The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-10 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

Our Paris Contemporaries devote a large portion of
their space to the discussion which has arisen out of the
elections for President and Vice-Presidents of the Cham-
ber of Deputies, but their articles are merely a repetition
of the assertions and arguments of the last three days,
and have little interest except to the parties immediately
engaged in the polemic that is going on.
The Chamber of Deputies continued on Monday the
election of its officers for the ensuing session. The four
Secretaries remained to be appointed. Messrs. De l'Espee
and Boissy d'Anglas, the Ministerial candidates, ob-
tained, the first 230 votes, and the latter 193; and were
accordingly proclaimed Secretaries. The next on the
list were—M. Lacrosse, who had 191 votes; M. Ravin,
181; M. Lascases, 174; M. Garnon, 105; and M. Costel,
82. None of them, however, having obtained the re-
quired majority, another ballot was proceeding, when M.
Lacrosse was elected the third Secretary.
On Saturday the Address to his Majesty, agreed to
at the late meeting of English residents in Paris, his
Grace the Duke of Montrose in the chair, on the death
of his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans, transmitted
through his Excellency Lord 'Cowley, was presented to
the King by M. Guizot, as were likewise Addresses on
the same deplorable event from the English inhabiting
St. Germain and Avranches.
The Debats has a very long article on the affairs of the
East, in which it expresses its regret at the distracted
state of Turkey and her dependencies, and at the influ-
ence which Russia continues to have over the Porte,
notwithstanding the hopes that were held out by the
parties to the treaty for the pacification of the East, that
the Turkish Empire would regain its lost splendour, and
that its Government would adopt a strong but tolerant
system of administration towards the Christians who
are under its sway. The Debats observes that, so far
from this being the case, the Turkish Empire is falling
rapidly into ruin, but that even in the agony of its rulers
there is cruelty and harshness towards the Christian
population, to whom the intervention of the great Powers
has been more injurious than beneficial, and who at the
critical moment are abandoned to their fate.
The consumption of meat in Paris during the last
month was 5,945 oxen, 1,295 cows, 7,709 calves, and
36,747 sheep, being 259 oxen, 765 calves, and 2,899
sheep more, and 489 cows less, than in July 1841.
We have accounts from Madrid of the Ist inst. The
Infante Don Francisco de Paula and his family left
Madrid on the morning of that day for San Sebastian.
Their departure created no agitation in that capital.
Mr. Washington Irving, Minister of the United States,
and M. Albuquerque, Charge d'Affaires of Brazil, pre-
sented their credentials to the Regent on the Ist.
The Barcelona journals of the 2d inst., state that 15
officers, belonging to the garrison of Barcelona, had been
dismissed the service in consequence of their attachment
to Queen Christina. Among them were a Lieutenant-
Colonel and a Commander.
The Tage arrived at Havre on Sunday morning from
St. Petersburgh, which city it left on the 31st ult.
Amongst the passengers were Count Alexis de Stroga-
noff, Russian Minister at the Court of Lisbon, M. d'Aris,
Secretary of the French Embassy at St. retersburgh,
Baron Seebach, Minister of the Hague in St. Peters-
burgh, and M. Horace Vernet, who is to return, by the
same packet, on the 15th inst. We learn, by this arri-
val, that the Emperor's having at once gone into mourn-
ing for the Duke of Orleans, without waiting for the
official notification from the French Ambassador, had
caused much satisfaction to the French residents at St.
Petersburgh. The Emperor, on receiving the news of
the event, sent immediately Count de Nesselrode to M.
Casimir Perier, to express his deep regret at the melan-
choly intelligence, and all the Royal family appeared at
church, the next day, in deep mourning.
_ _ _ PARLIAMENTARY.

The Lords yesterday held two conferences with the
Commons, waited for some time to receive Bills from
them, passed several measures a stage, including a Bill
to repeal an Act just passed, touching the slave trade
carried on Portugal, and then adjourned.
The Commons, at their noonday sitting, agreed to the
Report on the Bankrupt Bill after some discussion, and
ordered the Bill to be read a third time to-day.
Sir James Graham gave up the County Courts Bill
for this session.
A petition was presented against the return of Mr.
Walter.
At the evening sitting Mr. T. Duncombe presented a
petition against the spy system (Ireland).
In reply to Mr. Hume, Sir R. Peel said he hoped the
House would be prorogued on Friday, and he is to move
to-day that it adjourn over to-morrow.
In reply to Mr. M. Philips, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer said he had received no official notice that
.
our Government would be called on to pay the interest
of the loan for Greece, which it had guaranteed, the
Greek Government being unable to pay.
In reply to Mr. C. Buller, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer said'he should not submit any measure to Parlia-
ment this session, relative to the forged Exchequer bills.
ln reply to Mr. Hume, Sir James Graham gave an ex-
planation of his conduct in pardoning a Mr. Johnstone,
• forwho
a hadan i
- /bent to the Secretary of State, in the absence
of "counsel, solicitor, witnesses, and a prosecutrix,
ndbeeceenntseanssteatuicltedotno thhirseesemrvoannthts'
If imprisonment
the reader
wishes to see a gross case of a Judge making a state-
',ltlatally at variance with his charge to a jury, and with
the. Sentence he inflicted, and of a Secretary of State
.iiethig on such a partial statement without examining a
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single other person, commuting a sentence, and so stig-
.Matisitig-a young woman, he must read Sir J. Graham's
I explanation. A more flagrant case has not for a long
time fallen under our notice, or one which more strongly
convinces us that the prerogative of mercy should not
be left to the discretionary use of any Secretary of State.
Sir R. Peel, in a Committee, moved an address to the
Crown to erect public monuments to Lord Exmouth,
Lord De Saumarez and Sir Sidney Smith, and brought
the services of thosegallant officers before the House in
an .apprcipriate, eloquent, and as Sir G. Cockburn said,
beautiful speech.
Mr. Hawes, after a few remarks, left the matter in Sir
R. Peel's hands.
Sir R. Inglis objected to pledging the House to place,
the monuments in St. Paul's ; he wished to have a place
set apart for them.
Sir George Cockburn, Mr. Hume, Mr. Wyse, Sir F.
Burdett, Mr. Brotherton, and others, spoke on the subject.
The address was, of course, agreed to, nem, con.
The Coventry Boundary Bill was passed after a di-
vision.
The Limitation of Actions (Ireland) Bill was reported.
The House rose a little before Ten.
PUBLIC OPINION.
We quote the following froze the Morning Chronicle :
" That Lord Ellenborough did issue an order for the
evacuation of Affghanistan, we have not a shadow of
doubt upon our mind. That he countermanded this
order we are equally convinced. The motives of the first
order it is difficult to conjecture. For the second, as we
before observed, we believe we are indebted to the acci-

dent of his Lordship's having received his overland
despatches before there was time to carry his cruel,
cowardly, and most impolitic commands into effect. The
Government at home, upon the receipt of the intelligence
of the reverse we had sustained, did not hesitate to,
pledge itself to take such measures as might
be necessary to retrieve it. Indeed, so strong
and so general was the public feeling upon the sub-
ject, that no Government could have done otherwise.
Whatever may be thought by a portion of the public of
the policy of having gone into Affghanistan—whatever
may be thought of the policy of maintaining a position
there—there is, at all events, no second opinion upon the
enormity of the proceeding attributed to Lord Ellen-
borough. It is, as we have shown, a violation of the
solemn engagement of his Government. It would be, if
carried into effect, a stain upon the character of England,
which no subsequent success could obliterate. It would
be, as all parties admit, a blow to our supremacy in the
East, the effect of which no subsequent development of
physical force could repair, the prostration of the whole
power of England before a horde of barbarous moun-
taineers, whose hands are yet red with the blood of
thousands of our countrymen, and who yet hold as
hostages, not only officers, but women and children. Sir
Robert Peel must consult the public interests' for-
sooth ! The public interest imperatively require it to
be known whether there is any man engaged and re-
tained in the service of the country who could be guilty
of such cruel, cowardly, and impolitic abuse of his re-
sponsibility as Lord Ellenborough is accused of.
The Times, speaking of the discussion en the Ipswich
writ, says :—" The debate upon the Ipswich writ, and
its result, must be regarded as having inflicted upon Mr.
Patrick Maxwell Stewart, and his coadjutors upon the
late Committee, as near an approach to a Parliamentary
censure as it was decently possible for the House of Com-
mons to make. • The writ is forthwith issued by a large
majority in opposition to their opinion ; the House has
declined to make the disfranchisement of the individuals
whom they have reported guilty of bribery, a condition
precedent to the future representation of the borough ;
their Report has been impugned with an openness and
strength of language unparalleled in Parliament, and
defended by none except its authors and a few strong
partisans of the same political complexion ' • the mino-
rity of the Committee has publicly protested against its
decision upon the point of agency, as completely arbi-
trary and unsupported by evidence ; the Queen's Attor-
ney-General has declared their finding of bribery against
electors to be, in at least 28 out of 30 cases, palpably un-
tenable ; and lastly, Sir R. Peel himself, the great cham-
pion of the whole system of Election Committees, which
he regards with the partiality of a parent, was signifi-
cantly careful to utter no single word from which it
could be inferred that he approved of a judgment, the
grounds of which, upon general principles, he declined
to investigate."
The Post says :—" What has the present session of
Parliament done for Conservatism ? Not much—per-
haps nothing at all'— seems to be the general answer ;
and it cannot be denied by those who give this answer
that a gbod deal was expected. Disappointment then is
admitted ; but it appears that there are some philosophers
who procaim that more or less of disappointment ought
to have been calculated upon, because it belongs to the
nature of things,' under present political circumstances.
This proposition deserves to be inquired into. It would
really be some consolation if one were to discover that
the curious turn, or, to use an idiom of the sister island,
the advance backwards' of Conservatism were not the
fault of any one, but merely an inevitable consequence of
the nature of things.' Were we once convinced of that
we should submit to it, in sadness perhaps, but without a
murmur."

The following is from the -Herald :—" When Oliver
Cromwell was on his death-bed, he is reported to have
propounded this knotty question to.Ppodwin, his spiri-
tual consolor—o Co a M 44 who haa been in 4 state of