The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-06 00:00:00

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FOREIGN.

The Speech of the Archbishop of Paris to the King, on
Saturday last, is the prominent topic in the original articles of
the Paris journals. The Constitutionnel, Courrier Francais,
and National, bestow unqualified censure on the clergy of
Paris for this manifestation, which they describe as highly
improper, whilst the Quotidienne, France, Globe, and
Univers declare that it must appear unobjectionable to all
right-minded persons that the clergy should attempt tis induce
tha higher powers to put an end to the desecration of the
Sabbath.

The Correspondent of a contemporary writes from Madrid
as follows. The statement is astounding :—" France would
appear resolved upon carrying out her hostile policy towards
this country by any or every means in her power. Her pre-
sent project for effecting her objects is the worst and most
shameful of all she has yet attempted. You are aware that
she claims from this country a debt of something like a mil-
lion and a quarter sterling for the expenses of the Army of In-
vasion of lts23, and putting down the constitutional system of
that period in the Peninsula. France has now, I can assure
you of the fact, made a formal demand for the payment of this
sum to the Spanish Minister ! In other words, France has
the shameless audacity to exclaim to her victim, Spain, a
million sterling, or the marriage of your Queen to the son of
the bigot-despot Don Carlos !' Commentary upon such atro-
cious conduct would be superfluous—no exposition could add
to its baseness."

PARLIAMENTARY.
The Lords did not meet yesterday.
In reply to Mr. P. N. Stewart Sir James Graham stated
that he had not promised immediately to introduce a Bill rela-
tive to the Church of Scotland; he had only said that her Ma-
jesty's Ministers had hopes that a settlement might be made of
the unhappy disputes in the Scotch Kirk ; if those hopes should
be realized, a Bill would be introduced. _ _ _

It was stated by Sir Robert Peel, in answer to Mr. Reding-
ton, that the motion for introducing a Bill to disfranchise Sud-
bury is not to he put off next Tuesday by Government having
then the right to proceed with orders instead of motions.
Mr. Hutt, in moving for copies of circulars sent from the
Home-office relative to the Magistracy, brought before the
House the manner in which the Tories, since their accession
to office, had been thrusting their creatures into the Magis-
tracy, in defiance of the local authorities.
Sir James Graham defended the improper proceedings at
great length, and pointed out that the Whigs had done quite
as bad, or a great deal worse than the Tories. The Right
Hon. Baronet was indeed smart and heavy in his accusations,
and was rehemently cheered by his friends.
The House was occupied all the evening with the de-
bate; the Members of one side hurling fierce party accu-
sations against the Members of the other. Towards the
end Sir Robert Peel defended the Tories, and assuming—
though how the opinions of men can be. so accurately
known we eannot say—that 745 Magistrates, out of
1,026, were Liberals when the Tories came into office, he
asserted that his party had only redressed an unequal balance,
and by their appointments had saved the administration of jus•
tice from suspicion and odium.
Lord John Russell defended the conduct of the Whigs, and
showed that they did not act on such bad principles as the
Tories; that they had not swamped the county Magistracy with
Whigs when they came into office in 1830, though the Magis-
tracy was then all Tory; that the Tory principles followed out
would lead to place an equal number of political partisans on
the bench, and would tend to make the administration of justice
a party matter. The Noble Lord condemned very severely the
appointment of 400 new Magistrates, on the corning into
power of the Tories, and apologised for the political inconsist-
ency of which he had been accused, by saying that he
had never deviated into Radicalism, except when he had voted
for Sir James Graham's motion in 1830. For those votes he
had repented, and he asked pardon of the House ; but he did
not think he had so heavy a load to repent of as Sir James, who
had now made himself the servant of the party he then vilified.
There was no opposition to Mr. Hutt's motion, though the
party debate to which it gave rise occupied the whole evening.
Sir J. Graham postponed his motion for leave to bring in a
Bill to continue the Poor-law Commission, till Tuesday.

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The House - rose, after disposing of the Orders, at One
o'Clock.

MONEY—TRADE—COIVIMEILCE.
The meetings of hand-loom weavers in the vicinity of Man-
chester still continue; between 5,000 and 10,000 met on Dir-
pley Moor last Sunday, but were quite peaceable.
At a meeting of the creditors of the Renfrewahire Bank,
held at Greenock on Monday, the liabilities of the Company
were stated to be 225,6201. 15s. sd. ; the assets, 115,300/. ; de-
ficiency, 110,321. 15s. sd.
ELECTIONEERING.

The Nottingham Election Committee closed on Wednesday
in affirming the election of the sitting Members.
The disputed double return for Thetford was decided on
Wednesday, when Sir James Flower was declared the sitting
Member.