The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-23 00:00:00

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The whole of the French Journals of Friday
and Saturday have reached us. The French
Government press appears resolved to realise,
with regard to Spain, isop's fable of the wolf
and the lamb quenching their thirst at the same
stream. The Constitutionnelwas last week com-
pelled to admit the falsehood of the charge against
ESPARTERO of expelling the wounded soldiers of
France from an hospital; but now the Presse
comes down with the discovery that though
the REGENT did nothing of the sort, he certainly
intended it ! Nay, the correspondence be-

ween his Highness and Lord PA LMERSTON

to that effect was seen by somebody, told it
somebody, who repeated it where it could
not fail to reach the cars of the Editor of

the Presse ! Then, again, England is accused
of intriguing with Spain to wheedle France into
the ruinous meshes of a commercial treaty with
Belgium ! Can human absurdity surpass this,
or can national jealousy descend to the utterance
of more unmitigated nonsense? What extrava-
gant ideas the French Journalists must entertain
of the gullibility of their readers !

Spain, however, has something to fear
from those arrant misrepresentatiOns of
the Fron _Prgss_ 3,K,lbicll tEnglanci. cYAckveld
counter-revolution at Madrid that the French
Journals thus indulge in all sorts of calumnies.
ESPARTERO has, indeed, the greatest need to be,
upon his guard. France wants to degrade Spain
to the condition of a French province.
The following extracts from these journals will
be found interesting.

News of the date of the 17th of July have been re-
ceived from Tiflis , which says that the Turkish city of
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Bayazid had been swallowed up by an earthquake ; but
this news requires confirmation.
The Viscount de Chateaubrian has arriv ed at Paris,
The nomination of some new Peers is spoken of,
among whom Admiral Laland, Marshal Sebastiana, and
M. Fould, are mentioned. M. Cochin, lately deceased, was
to have been one of the ntunher--La Gazette de France.
Lowest last
BOURSE—Pmus,pliSririAcsetTUltareSiArgihl;e:s:
French 5 per Cents ll6 40 ... lid 50 ... 1 6 35 ... 116 50
43 per Cents _,.. 105 50 ... 105 SO ... 105 50 ... 105 50
4 per Cents 99 70 ... 99 70 ... "8 70 .. 99 70
3 per Cent,. ex. die 77 35 . 77 45 ... 77 35 ... 17 45
Bank of Prance
Latlitte Bank 1,600 t. St ares 1i•40 ...1('-10
~,11 40
...it4o
5,01:01. Stares 5,25 •••51 )5 -.51:5 ...5/25
Roman Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
... loayi .. itsq
New Loan 113% ••• 1' 3% .. lea
... 1,3%
3 per Cent., 7l 49 ... 71 40 ... 71 40 ... 71 40 i
Dutch 21y, per Cents. SN ••• L 2% ... 5254 ... 5v1,4
,i,...Histi At Ave .l ... 21 ... ...0, ... •.(N
Palenvp 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4,4
New DeferrNi
Neapolitan
Boman -•• '12% - INN ... 102% ... 1C2%
ktAILWAI ...1-I,i'lift,
3t Germain
'tousa
Orte.di, .
Strasbure to Bale 237 5 ..%37 50 ... 237 50 . 237 50 t

Madrid Papers of the 14th inst. have reached
us. In the Senate the different items of the
Budget were voted without opposition. The re-
ceipts of the revenues for the month of July
show a balance ,of income over the expenditure
to the amount of 4,032,756 reals.
The Eco del Comercio, after denouncing to the indig-
nation of the Spanish people the culpable manoeuvres of
the " ridiculous and lachrymose Court of the Palace of
Christina, in the Rue de Courcelles," and plans and in-
trigues of the ex-Queen against their liberties, adds, "Let
us consider the personages who were present. at the first
levee held by the ex-guardian, and it will be found that
they were all ardent absolutists, and that the plans
which they are concocting, but which their very
folly will fortunately render abortive, have for their
object to bring us back to the wild times of 1814
and 1823, when every firm and courageous Liberal I
was hunted, pursued, proscribed, and sent to the
galleys or to the garotte. We should bear in mind
that shameful period, and be on our guard, in order
to defeat the projects of the absolutists of every de-
scription, and preserve the country and our institutions
from evils which they are again seeking to entail on
Spain."
The Five per Cents. were done on the I3th 24 5-16
for cash, and at 244 7-16 25k, at different dates. Or.
the 14th they sold for 24i for cash, and 24 9-16 at 60
days.

THE LIBERATION OF FEARGUS

O'CONNOR.
The following letter was received in town this
morning, and will no doubt be read with delight
by Mr. O'Connor's friends :
" TO MR. JOHN CLEAVE.
" York Castle, Sunday.
"My dear Cleave,—An order has just arrived
for my immediate liberation, in consequence of
a medical application ; but I find that I cannot
prudently leave my coffin before Monday week,
the 30th of August, ‘vhe,i at one o'cbck I walk
out in fustian. " Yours very sincerely,

" F. O'CONNOR."

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. THE REGISTRATION.--It SIMUId not be for-
gotten that Wednesday next, Aug. 25, will be the last
day for leaving with the overseers objections to county
electors. The Tories bestow much attention on those
matters ; and the friends of Reibrm should not suffer
themselves to ha surpassed by their political adversaries.
It is known to our readers that Lord Walde-
grave and Captain Duff have been sentenced to impri-
sonment in the Queen's Bench prison for a violent outrage
on a policeman. A few days since a statement appeared
in a Morning Co-temporary, embodying affidavits in-
tended
to prove that Captain Duff had no active part in 1
the cruel outrage ; and upon such representations a me-
morial
to her Majesty, praying a remission of sentence,
was founded. 'We understand that the prayer of the .
memorial has not been granted, the Secretary of State
for the Home Department having, upon a full considera-
tion
of all the circumstances, declined to interfere with
the sentence of the Court.—Observer.

AND

Z3tCblic

" 117io runs null read."

FOIZIEXGN.

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Public opinion in Paris is still occupied by the Census,
and the progress of events in the Peninsula. The Minis-
terial journals state that the Government has triumphed
in the South. The Messager announces officially that
the census is now taken with little or no opposition at
Ceret, at Perpignan, at Saint Livrade, at Toulouse, at
Villefranehe, at Bordeaux, at Lille, and at Evreux. The
correspondence of the Liberal journals from several of
these towns proves the incorrectness of. the official
statement.

Some of the French papers have got it into their
head 3 that England is intriguing to prevent a com-
mercial union between Belgium and France. This is
of a piece with the fabrication about Lord Palmerston
compelling Espartero to expel the French from the
Island Del Rey (Minorca). But it serves for an excuse
for the expectoration of fresh venom against England.
The Courrier Francais is as red• hot in favour of the
beef-monopoly in France, as the Post is for the bread-
monop ily in England. There are seasons when all good
Catholics eschew the sinfulness of eating beef, but the
Courrier stoutly contends for the iniquity of eating
cheap beef at any season.

The Journal des Debats renews its attacks upon the
Spanish Regency, and, to the utmost of its power, tries
to bring about a revolution in Spain in favour of Queen
Christina. There can be no doubt that these attacks on
the Regency are made with the entire concurrence of the
French Court.

The Emperor of Morocco is preparing to kick up a
a bobbery in the Mediterranean. His Majesty has armed
a fleet of two brigs and as many schooners, which are to
make war on the flags of all nations who are not represented
at the Court of Fez. Russia, Prussia, Mecklenburg, the
Hanse Towns, and Sardinia, are to be the first objects
of Imperial vengeance. It is a pity that so puissant a
naval power as Morocco is prevented by treaties from
attacking Russia in the Black Sea. The appearance of
the two brigs and two schooners off Odessa, in presence
of Russia's twenty sail.of the line, would doubtless con-
tribute more to the • mirth than the terror of the inhabi-
tants.

The Spanish Government has taken the very unneces-
sary- trouble to contradict officially the absurd rumour that
Espartero had addressed to Lord Palmerston the letter
which we some time since quoted as a Carlist
fiction from a French Legitimist Journal. For our-
selves, we denounced the letter from the outset as a
very poor hoax, and so, without exception, did the whole
of our Contemporaries. But we suppose that in Spain
Journalists arc more credulous, and that a contradiction
was necessary to tranquillize the public mind, everywhere
so jealous of supposed British influence.

The Austrian Minister, Count de Bombelles, has been
ordered by Prince Metternich to inform the Swiss Diet
that the disputes of the Cantons, if continued, will end
in breaking up the Federal compact. His Imperial Ma-
jesty will not allow the Convent of Muni to be sup-
pressed, and herein he is supported by Russia, Prus-
sia, and France. Of all independent States Switzerland
has the least share in regulating either its external or
internal policy. It is never out of the harness of one or
other of the great Continental Powers.

PUBLIC 01:-.22VION.

The Chronicle, in a long article interspersed with quo-
tations from Tory and Tory-Radical Journals, says—
"By one set of politicians the Whigs are blamed for not
having come forward with the repeal of the Corn-law
during the ten years of their ministry; and by another
they are blamed for bringing forward at all a measure
calculated to ruin them as a party. These two sets of
politicians may both be said to be in the wrong. The
Whigs, aware of the difficulties attending the corn mono-
poly, might wish to bring it forward only when the gene-
ral conviction of the impolicy of the law might facilitate
its abolition ; but when they found not only po-
litical economists, bank directors, and leading
merchants expressing the opinion that the corn mono-
poly was ruinous to the country, and threatened a Bank
suspension ; but the manufacturers throughout England
and Scotland *complaining of the ruin which hung over
their heads, they may have deemed it irreconcileable
with their duty to hesitate any longer to propose a
liberal budget. This is the fair way of viewing the
question, and we can understand why a Tory should
misrepresent their motives ; but we cannot so easily un-
derstand why a paper professing a regard for liberal
commercial principles, should gloat, as it were, with
evident satisfaction on their failure to accomplish a praise--
worthy object."
What is most culpable in the conduct of the Whigs is,
that they delayed their commercial reforms till they had
lost by their finalit3- measures the confidence of the
_ .nelr fr";., ." '
ries they sn,”•;n,-,,,t that trust which the people repOsed
in them as the authors and champions of the Reform
Bill. Had Ministers brought forward their present
measures five years ago, they would have been carried
with a shout of triumph which would have resounded
from the banks of the Thames to those of the Mississippi.
The Times, which only a few weeks ago lauded to the
skies Lord Palmerston's Oriental policy, now blames his
Lordship for keeping so far aloof from the counsels
of France. The Times forgets its own lessons of a few
days back, about the delicacy due to successors in
office by an expiring Cabinet. Referring to the reconci-
liation of the Porte and the Pacha, the Times observes:—
" The reconciliation of the Porte and the Pacha is perhaps
not so sincere as it seems the former is not so con-
fiding, nor the latter so weak, as to lay aside all
mistrust and all precautions. The chance of Me-
hemet's death may have some weight at Constanti-
nople, and the probability of the young Sultan's pre-
mature decay is not without interest at Alexandria.
But it is impossible that the Divan should fail to
perceive that the union of the forces of the empire
is the sole means by which its internal authority and its
external security can be maintained. The policy of Rus-
sia first contrived to instigate the Pacha against the
Ports, and then to assist the Porte against the Pacha ;
and the consequence has been the entire subjection of
both parties to the dictates of a conference, in which a
Russian Minister played no insignificant part. If that sub-
jection was to be perpetual, or even to be mach prolonged,
the moral power of the Ottomans would have been en-
tirely dissipated ; the disaffection and 'rebellion of the
dependent races in the various provinces would have
broken out into general revolution ; and the dissensions
arising out of the melancholy condition of the empire
must have hastened the advancement of Russia's designs.
To these disastrous consequences the union of the Sultan
and his powerful vassal appears to us to offer the only
real mode of resistance. The mutual interest of Turkey
and of Egypt is obviously to support each other."
The Morning Herald, which on all occasions deems
itself especially called upon to watch with jealous vigi-
lance the honour of the British Crown, has the follow-
ing remarks on the question of M'Leod's trial at Utica
by the authorities of the State of New York :7-." Mr.
Fox is instructed to demand his passport only in the
event of the authorities of New York daring to carry any
judgment on Mr. M'Leod into effect. Why, the impri-
sonment and the trial constitute the outrage on the ho-
nour of Great Britain ; the application of any punish-
ment awarded against Mr. M'Leod is a purely personal
matter. The breach of British rights and the viola-
tion of international law have been made, and Mr. Fox's
presence at Washington, while Mr. M'Leod is tried
at Utica, will be nothing less than an invitation
to hang and galvanise that unfortunate gentleman
"Mr: Fox has demanded Mr. M'Leod's immediate re-
lease ; Mr. Webster has declared that if he possessed
the power he would comply with that demand ; and
by the latest advices it appears that the latter has
entreated the Governor of the State of New York
to deliver his prisoner into the custody of the
Supreme Court of the United States ; on compliance
with which a nolle prosegui would be at once entered,
and Mr. M'Leod thereon discharged. The material
questions, then, are, will the British Crown bow
before the Majesty of the State of New York ? Or
will it assert in practice the dignity of the public law in
regard to the relations of the union with foreign States
so ably laid down by Mr. Fox in his note of March 12,
1841 ?" Of whom does the Herald ask these questions?
Of Lord Melbourne or Sir Robert Peel ? If of the
former will the Tories consent to forego office till the
Whig Premier can give effect to his answer ?
The Morning Advertiser, which follows in the wake
of The Sun, in attributing to bad laws much of the mi-
series of the working classes, says :—" Pauperism exists
to a frightful extent. What of that ? Enact Poor-laws,
and billet the victims of unjust legislation on the industry
which survives accumulated wrong. Not a word about
measures to decrease the infernal evil. The people are
doubly taxed and half paid ; a sense of wrong inflames
them, as at Dudley, last week ; not a thought of dispers-
ing the inflammation : strike it inward, by calling out
the police, and bringing in the dragoons. Because the
beast is restive under his heavy load, clap
ancii7er
burden upon his back. What if it break ; or what if the
beast cast off its burdens I No matter, "That will not
happen in our time, our successors must look to that."
And so goes on legislation at the wrong end ; and there
is no end to Wrong-end legislation. Never ending, still
beginning ; but the upshot will be, that the people will
at length take the work of legislation into their own

Another event has also excited much interest in
that quarter, from the daring conduct of a marauding
party of slaves and stray Indians, amounting to 600, who
hack taken up their abode on the frontiers of Arkansas
and Missouri. Three troops of dragoons and a company of
infantry, with two guns, were sent against them ; and
after a severe contest captured or killed nearly the whole
of them.

The foundation of the monument to the memory of
the late Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, was laid by the
Duke of Buccleuch at Langholm last Friday.

varractuns or THE DAY.
A matrimonial alliance is said to be on the lapis
between the Prince of Bavaria and the- Princess Mary,
daughter of Prince William of Prussia. .

SUICIDE.—This morning Mr. Higgs the gCo-
roner for Westminster, received information of the
b
suicide of Mr. J. B. Toussaint, wax candle manufacturer
to the Queen, at present residing at 3, King-street, St.
James's It appears that Mr. Toussaint va; rebuilding
his premises on a very extensive scale, and had taken the
house in King-street as a temporary occupation. On
Friday evening he went out walking for about two
boars ; and, on his return home went up stairs to
bed, without taking his supper, which was a most unu-
sual circumstance. At four the next morring, the boy
who sleeps in the shop, and who had .heard his master
.. down iii
and not Cowin
walking about during the night, saw him come in, and
pace up and down for r,ome minutes, but said nothing.
He returned to his bed-room,
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the usual hour one of the servants went to call him at
eight o'clock, but receiving no answer the door was
opened, and he - was found suspended to the bedstead by
two silk handkerchiefs. He was cut down, and medical I,
assistance procured, but he was quite dead.