The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-14 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

ABROAD.
FOREIGN-COLONL&L.

The Moniteur of Sunday announces that the distur-
bances at Toulouse had ceased on the Bth inst. The
authorities conceiving Cat the body politic was in too
phlethoric a condition had recourse to the old remedy of
blood-letting. Swords and bayonets are the lancets of des-
potism, and the operators on this occasion, some compa-
nies of cavalry, employed them pretty freely upon the
heads, arms, and bodies of men, women, and even chil-
dren. In breathing the veins of the disaffected, some in-
offensive individuals had their arms run through, re-
ceived stabs in the back, and had their heads brought in
unceremonious contact with horses' hoofs. But what
of that, so long as Kings and Governments regard bleed-
ing carcasses and broken heads as the most wholesome
examples for the mob ? Details of the achievements of
Louis PHILIPPE'S barber-surgeons will be found in an-
other column.

The Moniteur of Monday (yesterday) since re-
ceived by extraordinary express, states that matters were
worse at Toulouse on the 9th instant than on any of the
preceding days. The citizens had thrown up barricades,
houses were ransacked by the troops, and the proclama-
tions of the new Prefect were burned in the principal
streets. Similar scenes are reported to have taken place
at Montauban, and in Carcassone the citizens had taken
arms to march to the assistance of the inhabitants of
Toulouse. If the imposition of the new taxes meets
with such opposition, how are they to be collected ? We
predicted that the war frenzy in France would lead to
this. M. Thiers' whistle tickled the ears of the people.
but we foresaw that a day would come when, like the
boy Franklin, they would discover that they were paying
too dear for it.

The news from French Africa is reported in the
Moniteur of Sunday to be very favourable. Particulars
will be found elsewhere.-

The Cour Royale of Paris decreed on Saturday the
dissolution of the Electoral Reform Society. To unite
to extend the franchise is henceforth a crime in France.
In the excess of its parental solicitude the French Go-
vernment takes upon itself all the popular share in the
preservation of constitutional liberty. The people have
nothing to do but to furnish the conscriptions, pay the
taxes, bear official inflictions without grumbling, and
when not prepared to chaunt the praises of the " best
of Kings," to hold their tongues. Despite of our
bribery, our intimidation, and our corruption, we
manage these things better in England.
The reported victories of the Turks over the re-
volted Cretans turn out to be the fabrications of a lying
French physician attached to the suite of Tahir Pa.cha.
Such lies are no novelties. When the insurgent Greeks
were masters of the Morea in 1823, the Ambassadors
of the Christian Powers at the Porte gravely as-
sured the Sovereigns assembled at the Congress
of 'Verona, that the insurrection was completely extin-
guished by the victorious troops of Sultan Mahmoud.
While the Cretans continue to fire a shot we shall not
credit any reports of their being conquered. Nor will
a single battle decide the fate of the brave Spakiots, who
for centuries bid defiance to the whole power of the
Moslems.

Advices from Madrid of the sth inst. bring the
cheering intelligence that 10,000/. out of the 50,000/. due
to the unfortunate British Legion, was on that day re-
mitted to London. In the distribution of this instalment
we trust regard will be had to the relative indigence of
the poorer claimants.

AT HOME.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. O'Connell, in a letter addressed to the Dublin
Electors, says :—" The enemies of Ireland have tri-
umphed, but be not daunted, my friends, a petition will
unseat the gxterminators of yourselves, and your holy
and sacred religion. Ireland cannot bear my absence
from the House at this crisis, even for a moment ;
have therefore accepted the representation of the honest
men of Meath."

—• The cry of a goose once saved a city ; on Satur-
day a cockatoo prevented a burglary. Some thieves
broke into the premises of Mrs. Decaux, Grapes, public-
house, Borough. They were making for the wine-cellar,
when a cockatoo uttered his accustomed ejaculation,
" Who are you ?" The rogues were alarmed, and pre-
cipitately fled.

The Waterford Chronicle states that eleven persons
were shot in that city on Thursday, by a man named
Morgan, for shouting " Down with the Tories !" Mor-
gan has been fully committed.
Mr. Green, accompanied by his daughter-in-law,
Captains Ward and Currie, Messrs. Davidson and
Dudley, ascended in the grand Nassau balloon on Mon-
day night from Vauxhall.
At the haunted house at Cleaver, near Windsor, the
other day, an elderly gentleman was floored by a cross-
buttock from the phantom-fist of the goblin who tenants
that mysterious domicile. Nothing was seen, but very
considerable inconvenience was felt, by the venerable
gentleman.

Mr. Sheil stated at Dungarvon the following plain
speaking fact :—When the duty on coffee was ls. 7d.
there were sold but one million pounds ; when reduced
to 6d. twenty-seven million pounds.
Tory management lost us America—once our most
valuable colony, now our most formidable rival.

There is a rumour afloat in Renfrewshire, that on
this election, instead of friendly bets for " a new hat,"
thousands of pounds have been gained and lost.
A barge was on Monday afternoon removing sand
from the bed of the river. Snell, one of the bargemen,
while pulling up a pole to which a gravel-bag was at-
tached, slipped and was swept away by the tide. Drags
brought him ashore, but life was gone.
The speech-day at Harrow came off excellently
last week, and the exhibition was interesting. Frede-
rick. Peel's Latin Essay gained him his father's medal;
whereon Dr. Wordsworth remarked that he had gained
that reward, "in the presence of the founder, that
founder being his parent, and that parent Sir Robert
Peel." Wilkins' Greek Prose, for the Hope prize, a
translation from Lord Bacon's " Advancement of Learn-
ing," was also excellent.

The Times, a day or two ago, fastened on Mr. Roe-
buck the imputation of having published a certain placard
proposing to cancel the national debt, and refused to pub-
lish that gentleman's letter in denial of this assertion, al-
leging its coarse terms as the prevention. Mr. Roe-
buck jeers at this hollow shift, and remarks, " The per-
sons who write in the Times ought to be the last to quar-
rel with rough language."
A Bath paper states that the Census has caused
considerable annoyance in that fashionable city. Seve-
ral ladies, hovering on the shady side of thirty, have en-
deavoured to evade it by abruptly retiring to the Conti-
nent ; and one elderly dandy, hopeless otherwise of es-
caping the inquisitorial scrutiny into his age, actually
took up his abode in a hackney-coach, in which he was
driven about the city throughout the obnoxious Monday
night ! We understand that the Bath Census reveals
one astonishing fact—namely, that of all the unmarried
spinsters there, scarcely one has grown a year older
since it was last taken ! Not a few bachelors, too, still
stick at the same age which they owned to in 1831 !