The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-17 00:00:00

Till,' SUN, LONDON. TUli-SDAY, DECEMBER 17,139.

i to their tyranny, they have continually sought to
revive national jealousies that they might impel the
people into a career of war and murder. They
have at one and the same time enConrag,ed the
insolence of Russia and the continuance of the war
in the Peninsula, and are chiefly to blame for the
necessity which now exists to keep up a more ex-
tensive Navy than ever was before maintained in
Peace. Their whole foreign policy, since they have
been in opposition, has tended to sow strife between
nations, and stir up the enemies of Britain.
The aristocratic party, of which the writer in
Blackwood is a partizan, quartered its sons and
nephews and bastards and butlers' sons on the
Nary till the national resources which ought to be
applied to the public defence were devoured to
maintain the spawn of aristocratic corruption. The
democratic wisdom which would have prevented that
and which essayed to remedy it, was sneered at by
aristocratic writers. Extravagance was written
into fashion ; the nation was burdened with taxes
to support it ; and wide-spread discontent, except
amongst those who live on taxes, is the conse-
quence. Compared to the actual consequences of
aristocratic selfishness, the consequences of " de-
mocratic wisdom," even admitting the fallacies of
Blackwood, are full of social benefit.

The whole article, which is puffed off by the
Tory scribes as " fraught with statistical statements
of the highest importance, which prove the folly
and ruinous tendency of that line of
policy which
has been pursued, of late years, by
the Govern-
ment," contains a great number of fallacies similar
to that we have exposed. We shall not travel further
into it, this splinter being a fair specimen of the
whole block. In fact it is the part on which the
ignorant writer most prides himself. In the bulk
of his remarks he agrees with Mr. Sheriff A msoN,
whose speech at a late meeting, to promote emi-
gration, furnishes the staple of most of his fallacies.

By the Iberia steamer, which arrived at Falmouth
on Sunday, from the Mediterranean, we have re-
ceived Lisbon papers of the 10th inst. The new
Ministry had announced that henceforth all persons
in the employ of the Government would receive
their salaries regularly at. the end of every month.
This notification, which appeared in the Diario
of the 7th, gave, of course, unbounded satisfaction
to the officials of every grade, who were loud in their
praises of a policy embodying t heir sublimest concep-
tions of patriotism. Nothing had been determined re-
specting the claims of the national creditors, and it
was supposed that with the best intentions it would
be impossible for the Government to provide the
requisite funds for paying the dividends. In the
internal administration of the kingdom economy has
been carried as far as possible ; the expenses of the
Court are a mere trifle ; but such is the wretched
state of the country, induced in a great measure
by ruinous fiscal regulations and the fetters
imposed upon commerce, that the coffers of the
Finance Minister never contain as much surplus
ca►sh as would defray his own salary for a month in
advance. As respects the differences with England,
we hare pleasure in observing that the new Minis-
try condemn in lobo the conduct of their predeces-
sors, and have already expressed themselves desirous
of renewing the friendly relations which so long sub-
sisted between the British and Portuguese nations.
The weather has been exceedingly stormy in the
Mediterranean. We regret to have to state that
the English brig Clondoline, from Newfoundland,
with a cargo of fish, bound to the port of Figueira,
was totally lost on the 3d inst., on the coast about
eight miles south of Figueira. The master and
crew were fortunately saved. The. Cleopatra
steamer, from London bound for Bombay, was
forced to put into Lisbon on the morning of the
10th, having lost her foremast, and received other
severe damages, the repairing of which was ex-
pected to delay her for some days.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have
..all been
received.' The Moniteur contains the following
announcement of the receipt of official intelligence
from Africa :

The Government received yesterday despatches from
Algiers of the 7th instant. No important event had
occurred in the province of Algiers since the last ac-
counts from the Marshal. The Arabs" continued to
make partial incursions in the plain, and bands of Had-
joutes and horsemen belonging to different Kalifas of
Abd-el-Kader attempted to carry off cattle in various
directions. They had, however, nearly everywhere
failed, and been vigorously repulsed by the troops
charged with the defence of the camps. In the different
encounters numbers of Arabs were killed, and several
horses were taken from them by our soldiers.
The concentration of our troops continues along
the line of the Chin. The works of defence of the
town of Belidah are carried on with all possible activity.
The dike constructed for the purpose of supplying the
Casbah with water at all times has been completed, and
the victualling of the town is now secured.
The Arabs incessantly harassed our soldiers in
their movements round Belidah. The Kabyles, and
after them the regular troops of the Kalifa of Miliani,
posted themselves in the ravines, from whence they kept
up a constant fire against our posts. We have had seve-
ral killed and wounded. According to the reports of
General Duvivisr, the enemy suffered a considerable
loss.

The packets from Bona and Oran not having ar-
rived in Algiers when the mail left, no intelligence had
arrived from those provinces.
In the Toulonnais of the 11th instant we find
correspondence from Algiers, dated the 7th, which
represents the state of French Africa as exceedingly
critical. ABD-EL-KADER had issued a proclama-
tion, setting forth that on the first day of the Beiram
(the 11th instant) he would offer up prayers in the
great Mosque of Algiers. This created a great
panic in that city, the Christian inhabitants of
which expected to be massacred. Marshal VAL-
LEE caused sentries to be stationed at all the gates,
and no person to be allowed to enter without being
searched. The native inhabitants were forbidden
to assemble in any number in the streets, or to congre-
gate at private houses, and under no circumstances to
be found out of their own houses after nine o'clock at
night. The Hebrews were treated by the Marshal in
the same way as the Moors, though they had pea-
tionedto form themselves into a militia company to de-
fend the town. ABD-EL-KADER was himself en-
camped near Medeah, from whence he threatened to
march upon Algiers at the head of an army of 6,000
cavalry, 10,000 infantry, and 20 pieces of cannon,
In anticipation of such an attack, the Marshal had
ordered the troops at the outposts to fall back on
the city, and all the fortified points except Belidah
and Bouffarick, to be evacuated. The next dis-
patches:from Algiers may be expected to bring im-
portant news from the Regency.
r
The presence of the young Duke of BOR-
DEAUX, at the Court of Rome is giving the most
serious uneasies
des Debuts
totheof Sundaye French
Government.
The Journal
has a long
article on the subject, in which the right of France
ns
to insist on the expulsion of the DUKE from the
Papal States is intimated. Since the DUKE'S re-
ception by the POPE the salons of the French
Ambassador have been deserted, while the Palace
of the young Pretender is crowded with noble
visitors, The young DUKE is exceedingly popu-
lar among all classes, less on account of his rank
and family, than his urbanity, and the elegant ac-
complishments of his mind.
Accounts from Saragossa of the 9th announce that
numbers of Carl:sts deserted Cabrera's ranks, and that
an entire company, consisting of 101 men, with its
officers, had lately repaired to Mas de las Matas, and
made their submission to General Espartero. Accord-
ing to a letter from Vinaroz of the 29th ult., eight gib-
bets were erected at Morella on the 27th, to hang as
many Carlist chiefs whom Cabrera had caused to be
arrested, charged with having entered into negotiations
with the Christino Generals. Cabrera had issued a
retaliatory decree for expelling from within the Carlist
lines all individuals who had sons or relatives serving in
the Queen's army ; and providing, moreover, that the
nearest relative of any person joining hereafter the
Christino troops should be shot.
Suspecting the Governor of Cantavieja to be plotting
' with the Christinos, he ordered that officer to be shot ;