the measures adopted by the
United States, as being injurious to French commerce,
said, that if France could by way of reprisal adopt mea-
sures which would cause more injury to the United
States than to France, it was the duty of the Govern-
ment to do so. The Courrier Francaic, with a singular
notion of the rights of nations, says that, the only re-
prisal worthy of a great nation is war ; but as to com-
mercial reprisals, a war of tariffs, whether against Eng-
land or the United States, it can see in it but a puerile act.
The 'National disapproves, though complaining of the
conduct of the United States, that M. Guizot, in the de-:
bate on Saturday, used the word reprisals, and adds,
" Certain is it that the United States shows such an ill-
feeling to our commerce, that the French Government
cannot submit to it.".
Count de Pontois, the French Ambassador, now on
leave of absence, is to reach Constantinople once more
in June, and the Baron de Bourqueney is to return to
Paris in July. from whence he will i:orne to London as
Minister to this Court, during the temporary absence of
the Count do St. Aulaire, tvlto will, it is expected, remain
three months in France.
The 'state of Syria continues to be most deplorable.
The revolting cruelty of the conduct of Omar Pacha to-
wards the sheiks of the Druses has excited the indigna-
tion of the whole country, whose inhabitants have risen
to resist their oppressors. Violent collisions with the
Turkish troops are daily expected..ln the meantime the
Porte has taken no serious steps, in conformity with the
strong representations of European diplomacy, against
the new system of violence adopted in Syria. The
energetic efforts of Sir Stratford Canning, which have
been again renewed, appear to have been forgotten in
the celebration of the feast of the Prophet, which has
been done with a de,rree of unwonted splendour.
) The Gazette of Upper Germany, of the 19th inst.
states, that M. Pageot has but little chance of succeeding
in his mission to the Court of Berlin, as the Vienna Cabi.;
net rarely abandons a resolution once adopted, on which
they previously consult the Courts of Berlin awl St.
Petersburgh. The Gazette asserts that M. Guizot in-
sists on the necessity for negotiating the marriage of the
Queen of Spain, in order to prevent Espartero from dis-
posing of her hand to the son of Don Francisco de
Paula, or to the son of the Duke de Medina Celi, as Es-
partero threatened the Court of the Tuileries he would do.
A letter from -Hamburg,' of the 20th inst. says :—" A
few small failures amongst houses here trading in manu-
factured goods have already taken place, and an eaten.;
sive corn jobber has this week stopped for an amount of
60,000 L These events cannot be ascribed to 'losses oc-
casioned by the fire. They have arisen amongst over-
traders and speeulators whose affair ,)vere previously
littt' deranged. It is now ascertained t three out of the
four Hamburgh Insurance Companies
,are insolvent, and
the amount of their insolvency must of course depend
upon the ability of the parties interested to pa:y up their
liabilities. The course of Exchange on London fell
again to-day h schilling banco, and would have probably
fallen still further, but for the arrival by the steamer of
a considerable amount of silver from London, per account
of the Royal Exchange and other Insurance Companies,
whereby the coffers of the bank will be replenished, and
heavy amounts, which would otherwise have been nego-
tiated on London in drafts, are kept Out of the market,'
The Madrid Gazette of 15th May publishes accounts
• of the sales of national property down to the 31st March,
1842, from which it appears that a number of 50,309
national properties, lying in 41 different provinces of the
kingdom, have produced by sale 1,821,562,093 reals.
PARLIAMENTARY.

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 been locked up in one yesterday, as well as his
Noble Friend, could not 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 lion.
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 ivhich went to impose a heavier duty than is
now proposed on salted meat, but after a brief, though
not uninstrttctive 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 bellowing of the cattle which were under
discussion. At half-past twelve o'clock the Committee
divided, and Mr. Miles' motion waslost 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.