The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-04 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
VulOttc Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

There is considerable variety in the original columns of the
Paris Journals. The Pressc and the National have articles
on the proposed augmentation of the duties on linen-thread and
linens, which they describe as an of justice. The Presse ob-
serves that the linen trade in -England has flourished under
the protection of the prohibitive system, and that at this mo-
ment there is in England an enormous duty upon French
linens, to justify the imposition of a higher rate of duty in France
on the linen.thread and linens imported from that country.
The National writing upon the same subject, observes :
.1 We would wish to see the duty on linen thread raised to 50
per cent., and if our enemies are astonished at this, we beg
of them to remember that the British duties levied en our
brandies are from 6CO to 1,200 rer cent., on our wines '2OO
per cent.. and on our silks 60 per cent. II Sir "filbert wishes
to reduce • those duties, let him begin, and let the French
Government reduce their duties in a similar proportion. Con-
cessions should be met by cone'itssions, but to a prohibitive
system, which is war, France should only reply by war or by
the same prohibitive system. The reprisals demanded by us
are at the same time just and dignified. If they are not
adopted, our home linen trade will not be relieved, and our
most important importations will be suffered to perish."
The Courrier Francais, which some time. ago showed that,
notuithstanding the differences which had arisen between the
Governments of Great Britain and the United States, it was
so much to the interest of each to abstain from war that there
was really very little danger cf an open rupture, now returns
to the Subject, and cautions those' persons who have been spe-
culating on a war between Great Britain and America as a la-
vourable occasion for hostility to the former-on the part of this
country. Such advice from such a quarter, although qualified
by an appeal to national resourcesi'eatinot fail to be productive
of good ; for nothing perhaps con,dUces so much to plunge na-
tions, like individuals, into conteits, as the.expectation of an
access on of force by a junction with others, or the division of
the forces of the party with whom a Conflict is anticipated. When
men are wise enough to count upon their own means, and upon
them only, they are in most eases• wises enough to prefer peace

to hostility.
- _
The Moniker Parisien announces that the Prince de Join-
vine and the Duke d'Autnale, who were to leave Paris for Eng-
land at the close of the month, have given up that intention for
the present.
According to the Augsburg Gni:oe of the 29th, the Rus-
sian Minister of War, Prince TsehiTnistscheff, has repaired to
he, armies assembled for the projected operations against Cir-
cassia, to adjust some serious differences that had broken out
among the Generals entrusted with the "command of different
corps.
PARLIAMENTARY.
The Peers received several petitions, and Lord Beaumont, in
presenting one from the Indian Committee of the Colonial Society,
praying for the production of documents to elucidate the origin of
the war in Atrghanistan, gave a short .history of the transaction.
Lord Fitzgerald declined to enter into the subject, or to defend the
policy of the late Govt rnment. For him, it was enough to defend
the policy at present pursued. The petition was laid on the table,
and their Lordships adjourned till Monday. . _

On the Report. of the Belfast tlection Committee in the Com-
mons being brought up, Mr. O'Connell gave notice that, on Mon-
day, he would move to suspend the writ for Belfast, and move for
a Committee to inquire into the corrupt compromise and the
bribery which had taken place.

The Report on the Croydon Railway Bill was thrown out by
148 to 88. Sir E. Knatchbull and L Marsham took the lead
in opposing the measure.
On calling over the Members appointed to compose the Water.
ford Election Committee, Viscount Somerton was absent, and was
ordered to be taken into custody. The Noble Viscount making his
appearance soon afterwards, the Committee was sworn in. The
Athlone Election Committee was discharged on account of the ab.
sence from illness Of Sir James Duke, one of its Members.
Lord Stanley stated, in reply to Mr. W. 0. Stanley, that he knew
nothing of the Bishop of Quebec having refused to allow a tablet
to the memory of a Gallant' Officer to' be placed in a church, ex-
cept from common report. The subject is to be renewed on Monday.
Mr. Cobden inquired whether the Gpvernment had interfered
to relieve the distress at Burnley ? Sir J. Graham said assistance
had been given from charitable funds. Mr. Ferrand then exhibited
the placard which is elsewhere noticed.
The House was occupied for the remainder of the evening with
a debate on the sugar duties, which were renewed for the year,'as
proposed by the Ministers, in spite of two opposing motions brought
forward by Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Labouchere. The House sat till
a Quarter to Two o'Clock.
_ MONZ3I---TIEULDZ—CCIIKIKEIZCE.

It is not generally known that newspapers are sent and re-
ceived through the post, free of any charge, to the following
foreign kingdoms and towns not under the dominion of Great
Britain, viz., Denmark, Spain, Hamburgh, Lubeck, Cuxhaven,
Bremen, Hayti, Peru, Honduras, Brazils, Buenss Ayres, La
Guayra, Colombia, and Caraccas.
ELECTIONEERING. _ _ _

The Ipswich election closed yesterday, when Lord Desart
and Mr., Gladstone, the Conservative candidates, were returned.

I:2S.Vir AND POLICE.

A Greenwich pensioner, of the name of Proctor, was com-
mitted yesterday at the Greenwich Police Court to take his
trial for stabbing one of his comrades. The prosecutor, it ap-
peared, had thrown some beer into his face, and the-prisoner,
an old man, in a fit of passion, stabbed him twice with a knife
which he had np his sleeve.
At Guildhall, William Lee, an errand boy in the service of
Mr. Watson, quill-merchant, Leadenhall-street, was c9mmittett
on a charge of stealing about 20/. from a cash-box, the pro.
perty of his master. The sister of the prisoner stated that on
receiving a letter in the country from' Mr. Watson intimating
that if the money were returned he would not prosecute, she
came to town with the intention of paying the amount missing
out of her wages, and. in order that her brOther, whom she
brought with her, might not escape she called a policeman to
take charge of him, and the polieemark insisted upon bringing
him before the Magistrate.
Joseph Bolton, the footman to Rear-Admiral Bouverie, who
stood charged at Portsmouth with having attempted, the life of
Louisa Pettis, the lady's maid in the same family, hai been fully
committed for trial.

FINE ARTS.
The honour of Knighthood was, on Wednesday last, conferred
on Messrs. Hay ter, Hess, and Allan, her Majesty's three Court-
painters, and also on Henry Bishop, Esq., of Hyde Park.
LITERARY AND SCISNTI4'IC.

A musical entertainment, consisting of Engl:sh madrigals,
will, it is said, be shortly gieen by her Majesty.
Another'sale of the State Papers, which, a few years since,
were cast out of the Exchequer-office as rubbish, is about to
take place at Mr. Fletcher's. They contain setters of Elizabeth,
Leicester, Cecil, Walsingham, and others.