The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

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dicate that the design is actually entertained of
extinguishing dissent, as well as checking the
growth of manufactures, by the Corn-law.

The Madrid Journals of the 4th inst. an-
nounce that the Government had made another
remittance of 15,000/. sterling to London, to de-
fray the outstanding claims of the British Auxi-
liary Legion.
The Castellant publishes the following despatch of the
Minister of Poreign Affairs, dated Dec. 2d :
" His Highness the Regent of the kingdom has been in-
formed that divers Portuguese intend coming to Spain for
the execution ofperfidious plans combined in certain crimi-
nal clubs. His Highness orders the Ministers of Foreign Af-
fairs and of the Home Department to instruct the authori-
ties on the Portuguese frontier, and those of Cadiz and of
Vigo, where the steamers from Lisbon arrive, to pay the
greatest attention in taking down the names, description
of persons, and circumstances of all Portuguese subjects
entering Spain, and to keep a watchful eye on their
movements and conduct, and to report the same to Go-
vernment without delay or omission."
Madrid Bourse, Dec. 4.-32 for cash, 324 sellers at
60 days.

The French Journals of Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday were received yesterday morning. On
Saturday the Advocates of QUENISSET and his
accomplices addressed the Court on behalf of
their respective clients. M. PAILLET, who de-
fended QUENISSET, contended that he was but
the dupe of others, and that his repent-
ance and revelations entitled him to the
merciful consideration of the Court. We
are quite of a contrary opinion. We have
watched the proceedings carefully, and are war-
ranted from the evidence in denouncing QUE-
NISSET as one of the greatest villains before the
Court. The intelligence displayed by him
during the trial; the tact with which he
assisted the Procureur-General in examining
the witnesses; the facility with which he
adopted that judicial hack, Baron PASQUIER'S
infamous method of brow-beating the accused,
show that QUENISSET is a person incapable of
being made the dupe of any party. If there was
a conspiracy, there cannot be the shadow of a
doubt that QUENISSET was at the bottom of it.
A Telegraphic despatch from Bayonne states
that M. DE SALVANDY, the French Minister
to the Court of Spain, entered the Spanish
territory on Wednesday. The REGENT had
given orders that he should he treated
with marked respect in all the towns through
which he passed. To all external appearances
Louis PHILIPPE and ESPARTERO are excellent
friends. This, however, is merely superficial.
M. Faramond, late French Consul at Campeachy, is
now at Havre, waiting to embark for Sydney, where lie
is to fill the same office.
The Phare des Pyrenees states that Dona Carlota, the
wife of Don Francis de Paula, passed the French fron-
tier on the sth instant, and was received on the Spanish
territory by General Iturbe and an escort of lancers, who
were to accompany her Royal Highness to Tolosa.
A letter from Geneva, 7th instant, in the Debats,
says—" With the exception of a few transitory alarms,
our town has been quiet ever since the evening of the
22d ult. Several strangers of obscure character, pointed
out to the authorities by the neighbouring States, have
been expelled. A strict watch is kept upon an associa-
tion of Mutualists, most of them foreigners, who have
formej themselves here. Whence the funds for paying
them, aid for meeting other expenses are drawn, is the
subject of vo•rious conjectures."
" A few weeks since, (says the Courrier du Bat
Rhin), a farmei of the arrondissement of Altkirch, in
the Bas Rhin, agreed to sell his daughter to another
farmer of a neighbouring village for I,ooof. and received
sf. to bind the bargain. The seller, however, repented
next day, and went to reclaim his child, whom he had
delivered over to the purchaser. The buyer, on the con-
trary, was content with his bargain, and has refused to
give her up. The farmer has commenced an action for
the recovery of his child."
Last week the' neighbours of Mainbert, a quarryman,
at Cambronne, in the Oise, having observed that his
house remained closed for ten days, without the appear-
ance of either himself or his wife, or their son, gave in-
formation to the authorities, who came and opened the
doors. The whole place was in disorder, and an odour
of putrefaction filled the house. The boy was found dead
on his bed, the wife in the same state on her own bed,
and her husband by her side, with half his skull carried
away by the discharge of a pistol, which lay near him.
On investigation it was evident that Mainbert, who had
previously shown symptoms of mental alienation, had
first strangled his wife and child, and then shot himself.
Count Mole, observes the Courrier Francais, was born
in 1780, so that he is now 61. M. Thiers was born in
1797, and is therefore 44.
The Semaphore of Marseilles has the following :—" As
several Paris Journals have stated that the Bill for the
railroad between Marseilles and the Rhone could not be
presented during the ensuing Session, the Chamber of
Commerce of Marseilles requested the Prefect to ascer-
tain the degree of confidence which ought to be placed in
this report. The Prefect hastened to comply, and has
received in answer a telegraphic dispatch, announcing
that the Bill for this railroad will be presented during
the Session, as well as that for the railroad between
Paris and.the Belgian frontier."
The town of Nancy has offered 500,000 f. towards the

formation of the Paris and Strasburg Railroad ; and
Chalons-sur-Marne has voted 200,000 f. for the same pur-
pose, provided the road is carried along the Valley of

the itarne.

A Toulon letter states that the French frigate Uranie,
on coming back from Bourbon, saved the crew of an
English vessel, the name of which is given as the Vibelia,
wrecked on the island of Magotta. The crew consisted
of 20 men.

An English sloop, Industry, of Barmouth, 48 tons,
was found, on the 19th ult., abandoned off Torbay, by a
French fishing-vessel of Fecamp, and has since been towed
into Boulogne by three fishing-boats.
The Levrette, Government schooner, has returned to
l'Orient for repairs. Whilst on her voyage to Marti-
nique she was caught in a storm, and broke her main-
mast, and was therefore compelled to return to port,
which, in her disabled state, she accomplished with great
difficulty, but without losing a man of her crew.
General Negrier, Governor of Constantina, has ad-
dressed a letter, dated 22d ult., to the Minister of War,
giving an account of the manner in which the festival of
El Aid Seguir, or the Lesser Festival, had been cele-
brated there. The General conceived it to be a good
occasion for giving the Arabs an opportunity of dis-_
playing their attachment to France, and accordingly he
went in solemn procession, attended by a great number of
officers and troops, and nearly the whole population, on
the morning of the 15th, to the heights of Coudiat Aty,
above the town. Salvos of cannon announced the march
of the cortege. A tent had been raised for himself and
the superior officers at a spot called Remsalla, or the
Prayer ; and detachments of the garrison kept a square
open space of about 1,000 feet on every side. Here the
Arabs commenced their usual equestrian evolutions, and
all the spectators declared that the festival was more
brilliant than in the days of the Turks. The Caid Ali,
chief of the Haractas, opened the evolutions, and among
the Arabs present were the Ammers-Cheragas, the Ouled
Abd-el-Nour, the Telegmas, the Seraouya, and some
from near Philippeville, all under their chiefs. The Ge-
neral says that the whole of the Coudiat Aty was quite
white, with the Arabs assembled on it in their burnous,
After the evolutions, the Arab horsemen all filed oft be-
fore the Governor, and it was evident that they took a
pleasure in showing their attachThent to the French
cause. The General is of opinion that this method of
showing that the French understand and sympathise
with the national sentiments of the Arabs will be pro-
ductive of great good.
A correspondent of the Toulounais at Algiers states
that an English Colonel is with Abd-el-Kader, and is
aiding him with his advice.
We give the following extract of a letter from Bey-
rout, which we find in the Semaphore of Marseilles, pro-
testing, at the same time, against the absurdities in the
first paragraph :—" We, who are on the spot, have the
most convincing proofs of all the British intrigues ; let
France be perfectly assured that it is the English who
have excited the Druses to arm, and have been the
cause of all the evils with which Syria has been afflicted
for nearly twelve months. Encouraged by the victory
of their brethren at Zahle, and indignant at the cruelties
of the Druses and the hypocrisy of the English, the in-
habitants of Castravan, Fetou, Geobeil, Batroun, and
Bacharre, have risen en masse. A corps of 16,000 men
has encamped on the borders of the Dog river, ready to
cross it, and at the same time a reinforcement of 10,000
men has entered Zahle. The evils already incurred are
immense, but those about to be created will be still more
disastrous, for this sanguinary conflict, according to
those who are acquainted with the feelings of the oppo-
nent parties, is only at its commencement."
Lord Burghersh has arrived at Berlin.
La Presse publishes a notice explaining M. de Lamar-
tine's motives for allowing himself to be proposed as a
candidate for the President's chair of the Chamber of
Deputies in these words :
" The following is the truth relative to the personal
situation of M. de Lamartine with respect to the Presi-
dency of the Chamber of Deputies. M. de Lamartine
did not aspire to the honours of the Chamber. The just
sentiment of his inexperience, the fear of serving
as an excuse for creating the slightest dissension
amongst the majority, of which he forms part, his
affectionate esteem for M. Sauzet, would have pre-
vented him from thinking of it. M. de Lamartine
received, fifteen days since, letters from some of
his political friends, who proposed to him to place him-
self as a candidate at the opening of the Session, and who
informed him of the favourable disposition of many
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of post, that he- did not wish to solicit the Presidency,
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Conservative journals declared
themselves in honourable
but significant terms, opposed to M. de Lamartine's ap-
pointment. The controversy became more animated.
In this state M. de Lamartine found the question on his