The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-17 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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PubUt Optittost.

" Who runs may read."

POILBIGN.
The Spanish Senate -has unanimously approved of the
conduct of the Regent in refusing to allow M. Salvandy
to present his credentials to the Queen. It is now not
the King of the French versus the Regent, but the King
of the French versus the Spanish Cortes. The following
is the text of the resolution adopted by the Senate upon
this question :—" That, Government having affirmed
that M. de Salvandy's departure is entirely founded upon
his opposition to Art. 59 of the Constitution to present
his credentials to 'Sabena 11., and not to the Regent, the
Senate do declare that, on this occasion, Government has
fulfilled its duty in defending the Constitution, and in
sheltering the national honour from attack."
The Eco del Commercio speaks with disapprobation of
the law presented by the Finance Minister, authorising
the Government to issue 180,000,000 of Treasury Bills,
at 6 per cent. interest, to be received in half-payment of
the Customs.
In France the points' of etiquette that had arisen be-
tween the French Government and those of Spain and
Russia are severely commented on by the Opposition
Journals. "To be proud with the weak, humble with
the strong, inflexible towards the Regent Espartero, but
ready to bear every insult from the Emperor Nicholas,
constitutes," according to the Constitutionnel," the whole
policy of the Cabinet of the 29th of October."
The remarks of such of the Paris Journals of Satur-
day morning as notice the draft of the Address which
was read on Friday in the Chamber of Deputies are
without interest. The Ministerial Journals make no
comment upon it, and this is the case also with some of
those of the Opposition. It is hardly necessary to add,
that the Journals which do comment upon the Address
repeat what they had said against the speech from the
throne, of which the Address is almost a paraphrase.
The Constitutionnel is very angry with M. Guizot for
keeping back any of the despatches or other documents
connected with the negotiations on the Eastern Question,
and especially for not producing the treaty for the sup-
pression of the Slave-trade, which this Journal calls
" the pretext for ensuring to England over all other na-
tions the exorbitant and odious right of maritime search."
The Gazette de France mentions a rumour of Russia
having authorised a financial house of the first order at
Amsterdam, to effect a new loan on its account. "Cir-
culars," it adds, " have been sent by this house to seve-
ral capitalists in Paris, which represent the affair as very
favourable to the subscribers; the rate of interest is 5 per
cent." The Gazette also mentions a report of a loan as
likely to be contracted by Austria for the execution of
the great lines of railroads by that State.
The Paris correspondent of the Observateur of Brus-
sels says :—" It was at ono time thought of sending M.
de Broglie to London to induce the King of Prussia to
visit Paris, on his return from England • but it appears
that his Majesty, has sent a very friendly letter, in his
own hand, to King Louis Philippe and the Duke of
Orleans, excusing himself for not accepting the invita-
tion. It has therefore been decided that M. de' Broglie
shall not go to England."
According to the last returns of enfranchisements of
slaves in the French colonies of Martinique, Guadaloupe,
Guiana, and Bourbon, they have amounted in Martinique
to 265, in Guadaloupe to 143, in . Guiana to 25, and in
Bourbon to 76 ; making a total of 509. The aggregate
amount of emancipations since 1830 is 38,517.
The Toulonnais mentions a report that the Spanish
steamer Delfin, plying between Malaga and Cadiz, has
just been lost on her passage, with all on board.
" The house of Rothschild in London," says the Com-
merce, "has been ordered to hold 100,000 gold Frederics
at the disposal of the King of Prussia during his stay in
the British Metropolis. His Majesty, it will be remem-
bered, visited London with the Allied Sovereigns in 1814."
The publisher of the Charivari, at the Court of As-
sizes on Saturday, for a libel on M. Hebert, the Pro-
cureur-General, was sentenced to two years' imprison-
ment and 4,000 f. fine (1601.), and the printer to six
months' confinement and 2,000 f. fine (801.) M. Cremeux,
the Jew advocate, defended the Charivari.
PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Herald has a leading article on the affair
of the Creole, which is now a vexata questio between this
country and the United States. After stating the facts
of the case at considerable length, our Contemporary
gives it as his opinion that we cannot execute the local
law of the United States without violating our own; and
that the suggestion that the liberated negroes ought to
have been delivered up to bondage, is nothing more nor
less than a proposal that the British authorities should
infringe their own statutes.

The Morning Post, alluding to an article on the King
of Prussia, which appeared in the Times of Saturday,
and which was meant to be exquisitely ironical, but was
simply dull, by mistake, says—" In its attempt to wield
a weapon, the use of which it does not understand, for
the purpose of exposing something probably very absurd,
but certainly very obscure, in another journal, the Times
has committed a far greater and more revolting absurdity
than any which hiS.ever appeared in any English news-
paper. The ribaldry and sham invective," adds the
Post, " were so clumsily put together that half the world
mistook them for real I'

The 7'intes comments, in an ironical style, on the late
commercial crash in some of the United States of

America, observing, " this, however, it appears, was
only the beginning of • the end. Breakages and bank-
ruptcies on a small scale seem insufficient payment for
such a supernatural fit of prosperity. The State of
Mississippi has led off in gazetting itself ; and other
States seem no way indisposed, with inure or less of cir-
cumlocution, to follow the lead."

The Morning Advertiser, in arguing the difficult affair
of the Creole, which bids fair to occasion much em-
barrassment both to England and America, observes
that America may be assured that she can obtain no
slaves from us. Her ship (the Creole), laden with
human beings whoiri she terms slaves, reaches a British
port, and they are free !"
The Chronicle, referring to the Anti-Corn-law agita-
tion in Scotland, observes that " we envy not Sir Robert
Peel his position; and should he determine on retaining
place in order, not to relieve the people, but to try their
patience, by a refusal to comply with their just demands,
his name will go down to future times as one of the most
disgraceful on the page of history."
The Liverpool Chronicle gives the following advice to
the Puseyites :—" Let: the followers of Dr. Pusey at once
follow the bent of their convictions and leave a Church
which they are now only disgracing by the obloquy of
their nominal adherence; but real hostility. If they will
do this they will establish their sincerity and wimre-
spect, although at the cost of some worldly dross which
ought, however, to be no object to men of their pre-
tensions."

The Dublin Evening Post says :—" We admit that Earl
de Grey has been brought to a just and humble sense of
his transgressions, and, we have now the authority of the
Packet for the fact, that there is a thorough identity of
principle between his Excellency and the Orangemen of
Ireland. This, at least, is honest. The humbug can be
practised no longer. The Orangemen despise him, it is
true—but he may still be used as an instrument."
The Manchester Times thus expresses itself on the sub-
ject of the Chinese. war :—" From the first we expressed
our disapprobation of the war against China. We saw
no justice in batteringdown its towns because the Chinese
Government were averse to having the people poisoned.
With far better reason would the Americans lay Liver-
pool in ashes because we refuse to purchase their pork,
their wheat, and their flour. A war commenced in in-
justice cannot be terminated with honour."

Speaking of the more bigoted aristocratic landowners,
the DevonportTelegraph observes :—"The exclusively agri-
cultural and most bigoted part of the Cabinet hate the
manufacturing interest of this country, even more than
it fears the errors of Socialism, or the threatening of
physical force, and any party or sect that will colour up
a statement that may be made to tell as a party
.weapon
against the most formidable enemies of agricultural
monopoly, will be welcomed as useful tools by the Con-
servative Ministry.
The Carlisle Journal makes the following reference to
the Duke of Buckingham :—" The farmer's friend' is
ready to flee from his post—if the reward be but suffi-
ciently high. He cannot bo induced to rat ; but he has
no objection to betray. Peel says—' I don't ask you to
alter the Corn-laws ; but they must be altered • and if
. .

you will only get out of the way while I do it—here's
your reward.' The bait is too tempting ; and high-
reaching Buckingham grows circumspect,' and we hear
no more of no surrender.' "

We take the foiowing from the Monmouthshire Mer-
lin :—" The Tories have got up a demonstration 'among
the working classes to limit the hours of labour by legal
enactments, because it was easy to excite the feelings of
that class who suffered the most by the action of this
forced and demoralizing system of inordinate labour. It
was easy for them to fix upon machinery the attention of
those poor and ignorant men whose labour was sup-
planted by new inventions, requiring merely the cheaper
labour of females and children. But let these ignorant
and destructive sophists fix their eyes upon the real
causes of infant factory work and all its attendant hor-
rors, and they will be at no loss to find argument for ex-
onerating machinery! Let them look at the Corn-laws l"

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
A deputation of lead-smelters, and another of sugar-
refiners had interviews with the Earl of Ripon on Sa-
turday at the Board of Trade.
The examination of the banrupts of the Chichester
Bank was proceeded with on Friday and Saturday, and
then adjourned to the 16th of February. The total
amount to this time is 122,6461. 15s. 11d.
The spinnersproved up
of the largest mill in Hindley, near
Wigan, turned out, to the number of 400 hands, last
week, in consequence of a proposed reduction of 10 per
cent.

COMMERCIAL REFORM.
The great Anti-Corn-law Convention at Glasgow
commenced its sittings on Friday last at 12 o'clock, in
the Trades' Hall. A. great number of deputies were
present at the opening of the proceedings, and the body
of the hall was filled with members of the working classes.

MAW AND POLICE.
The trial of Charles Southwell for the publication of
blasphemous libels on the Bible and Christian religion,
in a series of papers called " The Oracle of Reason,"
was concluded on Saturday before the Bristol Magis-
trates. The prisoner defended himself in a speech of
great length, but was finally convicted: and sentenced
to 12 months' confinement in Bristol gaol, and fined 100/.
The trial of John Delahunt, for the murder of the boy
Thomas Maguire,. at Dublin, concluded on Saturday,
when the Jury,' on, the strong evidence against him,
brought in a verdict of guilty, and he was adjudged to
execution on the sth of February next.

ELECTIONEEILING.
A representative Peer, in the room of the late Lord
Elgin, will be elected at Holyrood Palace by the Peers of
Scotland, on Wednesday forenoon next, the 19th inst.