The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-22 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.
The Regency question occupies the whole of the
French Journal 3 received this morning. As we stated
yesterday, the details have no interest for English readers.
The Courrier Francais says—" Prince Albert, the
consort of her Majesty Queen Victoria, is reported t,)
have written a letter to King Louis Philippe on the late
tragical eTent, couched in terms of the most a&cting
condolence. The Duke of Wellington has, it is addcd,
likewise written to his Majesty, expressing his deep re-
gret for the loss the French nation and its Sovereign
have sustained."

The Moniteur of Wednesday has the lollowing :
" Notwithstanding the profound grief which overwhelms
the King, his Majesty, wishing to show how fully he
appreciates the universal regret and the sentiments which
have been manifested towards him, will receive to-
morrow the Corps Diplomatique, the Peers and the
Deputies, and the public bodies and deputations."
The Frankfurter Journal has the following reflections on
the death of the Duke of Orleans :—" This catastrophe is
likely to fix the new dynasty more firmly on the throne.
It will intimidate the weak and vain, rouse the loyal
from their lethargy, and paralyse the ambitious, who
cannot under the present state of things rely upon suc-
cess. The great body of the people are deeply affected
by the loss of the heir-apparent, and all true Frenchmen
sympathise with the King who, after having been so long
the object of the attempts of assassins himself, has re-
ceived the severest blow in the loss of' his son. Evil be to
him who shall dare, under these circumstances, to attack
tl•e Count de Paris when he ascends the throne."
The French Government has received a telegraphic
despatch from Bayonne, announcing that the session of
the Spanish Cortes was closed on the 16th. The accounts
from Madrid, by the regular post, are only of th© 12th.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of that day.
M. Gonzales, the late Minister for Foreign Affairs, re-
plying to the speech of M. Marliani on the 9th, declared
that it was not true. as stated by that gentleman, that he
had accepted the propositions of Sir A. Aston for a com-
mercial treaty with England. Sir A. Aston had, he
said, invited him to enter into negotiations on the cotton
question, but he had constantly refused to do so until
the opinion of the Cortes should have been taken on the
subject.
The " Roman Annual Almanack " gives the fol-
lowing:—" On the 18th Sept. next our Holy Father the
Pope will accomplish his 77th year. He has occupied
the chair of St. Peter eleven years. The sacred college
is composed of
.60 cardinals, 6 cardinal bishops, 43 car-
dinal priests, and 11 cardinal deacons. Cardinal Ruffi is
the most aged, being 87 years old, and Cardinal
Schwartzenbcrg, who is 33, the youngest."
The little town of Markdorf, not far from Heiligen-
berg, was, on July 10, visited by a dreadful fire, which
consumed 60 houses, the church, and the town-hall.
There was plenty of assistance at hand, but a supply of

water was wanting.
A letter from Constantinople, June 29, in the Augs-
burgh Gazette, states that the British Ambassador had
two conferences with the Reis Effendi, a few days be-
fore, relative to the affairs of Greece and Syria. The
result is not known ; but it is generally believed that the
Divan is inclined to yield to the wishes of England, by
giving to the inhabitants of the Libanus, as Sovereign,
the Emir Emin, the eldest son of the Emir Beschir.
With respect to Greece the Reis Effendi replied
evasively.
The Ottoman Porte has just addressed a circular to the
members of the Corps Diplomatique, announcing that for
the future no Greek or French Journal will be per-
mitted to appear in the Turkish dominions without a
special authorisation, even when the foreign Powers
should accord it protection, as it was inexpedient that
such publications should scatter about calumnies and
falsehoods. The public consider this measure as the
first step towards a censorship.
PAIMIAMENTAItY.
The Lords met yesterday, but transacted no business
of importance.
. In the Commons Mr. Hutt tried in vain to extract
from Sir Robert Peel some information about the state
of the negotiation as to the Stade dues. Sir Robert said '
his mouth was closed, that he could not speak on the
question, and so Mr. Hutt was obliged to give up his
motion on the subject.
Mr. Hume postponed his explanation about the Raja
of Sattara, and withdrew his motion about Indian
finance.
In answer to Mr. Parker, the Solicitor-General said
the Government meant to pass this session the Law Bills
introduced into the other House.
The House was principally occupied with a debate on
Mr. Duncombe's motion, which we notice elsewhere, and
sat till Three o'Clock.
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The colliers and men employed in the iron-works at Ketley,
Shrewsbury, have made a partial rising, and on Wednesday
night attacked one of the banks. They are scattered in groups
among the hills about Ketley, and the Yeomanry are out.
According to accounts from Nottingham, the power machine
owners have a little lowered their stock of nets, bat the plain
cotton hose branch, the glove trade, both silk and cotton, the
silk knotted branch, and the silk hose trade, are still in a most
depressed state.

ECCLESZASTICALL.
The motion for a church-rate made yesterday evening in the
vestry of St. Paul, Covent-gardent, by the Churchwardens, to
be imposed on the parishioners, was defeated by an amendment.

NAVAL AND MILITARY,
Lieutenant Burton, while employed with the officers of the
Monarch, in recovering monument; at Xanthus in Greece,
which are said to approach in ; beauty the Elgin marbles, fell a
sacrifice to the malaria.
Several large ships are further being taken up for the con-
veyance of troops to India; and enlisting for the artillery, and
other regiments, is actively going on.

MAW AND POLICE.
A farmer, named Pusey, residing at Eton, having prosecuted
two men at the petty sessions there, for stealing from his field a
peck of peas in the pods, value 6d. hid the consolation of paying
14s. costs for the liberty of punishing them.:
A deodand of 50/. was passed on the Royal William, Mar-
gate steamer, yesterday, at the inquest held at the White Hart
Inn, Kent. on the body of John M`Millan, whose death was
caused accidentally by the collision of that vessel, in Erith
Reach, with a sailing-barge of London.
Francis Payne, H. Whitear, and Richard Howell, were yes•
terday committed for trial at Union Hall, for stealing upwards
of 2501. worth of brass filings, from a pin-manufactory, at
Reading, Berkshire.
Mr. Little, of the firm of Gibbons and Little, Redcross.
street, appeared yesterday at Guildhall, to answer the com-
plaint of Mr. Grafton, vendor of mint weights in Chancery-
lane, for selling two counterfeit balances for the weighing of
the gold coin of the realm, knowing them to be such, and by
which he was liable to a penalty of 50/. Mr. Grafton, how-
ever, not pressing to conviction, and the defendant undertaking
to sell no more of these weights, the complaint was allowed to
drop, unless the officers of the Mint chose to enforce the fine.
The Hon. Francis Needham appeared at the same office
yesterday, charged with using threats of violence in a letter,
and sending a parcel containing a halter and a cat-o'-nine-tails
to Mr. Bristow, a Magistrate, of Nottinghamshire. The
parties are related by marriage and litigants in Chancery. On
the defendant's retracting his expression, and being bound to
keep the peace for one year, in the sum of 1,0(01., Lord Blay-
ney and Captain Kincaid becoming his securities, he was dis-
missed.

THE ANTI-CORN-LAW
CONFERENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

The members of the Conference met this morning, at
;welve o'clock, at Herbert's Hotel, Palace-yard, Mr.

Taylor in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said he had to congratulate them on
the improvement that every day presented itself. The
last night's debate was au example of this.
Their cause had evidently made much progress
during the last ten days. They could not at
one time get any one to advocate the measure of stop-
ping the supplies ; but last night there were more than
one, or two, or three Members who declared their readi-
ness to do it, or were prepared to sanction it when the
time came. Last night a stand was made ; to-night
another would be made ; so he thought they had
every reason for hoping that before long such
continued exertions made in the House and out of it, in
all parts of the country, must give them the certainty of
complete success. Every day the Conf.: rence received num-
berless letters, all breathing the same spirit, and congra-
tulating them on the improved prospects that were every
day opening to them, and their determination to exert
tA!mselves in their various districts to promote the objects
they had in view.—(Hear, hear.) The Chairman then
proceeded to read the following communications, the
first referring to the statement made in the Manchester
Guardian of the improvement in trade, which statement
Sir 11. Peel had alluded to with evident satisfaction :