The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-09 00:00:00

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On the subject of Algiers the Fr; nth Opposition
papers assail M. Guizot with unsparing vindictiveness.
They contend that "it is in vain for him to draw con-
clusions from the similarity of observation' to objec-
tion,' so long as England shall continue to withhold its
recognition of the right of France to her African con-
quests."
The Courrier Francais asserts that, although M. de
Bourqueney and Sir Stratford Canning are on very good
terms together at Constantinople as to Eastern affairs,
the diplomatic relations between the British and French
Cabinets are by no means of an amicable nature, Lord
Aberdeen having declared that he would not enter on any
fresh negotiations with M. Guizot until the Right of
S earth Treaty had been ratified by France.
The Journal des Debuts states that the Superior Coun-
cil of Commerce had on Saturday voted the prohibition
of home manufactured sugar by a majority of 13 to 12.
The Debuts is of opinion that this is one of the most
fatal measures ever adopted with regard to the general
interests of France.

" We have been informed," says the Constitutionncl,
" that several Christino chiefs have been summoned to
Paris, where they are now holding a sdrt of council of
war."

The Pressc having asserted that General. Narvaez, the
Christina General, was in Paris and not at Tangiers, as
stated by the Spanish papers, the Constitutionnel explains,
and this we know to be the fact, that Narvaez had re-
beived counter-orders at Falmouth to return to Paris
just as he was embarking for Tangiers, via Lisbon and
Gibraltar. Several of the Christine chiefs are now in
Paris, having daily interviews with Queen Christina.
The Commerce states that the hopes which were enter-
tained at Madrid of an amicable arrangement with the
Holy See have vanished,
the Pope having published' an
Apostolic letter, in which the Sovereign Pontiff, after
enumerating his several causes of complaint against the
Spanish Government, alludes to the law recently pre-
sented to the Cortes, which he terms execrable, and re-
presents it as threatening the Catholic religion with com-
plete destruction.
Madrid papers of the 27th, state that the Cortes did
not sit in consequence of its being the Regent's birth
day. His Highness received the Grand Deputation of
both Chambers, who came to present congratulatory
addresses, to which the Regent replied in the most
gracious manner.
The accounts from Barcelona of the 27th ult. state
that several amnestied cabecill Is, who were affiliated to
the Carlo-Christino conspiracy, had been shot. Two
cheifs, named Espaculella and I?atnisa, taken prisoners
in the neighbourhood of Vich, had been likewise put to
death.
A Constantinople correspondent, in his letter of the
9th, says that Sir Stratford Canning, who has recovered
from a slight indisposition, is said to be pressing the
Porte to recognise Dr. Alexander as Bishop of Jerusa-
lem. The Porte, however, refuses the demand, on the
ground that there are no Protestants in Syr:a ; ,but the
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true motive of its refusal is, that Russia, Austria, and
France encourage the resistance of the Sultan.
missi on sasde PARMXILIVEZNTAR72".
The Lord Chancellor last night laid a Bill on the table of
the House of Lords ta improve the jurisdiction in lunacy. Its
principal provisions are to appoint two standing Commis-
sionersJudges,h ti paideo,
to byg i salaries,%e
the,
Lordil t feesc ha
to appoint a third in special cases, and to nominate a smaller
number of jurymen to hear the evidence, if he think fit.
Lord Cottenham and Lord Campbell expressed doubts of
some of its provisions, but their suggestions were postponed
till the Bill is in Commitee,
A Committee was appointed to consider the whole subject

of the marriage law in Ireland, and the Lord Chancellor said
he had no doubt that the Bill brought up from the Commons
and referred to the Committee might speedily be passed in
such a shape as to settle the whole question, and not leave
the law as at present, shamefully vague on this important sub-
jeet. The Committee is to meet on Thursday.
The Loan Societies and Parish Apprentices Bills were read
a second time.

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Lord Denman's Bill to improve the Law of Evidence was
also read a second time, after a short and interesting discus-
sion, to which we have elsewhere referred.—Adjourned till
Thursday.
In the Commons, the Marylebone Paving Bill, which seems
to excite some interest, was postponed for a week. Mr. Wakley
hoped it would be withdrawn.
The first of Mr. Ferrand's bubbles burst, by the Hon. Mem-
ber withdrawing a notice he had given, because the motion he
contemplated is impracticable. Mr. Brotherton, on account of
the number of persons who have repelled Mr. Ferrand's charges,
withdrew his motion for a return of the number of manufac-
turers who adopt the truck system.
Mr. D'lsraeli, who spoke for upwards of two hours, and over-
hauled all our consular and diplomatic appointments, moved a
resolution, that means be taken to unite the consular and the
diplomatic bodies. •

Lord Claude Hamilton seconded the motion in a speech
almost as long as his leader's.
Dr. Bovviing commentett on the motion, and Sir Robert
Peel opposed it. The motion was finally negatived, having
served t!:e purpose of allowing Mr. Disraeli to make a display
of his minute researches during the recess.
The House subsequently occupied itself with Mr. Mackin-
non's motion, for a Select Committee to provide for the in-
terment of bodies be3ond the precincts of la, ge towns. Lord
F. Egerton then moved for leave to briny in a Bill, the princi-
pal object of which was to legalise the marriage of a widower
to the sister of his deceased wife, the debate upon which was
postponed till this day week.
Some f_rther business was transacted, and the House ad-
journed at One o'Clock.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Advertiser is of opinion that if the people
are uninterested in the progress of Sir R. Peel's Corn-law
Bill, " It is because of their unspeakable contempt for it ; and
because they ate determined to meet their enemies on ground
where the political fo.rns in which they are now entrenched,
will have no existence. It appears that Lord John Russell
has decided upon dividing the House against the Peel propo-
sition to-morrow night; but we may not hesitate to tell him,
that the country is as sick to its very soul, of the inane pro-
ceedings of the one party, as of the more daring attempts of
the other."

The Chronicle says.—" It is upon the Corn-laws that all
the odium and mischief of the truck system (and we admit all
that Mr, Ferrand himself may say of its evils) are justly
chargeable. Let Mr. Ferrand move for his Committee on
the truck system if he please—and the more extensively he can
prove this harsh and grinding practice to prevail, the more
overwhelming a case will he make out against the Coin-laws
he thinks he i 3 defending, by accusing manufacturers of truck."
The Post states that there are many manufacturers very
good kind of men, but that they have no monopoly of good-
ness or intelligence among them; and adds :—" They are not
altogether perfect. They have glass houses among them. Let
them not be quite so ready to begin throwing stones. They
have been too long suffered to have their own way in praising
themselves and abusing others. Let them be thankful for the
past, and more careful for the future. Let them think of the
rapid fortunes so many of them have made, and the means by
which they have made them."
The Herald has an article on the subject of Lord Ashbur-
ton's mission to England, wherein our Contemporary remarks:
—" If immediate war is to follow Lord Ashburton's return to
England, without having accomplished the objects for which
he left, we will not do the American Executive the injustice
to suppose that it is not prepared to make some concessions to
avert so disastrous a calamity. The dreadful alternative thus
put forth by the Madisonian is, most probably, only an at-
tempt to pave the way for such concessions ; if so, the tone re-
cently sysumed by the more influential public prints begets the
hope that the reasonable and moderate among the American
people are not unwilling to support the Supreme Government,
should it be now inclined to diverge into the paths of peace."
The Times says, in an article suggested by Lord Mont-
eagle's speech on the Exchequer-bill fraud.—" Lord Mont-
eagle will not take much by his self-adulatory speech, the
whole gist of which was to show that he is entitled to be
held clear of all blame whatever, because his predecessors in
the controlling power over the Exchequer were almost as neg-
ligent as himself. His view of the duties of a public officer
seems to be, that he is to do just what his predecessors have
done, and no more.' The public will be apt to take issue
with him upon this po'nt. They imagine that the large salary
which he receives is given as a quid pro quo—not as a fee upon
a certain number of signatures, but as the reward of an effec-
tual supervision over an important department of the national
service."

MONEY—TR.ADE—C °MATE ACE.
A Brick and Tile Company have contracted with the South-
Eastern Railway Company for 14,000,000 of bricks, to be com-
pleted within three sears. 'I his enormous quantity is to be
made in the vicinity of Maidstone.
We learn from a Nottingham paper that the hosiery and lace
trades still continue in a most depressed state, and that things,
instead of improving, get worse as the spring approaches.
It is rumoured that the duty on Colonial sugar will be re-
duced to 18s., and that on Foreign to 365.
LAW AND POLICE.
On the sth instent at York Charles Rhodes and Thomas
Leatham were indicted for a beititlary in the house of Thomas
Bramall and cutting and wounding the said Thomas Bramall,
an offence which is still capital. From the evidence it ap-
peared that the prisoners had attacked an old man who kept a
public-house at Mot,kbrettoo, and nearly killed him. The Jury
returned a verdict of guilty, and Mr. Baron Rolfe expressed
his intention of looking carefully into the depositions before
passing sentence, to see if any facts in the case would justify a
mitigation of the punishment which the law imposed for such
offences.

COURT PASHIONAUX.E.
The Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy arrived at
Chandos House last evening from Osterley Park.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford will have Oakley House
at the end of the week, for Woburn Abbey.
The Dowager Countess of Essex is expected to leave Paris
to-marrow fur Belgrave-square.
The Earl of Jersey arrived in Berkeley-square last evening
from Melton•Mowbray.
The Earl and Countess of Eglinton have, during the last
week, been staying at Croxteth Park, Lancashire.
Lord W. Russell arrived at Bedford House on Saturday last.

MlSCMladiltrEol7l3.
The Semaphore of Marseilles states that at the end of 1841
the number of horses in France was 2,453,712, of which
1,241,789 were mares, and that the number of horses born an-
nually is 185,303. The number of entire horses the property
of the State is 4,577, and the number of mares annually put to
breed by these horses is 49,408.
Two little shops in the Market-place, Louth, Lineoltishire,
lately occupied by Miss Wakelin and Mr. Kew, gunsmith, con-
taining together fifty-six square yards, have been sold for 705/.
or nearly 13/. per square yard !