The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-21 00:00:00

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The Co • FOREIGN.tpeat fotutionne/ notices a rumour relative to the
it is said, the suppression of the Slave Trade. M. Guizot,
her of )3,, immediately after the discussion in the Chem-
iself"gagraottiti applied to Lord Aberdeen for a pro-
afii°tellia:tliPit the period of delay granted for the exchange
loinsesOf the treaty, and for the opening of new
• tietionrSanotfsselheavz
ionngesfor their principal objects the modi-
, and the limitation of the number
zi.—_"arrrte,evidtt. to thoubvee granted to cruisers. Lord Aberdeen is
replied that the British Government
Teta dij t° grant to France all the delay that the re-
liereesap .ttatst°ll in the Chamber of Deputies rendered
inedifie4., but that it could not consent to the slightest
lon of the treaty.
The Nati
refotti anal states that several petitions for electoral
Meet, are been deposited in the Secretary's Office of
the Rhaolnber of Deputies, That from the department of
fr°,4:b:rbelloefiseitresab)..ys' i=l,63ssigned by 10,454 persons ; that
113,40 e. personsaltoge.thor the
signateres to the petition in question were
cri'::erihsseeronern,i'lfarinerce, in noticing the conversation in the
that °f about Cabrera, mentions a report
Rodil has espoused the cause of Queen
4,4' - against Espartero and that Cabrera has cons
Geo- to take part in a new' movement in her favour,
TrealitVillereal having refused.
mint stey°°lle Papers mention that a Spanish Govern-
Passa
amen and two brigs of war are in the harbour o
a toliroS.,' General Goni had arrived in the Ba.stan, on
st.
_!•TisPFction of the military post of the frontiers.
eeelliev.Lnitstian some steps had recently been taken for
pau.'g the armament of that place. '
rts correspondent writes--" General Ramon
,rsers who wa.
oft th, implicated in the late conspiracy iu Spain,
for souleFrench. capital (where ho had been sa)ourning
elabape ~tune) on Thursday, fel- London, where he will
tt aiavie?r Portugal, in order to. assume the command
itself f„:l°,4 of the Portuguese army which has declared
with the ' ,the Charter. General Narvaez was in Paris
aenlltinknowledge and concurrence of the French
uPee,el)''ent- This intelligence may be implicitly relied
a Tae
!ariporta elle des; Pyrenees of the 15th instant says a.—
,he esoin• 14 events are preparing in the Peninsula for
linos of o,sPring. A Liononspicy against the fre.e-
Pes ha,'4'4 is in finma The Carlists and Chris-
°' (lite euMpacted an alliance. Don Carlos, weary
raie h.', as written to his Seides, calling upon them to
i•dattthid-„standard again, and has appointed Villareal
" of the Basque Provinces, with orders to
-tithe „f.I'Ll in defence of their fueros. The moderados,
eaciti„-'4er hand, assume the republican mask, and are
eti„ g Catalonia, Valencia, and Andalusia, to insur-
asserond The refugees of October.declare that they are
direct ofcthe support of the French Government—in-
Wa "rst, but afterwards direct, as soon as it can
seyerciiiranted by events. We must acknowledge that
'heir h facts passing before our eyes seem to warrant
a'al °Pes• Why have General Jaureguy (El Pastor),
1\ hat •;s Ribed, of Painpeluna, returned within our walls?
• m, a.t,he notorious Aviranetta doing
.here ? For
inq for 'what purpose, are 11,000,000 of ear-
• th„ ',":„,esing made in the arsenal of Bayonne ? Why
1::"Y Contractor secretly buying up large stores of
adv?aa!i, and oats?"
tattich'.is from Turin state, that great preparations are
h'svo 'g in that capital for the marriage of the Duke of
pez,,jYNvith the Archduchess Adelaide of Austria. After
rioes'bt!iree days at the Chateau of Stupinis,
.the lam-
ella • rale and bridegroom are to make their solemn.
reijeilrint° the capital ; and a series of. fetes and public
?oth Igs will ensue. The Municipality of Turin has
oeeksi 'OOO,OOO francs for the expences of the joyous
its f which 2e0,000 francs are for wedding pre-
icsito be offered to the young Princess. It is said that
tikkorng, will grant a political amnesty in commemora-
riatY 4 tne event, and will also concede a diminution of
oush°'ti salt, for the benefit of the agriculturists. A grand
"nt on the Place of San Carlo is talked of.
The le runzic OPINION.
Lesolo,i -Lvdrning Herald says of Mr. Villiers's Corn-law
villieps '°4 on Friday in the House of Commons :—" Mr.
Ito ts resolution is felt by the House to be insincere
nes; 4 thrown out by internal Radicalism to the
eei7si, that deception, a.nd
curing,'ltailufa and agitation' making, which
section'l3, he absolutely necessary to secure Liberal re-
la Westminster, Wolverhampton, Glasgow, and
Eeell'• The House resents the waste of public time.
llaalaithlerse electioneering tactics cause ; and so, if
at lit "ielzhe.•:rs will obstruct public business, they have
th,"7,tlte e'estruction to themselves."
1,7 (' 1.`,,i7,4es condemns Mr. Villiers's recent speech on
41e,,-*laws, in very summary terms, as follows :-
4ectshe s`
-,,eeh of Mr. Villiers on Friday was in many re-
; e s„ "tter for the Crown and Anchor than for the
't tetl-5' of Commons. A very considerable. proportion of
yenl'haa-tilt up with mere declamatory invemctoitvieon;
was
5t0,44.._ was of argument pertinent his
111%Z of sophistries less skilfully disguised than we
te,'lete4s"ave expected. It would be difficult for any one
tsitt, Mr. Villiers's speech to discover whether he ad-
-1%4;1 ('.denied that peculiar burdens are laid upon
• property in this country?'
°Piteo•-hu°g• is pleased to entertain a somewhat different
02 Mr. Villiers as a Parliamentary debt:tier, ob-
kliP '-•-•" He seems to have no notion of the propriety
I'ne• -,4essing himself to the common sense and practical.
*ledge of Members of the House of Commons. He
l.Cr cutting through every difficulty with. the word of
leav'Dinfident theorism ; but, however aet",;faetory this
like"),°;e to himself, and to shallow, sot-headed people
seep, it seems to reasonabl; men to be mere froth
as. .4'4e gabble. It is not iti.telligible, and it has not the
jlu, at of novelty. 'Take the orations of Henry
Bent, the blackingseaan, and sprinkle them with, a few
ami a few extracts from any of the pam-
all t 6• °,4„free trade and political economy, and you have
Itt)pears , -4r- Villiers has said, and, indeed, all that he
~rnoe capable of saying."
Clironiele slates that the Coi;ri-law scheme of
fir,;'4s,rs has nowhere satisfied tie people and that in
'5e,4„; Places the strongest feel;:ags of dissatisfaction have
kiti,p "pressed with res-iiect to it. "A union of the
hnsle, and Working classes," adds our contemporary,
ford \'',eeti created, in every town, at Stockport,.Brad-
rotit short, in all the towns from which ac-
fratitis,°a.v° yet. reached us. The people are said to be
"?,ith rage and disappointment."
d ,Alvertiser says that the bankrupt laws stand in
'4.3-; "'amendment • but that it is the duty of a Mins-
k; 'c
r,' Pro Pose measures' that will benefit the Many be-
au oeb"s'aisultingthe interests of the Few ; and proceeds
fe,r,,re :—" We should have been much better satis-
aar' ''`'e Speech from the Throne had nromised a mea-
notleri,-(4' making justice cheap, than wej are by
.the,
beti3ollelit of contemplated improvements,
.which will
NVO'" °illy particular classes of the community."
rest quote the following from the Dublin Etentng
t(iii'7--"This is the time for Orange plaire-hunters.
'llB4 de Grey and Mr. Blackburne, we are told, have
risp', toyed eighteen barristers, who ste`..ed as Supernume-
Pern'i',vown Prosecutoas on Cirgrait, and they have ap-
ArlirL", instead, eleven doz';, of Orange and Tory law-
tit'se\ii-tse3sl3.id, vo..arri.,y for
abachectoaunbtyr—infanadndfortmeanchgnaisnseizaes
1,1 • piece,
d ey may get
appears every reason to an-
"saPrrat:--'ihe ceouiTtrays should become as disturbed. and r
-etionary as it used to be in the old Tory times.
tap Leeds Times says—" Though Lord John Russell
4}' '''s" the mischiefs of the sliding scale of dnties, he
4/1°,.(1, that
would alike impose a
he was in principle as much a bread-taxer as
tloty 'inert Peel himself. Both wog
tax the People's food—the, one proposes a variable
ae on 'roan 20s. to ls. on the quarter of wheat, the other_
giih„ll‘4,4rYing tax of Bs. per quarter. It is true that
Lord
fprinciples
professes to be in love with the
11)1,0_ee Trade ; but in the very same breath he demands
to‘,*etlo4, for the agricultural interest, and proposes
tionx' which in most cases would amount to aph
ell the first necessary of life."
411,1'1:lel, following. appeara in the Bolton Free Press—
Atvi3l,4= indignation against the slidingn
of this in-
the ',Le form, has long been gath.eri.gscsatrleenginth,evaenrd),
f44:;ore, the long cogitated modification.t
tore,- machine' and 'mystery of iniqui
as ,ward hY Sir R. Peel,
,14, barefaced mockery of the people
has been everywylinerne7repburdima'gtehdt
la he
Weis' n thus alludes to Sir R. r
Minister at the
jectrouen'toravaer the ills to which the country is sub-
he hY the misfortune of having a
an.of
of affairs, destitute alike of moral courage, d
:sh rY ;reat and statesmanlike quality. Sir Robert has
• p,t114 himself a man of mere words, lavish indeed of
The Ipll, but a niggard in performance."
of re following is from the Glasgow Pest :—" The Duke.....on
st -ievelwed, lately deceased, has left at least a milli
tweirlin„.. to
be divided amongst his heirs. Not more than
IttY years ago, a hundred thousand pounds, left under
,te• eTili_circumstaiic'es, would haT been considered
hho fortune. Let the workine• classes who hesitate
whout auPPorthig the repeal of the Corn-laws inquire at
Se expense this change has taken place 1'
The 11.201'emY—COMMERCE.—COltqelpie.CE.
Pr r". _Report of the Scientific Commission, composed of
othas°r ev Sir J. Herschel, Mr. Lubbock, and
other dit, r• VA r • appointed to inquire into the
Prea, inguiseea literati,
othp,,,tlt standard weights and measures, proposes among
co 3' standard
imporiant points :-1. A system of decimal
re,rn„P°' aition to be adopted in all weights, measures,. an
tioa 2, the abolition of troy weight, and subs.itn
d•
of avoirdupois : and 3, correction of the local
it,. ards of the kingdom, which are at present highly
''.Perfect, as also the laws relating to their examination
'9 inspectors.
thiAtit Bradford trade is still dull ; at Huddersfield no-
„.. g whatever is doing ; at Leeds, since the Govern-
L.-tient plan for corn has appeared, the cloth market has
nu "°llle much worse ; as is also the case at Manchester.
either at Leicester, or Rochdale, is any business doing.
A requisition is in the course of signature
.at South-
ampton, calling on the Mayor to convene a public meeting,
that an expression ma • begiven from the towns of Hamir-
shire there, as to the opinion of 60,000 persons on Si
Robert Peel's Corn-law scale.
NAVAL AND
The court-martial at Portsmouth on Captain Nicolas
of the Vindictive, closed on Saturday, when he was
ac-
quitted of all blame, and his sword returned him by St
Edward Owen.
The demise of Colonel Stretton, one of the heroes of
'Waterloo, has placed Viscount Castlemaine's family in
mourning. Colonel Stretton married Lord Castlemaine's
sister in 1830.

LAW AND POLICE.
At n. Commission of Lunacy opened at the Greyhound
Inn, Old Kent-road, to inquire as to the soundness of
mind of Jacob Emmett, aged 51, the only surviving son
of the late Mr. Thomas Emmett, the well-known exten-
sive cowkeeper, he was declared " to have been of un-
sound mind since August, 1837."