The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-12 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOILZIXGN.
We find very little in the original columns of our Paris
contemporaries, except on the approaching elections. The
Constitutionnel makes another appeal to the electors. We
give it as showing the spirit which animates the opposition
press. The Constitutionnel says :—" The Ministry of Octo-
ber 29, is at its last shifts. It if with an appeal to their fears
in the name of public order, that it conjures the electors to dis-
trust the opposition; as having the secret design of filling the
country with disturbance and riot, and of intending to pro-
ciaim universal suffrage and the republic. Go, electors, vote
• for the dishonour of your country, for the humiliation of the
representative Government, for thesystem which lowers France
abroad, and demoralises men's minds at home, by the roust shame-
ful egotism. Go,sacritice everything to the phantom of fear which
M. Uuizot is constantly conjuring up about him, in order to ob Lain
pardon for error, and to be deemed indispensably necessary."
The Ministerial Message)* makes the tollowing last official
appeal to the eloctora:—" The elections commence to-morrow.
We have only one last word to say to the electors. Two prio-
ciples of policy are inpresenceof each other—that of the Gm-
servatives and that of the Opposition. They have produced
very different results, as we w ill pro .eed to demonstrate. We
will place this de.), the tiith of July, 1842, in opposition to the
Bth of October, 1840, the day on which M. Thiers wrote his
famous note to Lord Palmerston. On the Bth of Oe.ober,
1840, the state of public credit was as follows .—Five per
Cents., 102 f. 25e.; Three per Cents., 671. 50c. A few de; s
afterwards the public funds had fallen a franc. A general war
—a war without serious motive—was imminent. An arma-
ment of a million of men was demanded, and undertaken;
the National Guard was to be mobilised. Commercial
speculations were suspended, and this suspension pre-
pared the way for a crisis, the effects of which were telt at a
later period, by attacking a great number of interests.
As regarded the foreign policy, ideas of propagandism and
universal war were prevalent. At home, we had demonstri,
tions of anarchy, and agitators were allowed to act vi
punity. This day, July 8, 1842, the public credit stands
thus ; The Five per Cents are quoted at 1191. 60c., and the
Threes at 79f. 75c. In the year 1841 the commercial move-
ment in France exceeded all the proportions reached up to that
period. The exports alone of national produce in that year
showed an increase of 65,000,000 over 1840. The pubic
revenues also progressed.
They gave in 1841 an increase 01
32,510,000 f. over the year betore, and during the first six
months of 1842 an increase of 21,6..!0,0001. over the corre-
sponding period of 1841. At present all the interests so deeply
shaken by the Aliiiistry of March 1 are in the most profound
security, and industrious and commercial speculations hatr.. re-
sumed their brilliant career.

111. litlizot left Paris on Friday evening, for Lisieux, in
Normanby, to be present at the elections. It is anticipated
that he will be again elected for that district without much
difficulty, as he is opposed oily by M. Berryer, who presents
ininsel. for the first time at Lisieux, and who is besides pro-
posed in five other electoral colleges, paeticular4 at Marseilles
and at Boulogne-sur-Mer.
NV p Mid in the Debats an interesting article founded on the
official tables of the French Commerce in 1841. After
serving, in answer to those public writers who have, from time
to time, indulged in lamentations on the state of trade, that it
le now double what it was ten years ago, the Debats gives the
following table of the progressive increase of foreign commerce
during the ten years :—ln 1831, it was 1,131 millions; 1832,
1,549; 1833, 1,495; 1834, 1,434; 1835, 1,595; 1836,1,366;
1837, 1,585 ; 1838, 1,950; 1839, 1,950 ; 1840, 2,065;
1841, 2,186.

The Mouiteur contains a report to the King from the Minis-
ter of Marine, recommending that a gold medal should be
given to Dr. William Davies, an Engll,ll physician, of Port
Jackson, in New South Wales, for his prompt and able as,ist-
ance rendered, in December last, to several of the crew of the
French corvette Aube, who, had become dangerously ill by eat-
ing some poisonous fruit. The report states that when Dr.
Davies was asked what his charge was, he replied, " 1 should
be ashamed to receive payment for assistance rendered to as
English ship of war, and 1 have the same feeling as regards a
French ship." The King has approved of the recommendation
of the Minister.

A letter from Belgrade, 25th ult., in the Augsburgh Ga-
zette, states that the Pacha had receiveol reiterated orders from
Constantinople to call upon the Servian Government imme-
diately to reinstate the chiefs of the party of the emigration in
their former dignity. This demand is said to have been sup-
ported by the English Consul at Belgrade, in virtue of in-
structions from Sir Stratford Canning. The Servian Govern-
ment, however, is stated to have repeated its refusal to comply
with the injunctions of. the Porte, on the ground that, by
treaty it is restricted from interfering in the internal affairs
of Servia.

We have received accounts from Lisbon to the 4th instant,
brought by the Braganza steamer. 't he commercial and slave
trade treaties between Great Britain at)cl Portugal were signed
on the 3d instant. The provisions of the latter treaty appear
to be very satisfactorry ; but the advantages to be derived by
England from the former seem somewhat problematical.
PARLIAMENTARY.

In the Lords the liuke of Bilecleua;Telirted that it wa.•
the opinion of the Select Committee that the Collieries and
Mines Bill should be proceeded with ; it was accordingly read a
second time and ordered to be committed to-day.
The Marquis of Clanricarde introduced a Bill to indemnify
the witnesses to be ,xamined concerning Sudbury, which Lord
Brougham said their Lordships could nut disfrauthise without
taking evidence for themselves.

Lord Brougham, in a long and able speech, full of details
and rich illustration, called their Lordships' attention to the
state of the country, and conclud,d by moving that the peti-
tions he had presented on the state of the country be referred to
a ComMittee to inquire into the public distress.
'1 he Earl of Rion opposed the motion, which had no other
object in view than the repeal of the Corn-laws. A de6:te
ensued, which lasted till eleven o'clock, in which Lords Kin-
naird, Clanricarde, Stanhope, Melbourne, Radnor, and Wham-
cliffe took part. On a division the motion for the Committee
vies negatived by til to 14. Their Lordships adjourned.
Mr. Sharman Crawford offered the House of Commons ti,e
remonstrances of the inhabitants of Rochdale agaitFt its inea-
sures, which the Speaker would not allow to be received, as the
remonstrance did not pray for any thing.
Mr. T. buncombe gave notice that he should move that the
remaining supplies, except those for China, Syria, and Canada,
be granted for three months only.
Sir Robert Peel is to move to-day for leave to bring in a Bill
to provide for the better security of her Majesty's person.
Mr. Leader complained that the Treasury subs hail jockeyed
him by reading the Arunicipal Corporations Bill a third bo.,
contrary to their agreement with him. Sir R. Peel pleaded
total ignorance of any
.such act or intention.
Sir R. Peel, in moving the Order of the Day for a Commit.
tee of Supply, entered into an explanation of Lord Palmer-
ston's statement that Lord Auckland had been asked by the
Tories to remain in the Government of India. Sir Robert de-
nied that the Government had done any such thing, though
he could not answer for the contents of Lord Ellenhorough's
private letter. Lord Palmerston repeated and justified his
statement. A brief conversation then took place about the
Affghan war, and the conduct of the Directors. Mr. Hogg
stated that no such proposal as that attributed to Lord Ellen-
borough should have been officially made without the sanction
of the Directors, and, as they knew nothing of it, he implied
that no such official communication had ever been made to
Lord Auckland.

On the motion for going into a Committee of Supply, Mr.
Villiers moved for a Committee of the whole House to con-
sider of repealing the Corn-laws, and the subject occupied the
House till tvvelve o'clock, when it divided. Ihe numbers were
231 for a Committee of Supply, and 117 for Mr. Villiers'
motion.

The motion was ably supported by Mr. Villiers himself, Mr.
Fielden, Mr. 'Hindley, and others, but princ pally by Mr.*
Cobden, who made an effective speech ; Lord John Russell,
who went further than even Lord How ick approved of, and
Lord Howick, supported M. Villiers. Sir Robert Peel was
their principal opponent. In the course of his speech he an-
nounced the conclusion of the commercial treaty with Portugal.
Fatiguing as the debates may be—for even the great importance
of the subject cannot redeem its %scariness—they are not con.
tinued without having considerable influence on the House.
The House afterwards went into a Committee of Supply,
voted a sum for Canada and other public services, and sat till
Three o'clock.

FIJI3LIC OPINION.
The Chronicle, after alluding to the statements made by the
Antis Corn-law Delegates, in their interview with Sir Robert
Pet), says—" Sir Robert Peel is responsible for the peace of
the country. It is impossible that these statements should not
have produced a strong impression on him, for these respecta-
ble individuals, deeply interested in the preservation of order in
their respective neighbourhoods, cannot all be mistaken as to
what they have witnessed, and, in the conclusions respecting
the future at which they have arrived. Besides, Sir Robert
Peel has laid down principles which are utterly at variance with
the principle of the Corn-law to which the diseased state of the
stational industry is ascribed. The country gentlemen are be •
ginning to be less confident than they were as to their power of
maintaining the Corn-law. Some of them, no doubt, count
greatly on the exertions of the manufacturers to preserve order.
The manufacturers, they say, know that, should there be an
outbreak, they will themselves be the first victims. But when
the house of the manufacturer is attacked, can they be to in-
fatuated as to suppose that their own rnanattels will be sale ?"
The _Herald says:—" Starvation is the dainty dish' of the
defeated faction ; a few et the more desperate members of that
faction desire to garnish and spice it by popular 'outbreaks and
seditious seamen. Messrs. Daniel O'Connell, Milner Gibson,
and Cobden to distress would add insurrectionary movements;
in pretending to warn the Government what the people' may
do, they teach the ' people' what they can do to their own
damnification; and in expressing simulated surprise at the
quietude of the sufferers, they, in reality, sneer at their love of
order and respect for legality. Let us know what these
destressmongers have done by their purses to relieve present
suffering ? What is the amount of their subscriptions to the
Royal list lately issued? Have they disbursed one. farthing
for the mitigation of the destitution of the manufacturing dise
tricts? Do the scenes they describe, the miseries they depict,
and the want and hunger which they magnify, provoke their
charity, or stimulate their benevolence? We search the re-
cords of the subscriptions produced by the Queen's letter in
vain for the names of those who have spoken from the Opposi-
tion side of the House of Commons on Mr. Wallace's rook-
Cons. Their charity ends where it commenett- bite;
they have a cheap and convenient mode of sheeting their bene-
volence—by attempting to transfer c.istress from one class to
another. These acreless Representatives of popular agitation
would cure manufacturing by creating agricultural suffering."
The Times, in a leading article suggested by Lord Ashley's
It is said that in the event of the Sudbury Disfran- notion on the colliery system, makes the fallowing sensible
chisement Bill passing the House of Lords, Sir Robert Peel remarks:—" Men are getting into the habit of thinking that
intends to propose that an additional Member each be given to they must be performing their duty to society while making
mmoodneerynfopso•litthiceaml seeclovenso.m In fact, one of the Maxims of our
Middlesex and to Liverpool ; but, as Lord Brougham stated
last night that the Lords could not pass such a Bill without In
politkni economy which it is
the disgrace of the presenty age to view. as coincident with pa.
taking evidence, and he will no doubt find many supporters, the tical morality—bay, one of its leading and most vaunted
Bill will probably be extinguished in the Upper House.
It is reported that Professor Walmisley has lost maxims is, that the private gain resulting from any calling is
the true and exclusive test of its social utility. And upon this
upwards of SOO /. byethe recent musical festival at Cambridge. or some such
dogma mo rnetorepos it e,ipaatiy;s
We rejoice, however, to learn that the Noble Chancellor has tied with the virtue of whialtm-inlista be prmoetin seem
sinceucstiv
behaved in the most munificent manner towards Mr. Wal- so well; and fancyisof
ready to ,
mislay, by enabling him to fulfil his engagements with all the duties of pr themselves dischar ed from all the other
t , considerationg of their over-
performers--an act worthy of the ancient house of Percy.— flowing
'Per
Ythatwhich they are
Evening Paper. dise:darge of golden one
Died lately at his seat, Falfar, near York, Mr. believe involves all the rester-!hat of mak-
ine it ft fruitful to themselves. Such persons should be taught
liearon, at an advanced age. He was greatly respected as a steady that :taking money is not the whole duty of man—that pro-
unflinching Liberal, an active and intelligent Magistrate (having Perry does involve other duties besides that of propagation—
twice served the office of Lord Mayor of York), and a most that they are bound to see, not only that profits come in, but
amiable and excellent private gentleman. His funeral was at- how those profits arise, whether out of the tree and well-regu-
tended by many of the elite of York, who were uninvited, lated employment of labour, or out of a barbarous or indecent
several of whom beingpolitical opponents. He has left a large systems. which disclairniany other law than that of productive,-
family to lament his loss. ness-. a system which could only have sprung up from gross
BEARD'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.--We expe- negle et, and which could only be tolerated on the notion, never
rienced a great treat, the other day, in visiting Mr. Beard's av towed, though not unfrequently approached by modern theo-
Photographic Establishment, at
.Westminster. The manner ri its, that colliers are made to extract coals, and we have no
and accuracy with which the hiltitaii (ice and figure are deli- farther business with them than to see that they do so—in
neated, by. this invention, is truly
.astonishing. Among the other Words, that nothing -can-be wrong which- has, and per-
portraits 'which Mr. - Beard has taken; we-saw many an old forms its functions in extracting the -wealth, or, as it is most
friondsitreerrerwith a new free T atidWe left +ids the comic- commonly called, developing the resources' of the country."
tion, that thousends:ovould bless the man who had ,discovered. The Asti atter lamenting .the proseress of free-trade prin.
the means of perpetuating, with such accuracy, the sellable's,* ciples in the House of Commons, goes on to observe :—" No
of who were endeared to them by f:jeudgthirl or IWO man representing the agricultural, the: colonial, or the ship-
tarred ties, ping tatereste, natured to Graivlc wid a littj free-traders. 34,r.