The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-19 00:00:00

S OMR/ARV OF NEWS

AND
übttc Optition,

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

M. de Salvandy made his appearance in Paris on
Monday. Of the importance which he attaches to his
fool's errand to Spain, some idea may be formed 'from
the following extract from his last despatch to M. Gui-
zot :—" The King's embassy to Spain, after having
fought a hard and obstinate battle, could effect no more.
It, however, brought back the body of France safe and
intact from the combat." The body of France, indeed !
M. Salvandy writes as if he had been one of Madame
de Pompadour's footmen. It is a pity M. de Salvandy
was not an Ethiopian dwarf, for no man could better
fill the office of one of the guardians of the Imperial
slipper.
The Chamber of Deputies on Monday commenced the
debate on the Address in answer to the Speech from the
Throne. MM. Bechaud and De Came were the first
speakers, and both denounced the foreign policy of the
Cabinet. In particular, both pointedly condemned the
right of search on the coast of Africa guaranteed by the
Five Powers.

The following resolutions have been adopted by the
Council-General of Commerce on the question of iron
duties :

Ist. An assimilation of the duties on iron entering
by sea to those on iron entering by the northern fron-
tier; that is to say, a reduction of 3f. per 100 kilogrammes.
" 2d. A reduction of 3f. (in two annual reductions),
commencing from Ist January, 1844; on iron made with
coal, and on iron made with wood.

" 3d. No special reduction to be made on rails for rail-
roads ; but Government to be strongly urged to establish
a liberal system of drawbacks on steam-engines made in
France with foreign iron.
" 4th. That all tools made in France should be subject
to a similar reduction of duty as raw iron."
The Spanish Chamber of Deputies has unanimously
voted thanks to the Government and the Regent for hav-
ing refused to allow M. Salvandy to present his creden-
tials to the young Queen. The Senate had previously
adopted a similar vote. Thus all Spain is opposed to the
pretensions of King Louis Philippe.
Advices from the Mauritius to the 14th October,
quoted by the Bourdeaux papers, state that all French
priests had been ordered out of the island by the British
authorities.

We publish the following anecdote, on the authority of
the Constantinopolitan correspondent of the Morning
Chronicle :—‘‘ Within the last two months no less a per-
son than the Centre of the Universe, the Shah of Persia,
was conversing with a distinguished European, and the
subject of Egypt and Acre having been touched upon,
the King of Kings exclaimed, " Mashallah I I know all
about it. The English are a wonderful people ; they
talk little and do much. The French are also a wonder-
ful people, they do little since Napoleon's time, but they
talk a great deal more. Now see 1 The English
suddenly sent many ships to Acre, and lo I that impreg-
nable place quickly disappeared ; they likewise sent some
red-coats into Syria, and lo I the army of Ibrahim
melted like the summer snows from Demavend ; they
also sent ships and men to the Celestial Empire, and
there also they spread panic and received tribute. In
the meantime the French made many speeches, and
called Mehemet Ali Pacha their soul, their brother.
They also collected great armies at home, and sent
forth many ships more than the English. But the sol- •
diers did not move, and the ships sailed towards opposite
shores ; and then when they heard that Acre had fallen,
and their soul, their brother, was devouring immeasure-
able dirt, they hastened to call back their ships, and to
build walls round Paris for their soldiers I Why did
they do that 1"

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Herald returns to the subject of the
Times' ill-considered article on the King of Prussia's
visit, observing:—" The Times is ashamed of the inso-
lent ribaldry with which it noticed the forthcoming visit
to this country of the King of Prussia. It was forsooth
—only nobody discovered its meaning, in spite of its
being, so widely read—in ridicule of th Herald ! It is a
mighty pity that the writer could not render his object
palpable without making his Journal contemptible, and
damaging the party it so unwillingly and on compul-
sion supports."
The Chronicle contains an article suggested by the
Times' hint about the expediency of prosecuting some
of the clergymen, of the late Edinburgh Anti-Corn-law
Conference, for sedition ; the object of which article is
to show the Government that the people of Scotland
would feel their honour engaged in standing by their
ministers ; and that the people of England would cheer,
with their sympathy and their approbation, the efforts of
men embarked in the cause of justice, and defending the
rights of discussion and the press.
The Times gives its opinion on the perplexing case of
the brig Creole in the following terms:—" In the matter
of compensation, where they really can hope for no con-
cession from the British Government, they (the Ameri-
cans) have the reason of the case and the authority of
their own writers flat against them. On the -claibefiir
delivery of the criminals, on which they may possibly
(for it is not yet clear) have reason with them,:They
have, first, no reason to assume that their claim will not
be freely acceded to; and, secondly, if it be not, their
own law, at all events, speaks with so much indistinct-
ness and Contradiction on this head; that they are almost
debarred from claiming what would be abstractedly their
duo. They can scarce demand with much confidence for
themselves what they are so backward to grant to others."
The Post advocates the prosecution of some of the
more earnest speakers at tho Edinburgh Anti-Corn. law
Conference. "We grant," says our Contemporary,
" that the punishment of such stupid, noisy dunces, might '
elevate them into a kind of notoriety, which at first they
would like. But still, for the sake of public justice, we
think they ought to be punished."
On the question of the Creole brig, the Advertiser is of
opinion that America must declare that not only is the
slave trade not piracy, but likewise that it is lawful, be-
fore they can exhibit a tittle of right to the trial of the
offenders in question. " Till this question were set at
rest," adds the Advertiser, " we know not on what pre-
text she could demand, or the British Government sur-
render, the African victims."

The Glasgow Argus thus refers to the Anti-Corn-law
agitation now progressing in Scotland :—" The people
of Scotland are, perhaps, not so ready as their neigh-
bours in the South to embark in a career of public agi-
tation. SLOW BUT SURE is a saying that may be aptly
applied to our countrymen, and we are well satisfied
that, having once become awake to the fearful conse-
quences that flow from the laws which enhance-the price
of food, and which prevent the industrious of the land
from procuring the means of subsistence, they will be
the last to withdraw from the contest, until their
righteous purpose has been finally accomplished."
The following is from the Tyne Mercury :—" The
railroads, all the new facilities for commerce, the steam-
packets, the immense increase of steam and all other
communication both by land and water, and manufac-
turing automaton power, are suffering from the present
state of commercial intercourse, and it is their business
to increase their traffic, not to see augmented duties from
Russia and from America, with both of which we are

threatened, and that too in consequence of our abo-
minable Corn-laws—so that in truth they are made the
instruments of our obtaining a repeal of those laws."
Alluding to some recent political statements in the
Dublin Tory Journals, the Dublin Pilot says :—" They
have, in point of fact, avowed that the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland is a party to the nomination of Mr. Gregory
—that he is most solicitous for his return ; and, as if to
give currency to the statements, his Excelency permits
his chief steward or butler, or by whatever other name
Lord Jocelyn is known in the household, to go about the
town on a canvassing excursion, begging votes for the
Conservative nominee. Now, this we take to be exceed-
ingly wrong, The late Administration eschewed all con-
nection with candidates and committees."

The Brighton Guardian contains an-article on the ap-
prOahhing Session, from which we take the following
paSsli.,—" Sir Robert Peel, with his usual policy, is
for compromise and delay ; btit compromise and delay
will Snit neither the bread taxers nor the anti-bread
taxers ; and as his lot, is cast in with the former, we are
afraid that all the powers of the Government will be
employed in upholding and vindicating the present sys-
tem or plunderinr, the industrious classes by laws; and if
such should be the case, which God forbid, nothing can
save England from a' terrible revolution, or the most
frightful.commercial ruin."

" 2VIONEY—TRADE—CoI Tramtcm.
By the report read at the meeting of the St. Katha-
rine's Docks Proprietors yesterday, it appeared that their
accounts showed an increase of 1,0821. Ils. 2d. for the
last year. The tea-trade, notwithstanding the obstruc-
tions in China, had increased 37,553 packages. The re-
turns of shipping showed an increase in British ships of
71,493 tons, and a falling off in the foreign tonnage of
35,487 tons.