The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-19 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.
The following is the King of the French's reply to the
Address of the Chamber of Peers, in answer to the
Speech from the Throne :—" You know the value I set
on the sentiments which you have just expressed. They
form a new pledge, added to the many you have already
given to France, of the confidence which the nation has a
right to place in that salutary union of all the powers
of the State, which constitutes the strength of our
institutions, and demonstrates the impotence of those
who may still dream of their overthrow. With that
union, with your loyal co-operation, we shall continue
to follow the line pointed out to us by our duties and
our oaths, ,and thereby secure to our country the enjoy-
ment of all the blessings and advantages which Provi-
dence has bestowed on it."
A French Cabinet Council has discussed the question
whether the Chamber of Peers will condemn M. Cham-
bolle, the Editor as well as the gerant of the Siecle. The
result was to inform the leaders of the Upper Chamber
that the Ministry was ready to engage in the combat for
them or the Deputies, and demand permission to imprison
M. Chambolle, Deputy of La Vendee, nay, that they
were pretty sure to get the permission voted, but that the
Ministry must leave the responsibility and initiatiVe to
the Peers. Count Mole is said to have gone to the King
and dissuaded an attack of the kind on so eminent a
member of the dynastic Opposition.
The Augsburgh Gazette publishes instructions for the
Censors,. issued by the Prussian Government, forbidding
them " to obstruct any serious and discreet inquiry after
truth," and reminds them of the edict of 1819, which
bids them " repress all that outsteps the common bounds
of religion, which is against morals and good habits,
all fanatical introduction of religion into politics, and all
that may affect the security of the Prussian State and
that of the Germanic Confederation." A free expression
of all that respects the circumstances of the country is
to be pdrmitted. Also all fair criticism on the adminis-
tration. This well-meaning, though unmeaning edict,
is dated Berlin the 24th, and signed Rochow, Eichlen,
and Maltzahn.
The Leipsic Gazette states that the Ottoman Porte
had just received intelligence of an insurrection having
broken out at Damascus. The troops sent against the
rebels were repulsed, and forced to take refuge in the
citadel, whence the Governor was bombarding the town.
The Christians and Israelites took no part in the insur-
rection.
The following project of law has been presented to
the Spanish Cortes •
" Art. 1. AU the interest of the Home Consolidated
Debt, as well as of that in circulation abroad, due and to
fall due at the half-yearly terms anterior to the Ist of
January, 1843, shall be capitalised.
" Art. 2. In exchange for these interests, there shall
be delivered from the National Sinking Fund Annuities
to the bearer, at 3 per cent., for a sum equal to the whole
of those which are at present in circulation.
" Art. 3. These annuities will commence to take
effect from the Ist of January, 1842, for those who shall
demand the capitalisation of the interest of 1841 and
1842, before the 30th June next ; those who shall make
their demand after that date, shall only have an option
for the second half yearly term, provided they make it in
the course of that term ; and the same shall be the case
with the following half-yearly terms.
- ".PEDRO SURRA Y BULL.
"Madrid, Dee: 31, 184 I%"
• - 711111IZMO- OPIVIZOW.
The object of the principal leading articles in the
Morning Post is to uphold our colonial trade, and con-
demn the manufacturing system, which, we are assured,
is " rotten from top to bottom. In order to create this
hideous fabric," adds the Post, " we have most grossly
neglected the interests of our colonies. In order to prop
up this hideous fabric beyond the period of its natural
downfal, we are modesty required to sacrifice the very
foundations of our home trade."
The Times makes a clumsy defence of its unlucky
article on Saturday respecting the King of Prussia's
visit; and takes the opportunity of loading his Majesty
with a vast, deal of superfluous panegyric. In another
article, our Contemporary, alluding to the late Con-
ference at Edinburgh of the Scotch Dissenting Minis-
ters on the subject of the Corn-laws, hints pretty broadly
that_ it would not be
.amiss if the. Legislature were to
punish them for sedition !
The AdOertiser is of opinion that the 'Ministerial Anti-
Corn-law meeting in Edinburgh is one of the marked
signs of the times, which, if Sir Robert Peel be his own
friend or the friend of his country, he will not disregard.
The Herald contains an article on the affair of the
Creole, wherein it states that neither wa,r nor diplomacy
will settle the distressing question arising out of the
Slave-trade and slavery ; and that "there is but one
mode by which they willcease 'to plague the Government
of either country, and that is, the ahOlition of ilareryin
the United States. To this it must come at last—the
sooner it is accomplished the safer, it will be."
The Chronicle thus alludes to the article in the Times
of Saturday on the subject of the King of Prussia. " The
Times believed that an attack on him might not be dis-
agreeable to its party ; while for that Journal the sub-
ject had the peculiar attraction of affording it an oppor-
tunity of flattering the most vulgar prejudices, which it
sometimes dignifies by the name of national feeling, of
the lowest class of its readers. Your genuine bully,
however, is not without his share of cunning, and so the
article of Saturday was framed so as to afford an oppor-
tunity of sneaking out of it, should it appear advisable
to do so."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
From statistics already laid before the Glasgow Con-
vention now sitting, the following appear, among other
facts:—At Dundee, out of a total of 3,331 weavers, there
are 554 partially employed, 1,458 unemployed. At
Aberdeen two mills, one employing 500 and the other
300 hands, had stopped within the last two months,
while the decrease in the custom-duties was 2,0001. for
the first time. At Kirriemuir, 400 unemployed, and po-
verty very great. At Bankfoot, 273 without means of
support; at Largs 176.
Examination was again proceeded with on Monday be-
fore the Bankruptcy Commissioner into the affairs of
William Hitchcock, linendraper, and further hearing
adjourned to eleven o'clock on Friday next.
The equalisation of the •duty•betwee-n East and West
India sugars, has increased the shipment of that article
250 per cent., while, at the same time, the whole of the
Presidency of Bengal has-consumed its own produce, the
importation of the foreign product being wholly prohibited.