The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-07 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The French Journals of Tuesday are occupied for The g reater
part with the approaching elections.
The National thus announces the attempt of the w retch
Bean to frighten the Queen The Government has Tees iced
from London the intelligence that on the 3d inst. an English-
man again attempted to fire a pistol at Queen Victoria.. He
was perceived in time and disarmed ; but he succeeded us tea-
caping. No other detail has been given respecting this mstitst r,
of which the English Journals could not.as yet have given
_at
any intelligence. We shall to-morrow have more complete:lt..
formation. What adds to the unexpectedness, and, we mar
add, the incredible enormity of this attempt is, that it took:
place on the very day that the entire press announced that the
Queen had commuted into transportation for life the punish-
ment of death to which Francis had been sentenced. l'he sa-
vage and impotent monomania, which has emigrated from
France to England, is one of the gravest symptoms' of the pro-
found disorders which agitate modern societies."
The Courrar Francais thus comments on this last attempt:—
" These attempts at assassination, so rapidly repeated among
our neighbours beyond the Channel, have henceforth deprived.
them of the right of accusing the French nation of want of mo-
rality, because there are to be found amongst us some insensate
and furious men, who have nothing in common with the people
of the country in which they happen to be born."
During the last month the deposits in the Paris Savings'
Bank amounted to 2,941,361 f., by 20,614 depositors, of whom
2,544 were new depositors. The amount of reimbursements in
the same period was 2,276,000 f.
During the month of June the Paris and Corbel! Railroad
conveyed 83,592 passengers, 115 post carriages, and 115 horses,
producing a receipt of 105,89:3f., which, with 7,716 francs for
carriage of goods, give a total of 113,609 f. On the St. Ger-
main Railroad, during the same period, there were 110,632
passengers producing 122,236 f. ; and on the Versailles line
(the right bank), 116,660 passengers, producing 135,231 f.

PARL'

'AR.Y.

The House of Lords did not meet yesterday.
The Commons read the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill a,
third time and passed it, after a division on an amendment
moved by •111 r. Blackstone to throw the borough open to the
neighbouring hundred. The numbers were, 134 to 53.
'1 he evening was almost entirely occupied by the adjourned
debate on 'Mr. Wallace's motion, which we briefly mention
elsewhere. The debate was agall adjourned.

.ounzac OPIN
The Times, in an article on the distress of the country, has
the following remarks:—" People gu on debating about the
distress of the country in the House of -Commons with but
little chance, we are afraid, of coming to a conclusion which
will in any degree avail the sufferers. In most of these case*
every legislator has his nostrum, and of course a time of dis-
tress furnishes an opportunity not to be overlooked for these
persons to proclaim to the world bow different would have been
the lot of those who are now so painfully ill off if they hro.! but
had their way. ]fie are not inclined to think very highly- of
the ifs' of such gentlemen. To find fault with all that hat
gone before, to suggest remedies which stand in no danger of
meeting with the perilous trial of acceptance, to dilate upon
what might have been—would have been—ought to have been
—is a cheap and easy wisdom ; though, like other cheap
articles, it is not a form of wisdom which will stand much
rough usage, or merit any very lasting applause. Those who
confine themselves, or who principally indulge in these more
common-place methods of giving interest to what they have
to say, are generally found at last to have done so from the
difficulties which they experience in commanding attention
without some such appeal ad misericordiam—without using, or
at least attempting to use, the distresses of their fellow-crea-
tures to furnish food for their own vanity."
The Post says:—" It is a remarkable. and certainly not se
very gratifying circumstance, that upon the second reading of
the great measure of her Alajesty's present Government in
the House of Lords, no more than sixty-three Members of
that noble assembly attended the House. It is very true that
no more than four Noble Lords said " Non. content" to the
new Tariff Bill, but it is also true that whetra Noble Lord
divided the House upon his proposition to throw the Bill out,
no more than fifty-nine recorded their votes against his propo-
sition. The reason of this may be easily understood from the
statement of the Duke of Richmond at the close of his very
sensible and temperate speech. We believe :hat the greater
number of the Peers feel with the Noble Duke, that if the
tariff measure had been brought forward in their House last
year, when the Whigs held the Government, they could and
would have thrown it out ; but now that the measure is brought
forward by the leaders of the Conservative party, they knew
not what would follow were it thrown out, and are unwilling
to run the risk of doing so, though conscientiously opposed to
it. Seeing that the measure cannot be prevented, they are
anxious not to alarm the farmers and ether country people on
the subject. They are unwilling, by exciting alarm, to add
to the difficulties of those who govern the country. They are
themselves afraid of the consequences, but do not like to spread
their fears abroad ! !" _

We take the following from the Herald :—" Lord Mont-
eagle, who, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, never once
thought of asking the Legislature to re-consider the subject of
import duties, and whose brightest official freak was to w ilfully
and wantonly involve the country by his penny postage scheme
in a permanent financial deficiency, hid actually the unblush-
ing audacity to sneer and peek at the new tariff as far beneath
the grandeur of his commercial policy, claimed the principles
on which it was constructed as his own, and roundly abused the
Government because so much good had been accomplished
for the people by other than Whig intervention. Lord Stanhope,
who had given such ample and kind proof *hat he is really what
he aims ta be, the friend and protector of helpless poverty, on
the other hand, is angry with Government because they have
removed the prohibition against the importation of foreign
cattle, and thus opened the means of lowering the cost of animal
food to the poor, and actually warns the Legislature that the
consequences of cheap meat will be the general diso:ganisation
of society—a new distribution of political power--and universal
suffrage. This prophetic anticipation of what the future has in
store for us is made on the authority of uo less a person than
Mr. Feargus O'Connor, an individuil who tires and subsists by
outrageous agitation."
The Chronicle, in reference to the case-of Colonel Dundee
says :—" The satisfactory answer which was given on Tuesday,
in the House of Commons, to Lord Wursley's question re-
specting Colonel Henry Dundas, establishes the fact that there
is now a vacancy in the list of her Majesty's Aides-de-Camp.
and that abuse of the Queen has ceased to be a recommenda-
tion Ns ith the authorities at the Horse-guards. It is further to
be hoped that this answer may encourage some member of the
Upper House to inquire of the Duke of Buccleuch whether it
be true—that he, a Cabinet Minister, and his Duchess, the
principal lady in her Majesty's Household, had invited to a
public entertainment which he gave to the Queen, a person
who had been called to account for publicly and grossly abusing
her Majesty. We fear that this question can only be answered
in the affirmative; and the Duke of Bucchsuch's character as a
gentleman forbids the supposition that the obnoxious invitation
was advertently given. Still, we would ask his Grace what
would have been his own feelings, if, at an assembly of which
he and his Duchess had been the prominent guests, he should
have chanced to have met a man who had publicly abused the
Duchess? We cannot, moreover, forget that the Duke, how-
ever personally inoffensive, is a conspicuous member of a party,
which, ever since her Majesty's accession to the throne, has
been employed in vituperating and insulting her—that the
leading organ of that party was occupied, daily occupied, in
misrepresenting her actions and villifying her character—that
an attempt was made by this party (which was only defeated
by the good sense and good feeling of the Queen Dowager) to
set up a rival Court--that her Majesty was bespattered front
the pulpit by Tory parsons, and hissed on the race-conree by
Tory Peeresses—and that, finally, since the Tories have been
in power, two attempts in one month have been made upon the
Queen's life."
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The salmon fishery on the river 31oy is this se/von highly
beneficial. Last week no fewer than 9,000 were taken by the
nets, 1,600 of which were brought in at one draught.
The Select Committee on the trade in spirits in Ireland have
reported, .‘ that the repeal of the malt drawback in Ireland will
not be prejudicial either to the trade in spirits or to the revenue
in that country."
The meeting of the Colonial Bank took place at the London
Tavern last Tuesday. From the Report it appeared that the
available balance of profits was 14,1041. Ss. 7d., from which a
dividend of 2 per cent. for the half-year ending Deoember,
1841, was ordered to be paid.
The anniversary of the Bethlem and Bridewell Hospitals
was celebrated on Monday last, upwards of 1.50 noblemen and
gentlemen being present. From the Report it appeared that
the income of the establishment arising from the munificence
of individuals reached 25,000/. per annum. Nearly 400 in-
mates of Bethlem were suffering under frightful maladies.
There were 200 young persons in the house of occupation learn-
ing trades; and as many as 1,570 had passed through Bridewell
Hospital, being a number greater than the number disposed of
in ally former year, by 250.
LAW AND POLICE.
The Wakefield House of Correction, according to a Sheffield
paper, contained no fewer than 820 prisoners on Saturday last.
It was stated yesterday, at a meeting of the creditors of
Messrs. Williams and Mottram, in the Bankruptcy Court, that
there were sufficient assets to declare a diyidend, supposed to
be 2s. 6d. its the pound, the amount of which, however, will be
officially announced in a few days.
Since the commencement of the Old Bailey Sessions 68
prisoners have been added to the calendar, making the entire
number 165.

A younc, man, named Rowland, professing to be the legiti.
mate son of George the Fourth, was brought up at the Alan_
lion-house yesterday, charged with having attempted to male
a speech in the Rotunda at the Bank, alleging that he had been
insulted by the porter when about to draw a cheque there for
301. He was taken back to the Compter, till inquiries were
made about his property.