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TI-I K SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1841

that Mr. O'CoNNELL has thought proper to ad-
dress a long exposition of Ireland's wrongs to the
Hon. Mr. SMYTHE ? Does he hope to make a
convert of the Hon. Member for the city of Can-
terbury to the cause of Ireland; or is this long
letter an overture to the new PREMIER ? We ask
these questions, because there seems to us some-
thing strange in the proceeding, and because we
know that Mr. O'CONNELL can have no wish to
leave his real views at all doubtful.

It will be seen from our report of the proceed-
ings at the Croydon Assizes yesterday that a
poor man, after an arduous and protracted con-
test, has at last defeated a Lord. The poor man,
whose name is PUNTER, was turned out of his
cottage by Lord GRANTLEY. He considered he
had as much right to the freehold as his Lord-
ship, and, with the assistance of sonic neighbours,
who took an interest in the case, and the ex-
cellent advocacy of Sergeant SHEA, he has tri-
umphed. What will the renegade Tory Judge
who once tried the case, say to this ? On that
occasion he summed up in fitvour of the Noble
Lord, and treated the claims of the plaintiff with

contempt. The Jury yesterday were of a diffe-
rent opinion ; they were guided, too, by a Judge
who has always been consistent, and who is an
honour to the Bench, and they returned a ver-
dict in favour of the plaintiff, for the amount
claimed. If the tenure by which certain Noble
Lords and Ladles hold their vast estates were to
be tried by the same rule which the CIIIEP
BARON laid down for the decision of PUN.
TER'S claim, one half of -them would be dispos-
sessed of their property. Many of them have
no title deeds to show; they claim, like PUN-
TER, right from continued possession; and a
discreet Judge, therefore, would not have
mooted a question which involves such fearful
consequences. But upstart Peers and renegade
politicians are dangerous counsellors, and .so
the Jury thought when they returned a -Verdict
directly opposed to the decision Of Lord ABINGER.

We anticipated in our afternoon edition of yes-
terday the news contained in the French Jour-
nals of Monday. The following details of the
riot at Bordeaux, from the Memorial Bordelais
of the 14th inst., are sufficiently interesting to
claim insertion in our columns :
" Disturbances, of which it is impossible to appreciate
the true character, took place here (Bordeaux) in the
night of the 12th inst. Some say that they had their
origin at the theatre ; others assert that for some clays
past certain persons had been endeavouring to excite
them, and that the vote of the Municipal Council on the
subject of the census was considered by them as admi-
rably suited to their purpose. We regret to say that
these persons found a great number disposed to listen to
them, and for an instant there was reason to fear that
the tranquility of our city was seriously menaced. Groups
assembled on different points, and uttered cries in the
front of the houses of some of the municipal councillors;
their doors were also violently struck, and stones were
said to have been thrown at the windows, the pertur-
bators withdrew only in presence of an armed force.
The disturbances were renewed yesterday evening, and
the number of the rioters was greater than on the
preceding night. Lamps were broken, doors were
forced open, and dreadful menaces were made against
the members of the Municipal Council. All these dis-
turbances lasted for a long time before the armed force
interposed. We hope the authorities will in future dis-
tribute their force better, and adopt all necessary mea-
sures to prevent a recurrence of such tumults." The
same journal states that a disturbance took place at the
theatre on the evening of the 12th instant, on the occa-
sion of the debut of a young performer. " After listening
patiently during the first two acts of Lucie, the public,"
says the Memorial Bordelais, "rose en masse to protest
against the too evident want of power of the debutant.
We do not know what the stage manager came forward
and said at the commencement of the third act, for the
noise was so great that it was impossible to hear any-
thing. A Commissary of Police thought fit to order the
theatre to be cleared. We think the public had a right
to express their disapprobation, and are not surprised at
hearing that the subscribers intend to protest against the
conduct of the Commissary on this occasion."
The people of Germany appear to evince some
curiosity to inspect the person of the warlike
M. THIERS, who is now sojourning among them.
The following graphic description of his inter-
view with M. HOFPMANN, is from the Journal de

Frankfort:—
. THE BANKS OF Tilt MAINE, AVG. 13.—M. -Thiers
met at Cologne M. Ernest Emile Hoffmann, deputy of
Hesse Darmstadt. M. Hoffmann invited him to dine at the
table d'hote, saying that all were desirous of seeing him.
He answered " But, Sir, I do not travel to show myself."
" It is true, said the Deputy, " but others travel to
see you. You are a Frenchman, and as such you
should be polite, and not withdraw. M. Hoffmann had
engaged M. Thiers to change his plan of travelling,
and pass by Arnsberg and Cassel. He told him he was
deceiving himself, if he thought any propaganda would
dispose the Rhenish population to a union with France.
Be assured, said he, in case of a war, we will all march,
and I among the first, against France. Whoever has
told you the contrary, has told an untruth. We like to
see France great, and the friend of Germany, but we
will not submit to her despotism. Revolutions are not
spontaneous, they are brought on forcibly by the
tyranny of Governments. There remains much to be
desired in Germany, but we expect all in time. Loyal
men repudiate revolutionary means, and all Germany
partake their opinion. It is mine. You have had the
prudence to keep silence, and you only listen." M.
Thiers smiled, but did not speak. M. Hoffmann fur-
nished every body with an opportunity to speak to M.
Thiers, and all were delighted with his language and
mannors.

The Courier Francais has a querulous article
on Spanish ingratitude and English busy-
bodyism. This Journal says that ESPARTERO
refused to renew the lease of the little island of
Del Rey at Mahon, where the French have an
hospital. Of course, our Gallic Contemporary
makes the discovery that ESPBRTERO'S refusal
was dictated by Lord PALMERSTON. Unfortu-
nately for the veracity of the Courier,
M. GUIzOT did not ask for a renewal
of the lease, ESPARTERO did not, there-
fore refuse it, and consequently Lord PAL-
MERSTON could not have dictated such refusal.
France chooses rather to abandon Del Rey than
to witness the establishment of an English hos-
pital in one of the Balearic Isles. In this the
French Government acts a wise and a prudent
part. The following are extracts from these

Papers :--
- A letter of the Bth inst., from Meiningen, informs us
that the beech-tree, planted on the 6th of May, 1521, on
the spot where, on the preceding day, Martin Luther
was arrested by five horsemen in disguise, and carried to
the Castle of Wartburg, has been blown down by a vio-
lent storm. The tree, though it had existed more than
three centuries, was still vigorous, and bore wide-ex-
tended flourishing branches. Some pieces have been de-
posited in the vault of the church at Steinach, with a
ceremony at which three of the descendants of Luther,
living at Moeha, the village in which the father of the
Reformer was born, were present. The Duke of Saxe-
Meiningen has ordered a monumental fountain,, in the
Goalie style, to'be erected where Luther's beech stood, to
be surrounded by a grove of trees, and to bear an appro-
priate inscription.
Amongst the numerous improvements for which
Denmark ig indebted to her present King, the publica-
tion of the budget is one of the most essential. That
for 1841 has appeared, being the first document of the
kind ever exposed to the people at large. The excess
of the revenue over the expenditure for the year is
702,120 fix-dollars, or 3,482,515 francs. According to
modifications which the King proposes to make in the
different branches of the Administration, this surplus
will annually increase. The army is from 15,000 to
20,000 strong, and the navy is composed of G ships
of the line, 6 frigates, and a proportionate number of
corvettes, brigs, schooners, and cutters. The expense
of the army and navy is put down in the budget at
3,562,600 rix -dollars, or 17,640,496 francs.
The Camera° of Madrid says :—" We have re-
ceived intelligence, via Cuba, that on. the Ist and 2(1 of
June the inhabitants of Port au Prince were surprised
by a sudden inundation of all the small rivers in the
surrounding country, by which upwards of 500 families
were submerged, and several of them drowned. The
disaster would have been greater still, but for the gene-
rous devotion of some citizens, who risked their own
Iry to save their fellow-creatures."

The German Journal of Frankfort announces the
suicide at Baden Baden of an extraordinary maniac,
named Rummers. It says—" Fur twenty years this
person had been in the habit every six months
of ordering a coffin, but always differed with the
maker of it as to the fit.' lie would have
the coffin placed against the wall, and, getting into
• it, would complain like a dandy to his tailor that it was
too lar,e here or too small there ; that it was too tight
over the arms, or to loose over the body. At length a
coffin having been made to his mind, he swallowed poison,
having previously 'summoned his friends and acquaint-
ances to attend him. When they were assembled, he in-
formed them at the point of death that he died happy, as
lie had at length succeeded in obtaining a proper garment
for his appearance in the next world."
The Ilanau Gazette contains the following from
Hanover, of the 7th inst.:—"The Government has just
addressed a certain number of copies of the proclamation
concerning the dissolution of the States to the ecclesias-
tics of the consistorial district of Hanover, accompanied
by a letter dated 27th alt., which is thus conceived :
The Government is convinced that the clergy will
,not
fail in the mission imposed upon it by the obligation to,
recommend to the faithful the obedience and respect
whiCh they owe to the Sovereign, and to warn them
against the seductions and errors of the spirit of party.
It has, nevertheless, thought proper to send to the eccle-
siastics several copies of the proclumatioU of July 14, in ,

order that they may distribute them, but they are not to
' read the proclamation from the pulpit or in the schools.
The Government hopes they will emploY all the means
in their power to accomplish this object.' "
The price of bread is fixed at 33 centimes the kilo-
gramme for the remainder of this month.•
Our readers may recollect the affair of the butcher
of the Rue des Mathurins Saint Jacques, named Martin,
who, in January last, after ill-treating his wife, and
being reproached for it by his man Souliet, was supposed
to have challenged the latter, and to have been shot by
) him in a duel near the Barriiire du Maine, and for which
Souliet was committed to take his trial. This trial took
place on Saturday, when a person named Maginot, sup-
posed to have been Soulict's second, was arraigned with
him. The evidence, however, was so vague and indefi-
nite, that the Advocate-General abandoned the prosecu-
tion, and, upon the recommendation of the Court, the
Jury acquitted both prisoners.
A letter from Catania, in Sicily, quoted by the
Univers. of the 2d inst., represents the beat there to have
been suffocating, and that from the 15th to the 20th of
July the thermometer, though placed i❑ the shade, and
facing the north, mounted to 34 degrees of Reaumur,
1081 Fahrenheit. The town, never very much animated,
appeared to be perfectly deserted. Every inhabitant re-
mained all day in his chamber with the shutters closed,
and the brick or stone floors kept constantly watered ;
others cooled themselves with ices. The leaves of the
vines and others trees were parched and shrivelled, and
the gardens were as devoid of vegetation as in the depth
of winter. The heat is represented as having been much
snore intense than for many years past.
• A few days ago the owner of a woollen manufac-
tory at Amsterdam, who was endeavouring to prevent a
young girl from approaching the wheel of some steam-
machinery, was himself caught by it, and torn to pieces
before he could be extricated.
A Correspondent of the National at Algiers, who
formed part of the last expedition under General Bara-
guay d'Hilliers, asserts that on one occasion the troops
marched from four o'clock one morning to four the next
morning, with hardly any rest, over a very difficult moun-
tain district, in the midst of a burning heat ; and that
the men suffered so severely that 17 committed suicide,
and 34 were taken by the Arabs and decapitated, within
the twenty-four hours in question. We have seen no-
thing to confirm this very improbable statement in any
other quarter.
Baron Von Hofmann, Minister of Finance to the
Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, died a few days since
of water on the chest. Ills loss is much felt in the
Duchy, where he was greatly esteemed by his Sovereign
and by all classes.
The Empress of Russia has remitted to the Muni-
cipality of Charlottenburg 20,000 crowns, being part of
her Majesty's inheritance from the late King of Prussia,
for establishing an hospital for foundlings.
The inventory of the property of M. Lehon the ex-
notary is terminated, there is a deficiency of 8,000,000
francs. M. Lehon is !still detained in the Conciergerie,
where he awaits the preliminary proceedings for his trial.
A Legitimist Journal says!—" Yesterday a mass was
celebrated in the church of the Petits Peres, at which a
great number of Royalists attended to return thanks to
Heaven for having preserved the life of the Duke of
Bordeaux."

The Municipal Council of Lyons voted on the 12th
a sum of 10,000 francs, to be employed in defraying the
expense of the reception of the Duke of Autnale.—L e
Constitutionnel.

We have the following letter from Algiers, of Bth
August :—" The troops are still employed on the works
for the defence of the place, several colonists hare been
to examine these works, and on their return have
brought forward great projects for colonization. It
seems that, in the month of September, some establish-
ments will be formed on the place of the Mitidja. The
Tartare brings us excellent news from the Western posts.
The tribes are abandoning Abd-el-Kader even in the
province where his power seemed to be the most solidly
established. General Bugeaud has embarked in all haste
on board the Phare, for Mostaganem. lie appeared to
be in high spirits, and is resolved to direct in person the
defection which has manifested itself in the province of
Oran. If all that we hear is true the power of Abd-el-
Kader is drawing to an end, and the occupation of Mas-
cara will prove as fatal to the Emir as that of Constan-
tine was to Achmed Bey."—Le Courrier Francais.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 16.

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ipanish Active ....».. 10% ... 20% ... 20% ... 20%
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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

FRANCE.

We have received news from Paris of yesterday's
date. The Semaphore of Marseilles reached Paris on
Tuesday morning, and contains the same Chinese intelli-
gence which we gave yesterday, and says that it was.re-
ceived from its Correspondent at Alexandria.
Several English cargoes landed on the 10th were seized
by the Chinese police, in violation of the Treaty con-
cluded with Captain Eliot and the other commanders.
The census continues to create much opposition from
the municipal councils throughout France. Orleans and
Montpelier have protested. against it ; the Municipal
Council of Paris had entered a resolution to the same
effect. At Agen a riotous tumult broke out on the 12th;
the hotel of the Prefect had been attacked by a consider-
able mob, but well defended by the military.
The Memorial Bordelais states that order was again
disturbed in Bordeaux in the evening of the 14th instant.
The rioters broke a number of lamps, and wounded seve-
ral soldiers with stones. The National Guard reluct-
antly turned out, and restored order.
A telegraphic despatch received in Paris on Monday
announce that everything was perfectly quiet in Bor-
deaux on the 15th, in consequence of efficient measures
having been taken by the authorities.
At Cahors the people resisted on the 12th the execu •
tion of the fiscal measures ordered by M. Humann, and
the revenue officers, although assisted by the Mayor,
were obliged to discontinue their operations.
The census, which was to have been resumed in Tou-
louse on the 16th, had been postponed on account of the
unfavourable intelligence received from Agen, Cahors,
and the neighbouring districts.
In Libourne, the Director of the Taxes, assisted by a
Commissary of the Police from Bordeaux, and escorted
by a troop of Hussars, recommenced his operations, but
out of the 111 houses, composing the quarter he began
with, only seventeen were opened. No actual disorder
took place, but it was feared that the rest of the inhabi-
tants would follow the example set them, and oppose
the regular execution of the census.
Accounts from Paris confirm the statement that the
French Government was about withdrawing the sick and
wounded from the Hospital del hey (Minorca), with an
intention of doing altogether,
away with it but that it
was not true that France had asked of the Spanish Go-
vernment a renewal of the lease of that island.

The French fleet, under Admiral Hugon, returned to
TNIon on the 14th inst.

PARIS, AUG. la.—'three: per Cents., 77f. 50c. ; Spa.
nish, 20.

SPAIN.

Accounts from Madrid of the 10th inst., mention that
a concentration of troops was taking place round Ma-
drid, and in the valley of Menia, on the frontiers of
Biscay.

A very uneasy feeling prevails at Madrid. The
veinment is aware ofthe fact that distributions of money
are made at Barcelona, Valencia, Tarragona, and other
places, in order to bring about a rising.
The roads in Spain are becoming again infested with
robbers ;fl banditti.

The Five per Cents. were done at 234 for cash, ane
24 1-16 k at 60 clays.

POUTUGAL.

The Marquis de Saldanha has been appointed by
Queen Dona Maria Ambassador of Portugal at the Court
of Vienna.

The Regent Espartero keeps a watchful eye on what
is going on at Lisbon. He suspects the Government of
Pena Maria of trying to foment a religious civil war in
Spain. A secret Association, styled of the Faith, has
been formed at Lisbon;-and one of its clubs accompanied
the Court to Cintra. This association is represented as
hostile to Spain, and among its members are said to be
the Dukes of Palmella • and Terceira, Count de Villa
Real, and other personages who have great influence on
public affairs.
The representatives of the Holy Alliance were daily
expected at Lisbon, when it was supposed 31inisters
would feel themselves well supportod in their intended
aggressionn-upon Spain.

SUMMARY OF MEWS

AND

tittlatit aptntott.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The Levant mail brings ad-•ices from Constan
nople of the 27th of July, from Alexandria of the 261
from Smyrna of the 30th, from Beyrout of the 16th, al
from Candia of the 24th of the same month.

Said Bey and Sami Bey, the Egyptian Envoys,
were publicly presented to the Sultan on the 26th. Ith

Highness gave them a most flattering reception.
Sir John APNeill, British Ambassador to the Court
of Teheran, and Colonel Barnell, British Consul at
Alexandria, arrived at Constantinople on the 22d of
July. On the 29th the Ambassador was to proceed tc.
Trebisonde.

There was a rumour -at Constantinople that the
Sultan entertained thoughts of bestowing the Puhalie
of Syria upon Mehemet Ali ! Surely there can be no
truth in this.

Syria iS in a most disturbed state. In all the
mountainous districts the inhabitants have set the power
of the Porte" at defiance. French emissaries instigate
them to the commission of these acts of rebellion.
The riots at Bourdeaux broke out a second time on
the 14th' inst. The National Guards suppressed them,
but with manifest reluctance. On the 15th the town
was tranquil.
-- The taking the census was not resumed in Tou-
louse,on the 16th, in consequence of riots at Calais on
the 12th.

-- The people of Lilbourne barred their doors, and re-
fused to admit the officers appointed to take the census.
. The. Spanish Government was on the 10th con-
centrating a strong military force in the immediate
vicinity of Madrid. Espartero's manifesto had rendered
the priests so unpopular that they could not appear in
the streets without being insulted. If the superstitious
mob of Madrid join Espartero against the Pope he
is safe.

France is about to abandon the military hospiti
at Mahon, rather than allow England to establish a si-
milar institution in one of the Balearic Isles.

The Queen of Portugal has appointed the Mar.
quis of Saldanha Ambassador to the Court of Lisbon.

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Chronicle contains some interesting comments
on a cheap penny tract that has lately been published by
a working man, entitled " Oppression, or the effects of
Monopoly on' Expenditure," the object of which is to
show, that where one shilling is taken from the widow
and her orphans by the State, nine are taken by the Buck-
inghamites and Peelites !
In another article,'speaking of the present condition
of Ireland, our Contemporary remarks :—" Sir Robert
Peel, as Irish Secretary, had put it utterly beyond the
power of the people of Ireland to place any trust in
him as a Minister. This was only two short years
ago ; but now it seems to Sir Robert, if not
to others, that the difficulty has vanished. Is
such, in reality, the fact ? If it be so, it must be that
either the man that was detested, or the people
that detested him, have undergone a marvellous
change. We know something of Ireland, and per-
haps a little more of Sir Robert, and we can fearlessly
assert that in him no visible signs of a change for the
better have appeared. For Ireland and for the empire
he continues to this hour the same frigid, mechanical
small-souled, circumlocutory politician that he has ever
been." Unless Sir R. Peel change the whole spirit of his

policy towards Ireland—and by so doing he will be com-
pelled to admit that it has been wrong throughout—he
will never satisfy that country. But we doubt whether
he can so change his system ; and if he can, whether he
will be allowed to do so. The Stanleyites, and those
who, like Sir R. Inglis, belong to the High Church party,
are united in their dislike of Ireland ; and unaided by
these, he cannot stir a step. Under a Tory Cabinet, the
sister-country will ever continue to be a thorn in the side
of England.

The Herald, reverting to the question of the Corn

laws, says:—" To suppose, as the Morning Chronicle as-
serts, that there is only one cause for our existing embar-
rassments, and that the Corn-laws, is perfectly childish.
All that is alleged by the manufacturers against these
laws is, that, under their operation, they cannot compete
in a few articles of hosiery and coarse cotton goods,
against foreign producers." The manufacturers regard
the Corn-laws in no such partial and ridiculous light. On
the contrary, they boldly and broadly declare that -this
grinding impost Affects more or less the entire domestic
trade of the country, and even reacts on its foreign com-
merce; that it palsies the right arm of industry and en-
terprize ; and slowly, but surely, tends to dry up the foun-
tain head of national prosperity.
The Post, notwithstanding the direct announcement
that Dr. Locock has interposed his veto against her Ma-
jesty opening Parliament in person, observes .
" The truth is; and all the Queen's subjects will re-
joice to hear 'it, that her Majesty is in such excellent
health at present that she would not have had any-
thing to apprehend from the anxiety or fatigue inci-
dent to opening the Session of Parliament in person ;
but the good taste and Constitutional feelings of the
Sovereign revolted from the task which her worthless
•
Ministers would have imposed upon her Majesty, of sanc-
tioning the questionable principles which they have de-
termined to propound in the Queen's Speech, by permit-
ting that speech to pass through the Royal lips." This
is indirectly'asserting that her Majesty's medical adviser
—who may be presumed to know more about her state
of health than the Post—has officiously and impertinently
interposed a veto, where there was not the slightest oc-
casion for it !

The Advertiser states, with reference to the present
position of Sir R. Peel—" The clamorous applicationS by
which he is hourly beset from all quarters for situation ,
in and under his embryo Government, would of
themselves be sufficient to worry the strongest and
most philosophic mind. We verily believe that from
this cause alone the Right Honourable Gentle.
man's existence is embittered . beyond endurance,"
The Tories, we all know, are ravenous from long absti-
nence from office, and are not likely to stand on ceremony
with one so completely at their mercy as Sir R. Peel. Sir
,Francis Burdett was with him the other day—no doubt
worrying him to death for a Peerage; and when he was
got rid of, down went Croker—a perfect cormorant, and
the very last man of all others to take "No" for a denial.
Then there are the Goulburns, the Dawsons, the Knatch-
bulls, &c., to be provided for; and with these, and adozen
more such, tugging constantly at his skirts, Sir R. Peel's
existence—as our Contemporary observes—must be em-
bittered beyond endurance.
The Times is quite facetious at the idea that the To-
ries intended to govern Ireland on the iron principle of
conquest. If they do not do so, it is simply because they
lack- the power, not because they arc deficient in the in-
clination.

The Dublin Pilot thus addresses itself to the ex-
pectant Premier :—"Who can believe anything you say,
swear, or predict ? Either your present boasts -of all
,you will effect, in power are fallacious, or your predig-
tions of evil were absurd ; and now, to finish your be-
sotted career, you take office as the supporter of mono-
poly, while every drOp of rain pattering at your window
tells that one of your first acts of power must be to falsify
all the pretences under which it was obtained ! But you
shall be ejected from office in double quick time !"
The Cambridge Advertiser handles rather ungently
the Tory landholders and monopolists:—" These men,"
it says, " the owners of the soil, the monopolist majo-
rity of the House of Commons, are prepared to resist to
the utmost of their power (and unfortunately that power
is, from circumstances, great) the claims of British
commerce and trade ; and to sacrifice to their own sel-
fishness the prosperity of our empire, and the demands
of humanity and justice. We say not that the will of
these rent-tyrants shall have its way. Firm, steady, and
in its degree wonderful, will be the opposition offered to
it, even in the House where they have the majority. Of
the five hundred landed proprietors in the House of
Commons, all are not of the same grasping, rapacious,
short-sighted nature we have described."