The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-04 00:00:00

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FOREIGN.
INDIA AND CHINA.

The French Government reeeived on Saturday evening the
following telegraphic despatch from Marseilles, dated eight
o'clock, A. N. "MALTA, A1'1111.26.

" The Consul of France to the .Minister for Foreign Affairs—
" The intelligence brought last night by the Great Liverpool
comes down to the 14th of February from China, the 21st of
February from Jellalabad, and the 18th :of February from
Candahar.

" The British in China hare captured three other towns—
namely, Yapoo, Tsikee, and Tungheva, which are situate
within a circle,•eztending from 20 to 40 miles round Ningpo.
" Sir Henry Pottinger, who arrived at Hong Kong en
the Ist February, had abandoned the intention of attacking
Canton. He was then 'concentrating all his forces with tike
view of directing them on Pekin, and had refused to negotiate
with the Commissioners sent to him by the Emperor, being
determined not to treat but with the Sovoreign directly.
In Affgbanistan, General Pollock seems to have given up
all idea of forcing the Kybar Pass until he should have re-
ceived the re-inforceinents he expected, or unless General Sale,
whose position was unchanged, desired his assistance.
" At Ghuznee and Khelat-i-Ghilzee the British still hold
the same position.

." The Affghans surrounded Candahar with numerous forces,
and Major-General Nott was preparing to repulse them.
" Lord Ellenborough, who reached Calcutta on Feb. 28, was
immediately proclaimed Governor-General of India."
No news in the Paris Journals:
PAILLIAIVZMNTART.
The Lord Chancellor stated last night, that the Lu-
nacy and Bankruptcy Bills had been read a first time ;
but that he found such contrary opinions on the Local
Courts Bill, that he had not been able to lay that on the
table ; whereupon Lord Abinger expressed a hope that
it never would be laid on the table, and, if it were, he
should oppose it. Lord Brougham thaught it ought to
be proceeded with before the Bankruptcy Bill.
Several petitions were presented, ine'luding the petition
of the Provisional Council of the National Complete
Suffrage Union. Their Lordships adjourned, at an early
hour, till Friday.
Captain Plumridge was reported duly elected for Pen.
ryhn. and Fahnouth.

- The Southwark Improvement Bill was read a third
time, and passed.
On the Commons refusing to agree to Mr. Wakley's
motion to the Lords' amendment to the Ormsby Inclo-
sure Bill, it appears that the Lords had thrust into the
Bill a clause taking away the rights of certain cottagers
and this clause the Commons, instigated by Mr. Wakley,
refused to adopt.
Ia answer to Mr. Hume, Sir Robert. Peel stated that
Captain Elliot was to proceed to Texas, and was only
kept here to give the Treasury some information about
expenses at Hong Kong.
The House was occupied for the remainder of the
evening with a debate on Mr. T. D uncombe's motion to
hear the persons who signed the N ational Petition at the
bar of the House. The Hon. IV [ember brought the
condition of the people, and their claims on the House,
clearly and distinctly before it, a) ad quoted several do-
cuments to illustrate their great misery. Mr. Leader
supported the motion, and was foil owed by several other
Members of the Liberal side. 3lr. Macaulay took a
vehement part against the petitioners. professing to a
considerable extent acquiescence in their doctrines, and
yet vilifying many of their objects. That Sir R. Peel
and Sir J. Graham should oppose the prayer of the
petition was natural, but it was not so certain that Lord
John Russell and Mr. Macaulay should take part against
the petitioners. They did, however ; and on a division
the motion to hear the petitioners at Ulf; bar was lost by
287 to 49. The House adjourned at Half-vast One o'Clock

PUBLXC OPINION".
TTohesifmolplolywidnegpowbrseervthatieodnissgarusetiforr.
setehnee2l2
wich, Southampton, Falmouth, and Penr.in, will not suffice;
the example of the venal wretches who disgrace the consti-
tuency of those corrupt boroughs is contagious; the mere .u..
Morning
Sin!druerrylidip:7l-
- of their crimes will waft that contagion over the lam'
and inoculate the honest poverty of other
.places with the like
disease; something must be done to eradicate t;he complaint,
OT fifty years hence the English borough represe ptatioa will be
one horrid mass of corruption. It is folly and self-deceit to
associate either political party with bribery; the origin of the
evil is the unwholesome condition of public moritlity ; a starv-
ing people cannot be virtuous, or a money-worshipping- upper
class pure. Could the daily labour of the working ; population
procure them a sufficiency of daily bread we shoub I hear little
of their accessibility to this corruption ; and were their supe-
riors content to remain in that condition of life " to which it
has pleased God to call them,' we should have few who would
attempt their corruption."
The Post attributes the increased bribery and coirruption at
elections to the Reform Bill, obserying—" All the Conservative
journals have admitted end deplored the too general -practice of