The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-20 00:00:00

SIP:r''ARY OF NEWS

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Louis Philippe has rewarded the French COMM) at
Barcelona, by raising him to the rank of an officer in
the Legion of Honour.
The Constitutionnel denies that there is any truth
in the reproach so often brought against some of the
French journals, of a desire to involve France Mid
England in war.
The Messager informs us, under date of Perehts
Tian, the 15th, that thirteen soldiers of the corps raised
by the Juntas were shot at Barcelona on the 12th.
No Spaniard was allowed to stir out of the town.
These, with the captain of infantry shot in the cont..
mencement, are the only executions that have been
positively announced.
A letter from Granville states that an English GS"
vernment cutter arrived there a few days age, with
message of thanks from the Governor of the Wan"
of Jersey to M. Jayet de Gercourt, the commattder
of the French Government cutter Espiegle, for The
services renderedt,b3 fires
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Helieresselon. the occurrence reb
ly of two.
The Journal des Chemins de Fer says, all the shatO
for the railroad from Rouen to Havre have been
taken, and that the works will be urged on with 10
much celerity as those of the road from Paris to
Rouen have been.
A deputation, composed of six of the notable inhas
bitants of Saragossa, arrived at the Regent's head-
quarters on the 10th, to congratulate him, in the name
of all classes of the population of that city, on the sup-
pression of the revolt at Barcelona.
The Phare des Pyrenees of the 14th states, under
date Barcelona, the 11th, three o'clock p.m., that
three 'regiments were to march on that day from Bar-
celona for Gerona and the French frontier.
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The Duke of Bordeaux arrived at Dresden on the
Bth from Prague, and alighted at the Palace.
A letter from Munich mentions the arrival there of
an officer of engineers of the Egyptian army, who is
on a tour of inspection of the military establishment"
of Germany, France, and England.
PUBLIC OPINIO2C
" Can anything be conceived so thoroughlY
The following remarks are from the Chronicle:
to a Minister and a great party is the
state of doubt about their future intentions ? initn
knows whether Sir Robert Peel means in rebruari
to propose the total abandonment of all Corn-laws
whatsoever, or to stand resolutely by the Act cn
session. No one knows what his party will ao ; "-
many of them are urging him to stand by their• el°:
nopolies ; or how large the proportion that are asar
ing him that in any dereliction of past principles he
may count on the basest compliance on their Om"'
We do not pretend to be in the secrets of the tab!'
net ; and we can only infer their intentions from 62),
taires:ertes;
language of their supporters in Parliament or. Lt":
press. But who can make out anything from Ow,'
Babel of confused and jarring sounds ? The Tin"
after long silence on the main question, which it itP.'
peared to have thrown over, in order to vent. its abus‘
on the opponents of the Corn-laws, suddenly reneWl
its protest against those laws, calls for a fresh relit**
tion of them, and insinuates that some fresh move!'
the direction of free trade is to be made billiatb'
At the same time the same. note is all atyM once taked
up persons of more or less weight all over the Gobi!'
try. The Duke of Rutland boldly tells his 41-Let:
tural neighbours that the sliding-scale can well Dea"
a reduction of " some shillings." Mr. Escott, it the
same season, inculcates on his auditors the probability
of a freer trade in corn. Messrs. Dickinson and AP'
land boldly announce the doom of monopoly to thee.
who returned them to support it. And from iht
further end of Somersetshire the sad Miles efialk'
forth to the shepherds who surround him his rated
warning that the sliding-scale is doomed, and debt
ploughing must henceforth be the only protection el
the agriculturists."
The Post says—" Her Majesty's Government would
do much good if they would take some mode 0,f.
authoritatively informing the public whether it is. a.r
is not, in their present contemplation to make anY
important alteration in the Corn-law of last sessions
On every side the loud cry is that such alteration
and must be, in the contemplation of the Government,
They who express a contrary opinion are laughed st
as ridiculously blind to the manifest signs of the time,
Conservative as well as Radical authorities are quotes(
in proof that the present law cannot stand. The cut..
rent of public opinion is said to be dead against the
existing law ; and if public noise and clamour wet 4
the same thing as the current of public. opinion we
should be constrained to admit that the assertion ill
true. But we think there may be a great deal of fie'
titious and fraudulent public noise and clamour which
ought not to be recognised as public opinion, and
theTl
think also that the noise and clamour agains.t..,
existing protection to home. agriculture is fictit.lor
and fraudulent. But, such as it is, it appears to have
had its intended effect upon a great many Ws"'
calling themselves Conservatives, and we find sucn
persons joining in the general prophecy that the Corn.
law must go."'
Th.:. Advertiser makes the following excellent obs
servations on the exertions of the Anti-Corn-WV
League and the terror of the Tory monopolists :---
" The triumphant progress of the Anti-Corn-lavr
Fund is filling the Tory monopolists. with dismal'
They looked on the idea of raising 50,0001., in the
space of a few weeks, by voluntary exertion, as one
of the most Quixotic notions that ever found its svei,
into human head. If they had for a moment fancied
that those who first propounded the scheme seriously
expected it could ever be realised, the monopolist'
would, one and all, have urged on their friends the
proftiety of consigning them, without delay, .to tke,
safe keeping of a lunatic asylum. The Tories, it 1.11
clear, imagined, when the idea was first broached.
that those with whom it originated were secretly
seeking to play off a hoax at the expense of the re:
pealers. The monopolists took it for granted that it
would be just as rational an undertaking to devil
scheme for paying off the national debt, as it woul
be to engage to raise 50,000/. for Anti-Corn-ler
purposes, from a people whom they knew to be ife:
poverished—impoverished by those very laws— t°
degree verging on starvation. Nor was the failure,
the signal if not ludicrous failure, of any attempt!!
raise such a sum, the only result which tne
monopolists anticipated from the 50,0001.
terprise. They made equally sure that one
the certain and immediate fruits of the failahr:
would be the breaking-up of the League, and the
consequent extinction of Anti-Corn-law agitating
While the Tories were busily engaged in layor t
flattering unction to their monopolist souls, some an_.:
happy hack was set to work in.therorterty Review
to give form and Pressure'' to their uncontrolle
exultations. The ill-fated scribe forthwith took Ye
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in hand, and did as he was desired. He first 8107
expression to his confident predictions as an the
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failure to the attempt to raise the sum in quest
and then he gives way to a fit of laughter A
supreme credulity of those who could, even for 14
little moment, imagine the collection of 50,0001'
such a purpose to be a contingency within, the rel
of possibility. Let them laugh that win, "niter -
proverb. Who has the greatest cause for Islam •
now—the Repealers, or the Monopolists ?We retry,
like to tee the latter now attempt to gat up ".owd
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laugh at the League. What an abortion it IN
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needs be—it would doubtless resemble the
grin ' and ghastly smile' of Milton's fallen angt.,.
The monopolists are in no laughing mood at Preselo
They are the subjects of feelings and emotions 31.'
very opposite of those in which laughter is
supposed to have its origin. No less than 15.
of the 50,0001. are already raised, though collecti
have been only as yet made in ten or twelve toil:
This is no joke to the monopolists. They must a •
mit, however reluctantly, that it is at •all events
very* fair beginning; for it is only considered in t"
,
light of a commencement by the Anti-
Corn-lavi
Leaguers themselves. In that sum—every shilling' of
which is already in hand, no portion of the amount
being in promises—in that sum the Conservative Mut;
nopolists must read the death-warrant of legislati!
protection to the agricultural interest. If they d?
not, they must be blind as the moles and the bats.
They must neither have eyes nor ears to perceive
what is passing around them. They must be labour•
ing under the influences of a political mesmerisMo
more potent by far than any ever produced by PI"
fontaine or any other professor of the magnetising tut
No matter how profound may be the trance in which
they are at present—and profound it must be if the!
are unconscious of the impending extinction of the
corn monopoly—they will, ere long, awake, and,
opening their eyes, will be struck with amazement ,
seeing that monopoly lying in a mass of ruins arounti.

them."
In adverting to the bombardment of Barcelona, the
Times says—" Private accounts which have been rem
ceived from Barcelona, and communicated to us bi
persons worthy of credit, strongly confirm the opinion
we already entertained, and have more than once en
pressed, as to the real effects of the bombardment or
that city. If those effects had been commensurs_ P,O ti" 4
the number of projectiles said to have been dischor
against those devoted walls, or to the alarm and indir
nation which our French Contemporaries have get UP
upon this occasion, it is hardly possible that still
fuller account of such a sweeping dostructioP shQw