The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-08 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The French Journals received this morning are filled
with observations upon the funeral of the Duke of Or
leans. These remarks are in good feeling, for so
amiable was the character of the deceased Prince, and
so prudently did he abstain from mixinghimself up
with the party politics of his day, that his loss has in-
spired the great majority of the nation with feelings of
deep regret, and his memory is treated with respect by
even those who, politically speaking, cannot be supposed
to feel very great regret at the death of any member of
the reigning dynasty. It would have been disgraceful,
indeed to the national character if this had not been the
case ; but it is, nevertheless, satisfactory to be enabled
to record the fact, that by the tomb of the deceased
Prince faction was silent, and rancour had no place.
The Madrid Gazette of the 28th ult. publishes a de-
cree authorising the Directors of the Sinking Fund to
grant, within the next two months, any portion of the
confiscated religious buildings to such persons as will
engage to convert them to purposes of public utility.
After this period, all such buildings as are not so dis-
posed of will be sold by public auction.
The Spanish papers assert that a new political party is
nearly organised in that capital. The head of the party
is Don Francisco de Paula (or, rather, Donna Carlotta,
his wife), and their object is to force the eldest son of
Don Francisco on the young Queen as a husband, or to
compel Espartero to relinquish the regency in favour of
the Infanta. This hopeless scheme will be knocked on
the head without delay, and in order that Don Francisco
may understand that Espartero will enter into no compro-
mise with him, he and his family are compelled to retire
from Madrid without delay.
The Wurzburg Gazette states that when the King of
Prussia received the news of the death of the Duke of
Orleans he burst into tears, and that, as soon as calm,
be wrote letters of condolence to the King of the Frenoh
and to the Duchess of Orleans, who is a near relative of
his house.

The Gazette d'Augsburg has the following The
Pope has addressed a circular to all his Cardinals on
the differences which have arisen between him and the
Emperor of Russia respecting the treatment of Catholics
in Russia. His Holiness enters into details of the com
plaints of the Catholics in Russia, and of his own re
monstrances in their favour, for the purpose of con-
vineing'the world that he has not neglected the interests
of the Catholic Church."
PUBLIC OPINION.

The following is from the Herald :—" The present
session of Parliament will, we take it, have done as much
to destroy the confidence of the country in both the
existing divisions of Parliamentary parties as any pre-
ceding session that can be remembered. The policy
which Sir Robert Peel has pursued in internal affairs,
however wise and salutary, however acceptable to the
great majority of the community, and however gradually
and cautiously developed, was not certainly antici-
pated by the people at the last general election, and was
received with surprise by a large section of the great
party over which he presides. It is perhaps more fa-
vourably regarded in its main features by the Conserva-
tive constituencies than by Conservative representatives.
Sir Robert Peel has realised the predictions of his sup-
porters in the House of Commons, that he would be a
great Minister ; but in accomplishing their predictions
he has somewhat startled the predictors occasionally.
He has maintained his own consistency, but he has not
had much regard for theirs. He has endeavoured to de-
prive Conservatism of a sectarianism ; if he succeed he
will be the founder of a great national party ; but should
he fail, the country will either have to bow its neck
again to Whiggery, attempting to cheat Radicalism. or
a coalition Administration will arise out of the conflicts
of parties."
The Chronicle thus expresses itself on the subject of
Lard Ellenborough's reported intention to evacuate Aff-
ghanistan :—" It is gratifying to observe that there is
but one feeling, as far as any feeling has been yet ex-
pressed, upon the rumoured intention of Lord Ellenbo-
rough to evacuate Affghanistan. No Englishman can
hear of such a resolution without shame and dismay.
All parties, those who blame as well as those who de-
fend, the policy of Lord Auckland, must, at all events,
admit that until our fellow countrymen who are in the
hands of Akbar Khan are restored, and satisfaction be
had for the murder of our Envoy, our army could not,
under any circumstances, be withdrawn from Affghanis-
tan. To this Sir Robert Peel's Government is, fortu-
nately, pledged. Fortunately, we say, for, upon a care-
ful perusal of the Indian papers, we believe Lord Ellen-
borough had, before the receipt of his overland despatches,
commanded a retreat! Incredible as this compound of
cowardice, cruelty, and impolicy may seem, disgraceful
to its author as a man, as a British subject, and as a
statesman, nearly every Indian paper we have seen
agrees in stating that Lord Ellenborough had actually
determined to abandon so many of our country people to
a dreadful fate, to leave the murder of so many more un
atoned for, and to sacrifice the character of our nation
and the safety of our Indian empire, by calling back our
troops like a band of beaten robbers, instead of with the
prestige of a victorious army. We may tremble fur the
ultimate result,' says the Bombay United Service Gazette,
when Lord Ellenborough has already began to waver,
to vacillate, and to doubt.'"