The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-15 00:00:00

SUM ARY OF NEWS

AND
public Optitton.

" Who runs may read.'

FOREIGN.

The Journal du Havre states, that M. Thiers will
be completely separated from the Gauche in the en-
suing session, M. de Tocqueville having declared to
M. Odillon Barrot, in the name of sixty members,
that if he yielded to the deceptions practised during
the last two sessions, his party would not follow hint.
The Chamber of Commerce of Bordeaux having
been again consulted by the Minister of Commerce on
the sugar question, has declared that it knows but one
efficient solution of the question, viz., the entire sup-
pression of home-made sugar.
The Toulonnais says :—" When the Etna, after
towing the Formidable off the sand-bank, passed the
Rodney in gaining her anchorage, the captain and
officers of the latter took off their hats, and cried out
several times, Thanks, thanks, sir; you have saved
the Formidable.' At the same moment the whole
crew manned the yards, and loudly cheered the Etna,
and the crew of the Formidable, imitating the same
example, gave six cheers for that steamer, which, on
its side, replied to each vessel by shouts of Vive le
Roil'"

The Alger, ship of the line, sailed a few days since
from Toulon, for Africa, with 900 men on board be-
longing to different regiments.
Commandant Lelievre, who commanded at Maza-
gran, passed, on the Bth inst., through Chalons-sur-
Saone, on his way to Paris, by order of the Minister
of War. He was accompanied by another officer and
a surgeon. This journey, no doubt, is caused by the
necessity of giving explanations on the contradiction
contained in the English journals, relative to the
brilliant defence of Mazagran.
Julia Phalipon, who was condemned to death at
the Court of Assize of Aveyron, for having poisoned
her husband, to marry a paramour, was executed at
Rodez on the 3d inst.

Espartero still remained, on the 6th, at his head-
quarters of Sarria. General Zurbano entered Barce-
lona on the sth, with a battalion of infantry of the
Infant.

The Inzparcial and the Constitutional, Barcelona
journals, apologise to their readers for appearing only
in half-sheets, as the bombardment had prevented
the compositors from setting up the type. In the
former paper, the theatrical bill appears as usual.
The pieces were—Angelo, the Tyrant of Padua, and
the ballet of The Lover without a Mistress.

Up to the end of August of the present year, there
have been emancipated at Martinique 457 slaves, at Gua-
deloupe 319, at French Guiana 48, and at Bourbon 25.
This number, being added to those enregistered in the
four colonies since 1830, gives a total of 33,820
slaves set free.

A letter from Vienna, Nov. 29, says :—" Princess
Constantin Czartoryski died yesterday, after a short
illness, at her country seat at Weinhaus, near this
city, aged 52. She has left a husband, four sons, and
a daughter to deplore her loss. The former is bro-
ther of Prince Adam Czartoryski, now residing in
Paris."

The Augsburgh Gazette of the 7th instant states,
that letters from Bucharest of the 26th ult., announce
that the Assembly of the States would not be con-
vened to elect a new Hospodar, but that the Prince
would be appointed by the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh
in conjunction with the Ottoman Porte. Prince
Ghika had been appointed in this manner.

runzac OPINION.

The Times makes the following remarks on the

appointment of the Prince de Ligne- as Belgian Am-
bassador at Paris :—" The appointment is probably to
be taken :as a further indication of the.secret determi-
nation of both the Courts of the Tuileries and of
Brussels to resume at the earliest convenient opportu-
nity the negotiation for the commercial union of the
two countries ; and we trust that this nobleman, who
has hitherto been conspicuous on no occasion except
at the coronation of Queen Victoria, and then for his
appointments rather than his abilities, will be found
equal to the important task of defending the inde-
pendence and the real interests of Belgium against the
false temptations held out to her by the Cabinet of
France. In the meanwhile the French Ministerial
Press, which had commenced so vehement an agitation
on the subject, has subsided into total silence, pro-
bably from a consciousness that the measure was more
likely to be carried by sleight of diplomacy than by
strength of conviction, and that more was to be ob-
tained from the apathy of Europe than from her ac-
quiescence. The two great arguments of the pro-
moters of the union,—the one being political, and the
other commercial—produced exactly opposite, though
simultaneous effects on public opinion in Belgium
or in France. If, as at first, it was contended that
the French ought to be ready to make any commer-
cial sacrifices in exchange for so great a political
result, the Belgians naturally took alarm at these
expressions, and began to inquire whether a great
political result, which France was ready to pur-
chase at any price, could be anything but a great
political loss to their own national power and inde-
pendence. If, on the other hand, the Belgians were
reminded of the incalculable advantages which
awaited their manufactures in the wide markets of
France, the whole phalanx of French prohibitionists
raised their united voices to resist a measure which
promised so much to Belgium at their expense. In
this dilemma there was nothing for it but to abandon
a line of public argument which went so much fur-
ther than it was intended to do, and unluckily raised
an obstacle on the one side exactly equal to that
which it removed on the other. It now remains to
be seen whether private exhortations will have a more

favourable effect, and whether, by engaging the atten-
tion
.of the Prince De Ligne and theßelgianGovern-

ment exclusively with the commercial considerations,
and by dazzling the French deputies on their arrival
in Paris with the political attractions of the scheme,
it may not be possible to bring both parties past the
object of their apprehensions, as it were, by blinding
one eye. Certain it is, that if the French and the
Belgians both taken into consideration both sides of
the question, both countries will reject the measure,
for the very reasons which reciprocally incite the one
country must deter the other."
The Chronicle, in adverting to the Corn-laws,

says :—" Men seem everywhere to have made up
their minds to two things ; the inevitable termination
of the corn monopoly; and, second, that such an
event will be beneficial to all classes. The idea of
one class prospering by means which destroy the
prosperity of the rest of the community, is, we trust,
abandoned for ever. What has made this country
great and powerful is the extraordinary development
of manufacturing industry. We have extraordinary
advantages in our mines of coal and iron, and in our
insular position. So long as other branches of industry
prosper, agriculture must prosper. The world has never
yet seen an instance of a country distinguished for in-
dustry and commerce, that had not also a prosperous
agriculture. What agriculture wants is a market; and
where there are manufactures and commerce, there
is necessarily a market for food. The landed interest
may be assured that it is only when there is no im-
portation of food into a country, which has a large
population employed in manufacturing for foreign
markets, that agriculture can be in distress, for this
would be a proof that the crop had been so abundant,
and prices consequently so low, that no importation
could take place. So long as food is imported, so
long is the British agriculturist in glory. Except in
the cases in which the crops of this country exceed
the wants of the inhabitants, agriculture must always
be prosperous. Against abundance from favourable
seasons there can be no protection."
The Post thus renews its attacks on the renegade
Tory Members :—" The members of the Anti-Corn-
law League, and their political allies, the Conserva-
tive representatives of Somersetshire and other coun-

ties, equally protest that the best encouragement for
British agriculture is the encouragement of manufac-
tures and commerce. Our county Members have no
longer any peculiar interests to take care of. The
representatives of the towns are the most appropriate
guardians of the agricultural interest, for their
business is to take care of manufactures and com-
merce, and that is the best way to take care of
agriculture ton. If this be a sound theory—which
we take leave to doubt—it follows that there is no
particular use for county Members. The country
gentlemen might assign the cares of legislation
altogether to the Members for London and. Liver-
pool, Manchester, and Glasgow, and the rest.
But while it is admitted by the country gentle-
men of the new school that the best mode of encourag-
ing agriculture is through the encouragement of com-
merce and manufactures, it is a further tenet of the
same delectable philosophy that the best way to en-
courage commerce and manufactures is to permit an
unrestricted importation of foreign- agricultural pro-
duce in exchange for British manufactures. There-
fore the best way to encourage British agriculture, is
mport agricultural proauca from abroad. But
considerable importation of agricultural produce from
abroad would immediately lead to the abandonment
of the cultivation of a great portion of our inferior
land at home, therefore the test way to encourage
British agriculture is to pursue a system which will very
much discourage British cultivation. This conclusion
seems to us to be absurd ; but, for aught we know,
it may seem very reasonable to the enlightened gen-
tlemen who have lately addressed agricultural so-
cieties. At all events, it is a legitimate conclusion
from their premises.
The Herald gives this description of city patriot-
ism The citizens of London are exhorted by the'
agents of the Anti-Corn-law League to signalise the
forthcoming St. Thomas's Day, by returning to the
Common Council representatives who are violent op-
ponents of the Corn-law. Worse advice could not
be given ; the best qualifications which a Common-

Councilman can possess are a perfect acquantance wit
the municipal affairs of the City, and with the wants
of his ward, a high reputation in his private capacity,
and moderation in political opinions. The career of
every red-hot Liberal spouter—of every hungry
Whig-Radical who has of late years successfully sought
the distinction in question, has almost invariably
exhibited an attempt to advance his own personal
interest, by either soliciting some corporate place,
or turning the influence which he has acquired to
his own advantage. Mr. Charles Pearson is now
City Solicitor, Mr. W. Pritchard is now High Bailiff
of Southwark, and Mr. D. W. Wire has repeatedy
selected a Sheriff to step into the emoluments of the
Under Shrievalty. City patriotism is in truth another
name for City jobbing; and if the reputation of the
City of London have, in despite of municipal ba
quets and culinary displays, somewhat fallen during
the last twenty years, the cause is, that the easiest
access to its Common Council has been political
agitation, not private worth or eminent muni-
cipal fitness. The Corporation of London derives
its present importance chiefly from external causo,
over which it has no control ; it has ceased to
be respected because of its general excellence, As
internal merits, or its utility to the City. Its Alder.
men are no longer first-rate city merchants! and
Common Councilmen have ceased to be rising and in"
fluential City tradesmen. There is doubtless muc
ot nh
respectability in the Corporation ; yet does it
command very much respect. The Institution
is
supported from such assaults as the Whigs made en
it; but descend from the aggregate to particuars,
and respectful sensation's are not spontaneously ot,"
cited as individual members are noted. Cliquerte
is everywhere observable ; the meetings of the varioues
wardmotes no more indicate the public opinion of th.
wards than the resolutions of the Common Counc:l
testify the views generally entertained in the
The Advertiser, in reference to an article in t,nu D
Quarterly Review, says :—" Much stress is laid y.
the Quarterly on the fact of the Bev. Mr. Massie, ot
Manchester, having at a public rneetin,E burned!
copy of Sir Robert Peel's Sliding-
diately after its publication ; and while flamingbur
were trampling beneath their feet the ;so
on which the measure was printed, exclaiming" d..
perish all laws which deprive the people of brean
IVill the Quarterly, or any abettor of monopo.ly, c?
SCale
descend to informY us what there is wrong in
As Bill we
regards the burning of the Sliding-sole
suspect there are thousands, even of those who
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first instance expected to profit by it, who now witable
with all their hearts that the first copy laid on th,etaken
of the House of Commons by the Premier bad :
this ?
fire' on that memorable niglit;', and been destruYeaof
and never heard of more. We are not now spealdlone
the injury which that mischievous measure hatera of
to the country generally, but of the vast allTants,
individuals, who, in their capacity of corn-Mr" Nor
have at home and abroad been victimised e
hi 't' Sir
is this all. We are grievously mistaken if ven_ not
Robert Peel himself, the author of the Bill, &ea for
by this time heartily wish that accident had done
_t
it, before it was laid on the table of the House, shat
Mr. Massie, amidst the acclamations of the ar""ie.
audience by whom he was surrounded did frora u_
sign. At any rate it will not be denied that no meinore
sure of the Right Hon. Baronet has done 111
damage his Government in the estimation ofthe coo:,
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What is there, we again ask, in Mr. Massie's exclanibretaltcL,
So perish all laws which deprive the peoPlerof and
that is wrong? That book to which Mr. .51ssl-eann
all ministers of the Gospel lookup with utters they
due to divine authority, and which in all niatter
take as their guide—that book denounces in the, very
strongest terms, and in numerous places, not ()alloy,
laws, but the persons of those who deprive, in Vol its
the poor of their bread. And surely, so far from
et-
being unbecoming in a minister of the GosPehl
press a wish that all laws should perish,wilie, an Set
hold from the poor their necessary food, it Ws-na Jur
which equally commended itself to religion laws de-
inanity. Nor is it merely because the Corn-ars, are
fit
the working classes of their bread, tbat f
; Steil 0-
fit subjects of denunciation on the part of da
of
the Gospel. These odious imposts Y
are, in IllTritasi
cases, indirectly the means of withholding 5.,„ the
food, in other words, religious instruction, N Pu"
operative population of our large towns.;
VIONEY—TRADE—COMDSX)Ie-gl Giles;
A new Association, to be entitled " IDe two
and St. George's Bloomsbury Branch of the liondoi
Anti-Corn-law League," was formed on
Plus of
evening, to assist in further carrying out the P
the League in London.
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Twelve new churches are now uilding, f the
about to be! commenced, in various parts °

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himself. II f A
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"Memoir on Ireland and the Irish.
The Duke THEATRICAL
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The second season ofthose . I r perforal
to Apsley House, from antes, the Fro very popu A .11
' Theatre, wi
plays, at
iCnhiprrisotvm.emasetoi. holidays,h.
commence on Monday, the 16th of next moll
CRT_rasiuoicaloo. return
ltehtter U.,
of Wellington is not expected to ,
St. James
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Strathfieldsa e, until after tn
Lordfr
0 Regiment.
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The Duke of Manchester, according to the latest
letters, intended to pass the winter at Nice, for the
d LadlLady
health.Devonshire.synlour, frportion 0
D. utferin, arrived in Spring-gardens, on Monday eve
ins,
day for Chester Castle, to resume the command a to
accompanied by Ladol,
Lord Charles Ilrellesley left Apsley House on Tt.te,t_s;
15th
Lord Stanley
Latham House, Ormskirk, Lancashire, the seat v
Lord Skelmersdale
left town on Tuesday morning. f°,,f
Lady John R Skelmersdale.
day of a son and heir.' Tues.
ussell was safely delivered on SOur.
Lady Langham arrived in Berkeley-square on
day.
Sir Charles Des Vaeux led to the altar, at
All °ll.ll
15
Church, Langham-place, on Tuesday, the L'ilf7s,
/Ye
Cecilia Paulet, daughter of the Marquis of AtirLcit,.
ter, and afterwards left town for Tunbridge
IscELLANEOTT. reieicing
M
It is suggested, that if there is to be any'rviute•
on the occasion of our victories in China ana '6firist-
istan, the Monday and Tuesday
at
50a
mas-day should be devoted to a national holiwy '
that, to to render the event more memorable/ ht e olfor u
cities should throw open the parks to the public
fair and fireworks.

noon,