The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-08 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
publir Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

POILEIGN.

The statement of the accounts of the Bank of France
for the last quarter of 1841 (made up to 27th ult.), shows
the following results :—Active—the Bank had then in
hand, cash, 191,837,996 f. ; in discounts and loans,
170,147,567 E ; branch bank accounts, 34,485,873 f. ;
rentes, public securities, and reserve fund, 64,182,098
francs ; credits and various items, 287,026 fr. ; total,
460,940,563 f. Passive—The amount of bank-notes
circulated was 222,849,000 E ; notes to order, 835,7001'. ;
accounts current, 149,216,494 f. ; capital and reserve,
81,900,000 f. • different items, 6,139,368 E The discounts,
advances, and loans made during the quarter amounted
to 273,266,342 f. ; movement of accounts current (pri-
vate), 2,161,919,515 E ; ditto (public), 215,906,166 f. Ge-
neral movement of the caisses, 2,686,309,721 f.
The following gratifying intelligence for the ladies is
from the Commerce of Thursday :—" Among the Mem-
bers of the Chamber of Deputies there are 271 married
men, 60 bachelors, and 125 widowers."
The Espectador of Madrid confirms the statement of
M. Sancho having been appointed Spanish Ambassador
to the Court of St. James's. The same journal mentions
the following nominations of Charges d'Affaires as having
taken place :—M. de Sandoval at Copenhagen ; M. de
Potestad at Quito ; and M. Viniegra at Athens.
Advioes from the frontiers of Turkey, in the Augsburgh
Gazette, state, that the Albanian and Turkish troops
have been again committing excesses against the Chris-
tian inhabitants of Bulgaria, and that great discontent
prevails.
A letter from Athens, 10th ult., in the Leipsic Gazette,
says that the Greek Government, after taking cognizance
of a note addressed to it by the Great Powers, has
determined on indemnifying the Turkish claimants of
confiscated lands and property. For the lands in Ne-
gropont (Euboan), a certain sum is to be paid down to
the Porte ; and for those near Thebes the price of pur-
chase is to be paid to the former owners, together with
a guarantee of interest at 8 per cent. uptil the final pay-
ment of all their claims, which is to take place within
two years.

Af. de Butanieff, Russian Envoy at Constantinople, ar-
rived at Frankfort a few days since, on his way to Paris.
PUBLIC OPINION.

The object of the principal leading article in the
Morning Chronicle, is to show that the idea of restricting
manufactures, as alluded to in a Tory journal of yester-
day, is not only absurd, but absolutely impossible ; and
that Sir Robert Peel is far too shrewd a man of the world
to dream of countenancing, even for a moment, any such
preposterous and impracticable project. "We are told,"
adds the Chronicle, " that Sir R. Peel has a heart, which
is what is always said by vulgar people, when they want
to coax some one into doing something particularly
foolish. We have no doubt that Sir R. Peel has a heart;
and it is even more certain that he has a tongue. But
he has also, indisputably, some brains ; and he has not
quite the heart that would enable him, despite the warn-
ing which his brains would give him, to enter on so stu-
pendous a course of folly and wickedness, as that of li-
miting the use of machinery."
The Times observes, in an article on the subject of
machinery, its moral and economical effects, and capa-
bility of extension, that no Committee can add anything
to our knowledge, beyond a few speculations of selected
individuals ; and adds, " there is no difficulty as to the
facts ; we do not doubt the readiness of the Government
to accept the view taken of them by the Ten Hours' De-
putation. The difficulty is, how to deal with those facts,
when ascertained."

The Advertiser, alluding to the returns of Lord Stan-
ley and Sir James Graham from their visit to the Duke
of Buckingham at Stowe, expresses its opinion that they
have found his Grace as dogged and inexorable as ever ;
for, had it been otherwise, the whole town would last
night have rung with the intelligence.
The Post, In an article suggested by Mr. Stevenson's
last note on the question of the Right of Search, states
that this gentleman's proceedings in sending an official
despatch on so important a question, under circumstances
which precluded an immediate reply to it, would fully
justify a departure from established usage, and the pub-
lication of the reply, without waiting for the printing of it.
The Herald contains an article on the Slave-trade,
wherein our Contemporary remarks that we must either
demonstrate to the doubting world that free labour, when
the supply is equal to the demand, in the tropics, is
superior to, and cheaper than slave labour, or we must
in reality abandon• all but the immediate object of the
Emancipation Act.