The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-31 00:00:00

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" Who runs mayrend."

POILMIGN.

The steamer Liverpool arrived at Falmouth on Mon-
lay evening with PeninSular mails, bringing intelligence
thLt the Queen. of Portugal was safely delivered of a
Prince on the 16th. The dates are—Gibraltar 17th,
Cadiz 18th, Lisbon 21st, Oporto and Vigo 24th. Left
at Gibraltar her Majesty's ship Malabar and Lilard
steamer ; at Cadiz two French•brigs of war ; at Lisbon,
her Majesty's ships Indus and Lynx, and Rhaciaman-
thus steamer, French man-of-war Jena, Frigate Afri-
caine, and corvette Ignateo. On the 24th passed the
Braganza steamer in Vigo Bay ; on the 25th, off Cape
Finisterre, passed a steamer bound south, private signal
at the fore, red, white, and red, horizontally.
The French Government is seriously occupied with
the promised disarmament. The Toulonnais of the 24th
inst. announces that a despatch from the Minister of
Marines reached the maritime authorities of Toulon on
the 22d, enjoining them to dismiss immediately all the
seamen of the fleet who had served during 36 months on
board the ships of war.
The Courrier Francais and the Commerce were the
only French papers published in Palls on Monday,- on
account of the Easter holidays.
The Madrid journal Castellano announces the disco-
very of a gold mine in the neighbourhood of Saceda Tras
Sierra, and of two other mines, supposed to be of quick-
silver, in the district of Huete.
—*Accounts from Rome of the 17th instant state that a
perfectly good understanding now prevailed between the
Court of Lisbon and the Holy See. A courier was de-
spatched on the 15th with instructions for Monsignor
Cappaccini, the Nuncio in Portugal, and who was the
bearer of the Golden Rose, which the Pope consecrates
every year, on the fourth Sunday in Lent, in order
to be presented to some Prelate of distinction. It was
believed that several new Cardinals would be appointed
after Easter.
The Swedish Count de Palen was found murdered in
his Palace at Bologna on the 16th. He had retired for
some time from political life, and was engaged in putting
' in order a quantity of materials, which he had collected
in his journey through Greece, Egypt, and the East,
The murderers carried off a valuable collection of anti-
quities, which was no doubt the incentive that had
prompted them to the commission of the crime. The
Count was eighty years of age.
puma.= OPINION.
The Times, speaking of Bishop Alexander's mission to
Jerusalem, says—" The tide has set, we are sorry to say,
strongly against the Bishop in all directions in Asia, as in
Europe.—' Jamque faces et saxa volant."The last ac-
Counts stated that he had broken with Tahir Pasha, be-
cause that functionary refused to recognize him as any-
thing more than au English traveller ; and his relations
with the Christian population seem yet more unsatisfac-
tory. The Augsburg Gazette tells us, It appears cer-
tain that the English Bishop of Jerusalem was pelted
with stones by the Christians whilst he was preaching a
sermon. The Mussulmans remained neutral (and no
doubt much edified) 'on the occasion.' And from
• another source we hear, that of many reports prevalent
in Constantinople with respect to Syrian affairs, • the
only one which has obtained confirmation from the mouth
of an ambassador is the attack on the Protestant Bishop
of Jerusalem ; and it is added, that his life was actually
in danger.' 'What is to be the result of the Bishop's
troubles, we do not pretend to foretell ; but we cannot
admire the foresight or management of those who have
exposed him to the peltings of the communions which he
comes to conciliate."
We take the following from the Chronicle :—" The
late Ministry contemplated, and had prepared a bill, for
an extensive reduction of the import duties, in the, hope
thereby of at once realizing a considerable quantum of
relief to the people, and a considerable addition to the
revenue, by the increased quantity of goods imported,
whether for the purposes of trade and manufacture, or
of consumption. The policy of this intention must be
allowed to be intelligible and straightforward, even by
those who think that in principle it was unsound, or that
practically it would have proved a failure. It proceeded
on the assumption that the resources of the country are
yet so elastic that the deficit in the revenue might have
been provided for without having recourse to extraordi-
nary means, by simply removing the pressure frOm the
springs of industry. The policy of Sir Robert Peel is
based on the opposite assumption. He expects the re-
venue not to gain, but to lose, by the modifications of
the tariff which he proposes ; and the starting point of
his policy is a permanent disparity between the revenue
and expenditure of the country, which renders the rais-
ing of more money by taxation an absolute necessity.
Why, then, does Sir Robert Peel meddle with the tariff
at all ? He wants more money, and here it is to his
bands."
The Post remarks, in an article on the emigration of
Hill Coolies from India to the Mauritius and elsewhere :
" There cannot be a greater or more mischievous error
than that of regarding the necessity of importing labour
into the Ivitturitius, British Guiana, and Jamaica, in
reference merely to the preservation of the planters, to
the consumption of sugar in Great Britain, or to the re-
_ _venue which the State derives from that source. These
considerations are—not of slight importance; but, im-
portant as they are, they sink into insignificance when
we reflect upon the higher and more comprehensive
questions really at issue—viz., whether the vast regions
in which, under the auspices of Great Britain, the sugar
cultivation has taken root, shall be abandoned to hordes
of semi-civilizesl Africans ; whether these Africans
shall be abandoned, to relapse into utter barbarity ; and
whether the whOle European demand for sugar shall be
supplied from other regions to be tilled in perpetuity by
fresh importations of staves from Africa?"
The Herald asks—" Is there no formidable opposi-
tion :o any portion of the income tax ? Most assuredly
there is, and Sir Robert Peel will not overlook it be-
cause it vents not itself in clamour, or refuses to coalesce
with faction, or be made the instrument of dishonest
politicians. Its comparative silence, save through the
columns of the Herald, is far more eloquent in Sir Ro-
bert Peel's ears than the noise of public meetings, or the
spoutings of political clubs. It is an opposition which,
if neglected or despised, will hereafter • demonstrate its
power. Sir Robert Peel is about to impose on' a class,
the influence of which he has hitherto so successfully
cultivated, an intolerable grievance."
PUBLIC MTUSEMENTS.
Upwards of 13,000 holiday people visited the National
Gallery on Monday, and 10,000 on Tuesday. Westminster
Abbey was frequented by upWards • of 1,000 persons, at
the admission price of 6d. St. Paul's had no more than
fifty, owing to the enormous price of admission.' The
armouries and Crown jewels of the Tower were also
crowded.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
A new light-house has been erected in the old har-
bour of Alexandria, and will be lit on the let of April.
The light will be at the height of about 180 feet above
sea level : in fine weather it will be visible at about 20
miles distance. It stands in lat 31 11 31 north, and
long. 29 51 28 east of Greenwich.
LAW' AND POLICE.
At the Liverpo'il Assizes on Monday, James Brown
was convicted of stealing, with great violence, 230/. from
the person of Benjamin Johnson, on the 13th of Fe-
bruary, in the neighbourhood of Manchester, and sen-
tenced to be banished for twenty years.
On Tuesday, at Kingston, an action was brought by Mr.
Stephens, a builder, against two members of a defunct
club, called the Alliance, for the recovery of 52/. 15s. 9d.,
for work done at the club-house, and the Jury returned
a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount.
The Insolvent Debtor's Court resumes its sittings on
Thursday, and orders for hearing are out until the 14th
of May. Some notion of the number of cases already
heard may be gathered from the fact that, in 1839, there
were about 127,000 schedules in the Court. About
2,000 cases are annually heard in town, and the same
number on circuits.
Williams and seven others were tried at the Ruthin
Assizes last week, for riot and assault at the last elec-
tion for the Denbighshire boroughs, but discharged.
Mr. Sparkes Hall, of Regent-street, appeared before
the Marlbrough-street Magistrates on Tuesday, with
several other tradesmen of respectability, complaining of
fraud now pursuing by a canvasser for a new book, who
two years ago had for another alleged purpose obtained
his name, and now brought it forward as his actual sig-
nature as a subscriber, endeavouring to enforce payment
upon refusal, by means of law. The Me 3istrete obser-
ved that at present' he could have no jurisdiction in the
matter, but was ready to act on a clear case of fraud

FINE ARTS.
During the repairs lately done to the foundation of a
house in the road on the Isere, France, several sculptured
marble fragments, with ashes, urns, and a terra-cotta
vase, of the time of Trajan and Severus, were discovered.
Upwards of Goa. has been already subscribed by the
Committee of Antiquities of the Royal Irish Academy,
for the purchase of the late Dean of St. Patrick's collec-
tion of Jrish antiquities, coins, and medals : they pur-
pose to deposit them in their museum, and open them to
students and the public.
COURT—PA.SRIONABLE.
The Duke of St. Alban's has let his spacious mansion
in Piccadilly to Sir James Flower.
Lord and Lady John Russell do not intend leaving
town during the holidays.