The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-19 00:00:00

SUM'ARY OF NEWS

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roRMIGN.
Colonel Webb, whose trial for sending a challenrk
ge
to fight a duel, had created eicitement at New Yosi
has been convicted, but received an uncondition
pardon from the Governor of the State.
Congress was to assemble on Monday the 4th ill'
"The large amount of 3pecie imported in Sew
Orleans has induced some of the banks there to se,i
sume cash payments in anticipation of the day file
by law. The Union, City, Commercial, and Slat',
were to resume on the 2dst inst." ' • •r Of
A large conducta was on the way from the eits
Mexico to Vera Cruz, with.specie, $130,000 a wilich
was said to be destined for New Orleans.
of the
On Wednesday, at two o'clock, the King d
French took a promenade in the park of Neuillyi
returned to the palace of the Tuileries. eig.
Their Majesties received, on Tuesday eve's-a':
Prince Paul of Wurtemburg, the Sardinian sinlbasice
dor, the Greek Minister, the Chancellor of Fr°
Count d'Argout, and several peers. ° .„-, seem'
Espartero was still at Sarria on the 9th of -Li 1.
,
ber ; though his entrance into Barcelona had been;t
vcral times announced as near at hand it is not e"
the.ie
that he will appear there. It is believed that he
1%
return to Madrid without entering the city. eeo.
The Heraldo, the official paper of the ex-tql,a_ sd
Regent states, that during the afternoon victor''`tee
instant cries of "Death to the Duke
were raised in Seville, but that the disturbance ea, 'by
by those expressions was immediately suppresseu
the National Guard. nego'
The Augsburgh Gazette announces that the
tiations relative to the marriage of Princess Cl Go'
tine,' of Orleans, with Prince Augustus, nf'Saie sere
burg Gotha Cohary (cousin of Prince Aieert)bo‘rtiy,
terminated, and that the contract would- be j 5
`signed and ratified by both parties. Tll.Prtcrefon,
to receive a million of francs, as -a marDageer
and to preserve all her rights under
pact of the 7th of August, 1830. ,_. 23d ult.,
Priv
ate letters from Constantinople of the
state that Jaffiz Mirza Khan, the late Fies.l'Asisitin,is at'
tachment to British interests of u_d
bassador at the Ottoman Court, so noted the
Turkish capital as Plenipotenlialr'y'asfrt:‘!-Prett-huerßSt,iiblifitd°
arrange the differences pending between r.r4l%'°"'
Persia.
punx.ic opxNxos. ,mess in
The Times thus accounts for the disturrn there
Tipperary :—" Whatever difference of OPiTlioni in
may be upon the question, between or upon w' to the
particular rests the guilt of having given I'll nd,
miserable agrarian system of the south of. Ire.'d3,s that
upon the question whether other causes, hes',. Sides not
which lies in the existence of that system, Pas out'
contributed to the production of the Emarae,r°;ast i 5
rages which still continue to recur—this •a% rd- eel)"
admitted by all, even by those who think, 11°'"-singt
that the landlords are more sinned against than 6letbeur
but that they are wholly sinned against, sillle° cause,
selves—viz., that in the existence; from whatever with
of this subletting, middleman, rack-rent systenl'ost,2
its necessary accompaniments of teeming r
clearances, • improvements,' and other qua P e
ie th
cal economies, has consisted one
ygreat cal°Esda: per
wretched condition, moral and m.
phsical, nt
sentry of the south, of Ireland
p. Our •--;°udiess,
poraries, acerding to their res ective Pr
tilt
assign other reasons also—as, for i d, the
Toryism, Orangeism, or, on the other hat!' riot-
nstanee,
Repeal agitation, or the influence of the Rom i5ll
nnite
hood—for the prevalence of the evil; but theyonc,
if
in admitting the agrarian system to be alse. oit•
enfote
theou r sper,inhceipaadl,m jiottnesdet
tohra got
pmeiaitl
e.
al :104, ibtft
differences have more or less aggravated the'er'v'se
that they have in., any way been, an originatth The
one
Rgreepaetaclaatgisiet,atcioannnoist fionrdeacndinssotapnatibpeabc,
it, or that the agrarian abuses have not been ;
oynced '•
earior I°
pOteiteboy
aannderßigilisialantders3o,
point of time to the commencement of the •it °P
system et
the
etrhgaatntilaseedclaim s p
itrao
ecyo 0517
hardly deserves a serious refutation. But Pr in
e- cit• e
to the Repeal agitation there was no doubt the a.5i00
tion, half political and half religious, for alThien'
of Roman Catholics to equal civil rights; tin", of the
to civil power. Now, that the life and strengt'h el!
conspiracy did not lie thesagitation 'vhele„weve,t
raised for the acquisition of these privileges, "; made
of the existing misery
much wicked and designing persons Ina,Y:lrc;o Per-
Use
suede them that political power was the..041413-with.
itridtihnegi ri,:-.l,i)stntreillse,mantcl4l
itshaaitsotLloietfhi;thilr:noPtni°ll3oP,rudire;leendrjor.;eig- norliscothe:e.,
evils under which they Sutrered—howelfen, dven
this may have been, yet that the essence of ti`e ;, citor
tation
tent
mt
and
de
,ofoulthr):lsg,ienghacvirecp,oumnsttainnuceeds, :t—ijugirhst;btils 111
tent did not lie in this superinduced' egftati°ll4.s coo'
'gjaloraf
has long ceased ; secondly, Roman Catholic,lo;
(as Mr„ Scully) have :alien Victims to it; and t(ii suir
Roman Catholic priests have, both prior an lies to
sequent to the full' admission of Roman CA
political power, not only iu.t,e.rfe,red•
spirators, but have for so doing not onlx they
notwithstanding the superstitious light ,w 1
on,
are in some places regarded by the peasantry,
are to
tering death at the hands of the Leaguers, but
ated
many cases been actually attacked and.roaltre_ e
them. The existence of the mischief cannot bt that
buted to any political party, as such oc.:110,
which resisted, or to that which advocated, the
ills; to
ef the oman Catholics. It remains, therefore!Lio of
Veinsttbtltiee erei:ll:
the agar.ian system, and to that alone, the er:s'bciest
the mischief must be traced. Indeed, the faf,t
as daylight, whoever may be to blame for it.
ti.cor,
The Herald thus Speaks of Mr. Greg's Greiff°
law Prize Essay :—" The object of J34.1100j-bet
pamphlet, or Prize Essay,' if he has the oc„., that lt
pride to insist upon it being such— is to sh°" oyster
is only by bolstering up the manufacturle conti.
that the land can be possibly relieved from ttlatien'
nually increasing burden of a growing P°P te
The reductio ad absurdum could be easill !PIP), SO lit
his statement of the case, because there 0102;vhooever,
limit to the extension of IllarlufiletUreS, and chance h°
that limit is reached, to say nothing of tatthe
once
their decline, the growing population mus tent t-
thrown back upon the land. To a certain ca tent
process is going on at this moment, as, -I‘„,ire‘eting
vi
nYootroknshlyirein.
Wood admitted the other day at a public be
itlslreelalitoiensstiotne ntihuestituhttirowee:_beui tointliceresoi
currences of the past. What has cause When 11,„
ing redundance of population ? Das tl.rreneeeotn;ci
factitious stimulus at work to produce P-ie cause' the
non ? For such an effect there must be
is riot h~
we know that the cultivation of the lan.,
tore oe
cause ; for the economy of labour in agr,le re, it
far outstripped the extension of agrienToo
census of 1831 was taken very badly ; ltst then tj,-,il
established beyond all dispute—narnelY, of the :IA
ber of families subsisting by the cultivati°-We cl°"00
had in the ten preceding years decreased. ,
very much whether the purely agricultural rays/
is much greater now than it was half a ell'
and yet the total population, we are
increasing at the rate of 200,000 a Year. •cle f
We take the following. from the Clirb°"ai, ided,c°,
favourite fancy with most people is tic elike Ptire
the fine old English gentleman.' nr° Oleo°
tore him residing on his ' bountiful esta just
JO" to hi 6
and the soul of happiness to all around itable
well as generous to all his tenants, lila to his
visitors, faithful to his friends, and ea° ir geountrYbe
tagonists. If a bold peasantry' he trelaso rfill3st be
pride,' surely, a noble-hearted lawn's. whet Intlitse
their country s glory; and no rnatter.a
r , dividual6 ice
the particular, political opinions • Ase
man who, as a landlord, uses his legitun
dinuiediate 7.oonitlf;
to promote, not only the more
of the e°':ll3 of lw
his dependents, but the general
goodA Chnirati°
is sure
to command the respect an. 0, eon .4,
who witness his private or learn his .the el-I%t
We should be very sorry indeed to den); among.o
ence of the fine old English gentleman theriisels,,,
that portion of the landlords who theiridentif.,:l' WOl,,
with Tory opinions. Narrow as may be gels' the
be
short-sighted as may their views— may, tlll
_,
structive even of their own interests as il re s 0
policy to which they lend themselves, we
firesolot
aware that amongst the Tory landlords there,. wise °
exomples of individuals who combine
what is due to themselves, with that prolie•:. due t.
whichleods to a right appreciatien of what 1,e,.11 ite,
others. Aral however party heat may betray. 01•011 estp
party excess; ear party prejudice enfeeble his '
with a sing; 10
capacity, the Tol-v landlord who acts .v of
minded pride, will often find that his person
outweigh his political conduct, even in the
I
sv
those who differ most wi:lely from him.
rtV, he
such landlords there may be in the Tory Ptlot
1
shall not undertake to say : but sure we arl',lfinily, 1
results of the last general election have
fe.
glory °
the ranks of the Tory party, dimmed the
el
the fine old English gentleman. die
The Post says :—" Our belief is, that S' :I;ecipePe
leads a life of deep anxiety from sincere d_ev l_oplet
to the well-being of the great body of the .!. ive,
present-to se
which well-being he perceives at
Ve helps i 5
naced by many gloomy circumstances. l•
that all he has done, and all he contemplates el,..oolotee
with the most anxious desire that all classes, 11•
the
poorest labourers to the richest nobles, .npleY ,";040.
better of the system of Government Willa h direr he
We believe that he spares no personal labour-J"elv • to
leaves nothing unconsidered which seeine bo• ,
assist him in forming just views of what chignliiticol
one. And when we add to this, his great ruiner
n which no one will dispute, his eletel,.,,oter
fr.to do what seems to him fit to be done', no ncole
whom it may please or displease, and his