The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-19 00:00:00

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The French revenue returns, so favourable as com-
pared with the English returns for the last year,
afford subject for congratulation in all the Paris
journals of Sunday.
The Moniteur Uni';ersel contains a Itval ordon-
nance, countersigned by M. Cunin Gridaine, Minister
of Commerce, reducing the export duty on almonds
from 2f. for 100 kilogrammes to 25 cents. (about
two. pence halfpenny.)
The price of bread in Paris is fixed from the 16th
to the 31st inst. at 34c. the kilogramme, or about
61d. the 41b. loaf.
According to the Constitutionnel. its patron, M.
Thiers, remains book-making at Lille, and will not
return to Paris before next month, being " exclu-
sively" occupied with writing some chapters of the
" History of the Consulate and Empire."
The Constitutionnel complains in a bitter article of
the ingratitude of Belgium towards France, and cau-
tions the former not to seek an alliance with Ger-
many, which will be refused, but to look solely to
France as her sheet-anchor. Belgium, it adds, con-
stantly refuses to pay the French expenses of the
siege of Antwerp.
The nomination of the Abbe-Olivier, Bishop of
Evreux, to the office of Preceptor to the Count of
Paris, is said to be certain.
The Prince of Capua and his family have arrived at
Paris.
Juntas have been formed in every department in
Mexico to collect the contributions for carrying on the
war against Texas.
A treaty of peace has been concluded between Peru
and Bolivia.
Dwarkanauth Tagore is'said by the Debats to have
introduced a number of European establishments into
Calcutta, as schools of medicine, &c. He has also
founded various commercial houses in India, China,
the Mauritius, and London.
PUBLIC OPINION.

The Post observes, in reference to the present con-
dition of the -Whig party :—" What has become of the
Whig party ? We observe some smart criticisms
occasionally, in newspapers, written in a Whiggish
spirit, and many plaintive assurances in more elabo-
rate publications that the Whigs are the most deserv-
ing set of politicians on the face of the earth; but,
after all, where are they ? They were very potent a
few years ago, and very numerous. What avalanche
has overwhelmed them ? In what snow-wreath have
they been buried ? They had opportunities enough
to strike their roots deep—where are the branches and
the fruits. They will tell us, perhaps, that they are
to be found in Sir Robert Peels policy. Here they
may, in a certain sense, and to a certain extent, make
out a sort of plausible case ; but it is no more than
plausible, and at the best will not account for the
position of the Whig party. Why should Sir
Robert Peel and his friends be in power, if, with the
approbation of the country, Whig policy is being car-
ried into effect ? If there were nothing wrong in
them, is it credible that they should be thus scattered,
dispersed, blown almost out of political existence by
the breath of popular contempt, and yet with their
principles (according to their own account) triumphant
all the while ? The truth is, that we contemplate
with no particular satisfaction the state of wretched-
ness to which the Whigs are now reduced as a party.
They are like separate heaps of chaff blown hither
and thither, in strange conrusion—now mixing—now
separating, but, apart or in unison, nothing better than
chaff—no worth—no substance—no power of produc-
ing a vivid effect upon the public mind. This is
always the end of manoeuvring, and trick, and shuf-
fling on from month .to month, and year to year, upon
mere outward signs and pitiful excuses. The Vhigs
wore themselves out in clinging to office long after
their position was despicably weak ; and at last when
the final blow came, and they were beaten out, they
had nothing upon which to rally."
The following is from the Chronicle :—" The Exa-
miner of last Saturday again takes up the defence of
the Tory Government in regard to the Ashburton
capitulation. We congratulate Sir Robert Peel and
Lord Aberdeen upon the zeal of their new supporter;
though we cannot compliment them upon the ability
which he has displayed in their service. Indeed, our
respected Contemporary, since he has on this subject
become a supporter of the Tory Government, seems
to have left behind him, in thus passing over, that
acuteness of mind and those powers of reasoning for
which in general he has been so remarkable. A more
hazy performance than this last article of his we have
seldom read, even in the pages,of those who are more
accustomed to the service which he has so generously
undertaken. We say generously, because it is very
generous in a paper so opposed to the Government on
other matters, to have stepped forward to support it
in the hour of its distress. A friend in need is a
friend indeed ; and never did a Government more
need a friend than the present Government do on
this occasion. They have found a friend, too, who
is like the Highlander, of whom it is said that
any man will stand by his friend when he is right,
but the Highlander will defend him even when he
is wrong."
The Times says :—" The dispatch in which Mr.
Webster concludes his late correspondence with Lord
Ashburton, and communicated to the Britsh Envoy
the views of the American Government on the sub-
ject of the impressment of British seamen from Ame-
rican merchant vessels, has given rise to very absurd
inferences on the Continent; but at the same time the
subject deserves the fullest consideration. Mr. Web-
ster has not exaggerated the hardships and evils, which
this practice occasioned in the course of the last war.
A power, which even in its mildest form was peculiarly
liable to be abused, was put into the hands of those
most likely to abuse it. Redress was almost im-
possible, yet the number of cases in which redress
was actually obtained and seamen discharged
on the application of the American Govern-
ment, shows that the abuses of this anode of
impressment were acknowledged by the English Ad-
miralty to be frequent. From the month of July,
1796, to that of April, 1797, the American Secre-
tary of State applied for the discharge of 271 seamen,
stating themselves to be American citizens. Of this
number 86 were discharged, 37 more were detained
for want of proof of their national character, but the
remaining 148 had already sailed beyond the reach
of inquiry. The increasing commercial relations of
the two countries, and especially the vast tide of emi-
gration which has flowed since the peace from the
shores of Great Britain to the ports of the United
States, would now, of course, render these painful
questions of still more frequent occurrence; and Mr.
Webster argues, with equal truth,and ingenuity, that
whilst Great Britain encourages emigration to all
parts of the world, both within and beyond the domi-
nions of the Crown, it is inconsistent and unjust to
affect to claim that strict allegiance from her former
subjects which she has encouraged them to transfer
to another Power.