The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-21 00:00:00

gUM-';-ARY OF .EilS

AND
fiUlts b 1 t c Opinion.

" Who runs tpay read."

FOREIGN.
A report prevails at Paris, that the King's sister,
Madame Adelaide has lately given 1,500,000 f. for a
tine estate in Britanny, called Carheil, and has Pre-
sented it to her nephew, the Prince de Joinville.
The Frankfort Journal of the 17th inst. states that
a shock of earthquake, accompanied with much noise,
was felt on the evening of the 13th at Coblentz. The
shock extended to the neighbourhood of Nieuwied.
On the 12th inst. a fire broke out at Schnoctheim,
in Wurtemberg, which in a short time consumed four-
teen houses.
The King of the French held a Council of Ministers
on Tuesday at St. Cloud.
M. Pageot, Minister Plenipotentiary from the
Court of France to the United States has left pave
for Washington. He is the bearer of books and len
sent by the Chamber of Deputies, and the War an
Marine departments, to the American Houses of L;
gislature and public establishments, in exchange,
for
those which M. Alexandre Vatteinare had received. i
In the season of 1840-1841, the produce of ~,
/nt
the Lombardo-Venetian country became doubled. r
is calculated that nine-tenths of this produce, is 2.
ported. England takes annually about 500,0001 i•
u
France imports annually from Lombardy and Sal'
ma, upon an average, about 1,400,0001b5.
The convention between Prussia and Russia,d :or
the giving up of deserters, has been prolonge
another year.
The Moniteur Parisien says—" It is asserted th--114„),
independently of the Convention with Belgium,
is in preparation, commercial negotiations have
opened with England, Sardinia, and the German Cu"
toms' Union."
The Prince de Joinville and the Due d'Aurnale.
Sr
rived at Brest on the 15th inst.
The Minister of Public Works arrived at Lyons°
the 15th inst.
tea last
Accounts from Leipsic state that during
week of September the business of the fair wag es'
tremely active. Upwards of 10,000 foreign del'ion
had arrived, but it was difficult to calculate t
at
number of buyers. The total number of strangers
Leipsic was estimated at between 80,000 and 90,000
PUBLIC OPINION. the
The Post says, in allusion to the collection 01 to
Income-tax—" We feel it a duty which we osleic
the Government, as well as to the public, to rel7friti;
strate once more against the annoying stupidity."o
which the preliminary measures of the Ineeru7;,od,
are carried into effect. It was generally undetalo
both from the character of the Government, twe'ro.
remarks which fell from the Prime Minister in !et it
posing the tax, that pains would be taken to Coll' s,
with as much fairness and as little annoyance astob.
sible. Instead of this, we find, in -the process ob-
taining the preliminary returns, the most stufaelriog
stinacy, and the most unmitigated tax-gathe eh-
effrontery. Surely it is enough if the Treasury to
tains the tax, without letting loose stupid pe°P
worry her Majest's subjects, merely that this tt ce,
man or that taxing-man may increase his imporiarised
or swell his paltry gains. We are really surP„tiaa
that the Government does not cause greater atte"to,
to be paid to these details ; for undoubtedly the COb.
which is severe enough, whatever way it may lie if
lected, will become utterly odious and detests,
rior
aggravated by the stupid selfishness of the int°
people concerned in its collection." . . of
In reference to the present destitute coridltl°,, re.
the majority of the working-classes, the I/v.(llra, of
marks as follows :—" The destitution and Inis,e4 $
the working classes can no more be removed ;tea
Poor-law than could London be supplied with woof
from the basin in St. James's Park ; pertuancoat
increased parochial rates would in truth only
the paralysis under which the country stares
there is much in the New Poor-law that lots
amendment, and many alterations and imPr°v.e, ore
might easily be introduced into it to render 1' i it
consonant with constitutional usage, and to dePr put
of unnecessary severity and wanton crueltY%„,lo-
we must look beyond such a minor matter of resent
cipal administration to get at a remedy for Pr air
and future distress ; and the most satisfactl and
nouncement that such a remedy'has been feunreasea
applied will be,—diminished poor-rates and de,coui to
attention to poor-laws. It is just as mop_
be re'
suppose that prosperity and tranquillity 0004101
stored through pauperism, as it was in Lord nr° old
to predicate in 1834 that diminished poor-ratesof the
improve the morals or stimulate the mdustrireopted
working classes. Yet must something be uti,tioa .
to relieve the distress of the industrial per' ;te their
to improve their sanitary condition—to re-exc.() above
all,
,Ethoe
TimesChristianise
observes, th e m "
in
patriotism—to teach them sound morality—au '
on the
a leading
subject of the workhouse system ti of the
—" As a Coroner's inquest on the last Vicw-fil d
Northleach prison-system has not yet pronounce
bat
verdict, we shall abstain from any . remarks 00 bid
particular case which might even be imagined o3.1).200;
of exercising an influence over the expected deci!' 0..
but on the Gloucestershire notions of a proper Priroo
discipline, as exhibited in the course of the discoed to
at the recent Quarter Sessions, we may be alluw the
in Glnoruteicel:tershire ;
say a few words. We regret, then, on the Wholes,biro
tone and spirit displayed by the Gloucesterhoia.
Magistrates throughout that • discussion. Wet,s Ash
have hoped to have found among a body of •E'nl*„ad
country- gentlemen, a prevalent feeling of shame isre
indignation at the disclosures recently made' bodf
could hardly have imagined that among a larg,e_hoia
,of men of opulence and education, many Cr id he
also were of the clerical profession, no 'one w° ce of,
found to disclaim with earnestness all coguisuno has
and participation in, such a state of things, is de-
been brought to light. Instead of which, alropted;
fence and extenuation, with no slight share of at' b foal(
concealment, diversified only by a frothy sPeec otidirr
a Mr. Bathurst, the drift of which is altogether
tee,:
coverable, hut the motive for making which, ,versaj;
rently, was a valorous resolve to proclaim to the nou
world, his, Mr. Bathurst's, firm determination foal
to be afraid of the Times.' Well, Mr. Bathurst iloe3
now declared publicly that he is not grail'
is welcome to any satisfaction he can derive from a thej
piece of bravery. But we beg to remind hiT, 'ottf 0104
real question is, not whether he is afraid ko hilU
Times,' but whetner there is nothing to Into other,:
afraid of his own reflections ? Can he—Can whos"
Magistrates who cheered his demand of
_oience,
afraid ? '—really so far stifle the voice of con; cases
as to persuade themselves that in all the severanlothia
which have been brought forward, there was
of per•,
to regret—nothing involving them in the ganlortea',
sive participation, at least, in acts of cruelty, sis tho,.
ing human life ? If so, then all we can say
usttr;l•
the practical Christianity of Gloucestershire 10
at a very low ebb." t 6 The
The following is from the Chronicle:-- the ins"':
sanity of those who advised the late strike i,llq inor
nufacturing districts cannot be more forcw forket
trated, than by the present state of the labour The I
in Manchester, notwithstanding the strio: before,.
apprehension is generally entertained tl,'".` tiro 01
Christmas it will be necessary to reduce tu'ibe onif
the workmen. Would that Manchester were
place where labour is in excess. 'rho i-oo 111,_
Marshall, who employ several thousands at reek'
about seven hundred at Shrewsbury, have ss.eek in
their time at both these places to five days
stead of full time, in consequence of the t"s
All the other flax spinners of Leeds have „rier tool,
same reduction; and in Dundee, and the °l',. Irelaola
of the east of Scotland, and in the north 0' ~ 1,01`,.
the same course will no doubt be adopterod goo
Abinger leaves a market for manufactusicderatieuof
altogether out of his sublime clm'e 'glee
when he makes wages to depend on t
_owloyeis
food. How, in the name of goodness, canti'leir good,
pay more than the prices they obtain for to the (fly
will allow them to pay, without going' ul re ex3c
zette? The • handloom weaver receives beors on t.O
the wages which are paid to handloom lyeai
Continent ; for his employer sustains a colo' j„ rya
every market with the continental emploYer'hoodlo°4
would the 800,000 souls who depend °" lovers i%
weaving in this country appeal to the era. PEnglan
higher wages, on the ground that food in The emu&
costs so much' more than on the Continent' tures ;
ployers, no doubt, feel for the th°
• g th
more they cannot pay without ruining .60.a11a
The Tory aristocracy, by keeping uP art• 1 016,
poor crea _sei
price of rood in this country, and rendermi: car__
sible for our manufacturers to obtain returqhe eftlko
have afforded every encouragement
itonow foreTs,
blishment of manufactures abroad ; and D° 1609
Governments retaliate on us for our rest, aistr
by hostile tariffs, which ndd frightful,l, to the
of the country at this particular time.
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IMONEY—TRADE—CONXIVZ3 albs e° r-0
The ship America, has returned, after ma
_se ea se.
26 months, from the Pacific, with the ira
of
lebo
of 4,700 baprureillszolocil,raivindp4Eso,o,7oospviouignzrdsw:oof; a
loan,
3,7501. The Lords of offortmheatTiorneaosfutrlyvohanveelygra_rousivdta: itshis.e'reerrsit':4l
At the village of Gheel, in Belgi_ho ar
,aleue
colony of not less than 700 lunatics, 7 , of
on so admirable a system, that they
illvinv all kn.ltsbs
with the inhabitants, and are emplo;fe" origin 01. cell
agriculture and manufactures. The The 1111° the
colony dates back to the 6th century; this, an need
lunatic system in London approaches
England
general adoption of these plans in
scarcely be advised, atri°'ls
simaTzwrws.
ales in half
The main annual mortality of fellUears and.a tot
parts of the metropolis in the two Y ,hey,
twos COLur 57, te,..
ending December, 1839, shows . in se,
while at Hackney the deaths were 113,.400, •
were in Camberwell, 1 in. 55; 15 15"