The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-28 00:00:00

,rilE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1842.

S FeiPAY OF MEWS

AND
Vlttitt OffttntOn•

" Who runs may read."

FOTLEIGN.

The Report of the Committee on the Bill relating to the
Strasburg and Basle, Bordeaux and Teste, and Paris and
Versailles (left bank) railroads has just been distributed
amongst the Deputies, and the Bill will be discussed in a few days.
The Committee allows that amongst all the Companies which
have hitherto received assistance from the State, there is none
that seems more entitled to favour than that of Strasburg and
Basle. This line was the first, it says, of any extent executed
in France. The Committee is of opinion that it will serve as a
commencement of the great Government railroad from the
Rhine to the Mediterranean, and has recommended that the
required assistance should be granted.
The Committee for prolonging the Paris and Rouen Rai-
road to Havre recommends in its report, which is now before
-the Chamber of Deputies, the adoption of the Government
plan, with the exception of Art. 11, which gives the Company
the right of establishing a special entrance into Paris, subject
to the approbation of the Government, instead of being com-
pelled to adopt the Paris and Saint-Germain terminus. The
Committee decided by a majority cf five to four, that this
entrance could not be executed without the approbation of
the Chambers.

The Monaca,- publishes a report of General Changarnier,
dated Blidah ( Africa), 17th inst., conveying an account of an
expedition on the banks of the t;hiffa, from which he had just
returned. The General broutht back 211 prisoners, a number
of horses, and about 1,200 head of cattle. The eighl y-four
civil and military prisoners unconditionally liberated by Abd-
el-Kader, arrived at Algiers on the 20th inst.
The King of Sweden, says a letter of the 13th inst. takes a
deep interest in the losses of the people of Hamburgh. The
Stockholm Gazette eontains an appeal to the Swedish nation, in
favour of Hamburgh, by the Swedish Council of that city.
The Bordeaux Journals of the 24th inst. publish the lists of
the subscribers in that city to the fund for the sufferers at
Hamburgh. The amount already subscribed is 63,000 f.
The Duke of Ahumada, formerly Minister of War under Fer-
dinand and during the regency of Maria Christina, died in
Madrid on the 17th, of cancer in the tongue.
A letter from Candia, April 27, states that several cases of
hydrophobia have occurred in the island, and that in conse-
quence of this calamity all the dogs in it have been destroyed by
order by the authorities.
P.A.ILIZAWLENTAILY. .

The Lords rec;v7da77;;;;;;Ttiiiipeiitions, and read
the Customs Duties Drawback Bill a second time. They for-
warded one or two other measures a stage and then adjourned.
In the Commons Sir A. Leith Hay gave notice of a motion
anent the minutes of the General Assembly of the tirk, and
asked Sir James Graham whether it were the intention of the
Government to bring forward any measure to settle the dis-
graceful differences in the Kirk ? Sir James Graham declined
to give any answer till Mr. Campbell's Bill comes on for
second reading on June 15.
Before going into Committee on the tariff, Mr. O'Connell
pointed out that the result of the temperance movement in
Ireland had been to decrease the Excise revenue, but increase
the whole revenue of Ireland.

The House in Committee got through the tariff as far as the
timber duties, with one division on blubber, provoked by Mr.
Lyall, the Member for London, and which resulted in confirming
the Government proposition by 108 to 41.
Mr. C. Buller moved, by agreement, at ten o'clock that Mr.
Warburton's petition be referred to Mr. Roebuck's Committee.
Thereupon Mr. Bailie Cochrane made a spirited, though not
a satisfactory defence of his share in the Bridport transactions.
Mr. Mitchell made a weak and wordy defence of his, leaving
no favourable impression on those who heard him.
Sir T. Wilde defended Mr. Warburton, and overturned Mr.
Cochrane's and Mr. Mitchell's defence.

Sir R. Peel, Lord J. Russell, Lord Palmerston, and Lord
Stanley, all spoke, though Lord Palmerston's language
was very qualified in favour of an inquiry. Sir R. Inglis
Mr. C. Banker, who was quite vehement, and Sir. C. Burrell,
were the voters against inquiry. On a division, it was agreed
that an inquiry should take place, by 156 to 37 votes. But a
doubt was raised by Sir R. Peel, whether the inquiry should be
trusted to Mr. Roebuck's Committee or some other, and the
debate on that part of the proposition was adjourned. The
House sat till Half-past Two o'Clock.
PUnLiC OVINZON.

The Times has an article on the subject of the Queen's
letter, in which after stating that " the conduct of the Go-
vernment in throwing the relief of the poor upon the voluntary
charity of individuals, is censurable in the extreme," our Con-
temporary goes on to say :—" The whole proceeding of issuing
the letter appears to have been peculiarly that of this Minister,
for four Members of the Cabinet is the House of Lords, in-
cluding the Duke of Wellington and the President of the

Board of Trade, knew nothing about it when the subject was
first mooted by Lord Kinnaird. What significancy does this
give to the whole affair ! Has Sir J. Graham introduced any
Bill to give a bona fide Poor-law to Scotland? No. Has he

made any proposition for mitigating the restrictions which in-
tercept legal relief from the poor in England ? No. But Sir
.1. Graham was among the most active of those who, in 1834,
took away the rights which the poor till then possessed in the
property of the country ; Sir J. Graham has ever since been a
dogged supporter of that measure of spoliation ; and the same
Sir J. Graham has now a Bill before the House of Commons
for carrying out with increased stringency all its oppressive
principles. This is the Minister who would tax the pious and
the charitable to enable him to be generous to the hardhearted
and the rich."

The Herald says:—" The House of Commons was most
industriously occupied on Thursday evening in degrading itself
in public estimation. The popular branch of the Legislature
refused to prosecute the bribed or the bribers at the last Ips-
wich election, voided on the ground of corruption ; it refused
to institute further inquiry into the state of the constituency of
that venal borough ; but it did not refuse that constituency an-
other opportunity of again indulging in its habitual impurity.
We say habitual impurity, for twice within the last six years
have Ipswich elections been voided in consequence of proven
corruption. True it may be that there is no proof that the
majority of Ipswich voters are purchaseable ; but the result of
Parliamentary investigations establishes that there is on either
side of politics in that notorious borough such a number of
votes to be bought as will at any election enable candidates to

purchase their return. Away then with the miserable fallacy
that the majority of Ipswich electors being pure, ought not to
remain unrepresented. They are not represented; venality
turns the scales of Ipswich elections ; and venality alone is
therefore represented."
The Post expresses its displeasure at the recent conduct of
Ministers in the following terms :—" We are far from wishing
to be alarmists, or from desiring to create apprehension with-
out abundant and pressing cause for the same ; but this cause
we think we see in some of the language lately used by those
whose influence we acknowledge, and whose talents we re •
spect. We shall explain ourselves by quoting part of the ob-
servations of Mr. Labouchere upon the statements lately made
by the Prime Minister and the Vice-President of the Board of
Trade. The inconsistency of her Majesty's Ministers,' said
Mr. Labouchere, lies in this : that in bringing forward their
measures with regard to cattle, they adopted the language of
those who advocated free trade on the broadest principles.
They insisted on the necessity of buying in the cheapest mar-
kets, and that the people should obtain provisions wherever
they were able to be procured.' We have not observed
that either Sir R. Peel or Mr. Gladstone, who, it after-
wards appeared, were the Ministers specially referred to
by Mr. Labouchere, took any opportunity to correct that Right
Hon. Gentleman, or to deny that they had adopted the lan-
guage of those who advocate free trade on the broadest prin-
ciples. Now, we should be very sorry to exaggerate, or to do
any injustice respecting what may fairly be supposed to be the
views of the present Ministers in regard to what is called free
trade. We certainly do not think that they would at present
consent to the ruinous changes which the party of Mr. La-
bouchere would gladly carry into effect at present, it they could ;
but when we find them adopting, or allowing to be imputed to
them by a man of Mr. Labouchere's eminence, the broadest
principles of the free traders, how can the public have the con-
fidence which we think they ought to be able to have in the
continued resistance of these ruinous changes by the present
Ministers ? It is with the deepest and keenest regret that we
observe such a statement as that of Mr. Labouchere passing
uncontradicted."

The Chronicle, speaking on the subject of Ireland, ob-
serves :—" 'fake a man from this country, no matter what his
party or political opinions may be, into Ireland, and he soon
arrives at the conclusion that the disorders are attributable to
the misconduct of the gentry. The late Sir Walter Scott, for
instance, ,as Mr. Lockhart informs • us, had not been long in
Ireland when he became convinced that justice had not been
done to the people. Lord Wharneliffe last night, when a
question was put to him on the subject of the outrages in the
county of Tipperary, said that he had observed the prevalence
of a better feeling among the landed gentry of Ireland towards
their tenants. • There, however,' said his Lordship, 'still
remained evil dispositions productive of crime, that were the
growth of former bad feelings and wicked misleadings, and
which nothing but 4 continuance of generous treatment and
' conciliatory conduct on the part of those who possessed in-
fluence, could effectually remove.' And, added his Lordship
significantly, while admitting that a very beneficial change
had taken place generally in the feelings of the landlords, yet
he was compelled to confess that there were some who exer-
cised the rights of property in that country in a manner
which could not be justified, Those parties were not con-
fined to anyone class of l olitical opinions ; there were amongst
them not only Tories, but Liberals, at least Liberals in speech,
whatever they might be in practice. The system generally,
however, has much mitigated.' Property has its duties as well
as' ite rights. When its duties are attended to, such outrages
as are committed in Tipperary never take place."
We take the following from the Advertiser :—" One wise
and liberal measure regarding corn would have been worth
all the peddling reductions upon the innumerable articles com-
prised under the tariff's twenty heads • but the people are not
so silly as to be imposed upon by the Offer of many trifling ad-
vantages, while the one substantial blessing of cheap bread is
cruelly withheld from them. If Sir Robert Peel admits that
population has outstripped subsistence,' it is his duty, as a
Minister, to do his utmost towards advancing the latter in a
sufficient proportion to meet the wants of the former ; and this
is not to be done by diminishing the duties on colonial asses,
or reducing the price of quassia and other commodities which
the poor probably never heard of, and have no occasion for.
If corn were rendered cheap, meat would experience a reduc-
tion of price, and if the Premier were only to take the honest
and obvious means of increasing subsistence to meet the
demands of a growing population, he would boldly propose a
law for making bread accessible to every industrious member
of the community.
MONEY—TIVIDE—COIVEMERCE.
The Earl of St. Germain's extensive estate in Cornwall,
has been purchased by W. A. H. Arundell, Esq., of Leyton-
park, Devon.
At the meeting of the Charitable and Provident Society
for the Deaf and Dumb, held yesterday at Freemason's Hall,
the Report stated the receipts for the past year at 1581. 2s.
tip., and the amount of expenditure 110/. 17s. Bd., leaving the
balance in hand 471. 45. 100.
AXlCr..Brindley
ebrirsytated that Mr.
yesAtetrdaanyLaelivitTein-
Combo went so far with his system, as to choose not only
pEinhreAantoßltoigilreicia:l:l,7cptpluireT,ShtiCte.allErv,e7ehiT
servants and dependents, but husbandsand wives. Mr. Combe
also stated that from the great deficiency of the higher men:al
organs in the New Hollanders and North American Indians,
it was a moral impossibility that they could receive the truths
of religion, or become in any shape civilized.
To-morrow will be King Charles's restoration-day. Eve-
lyn speaks of the King's entry into London, " after a long
exile and calamitous suffering of seventeen years. Upwards
of 20,000 horse and foot attended him through the city.
Monday will be the anniversary of the death of Voltaire, who
died in 1778, aged, 84.
Lord Saltoun s prize of 10/. was awarded at the Melodist's
Club on Thursday to Mr. Hobbs for the best canzonet, and the
second prize to Mr. Blewitt.

A letter from Antwerp, May 21, states that shortly
after the Milton brig, an English vessel, had come to anchor in
the harbour, the mate was brought to land, under a charge of
having ill-treated the pilot. The latter declared that he had
been abused, beaten with a stick, and placed in irons. The
English Consul had interfered in the business.