The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-23 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

public Optuton,

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The Railway question excites a good deal of interest
in France. The Debats says :—" The want of financial
foresight in the Minister of Public Works has been no-
ticed by most of the Deputies who have spoken on this
subject in the bureaux. It would appear that he has nut
even reflected that the proposed lines would cost from
700 to 750 millions of francs. Ttie cost of the works
for 1842 and 1843 are to be charged to the account of
the floating debt, the remainder to the reserve of the
sinking fund. These resources, however, are illusory ;
M. Duchatel says that France may expend annually
upon railways sixty millions a-year without suspending
other public works, but where are these sixty millions
to be found?"

The National thinks that the Minister of Public
Works has issued a programme, which he will not be
able to realise, and says that if the 120 or 130 leagues of
railway, which it is proposed to construct, were on a
single line either from Paris to Lyons, or Paris to Stras-
burg, France would, in two years, have a really national
work; whereas, says the National, by the plan of the
Minister of Public Works, which is to have portions of
railways scattered over different portions of the territory,
there will be just enough done, and that slowly, to in-
spire general disgust for'an undertaking yielding such
insignificant results.
Very little more is said in the French capital respect-
ing the forthcoming Spanish revolution, and it is now
supposed, as the Carlists will not act as long as Don
Carlos refuses formally to abdicate in favour of his son,
and sanction their operations, that the Christinos find
themselves unequal to successfully compete with Espar-
tero, and consequently the intended rising is adjourned
sine die.

La Patrie contains the following :—" It appears that
fresh difficulties have arisen to increase the embarrass-
ments of our Government. We have been informed,
from undoubted authority, that General Cass, the
American Minister, has just placed in the hands
of the Minister for Foreign Affairs an official note,
in which be protests in strong terms against the
treaty. Amongst the important documents an-
nexed to this note, we shall cite an exact re-
turn of the ordinary trade carried on by the
United States in the seas now divided into zones.
It results from those returns that the shipping
obliged to traverse those zones amount altogether to
828,583 tons, which give a sum total, including their
departure and return of 2,157,166 tons. Those returns
do not include the ships from New Orleans and the ports
from the Gulf of Mexico trading with the north of
Europe, which may be estimated at 500,000 tons, form-
ing altogether 2,157,166 tons. The note adds, thatrather
than renounce her trade the American Gevernment
would a thousand times prefer having war, on which she
is determined, and will not hesitate for a single instant. In
fine, it is observed in this note, that ' in case of a rupture,
France would find herself necessarily engaged as one of
the belligerent parties, inasmuch as she is by the terms
of the treaty obliged to exercise the right of search."
Authority has recently been granted for the establish-
ment of a national bank in Hungary. The capital is to
be two millions of florins, or five millions of francs, and
the rate of interest on advances is fixed at 5 per cent.,
which.will be a great accommodation to the trade of the
country. Several hundred capitalists have taken shares
in this undertaking:
A Turin letter, in the Augsburg Gazette, says that
negotiations have been opened by the Coprt of Brazil for
the marriage of the two young Princesses, sisters of the
Emperor, with two Princes of the House of Savoy.
According to advises from Athens of the 3d inst., in
the Augsburg Gazette, M. Mavrocordato's nomination as
Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte has been definitively
settled. He was* holding daily conferences with the
Ministers.

The Turkish Government is stated to have ordered
accurate observations of all cases of plague in its domi-
nions to be made and registered, with the view of throw-
ing light on the important question concerning the limits
of contagion from that malady.
The Amsterdam papers state that the project of a rail-
road from St. Petersburgh to Moscow received the Impe-
rial sanction on the 26th ult. ; that the expense is esti-
mated at 40 millions of silver roubles, or upwards of 160
millions of francs ; and that the money will be furnished
by the house of Heerket and Durfour, at Leipsic, under
the guarantee of the Russian Government, at 4 per cent.
interest.