The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-06 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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It appears, from a statement which has just been
published by the Minister of Public Works, that of
the sum of 68,930,000 f. voted by the Chamber of De-
puties since the year 1837 for the repair and improve-
ment of the various seaports in France, there had been
expended up, to the 31st December, 1841, thelsum
of
36,303,995 f. The works, in many of the ports are
entirely terminated, and in others they are proceeding
with great activity.
Lablache, the eminent singer, is said to be clan'
gerous ill at Paris, of inflammation of the chest.
It is rumoured, by a letter from Berlin, that the
Emperor of Russia was to arrive there in October.
A dim'nution of the Sound dues is in contempla
tion at Berlin, and there is also some idea of establish-
ing a steam communication -between Prussia and the
United States.
Prince Albert of Prussia, according to the Cow'
merce, is on his way to Rio Janeiro, for the purrse,
as rumour states, of soliciting in marriage the sister
of Don Pedro.
None of the Russian papers (to the 24th ult. inclu-
sive) say a syllable about the great fire at Kasan. The
Emperor had arrived at Moscow on the 14th. Count
Nesselrode. the Minister for Foreign Affairs, le had ft:
St. Petersburg") on a journey. to Germany. Durin
t°g
his absence, the business of the Foreign-office was
be conducted by Count Woronzoff-Danhkoff.
Prince Michael Stourdza, Regent of Moldavia, ft
°
had been sojourning for a short time at Brussels, la
that city on Saturday last, on his retuin to JassY
e,
'
The Independunt of Brussels states that tho Pelle
during his short stay, made purchases of fueAlture',
carpets, clocks, &c., to the amount of more than f°°''
hundred thousand francs.
The Marseilles journals of the Ist state that Lied:
tenant Sebastiani, nephew of the Marshal and General
Tiburce Sebastiani, has been killed in Africa by 513
Arab shot. He fell at the head of his company. 1,
The celebrated poet Louis Tieck has been steac"
with apoplexy at Potsdam.
Prince Michael, the deposed Governor of Serct
has sent delegates to Vienna and St. Petersburgb,
well as to Constantinople, to implore assistance spins
his revolted subjects. „.,
The King and Queen of Prussia, with their 306
arrived on the 30th inst., at Frankfort, from Darmstadt:
Count Arnim, the Prussian Ambassador, arrived
Paris on Tuesday, from Neufchatel, to which city he
had accompanied his Majesty the King of Prusst
The French Levant packet, and the English packe"
with the Indian mail, had not arrived at Marseilles °°
the Ist, when the mail for Paris left.
PUBLIC OPINIOM.
The Times makes the following comments
.0°
the present position of the Church of England
ns
"We see daily, and we rejoice to See, sier
of increasing power, and increasing cepsclUstive
ness :of power, in the Church of England.
do not speak of temporal or political, but of 1110'14
power—increased ability and willingness on the P.
of the Church and her rulers to carry out and to (W"
charge to their legitimate extent the duties of sPiri.
tual government and spiritual guidance which are
el 3;
tided to her. Not only is she labouring everywho,r:
with a zeal and success which would have been ri`i,
culed as impossibilities a few years ago, to suppbr_
her own unaided resources the wants of that vast if
tion of the people who are destitute of the means 5
instruction and the oppOrtunities of worship, bliti.po
new life is gradually developing itself in her ow °,..
ward organic system, of which the importance r'.a.b
not be over-estimated. Politically speaking abut/9th
it would be the worst sort of affectation to deal sit,
this subject as if we regarded it from a merely Pipe
tical point of view), it is of incalculable importa° et
at the present moment that the Church should ill,
with vigour, energy, and union. She is the " anQc
power in the State which can deal with Chartism, o th,
counteract the evil effect of those bastard, truct
despising, pride-fostering systems of " educatio
with which the liberalism of the present day slitt;
poses that the lower orders can be made virr°,,dy
But for her, the State, which seems to have alreicise
lost the power of offering resistance to these
principles, might soon be disabled from making Zo)
effectual opposition to their consequeeces.
though she may be aided by the State toprovide her'
self, more speedily than she otherwise could, w, to
the outward appliances necessary to give due, effeeleo
her influence, all this will be of little avail, un d
she bring a spirit to the work which the State m°
needs to receive, but can never give."
We quote the following observations from
he
Post :—" If our memory serve us faithfully, that
Morning Post was the first English journal that
warned the manufacturers of this country of :eci-s-
-was brewing on the other side of the A tlantiel; front
tion tion to the duties on wrought goods exporteu
England to the United States. It was not our fault;o.
if folks at home were not prepared for the sudden jof
crease of duties which has followed the
Mr. Clay's Compromise Act ; for, over and over agso;
we have been at pains to lay:before the pu.blic
,rue, state of facts as regarded the respective pO;.,
tions of the protective and the anti-protective ie.
ties in the States. We did not deny that the Trot
traders were numerous and influential, but we ;
that their opponents wtre not by any. Means weos-
and a careful examination of the financial ernbarr43,
expirationio
ments of the Republic led us to the confident exPeliwe
tion that, on the whole, the balance of
influ
would, for the present at least, incline decisl
towards the opinions of the latter. The bloWePer
come—it was not averted by the prodigious neoioo
"Sions made by Great Britain in favour of ATeraiisli
produce. Under the new scale of duties, -`-''%oas
manufactures, if we are to credit the represent° toe,
of' many persons connected with the American trade,
is
will be virtually excluded. This view, we bellebs
tt't 0
much exaggerated. But no doubt can existt,tor
serious check will be experienced by our manwr a-ttoa
ers, and that the export trade in hardware, r
goods, &c., will be much cramped and injured= AO'
The Chronicle, alluding to the Form of rf,hlthss
giving for the late abundant harvest, says „d bf
been discovered of late that churches are clesec.„°`;;thet
parish meetings and by musical festivals.
politics nor art are deemed religious enough ”iitics'
sanctity of the buildings : and yet the love of roeut'
liberty, and its assertion, though on the lowest .0 to
provided by the Constitution, may lay some clalAncle
the rank of a moral and religious principle' A, ei
the sublime compositions of Handel and 11'1Y-0;e0
Spohr and Mendelssohn, have something in „ore'
that tends to raise the soul towards the great °"„tioa
of its being The fastidiousness that finds desecrsoll'
here, surely should not tolerate the dirtiness or theithiic
ness that eliminates the item of cheapness froma Pose'
thanksgiving for the harvest. If not for its f..ap
quent cheapness, what is there, in a plentiful cloolll
corn, for which the great body of the people Sot. be
be thankful ? If the' cheapness do not resultL-fcr
not expected and intended to result, why tball",,pre
vidence at all ? Why attempt the shabby ne'-,sed,
mise of cheapness omitted with thankfulness of °,
and thus send devotion into the Creator's Prest ceor
halting between the feelings of the monopoll,sh" the
w
and the suffering many, and worshipping ",-,.icif
voice of Jacob and the hands of Esau ? These
compromises are characteristic of the man W it 00,1
holds the reins of political authority, but•we„-,-,oll'
want the spirit of Peel in the prayers of the tn,7
The Advertiser says :—" If the Whigs thin"iil
gaining Some• portion of public, favour, in atu;
'
the policy of their rivals, why do they not do sObei in
gitimate grounds, and to some noble, disinteres', th°
tent ? But the question is, how have tl:ieJ pro;
effrontery to denounce the sliding scale, Bch ,1013
pcsing nothing better themselves than an B°'c/I°h
If they were sincere in their battling for freed owl
commerce, what would they have to do
yee
a duty on corn at all ? If Sir Roberti, sa)(
has played off the landlords, we can er,d,hntri
it is so much to his credit with the C-
manidssiwoin,
ththeewahgirgicsullvtouurilsdtsn; buthaveb by
itahyeeidr
tii.3el iof,
the hands of the country, but really into t`'„.
the landlords. The fact, however, is, the
*ants not the 'arts' of the tariff, as, after the reT no'
of the Chronicle, they are perhaps to be etAlle
the open fraud of the sliding scale. In go— toft
the nation is sick of the artifices and intrigues,loo,,
her several enemies, be they Peelites, Whigs, "
camel'°
and-out-Conservatives : they are entirely the tere!'
this—they mean nothing beyond their own in of
One may endeavour to accomplish the poi° toe(liftili
ambition by one means, another through other
but the grand goal of these several factions is Iry be 4.-
-it is self here self ther self everywhere. r.le rtrii”
part of Sir Robert Peel's poiicy is assuredlY hilo‘°
which is, in fact, the only part, as he hiniseli
which keeps him in office.
MONEY— TRAM E—C OMM Zit °-‘;'ortlierli
A special meeting of the Proprietors of the -Lief )01;
and Eastern Railway was held yesterday at t lfor
don Tavern, when resolutions were passed 00.0'
disposal of 3,136 foreited shares, and also for au
ing the Drectors to borrow 155,000/.
ECCLESIA .S.l ICA L agbl
The Wesleyans in the metropolis, and nodal?
England, make a general fast to-morrow
hoels•
and prayers are to be offered up in all their e
al
B u tenthckin
g h annual.ani Association ploughing lt°) 0
AGRICULTURAL.
Loafee:ileens 5t,01t5118
South The
acre field, at Langley, on Wednesday. rjz
amount of 1301. were afterwards distributed. ,
NAVAL /IND MILITARY. dcatill
Zvi „jot
The late Rear-Admiral Butterfield, .dei e ;
took place recently at Portsmouth, was 11" .0
of the Buffalo in the Dogger Bank action Liote
and in the Nonsuch in Rodney's action ; bva'
took plat.