The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-09 00:00:00

S U:4 MARY lt' NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

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" The Monarchs of Europe," writes the Paris Correspon-
dent of a fashionable Contemporary, " %TO all be in motion in
the summer, aail Royal travellers will be found whizzingabout
all over the Continent. The King of Prussia intends to visit
his Rhenish provinces. The Emperor Nicholas will visit Ems.
The Emperor of Austria is going to take the waters at Ischt,
where the Pope is also expected, as his Holiness has been re-
commended to take the baths by his medical advisers. On
leaving Ischt the Emperor of Austria will proceed to Trieste,
and then to Dalmatia. The King of Bavaria has announced
his intention of making an excursion to Laly, and the King of
Wurteniberg is going to Leghorn for sea bathing."
Yesterday and to-day (says the Paris Commerce), the
princil al members of the corps diplomatique assembled in the
hotel of Lord Cowley, the Ambassador of England. On Satur-
day night despatches reached the Embassy by a courier, coming
from London. This evening the Ambassador was to proceed to
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to communicate a tote
to M. Guizot.

The caravan betty en Damascus and Bagdad had been at-
tacked and plundered by the Bedouins. Ninety bales of goods
and many camels have fallen into their haad+. The south of
Syria, on the contrary, which last year was unsafe, presents a
more satisfactory as,iect than anywhere else, as a proof of which
two Americans have lately come from Cairo to Palestine, by
way of Akaha, Petra, and Hebron, although attended by only
25 Bedouins.

An American missionary at Jerusalem has been exploring
the vaults under the Mosque of Omar. lle was let down by a
rope at midnight through a well 80 feet deep, and thin
waded up to the neck in water to the dry ground. He is of
epiniou that they are not Roman, but arc the original crypts
of Solomon's Temple.
The Madrid Gazette of the 29th ult, publishes a decree of
the Regent, ordering that the property of the partisans of Don
Carlo 4, sequestered during the late civil war, should be forth-
with returned to the respective owners. The decree only ex-
cepts those who continue to reside abroad, or have been excluded
from. or refuted to take the benefit of, the amnesty.
Generals Laureano Sanz and Juan Palares, and Admiral
'Francisco Armero, indicted for participation in the conspiracy
',-
0T October last, were ordered to be liberated, " there existing
lib sufficient proofs to criminate them."
.„ The Bayonne Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 2d affirms that
.)`telegraphic despatch had reached the Sub-Prefect, authoris-
ing the Christino refugees who had been ordered to proceed to
:She interior some time since to return to that town.—la another
*sing contemplated?
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4,1, The Corn.keeping.cut Bill was yesterday carried up to the
Lords, and read a first time. It is not to be read a second time
.'S.ooncr than next Friday. Their Lordships transacted no business
of importance.
In the House of Commons, Mr. T. Duncombe brought on once
more the question of presenting the petitions of the people against
the income tsx, the decision on which question was put off till
Monday.
Mr. S. Crawford gave notice that on April 21st he would call
the attention of the House to the petitions for extending the suf-
frage.

In reply to Mr. Escott, Sir Robert Peel said the informatioa
which the Government possessed concerning the melancholy cir •
cumstance in Affghanistan was not later than that possessed by Lb,
public, chiefly derived from private sources.
Colonel Fox called the attention of Sir James Graham to a pesti.
?ential burial.place called Enon Chapel, but Sir James could not in-
terfere ith it.

The House then proceeded to the Report on the income tax,
resolutions, ard was occupied with that subject the remainder of
the evening.

runzac OPINION.

The Times observes, in rtforence to Mr. Wakley's speech on
the Copyright question :—" We must express our regret that
so useful a Member of Parliament a, Mr. Wakley should have
permitted himself to speak disrespectfully of the writings of a
man whom we supposed to have outlived the bad taste of a
former generation, and to be now enjoying, in a venerable old
age, a foretaste of that judgment which posterity will pass upon
his works. De gustibus non est disputandum,—we have no
right to complain of Mr. Wakley because he does not under-
stand Mr. Wordsworth poetry. If he thinks that "any one
may make a very respectable poem out of an evening
sky, dew, daisies, roses, and a rivulet,—if he despises the
play of human feeling and fancy its what seem little things—
we cannot help it, it is his own misfortune; but he is not com-
pelled to advertise his insensibility to the world. When he
called down the laughter of the House of Commons upon lines
which the public taste h's justly stamped with approbation,
he would have dine wisely to remember that my buffoon could
do the same with numberless passages of Shaispeare and MiLon.
When he avouched himself able to produce as good poetry of
his own, he did but turn the laugh against himself. Mr.
Wakley is not obliged to admire Mr. Wordsworth as a poet;
but at least he ought to respect him as a venerable man, who
has in alt his writings shown himself the friend and zealous
champion of the poor."
The following is from the Post : —" It is said that you might
have a tax upon all kinds of income, but stall so modify it that
it should press differently, according to the nature and circum-
stances of the income, and therefore be more just. It is easy
to imagine a nicely-adjusted tax of this kind, and to give it
imaginative praise. We do not hesitate to say of it hypotheti-
cally, that if it were possible so to arrange the tax, and if it
were likely to realise the sum of money which is wanted, we
should praise it above all other taxes."
The Chronicle contains the following remarks in an article
on the subject of copyright :—" c A poet is a manufactures,'
says the Member for Finsbury ; meaning thereby to be very
generous towards poetical genius. We know, however, of no
manufactured products in which all right of private property
ceases as soon as they are forty-two years old. Those who
level mind with machinery ought, at least, to prow it the
rights of machinery. It is too much the tendency of the
present time to regard the mental power as subordinate to
the money power ; something which capital hires or buys in
the market to do its work, but which is no more to be al-
lowed a substan►ive existence in society than the emanci-
pated negroes are to become the proprietors of the West India
Islands. Mr. Macaulay's amended edition of Lord Mahon's
Bill will not reform the moral disorder that exists, but it
may nevertheless effect a little mitigation."
The Herald says :—" The afflicting military intelligence
from Affghani'tan has begot a strange demand from some of
our conteml•,oraries. A Court of Inquiry is sought into the
conduct of General Elphinstone. Now, in the first place,
when we get Gen. Elphinstone and his companions out of the
hands of the Affghans, and know something more of the oc-
currences in detail which led to the capitulation of Cabool, the
assumed breach of its terms by the Affghatis, and the slaughter
of the Anglo-Indian army, and the capture of its Commander
and some of his subordinate officers, it will be time enough to
talk about such an inquiry. At present our ignorance of these
particulars ought effectually to restrain any such precipitate
demand. The conduct of General Elphinstor e may net be
so pusillanimous when this whole truth is known ; and even if it
should the authorities who bestowed the supreme command in
Affghanistan on that officer will then be far more obnoxious to
reproach than the General himself."

MONEY—T2.II.IOk—C O:3ICIVIERC Z.
There are upvrards of 30,000 persons dependent on the shoe-
trade at Dublin, who have petitioned against the removal of the
shoe and boot duty.
A meeting of the Polbrun Tin and Copper-Mining Com-
pany was held on Th -sday at the George and Vulture tavern,
when the Company dissolved itself, and gave order for sale of
effects, &c.