The Sun. — 1842-11-22 (London, England)

SHARKV.—Within the last ten days no fews-bir eight sharks were taken on the great lines' IZrgesP crew of one of the Footdee fishing boats. Hera;_ measured five feet in length.—Aberdeea  . humiliating deserlion of a generous cause; but it would also be an act of utter and inexcusable folly if done with the notion of pacifying France. One word with reference to a different subject, while we are still upon foreign politics. A Whig Contemporary, who not so inconceivably tries to affect a certain degree of belief in these French dreams, has picked up a set of analogous legends concerning our relations with Turkey. Sir Stratford Canning, it informs us, has lo:t all influence at the Porte—has, on one occasion, nearly carried his point by a menace, but has been compelled by a reprimand from the Foreign-office to draw in his horns, and play the humble servant again. All this comes on the simple, unsupported authority, of an anonymous writer in the Morning Chronicle. We meet these assertions in their own way. We take upon ourselves to declare broadly and confidently, that they are simply untrue. Sir S. Canning is happily in full possession of all that influence which is due to a representative of Great Britain. His advice is followed, his friendship courted by Prince and Ministers. He has bad no occasion to resort to menace. He has had no reprimand, by consequence, for such a resort. He has acquitted his important task with ability, and to the satisfaction of those to whom he is responsible; though he may not have trodden in the footsteps of his reckless and shortsighted predeceesor. The truth of the matter is this !—The Whigs wrested Syria from the hands of the only man, rebel as he was, who has ever kept it in order. To do so, they armed every robber in the country, and encouraged him in a warfare (the only one which circumstances allowed) murderous and irregular. They disorganise the country, they' destroy the force which could and did keep it in order, and they re-deliver it, armed and unruly, to the worst of tyrannies—to the tyranny which is terrified at once by its opponents and its ministers, and is equally fearful of exercising leniency towards the one or discipline towards the other. Their policy is now beginning to bear its fruits. Syria must pay for the triumphs of Acre, as Hindostan has done for those of Ghuznee ; and the authors of the evil are anxiously casting about for some means of laying at the door of their successors the obvious and necessary result of their own infatuation. This is the long and short of the attack on Sir Stratford Canning.—Times.  In this case the Solicitor-General had obtained a rule nisi for a mandamus, calling upon the Corporation of Harwich to assess the amount of compensation due to Edward Chapman, under the provisions of the Municipal Corporation Act, for the loss of his office of clerk of the peace, town .clerk, and coroner of that borough. The COURT having heard Mr. Eric against the rule, and the Solicitor-General in support of it, directed that the rule for a mandamus to assess compensation should be made absolute.  t From the London New Price Current of November 01)