The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Public eptuton.

"rho runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The right of search, which now agitates the Govern-
ments of, England and the United States, excites the
liveliest interest in Paris. All the Liberal and some of
the Legitimist Journals are opposed to the claims of
England. Notwithstanding the treaty of the Five Powers,
public opinion in France is decidedly opposed to our pre-
tensions, which are ascribed not to humanity but to
selfishness,
The National of Sunday, announces that Bourdon, a
political prisoner in the fortress of St. Michel, had be-
come insane. This is the third of those unfortunate men
who, in the short space of fifteen months, have gone mad,
which, with one suicide, speaks strongly on the huma-
nity and justice of the cellular system.
The Minister of War had addressed a circular to all
the Colonels of regiments of infantry,
.to inform them
of the resolution of the Government to suppress a com-
pany per battalion. The Miniter invites them, in the
meantime, to discharge the non-commissioned officers of
the class of 1835 who might wish to quit the service, and
offer them situations in Algeria.
The intensity of the cold was increasing in Paris on
Sunday. The Seine was nearly covered over with float-
ing ice, and would, it was expected, should the frost
continue, be completely frozen over in forty-eight hours
more. The thermometer marked 9 degrees below zero
on Friday night. On Saturday night it was lower. At
nine o'clock on Sunday forenoon the temperature was
still so low as 18 degrees of Fahrenheit (or 14 below the
freezing point). .
Letters from Lisbon of the 3d inst. announce the open-
ing of the Cortes, by Commission, on the previous day.
A prorogation to the 21st of February instantly followed.
The Portuguese Government has negotiated a loan of
1,600,0001. sterling at 5 per cent., with the Company of
National Credit. For the details we refer to the Lisbon
correspondence in another part of The Sun.
The Prince de Joinville had left Lisbon for Toulon.
PIIZLIC OPINION.
The Morning Herald returns to the question of the
Rural Police system, which it condemns in the most
decided terms ; and asks whether its advocates consider
that they improve the character of the rural population
by a needless exhibition of suspicious vigilance and
penal rigour, especially directed against the most paltry
or the most pardonable of offences. Our Contemporary
adds that the effect of this notable scheme is merely to
enable a few sages in the Commission to commit some
unlucky charity-boy or other, who may have been un-
able to repress his passion for a turnip or a Scotch kale.
The Times discourses in very dismal tones on the
prospects of the Tories at the approaching Dublin elec-
tion, and warns them that if by any apathy they allow
Lord Morpeth to be returned for that city, they will in-
jure only their own interests. " Desirable as it is," says
the Times, " that the Irish metropolis should be consti-
tutionally represented in Parliament, the prospective
withdrawment of a single vote, howmuchsoever such a
contingency might have alarmed a weak and worthless
Ministry like Lord Melbourne's, will be regarded by the
present Government with supreme indifference."
The Post contains an article on the manufacturing sys-
tem, in which its observes—" Itis not enough to say that
the trade of the manufacturing towns requires to be in-
creased. We ask why ? Where is the necessity ?
Where is the benefit to be derived ? It may at once be
answered that it is required, in order to allow the owners
of certain large establishments to make as much money
as they did formerly. But we see no force in this, un-
less it can be shown that the process by which so much
money was made, was good for the people."
The Chronicle reads a salutary lecture to Sir James
Graham on the subject of his gross apostacy, and goes
through the history of his countless tergiversations with
an accuracy better calculated to edify than to entertain
the Right Hon. heavy-headed Baronet.
The Advertiser remarks, in an article commenting on
the conduct:of the Church to the Dissenters—" The aris-
tocratic State-Church despises the lowly Dissenter ;
Why does she not despise his pence, as well as his per-
son ? There would, in that case, be at least consistency.
in her scorn ; at present, there is none."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The commercial distress at Dundee may be judged of
from the fact, that during the last five years there have
been 400 bankruptcies among the merchants and manu-
facturers of that town.

At a meeting of the London confectioners, held yester-
day in Aldersgate-street, for the purpose of appointing
a deputation to wait on the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, and represent the vast decrease of the lozenge and
drop manufactures in the Channel Islands, it was shown
that the present state of the sugar tariff had injured it to
a dreadful extent. Previous to 1839 the enormous quan-
tity of from 10,000 to 15,000 tons of sugar were annually
used in confectionary articles. The present decrease in
the revenue on this score is between 200,0001 and
300,0001. a-year.
The trade at Stirling remains in a most discouraging
state : not less than three failures of houses connected
with the woollen trade have taken place within the last
few days.

COMMERCIAL REFORM.
At an Anti-Corn-law meeting of the Deputies held on
Thursday at Dundee, the Rev. Mr. Low, speaking upon
the outcry raised against the poorer classes for non-at-
tendance on Divine service, said, " Talk of people going
to churches 1 why, how can they ? The last blush of
virtuous shame has not yet fled from the cheek of the
poor man, although the last rag of his once church-going
coat has nigh fled from his back."
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
At a meeting of the Governor of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum yesterday, at the London Tavern, it appeared
that 1,800 children had been so instructed in it, as to be
rescued from being burdensome to themselves or country.

ECCLESIASTICAL.
The principles of Pusey ism, with which it is known
that many of the clergy around Birmingham are deeply
tainted, have manifested themselves openly in the case
of an incumbent of one of the churches there, who has
introduced a gilt cross over the communion table,
before which the Reverend Gentleman bows and bends
his knee according to the canons of the Catholic Church.

IMMCTIONEERING.
The Liberals are on the move at West Cornwall. The
Tories are drawing up a requisition to Sir R. Vyvyan,
Bart., the present Member for Helston, to become their
candidate.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
The Ordnance-office has just addressed a circular to
the head-quarters at Woolwich, and all departments of
the Ordnance service,:stating that " if the witness who
first saw the light in the Tower of London had given an
immediate alarm, the disastrous result might probably
have been prevented," and ends in directing all persons
resident in the Tower and garrisons of the kingdom to
give instantaneous notice, in case of the most trivial ap-
pearance of light or fire within them.
LAW AND POLICE.
At the Sheriff's Court, yesterday, Mr. Theodore
Hook's affairs were brought before the Bench. That
author's defalcations in 1831, while employed by Govern-
ment in the Mauritius, to the amount of 12,6004, have
occasioned the Crown to put in its claim upon the pro-
perty left at his death, and to supersede by right of pri-
ority a claim made by Mr. Edwards to the amount of
4,0001. The matter was left to be contested in the Court
of ExChequer.
At Guildhall yesterday, James Roberts was convicted
of smuggling 91bs. of tobacco, and ordered to pay a fine
of 1001., and be imprisoned until the fine was paid.
A Mr. William Heath, of Lower Southampton-street,
was held to bail at Marylebone Police Court, for his ap-
pearance at the Sessions, on a charge of " having thrust
his fist into the face of Dr. Croker, and threatened to
knock his d—d Irish head off." The Doctor himself,
about a fortnight ago, was held to bail in the amount of
2001. to keep the peace towards Mr. Heath. At the
same Court two cabmen were fined 10s. each—the one
for creating a disturbance at the door of Mr. Harper,
Surgeon, Edgware-road, and the other for being drunk
andincapable of taking care of himself and his horse.
In the course of last week two men named Bragden
and Smith, a woman of the name of Wright, and a Mrs.
Piper, were charged at Clerkenwell Pollee-court with
robbing the husband of the late of property to the value
of 25/. Mrs. Piper, it appeared, had left the house of
her husband with the prisoner Bragden, and had been in-
strumental in causing the property to be removed. She
had afterwards returned to her home, where she remained
with the consent of her husband, and after a short hear-
i4g the Magistrate discharged her and the prisoner
Wright. Yesterday Mr. Piper expressed his determina-
tion to prosecute the other prisoners, and they were
accordingly committed for trial.
This being the first day of Hilary Term, most of the
Judges and Leading Counsel breakfasted with the Lord
Chancellor at his house in George-street, Hanover-square,
and afterwards proceeded to their respective Courts.