The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-28 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF N PAIS

AND
i3tttiftr Optutott.

" Who runs may read."

PORMIGN.
The Brussels Papers state that the interview between
the Kings of Prussia and Belgium was most affectionate.
The two Monarchs had early known and respected each
other, and met as friends long separated by the necessi-
ties of their rank. Business, however, was not forgotten.
The tariff was discussed, and the result is said to have
been very gratifying to King Leopold. As the King of
Prussia is, therefore, composed of squeezable materials,
our people ought to bring the Corn-laws under his notice.
Baron Bulow returned to Brussels on Monday—a sure
indication that the two Kings parted on the best terms at
Ostend. His Excellency left for Berlin on the follow-
ing day, in company with the Prussian Ambassador, at
the Hague. =
The Hague journals announce that M. de Wigner,
Chamberlain of the reigning Grand Duke of Saxe Wie-
mar Eisenach, had had a private audience of his Ma-
jesty the King. M. de. Wigner was commissioned to ask,
in the name of his Sovereign, the hand of the Princess
Sophia of the Netherlands, for Prince Charles, the heri-
ditary Grand Duke, son of the Grand Duke and of the
Grand Duchess Maria Pauloun, sister of the Queen of
the Netherlands, and of the Emperor of Russia.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The object of the principal leadinc, article in the Herald
is to show that it is the interest of England to cultivate
as much as possible friendly relations with Germany, as
represented by Prussia. "An alliance between the two
great Catholic Powers of Europe," says the Herald,
" would be dangerous in the extreme, yet the extension
of French
_and Austrian frontiers, at the expense of
Germany, is a tempting, basis on which to exact it.
Hence the great importance to England of influence in
the Peninsula ; of her protecting Spanish and Portu-
guese independence, and of maintaining those insti-
tutions which weaken therein the power of the Pope and
the Romish clergy. Germany has an interest in British
power in the Peninsula ; she looks to it as a preventive
against an Austrian-French alliance."
The Times remarks, in reference to M. Thiers's recent
speech in the Chamber of Deputies, " he has done good
in attacking the bitter fallacy, which his own presump-
tion had endeavoured to propagate, that the advent of
the French armies was looked rward to by an import-
ant party in Germany as the signal for the regeneration
of their country. The time for such foolish delusions
is fortunately past."
The Chronicle is of opinion that Lord de Grey's pro-
ceedings must be made the subject of Parliamentary
vestigation, no matter what may be the result of the
Dublin election; for that his Lordship has shown himself
a decided partisan--become, in fact, little better than the
Chairman of a Committee in a contested election ; while
the most glaring intimidation has been used to coerce
every elector within the circle of vice-regal influence.
The Post contradicts the report that the Queen has
intimated her wish to confer the vacant ribbon of the
Garter on Lord Melbourne ; and adds, " the very in-
dustry with which the Opposition Journals have dissemi-
nated the falsehood, it has been our duty to contradict,
shows out too plainly how prone they and the party
which they labour with so much zeal, and so little dis-
cretion to serve, would have been to misconstrue the
fact, had it accidentally been true."
The Advertiser recommend the Opposition to adopt a
decisive line of conduct on the first night of the Session;
and if the Queen's speech contains no distinct admission
of the frightful prevalence of distress in the country, to
move an amendment to the Address, and let that amend-
ment be pressed to a division. "We may be told,"
says our Contemporary-, " that this is an unusual course;
we know it is ; but are not these unusual times ?"
The Worcester Journal, speaking of the Royal Chris-
tening, says:—" There are many associations in English
history with the name of Edward that render the name
dear to us as, Britons, and which led us to hope that it
would have the precedence on the occasion which we are
now commemorating; but it has given place to Albert.
The Dublin Evening Post, in an article alluding to Sir
Robert Peel's difficulty in governing Ire'and, observes
that Lords De Grey and Eliot have greatly increased
that difficulty—" by throwing themselves headlong into
the arms of the Orangemen. They were bad enough
before, in all conscience. They scarcely ever made a
move since they came to Ireland but a wrong
one. But the present contest has tried them to the
marrow. It was shoWn to them that their She-
riffs were not trustworthy—it was proved to them
that they ought to invest the person whom they had
already nominated to the office, with full authority. This
person is a Tory as well as themselves, but Sir Edward
Burrough is a GENTLEMAN. This they refused to do.
The correspondence with the Castle, arising out of this
transaction, will show how the Irish Administration
have complicated Sir Robert Peel's difficulty.' "
The Tyne Mercury says :—" Whenever a strike takes
place in a manufactory, the landlords talk about cotton
lords, and revile the manufacturer as if he were a per-
secutor and an oppressor, at the very moment when they
are exerting themselves to obtain the removal from their
estates of immense numbers of people to distant parts
of the world, whom they are desirous of transporting
like so many felons—men who have perhaps laboured
for them and their ancestors for many generations—men
who have been to the land precisely what the cotton spin
ner, the weaver, or the warper, is to the manufacturer .'