The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-17 00:00:00

TEMA SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17. 1841.

provoke no mirth among the members of the
Sacred College. It is no light affair to find the
Government of the most Catholic country in
Christendom charging the apostolic head:of the
Romisli Church with aiding and abetting
rebellion in the people, and insubordination and
crime in the clergy—with promoting anarchy
and schism, by withholding pastoral appoint-
ments rather than forego unjust pretensions to
ecclesiastical jurisdiction, incompatible with the
dignity and independence of the State—and with
an attempt to re-kindle the flames of civil war
among a Christian people. ESPARTERO veils his
charges under no diplomatic disguises capable of
being explained away by subsequent communi-
cations. He sees in the POPE an enemy to Spa-
nish liberty, civil and religious, and with all the
power with which the nation has invested him,
he hurls at him open defiance. He treats the pre-
tensions of the PoPE, as a temporal Prince, with
perfect scorn, not admitting his equality
with himself as Regent of Spain. This
decided course must bring the question at issue
between the two Courts to a speedy determina-
tion. To give effect to this manifesto, ESPAR-
TERO has, by a Royal Decree, suspended the
Papal power in Spain, and forbidden, under se-
vere penalties, the promulgation of any bull,
brief; or allocution addressed by the POPE to
any ecclesiastic within the dominions of her Ma-
jesty Queen IsAnEnna. It is this quarrel with
the POPE which encourages the friends of
CHRISTINA in their attempts to re-invest her with
the Regency. By a confederacy of Priests, Mo-
derados, and Carlists, acting under the auspices
of the Holy See, they are preparing to try
their hands at a counter revolution. France en-
courages them as much as she can, without abso-
lutely breaking with the Government at Madrid,
while Portugal seeks, by covert intrigues, which
she dare not avow, to convince the POPE of the
depth of her penitence for having so long grieved
the venerable heart of the triple-crowned " Ser-
vant of the servants of GOD." ESPARTERO has
a great and arduous part to perform, and he has
entered upon it with praiseworthy intrepidity.
We quote here, in justification of our character
of his able manifesto, the paragraph with which
it concludes:—

"As it was the Sovereign Pontiff who refused, as a
Prince, to recognize her Majesty as the legitimate heiress
of the throne of her ancestors, and also refused, in his
quality of spiritual father of the faithful, to supply the
-,wants of the Church in Spain, and, not content with this
prolonged resistance, raised his voice in the Consistory
to attack the supreme authority of the State, annul
its acts, and assert his superiority over one who does
not even acknowledge him as an equal, it is himself who
has set up a wall of separation between the two Courts,
and closed the door to All friendly relations and
every species of compromise. The violent allocution of
the Holy Father can only be regarded as a declaration
of war against Queen Isabella 11., against the safety of
the State, and against the Constitution. It is truly a
manifesto in favour of the conquered and expelled Pre-
tender ; it is a scandalous excitement to schism, discord,
disorder, and revolt. The Government of her Majesty
cannot, without a breach of loyalty and honour, be silent
under this enormous attempt. It cannot refrain from
employing for its represz,ion all the just means placed in
its hands by reason, propriety, the discipline of the
Church, and the power of a great and noble nation so
shamefully insulted."

This is as energetic as-it is decided. If ESPAR-
TERO contrive to maintain his present ground,
the battle of religious liberty is won in the Penin-
sula. The Christian world, and more especially
that portion of it which professes the Reformed
religion, has a deep interest in this question.
It is on this account that we wish to direct the
attention of the British Government particularly
to it. ESPARTERO is in danger of foul play.
Now, it is the interest of England to prevent
this as far as she can. Spain, under the guidance
of the REGENT, is engaged in a struggle for reli-
gious, as well as civil freedom, and, under the
plea of protecting and enforcing certain pre-
tended rights, or rather some usurpations of the
Papacy, a confederacy of Foreign Powers, with
the POPE at their head, are endeavouring to un_
dermine her Government and Constitution. Un-
fortunately various causes, arising chiefly from
their own bad custom-house laws and ill-defined
fiscal regulations, have led to an estrangement
of the popular feeling in Spain from that depen-
dence which it had, during the civil war, upon.
the amicable disposition of the Government o 1
this country. That the Spanish Government,
so far from participating in the popular
delusion, does all in its power to counteract it,
there can le no doubt ; but it is not the less
a source of national weakness in the contest in
which the Spanish liberals are now engaged.
Whatever may be their impression of the Spanish
people, with the exception of a handful of ultra-
Tory bigots, who in their hearts regard the POPE
as the pillar of orthodoxy, the sympathies of the
people of England are all ranged on the side of
ESPARTERO.

The whole of the French Journals of Friday
and Saturday have been received. The Debats
returns to the subject of ESPARTERO'S reply to
the manisfesto of the ex-Regent, which it stig-
matizes as a feeble and inconclusive production,
and contends that Queen CHRISTINA was driven
from Spain by an act of rebellion in which the
present Regent was an actor. From abuse of
ESPARTERO the Debats proceeds to abuse Eng-
land, whose merchants are represented as little
better than a gang of smugglers. The Debats
denies that a conspiracy exists at the Tuileries
for restoring Queen CHRISTINA, but clearly in-
timates that such an event would give great
pleasure in that quarter. The Constitutionnel
soundly taxes the Government with a want of
patriotism in not turning the presence of
CHRISTINA in Paris to more profitable ac-
count in the Peninsula. This Journal avows
with shameless unscrupulosity, that by play-
ing her cards well now France may become
all irowerful in Spain. In replacing CHRISTINA
on the Throne of Spain as Regent, France would
have a creature of Louis PHILIPPE at the head
of Spanish affairs. The National would support
ESPARTERO if he could but be brought to quarrel
with England or establish a National Conven-
tion. The National's grand panacea for every
distemper of the body politic, is an equality
effected by the actio)2, of the guilotine. The
only popular ftlgestible pills in the opinion of
that or: sf.n of
Democracy, are the heads of the
A);stocracy. - -
The Minister of Finance has addressed a long
and temperately written circular to the Prefects
of the different departments of the kingdom, on
the subject of the census. He sets out by telling
them that the general census now ordered of
buildings, doors, and windows, is not only re-
quired by the law of 1838, but is necessary to
enable the tax-collectors to levy upon each
domicile the fair proportion of rates. That the
information too is wanted by the Chambers, in
order that the Legislature may know what addi-
tion taxes to impose, or what taxes to modify or
abolish, if found to press 'too heavily upon
the people. Without such details the new
assessment would be neither just nor equitable,
The Circular concludes by an assuraMe from
the Minister that no new tav-es would be levied,
nor any change maa:e in pile
collection of those
now raised. . out the consent of the
'
Cham-
bers fi..—
T, • -.6c constitutionally had and obtained.
-aL is a pity that a document so well calculated
to soothe the national irritation was not pub-
lished sooner.

The following extracts from the Plreisy containS
of any general interest,
--The Joturnal Live states 'ilia a 'on Titra ar-
riving at Cologne, some young mewl bt that town deter-
°i
include all the miscellaneous news
mined to sing under his winctow the spirited patriotic
song of " No., the French shall never have the Rhine !"
by Bekker, Composed by him last autumn, when M.
Thiess was meditating a war with Europe, The police,
however, without positively forbidding it, remonstrated
with the parties in question, and prevailed on them,
though with difficulty, to lay aside their project.
A letter from Blidah mentions that on the 27th ult,
a party of 100 Arab horsemen came over the ditch and
boundary raised by the French for preventing their in.
cursions, and caused the troops of the garrison to make
an immediate sortie. The Arabs shot a French soldier.
and retired without loss,
The following letter. from Crete, ormy. 16, pub-
fished the. C'ens4tuijonni/e Chiistituis not
wishing to accept- terms froth Taiiir or Mustah have
'shut themselves up in the gorges of M pa,
ont Ida ;.
up to the 'l9th all the attempts of the Albanians tn:foroe
t
failed, 13nt' the Christians
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have
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as the 10th; Vassyli, iii endettVottring to take a maga-
zine Of anis itt Provaxma, was beaten. The President
Choretis writes to Nauplia that Verty had sent 2,500
muskets, but kept a certain number, with the intention of
taking an island, or landing in Cyprus. Tahir Pacha is
able, and defeats every attempt of the Greeks to fire his
ships."
A few days since a lunatic of Shit Itymei, in Cal-
vados, in one of his parokysms, opened his body with a
scythe blades and with every demonstration of self-sa-
tisfaction continued to tear out and cut up his entrails,
until he was seized and prevented. Notwithstanding the
seriou! injuries he has received, hopes are entertained of
saving his life.
The Commission of Prisons of Rouen has an-
nounced to the prisoners the pardons and commutations
granted by the King on the occasion of the anniversary
of his accession to• the throne. Five men, a woman, and
a young girl have obtained the remission of the whole of
their sentences, and another female the remission of six
months of her term of imprisonment.
A letter from Rome supplies the following details
of the lamentable consequences of the scene which took
place after the 20th ult. A woman and two children
were found dead on the ground, eight were mortally
wounded, eighty-nine had severe wounds, which have
not proved mortal, ten had limbs broken, and 587 received
bruises and other injuries. When the people were cleared
away from the spot, there were found upon it 479 men's
hats, 99 of which belonged to abbes and other ecclesias-
tics ; 89 short cloaks belonging to abbes, and two monk's
frocks; 180 women's caps and bonnets, and ten reticules
and purses.
The Journal de Toulouse states that a few days
since a waggon, with ten horses, set out from the Fau-
bourg St. Michael, of that town, for the Hotel de Ville.
It was ornamented with branches of poplar and weeping-
willow, and contained the muskets of the National Guard
of that faubourg. Each horse was ridden by a man of
the faubourg, and on the fore-part of the waggon stood a
man holding a musket, muzzle downwards, and a long
piece of black crape suspended from the stock. The
waggon went to its destination, where the muskets
were given up with much order, but the bearer of the
musket with the crape was taken up on a charge of
having been actively engaged in the recent disturbances.
The Prince de Montfort, Jerome Bonaparte, arrived
on the Bth inst. at Frankfort, from Stuttgardt.
The marriage of the Princess Marie of Arenberg to
the Prince Marco Aldobrandini took place in the church
of Heverllt, in Belgium, on Monday morning, with great
ceremony.
The Augsburg Gazette states that all the Polish pro-
perty of Prince Constantine Czartoryski has been re-
cently put up to sale at Warsaw.
The Constitutionnel states that a lamentable suicide
has just been committed at Fontainblcau, where a
widow, named Pierchon, aged 80, her son 64, and her
daughter 62, to relieve themselves from the state of dis-
tress and miser• t• which they had been reduced, shut
themselves up in a room, and produced death by suffoca-
tion from charcoal.

• For some time past workmen have been engaged in
boring an Artesian well at Haguenau (Bas-Rhin). A
few days ago, after having gone to a depth or 290 metres
(nearly 000 feet), the boring instrument entered a bed
of salt clay, and, immediately on withdrawing it, the
water rose to the surface. Although mixed with the
springs of fresh water met with in the course of the
boring, the water at the surface was as salt as that of
the sea. On being analysed it was found to contain 27
grammes (nearly an English ounce) of salt per litre or
quart, with some traces of iron and bromium. The
Municipal Council, on whose account the work has been
performed, intend to line the well with a copper tube,
so as to isolate the salt spring : when this shall have
been done, the water will be much more saline than it is
now. Even in its present state it is said to be superior
to that of the baths of Carlsruhe and Wiesbaden.

A few days ago, as a servant in a family at Mons,
was entering with a lighted candle a cellar, in which a
quantity of coals had been recently placed, and which
had been kept shut, an explosion took place, and she
was severely burnt in the face. The windows of the
shop over the cellar were broken. It appears that, in
this instance, the coals had given out a quantity of gas
in their unignited state, a circumstance which is of rare
occurrence.

The Senate of Frankfort has forbidden the papers
of that city from publishing the prices of the funds on
Sundays.
The manufactures of the city of Lyons consume
annually 1,000,000 kilogrammes (2,000,0001 b.) of silk
spun in different ways. It requires four cocoons, to pro-
duce one gramme of silk, and consequently, the con-
sumption at Lyons alone amounts to 4,400,200,000 co-
coons, each of which open an average measures 500 me-
tres or yards. Thus the silk-thread used in Lyons in
one year, if joined in a continued line, would be equal
to 14 times the distance of the earth from the sun, and
and 5,494 times that of the earth from the moon, and
52,505 times the circumference of the earth at the equa-
tor, and 1,000 times the circumference of the moon.
There are now in the roadstead of Toulon, the
Friedland, 120, Jupiter, 84, Triton, 80, and Marengo, 80,
besides other smaller vessels of war.

A Toulon paper mentions that an officer, lately
returned from Africa to that town, and lodging on the
4th floor of an hotel in the Place de Foin, became at-
tacked with mental alienation, and fancied himself con-
stantly pursued by Arabs. A few mornings since he
went to the window, and by his agitation and noise ex-
cited the attention of the people of the house, but before
any one could get into the room, he had thrown himself
out, and fallen upon the balcony of the first floor, front-
ing the street. 8e was carried to the hospital, with both
his thighs broken, and otherwise so sevely injured that
no hopes of his life are entertained.
A Vienna Correspondent writes, on 'the 3d inst.,
that two houses of that capital, of the first order, whose
names, however, are not given, are threatened with a
fate similar to that of Messrs. Steiner, Geymuller, and
others. It is added that the main cause of the financial
crisis in Austria is, that the bankers, hoping for a totally
pacific te=rmination of the Eastern question, had specu-
lated largely for a rise, but the continuance of troubles
in Bulgaria, and the still unsettled condition of Syria,
have kept prices down, and occasioned enormous deficits.
Various rumours were afloat in the Austrian capital as
to the occurrence of troubles in several portions of the
Turkish dominions, and the merchants of Trieste and
Venice had applied to Government for some more light
vessels to be despatched into the Archipelago and the
Levant, to aid Admiral Bandiera in putting down the
Greek pirates.
Out of the 1,629 young men last drawn and ac-
cepted, for the army, from Paris and the Banlieue, 1,389
are able to read and write, 36 can read but not write,
and 204 cannot do either. In addition to the above,
1,050 were drawn, but of these 261 were rejected as not
being of sufficient height, and 789 on account of in-
firmities',
The Jettfacti de Lot et Garonne says, " Serious dis-
orders have just broken out at St. Livrade, on occasion
of the census being taken. It is stated that but for the
courage of the municipal authorities and the firmness cif
the Comptroller of Taxes, who was charged with the
operation, the populace would have committed deplorable
excesses. On intelligence of this arriving at Agen, the
prefect took immediate Measures for repressing the dis-
order." The Memorial of Agen says that the Comptrol-
ler of Taxes was forced to quit St. Livrade and return to
the former town, The authorities had ordered the ropes
of the church belle to 118 ottt IR order to prevent the pc),
pie from sounding the tocsin; but they sealed the belfry;
rung the bells; and broiight in the people &OM Ulf Heigh:
beutheed, The nordeaux papers state that a detach-
ment of troops was despatched from that city to St. Liv-
rade at a very early hour on Wednesday morning.
The Swiss journals give the following account of
the annual meeting of the Helvetic Society of Natural
Sciences, just held for the third time at Zurich :
" Messrs. Zollinger and Meiss have offered to undertake
to travel into Java and the Hispanic Peninsula, by sub-
scription. The President recommended the Society to
charge itself with the enterprise. M. Lardy, of Lausanne,
read a work on the means of remedying the disasters
caused by avalanches, torrents, &c., in the Alps : it was
referred to the Committee for the Relief of Sufferers from
Inundation. On the subject of Cretinism, the Society
resolved to apply to the Swiss Diet for its intervention
and assistance in rendering the curative means recom-
mended more extensively useful than they can be by
the charity of individuals. Altorf was named as the
place for the next annual meeting, over which Dr. Lusser
is to preside."
In speaking with regret of the retirement of Mr.
rancho from the British Consulship at Ostend, a Belgian
journal reminds its readers of the services which that
gentleman rendered to this country at the time of the
Revolution, When, y pfotalring the necessary means` of
transport, he rescue from the fury of the populace t..,
Dutch garrison at Ostend. The same journal mentions
that Mr. Fauche has been a great traveller, and that to
an extensive knowledge of political affairs and very
agreeable manners, the late Consul unites so remarkable
an aptitude for learning languages, that he speaks with
ease all the idioms of Europe.
The Government has made no answer to the ac-
counts from Toulon, which announced the speedy eva-
cuation of the hosital, which the Spaniards had autho-
rised us to estabhsh at Mahon. A letter from Toulon,
of the 9th, informs us, that is certain that the hospital
is going to be evacuated, if it had not already been done.
" An important no-
lattr speaking of 'tihsi°snagmaet'ter; says
ve this
,
It seems that England asked the Spanish Government
to give it a portion of territory in one of the Baleario
islands at Palma (or some other place) asis lomeett eeurr,i "Rhousode was.
in Majorca,in
case it did not consent to send away the French. It is
added, that an English ship of the line, detached from the
Levant squadron, has come to Mahon, with orders to
watch the movement of our fleet. The hospital at Mahon
has cost us a considerable sum ; there is an immense
Franco. .
anctiet.z—ofleeffecconits
mtheerrcee.which must be brought back to

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BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14.
tlrst highest Lowest Lest
Price Price. Prier Price
french sppr .... 1:6 45__., 116 60 ... 116 40 ... 116 59

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105 !,(o 105 50
.7, per Cents 105 50 ... 105 50 •••
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3 per Cents. es:. dlr., ;() 7: 77 60 77 60 ... 17 55
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Roelan Bank
5.000 f. Shares 5115
..HD ...5115 ...5115
716 705 ••• 785 •" 7135„
Belgian
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ew Loan ..... h 314 4 10376 ... IC4
Dutch 5 per Cents ,„. 101r" 101 101 —0 it:Cl
spauisk Active ..... 20% ... SO% ‘`,i/j "1. - Passive
Neapolitan
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Roman... ......iOl lOO „. 10§
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720
St. G amain 0000000 Ilb voip 750 ." 715 208 75
210 210 COB
452 50 Nowin .„ ..... ........... 4,52 50 46g 30 ••• 452 V". 238 74
Strasburg to iiale ..... 7.5 238 75 gas

41:1* REG,ISTRATION,,—,-It should not be for-7
gotten that Wednesoalay, August 05, will be the last
day for leaving with the ,y,9r4ccrs objections to county
electors. The Tulips bestow, much attention on those
matters ; and the friends of..Reforra should not suffer
themselves to be surpaned by their political adversarties.