The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-28 00:00:00

SUMMARY,OF NEWS

AND

Public Opinion,

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The French Opposition Journals express surprise, not unmixed
with anger, at the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty for the
suppression of the slave-trade by England, Austria, Prussia, and
Russia, in the absence of the ratification by the French Govern.
ment. This expression of feeling will probably, in its turn, cause
surprise to our readers who have attended to the usage in such
cases. Our Paris Contemporaries think that new negotiations
should have been opened with a view to the revision of the treaty,
and that by not taking this course the other Powers have inten-
tionally slighted the French nation.
The Presse asserts that the treaty of 1842 will never be ratified
by France without modifications, and that in its present state it
will, without the accession of the French Government, prove a
dead letter.
The Quotidienne says, the European compact is again broken,
and without any benefit to France, as, notwithstanding the non.
ratification of the Treaty, she is not the less bound by preceding
Treaties to recognize the right of search by England.
The Paris Globe, which is the organ of the French West India
interests, necessarily expresses its gratification at the non.ratitica-
tion of the treaty by France, and observes, whilst it admits that
the right of ratification is a prerogative of the Crown, that it will
be impossible to find any Ministry willing to take upon itself the
responsibility of such an act by the Crown, after the expression
of feeling which has been manifested by the Chamber of Deputies.
The Courrier Francais says—" M. Guiaot had asked for delay.
The other parties begin by exchanging the ratifications, in order to
show clearly to Europe that the resistance or hesitation of the French
Government has no effect upon the determination of the other
Powers. There is no European conpaet except against Frace—there
can be none to her profit. M. Guizot has received a rebuff. The
humiliation of the 20th February, 1842, is, in our opinion, morally
more grave than that of the 15th July, 1840, for in the present case
the Government submits to it ; events have Lot taken it by surprise.
The other Powers pass over France, not in consequence of a refusal
to ratify, but on an application for delay. Instead of attempting, as
before, to deceive a resisting Government, in the present case a sup-
pliant is disdainfully rejected. M. Guizot might have avoided all
this, if he had said plainly that France wou'd not ratify the treaty."
Three members of the French Cabinet are favourable to the
ratification of the Treaty, and five against it. For the ratification
MM. Guizot, Duchatel, and Martin du Nord; against it, Marshal
Soult, MM. Humann, Teste, Cunin-Gridaine, Villemaine, and
Admiral Duperre."
The Levant Mail has brought letters from Constantinople of the
7th inst., but they are without news of the slightest interest.
1.17333L1C OPIi'eION.
The Times is now as much out of humour with Lord Wharn-
cliffe, as it was the other day with Sir James Graham, and alluding
to some remarks lately made by his Lordship in the House of
Lords on a question growing out of the new Poor-law, says, in
its heartiest manner :—" Our blood rises within us when we see a
rich man, who could deal as Lord Wharncliffe did with an inquiry
involving the slaughter of ninety-one Christian Englishmen,
abusing his noble station to stigmatize others whose temperament
is less phlegmatic, and whose appreciation of pauper life and pau-
per happiness is less philosophically indifferent than his own.
Lord Wharncliffe, one of those who gave, and who would still
continue, to these political economists in London the power of
doing what they please with all the poor who receive or want pa-
rochial relief throughout England—this man laid it down as a
principle, that whenever a charge of cruelty or oppression is made
against the persons endued with these tremendous powers, or their
satellites, inquiry ought to be directed in the first instance to tne
conduct and motives of the party making it."
The Herald says :—" The real question arising out of Mr. Vil-
liers's resolution is, according to Mr. Cobden, whether it was
honest that any tax whatever should be levied upon the food of the
people ? This is not the real question—it is not proposed to Par-
liament by her Majesty's Government to tax the food of the peo.
ple ;—such a proposal was left for Lord Palmerston to make. The
sliding scale is a device to give the people the supply of food neces.
sary to make up the deficiency of the home supply, when that
supply is deficient, free from treasury taxation. A fixed duty would
be a tax when the supply is deficient, but the sliding scale is not."
The Chronicle is of opinion that one of the worst features in the
conduct of the Tories on Thursday night, was the mode in which
they received the charges brought by Mr. Ferrand against the ma-

nufacturers :—" They were absolutely frantic with joy. If a fo-
reigner had then entered the House for the first time, he would
hare conceived that a hoax had been practised on him ; that, instead
of the Commons of England, he was witnessing a caricature of them
by the inmates of St. Luke's. The exhibition reflected disgrace on
the House. As for Mr. Ferrand, little notice of him is required at
our hands. That among so extensive a body as the master manu-
facturers of these kingdoms, there may be found individuals capable
of resorting to practices such as those described by him, we can
have no difficulty in believing. But that the practices are either
universal or participated in by the whole members of the Anti-
Corn.law League, the great majority of the manufacturers, is what
no man in his senses would believe."

The Post makes the following agreeable apostrophe to Mr. Cob-
den :—" Ah, Mr. Cobden, we can tell you of something better than
that kind of of dignity which the sensitiveness of Stockport makes you
anxious about. What think Sou, Mr. Cobden, about truth and
honesty ?—about practical humanity ?—as matters worthy of your
high consideration. Might not dignity afford you a little while to
take care of itself, while you are giving your attention to the con-
cerns of a more homely sort of virtue? The feeling of laughter
which Mr.,Cobden's anxiety about the dignity of the House,' at
first occasions soon gives way to a feeling of loathsomeness; for, of
all the sickening sights that can be presented to moral contemplation,
that of a vulgar man prating about dignity, when a plain matter
of sincerity and humanity is in question, is perhaps one of the most
revolting."

The Advertise,' observes :—" We agree with the Tory organ
when it calls the prolixity of discussion in the Commons' a pub.
lic nuisance.' We agree, too, when it says Members were not
sent there by their constituents to talk, except when some good is
to be obtained by talking.' Let them, say we, rather return to
their constituents, and tell them, that as the Commons is at pre-
sent constituted, they cannot forward their interests by voting there;
that they return for instructions, for that they themselves are power;
less to resist the tide of calamity setting in upon the nation."
MONEY—IVILALIM—C OIVINZERC:E.
A concert for the benefit of the Disulessed Spitalfield Weavers'•
will take place at the Milton Institution to-morrow, with
a band of one hundred performers. Among the patrons of the
undertaking are Colonel Fox, M.P., T. Duncombe, M.P., W.
Ellis, M.P., and other persons of distinction.

At the meeting of the Southampton Dock Company, held on Fri-
day, it appeared from the Report that the total receipts of the Coin.
pang up to last December, for the half year, were 237,7891. 3s. 2d.,
and the payments 229,264/. Is. 10d., leaving a balance of
14,773/. 4s. sd.

COMMEILCIAL R,E11012./Vi.

The agricultural district of Kenilworth, on Monday last, de-
nounced at a public meeting the Ministerial Corn.law plan.
PM:CLIC ZMPROVENIENTS.
A new road, with a number of elegant modern villas on each side,
:o be called the Prince of Wales's Road, is about to be formed on
.he brow of the hill leading from Haverstock.bill to Kentish town.

LAW AND PO LICE,
Cassidy, the bankrupt, has been pursued by Forrester, the officer,
to Aix.le.Chapelle. He was absent from his hotel at the time, but
his tin-box, containing between 13,0004 and 14,00 W. in bills, was
delivered up by the landlord; and meanwhile his passport has
been stopped.

At Reading, on Friday, an action was brought before Mr. Justice
Patteson, and a Special Jury, by the widow of the late Colonel
Gwynne, against Sharpe, Esq., for slander. The substance of
the slanderous imputations was, that Mrs. Gwynne had fabricated
a case on which she had supported a charge against her servant,
one Maria Heaton, of having stolen some of her property, and that
Mrs. Gwynne had committed perjury in her examination before the
magistrates at Windsor. The Jury, after deliberating for ten
minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 20/.
The Commission for holding the Assizes on the Western Circuit
was opened on Friday at Winchester by Mr. Justice Coleridge and
Mr. Justice Erskine. The business is very heavy, there being
nearly 100 persons for trial.

Judgment in the case of collusion between the brig Margaret
and the Courier, a Dutch bark, which took place last September
in going down the Channel, was given in the Admiralty Court
yesterday, when the latter was pronounced to be in fault, and or-
dered to pay the damage with costs.

The case of the salvage claim, on the part of some smacksmen
belonging to a smack named the Endeavour, for services said to
have seen rendered by them to L'lmmaculato, a brig of 220 tons,
in rescuing her from danger off the Suffolk coast, last October, was
yesterday decided in the Admiralty. It appeared that pilotage only
had been needed on the occasion, and that even this duty the salvors
had discharged badly ; upon which the owners of the foreign vessel
were dismissed, with their costs.

In a second claim for remuneration for salvage-service in the
same Court, on the part of a steam-tug called the Commodore, for
towing a Whitby collier called the Ocean, from Gravesend to Lon:
don, after she had been damaged by collision with two other vessels,
an award was made to the salvors of 451., including all damage
and costs.
At Queen-square on Friday, Cloud, the omnibus proprietor, was
fined 505., at the instance of Sir James South, for carrying more
passengers than allowed by law. The Magistrate intimated that on
a repetition of the offence he should inflict the full penalty of 51.
At the Westminster Sessions on Friday, the appeal of Thomas
Pennington, convicted at Marlborough-street of indecent conduct in
the Haymarket Theatre some weeks ago, was heard. Dr. Paris
proved that the young man, owing to an affection of the head, was
subject to fits, and a total loss of consciousness, and the Magistrates
therefore quashed the conviction, on the plea that Mr. Pennington
was labouring under mental debility at the time of the offence.
James Thelwell, James Sherret, and Bridget Jones, have been
taken up on suspicion of the coach. robbery of Messrs. Cunliffe's
bank-box, containing 1,500 sovereigns, and 5001. in Bank of
England notes; and after examination on Wednesday had been
made of them at the Borough Court-room, they were remanded
to Wednesday next, to give further time for collecting evidence
against them.

TINE ARTS.

Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, at which the Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland purpose staying till the third week of April, has
lately undergone extensive improvements in its mansion and
grounds. Eighteen acres have been converted into Italian gar-
dens, adorned with statues and fountains, and Mr. Charles Barry,
the architect, has constructed a tower at one end of the edifice, and
connected. the whole with the lake by a series of architectural
gardens.