The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-18 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The following is the King of the French's reply to the
Address of the Chamber of Peers, in answer to the
Speech from the Throne :--" You know the value I set
on the sentiments which you have just expressed. They
form a new pledge, added to the many you have already
given to France, of the confidence which the nation has a
right to place in that salutary union of all the powers
of the State, which constitutes the strength of our
institutions, and demonstrates the impotence of those
who may still dream of their overthrow. With that
union, with your loyal co-operation, we shall continue
to follow the line pointed out to us by our duties and
our oaths, and thereby secure to our country the enjoy-
ment of all the blessings and advantages which Provi-
dence has bestowed on it."
A French Cabinet Council has discussed the question
whether the Chamber of Peers will condemn M. Chain-
bolle, the Editor as well as the gerant of the Steele. The
result was to inform the leaders of the Upper Chamber
that the Ministry was ready to engage in the combat for
them or the Deputies, and demand permission to imprison
M. Chambolle, Deputy of La Vendee, nay, that they
were pretty sure to get the permission voted, but that the
Ministry must leave the responsibility and initiative to
the Peers. Count Mole is said to have gone to the King
and dissuaded an attack of the kind on so eminent a
member of the dynastic Opposition.
The Augsburgh Gazette publishes instructions for the
Censors, issued by the Prussian Government, forbidding
them " to obstruct any serious and discreet inquiry after
truth," and reminds them of the edict of 1819, which
bids them " repress all that outsteps the common bounds
of religion, which is against morals and good habits,
all fanatical introduction of religion into politics, and all
that may affect the security of the Prussian State and
that of the Germanic Confederation." A free expression
of all that respects the circumstances of the country is
to be permitted. Also all fair criticism on the adminis-
tration. This well-meaning, though unmeaning edict,
is dated Berlin the 24th, and signed Rochow, Eichlen,
and Maltzahn.
The Leipsic Gazette states that the Qttoman Porte
had just received intelligence of an insurrection having
broken out at Damascus. The troops sent against the
rebels were repulsed, and forced to take refuge in the
citadel, whence the Governor was bombarding the town.
The Christians and Israelites took no part in the insur-
rection.
The following project of law has been presented to
the Spanish Cortes:—
" Art. I. All the interest of the Home Consolidated
Debt, as well as of that in circulation abroad, due and to
fall due at the half-yearly terms anterior to the Ist of
January, 1843, shall be capitalised.
" Art. 2. In exchange for these interests, there shall
be delivered from the National Sinking Fund Annuities
to the bearer, at 3 per cent., for a sum equal to the whole
of those which are at present in circulation.
" Art. 3. These annuities will commence to take
effect from the Ist of January, 1842, for those who shall
demand the capitalisation of the interest of 1841 and
1842, before the 30th June next ; those who shall make
their demand after that date, shall only have an option
for the second half yearly term, provided they make it in
the course of that term ; and the same shall be the case
with the following half-yearly terms.
" PEDRO SURRA Y BULL.
"Madrid, Dec. 31, 1841."
PUBLIC, OPINION.
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The object of the principal leading articles in the
Morning Post is to uphold our colonial trade, and con-
demn the manufacturing system, which, we are assured,
is " rotten from top to bottom. In order to create this
hideous fabric," adds the Post, " we have most grossly
neglected the interests of our colonies. In order to prop
up this hideous fabric beyond the period of its natural
downfal, we are modesty required to sacrifice the very
foundations of our home trade."

The Times makes a clumsy defence of its unluck

article on Saturday respecting the King of Prussia's
visit, and takes the opportunity of loading his Majesty
with a vast deal of superfluous panegyric. In another
article, our Contempofary, alluding to the late Con-
ference at Edinburgh of the Scotch Dissenting Minis-
ters on the subject of the Corn-laws, hints pretty broadly
that it would not be amiss if the Legislature were to
punish them for sedition 1
The Advertiser is of opinion that the Ministerial Anti-

Corn-law meeting in Edinburgh is one of the marked
signs of the times, which, if Sir Robert Peel be his own
friend or the friend of his country, he will not disregard.
The Herald contains an article on the affair of the
Creole, wherein it states that neither war nor diplomacy
will settle the distressing question arising out of the
Slave-trade and slavery ; and that " there is but one
mode by which they will cease to plague the Government
of either country, and that is, the abolition of slavery in
the United States. To this it must come at last—the
sooner it is accomplished the safer it will be."
The Chronicle thus alludes to the article in the Timei
of Saturday on the subject of the King of Prussia. " The
Times believed that an attack on him might not be dis-
agreeable to its party ; while for that Journal the sub-
ject had the peculiar attraction of affording it an oppor-
tunity of flattering the most vulgar prejudices, which it
sometimes dignifies by the name of national feeling, of
the lowest class of its readers. Your genuine bully,
however, is not without his share of cunning, and so the
article of Saturday was framed so as to afford an oppor-
tunity of sneaking out of it, should it appear advisable
to do so."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
From statistics already laid before the Glasgow Con-
vention now sitting, the following appear, among other
facts:—At Dundee, out of a total ofd 3,331 weavers, there
are 554 partially employed, 1,458 unemployed. At
Aberdeen two mills, one, employing 500 and the other
300 hands, had stopped within the last two months,
while the decrease in the custom-duties was 2,000/. for
the first time. At Kirriemuir, 400 unemployed, and po-
verty very great. At Bankfoot, 273 without means of
support: at Largs 176.

Examination was again proceeded with yesterday be-
fore the Bankruptcy Commissioner into the affairs of
William Hitchcock, linendraper, and further hearing
adjourned to eleven o'clock on Friday next.
The equalisation of the duty between East and West
India sugars, has increased the shipment of that article
250 per cent., while, at the same tune, the whole of the
Presidency of Bengal has consumed its own produce, the
'importation of the foreign product being wholly prohibited.

PUBLXC MPROVEMENTS.

The proposed improvements at the West-end are to
commence at Lady-day, or as soon after that period as
possible. The line of Coventry-street, through Oran-
bourne-alley, will be continued, and a vast number of
houses on the Marquis of Salisbury's estate will be pulled
down. The line of the intended new street will be com-
menced in Cdstle-street, Long-acre, where the houses,will
be first pulled down.

ELECTIONEERING.
Sir Charles Lemon has new positively announced him-
self a candidate for West Cornwall; the requisition was
signed by 1,700 electors, besides whom there are many
who have given promises to vote.

NAVAL. AND MILITARY.
A strong snow-storm and wind drove no less than 14
vessels ashore on Thursday upon the Sunderland coast.
The damage they sustained is great, and two of the crews
were saved by the life-boat.
From the report read at the meeting of the Royal
Naval Benevolent Society yesterday, it appeared that the
receipts and disbursements left a clear balance of 7281.
3s. 4d.

General Scott, of bialleny, the oldest officer in the
British army, attained his 97th year on Thursday last,
which was celebrated by a dinner at Balerno. He is five
years the senior of even Lord Lynedoch, and has served
in most quarters of the globe.

LAW AND POLICE.
The new Police-court in Bow-street was opened yes-
terday for the despatch of business. It is very commo-
dious, and forms an agreeable contrast to the old, ill-
ventilated, dark, and confined chamber so long the chief
police-office of the metropolis.
At Clerkenwell, James Laywall, aged 42, was charged
ith having deserted and cruelly treated his wife and
children. It appeared that the poor woman, who refused
to enter the workhouse, was in a dying state through
starvation, and though she had three young children in
the hovel in which she. lived crying for bread, the hus-
band would make no exertions to provide for them. He
was committed to the House of Correction to be kept at
hard labour for a month.

Two starved farm-labourers, who came from Ashford,

Kent, were brought before ifr. Ravvlinson, at Maryle-
bone, charged with stealing a quartern loaf'. On en-
tering a baker's shop one of them asked for a " big one,"
broke it in two, handed one-half to his hungry comrade,
and both commenced eating it with great avidity. They
had no money, could get no work, and took the bread to
save themselves from starvation. They were remanded.
Two men were charged at Lambeth-street with driv-
ing a gig at a furious rate on Sunday night along the:East
India Dock Road. The horse, it appeared, in attempting
to clear a side-bar, got entangled and broke its legs in
two or three places. The men were both intoxicated,
and one was fined ss. for being drunk, and the other 21.
for furious driving.
At Union-hall, William Yates, charged with com-
mitting between thirty and forty frauds on charitable
institutions and private
,individuals, was committed for
trial.

PINE A.R.
Wood-carving, which has beenTS
long in neglect, 'is re-
viving in France, and some highly-wrought specimens
now adorn the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, and
theporch of St. Germain des Pres.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
Mr. Conder has invented a new " Messenger propel-
ling engine," the uses of which are likely to be important
on railways. The species of propulsion which distinguishes
it, will entirely supersede the machinery which is always
at work on the Blackwell and other railways, where 18
miles of rope are constantly being wound and unwound.
The French Government have already appointed a Com-
mission to examine the engine, with a view to adapt it to
the new lines of road in France.
VOURT-FASHIONABLE.
The Marquis of Anglesea arrived at Uxbridge House
on Saturday,:from Beaudesert.
Earl Grosvenor arrived yesterday from Motcomiie
Park, and in a day or two proceeds to Eaton Hall,
Cheshire.

The Earl and Countess of Carlisle leave Castle-
:oward on the 26th for town.

The Earl and Countess Delawarr arrived in Upper
Grosvenor-street yesterday, from-Buekhurst, Sussex.
Mr. Hope returned to Mansfield-street last week, from
Deepdene.

Tile Earl and Countess of Eglinton arrived at the
Clarendon last night, from Beaufort Castle.