The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

HUMOURS OF THE DAY.

All the worn-out Tory judges in Scotland and Ireland
are about to retire. Those looking forward to the new
appointments have been in a dreadful state of anxiety
for the last twelve months, and now feel the exuberant
joy of men saved from imminent destruction.

EX PRESS FROM PARIS.

FRANCE.

The Moniteur of Sunday, publishes an account
of the proceedings between France and Spain re-
lative to the island Del Rey, and. from which it
appears that the notice to evacuate the military
hospital was given by the Governor of Mahon
to the French Vice-Consul in that residence
without the knowledge of the Spanish Cabinet.
M. Gonzales had even offered to grant the
French Government a new lease of this island,
but the latter had already decided that the re-
newal of the lease should not be demanded, and
the hospital be abandoned at its expiration.
Serious riots, though not of a political cha-
racter, took place at Macon on the 9th inst. The
troops were obliged to make use of their arms,
and several lives were lost.
The Gazette de Tribunaux announces, that
the police of Paris had within the two last days
seized a quantity of arms and political pamphlets.
According to a letter from St. Jean Pied de
Port, of the 6th instant, the inhabitants of the
Spanish village of Orhayecto had made an incur-
sion on the adjoinin!, French territory, and car-
ried off all the cattle they could meet.
The Toulonnais of the 9th states that the Tri-
dent and Hercules, ships of the line, had gone to
Tunis, and that the departure of the division for
Brest had been ' countermanded by a telegraphic
despatch from Paris. _

Some rioting took place in Paris on Satur-
day evening.

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette of the sth inst. promul-
gates the laws of the Cortes, declaring all the
property of the secular clergy to be annexed to
the national domain. The same journal adver-
tises two loans, the one of 45,000,000 of reals,
to be mortgaged on the proceeds of the salt
monopoly, and the other of 17,000,000 on those
of the stamp duties.

GERMANY.
Prince Paul Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambas-
sador in London, arrived at Vienna on the 2d
instant.

SWITZERLAND,
The Helvetic Diet adjourned on the Bth to the
25th of October. The President in his
address
expresiled a hope that the Deputies would return
from their cantons furnished with full powers to
settle the question of the canton of Argau agree-
ably to the enlightened ideas of the age.

u. lt., t. he POLAND.
According to letters from Warsaw of the 31st
Emperor of Russia was expected there
!ii, a few days, but it was not certain that his Ma-
jesty would repair to the camp of Leignvitz, as
he intended, before returning to his capital, to
go and inspect his army in the south.

THE WEATIIER.—p 00N, SEPTEMBER 13.
ROYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELATI)E-STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer... 75 Highest 7B 1 Lowest .
Wind E.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. "

LONDON AND BRIGHTON .ttAiLvirAY.---A
Private trip will be made by the Directors on the London
and Brighton Railway throughout its entire length on
Tuesday next, preliminary to its public opening on the
following Tuesday. The well-deserved compliment in-
tended to be paid to the Directors by the inhabitants of
Brighton will " come off " on Monday week.—. Railway
Times. _ _

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ROYAL NAVY.—The Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty have issued instructions for her Majesty's
service at sea, in which it is directed that the Captains
of her Majesty's ships are not to allow any person to
smoke tobacco in any other part of the ship than the
place appropriated for smoking, and are pleased to direct
that the Captains and Commanding Officers of her Ma-
jesty's ships and vessels do give most positive orders that
no smoking shall on any account be allowed in any part
of the ship except the galley.