The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-31 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

POREIGN.
The French Chamber of Deputies voted on Saturday
the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne.
The whole number of votes was 396, of which 240 were
for the Address, and 156 against it.
There was a most stirring debate in the French Cham-
ber of Deputies, on Friday, on the question of the Crown
prosecutions of the press. M. Billout headed the attack
on the Government and the Peers, and acquitted himself
with singular ability. He was opposed by the Minister
of Justice, who cut a very sorry figure on the occasion.
PUBLIC °PIN lON.
The Times concludes an article on the Dublin Elec-
tion with th 4 following remarks on the apparent pacific
termination of the Liberal and Tory contest :—" We
cannot but congratulate the country on the quiet with
which this election has passed over. How much of this
is owing to the consciousness which all entertain of the
presence of a Conservative Government, and how much
to the hope expressed by the Lord Mayor that the con-
test might go off in good humour, and how much to
actual fatigue and satiety in those whose profession it is
to provide against such a tame contingency, we do not
pretend to pronounce, though our readers will probably
divine that we do not attribute any very extraordinary
weight to the second of these influences, which we may
feel pretty sure would scarcely have been exerted if the
contrary course could have been advantageously pur-
sued. But, whatever be the account of this tranquillity,
We hail it warmly, and heartily hope it may prove a
happy omen and example.",
The Morning Chronicle has the following remarks on
the perplexity of the Tory Cabinet :—" It is perfectly
clear that whatever assurances party newspapers and
party runners may impudently give us as to the un-
paralled and unbroken unity of the party, the Tory party
is at the present moment agitated by the most violent
internal conflict of opinions. The whole party has,
undoubtedly been changed, and materially changed, by
the Reform Bill. It must be a very small, and, from its
stupidity, a very insignificant portion of the party, that
believes that the Reform Bill had made no change ex-
cept that of rendering it less necessary to conciliate some
few boroughmongers, and more requisite to spend a good
deal of money in bribery ; and that, with the exception
of this difference in the mode of obtaining a Parliamen-
tary majority, the policy of the party will be to use and
to keep power, just after the same fashion as in the days
of Perceval and Castlereagh. The great mass of the
party, though meaning to govern in the same spirit, and
with the same obsects as before—though as determined
as ever to repress the people, and enjoy the sweets of
corruption, are convinced that their task is one of far
greater difficulty than it used to be, and can only be suc-
cessfully achieved by the wise conception and steady
execution of a definite and consistent policy."
The following insolent attack upon the honest Pro-
testants who have addressed the Archbishop of Canter
bury against the Papistical ceremonies of the Puseyites,
is quoted from a leading article in the Morning Post :
" We hear that the laity in some parts of the country
are signing addresses to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
calling upon his Grace to institute an inquiiy into the
schismatical conduct and heretical teaching of the Low
Church, or self-styled Evangelical clergy. Some such
addresses are greatly needed to counteract the Low
Church heretics, who are petitioning against those whom
they call Tractarians. One person in every parish can
draw up an address, and getting it signed in the shape
of a round robin, direct it to his Grace at the Palace at
Lambeth, to which place many such will, we apprehend,
be addressed during the ensuing week. The instances
of clerical irreligion among Low Churchmen, or Evan-
gelists, are glaring. We have heard of a church in
Birmingham in which the preacher•never condescends to
be present at the prayers. Despising prayer, he remains
in the vestry conning his sermon."
The Morning Herat thus hints at the expediency of
the Tory Premier opening the Session of Parliament by
having recourse to the Walpole system of extensive
bribery. Granny forgets, however, that it is now the
country, and not its representatives, that must be bribed;
and that the first bribe must be the repeal of the Corn-
laws :—" Sir Robert Peel may, it is quite certain, have
the support of a considerable body of the nominal Oppo-
sition if he choose to bid for it. There is, indeed, lie
doubt that many of the older Whigs who still attach
themselves to that fragment are in his heart even now,
and will refuse to be driven into any violent opposition.
The influence which Lord Stanley and Sir James Gra-
ham still have amongst their former associates is great ;
and the deadly blow aimed by Lord John Russell at the
landed interest has shaken the ,allegiance of many of his
adherents. Moderate measures from Sir Robert Peel
will complete their secession from the Opposition benches
in the course of a session or two. But the Right Hon.
Baronet will not, it is to be hoped, be too eager to secure
at once that support which is sure to come at last spon-
taneously. Sir Robert's first duty is to keep his own
party together—leis next to conciliate his opponents."
The following sensible remarks on the Corn-law ques-
tion are from the Morning Advertiser :—The question of
the Corn-law monopoly is now much narrowed. For-
merly the ground of conflict between the free traders
and the monopolists was,' whether or not there should
be a fixed duty or one variable on a sliding scale ' • and
had thi: point been settled in favour of a fixed duty,
the other question, 'What ought the amount of the fixed
duty to be ?' would have started up and led to an equally
fierce contention between the people and the landed in-
terest. Now it is a simple question of repeal cr no
repeal.' The monopolists have to thank themselves for
this. Their refusal of Lord John Russell's proposal of
a fixed duty of eight shillings, has brought the question
toThis shape.: Bitterly must the landed interest regret
their folly—folly for themselves, but crime as regards
the
.people. It is a wise ordination of Providence, that
injustice always brings its own punishment. If the oli-
garchists still persist in their opposition to the eAinetion
of the corn monopoly, they will inevitably ensure their
own destruction. The only source of regret is, that in
the convulsion which would necessarily follow the re-
jecting of a motion for Corn-law repeal, the whole
country would be, involved in the same ruin. To the
country, however, it would be some satisfaction to think,
that even in the assumed case matters could not commer-
cially be in a much worse state than they now are."
The WeLhman, after proposing the question t' What
is Puseyism," supplies for answer—" It is Popery some-
what diluted—diluted and partially disguised for the pre-
sent, ic order to render it the more palatable to those who,
may still have some misgivings about receiving it pure
and unalloyed as the article issues from the grand labo-
ratory on the banks of the Tiber ; but containing the
genuine quintessence of all that constitutes the mys-
tery of iniquity.' "
The Dublin Evening Post, after making strict calcula-
tion S-on the true amount ii)f numbers, that should have
Polled at the election, shows that by the proceedings at
the hustings, in the booth.M alone,
," 1,000 electors have
been disfranchised, us Practictllly 'and eftZettilly as 4f.
Lord de Grey had placed a regiment of soldiers at the
hustings, to drive them off at the point of the bayonet."
" This splendid opening," says the Leeds 7'imes, " of
the bread-tax Parliament will be highly appropriate at
the present season of calamity and distress among the
people. The display of the Royal and Aristocratic mag-
nificence will be a comfortable sight for the millions who
are in want of food. The full dress ' Peeresses and La-
dies will be a joyful thought to the many mothers who are
now weeping in agony over their starving children."

MONEY—TRADE—COIVIDTERC E.
The Delight packet, from Mexico, arrived at Fal-
mouth on the 28th, with a freight of 900,000 dollars,
the greater part of which is to be trans-shipped into the
Shannon steamer, for London.

At Bolton trade has had no improvement ; at Brad-
ford the market has been dull, with few buyers; at Hud-
dersfield improvement n 'ay be reported, but not extensive;
at Halifax gloom prevails, as also at Leicester; Leeds
has been brisker in the cloth trade.

PARLIAIVIRNTARY.'
The address of the House of Peers, in reply to her
Majesty's speech, will be moved by the Marquis of Aber-
corn, and, seconded by the Earl of Dalhousie. The ad-
(ll.oB'4 of the House of the House of Commons will be
moved by the Earl of March, and seconded by Mr.
William Becket. •

}.II6ECTIONEERXIM.
The final close of the. poll at the Dublin election, as
announced by the •Sheriff; gives Mr. Gregory a gross
majority of 390 over Lord Morpeth.

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
Evening schools Ibr the instruction of working men
have of late greatly multiplied at Rome, and the govern-
ment has become active in the education of children and
apprentices. - • •

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
The Delight, one of the old 10-gun brigs, just arrived
from the South American station, will be paid off imme-
diately, as will several others of that class as they arrive.
Four Royal Artillery waggons, with an escort, left
Woolwich on Saturday for Windsor, to be employed in
removing the plate back to Buckingham Palace, and
four other waggons will proceed on the same service
this day.

LAW AND PO LICE,
The case of Mr. Carew, the sculptor, came again be-
fore the Insolvent Court on Saturday, when Col. George
Wyndham said he was present, together with Sir Chas.
Burrell and others, at the opening of the will of the late
Lord Egremout, and no paper or document whatever was
found in which the name of Mr. Carew was mentioned.
Mr. Carew•, who was afterwards examined at considerable
length, stated that his annual income from Lord Egre-
mont was 1,700/. a year for life, clear of labour and ma-
terials, at the same time Sir R. Westmacott gave him a
salary of 1,200/. a year ; besides which, by his. own pri-
vate engagements, he made from 500/. to 8001. a year.
Showing his total annual inc►me to have been from
3,4001. to 3,700% per annum. The further hearing was
postponed till next Saturday.
A batch of omnibus drivers were fined at Marlborough-
street, on Saturday, for loitering in Piccadilly. The
tines were, for the first offence, 10s. ; for the second,
20s. ; for the third, 30s. • and so on.
The 88th session of the Central Criminal Court, arid
4th during the present Mayoralty, commenced this day.
It is supposed the number of committals will be nearly 300.
An inquest was held, on Saturday, on the body of
Jacob Simms, Esq., one of the Magistrates for the
county of Essex, and an extensive shipowner and India
merchant, who had-committed suicide on Thursday. No
reason for the act could be assigned, and the Jury re-
turned a verdict of—Temporary insanity.
PINE ARTS.
At a meeting of the Numismatic Society on Saturday,
a Report was read on 2,050 Roman coins, lately found at
Ancaster : as also a paper on a vast-quantity of nobles
of Edward 111. and Richard 11., lately found near Lon-
don : those of Edward 111. were of great beauty, and
were struck to commemorate his victory over the French
in 1340,