The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-14 00:00:00

S MARY El`.c NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Times remarking upon the statement which ap-
peared in the Chronicle and Sun of yesterday, to the
effect that Lords Aberdeen and Cowley had taken part
with the King of the French against the Regent of Spain
respecting the presentation of M. Salvandy's letters of
credence, says, with more flippant pertness than becomes
so grave an occasion :—" The opinion which has been
formed and expressed by the Government on the proper
and customary mode of presenting credentials to an in.
fant Sovereign and to the Regent, would certainly not
deserve the importance which has been attached to it if
it involved a mere point of ceremony. As such, it is
ridiculous to exalt their determination on this point into
the first great act of their foreign policy, and to extort
from it a whole series of vicious and absurd inferences
favourable to the pretensions of the French party, and
hostile to the independence of Liberal Spain. The re-
conciliation 'of Europe with Spain will not he hustolaed
or retarded for a single day by the presence or absence of
a French Ambassador at Madrid."
The Morning Herald, writing upon the same question,
has the following. We may first remark that none of
our Tory Morning Contemporaries seem so little trusted
with the secrets of the Foreign-office as the Times. The
Herald says :—" A new question—a contemptible one,
and sufficiently indicative, wo admit, of a foregone con-
clusion '—has arisen between France and Spain ; and
how has Lord Aberdeen acted ? He has pursued the
same dignified and temperate course as he did in the
Christina-Orleans-O'Donnell movement; he has treated
the question as one of etiquette merely,, and has held
the balance between France and Spain most equably.
The first demand of M. De Salvandy he has indicated
to be perfectly inadmissible in a constitutional country.
It has been withdrawn. The second demand he has
rather hinted than declared to be in accordance with
diplomatic form and courtesy, and recommended acqui-
escence to it by the Regent of. Spain. Such acquiescence
has been declined, and Lord Aberdeen has refused to al-
low Lord Cowley to mingle in negotiations for a com-
promise."
The Morning Chronicle concludes a sound article on
he Corn-laws with the following pithy remarks :-..-
" Within the last fifty years rent has tripled or qua-
drupled. But all is not enough. The landowner, not
satisfied with the protection which he derives from hav-
ing a commodity almost always below the wants of the
community, calls for the exclusion of all foreign corn,
and, in his insane avarice, threatens to cut up our
foreign trade by the roots. The time has at length
come when a stand must be made against injustice. On
our manufacturing prosperity depends our agricultural
prosperity. Whnever our towns are no longer in a
condition to receive emigrants from the estates of the
squires, down must come prices and rents, and poor-
rates must swallow up rents. Woe to the landowners,
should this country ever be independent of foreign coun-
tries for a supply of food ; for it is on the inadequacy
of the home supply that agricultural prosperity rests.
Were the home market to be the only market for our
manufacturers, the landowners would be pennyless."
The Morning Post is a great stickler for monopolies
in trade. The following is a specimen of i$ anti-free-
trade lore :—" We term the principles on which our
modern trade is based false, because these principles
form part and parcel of the monstrous theory of free
trade. Free trade means cheap labour. Free trade,
therefore, implies the possession of power, by certain
classes of capitalists, to grind down the order of la-
bourers to the starvation point, or below it. Our modern
system of foreign trade is not, therefore, founded on the
principles of justice nor of wisdom."
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
At the meeting of the London Joint Stock Bank on
Wednesday last, it appeared from the report that the
net profit on the half-year was 25,923/. I 4s. 3d., from
which a dividend of 61. per cent. per annum was recom.
mended to be declared.
Prince Albert has given orders for six pairs of silk
trousers and stockings to be made by the silk-stocking
makers of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, in answer
to their address praying for his patronage to help their
distressed trade.
A combination has been formed amongst the salt-
bacon-curers of Cork, and SOO or 1,000 have " turned
out ;" several have been arrested.
The debts already proved, up to Tuesday last, in
Messrs. Hobhouse and Co.'s bankruptcy, amounted to
234,3641. 4s, 4d. The total invested for the benefit of
the creditors is at present 40,000/. The next meeting
is fixed for the 19th instant at Bath.
At the last meeting of the iron masters at Dudley, it
was determined to continue paying the men at their
present rate of wages. No reduction consequently will, in
the present state of affairs, take place, and the discon-
tinuance of the working of some of the furnaces will not
prove so calamitous as apprehended.

COMMERCIAL REFORM.
At the first sitting of the Edinburgh Anti-Corn-law
Conference, held in that city on Tuesday, among other
eloquent speeches and remarks, Mr. Hope, farmer, of
East Lothian, said—" As a grower of corn, a feeder of
sheep and oxen, I wish to proclaim to the public that I
have no fear for the ruin of my order from the pale-faced
working classes of our manufacturing towns being per-
mitted their just rights, to exchange the produce of their
industry for food raised in foreign lands."
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS,
It is stated that Ministers will grant 10,0001. for the
establishment of two normal schools at Edinburgh and
Glasgow, with 1,000/. a-year for their annual expenses.
PARLIAMENTARY.
Sir Robert Peel has issued his circular for the assem-
bling of Parliament, Feb. 3, when " public business of
importance will be immediately proceeded with."
BLECTIONEERINtk.
Sir IL Vyvyan, it is stated by a Conservative print,
will decline to come forward for Cornwall. Mr. Dawson
also, by letter, has resigned all future claim to the re-
presentation.

NAVAL AND ranamanv.
Admiral Sir J. Rowley, IN 11, was promoted to the rank
of Admiral of the White at the late brevet, died on
Wednesday last at Leitrim.
LAW AND POLICE.
The gang of bread-stealers, whose illegal doings The
Sun reported on Wednesday, as having helped themselves
unhesitatingly to the cakes and broad in the shops of Mr.
Church and Mr. Clury, bakers in the City, were com-
mitted to Newgate yesterday, at the Mansion-house, on
being again brought up, and these, to the number of 16,
the Magistrate said, are likely to be transported. The
other participators were severely reprimanded and dis-
missed.
William Jennings, cabman, was charged at Clerken-
well yesterday with enforcing Is. in the stead of a legal
eightpenny fare, and fined 20s. for the fraud. •

FORE:wail.
The trial of the editors of the National and the Ga-
zette de France, accused of attacking the rights of the
King, and of exciting hatred and contempt against the
Government, in an article published by the former on
the 20th September last, and repeated by the latter, was
brought on Tuesday before the Court of Assizes. The
two cases had been united in one indictment ; but it
being proved to the Court that M. Delaroche, of the
National, was from illness unable to appear, the Court
put off his trial to another session, and ordered that of
the Gazette de France to proceed forthwith. Upon this,
M. Foucauld, the editor of the Gazette, determined to
make default. and withdrew. In his absence, M. Tho-
rigny called for judgment. The Court sentenced M.
Fouvuld to a year's imprisonment, and a fine of 4,000 f.
This is the first fruit of:NI. Dupoty's conviction by the Peers
on a charge of constructive treason. Verily Louis Philippe
cannot too soon make out the Procureur-General's patent
of nobility. He is already qualified. for a seat in the
French State Hospital of Incurables.
The French Newfoundland cod fishery for 1841 has
been much less successful than that of 1840, which was
by no means remarkable for its produce. From the port
of Granville 56 ships with crews, amounting to 952 men,
went out to the Great Bank. The aggregate amount of
the take in 1840 was 4,030,782 fish ; but last year it was
no more than 2,801,000 fish, weighing 7,000,500 kilo-
grammes, valued at 1,715,961 f., from which being de-
ducted one-fourth as the crews' share, there remained
for the owners 1,211,971 francs. The cost of fitting
out the ships for the fishery was 1,568,000 f. ; conse-
quently there was an aggregate loss of 356,028 f., or
6,357 e for each ship.
A letter from Alencon, chief town of the Orne, enu-
merates the following series of deplorable events which
have happened there within the last three weeks : —On
the 20th ult., a maiden lady, aged fifty, threw herself, in
a fit of insanity, into a well, and was drowned.—On the
25th, three men made a brutal attempt upon a young
woman, but were defeated by the assistance brought
to her by her cries.—On the 31st, a lady was
wounded, but not dangerously, by her son-in-law, be-
cause she protected her daughter, who had fled to her to
escape his brutal treatment. The infuriated man, to
avoid the punishment due to his attempt, committed
suicide in the night.—On the 2d inst., a countryman was
robbed on the Champ de Foire, and so severely beaten,
that he remained senseless on the gronnd for several
hours, but at last revived.—On the sth, a captain on the
retired list, enjoying an adequate income, and much re-
spected by all who knew him, got up early in the morn-
ing, went to the principal entrance of the cemetery, and
there shot himself.--And, on the 6th, Lecomte, a man
condemned to death for the murder of his wife, was
executed.
On the interrogation of Mallet, the accomplice of
Quenisset, by the Chancellor, Baron Pasquier, the Ga-
zette de France remarks—" This name of Mallet must
hare brought to the recollection of the former Prefect of
Police of the empire one of the most striking episodes of
his life. Another Mallet committed M. Pasquier to
prison, and a cobbler, on seeing him pass by with tho
Duke de Revigo to the Conciergerie, cried out—' Good
good ! the Imperial shop is broken up !l' M. Pasquier
has had his revenge ; he signed the lists of proscription
in 1815, and is now interrogating another Mallet, a con-
spirator."
Madrid letters of the 4th say that M. Salvandy had
made every preparation for commencing his return on
the sth.
The Finance Minister had read to the Deputies his
budget for 1842. He states the deficit at 1E0,000,000 of
reals. The revenue is from 7 to 800,000,000 of reals,
of which the War-office absorbs 600,000,000.
" The Pope," says the Diario di Roma, "has appointed
Cardinal Patrizzi to be his Vicar-General for the city and
diocese of Rome, in the room of the late Cardinal Della
Porta Rodiana. His nomination must be gratifying to
the Roman nobility, as his eminence is a Roman Prince
by birth." There are very few local appointments made
by the Sovereign Pontiff's, which ought to gratify the
pride of the Italians. They share among them, and have
done so for a thousand years, all the richest offices of the
Romish Church.