The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-28 00:00:00

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rOREIGN.

The Paris Commerce assures us that at a numerous
meeting of Deputies on Friday, in the Hall of Conference
of the Chamber, and at which Messrs. Odilon-Barrot,
Berryer, Billault, and all the Deputies of the ports were
present, it was resolved unanimously to oppose in the
Bureaux the Bill relative to indigenous sugar, inasmuch as
it involves the postponment of thegeneral sugar question.
A deputation from the Committee of wine growers
and persons engaged in the wine and brandy trade of the
Gironde waited on the Prefect at Bordeaux, on the 22d
inst., for thepurpose of laying before him the depressed
state of the trade. The petitioners attribute the posi-
tion of which they desire the amelioration to the high
protecting duties in France upon foreign products, which
have induced other States by way of reprisal to lay heavy
duties upon French wines and brandies, and the high
amount of the octroi-duty in Frances which prevents per-
sons of limited means from beeoming consumers to the
extent, which they would be but for this duty.
The Semaphore of Marseilles states that the members
of the Chamber of Commerce of that city went to the
Prefect of the Department on the 21st inst., to express,
in the name of the commercial interests which they re-
present, the dissatisfaction experienced at the postpone-
ment of the sugar question. The Prefect, adds the Se
maphore, appeared to be deeply impressed with their re-
marks, and promised to send a telegraphic communica-
tion to the Government on the subject.
A letter from Neubourg (Eure) says :—" An English
house at Rouen, which carried off most of our corn, has
failed, and left creditors to the amount of 600,000 f. Its
last payments were made in bills upon two houses in
Paris, which refused to honour them. It is said that a
meeting of the creditors will shortly be called in London
to receive a dividend of 10 per cent. This bankruptcy
will very much shake the credit of the corn-dealers of
Rouen, who purchase from us to the extent of 4,000 hec-
tolitres (upwards of 11,000 bushels) a week."
There was a report current on the Paris Stock Exchange
on Friday of a new Russian loan, for the purpose of mak-
ing a railroad from St. Petersburg to Moscow. This
loan, says report, is to amount to 200 millions of francs,
and Messrs Rothschild are to advance two-fifths of the
whole, at the price of 80f. for 100 f. stock at 5 per cent.
interest. Messrs. Rothschild are said to have been anx-
ious to obtain the consent of the Minister of Finance, to
have this loan quoted on 'Change, but the Minister re-
fused his permission.
The Journals of Madrid and Barcelona are to the
20th. The Spanish Chambers did not sit on that day,
it being Palm Sunday.
The Belgian Chamber of Deputies has voted a sum of
8,000,000 of francs, payable in Belgian Three per Cent.
Stock at par., as an.indemnity to the owners of merchan-
dise destroyed in the entrepot of Antwerp by the bom-
bardment of 1831.
The Augsburg Gazette of the ,21st inst. says—" Ac-
counts from Constantinople, of the 2d inst., which have
just arrived, inform us that the Druses of Syria have
risen suddenly against the English and American mis-
sionaries, destroyed their establishments, and burned
their books and manuscripts. Several Maronite con-
vents are also stated to have been pillaged and ravaged.
The reign of the Turkish Governor, Izzet Pacha, ap-
peared to be drawing towards a close."
PUISLIC OPINION.
The Herald, reverting to the nuisance of the income
tax, says :—" To tax the profits of trade is to suck up
the vitality of reproduction, is to limit employment of
labour, and is to render chronic that disease which now
only occasionally breaks out in periodical distress ; it is,
in fact, to permanently palsy national industry. The
adjournment of the resolution over the recess will have
been a fortunate occurrence should the reconsideration
which it will enable Sir Robert Peel to give to his pro-
posal, lead to snch a modification of schedule D as will
remove all reasonable opposition thereto, as will consoli-
date his tenure of office, and make the Premier, in the
true sense of the phrase, the Minister of the nation."
The Chronicle says—"lt is admitted by most of the
journals which generally support Sir Robert Peel, that,
however just it may be to impose a tax on property, yet
it is most unfair to impose an equal tax on the incomes
of men engaged in trades and professions. The mode
in which the Premier is addressed by some of his sup-
porters is curious enough. They address him as if they
had nothing more to do than to prove the justice of their
case to induce him to act on their suggestions. They
forget that Sir Robert Peel was elevated to power to
promote, not the interests of the people, but the inte-
rests of the monopolists. It cannot be too often re-
peated, that Sir Robert Peel came into power to prevent
justice being done to the people. He is Minister of the
monopolists. He is not at liberty to abandon the in-
come tax part of his scheme. He has told the House
that he must carry the income tax or quit office."
The following is from the Advertiser :—" Substan-
tially we regard the principles of the Constitution as at
present overthrown. People are to be taxed that have
not the smallest voice in the Legislature ; the executive
commands, and it is done ; and opinion, as represented
by the press, the wants of the country, the demands of
commerce, the rights of industry, are clearly at this
moment at the feet of the privileged orders and of a Mi-
nister who is their alternate- slave and despot. Even the
exclusion of incomes below 1501. from the tax is a poli-
tical sophism. Inasmuch as it is the incomes imme-
diately above them upon which these depend—inasmuch
as taxation falling upon one class affects the whole
community, are those parts of the social system also
taxed ' • and the artisan, with only a few shillings a-week
wages has as much cause to curse the blighting influence
of such an income tax as the capitalist, who, a loser to
the amount of sevenpence in the pound, has precisely
that sevenpence in the pound less to bestow in the en-
couragement of the industry of the artisan.
MONEY—TRATOZ—COMMERCE.
The Age, another of the old four-horse mails which
daily ran between Brighton and Southampton, ceased on
Saturday for the last time, the Post-office inspectors
having made arrangements for taking it off. The Era is
the only good coach now upon the road.
ECCIAISZASTICAL.
Of the twenty-seven Ana-baptists who lately caused
themselves to be baptised a second time in the lake of
Rummelsbury, on an intensely cold day, eight have been
taken ill, and three have already died—namely, a man,
73 years of age; a girl, 12 years old; and a boy of 10.
The Berlin Government is about to prohibit these bap-
tismal immersions.
ZLECTIONEERING.
Mr. Summers Harford has come forward, as the Libe-
ral candidate for Brighton.
NAVAL AND DMITARY.
Her Majesty's ship Queen was constructed by Sir W.
Symonds. At the time she was commissioned for the

Mediterranean, she was intended to draw a certain depth
of water, which, it is said, she has since much exceeded,
and must have hagged or dropped at the extromities at
least 10 inches.

LAW AND POLICE.
An action was tried at the Hereford Assizes last
week, brought by the plaintiff, a widow lady of the name
of Harris, against Dr. Bleeck Lye, a physician at
Hereford, to recover the sum of 3004 advanced about
four years since- to the defendant, for the purpose of pro-
curing an outfit for his son. Subsequent bankruptcy on
the part of the Doctor was his plea for not repaying it.
A verdict was found for the plaintiff, with 71. 10s. da-
mages, the amount of half-a-year's interest, thereby
denying the ability of the defendant to pay the principal.
Richard Hart, indicted as Richard Jones, was tried
at the Cambridge Assizes, on Saturday, with having
given the sums of 10L and It. to one William Large, as
a bribe for him to vote for Lord Cosmo Russell and Mr.
Foster, the Whig candidates for that town, at the last
election, and found by the Jury guilty.

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PINE ARTS.
Sir David Wilkie's last production—viz., a very fine
portrait of Abdul Medschid, Grand Signior and Sultan

Of the Ottoman empire, . ha; just been placed in the cor-
ridor of Windsor Castle.

The Crown jewels, and entire regalia, were removed
from Messrs. Itundell and Bridge's custody on Saturday
last, and conveyed in three hackney coaches to the Jewel-
office, in the Tower, which opens to-day to the public.

COURT-PAiIIEXONA.BLE.
Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy are expected
to leave Chandos House, on Wednesday next, for Vienna.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland arrived at
Northumberland House on Saturday, from Alnwick
Castle.

The Duke and Du-chess of Argyll return to town early
in the ensuing week from Brighton.
On Wednesday last the Duke of Beaufort met with a
severe fall from his horse.

The Marquis of Lansdowne left town on Wednesday
last for Paris.

The Earl of Munster and his brother have arrived in
own from the continent.

The Earl of Shannon, we are sorry to say, is in a
very declining state of health.
The Earl of Lonsdale has entirely recovered from his
indisposition.

Th-e Earl and Countess of Powis are expected to leave
Powis Castle on the sth April. for Berkeley-square.
A report was current on Saturday, that the will of a
late Noble Lord will be thrown into Chancery.

MISCELLANEOUJI.
This day (Easter Monday) formerly commenced the
Feast of Easter, styled' for pre-eminence the Queen of
Feasts, which was anciently solemnised for 50 days in
succession.

Two Wapiti deer, purchased abroad for her Majesty,
and which have just arrived in England fro:n their native
soil, are now at Cranbourne, and will in course of time
be set at large in the Great Park. One of the Zebus,
or Indian Buffalo cows, of her Majesty, has lately brought
forth a fipe calf.

The late Sir William M'Naghten was created a Ba-
ronet, in_lB39, on account of his eminent Indian ser-

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vices. He had been nominated provisionally a member
of Council of the Supreme Government, and afterwards
ap'oointed to the Government of Bombay ; but he never
arriv,sl at that Presidency.

CLERIEEN.WELL.—Mr. Wakeling, whose public spi-
rit, disinterested conduct, and pecuniary sacrifices have
rendered him so distinguished in this parish, has become
a candidate for tide office of Vestry Clerk. This gentle-
man has done much to serve the parish, and strong hopes
are entertained that he will be successful. The nomi-
nation takes place to-morrow.
HECTOR O'HALLORAN,—The new periodical by the very
popular author of " The Stories of Waterloo," " Wild
Sports of the West," will be ready on the 31st inst., and
may be obtained of all booksellers in the United King
dom. Richard Bentley; John Cumming; Agents for
Scotland, Bell. and Bradfute ; Grape], Liverpool. Orders
should be forwarded immediately to the various book-
sellers to secure the early and punctual delivery of the
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