The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-02 00:00:00

NDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1841.

flesh-consuming fires on the altars. of Moloch !
An eye-witness of the execution relates that
when DARn.t,*s was brought to the foot of the
guillotine a conversation of some four minutes'
conversation took place between him and the
executioner, and that had he then consented to
make any revelations his life would have been
spared. If this be so DARMES was decapi-
tated, not because he attempted the King's
life, but because he declined to consign supposed
participators in his guilt to the block. His crime
was his fidelity to his wretched accomplices. His
silence, and not his treason, cost him his life.
Well, abandoned, hardened wretch as he was,
we would not have his blood, legally as it has
been- shed, upon our head or hands, for the
crown of France ! His guilt was undoubted, but
his trial by the Court of Peers was a mockery,
and a disgrace to a civilised country. Baron PAS-
QUIER, the President, more resembled in his
conduct during the trial a matador at a Spanish
bull-baiting, than a grave and impartial Judge
holding in his hands the balance in which was to
be weighed the fate of a fellow-creature. But
this is so akin to the whole system of trying pri-
soners in France, that it excites no surprise
among our Gallic neighbours. In England, the
presiding Judge is, de facto, counsel for the pri-
soner, and never suffers him either to be brow-
beaten or hurried into dangerous admissions by
the Crown prosecutor; in France, on the con-
trary, all the ingenuity of the Judge is exercised
to assist the prosecutor in entrapping the unfor-
tunate accused. There impartiality in a Judge
is rarely witnessed, and a leaning towards the pri-
soner never.

" A passenger on board one of the last steamers from Al
giers," says the Toulonnaise, " informs us that the Spanish
Government is sending troops into the Balearic islands, and
especially to Port Mahon. The garrisons of these islands are,
it is said, to be put on a war footing, cn the suggestion, as it is
supposed, of England, who is apprehensive of seeing Port
Mahon occupied, sooner cr later, by the French." The send-
ing of troops is confirmed by the Madrid papers.
A letter from Paris, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that
the King of the French had promised the northern courts that,
as soon as Espartero should have been declared Regent of
Spain, Don Caries should be liberated from his detention at
Bourges. The letter also states that efforts are making to
effect a matrimonial alliance between the Duke d'Aumale and
Queen Isabella, but that the northern courts will not consent
to her marrh•ge with a French prince, and desire that she
should espouse the eldest son of Don Carlos.
M. de Bellemare, the delegate of the French inhabitants of
La Plata, arrived on the 28th at Havre. He comes from Eng-
land, where he has been on account of the negotiations pending.
between the French and English Governments, in order to
offer their joint mediation to the republics of Buenos Ayres and
Monte Video.—Journal du Havre.

The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 27th, announces that
Jose Soroa, formerly Governor of Irun, under the Carlists, has
just been arrested at Bayonne, and lodged in the prison of that
town. A Spanish priest, whose influence is well known, has
also been arrested. It seems that the greatest vigilance is ex-
ercised with respect to all the Spaniards who go to Bayonne.
The Gazette du Dauphine, a leg.timist paper, published at.
Grenoble, informs us that an advocate, a notary, and a coun-
sellor, who were supposed to have been acquainted with the
letter of M. Simon Didier, previous to its publication, have
been summoned, - as well as the printer, to appear before the
examining judge, in order to be interrogated. The same paper
informs us that several advocates have likewise been sum-
moned.—Le Constituitonnel.