The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

public Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The Journal des Dsbats comments with much severity,
because with much truth, upon M. Thiers' speech upon
the Eastern question, delivered in the French Chamber
of Deputies. The Debats shows that for six years M.
Thiers laughed at every position which he now lays down
as immutable.

The Presse is even more severe on the ex-President of
the Council than the Debats. According to that jour-
nal 111. Thiers is only influenced by a desire to regain
office, having no regard whatever to principle.
The National considers M. Thiers' speech clever and
patriotic, but adds, that the orator is himself not to be
trusted by any party. Office is the only loadstone which
has attractions for the noisy, bustling historian of the
Revolution. _ _ _

Some rumours having been circulated that the King
was unwell, the Debats says :—" These reports are to-
tally unfounded; the King's health continues to be very
good, with the exception of a slight cold. His Majesty
has not ceased to transact public business.
The Temps states that sixty-nine Journals of depart-
ments have given in their adhesion to the " declaration"
published a short time since by the Paris Opposition
papers.
The Comte de Rohan Chabot, French Consul-General
in Egypt, has arrived at Marseilles from Alexandria.
Not motive is given for his visit to France.
PUBLIC OPINION.

The Times has an article on the subject of the Niger
Expedition, the object of which is to show that the whole
thing was a mere delusion, and that its utter failure
might have been anticipated. " Not a single item," says
our Contemporary, " in the whole catalogue of splendid
impossibilities has been realised ; but lives of more
value than the whole genus of Buxtons and Stephens
have been sacrificed in making the experiment. The
frothy speeches and the unmeaning applause* have
thrown families into mourning ; the lavish expenditure
of public money has made, not one freeman in Africa,
but many widows in England."
The Advertiser is of opinion that if Sir Robert Peel
adopt any plain, definite principle at all, he cannot but
help on the cause of Reform ; and adds that if he con-
tinue submissive and docile under the hands of the
Richmonds and Buckinghams ; adopt the landlords' in-
terests, and echo their insane cry of no surrender ; how-
ever he may gloss over his course with specious and
artful phrases, the triumph of Sunderland will be fol-
lowed by a long list of similar successes that will waste
his strength in Parliament, and leave him only the mi-
serable shadow of power.
The Herald congratulates its readers on the appoint-
ment of Dr. Gilbert to the Bishopric of Chichester, re-
marking that on personal grounds this nomination is
very satisfactory, but that in the existing condition of
the Church it is invaluable. The chief reason for our
Contemporary's satisfaction is, that the new Bishop is a
staunch Anti-Puseyite.,
The Chronicle states that the time is close at hand
when Sir Robert Peel must have done with vague pro-
fessions and generalities, and speak boldly out as to what
he means, or does not mean, to do. "He must let us
know," adds the Chronicle," whether he is for, or against,
any effectual relaxation of the Corn-laws--whether he
means to hold by, or give up, the New Poor-law—whether
he means to restrict the use of machinery and the hours of
adult labour—whether he is for Lord Stanley's Registra-
tion Bill, or against it. It will be a fatal moment for
the Tory Ministry when they have thus to declare them-
selves."

The Post scouts the idea that the Tories are anxious
to repeal the Reform Act ; and states, "if we read our
Conservative Prime Minister aright, nothing which does
not find favour with the public, will find favour with him.
We do not praise him on that account—far from it. He
will find plenty to do so, and will not miss our voice."
The Liverpool Journal observes, in an article on Mr.
Cresswell's retirement from the representation of that.
town:—" We are on the verge of the assembling of Par-
liament, and nothing is known of the intentions of the
Ministry beyond the notorious fact that they do not know
their own, and that secret dissensions in the Cabinet sup-
ply the place of interminable debates in the House of
Commons; while every reflecting man is impressed with
the conviction, that nothing but prompt and vigorous
commercial reform can avert total and overwhelming ruin."
The Glasgow Saturday Post, speaking of the recent
application of the Derby and Nottingham stocking-
weavers to Prince Albert, says—" When the great mass
of the middle class, purchasers of silk hosiery, are com-
pelled from poverty to descend to woollen hose, and
whilst those who purchased hose of woollen manufac-
ture, hare to dispense with the use of hose of every kind,
the manufacturers of Nottingham and Derby have gone
on a wild goose chase, to a certainty, when they expect
their depressed_trade to be resuscitated by the introduc-
tion of a new fashion at Court, just as if some new con-
sumption of the tens could replace the withdrawn con-
sumption of the thousands."
The Scotsman remarks :—" It is plain that the corn-
lords will resort to the most desperate shifts, rather than
consent to a timely and honourable surrender. One
would have imagined that if unable to escape from the
trammels of the Buckingham faction, the friends of Sir
Robert Peel would at least have attempted some sort of
justification, some show of argument for maintaining
.a
position so clearly proved to be untenable without ruin
to the nation. But no. Their simple cry is for protection."
We take the following from the Leeds Times :—The
entire legislation of this country has been converted into
a means of making the poor men keep the rich. The
object of government has been completely lost sight of ;
and the ends for which it exists have been entirely frus-
trated by the aristocratic class to whose exclusive ma-
nagement it has been committed. It oppresses far more
then it protects."
The Dublin Evening Post thus alludes to the prospects
of the Orange party at the approaching Dublin election:—
" There is a considerable stir amongst the Guilds, the
Lodges, and the Conventicles. Tongues are wagging
fast enough—but no money is coming in. Even the
Orange papers do not pretend that they are very well
off in regard to cash. The freemen, who, generally
speaking, will do nothing for nothing, are looking ingut-
sitively at the election agents of Young Hopeful.'
The following is from the Bristol Mercury ::—" The
present Government can only be carried on by a union
of force and fraud. The fraud will doubtless be sup-
plied in abundance by the tricksters, trimmers, and
apostates to be found in its ranks, whilst the force will
be duly furnished by those high-minded gentry who
wish to go a point beyond the Duke of Newcastle's pfin-
ciple, and to do what they like' with what is not
their own.' "
IVIONNY—TRADE—COIVIDIERCE.
Two hundred thousand men are about to be dis-
banded from the present Austrian armies, to be em-
ployed as workmen on the great railways.
Nottingham, it is stated, never witnessed such distress
among the working-classes, as at the present moment;
emigration is adopted through despair.
The cloth trade of Leeds is dull and stationary ; at
Huddersfield the market-days are had and deplorable ;
at Rochdale the same. The Bradford piece-market is a
little better. The Manchester cloth-market ieugain de-
pressed.
A clerk, belonging to a public establishment in Exeter,
has absconded with about 1,0001. with which he was
temporarily entrusted for a specific purpose.
A number of ladies of Leicester have formed them-
selves into a society for the purpose of administering
relief to destitute female emigrants. The ladies of
Hinckley have also organised themselves for the same
purpose.
Bowring stated at a meeting of the Mitcham Anti-
Corn-law Association on Friday, that in Bolton at the
present minute there were 9,000 persons whose weekly
earnings amounted to no more than Sid. per week.
On Wednesday next a great district delegate meeting
takes place at Birmingham, to take into consideration
the dreadful destitution of the neighbouring parts.
Every place of importance within 30 or 40 miles of Bir-
mingham will have its delegates present.
The mechanics at Bromsgrove, chiefly employed in
the making of nails, have recently been put by the prin-
cipal manufacturers on short work, who also allow them
only to earn a fixed sum per week, not more than two-
thirds of their former earnings.
At Leicester the distress is greater than at any former
period • there are upwards of five hundred inmates in the
Union !Workhouse.
The Lord Mayor has issued a notice recommending_
that to day all city business be suspended in honour of
the Christening. Guildhall, the Government offices, public
f
Bank, South Sea House, and Docks, as all other
establishments, will be closed.
ELECTIONEERING.
The Tory candidate named for Liverpool in the -I.°Ml
of Mr. Cresswell, is-Sir 'Howard Douglas; formerly Com-
missioner of the lonian Isles. -He was candidate for the
' borough once before, when he was defeated.