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London, England, 1842-05-26 00:00:00

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SPITALFIELDS BALL THIS EVENING.—The' (NCO 141
intimated her intention to leave Buckingham 1-7311
this evening at half-past nine. Her Majesty '
therefore, enter the Opera House a little before teil,
when it is expected a vast number of visitors will
present to welcome her arrival. : '"

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
40tIblit Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The leading articles of the French Journals are ehieflyle,
the discussion of yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies. !,70
of the opposition attach much importance to the observae..l
of M. Odilon Barrot on the treatment of political prisonereip
seem to consider that the explanations of the. Govern:o,,
no means disprove the reports which have been current
this treatment. The Debuts, however, treats these
odious and absurd. There is nothing else of the slightest
portance in the original columns of the Paris Journals. foe
The King of the French has placed in the hands oe,
Minister of the Hans Towns the sum of 2.0,00 ff. to be
mitted to Hamhurgh, towards the relief of the sufferers fruta,e.
late fire. The Committee of Peers, Deputies, km for re7i
ing subscriptions, have published a fourth list, making 2184
of 12,300 f. Among the last contributors we find the naulrgi
M. Guizot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, for 500 f. ' A selry
list of subscriptions has been publis'aed by the Committeer,
merchants and bankers of Paris, making the total amount
ceived by that Committee, including 15,000 f. , given 1:
Bank, 125,954 f.
Ali Effendi, the Turkish Ambassador to the Court of 6pB'land, has arrived at Paris, on his way to London, accomPan
by his first Secretary, Hair-Effendi.
' reJ
The palace of the Elysees Bourbon has just been preps oof
for the reception of the Duke de
.Mecklenburg, who is
expected at Paris.
The Chamber of Peers, on Tuesday, was -taken up with in
Judicial Noviciate Bill, after an ineffectual attempt on tbeP:e
of Count De Montalembert to postpone it tilt next ses''"
which proposition was opposed by the Minister of Justice..4o
The Deputies have got through the budgets of the MiuTte,
of Justice, Foreign Affairs, Public Instruction, and the
sa,,
rior • that of Commerce was being voted on Tuesday afterl,
111. Mortimer Ternaux has been elected Deputy for tit! ill
dennes, in the room of the late Marshal Clausel, by a
018.14g-01
of 317 votes, against M. Latour du Pin, an Aide-de• carte
the Marshal, who had 116, and M. Tanton, another candi
of the Opposition, who had 63.
The Presse says—" Despatches from Don Carlos le tbt
bands now infesting Catalonia have been intercepted. I.hej
show that the Prince still maintains the eharac•er
of ,
One of the letters makes known to the King's army that a,;
,
Majesty had accepted the resignation of Cabrera of his
kr,
as Minister of and conferred it on General Alzaa,
The Madrid Mail of the 17th brings details of. the 0,
turbances which had taken place at Seville and at Chicly
the suppression of which we have already announced. bit
Cadiz Defenses. del Peublo mentions two placards that ,
been stuck up in the street of the Constitution at Ails°
favour of Queen Christina.
A Turkish steamer is daily expected at Constantinople fla°
Beyrout, with eight Druse chieftains recently arrested by °co
of the Seraskier, at Beteddin, near Dem. el -Kann%
names of five of these well-known and influential Sheiks' 17,0
Abou Nekib, Seid Djumbellat, Aehmet Raglan, 01°5e
Telhoot, and Kitr al Ahmed.
PARLIAMENTARY.
The House of Lords did not meet yesterday.
The House of Commons met as usual, and was engaged as, 4, whole evening with the Tariff, in which, we are happy t°,si
they made considerable progress. Three divisions took P,wlef,
the first on a proposition of Lord Howick, to reduce the a 0,
on butter from 20s. per cwt. to 10s., which was lost by 115se
50; the second, on a proposition of Sir John Guest, to real'.
the duty on cheese from 10s. 6d. per cwt. to 55., which ;If
lost by 82 to 37; and the third on lowering the duty on ear
ores to 1/. 10s., which was carried by 158 to 7.
Mr. Palmer brought forward his amendment, to keep ()I'oo
the present duties on vegetables, exhibiting the Conservat',..
as anxious to withhold food from the people; but his prori,
tion was too monstrous, and met with so little suppers, tho,:of
Hon. Member did not press it. The House sat,till a qu,
past One o'Clock, and get through the tariff as far as the ole.
PUBLIC OPINION.
u us°
The Herald thus comments on the conduct of the
of Commons, as regards the Affghanistan question
regard to this war in India, it is almost universally agseedt",4
is impolitic, if not criminal; and Yet we prosecute it,
_ll,
are so determined to prosecute it, that we resist all invTioi
gation into it. What would be said of any man who. acted
in his private affairs, except that he was one .at those: who
maddened, as a step preparatory to destruction? India tt
four years ago, flourishing and secure, pregressing.in lineal";
making, for the first time, strides in internal improvement ;
produce opening to us new sources of rich and unlimited selile And what is she now ? -Already a load and a bur
exhausted of means, exhausted of treasure, and bringing olio
England the necessity of impending sacrifices, not nierellot
meet her deficiencies, but to relieve her:embarrassments. , ter
yet this subject has never once engaged. the attention of
House of Commons. Having neglected so essential a la
of business, and one involving such enormous consequer?cef,
,„
for no intelligible reason, can we wonder that that
should have disregarded the higher but' more difficult
_a
rests of England, compromised in the same manner,
pd,0111;
now, another party having succeeded to P"eurf,'
noting the same designs, that both should b.'
ftl nation to the
inquiry, and to commit the whole body 0- f state, and
absurdities which they have accepted* reasons o
k to out Usu
to the guilt which every man tnu,t denounee and see r
who has not been made a participator in it."
The Chronicle contains the following remarks, in a leadit
power., to still.
article suggested by the bribery and corruption practiced ,4
eletions :—" When there is no longer any delicate ieseottl74
about the means of obtaining legislative power, why 'h
false modesty and conventional phraseology be kept up In r,eirea
tion to the objects for which that power is exercised ?
barefaced bribery has excited its laugh, why should cup 11,,,,
keep on its vizior ? Since such forms as Placed here by
free and independent voices of unbought electors,, are gnnc o
Iv
tj
why should not the frankness that follows say . plain
come here, I have bought my seat, to keep up my react
and avert the justice that would assign to the lab° ,
th
the full quantum of food which he earns.' This is
they
are sense view of the case !' We think t„els,
are some symptoms of an approximation towards it.
oat
more independent position of the upper House marks it oa
taking the lead in this extension of Parliamentary sineert'b's
There is a manliness not always found in the hostility to as
tat iff, in what the Duke of Richmond observed on TuesdaYoo
to its operation. One effect had already taken place i°„
,to
reduction of wages : in consequence of the tariff, and 004,0
Corn-laws, agricultural wages had already been reduced.
however, hoped the farmers would not reduce the vlagesopi-vo
labourers, if they could possibly pay them, for there: ate'
worse economy than that of badly paying labourers.
seeing that, as Lord Kinnaird reminded his Grace, pricei oltS, been rising ever since the new Act passed, this as a °tar
throwing overboard of the pretence that high prices are ker
for the sake of high wages.'
The Morning Post expresses the following opinions, re-r
'l.tbsti
to the questions of free-trade and the tariff;—" We say
410 circumstanced as this country is, we, the labourers, have e41,,s
to our monopoly of employment, but we have nnright to bei'o„,
tortioners. We allow the general benefit of, some competi We do not object to the spur, if you do not apply it in an 11
suiting manner, but we utterly refuse thegoad.s What'. 'oad
i
we find the Prime Minister acknowledng—and wisely too
justly acknowledging—that he sees this remarkable iatlica,ol
in society, that the luxury of one class, namely, the rich,
or,
the poverty and hardship of another, namely, the workinl( r aro growing and increasing simultaneously—shall we find=ols io
knewledged, and yet must we fold our arms and, look a'ooes
respectful acquiescence, while the principle of beating uti,e
the value of theproduce of labour, by calling in the eemr,ei.
lion of all the untaxed countries of the earth, is openly 01;0,
tamed as the policy most fitted fur this age of liberality 110°_A to
lightenment ? Shall we call such a principle—endeavour7o.
be applied under such circumstances_a rational or a just pi to
ple? Shall we call it safe? No, we shall not, for we her be
it is the most directly ?evolutionary principle that coal°, ts
acted upon in this country. When we look around us arid'
if
the splendour of opulence, which we rejoice to see,
and whe°g
find some of those who live in the midst of it endeavourio of
to encourage a system for beating down the remuneratie°4
labour, we are painfully reminded how apt too much presl'er. is to harden men's hearts."
'the Times thus slily deprecates Sir -Hobert Peel's constant
i
habit of truckline to expediency, instead of being guide" 1.. principle :—" We approve, of course, of subjecting those ‘'efiLie
eacies which are tne exclusive property of the rich to the
sayets
duty which is imposed on all that other variety of fi,li
are likely to be partaken of by the poor. But we have
complaint to make of one or two words of Sir R. Peel On `. •
occasion. They are but one or two words, but they are Jo
ther characteristic. Sir R Peel said most righ•ly, that u°
the old existing tariff, the objection was to the admission
turbot duty free, because it was an article of luxury, and cop'
sumed by the rich. Now, it, in proposing a duty on
t_er,
reign fish, he had continued tl.e duty on salted 10,
rings, and emitted to place a duty on turbot, there w0"0
he thought, have been advantage taken of that ilistinctiooo
being unfair in principle, &c.' Very true, indeed ; but "io
tio
talk of an advantage being taken of the distinction, as if,,bs only object in removing the injustice were to satisfy Pa"
opinion, and avoid giving a handle to a political adverserr#
Why not say at once, that the distinction would have 6',
unfair in principle, and therefore ought to be abolished?
s,r
lt. Peel may depend upon it, he is far more likely to o'4
public opinion with him by claiming to lead than by affeetid
to follow it—by placing before the
world, as honourable
,0-%
sufficient, the true grounds of hit action, than by pretentitlio.
that ho only does justice out of deference to the will of
people, or of his opponents."
.0 I%.TD MILIT the
Three hundred officers of th ARY.
e medical department of
army have presented a handsome service of plate to G.Oll
Guthrie, Esq., F, R. S., intended to be explosive of their 0 re
sense of him, as the companion of their early military Cl's
and their instructor.
LAW AND POLICE.
unief The second meeting under Edlin's bankruptcy, late oee itbe
of the Gloucester Hotel, Brighton, was held yesterday, at tie
Town Hall, when the balance-sheet showed the debts 14.
amount to 4,870/. Os. 6d., the debts due to the estate 275/. 139'
and no property.
An action was tried in the Bail Court yesterday, brought
Signor Benedic INegri, a professor of music, to receverrof
tween 3001. and 4001., for teaching music to the eaughte
the Duke of Normandy. The plaintiff was non-suited. the
The case of collision between the Volant, a collier, and fie
Beatitude, in which the former has brought a cross actio°,,the
damage sustained, from alleged unskilfulness on the part 01,4.-
latter's crew, will not receive the decision of the Court of
nairalty before next session.
the
'1 homes Shores, a farmer's labourer, was brought alLaid les
Kensington police-office, charged with having stal-wv rremandedal
brother, John Shores, with a knife in his
s•oniach, on Suko•
last, at Hanworth, and remanded to the New Prison, Clel
well, till the state of his brother can be better known.
lure
signedr song,
e joth .h.en Di
T: Rabbit on the Wall , " which is on panels
FINE ARTS.
At the picture sale last week at Messrs. Christie and Itir°3ol
Wilkie, 1816," was sold. Of this favourite 1
o ,as
Turner, Esq., was the original possessor, Ind' sods from his collection it has passed into a picture.dealer's hap
fur 700 guineas.
THEATRICAL.
Lord Mahon has intimated that he will call attentie
o,
rs,
Thursday, 2d June, to the petition of the dramatic au:,,h tohe
" complaining of the present state of the law in reference.'
drama." The petition is signed by 46 dramatisti, beg,"
with Douglas Jerrold and ending with Edward Fitzball. walie
The performances at the German Opera last night;
'oiest'
benefit of the sufferers by the fire at Hamburgh, were f the
tunately but thinly attended, owing to the attractions . •
Derby day at Epsom.