The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-20 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
ii3ublte Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

FOUMIGN.
The French Regency is to be given to the Duke of Nemours,
eldest brother of the late Duke of Orleans, and in the event of
hiefleath, to the Prince de Joiuville and the Dukes d'Aumale
and Monpensier in succession.
M. Thiers has returned to Paris, and is already in the thick
of the intrigues upon the Regency question. He is very eager
that the King should advise with him about it.
Belgium has reduced the import duty on French wines and
salt, and increased the import duty on English thread.
The great Hamburgh Banker, Mr. Solomon Heine, is gone
ostensibly to the baths of Pyrmont, but, it is generally under-
stood that his real object is to proceed to Cassel, to meet the
Baron Rothschild,from Frankfurt, and to concert measures with
him relative to the forthcoming Hamburgh loan.

PARLIATYLENT.A.SLY.
The House of 'Lords sat last night till ten wclock.
Besides receiving several petitions against the Collieries
Bill, including one from females mnployed in mines in
Scotland, repudiating Lord Ashley's benevolence, it was
chiefly employed in discussing the Drainage (Ireland)
Bill in a Committee, which passed through that stage
after a division.

The re-committal of the Cokieries Bill, which stood
for last night, was postponed till Monday, and it seems
now very unlikely that it should pass this session.
The Commons were employed the greater part of the
evening with the Poor-law Amendment Bill. Mr.
Sharman Crawl rd's amendment, to give the Irish Poor-
law Commissioners power to grant out-door relief, and
Mr. Fielden's amendment, that the Bill be no further
proceeded with till a full inquiry has been made into the
effects of the law on the condition of the working classes,

were both lost by large majorities. A great number of
the clauses of the Bill were struck out by the Ministers,
and the remainder were assented to, after some oppo-
sition and some divisions. The House afterwards dis-
cussed the Australia Bill in Committee, and ad-

journed at Two o'Clock.
PUI3I.iC OPINION.

In an article suggested by the present distresses of the coml•
cry, the Chronicle makes the following remarks Every
night in the House of Commons brings stronger indications
that the session verges upon its close ; and the news of every
day from the country brings stronger proof that the session
ought rather to be at its commencement than at its conclusion.
During the present Parliament, the sufferings of the great
mass of the population have been augmented in unbroken pro-
gression. There have been no alternations of good with evil,
of hope with despondency. Net even partial and temporary
revivals of trade have intervened to chequer the gloominess of
the prospect. No person in business remembers a depression
so strictly continuous and uninterrupted. In our large manu-
facturing towns distress has advanced from street to street,
from one kind of occupation to another, from one class in so-
ciety to a higher class. The symptoms are all those of a fearful
and growing calamity, becoming more portentous by every
week's delay. And in this state of things tt is that the Legisla-
ture prepares, and is practically beginning to disband itself, and
to seek amusement in the coming season of field sports."
The Post insists that the Anti-Corn-law League is responsi-
ble for much of the present distress in the country :—'• That
the distress of the country is very great, is only too notorious ;
but it is scarcely less notorious that the distress of the country
has been caused chiefly by the prevalence of that system of in-
dustrial policy which the schemers of the Anti-Corn-law
League desire to ' carry out' to results even more appalling
than those under which we are now suffering. ' Not merely,
therefore, is the free-trade faction responsible, in a general
sense, for the prevailing poverty and want of employment ; but
the jobbers of the Anti-Corn-law League are responsible, in an
especial manner, for a large portion of that wretchedness which
exists at this moment in the manufacturing districts. It is now
the abject of these selfish schemers to aggravate, by all possible
means, the amount of distress, in order to 'produce an action'
en Parliament and on Ministers. With that view the manu-
facturers of the League are on all sides reducing the wages of
their operatives, and discharging their hands.' Nay, at an
Anti-Corn-law meeting held in Yorkshire about a fortnight
ago, it was stated by the lecturer, Acland, that the object of
the Anti-Corn-law Conference,' now assembled in London, is
• to arrange a plan for stopping simultaneously all the mills in
Yorkshire and Lancashire.' If these men should be indicted
for a foul conspiracy, we might chance to hear less afterwards
about leagues,' and conferences,' and closings of mills.' "
The Herald says—" If the members of the British Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science flattered themselves
that they were to be exclusively honoured by the denunciations
of the Times, they have by this time discovered their mistake.
They must perceive a formidable rival for its favours in the
Royal Agricultural Society; but neither the Asscc ation nor
the Society need be jealous of our modest Cotemporary's at-
tention to the other, for he seems to have an amplestore of
abuse for them both. Indeed, it is inexhaustible, and it ought
to be ; for he 'lets fly indiscriminately at every body of men
who aim at assisting each other to become wiser than their
fathers were before them. This propensity' to associate for
the study of their common interests and the advancement of
their cdmmon pursuits is his abomination. It is a conspiracy
against the prejudices of habit and error which he cannot en-
dure. In the acquisition of new ideas he can see nothing but
the uasettling of men's minds, and in the adoption of improved
methods nothing but the exchange of the old magic lamp for a
worthless new one ! How profound would be the bliss (pro-
found as the ignorance) of a man who can thus be content
with no higher aspiration than to leave the world as he found
it, if he was not disturbed by the startling realities with which
the spirit of discovery is continually exciting his envy and his
apprehension."
In an article on the subject of a Regency in France, the
Times observes—" 7he principle of monarchy in France
derives its chief strength from the Rerscnal character of the
Sovereign ; but the person of the sovereign must draw its
authority from something besides the principle of monarchy ;
and the adherence of the people to the present institutions of
the country appears to rest, not upon the predilections or the
confidence of loyalty, but rather upon the dread of further
change, and the distrust of other forms of Government, which
could not fail to draw the State once more into the fatal vortex
of revolution. Such we believe to lie a fair and dispassionate
view of the state of the public mind in France; and all we
venture to hope at the present moment is, that the sympathy
of the people for the King's affliction may carry them along
with the Government, and that the measure now about to be
submitted to the Legislature may not come into operation until
a course of years has ratified its provisions, and prepared the
nation to support them, if necessary."
MONEY—TRADE—COVIMEIWE.
The Pharmaceutical Society has already enrolled upwards of
3,700 members and associates during the first year of its estab-
lishment.
By the passing of the recent " Act," whereby the use of
stake and bag nets are no longer permitted to remain at the
mouth of the River Tyne, the salmon fishery has become highly
productive, and Newcastle may again be expected' to become
as famous for salmon as it was in the middle of the eighteenth
century.
A resolution has been come to by the flax-spinners of Leeds,
whereby it has been determined that all their mills shall com-
mence working short time, or four or five days in the week.
This decision will affect nearly 10,000 persons, who are em-
Floyed in this branch of trade. Therayments have been from
3,0001. to 4,000/. weekly, and the diminution will be about
WU from that sum.
LAW AND POLICE.
The capture of the gang of highwaymen, who had constructed
and inhabited fur some time past a cave in Epping Forest, has
naturally led to the inquiry of what has become of Lord Warden,
Deputy-Warden, Master-Keepers. Verderers, Reeves, Ste.,. an
enormous staff, which is appointed by the Crown to guard its
rights, as well as those of the public, and supported at a con-
siderable iFtpenselo the latter.
An action was brought at the Maidstone Assizes by Mr. Bur-
ton, the owner of a jetty at Northfieet, against Stevenson and
others, owners of a coal brig, far running foul of the jetty, and
damaging the house erected on it. The damages were laid at
64/., but the Jury returned a verdict for the defendants, on the
ground that the jetty was an obstruction to the free navigation
of the river.
A decision, under the General Turnpike Act, of considerable
importance, was come to by the Magistrates rif the Kensington
Police Court on Monday. Hitherto, it appears that several Ma-
gistrates have convicted parties, who, leaving their chaise, cart,
or vehicle outside the turnpike, have themselves gone through
on foot and done their business, afterwards returning to their
cart. The ground of conviction has been that by this means
they have evaded the toll. The Kensington Magistrates, how-
ever, in the case before them yesterday, overruled these deci•
sions, and gave it as their opinion that such cases as the above
were not contemplated by the clause in the Act.
LITERARY AND SCIEN'X'IFIC.
On levelling some ground to the south of Scone, near Perth,
large quantities of bones in stone coffins were found. These
either mark this burial of .the Norsemen, who here fought
several battles, or the interment of the members of the Monas-
tery, which stood here.
THEATRICAL.
At the English Opera House, a " grand burlesque ballet "
was performed for the first time on Monday. It is entitled
Griselle, or Dancing Mad, and grotesquely takes off the
dancers and " Willies" of the Opera.
COURT—FASHIONABLE.
One of the most superb fetes of the season was given on
Monday by Lord and Miss Foley. Almost all the leading fa-
shionables in town were. present.
Earl Delawarr, the Lord Chamberlain, arrived at Windsor
on Friday last, for the purpose of inspecting the progress of
the works of the Castle.
The illeess of the Right Rev. Dr. Sareles, Bishop of Cashel,
has assumed so serious an aspect, as to caiise great apprehen.
sion for the ultimate recovery of the venerable Prelate.
The Earl of Sefton's spacious new mansion in Belerave•
square will not be completed until the beginning of next year.
•YtISCELLANZOTIS•
A prize fight was fought near Staley-bridge, Manchester, on
Monday last, between Nr,rley and Russell, for 50/. aside, when
the latter was so injured that he died on Friday. Another en-
counter of the same kind took place in a field on the Eccles-
road; in this case one of the combatants was captured, and
two of the seconds, by the authorities.
The Wesleyan Conference holds its annual assembly on the
27th instant.

There was an import:Alt meeting held in Clayton-
street, Liverpool, on Monday, Hugh Hornby, Esq., in the
chair, for the purpose of petitioning the Crown not to allow
Parliament to separate, in the present alarming state of dis-
tress, until some measures have been adopted to alleviate that
distress. The first resolution was moved by Mr. W. Hath-
bone, in a speech of some length.