The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-05 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The Royal family of France arrived at Saint-Cloud
on Sunday morning, at ten o'clock, having left Eu on
Saturday evening, at half-past seven.
The Ring and Queen of Prussia arrived at Carlsruhe
on the 30th ult., and immediately paid a visit to the
Grand Duke. Their Majesties left Carlsruhe on the
following day.
The Journal de Frankfort states that as soon as the
Emperor of Russia received the news of the fire at
Kusan, he determined to leave St. Petersburgh for
that city.
The Vienna Papers mention another fire. On the
19th ult., the village of Kirchberg was almost entirely
burnt to the ground.
According to accounts from General Lamorciere,
Abd-el-Kader was still in the environs of Tekedempta.
with 1,200 to 1,500 troops, and a population of 7,000
to 8,000 persons who followed him. General d'Ar-
bouville, on the contrary, stated that Abd-el-Kader had
plunged in the Desert to the south-west, and General
Bineau imagines that this is the true account.
Mr. Southern, Secretary to the British Legation at
Lisbon, has arrived at Madrid, and it is rumoured that
he is charged with a secret mission.
A letter from Madrid says—" Mr. John O'Shea,
nephew of the opulent banker, has left for London, it
is said, with the object of making arrangements either
for advancing two millions sterling to the Spanish
Government, or of letting the contract for the quick
silver mines of Almaden."

A Madrid letter says—" The question which
occupies the Cabinet is the speedy meeting of
the Cortes. It appears certain that this convo-
cation will take place towards the month
of November. M. Cortina, the leader of the Op-
position, is trying to organize again the coalition which
overthrew the Gonzales Cabinet. On the other hand,
the Ministerial Deputies hold frequent meetings at
M. Cordero's, to come to an understanding on the
most important questions that are to be discussed dur-
ing the approaching session. Of these the most grave
is the Cotton Bill, which will probable give rise to
very animated discussions.
A letter from Vienna, 18th ult., states that the
town of Gross-Kanischa, in Hungary, was much
damaged by four shocks of an earthquake on the 9th
ult. The Catholic chapel, the Protestant church, and
the Synagogue, the Hotel-de-Ville, and several other
buildings, were much injured. Two houses which
stood alone fell down, and buried in their ruins ten
persons. Of these, six were taken out alive, though
tnuch bruised; the others were dead. The whole
damage is estimated at 150,000 florins (15,0001.)
• The Memorial de Rouen attributes the abundant
introduction of coals which took place before the
month of August to the desire of the English specu-
lators to escape the duty levied in England on the
exportation of this combustible. It appears that the
glut of the market, as it was easy to anticipate, has
caused a fall extensive enough to exceed the amount
of the export duty, and has consequently disappointed
the expectations of the exporters. •

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Times thus comments on Chief Justice Tindal's
charge at Stafford :--" The majesty of the English
law has not often been more worthily sustained than
in the temperate and dignified charge of the Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas to the Grand Jury at
Stafford. Interposing to punish, the law of England
yet remembers that true obedience cannot be matter
of compulsion, and while arraying herself in her
terrors against the evil-doer, she yet fails not to re-
mind us that the prevalence of sound principle and
strict conscientiousness is the real basis upon which
she looks to found her authority : the basis upon
which she hopes to see established the peace and pros-
perity of society. The law of England is a terror
only to, the wicked—to the honest, the poor, and
the oppressed, she has ever professed herself a de-
fence and a refuge. The law respecteth order,'—
and—' the law favoureth life and liberty.' And ac-
cordingly it is held that while a breach of the Queen's
peace is an offence most contrary to the genius of our
laws ; an offence of the greatest magnitude ; still the
right, or duty, on the part of the subject, of discussing
and representing his grievances, of pointing out what
is wrong for amendment and alteration, and that in
no spirit of discontent or insubordination, but in an
honest desire for the public welfare—is one which is
inviolably to be defended and observed. This has
over been the language of the common law of Eng-
land ; this has ever been the language held by her
authorised ministers and exponents—the Justices of
the upper and lower Bench, and of the Exchequer ;
the antistites legum,'—as they have been called of old;
—ar.d this is the language which is held by them tc
this day."
The Post says :—" 'We have been looking over the
reports forwarded to us of agricultural meetings in
‘arious parts of the country. They all breathe tl,(
spirit which we have ever looked for from the land-
holders and farmers of England—that of a firm deter-
mination to stand by the great national object of Bri-
t ish cultivation, be what may the expenditure of time.
tf skill, and of pecuniary outlay. This is what we
expected. This is what our long experience, of the
character of our agriculturists had led us to expect.
But this we cannot conceal front ourselves, and it
would, be superficial hypocrisy to attempt to conceal
it from our readers, that alarm, that doubt, and dread
(we will not call it panic), is at the present moment
the prevalent feeling with the agricultural commu-
nity. We see resolutions entered into—we see
farmers and landowners resolving to maintain each
other's interests—to avoid all steps approaching to a
discontinuance of labouring employment, or to a re-
duction of the wages now paid to workpeople. But
this we cannot conceal from ourselves, that those who
adopt these resolutions know that they do so at a
disadvantage. They seem well aware of new embar-
rassments—new obstacles—in the way of a fair remu-
neration."
We take the following from the Herald :—The
ignorance of the Times is amusing and almost uni-
versal ; it is alike displayed in reference to agricul-
tural associations, musical festivals, and the condition
of the West Indies. Our Contemporary is violent in
its opposition to the admission of foreign sugar ; yet
it objects to any reasonable and facile mode of extend-
ing the production of British Colonial sugar ; it grunts
over the economical results of the Emancipation Act,
yet it won't listen to the only certain means of re-
medying the evils produced thereby; it has ex-
pressed its opinions on migration to the West Indies,
and nothing under heaven will induce it to budge
from them, however monstrous and absurd, one inch.
The Timesa dmits that there is a species of monopoly
of labour' in the Westlndies—that the 'negro lives idly
three days a week, and dictates his own terms for
tht rest;. that large tracts of land have gone out of
cultivation for want of the requisite supply of labour;'
that there has been a serious and ruinous injury to
the planters, and that the achievement of these results
has cost the country twenty millions sterling; yet
does this sapient journal reject the application of that
agency which would destroy the monopoly of labour:
which would prevent negro idleness and dictation,
which would restore land thrown out of cultivation to
the hoe and the plough, and bring into production
virgin soil, which would prevent the ruin, and restore
the prosperity of the planter, and which would render
the purchase of emancipation one of the most remu-
nerative investments ever made by a nation. What
would the Times do with the West Indies ? Would
it condemn those possessions to instantaneous ruin by
giving the people of England slave-grown sugar ?
Or has it resolved to sentence them to the slow pro-
cess of painless extinction by keeping up the existing
• monopoly of labour ?' "
The following allusions to Chief Justice Tin-
ders charge on the opening of the Stafford Special
Commission are from the Chronicle :—" In the re-
marks we recently made on the case of the prisoners
about to be tried by the Special Commission, it was
our misfortune to offend the taste of a Contemporary
Journal; but this calamity is in some degree compen-
sated by finding that we have, unintentionally, anti-
cipated some of the positions laid down in the able
charge of Chief Justice Tindal to the, Grand
Jury. His Lordship strongly affirms the legal right
of the workpeople to combine, and by cessation from
labour induce, if possible, their employers to forego
the reduction of wages, or the enforcement of ob-
noxious regulations, of which they complained. The
offences that followed are put in the light in which
we have endeavoured to place them--that of criminal
adjuncts or accidents of an original purpose, which in
itself was neither criminal nor illegal. And this is, we re-
peat, a peculiarity in the late disturbances that ought to
be constantly borne in mind in dealing with those who
have thereby aubjecte 1 thernsel% es to the inquiries
and decisions of a judicial tribunal. Hi,. Lordship
represents it as no part of the province of himself and
his brethren on the bench to enter into the merits of
the dispute between the toasters and the men, or to
-suggest remedies or preventions fur the evils thence
arising. Of any such discussion he speaks as better
fitted for a legislative assembly than for the members
of this tribunal, to wham the only duty allotted is
that of declaring the law as it stands at present.' At
the conclusion of his address, however, his Lordship
relaxes this restriction, and suggests that the dif-
fusion of sound religious knowledge, in which there
can be no excess,' amongst the labouring classes, is
the best security for their orderly behaviour, and 'for
the peace and safety of the community. To the
wisdom of this suggestion we readily subscribe. It
has been often repeated, and is generally assented to.
Yet it still remains merely a suggestion, and so, we
fear, it is at present likely to remain. For there is
the great practical question to be solved, of hcrw the
popular masses are to be made religious."

MONEY—TRADE—COIViIeMMIL
The convocation at Stuttgadt of the deiegatei of
the Germanic Customs' Union has broken up. The
attempts to raise the import duties on some of the
most important British export articles have failed, and
these rates consequently remain unaltered for at least
three years to come. These rates chiefly affect our
large exports of cotton twists, and iron exported from
Scotland. _ _

At Brough-hill fair in Westmoreland, the business
done has been good. The same may be said of Pen-
rith fair in Cumberland, Bampton fair, and Egre-
mon t fair.

LAW AND POLICE.
Five of the Ashton Chartists, with Mr. George
Southam, a millowner, were committed on Tuesday
to take their trials at the Special Commission, for the
part taken at meetings in August.
Eleven of the Stockport rioters, among whom was
Taylor, the shoemaker Chartist, were committed on
Monday, after examination, to the Chester Assizes
for trial.
Barnard Garvin and Mary, his wife, were brought
up at Marylebone yesterday for final examination on
the charge of having cruelly treated their eldest
daughter, starving her, &c. They were both com-
mitted for trial.
James Flukes, Isaac Patch, and Elizabeth Con-
stable were yesterday charged at Union Hall, with
forcibly entering the premises of Mrs. Black will, in
Westmorland-place, Camberwell, and removing her
furniture and effects. The hearing was postponed,
and bail for the appearance of the prisoners accepted.
Yesterday, William John Dives, an officer's ser-
vant in the Royal Marines, and lary Crisp, were
charged at Woolwich, the former with stealing, and
the latter with receiving, a 51. note, ring, watch, &c.,
belonging to Lieutenant Webb, of the Royal Maiines.
They were remanded.

THEATRICAL.
A version of Alma is in preparation at the
Adelphi Theatre. Madame Giubilei, of her Majesty's
Theatre, is to sustain the principal character.

SPORTING. r•
The great match for 5001. a side, between the cut,-
ters Corsai-, 84 tons, J. Congreve, Esq., and Talis-
man, 87 tons, J. Meiklam, Esq., commenced on
Thursday, when the vessels started from Yarmouth to
go round the Eddystone Light-house and back. On
Saturday morning at half-past six they returned, the , '
Corsair winning by four minutes and six seconds;
the distance, 226 miles, was performed in 39 hours
and a half.

C OURT--PASIEUONAZILZ•
Prince Labaroff arrived at Mivart's Hotel yester-
day, from Germany.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland leave Dun-
robin Castle to-day week, for Castle Howard and
Chatsworth.

There will be a series of splendid fetes at Ravens-
worth Castle at the close of the present week, in cele-
bration of the coming of age of Mr. Henry George
Liddell.

The Earl of Mornington leaves Deal Castle on
Friday, for Saville-row, to attend the obsequies of his
deceased brother the Marquis Wellesley.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne
landed at Dover yesterday, from Boulogne.
The Marquis of Hertford has returned to Dor-
chester House, Park-lane.
The Earl and Countess of Essex left Cashiobury
Park yesterday, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess
of St. Alban's, at Redbourne Hall, Lincolnshire.
Earl Compton arrived in Piccadilly on Monday,
from the Continent.

Viscount Powerscourt has arrived in town front
Powerscourt Castle, County Wicklow.
The Hon. and Rev. Dr. Gerald Valerian Wellesley
is staying at Apsley House, during his sojourn in tcw
in
Burdett Coutts and Miss Meredith arrived n
Stratton-street on Saturday, from Harrogate.