The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-14 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

Most of the Paris journals comment on the report that an
arrangement has been come to by the great Powers for a mar-
riage between the young Queen of Spain and a Prince of Ba-
varia. Assuming this report to be well founded, and supposing
that the influence of France has been very slight in such a
selection, the project does not find much favour with some of
the Opposition journals. There is nothing, however, in their
observations, independently of the fact that the statement upon
which they are based is at present mere rumour, of sufficient
interest to call for their being given at length.
The National has contrived to spin out an article of two
columns on the policy and financial embarrassments of England,
with the v4,vi, of showing that the Tory Ministry is at this
moment organising all its means for the rupture of the peace of
Europe. The motive for this policy, which, the National
admits, would be a paradox for any other country, but which,
it says, is quite in due course for England. is, in the opinion of
our contemporary, hostility to France. The National says that,
notwithstanding the financial embarrassments of England, she
was never more insolent towards France than she is at this

moment.
The Journal des Debats, alluding to the conduct of England
upon the slave question, says:—" We do not stand up as advo-
cates of Great Britain. The best of human actions are not
always entirely divested of interested views. But after all the
future is uncertain. What England expects from her Bill of
Emancipation may or may not happen, but she has not the
less voted and paid 500 millions to give freedom to her slaves,
and ever since the world existed no nation has ever consented,
for the sake of a principle, to so prodigious a sacrifice."
The consumption of meat during the last month in Paris
amounted to 5,741 oxen, 1,281 cows. 5,439 calves, and 32,972
sheep. The returns for the first quarters of the two years
show a diminution for 1842 of 395 oxen, 1,505 cows, 962
calves, and 3,399.
We have Spanish news of the sth. M. Campuzano bad pre-
sented to the Senate a proposition, whereby foreigners were to
enjoy the same rights as Spanish citizens. The proposition
was referred to a Committee.
There are at this moment in Greece 21 journals, of which
which six are political, andhave to deposit caution-rnoney to the
amount of 5.000 drachmas (about 4,000 f.) Literary periodi-
cals are not subject to this caution-money. The number of
presses in the kingdom amounts to 51, belonging to 20 diffe-
rent printing establishments.
PARLIAMENTARY.

The Peers did not sit yesterday,
In the Commons, Mr. T, Duncombe moved that Richard

Gibbons, who stands committed to Newgate, be reprimanded
and discharged, but the motion being opposed, the Hon. Mem-
ber limited his proceedings, in the first instance, to moving that
the minutes of the Election Committee for Great Marlow, at
whose instance Gibbons was committed to prison, bo laid before
the House, which was ordered.

Mr. O'Brien inquired whether the Lord Mayor of Dublin
was to be made a Baronet, but Sir R. Peel begged leave to de-
cline making any statement as to the advice he should give the
Crown in reference to the disposal of civil honours.
The debate on the income tax was renewed, and after a rather
dull debate, which was not enlivened either by Sir J. Graham
or Mr. F. T. Baring, though both spoke, the House divided on
Lord J. Russell's amendment, which was lost by 308 to 202.
The Bill was ordered to be brought in, and the House Ad-
journed at Quarter before Two o'Clock.