The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

LATEST PARTICULARS.

Intelligence was this afternoon received at the
Euston-station of the railway, that Mrs. Bye, the
elderly woman above alluded to, this morning breathed
her last. She was•between 60 and 70 years of age,
and her constitution received a shock which was too
much for her advanced period of life, although it had
at first been hoped she would recover.
The other sufferers are all doing well. The unfortu-
nate woman is the first passenger ever killed upon this
line of railway, the results of the former accidents
having been confined to the Company's servants.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TRE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.—It appears that her Majesty's Ministers
are at length convinced of the necessity of adopting
fixed duty on corn, as the new sliding scale has worked
so unsatisfactorily for the public interests. We are in-
formed that the scheme under consideration, and which
will probably be submitted for the approval of Parlia-
ment, with certain modifications, is as follows :—ln
the beginning, to levy one uniform rate of duty of
12s. per quarter on cheat imported from all foreign
countries not being British possessions ; but after-
wards to allow the Executive to reduce the duty
one half—to Cs. per quarter—on imports from those
countries which may claim the indulgence a 7, a
compensation for concessions made to us, or for
corresponding reductions in their duties levied upon
British manufactures. This will give power to Minis-
ters in negotiating commercial treaties with our neigh-

bours, as they will be enabled to offer an equavalent for
favours conferred upon us. It will be of great service
in softening the hostile Tariffs of America and of
Prussia, together with the other States forming the
Ocrinah Ctistottis' ITnioti, whieh are maneeuVring
slowly and systematically •to eitihtl, but goods en-
tirely from their markets, and which they thti'
ally succeed in doing at no very distant period, if wt
do not adopt timely measures to counteract them. We
must confess that this scheme offers many advan-
tages, and is a great improvement upon the last
sliding scale. It remains to be seen whether it will
find favour with those who were lately. advocates of
monopoly, although they now begin to sing a differ-
ent song.
STANDARD.—It must have been observed that
the Whig journals have rather abruptly discontinued
their claims, on behalf of the late Ministry, to the
arrangement of that plan of operations conducted to
so glorious an issue by Sir H. Gough and Sir William
Parker. At 'first cur Liberal Contemporaries were loud
and most indignant in their reclamation against the at-
tempt to "filch" (that was the word) from Lords Mel-
bourne, Palmerston, and Co., the honour of preparing
the plan in question ; and many long columns of
grave argument were daily •poured forth to prove
that the present Ministers have been mere me-
chanical labourers, working out the masterly design of
their predecessors in office. this importunate claim,
as we have remarked, has ceased with an abruptness
not easily understood by the public : be it our
task to offer thp explanation. The Whig journals,
with er without promptinc, from their patrons
lately in office, would naturally assign to these
patrons, and detract froth Sir Robert Peel's Ad-
ministration, whatever amount of merit they could ;
hut -as the successes of the Chinese expedition
followed so immediately upon the expulsion of the
Whigs from office, these journals had upon the
post hoc ergo ex hoc argument, a plausible pre-
text for ascribing to the expelled Ministers the
merit of the expedition and its arrangements.
The expelled Whigs, whether they suggested
this- claim or did • not, looked complacently
upon it ; not one of them had the grace to dis-
claim praise which they all knew if the truth
were manifest to the public, must -reflect upon
them the deepest disgrace. As the time of in-
evitable explanation, -however, approached, it was
thought convenient to let the matter drop. On the
eve of an exposure of the, truth, that they had
not merely not prepared -the- plan of the expedition so
happily adopted and executed by their political rivals,
but scornfully rejected it when. proposed to them, it
would be impolitic to persist in the claim set up for
them. Hence all their journals have lately received
orders to be silent on the subject.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 6, 1842.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James
WHenry, as Consul at Londonderry for the United
States of America.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 6.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain W. L.
Kaye to be Captain, vice Drew, retired on full-pay ;
First Lieut. P. Ellis to be Captain, vice Kaye, Nov. 26 ;
Second Lieut. H. W. Batton to be First Lieutenant, vice
Ellis, Nov. 29. _

~lEMonANDum.—The date of promotion of First
Lieutenant E. A. Williams is altered to Nov. 26, 1842.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
Queen's Own Royal Ycomanry.—J, P. Oates to be
Assistant-Surgeon, rice Osborne, deceased, Dec. 6.