The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-10 00:00:00

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SUIV OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

7 A TTERSAtLL'S.-THIS EVENING.

SIX O'CLOCK.

GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
4 to 1 agst Knight of the Garter
6 to 1 agst Alonzo
7 to 1 agst Scarecrow
9 to 1 agst Lerrywhent

ST. LEGER.
3 to 1 agst Songstress
3 to 1 agst Stockwell
to 2 agst Daniel O'Rourke
13 to 2 agst Trousseau

DONCASTER CUP.
7 to 4 agst Teddington
3 to 1 agst Kingston
CESAREWITCH.
1,000 to 60 agst Lady Evelyn
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
50 to 1 agst Hyacinth—taken

FRANCE.
Further experiments have been made as to the
sailing 'and steaming qualities of the "crack" ship
of the line, Napoleon, which is fitted with a screw
propeller. On the 30th of last month the Napoleon
sailed from Toulon, her steam up, and having on
board the Marine Commission, with its President,
Admiral Delasseux. She proceeded as far as the
islands of the Hyeres, and returned to Toulon at a
speed of 11 knots B.loths the hour. After having
landed the Commissioners and made some alterations
in the machinery, Captain Lugeol directed his
course at full speed towards the harbour of Ajaccio.
The distance, 119 sea miles, was performed in
9 hours 48 minutes. The name of the Napoleon
procured for her an enthusiastic reception at
Ajaccio, and crowds of visitors flocked on board.
On her departure from Ajaccio the following day
she experienced a heavy sea and a light breeze
from the south-west. Her commander took advantage
of those circumstances, the most unfavourable for a
sailing vessel, to try her capabilities when deprived of
steam. He tacked several times and with the
lightest wind she came round in from six. to seven
minutes without ever missing stays, thus establish-
ing her reputation of a first-rate sailer. This arse stile
was considered to be the more remarkable,
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Napoleon is of unusual length, and it
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been apprehended that her screw, although
from the machinery, would have impeded her
manoeuvres. She returned to Toulon having only
half her fires lighted, and burning onlya halfv!o tons of
coal an hour, at a speed of nine and _ knots the
hour. The Maritime Prefect of oulon hastened to
submit those details tothe Minister of Marine, and
to pray that the President of the Republic would
make his triumphal entry into Toulon on board the
Napoleon.
Letters received in Paris by the last Mexican mail
represent that a dissension had arisen between the
French Minister in Mexico and the Government of
that country. The circumstances, according to the
Trait d' Union, a French paper published in Mexico,
are these—A French workman, named Lafont, esta-
blished at Orizaba, wished to marry Madlle. Louise
Meyer, a young Frenchwoman living with her father
in the same town. They applied to the ecclesias-
tical authorities of the district, but some difficulties
having arisen about money, they determined to
be married according to the French law. There
being
no Consul at Orizaba, they went to Vera Cruz,
and were duly married by the French Consul at
that place, with all the usual formalities. Shortly
after their return home, Lafont was arrested and
cast into prison, in virtue of an order of the Bishop
of Puebla, transmitted through the Superior Tri-
bunal of Jalapa. The young woman would have been
arrested also if she had not taken to flight, and she
bad to live in concealment during two months. After
long detention, Lafont was taken before the
lodge of Orizaba, and condemned to four years' im-
arisonment. He solicited the intervention of the
'French Minister ; and on the Bth of June that
diplomatist demanded from the Mexican Govern-
Inent his immediate release, that as indemnity
should be granted to him, and that an inquiry should
be made into the conduct of the judge at Orizaba.
The Minister of Justice promised an investigation
into the case, but after several weeks' delay, no an-
liwer was given. The French Minister thereupon
presented new and energetic demands, and in reply
to them the Mexican Government intimated that the
judgment of the Tribunal of Orizaba was maintained.
An article in the Pays, headed " A Sign of the
Times," discusses the Sixmile-bridge verdict, which
it regards as symptomatic of a general revival of re-
ligious discord, and of an aggressive movement on the
part of Roman Catholics throughout Europe. Of
the verdict itself the Pays says :
" Whatever may be the result of the trial at the
Ennis assizes, the historical fact will not the less remain
that a coroner's jury of 18 Irish Catholics has been found,
in the age in which we live, capable of accusing eight
soldiers of murder, kn owing them all the time to be innocent,
solely because they were Englishmen and Protestants.
Thus, in the eyes of Irish Catholics Protestants are not
Christians, and Englishmen are not men. Neither
equity or humanity is due to them. Everything is
legitimate against them. To send them to an unjust
death is to do God a service.":
In thus admitting the barbarous and frightful in-
justice of a verdict deliberately given in the teeth of
ail the evidence, the Pays but echoes the opinions ex-
pressed by almost all the French press.