The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-12 00:00:00

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THE " TRUE SUN" IS NOW
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LONDON:
MONDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 12, 1838.

Brussels and Antwerp Papers of Saturday, just re-
ceived, confirm the account of the final settlement of
the Belgian and Dutch question, which will be found
in another column copied from the leading columns of
the Morning Post. According to the Moniteur
Beige, copies of the articles finally agreed upon have
been unofficially addressed to most of the European
Governments, in order to prepare them for the official
statement which is expected to appear in a few days.
The establishment of friendly relations between the
Courts of Brussels and the Hague will rid England
and France of a very troublesome office ; and by con-
solidating the moral power of Western Europe, raise
up a new barrier against the ambition of Russia.

Letters and papers from Madrid to the morning of
the 4th inst. have been received to-day. On the pre-
vious evening the capital was declared in a state of
siege, after the failure of a ridiculous attempt at an
insurrectionary movement, in which some powder was
harmlessly wasted, amid shouts of " Long live the
QUEEN ! and death to her Ministers I" To increase
the absurdity of this affair, General NARVAEZ has
quitted Madrid at the head of his troops, leaving to
General QUIROGA and the National Guards the task
of carrying martial law into effect. Our readers are
aware that the Government pretended to be informed
that an insurrection was to be attempted in the capital
on the night of the 28th ult., to guard against which
orders were addressed to NARVAEZ, commanding him
to see to the protection of the seat of Government.
General QUIROGA, who holds the office of Captain-
General of the Province, discredited the rumour alto-
gether, in consequence of which he was not consulted ;
and, as if to make the insult more stinging, a division
of NARVAEZ'S troops seized the gates without Qui-
ROGA'S knowledge, to the great alarm of the citizens.
The night -passed, however, without any disturbance,
and in the morning QUIROGA, having consulted the
officers of the National Guards, tendered his resigna-
tion. This was refused. NARVAEZ took fire at this,
and hastening to the Palace, offered to resign his com-
mand. The QUEEN, not well knowing what to do,
and willing to reconcile both Generals, dismissed the
War Minister. But this step did not satisfy
NARVAEZ. He saw, or fancied he saw, that he
was made the tool of DE FRIAS, himself little better
than an idiot—that the plot whiCh he had taken such
extraordinary caution to suppress only existed among
some creatures of the Cabmet--and worse than all,
that he was made the instrument of working his own
downfall whenever it might suit Ministers to dis-
pense with his services. He therefore insisted
on being suffered to leave the capital, and the
REGENT, justly offended with some of the ob-
servations which he dared to address to her, was
obliged to sign an order to the effect that the bad
state of his health made it necessary for him to re-
visit his paternal estate. In this order, NAR-
VAEZ was directed to yield the command of his
division to the officer next in rank to himself.
This is the second time since the commencement
of the civil war that NARVAEZ has been
dashed from the pinnacle of military power to its very
base. His acknowledged bravery and general good
fortune cannot get a-head of his impetuosity and bad
temper. Without a tithe of his ability, his fearless-
ness, or his high sense of honour, ESPARTERO still
contrives, by his imperturbability alone, to thwart
every effort of his more generous rival to deliver Spain
from the horrors of civil war.

The days of the DE FRIAS Cabinet are numbered.
It is impossible that any Ministry can support itself
against the load of popular odium incurred by the im-
becile DUKE and his colleagues.

Her Most Faithful Majesty the Queen of POR-
TUGAL has given birth to a Prince, to the great joy
of the Court and people of Lisbon. For an account
of this happy event, we refer to advices from Portugal,
in The Sun of to-day. Her MAJESTY was doing
well on the 4th---the date of the last arrivals.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and
Saturday have been received. They bring some in-
teresting news from Africa, which will be found in
another column.

The Iberia steamer has arrived at Falmouth, from
Gibraltar, bringing the Malta mail, with letters and
papers from India to the same dates as those received
a fortnight ago, via Marseilles. The contents are
consequently uninteresting, as far as political news are
concerned.

On the 29th of June a scion of the house of
TIMOUR was hanged at Delhi, for having brutally
murdered his wife because she refused to give up half
her jewels to his paramour. The poor woman was
young and beautiful, and eight months gone with
child. The wounds made by the ruffian's sword cut
her up, and the child fell at her feet I
A despatch frGyn the Hon. the Court of Directors
had been received it, India, removing the restrictions
on the system of purchasing out senior officers of the

army.
From Ceylon accounts have been received of the
voluntary manumission by a Kandian Ch; of of thirty-
nine slaves, and the acknowledgment mace of his
noble conduct by his Excellency the Governor, who
ordered a letter of thanks under the public seal to be
issued, and a gold medal to be presented as a me-
morial of it.

The vacancies in the Ceylon Supreme Court, occa-
sioned by the death of Sir W. ROUGH, had been
filled up for the present, as follows :—Mr. JEREMIE
to act as Chief Justice, Mr. STODDART as senior
Puisne Justice, and Mr. CARR, Queen's Council, as
second Puisne Justice.

One portion of the Press in this country must feel
DO small gratification at the progress they have made
in alienating a vast proportion of the Irish nation from
Great Britain, and in weakening the intimate alli-
ance which her Liberal Government formed, and has
for years maintained with France. The Autocrat of
all the Russias, who waits only for the occasion to
weaken the power of England, has nowhere such
useful allies as the writers who describe the Irish Ca-
tholics as demons and brutes, and their clergy as sur-
pliced ruffians, and who lose no opportunity of insult-
ing the French nation, in language the most coarse,
by reminding them of defeats, and contemptuously
challenging them again to try a contest with England.
Even the gentle Post breaks through all its ordinary
rules of politeness in attacking a people with whom we
have now been at peace for neatly a quarter of a cen-
tury. "It has been the fate of the British nation,
within the present century to drub the French very ex-
ceedingly," exclaims this model for the fashionable
world, and then, after similar insulting expressions,