The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-09 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Public Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The acquittal of Mr. M'Leod is confidently anti-
cipated in the American Journals to the 20th of July,
received this morning. We have long ceased to enter
tain any apprehension as to the taking away the life of
this gentleman. Indeed, from the outset, we never sup-
posed that the Yankees seriously contemplated involving
themselves in a war with Great Britain by a provocation
so atrociously reprehensible as the judicial murder of a
British subject.
Brother Jonathan and his Holiness the Pope will
shortly fall to loggerheadS unless the Vicar of Christ re-
verse the order of apostolical salutation by the lip wor-
ship of a part of Jonathan's person, quite as unattractive
as the Papal toe. It appears that some two or three
years ago, the Pope summoned the Bishop of Detroit
to Rome. The Bishop, Dr. Rees, obeyed the sum-
mons, when his Holiness ordered him to resign
his diocese. This the Yankee Prelate refused,
and was at once consigned to the dungeons of the Inqui-
sition. These facts were reported to Congress on the
18th of July, and it was expected that the President
would call the Pope to a severe account for the incarce-
ration of an American citizen, for ecclesiastical acts al-
leged to have been committed within the jurisdiction of
the United States. The affair was making a greater stir
than the M'Leod case.

Advices of the 2d instant from Lisbon represent
the interior of Portugal as in a most unsettled state.
Murder, sacrilege, and robbery are crimes of daily occur-
rence in the .Algarves. The Government was preparing
a law for the more expeditious hanging of culprits. If
the Portuguese Government can find no better moral
teachers than the hangman and the gallows, the condi-
tion of that part of the Peninsula is indeed hopeless.
From France the news is more interesting than
politically important. Abd-el-Kader is growing more
troublesome in Africa, and appears really bent upon bag-
ging the head of General Bugeaud. This is an imperti-
nence which the French Commander-in-Chief threatens
to resent with tragic effect as soon as he catches hold of
the Emir.

The Criminal Tribunal of Tulle, at its sitting on
the sth instant, agreed to postpone the trial of Madame
Laffarge for the diamond robbery for a period of twenty
weeks, to allow her principal witness, M. Clave, to
return from Mexico. The following is a list of
the jewels delivered into the Court, and which are to be
produced in evidence, viz. :-122 diamonds, a star of
brilliants, a fragment of an ornament composed of a
pearl and brilliants, and another fragment of an orna-
ment in the form of a pompon, 10 fragments of other
ornaments, a round box containing a ring set with bril-
liants and other stones, a small gold chain, and pearls,
a velvet book-cover, a box with four pearls and two gold
pins. The whole are inclosed in a box belonging to
Mme. Laffarge."
The Jews of Smyrna are exposed to the most
wanton outrages on account of their religion. One of
them was recently thrown into prison because a cat was
missing ! and no crime is committed of which they are
not supposed to be guilty by the bigoted inhabitants.
Why do not the European Consuls interfere to protect
these poor people ?
The little war-kindling ex-Minister Thiers arrived
sin Brussels on Friday morning from Courtrai. With-
out stopping to pay his compliments at Court the small
statesman proceeded by the railway to Liege, with th©
intention, as was supposed, of visiting Germany. His
organs in Paris have prepared the Courts of Vienna and
Berlin for the magnificent reception of the political
Tom Thumb of the nineteenth century.
The Dukes of Cadiz and Seville, Infants of Spain,
left Liege on the sth inst. for Holland.