The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-02 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

roxxon.
The Moniteur Parisien publishes the following curious
notice :
" It had been announced that '‘ the French Associa-
tion for the Abolition of Slavery would hold, on the 7th
instant, a meeting at the Hotel de Ville,' and that the
English abolitionists would be invited to attend at the
meeting.' The planters of the French West India Islands,
alarmed for' heir interests, assembled to-day (Saturday,
last) at the house of M. Jollivet, the delegate for Mar-
tinique, who announced to them that ' the Government
had taken measures to prevent the projected meeting at
the Hotel de Vile "
The Courrier Francais of Sunday, signalizes the pre-
sence of an unusual number of Carlist and Christino re-
fugees on the French frontier. Both receive assistance
from the French Government, but this aid was so small
that it was quite evident, from their expenditure, that
more considerable sums were secretly distributed amongst.
them. The Courrier asks how it is that these refugees,
who resided formerly in the interior, have obtaiie-d
passports to approach the frontiers. And if they travel
without passports, what is the police about ?
The Spanish Government has sent General Goni to
make a tour of inspection in the Basque provinces, and
the partisan Moehaelo is ordered to raise a free corps
for the purpose of guarding against the introduction of
Carlist and Christino agents. 4. good deal of excite-
ment. prevails in Catalonia, and already some troubles
have taken place at Olot.
The Regent had, by a recent decree, abolished the
extraordinary duty laid on various articles of home con-
sumption on their importation into Spain, under the
name of temporary duty, by a Royal order of the 30th
of May, 1800.
The Madrid Gazette contains a project of law, to be
presented to the Cortes, demanding that the Minister of
Finance may be authorised to issue Treasury bills to the
amount of 160 millions of reals, but as the Committee
charged with the examination of this scheme is composed
of the Opposition, it is doubted whether it will pass into
a law. Those 160,000,000 are to be divided into 32
series of 5,000,000 each. The bonds are to bear an in-
terest of 6 per cent., and the proceeds of the customs
of the kingdom are to be allocated for their redemption.
They are to be received as cash in all the custom-
houses ; but those who might not wish to apply them in
that manner, may require the payment of the capital and
interest from the general direction of the Treasury in
Madrid. One series is to be redeemed monthly.
The Frankfort Journal of the 25th ult., announces that
M. Eichthorn was to succeed Count Maltzahn as
Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs. It is added that
a report prevailed at Berlin of a considerable reduction
being about to be made in the Prussian army.
PARLIAMENTARY.
Lord Campbell brought under the notice of the Lords
last night three Bills for improving the Administration
of Justice. By the first he constitutes the House of
Lords exclusively the last Court of Appeal for the
whole Empire, and places the Lord Chancellor at its
head. The second authorises the Sovereign to continue
the functions of the Court, though the Legislature be
prorogued ; the third Bill is to appoint one of the pre-
sent Vice-Chancellors to preside in Chancery, putting a
stop to the anomaly of making the Chief Judge of that
Court a political officer, removable with every Adminis-
tration. The President of the House of Lords will be
the removable Judge who is a Member of the Cabinet.
The Noble Lord gave a short but luminous history of
the appellate jurisdiction, and explained that his plan
would put the country to no expense whatever.
The Lord Chancellor informed their Lordships that
the measure of last session for improving the Chancery
Court had answered remarkably well, and he is not for
further alteration. He believed that not one of his
Noble Friend's Bills would be found worthy of their
Lordship's support.
Lord Cottenham approved of the principle of the Bills,
but would oppose them till the recent experiment bad
been fairly tried.
Lord Brougham, without giving any decided opinion
till he had read the Bills, seemed incl'ned to think un-
favourably of them. They were read a first time.
In the Commons, Mr. Stanfield's motion to choose the
Chairman of Committees on Private Bills from the se-
lected Members was agreed to.
In reply to Mr. Wallace, Sir R. Peel again repeated
his determination to bring forward no Government bu-
siness till the resolutions on the Corn-laws had been re-
ported.
In reply to Sir C. Napier, Sir R. Peel stated that the
Emir Beschir had been deposed, and had arrived at
Constantinople. An officer, formerly in the Austrian
service, had been appointed to govern Lebanon. The
Gallant Officer was sorry to hear it.
In reply to Mr. Shiel, Sir Robert Peel stated that the
observation of the Earl of Aberdeen to M. Guizut Was,
" that he had nothing to say of the occupation of
Algiers by the French then," not that "he had no objec-
tion to that occupation.
Mr. T. Duncombe moved for a Committee to inquire
into Prison Discipline, and made an interesting and use-
ful speech. He ably exposed the cruelties that are in-
flicted on prisoners in the name of humanity.
Sir James Graham opposed the motion, on the ground
that at present the Government was engaged in a plan
of prison discipline, that its regulations were adopted in
most of the gaols, and that the inspection was so com-
plete, and the reports so full, as to make inquiry by the
House unnecessary. Lord Mahon, Lord J. Russell, the
Chancellor.of the Exchequer, Mr. O'Connell, and Mr.
Waltley, took part in the debate, the two latter drawing
attention to the inequality of punishments, and to the
state of religious instruction in prisons. The motion
was in the end withdrawn. The Govefnment, by re-
fusing to accede to it, adds to the heavy responsibility
which already rests on it.
Another discussion, which, was based on a non-exist-
ing despatch, and ended in nothing, except the instruc-
tion it may afford the ptiblic, took place concerning the
Hill Coolies. Mr. Vernon Smith, as a peg to hang his
remarks on, moved for a copy of the instructions given
by the India Board to Lord Ellenborough on the subject,
and then blamed, at some length, the Order in Council
recently drawn up by Lord Stanley, to permit the im-
portation of Hill Coolies into the Mauritius.
Lord Stanley defended his Order, and pointed out the
unfairness of Mr. Smith in only quoting a part of the
despatches, and obtained plenty of cheers from the
Tories.
Mr. Hawes rather promised to expose the Noble
Lord's scheme than effected anything.
Mr. Hogg, from behind Lord Stanley, shower that
the Noble Lord had slighted the Board of Directors,
that his regulations would be wholly inoperative in
India, that the exportation of Hill Coolieg would revive
a slave trade throughout India, and that the Noble Lord's
conduct was hasty, inconsiderate, and quite inconsistent
with the professions of his party, while he was in oppo-
sition. From a friend we never heard a Minister get
a severer chastisement than Mr. Hogg gave Lord Stan-
ley. The motion ended in nothing, but to convict the
Government of weakness and folly in supposing that it
can, by paper regulations, arrest the flood of cupidity it
is willing to let loose in order to conciliate the monopo-
lists and jobbers to whom it is indebted for power.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Herald observes that in the support which the
county Members give to the Ministerial Corn.law, there is no in-
consistency, " there is no breaking of pledges, no belying of re-
cent professions. The county Members were returned to eject from
office the Whigs, to keep them out when they had ousted them, to
protect domestic agriculture, and to aid in the supremacy of Con.
servative opinion. They have ejected the Whigs from place, they
are now keeping them out, and they are now refusing to deprive
agriculture of protection. They have placed Sir Robert Peel in
power, and they will preserve him in it."
The Post justifies Mr. Ferrand's late attack on the manufac-
turers, and says :—" if Mr. Ferrand deems the manufacturing
system established this country, an unsound system, he has an
undoubted right to denounce it. If Mr. Ferrand believes, that in
proportion to the extension of our manufacturing system, and in
consequence of the extension of that system, has been the extension
of misery among the labouring classes, Mr. Ferrand, at an honest
man, is bound to make war' on our manufacturing policy.
Who shall deny to Mr. Ferrand such' a right ? What ! Has not
the agricultural policy of Great Britain been, more especially
during the last three years, denounced with unceasing bitterness
by free.trade writers, by free-trade lecturers, and by free-trade
speakers of all kinds, throughout the the length and breadth of
Great Britain ?"
The Chronicle expresses its belief that ajpecial commission or
board of survey is in contemplation, to consist of, some of the first
engineers or architects of the day, for the purpose of preparing be-
fore the next Session of Parliament, a general plan of all such im-
provements, within and around the metropolis, as are most impera.
tively required. " The result," adds-the Chronic*, "of the la-
bours of such a board, when submitted to and approved by Puha-
mint, could, in all probability, be gradually realized by no very
large outlay. Indeed, any outlay in conformity with it would be
sure to prove economical as compared with the present expenditure;
and merely as a directory to the best mode of proceedure it would
be of great value."
The Advertiser, speaking of the great national party of Re.
formers, says :—" Henceforward, and this party assumes a front
not to be mistaken. Its name is the NATION; its principles, in
contradistinction to all the various ramifications of opinion, ranged
under leaders whose actions are the demonstration that their pa.
triotism is the art of rising to office—are national principles; while
its supporters are, in religion, the Dissenters, and in politics, the
trading classes--the fltrmers—merchatits, capitalists, operatives.
These form what hereafter are to be understood as the NATIoNALS.
From anything which under the name of party exists at the present
day, they are widely separated. They are not Tories, nor Whigs,
nor-Whig.Radicals, nor Chartists."
The Times remarks :—" The interminable debate on the Corn.
laws goes on as usual, Another Gentleman and another Noble
Lord have risen to propose a pair of those amendments which they
knew would be negatived, and which, accordingly, serve no pos-
sible purpose but delaying the business of the House. It a Whig
or Radical had done this, we should have said they were but ful.
filling the natural law of their existence. It is their way to talk—
talk they must, if the country die for it—and if they impede the
progress of Conservative Government, so much the better. But,
we confess, we are sorry to see supporters of the present Ministry
following their example on matters which, after all, are but affairs
of detail."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The meeting of the Shareholders of the London Grand Junction
Railway was held on Monday, in Basinghall-street. From the Report
read, it appeared that the clear balance in hand was 4,0071. 7s. 1 Id.
COMMERCIAL REFORM.
The burning of Sir Robert Peel's effigy still continues in the
country districts. At Kilsytb, Airdrie, and at Wallace-town and
Newton in Ayr, he has been variously maltreated and burned
during the past week. The Scotch Reformer's Gazette also men.
tions the burning of the Duke of Wellington's effigy in Bell-street,
last Tuesday.

IMPROVEMENTS.
At the meeting of the Metropolitan Improvement Society, on
Saturday, the attention of the Society was drawn to the new
Ordnance maps, just published, of the City of Dublin.. Two hun-
dred persons have been employed in this survey, and each sheet
shows sections of the city, with every house and tenement in the
most crowded parts. Lancaster and other towns are now being
surveyed in the same way.
NAVAL AND MILITARY.
The Highland Society of London celebrate the victory of Alex-
andria by an anniversary festival on the 21st inst., at which the
Duke of Cambridge presides.