The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-25 00:00:00

purchased. the services of the Baron de Santa Maria, by the
grapd cordon of the order of Christ., but we hear that this
brave soldier is stil standing out for something more, in the
hope that he may exact better terms. ,

The Memorial of I'au states that rumours still prevail on the
Spanish frontier of an invasion of Spain by the refugees, sup-
ported by a French army ; and that emissaries from the Go
vernment of Madrid have been sent to the frontier, and even to
Bayonne, Ustarits, and St. Jean de Luz, to watch these sup-
posed movements.

- The Constitutionnei quotes a letter from Macao, dated 10th
October, and written by a French Officer, which describes the
resistance of the Chinese as much more courageous and obsti-
nate than it is stated to have been by the English journals, and
the fatigues and privations of the English troops as almost be-
yond belief. There were, says the letter, several English ves-
sels at Macao unable to complete their cargoes ; but the Ame-
ricans had contrived to smuggle on board a large quantity of
tea, and were generally turning to their own profit the dispute
between the Chinese and the English. Very few French
trading-vessels were on the coast of China, which the writer
regrets, as he says that they might have profited by the war be.
tween China and England, as well as the Americans. Two
French ships of war were expected to arrive at Macao towards
the middle of November.

A letter from France, dated Ist inst., in the Augsburg Ga-
zette, says :—A san4ninary scene has lately been enacted on the
frontier of Montenegro, in the direction of the ilerzegodine.
A troop of Turks made a sudden inroad upon the territory o;
Gralsow, which is considered as neutral, and is inhabited b'
Christians. They decapitated seven shepherds, and carried o;
forty other inhabitants, with numerous head of cattle. Re-
prisals are expected to be-made by the Munteneris. Prince
Vasevich, the English Vice-Consul at Modi Bazgar,n is not only
confined there, but, in consequence of orders from Constanti-
nople, is treated with increased severity.
Prinve Mavrocordato, says a letter from Athens, embarked
on the 23d ult. for Constantinople, to assume his functions
as Ambassador to the Porte.

The Gazette de France has a letter to the Editor, signed
by Professors Recamier and Cruveilher, and inclosing a corn-
inunication made to them by Dr. Delaunay, on his return from
a tour in Germany, where he had the honour of visiting the
Duke of Bordeaux. Dr. Del iunay states thht the Prince de-
sired him to convince himse:f, as a medical man, of the real
state of the fractured thigh, and to communicate the result of
his examination to the above mentioned professors. He ac-
cordingly proceeded to comply with the Prince's desire, and
says, that " net only is the consolidation perfect, but that (a
very suprising thing in fractures of this kind) this consolida-
tion has been effected without the slightest shortening of the
limb, and without the foot being in the least turned outwards. "
On the 21st of February, when this examination toolr place,
the Prince was able to walk, leaning slightly on the arm of an-
other person, and scmetimes without any support ; and the
only remaining effect of the accident was a little weakness and
stiffness in the joint, the inevitable consequence of the long
state of rest, which was necessary, and which will soon be re-
moved by exercise and the use of mineral waters.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

! FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF WEDNESDAY.
GLOBE.—The anhounced intention of Opposition to
oppose the income tax at every stage is abused, as an
unhearchof piece of factious obstruction, by every goose-
(itti ll and as ,-jaw in the service of Ministers. The propriety
or impropriety of the most determined opposition to this
impost must depend (in public opinicn)'on the view taken
of its real nature. We do not hesitate to say that we regard
it as a measure of confiscation of the property of some
classes, for the supposed ease and advantage of others. Now
if the measure is of this nature, it is one against which the
classes aggrieved by it have the clearest-right to be heard
by petition, or counsel at the bar of the House, before
that HouSe commits itself to a single step in the course
of iniquity. " Obstruction" to the recognition by Par-
liauient of a wrong principle, till those who will be
wronged by acting on that principle can make themselves
heard, is simply obstruction to taking classes by surprise
in order to pick their pockets. And what are those
classes ? Precisely those which landed legislation already
impoverishes. Precisely those which the long-predicted
effects of- monopoly, aided by the seasons, already
disable from aiding so effectively as they have hitherto
done to keep up our commercial and consumptive powers
under our burdens. The revenue fails, because the
fiscal system is already disadvantageous to commerce ;
and the remedy proposed is not to remove the principal
disadvantages, but to leave them (with:one exception,
timber) almost as heavy as ever—to make a splutter with
minutiae, which will have no effect worth calculating, but
that of throwing many of our labourers out of work—and
to add to every existing disadvantage the monster
grievance of an unequal and inquisitorial impost on
commercial capital, struggling for • existence. If
this is not a measure to be " obstructed" from its
first stage to its last—if this is not a measure against
a hick time should be gained for those classes by whom
its immediate injury will be felt, to petition for justice—
then we admit that the course of Opposition deserves all
the names bestowed on it. But what name shall we give
to the conduct of Government in pushing such a measure
without the slightest attempt to amend, or defend its
obnoxious features ? We are told that Opposition should
wait for its details, before denouncing it. We sty that
the Minister should have stated details (if he had such to
state), capable of reconciling the public mind to a tax
known and abhorred.

STANDAlZl).—Parliamont has been sitting about
seven weeks—or about one-fourth of an average session
—and what has been done? The period is, perhaps,
one which allows of an easy and slow progress of affairs.
We are involved in a war with more than three
hundred millions of peopL—an insignificant war with
only three hundred millions ! We arc involved in a war
in central Asia, in which an army has been cut off
in the defence of the gate of our vast Indian empire—
that gate by :which every conqueror since Alexan-
ders's time has advanced to his conquest. Another
insignificant war, in the authoritave opinion of Mr.
Benjamin Hawes. The state of our relations with
the continent, of Europe and with the North Ame-
rican republic is, to say the least of it, anxious ;
and at home the people are suffering so severely,
that seven months ago it was made a subject of
bitter complaint, that a single hour should be lost in
taking measures for their relief ; add to this, we have a
deficient revenue, with a deficit constantly augmenting.
Such was our condition at the meeting of Parlia-
ment, and such is our condition at the end of
seven weeks of the rarliamentary Session. Ought
Parliament to have thus slumbered in such circum-
stances ? Is there in our history, or in the history
of the world, and example of like folly and crime on
the part of the legislature of a great and free people ?
Here are we, then, at the end of seven weeks, in a crisis
of unexampled delicacy, with absolutely nothing done
for the public service. Well, but our prospects
are better--something will at length be done. The
Haweses and the Wards, the Brothertons and the
Cobdens have had their speeches, the mass of
obstructive rubbish has been cleared away, and the busi-
ness of the country is now about to be commenced in good
earnest. No—now, at the end of seven weeks, we have
instead of a promise or a hope that the public service
shall at length be prosecuted, an impudent avowal of
an organised factious opposition prepared to impede
that service. The system of obstruction, factiously
and successfully prosecuted hitherto, is now openly de-
dared. Nothing has been done, and• it is now threat-
ened nothing shall be done, that factious opposition can
prevent or retard ! How long will the country endure
this wanton and wicked outrage upon its best interests,
this calumny upon representative government, which
is almost enough to make thinking men fly from a form
of Government that may be so odiously and so mischiev-
ously abused, even to despotism itself ? What is the use
of a Parliament if it is only to exhibit itself thus as the
instrument of obstruction to whatever is required for the
general safety and the general happiness?