The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-15 00:00:00

his house." He is "an impudent dunce." Such
are specimens of the epithets applied. to Mr.
COBDEN in one leader by that genteelest of all
journals the Morning Post. What, then, may
Mr. COBDEN expect from the hardened and vul-
garjournalists of that same party ? He has already
attained a great eminence, otherwise so many
missiles would not be hurled against him. He
will soon, if the same progress continue, rise
above Mr. O'CONNELL, and be the very best
abused man in the empire. Verily he ought to
be much flattered by the attention paid him by
the landowners' scribes.

rt does not follow that because the President
of the UNITED STATES has rejected the Bank
Bill, there is, ther 'fort., an end of the measure,
in the sane way that there would be of a Bill
vetoed by the SOVEREIGN of these realms. By
the constitution of the United States the PRESI-
DENT can reject no Bill which has passed the
House of Representatives and the Senate with-
out stating his objections in a message to Con-
gress. These objections are subject to the deli-
beration of the Legislature, and if, after examin-
ing them, two-thirds of the Members of both
Houses persist in voting for the Bill, it then
becomes - law, without the concurrence of the
PEESID2.NT. By this regulation the veto can
merely delay, for a short time, the passing of any
measure deemed by the representatives of the
people essential to their social or commercial
interests.

The French Journals of Sunday have all
reached us. Much of their contents was antici-
pated in our afternoon Edition of yesterday. M.
ROTHSCHILD has returned to Paris, and it is sup-
posed that the French Minister of Finance will
be obliged to accept his offer of 75 per cent. for
one-half of the loan of 450 millions of francs at
three per cent., whiCh. the Chambers authorised
him to contract.. The credit of such a country
as France ought to be better than that of a pri-
vate individual, and it is deplorable to find-itthus
fixed according to the estimate of a money lender.
The following is the official account of the evacu-
ation of the Island Del Rey (Minorca), of which
so much has appeared in the Journals. We
quote it from the columns of the Moniteua :
Several of the journals have published inaccurate
statements of the circumstances relating to the resolution
taken by the King's Government to evacuate the small
island Del Rey, in the Balearic Islands. The following
is the true account :

" During several years the French Government occu-
pied that island in virtue of temporary leases which
were successively renewed by the Cabinet of Madrid, and
had established in it a depot of coals, for the supply of
the steamers, and an hospital for the invalids of the army
of Africa. The lease, concluded in 1839, was to expire
on the 3d instant.. • Nevertheless, no explanation had as
yet taken place on the subject between the two Govern-
ments, when, towards the close of July a despatch from
the Consul of France in the Balearic islands informed
the Minister of Foreign' Affairs, that the Governor of
Minorca had received an order from Madrid to come to
an understanding with the French Vice-Consul for the
evacuation of the island.
" The Minister for Foreign Affairs, who had reason
to be surprised at receiving through this indirect me,-.
dium the notification of the intentions of the Cabie,et of
Madrid, expressed viva voce to the Charge d'Afiaires of
Spain the astonishment which he felt at such a proceed-
ing. In reply to those observations, which M.:Hernan-
dez hastened to transmit to his Government, the Minis-
ter for Foreign Affairs of her Catholic Majesty,X. Gon-
zales, authorized that Charge d'Affaires to communicate
to the French Government a despatch, in which he for-
mally disclaimed all knowledge of the r.otification made
to the Vice-Consul at Mahon, and ass-Jring him that no
such order had been sent from Madri'j; that the Spanish
Government had, it was true, delibe-zated upon the expe-
diency of renewing the lease, 'and also whether the
wants of the Spanish military service in the Balearic
. Islands might not require th1 evacuation of the hospital
on the Island Del Rey, at a more or less proximate
period ; but that nothing had yet been decided on the
subject, and that, in all cases, the Regency would afford
every facility, and treat with all possible regard the
invalids which France might leave in the island. In an-
other letter, equally communicated by M. Hernandez,
M. Gonzales, reverting to the step, for which he could
not account, taken by the Governor of Mahon, an-
ti eunced that an inquiry was.about to be instituted, in
order to arrive at the source of this strange incident,
and, if necessary, to punish the guilty.
Shortly afterwards the same Minister verbally gave
the same explanation to the Charge d'Affaires of France
in Spain, and even added, that if the Government of the
King still wanted the island for its present use, the Go-
vernment of her Catholic Majesty was. disposed to re-
new the lease, and thereby to testify its gratitude for the
services which it had received, and still continued to re-
.ceive, from France.
" The Government of the King had, however, already
determined that the renewal of the lease should not be
called for, and that the hospital be given up within a
certain period. The Charge d'Affaires of France offi-
cially apprised the Cabinet of Madrid of this resolution."
Commercial- distress i 3 very general through-
out France. Among the latest failures is that of
M. GERVAIS, a Member of the Chamber of, be-
• puties. The number of his creditors (...,xceeds six
hundred, and it is supposed tiLat they will not
get above 25 per cent. irk liquidation of their
•j demands.

A quantity of arms and some political pam-
phlets were seized in Paris by the police in the
course of last week. These affairs are conducted
with none of the noise which at first distin-
guished them. The Government is grown wiser
than when it proclaimed to the world every in-
stance which it could either collect or fabricate
of popular disaffection.
The Moniteur of Sunday contains full de-
tails of the unfortunate disturbance which took
place at Macon, on the oth inst., and which we
announced y'esterday. The following account of
the affair is taken froin the Moniteui':—
SeriP,as disorders, but without any political character,
have broken out at Macon. For some time a certain
Aaber of parties have pretended to the exclusive right of
t.zoing the work of the port, and of admitting into their
body only these whom they pleased. Commercial people
complained of this, and of the high prices imposed on
them in consequence. The coopers of Macon, called
braes, encouraged by the drivers of carts and boat-
, men, resolved to have a share in loading and tin-
' loading wine casks from the boats. An order of the
Mayor, dated October, 1833, appreTad by the Minister,
ordered that persons recognised to be well behaved,
should be permitted by the Mayor to take part in
the work of the port. A register was kept, and medals
delivered to the porters entitled to work as such. Six.-
teen coopers demanded medals and permission, and there
was no reason for refusing them. The old porters de-
termined to prevent these coopers from working. On the
Bth they formed groups, and uttered menaces. The
authorities took precautions. On the 9th, beside the
National Guard, one hundred soldiers were posted in
the Hotel de Ville, and reinforced afterwards by one
hundred more. The gens d'armerie was also near. The Co-
lonels of the National Guard and of the line attended. The
parters were summoned, and the Mayor explained to them
how wrong their pretensions were, and how contrary to the
laws. The porters hearkened to these arguments, and at
last consented to share the work of loading and un-
loading boats with those newly inscribed. The Mayor's
adjoint and the officers repaired to the port, it being
abaut eight o'clock in the morning, to see the work
begun peaceably, and it was about to do so when the
wives of the porters, in number about twenty, raised a
clamour, and declared they would not let the coopers
work. The porters joined them—vociferation and vio-
lence increased, especially against the guard' of the port.
The Mayor ordered 60 soldiers out, and soon 100 more,
and several endeavours were made to clear the port. The
drums were then beaten, and the crowd summoned to dis-
perse. But the porters said they would die first, ere they
would yield or let the coopers work. The more sum-
monses were made, the Mayor and officers endeavouring
to persuade the crowd ; but the most violent flung them-
selves on the ground and refused to move. A little be-
fore some of them attacked the guard of the port, Tref-
fier, one of the assailants, being armed with a knife, and
it was with cliQiculty he was rescued. A fifth summons
was then made by the Mayor and adjoints, with their
scarfs on, and the people were told that the soldiers would
be ordered to clear the port with the bayonet. When
they proceeded to do this, the porters, armed with large
pieces of wood taken from the boats, attacked the sol-
diers of the 44th, who were in front, one Of them striking
a woman who was before him on the head and killing
her dead. A pistol, too, was fired from the crowd. The
troops then loaded and fired. Two of the porters were
shot, and the rest dispersed, and the soldiers afterwards
withdrew. Some stones were flung, one of which struck
Colonel Piot, of the National Guard, on the head and
wounded him. Tranquillity is restored. The work of
the port is resumed, and arrests have been made without
resistance.
The Emancipation of the 9th says:—" We learn from
good authority, that a considerable number of Spanish
Carlist refugees settled at Toulouse, who have the rank
of Sub-Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, or
Lieutenant-Colonel, or civil officers corresponding with
such rank, are making preparations to avail themselves
of the supplementary amnesty published by the Regent
Espartero on the Ist of this month?
The ladicateur de Bordeaux has the following letter
from Bazas :—"When the Prefect and the Attorney-
General arrived at Bazas order was restored. A barri-
cade had been erected on the preceding day, but was
immediately demolished by the gendarmerie. On the
following day some provocations were addressed to the
Commander of the detachments that had come from
Bordeaux ; thanks to the moderation of the troops, the
events that have taken place have not had any more fa-
tal consequences."
The Moniteur says that the troops will remain at
Bazas till the census is completed. Some persons have
been arrested.—Le Constitutionnel.
According to a letter from St. Jean Pied-de-Port of