The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-07 00:00:00

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It is confidently stated at Paris that the Rouen and
Paris railroad will be opened next spring. The Pre'
valence of the most dense fog that had visited that
city since the winter of 1829 still prevented all corn:
munication by telegraph, and the arrivals by P°l
from Spain had not on Monday brought news t''
later dates than that received by telegraph on FridaY;
A supplement of the Madrid Official Gazette 0'
the 28th, contains the Decree of the Regent for the
blockade of the port of Barcelona.
Private accounts from Alexandria of the 22d ult.
state that the object of Artin Be 's visit to Paris was_
to raise a loan for the Pacha of Egypt. Several cases
of plague had occurred in ;Lower Egypt. The nor"
tality amongst the oxen still continued.
The Semaphore of Marseilles announces the In'
rival there of the Amsterdam steam-boat from 13e,rfil
celona, which city she left on the 30th, when the
destruction of the British line-of-battle ship Fero"
able appeared inevitable. to
The election for twenty Deputies in Portugel r
supply the vacant seats had alt terminated in fav°ea
of the Government. The Chambers had, lloweLver;
been further adjourned till the 28th December, w"ie
the extraordinary session would be closed, and tb
Chambers prorogued till the 2d January.•
A great quantity of rich furniture and other 'Valuli
able articles, belonging to the King of Hellind,baeeu
which were left in the Palace at Brussels, have
lately received safely at the Hague. col-
The '
of reports prevalent at Constantinople, that he.
lision had taken place upon the frontiers cf Perella Lie -
tween the Sultans troops and those of the Shah l'
totally unfounded. A riga
The Journal de Frankfort states that the - the
Government has just adopted a course respeot'°,,,c end
Lombardo-Venetian Railroad, which will Put a
the
to any differences that may have arisen betivees
shareholders and the Committee. Not only d inigll
not offer any opposition to the Com Pane ci3nhen?!
lu it
the works as long as their funds perm"' t
•
will complete the rest of the line as a State ral r, cv ut
ed in
A letter from Vienna of the 25th ult., publisn
the Journal de Frankfort, states that the imirPo in
Bank of Austria had at present G 0,000,0 fl"beirse'
specie in its cellars, proceeding from the
reeirn lent.
ments made to that establishment by the G°l7-11)
PUBLIC OPINION. iek
We quote the following from the citron% bo are
" Suppose the merchants, manufacturers, Scce League
subscribing their fifties and hundreds te thr'. it a
Fund were to accompany the contribution wit
1., eat
claration to the effect that they subscribed 15itePg no
of regard for an abstract principle ; that they
co tila•
conception of any advantage to the various 513.,:it of
tions in which they are embarked from the reP'vt end
the Corn-laws; that the change would neither:it Dent
their operations, enhance their profits', nor beset' „Ol-
in any way whatever to the amount of one sinro
ling : we should like to know how the Tory J.° that
would treat such a declaration ? We itnqinf:
their columns would shake with laughter at the
parent insincerity or egregious folly of such a de( ',icier
tion. Nor would. they fail to show, and with this
logic than they are accustomed to employ, eft
pretence implied a complete condemnation of ti. apt
forts and objects of the League. For if the cal)] tit
(they would argue, and justly) reap no benefit r fcr
Corn-law repeal, then who will ? Not the cultivate
_;eos
his customers will remain as impoverished as they' tl4, lo •
present. Not the workpeople, for there will be r
crease of employment, nor the chance of better vs. %or
Not the nation atlarge,for there will be neither mai' '7,0r0
means to use the liberty of purchasing foreign
_ents
without any of that extension of trade which aug' "jolt
its wealth. What an aimless and mad crusade.,
tioo,
it would be inferred, is this Anti-Corn-law eg
And what a strange exception from the comrn Jas ,rho
of human action is the conduct of those pers'nl4..t;en be
are giving away their 50,0001. to benefit neither
selves nor any of their fellow-creatures! It mtiter
well conceived with what gibes and jeers, what, foes
sarcasm and thundering denunciation, the , .this
would greet language of this sort from the lie,.
Fund subscribers. Well, then, the reversetakes place. A Liverpool merchant, a P„cte'
meeting, puts down his 1001., and avows his aet 1
ail
tion that, should the fund accomplish its w0,4"„,,h tot
be a large gainer by his present liberality. etj,
motion of the objects of the League is an eftbru ty,
thin justice. It is also a work of the noblest chat,
)0;
But besides that, it is also a profitable. spout,' POt
and if it were not a profitable speculation, it cettic,,,ver
possess either of its higher attributes. Th,eves the
motive or character of the contribution in
burstshigher.
out Overlookinginto
jeers
ee rs an
thisd obviousgibes,
re• tasrumtshstatthdaedd ert.o
i gun'et
ciations, just as energetic as if the speaker had
diri,chtelyTthime
eosppsoasyiste:_gr,o‘und." 001
pain we have witnessed the re-aPPe'rance ..-at
With feelings of u° of that
frightful. system (for shocking as it is to acknodwere 0;1
it is no less)—that frightful system muhr of ire
outrage which has so long infested the sout
land, and in particular the unhaPPY lal&3 ce
racy, and which, as we firma believe, no vigi d is-
can totally suppress, and no legislation effectuallyf it
arm. No executive vigilance can suppres.sslige
ctio ne
has its life and being, not in any spirit of '1
resistan
county or. .1:i I
not in its hostility to authority, or in its /11
o,
to political order, but in the disorder and
c°
trol
of a , sphere of duties beyond the coarse co.n
for it
human law ; and no legislation can touch It.)tis 3'
is independent of mistaken or defective lawsli oto
dependent of religious difference, and Ine„e,Lat
is it independent of mere party politics. ll'
_,l
misgovernment may have aggravated the ;,nt
of course admitted, but this has not been the
.i 3 pilot
of the mischief. The evil has arisen floc
e
to
say that the removal of the cause will nowis
remedy the fearful disorder that has roll° yic
the evil has arisen in the general syste:n liP°lldue tea'
the occupation of land has been based and eon di ord.
and in the treatment of: the occupier by the lan, t bat,
The state of the country has been such,—a"u the
let it be admitted, owing to circumstances be.l'.°".(t the
control of individual landlords or tenants,—huL
een
state of the country, from whatever cause, Ilas„.
such, that a breach on the part of the landlord ;1 )1 el
duties towards his tenantry—of those eq°,lo
charitable, and unwritten duties which are n°'tli a
found in the letter of his contract, but beyena4,', le! 3
which are not therefore the less binding, '3r " until
dangerous in the neglect,;—the state of the done '
,we say, has been such, that the breach of thaf,e trod 5
could riot fail to be attended with the most eeisas
each, I
consequences to the tenant; and yet that 1 r „.-
rather that total neglect, has, it cannot be
ding
been rather the rule than the exception?'
azoNEr—TRAnZ.—CODITVISSCCIP'A jut le:
At a meeting of the proprietors of the G-Jan'. ,ed•
tion Canal Company, held yesterday at the Crew'; ;vs
Anchor Tavern, the report stated that thellet ton co.
for the halfyear ending June were 10,2704 less_:'l,l it -
in the preceding six months—a falling off attijo y •
able to the general depression of trade in. the co"
A dividend of 31. 10s. was declared for the half yell"
ECCSIASTICAL.
Dr. Parry, the new Bishop of Barbadoes,AO 1
at his distant diocese on the Bth ult.
ELECTIONEEIUNG. with'
The Hon. James Stuart Wortley was elected ti 4 3
out opposition on Thursday last, as a rePresie:/itillif o a
for Buteshire, in the room of the late Sir
Rae, Lord Advocate of Scotland.
NAVAL AND 11117LITABIr• t
n s or
Further enlistments for the navy have bee
by order. , sundf
Sundt
In consequence of Christmas falling On „ be
the customary dockyard holiday will be given ,
following day.

SPOIETING.
The "lawn-meeting" at Badminton on 313ncigis
held by his Grace the Duke of Beau'fort, forrnedar.
most brilliant field : in addition to nearly 5°
riages, there were more than 1,000 equestriau
Their Royal Highnesses the -Duke and Duchess
Cambridge, with the Princess Augusta and the Grad
Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, were present, an'
sumptuous breakfast was given in the great hall.
COURT—FASIZIONABLZ.
Tne Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Prir
cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and ti
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelil
to
have arrived at Strathfieldsaye, Hants, on a visit
the Duke of Wellington. at
The Marquis of Camden is passing the winter
the Wilderness, Kent.
Viscount Duncannon and family have arrived in
Cavendish-square, from Besborough, in Ireland. L
The Marquis of Breadalbane leaves Taymou to
Castle on Saturday next for Edinburgh.
The Marquis of Exeter has returned to Grose e-
nor-square.
The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, and the La dies
Paget, are passing the season at Tewin Waters, F
Lert-
fordshire.
The Earl of Haddington has left town on a visit to
Lord Wharncliffe, at Wortley llall, Yorkshir e.
Viscount Northland, M.P., arrived yesterday ill
Pall-mall, from Dungannon Park, Ireland.
The Duke of Norfolk has arrived on fly;le Park-
terrace, from Surrey.
Lord G. Paget has left town for Deane ?ark.
MISCELLANEOUS,
Meyerbeer's brother, to whom he waslntich attached,
died from apoplexy a few days since
In the streets of
Berlin.
Lord Edward Clinton, son of his Grace the Duke
of Newcastle, died of fever on his outward passage to
China, in June last : his remains were buried at the
entrance of the Gulf of Siam.
The emigration from the port of Belfast, durin the
three but year has consisted o f 18.040.