The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-06 00:00:00

TUNIS.

A earrespondent at Tunis writes is follows on the 20th
ult., to the Malta Times

" The French ships under Commodore Le Ray quitted
Tunis on the 17th instant, and the English ships Re-
venge and Ganges sailed at eleven o'clock p.m. on the
same day, after having out-staid the French for a few
hours. During their sojourn at
.Tunis, upwards of.
twenty officers of the squadron enjoyed thosport of boar-
hunting at Zoltan, having been supplied with horses by
the liberality of the Bey at Zomui. A deputation of
blfteks, "recently einancipated by the praiseworthy exer-
tions of Sir Tinnia:i Reade, and theAttinane: generosity
of the. Bey, Waited upon his 11ighness to return , thanks
on behalf of their Whole body for the groat boon which
had been conferred.UPOn.them. It is not, perhaps, gene
riilly'lznoWa that at the time of the consecration of the
Frencb'Church of St. Louis at Tunis, our Maltese fel-
low-subjects and brethren received an indignity which,
although it ought not to be resented, should be
made (particularly in France) extensively.-public. The
French nation despis,:s and deprecates as much as Eng-
land the commission of acts such as that deplored in. the
present instance.. When the period. of the consecration
approached, the Maltese Ecclesiastics, with their re-
spected head, were invited from Tunis to stay, the night
before the ceremony, at the spot itself, in order to pre-
pare arrangements. They duly acquiesced, and grieved
not to find their only bed was to be the soil, and their
thin sheltered workman's tent. But in the morning of
the ceremony, after its sacred performance, what was the
astonishment of these Ministers of Religion who executed
it, to find that they alone of those assembled by the invi-
tation of the French Consul were excluded from the sub-
sequent breakfast. To those of our readers who know
nothing of Tunis, we will mention, that Cartage, where
the Church stands, is a bleak and exposed hiH of sand
and rock several miles distant from any inhabited town,
and nine from Tunis, where the Maltese priests resided."

TURKEY.
A Constantinople letter of the 17th ult., in the Malta
Chronicle, says :
" Mr. Bankhead, First Secretary to the English Em-
bassy, on Friday paid his first visits to the Porte, the
Grand Vizir, and the MinistEr of Foreign Affairs ; yes-
terday, he was received in audience by his Highness the
Sultan at his Imperial palace of Bessik-Jach, when he
presented the letter of his government, which accredited
him as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Sublime Porte.
11. E. M. Pontois had yesterday his audience of depar-
ture of the Sultan. The French Ambassador is waiting
for the steamer of war from France which will bring M.
de Botirquenay."
The. Constantinople intelligence of the Oriental Oh- THE FIRE AT THE TOWER.--At ten , o'clock
server
ukeLord
f:rom
Wellin.
g-
server contains the following : yesterday morning the whole of the battalion of
Wellington,
"We must begin our weekly budget of news by re- the ScOtch Fusilier Guards was assembledo
n the
,
listing that on the 6th, at twenty-five minutes past two brand Parade to hear Regimental
Orders
,in the morning all Constantinople was roused from sleep, Hill read, by desire, of his Grace the D
not by the lugubrious cry of aynghun var (fire); not by ton. Adjutant Davies then read the
Regimental Order,
the simultaneous barking of Stambol's 100,000 dogs ; which was in effect as follows : " That
Lord Hillhaapd-
c
of tile r irs t
. not by deaftening peals of thunder ; but by some thing been desired 'bj his Grace
the
good DukecOndu of
more startling than all put together, viz. an earthquake. Constable of the Tower, to express ,hisunqualifiedt
People who, like ourselves, have been accustomed probation 'of the bravery and
to such' convulsions of nature, know that there is a Battalion of the Scotch Fusilier Guards during the late.
general good behaviour
vast difference between earthquake and earthquake. Some conflagration, in arresting the further progress of the
consequence of this Iteg-i-
-. times a motion is felt so gentle that a kitten springing at destructive fire, and also aiti.Ettbir
a worsted ball will cause as much ; at other a sligt un- on the occasion," &c.
dulation is scarcely perceived, and every one asks his mental Order, the Acting-Commanding Officer, Colonel
neighbour ' was that an earthquake ?' This, however, Colville, was pleased to grant a free pardon to all the
I was not of either description ; first there was an awful men in the garrison undergoing punishment. The
rumbling, as of the rushing of an impetuous blast ; then battalion then dispersed,--The Armoury ruins still send
from the south came the shock which set everything in forth smoke. Yesterday morning Sergeant Gellatly, an
active and intelligent non-commissioned officer, had
violent movement. The beams of the houses writhed as
huge serpents in the agony of death ; the tiles cracked charge of a fatigue party, consisting of two corporals
and rattled, the walls bent, and menaced to crumble, and twenty-two privates, on the Parade, in the front
and as for the beds, they became positively alive, and
Lt
of the Armoury, to give assistance in the event of a
shakingfresh
seemed desirous of off their trembling tenants. outbreak fire, but nothing of this kind is apprehended.
`This lasted for a few seconds, and then the impulse sub:
siding gradually all was still again. The moon shone A LUCKY
a very poor woman went to the shop of Mr.
PURCHASE.—On Thursday morning
broker,
brightly, and save a few fleecy clouds which might have Tighe, pawn-
been mistaken for the milky way, the sky was perfectly of Deptford Broadway, and after a great
Leery 'deal of bargaining, purchased an old flannel I'e
clear, clear, whilst not a breath of wind was stirring.
person was frightened ; some dressed themselves, and for ls. 3d. She afterwards went into the shop of
quitting their houses, sought refuge in the small buryinn• Mr. Barton, butcher, where she complained that the
ground, ow which determination they truly congratulated meat was as dear as the petticoat she had just bought;
themselves, when, at 3 o'clock, a second shock took place, at the same time displaying it. Mr. Barton took hold or
perhapsnotquite soviolent,but which lasted longer,andwa, • it, and feeling something hard in the hand, cut it open,
consequently more dangerous. This drove other timid or when, to the joy of the poor woman, two 5/. notes weirlee
sleepless individuals to the burying ground, but as mime- discovered. Mr. Tighe was sent for, and he handed_
about
diately afterwards a strong breeze 'sprung up many per- money over to the police for them to make inquiryltb
sons gained confidence, and once more 'sought repose. it' There cannot be a doubt,
Mr. Tighe not knowing in
Two other shocks occurred subsequently, but so sgh'l woman is entitled tt) it'
however, but that thhgei
as to have been scarcely perceptible. Iw the month... with Mr. Titmarsh,
the first question addressed by one to another Was about Mr. Coe, of London, alto, . Way the article came into his possession.
the earthquake, and it was soon ascertained that' stole of Henharn, was recently thrown out of a chaise, from
buildings had suffered considerably. In Yol gaetchen ' accidental contact with the Newmarket mail, at Newport,
khan ten rooms fell, and three persOns Were 'killed , a in this comity, a full, days since, died from the injuries
part of that wall of Eski Soria also came down;Aestr; he receivrd, at Newport, at the house (Mascall's) .to
in three braziers' shops, and some say the brasiers to?,. 'which he was removed immediately after the accident.—
;. . .
at Kebabgi khan
.two rooms were• thrown down and Chckasford Chronicle. . .
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