The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEW

AND
Public Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The most interesting foreign event reported this
morning is the Speech of the Regent of Spain at open-
ing the Cortes of the Kingdom on the 26th ult. This
speech is very pacific, and altogether of a most satis-
factory character.
New Year's-day in Paris is a festival never dese-
crated by any public business, so that our accounts
from the capital of that date are but records of courtly
and official visits and addresses to which we have only
space for a passing reference.
The Univers states that orders have been sent to M.
de Salvandy to demand his passports immediately, and
to return to France with all the persons of his embassy,
if Espartero dues not withdraw his pretensions in refus-
ing to the French Ambassador the right of delivering
his credentials to the Queen of Spain in person.
A commission, composed of three Peers, and of Messrs.
Pinsonniere, Jouffroy, Felix Real, De Corcelles, d'Ar-
blay, Gustave de Beaumont, Dumon (du Lot et Garonne),
Laurence, Filleau de Sainte Hilaire, Director of Colo-
nies at the Ministry of the Marine, General Bellonet, of
the Engineers, and M. Linguay, as Secretary, has been
appointed to take into consideration all questions relat-
ing to the colonisation of Algeria.
A letter from Berlin of the 22d ult. says :---The de-
parture of the King of Prussia for London is now defini-
tively fixed for the 16th of January next. He sups the
first night in Magdeburg, whence he proceeds to Hagen,
and arrives on the 19th, by way of Aix-la-Chapelle, at
Liege. On the 20th he will reach Ostend, where a Go-
vernment steamer will be in readiness to receive him, and
he will reach London on the 21st. The suite of his Ma-
jesty will not be so numerous as several German papers
have represented. It will consist of Generals Ratzmer
and Von Neuman, the celebrated traveller and author
Alexander Von Humboldt, and Count Stolberg, the Ca-
binet Councillor Muller and the Marshal of the Palace
Von Meyerinck.
Accounts from Lisbon of the 27th ult, report that the
elections have terminated in Portugal in the complete
triumph of the Ministers.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Chronicle contains an article the hints
for which have been furnished by Sir James Graham's
late speech at Dorchester. In this article our Contem-
porary says :—" The paltry trickery of Sir James Gra-
ham will be but of slender benefit to his leader. The
country is not now in a mood to be trifled with. Sir
Robert Peel must make his election between the people
and the Monopolists. He is in a false position, from
which he cannot, by any degree of ingenuity be ex-
tricated."

With reference to an article in the New Farmer's
Journal, which is one of the organs of the landed in-
terest, the Advertiser observes :—"The Monopolists are not
wanting in sufficient foresight to perceive that it is a
dangerous thing to make even a show of reform in the
details of a bad system ; their policy, therefore, is to
resist, as long as they can hold out the approach of even a
fallacious reform."

The Morning _Herald recommends the Dublin electors
to lose not a moment in selecting some stiff-necked Tory
to represent them in Parliament • and specially exhorts
them to oppose Lord Morpeth's election by every means
in their power.
The Times is exceedingly out of humour with the
Anti-Corn-law agitators, and says:—" We can tell these
gentry that the snore fiercely they preach a crusade
against the landed interest, the more absolutely do they
detach from all sympathy with them and their exertions
the large class of honourable and respectable British
merchants who are as ardent as themselves in their oppo-
sition to the Corn-laws."

The Liverpool Chronicle, commenting upon the pom-
pous announcement of the Morning Herald on the " fa-
mily residence of the Lyndhursts," observes :—" That
Lord Lyndhurst has advanced himself from a mud cot-
tage to Great George-street is much to his credit. We
admire him for it, and we can afford to say it as we ad-
mire him for nothing else, but still that does not at all
lessen the folly and absurdity of the Morning Herald.
We marvel too who composed the select party."" •
The growth of Anti-Corn-law principles and their
gradual extension in England is dwelt upon by the
South Wales Advertiser thus:—" It is not many months
since our Parliament refused even to consider the ques-
tion relating to the effects of the Corn-laws—they would
not hear evidence as to their operation, neither would
they consent with any degree of patience to their discus-
sion. Now, how stands the case? Why, one of the most in-
fluential supporters of those laws, a County Conservative
Member, stands up before a meeting of landowners and
says-6 Parliament is now obliged to entertain the ques-
tion, and whatever we may think as to the prudence or
policy of Parliament entering into this discussion, it is
not in our power any longer to resist it. I would ask you,
as practical men, as men not merely well acquainted with
agriculture, but well versed in general public affairs,
can you, in the present state of public feeling, rqiiise any
longer to consider in detail the existing Corn-laws.' "
The Bristol Mercury in dilating upon class distinctions
of the first, second, and third class Railway trains, re-
marks—" On our Great Western Railway, how admirably
are the gradations of society preserved I The thirty-shil-
ling aristocrats 101 l upon luxurious couches, securely,
protected from wind and weather ; the one-anit-
twenty-shilling shopocrats sit upon uncovered seats,
exposed to all the: .‘ skyey influences,' antici-
pating that draughts will lead to draughts, and
indulging in doleful visions of stiff necks, sore throats,
coughs, catarrhs, doctors, and doctors', bills ; whilst the
twelve-shilling mobocracy, coming under the denomina-
tion of 'the swinish multitude,' are appropriately packed
off with the pigs in the luggage-train I Nor does the
distinction end here. The two firmer classes are whirled
the whole distance in four hours, whilst those to whom
time is, emphatically, money, are detained on the road
for twelve I '

The distress in Paisley, and the methods now using
towards its relief are thus stated by the Scotsman of
Saturday:—" Amidst the overwhelming sufferings to
which this town unit its neighbourhood has for these last
six months been exposed, it is even a satisfaction to ob-
serve that the last week's increase of applicants for sup-
plies of food is only sixty-three—which makes the total
number depending upon the Relief Committee for a
very bare subsistence, 13,303. To-morrow is the day
appointed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh for an extra-
ordinary collection to be made, forenoon and afternoon,
in all the Established Churches of the city and neigh-
bourhood."

The meeting held at Dublin, last Friday, on the ap-
proaching election for that city, and the conduct of the
Liberals in their fervent display for the cause of Lord
Morpeth, is highly eulogised by the Dublin Evening Post,
which thus continues:—" The resolutions of that meeting
will be read in every part of Ireland—in every part of
England, and in Yorkshire particularly, with exultation.
There is no second opinion as to the propriety and the
policy of selecting the Nominee—for Candidate he can-
not be called. His high talents—his noble character—
his eminently amiable demeanour—these are qualities
and attributes acknowledged by all, and by none more
readily than the gentlemen of the Conservative party."

MONEY-Ta&DE-COMMERCE.
A silk manufacturer at Basle, in Switzerland, writes
that in that town all the silk-trade houses are busy to
the utmost, and remarks that as good workmen are get-
ting scarce and troublesome there, our own factories
might send a reinforcement.
_ _

At a meeting of the unemployed Spitalfields weavers,
held at Bethnal•green on Saturday, the hardship of
putting weavers to stone-breaking at the poor-house was
bitterly complained of. A representation was unani-
mously resolved to be made to the Poor-law Com-
missioners.

Six French vessels laden with wheat were entered at
the Plymouth Custom-house last Monday. Their car-
goes amounted to 458 tons. The duty is now 225. Bd. per qr.

COMMERCIAL REFORM.

At a Corn-law meeting last week at Maidstone, a letter
from a resident gentleman was read, stating that sixteen
families in that locality had refused to sign the petition
for a repeal of the Corn laws " because to do so," they
said, " would lose them their election money."