The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF

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" Who runs ?nay read."

FOREIGN.

The Levant Mail has arrived, bringing advices from
Alexandria of the 6th, from Constantinople of the 7th,
from Smyrna of the 9th, and from Malta of the 18th inst.
The news cannot be condensed in a. few sentences here,
and will be found in detail in another part of The Sun.
From the Turkish capital we have the satisfactory in-
timation that he Porte will listen to the representations
of the great Powers, and recall Omar Pacha, the Aus-
trian renegade, whose sway in Syria has produced such
disastrous results. It is considered probable that a son
Emir Beschir will be the successor of Oscar.

The lonian Parliament opened at Corfu on the Ist
'mat.. and on the 3d the new Lord High Commissioner
delivered his speech. The finances he admitted to be
much involved, the expenditure having exceeded the re-
venue. He mentions various reductions to relieve the
debt of upwards of 150,0001., and demands the authoriza-
tion to sell all public property of every kind, and to put
an end to the grain department, and to leave the trade in
wheat free, like that in all other kinds of grain.

The accounts from Malta state that on the 17th inst.
the jury acquitted Mr. John Levick and Lieut. Antonio
Mattei, the tbrmer as principal, and the latter as his
second, in the late fatal dueL Mr. Fellowes returned to
Malta on the 14th from his voyage of research in Asia
Minor.

The Augsburgk Gazette gives a full account of the
troubles at Ibraila. On the 22d, the States voted an ad-
dress hostile to the Government. On the same evening,
the jnsnrrection broke out at Ibraila. A lieutenant of
cavalry was first shot ; but his death aroused the colonel
who commanded, and who was able to repress the muti-
neers, and take fifteen of them.

The Semaphore de Marseille of the 24th inst. brings
news from Algiers of the 20th. The Governor-General
continued to receive propositions of peace from the dif-
ferent tribei which had hitherto held out for Abd-el-
Kader. On the 17th General Changarnier returned to
Belidah from an incursion on the territory of the Had-
joutQs, bringing Kith him 480 prisoners and 3,000 head
of cattle.

A difference exists between the Porte and France on
the subject of the new Consuls of the latter Power.
Botta, a son of the historian, has been named Consul at
Alossul, in Mesopotamia. The Porte refuses to sanction
the appointment, on the ground that the French have no
commercial interests whatever at Mossul, but merely re-
ligious ones, which they want to take advantage of.
PUZSLXC

The Chronicle thus reverts, in just and forcible terms,
to that villainous impost, the income tax:—" Not that
there is the least probability of Sir Robert Peel's adepting
any amendments tendir.g to make the tax bear fairly
upon the different classes of society. As the reviewer
truly observes, this is an extreme case of class legis-
lation.' It is an injustice, and it is intended to be au
injustice. Render the impost fair and equal, and it
ceases to be what Sir Robert Peel wants. Ile no longer
finds in it a propitiatory sacrifice to the power of agri-
cultural monopoly. Justice and equality would be a
great inconvenience to him. They would mar his Par-
liamentary and Ministerial tactics. Be wants a wrong
in the income tax to support the wrong in the Corn-law,
and overbalance the right in the new adjustment of the
tariff. Impartiality in his scheme would be an imper-
tinent intrusion, not less offensive than that of the honest
man in the closet of Dr. Caius. The tax is better let
alone in its integrity of iniquity."
The Morning Herald says :—" There can now, we
presume, be no longer any doubt as to the value of votes
at Cambridge during the elections to return Members to
represent that borough in the last and present Parlia-
ments, or of the estimation in which the crime of bribery
is held by the venal electors of that town. Double
votes on either side of politics are worth 101., and
bribery is all a parcel of stuff and nonsense I' To re-
present Cambridge is then, truly, not a very enviable
distinction, no matter whether it be enjoyed by Mr. C.
M. Sutton and Sir Alexander Grant, or Lord Cosmo
Russell and Mr. Foster ; it is a distinction which, if the
House of Commons did its duty, would be for some years
at least impossible of attainment."
The Advertiser, after alluding to the sanguine expec-
tations formed of Sir R. Peel, when he succeeded to office
last year, goes on to say :—" But Sir Robert has anni-
hilated all thpe favourable anticipations, and the income
tax now stands exposed in nude and hideous deformity
as the most unjust infliction with which the most des-
potic of its governments ever visited the country. A
measure which leaves the country no alternative but a
quiet endurance of public robbery, or the overthrow of
the Ministry which has proposed it."
The following is from the Times :—" Our attention
has been more than once called to the delay which takes
place in the administration of justice, one of the causes
of which has not, we believe, been hitherto the subject
of public censure—we mean the increased and increas-
ing length of forensic speeches. We have heard
of judges, in former times, dispatching twenty or
five and twenty causes a day upon an average ;
whereas at present, if the causes be not undefended,
the most experienced judge will scarcely dispose of more
than four or five. Perhaps to a certain extent the exami-
nation of witnesses may be more laborious and search-
ing—perhaps more trifling, and pushed more into col-
lateral subjects than heretofore ; but certain it is that
the eloquence of the bar is distinguised by a prolixity
unknown to former times. There are persons now
living who can remember the very few words in which
ordinary cases were opened by Lord Erskine. In his
day the speeches of counsel in general did not occupy
more than ten minutes or a quarter of an hour on both
sides, and in cases of unusual magnitude or interest
Lord Erskine's rarely exeeeded an hour ; whereas at
present there are few cases seriously contested in which
the leading counsel on both sides confine the range of
their rhetoric within the space which that celebrated ad-
vocate required for his defence of Lord George Gordon.
Now, as a judge generally sits about six hours in the
day, it follows that he cannot try six, or even five causes,
if the speeches on both sides together occupy an hour
in eivit cause."