The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-10 00:00:00

the Interior.

Pt-rpignan, July 6, Nine, p.m.
" Cabrera has just entered France with 5,000 men.
" B2lmaseda has .arrived in Faris. The Spanish
Governmei:t asked for Cabrera and other Clrli,t chiefs to
be given up, but the French Cabinet refused."

The refusal of the French Government to give
up CABRERA and his colleagues in crime and mis-
fortune, is only what we were prepared to expect
from a nation so tenacious of its honour in all that
relates to political refugees. Had the Spanish Go-
ye! nment, as it was its duty to have done five years
ago, passed a sentence of outlawry upon that traitor
and his master, not for the crime of treason only,
but for murder—for the brutal murder of British
and French, as well as Spanish subjects—it would
have acquired a right to demand him from the Go-
vernment of any country in which he might seek
shelter. But to the last moment Spain declined
adopting such a course, and therefore it is preposte-
rous to suppose that France would deliver up to cer-
tain death a wretch who claims shelter as a political
refugee. How consistently, from the death of
FERDINAND the SEVENTH, we have supported the
cause of the QUEEN and Constitution, is well
known ; and how emphatically we have denounced
the infamous career of CARLOS and his agents in
rebellion, and murder is equally familiar to all who
have paid the slightest attention to the progress of
events in Spain ; and yet were CABRERA, dyed as
he is with the innocent blood of our countrymen,
to cast himself a refugee upon our shores, we
would rather sacrifice the friendship of the Spanish
Government than yield him a prisoner to General
ESPARTERO.

But though the war in Spain is now virtually
at aar end, some time must elapse before public
confidence can be restored—before the machinery
of a regular system of Government can be
established in permanent working order in the
distlicts so long the scat of a successful rebel-
lion. It will likewise require an unusual degree cf
firmness and moderation on the part of the Autho-
rities to heal the wounds inflicted by local jealousies
and personal antipathies—to fuse, as it were, a huge
mass of seemingly heterogeneous materials into the
one body which constitutes the true essence of
strength and durability and independence in a king-
dom. To this great work the Spanish Government
must new address itself, and we trust that England
and France will interpose their good offices in the
way of furthering its happy accomplishment.
The following scraps of intelligence constitute
the bulk of the additional news in the Paris
Journals of Wednesday :
The Gazette de France announces that Don Francisco
do Paulo and family have quitted Paris for Spain.
The French Government has sent the Coyte steamer
ficim Toulon, on the ',pith, with urgent despatches for Con-
stantinople.
Marshal Vallee) writes to the Minister of War that he
shall be at Blidah July 4, when he will send a detailed re-
port of his operations.

The French Ministry has sent engineers to construct
fortifications in the Aletidja.
Madrid papers of the Ist inst. continue to dwell on tl.e
prospect of a change of Ministry.

We have received Sydney Papers to the 17th of
A 1 arch, and other South Australian Papers, from
which the following are extracts :
The accounts from Adelaide bring intelligence of sec-.
ens depredations committed among the stations in tle
Bush, to the northward of Adelaide, by three men. They
had established a regular system of bush-ranging.
The revenue for the years 1838 and 1839, and for the
last quarters of those years, have not been published. We
will first turn to the abstract of the revenue of the Colony
of New South Wales for the years ending December 31,
1838 and 1839, respectively, showing the increase and de-
crease. The first and most important item, Customs, 37,0001.,
an increase on the corresponding quarter of 1838 of upwards
of 6,500/. ; the duty on spirits distilled in the Colony
amounts to 2,5971., an increase of 1,500/. ; the Crown
Lands only brought 21,5001., a decrease on the quarter of
8,000/. The Port Philiip reveuuo for the quarter
amounted to upwards of 35,1001., the corresponding quar•
ter of 1 839 being only 5,000/. The total revenue for the
year 1838 was 334,0791., and for 1839, 427,3681., an in.
crease on the year of 93,2881.
SWAN RIFER —The blacks were becoming- more and
more troublesome daily. The last Session of the Council
terminated on the Ist Mly, and before the close of that
! month, a communication reached the Government from
the resident Magistrate at York, of the wanton mur-
der of a female and her infant! child, by: a party: of
aborigines in that district. Active measures were imme-
diately taken for the capture of the offenders, but without
success, and the first excitement of feeling at this outrage
had not subsided when another murder of still more daring
character Was announced, of a youth of about fourteen
accounts sentt
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DISCIPLINE OF TIIE O:IIES,—The Tines yester-
day gave the following description of Lord Stanley's
troops
" Alen of a class', generally speaking, beset by social
blandishments aad allurement', surrounded by the tempta-
tions of luxury, brou4ht up with strong tastes for at h!etic
pporc and various amusement, to the number of consido-

rably more than 300, were found, as the Session advanced,
with daily increasing punctuality at their posts, under the
most irksome circumstances and trying inducements to
absent themselves. To so praiseworthy a pitch was this
sense of duty carried, that on some of the more recent
divisions not a single defaulter could be named !"
We quote it for the instruction of the Whigs.
While the Tories had not a single defaulter, they never
gained a victory from which more Whigs were not
absent than would have sufficed to defeat them.
Such, however, is the difference between the
sharp-set, hungry Tories, greedy for office,
and the satisfied negligence of the Whigs in possession
of it. The Times went on to bestow some flattery on
the gentlemen whom it lately described as " wine-
warmed individuals," and formerly scolded with much
zeal, for preferring Crock ford's and dinner parties to
their duty in the House ; but the public laughs at the
flattery, and laughs at the Times, which carries its
impudence so far as to describe their service as generous.
The whole world knows that the most intense selfish-
❑ess kept them together, and that they have suffered
the most bitter disappointment by their final discom-
fiture. They rail now at Lord Stanley as they formerly
railed at Sir R. Peel, and console Crockey, who began
to talk of shutting up his shop in despair, by promising
never again to desert his endearments for the thankless
labours of assiduously attending the House of Commons
in order to turn out the Whigs.

Parliamentary Electors in-Cities and Boroughs, enti-
tled under the Reform Act, will lose their votes for the
next year, unless they pay on or before the 20th day of
July all the poor's rates (and window tax, if any) pay-
able from them in respect of their premises previously
to the 6th day of April. Country voters must send in
their chines on or before the 20th day of July.
INFLUENCE OF LITERATURE AND OF THE THEATRE.
—Mr. Sheriff Evans has published a letter distinctly
contradicting Mr. H. Ainsworth, and distinctly affirm-
ing that Courvoisier confessed to him that he was insti-
gated to commit the great crime for which the suffered
by reading " Jack Sheppard," and that he borrowed
the book from the valet of the Duke of Bedford. It is
not, therefore, literature, pci se, but only literature of a
certain kind, which is beneficial to society, and some
literature does unspeakable harm. It ought not to be
enough therefore to ensure a man the public reward that
he is a great and popular author, unless it be also
proved that his writings are publicly beneficial. In be-
stowing pensions on literary men and men of genius,
therefore, it will be necessary to examine the effects of
their works, otherwise reward may be bestowed on those
who have incited men to commit great crimes. The
Prime Minister, in whose power it lies to give such
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even then he may es easily bestow the funds of the
nation on the pander to vice as on the promoter of vir-
tue. It is plain also, that the theatre, which is in some
countries so much encouraged as a means of teaching
virtue, and which we always desire to see flourish, as
a source of rational and delightful amusement, may be
a means of disseminating crime. "Jack Sheppard," has
had its run in most of the theatres, and Jack's songs
are among the popular street-ballads of the day. But
it is not necessary to quote such examples ; for no
sooner is a theatre opened for a penny or two-pence
than the Magistrates and the police denounce it as a
den of vice ; and thus the same amusement may be
made either a school of virtue or a nursery of crime.
Whether tyre Lord Chamberlain be a proper censor for
such amusement or not, we cannot say ; but it is plain
that the theatre, like literature, must be properly con-
ducted to be a means of promoting civilization.