The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-11 00:00:00

describe without the assistance of a diagram, but
which produces the same effect as if the diameter of
the off wheels was increased pro tempore, so as to
keep pace with their opposite wheels moving along
the inner curve • and partly by so constructing the
body of the carriage that, by means of a knuckle
joint, it is capable of being bent out of a straight
line, and of adapting itself to the curvature of the
rail.

We have seen Mr. COLES'S model carriage at
work, and were much pleased with its performance.
We are well aware that inventions which have stood
the test of examination, and have even done won-
ders on the table of an exhibition-room, have often
failed when an attempt has been made to reduce
them to practice on a large scale. But we feel
satisfied that such failures never occur in cases
where a sound principle is combined with sim-
plicity of construction. To this high merit we
think Mr. COLES may justly lay claim, and we
may add that we have little doubt of the general
adoption of his improvements. They will, if we
are not mistaken, soon compel their own adoption.

Were the lives of British subjects in Portugal
not placed in great peril by the rabid abuse of the
Government and people of this country, which fills
the columns of the Lisbon press, we should treat
with profound contempt the vile trash which will
be found in another part of The Sun, extracted
from the Procurador dos Povos and the Nacional.
Even as the question stands, we will not conde-
scend to reply to the calumnies of writers who are
indebted for their boasted nationality to British
protection. It is known to all the world, that were
England not as magnanimous as she is powerful,
the independence of Portugal would be as much
a recollection—a thing of the past—as the na-
tionality of Poland. As for our climate and our
soil, of which the Nacional has such a horror, we,
must confess that the one is not the most fertile,
nor the other the most genial in the world ; and
yet we ought to regard the defects of both with
peculiar complacency, seeing that we possibly owe
to them the non-invasion of Britain by the war-
like Septembrists of Lisbon. We do not, how-
ever, comprehend the wisdom of making us dis•
contented with Old England, especially as the Na-
cional is no friend to a scheme of emigration
from the banks of the Thames to those of the
Tagus. We can assure the Editor of the Nacirnal
that indifferent as is our climate and our soil, they
contribute to the support of a race who will not allow
the waters of the Tagus to be stained with the
blood of a British subject with impunity ; and as to
the threat of burning the effects of the embryo ban-
dit with the long name, so pompously set forth by
the Procurador dos Povos, we intimate in friendly
confidence to that Journal, that our merchants would
feel no sort of compunction were the example fol-
lowed by the whole kingdom of Portugal, as it would
create an active demand for an abundance of old
stock of which they would willingly get rid at any
price. The more burning there is of British goods,
provided they are paid for, the better for British
commerce. The Portuguese slave-traffickers are
welcome to revenge themselves after this fashion.

We publish a letter relative to the Chartists, and
to the riots at Dudley, signed " A Working
Jeweller," with regret, but our duty compels us.
We are bound to make known to our rulers, and
particularly to our Whig rulers, who must in the
long run rely on the people for political support,
the impression which their conduct makes on the
people ; and as we know that the sentiments of " A
Working Jeweller" are general amongst the work-
ing people, our duty compels us, though with
regret, for we have no wish to cast a slur on Sir
JOHN CAMPBELL, to make them public.

The news from the Spanish frontier, received
this morning, is more scanty than we anticipated.
The following telegraphic despatch appears in the
Moniteur of Monday, received along with the
other Paris Journals of that date :

" BAYONNE, SEPT. 8.
" THE GENERAL. COMMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY DIVISION

TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL.

" On the 6th 50 superior officers and other personages
belonging, to the Court of Don Carlos, and 60 subaltern
officers, a great number of ladies, and the Archbmeop of
Cuba, sought refuge it the Aldudes, in France; others arc
expected."
The Carlist organg announce that a reaction in

favour of Don Nit Los has already manifested
itself in the Basques. The Gazette de France
says that his partisans were never more. pow-
erful in Valencia, A rragon, and Castile
than they are at present, and that the war
is by no means at an end. In Galignani's Mes-
senger of Monday we find: the following extract
from a letter in support of these statements :
" We have received the following from a correspondent
on the frontiers of Navarre, dated the 6.h instant The
Guipuzcoans begin to repent of their proceedings, and ex-
claim treason. Ibero, who was always faithful to Don
Carlos, is gone to join him with three battalions. Ytur-
riaga, who bad entered into all the plans of Maroto, be-
cause he thought all the fueros were guaranteed, has re,
fused to pass over to the Christinos ; and as to those who

followed lturbe to the camp, they desert in armed groups
of twenty and thirty to join Don, Carlos in Navarre. The
Navarrese are very dissatisfied with the persons who sur-
round Don Carlos, and are convinced that the Ministers
and Father Cyril have aided Maruto in all his projects,
and it is feared that they will give way to some excesses
against them. Don Carlos has published an order enjoin-
ing all strangers residing in Navarre to take arms or quit
the kingdom immediately. The Infanta Don Sebastian, and
Generals Elio and Zariategui, arrived on the 4th at Tolosa.
Don Carlos is expected in the Valley of Ulzama."
Don CA rums merely holds out to make terms
with the Government. Before surrendering, he
wishes to know the conditions of the treaty which
France and England are prepared to guarantee in
his favour. The contest for the Crown is clearly
hopeless.
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There is no domestic news in the French Jour-
nals of Monday. The following paragraphs front
them contain all the news they bring of any in-

serest :

The Augsburg Gazette of the s:h announces the fo;

lowing from Vienna :—" The Russian Ambassador, YOU
Tatischeff, has received no iinstruetions empowering him to
take part in the Conferenck on the affairs of the East."
The Geuther of Bourdeaux states, that some detach-
ments of Carlists who gave themselves over to pillaging
the inhabitants, partizans of Dun Carlos, violated a con-
vent ot nuns and obliged them to leave their religious habi-
tations, and seek refuge in France; these unfortunate nuns
have arrived at Bayonne, where they experienced the
greatest hospitality.
‘We have the following letter from Algiers, dated 31st
August:—

Apartments arc fitting up with great splendour in the
imagnitieent Hotel of the Regency, whence it is inferred,
that the Prince will not put up this time at the Hotel of
the Government. It is reported that hi 3 Royal Highness
hat taken this resolution, that he may be the better able to
ascertai❑ the opinion of the Colonists respecting the
system followed by Marshal Valee.

" It' the reports which have been for some days in circu-
lation should be confirraed, great ameliorations are pro-
jected, and the colony will soon be in a prosperous condi-
tion. It is said, in fact, that the definitive occupation of
131(da and Koleah has:been-resolved on. You know that
bur troops have been encamped for this year past in the
environs of those twv places., which belong to us by the
treaty of the Tassia, but the Colonists have hitherto been
.prohibited from going to settle in them. It is thought
that prohibi+ion will be rev...ked during the visit of the
Duke of Orleans at Algiers."—Le Constitutionnel.
The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the sth says :—" Es-
Parteio, on visiting, on the 31st, the military hospital at
Bergara, ordered pecuniary relief to be given to all the
sick and wounded. All the Carlit ports on the Cantabrian
coast are in the hands of the Christinos.
Above 400 emigrants have crossed the frontier within
these few days."

VIENNA, Arc. 31.—We hear that the Aulic Council-
Von \Verner, Newman, and Hugel, will accompany
Prince Nletternich to Johannisburg, for which place his
H Highness intends at present to set out on the 9th of Sep.
/ember. It is believed that the Prince will not return to
r'Vienna till the latter end of October, and that Count
Figuelmont will conduct the important diplomatic nego-
ciations during his absence.

There have recently been some sad goings on in
Switzerland, particularly in the canton of Zurich,
arising out of the question of popular education.
The democratic party who were in possession of the
Executive Government, wished to establish a
system of national education in which no secta-
rian creed should be exclusively taught. The
priests took fire at this, and represented to the
peasantry that the Goverment sought to abolish
religion altogether. Unfortunately this charge re-
ceived a sort of confirmation from the subsequent
appointment of the celebrated Dr. STRAUSS, whose
" Life of Christ" has made such a stir in the re-
ligious world, to the Professorship of Theology.
Of the consequences of this act the French Go-
vernment received the following telegraphic account,
published in the Moniteur of Monday
" STRASBURG, SEPT. 8.
" THE PREFECT OF THE LOWER RHINE TO THE MINISTER