The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

"FOREIGN.
Our French French news continues to be of an
uninteresting nature. From an article in the
Courrier Francais we gather that the war-party. does
not approve of the appearance of the English and
French squadrons off the coasts of Syria. " The
Syrian expedition," says M. Odilon Barrot's organ,
" is a concession to England, and an act of hostility
against Russia, and in this double point of view we
regard it as a blunder. The coalition of France and
England against Russia had some value ,before the
scandalous treason of the 15th of July. England
made use of Russia against France in 1840, and she
now wants to make use of France against Russia in
1842. We will not subscribe to this arrangement, for
eur isolation is not an impediment, and we prefer to
remain alone, rather than return to a concert where
the first part is not left to us."
The Constitutionnel calls upon the French Govern-
ment to settle the Portendic question one way or the
other. An inquiry ought to be instituted. If the
English," it says, are right in their demands for an
indemnity, the amount ought to be fixed according to
the real value of the ships seized and their cargoes,
and not according to the profits which might have
been made by the shippers. The indemnity was due
only to the ships captured before the notification of
the blockade, but none is due to those seized after this
notification. An inquiry would put a stop to the
English abuse on this subject."
The Journal des Debats states that M. Guizot me-
ditates a journey to Geneva, where he expects to meet
by chance the King of Prussia, who is to arrive at
Neufchatel on the 23d inst. .

The Court of Cassation annull3d, on the 3d inst.,
the decision of the Royal Court of Paris, which con-
demned the editors of the Temps to 20,000 francs
fine, for an informality in the publication of that
Journal.

The Madrid Gazette of the 28th ult. publishes a
notice of the Director-General of. the Treasury, ad-
vertising for proposals for a loan of 40,000,000 reals,
to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the quicksilver
mines of Almaden. The bidders are invited to send
in their proposals within thirty days, those 40,000,000
to be payable in specie and by monthly instalments,
the first of which within the eight days following the
signature of the contract. The General Direction of
the Treasury would deliver to the contractors draughts
on the cashier of the national Treasury, which would
be payable out of the first proceeds of the, quicksilver
mines, immediately after the 16,500,000 reals stilldue
thereon shall have been discharged.
'We have received Lisbon news to the-29th ult.,
brought by the Montrose steamer. The budget of
ways and means, and financial proposals of Baron
Tojal, empowering the Government to issue bills on
the decima and assessed taxes, were before the Cham-
ber, and had been disputed with such obstinacy that
it was thought it would bring about a Ministerial
crisis. The first article had, however, passed by a
majority of three to one. The estimates fbr the year
showed a deficit of 1,500 contos.
The affair of the slaver Gloria, which entered under
the Portuguese flag, and had, since it was injudiciously
given up by the Portuguese Government, got Spanish
papers and hoisted the Spanish flag—seems likely to
be a serious cause of quarrel between Spain and Por-
tugal. The proofs the Portuguese Government have
obtained of the illegal character and designs of this
vessel, and the defective grounds on which she was
given up, have led them to issue a " Portaria," de-
claratory of their intention of resuming possession ;
but the owner threatened resistance, and hoisted his
flag, and the Spanish Minister menaced war if vio-
lence were used or the flag insulted.
Letters from Berlin of the 28th ult. mention that
the King and Queen of Prussia would not be back in
their capital before the Ist of October. The marriage
of the Prince Royal of Bavaria with the Princess
Mary of Prussia is to be celebrated on the 4th October.
The Russian Finance Minister has issued an ukase,
amounting to a reciprocity navigation treaty between
Prussian and Russian shipping, Prussian vessels to
enjoy in Russian and Finnish ports the same favour
as Russian vessels, the coasting trade from one Russian
port to another excepted. Two more Custom-houses
are established at Koretingen and Neustadt, in addi-
tion to the one already existing at Gorschdovvsk.
Three more points of transit are moreover established.
Passports for three days are to be delivered gratis to
such Russians as wish to pass the frontier for trade.
Markets on the frontiers are to be 'established for
agricultural produce and for . certain manufactured
articles. The duty on many of them is to be dimi-
nished. This is evidently the price paid by the
Russian Government for the renewal of the Cartel
Convention.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Chronicle thus animadverts on the outrages
committed by the police at Kennington, fourteen days
after all the mischief had been done :—" The conduct
of the police on Kennington-common was unneces-
sarily harsh, and, in some cases, individuals passing
by accident along the road, or standing at their doors,
were ill-used. It might be proper to disperse the
meeting at Kennington-common, but there was no-
thing, in the circumstances of that meeting to call for
the display of harshness on the part of the police. We
received, at the time, numerous communications on
the subject from respectable individuals, who gave
their addresses, complaining of the police ; but we
did not wish to add to the irritation. In this perhaps
we were wrong. The police seem to have been em-
boldened by the impunity their conduct at Kenning-
ton-common has experienced, and the transactions
disclosed at Clerkenwell on Saturday are really more
like what we should expect at Petersburgh than in
the metropolis of England. A stop must be put to
this, or the utility of the police force will certainly be
impaired. They must be protected in the execution
of their duty • but the brutal treatment of females can
never be tamely contemplated by Englishmen.
The Post has the following remarks on the manner
in which the Cathedral service is performed at West-
minster Abbey. The existing vacancy of the
Deanery of Westminster affords an opportunity for
making some improvements which would be very gra-
tifying to the public, and we trust the opportunity
will not be neglected. We should think that every
sound Churchman must desire that in so magnificent
a church as that of Westminster, the cathedral service
should lack none of the solemnity, the grandeur, and
the beauty, which may belong to it, but which has
not of late years belonged to the ordinary services in
Westminster. We believe there are very few cathe-
drals in England in which the Sunday services are
not generally more solemn and more beautiful than
they are in Westminster Abbey. To a casual visitor
it really seems that the grand object in the Abbey is to
get the business over as quickly as possible, and to get
away. We do not think this can be from any want of
ability on the part of the singers, for they sing feel-
ingly enough at other places, nor from any impa-
tience on the part of the organist, for he is noted as
a true lover of good music. But in order that such
an establishment as that of Westminster Cathedral
should work well it must be presided over by some
one whose heart is in the matter, and who will work
with earnestness as well as with intelligence to
make the most of the means and opportunities at his
disposal. We earnestly hope, therefore, that in the
selection of the new Dean, care will be taken that he
be a man of cathedral sentiment, so to speak—a man
who will take an honest pride in the perfect per-
formance of cathedral services, and who will desire
to promote the glory of God by the careful manage-
ment of those endowments—too scanty though they
be—which the cathedral still inherits from the piety
of our ancestors.

The Herald thus alludes to the present state of par-
ties in this country :—" Some time ago when foreign
affairs were spoken of Englishmen laughed—now
every man recognises them to be of importance ;
either Englismen did not know what was of import-
ance then, or mistake what is so now. Now that they
are admitted to be important, when the necessity is
urged of studying them, one of two answers is given.
The Tory says, The Duke of Wellington and Sir
Robert Peel must understand these matters. and why
should I attend to them ?' The Liberal replies,
What use is there in my attending to them until
we have a full, fair, and free representation ?'
To the first we answer, If Sir Robert Peel and
the Duke of Wellington understand foreign affairs,
would they have become important ?' To the
second we reply, If you had a full, fair, and free
representation it would be but a representation of
the ignorance which you confess. One-half of the
English nation is ruled by respect for names, whilst,
being ignorant of affairs, it has no means by which
to judge of men. The other half is running. after
vain theories of government, when, not understanding
its affairs, it can have no more comprehension of what
government ought to be than its antagonists can have
of what statesmen are. Nations only sink when each
man is deteriorated, and the evidence of their decay is
to he found in the existence of faction-7faction indi-
cates the corruption of the heart, as party does of the
intelligence.' All must be in error when all are di-
vided, and there is no longer a country where citizens
hate each other."
MONEY—TIZADE—COWIIVIERCE.

At •Manchester there was a partial turn-out of
dyers on Monday morning, demanding an advance of
wages, but nothing occurred to disturb' the general
peace. Placards still appear on the walls of the
town, which continue to exhibit an ill feeling between
the masters and men.

Stockport was a little excited on Monday : an at-
tempt was made to stop one mill, and six or seven
persons taken into custody.
The glove-makers of Somersetslure gave a public

dinner last week to Mr. Thomas Ensar, at Mi'borne'
Port, where they presented him with a tea equipage
of silver, in return for the services he had rendered
the glove•trade in general.

ECCLESIASTICAL.
At Worcester the question of a uhurch-rate was
agitated last Thursday, when, on being brought to the
poll, the numbers were—for the rate 102 ; for ad-
journment, and against the rate, 108; majority against
the rate, 6.