The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-17 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Sir Robert Peel's Cornl:latantruf begins to excite attention
in France. The Courrier Franca,:thus writes of it:—" The
proposition of Sir Robert Peel is a derision. It effaces the aspe..
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not daring to grapple boldly with the question, hopes to .get rid
of it by sleight of hand ; and that, whilst he makes himself, the
instrument of the aristocracy, he attempts to give himself the air
of a man making a concession to public opinion. The speech with
which he prefaced his proposition is a chef d'reuvr e • f charlatanism,
and nothing more. This strange episode decides the fate of the
Tory Ministry. If it had been wise enough to make a conces-
sion, it might have held on for some time longer, thanks to the
stony of the public mind. lie attempts to struggle against neces.
sity, and on that rock he will split."
The National takes the same view of the Premier's policy :
" Everybody expected, after it had been solemnly acknowledged in
the Speech from the Crown that the manufacturing classes were
suffering horrible, frightful misery, that the Prime Minister would
have attempted to relieve such poignant distress. The course re.
commended by him, however, is a bitter derision. The existing
Corn laws are prohibitory ; what will the new law be? Does Sir
Robert Peel think he will give any material relief to the people by
putting a tax of 50 per cent, upon the bread which they eat P It
18 not surprising that the people of London should be excited, that
the delegates of the industrious classes should have gone in person
to the House of Commons to protest against the proposed Bill, and
that this shameful mockery should have caused extreme agitation in
the public mind."

The French printers have assumed the functions of Censors, to
that never was the press of France snore restricted. The printer
of the Haro of Caen has refused to print part of an article for that
Journal, on account of the responsibility he was likely to incur. In
consequence of this, the article has been kept back, and the paper
complains loudly of the circumstance.—The Echo de Tarn et Ga.
ronne is in a similar predicament; only in this case the article
which the printer objected to had been already published by the
Gazette du Dauphin,.

The Federal of Geneva mentions the death at Malagnon, on the
Bth inst., of M. Ferriere, Protestant Minister, who was appointed
pastor in 1803, and had for 14 years been Principal at the College at
Geneva. He was the only member of the Church of Geneva or.
dained by an English Bishop, having received his orders iit Lon.
don from Bishop Porteus. He was much known and respected by
the English residents at Geneva, great numbers of whom attended
his funeral.

A letter from Washington of the 29th ult stays--" Mr. Dixon,
one of the Senators from Rhode Island, died this morning. He was
a man of sound sense, and great personal worth. It is understood
that he is to be buried on Monday, and In that case, nothing will be
done in either House of Congress, but meet and hear the announce-
ment of his death.

The following account of the proceedings at Cabool is extracted
from a private letter which came with the official despatches, and is,
we are informed, the only report at all in detail which has been
received:

"By ten o'clock, Lieut. Street got all in order, and at twelve
made a good breach (in a fort at Cabool, which the rebels had con.
trived to obtain possession of), and in a few minutes it was carried.
Hobhouse, and twelve of the 13th, volunteered for the assault."

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Post has a lengthy article—which it threatens to continue—
oil the subject of Lord Ashburton's mission to the United States ;
in which it observes, " while we willingly record our entire ap_
proval of the policy which dictated his Lordship's selection, we can-
not conceal from ourselves that the present aspect of affairs forbids
the formation of too sanguine hopes."

The Times remarks, in an article suggested by Mr. Ferrand's
speech on Monday, that if the manufacturers " stood clear with th•
working classes they might be formidable; but it is a rash thing for
persons who have acquired the reputation of oppressors in their
own neighbourhood, to bluster loudly against oppression ; it is un.
wise for those who have supported the New Poor.law, and amassed
boundless wealth by the factory system, to accuse others of enrich.
ing themselves by the distresses of the poor."

The Herald says, "any scale of duties in which any figure ex.
eludes regular importations is, according to Lord John Russell,
unnecessary protection; constant and easy importations are the
Whig test of sufficient protection. This is the vital error of the
late Cabinet ; it is this which effectually prevents any compromise
between the Noble Lord and Sir Robert Peel."

The Chronicle, returning to Sir Robert Peel's Corn.law scheme,
observes that " the great objection to the scheme is, that it gives
to the countries of the Baltic the monopoly of supplying our oc-
casional demands, and thus entails on us the evils of the present
system with little mitigation."

a. =FORM.

Two mock figures of Sir Robert Peel were carried through the
streets of Leicester on Monday last; one of whi:h was committed
to the flames. At Rochdale his effigy was publicly burned by
torch.light, among the execrations of thousands of people.
The petitions presented to Parliament for the Repeal of the
Corn.laws, from the 4th to the 9th of February, amount to 1,033,
with 259,939 signatures.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT.
The citizens of Waterford have drawn up a memorial requesting
that a daily mail may be established between that port and Bristol,
the present post communication with Milford Havelt being found
inadequate.

NAVAL AND MIZZTAXY.
The reduction of the Russian army, ordered on the 4th of this
month, amounts to 60,000 men.
LAW AND POLICE.

Mr. George DeHanson Clarke, the manager of the Inventors'
Advocate newspaper, carried on at 198, Strand, was brought up
for final examination at the Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday, but flu•_
Cher adjournment of the case was made for hearing on the audit-day.
Henry Fownes, a wholesale glover in Tavistock-street, Covent.
garden, was on Tuesday charged at Union hall with furiously riding
on horseback, and causing the death of Ellen Gunter, the wife of
a tradesman in Whitechapel. In defence of Mr. Fownes it was
stated that the horse shied, and thereby caused the accident, and
had afterwards thrown himself, He was finally adjudged to enter
into recognizance and sureties to reappear on Friday next.

FINE ARTS.
A triumphal arch is about to be erected at Munich, by order of
the King, on which a colossal statue is to be placed. M. tanner
is to be the architect, and M. Wagner the sculptor.