The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-28 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.

Most of the articles in the original columns of the
Paris Journals are on the important subject which has
led to the convocation of the Chambers some days earlier
than was intended. Generally speaking they are nearly
in the same strain as those by which they have been pre-
ceded ; but we gather a more positive assurance from the
organs of the Opposition, that although they are re-
solved to prevent, if possible, the separating of the
Chambers, after having performed the great duty for
which they have been convened without an effort to
bring Ministers to a conflict of principle, instead of wait-
ing for the regular session, it is not intended to make the
Regency Question the ground of party struggle. On
this question, therefore, there is a prospect of something
approaching unanimity.
The Constitutionnel has an article on the distressed
condition of the industrious classes in Great Britain
After painting it in colours not more gloomy than the
reality, but inulging in a prediction of increase of
misery from an increasing depression of trade, says—
"lt would be a mistake to suppose that the distress in
England is confined to the manufacturing classes. In
Ireland there are no manufactories, and yet the misery
there is beyond comparison greater than in Great
Britain. The fundamental cause of English pauperism
will be found in the vicious distribution of the soil, and
in the inalienability of the great bulk of landed property.
For a long time the breeding of cattle has been substi-
tuted as much as possible for the cultivation of corn ;
fields are transformed into pasture-ground to suppress
labour and to increase the nett produce of the landlord.
Little attention has been paid to the raw produce, which
is definitively the important point in the economy of a
nation. The great object has been to obtain the greatest
nett revenue possible, and for that purpose small farms,
requiring a considerable number of labourers, have been
done away with."
The Commissary of the Bourse has received notice
that it will remain open on Saturday nest, and is to be
closed only on August 3, the day of the-funeral service
for the Duke of Orleans.

The Courrier de la Gironde having given from its Paris
correspondence an erroneous account of M. Lafitte's visit
to Neuilly after the death of the Duke of Orleans, the
Journal de Rouen, the opposition paper in that city, for
which M. Laffiitte has been re-elected, has the follow-
ing :—" The day after the death of the Duke of Orleans
M. Laffitte repaired to Neuilly, and asked to see the
King, but his Majesty not receiving any person, M. Laf-
fitte was not admitted. He then requested one of the
Aides-de-Camp on duty to express to his Majesty his
grief and regret, and withdrew. In his turn, the King
charged General Gourgaud to write to M. Laffitte to tes-
tify to him how much he was touched with his proceed-
ing, and to thank him for it. Nothing else took place."
A Madrid letter in the Memorial Bordelais states that
the Regent of Spain has sent an autigraph letter of con-
dolence to the King of the French.
The Constitucional of Barcelona states that General
Zurbano, amongst his instructions to the Military Com-
mandants of Barcelona, has ordered that any person
seized by rebels who shall, in order to obtain his release,
pay the sum demanded as ransom, shall be shot, and that
any person applying on the part of the captive to his fa-
mily for the amount of ransom, shall undergo the same
penalty. The Constitucional mentions that two inhabi-
tants of San Esteban de Slemana, have been shot, one of
them for giving a letter of recommendation to a monk
who accompanied the rebel Felipo, the other for giving
food to the monk when concealed in a cavern.
The Berlin State Gazette announces that, on Sunday,
17th inst., the Palace of the Regency at Dantzic caught
fire, and burnt for four hours before the flames were
subdued. The upper storey and the roof were consumed.
In this part of the building were deposited public acts,
and other valuable documents, the most important of
which, however, were saved. The fire is unaccounted for,
and considered the more extraordinary, as these deposi-
taries were always locked up with the greatest care.
Commissioners are at present actively employed, say
the Brussels Journals, in examining the Belgian Rail-
roads, in order to be better able to decide on the line to
be chosen between Cologne and Berlin. The Berlin and
Stetten Railroad is in full course of execution, and the
part between Venstadt and Everswald is already ter-
minated. 'lt is expected that the line between Berlin and
Frankfort on the Oder it•ill be terminated in October.