The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-03 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Moniteur of Tuesday.)
The official part contains a report to the King,
from the Minister of Marine (Admiral de Rigny),
on the importance of steam-boats, which, says the
report, are now become an indispensable part of the
military marine; and it is therefore necessary that
measures should be adopted to derive the greatest
possible advantage from them.
The ordinary mode of navigation and that by
steam, though resembling each other on some points,
such as both requiring a knowledge of the sett and
its effects, are, however, in many respects different.
In steam-vessels going to sea, the sails are mere ac-
cessaries to be used in favourable circumstances ;
but they are chiefly moved by machinery, which
requires that those who are employed in managing
it should be thoroughly acquainted with it. At
present there are but few steam-boats in France fit
for sea service, consequently there are but insuffi-
cient opportunities for persons to learn the use and
management of the machinery. The Minister, to
make up for the defect, proposes the organization
of a special company of marine workmen attached
to the service of the steam-boats, The Minister
proposes that there shall at first be thirty steam-
boats, as fixed in the preceding budget of 1831.
At present there are only seven such vessels in the
ports of France, so that one company of marine
workmen will suffice for the moment.

This report is followed by an ordinance, embody-
ing the plan of the Minister.

(From the National of Tuesday.)
PARTS, MAY 30.—We invite our readers to reflect
on the letter of Lord Ponsonby to the Belgic Con-
gress. We do not expect to see the Ministry con-
tradict the audacious assertion of Lerd Ponsonby,
that France is ready to league with the German
Confederation to crush the Belgians, if they will not
submit to the conditions imposed on them with re-
spect to the cession of Luxemburg. It will be for
France to give this contradiction, if it were possible
that our Government had contracted the infamous
engagements of which Lord Ponsonby speaks ; and
that any attempt can have been made to render our
arms for the second time accomplices of the liber-
ticide designs of the Holy Alliance.

(From the Alfessager des Chambres of Wednesday.)
....

TOULON, MAY 23.—Le Genie brig, Captain
Caner, suddenly sailed yesterday on a secret mis-
sion. It is said, but this report needs confirmation,
that it is gone to an Italian port, the name of which
is not stated, and in which it is stated the Syrene
is detained. This frigate, which was bound to Lis-
bon, was driven out of its course by bad weather,
and obliged to put into the port in question; it is
added that it is detained by the Austrian troops that
occupy that port.
TitioNvILLE, MAY 28,—The Prince of Saxe
Weimar, Governor of Luxemburg, passed through
this town this morning on his way to Treves.
Prince William, son of the King of Prussia, arrived
at 'Freres on the 26th of May to review the troops.
His Royal Highness intends to visit afterwards
Sarrelouis and Sarrebruck.

(From the Message,. des Chambres.)

Extract of a private letter from Warsaw :-" One
can hardly imagine the desolate arid frightful aspect
of the whole country through which the Russians
have passed. You may sometimes travel two or
three miles without finding a single house which
has not either been burned or dilapidated from top
to bottom, and this dilapidation has been effected
with extraordinary care and research. We lately
went to the head-quarters, which were at a beautiful
country house at Ruda, eight leagues from Warsaw.
You can hardly figure to yourself how every thing
has been destroyed ; not only have all the windows
been broken, the doors cut to pieces with hatchets,
but all the furniture is injured; the strings of a
harpsichord were broken, and were strewed about
the gardens. The mattresses were torn to piece,
and the horse-hair thrown out of the windows.-
There was a small library ; during all the time the
generous Russians lived in the house, they would
not allow any wool to be used on the fire; they
burned nothing but hooks, and as they could not
burn all of them, some were thrown into the little
river which crosses the garden. These details
ate of little importance, but I give them in order
to afford an idea of the manner in which these
troops conduct themselves. These past circum-
stances, however, are nothing compared to the
horrors which are now perpetrated every instant.
There are no massacres, it is tree, they being
forbidden, but individually the soldiers commit great
atrocities ; neither women nor children are spared.
One woman had her breast cut off, in order, as was
said, that she might not suckle another revolutionist,
old men have had their eyes put out. All the
springs have been poisoned; wherever there is a
pond or a well, arms and legs are found, or dead
bodies entire. Dreadful as this is, we are told that'
this is nothing compared with what takes place in
Lithuania and Samogitia. The revolution there has
assumed a desperate character. The patriots there
know that they have nothing to hope, and tin y are
therefore resolved to conquer or perish. The Rus-
sians, of course, are the more furious; they carry fire
and blood every where. They pursue the wretched
people to their houses, which they set on fire, and
receive those who attempt to escape from it with
the point of the bayonet. In short, it is impossible
to form an idea of all the horrors which are com-
mitted, and yet all Europe contemplates with calm-
ness these scenes of the extermination of a people
whose existence and independence are so intimately
connected with those of the whole of Central and
Western Europe."
(From the Precurseur de Lyons.)
BEAUCAIRE (SOUTH OF FRANC:O, MAY 24.-It
is necessary I should describe to you some occur-
rences of which different versions may go forth.
Yesterday, at Tarascon, the fete-day in this town,
the patriots wished to distinguish themselves by
erecting a tree of liberty on the promenade, and in
spite of the refusal of sanction by the authorities,
who determined to oppose it. A battalion of the
line, and many squadrons of hussars, were called
out. The Mayor, surrounded by the paraphernalia
of office, made the requisite summonses for pulling
down the tree, and dispersing the assemblage of the
people. The troops, however, refused to proceed
to extremities, and declared that they could not fire
upon people who were only citizens, exclaiming,
"‘ Long live Liberty," " Long live Louis Philip."
Some of the soldiers fraternized with the people,
released a few prisoners, and thus terminated the day.
During this scene the Chasseurs, notwithstanding
the example of the line, remained immovable, caus-
ing some inquietude to the patriots, lest they should
harbour opposite opinions ; but a Sub-Lieutenant,
throwing himself before the squadron with which
the Captain wished to charge the people, cried out
to the Chasseurs, " Long live Liberty," and in-
stantly the latter made common cause with the
people, and proved to them that they were not
Carlists.
But this opinion of their being such had been so
well spread, that in theb evening 400 or 500 young
Carlists Caine to a ub c-house behind the barracks
with two white flags, and invited the Chasseurs to
second them in their
attemptp pt
to pull down the tree
of liberty. Unfortunately
sfor.s them,theThe t Cr h aesds e uit;es
were Liberals and Phil'
public-house with cudgels, smashed everyso m thin,
took 150 prisoners, who were more or less
wounded
by the sticks, eight or ten only having got sabre or
lance cuts; two guns were seized, ten pistols, a
quantity of cartridges, and several poignards. This
affair is referred to the tribunals.
This morning the squadrons wished to do justice
to their Carlist Captain!: to four of them arid the
two commanders they signified that they should no
longer belong to their corps, and that they should
In t again enter their barracks.
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London, one month, paper, 2.5f'. 15c. • money; 2.5 f. 15c.; three
months, paper, 25f.; money 25E-Cour: Authentique.