The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-04 00:00:00

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FOREIGN.

The French Government, by the mouth of M. Guizot,
declared in the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday,
that Sir Robert Peel has been misinformed respecting
the existence of a Christino-Carlist conspiracy in France
against the Regent of Spain. Permission had been.
refused Cabrera to visit Paris. It is then true that he
sought it
The Presse states that Father Casares, a Spanish
capuchin monk, who has been the originator of most of
the reports recently spread, concerning a meditated
attempt of Carlists and Christinos jointly against the
present Government of Spain, and who has been disowned
by the Carlists, was yesterday arrested at his residence
in Paris ; and that papers found in his possession prove
him to be a secret agent of Espartero.
It has been calculated that, since 1830, the European
Governments have expended in the organisation of fleets
and armies upwards of twenty-two thousand millions of
francs.

In France, 14,012,000 men have been called out for
military service from 1791 to 1842 inclusive. They are
thus divided under the different Governments during
that period :—Under the old monarchy, from 1791 to
1792, there were
.1,270,000 men. During the Assem-
blies from Bth March, 1703, to the 22d August in the
same year, 5,992,000. Under the Directory, from 1798
to 1799 the number was 860,000. Under the Consulate,
from 12th November, 1799, to 24th March, 1804, it was
443,000. Under the Empire of sth August, 1804, till
1814, it was 3,865,000. Under the Restoration, from
1818, to 28th July, 1830, it was 622,000. In fine, under
the present Government, from 11th December, 1830, to
1842 inclusive, 960,000 men. It results from this, that
the annual average of men called under arms, from 1791
to 1842 inclusive,-has been 300,000.
At each new election since 1830 the number of De-
puties re-ziected has uniformly increased. In 1831, out
of 427 Deputies in the preceding Chamber, 222 were
again returned ; in 1834, out of 458, there were 292 ;
in 1837, out of 459, there were 310 ; and in 1839, out of
457, there were 381.
The official returns of the prices of wheat in the mar-
kets of France for the last month show the highest to
have been 23f. 15c. per hectolitre at Mulhausen and
Srasburg ; and the lowest 16f. 87c. at Saumur, Nantes,
and Martins.

The price of bread for the first fortnight of the pre
sent month is fixed at 34 centimes the kilogramme.
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During the last month 3,712,503 E were paid into the
Paris Savings'Bank by 25,722 depositors, of whom 3,638
were new ; and 2,321,000 f. were drawn out.

P.A.RLIANIENTAXY.

The expected motion by Lord Monteagle, in the House
of Lords last night, having been postponed till this night,
their Lordships adjourned, after receiving a few petitions,
at an early hour.
In the Commons, Lord Eliot informed Dr. Bowring
that the Irish Population Returns would be ready pro-
bably by the Ist of July ; and Colonel Conolly, that he
hoped shortly to lay a Bill on the table for the regula-
tion of Charities in Ireland.

In reply to some Hon. Member, Sir Robert Peel de-
clined to burden the Government with the task of regu-
lating the supply of the people's food, or of ascertaining the
number of acres under the plough. These things ought,
he said, to be left to the natural operation of commerce;
though he has just passed resolutions to settle the price
inter-,
fere corn, and so to regulate the supply, as well as
fere with the natural operations of commerce. The man
is fast becoming a bundle of contradictions.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer's motion, relative
to Exchequer bills, we have elsewhere noticed. After a
few remarks from Mr. Rumble, Mr. Leader, Sir Robert
Inglis, Mr. F. T. Baring, Mr. Wakley, and Sir Robert
Peel, a Bill to appoint a Commission to inquire into the
issue, receipt, circulation, and possession of the forged
Exchequer bills, was agreed to without opposition.
Mr. French made a motion with a view to secure Par-
liamentary aid, and to promote the formation of Rail-
ways in Ireland, and supported it by an able speech.
The motion was seconded, after a fashion, by Mr. Shaw,
but opposed by Lord Eliot, Sir R. Peel, and Lord John
Russell, and ultimately withdrawn.
Lord Mahon obtained leave to bring in a Copyright Bill
without calling forth any discussion. No other business
of importance was transacted, and at half past nine
o'clock the House adjourned.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Advertiser contains an article on the subject of the
landed Aristocracy, in the course of which it observes:—" It can
be no longer said that the Corn-law discussion is barren of good,
for however remote may be the probability of obtaining any im.
portant concession to the just demands of the country from the
Tory Cabinet of Sir Robert Peel, the matters that escaped from the
incautious lips of the Starvealls, during the course of the wordy
debate, cannot fail to provoke such thinkings and discussions out
of doors, as must, at no distant period, break down not only their
infamous and inhuman food-monopoly, but also, and as surely, the
aristocratic powers in the Legislature of the country."
The Herald has the following incidental remarks in an article on
the West Indian question :—" One alternative is certain; either
our sugar colonies must have supplies of labour gradually poured
into them, or the people of the United Kingdom must—by being
to the consumption of foreign sugar—neutralise all the past efforts
and stultify all the future exertions of the British Government to
suppress the slave-trade and procure the abolition of African sla.
very. It is for Lord Stanley to decide which shall be adopted."
The Post, discussing the question of the profitable employment
of the poor in Ireland, says, " that it is easy to suggest that the
Government might purchase bog and waste lands from Irish pro-
prietors, in order to employ the poor, but even if Government had
the means for such purchase, which it has not, through what
scenes of jobbing and extortion would it not have to wade, in or-
der to obtain this worthless land, for the most benevolent pur.
pose ? The mercantile spirit in this country has so knocked down
the patriotic spirit, and all classes are so ready to chaffer and to
bargain, and to make the most they can fur themselves, that we are
not fit for the freedom which we possess."
The Times expresses a hope that the Bill for legalizing marriages
which have been solemnized in Ireland by Vresbyterian Ministers,
between members of the English Church and Presbyterians, will be
proceeded with as rapidly as possible, and adds—" It may be useful
to point out exactly what the State, as such, assumes to do on these
occasions, which is this, and neither more nor less than this—it
affixes the legal consequences of marriage to their union—it vests
the property of the wife in the husband—it fixes on the husband the
maintenance of the wife—it gives to the children the rights of in.
heritance—it renders the parties liable to the penalties of bigamy
if they assume to marry another. But with the nature of the pre-
vious union, in foro eonseientice it does not and cannot interfere."

The Chronicle, referring to some remarks lately made by M.
Guizot in the French Chambers, says—" If there be no substan-
tial difference between the expressions used by Lore Aberdeen, and
the expressions attributed to him, then there is nut the slightest
doubt that he has given his formal sanction to the French conquest
of Algiers. We are not now considering whether it was politic,
or the reverse, to have mad such a concession ; we merely beg at-
tention to the fact, that unless Lord Aberdeen has been " substan.
tially ' misreported he has made a concession of which it is of the
utmost importahce that the British Parliament should be officially
informed."