The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA V; DECEMBER 9. 1,539.

the following chapters of the second section of the
war budget (Algeria), viz. :—Staff, 187,0001.
pay and maintenance of the troops, 11,403,0001. ;
clothing and encampment, 2,700,0001. ; military
beds, 160,0001. ; general transports, 1,000,000 f. ;
general remount, 20,100,000 f. ; harness, 200,00 W.;
forage, 1,537,000 i. ; materiel for the artillery,
800,000 f. ; materiel for the engineers, 200,000 f. ;
and secret expenses, 200,000 f.
The Journal des Debats states that the success of
the Arabs in their late irruption into French Africa
has been greatly exaggerated. This statement, resting
only on the credit •f that journal was not believed
in Paris. It was even supposed from the non-
appearance of any official dispatch during the whole
of Friday and Saturday, that the Government had
received unfavourable news from Algiers which it
had deemed it prudent to suppress for the present.
M. B. SA RRA NS, jun., has just published a pam-
phlet entitled " Decline of Great Britain," a chapter
from which, on the commercial and political usurpa-
tions of this country for the last two centuries, is
paraded in all the Paris journals of Saturday. This is
evidently done by
way of reprisal for the notice
taken in the English
Journals of the Bobadil
march of the Duke of ORLEANS to the Iron
Gates, which provoked the vengeance of the Einir
ABD-EL-KADER, who has already made France
pay dearly for such a wanton aggression upon his
territory. The exposure of M. B. SARRANS gives
us very little uneasiness. He has the testimony of
English politicians for our national decadence ever
since we had a Parliament and a free press, and
yet, wonderful to relate I. we have gone on, with
hardly any interruption, increasing in wealth,
in commerce, in the glories of arts and arms, in
Icivilization, and in population, from that compara-
tively remote pOrii94 to the present, Notwithstand
ing out' grumbling, and M, B. $4 444111; array
of what he calls f.lf.!ts, we believe that England was
never in a better condition to assert her claims to
the dignity of a first-rate State than she is at the
present moment, our rebellions at home and squab-
bles abroad notwithstanding.
Smyrna journals of the 19th ult., inclusive, rL.,
ceived in Paris, bring interesting news from Con-
stantinople and Alexandria, a summary of which
will be found in another column. The following
is the latest account of the disposition of the Eng-
lish and French fleets in the Mediterranean, with
the movements in that quarter :
Admiral Stopford, with the English fleet, were still
at Ourlac, with the exception of the Powerful and the
Ganges, which anchored in the port of Smyrna on the
15th ult. The Pembroke was to sail for Malta as soon
as the Hydra steamer had arrived. The Journal de
Smyrne adds that Admiral Stopford would soon sail
for Salamina, in order to be nearer Malta, where he
expected to winter, Admiral Lalande arrived on the
15th at Ourlac, with part of his squadron. The Hercule,
the Jupiter, the Trident, the brig Comets, with the
Pepin steamer, were at Smyrna, where the Triton and
the Bougainville had already arrived. The Diligente,
from Toulon, had joined Admiral Lalande, who was
expected also at Smyrna. " The French squadron,"
says the Journal de Smyrne, " bad well employed
its time in exercises and manoeuvres, f t was said that
the Belle Poule frigate, commanded by the Prince de
Joinviile, with the Papin steamer, were to return to
Toulon, and that the vessels which were to have rein-
forced Lalande's squadron will remain there, and form a
squadron of reserve." The Austrian squadron, under
I ar-Admiral Baron Bandicra, was still at smyrna,
The English @orvette Hazard, which joined Admiral
Stopford on the lath, 4t Qurlac, met on the 17th, a
Turkish steamer, coming from Akle*Pfiria. There was
nothing said in Egypt about the departure of the Tur-
kish fleet.
Lefiers from Rhodes, of the 15th, announce that
the new Gove:lnor of the island arrived there on the
28th of October. On the 12th a slight shock of an
earthquake was felt. The island was tranquil, and its
sanitory state satisfactory.
Letters from the Dardanelles, flitted the 18th ult.,
announce the arrival of the new Governor Haidar
Pacha, on the 13th, and the departure of the former
Governor on the 18th, for Constantinople.
Prince de Joinviile arrived on the 17th ult. at Con-
stantinople, from his tour to Trebisond.
The exportation of corn had been prohibited by the
Turkish Government.

The Portafoglio Maltese states, that on the 23d the
Turkish Ambassadors in Prussia and France, bath of
whom are named Nourri Effendi, were saluted on
leaving the lazaretto by 19 rounds, fired from the batte-
ries of the city. Tney departed in the French Levant
steamer, and the Ambassador to Prussia was to land ut
Leghorn, and proceed thence to his destination.

The same Journal announces, under date Tunis, the
10th ult., that a quantity of gunpowder on board the
Maltese vessel Crocifisso, anchored in the Goletta,

having- accidentally taken fire, tin- vessel was blow to
pieces, and nine of the crew and two of an adjoining
vessel were killed by the explosion.
There is no additional news of any importance
in the French Journals, except that the arrests of
suspected persons are more frequent than ever.
'The Spanish Ministry having been beaten in its mai.
tart' positions, has imagined a singular means to make
use of the array to advantage. It is against the elec-
tors that it now means to make the troops act, and the
next elections are to $ rye, it appears, as its field of
battle. The following paragraph is in the Eco del
Commercio (a Madrid Journal) of the 29th of Nov. :

" It is highly important for the Ministry to commence
the cL.,'.ctions of certain provinces such as Catalonia,
Andalusia, and New Castile. With this view it i 3
said to be ;;% intention to distribute the disposable
troops (though military operations must suffer from
it) in the districts of ea,7h of those provinces in which
public opinion is adverse to it!'
No event of any importance has occurred in Aragon.
The journals which are in the habit of extolling
the military genius of the Duke of Victory cannot purr

suade themselves to call his retrograde movement a
retreat. His intention, say they, is to restrict more
and more the lines of Cabrera. We do not understand
how this is to be done by removing to a greater distance
from the point to be attacked. However, the campaign
is certainly put off till the spring. Demoralisation and
desertion prevails in the army of Christina, The con-
fidence of the Royalists increases, and the Count de
Morella, almost without having fought, obtains all the
advantage that a great victory could have procured him.
—La Gazette du Havre,

Wu said yesterday that Marshal Soult intended to
send an aid-de-camp to Algiers i❑ order to enter into a
direct communication with Marshal Vallee. We learn
to-day that this aid-decamp set out for Algiers two days
ago.—Le Commerce.
130 URSE.—PARIS, SATURGAi, DEC. 7.

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The Sun, denies
colouring of the several counties, province, and
BePni°owLsiksii,f inTlEetTteirN(aiddAr
states, deserve every commendation.
the assertions of " A Friend to Polish TT
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greates a t
objection letter
hjee t
isohnortto, anduch
words
in proper
TessEedxEJEß, HALL.--M.
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as " falsehood," " I
that he Caused the disturbance at Exeter flail, and
that he is a Polish .Jew. Had M. Beniowski made
language, We might have inserted it, We have a
defy the coward," &c., and on that account chiefly
hAve declined publ;shing it.
prdrcsssed himself
We are, besides,
anxious to put an end to this unseemly controversy,
which every Pole must see only benefits Russia.
BII.OI3DICMAQ NEWSPAPE 4,_prother Jona,
than is a most indefatigable personage. He is ever
going ahead, and seems to delight in nothing so
much as in beating his venerable ancestor John 1
13pii.. !lc boasts that he has longer railroads,
longer canals, better snips, more freedom, and even Il'

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