The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-18 00:00:00

S ittIEW

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4Oubitt Optima,

" IPto runs ?nay read."

FOREIGN.

The remains of Aclmiral.Dumont D'Urville, his wife,
and son, who unfortunately perished by the railroad ac-
cident near Paris on the Bth instant, were interred with
much pomp on Monday last in the cemetery of Mont
2arnasse, after the usual ceremonies at St. Sulpice.
The Presse, in an abusive article against England,
urges the opponents of the Right of Search Treaties
not •to agitate the matter further in the Chamber, as
Peers, Deputies, and the public at large, had so unequi-
vocally protested against the ratification of the December
treaty, that no Minister dare ratify it.
Letters from Madrid of the 9th instant state, that the
Vine Committee of Puerto de Santa Maria had addressed
a petition to the Cortes in favour of the introduction of
English cottons into Spain, on payment of a protecting
duty of 20 or 25 per cent. The municipality of Xeres
de la Frontera had forwarded an appeal to the same
effect to the Regent. The petitioners of both places
described the sad condition to which the South of Spain
would be reduced, if, through any delay in concluding a
treaty of commerce with great Britain, Spanish wines
were excluded from the English markets.
Letters from Naples of the Bth instant state, that the
Court of Rome had accepted the proposition made to it
by Holland and Belgium, to act as mediator in the dif-
ference which had arisen .between those countries and
Naples, respecting the affair of the Tavoliere. The King
of Naples, however, would not accept the mediation of the
Pope, and fresh negotiations were shortly to be opened.
The Augsburg Gazette publishes the following extract
of a letter, dated Palermo, the 28th ult. :—" Our Govern-
ment has charged the Minister Secretary of State, Prince
Commitini, the Commander Forscinato and M. Spinelli,
with the negotiation of a .commercial treaty with Great
Britain. The Hon. W. Temple, the English AMbas-
sador in Naples, and M. Parish have been appointed
Commissioners for Great Britain. The. English Govern-
ment appears disposed to favour the importation of our
products, but it requires reciprocity."
A private letter from Munich, of the 11th inst., states,
that the utmost exertions were being made at Berlin,
Frankfort; Augsburg, and in fact throughout Germany,
to collect subscriptions for the sufferers by the late cala-
mitous fire at Hamburgh. It was feared that many of
the German insurance companies would be seriously
compromised by that event. It was said that a company
at Gotha would lose 10,000,000 florins.
The number of journals and other periodicals now
published in Russia, says the Augsburg Gazette, is 139,
being five more than in 1841 ; 98 are in the Russian
language, 22 in German, 8 in French, 4 in English, 3 iu
Polish, 1 in Italian, and 3 in Latin.
A letter from Aden,. of the 10th of March, says :
" The India steam-ship arrived here from Suez at two
P.si. on the 9th inst. She lay aground near Suez nine
hours, but it was fortunately calm. She was detained
at Mocha three days to take in a supply of wood, having
expended her coals. One of the passengers, Captain
Vernon, of the 15th Hussars, died for, want of medical
assistance, which has damped the spirits of the whole
party. Dr. Bloxham, of, the Clive sloop of war, be-
longinc, to the East India Company, has, since their
arrival,' kindly attended them."
PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Chronicle insists that, notwithstanding
the large majorities by which its most obnoxious mea-
sures have been supported, the Ministry is not so strong
now as it appeared at the commencement of the ses-
sion, and adds :—" It is impossible to doubt that the
whole course of the Ministry has given the deepest dis-
satisfaction to their supporters. Every step that Sir
Robert Peel has taken, has been a' heavy blow and great
discouragement' to the Tory party. A great portion of
the agriculturists have been • completely alienated from
him by his Corn-law—still greater has been the disgust
created among same class by his Tariff. The agri-
culturists generally regard the Government as having
grossly and needlessly betrayed them • and without now
giving an opinion as to whether Sir Robert Peel has done
right in sacrificing his supporters to the public good, we
cannot deny that they have a right to complain of him.
The rage of this class of his supporters at the late elec-
tion falls first on him, and secondly on their own repre-
sentatives, who have either supported him in his ob-
noxious measures, or have met them with an inefficient
or rather counterfeit opposition. Another large class of
the supporters of the Tory party are equally indignant
at the course pursued by the Government with respect
to the Poor-law."

The Post finds fault with the flippant manner in which
the House of Commons has dealt with the recent cases
of bribery and corruption at elections, observing—
" There has been something ridiculous in the way in
which the House of Commons has proceeded with regard
to the allegations of bribery. But the absurdity is not
that which arises from gravely noticing in particular
cases that which is notoriously a general pract,ee. It is
that which arises from dealing with a subject of great
gravity and importance—one affecting directly and im-
mediately the morality of the representative system of a
great nation—as if it were some trivial matter of ordi-
nary legislative curiosity. An affair of greater gravity
has not for years been submitted to the House of Com-
mons than that which has lately engaged its attention in
reference to borough elections—a matter which the
Prime Minister himself describes as one of immense im-
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portance ; and yet the House has gone into it suddenly
and without consideration, upon the instigation of an
Honourable Member, having no reputation for soundness
of judgment, and who merely jumped at a rumour which
attracted his attention, as the swift but foolish mackerel
does at a bit of red cloth hung upon a hook."
We take the following from the Herald :—" The un-
paralleled depression in trade throughout the country
still continues ; few symptoms of alteration, much less of
improvement, are visible • and in every provincial town,
as well as in the metropolis, there is but one feeling
existing—it is dread to enter on any business transaction
which can be avoided. Yet is there no pressure on the
money market ; on the contrary, that market is abso-
lutely plethoric. So abundant is capital in the City, that
good bills can be discounted at 3 per cent. • and many of
the first merchants, instead of employing ;heir money in
the ordinary way of business, are seeking for its invest-
ment on loan—fortunate if they can obtain 43: per cent.
There can be no question that this is a state of things
which will not continue for any length of time, and that
money will presently, though gradually, get into more
general circulation, and give, by a rise of prices, confi-
dence to traders, and the power to renew those transac-
tions which a scarcity of money has lately rendered im-
possible. But that prospect must not make us lose sight
of the dreadful and universal inconvenience and loss
which are in the mean time inflicted on the community ;
for it must be remembered, that although a severe de-
pression. or "panic," as it is now commonly termed, is
usually followed by a great and often sudden prosperity,
yet enormous misery and demoralisation are produced
by the depression, and evil to an immense extent is
realised and left for the production of future calamities."
The Times says :—" The extent to which bribery pre-
vails in the borough constituencies of this country is a
fact which cannot be contemplated without serious alarm.
It matters little when or with whom it originated—
whether it was nursed in the secluded haunts of needy
patrons, or whether it sprung up in the hot-bed of party
strife ; two things are certain—one, that it is now pol-
luting the very sources of law itself—the other, that, if
not arrested, it will devour, by a just necessity, the very
parents that gave it birth. It will not do to ridicule or

Trifle with this matter. You cannot point in all history
to an age or country in 'which open and systematic
bribery has not been the sure forerunner of decline and
downfall. And what makes our case worse, while it

proves the universality of the practice is, that those who
admit the evil dare not boldly oppose it, or propose any
measure that would really strike at its root ; but, as if
paralysed by the hideousness of the monster, every one
stops short, or is turned into stone at the very•sight of
it ; while others, earnestly anxious no doubt to amend
the evil, do more harm than good by the plain inefficacy
of their proposed remedies."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
Little short of 25,000/. has already been contributed at
home and abroad, for the relief of the poor in Paisley and
its neighbourhood.
The disturbances at Dudley appear to have ceased :
many nailors are rambling about, but the great pro-
portion have resumed their work -at a reduction of ten
per cent.