The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-15 00:00:00

nantly refused by the Queen's General, who would
hear of nothing but a surrender at discretion. It
happened, however, unfortunately for the cause for
which the Christina scribes are so unscrupulously
• inventive, that the safe-conduct on which Don
Sebastian meant to rely, was one which his sword
and not his pen was to achieve, and his sword
has achieved it in a manner which must make the
Church-plundering Government of Madrid tremble for
the consequences. The delay of the expeditionary
force at Barbastro is now satisfactorily accounted for.
Don Sebastian, who since his appointment of Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Carlist armies, has displayed
uncommon energy and enterprise, tempered with sound
discretion, feared not, as the event has shown, to meet
the forces of Oraa in the open field; but he judiciously
waited the arrival on the left bank of the river of those
Catalonian bands of insurgents with whom he intended
to form a junction. The moment he was apprised of
their arrival he marched, overthrew with dreadful
slaughter the army commanded by Oraa, consisting of
the troops lately under the command of Iribarren, united
with those of Buerens, and then, unopposed by the
Baron de Meer, crossed with bag and baggage the Cinca
near Estedella, where it is broad and rapid, afterits con-
fluence with the rivers Eserra and Ivasena. Let it be ob-
served that the Baron de Meer was stated to have posses-
sion of Estedella for the purpose of opposing the passage,
and yet we find he made no attempt to oppose it. The
reason given in the French telegraphic dispatch is,
that he did not reach Pons in time. We suppose
Fons is the place meant, which is a few miles to the
south of Estedella, for Pons is a town of Catalonia,
some fifty miles more to the east. If then the Baron
de Mecr had been in position acEstedella, his move-
ment upon Fons must have been for the purpose of
getting out of the way of the Carlist expedition, in-
stead of opposing it ; but we do not believe he had
been in possession of Estedella at all, even when he
was represented " in watchful charge of the left bank
of the river." It is more likely that he had advanced
from IVlonzon, on the left bank of the river about ten
miles south of Barbastro, towards Fons, and then
found that if he advanced further he would have had
to encounter the Catalonian bands, who, we presume,
were drawn up in that quarter to cover the passage.
This is the way we account for the inaction, or rather
the retreat of this General (for it appears he has re-
trograded as far south as Lerida), though we ob-
serve that the Christino writers, as is usual, charge
him with treachery to the Queen's cause. Before the
Carlist expeditionary force reached Ager, between
Tremp and Balaguer, where the last accounts, up to
the moment at which we now write, left it, it had
to cross the river Ribagorzana, which separates the
province of Arragon from that of Catalonia. The
immediate result of passing the Cinca is stated to have
been the increase of the expeditionary force, by a
junction with 10,000 Catalonian insurgents. Sup-
posing that Don Sebastian had only 15,000 men with
him., when he passed the Cinca his force was augmented
to 25,000 by that movement, while the ineffectual
attempt by Oraa to prevent it, cost the Queen more
than 2,000 of her best men, including, the unfortunate
remnant of the French Foreign Legion, which was
dreadfully cut up in the battle of Huesca, and now,
according to the French Paper La Charte, is " both
morally and physically destroyed," its brave commander
having suffered the fate of Irribarren in endeavouring to
retrieve the fortunes of the day. Why has Oraa, in-
stead of following and observing the march of the
Carlists, retreated to Murzen, while the Baron
de Meer has fled to Lerida, which is between 30
and 40 miles south of Agcr ? Why did not those
Generals attempt to harass the expedition in crossing
the river Segre, which it must do before it can pene-
trate further into Catalonia ? This aspect of affairs,
it must be confessed, looks very bed for the Queen's
cause. We have not yet heard of a junction between
the Infante's forces and those under the indefatigable
chief Cabrera, who, according to the last accounts,
was approaching Mesquirenza on the Ebro from
Valeacia. Cabrera's troops will augment the In-
fante's force by 7,000 or 8,000 men, whom that
chief has already made familiar with victory. But
what has become of Espartero all this time, while
the avalanche of mountain war is preparing to descend
upon Madrid ? By the last accounts he had marched
from Tafella, not towards Aragon, but upon Larraga,
which is in the opposite direction. The grand mistake
of Espartero is that which the glorious triumvirate
Palmerston, Wylde, and Evans induced him to
commit, in allowing himself to be transported with his
whole army from Bilboa to St. Sebastian, to help to
retrieve Evans's disaster, thus leaving the road to
Catalonia and the Ebro open to Don Sebastian.—
Morning Herald.

MURDER.—On the night of Sunday last, about
nine o'clock, the neighbourhood of Clipstone, near Mansfield,
in this county, was made the scene of the most barbarous mur-
der. The unfortunate victim was John M'Neal, a Scotch
drover, in the habit of frequenting the neighbourhood. It ap-
pears that three men, William Smith, John Smith, and Mark
Tissington, who had been drinking at the Dog and Duck,
until a short time before the perpetration of the murder, met
tho4leceased about five hundred yards from the public-house.
He was in a field, sitting by a fire of twitch weeds, &c. He
was immediately attacked by William Smith, who took from
him his stick, and beat him about the head with it in a most
dreadful manner. Six severe wounds were inflicted upon his
head. His arms and legs were beaten to such an extreme, as
to be wholly useless. One of his ribs was broken in three
places, and his whole body was a mere mass of bruises and
laceration. At the inquisition of the Coroner, which was
held on the morning of Tuesday, a verdict of Wilful Murder
was returned against William Smith, and a warrant issued for
his commitment. lie is now lodged in the county gaol, to
take his trial at the assizes.—Nottingham Review.

The officers of the Scots Greys are about to present
a handsome silver cup and cover, as a mark of their respect
and regard, to Mr. Hewitt, late a sergeant in that distin-
guished corps. In one of the brilliant charges of his regi-
ment, at the battle of Waterloo, Sergeant Hewitt made a dash
at the standard-bearer of the 45th regiment of French infan-
try, whom, together with a sergeant who advanced to his suc-
cour, he put hors de combat, and carried off his eagle. The
18th instant, the anniversary of the battle in which he per-
formed this heroic achievement, is the day fitly chosen for the
presentation of the well-merited tribute to the gallant soldier,
Who has since been promoted to an ensigncy in a foot
regiment.

The keepers of coffee houses, coffee shops, and
public houses, are greatly annoyed by vagabonds who, after
calling for refreshments, pretend to fall asleep, and suddenly
start up after a little while and declare that they have been
robbed. In some cases the landlords, anxious to shun the
possible effect of misrepresntations before police Magistrates,
the cars of many of whom are open to complaints against
persons who keep houses of public accommodation, have given
money to escape the threatened difficulty ; while in others the
knaves have been foiled by the determined resistance of those
who have been subjected to the annoyance. In the city of
London things of this kind are better managed than elsewhere.

The protection afforded by the luxuriant foliage of
the oak of Charles 11. in the forest of Boscobel, has hitherto
been commemorated in this town by the suspension of large
boughs of oak over door-ways and sign-posts, and by the
wearing of gilt oak-sprigs and oak-apples by the Corporation
charity-boys and poor freemen, and at the annual procession on
the 29th of May. But our woods this year have supplied
neither apple, sprig, nor bough—not a solitary oak being in
leaf. Nevertheless, the boys appeared as usual with what
certainly seemed to be an oak sprig—with well-expanded leaves
and goodly-sized apples. Upon closer inspection the pheno-
menon turned out to be ivy leaves and small potatoes.—
Northampton Mercury.

The Animals' Friend Society, among several of its
cases last week, brought forward one which elicited general
sympathy towards an ass; the poor animal having lost its hoof
by the pressure of a cart wheel ; and a boy, named John Gri-
feen, was beating it on its sores till the stick was covered with
blood. The boy said he was obliged to beat it as it had only
three legs to go on,_. and his parents were ill, and depended on
him for support. Mr. Jeremy, the magistrate, told him that
that made his offence the greater; but, in consideration of
his parents, he only fined him ss. and costs, with a month to
pay it in.
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On Saturday night last, about half-past eight
o'clock, during a heavy squall, the life of a boy was saved by
a sailor, named William Brown, belonging to the collier
brig Ford, lying at the Ropery light, below Greenwich, who
happened to be on board of the Water Witch at the time the
lad, while passing a boat astern of another vessel lying in the
tier above, over-reached himself and fell out of the ship into the
river, with the painter in his hand. The tide was running
down very strong, and the wind blowing hard down the reach,
when Brown, the seaman, observing the perilous situation of
the lad, who was drifting with the rope in his hand, apparently
quite exhausted, sprangfrom the Water Witch into the river,
and succeeded in saving the boy, who was taken on board the
Water Witch in an apparently lifeless state. By the perse-
vering exertions of Brown and others he soon recovered from
the effects of his immersion in the water, and is now doing
well. The captains of several vessels, who noticed the intre-
pidity and courage of William Brown, the seaman intend re-
commending him to the notice of the Royal Humane Society,
who will, no doubt, appreciate his exertions in saving the life
of a fellow-creature.