The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-23 00:00:00

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POREIGN.
il_The King of the French had a long conference in
afternoon of Tuesday with Count. Mole and the
„eke Decazes. The Moniteur announces that M.
atier, captain of the Meleagre brig-of-war, and
7nunander of the French naval station at Barcelona,
been raised to the rank of officer of the Legion of
nour.
The French Ministerial papers persevere sedulously
d4lst-oiling facts, whch are daily exposed and contra-
eted- Thus the 800 bombshells which were thrown
"S Barcelona have dwindled to 200, and the eighty-
-4,',e Persons shot, according to, the Moniteur, are all
4 except thirteen.
L
ord Cowley had a long conference with the
'IL :lister for Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.
1,-the Courtier de la Gironde states that the will of
„._ .41.1% (Johnston, who died lately at Floirac," in that de-
Zr. lent, where he had long resided, was opened on
,17 17th inst., and found to contain amongst other
l'2ositions the following charitable legacies, viz.,
i;k7,ooof. to the hospitals-800,000E to the Bureau de
"uarite, and 50,000 f. to the commune of Floirac.
io 4.. deputation of the Municipal Council of Barce-
Pt had waited on the Regent to intercede in favour
r. the place, when they met with a very gracious
jtleeption. The Regent, in reply to a remark from
~,! of the body, who recommended clemency to be
Z 0 .lsted, said that he was only come to chastise the
644,ty and protect the innocent.
4,According to the latest accounts from Constanti •
t;'Ple, strong lemonstrances continued to be made by
t[:' Russian Government against the manner in which
toe Porte had thought proper to settle the Servian
(itair, but without any apparent effect on the Ottoman
e:,vernment. The former, however, is not likely to
ti aSe in her opposition to the measure. A negotia-
tv?n had been opened with regard to Persian affairs
inch it was hoped would end favourably.
thY,be Moscow Gazette states that, on the occasion of
4117, happy delivery of the Grand Duchess Marie-Alex-
`trovna the Cesarewitch Grand Duke gave a sum
ee 10,000 roubles (1,6001.) to that city, to set free a
lord
number of persons in prison for debt, .and to
Nord assistance to the needy.
2 A lamp of native gold, of the enormous weight of
„Ponds and 71b. (about 801 b. English), was found
bltlie 7th instant in the sands of Miass, near the
tZnea of Zfatooust, in Russia, and placed in the Mu-
tt of the Institute of Mines at St. Petersburgh.
the Prussian State Gazette states that the news of
17 insurrection of Barcelona had produced great
„n3ation at Berlin, and that there had been a con-
t7t interchange of couriers, for some days past, be-
een that city arid the other States of the Continent.
PUBLIC OPINION.
%,:the Chronicle says :—" We were not wrong in
*PPosing that the hostility to the Income-tax, which
1:3 displayed on St. Thomas's-day, in the City, would
4 manifested in a still stronger degree in other parts
the kingdom. In another column we have given
blthriged account of the proceedings in the Town
des
of Edinburgh, on Tuesday last, at which a
,jes of resolutions, couched in the strongest lan-
;mg; condemning the tax as inquisitorial, oppres-
4. ; and unjust, were carried by a majority of 20 to
41 Sir Robert Peel will find the generation of 1843
averse to the Income and Property-tax, as was the
generation of 1816. When it was proposed last ses-
onn the people were comparatively apathetic, because
eY knew its oppressive and inquisitorial character
htY as a matter of history ; but experience is the
4 of all teaehers. Sir Robert will find the
Tories not more willing to submit to this
i4°,113 tax than Whigs and Reformers. It
~, nardly necessary for us to observe that the
"`nle unanimity on the part of all classes which corn-
tiled a strong and powerful Government in 1816 to
P'hdraw the Bill for the continuance of the then
thinPerty-tax, will be found effectual in compelling
ee Present Government to repeal the present tax if
l'e People only show that they are in earnest, they
the
tnlot fail to secure an immediate compliance with
ir request. The peace in India and China, like
hat of 1815, has relieved the country from a heavy
that
~,arge. The resources of the country are sufficiently
17._ Ple , under a proper system of taxation, to provide
j the expenses of the State, without exposing the
a
se
, Pie to a continual repetition of the odious inquisi-
°ln they are now suffering under. But there must '
e unanimity. The other wards of the City must
flow the example set them in the wards of Tower,
oad-street, and Langbourne, and the country must
fallowia the City. It is in agitation to call upon the
Ord Mayor to summon a Common Hall, that the
ti
ii,tizens may express their opinion of this most un-Eng-
h tax, in clear and distinct language."
BThe Times, alluding to the late occurrences at
arcelona,i observes :—" The direct inference from
e disturbances which have taken place in Spain at
Ruch short intervals since the termination of the civil
war is, that the Government of Queen Isabella and
.he temporary authority of the Regent stand greatly
4 need of all the support which they might receive,
and to which they are fully entitled, from the diplo-
iZtie influence of the whole of Europe. We are
nrrectly aware that in Spain less than in any other
entry can a Government rely with safety on foreign
,3'staistance ; and nothing is more to be deprecated, as
"'• 'ea Bermudez emphatically declared in the dis-
.l:te_hes written during his mission to Germany in
ti'au, than an erroneous impression that the recogni-
-I;°n of the Queen's Government by the Northern
th:vvers would tend to modify or impair the liberties,
constitution, or the institutions of Spain. On the
'nintrary, whatever strength the presence of a corn-
. Mete diplomatic body in Madrid might give to the
Danish Administration would be equally a guarantee
aßenst counter-revolution and revolution. The
weight
of the recognition of all Europe would render
e vessel of the State less subject to be beaten from
Zr rcourse by the storms of faction ; and Spain
b°uld renew her alliances with other Powers on the
41s of her own independent national policy."
),Speaking of the City Wardmote elections, the
ir•ald says :—" St. Thomas's day passed away in the
TP. without promoting Anti-Corn-law agitation.
'e citizens are practical people, sensitive in the ex-
ileTne about the quarters where the breel)hes-pockets
1. and they'grumbled therefore at the
,tome-tax
,ttlit'leli more than at the price of bread, wh a sen -
Ole person in one of the wards reminded municipal
wisdom could scarcely be lower than it now is.
t "ugh here and there a local orator ' denounced.'—
a° use a favourite word of the leaguers—the Corn-law,
:Id though the Income-tax was almost universally
Osed, there was nowhere any hostility exhibited to
"r Robert Peel and his colleagues, there was no
l'kret expressed over the fallen fortunes of the
VI higs, and there was no suggestion emitted that a
tI ange of Ministry was desirable. In many of the ward-
tico.
Le complaints against the Income-tax we heartily join;
e manner in which returns of respectable tradesmen
are treated by the assessors, surveyors, and Somerset
bl.°llse commissioners is disgraceful,e and Mr. Goul-
urn does certainly seem to neglect the superintend-
ence of the details of imposing and collecting this tax
;an extent that is calculated to injure Sir Robert
Ppeel's Cabinet in public estimation. The House of
ennnons will ring with statements of grievances
arising out of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's inat-
tention to this important subject ; public business will
"e impeded in consequence of his apathy ; and the
,
"PPosition will have a standing theme of reproach
against Ministers, in which every one possessing up-
‘,l‘'ards of 1501. a year will sympathise more or less,
4eause Mr. Goulburn is careless or inefficient. Sir
R. Peel will be sorely badgered because Mr. Goul-
urn is negligent."
The Post thus alludes to the agrarian disturbances
in Ireland :—" We are sorry to observe, in certain
(knarters a disposition to throw the whole blame of
the crimes which disgrace the agricultural population
''f the south of Ireland upon the owners of the land.
've regret this, because, like most other perversions
0f the truth which strongly touch upon personal feel-
Ns, this fire against the landlords has the effect of
`rapemting them, without doing any good in any.
"conceivable manner. If the landlords be less atten-
tive to their protective duties than they ought to be
- :,",.eY are not likely to be turned from the error
I' their ways by exaggerated representations,
1111 of bitterness, and calculated to increase what-
ever ill-feeling may at present subsist between
„the occupiers and the owners of Irish land. We
believe it to be quite true that in general, and
r,,nre especially in the southern parts of the kingdom
t",
tue relations between landlord and tenant are not upon
'pe good footing that may be generally observed in i
ngland and Scotland. We believe it to be quite
*Lie that the Irish landlords are not generally so
careful of their estates, and of the condition of their
tenants, as in other parts of the United Kingdom.
But it is, we think, quite unfair to cast the blame of
1148 wholly upon the landlords. That a part of the
erne is fairly attributable to them we admit, but a
still greater share of the blame ought reasonably to
"a laid upon the bad conduct of the tenantry them-
' %elves, and upon other persons who, directly or incli•-
• reetly, interfere between landlord and tenant, and al-
tnost uniformly in a hostile spirit towards the landlords."
MONEY—TRADE—COIVIVIERCE.
The petition of the sheep salesmen of Smithfield
"mrket, praying for its enlargement, having been al-
'post unanimously signed by them, was presented to
the Court of Common Council at its last meeting.
ECCLESIASTICAL.
A meeting was held at South Hackney yesterday
fat' the purpose 'of making a Church-rate. It was op-
Pc's ed but on its being stated by the churchwardens
that the rate would not be exacted from any one
i'vhose conscientious scruples forbade the payment of
t) the motion was allowed to be carried.
LAW AND POLICE.
The Hon. Theobald Fitzwalter Butler residing at