The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-08 00:00:00

Public aptuton.

" Who ran may read"

PAILLIADTENTAR.Y.
The House of Lords met yesterday, subsequent to the
holidays, and, after forwarding several Bills a stage, adjourned.
The Commons, as one of their first Acts, committed to New-
gate one Richard Gibbons, who had wilfully borne false test',
mony before the Great Marlow Election Commi tee.
Mr. Wallace moved for the correspondence relative to the
resignation of Lord Corehouse, but withdrew his motion on
being assured by Sir J. Graham that the correspondence was
private.
Sir Robert Peel denied to Mr. Ward that there was any
intention to increase the duty on salmon 100 per cent.
To Mr. Blewitt he stated that the Sycee silver included in
the revenue returns amounted to 302,0001.
Mr. T. Duncombe moved to rescind the Standing Order
which prohibited the presentation of petitiors against a pro-
posed tax. The Hon. Gentleman made an -excellent speech.
He was ably supported by Mr. Macaulay, Sir G. Grey,
and Mr. C. Buller, and but feebly opposed by Sir G. Clerk
and Sir R. Peel. On a division, however, the Tories carried
it to continue the prohibition by 167 to 136.
On the motion to read the Corn keeping-out Bill a third
time, Mr. Cobden moved a resolution that, as the House had
refused to interfere to raise the price of labour, it ought not to
raise the price of corn. Sir Robert Peel opposed the
motion, which was ultimately lost, Lord John Russell and
the friends of a fixed duty not voting for Mr. Cobden, by 236
to 86. The debate was enlivened by a little display by Sir
John Tyrrell and others, of the strong feeling which has now
got hold of the agriculturists. A division subsequently took
place on a question of adjournment. The third reading was then
carried by 229 to 90. On the question that the Bill do pass, Mr.
French submitted his amendment to prevent the importation of
flour into Ireland for six months, but withdrew it. Mr. A.
Johnston then proposed his amendment to allow sour flour to
be admitted for the purposes of manufacture duty free, but
the motion was not pressed. Finally the Bill was passed. Ad-
journed at Half-past One o'Clock.
PtrilLlC OPINION.
. The Times observes, in reference to Mr. Wakley's speech on
the Copyright question :—" We must express our regret that
so useful a Member of Parliament as Mr. Wakley should hare
permitted himself to speak disrespectfully cf the writings of a
man whom we supposed to have outlived the bad taste of a
former generation, and to be now enjoying, in a venerable old
age, a foretaste of that. judgment which posterity will pass upon
his works. De gustibus noes est disputandum,--we have no
right to complain of AlresWakley because he does not under-
stand Mr. Wordsworth's poetry. If he thinks that "any one
may make a very respectable poem out of an evening
sky, dew, daisies, roses, and a rivulet,—if he despises t,e
play of human feeling and fancy in what seem little things—
we cannot help it, it is his own misfot tune ; but he is not com-
pelled to advertise his insensibility to the world. When he
called down the laughter of the House of Commons upon lines
which the public taste has justly stamped with approbation,
he would have done wisely to remember that any buffoon could
do the same with numberless passages of Shalspeare and Milion.
When he avouched himself able to produce as good poetry of
his own, he did but turn the laugh against himself. Mr.
Wakley is not obliged to admire Mr. Wordsworth as a poet ;
but at least he ought to respect him as a venerable man, who
has in all his writings shown himself the friend and zealous
champion of the poor."
The following is from the Post It is said that you might
have a tax upon all kinds of income, but it II so modify it that
it should press differently, according to the nature and circum-
stances of the income, and therefore be more just. It is easy
to imagine a nicely-adjusted tax of this kind, and to give it
imaginative praise. We do not hesitate to say of it hypotheti-
cally, that if it were possible so to arrange the tax, and if it
were likely to realise the sum of money which is wanted, we
should praise it above all other taxes."'
The Chronicle contains the following remarks in an article
on the subject of copyright :—" ' A poet is a manufacturer,'
says the Member for Finsbury; meaning thereby to be very
generous towards poetical genius. We know, however, of no
manufactured products in which all right' of private property
ceases as soon as they are forty-two years old. Those who
level mind with machinery ought, at least, to allow it the
rights of machinery. It is too much the tendency of the
present erne to regard the mental power as subordinate to
the money power ; something which capital hires or buys in
the market to do its work, but which is no more to be al-
lowed a substan►ive existence in society than the emanci-
pated negroes are to become the proprietors of the West India
Islands. Mr. Macaulay's amended edition of Lord Mahon's
Bill will not reform the moral disorder that exists, but it
may nevertheless effect a little mitigation."
The Herald says :—" The afflicting military intelligence
from Affghanistan has begot a strange demand from some t f
our contemporaries. A Court of Inquiry is sought into the
conduct of General Elphinstone. Now, in the first place,
when we get Gen. Elphinstone and his companions out of the
hands of the Affghans, and know something mare of the oc-
currences in detail which led to the capitulation of Cabool, the
assumed breach of its terms by the Affghans, and the slaughter
of the Anglo-Indian army, and the capture of its Commander
and some of his subordinate officers, it will be time enough to
talk about such an inquiry. At present our ignorance of these
particulars ought effectually to restrain any such precipitate
demand. The conduct of General Elphinstore may not be
so pusillanimous when the whole truth is known ; and even if it
should the authorities who bestowed the supreme command in
Affghanistan on that officer will then be far more obnoxious to
reproach than the General himself."
ONEY—TILADZI—COMMERCE.
There are upwards of 30,000 persons dependent on the shoe-
trade at Dublin, who have petitioned against the iemoval cf the
shoe and hoot duty.
A meeting of the Polbrun Tin and Copper-Mining Com-
pany was held yesterday at the George and Vulture tavern,
when the Company dissolved itself, and gave order for sale of
effects, &c.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
Sir Francis Brian Hill, brother to Lord Hill, the Comman-
der-in-Chief, died near Shressbury la't Monday, aged 64.
LAW AND POLICE.
At the Norwich Assizes, on Wednesday, Anne Bunn was
found guilty of falsely accusing one Daniel Durrant of having
committed an assault upon her person, which at the time was a
capital offence. The unfortunate man, it appeared, had been
convicted at the last assizes, was sentenced to be transported for
life, and is now in the hulks. Sentensce will be passed on the
woman in the Court of Queen's Bench.

Hopkins, the man charged at Clerkenwell yesterday with
assaulting Susan Wall, a lodging-housekeeper, was in the course
of the day fined 10s., and sentenced to • ten days' imprison-
ment and hard labour.

FINE ARTS.
The candidates for the scat in the Academie de Beaux Arts
at Paris, vacant by the death of Cherubini, are Messrs. Adam,
Berlioz, Onslow, Rigel, and Zimmerman.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
Mr. Pettigrew, the eminent Egyptian antiquarian, is the
editor of a new dictionary on this branch of erudition, the
materials of which Le has. been collecting for nearly twenty
years, during which time all that is valuable in discovery has
been made.

THEATRICAL.
G,,orgio Ronconi makes his first appearance to-morrow
night with Persiani, in the opera of Lucia di Lammermoor.
C OIIRT HZ ONAZILE.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford leave Oakley House on
Monday next for Newmarket.
Viscount and Viscountess Boyle are daily expected at
Mivart's Hotel from Brighton.
Baron Maltzhan arrived at Mivart's Hotel yesterday from
Germany.
Lady Antrobus received a select circle on Wednesday, on
the Terrace, Piccadilly.

1842.
The following is the House List of Governors and Directors
of the Bank of England, for the year ensuing

FOR GOVERNORS.
William Cotton, Esq., Governor.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq., Deputy .Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.
Robert Barclay, Esq. • - George Warde Norman, Esq.
Edward Hen. Chapman, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
13onamy Dobree Esq. Juges Pattison, Esq.
Charles Pascoe drenfell, Esq. Chf istopher Pearse, Esq.
Kirkman Dan. Hodgson, Esq. Charles Pole, Esq.
J. Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. David Powell, Esq.
Chas. Frederick Huth, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid, Bart.
Alfred Latham, Esq. William R. Robinson, Esq.
William Little, Esq. Thomas Charles Smith,
Esq.
James Malcolmson, Esq. William Thompson Esq., ana
Humphrey St. John Mildmay, Alderman. ,
Esq. T. Matthias Weguelin, Esq.
James Morris, Esq. Franc's Wilson, Esq.
The Election for Governor and Deputy-Governor will be
held at the Bank, on Tresday, the 12th April, and for Direc-
tors, on Wednesday, the 13:h April, from ten in the forenoon
till four in the afternoon.
LIBEL UPON TIIE QUEEN.—This morning Messrs.
Phillips, Clarkson, and Doane, received retainers for the pro-
secution against Mr. Gregory, editor of the Satirist, in a
mat. er referred to in our Marlborough-street police report,
but it is uot expected that the trial will come on at the present
session, as the defendant will doubtless enter into recognizances,
and very probably remove the case by a writ of certiorari into
a superior Court.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 6.—To-day, at two o'clock, a
great solemnity was performed in the new town of Leopold.
This evening the Cardinal Archbishop of Malines laid the first
stone of the Church of St. Joseph, erected by the Society for
the enlargement and improvement of the capital, which has
founded the new town. General Vandermeere has obtained
permission to see his 'nether, who is dangerously ill. He went
to her
police residence on Monday in a carriage, accompanied by a
-offi

LR‘ MARY OF NEWS
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FOREIGN.
" The Monarchs of Europe," writes the Paris Correspon-
dent of a fashionable Contemporary, " will all be in motion in
the summer, and Royal travellers will be found whizzing about
all over the Continent. The King of Prussia intends to visit
' his Rhenish provinces. The Emperor Nicholas will visit Ems.
The Emperor of Austria is going to take the waters at Ischt,
where the Pope is also expected, as his Holiness has been re-
commended to take the baths by his medical advisers. On
leaving Ischt the Emperor of Austria will proceed to Trieste,
and then to Dalmatia. The King of Bavaria, has announced
his intention of making an excursion to Italy, and the King of
Wurtemberg is going to Leghorn for sea bathing."
Yesterday and to-day (says the Paris Commerce), the
principal members of the corps diplomatique assembled in the
hotel of Lord Cowley, the Ambassador of England. On Satur-
day night despatches reached the Embassy by a courier, coming
from London. This evening the Ambassador was to proceed to
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to communicate a note
to M. Guizot.
The caravan between Damascus and Bagdad had been at-
tacked and plundered by the Bedouins. Ninety bales of goods
and many camels have fallen into their hands. The south of
Syria, on the contrary, which last year was unsafe, presents a
more satisfactory aspect than anywhere else, as a proof of which
tw• Americans have lately come from Cairo to Palestine, by
way of Akaba, Petra, and Hebron, although attended by only
25 Bedouins.
An American missionary at Jerusalem has been exploring
the vaults under the Mosque of Omar. He was let down by a
rope at midnight through a well 80 feet deep, and the n
waded up to the neck in water to the dry ground. He is of
opinion that they are not Roman, but are the original crypts
of Solomon's Temple.
The Madrid Gazette of the 29th ult publishes a decree of
the Regent, ordering that the property of the partisans of Don
Carlos, sequestered during the late civil war, should be forth-
with returned to the respective owners. The decree only ex-
cepts those who continue to reside abroad, or have been excluded
from, or refused to take the benefit of, the amnesty.
Generals Laureano Sanz and Juan Palarea, and Admiral
Francisco Armero, indicted for participation in the conspiracy
of October last, were ordered to be liberated, " there existing
no sufficient proofs to criminate them."
The Bayonne Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 2d affirms Chit
a telegraphic despatch had reached the Sub-Prefect, authoris-
ing the Christino refugees who had been ordered to proceed to
the interior some time since to return to that town.—ls another
rising contemplated?