The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-12 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch.

Forty-nine Members of the House of Commons, and
foufteen Peers, are all that are to be found to vote for
the appointment of Parliamentary Committees to in-
quire into the preSent distressed state of the country.
In the House of Lords the subject was well and ably
brought forward by Lord Brougham last night ; but
harrowing as were the details of misery—frightful as
were the pictures of wide.spread and wider-spreading
distress exhibited by his Lordship, only sixteen • he-
reditary Legislators, out of an assembly of four
hundred and fifty-nine. voted for an inquiry into its ex•
tent, with a view to the suggestion of a remedy. The
Peers take the matter very coolly. The distress of the
working classes does not affect them. They would not
drink a glass of Burgundy the less, or dispense with the
attendance of a single liveried menial in their all but
regal establishments, were the operatives dying in ditches
like 'rotten sheep. Lord BROUGHAM well and feelingly
reminded their Lordships that the suffering millions had
no hand in making the laws, under whose accursed
operation they were dying of hunger. They did not
contribute to the passing of the Corn and Provision 7
laws, which had reduced them to a state of misery, com-
pared with which all the famines within his recollection
were periods of comparative prosperity. These facts
made no impression on the Peers, till followed by an
account of villages becotning.depopulated, and a decrease
in the rental of the country. The motion was weakly
and unsatisfactorily resisted by the Earl of RIPON, Lord
MELBOURNE ON and the Earl of WINCHILSEA; and sup-
ported by Earl STANIIOPE, Lord KINNAIRD, the Mar-
quis of CLANRICARDE, and Lord RADNOR. - The
speeches -of Lord KnorAinD and the Marquis. of
CLANRICARDE were excellent. Lord KINNAIRD proved
that the distress of the country could be at any mo-
ment relieved, and the Federal Government of the
United States preserved front a state bordering upon in-
solvency, by allowing American corn to be imported at
.even so high a duty as six shillings. The Marquis o.
CLANRICARDE warned their Lordships of what might
be expected to tatke place next winter, unless prompt
measures were taken to remove the misery of
the people. They might think it inconvenient to .
go into -such an inquiry now, and trust to the
employment of troops by the Government to keep the
people quiet ; but unless they did inquire, and did re-
Move the evil, they would soon be compelled to submit
to something worse. But their Lordships, unwilling to
forego the pleasures of the approaching season of field-
sports, treated the threat of the Noble Marquis with
Silent contempt. Lord BROUGPIAM'S reply was more
temperate than we should have expected under such
circumstances. He had evidently, however, brought
forward his motion under a conviction that it would be
rejected. He knew the assembly he had to deal with,
and how little it concerned itself about the miseries of the
poor, so long as they suffered in silence. Accordingly,
as we stated above, only sixteen votes were given for ar
inquiry into the extent of the distress that now over-
spreads Great Britain and Ireland.! Gov help the
perishing people ! They have no longer anything to
hope from the wisdom and humanity of the House of
Lords.

Complaints have long been made in England against
the anomalous and.unjust state.ef thelaw in the United
States,l4 rofgrenSe.-.0. I:ll7,p4:aey, of. British works, and
~3111:1c**}1,131ri:Ni' taking lictv"tagikof his stay in
.-th.tiCinuult, laticlally exerted himself .to make
the'soji4tZ eof general discussion, and to impress
upon.the pi the conviction that they were not so
honest' as ' should be. A petition. to Congress was
`alit) draw° tip. signed by WAtaaNGToN Linn,. coon,

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PRESCOTT, and everyman who has distinguished himself
in the literature of America, earnestly praying for the
enactment of an international copyright law. The petition
was presented to Congress by Mr. CLAY, and referred to a
Select Committee. This was met by a counter-petition
from the classical city of Boston—the chief city of learrp-
ing and letters in America—in which the petitioners
state that if English authors were invested with any con-
trol over the republication of their works, American edi-
tors would no longer be able to alter and adapt them to
the taste of their countrymen. This very moral resolu-
tion was adopted at a public meeting with only one dis •
sentient voice. It to be hoped, however, that the Se-
lect Committee, and President TYLER, a man of high
moral character, will discountenance such proceedings,
and agree to the prayer of the learned men, who, by
their writings, have conferred high honour on their
country, by recommending the subject to the serious
attention of Congress. While all the great works written
in the English language originated in Great Britain,
the Americans, of course, were great gainers by this
unfair traffic ; but circumstances are now changing ra-
pidly ; American writers are successfully competing
with those of this country, and it is therefore for the
mutual advantage of both that an international law
should be established, by which every author would be
entitled to a fair reward for his labours. All honest
men on both sides of the Atlantic must admit that it is
downright dishonesty to obtain the works of such men as
BYRON, SCOTT, and MooRE, with, all the delight they
afford to the reader, and at the same time refuse to
make them any compensation. These two great coon.
tries, enjoying the same language, customs, laws, and
the same representative system of Government, would
become more and more united by being placed on
the same .footing as independent nations, and
would thereby contribute to the improvement as
well as the diffusion of a' language, which in a few
years will in all probability be more general than any
ever spoken by the human race. In the meantime Mr.
DICKEYS purposes, and he recommends the plan to other
authors, that no correspondence should be held with the
pirates, and that no negotiation for the sale of early
proofs should be entered into with any but the most
respectable American publiShing houses.

Letters from Constantinople of the 23d of June, re-
ceived yesterday (Monday) in Paris, announce that the
Sublime Porte had sent two frigates and three corvettes,
laden with troops, munitions of war, and a supply of
money, to the coast of Syria. Notwithstanding the re-
monstrances of Great Britain, Austria, and- France,
the Divan had resolved to adhere to its own Syrian
policy of maintaining the power of OMAR PACHA, and or:
pressing the Christians of Lebanon. What a commentary
is this upon the Morning Chronicle's flourish of trumpets
about Lord PONSOI4BY'S establishment of British influ-'
once in Stamboul ! The note of triumph was sounded
yesterday in that journal, to soothe the temper of the
Noble Lord, probably ruffled by the fatigues of his
journey, and his reception by his late colleagues ; and
the wail of woe and disappointment is recorded to-day
by the same veracious and consistent oracle of undiluted
NV higgery. Yes, Lord PoNsoN BY left the British power ro
paramOunt at Constantinople that we cannot effect the
removal of a renegade Pacha from a country yet reeking
with British blood, shed in restoring it to the dominion
of the Sublime Porte ! OMAR PACHA is by birth an
Austrian subject, and was, or professed to be, a Chris-
tian for many years of his life. He went to Turkey
as a pennyless adventurer, and renounced his faith to
obtain the means of living. He is a wretch pol-
-1 uted with the worst crimes ; and yet all the
boasted influence bequeathed by Lord PONSONBY'S
Chronicle-lauded diplomatic career to Great Britain,
joined with the prayers of-the Christian tribes of Leba
non, cannot effect the removal of this bad man from a
province purchased by British valour for the SULTAN.
Does not this one fact attest all that we have ever said
of Lord PONSONBY ?

The French elections exclusively occupy the columns
of the French papers received this morning. Accord-
ing to the returns known in Paris up to an early hour on
Monday morning, there was a considerable increase on
the side of the Opposition. The Ministers have all been
returned. We must await the returns from the remote
departments, before predicting whether the present
Cabinet has a chance of continuing in office.
from the accounts which we receive from Toulon, it appears
that a general impression exists that the events which have
irately teten place in Algeria may decide the future destiny of
,the colony, if they are wisely turned to account.
thus it is .now cut of doubt that the whole country
Tvom Algiers to Tlemcen, included between the first
fain et Mount Atlas and the sea, is completely
pbdued. Only some bands of marauders are met with,
0 the country, a thing which is inevitable, after a war of several
„yrars' duration. Peace now rests on a solid foundation.
7We have made no treaty with a powerful chief ; the tribes have
'Peen obliged to submit unconditionally, and instead of with-
awing, or even diminishing certain garrisons in the interior,
) :the are increased. We continue to maintain strong garrisons
at
Medeah Milliana, Mascara, and Tlemcen, by which we are
'aide to suppress, immediately, any hostile movement,
slut it is necessary to think of something else.
besides war. We have already seen moments in which the
Arabs seemed to he entirely paralysed. Then we committed
a series of faults, and their energy revived.
Whatever may be the Cabinet to which the elections are
Ong to give power, it will have great duties to perform with
respect to our possessions in Africa. Ministerialists and Oppo-
oitionists all have agreed, when addressing the electoral body, to
„Tine forward as the adversaries of England in the affair of the
things
search. The prolongation of the provisional state of
things in Algeria would likewise be a concession to England.
A letter from Alexandria of the 21st of June, in the Augs-
burg Gazette, says :—" The news from Syria of the 11th is
very deplorable ; it proves that the accusation brought against
the Porte of fermenting the disturbances in that country, are
well founded. The Turkish policy manifested itself more and
more openly."— Commerce.

. HANGING THE PROPHETS.—IG speaking of the dis
tresses of the country last night in the House of Corn
mans, Mr. Gaily Knight seems to have lashed himse
into a very distressing state of wrath. " The loud do
nunciations and prophecies of evil," observed the Hon
Member, " which had been so lavishly indulged in, could
not but inflame the passions of those to whom they were
addressed ; when he heard men predict the possibility
of insurrection, all he would say was, that if an insurrec-
tion broke out, the first thing which ought to be done,
would be,to hang the prophets."—Mr.G.Knight,here shows
himself a Tory of the stiff, old George the Third school—
one of those rough, unceremonious gentlemen, who, if
they had lived in the days of Isaiah, would certainly
have hanged him, for predicting the fall of Nineveh !
We agree, however, with the Hon. Member, that there
is much virtue in hanging, but the virtue lies, not so
much in the experiment itself, as in the proper applica-
tion of it. Hang all those who predict disasters to the
country from the selfish class-legislation of the Monopo-
lists, and you leave matters in no better state than you
found them ; but hang the Monopolists themselves, who
sow the seeds of such disasters, and you at once ensure
a remedy, which—however inconvenient and unac-
ceptable it may be to the individual sufferers—will
be attended with inestimable benefit to the community
at large. " Four-and-twenty Tories all in a row," strung
up, like so many dried haddocks, on a genteel and con-
fortable gallows, erected for their express accommoda-
tion, would be the best practical form in which the lion.
Member's "hanging" argument could possibly develope
itself. The experiment, it will be observed, does not
originate with us ; Mr. Knight is entitled to the honour
of its suggestion ; we contend only for its just and fitting
application.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

PARIS, JULY 11.

The elections are by no means favourable to the
Ministry. In Paris they have lost two members—
in Rouen one. They hare gained ene in Strasburg
—the other great towns return the same members.
In smaller places opposition has prevailed. The
Legititnists have especially gained. At four o'clock
on Monday the Opposition calculated on having already
gained seventeen votes—an important change, one that
would indicate the necessity of a Passy and Dufaure
Cabinet.

Deiessert, Piscatory, and several Alinisterialists, re-
jected. M. Guizot has been elected at Lizieux.
The remaining elections being for smaller and remote
places may restore the balance as before.
The Funds betray this state of things.

The funds were agitated on the Paris Bourse. The
Three per Cents. fell, at one time, to 79 20, but closed
at 79 55.

The elections, as announced early, were unfavourable
to Ministers ; later in the day, the accounts were of a
different kind.

On the Bourse it was said that the new Conservative
D ‘puties elected amounted to 184, the Radicals to 148,
but the feeling. on the Bourse was not of security in the
maintenance tt•e present Ministry.

BEXRD'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We expe-
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mB eaanrnde'rs
Lnd accuracy with which the human face and figure are deli,.
tinted by this invention, is truly astonishing. Among t! e
portraits which Mr. Beard has taken, we saw many an old
.riend, but not with a new face; and we left with the °
iion, that thousands would bless the man who had discoveredcnvie-
the means of perpetuating, with such accuracy, the semblance
of those who were endeared to them by friendship, or more
sacred ties.
It is reported that Professor Walmisley has lost
upwards of ,500/. by the recent musical festival at Cambrilee.
We rejoice, however, to learn that the Noble Chancellor has
aehaved in the most munificent manner towards Mr. \val.
.nisley, by enabling him to fulfil his engagements with all the
oerformers—an act worthy of the ancient house of Percy:—
Evening Paper.
BODY FOUND IN THE THAMES.—About half-past
eleven o'clock this morning John Caroline, a man who attends
,lie Lambeth side stairs of Waterloo-bridge, discovered near
the ballast-boat. off Maltby's • shot-wharf, the body of a girl
about 14 years of age. The body, which was much decom-
do.ed, was conveyed to the vault of St. John's Church,
Waterloo-road. The following is a description of the child's
tress : —Lilac frock, with black and white spots, blue and
.unite pinafore, with light spots, laced-up boots, aid soAs
nl,rkeil" I B I+l patent." .