The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-02 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.

The Overland Mail from India, bringing news from Bombay
of the 18th of June, arrived at Marseilles on Sunday morning.
There was some talk yesterday (Monday) in Paris, of a re-
conciliation taking place between Dnfaure and Thiers. This
would tend greatly to the downfall of the Cabinet.
Letters from Toulon of the 28th announce that Admiral

Hugon's squadron reached that fort on the 27th, coming from
Naples. The steamer Veloce left Naples on the 23d, and had
brought back the three naval pupils engaged in the fatal duel
of the 13th uft. at Naples. Steamers had arrived also from
Algiers and Bona with dates of the 23d ult.
Madrid letters of the 25th report that M. Arguelles has re-
signed his appointment at the Palace, in consequence of some
disputes with the Grand Lady Chamberlain.
Don Francisco de Lujan, Member of the Congress, and a
friend of Senor Gonzales, the ex-Minister, has been appointed
by Senor Arguelles, the Queen's guardian, Professor of His-
tory to her Majesty.
The Augsburgh Gazette has letters from Bucharest, an-
nouncing that the collisions which had broken out between the
Boyards and Prince Ghika on the one hand, and between the
Ottoman Commissioner and the Russian Commissioner on the
other, had fortunately ceased.
I.4I.II,MIAMENTAILU.

The Peers read the Bonded Bill a second
time last night, after a few objections from Lord Beaumont,
and a few sentences of approbation from Lord Monteagle. It
will victual ships cheaper, but will confer a benefit rather on
the ship-owners than on the seamen.
In answer to the Marquis of Londonderry, the Earl of Had-
dington stated that he knew of no intention to make any altera-
tions in the packet stations of Donaghadee and Port Patrick.
Lord Brougham postponed his proposition about slavery till
to-day, on account of the illness of the Lord Chancellor.
The Colliery Bill was read a third time and passed, after some
objections made by the Marquis of Londonderry, and, after an
amendment, compelling the coal owners to find some accomoda-
tion for inspectors to visit their mines, had been inserted by
Lord Campbell.
The Parish Constables Bill was read a second time, and their
Lordships adjourned.
Sir Robert Inglis, in the Commens, presented a petition from
a man who asked the Parliament to rescue his son's children
) from their grandmother and popery at Rome, and hand them
over to him and Protestantism.

The Ipswich election writ was ordered to be withheld till the
evidence shall be printed. The Southampton writ was ordered
to be issued, as was the writ for Belfast. •
In reply to Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir R. Peel betrayed an
inclination to place the improvements of the metropolis und^or
the Board cf. Ordnance, and to devote what is miscalled the
public money, which, in truth, is money taken from individuals,
to effect improvements in the metropolis.
In reply to Mr. Sheil, Lord Eliot said he knew of Hagan, the
informer, but not of his having been employed to administer
oaths after he had beer, taken into the pay of the police.
Mr. 'l'. buncombe brought the case of Dr. M'Douall, Mr.
Mallalieu, and the Deptford meeting before the House, and
proposed a Committee to inquire into it. The motion was re-
sisted by the Ministers, on the ground that the assembly in the
Broadway was riotious, that it was a continuation of a riotous
assembly in the chapel, and that Dr. M'Douall was properly
apprehended, and rejected by 89 to 30.
In a Committee of Ways and Means several appropriations
were made.

The Court of Chancery Offices Bill was read a second time.
The Tobacco Regulations Bill was opposed by Mr. T. Dun-
combe, but he was defeated by 53 to 9, and the Bill went
through Committee.
The Ecclesiastical Leases Bill was reported, after some ob-
servations from Mr. Vernon Smith.

There was no business of importance transacted, though the
House sat till One o'Clock.

.Pll 131.3:C OPINION.

The Times gives the following advice to the opponents of the
New Poor-law Bill :—" If Ministers have declared themselves
during the recent debates, upon any one point more decidedly
than another, it has been in their reiterated professions of ab-
solute, unlimited confidence in the wisdom and humanity of
the Voor-law Commissioners. Who can doubt, therefore,
that whatever review of the question may take place,
it will be directed, superintended, and controlled by
these officials ; that Sir James Graham will look to them,
and them only, for information upon every point ; that they
will, in effect, determine what new legislation shall be pro-
posed, that they will have the preparation of the Government
Bill, and furnish the reasons to be assigned for every clause of
it ? UnCer these eireumstznees, we advise all who do not
place absolute confidence in the Poor-law Commissioners, to
hope nothing, but to be on their guard against further en-
ctoachments. Let the opportunity afforded by the recess be
taken such advantage of, that, when Parliament meets, an im-
posing expression of the sense of the people upon the general
question may be ready to be brought forward. Some people,
we know, are very indifferent about petitioning, on account of
the contempt with which petitions, however numerous and re-
spectably signed, appear to be treated when they thwart, in-
stead of hacking up, the views of a Parliamentary majority.
NVe think this a mistake."

The Herald says—" The Conservatives of Southampton,
Nottingham, and Belfa-t may he assured that the' " purity
system" is the only successful one in the long run : it is, like
honesty, their- best policy; and though adherence to it may
produce one or two del'eats at elections, and one or two con-
tested returns, yet. persistence in it is the toad to permanent
supremacy. Let the Conservatives leave this " dirty work" to
the Whigs and the Radicals. They can beat the Destructives,
they may rest assured, by union, resolution, and perseverance,
without following their venal example. Let them neither
bribe nor treat—neither give head-money, basket-money,
ticket-money, nor drink. Let them rely principally on the
greatness and justice of their cause, and secondarily, let them
vigilantly watch and note the dishonest practices and. the mer-
cenary tricks of their opponents. The return of a Conservative
to the House is not worth purchasing by bribery and treating,
or through drunkenness and gluttony, or intimidation and
coercion ; and the success of the very best candidate that ever
professed Conservatism at such a cost and by such means is in
reality a source of weakness instead of strength to his party.
Never had the Conservatives a more favourable opportunity of
purifying their cause than at present ; their present strength in
the House of Commons, their existing majority of ninety,
affords them means which for ten years past they have not pos-
sessed."
The Post observes, in reference to a proposed American
loan—" The speculators of the United States are, it should
seem, anxious to borrow a few millions more of English money.
Proposals for fresh American loans have been recently circu-
lated with considerable vigour. If these schemes shall be
crowned with success, the English lenders will deserve to be,
once more, duped and cheated by their American debtors. The
policy of lending, in any circumstances, masses of English
capital to foreigners may admit of grave doubts. To supply
foreign nations with the means of calling their industrial ener-
gies into fuller action is to assist in converting foreign nations
into formidable rivals in the arts of peace, or, it may be, in the
arts of war. The capital of England is created by the labour of
England ; and, therefore, so long as any portion of the labour
of England lacks profitable employment, so long must the
withdrawal of any portion of English capital from the sphere of
native productive industry inflict severe injustice on that most
numerous class, of which the well-being is lessened by every
movement that tends to lessen the market, and, by consequence,
the dem nd fer labour."
Alluding to the expunging of one of the most important pro-
visions of the Bribery Bill, the Chronicle remarks—" Only
slue plain effect from the rejection of that clause cats be pro-
duced, or by any shrewd intellect calculated upon; and that is,
to diminish most materially the chance of detecting bribery.
That is what the Government Law Officers have achieved, that
distinctly, and nothing more. They have saved no one from
false crimination or unjust punishment. They have only pro-
tected the guilty and the crime. The majority of the House
went with them very readily, and another impulse is thus given
to the public mind, driving it onwards in the course it had al-
ready taken very decidedly, as to the political morality of that
House. Nobody believes it to have any earnest purpose of
grappling energetically with electoral corruption. Faith in it
is gone ; cast to the winds ; leaving merely a curiosity to see
how much of cant is yet to be uttered on the subject, and what
show to be made of ineffectual remedies. The restrictions,
however, that bear upon individuals, often fail as to large
bodies. The conscious briber may be muzzled in his loquacity,
or sheltered in his silence, by a rule of evidence, but no
rule or power can now prevent the House of Commons from
being self-criminated, as to the tolerance of bribery, in public
estimation."