The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-22 00:00:00

9 JULY 22, N4l.

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ABROAD.
FOREIGN-COLONIAL.

The Paris Journals of Monday are much divided
in opinion as to the share the Government has had in
provoking the disturbances at Toulouse. The Presse
and the Ministers throw all the blame on M. MAW,
because he had not the courage to remain at his post
after the populace had convinced him that they were re-
solved to knock his'brains out. M. Mahul was so unfit
a subject for political martyrdom, that at the end of the
first stage of his journey to Paris, after his escape, he

was so paralysed with terror that he had to be lifted
into the diligence. Nor had his knees ceased to knock
together, and his teeth to rattle with fear, when he

reached Paris.

The political rat Plougoulm, the Attorney-General,
escaped over the roof of his house, and hid himself un-
der a bed in a neighbouring apartment, till the
presence of the troops assured him that, however
worthy to the exaltation of a lamp-post, he
would not yet be called upon to give France such a proof
of his past devotion to the service of King Louis Phi-
lippe at the expense of humanity and the laws. The
French Government is a little too hard upon these fugi-
tive functionaries. Were the King and his Ministers
severally requested to cite those instances of chivalrous
attachment to former Governments in which they braved
the terrors of death rather than forego the dangers im-
posed upon them by their allegiance, their answer, we
opine, would consist of a series of very wry faces.
The inhabitants of Toulouse were quiet on the
17th, but a rumour prevailed that they were collecting
powder and shot, in anticipation of a " scrimmage " with
the newly appointed authorities and the troops of the
line. The Provisional Prefect hearing this, prohibited
the sale of gunpowder, and seized what remained in the
stores of the dealers. Troops from all directions were
marching upon the city. If the Government provoke
more bloodshed in Toulouse, Heaven only knows where
the slaughter may terminate. Neer was the French
Government in a worse condition to•stem the torrent of
a revolutionary outbreak than at this moment, when its
home and foreign policy are alike unpopular. The
disaffection throughout France, though apparently silent,
is deep-seated and wide-spread.
Paris was visited on Sunday morning by a dreadful
hurricane. Many trees round the capital were torn up
by the roots, and the crops dreadfully injured.
On the 10th ult. a similar hurricane swept over
Moscow, unroofing 252 houses, and partially destroying
the Great Theatre, the Naval Hospital, the Riding
School, and the Convent of the Epiphany.
—. It appears that the Englishman Lilycrap, who was
seized at Boulogne with an infernal machine, and sent
to Paris to be examined, visited France in the loyal
capacity of a regal auxiliary. His purpose was not to
shoot the King with his machine, but to sell his Majesty,
at a reasonable rate, a weapon for shooting his disaffected
subjects. Lilycrap, therefore, instead of being classed
with Fieschi and Alibaud, will figure in the future Court
calendars of France with the inventors of culverins,
muskets, red het shot, shells, and other right
loyal instruments of mob destruction. It is dis•
tressing to have to add that when Lilycrap's de-
votion to the King was made known to his Parisian
Judges, instead of recommending him to the Minister of
War as a formidable Opponent of the Times' protege,
Mr. Warner, they merely told him that the Government
ceased to be at the charge of his lodging, boarding, and
personal attendance.
The addresses of the Council and Legislative As-
sembly of the United Provinces of Upper and Lower
Canada, in answer to Lord Sydenham's speech from the
Throne at the opening of the first session of the United
.Provincial Parliament, have reached us. As they are
merely echoes of his Lordship's speech, which ap-
peared in The Sun, we shall not inflict such a mass of
common-place repetitions upon the patience of our
readers. Throughout the addresses the legislative bodies
promise to perform all that Government deemed it pro-
per-to ask them to do, either in relation to themselves or
the mother country. They are angry about the deten-
tion of Mr. M'Leod by the Government of New
York—eager for cheap postage—ready to promote
public works—as willing to borrow money as
Great Britain is to lend it, and, on the score
of repaying interest, they beat England hollow in indif-
ference—have no objection to the diffusion of the
blessings of reading and writing among good little
boys and girls promise the necessary sup-
plies for the purposes of Government invite
emigrants to settle among them—and, in a word, are as
complying with the demands, recommendations, and sug-
gestions of the Noble Governor-General, as Sir Robert
Peel promises to be to the Queen, if her Majesty will
only trust her Royal counsels to the guidance of the To-
ries. New-born loyalty is always the hottest.
From the Spanish capital we have news of the
13th, announcing that the Spanish Government is about
to raise a fresh loan of sixty millions of reels at
6 per cent. We can hardly suppose that any
capitalist out of Spain will be so dishonest
or so foolish as to subscribe a single real of any loan
henceforth created by the Spanish Government. If there
be such capitalists they richly deserve to lose their mo-
ney, and to be branded as swindlers into the bargain.
Madame Laffarge's new trial is positively fixed for •
the sth of August.

AT HOME.
MISCELLANEOUS.

—By the statute 22 Henry VIII. persons unable to
work were furnished with licenses to beg within certain
districts, and if they were found begging without such
license they were to be set in the stocks for three days
and three nights, and fed only on bread and water, or
else whipped. Persons being " whole and might) in
body, and able to labour," and found begging, were to
be whipped at the cart's-tail till blood came, and then
dismissed to their own districts.

The present High Sheriff of the county of Chester,
John Ryle, Esq., a partner in the Macclesfield bank,
appears in the Gazette as a bankrupt, and yet has to
attend the coming assizes as the representative of
Majesty !