The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-04 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOXEIGIV.
The original columns of the Paris Journals are exclusively
on the approaching elections, and are without interest to the
general reader.
A letter in the Rhone gives the following additional par-
ticulars of the whirlwind at Chauffailes and its neighbourhood
on the 24th instant. Thirty houses were actually carried
away. Six persons of the same family were killed, others were
mutilated, children were smothered in their cradles, carriages
were carried entire over the roofs of houses, plantations were
torn up, and the largest trees were transported to an immense
distance. A manufactory for spinning thread had just been
constructed within half a league of Chauffailes. All the mason-
work was finished, and the carpenters were putting •on the root
—not one stone of the building has been left on another, nor
can it be discovered what is become of them. The roofs of
houses were carried off to great heights and left on eminences.
The church has been injured to the extent of 3,0001. The
crops which were not taken off by the whirlwind, were cut
to pieces by the hail, which was of extraordinary size, as
large as hen-eggs in general, but at Chateauneuf of greater
bulk. The Cure of that Place took up one hailstone which
was three inches across. Not less than twenty persons have
been killed."

The returns of the aeounts of the Hank of France for the
quarter ending the 25th inst., have just been publised. They
present the following results :—Actif: the Bank had then in
hand—Cash, 223,190,860 f. ; discounts and 10an5,166,763,449f ;
branch banks, 39,354,328 f. ; rentes, public securities, and re-
serve fund, 64,167,143 f. ; credits and various items, 218,600 f.
Total, 493,714,3t.3f. Passif: amount of bank notes in circu-
lation, and bills payable on demand, 226,691,421 f. ; accounts
current, 179,008,304 f. ; capital and reserve, 81,900,000 f. ;
sundry items, 6,114,657 f. The discounts, advances, and
loans made during the quarter amounted to 242,450,300 f.
Movements of accounts, current (private), 2,132,022,700 f. ;
ditto (public), 234,516,700 f. General movement of the
Caisses, 2,541,879,000 f.

The new Spanish Ministers were, on the 22d, presented to
the Queen, who received them very graciously.
It was reported that General Rodil had sent orders to
General Zurbano to march against Barcelona at the head of
nine battalions. The most energetic and peremptory instruc-
tions had been forwarded in the mean time to the civil and mi-
litary authorities of Catalonia, and it WS, believed that General
Van Halen would be superseded in the post of Captain General
of that principality by General Lorenzo, the present military
commander of Estremadura.

The Spanish Minister of Finance had rejected the offers made
by the contractors and the Bank of San Fernando, on account
of the first series (40,000,000) of the loan of 160,000,000 reels.
The !Minister would not admit a greater discount than 15 per
cent., and the Patriota states that the Bank of San Fernando
had sent in a fresh proposition for the whole sum at that rate.
A letter from Rome, in the Augsburg Gazette, says : —" A
concordat which has been entered into with President Boyer
by Bishop Rosani, is at this moment before the Pope for his
approval. In the first instance a Bishop is to lae appointed,
and as the religious state of St. Domingo is at a low ebb, there
will probably be an infusion of clergy from Europe. The
Archbishop of Lyons has proposed to send fifty priests from his
diocese, and the King of the French has generously offered to
send them to St. Domingo, free of expense."
The Patriota of Madrid, of the 23d ofJune, has the following
paragraph :—" The accounts from Valencia, Murcia, Estte-
madura, Gallicia, and Castile, say that the greatest tranquillity
everywhere prevails, though there is no went of agitators in
those provinces. Since Escalante, the political chief of Madrid,
has tendered his resignation, it is affirmed that the Ministers
have advised the Regent not to accept it."__

Ia:LBLXC OPIATZON.
Tho Morning Chronicle makes the following apt reference
to the white-waistcoated school of legislators :—" Mr. Cobden
did the public a great and permanent service some three or four
weeks ago, when he described the nature of " white-waistcoat"
legislation. From five to six o'clock the future white-waist-
coats' crowd the House to listen to the personalities with which
business commences, to chatter, and make their pairs, and en-
cumber the bar of the House of COmmons. When the ques-
tion of the night is fairly launched, and debate really begins,
these gentlemen quit the House and go off to dinner; and or-
der reigns till ten or half-past ten. About that time the ' white..
waistcoats' begin to drop in, the hum begins, and waxes more
and more furious, until speakers are fairly coughed down, and
the sense of the House is ascertained by a division. Here the
white .waistcoats' are of great efficiency, and by their aid Sir
Robert Peel imposes taxes, and refuses relief and inquiry.
Thus we are ruled by these white-waistcoats,' who avoid the
debate and seek the division ; and who, after preventing any
one from informing them, practically show how easy it is to le-
gislate without information."
The Post thus expresses itself on the subject of Political
Economists :—" Among men of theory of the higher order,
free-trade principles are in no less disfavour than they are
among men practically familiar with, the causes that influence
a nation's prosperity. As a body, the sect termed ' Political
Economists' is to be regarded simply as the mouth. piece of
the idle consumers of society. Of all pretenders to philoso-
phy,' these men are, assuredly, the most shallow whom the
world has yet; been called on to follow. Their whole system is
narrow, false, and self-contradictory. No two of three men
are agreed as to first principles, or as to their application.
They agree in nothing but in hatred of those' laws which yield
protection to industry. The Political Economists' are,
therefore, by consequence, the ready tools of money capitalists,
and of idle consumers—of all the classes, in short, that thrive
by cheapness."
The Advertiser says—" Whatever may be the decision of the
House, however, the temper of the times will brook no delay.
The distress of the industrial classes is so wide and deep, and
the signs of the hourly increase of that distress so appalling,
that unless some prompt and radical measures be taken to in-
fuse a new spirit into the national circumstances, where the
danger shall end, or whither it is tending, were' only too awful
to bring within the limits of reflection. In fine, such is the
suffering of all the lower branches of the productive masses,
that ere the ensuing Christmas, either legislative me,sures
must be employed to work out their redemption, or it is certain
the results of a natural justice will." .

The following is ficim the Times :—" We all know where
' a beggar on horseback' is apt to ride ; and no sooner had
Mr. Roebuck got fairly on the back of }pis Committee, than he
seems to have started with unusual velocity in that direction,
nor has he shown any inclination to stop till awed by the rising
cry, not of admiration or satisfaction, which his headlong nsa-
nceuvres have aroused. The last few days have probably
made him aware of that feeling within and without the walls
of St. Stephen's, which has been excited by his most reckless
attempts to invade the constitutional rights of Englishmen—
aqempts which he seems to have made with as little ceremony
as he would have put off his own dinner-hour—to have re-
peated, persevered in, nay, re-produced in an exaggerated
form, and begged the House to sanction even against its own
Members, all with an unconscious coolness which does honour
to his self-possession, though little to his discretion."

rviomor
The total income of Denmark in the year 1837, was
1,584,1331., and the expenditure, 1,561,920/.
According to the resolution of the Shareholders and Go-
vernors, the Commercial Steam Navigation Company dissolved
itself on Friday, at its meeting at the London Tavern. To re-
lieve the Company of its liabilities, the whole of the roperty is
to be disposed of. It appears that. the sum of 112,0001. has been
offered for their vessels, which left the sum of 28,0001. to be
raised.

At Bilston, the state of the population is most di.tressing ;
in that parish alone there are 3,000 persons in complete des-
titution.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
A dangerous shoal, of from one to two-and-a••haif miles
long, and not having mcre than 16 feet water on some parts of
it, has just been discovered in lat.. 1 deg. 7 min near Pulo Ta) a
and the Seven Islands, on the passage from Batavia to Sin-
gapore.
A new British war-steamer, of 700 tons, for lake service, is
now building at Kingston. Her name is to be the' Chippewa,"
and she is to carry two long 82's and four 32-pounders.

A portrait of Michael Angelo, supposed to have been painted
by himself, has just been discovered at Florence. It is a half-
length portrait, and represents the celebrated artist at a very
advanced age.