The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-09 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1840

discussion on the Budget was relieved by an animate d
speech of M. TRIERS, in answer to some observations
made by General BUGEAUD, relative to the war in
Africa. General BUGEAUD, it will be remembered,
signed the Treaty of Taloa, and therefore considers
himself entitled to the rank of It Le,slator for the new
colony. Of the qualifications of. the General we a short
time tigo afforded our readers an ainu,inre specimen, by
recording his legislatorial declaration that he would prefer
thcinvasion of r rtr ee by Prussia, to the allction ofwitnes-
sing the importation cf cheap beef to fill the bellies of the
starving operatives of Paris. On Saturday he pre-
posed that a grant of 20,000,000 should be set apart
for the erection of, defensive forts, and in doing so took
occasion to pass in review before the Chamber his own
exploits in Africa, and to contrast them with those of
Marshal VALLEE, to the obvious prejudice of the latter.
This called up M. THIELS, who roundly stated that
the disasters which had befallen Marshal •VALLEE were
attributable to the unfort unlit° 'Edna treaty. That
treaty had so strengthened the power of AED-EL-
KADER, that ten thousand men, and extraordinary
eff,erts, were now required to cross the Atlas, pre-
viously passed by Marshal CeatreEL at the head
of only four thousand troops. For his own part he
was not qualified to criticise military movetneies, Lor
did he think it was the proper time to du so, when a
General at the head of his arm was exposed to the tire o
the enemy. M. THIEIts warmly and enthusiao.icall)
eulogized the heroism of the troops, which he said wen:
equal to the soldiers of the republic and the empire.
His speech was loudly applauded, and may be regarded
as decisive, as regards the exticetion of General Be.
GEAUD'S expectations to succeed Marshal VALLEE in
the Government of French Africa.
The Gloire, on board which the Vice Admiral Beudin
will hoist his Wig, is to receive at Cherbourg five hundred
trocps ; and letters from that town inform us that a teport
was current thsie that an expedition, amounting to three
thousand men, would shortly be sent to Buenos Ayres to
support the ultimatum of France.
According to the Gazette de France, the real candidates
for the Government of Algeria are Generals Cubieres,
Oudinot, and Trezel. Marshal Claueel has nut bc;en se-
riously thought of. It was for a moment contemplated-to
appoint Major-General Duvivier, whom it was proposed
to raise to the rank of Lieutenant-General, though hardly
of sufficiently long standing in the army.
The Committee on the project of law for a vote of cre-
dit of 809,000 fr., to be added to the fund furnished by the
city of Parts for •the celebration of the tenth anniversary
of the days of July 1830, heard to-day at noon the reading
of the report of M. de Laborde, which recommended the
adoption of the project of 1a... The report will not be
presented till the Mini-ter of the Interior shall lieve• been
heard. M. de Remusat being obliged to utter d the sitting
of the Chamber of Peers, could not go to the Committ,e,,
—Le Temps.
If, as it is annourced, General Cubieres „should go to
Algeria, as governor, a modification of the Cabinet may be
necessary, and the notion, which is not abandoned, of giving
M. Guizet a place in tae Cabinet is reversed. Are we to
believe that M. Mallac, secretary to M. Duchatel, in the
department of the interier is gone to London to sound the
High Priest of the doctrinaires respecting contingencies
which are perhaps nearer at band than is supposed ?—Le
Commerce.

We have received a file of Hobart Town Papers to
11th of February inclusive. The Planter, from Can-
ton, had arrived at Sydney, with 5,727 ches!sof tea.
She left the GirajT., the Canada, the Morays'ire, and
the France's Charlotte taking. in teas for the lens-
tralian calonies—but, by a strange inadvertence, the
date of her sailine is not given. Great complaints are
made in these papers of the conduct of the police ma-
gistrates, and of the vexatious restrictions to which in
these, as yet infant colonies, the labouring, po-
pulation are subjected. It appears that in Ho-
bart Town the itinerant vending of the necesse-
ries of life, such as fish, fruit, vegetables, and sue')
basket ware. as may be met with in every street in
London, is a criminal act of the first magnitude. "It
is abominable," says a writer in Marray's Ilev:*cal, and
we echo the indignant expression—" It is abominable
that a working man in Hobart Town, leaving his home
at the usual morning hour, his wife and children of ne-
cessity unable to quit her domicile, must find himself
and them without a meal on his return from his
labour, because the wife could not leave her
children and her little all, unprotected, comp; red to
traverse the whole town to reach that worst of Turkish
Cadi places of oppression, miscalled a market ; and it
any industrious person, man or woman, anxious to
honestly support his family, ventures to offer for sale
vegetables or other articles, perhaps of a perishable
nature, some heartless ruffian, armed with police autho-
rity, seizes the whole, and the pour wretch, and all de-
pendent upon him are ruined."
Nothing can be more pernicious, or more destructive
of the comforts of the people than the perpetual
intermeddling of the magistracy and police with
all their concerns. They cannot turn round in
any direction without encouatering intrusive and
annoying evidence of the busybodyism of those in
authority. The decisions of one of the Magi§trate's—
a Mr. PRICE-appear to us to savnili. or :excessive
.cruelty. In Murray's Review, of the I!th of r‘kbru.•
ary, we find, for example, the following judicial :sen-
tences A feket-of-leave man, sentenced to be
flogged for having given 2 man in the stocks a pipe
of tobacco ; James Macdonald, 30 lashes, for being in
a public-house after hours ; George Morgan, 25 lashes,
for leaving his master's premises without leave ;
li4m Bennett, :36 las!aes, for obstructing a petty con-
stable ; John Phi:lips, 86 lashes, foe bringing a Ltrange
female into his master's house."

Benide!: .complaints of the Magistracy, and a repo,
titian of the Tory clamours about the war with
we find nothing of any account in these .Tournals.

In the Herald, Pus!, and Sun of last Saturday, a
ccnversation which took place between Mr. Divert and
the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the previous even-
ing., respecting some Spanish Claims, is erroneously
headed and described as referring to Danish at:ma ;
we beg, therefore, to rectify this error. In doing this,
we are called upon to notice the vexatious delay which
has taken place in the non-production of the Report of
the Commissioners on the Danish Claims of the third
class, which it appears has been most cruelly withheld
by the Treasury since the beginning of last month,
when it was forwarded from the office of the Commis-
sioners. On the Bth May. Mr. Cresswell was to have
moved that this Report be laid on the table of' the
House, and it was then understood that the Report
was to be presented to the House the following Tuesd.iy.
SUDBURY ELEcnoN.---.Mr. T'otalitie's return for
Sudbury was objected to at the moment ii was made
by the Mayor, on the vround that he had not allowed
time to nominate another candidate. It has since been
discovered that certain parties 'have bean guilty of
br:bery, the proof of which can be brought home.
and the return impeached. Some of the honest elec-
tors of Sudbury mean, therefore, on Friday, to present
a petition against the return, and they have no doubt
that Mr. Tomline's election will be declared nu!! and
void.

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laBnodre Embarked3cross.ed the
Desert from Cossier to the Nile and Alexandria ; retui rrnseclat
alter the conquest of Egypt, across the Decor': to India, when
he served or, Sir David Band's staff at Madras, Mal t I
t,) thats itairrir.isonprtoililuoltBeod9t,o
war, Ste., and returned with Si: David to Europe 1714ta
panied hip rsgi sent
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A t Gibraltar, in ISO 4, where, appointed Major ,if• the 48th
Lieutenant-Colo-
nelregiment, sertiecl in
on the field of battle at Talavera, where lie and his reg '-
merit did good service. Ordered home by a medical board,l
in consequence of extreme ill _health, the effects of service
in all climates, which he had nut quitted on !rave for a
single day. He was placed on the staff in England, an, I was
promoted to Major•Generttl in 15.39 ; since which lie has
served on the West India staff, and, in 183'J, was ret,soved front
Grenada to L7t. Helena, on the latter island being tratis7erred
to the British Government. I'he insufficiency of the means of
rewarding loug and distinguished services on the part of the
military authorities, cannot, perhaps, be better proved than in
this striking case.-- United S'erviee Gazelle.
AMERICA.—All is vast, solitary grandeur, in
the contemplation of which the mind becomes insensibly de-
pressed, at the consciousness, of its inability- to compass the
imposing magnitude of surrounding objects. I have heard
many persons, not natives of the country, make this obsei va-
tion ; and fur myself, I can bear ready testimony to its truth,
as applied not only to Canada, but generally to such parts of
the North American continent as I have visited. If you tra-
verse its vast lakes, if you' penetrate its deep pins-forests, if you
cross its wide-extending plains, nay, if you wandcr by the way-
side in the outskirts of its towns, you are alike struck vs ith a
sense of surpassing loneliness, with a sort of melancholy-, at
finding yourself an isolated unit, as it were, in the midst of a
space so large ; knowing, as yor do, in the one ease, that you
are not upon the ocean, and in the other, that you arena tread-
ing upon a newly-discovered soil T—Residen e in America.
JEDBURGII.--LORD ABERDEEN'S PILL.--
A public meeting of such of the inhabitants of this town and
vicinity as approved of the Bill brought into Parliament by
Lord Aberdeen for " removing doubts respecting the admission
of Ministars to benefices in Scotland," was he within the
Court-house here on
stat• the
Tuesda last, when Wm. Oliver Bother-
lard, Eml• • Sheriff of the county,was called to the cltair.
'The Sheriff,ll after b.' • object of the meeting,
ing-
called upon Major Oliver, who moved the first resolution, ap-
proving c,f the measure. The motion was seconded by Wm.
Ogilvie, -4F.
,1, of Chesters, and adopted unanimously. Peti-
tions to both Houses of Parliament, founded on the resolution,
were agreed to without a division. _Messrs. John Elliot and
William Rutherford, bankers, addressed the meeting in favour
of the Bill. The meet.understand,was thinly attended.
mg,
—Kelso Chronicle.
When a prisoner is to be examined, the best ad-
vice his counsel can give him is to practice effrontery, and as-
sume easy indifference, in order to insure a presumption of in•
nocenee in weak mans, perhaps those by whom he is to be
tried. This sometimes s:.
siiceerds,-inconceivable as it is, although
it is notorious—indeed, LID rational perron can 4e surprised that
the same hardihood which leads a man to an atrocious dived ac-
ciiolpanies him in his stratagems for denying it. Nevertheless,
the re-ai,sparition or mention of some things is too appalling
even for this Tobi,7 et erg fr;plz. The Judge, Mr. Justice
Buller, who tried the Sir T. Boughton, said after-
• .; poisoner of
wards in private society: rveii;:,, when laurel-water
was first mentioned Doneliatfaitet4td and convulsively grasppil
the 'oar, hot-4 that moment my :nind was made up. —John
Bull.