The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-05 00:00:00

laillitia AM EV. Tli 11. Y.

In both Houseslas7nTght iliei;;;entc;cspiracy, which is
hatchingsin France with the knowledge, if not under the sanc-
tion of the French Government, was brought under notice by
Lord Clarendon in the Upper, and Lord Palmerston in the
Lower House; and it was satisfactory to hear the Earl of
Aberdeen in the former, and Sir Robert Peel in the latter, em-
i,hatically declare that the present Government was the best
which Spain bad had for many years; and express a hope that
the people would rally round it, when they would be sure to de-
feat the conspirators. Such language does honour to the
Tories. The Ministers, however, declined to say what had
been the effeets of their remonstrances on the French Govern-
ment.

Lord Monteagle, in the Upper House, moved for a Commit-
tee to inquire into the Exchequer bill affair, and vindicated
his own conduct in the transaction.

Lord Brougham defended Sir John Newport from some of
tbe charges which Lord Monteagle had indirectly brought
against him. The Noble Lord also approved of the Commis-
sionwhich is to be appointed.

The Duke of Wellington begged the Noble Lord to with-
draw the motion, assuring him that no imputation rested on
him. The motion was accordingly withdrawn.
In the Commons the Corn Importation Bill was read a fi st
time, and on that motion Mr. Cobden and Mr. Goulburn de-
fended the manufacturers from Mr. Ferrand's imputations.
A smart altercation ensued. Mr. Mark Philips extorted
from Sir li. Peel a confession that he had heard nothing since
his appointment to justify such imputations as those of Mr.
Ferrand.

The question on the Scotch Church which Sir A. L. Hay
was to bring forward, was postponed to make way for voting
the Estimates, that Sir H. Peel may be enabled to make his
financial statement, on Friday next.
On the motion for going into a Committee of Supply, Mr.
O'Connell moved for a copy of the instructions.that might have
been issued relative to the performance of divine service in the
Coast Guard, and called the attention to the ' fact that a
great many Irish lads are embarked in the fleet who receive no
instruction in the faith of their fathers. The motion was
agreed to. The Navy Estimates were voted in Committee of
Supply.
Sir Charles Napier distinguished himself on the occasion by
advocating very effectually the interests of the Navy.
The Exchequer Bills Bill was read a first time, and ordered
to be read a second time or, Monday ; Lord Eliot b• ought in a
Billrelative to Dublin Gaol, which was read a first time; and
the House then adjourned.

PUBX.XC
The Times makes some remarks on the Exchequer Bill
fraud, and is of opinion "that those who can be shown beyond
dispute to have received these bills in the common course of
business, unaccompanied by any circumstances of suspicion,
any unusual conditions, inordinate interest, or unaccountable
sources, have a plain claim for recompense. The agent of Go-
vernment, anll the lax regulations under which that agent was
allowed to act, are here the sole causes of the mischief. We
have no justification for making an example of these persons,
and no purpose to serve by so doing. They have done all that
could be required of them, or that we have a right to require
of commercial men for the future."

The Herald has a leading article suggested by Lord Mont_
eagle's speech last night in the Lords, on the Exchequer Bills'
affair, of which speech our Contemporary gives the following
orinion :—" The speech delivered, last night, by his Lordship
was at once the most characteri.tic and the least to the purpose
we ever read. His motion, in the first place was of that fawn-
ing " publican " kind, which men do call in Parliament motions
"ad misericordiam." We should imagine that the Noble
Lord did not even intend, much less anticipate, that it would
be carried."

The Chronicle says of Mr. Ferrand's reply to the speeches of
Messrs. Villiers and Cobden last night in the Commons :
Nothing could be more miserable than Mr. Ferrand's attempt
at explanation and reply. This cock that crowed so lustily a
week ago, cheered on by the shouts of his agricultural backers,
proved craven on the first Occasion of being challenged to the
proof of his taunting assertions. He denied having imputed
cruelty to Mr. Cobden ; denied having imputed the practice of
the truck system to him ' • and finally, attempted N get out of
h havina• charged the truck system on the League, by a.sertieg
that he could prove his charge against some members of it, and
asserting that he had never brought the charge against all of
them."

The Post says that there seems to be no end to the impu-
dence r f the beaten Corn-law League men. " After bellow-
ing," adds the Post, " through the country for four long
months about the wretched state of the British labourer, com-
pared with the fcreign labourer, all owing (as they asserted) to
the diabolical Corn-laws, they now affect to be very indignant
that any comparison of the kind should be made ! As soon as
the comparison is made accurately, and upon a good foundation
of evidence, it turns out that the foreign labourer is the man
who lives ill, and not the British."

The Adverti:er strenuously recommends a union of the
working classes with the middle classes, as the only means
left of accelerating the progress of Reform ; and goes on to re-
mark—" Concessions have coma from the middle classes; and
we venture to hope that they .111 be cordially accepted by the
working classes. Their best and steadiest friends look with
much anxiety for their acquiescence in the proposal now made
to them for a union with the middle classes ; and they may
rely upon it, that none will be opposed to it, unless it be those
who foresee in such a union, the annihilation of a mischievous
power which they have been enabled, in the absence of more
rational and influential men, to exercise over the minds and
movements of the unrepresented classes."

MCCIAISIASTICAL.
The Rev. Alfred Illag,uire, pastor of a Roman Catholic
chapel at Hethe, near Bicester, Oxfordshire, who, during a
residence of 11 years, had never paid a church-rate, was dis-
trained upon by a new churchwarden there for 3s. 9d. this
year, and, failing compliance, a seizure of furniture, to the
amount of 31. 10s., being the costs of levy, &c., has been
made. The matter has caused no little excitement in tha
village.