The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-11 00:00:00

3'4 VI ft if OF NEWS

AND

'4,ltOtte Ovtition,

Who Ens may read.'

The King•of theTroch visited Paris on Tuesday,
to presides ats ii'CalbipeCouncil. His Majesty, after
visitingthd,Standialt Museum in the Louvre,e-eturned
in the eveningto' St. Cloud.
The ParisMoniteurcontains the official returns of
the sinking fund during the third quarter of 1842,
from which it appears that the quantity of Rentes,. 4
per Cent., redeemed during that interval amounted to
111,268 f., and that of the 3 per Cents. to 670,234 f.,
making together 6,481,503 f.
The disturbances at Drucourt, near Bernay, were
at an end, and the troops dispatched to that village
to restore order had been recalled. 40 individuals
had been arrested, and 15 more or less dangerously'
wounded. This is the usual result of these outbreaks
among the operatives.
The amount of the contract for the first section of
the railroad from Paris to Belgium is 1,122,000fe , •-• •
of which about 400,000 f. are for the cutting's and . •
embankments ; the rest is for works of art.
Pascal Fabre, who was condemned to death for
parricide at the Court of Assizes of Herault, was exe;
cuted at Montpellier on the 3d inst. He was informed
of the fatal news at ten in the morning. " I knew
that I should die," said he, " and my only fear is that
God will not have pity on Me." After the fatal toi-
lette, the cortege was put in, motion, Fabre sitting
calm and resigned, with his face covered with a black •
veil, near the Abbe Cellier. At the foot of . the
scaffold the prisoner heard the sentence read without`
emotion, and, after having embraced' the confessor, he,
was fixed on the guillotine. A single exclamation 01
" Oh, God, have mercy on me," was heard from h,3 '
lips, and the knife fell. An immense crowd was as- •
sembled.
The Havre Journal slates, that the works for the
salvage of the Telemaque were progressing rapidly'
It was expected that the vessel, which was then lifted
• to within a foot of the surface' of the water, would be
definitively raised on Thursday.„ • •
The Cologne Gazette announces that the German
Customs' Union intended to resort to reprisals against '.•
the trade of the United. States. „.
The Augsburg Gazette, of the sth inst., statesethat
" the object of the Prince de Joinville's voyage ~.t° •
the Brazils is to form a matrimonial_ connexion
the sister of the Emperor." •
We learn from Stuttgard, Nov. 1, that the Co,n'
mittee of the Chamber of Deputies on the Railroad. , •
question has decided on recommending' that several.' • '•
lines from the capital shall be constructed at the
pense of the State. One is to be in the western di' s
rection towards the frontiers of Baden, and to. be e:(7,
tended as far as Heilbronn ; a second, to the east an'
south, will pass by Ulm, and have its terminus at'
Friedrichshafen, on the bank of the Lake 'of Con'
stance ; a third, from Plochingen, will pass by.Reet
lingen, and will be extended to the countries of the
Upper Necker.
A mechanician of a little town in Bohemia has con'
strutted an automaton which imitates perfectlY the
human voice, particularly the soprano notes. It sings
several difficult airs •with the. greatest accuracy'
Shakes, runs, and chromatic scales, are all executed
with surprising precision. This automaton, in shig"
ing, even pronounces certain words, so as to be easily
understood. The inventor hopes to arrive at such 3
point of perfection as to bring his. machine to Pro-
nounce all the words of the best operas. '
A letter from St. Petersburgh, 28th ult., states that
the Emperor, immediately on his arrival, published.an
ukase declaring that all incendiaries accused of have-
ing set fire to any property, are to be brought beta"'
a council of war, inst essi of being tried by the ordhlarY •
tribunals.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The- Times has the following comments on a letter
which appeared in the Morning Chronicle :--"Ther
are some signatures of which people are wont to sPe3ir
e .-
as nonz,s de guerre; but there are, others whiCh, in
spirit, though not perhaps in law, amount to forger'es; •
Of this latter class is the signature appended to a lette'
on the late appointments in Bankruptcy and Lunacy;
which was published in.an ,Opposition paper of We':
nesday, with the subscription, A Retired JUdg'
Any reader, seeing those words at the" of a
about legal appointments, and not himself possessing"
the little, the very little, acquaintance with the VT:
fes:.,,ion which would suffice to satisfy him that t""
letterwriter is wholly, utterly, and ridiculously' igue;
rant of the matter he writes about, -would suPP°a
that the Retired Judge' must be some eminent
life,
venerable person, who raving, in his, prime of inf' •
administered justice in some of the Courts of ;IVO'', ..
miii•ster-hall, had now retreated to the repose °I
privacy,• and was proving his. gratitude ,to his ilher,e
country by endeavouring to protect her. judglitre,`;
seats from the approaches of the unworthy.
reader, defrauded into this conjecture, would he
able to find but one individual answerin descrir
g e
letter
tion assumed ; for the Lords Brougham,: Csaftenlat
and Campbell, though they are not now in possessi°°;
office, most certainly do not regard themsels's
having retired from it. There remains, therefore, we
believe, only one person whom the signature Nv°u,pr
fit;' and it is hardly possible to conceive a gr°3„;„
libel
,on that truly learned and estimable Man, t"';,
to have written him into the false position of he'eei";
supposed for a single moment to be the author of tliof
remarkably gross and dull invective against some of
the most respectable gentlemen in the piofess;°- to
the-law. If a scribbler has au impulse upOn bin" „
put-forth some left-handed, thickheaded,
lucubration, and wants a name to tack to , li .
t
sense, let him suit himself from the coearaynso"re/
oia,-
with some such appropriate designatioa 4,,,5ev. leis
or Crassus, or Spume; but let him notsvoueli
venom with a signature which can be asieritied but at.
one man, and that a man of knowledge,
derSta
ing, and manners."
•
We quote the following, remarks from tiePost"n,
" Commerce is a prodigious creator of wedth: e"n
44,;•.
merce has been a mighty' engine to' make B 5 halo " it
richest of nations. What we Mc to COUIIMIICC
were idle to descant on.. All that its warmest
shipperS claim for it we readily admit, and say, 11;3
without its aid England would not be at this dnYt.l,o
foremost of first-rate Powers—without its aid the Lis
would not exist in this country the heapedeuP
of limitless affluence, -at which foreigners. gaze.
mute amazement. And yet in this fair land.,..teeeni.
with the golden fruits of commercial enterprise, bi~
with its men, by tens of thousands, who have gain;
fortunes fortunes in traffic, we hear of the despair'ltnd dest'ri
tion of millions—of the millions buffor whoz.seindusjbe
the fortunes would not have been gained,Wl; e`ts.
commercial enterprise enabled to work to its 011 - ig
Whence is this ? It is not that the•''State
poorer—not that our wealth has left us:•', We;
~ice
richer now—there is more of the luxury of opui`4,
amongst us, than at any previous epoch of ,cur
tory. But millions of the people are physicallY d;5- •
tressed, morally depraved—are unfitted and in nd
posed for the duties of Christians, of good subjects .a'cis •
citizens. In a Christian land the people 'in' my the
are unchristianised. In a land once .fanhd for, •flts.
loyalty and contentedness of its Tinginhabitantssiberl
of destitution and the 'clamours of disaffeeflon: to • ,
ceaselessly in the cars of the great. We can P°j9aete'
a cause of this. It is. the mistake made by us
ing as if men's passions—their avarice, their se'sebt
ness, their ambition, and vanity—may be left•
t° ris-
themselves—to cure, of their OWII accord, ''anYrti•ie
chief they may have inflicted on the members °` sere'
community againstwhose material aomforts,theY .
brought to bear." -of
The Herald, speaking of the present high pr'ce`aa- •
bread observes :-"'Legislative interferenee:,to r 7,01
late retail prices is a most hazardouS experiment' oes
though there might have been most 'powerful reaso,
against the abolition of the Assize of Bread, thels?,,Rti-• .10'
guments will, we fear, be found inapplicable asi-ttio
tying the re-imposition of that mode of reaulating, 'her
cost of the quartern loaf. The attention of the a i•
and well-doing to their bakera' bills would has oor
powerful influence on the price.charged to the nil
man ; if the head of everY respectable fa-11'
would refuse to pay Bd. or 9d. a loaf WT111°11)10
is a remunerating price, his poorer and •-wci to
neighbour would be very much oblige b'ioit
him. For so: long as the wealthy will oblige
to high prices, the poor must, and whenever a family
consents to use adulterated or badly-made bread,
to
it causes scores of its inferiors in point of station
consume a baked compost wholly devoid of nut!. iblits
if not positively unwholesome: 'Although then d,oinish_
may be entertained as to the Wisdom of re-esta;_,....,
ing an Assize of Bread, it• is..we suggest raosti_thisPio
able that every authentic means be afforded
average'
the rich and the poor of contrasting the 'ee
prices of bread and flour with the average
accomplished
of wheate and this could be' very easily accoropleis,"_e.
b extending the machinerY now used for collecting
comparative
statistics
ioo
sf grain
weekly Tohre Pinuobnlitchlttir°l-linofesvueicri
thetow iniowtiliceeroefthitesreyri
en
xg
sns'iyef
theree"
wealthier
marketioiiabiowo
charge for bread or flour—and the knowledgce,
would 'goon reduce the excess to moderate pr 'utscce
Tliq:Chronicle says :—" Sir Robert Peel bss I;4_
ples. of Free-trade. The object of our poll"
°tsuidanb
e the
more publicly proclaimed his adhesion to thc:.1).7%0
saicVat• the Guildhall banquet, is to encourarngrcial
demand for, labour, and to extend the tomwre
prosperity of the country.' Significant xvord„ are
:11.7(1,%•
trust, that in the Prime Minister's mouth tne
full of meaning. We hope that they arc the
to the
finger, pointing not so much to the past ession,
future—not so much to the results of the last • that
w;t 02 to
.°,
as to what is projected or projecting for the ",hat
is is coming. For assuredly to rest satisfied
he has done, is but to cross the Rubicon, ana