The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-03 00:00:00

SUM ,'ARY OF NEWS

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Publtt Optntost.

" Who may read."

FOREIGN.
Russia and France are again, it seems, reconciled.
The Augsburg Gazette announces what is tantamount to
this after a very round-about fashion. It states that a
letter from Berlin makes known that a letter from St.
Petersburgh stated that the Emperor had invited all the
members of the French Embassy to a ball, to dance away
the recollection of Royal and Imperial feuds, which in-
vitation was, of course, accepted. Thus the peace of
Europe has been happily consolidated by a gallopade.
The Paris Journals continue to dwell upon the result
of the division upon the Address. The Constitutionnel,
M. Thiers' paper, says—" Never, except at the time of
the coalition, was there so feeble a majority under simi-
lar circumstances, and yet upon almost every point
Ministers, during the discussion, made concessions in
their avowed policy, and on one point, of the most serious
importance viz. the right of search, an amendment was
carried, which in some degree engages the responsibility
of the Cabinet, in the event of the treaty being ratified.
The adoption of this amendment induced a certain num-
ber of persons to vote for the address, who would other-
wise have voted against it, and Ministers, in order to
render the Chamber more favourable, disavowed the hos-
tility against the public press and the institution of the
Jury which has been imputed to them, and yet their
majority is small."
The Courrier Francais has the following :—" Notwith-
standing this pretended majority of 84, the Ministry has
received its death-blow. It may drag on for some time
longer, but it cannot live. It will not venture to dissolve
the Chamber, for it knows that the new elections would
give us an immense majority. It will not have recourse
to a general election, because it has no claim to public
respect or confidence."
The National takes precisely the same view of the
perplexed state of the Cabinet:—" If it be considered
that it was not understood by anybody that the adoption
of the address was to be made a Cabinet question, and
that many Deputies were unwilling, by rejecting it, to
pronounce themselves the dissolution of the Chamber, it
will be seen that the minority of 156 is a formal con-
demnation of the policy of Ministers, and an evident
symptom that their ruin is at hand."
The Corresponsal of Madrid states that an ordon-
nance was issued on the 12th instant, granting a pension
to the two daughters of Brigadier Diego Leon, equal to
the pay of their father as Lieut.-Colonel of Lancers.
The dowry of the Princess Sophia of Orange, the
future bride of the Hereditary Duke of Saxe Weimar, is
said to be 3,000,000" florins in cash, or 7,500,0001.
The Greek Government has published a circular, ad-
dressed by the Minister of the Interior to the governors
and sub-governors, cautioning them, against putting any
faith in, the reports of an approaching rupture between
Greece and the Ottoman Porte.
, A letter from Vienna on the same subject says—" The
accounts from Athens are most satisfactory. The Greek
Government has definitely placed at the disposal of the
P6fte the sum necessary to pay the indemnities due to
Ottoman subjects who possessed lands within the terri-
tory of Greece, and which have been expropriated."
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Times has a leading article on the subject of a
statement made by a Contemporary, to the effect that
the Bishops are about to hold a meeting for the purpose
of taking into their consideration the doctrines of the
Tracts for the Times. In this article the Times says—
" We are not aware that there is any mode, according
to the constitution of the Church of England, by which
the Bishops can pronounce a binding or effectual decision
upon any controverted theological question, except
through the medium of Convocation, in which the con-
currence of the lower orders of clergy is necessary to
their acts ; and as Convocation will meet on Thursday
next, it will then be known whether they do or do not
intend to address the Queen for leave to proceed to such
deliberations as those contemplated by our Contempo-
rary. We see no reason to believe it."
The Advertiser ridicules the idea that the Duke of
Buckingham will support Sir Robert Peel in all the rest
of his political measures, with the single exception of the
Corn-laws, which, adds the Advertiser, "is something
like accommodating a man with the loan of a hundred
pounds at twenty per cent., only deducting the amount of
five years' interest. The whole existence of the Tory
Ministry depends on its conduct with regard to the Corn-
law question, and on this the Duke of Buckingham will
be the inveterate opponent of Sir Robert Peel, who it is,
nevertheless, said will not upon general measures have to
encounter his Grace's hostility. We look upon this first
split as the beginning of the end.' of the Conservative
Cabinet."
The Herald makes the following observations on the
regulation of the issues of the Bank of England :—" It
appears from the late returns, that since July last the
Bank of England has increased its bullion by 618;000L,
while it has decreased its issues 1,683,0001., making its
circulation upwards of 2,000,0001. less than it ought to
be, according to its own rule. The general effect of this
proceeding on the part of the Bank is, to maintain that
scarcity of money in London, by which the commerce
of the country has been so long kept in a state of embar-
rassment, and at the same time to contract the circula-
tion of the country generally, and thereby to depress the
price of corn ; for it must be observed that the price is
lower now, after a deficient harvest and a limited foreign
supply, than it was last year, after a better harvest and a
very extensive foreign supply—a state of things which
can only be accounted for by this inconsistent proceeding'
of the Bank of England."
The Chronicle is of opinion that on the downfal of
Toryism alone can that superstructure be raised which
shall give permanent security to the principles of reform,
and increasing prosperity to our manufacturing and
commercial industry. Our Contemporary goes on to
observe : "The shabby half-measures which Sir Robert
Peel may bring forward as the price of maintaining him-
self in office, are still a homage to sound principles,
and must sap the foundations of Toryism, which rest on
ignorance and prejudices. But his is not the hand that
can bring back prosperity to our shores, by measures
calculated to afford to every branch of inclustry--agri-
cultural, commercial, and manufacturing—due protection
and equality of rights, and to diffuse satisfaction and
tranquillity throughout the land."
The Dublin Pilot observes, in an article on the subject
of exclusive dealing :—" Since ever Emancipation passed,
the Tory—the Orange party of Ireland—acting on the
principle laid down in the fable of the bundle of sticks,
have, by exclusive dealing under every phasis, strength-
ened their party—landlords letting land to Tory tenants
—employing Tory agents—and getting Liberals to ap-
point Tory agents (hence, perhaps, arises the fact of
Lady Dover's agents, both law and land, either voting
against, or not voting for her Ladyship's brother, Lord
Morpeth)—Tory gentry dealing only with avowed Tory
shopkeepers, and eventually the Lord Lieutenant him-
self carrying out the principle, until to it may be attri-
buted the defeat of Lord Morpeth in the city of Dublin."
We quote the following from the Brighton Guardian :
—"Saxony and Prussia are underselling us in the United
States, the United States are underselling us in China
and in our own colonies. The northern parts of Europe
are under-selling us as ship-carriers ; nay, they are be-
ginning to carry for us. Our merchants, and ship-own-
ers vest their capital in foreign ships ; and should a pro-
perty-tax disable our ship-owners and manufacturers
still more to compete with foreigners, not only will it not
augment the revenue, it will hasten the decay which is
impending over Great Britain,"
The Tyne Mercury says :—" The demand for foreign
corn would produce a rise abroad, and as trade increased,
prices would equalise themselves, while the labourer
would get better wages, and the farmer would have a
more lasting and more profitable market, even if corn
was really considerably cheaper—or from the sale of
our manufactures abroad we would say, whether it was
cheaper or dearer."
IVIONEY—TRALE—CODIMEXCE.
At a meeting of the British Iron Company, held on
Tuesday at the London Tavern, it appeared that the
decay in its affairs had arisen from the recent great fall
in iron. Bar iron in 1838 was 91. per ton at Newport,
it is now about 61., making a difference of 120,0001. on
the 40,000 tons produced annually by the Company. The
resolution, however, for a dissolution of the Company,
was negatived.

ELECTIONEERING.
New writs will have to be moved for in Parliament as
soon as it assembles, for Liverpool, South Shropshire,
Leominster, West Cornwall, Bandon, and Dublin Uni-
versity.
Mr. Bainbridge, one of the Liberal Members for
Taunton, has just accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and
Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke, a Liberal, presentedhim-
self on Tuesday to the electors as a candidate for the
vacant seat, with every prospect of success.
LAW Bury Gaol has not axAD POLICE.
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Xing °I
On Saturday, the 29th of January, tbG Prussia honoured his Excellency the Chevalier Bon'rse
with his gracious company to a de'euner.ll,)ef c°1110$:
of the morning the Chevalier Neukomm,j &nu nu,
chelles performed together on the Organ arid. —edag.
Piano-forte. His Majesty subsequently requevst rd's,
Moscheles to perform on the instrument (one of
manufacturer tor the Royal Palace at Berlin), and Pl..
himself behind the chair of tho artist, who thus insphl
extemporised, and hit most happily on subjects whit in 0
cited from the August hearer his loud approbation .••
subjects introduced were " God Save the Queen, being
also the National Air of Prussia, "Robiu Adai/:'7 r. -
conclusion, Hullers " "