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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1842

themselves to his yoke, or risking great public
confusion.
We apprehend, however, that Sir R. PEEL on
this point very much overrates his own value;
perhaps he overrates the utility of Government.
There are an immense number of branches in
society which it has not yet, with all its dili-
gence, managed to get hold of, and it is pretty
plain to every man of discernment, that the
branches which have escaped its authority are
much better regulated than those which it con-
trols. But whatever may be_the utility of the
Government, the nation can go on without Sir
ROBERT PEEL. In the ordinary course cf
nature he must be removed in a few years,
and no person supposes that society will be
dissolved at his death. But that event
may happen in the course of a few weeks or
days, and society will not then come to an end.

Sir ROBERT PEEL overrates his own value, when
he estimates his loss as more than equivalent to
an income tax. The nation can rub on without
him now, as it must rub on without him by and
bye and to his threat that he will resign, the
nation echoes, resign ; we can do without you.
With the monopolists, we admit the case is
different. For them he is a necessity. He is
the keeper who is to supply hungry wolves with
their accustomed food. Without him they must
be scattered, and will lose their provender
They will support him, therefore, in inflicting an
income tax on the people, and would equally
support him, though he bring ruin on the em-
pire. But for them, Sir ROBERT PEEL'S threat
of resignation would be merely farcical. If they
were nat united with him in an unholy league,
every man would at once perceive that his un-
patriotic and insolent announcement of throw-
ing up the Government, and throwing af-
fairs, as far as he can, into confusion, un-
less he be allowed to have his own way,
would be of no more importance than the
threat of a pouting child. As the instrument
and head of the monopolists his threat of re-
signation to induce them to support him at
whatever risk, and at whatever cost, becomes a
symptom of the reckless daring with which he
is resolved to inflict the curse of an income-tax
on the people.

In that threat, however, lies much hope. It
implies on his part a fear that many of his
troops will desert him. It betrays a con-
sciousness of defection. He is like an officer
preventing his men from leaving their co-
lours by threatening to run them through.
He has already taken the most extreme measure
in his power, and has no resource but to resign if
he be defeated. He has sought to inspire his fol-
lowers with the courage of despair by cutting
off all hope of escape.
His arbitrary and unconstitutional method of
forcing, by the help of his monopolists, his favo-
rite impost on the country, should rouse both the
indignation and the hopes of his opponents.
There are symptoms in various quarters of alarm
in the agriculturists. They already repent
that they have placed in office a man who
has abated, as they say, their protection
on grain and on cattle. Deputations from the
agricultural districts are going up to Tory Mem-
bers, to get them to remonstrate with Sir ROBERT
PEEL. They like the income tax not much bet-
ter than the townspeople. A little exertion, then,
now on the part of the townspeople, whose con.
cerns will all be forced into day, may
stop Sir ROBERT PEEL. They must profit by the
recess to hold meetings and get up petitions and
remonstrances, It is possible that no inconsider-
able number of Tory Members may stay away,
for a few days after the re-assembling of Parlia-
ment. It is even possible that several of them,
disregarding Sir R. PEEL'S threat, may vote against
his income tax. A strong muster, therefore, of
the opponents of the measure, on Monday week,
may suffice, if not to defeat Sir R. PEEL, to give
him so serious a check as to convince him that
he will be unable to carry his measure. We at
once, therefore, remind all the opponents of an
income tax, that it is necessary to be at their
post on that day, wherever they may go
in the mean time, and, however energetically
they may assist their constituents in hold-
ing public meetings and embodying public
sentiment in one overwhelming mass. One ex-
ertion now on the part of the constituencies and
the Members will save months of labour here-
after. We trust, therefore, that will be made,
and that the Minister, who is at once one of the
weakest and inconsistent that ever was placed at
the head of affairs, will hasten to carry his
threat of resignation into effect.

We learn from the Chelmsford Chronicle, that
the Braintree and Bucking Farmers' Club de-
clared at their monthly meeting, held on the
23d instant, that they view with serious 'alarm
the proposed alteration in the Corn-laws; and
they further declare, that the proposed altera-
tions in the tariff will tend materially to depress
agriculture, " inasmuch, as the importation of
cattle, meat, starch, &c., will necessarily greatly
diminish the value of home produce." A
deputation from this club is appointed to wait
upon the County Members, to request their ear-
nest and immediate attention to the subject. The
sat.ne agricultural journal is convinced that fo-
reign agriculturists will now fatten hogs and cattle
for our market, instead of sending corn hither;
and that sheep will be imported in great num-
bers under the proposed alterations. To lower
the price of beet, pork, and mutton, permanentl3-,
it says one penny per pound would probably take
4,000,000/.—as large a sum as the whole income
tax is calculated to raise—Outof the pockets of the
farmers and the graziers. Thisjournal complains
bitterly that—

The principle of protection is broken through in a new
direction, and oxen, and cows, and sheep, which were be-
fore altogether prohibited, are to be admitted at the duty
of 1/. 15s. and 3s. respectively; the duty on carraway seed
is reduced from 1/. 10s. to 55.; on . coriander from 15s. to
55.; on clover from 11. to 10s., and this, too, at a moment
when forbearance was peculiarly called for, from the
farmers being not only required to consent to an exten-
sive sacrifice of their property, but in common with the
other classes to contribute three per cent. from their in-
come to the exigencies of the State.

So the farmers begin to. taste, at least in
imagination, some of the miseries to which they
have doomed their fellow countrymen by return-
ing to Parliament a Tory and monopolist ma-
jority. The honesty of theSe gentry is made
apparent by their complaints., If lowering the
duties on meat, so ,as to. reduce
,the price one
' penny per pound, would take away from them
4,000,0001., what would be the effect 'of abolish-
ing altogether the duties on meat? It would
lower the price at least threefold, being a posi-
tive reduction of another penny per lb. and a
penny for annoyance, vexation, and interference,
making on the statement of the farmers at least
172,000,000/. a-year, which they take from the
other classes for meat alone. We cannot place
the total abolition of all duties on foreign i
agricultural produce at a less figure than
three times the amount of the duty on
cattle alone, whence it follows, from
the complaints of the Essex graziers, that the
agricultural classes take, at least, 36,000,0001. a
year from the rest of the' community by the
cOrn-taws and provision-taws. We are thankful
for the admission. The Essex agr,iculturists in
quarrelling with their protector are restoring to
the community its rights.

Again, we learn,from the Corp Southern lie-
porter that a meeting was held in that city on
Monday last, consisting of the leading export
and other merchants of the city, for the purpose of
considering Sir R. PEEL'S tariff; at which his new
taxes on lard and cured provisions excited great
dissatisfaction, and a memorial against them was
adopted. ' Sir' ROBERT PEEL will thus find him-
self thwarted by ibis own petted interests, as
well as by the interest he has trampled on in.
every part of the kingdom. We rejoice to see
him caught in his own net. He has preached
up the necessity of agricultural protection, and
the cattle-feeders of England and Ireland will
not allow him to escape from his own princi-
ples. The intensefolly of pretending to adjust
the rival claims of all classes ofproducers by any
other means than a the giggling of the market'
will soon come home to Sir R. PEEL, and he will
fall a just sacrifice.to the just delusion lie has
fasterecL So be it., •

We do not go along with these people in de-

manding more protection, nor do we justify their
complaints, but they have a good case as against
Sir R. PEEL, and against the Tory journals
which have advocated protection to native in-
_

dustry. He and his journals have flattered them
into the belief that prices were to be kept up,
and have probably encouraged them to renew
leases, and enter into engagements on that be-
lief; he and they have, at the same time, done
what they could to keep up all the charges on the
agriculturists, and now Sir ROBERT suddenly, by
a littlejuggling with the tariff, deprives the gra-
ziers, as the Hertford and Essex men say, of
4,000,000/. a-year. There will, henceforth, be no
peace amongst the different classes of producers,
no contentment, till the Legislature wisely washes
its hands of the whole matter, and declares that
it must leave the price of corn, as of stockings
and all other things, to be settled without its
interference, by the mutual and reciprocal bar-
gainings of all buyers and sellers.

The publicans of London and the suburbs have
long laboured under many grievances from which all
other trades and professions are exempted. They have
first of all to obtain leave to carry on their trade, and
when that is obtained, at no little expense as well as
annoyance, they are constantly harassed by informa-
tions, restricted in the mode of conducting their
business by the petty partial regulations of Justices
often of the most contradictory character, they are
subjected to heavy fines for venial offences, and
not unfrequently ruined by the suspension or
loss of their licenses. A great many of this
class are placed in the greatest difficulty and
even distress, by the present system. Repeated
informations are preferred against them by police-
men—the Magistrates rarely lean to the side of mercy
—convictions of course take place, and when licensing-
day comes, and they apply for a renewal of leave to
carry on their trade, a record of these convictions is
produced as a plea for rejecting the application and
depriving them of the means of gaining a livelihood
It is little creditable, therefore, to the Metropolitan
Members, that these gross instances of oppression
should have been allowed to exist, and that this in-

jured class should have been compelled to apply for
redress to a comparative stranger amongst them—the
Gallant Officer who now represents Westminster. He
is little practised in law-making, and it is not sur-
prising that his Bill should be so defective, but at all
events he deserves praise for an attempt, which turns
to shame many of his long-winded, talkative colleagues
The Bill, however, does not go to the root of the evil,
and we regret exceedingly to learn that the Go-
vernment, instead of acting on their own responsibi-
lity, and making it a comprehensive measure, have
referred it for approval to the most objectionable
of all authorities, the Police Commissioners. These
gentlemen cannot be impartial judges. They
have for years been carrying on, through their
superintendents and constables, a systematic war
against the publicans, harassing them in every possible
way, lodging informations against them for serving out
refreshments to unfortunate women, directing the po-
licemen to act the part of eavesdroppers, to enter houses
in plain clothes for the purpose of entrapping the un-
wary, and inform against those publicans in the
neighbourhood of London who open tea-gardens and
other places of refreshment to hardworking ar-
tisans and tradesmen on the only day in the
week when they can enjoy the fresh air
and rest from their labours. The persecutions
inflicted by this eternal meddling with the customs
and amusements of the lower classes has become ab-
solutely insufferable, and instead of making the Sab-
bath and the Church respected, has caused many
who would attend Divine service to turn away
from it with indignation, and almost dread
the return of that day which they were once
accustomed to spend so happily with their wives
and children. These are circumstances which a wise
Legislature should not consider beneath their no-

tice, and it would be much more honour-
able, as well as hnmanc, for Sir JAMES GRAHAM
to have taken up the whole subject of licens-
ing and regulating public-houses, than to leave
it, as beneath his notice, to the care of Captain
Rous and Colonel MAYNE. Let the publicans, there-
fore, urge such a step on the Government ; let them
hold meetings for the purpose of pointing out these
grievances, and laying them before the Home Secre-
tary, and in due time they will prevail. They are a
body too powerful to be despised; but they may de-
pend upon it they Ivill get no help if they do not help
themsAves.

The French Minister of Finance has distributed
among the Members of the two Chambers a Report
of some of the branches of his Administration, which
includes some interesting details relative to Savings'
Banks in France. M. BENJAMIN DELEssitur, Pre-
sident of the Council of Directors of these institu-
tions, reports that they were never in a more pros-
perous condition. Upwards of forty millions of de-
posits were made within the last year, and the num-
ber of new depositors exceeded thirty-four thousand.
The reimbursements for the year fell short of the de-
posits by upwards of thirteen millions of francs
Nearly nineteen thousand of the new depositors
were journeymen, and above seven thousand do-
mestic servants. Every increase in the num-
tier- of the first class of :depositors is im-
portant, as arguing the growth of a greater
confidence in the stability of the Government. The
soldiers were beginning to vie with the civilians in
turning their savings to account by depositing them
in these: Banks. We cannot go through the whole
of this Report ; but the following summary of the
conclusion of it cannot fail to interest the advocates of
Savings' Banks in England :---
On December 31; the 285 Savings' Banks in the de-
partments, independent of that in Paris, had in the Caisse
des Depots et Consignations 157,988,602 E, being an in-
crease of 39,698,703 f. on the amount at the end of the
preceding year. The system has been most successful in
the maritime towns—Bordeaux, Marseilles, and Rouen
standing, as before, at the head of this category. Lyons,
although the second town in the kingdom, still remains in
the back ground, its bank having brought into the Caisse
des Depots et Consignations only 4,835,000 E, while Bor-
deaux paid in 9,134,000 E, Marseilles 7,767,000 E, and
Rouen. 5,011,000 E The average of the payments at
Lyons was only 33f. for each individual, while at Bor-
deaux it was 98E, and at Paris 100 f. To rebut an opinion
that the working classes did not form the most numerous
of the depositors, the President referred to a statistical
account drawn out by M. Prevost, the General Agent of
the institution, in which he classed all the 34,000 new.
depositors of 1841, according to their different stations
in society, from which it appeared that the journeymen
and artisans amounted to 18,873 individuals, or more
than one-half of the total number of depositors, and that
the average of their- first deposits Was 170 f. Among
this class were 928 shoemakers, 683 tailors, 576 carpen-
ters and joiners, 321 locksmiths, 317 bakers, and 420
wine-dealers and their men. In the course of his Report,
the President announced that, on account of the great
increase of the number of depositors, the accommodation
afforded to the institution by the Bank of France had
become too confined, and therefore the Directors of the
Savings' Bank had purchased a large building, No. 5, in
the Rue Coq-Heron, which, when arranged for the pur-
pose, would afford ample space for all the offices, and
also for the reception, under cover, of any number of de-
positors, without leaving any, as at present, to wait in
the street for their turn.

The pastoral letter of the Archbishop of PARIS,
ordering prayers to be offered in all the churches of
France for the preservation of the Roman Catholic
religion in Spain, in obedience to the injunctions of
his Holiness the Pori, is commented upon in all the
Paris Journals. In opinion upon this, as upon every
other question, they .re greatly divided. The more
liberal papers contend, and most truly too, that the
Regent of SPAIN having forbidden the clergy of that
country to comply with the order of the Porn, and
having even prohibited the circulation of his encyclical
letter in Spain, this step of the Archbishop of PARIS
is highly indecorous and offensive, considering the
delicate position of the relations between France and
Spain. The Courrier Francais treats the question
with much ability. While it admits that the clergy of
the Romish Church have always claimed forthat church
an Independence of the State in questions- of faith, and
discipline, it very properly makes a distinction between
the acts of a priesthood appointed • and paid by the
State, and one supported by voluntary contributions.
State-paid and State-appointed priests are :to be re-
garded in an official, as well as an ecclesiastical cha-
racter. They are public functionaries, and in this
capacity they have public duties to fulfil. Th e French
Bishops are all appointed by the King, who is vir-
tually head of the Gallican Church, and therefore
they are responsible to the State for the exercise of
their functions. " It is because," says the Courrier
Francais, " the Archbishop of Paris is a public func-
tionary, that the declaration which he has taken the
liberty of making against a neighbouring Govern-
ment is really important. It is in vain that the ,

Archbishop has only obeyed the orders of the POPE;
we say that the POPE has no orders to give to French
citizens obedient to the law. The Archbishop may,
if he pleases, raise his hands to heaven, and pray for
the conversion of ESPARTERO, but he has no right to
put forth a political proclamation in the shape of a
pastoral letter. It is against this usurpation of civil
power that we protest, and if the Government
knew what it owed to itself, it would not have
waited for the warning it now receives to repress
these mistakes of inconsiderate zeal." In our opinion
the French Government is bound publicly to apolo-
gize to the Cabinet of Madrid for the gross
insult offered to it by the Archbishop of Paris. As
for the quarrel between ESPARTERO and the POPE,
we cannot say that we are sorry for it. The RE-
GENT promises to be fully a match for the Holy See,
and if he succeed in breaking the leaden sceptre of
ignorance with which it so long tyranised over
the finest 'race of people in Europe, the
•world will yet accord him a place in the
number of its greatest heroes. What ESPAR-
TERO is struggling for, the common sense of the
world has accorded him, namely, the supremacy of
he civil over the ecclesiastical power. The prayers
of the French clergy for the exaltation of the mitre
above the crown are certainly calculated to provoke
public indignation, on other grounds as well as on
those of being insulting to the Spanish Government.
On Wednesday the French Minister of Finance
informed the Chamber of Deputies that the Govern-
ment
had postponed the Sugar Bill till the next Ses-
sion of the Legislature. An angry discussion ensued,
in the course of which Ministers were attacked for
not bringing in the. Bill earlier.
The Railroad Committee heard yesterday Mr. C. Lafitte,
one of the Directors, M. Locke, the head engineer, and
M. Thibandeau, Secretary of the Rouen Railroad. Mr.
Locke was examined respecting the levels' curves, and
principal conditions of execution proposed by the Go-
vernment.

The Journal de Rouen informs us that the Paris and
Rouen Railway Company have offered to execute the
line from Rouen to Havre, the expense of which is esti-
mated at 30 millions of francs, on condition of receiving
20 millions from the State, half as a gift and half by way
of loan. The English shareholders of the Paris and
Rouen Railway have, it is said, offered to subscribe one
half of the remaining 18 millions.
The Frankfort Journal, under the rubric of Hanover,
15th instant, says :—" Several journals have announced
that the King intended to abdicate in favour of the
Prince Royal. This assertion is so absurd, that it is not
worth the trouble of refuting. If the Prince Royal be
invested with the functions of government during his
Majesty's absence it is only from a desire to resolve,
during the lifetime of the King, questions as to the ca-
acity of the Prince. _ _ •
_ _

Moniteur, of the 23d, publishes in in its official
part, the following note :•
" The King has received a letter from the Emperor of
Austria, announcing the death of the Archduchess Her-
menia Amelia Maria, daughter of the Archduke Joseph
Palatine of Hungary.
" The King will go inte mourning on this occasion."
We are assured that the Minister of Finance will
propose to-day to the Chambers an outline of regula-
tions for the purpose of more effectually checking
frauds, which are committed to the detriment of the
Treasury, in levying the duty on the consumption of in-
digeneous sugar.
BAYONNE, MAncli 19.—The Spanish banker, M.
Aquado, arrived here yesterday, on his way, as is said,
to Spain. It seems that the Regent has or-
dered the most distinguished reception to be every where
given him in his journey ; that he has offered him the
post of Minister of Finance, to approve all his hitherto
disputed accounts, and to make him a Grandee of Spain
with the title of Do las Marismas, for him and his
descendants, if he will accept an office in the Spanish
Cabinet, and then become again a subject of her Catholic
Majesty. It is not said whether M. Aquado accepts
these offers, but the fact is that he returns to Spain on
the ostensible pretext of undertaking the working of mines
in the Asturias on a great scale, near the port of Gijon.
We shall soon see what truth there is in these reports.—
Memorial Bordelais.
BOURSE--PARIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23.

Fist

Highest Loirest

Price Plice. Price Pricy.
'tench 5 per Cent; ll7 50 ... 117 50 ... 117 45 ... 117 50
4 per Cents lOl SO ... 1,4 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50
3 per Cents BO 50 .. 80 50 ... 81, 45 ... 64145
Bank of trance
Laffitte Bank 1.0001. Shares 1017 50 ...1017 80 ...1015 ...ICIS
5.0001. Shares 5047 50 ...5047 50 ...5047 50 ...5047 50
ielzian Bank
1811 lll7 50 ...1060 ...1 60 ...1057 50
Belgian 5 per Cents. .....
5 per Cents., 1840 106% ... 106,, ... 106% ... 106%
ipanish Active 05% ... 25% ... 25N, ... 25%
Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5%
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Dutch 2% er Cents.
Ngai Enema lO6 30 ... 116 30 ... 105 20 ... ,06 20
4ornan lO5 ... 105 ... 105 ... 104

RAILWAY SHARES. --
--
----
St. Germain ••••••4•••••••••••••• 840 •.• 840 ••• 840 ••• 840
Versailles. It. b 94! 50 ... 342 50 ... 343 75 ... 843 75
L.}l 215 ... '215 ... 216 25 ... 216 25
itouan ....«.. .........
()ruses .. 565 ... 567 50 ... 565 ....has
Strasburg to Bale : 241 25 ... 241 25 .. 240 • ... 241 25

D ISGUSTING ADVERTISEMENTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ,§UNr.

BRISTOL, MARCH 24, 1842.
SIR,—As a subscriber to your paper, accept my
thanks for your having acted (as I suppose) on the
hint conveyed to you in a former letter, viz., sug-
gesting your leaving out those disgusting advertise-
ments which so completely lowered the character of
your paper.

" The Sun" is now improved in this respect, and
no subscriber need now fear its being left in the draw-
ing room, for the perusal of the ladies of the family.
Yours obediently, MONITOR.

[Our respected Correspondent no doubt refers to
advertisements of a certain character, which have been
banished for some time from, and shall never again
stain, the columns of The Sun. The " nuisance "
had been too long tolerated on the principle that
other papers inserted such announcements; and we
take shame to ourselves for having so long hesitated
in putting in practice a resolution come to fora con-
siderable time past. But "better late than never."
For the future our doors are closed against the dealers
in those insidious vehicles of pollution, and neither
respectable advertisers nor gentle readers need hence-
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ED. Sun.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
A few merchants have appeared in the city, merely
for the purpose of receiving their letters, but business is
of course wholly suspended.
. Some transactions were negotiated in the Foreign
Exchanges yesterday, which generally had a tendency
to decline—Amsterdam being 12 43- to 41 ; Rotterdam,
12 5,- Antwerp', 12 4i- to 44 ; Hamburgh, 13 123: to 12;
and Paris, 25 80 to 85.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH. 24.—Eastern
Counties were in. good request to-day, and sales to a
moderate extent took place in the following shares also .
Grand Junction. Old Quarters, 44 ; ditto New, 241 ; New
London and Brighton, 5/. Bs. 6d. ; Manchester and Leeds
Quarters, 41. 6s. 6d. ; Eastern Counties, 91.85. 6d. ; De-
bentures, 11/. 4s. 2d. ; ditto New, 38s. 6d. premium.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 24.—Business
was very languid, and the sales. amounted to only 3,000.
bales, without alteration in'. prices. . The sales of the
week have been 17,970 bales ; the consumption since the
Ist of January is estimated at 255,500 hales, being 500
more than during the like period of 1841 ; the export
has been 12,800 bales, while in 1841 the quantity shipped
was but 3,900 bales. The average weekly quantity con-
sumed this year has been 21,292 bales, being an increase
of 42 bales per week over last year.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 24.
A degree of dulness has prevailed in our Market, and
although we have not had much .Stock offering, we
quote prices a shade lower, excepting for Old Leeds,
Halves, Lancaster and Preston, and London and Bir-
mingham. Liverpool and Manchester, 173 ; Leeds,
Halves, 341. 175., and 341. 17s. ex. div. ; Quarters, 4i,
and 41. 6s. 3d. ex. div.

PEEL'S NEW MEASURE.—There has not been a
period for many years when the public mind has been
so highly excited upon subjects of internal p 'lity as
at the present moment. The war in China and
Affghanistan, and our relations with .the continent of
Europe and the United States, seem matters of compa-
ratively little interest when compared with the proposed
alteration in the Corn-laws, the New Tariff, and the In-
come Tax, measures which will reach every man's
home and fireside. A position so anomalous as that of
the landed interest in the present House of Commons
was never before seen. Having, by the exertion
ofits sluggish but giant strength, driven out
one Ministry whose policy was deemed hostile to its in-
terest, and raised another Ministry to power under the
pledge of maintaining protection to agriculture, it sees 1
its chosen champion adopting the principles of free
trade as the basis of all his measures, and with abold-
ness which no man dare, but one who could profoundly
scan the extraordinary position of those by whose in-
strumentality
he has obtained office. Sir R. Peel has
struck a deadlier blow at the protective system, since
his last accession to office, than has been effected by
all the efforts of the tree traders, the Whigs, and the
political economists during the last twenty years. They
have been devising and preparing plans—he is the
" heaven-born" Minister.who steps forward and carries
them out.—Mark-lane Express.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. —RE BARNETT
JOSEPH.—We are requested to state that the evidence
ascribed in our report of the above case, on the Bth inst.
to Mr. Raybold, was incorrect. We are assured that it
was by an error of our Reporter that. Mr. Raybold was
made to describe himself as having been tried at the Old
Bailey on criminal charges.
The Observateur of Brussels states that the Belgian
Inspector of Police, M. Hody, gave orders, a few days since, to
3lr. Barrington, an English gentleman of respetability re-
siding at Bruges, to quit the Belgian territory within 24 hours,
but the latter appealed to the British Consul,:and, after .some
-warm remonstrances on the part of that functionary, the order
was rescinded. The cause of this measure is net stated.

S -w, ARV OF RI FL W S

AND
Vitbltc Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The 'sugar question, and " the persecution of the
Church of Spain by the Spanish Government," as the
French clergy denominate the measures resorted to by
the Regent, are the chief topics referred to in the French
papers.
The Univers mentions that the French frigate. Eri-
gone, which reached Macao on the Bth of December last,
had on board Colonel Dubois de Jansigny, " Envoy of
the King of the French to the Court of Pekin."
M. Duplessis de Grenedan, a member of the Parlia-
ment of Brittany before the Revolution of 1789, and one
of the Royalist Deputies who contributed most to the
overthrow of the Government of the Restoration by the
extravagance of their retrograde doctrines, died at St.
Hellier on the 19th instant.
Madrid journals of the 16th inst. report that the mar-
riage of the Queen was beginning to be talked of in the
Madrid circles. The English party, and at its head
M. Mendizabal, openly declared against the pretensions
of the Bourbon family. Another party would willingly
accept a Prince recommended by Austria ; but the ma-
jority seemed to incline in favour of one of the sons of
the Infant Don Francisco de Paula.
The Constitutionnel Barcelona journal of the 17th inst.
publishes a letter addressed by the Political Chief to the
members of the Provincial Deputation, informing them
that the Regent had acceded to their deniand, and been
pleased to decide " that the municipal councillors sus-
pended in November, 1841, and who were to continue in
office during the present year, should be reinstated in
their functions."