The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-07 00:00:00

haps they be upheld by many Anti-Corn-
law MemberS who have a much more jus-
tifiable ,horror of '.war of all kinds, and the two
together may possibly shake the Ministers, and
II give the Tory landlords an ascendancy in the
councils of the State. The Tories, detestable hy-
pocrites though they be, will but labour in their vo•
cation of endeavouring to turn public indignation
1 from themselves ; but we hope that no Anti-Corn-
law Meiqber will be gulled by their hypocrisy into
helping the Tories. If the Tory politicians who
annually;doom multitudes of our people to a pain-
ful and lingering death, who foster national animo-
sities in every quarter by their accursed and selfish
restrictions, shall pretend to oppose the demonstra-
. tion against China on the score of morality and hu.
they will deserve to be branded as the
MM..
,crires that ever disgraced the history
irreatest nyt,_ ,
of mankind. NV n,. the words of kindliness on their
t'
1 lips, their hearts are bey,; on tyranny, and every
friend of hurnanisy who aids the Corn-law Tories
pro;ress of
will plant a deadly Wavy at the
civiliza-
tion and at the liberties of mantiind.

Th 9 French Journals of Thursday bring no neltr of
interest. The correspondent of a I\l•.rseilles Peper
writes as folloics from Alexandria, under date of the
22d ult.:—
ANGLO-RUSIAN ALLIANCE.---it is generally believed
here the the Anglo- Ruc,sian alliance will be but a dream,
and that M. Ot,.iot's appointment as Ambassador and M.
Tillers' nomination al Minister will tend in a great mea-
sure to ally the Cabinets of London and Paris, and that the
v-ell-known energy of the latter will be put forth in order
to bring the Oriental question to a solution. Lord Pal-
mcrston's policy is strongly commented upon, and already
important conc:_ssions are said to have been made to the
opinion of France. Mehemet Ali still maintains his im-
posing position, anti is ably seconding France. The ulti-
matum will be that Constantinople and Alexandria will be
left to resume their primitive position.
It is reported in one of the Paris papers that the
Committee on the African War Supplementary Credit
Bill, has voted by a majority of eight to one, to reduce
the grant proposed by the Government. In fact what
we all along foresta..l has at last come to pass. The
French tax-payers arc growing tired of the African war
hobby. It is something like the fleet, isasrnuch as it
costs more than it is really worth. War with a people
who have nothing to lose, and ships without commerce,
are capital modes of getting expeditiously to the bottom
of the public purStl.
It was rumoured that the King of NAPLES would
send an Envoy Extraordinary to London to settle the
Sulphur question.
Several letters from Algiers, published in the journals
of Marseilles, insist on the uselessness of the great display
of force made by Marshal Vallee for the occupation of
Cherchell ; and one of them observes that in 1832 the
Duke of Rovigo had thought it sufficient to send thither a
steam=boat with one battalion and some field pieces.
It is certain that the clearest result of this great move-
ment of troops male at the season when the rain set in,
after having let the soldietq remain inactive during several
weeks of fine weather, has been to send several hundreds
of them to the hospital.
We have no news from Madrid to-day, the express
which brought news of the 28th having anticipatc4 the
ordinary mail. The Eco de .Aragon of the 30th Marti)
likewise brings nothing new. At Bayonne, on the 31st,
the apprehension of the projected revival of the new civil
war in Navarre began to subside. It had been checked
by the arrest of several of she principal Carlist officers,
such as Elio and Alzaa, who had quitted their residence, in
obedience, it is said, to the express order of Don Carlos.—
Le Commerce.
MILAN, APRIL I.—The last letters from Valetta (in
Malta) announced that a sinking of the earth at the dis-
tance of six miles from that town, in the environs of
Cresade, near Malcuba, had caused several heaps of enor-
mous stones, which seem to have been raised by the 'mad
of man, to give way, discovering the entrance to two vast
caverns, in each of which there is a building, divided into
three parts, and erected on foundations of Cyclopean ar-
chitecture. In these buildings there have been found a
great number of skeletons of men and animals, several
agricultural instruments, vases, and other utensils, and nine
grotesque idols, eight of which are of stone, and in perfect
preservation, but the ninth is of terracotta, and muti-
latb.s.4. These figures, except that they are of very small
dimensions, resemble the large statue of Bacchus lately
which is in the Bourbon Museum at.
NapiMotif! at Pompeii,
eii,have seen these caverns
Naples. Antiquaries v..l'?
agree in thinking die. they ara tombs 7
. The Government
in all the
of Malta have ordered excavtitiktfrttet !se rna,:„
surrounding country, and interesting ojseochltiel Ore ex-
pected.—La Gazette de France.
M. LEEEVRE'S RETURN TO ARYSSINIA..—M. Lefevre,
natal ()Meer, who was sent last year to explore that
country, arrive=d at AleNandi ia on the 15th of March, and
left on the 17th on lsoird trf *be French packet. He has
with him four Abyssinians, who red to study at Rome, and
afterwards at Paris. One of these emignint, is a doctor
of laws, another a military chief, having under dig ceders
1,000 horsemen. The youngest of the four is abacit
twentyatase years of age, speak& French pretty fluently,
having. learned the lartglsege from an English Missionary.,
44 who, not having succeeded ift tmaehing bins his.own, had
Vett obliged to resort to anather, ltt order to make use of
him as an ittterisreter. . M. Lefeiregi Coottranions, Drs.
Petit and Dillon, reffiated at Adoa, the capital Tigre,
whence they have forwarcig so the Museum at Palm a
pretty rich colleetion of objects of iiist.val history.

It appears from a petition presented to House
of Commons last bight, that the Lord Chamberlain, in>
stigated no doubt by the ebelrli, has issued an order
by which all the patent theatres shay! ha closed during
Passion week, even for lectures or educatiotitti purposes.
Mr. Nott..:ll for years has been in the habit of .oving
lectures on astronomy at the Opera-house, chiefly far
the amusement and instruction of the juvenile popula-
lation during the holidays, and had engaged the house
months ago for this purpose, little expecting thrtt the pre-
l'cnt Lord Chamberlain ,vould commit such an act otirtit.
Lice, bigotry, and absurdity. This conduct appears utterly
incomprehensible. At the Surrey and several other tiled.
tres, Jack Sheppard, or any play of an immoral ten-
dency, may be performed during Lent, while at the
theatres under the jurisdiction of the Crown and the
Church, it is forbidden to describe the heavenly bodies,
and instruct the youthful mind in a science which,
more than all the sciences togc4„her, tends to raise the
thoughts to the contemplation and worship of the
Creator of the universe. We always considered that
Mr. Howell deserved great credit for his exertions in
disseminating this important science. The Bishop of
London it appears, however, is of a different opinion ;
for to trim alone is to.he,:tattributed a mandate more
sbsorcl and' tyratili*atithan:,aby issued even by Com-
misskyritt tin. Cann-at the acivernment see what in-
jury. ihey,4o tblir canse by- deferring so often to the
opinion of ,a despotic iiishop:? The question will be
Irron#ht before the House ,ell:Commons on Thursday by
Mr,: r. poncpmbe,,_ tt is to be hoped common
sense and justice' 1 111 'prevail. The petition will be
found in another part of The Sun.
Tire :Trimblestown v. Kemmis (Roebuck Estate,
Ireland) cause, haa.come to the House of Lords by
Writ of Error from the Common Pleas and Exche-
q,46# ;Clianittertln Ireland. Wo understand the pro-
perty:inve*ed in the
.question is of the value of half a
million ! Sir William Follett and Sergeant Wilde are
retained for.the.-appellant, Lord Trimblestown.