The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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public eptitton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The French Royalist Journals are chuckling at the
suppression of the Temps. The France and the Quoti-
dienne notice that it was at the office of that Journal the
press declarations of 1830 and 1841 were signed, the
former against the Royal ordonnances of Charles X.,
and the latter against the condemnation of Dupoty by
the Court of Peers. The Temps, they state, is :now
made use of to destroy the revolution. "This new
judgment," adds the _France, " is, however, a very
serious event. War is declared, and the law officers of
the Government are in 'the field. After the Courrier
des Theatres has come the Temps, and after the Temps
who can say where persecution will strike? The press
should close its ranks, and prepare for this new war,
which it has not sought for, but in which, if it should
continue, the Government may find its Waterloo. The
press has thrown down giants ; it cannot tremble, there-
fore, in the presence of pigmies."
General (;ass's note to M. Guizot is approved of by
the war prints. The PreSse declares that France re-
quires no foreign Ambassadors to teach her that she
ought never to ratify the December treaty. The Debuts
remarks that where there is an affirmative and a nega-
tive so categorically laid down, both by England and the
United States, that it will nut be easy to find a pacific
solution for any difficulty which may arise out of the
exercise of the right of search.

The Courrier Francais and the Presse comment on
the present state of Syria, which is such, they say, as
ought to fill with shame and confusion the authors of
the treaty of 15th July, 1840. The conduct of Omer
Paella, and of all the Turkish authorities, is disgrace-
ful, and must inevitably tend to rekindle a civil war in
Syria, and to plunge that ill-fated province into all the
miseries of anarchy.
The Madrid Chamber of Deputies adopted on the
10th inst. a proposition, presented by Messrs. Burriel
and Otero, to the effect that all transactions entered
into by Government, with regard to the issuing of the
Treasury Bonds for 160,000,000 reals, should be referred
to the examination of a Special Committee.
pupx4c OPINION.

The Times remarks, in a leading;irTicle suggested by
the embarrassed state of affairs in India :—" The ex-
penses which have sprung out of the Affghan and Chinese
wars have demonstrated more clearly than ever that the
debts of India have been incurred, not by the ancient
commercial operations of the Company, but to maintain
its territorial power, and to execute its political enter-
prises. Since the last renewal of the Company's char-
ter, several circumstances have concurred to give the
British Govermnent a more decided influence and in-
terest in the affairs of India. The line of communica-
tion by the Red Sea has broUght all the presidencies
within a few weeks' journey from Cannon-row ; and the
military and naval resources of the Company were alike
essential to carry on operations in Central Asia against
an European power, and to reach the remote coasts of
China. The public at large have also paid a far closer
attention to their eastern fellow-subjects since the trade
of India was opened and the differential duties on some
of her chief productions removed. These facilities of
intercourse, these extending relations, and even these re-
cent calamities, have all contributed to establish the
identity of our national interests in the East and in the
West. But we have no right to identify the people of
India with the policy of England, and to tax their coun-
try and expose their armies to destruction, unless we are
prepared to identify our credit with their credit, their
liabilities with our own obligations, and their necessities
with our own means of providing for them."
The Herald, speaking of the state of our trade with
Russia, says :—" In two regions do we find that Russia
has contrived to paralyse our power of trading, both in
buying and selling. Can we wonder, then, that we are
compelled to buy at monopoly prices from her, and even
although she refuses our goods in return ? Our free-
traders' exclaim against the injury inflicted by the pos-
sible expenditure of one or two millions of gold to pay
for corn, and they deft.nd the outrages by which we are
place a duty on her corn
deprived of commerce with the finest countries in Eu-
rwoepe ! They say that Russia refuses our goods because
and timber, and yet they
pay no attention to the fact, that the main articles pos-
sessed by Russia—flax, hemp, hides, and tallow—are ad-
mitted by England at nearly nominal duties, while Rus-
sia places prohibitory duties on all that England has to
sell, except that which is absolutely necessary to enable
her to compete with otfrselves
The Chronicle observes that the fate of the tariff is
now in the hands of the Opposition. " It is plain," says
our Contemporary, e that if the tariff be carried at all, it
must be carried by the aid of the Opposition. A consi-
derable allowance for exaggeration may be made in the
boast of the Member for North 'Wilts, that seventy
Members of the House of Commons are combined to
oppose the importation of cattle at such rates as may
eventually affect the price of meat ; and still, notwith-
standing such allowance, the combination may be quite
sufficient to annihilate the Ministerial majority. The
P:lti'isiiistitory n:
was The
i shorte
occurn nee of such a
fate of the measure, with that of the Ministry itself, is in
t
risis is rather remarkable, considering how a time
iprecisely the sameth e h i s
since
nn
theof the O
late
position, for the sake of the same principle. They have
only to do as they were then done by, to secure such
retribution us defeat would inflict upon their opponents.
The same concealment, the same abeyance of a principle,
which yet was mentally recognised, the same alliance
with the interested antagonists of that principle, by
which Sir Robert Peel was then enabled to deft-at Lord
John Russell, would now enable Lord John Russell to
defeat Sir Robert Peel. Nobody expects this. And the
fact that it is thrown out of alt calculation, that all the
world reckons upon the help of the Opposition to secure
for the country so much of good as the tariff will be-
stow, is a distinct proof of the real estimate which ob-
tains of the character of the hostile leaders and parties."
The Post says We should really like to know how
the Tory aristocracy is menaced as to its power, by the
!'ullest exposure of Whig bribery and corruption in Sud-
bury, Ipswich, Nottingham, Newcastle, Lewes, and Pen-
ryn, or how their stronghold upon Parliamentary influ-
uence is to be at all weakened by the dismissal from the
House of Commons of Fred. Villiers and Dyce Sombre,
digby Wason and George Rennie, Sir Something Lar-

pient, and Mr. Harris the hatter, Mr. S. Tiarford, the l
s,nce rejected of Brighton, and the bold Captain Plum-
r dge of Penryn. If the strongholds of the Tory aristo-
cracy return such men as these by means of Whig bribery
and corruption, we really see very little interest which
the said aristocracy can have in saving them from any
degree of political destruction which that volcanic gen-
tleman, Mr. Roebuck, may happen to pour upon them.
What the Whigs boasted of some months ago, was that
the boroughs were their strongholds, while the counties,
which they represented as being totally destitute of that
surprising intelligence and remarkable independence
which prevailed in the boroughs, were stigmatised as
" the strongholds of Tory bigotry." All this was as no-
torious as newspapers could make it ; and yet now, when
the borough elections are proved, or suspected to have
been very generally dishonest, depraved, and corrupt, the
Whigs cry out, that by the exposure of all this, the:Tory
aristocracy must be ruined ! This is certainly as daring
a flight of effrontery as we remember to have noted, even
in the history of Whig• Radical controversy."
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The cotton-spinners of Barcelona, to the number of at
least 6,000, all wearing clothes of Spanish manufacture,
traversed the streets of that town on the 9th inst., and
celebrated the.second anniversary of the foundation of
their Association.

The Institution of the Royal Maternity Charity ce-
lebrated its anniversary at the London Tavern yesterday
The Report stated, that, since its commencement in 1757,
to 1837, 316,010 necessitous applicants had been relieved.