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London, England, 1842-04-19 00:00:00

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FOREIGN.

In the French sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, on Sa-
turday, a member brought up the subject of the complaints
lately made by the public papers on the administration ofjus-
tice in the province of Constantine (Algeria), where accord-
ing to the Gazette des Tribunaux, 44 executions had taken
place in a single year, on the capricious and cruel sentence
of one individual, and without the observance of any
of the customary forms of justice. Marshal Soult declared that.
he had sent one of his aideS-de- camp to Algiers, with instruc-
tions to make every necessary inquiry, anel to require of Gene-
ral Negrier, Go'ernor of Constantine, to explain the illegal sets
with which he was charged. As soon as the re'pot of his
aide-de-camp came to hand, the Marshal would communicate
the result to the Chamber.
The Madrid journal, correo Nacional, of the:lo:h inst.,
giv:a the repert that France intends positively to send in to
this Spanish Government her claims fot the debt of 1623, and
that in a very energetic note on this subject she has 'declared
that she will not give up one inch of her pretension..
it is not true, as wa reported, that the Prime Minister
Gonzales had signed with Mr. Aston the preliminaries to a
treaty of commerce.
The Corresponsal says that a letter from the Philippine
Islands of the 15th January confirms the deplorable results of
the violent measures adopted by the military authorities on the
recent revolt. More than 1-,401) individuals fad lost their lives.
The state of the wine trade at Oporto appears to litters become
an object of much solicitude to the Government, and is likely
to have much weight with it in the negotiations, pending
with this country for a new commercial treaty. The
Q ueen had appeinted a commission of nine ' members,
for 'the purpose of taking into consideratiOn. arid re-
porting upon the representation lately addressed to
her by the Mercantile .Association of Opotto. rn lint re-
presentation it was earnestly recommended that no time
should be lost in concluding a new treaty with Great
founded upon the principle of reciprocity. The Duke of Pal-
mel:a had a'ready Lad several conferences with Lord flo.varcl de
Walden, but nothing further had transpired regarding the pro-
gress of the negotiations. .
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The Lords were engaged all the evening with the second
reading of the Corn Bill. The Earl of Ripon moved the
second reading, aid. the Earl of Stanhope moved to read it a
second time in six months. The Noble Earl was extremely
severe on Sir Robert Pet and his friends. In the
course of the long debate which ensued, Lord. Brougham
made a good speech, and advocated most eloquently
and forcibly the total and immediate repeal of the
Corn-laws. The . Noble Lord showed, wit:le great
.cleat ness, the impessib.lity of oursetting any great immediate
supplies !rem abroad, and the impossibility of foreign coun-
tries being able suddenly to increase their productions. The
Noble Lord moved a resolution,as au amendment on Earl Stan-
hope's anieedirent, that no duty whatever be.pa.tl en any foreign
corn when imported. Their 1 ordsbips diffe.red and oisputed
for some time whether Lord Bretigham's amendment should
be put or not, and at length decided that it was to, be put
after, and not bewre,Lord Stanhope's.
Earl Fitzwiltiam end Lord llelbourne severally explained
that they should vote for the second reading, though they did
not is holly, approve of the Bill. Their Lordship divided in
the first instance on Lord Stanhope's tmereinsent, which was
lost by 119 to 17 ; and secondly, on Lord Brougham's, which was
also lost by 109 to 5. The success of the Corn Bill is .ens'ured•
therefore, in the House of Lords, by very I rge majorities.
Their Lordships adjourned soon after Twelve o'Cleck.
In the Commons little business of importance was tran-
sacted—for voting away the
.public money is a.einatter of
indifferencee-bseide reading the Income-tax Bill a first time,
the debate on which occupied the House the greater part of
,the evening. It s‘ as finally decided by. 285 to 188 that the
Bill should be read a first time.
The House sat till One o'clock.
PITILLIC OPZNXON.
The Herald has the following remarks :—" The advocates
of extreme protection to domestic agriculture thought that the
Corn-law of 1615 woullitnot give sufficient protection to native
cultivation. They were mistaken ; under its operaeion the
people were sufficiently fed, and agriculture kept its foremost
place amongst national interests. The same class of politicians
protested that the ;Corn-law of 1822 would ruin the British
farmer. Again they were.wrong ; the culture of our native soil
flourished in spite cf the alteration. The Corn-law 01'1828
met with opposition from the like quarter oe the same grounds;
yet British agriculture still survives—nay, has since then
greatly advanced in prosperity. The unfulfilled apprehensions
of the past ought study to lessen the trended anticipations of
the.future. Protection to British .agriculture, though a main
is not the chief cause of its continued and increasing ability to
feed the British people." .
The Chronicle thus accounts for the exemption of Ireland
from the Income-tax:--" The want of machinery is unques-
tionably not the chief reason for exempting Ireland from the
tax. The chief reason is not one of principle, but of party
tactics. The Right Honourable Baronet is an admirer of the
policy of setting class against class, nod people against people.
By exempting Ireland, he conceived that. he would convert the
Irish representatives into neutral or, at the worst, luke-warm
opponents, just as, by exempting all farmers renting farms
under three hundred pounds a-year, he conceived that he
would make partisans of the yeomanry; and, by exempting a;l
whose incomes do not exceed 150./. a-year, he would detach
the lower classes from the racks above them. This policy is
the low and most disgraceful one of filling the different classes
With jealousies of each other, in order to profit by-the divisions."
In reference to the nuisance of the Income-tax, the Times
observes We are fully alive to the odiously inquisitorial,
nature of the tax. But this is now past thinking Mena. We
are not sanguine as to the extent cf patience which may he
expected from John Bull when he Ends himself ' badgered,'
hether by a local commission or an
and
of survey,
through all the m
inutice of his profits expenditure, his
ledgers overhauled, his debts exposed, himself cross-examined,
puzzled, doubted, disbelieved, and finally surcharged. Of
all this we have ever spoken and felt with some mis-
giving. But now that it is certain, we do most earnestly and
unaffectedly hope that its efficiency will not be impeded
by that impatience of control and inspection which yet is so
much to be apprehended. If it is to be, let it be stringent.
The English people have distinctly acquiesced in the
tax—we will hope that they know their own minds better than
we should have divined them. We earnestly trust they will
not, like children, close with the nuisance, and then quarrel
with its necessary conditions. If we are to have the dentist's
pincers in our mouth, let the tooth come out. Let us not take
the physic into our mouth, and then quarrel with it because it
is nasty. We have now no right to do so. Nobody was igno-
rant that the tax was inquisitorial, but everybody has consented
to it—has contented to it for himself—has consented, not only
that his neighbours' account-books but that his own should be
overhauled. And he must not now be angry when he finds
himself taken at his word. Honest men have agreed to be
treated like knaves—not that' others should be treated like
knaves, but that they themselves should be so. It is a neces-
sary condition of the tax they have chosen : they have no ex-
cute for wincing."
The Post remarks, in a leading article suggested by the late
proceedings of the Sudbury Election Committee :—" We con-
ceive that the only way to put an end to bribery will be by an
appeal to the honeur and conscience of the persons concerned.
this is not a case in which the political prejudhes of different
men can make them take different views of truth and justice.
If every candidate were bound open his oath, or upon his
honour as a gentleman, note to allow or countenance, in any
manner, directly or indirectly, the practice of giving or pro-
mising to give, any remuneration for votes, we cannot help
thinking that there would he. very little bribery afterwards.
It is (we think) because bribery is not held to be dishonour-
able, but, on the contrary, held to be a mode of getting into
Parliament which a gentleman may practice without disgrace,
that bribery /so constantly takes place. We believe that by
skilfully applying the regulations of-law to the principle of ho-
nour, which (under some -modification or. another) exists in
the .breasts of most men—even mere men of the world—the
desirable object might be accomplished." .
IVZONEV—TRADE—COZYLATERCE.
A meeting of the Royal Naval Benevolent AssOciation was
held yesterday at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's,
when it appeared that there were at present seventy-five ap-
plicants for relief, and that 5001. had been allocated for that
purpose, out of the Society's balance in hand of 1,132/.

117ANTAL AND MILITARY.
By an order issued at Woolwich, all commanders of her Ma-
jesty's steam-vessels are henceforth to employ on board a'
" leading stoker," that office being one of great importance and
responsibility, and requiring men of ability and steadiness.

LAW ANI P 01.1 CM.
Thomas Horagan and Sarah Horagan, stated to be his wife,
two fashionably dressed persons, were brought up as begging_
letter imposters at Queen-square yesterday, and committed for
one month each to hard labour in the House of Correction.'
Walter Plowman, formerly a harness-maker in Somerset-
shire, appeared yesterday at the Insolvent Debtors' Court for
judgment ; he was remanded for twelve months, having fraudu-
lently made over property to his father, while his bankruptcy
was Fending.