The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-06 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
ti bite JAHattoti.

" Who runs may read."

POREIGN.

The original columns of the Paris journals are full
of comments upon squabbles in the Chamber of De-
puties about contested elections. They are of no im-
portance to the English public.
A letter from Nuremberg says :—" The highly im-
portant undertaking of the canal connecting the Rhine
and the-Danube is near its completion, that portion of
it, in the vicinity of Neumark and • Altdorf; where
stupendous excavations have been required, being
accomplished under the direction of M. Spaeth, civil
engineer of Nuremberg. The Government had in-
tended that the whole should be opened by the
end of July, but it appears that the line between Nu-
remberg and Bamberg will be the only part opened to the
public this year. Another undertaking connected with
the canal, and of equal importance, the establishment of
a railroad from Augsburg to the Saxon frontier by Nu-
remberg and Bamberg, has at length been begun, the
King of Bavaria, himself taking a lively interest in it.
The delay has been painful to the public, who attributed
it to an apprehension in the Government that it would
be injurious to the canal; but this railroad will closely
unite the north and south of Germany."
The Madrid Journals .of the 27th ult., with only one
or two exceptions, censure in the strongest terms the
conduct of General Zurbano in Catalonia, which they
say is distinguished by barbarity and atrocity towards
all who are suspected of being enemies of the Govern-
ment. Our readers will remember that this is the Ge-
neral, who, on taking the coxamand of the district to
which he has been appointed, issued an order for shoot-
ing any person who, having had the misfortune to be
taken by rebels, should consent to pay them ransom for
his life and liberty.

The Marchioness of Belgida, the Lady of Honour to
the Queen, dismissed by Senor Arguelles, her Majesty's
Guardian, has written a letter to the Peninsular, ex-
plaining the motives that led to her dismissal. She
states that there was an inquisitorial service around
her Majesty not required either for the Queen's
safety or that of the State, and which could
only have for effect to degrade the throne and
insult the proverbial loyalty of Spaniards. " I
believe," says the Marchioness, "imbued as I am
with Liberal principles, that a system of frank communi-
cation would accustom her Majesty to be accessible to
all ranks of society, and to receive every individual,
without reference to his political opinions. A coterie
watches her Majesty's actions and words, and this sys-
tem of isolation and exclusion I do not think ought to be
adapted to form a noble and magnanimous soul, nor a
good, indulgent, and conciliatory character. In this state
of things I should compromise my delicacy, and my dig-
nity, and duty, if I became an accomplice in a system
that I believe to be bad, and I preserved functions which
I could not exercise usefully for my Queen and for my
country."

PARIMELIV/ENTAItY.
The House of Lords met as usual yesterday, and, after for-
warding a considerable number of Bills, including the Lribery
Bill, which was read a second time, on the motion of Lord
Campbell, adjourned to this day.
The House of Commons met at twelve o'clock, and was en-
gaged, principally, with the Newfoundland Bill in Committee
till four o'clock, Mr. O'Connell eppoaing and dividing on several
clauses. The Bill went through the Committee. Ordered to
be reported to-day.
Alr. O'Connell moved for copies of correspondence between
the Government of Ireland, the Magistrates, and the police,
relative to the emplo%ment of spies to foster, and then detect,
Ribbonism. Lord Eliot declined to produce it, because,
pssibly, his Lordship is ashamed, at letst we hope so, of the
conduct of the Government on this subject. Mr. O'Connell
divided the House on his motion, which was lost by 72 to 24.
On the House resuming at five o'clock, Lord Palmerston
gave notice of a motion for correspondence between a Alember
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to a refusal of
the Chiltern Hundreds. The Chancellor will not be a party to
election compromises.
In reply to Mr. Villiers, Mr. B. Baring stated that orders
had been sent out to promote the abolition of slavery in Singa-
pore and Penang. From India drafts of laws for the gradual
abolition of slavery had been transmitted to this country, and
the Directors of the East India Company bad signified their
assent to them,
Dlr. Redhead Yorke drew the attention of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer to the irregularity of the delivery of the Income-
tax papers, when that lively official was jocular about gentle-
men not yet having had the pleasure of filling.them up. To do
that will requite legal assistance, and we would propose that for
each paper Government be charged an attorney's fee. Some
persons say that they are made complicated on purpose.
The Ecclesiastical Corporations Bill was read a third time
and passed. Sir James Graham added clauses relative to
letting mines, and there was a slight discussion on the principle
of appropriating Church property, when Lord Palmerston re-
marked that the present Ministry took a middle course, jus-
tified by no principle, of dealing with Church property, but
only for one particular purpose.
Mr. M. Philips opposed the motion for the Speaker to leave
the chair, in order that the House might go into a Committee
on the Bankruptcy Bill, but gave way, and the Bill was dis-
cussed in Committee. It occupied the principal part of the
evening. The House rose at a Quarter past Two.
PUBLIC OPINION.

The Herald observes, in reference to the Ipswich eke-
tion :—" Ipswich is defended -by the advocates of cor-
ruption on the very ground that we anticipated: The ex-
penditure at the lust election was too small to constitute
venality. Bribery is not bribery so long as the price of
a vote is only thirty shillings ; make it thirty pounds
a head, and an election Committee may void a return
without being abused by a journal, the politics of which
vary according to the state •of the biliary secretions or
the electioneering interests of its chief proprietor. The
law formerly meted out punishment for larceny accord-
ing to the value of the stolen goods ; the Times would,
in manner equally barbarous, regulate the decisions of
Election Committees by the price given for the suffrage.
What, void an Ipswich election because .5001. have been
spent in purchasing votes ! Forbid it the undetected
thousands that have been spent on forms occasions."
The Chronicle says:—" The Times has taken to 're-
flect upon the decision of the Ipswich Election Com-
mittee; and the more it reflects the less it likes the de-
cision. But it turns out with marvellous exactness, that
every topic of lamentation to the Times is adapted to
afford satisfaction to the public. In its leader of yester-
day, we have a succession of vituperations that will com-
mend themselves to all honest minds as grounds of ap-
proval. We begin to think there must be considerable
preniise of good in this decision, to make it seem so un-
savoury to the palate of corruption. The Times com-
plains of the Committee for a Report tending to over-
turn all the notions which the world has hitherto enter-
tained upon the subject of bribery.' This is just what was
wanted. 'The world,' i. e. the bribing world, has hi-
therto acted upon its own lax and unprincipled notions.
Bribery is notoriously treated as a joke at the Clubs. It
induces no taint upon character; it damages nobody in
society. Very gross cases were to be shunned, because
of their folly, their publicity, and their inconveniences;
but even such were deemed rather unfortunate than cul-
pable. The Ipswich Committee has startled this
world' by applying the professed test strictly and ho-
nestly."
The Post thus speaks of the approaching harvest :
" The cutting down of the harvest is rapidly proceeding
in many quarters, and under the most favourable
auspices. Never was this country blessed with a finer
season. It is true that no fineness of the weather now
will wholly make up for the defective sowing of last
autumn, and the wetness of the early winter which in-
jured a good deal of the seed. The wheat crops are,
therefore, in many instances far from thick—there is a
more than the usual distance between •the stems— but
everywhere the ear is remarkably fine, and with such
weather as this we may expect a quality of grain which
will yield much more and much better flour than has
been obtained from English wheat of late years. We
doubt whether, since 1826, the harvest has been so early
as it is this year."
The Times expresses itself as follows, respecting cer-
tain clauses in Lord John Russell's Bribery Bill :—" We
lately exposed the futility, except for purposes of mis-
chief, of those provisions in Lord John Russell's Bribery
Bill which have passed the House of Commons. We
showed that the zeal exhibited to defeat • compromises
would only have the effect of checking the introduction
of charges of bribery into election petitions by parties
claiming the seat ; while the machinery afforded for,
enabling investigations of alleged bribery to be prose-
cuted at the public expen.se at_ the instance of common
informers, with the strange proviso that no seat should
be affected by the result, seemed framed merely for the
purpose of exposing Members and their constituents to an
incalculable expense and annoyance, and bringing the
constitution of Parliament into general contempt. If
the Ipswich precedent is to stand, it is quite manifest
that no candidate seeking a seat will dare to "bring
against any sitting Member a charge of bribery which
cannot be withdrawn, because no man can possibly be
safe against a case of recrimination. On the other hand,
if the same precedent is to stand,.Fharges of bribery will,
as certain as the sun shines in heaven, be made by elec-
tors and prosecuted at the public expense, under Lord
John Russell's Bill, against every sitting Member who is
returned after a contest ; for, according to this definition
of bribery, it will always be easy to get up such a ease
beforehand as shall at least secure the petitioners against
being saddled with the costs of the inquiry."
On the subjesit of the late news from China the Ad-
vertiser remarks :—" Turning from India to China, the
most important feature is in the intelligence that an Im-
perial Commissioner was en route to offer 40,000,000
dollars as compensation to the British for the expenses
of the war, and the surrendered opiuM ; and also the
cession of Hong Kong, on condition of peace. We have
here, then, something like a promise of termination to
our Chinese struggle. But what will the cants' say
to the accepting of these terms ? According to them,
the rupture was our fault, that England provoked it by
entering upon an iniquitous and forbidden trade, and that
having placed herself in a way to be wronged and in-
sulted, she was not justified in seeking reparation. What,
then, are we to do now, since it appears reparation is
about to be proffered ? Why, pocket the dollars, and
decline the standing disgrace' of securing Hong Kong,
We are told ! There is logical ethics in this with a ven-
geance—' true honour and justice'
we should most as-
suredly think ! Why, if we bad no right to enter upon
the conflict, we have no right, on any plea, of touching a
dallar of those millions. For the sake of putting an end
to the war, forsooth ! Impudent incone'ruity.! Canyon
not end the war without pocketing a fraction of the
dollars ? or accepting the dollars out qf mercy .to the sill-
ferino Chinese, why stick half way in so much kindness,
and reject the other half of their offer ?"
MONEY—TIimpz—COMMERCE.
In 'Wakefield, every branch of business is reported to
be improving a little.
The shawl manufacture at Paisley, which has up to
the present time suffered most, has taken a fresh impulse
in the factory of Messrs. Holmes and Le Batard, where
all hand's are employed.
The master-tradesmen, resident in Chelsea and its