The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-16 00:00:00

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ABROAD.
FOREIGN-COLONIAL.

—The speech of Lord Palmerston at Tiverton has
put our French contemporaries absolutely beside them-
selves with rage. The Commerce and the National of
Wednesday set no bounds to the outpouring of their
wrath. The National denounces us as a nation of as-
sassins, to whom the knife is more familiar than the
swotd in the subjugation of our enemies ; and, to in-
crease the dramatic effect of this charge, adds that the
murderers of the Emperor Paul were only successful when
they were supplied with an English scarf with which
they throttled the unhappy Monarch ! The National
does not sufficiently tax the credulity of its reader. Why
not boldly charge the English with the crucifixion of the
2,000 Tyrians who refused to surrender their city to
Alexander the Great ? Of course, it would give the 11a-
tional no trouble to prove that the British massalred the
Dutch at Amboyna, the Catholics at Bartholomew, the
Janissaries at Constantinople, and the Mamelukes in
Egypt. The National assumes as a well known fact the
hiring of assassins by England to kill Napoleon ; but
thanks to the well-tried loyalty of the French nation,
which so conspicuously surrounded the Throne of Louis
the Sixteenth and his heroic Queen—which clung in hiS
fall to the person and child of the Emperor7-the villains
did not succeed ! But respect for our national dignity
will not suffer us to retaliate the coarse and lying:ribaldry
of the French Republican press.
,Our greatness, our
glory, and our humanity rest on a basis so firm that the
world cannot shake it.

--- The Christian inhabitants of Candia, now in arms
against the tyranny of the Porte, have addressed a me-
morial to the Christian States of Europe, praying for
sympathy and support, and protesting against' the lan-
guage held out to them by the Consuls of England.
France, Russia, Austria, and Greece. This memorial
is well written, well reasoned, and well-timed. It will
be found in another column. May success attend on
the arms of the brave Candiotes !

The late treaty of the Five Powers puts an end to
the treaty of Unkiar Skellessi. The Straits of the Bos-
phorus and the Dardanelles are now closed to ships of
war of all nations.

The State of Baden is about to increase the import
duty on British manufactures. Another blessed effect of
our Corn-laws.

AT HOME.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Among the new paintings that have been lately added
to the National Gallery is one by Raphael, which has
been valued at five thousand guineas.
The Echo du Nord states the extraordinary fact
that a woman of the Commune of Berlaimont in that de-
partment, has been " twice delivered of twins within the
last eight months and a half !" This is multiplying
quite at railway speed, and shows a genius for propaga-
tion wholly unrivalled !
The Sheffield Patriot states that during a heavy
thunder. storm on Thursday week, " hundreds of small
fishes descended with the rain. Many of them were
picked up alive." Had this been a shower of loaves as
well as fishes, of the right sort, the Tories would have
been delighted to have been caught in it !
On Sunday last three old ladies were robbed of
their watches during Divine service at the chapel in Old
Quebec-street by a pious stranger. Barrington, the no-
torious pickpocket, used to say that there was always a
great deal of excellent business to be done, in his line,
at churches and chapels during prayer-time ; and this
is a case in point.
A respectable Catholic of the city of London lately
made arrangements for apprenticing his son to a jeweller.
The premium was settled, the matter all but completed,
when the worthy jeweller discovered the enormity of the
young man's religion, and refused to admit him.
The Church-rates at Hackney are again the sub-
ject of high contention. The Church party had brought
up many ladies, and much of their strength. Yester-
day's five o'clock poll gave—for the rate, 53 persons
giving 89 votes ; against the rate, 55 persons giving 68
votes. The poll closes at five to-day (Friday).
—On Thursday morning about fifty yards of the
tunnel at Fareham, on the Gosport Branch Railway,
fell in. This accident will, perhaps, postpone the open-
ing of this branch for two months.
The population of Bath has increased since the last
census,,in 1831, only about 4 per cent, while other towns
of a similar description have increased from 20 to 30 per
cent. The tyrannical conduct of the clergy, and the war
against theatres and coacerts, have driven away many of
the regular visitors.