The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN.

Many of the original articles in the Paris Journals are
on the new Tariff Bill proposed by Sir Robert Peel. The
Debats does not enter upon the subject with reference to
the probable operation of this Bill upon the import trade
of other countries, but as a domestic measure intended
to afford relief to the industrious classes. This journal
bestows praise upon Sir Robert Peel for the talent and
energy which he has displayed on this occasion, but ob-
serves that the agriculturists, to whom he owes his re-
turn to power, are evidently dissatisfied with the liberal
views that ho has adopted in political economy, and that
he is but coldly supported by those on whom his greatest
reliance was placed.
The Presse does not find anything to admire in Sir
Robert Peel as a political economist; looking at his new
tariff in the broad and general view of international
trade, it says:—:" As a measure of reform the measure is
incomplete, and will not attain the end which was first
proposed. There are not sufficient advantages held out
to any other country for it to offer any advantage in re-
turn. British statesmen, even those who pass for having
professed the most liberal ideas, have never at bottom
departed from that selfishness, which so profoundly cha-
racterizes the English nation."
The Courrier Francais, after noticing the injurious
operation upon French commerce of the recent changes
in the tariff of Spain and the United States, and the ex-
ception of France from the countries which will be bene-
fited
by the Bill now before the English Parliament,
says :—" What ought to be the conduct of our Govern-
ment under these circumstances ? The National has
urged the French Cabinet to use reprisals with respect
to England ; the Commerce asks for reprisals against the
United States. For our own parts, we should like to see
the question examined iu a higher point of view ; for
there are other things to be done besides contending
with the nations with whom we exchange our produce
by high customs duties. If England is willing to admit
our wines, our brandies. and our silks, it is our interest
to sign the treaty which has remained in suspense these
two years. By joining with the United States in poli-
tical questions, we shall keep the Cabinet of London in
check, and in drawing closer our commercial connexions
with England, we shall render the United States more
tractable on that point. Let us, therefore, take counsel
from our own interests."
The National, at once hostile and ridiculous, gives its'
Government this evil counsel :—" We must reply to ex-
aggerated tariffs by analogous ones. We must place on
English linens and threads the same duty that is placed
OR our silks. Should Sir Robert Peel afterwards propose
a diminution, France will modify her customs in the
same proportion as England does. To friends we shall
grant concessions—to enemies reprisals. Any other line
of policy would be an acknowledgment that we were both
feeble and deceived."
The Constitutionnel and the Courrier Francais have
articles on the prosecution which has just been insti-
tuted against the Nationd. They contend that the nature
of the observations which were made by that Journal,
on the authorities with reference to the late railway dis-
aster, and the circumstances under which they were
made, do not warrant the severity to which the Govern-
ment has had recourse.
The Report of the Committee on the Bill providing
for the support of the political refugees in France, was
presented to the Chamber of Deputies on Friday. It
states that there are at present residing in France 16,672
political refugees, of whom 11,779 are Spaniards, 4,471
Poles, 410 Italians, and 12 from other countries.
The most distinguished members of the Chamber of
Deputies, Messrs. Odillon Barrot, Lamartine, Dufaure,
Lanjuinais, Lafayette, &c., have addressed an energetic
appeal to their fellow-countrymen on behalf of the suf-
ferers by the fire of Hamburgh, and placed their names
at the head of a national subscription, which is to be
opened in the office of the treasurer of the Chamber.
Letters from Lisbon of the 9th, say that the non-
conclusion of the commercial treaty has given rise to
great excitement in the north of Portugal. A belief was
beginning to prevail that the' treaty would never be
signed, and much disgust prevailed with reference -to
the over niceties of diplomatic discussion which had ar-
rested its progress to maturity. Both treaties would,
in all human probability, be signed within a month.
A Commission has just been appointed by the Por-
tuguese Government to take into consideration the whole
question of the reduction of duties, which is to form
the subject of the supplemental article to the commercial
treaty. The Commission consisted of Joaquim Lanches,
a cloth manufacturer from the Alemtejo ; Florido Fer-
rel, formerly Finance Minister ; and Leita Sampayo,
one of the tobacco contractors.
The new list of Peers, 30 in number, had been ap-
proved by the Queen of Portugal in Council. The list
had been judiciously drawn up so as to include a fair
representation of all parties. The most remarkable
nominations were those of Count Bomfin, Count Das
Aretas, and Silva Carvalho.
The principal merchants of Cadiz, on being informed
that in the new treaty of commerce about to be signed
between Great Britain and Portugal, the import duties
on Madeira and Porto wines were to be considerably re-
duced, had held a meeting in the hotel of the provisional
deputation, and prepared a memorial to the. Government,
in which they exposed that it would be hereafter im-
possible for them to compete in the London market with
the French and Portuguese wine-merchants.
PUBLIC OPINION.

In a leading article, suggested by the state of affairs in
Affghanistan, the Chronicle says :—" We are accustomed
to hear that Ministers are responsible for their acts.
'We see no such practice. A disaster unparalleled in
our annals has been brought upon us ; we perceive no
indication of those who caused it being held responsible.
Sir Robert Peel has promised a thorough investigation
of the past ;. we think that such investigation ought to
precede any determination to involve the country in new
wars, more taxes, and to expose us to the possibility of
recurrence of disaster. Sir Robert Peel once, in speak-
ing of this very subject, censured Parliament for squab-
bling about domestic matters of comparatively trifling
importance, while it neglected affairs on which hung the
fate of nations.
.. He is now in a position to direct the
attention of Parliament to these weightier concerns.
Why does he not do so ? Is the investigation to be de-
terred until men's attention has again flagged? Is it
to be hurried through at the fag end of the session ?
Is it to be delayed until, for all useful purposes, it is too
late ?"

In reference to Mr. Warburton and the Bridport
affair, the Times remarks as follows :—" If there were
any physical necessity which compelled him to fill the
office of M.P. for Bridport we should understand his
submission to all conditions precedent' which were in-
cident to such an event ; but, failing that compulsion,
we confess ourselves most wholly unable to appreciate
the relevancy of the distinctions which Mr. Warburton

implies between a promise and an understanding, or
between a paid and a sliding scale of prices ; and so we
shall wait with unfeigned curiosity to hear the answer to
the question, by which Mr. C. Wood, like ourselves,
seems a little puzzled—' What is head-money but
bribery ?' Meanwhile, between Mr. Warburton and
Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Duncombe and Mr. Roebuck, the
public, we think, may fairly expect some piquant disclo-
sures after the adjournment."

The following appears in the Chronicle :—" Many o
the proceedings of the session must be regarded by Libe-
ral politicians as productive of practical good. The new
Corn-law is calculated to be somewhat less oppressive
than the old one. We are to have a continuance of the
sound provisions of the Poor-law. And, undoubtedly,
the working of the new tariff will give the people some
sensible advantages by the relakation of various mo-
nopolies, and the cheapening ;of various articles
necessary to comfort. These advantages would, it is true,
be more than counterbalanced, in our opinion, by the in-
fliction of the Income-tax, were that tax likely to be as
durable as the good results to which we have adverted.
But the latter, like all the consequences of concessions to
liberal views, will never be revoked ; while the evils of

the Income-tax appear to us to carry in themselves their
own speedy remedy. Unqualified good appears to us
likely to result from the whole of the proceedings of the
session with respect to elections and the franchise. We
may not get much, indeed, by getting Lord Brougham's
Bribery Bill ; but we shall get a good deal if we secure
the more effectual provisions of Lord John Russell's pro-
posed Bill. Something will be gained if the convicted
boroughs are disfranchised ; more by the exposures of
the nature and extent of the existing corruptions through
the agency of Mr. Roebuck's Committee."
The Post has the following remarks on Mr. Roebuck's
motion :—" Nothing has yet occurred to shake our
opinion that the House of Commons took a false step
when it yielded to Mr. Roebuck's slap-dash mode of
proceeding with regard to compromises of bribery
charges in eleetion petitions. A respectable Committee
has been appointed, but, if there be any useful result of
their labours, it must be an indirect one. The whole
affair has been too unadvised—too rash and sudden—to
turn out well. This is not so much Mr. Roebuck's fault.
He but followed his nature. He is self-confident and

impetuous. What he has done he could not have done
otherwise. A calm and reasonable proceeding of any
kind was not to be expected from him. Why, then, did
the House let him have his way for se far? We cannot
tell; but we can assign no reason which is creditable to
the good judgment of the House."
We quote the subjoined observations from the Man-
chester Times :—" It is not by the disfranchisement of
Harwich, Nottingham, Reading, Lewes, and Falmouth ;
it is not by the punishment of the bribed wherever de-
tected ; it is not by the exposure of the briber at the bar
of the House, or at the tribunal of public opinion,. it is
not by such means that purity of election is to be se-
cured. It must bo sought in removing as much as pos-
sible the motive for bribery, and rendering it difficult of
accomplishment • shculd the motive be irremoveable. j
This is to be effected by adopting the principles of the
Complete Suffrage Union."
The following remarks appear in the Derbyshire
Chronicle :—" There are as yet no symptoms of reviving.
trade. The Premier excuses his disappointment at the
unbrightening prorpect of our manufacturers ; and,
while the poor are starving from bad laws, the notable
scheme is devised of having charity sermons preached
over, the country for their benefit. Cheap bread and
groceries, they are not to have ; low wages and want of
employment may still be their lot ; but the plate is to be
held for them by pious and well-clad philanthropists at
the doors of fashionable churches and chapels ; their
suft'erings are to be attributed to the Providence of
God, rather than to •the ignorance and selfishness of
man."

The Glasgow Post proposes an extension of the Suf-
frage as the only sure remedy for bribery and corruption
at elections :—" The cure, and the only cure, is to extend
the electoral qualification. Extend the number of
electors, and make the electoral districts as uniform in

the number of electors as possible. This, with the ap-

lication of the ballot in addition, would most effectually
by
an end to the disgraceful system of bribery, y
which the House of Commons is packed at present,' while
nothing else will." •
The Dublin Evening Post remarks, in reference to
Earl de Grey's recent official appointments of Messrs.
Jackson and Brewster :—" What other man but he,
professing the opinions he did—promulgating these opi •
'lions repeatedly, and, so to speak, ostentatiously—
would have had the hardihood to appoint two persons,
particularly odious to the bulk of the community; to
offices of trust and profit ?—what other man, but. Earl
de Grey, would have had the intrepidity of so speedily
giving the lie to his own declarations by such appoint-
ments as these ? We do not believe there is another in
the United Kingdom brave enough to have acted as
Earl de Grey has done in the premises."
The Leeds Times thus alludes to the proposed gene-
ral charity sermons, in aid of the destitute operatives :
" A Queen's letter is to be issued, with the concurrence of
the Bishops, recommending sermons and contributions
in all the churches, for the relief of the starving popu-
lation. It is very characteristic. The Bishops, after
passing the Corn-laws, recommend a sermon ! The
landlords, after enforcing their claim, to levy black mail
from the people, propose to give back a trifle by way of
alms After levelling the poor to the dust by their
general policy, they take credit to themselves for raising
them up a little by the grace of charity."

MONET—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The Manchester and Birmingham Railway opened their
new station in the London-road, Manchester, on. Tues-
day last, at the same time that the trains commenced
running on the newly-construced line extending from
Stockport to Sandbach.

The sudden death of Mr. Pierson, banker at Hitchin,
has caused the firm to stop payment, and the creditors
wlll meet in a few days ; the statement of affairs is then
expected to be satisfactory.
The Bradford market only has improved this week.
At Huddersfield, Leeds, Leicester, and Manchester,
business is quite stationary. Rochdale has been thinly
attended, and Halifax and Manchester worse.

STATISTICS.
The number of emigrants from the United Kingdom
in 1841 was 118,592.

ELECTIONEETLING.
The determination of Sir Rub:•rt Bateson to retire
from the representation of Londonderry, leaves the
county open to an election. His so.i, Mr. Robert Bateson
is already in the field on the part of the Tories, together
with a second candidate, Sir Hervey Bruce, late of the
Life Guards.

MEDICAL.
Dr. Webster, one of the Governors of Bethlem Hos-
pital, proposes to institute a medical lunacy class, to. be
publicly supported, the students of which, as on the
Continent, shall have personal access to the patients, and
thereby become acquainted with the features of this
malady, which is now much neglected.

PINE AMTS.
Lord Northwick has generously conceded to Mr.
Philip Howard, M.P., for Carlisle, the exquisitely
painted miniature by Sir Antonio Moore, of Thothas.
Duke of Norfolk, beheaded for befriending the cause of
Mary Queen of Scots, which was sold at Strawberry-
hill, on Tuesday last. The late Mr. Howard, of Corby,
had done much to illustrate the life of this unfortunate
nobleman.

LITER/MY AND SCEENTIPXO.
It is proposed to regulate all the Post-office clocks in
the kingdom by the time brought from London daily by
the mail-coach chronometers, so as to render time pre-
cisely uniform throughout England.

THE.A.TR.XCAM.
Miss Adelaide Kemble appeared at the Theatre Royal,
Dublin, on Monday last, as Norma, and experienced a
most flattering reception.
Drury Lane will close for the season next Monday.
COURT-FASHIONABLE.
The Duke of Wellington left Apsley House on Satur-
day for Strathflelcgaye.
The Duke of Marlborough left Mivart's Hotel on Sa-
turday for Blenheim.

The Sheik of the Druses has left Mivart's Hotel for
Woolwich, in order to be instructed in the artillery
service.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland returned to
Northumberland House yesterday from Leamington Spa.
The Marquis of Normanby left the Clarendon on Fri-
day for Mulgrave Castle.
Sir Robert Peel returns to Whitehall-gardens to-mor-
row from Drayton Manor.
The Duke of Devonshire gives a grand musical enter-
tainment in the course of the week at Devonshire House.
The Duchess of Sutherland intends to give a Bal
Costume on the 24th iust at Stafford House.
The Countess of Jersey had an evening party on Sa-
turday.
The Earl of Winchilsea left the Clarendon on Satur-
day for Haverholm Priory, Lincolnshire.
The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are expected at the
Clarendon on Wednesday next from Eglinton Castle.