The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-15 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Times remarking upon the statement which ap-
peared in the Chronicle and Sun of yesterday, to the
effect that Lords Aberdeen and Cowley had taken part
with the King of the French against the Regent of Spain
respecting the presentation of M. Salvandy's letters of
credence, says, with more flippant pertness than becomes
so grave an occasion :--" The opinion which has been
formed and expressed by the Government on the proper
and customary mode of presenting credentials to an in-
fant Sovereign and to the Regent, would certainly not
deserve the importance which has been attached to it if
it involved it mere point of ceremony. As such, it is
ridiculous to exalt their determination on this point into
the first great act of their foreign policy, and to extort
from it a whole series of vicious and absurd inferences
favourable to the pretensions of the French party, and
hostile to the independence of Liberal Spain."l'he re-
conciliation of Europe with Spain will nut be hastened
or retarded for. n single day by the presence or absence of
a French.Analka,ssador.ak.Madrid."
The Morning Herald, writing upon the same question,
has the following. We may first remark that none of
our Tory Morning Contemporaries seem so little trusted
with the secrets of the Foreign-office as the Times. The
Herald says :--"A. new question—a contemptible one,
and sufficiently indicative, we admit, of a foregole con-
clusion '—has arisen between France and Spain ; and
how has Lord Aberdeen acted ? He has pursued the
same dignified and temperate course as he did in the
Christina-Orleans-.O'Donnell movement; he has treated
the question as one of etiquette merely, and has held
the balance between France and Spain most equably.
The .first demand of M. De Salvandy he has indicated
to be perfectly inadmissible in a constitutional country.
It has been withdrawn. The second demand he has
rather hinted than declared to be in accordance with
diplomatic form and courtesy, and recommended acqui-
escence to it by the Regent of Spain. Such acquiescence
has been declined, and Lord Aberdeen has refused to al-
low Lord Cowley to mingle in negotiations for a com-
promise."
The Morning Chronicle concludes a sound article on
he Corn-laws with the following pithy remarks :
" Within the last fifty years rent. has tripled or qua-
drupled. But all is not enough. The landowner, not
satisfied with the protection which he derives from hav-
ing a commodity almost always below the wants of the
community, calls for the exclusion of all foreign corn,
and, in his insane avarice, threatens to cut up our
foreign trade by the roots. The time has at length-
come when a stand must be made against injustice, On
our manufacturing prosperity depends our agricultural
prosperity. Whenever our towns are no longer in a
condition to receive emigrants from the estates of the
sqUires, down must come prices and rents, and poor-
rates must swallow up rents. Woe to the landowners,
should this country ever be independent of foreign coun-
tries for a supply of food ; for it is on the inadequacy
of the home supply that agricultural prosperity rests.
Were the home market to be the only market for our
manufacturers, the landowners would be peunyless."
The Morning Post is a great stickler for monopolies
in trade. The following is a specimen of its anti free-
trade lore :—" We term the principles on which our
modern trade is based false, because these principles
form part and parcel of the monstrous theory of free
trade. Free trade means cheap labour. Free trade,
therefore, implies the possession of power, by certain
classes of capitalists, to grind down the order of la

bourers to the starvation point, or below it. Our modern
system of foreign trade is not, therefore, founded on the
principles of justice nor of wisdom."

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
At the meeting of the London Joint Stock Bank on
Wednesday last, it appeared from the report that the
net profit on the half-year was 25,9231. 14s. 3d., from
which a dividend of 64. per cent..per annum was recom-
mended to be declared.
Prince Albert has given orders for six pairs of silk
trousers and stockings to be• made by the silk-stocking
makers of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, in answer
to their address praying for his patronage to help their
distressed trade.
A combination has' been formed amongst the salt-
bacon-curers of Cork, and 800 or 1,000 have " turned
out ;" several have been arrested.

The debts already proved, up to Tuesday last, in
Messrs. Hobhouse and Co.'s bankruptcy, amounted to
234,3641. 4s, 4d. The total invested for the benefit of
the creditors is at present 40,0001. The next meeting
is fixed for the 19th instant at Bath.

At the last meeting of the iron masters at Dudley, it
was determined to eontinue paying the men at their
present rate of wages. No reduction consequently will, in
the present state of affairs, take place, and the discon-
tinuance of the working of some of the furnacei will not
prove so calamitous as apprehended.
COMMERCIAL REFORM.
At the first sitting of the Edinburgh Anti-Corn-law
Conference, held in that city on Tuesday, among other
eloquent' speeches and remarks, Mr. Hope, farmer, of
East Lothian, said—" As a grower of corn, a feeder of
sheep and oxen, I wish to proclaim to the public that I
have no fear for the ruin of my order from the pale-faced
working classes of our manufacturing towns being per-
mitted their just rights, to exchange the produce of their
industry for food raised in foreign lands.
PuBLIC impRoVEMENTS..
It is stated that 'Ministers will grant 10,000 h for the
establishment of two normal schools at Edinburgh and
Glasgow, with 1,000/. a-year for their annual expenses.
PARLIAMENTARY.
Sir Robert Peel has issued his circular for the assem-
bling of Parliament, Feb. 3, when " public business of
importance will be immediately proceeded with."
dbmy ir letter,al Sir
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Rs resignedomie y, who future ELM cTioNZI:r&ING.
was promoted
claim to the
promoted to the rank
Sir R. Vyvyan, it is stated by a Conservative print,
will decline to come forward for Cornwall. Mr. Dawson
also,
re-
presentation.
NAVAL AND MILITARY.
A
of Admiral of the White at the late brevet, died on
Wednesday last at Leitrim.
LAW AND POLICE.
The gang of bread-stealers, whose illegal doings The
Sun reported on Wednesday, as having helped hemselves
unhesitatingly to the cakes and bread in the shops of Mr.
Church and Mr. Clury, bakers in the City, were com-
mitted to Newgate on Thursday, at the Mansion-house, on
being again brought up,
and these, to the number of 16,
the Magistrate said, are likely to be transported. The
other participators were severely reprimanded and dis-
missed.

SYilliam Jennings, cabman, s charged at Clerken• wa
I.s,forinththeefrisnatead of a
well on Thursdayfavre, andvitheiffioroneding2os
legal eightpenny

A wretched-looking man, named William Jones, ap-
peared before the same Bench, for stealing three quartern
loaves from a baker's at Pentonville. He pleaded dis-
tress, but was committed.

JOhn Berry, a weaver's-reed maker, was again re-
manded at Worship-street on Thursday for a week, having
fourteen banker's bills and cheques in his possession for
which he could not account, while further inquiry is made.
The adjourned inquest upon the death of James Skel-
ton, boatswain of the Helen and Mary, now in the
London Docks, Captain T. Palmer, was held on Thursday
The verdict returned was " Natural death by scurvy
ax 4 .flF9pq ;" but their indignation was expressed on
the condUct of the Captain, who had fed his crew on.
rotten buffalo beef, while he had sound provisi.ns onboard,

LITERARY AND SCIE-NTIPIC. -
At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, held
on Monday, among the presents announced was a new
Map of Amoy, from Mr.Wyld, and an Atlas of 500 Maps
from Admiral DlTrville.

John. Calvert, M.D., member of most of the philosophic
and learned societies of Europe, died on the day of his
40th year, at Falmouth, last Sunday.
Meteoric phenomena of great splendour have been
numerous this season at Dunse. On -the 4th instant a
brilliant one was seen in the west, near Procyon and
Sirius. It assumed the shape of a full moon, which
tapered to a point behind; its colour was white, inclining
to blue, and it finally exploded into fragments, some as
large as golf-balls, and others like rain-drops.: