The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-21 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

The Paris Papers of Monday reached our
Office last night. It is reported that the educa-
tion of the Duke de Bordeaux will be confided
to the Minister for Foreign. Affairs, the Baron de
Dainas. Governor, however, will not be
appointed till the young Duke completes his
seventh year. We regret to learn that Lord
Granville has had a fall from his horse, by which
he has been confined to his hotel since the acci-
dent. The contusions, however, are not serious.
Spain continues in the same distracted state in
which that unhappy kingdom has so long
been. General Lascerna has joined the vio-
lent party, and by their influence has" been
able to remain in Madrid in spite of his old
enemy, Pezuela, who belongs to what is called
the moderate party. The influence of the latter,
however, is not on the decline. M. Zea Ber-
mudez is reghrded as. their head, and by his
orders or permission the amnesty of the king of
Portugal has been copied at full length into the
Madrid Gazette. On the other hand, strong and
successful efforts are making for the restoration
of the Inquisition. The Council of Castile, to
whom Ferdinand re►erred the consideration
of that subject, reported decidedly in its fa.
your. Unless the Council of Ministers should
think otherwise, and be resolved to withstand the
powerful party with which they will • have a
struggle, nothing can prevent the re-establishment
of the Holy Office in all the" plenitude of its au-
thority. It has been ascertained that the Apostolic
Junta were the authors of the disorders of the
16th of June. Two Canons, in their service,
were employed to get up the sham plot for the
poisoning of the Royalist volunteers. These men
have hitherto eluded the vigilance of the police, but
they are actively pursued. The ramifications of the
conspiracy extended to every province in the king-
dom. If the attempt had not failed in the capi-
tal, hands of armed partisans would have made
their appearance in every quarter, and the work of
extermination. would have been simultaneously
commenced over the whole face of the country.
The Government of Ferdinand VII. isnotthe worst
possible. The pure Um:cos regard him as little
better than a negro. The news from Greece is
singularly contradictory. Yesterday the patriots
were represented to be every where triumphant.
To-day they are on the verge of destruction. The
spirit of exaggeration prevails to a greater extent
with respect to the events of this struggle than
we ever remember before to have witnessed.—
Ibrahim Pacha is said to have advanced some
distance into the Morea, and to have defeated a
body of 1,200 Greeks, who were entrenched
10 or 11 leagues to the north of Modon. The
loss of the-Egyptians is admitted to have been
very severe. This is the story told by the Aus-
trian Observer. According to another German
Paper, a fresh divisio❑ of 5,000 Egyptians bad
arrived at Candia from Alexandria. The recall
of Colocotroni had revived the dissensions, which
it was intended to extinguish, and that military
chief, in violation of his oath of obedience, had
seized on the supreme authority, and put to death
the President Conduriotis, and the late Minister
of War, Celetti. These accounts are much too
extravagant to be credible. We hope they ure
utterly without foundation.

[NEW TIMES.]

We received last night the French papers of
Monday, with the Evening paper dated Tuesday.
The Etoile contains an article from the Austrian
Observer, dated Vienna, the Bth instant, which
states, on the authority of letters from Smyrna of
the 17th June, that fresh advantages had been,
gained over the Greeks by the Egyptian Army in
the Morea ; Ibrahim Paella having advanced with
8,000 men, had attacked a body of Greeks, chiefly
Moreats, to the number of 1,700, entrenched in a
position to the north of ll4odon, and having sur.
rounded them, they were destroyed after a des-
perate resistance. The Allgemeirze Zeitung of the
14th July also gives news unfavourable to- the
Greeks. The Journal des Debuts has a letter
from Madrid, of the 7th inst., which describes
the perilous and disturbed state of Spain, and
the manner in which the town of Malaga had
been saved from imminent danger from a plot
(prepared at Madrid, as it is asserted) among
the Royalist Volunteers, of whom a battalion had
been in consequence disarmed ; and many persons
in the town engaged in the conspiracy had made
their escape, while others had been arrested.

[THE TIMES.]
.From a report of what passed at a recent Meet.
ing, of Irish Catholics, we see with regret that
Mr. O'Connell has been re-assuming some of his
(we had hoped by this time to consider them)
cast-off habits, of loose and unseemly vulgarity
with regard. to the people of England. What
business has any man who aims at the reputation
of prosecuting, great and useful measures by
liberal and honest means, to hold up the pro.
ceedings connectwi with that wretch Titus
Oates, as affordiug.a specimen of the present En-
glish character ? If Mr. O'Connell were a per.
son who always reflected ere he spoke, he would
be aware that sneers against national or party
prejudice, founded on the transactions of the

16th and 17th centuries, might be retaliated
with no small effect upon bodies of men as well
as individuals, on both sides of the Catholic
question. If it be set‘ down as proof of illibe-
rality in Protestant fanatics of the present day,
that they admit no improvement in the tenets,
habits, or general character of Popery, since
those times when the members of that communion
had, under Mary of intolerant and bloody
memory, filled the.' best houses of the king-
dom with mourning, and the heart of the Bri-
tish nation with horror at her name—if, we
say, the imputation of a similar mind to
the Professors of Popery, now in the nineteenth
century, be evidence of' an untaught and
unchristian spirit, how much purer is the taste of
him ,who, in characterizing the English nation at
this moment,selects for his materials the mad and
disjointed history of Titus Oates I' Mr. O'Con-
nell has no part to perform like that of an idle
declaimer; he has a real duty—a delicate hand :
his motto ought to be " Discretion." Ile ought
to have more judgment, if not better feelings,
than to raise a cry against England generally ;
England ! where Catholic Emancipation counts
:whole legions of ardent and enlightened friends.
There is no common sense in this tawdry and un-
mannerly invective. The Learned Gentleman is
on a wrong tack ; and if he disregards the signal
gun, we warn bin, that under his careless pilotage
the ship will not make the harbour.