The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-08 00:00:00

S LIMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

P OIL E I G 7,7" .

The loss of the Chinese at the capture of Amoy is
estimated at 150, including several Mandarins. The
British had only nine wounded, one of whom, a boy,
afterwards died. The number of guns taken and de-
stroyed was 500. All the war junks seized were burned
within sight of the city.
The sudden assemblage of 8,000 troops, and ten vessels
of war, in the neighbourhood of Rangoon, had had its
effect upon King Tharawaddie, who appears to have
directed his march homeward with all convenient speed.
General Sir R. Sale, in endeavouring to make his way
from Cabool to India, with a brigade nearly 3,000 strong,
including artillery, has been all but defeated in the
Koord Cabool pass. He was first assailed on the 9th
October, and from that time to the 24th was incessantly
engaged with the enemy. In the course of 16
days he was only able to force his way fifty or sixty
miles of ground ; 250 men have been killed and wounded
on our side, amongst these are ten officers wounded and
three killed ; the most difficult of his ground is still to
be forced. His escape from total destruction seems to
have been most extraordinary.
The French' Consul-General in Egypt, Count Chabat,
has received a splendid dessert service, valued at about
3,000/., to be transmitted to the Pacha as a present from
the King of France ; each plate contains a representa-
tion of some Moorish chieftain, most beautifully exe-
cuted, and the centre piece, which is valued at 8001., is
a most chaste and elegant piece of workmanship.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Times reverts to the question of the African
Slave-trade and the right of search, and the altercation
with the American Government respecting this right,
and adds :—" It is no question in which English interests
alone are concerned ; it concerns the enforcement of a
necessary right, which we claim as inherent in ;11 nations
equally, and which we are as ready to submit to, as we
are determined not to yield." In another article, describ-
ing the disorganized state of Carlow, during the late
elections, the Times states that it is exceedingly " shocked
at the savagery of our fellow-creaturer."
In an article pointing out the nature and advantages
of free-trade, the Advertiser remarks, that it is out of the
question to treat the theme as one of party interest, and
that a national principle, a law affecting the condition of
a whole empire cannot, unless through aberration of in-
tellect, be supposed to militate against particular classes.
The Chronicle, speaking of the manufacturing system,
is of opinion that whatever amendments maybe mae.e
in it, must come from the repeal of the food monopoly,
which has vitiated the system ; adding," manufacturing
Reform is an egg on which Sir Robert Peel may sit very
long without hatching anything, not even a tax."
The Post insists that it has never contended for the
finality of the Corn-law, or any other law, but that the
principle for which it has contended as a permanent prin-
ciple, and fur which it will continue to contend, is that
of adequate protection to our agricultural industry from
the competition of foreigners.
The Herald, commenting on a recent letter, by Mr.
Macdonnellto the American Envoy in England, wherein
allusions are ma4e to the Irish Repeal question, says that
the late Ministers, whether Whig or Tory, deserve re-
prehension for the remiss way in which they have re-
garded the discussion of this factious question.
The Dublin Pilot observes, with reference to the ap-
proaching Dublin election :—" Such is the state of the
constituency, from an increase of Liberal registries since
the last election,that even without the weight of Lord Mor-
peth's personal character—without the advantage of paid-
up taxes by the Liberals from the late municipal elec-
tions—without the strength_ derived from the extinction
of the influence and organization- of the old Tory cor-
poration, and the existence of the countervailing in-
fluence of the new and Liberal corporntion—without
these advantages' there is on the muster roll of the con-
stituency enough to beat any Tory candidate with any
Liberal one whatever."

The Kent Herald says :—" To Toryism we must sub-
mit, until the excesses into which its possession of power
will in time 'inevitably lead it, disgusts the people and
rouses a spirit of opposition and resistance, which, ex-
asperated by distress, may cement the various classes of
the community into a mass of anti-Toryism too strong
for the governance of the privileged few. In the in-
terim we hope that party men will make politics a study
—hitherto they have been an impulse, a prejudice, or a
trade."

The following is from the Plymouth Journal :—" The
advice to Congress of a revision of the Tariff, is to us
most important, and its discussion will involve the settle-
ment anew of the principles of our international com-
merce. Will that discussion be in the spirit of retalia-
tion, and the policy recomtnemded be that,of protection
to the American interests. ? Though we much fear this,_
yet we would venture to hope that a system, seen and
felt to be so pa!pably unjust and injurious to British in-
terests and to the British nation, would be rejected as.
unworthy of enlightened legislation."

inOWEY-TRADE-0011111121147WE.
. A railroad between Lucca and Pisa' to be connected
with that between the latter place and Leghorn, is now
carrying into execution.

The —port of Antwerp has been entered by 67 ships
during the last month. On the first „day of the year
there were 273 'Slips in the basitis, canals, and quays of
the city.

pulexac IMPROVEMENTS.
Since the fatal accidents on the railroads have become
so frequent, and it has been ascertained that the cala-
mities fall chiefly on the passengers in the open car-
riages some of the Companies are improving their second
and third class carriages. On the Grand Junction Rail-
way the second class have glass doors and sides, and the
Directors of the Hull and Selby, Manchester and Leeds,
and the Great Western, we hear, are imitating the good
example. _ _