The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-16 00:00:00

SUM ARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The Levant Mail brings news of an expected im-
provement in trade at Alexandria, on the arrival of
the crops, and the establishment of prices for the
Shiflik produce. The projected canal through the
Isthmus of Suez has been favourably reported on to
Mehemet Ali by Colonel Gallia Bey. Large com-
missions fdr machinery have been given to Captain
Engledue by the Pacha, who has also made some
new and very excellent regulations, whereby the bag-
gage of English and' other passengers by the steamers
will in future pass through the country uninterfered
with by the Custom-house.
Arif Pacha has been displaced, and Raouf Pacha,
formerly Grand Vizier, appointed President of the
Cc uncil.

The Malta letters of the sth inst. contain no news.
They state that the officers of the navy would, by
order of Admiral Owen, go into mourning for three
days, as a tribute of respect for the late Duke of
Orleans. During the same period the colours of the
fleet were to be hoisted half-mast high ; the yards to
be " topped on end," the peaks to be pointed down-
wards, and the grand march in " Saul" to be substi-
tuted for the National Anthem.
The illoniteur publishes . a Royal ordinance, dated
the 13th inst., directing, in consequence of the com-
mercial treaty concluded between France and Bel-
gium on the 16th ult., that the Customs' offices
situate along the land frontier, extending from Dun-
kirk to Longwy inclusively, shall cease to be open for
the export of flaxen and hempen yarn and linen of the
manufacture of a third country, in transitu, through

France.
The weather continued to be magnificent in Paris,
but extremely warm (86 degrees of Fahrenheit in
the shade). Notwithstanding the superior quality of
the wheat the -failure of the oat and barley crops
had occasioned a small advance in the price of flour,
and a proportionate augmentation in that of bread.
The accounts from Madrid are of the 7th in3tant.
The Gazette publishes a decree of the Regent fixing
the standing force of the army for the present year—
namely, infantry, 67,177 men ; artillery, 7,828 ; pn-
gineers, 1,239 ; cavalry, 13,760 men, 11,730 horses ;
reserve 40,000 men.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Chronicle remarks, in a leading article, on the
the subject of the riots in the manufacturing districts
—" Every day we see more and more reason for be-
lieving that those formed a correct estimate of the
present disturbances, who 3aw in them only con-
fusion. Resistance to authority is not to be appre-
hended. But though the movement does not threaten
the horrors of political convulsion, and there may
be no , immediate violence beyond the ability of the
police and military to control, we cannot shut our eyes
to the causes which led to the movement. The out-
break may be quelled, or the storm blow over, but
they must regard it very superficially who think
that we shall then have arrived at the end. The
disease is too deeply seated for its cure to be in-
ferred from the repression of• one external symptom.
And we are yet waiting anxiously for that repression
to be accomplished. To keep such a subject from en-
grossing the thoughts is impossible, even were it de-
sirable. And yet its discussion is difficult with any
chance of a good result. Negatively, however, the
path is plainer. There are suggestions and remarks
of which the mischievousness is not at all problema-
tical. For instance, the intimation that the recent
reduction of wages is a needless attempt of the master
'manufacturers to prolong the popular distress, is an
assertion so gross as to imply the densest ignorance
in its belief—if it be believed—and so noxious as to
indicate the foulest wickedness in its iteration."
The Herald says :—" The outbreaks in Lancashire
have, it is to be hoped, spent their violence and passed
their climax. But just in proportion as tranquillity
is returning does the desire to trace their origin,
:primary and ultimate, increase ; as danger is disap-
pearing, so does the necessity augnient of knowing
why the public peace has been endangered, and
why the seat of the cottan manufactures has
been the scene of a quasi insurrection. The
most searching investigation, the most fearless and
impartial inquiry, must be at once instituted
and prosecuted, regardless of all consequences.
Months ago we warned the Legislature and the
Government that the general ignorance as to
the moral, religious, social, and physical con-
dition of the manufacturing operatives was a
dangerous experiment—that such condition formed
a subject of inquiry far mote worthy of royal
commissions and reports than the infinity of costly
blue books that had been published—and that the
deplorable heathenism of .Lancashire and Cheshire
would not and could not come to good.' We
then stated that the preservation of peace and
good order, through the instrumentality of charity
and public subscriptions, would fail, and we over
and over again declared that there was no reliable
safety for society until the State should attempt
to make these operatives as good Christians and
citizens as they are unrivalled artisans. The investi-
gation, then, that we desire to have immediately
commenced should not be confined to these riots and
disturbances—should not be limited to inquiries into
their causes, progress, and the suppressive efforts of
the authorities—these are certainly matters for inves-
tigation which must not and cannot be delayed—but
it is, we repeat, unwise, impolitic, and unsafe to hesi-
tate in ascertaining the state of society which exists
in these districts—their political sentiments, organi-
sation, and designs—their trading combinations and
objects—their lawless thoughts and anti-social doc•
trines—and their educational and spiritual destitution."
We take the following from the Times :—" The
latest intelligence from Manchester is, on the whole;
of rather a favourable description. The presence of
the military appears to have prevented any further act
of open violence, though the turn-out still continues.
Meanwhile the orators of the Anti-Corn-law League
and the teachers of Chartism continue their endea-
vours to convert the strike on the part of the
work-people into a demonstration in favour of
their own interested views. It seems that they
have been essaying, but ineffectually, to seduce
the turn-outs ' into -a resolution or- resolutions
not to return to work until the objects of the
Charter are conceded. Now, when things were in
the state in which they were last week, when
resistance to the authorities had been carried even to
bloodshed; and the deluded victims of the demagogues
of Chartism and the League were in the act of suffer-
ing the punishment which those leaders themselves
most truly merited, it might have been expected that
these dastardly fomenters of this unhappy outbreak
would• have had the decency not to thrust themselves
and their doings too 'prominently upon public atten-
tion. But this has not been the case. While the
rioters are actually in collision with the authorities,
the subtle instigators proceed to promulgate a docu-
ment in the shape of a summons to attend a public
meeting, of which the treacherous cowardice is only to
be equalled by its mischievous malignity."
The Post says t—" Some apprehension is, we per-
ceive, entertained at Manchester that some desperate
effort will be made by the turn-outs to-day, which is,
it appears, the anniversary of Peterloo. We think
the recollectioh is far more likely to inspire a disposi-
tion to quietness ; for the authorities have shown a de-
termination, should the same necessity arise, to do their
duty fearlessly and vigorously in the present instance,
as their predecessors did theirs on the occasion alluded
to. The arrangements made by Government for
strengthening _the hands of local authority have
been judiciously conceived and carried into effect.
with a degree of promptitude and vigour that is
calculated, by its example, to inspire the Magistracy
with a determination to discharge their duty with
effect, wherever tumult or insolent defiance of the
law shall dare to rear its head. There is now no
cause for subordinate authorities to speculate on the
hope of applause from the State for showing sympathy
with riot, or to dread the censure of their superiors
tbr manifesting a stern determination to put it down.
The days of such feelings, and of the paralysis they
must always occasion, are fortunately at an end."
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.

At the meeting of the Londorrirran7l—junction
Railway, held yesterday in Basinghall street, it ap-
peared, from the Report, that the accounts for the
half-year exhibited a balance in the Company's favour
of 3,5651. 175., after payment of 5431. 11 s. 11d. for
general expenses. All operations have, however, long
ago been abandoned, and it was proposed that a special
meeting should be convened, in order to dissolve the
Company.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
The Ordnance survey of Limerick is completed,
and with such precision as to exhibit distinctly the
site and position of every house and tenement in the
respective parishes. Captain Stothard, Royal En-
gineers, with the gentlemen and artificers under him,
have now left Limerick to proceed with the Ordnance
survey in England.
ELECTIONEERING.
It is said that Lord Chichester will retire from the
Belfast election.
The Ipswich nomination took place on Monday,
when Captain Gladstone, Mr. S. L. Fox, and Messrs.
Vincent and Thornbury advanced themselves as can-
didates. _ _

LAW AND POLICE.
A Mr. Henry Bailey was put upon his trial at
Dublin last week for bigamy. His first marriage in
1831 was celebrated by a Presbyterian minister, and
the second in the Church of England. He had cal-
culated on the invalidity of the first, but as both the
parties were found to be Dissenters, the marriage
became lawful. He was aceordingly sentenced to
seven years' transportation.
John Tyler, an elderly man, was charged at Wor-