The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-09 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vublit eptitton.

" Who runs muy read."

FOREIGN.
A very large portion of the Paris Journals is filled with arti.
on the merits of the different candidates for the national
representation. As usual, on such occasions, their merits a•e
extolled to the skies by one party and depreciated by the other.
The Opposition candidates 'Are described, by the various organs
of what is called the liberal and independent press, as models of
patriotism and general perfection, whilst the Ministerial Jour-
nals represent them as the advocates of principles subversive of
order and good Government.

The Aliintteur announces, on the authority of a letter from
Naples, that Prince de Joinville, together with Admiral Hugon,
and the fleet under his command, were expected at that city
on the 26th ult., where preparations were made for their re-
ception.
The Moniteur gives the• following as the amounts of the
several sums which were expended between l l 5 and the end
of 1827, in the construction and arming the Belgian fortresses :
Liege, 2,885,0006. ; Buy, 509,0008. ; Namur, 5,165,8856. ;
Dinant, 425,0006. ; Marienburg, 265,0006. ;
304,0006. ; Bouillon, 50,0006. ; Charleroy, 6,540,0006 ;
Mons, 55,423,4278. ; Ath, 5,358,0006. ; Memn, 3,993,0006. ;
Ypres, 3,958,4976. ; Nieuport, 4,530,0006. ; Ostende,
5,537,0006. ; Antwerp, 3,000,0006. ; Tournay, 4,089,0006. ;
Termonde, 2,989,0576. ; Audernarde, 3,378,0006. ; Ghent,
3,317,5006. The expenses of the artillery stores and armament.
of these fortresses were 13,500,00011. Total, 81,239,3666.
We have received the Madrid journals of the 30th ult.
Their contents are not important. A Madrid letter informs
us that the Cortes will probably close their session about the
15th instant.

The Prussian State Gazette of the 2d instant published a
long list of decorations granted by the King in the Grand
Duchy of Po2en. M. de DI unin, the Archbishop of Gneisen,
had received the decoration of the Red Eagle.
PARLICAMENTAny.
Some discussion took place in the Lords on presenting
petitions concerning the evidence collected by the Com-
missioners fur inquiring into mines, and several Noble
Lords spoke slightingly of the course taken by the Com-
missioners. After a good deal of conversation on the
subject, Lord Hatherton gave notice of a motion for
Tuesday, for a Committee to inquire into the statements
of the Commissioners. There is to be an inquiry into
the inquiries. The Bill itself, in the course of the
evening, was referred to a Select Committee, which
must delay it for a considerable period.
The Customs' Duties Bill was read a third time and
passed, after a division, when 9 voted against the Bill,
and 52 for it.

The other business done by the Lords was unimportant.
In the Commons a question was asked about our
treaty with Brazil, which only elicited from Sir E.
Peel the old statement that the Brazilian' Government
deems that treaty to be at an end in 1842, and our Go-
vernment not till 1844. No notification, he said, had
been given by the Brazilian Government of an intention
to propose to the Chambers a higher rate of duties on
British goods.
_ _ _

An indication of the approaching end of the Session
is to be found in Sir James Graham having declined to
proceed with the Ecclesiastical Corporation Leases Bill
this session. Lord Eliot said he had no intention
of passing a Medical Charities Bill for Ireland this ses-
sion, though he meant to bring in one. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer said the same as to a Bill for altering
law licenses (Ireland).
The adjourned debate on Mr. Wallace's motion was
resumed by Mr. O'Connell, in an able and outspoken
speech. _ _

- The debate was continued the whole evening, though
it was pretty much on one side, only Mr. B. Escott, Mr.
Grimsditch, and Mr. Ferrand having spoken on the Mi-
nisterial side ; while, on the Opposition, Mr. P. M.
Stewart, Mr. Marsland, Mr. Childers, Mr. M. Philips,
Mr. R. Yorke, General Johnston, Mr. Leader, Mr. C.
Buller, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. Villiers, all
delivered able speeches on the motion. Three divisions
on questions of adjournment took place, after which,
on • a division, Mr. Wallace's resolutions were lost by
174 to 49. The House adjourned at a Quarter to Three
o'Clock.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Post says, in an article on the discussions in Parliament
respectit g the distress of the country :—" The Whigs make of
the distress a mere party matter. It gives them an oppor-
tunity of asserting that if their commercial policy, that is, the
admission of foreign corn at a low duty, had been acted upon
last year, the distress would have disappeared. They can show
no more ground for this assertion than if they said that the
pulling down of St. Paul's would have removed the
distress. But what does that matter to them ? There is
an opportunity for making the assertion, and as it may
serve the party, it is made. They know that the distre
is severe, and that few things can be more wicked
than the irritation of people in distress, by causing them to
believe that some particular measure which cannot be carried
would give them relief. But what does that matter to the
Whigs ? It is not the state of the poor, present or future,
which concerns them, but the popularity of their own party
with the multitude, and that may be promoted by causing the
multitude to believe that their policy would have prevented
the distress. We cannot but deeply regret that the present
leading men in the House of Commons should have so en-
tangled themselves, by adopting to a certain extent Whig prin •
ciples, that they cannot answer these impudent and heartless
dogmatisers as they ought to be answered."
We take the following from the Chronicle :—" Let the Libe •
ral party depend upon it, that the fabric of Tory misrule is tot-
tering ; that nothing but energy and tact are wanting to level it
with the dnst ; that nothing but such violence as compromises
the Liberal party in the blunders of a very few of its body can
make men of sense rally round a Ministry which, by its dogged
maintenance of abuses, is perilling every institution and interest
of the country. We have a clear cause before us—a cause in
which right is on our side, and success ahead. And Mr.
Fielden and his friends ought not to intervene and waste time
which is precious, not to our enemy, but to us. The Liberal
Members of the House of Commons will not be true to them-
selves or to the country if they allow the coming month to pass
without forcing the distress of the country on the attenticn of
Parliament. And they evidently know their duty, and mean
to do it."

The Times, in an article on prison discipline, observes :
" We do not for an instant maintain that prisons ought to be
made purposely wretched; nor of course do we contend that
every possible means should not be taken t,r reclaiming the of-
fenders, especially the younger ones ; but we do say, that while
the first object to be sought is the amelioration of the criminal,
the repentance and amendment of the hardened and abandoned
sinner, the way to produce this is not by indulgence, but by
punishment—not by softness and comfort, but by strict-
ness and discipline—not by rewarding the offender
with promotion in a foreign country, so much as by
keeping hint in strict seclusion from evil example,
and the means of gratifying his evil passions, in his
own ; and that if these means be used, as we have no doubt they
may, within the walls of a prison much more conveniently and
surely than on board a convict-ship, this proposed system of
emigration will turn out, after all, to be little more than a
bounty to juvenile crime. Let things be really what they pro-
fess to be—let them be called by their right names. If these
juvenile offenders really deserve punishment, let them be
punished and reclaimed, as they can and may well be, either by
imprisonment at home, or by transportation, if they have de-
served it, without promotion, abroad; but let it be a punish-
ment, not a promotion. If, on the contrary, transportation is
to be made a reward;let meritorious and really deserving per-
sons have the benefit, and not juvenile offenders.' "
The _Herald says :—" Mr. Bannerman's motion to give
Ministers power, by an Order in Council, to suspend or mo-
dify the Corn-law, during the recess, so as to admit at lower
duties than those affirmed by law the foreign grain row in bond,
though kindly meant and expressive of abundant confidence in
the Government, was one which Sir Robert Peel could not
support, without inflicting a heavy blow on his own law. The
present high price of wheat, when taken in connexion with
the frightful distress which prevails in the manufacturing
districts, is very deplorable; but that price is nut
wholly produced by the small quantity of free wheat in
the country ; it is very much the consequence of
the combination of corn factors speculating for a
rise to such a point as w ill admit the 1,400,000 quarters of
bonded wheat now in store at merely nominal duties. That
the bonded wheat, or tlie greater part thereof, will be released
before harvest, without any such extraordinary powers as those
proposed by Mr. Bannerman, is exceedingly probable. Its re-
lease will testify to the improvement achieved in the law regu-
lating the importation of foreign grain by Sir Robert Peel's
Act; for under the operation of the repealed Act, its admis-
sion would have been scarcely possible. Should, however,
circumstances prevent the admission of the foreign wheat now
in bond, and the distress of the country be aggravated, we
sincerely trust that Government will have the moral courage
to issue an Order in Council on the subject during the recess,
and apply to Parliament on its re-assembling for an Indem-
nity Act."
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
At a meeting of the subscribers to the Philanthropic Society
yesterday, it was stated by the report that during the last year
12 sons ofconvicts, 21 daughters of convicts, and 33 criminal boys
had been received by the Society, and above 140 children are
now under its care. The income of the Society for the past
year was 5,225/. 195., and the funded property was about
17,0001.

ECCLESIASTICAL.
From the charge of the Bishop of Edinburgh it appears
from between November last to the present time, 15,000/., which
is more than the one-half of the required amount, has been sub-
scribed towards the establishment of the Episcopal College in
Scotland.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
The death of Lieutenant-General the Hon. John Ramsay,.
which took place at Edinburgh last week, creates a vacancy in
the Colonelcy of the 79th Foot. He was brother of the late
Earl of Dalhousie, and in his 68th year.
The Elbe is now so low, that steamers, ships, and cargoes
are aground ; it affords, however, good opportunity to improve
the navigation, and the Commissioners of Dresden are to meet
to consider the removal of the obstruction to the navigation of
this great German river, which is about 700 miles in length:
LAW AND POLICE.
Of 115 persons now in Hereford gaol, or recently indicted,
4 can only read and write well k 47 can read, and the remain-
ing 64 are nearly altogether illiterate. At the Gloucester
Sessions, only or.e prisoner out of 127 was able to re,cl and
write well.

Thomas Waters, a tobacconist, in Fair-street, Horsleydown,
was charged at Union Hall, yesterday, with having twenty_
eight packages of smuggled tobacco on his premises, and fined
12!., and costs.
Richard Edwards, charged at Merthyr with the wilful murder
of his mother, Tamar Edwards, had sentence of death Eased
on him at the Cardiff assizes, on Friday.