The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-19 00:00:00

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Louis Philippe has rewarded the French Con sul at
Barcelona, by raising him to the-rank of an ofb cer in
the Legion of Honour.
Tilt: Constitutionnel denies that there is any truth
in the reproach so often brought against some of! the
French jouri:,als, of a desire to involve France and
England in war.
The illessager informs us, v.nder date of Perpis'-
naa, the 15th, that thirteen soldiers of the corps raised
by the Juntas were shot i.it Barcelona on the 12th.
No Spaniard was allowed to stir out of the town-
These, with the captain of inti.:ntrY
mcncement, are the only executions that have be
positively announced. en
A letter from Granville states the
shot in the com-
vernment cutter arrived there am few ay
ds ago with
!: an English Go-
a message of thanks from the Gov ernor of the island
of Jersey to M. Jayet de Gercoi trt, the couimander
of the yrencli Government cutter -Espiegle, for the
services rendered by that vessel on the octurnonce re-
recently of two fires at St. Helier.
The Journal des Chemins de Fer : mys, all the shares•
for the railroad from flouen to . Havre ;lave
taken, and that the works will be Ilrged ou with 85
much celerity as those of the roi id from Paris to
Rouen have been.
A deputation, composed of six of the notable inha-
bitants of Saragossa, arrived at tlo. Regent's head-
quarters On the 10th, to congratulate hint, in the name,
of all classes of the population of,that city, on the sup
been
pression of the revolt at Barcelona.
The Phare des Pyrenees of the 14th states, under
that
date Barcelona, the 11th, threci o'clock P.N.,
three regiments were to march on. that day from Bar'
celona for Gerona and the French frontier.
15t inst.
The St. Petersburgh Gazette of the
publishes an order of the day, sign( td by
of War, announcing that the Em peror has
the Minist
that, in future, all non-commission€ ..(I officers and s:_l__
diers who have not completed their twenty years
vice are to be called out annually for a fri°n,°r which
September 23, and do duty with re oments to
they are for that time to be appoitatee... - the
The Duke of Bordeaux arrived at 'Dresden on
Bth from Prague, and alighted at ;the Palace' of
A letter from unich mentions tbe arrival theree .
an officer of engineers of the Egypt ran At
l yil;
on a tour of inspection of the militar decided__
/ establishiner
of Germany, France, and England.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The following remarks are from the Chroage' ---
discre,
" Can anything be conceived so thoroughly
ditable to a Minister and a great part: r as the PresenD
state of doubt about their future intent ions ? N° rean
knows whether Sir Robert Peel means in Februar:,
to propose the total abandonment of all Corn
last
whatsoever, or to stand resolutely by the Act ot. lasw
session. No one knows what his Plat' will eo; ho
many of them are urging him to stand by. their 111°-
°polies ; or how large the proportio n that are assu.re
n he
ing him that in any dereliction of least principles
may count on the baseet compliance: on their P•3r,t.s*
We do not pretend to be in the secrets of the Ca rf1::
net ; and we can only infer their intontions from t 0,.:
aßfatebre Babel
oonfg
silence
language of their supporters in Parliament or in ,it°
press. But who can make out anything from sit" a
confusedonandthejarierianign sqouaen.stidsor?,
wThhieeitshristibnieps:
peared to have thrown over, in order to vent
on the opponents of the Co-laws, sad en
renews
Corn-laws,
its protest against those laws, calls fto A fresh relit°.
the direction of free trade is to be made-
tion of them, and insinuates that some fresh move ill
At the same time the same note is all at once taken
up persons of more or less weight all over the couly:
try. The Duke of Rutland boldly to Bs his agricut
tural neighbours that the sliding-scale can wen bfb/f,
a reduction of "some shillings." Mr. Escott, at "-
by Ministers.
same season, inculcates on his auditors 1 ;he probal:ilitY
of a freer trade in corn. Messrs. -Dick inson and 'ti
land boldly announce the doom of nica lopoly to those
who returned them to support it. And from the
forth to the shepherds who surround ,h in'
further end of Somersetshire the saa Miles croaks
warning that the sliding-scale is docarrod, his raves
, ploughing must henceforth be the only '
yrotection et
the agriculturists." ld
The Post says" Her Majesty's Gover nruent woo I,
do much good if they 'would take so• ale mode ;
authoritatively informing the public whc tther it is,t)
is not, in their present contemplation t ) make any
r
last
05510! .
important alteration in the Corn-law of
On every side the loud cry is that such a Iterati°ll ist:
and deep
and must be, in the contemplation of the C IroverZel'at
They who express a contrary opinion are 150g—d,,s.
Conservative as well as Radical authorities
as ridiculously blind to the manifest signs c ,f the 601' I
are quete'
in proof that the present law cannot stand. The ftitti;
rent of public opinion is said to be dead :Aga ins" re
existing law ; and if public noise and clamoiar We_,_
should be constrained to admit that
the same thing as the current of Public opii lion si.sc
true. , But we think there may be agn lot dea..l :ivhf:eit
titious and fraudulent public noise and c larnew 'and Ave
ought not to be recognised as public °pi- li°l4
against the
think also that the noise and clamour'
is
existing protection to home agriculture -8
gars to have
and fraudulent. But, such as it is, it app
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had its intended effect upon a great ni. tuna
rsons
the as se rtifon_ci.
calling themselves Conservatives, and we Cora"
persons joining in the general prophecy tha t the
law ' must go:" ,i nt cb-
The Advertiser makes the following ex' 3e'e- Corn-few
servations on the exertions of the „Anti ;.,
League and the terror of the Tory mono rl'a"fistat
" The triumphant progress of the Anti- Cor°l,
Fund is filling the Tory monopolists wit li iltthe
such
They looked on the idea of raising 50,0001 LI '''.. one
space of a few weeks, by voluntary exertione.:way
of the most Quixotic notions that ever found
~.11:ricied
into human head. If they had for a mome et ),;,,,sly
that those who first propounded the scheme sel," lists
expected it could ever be realised, the n %Ott the
would, one and all, have urged on their frielite' the
propriety of consigning them, without de Loy! it is
safe keeping of a lunatic asylum. The fories,_hed,
clear, imagined, when the idea was fir: it bOaccreie
that those with whom it originated as ere se. o re'
seeking to play off a hoax at the expens, ~ ofd that it
pealers. The monopolists took it for gra; ate d Ivitie it
would be just as rational an undertaking to ,(I,.evould
scheme for paying off the national debt, as " a iaW
be to engage to raise 50,0001. for Ant i_corbe-ho,
purposes, from a people whom they knee v t 0 ~.„_to a.
poverished—•impoverished by those ver y r biailure,
degree verging on starvation. Nor wi is tae mpt t°
the signal if not ludicrous failure, of a) II
which the
raise such a sum, the only resul t ~,/. ea-
monopolists anticipated front the 50,°`""one of
terprise. They made equally sure that failure
the certain and immediate fruits o f the and the
would be the breaking-up of the Lc :agnae'oaitation-
consequent extinction of Anti-Gorn• JO le this
While the Tories were busily engaged . id 13)0' of, un-
flattering unction to their monopolist E 0111 E, ° ReViet6
happy hack was set to work in the Qu ar terlY troilable
to give ' form and pressure' to their ui icuntook. pen
exultations. The ill-fated scribe ,fertil% 'fitlifirst gives
in hand, and did as he was desired, Lle ti entire
expression to his confident predictions a in - uestien'
failure to the attempt to raise the AIM 111,qr at the
and then he gives way to a fit of long bt' for the
supreme credulity of those who could, et e°ooo/. for
little moment, imagine the collection of Jo °he range
such a purpose to be a contingency withi a ,''says the
of possibility. ' Let them laugh that win v laughter
proverb. Who has the greatest cause f' ire should
now-=the Repealers, or the Monopolists ? it hearty
like to see the latter now attempt to got U P it would
laugh at the League. What an abortion • horrible
needs be—it would doubtless resemble the `"_ofiels.
grin ' and ' ghastly smile' of Milton's fall en a_sbent.
The monopolists are in no laughing mood : it.Pre; the
They are the subjects of feelings and ern, Au)
evilly
, very opposite of those in which laughter is 61 000/.
supposed W. have its origin. No less than .1. ' • es
cc
of the 50,0001. are already raised, though
have been only as yet made in ten or twave t°t"ed„,
This is no joke to the monopolists. They -1103 ts a
mit, however reluctantly, that it is at air even
the
very fair beginning; for it is only considen ld hileor
light of a commencement by the Anti-Cern- of
Leaguers themselves. In that sum—every sl tilling
~ .
anouollu
which is already in hand, no portion of the:
being in promises—in that sum the Conservr tti ye 'ice
nopolists must read the death-warrant of I eg.islati.o
protection to the agricultural interest. BP
the a
not, they must be blind as the moles and, the bats,
They must neither have eyes nor ears to perceir
what is passing around them. They must Ile labour-
ing under the influences of a political in estnerifa,
.11ectoos.
more potent by far than any ever produc• ;d by. La:
Fontaine or any other professor of the map, ;tisiug arc'h
No matter how profound may be the tranc a in whi
they are at present—and profound it must be if they
are unconscious of the impending extinction of the
1,
corn monopoly—they will, ere long, awake, ao°.
opening their eyes, will be struck with amazement ay.
seeing that monopoly lying in a mass of mil is around
them.
In adverting to the bombardment of Barcelona, the
Times says—" Private accounts which have been re
ceived from Barcelona, and communicate( 3. to us by
persons worthy of credit, strongly confirm the opinion
we already entertained, and have more the to once
ex-.
pressed, as to the real effects of the bomb arclment ot
that city. If those effects had been commensurate to
the number of projectiles said to have been discharFed
against those devoted walls, or to the alarm and inoig-
nation which our French Contemporaries have got up
upon this occasion, it is hardly i,u.ible that sole
fuller account a such a sweeping destruction should

zot,
fat the
already reached us. It is somewhat singular
Ne`,l's! Drench journals have been for some days in
PortV" of the exact number of shells fired from
teeili,4-4tjuich in so much as they have been able to
tiz,4,e that they were thrown at the rate of one per
tar for a space of 13 hours, and that half the stock
15041nuaition in the fortress was exhausted; whilst
klett ,
ehas attempted to furnish the world with a
the casualties. To the French especially, who
teli'oer,ls° good an understanding with the so .called
tto. t'oues in the city, it must have been far more
Itro„useertain the amount of' lives lost and houses
t40,,,-.reu, than to learn the exact number of missiles
kioun n,b,Y the assailing army. The fact is, if our
elleci: to lie relied upon—and we give it as it has
e us, without guaranteeing its entire accuracy,
-Iv Perfectly authentic—that very few lives, if
tthere lost. tee the effect of the bombardment, and
koma!]Shed:; having been principally directed against
ildings, and especially the Town-hall,
0,."'0 or ti tree private houses were burnt, and no
)sei4eusive! or irreparable damage was done to the
let of the citizens. Barcelona had for simile
4 tltet '';ore ate firing began presented the melancholy
ttie,.°`,4 P.; ace about to suffer that terrific mode of
„-the revolutionary disturbances of the pre- I
!!)sp,' u'ce -weeks, and the conflict between the
14; aud the National Clients which commenced
Xseneti", I 01 already thrown the place•O total
• ;rl5 nod. driven a large portion.d popuia_
eh,;(141, its. walls. After the bombeeedinent how-
-14 lastel a few hours, our inf.-Anent states that
ih."l2rPril,isg to see the c"Pepoenie with which
keyKaa view their posiemr. The shops were
ketitae-uile 3ed, the cafes neee thronged, even the
tit, nipssi'ere lighted, -and, as we have before
kleotied''''`lY few Seriwas casualties were known to
-eurro,,."
. .
kOri rZT—w..,RADE—COMTIVILInCII.
iTark, Bradford, Huddersfield, and Lei-
th, tve been very slack during the past week,
h°;eariir dale at Rochdale has been also less busy.
peat he and Halifax the depression has not been
•; at Leeds an active Christmas trade is ex-
• floi some extensive orders for India and China
Ne en given.
!kt .trade of Belfast is gradually improving: the
tPilluirlie mills are in full operation throughout
euatry. •
.
=XXICTXOZSIEEzeIreIa.
Nlptlint Clive, eldest soil of Earl Fowls., has an-
IC', himself as a eandidute for the representation
rtn. Shropshire.
Plir4LIC XIVE2MOVEIVIMITTS.
vroPesed that a strong rope net of 16 or 20
Zet,• l're, to be called the " Fire-nets,!' should be
41. all scenes of conflagration. The by-
Ne'4 could stretch out the net, for the persons in
t,
to leap into. Such a rietting at the late fire
~two
kmerle
s would have saved at least the lives of
Young women.
SPORT:ENG.
lei e queen's pack of stag-bounds for the ensuing
ktpleeoneists ol exactly 5C cAples, and all in beau-
St,ondition. The three days hunting during the
4iq'lek were spirited. The next, today, will be at
klved; ooh
. Wednesday, at 13iffont ; and on Friday,
els Il
14 COURT-;--P.5.51T10.11.11.11X.E.
1/44: Prince de Broglie left the French Embassy on
last with dispatches for Paris.
tit Luke of Devonshire arrived in town on Friday
beeuin Brighton.
Luke of Newcastle has arrived in Portman-
,Th,',
'lV:"ake and Duchess of Somerset have arrived
lel,bledon Park from Devon.
▪ etArl and Countess of Tankerville have left
Thy3r Paris.
Earl and Countess of Camperdown and Lady
nth Duncan left Camperdown House, Forfar-
,,:tt Tuesday last for their residence at Bath.
Iltess Poulet has left town for Bognor, Sussex.
and Viscountess Jocelyn have arrived at
Park, the Earl of Rodea's seat, in Devon-
trclu town. The Viscount and Viscountess go
bliTl early next month.
tt,,,lsticTint and Viscountess Villiers have gene to
tVis house, their seat, near Banbury.
Ebrington Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall,
,liti‘ohert Newman, 'Bart., and a party, have been
the Hon. Newton and Lad Catherine Fel-
Orist4Yring the past week at Eggesford, Devon.
'At tbunt and Viscountess Palmerston have for the
Vltlight been staying with Viscount Melbourne,
111, (kket Hall, Herts, where Lord and Lady Beau-
4tClul the Hon. William Cowper have likewise
es.
8t
William Hervey left St. James's-square on
Urituty to join the Marquis and Marchioness of
at Brighton.
Nt Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst left
VI Saturday evening for Turville Park. Her
try iP has lately been much indisposed.
utri d and Lady Carrington have arrived in town
"yhurst, Bucks.
et) , wiXsc ra.X.llamous.
Zit; iltford, the father of Miss Mitford, died at
14,kine,i(11 on Saturday, aged 82. He was an active
,11144-rate for the county (Berkshire), and was for
Nljears Chairman of the Reading division Petty
't,ll-,"B* Signor Valentine, the modeller, is about
a. east of the Doctor's head.
IN• -sttrday being one of the solethn feasts of the
L
• church, divine service was attended at the
kaa'an church by Baron Brunew, and a select circle
,),,TinaftErwards entertained at Asburnham House.
of Hanover has forwarded a donation of
kidot„.`uwards the subscriptions for the relief of the
and family of the late Dr. Maginn.
4ARKET NEWS.

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(THIS' DAY.)

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4.01-EXC HAIN GE-MONDAY.
15t t-e' Our report on this day se'nnight, as well as
Ntir market this morning, the arrivals of Wheat of
Zehe growth from Essex, Suffolk, and Kent, have
,Mte °,l moderate scale, but of fair average quality.
111a)icands to-day were rather scantily filled with
while the attendance of both London and
,a 3
-irtY dealers was not very. numerous. For the
Zttt bj'arcels of both Red and White W, e had. a fair,
i9th,;/ no means a brink inquiry, at prices quite equal
'ilfer4e noted on Monday last; but the middling and
Th air kind. though not cheaper, hung on hand.
•
N,lll',,Ports of' foreign Wheat have been small. There
A„te " 'air retail business doing in fine qualities, and
;4 rates were, in most instances, supported.
1,01113P1y of barley was again extensive, nearly
quarters having come to hand. The best
ittle7 sorts supporteu their value, without much
tty-itttY ; but grinding and distilling sorts were
Ittisa"l".avY and the terns cheaper. Malt was in fair
err While the sale for that' article was slow, at late
Nved-Ileies• From all parts few Oats have been re-
qtiv;,, Yet as most of the buyers held off for future
l'ietk.';'B, the demand was, on the whole, slow, at last
kt, 10: figures. In Oats, under lock, scarcely a trans-
4loth,:svas reported. Beans and Peas were again dull.
town and country -made. Flour met a dull inquiry.
'4Z441„ connmicy PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
-'Bll AVuunT....Essex and Kent Red 44s to 52s
Ditto White s3s to 59s
WitElr Red 47s to 50s
1148. Ditto, White 49s to 54s
34s to 46s
36s to 38s
LI
grinding 27s to 29s
Malting 3os to 32s
Chevalier
.................. Suffolk and Norfolk . s6s to 62s
8r0wn..................... 503 to 54s
Kingston and Ware s6s to 62s
Chevtiflor ..........
................ .Yorksh'S; Lincolnsh feed 23s
tom, 2.hi
Potato() ......
Youghall and Cork black 17s to 18s
Cork -,vhite .............. 19s to 20s
Scotch Feed 2ls to 233
................. Tick 3os to 36s
.................. „Grey 3ss to 38s
Maple 33s to 34s
White 3os to 35s
Boilers
•••• Town Made 43s to 45s
'Suffolk. 34s to 38s
Stockton and Norfolk 3ss to 38s
~BE4O,iIFION GR:IN AND FLOUR IN BOND.
A'r .............. . 35s to 42s
1141- Haniburgh
(14-14t.v
................ .New
41" .
Feed l4s to 163
1)5..• 2os to 263
23s to 27s
..
.................... .American 23s to 25s
Baltic 22s to 234
SPOUTISFEZZZO.
geld nsultrin,..; that the great Christmas market was
11)ekst here last week, we had a full average number of
the r, on offer this morning, and, taken as a whole,
ford-1311,41ity not only of the Scots, homelands, Here-
ter rayons, Durhatns, and short horns, the four
'„orming the principal portion of the arrivals,
Iva% forming
that of the other kinds brought forward
tllaell.llllsually good indeed, we might venture to
to 447.1 e that we never saw a better collection of stock
NI% any previous corresponding period of the
Itafav Notwithstanding the weather was somewhat
tnlernc:.,ll, rabic to slaughtering, the beef trade was
trati;kay steady,
yet
far from brisk, and in most
liowaclinns, last week's quotations were supported.
that, "or, as a general figure, we cannot quote more
c0t84,..8 Gd for beef, though a few very superior
of e flerefords, and Durban-is sold at higher rates
1"3. tillitr°l'eY, and a good clearance was effected
As to e salesmen previously- to the close of business.
!;er:heeP, these were rather scanty, but of good
he s e quality—if, indeed, we except that portion of
The pIY Suffering' from the effects of the epidemic,
aotarentandefor them was rather firm, at about the
°Ds obtained on this day sennight—viz., 3s 10d
fox the best long-woolled and polled sheep; and

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