The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING MAIL.

United Service Club, June 23, 1841.
have just read in your paper of this evening,
that I " the day before yesterday, received a peremptory
mandate to the effect that, if I did not retire from the
contest in Mayo, I must no longer consider myself as an
Aide-de-Camp."
As I never did receive any such " mandate," nor
ever even heard that it was intended I should, till I read
it in your paper, I beg you will have the goodness to give
the statement a contradiction, by inserting thi§ letter ;
for I assure you that, even if it had been the loss of a much
higher appointment than that of Aide-de-Camp, it would
not have deterred me from seeking to represent that
county, had it not been proved to me that I was injuring
the Liberal cause by dividing the interest of that party;
I beg further to remark, that this letter is written by me
without the knowledge of his Excellency or any member
of his Governinent.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your
obedient servant,
CONSTANTINE A. DILLON.

These are specimens of the vile acts of per-
sonal slander by which the Tories seek to gain a
political end. Great, enormous, and daily
lying is their habitual practice. For this the
Standard has long been renowned ; and, till
within a recent period, we did not think it could
be surpassed. We felt, however, constrained to
assert, some days ago, that the Times was fast
equalling its Tory rival. With the above in-
stance before us of its shameless audacity, we
now question whether we must not assign to it
the palm of superiority in the Tory art of lying.
In bold, ferocious, calumnious falsehood, we be-
lieve it surpasses even the Standard. Neither
of these Journals can, however, longer impose
on the public. The intelligence which has
pierced through and exposed the many artfu
disguises of the Tory chieftain, the great master
of Tory arts, cannot be deceived by the vulgar
and coarse contrivances of the subordinate per-
formers, who ape his gait and manner.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all reached us. The
funeral of M. BERRY ER, the father of the celebrated Carlist
orator, took place on that day, amidst a great assemblage of
Royalists and several distinguished members of the •French bar.
Orations were pronounced over the grave of M. GARNIER
PAGES on Saturday, by AIM. ARAGO' JOLT, LAFAYETTE,
SAINT-ALBIN, BASTIDE, DU20TY, and PAONERRE.
We have already published in the columns of The Sun the
firman of the SULTAN, to which diplomatists have given the
title of an ultimatum, relative to the Government of Egypt.
We are indebted to the Presse of Saturday for the following
translation of the firman, which the SULTAN has addressed to
AIEHEMET Am, fixing the amount of tribute to be paid by him
for the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt.
" The Government of Egypt having been conferred upon thee
with right of heirship, and upon'express conditions contained in my
other simple finnan, I, according to my sovereign will, have ordered
an annual tribute of 80,000 purses, arising from the customs'
duties, tithes, capitation tax, and the other revenues of the pro-
vince, to be paid by thee to my Sublime Porte; and that the rate
of this tribute vary not from the fluctuations in the price of money ;
the above 80,000 purses to be calculated according to the worth of
colonats' in Egypt; and this sum to be every year paid in effec-
tive ' colonats,' or in any other money forming their equivalent.
My order being that this be immediately acted upon in conformity,
the present firman relative to this express injunction has been
issued and expedited. Consequently, taking cognizance of the same,
thou shalt conform thereto, paying into my Imperial Treasury, in
proper time and place, the above tribute."
The following brief extracts include what little other news
there is the French Papers of Sunday:—
The Veloce and Cameleon steamers, which conveyed the de.
tachmcnts of the Chasseurs of Africa to Mostaganem have re-
turned to Toulon, bringing letters from Mostaganem of the 14th
of November. News had been received of the expedition which
set out on the 7th under General Bugeaud, whose return was not
expected till the 22d or 23d. It was generally believed that an
attempt would be made on Saida to the south of Mascara.
Saida was to be sacked like Tedekempt.

In consequence of the late expeditions the numbers or sick in
the pro t inccs of Algiers and Oran is pretty considerable.

We fear that Marshal Soult is entering on a dangerous course.
The following is his answer to the serious facts denounced by the
letter of General Bourjolly, which we published yesterday, in
which lie states and explains the grounds of his being dismissed
from active service:—

" The President of the Council, Minister of War, has given
orders to Major-General Bourjolly to repair to the Citadel of
Lille, where he will remain under arrest for a mcnth, for having
failed in the due observance of the military regulations."

This we see is putting into execution the famous circular of the
Minister of War, in the most brutal form. But in assigning Lille
as the prison of General Bourjolly, did not Marshal Soult fear to
recal to people's minds that it was at Lille that in 1814 he caused
General Excelmans to be tried, who was accused of not having
shown himself ungrateful to a King who had loaded him with
favours ? This, however, is a fault with which Marshal Soult has
never been charged.—Le Commerce.

Letters and papers from Madrid of the 10th inst. state that
the queaotfionthawthich now excites most attention in the political
circles
are most likely to lie
guardians for capital
the is the appointment of a guardian or
Queen, Donna ISABELLA 11. has
a yeoun
peculiar class of feelings when impressions made upon the mind
arrived at that
the social and political
permanent, and when by inculcating a
sand principles a foundation is laid for
political interests are therefore habits of maturer age. Personal and
but family fictions are erefore at work, and not only parties,
hands. Hitherto intriguingEsrAa to get the QUEEN into their
which he
has proved himself equal
to the difficulties by
The wil7elhirswi surrounded, and we
welfare
note,,ery scuoff
uenrtryperi-s
trust that on this occasion'
soofnatilie considerations to to blind him
people. to the interest?
closely mixed up with the personal
England will never forget the deadly character
wof the Sovereign.
morals of the aristocracy, by the profligate
eend inflicted upon the
heartless of Royal profligates, GEORG; IVelaTple of that most
the French Court during the reigns of
Lohe profligacy of
Louts XV. was mainly instrumental in producingu"XlV. and
revo-
lution which conrulsed the world. What Spain
nil a
from the brutal ignorance of her Monarchs, the annalsassuffered
country from 1807 to 1824 abundantly testify. The
uof that
ardian-
ship and education- of the young QUEEN is thereforeg a na-
tional question of tke very highest importance. It may be
that Spaniards can never be enslaved by a Queen educated
in the school of despotism, but we can have no such certainty
that the mora's of the people would not become contaminated
by the example which might be set them by a corrupt Court. -
Some members of the Cortes are for appointing a single
guardian for the young QUEEN, but others, and ESPAKTERO is
reported to be of the number, contend that in order to coun-
teract any undue personal influence over the Royal mind, three
guardians are at least requisite. Signor ARGUELLES and the
Infant Don Ft.ANCESCO DE PAULA, the QUEEN'S uncle, are
spoken of as two of the intended trinity of guardians. The
hopes of the friends of the INtrANTA of his appointment as
one of the guardians of his Royal niece, appear to rest on the
friendly tone of the following letter, addressed to his Royal
Highness by Esra avErto, in answer to his Royal High-
ne,s's Congratulatory Address on the appointment of that suc-
cessful toldter to the Regency :
" Very excellent Signor,—The congratulations which your
Serene Highness has condescended to address to me from Paris
has filled my heart with the most lively gratitude for the kindness
of your Serene Highness.
" I owe everything I possess to the generosity of the Spanish
people ; it is to their virtues and to their valour, more than to any
efforts of mine, that the country owes the happiness it enjoys, and
the termination of that distressing civil war which was destroying it.
" With peace the public administration will be regularly organ.
ised, at least such is my hope : for the union and harmony of
states will be secured by peace, and resources and power be ob-
tained by it.
" Rich, and in a state of peace, the Spanish nation will attain its
proper degree of political influence; it merits to be powerful, as
it has already been, and as it will be again. I ground this flatter.
ing and consoling hope on a noble people and a warlike army, who
are
determined to be free, who will have their rights respected,
who love their Queen, respect their Princes, observe the laws, and
obey the constituted authorities.
1

" This is the object to which I aspire and whilst I hold the

post of First Magistrate of the Kingdom, which the will of the
Cortes has deigned to confide in me, I will use every exertion to
accomplish it.
" After the honour which has been done me by the august un-
cle of my Queen, your Highness will permit me to offer you the
most sincere thanks for the distinction which has been conferred on
me ; and will permit me to declare how highly I appreciate the
lofty ideas of the generous patriots and of the illustrious Prince;
whose prosperity, and that of his illustrious family, so much inte-
rests both myself and every Spaniard.
(Signed) " DUKE DE LA VITTORIA.

" Madrid, May 30."
One of the Spanish papers publishes official returns, from
which it appears that in one month France smuggled 2,857
bales of goods into Spain ! And yet the Paris Journals have
the audacity to talk about the Peninsula being inundated with
British smuggled goods. " First pluck the beam out of thine
own eye, and then thou wilt see more clearly to take the mote
out of thy brother's."
There was a good deal of business done on the Madrid
Bourse on the 19th inst. The transactions in the Five per
Cents. amounted to 47,000,000 of reels, the closing prices of
which were 26i for cash, and 274 at 60 days. The coupons to
he capitalised sold for 22E%, and the titles of the foreign debt
for 26, at 60 days.

SIR ROBEET PEEL'S SPEECH AT TAMWORTII, yesterday. con-
sisting of a defence of the Tory tyranny up to 1830, a lengthened
advocacy of killing the free population of our West India► Islands
by forcing the cultivation of sugar, a demonstration that reducing
the consumption of both sugar and bread, by starving the people, is
the sure way to have plenty and low prices for those who are left
alive, a fraudulent statement that the land is more burdened than
manufactures,and therefore theunwise and u n statesmanlik ed ed notion
that the labourer's bread must be taxed, not theburdens equa'ised, an
opinion that Bs. is not protection enough for the agriculturists, and
consequently the sliding scale, which has only given 55., must be
raised—this elaborate, insulting, and cruel speech, in which the
proximate Prime Minister defends dealing with false measures,
being too long for us to insert this day, we shall publish it here-
after in full, with an appropriate commentary. It is a national
document, worthy of the Tories.