The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-22 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Vublit Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The riotous proceedings of the working classes in'
England are noticed at considerable length by most of
the Paris journals. Some of them take a very gloomy
view of the subject, and seem to anticipate a deter-
mined and well-organised resistanpe to the Govern-
ment; whilst others, judging froii the past, and ap-
preciating the powerful means 01 repression in the
hands of the Government, imagine that whatever
may be the ultimate consequenies of 'the present
lamentable state of society in England—with luxury
carried to the utmost limits of refinement on the
one hand, and a mass of human misery on the other—
the struggle against law will be oQ short duration.
The Courrier Francais, after reviewing the causes
gleged by the English papers for the breaking out of
the present riots, concludes this :—" We have no
doubt that the public force will triumph over the agi-
tations which the English journnls relhte in such
frightful colours ; but the disorders, though put down
in one point, will break out in :another. England
is entering on a period of domestic troubles, which
is pregnant with embarrassments and perils ; and ere
long she will be in a state not to express. pity for na-
tions living in a state of social commotion. This na-
tion, which used to be represented sunder the figure of
a ship at anchor, is henceforward delivered up to
storms, and tossed up and down in the !intdst o the
deepest seas."
The proclamation of the Queen, offering a pecu-
niary reward to informers, is noticed by the Presse
almost with an expression of contempt. It observes
that everything is done with money in England,
even to the means of enforcing thelaw. The Courrier
says that in France such an act as putting a price
upon the head of an enemy, and rewarding the
betrayer, would be regarded as immoral and odious.
A private letter, received in Paris from Madrid, un-
der date the 11th inst., contained the following pas-
sages :—" The days of the present Ministry are
numbered. The Conde Almodovar in a!private con-
iersation lately declined to:enter into a money matter
left unfinished by Surra and Gonzales, candidly de-
claring, that he was old, in poor ;health, and begged
to be left at peace for the few weeks that he yet must
remain in possession of his office." Two doubles (as
you call them at the opera) are, however, said to be
already placed in private nomination, with the good-
will of those chiefly concerned.
A Paris letter just received dwells, at considerable
length, on the alarm which the increasing heat of the
weather was beginning to occasion. At four o'clock
on Thursday the thermometer (Fahrenheit) marked
94 in the shade.
Our Madrid accounts are of the 'llth inst.

The Gazette contains a circular' of the Minister of
Finance, relative to the application of several holders
of the floating debt. The Regent had consented to
extend by one month (to the 7th of September next)
the period fixed for the centralisation of their claims.

The Patriota states that it was agreed, at a recent
Cabinet Council, to reject all the financial propositions
submitted to the Junta, and that, considering the
urgent wants of the Treasury, the Government should
dispose ofthe Treasury Bonds as it should think proper.
From Madrid we learn that the heat was much
greater than at Paris, and at Seville still more intense.
The thermometer (Reaumur) stood at Madrid at 32
degrees (104 Fahrenheit), and at Seville at 38, or
1171 of Fahrenheit.
According to a return published in the Madrid
Gazette, 52,619 lots of national property had been
sold down to the 20th of June last, and their pro-
ceeds amounted to 1,960,740,133 reals (nearly
20,000,0001. sterling).