The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-29 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Public Opinion,

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The French Journals are still occupied with the ver-
dict of the Jury in the case-of M. Ledru Rollin for libel.
The verdict has evidently placed the Government in what
Brother Jonathan calls a fix. The law officers of the
Crown are doubtful whether they have the power to im-
prison M. Ledru Rollin, as by the 43d article of the
Charter, a deputy cannot be arrested during the Session,
or for a period of six weeks preceding or following it.
Spain had established the new Custom-house regula-
tions at Irun on the 21st instant. The intelligence
greatly irritated the French inhabitants on the frontier
who expected that smuggling would continue till
the Ist of December. " Yet surely," says the
correspondent of a Morning Contemporary, writing from
Bayonne, " No personi have less right to complain of
Spanish Custom-house restrictions than the French in-
habitants of the towns on the Spanish frontier. The un-
necessary and most vexatious rigour of the French Cus-
tom-house officers at Behobia and Socoa has been long
proverbial, and any individual, Spanish, English, or
French, who has passed the frontier, will not forget the
severe and odious scrutiny to which not 'only his bag-
gage, but even his person, has been always submitted.
Female children of the tender age of ten and twelve
years have been not unfrequently stripped of their gar-
ments, for the purpose of ascertaining if even between the
chemise and the skin they might not have concealed some
article prohibited by. the French tariff, and from
this indecent examination no age was exempt. I have
myself seen, about three years ago, a woman, aged about
sixty years, placed in a situation of much embarrass-
ment, from the fact of its having been discovered by one
of these Arguses that she wore a man's cotton shirt,
value about two francs and a half or thereabouts, under
her gown. It was in vain the poor woman protested
that the article belonged to her husband, who accom-
panied her, and she put it on merely to afford herself ad-
ditional protection against the cold, and not for the pur-
pose of smuggling. The husband made the same de-
claration, and the truth of their statement was proved by
some persons who had come with them from San Sebas-
tian. It was all in vain. The cotton shirt, worth 24f.,
not having been washed, went to augment the revenue of
his Majesty the King of the French."
The greatest distress prevails among the working
classes in Paris. Among the small shopkeepers failures
are so common, that in some places whole streets are in
a mariner deserted. The Presse, which never exagge-
rates the distresses of the poor, says—" At this season,
when the trade of the capital, in consequence of the ap-
proach of the new year, is generally most prosperous,
several shops are seen closed every day, in the richest
and most populous neighbourhoods. This commercial
crisis has caused numerous failures. As a further sign
of the times, forced sales by auction and executions suc-
ceed in alarming numbers."
The Commerce Beige asserts that the project
.of mar-
riage between the eldest son of Don Carlos and Queen
Isabella has received the approbation of Don Carlos, and
that the negotiations have been carried on by a special
Envoy from the Court of Naples. "This project," it
adds, "has been submitted to the English Cabinet by the
Neapolitan Ambassador at London, and has been sup-
ported by the Duke of Wellington. Lord Aberdeen,
with the unanimous consent of the British Cabinet, has
addressed instructions to the British resident Minister
at Madrid, and has also addressed a private letter to the
Duke de la Vittoria, urging him to come at once to a
decision conformable to the intentions which have directed
these negotiations, Great Britain undertaking to obtain
the adhesion of all the other great Powers."
The responsible editors of the Nouvelle Mode and the
Revue du Siecle, were both brought yesterday before the
Correctional Tribunal, for publishing their respective
Journals without having made a sufficient deposit of
caution money. The first was sentenced to a month's
imprisonment, and 200 francs fine ; and the second, to
two penalties, one of two months' imprisonment, and
300 francs fine, and the other of four months' imprison-
ment, and 300 francs fine.

When lately we mentioned the presents made by the
Sultan to the British dragomans, we forgot to notice
those given to Charles Bankhead, Esq., Secretary of
Embassy, and now Minister pro tempore, as also to Mr.
Doyle, Lord Ponsonby's Secretary, to Mr. Alison, Attache
to the Embassy, and to Mr. Wood, now Consul at Da-
mascus. They consisted of valuable gold snuff-boxes,
mounted in brilliants.

On the evening of the 7th, the Sultan went in great
state to the mosque of Topkhane to celebrate the cere-
mony of the Nadir Guecijessi ; this night of the Rama-
zan, which is usually the fourth before the Bairam, is
called Amer, which means " the night of power," on ac-
count of the miracles said to have been then performed
by Mahomet, and by which he manifested his pretended
mission. It is, at this time, that the Sultana Valide se-
lects one of the greatest beauties of her harem as a pre-
sent to the Sultan. All the great functionaries accom-
panied the Sultan, and salutes were fired and fireworks
left off. He returned with the same pomp to the palace,
where the female chosen by the Sultana Valide was pre-
sented to him. The crowd assembled to witness the pro-
cession of the Sultan was immense.

" A letter from Constantinople says :—A few days ago
the country house of Madame Feri, situate on the road
to the Sweet Waters, was forcibly entered by seven men
in disguise, who carried off every thing of value that was
portable. An Armenian house at Yenikuoy was also
entered, and shawls, jewellery, and fur pelisses were
taken, to the amount, it is said, of 7001. The house, at
Buyukdere, of M. Sonza, the Spanish Secretary of Lega-
tion, has been further visited, and robbed of such articles
of plate as could be found. It is suspected that these
depredations in the country are committed by Harvats
(Croatians), few of whom can be made to understand the
difference between nzeum and town. In town also many
houses have been pillaged."
The Agram Gazette, of the Bth inst., has the follow-
ing :—" All the Servian exiles left Constantinople on the
Ist inst. They are to be accompanied as far as Belgrade
by a Turkish Commissioner, and an Imperial order, to
which the Servian Government has given its adhesion,
fixes the indemnity, for the salaries which they have
lost, at 500,000 piastres. Splendid presents were made
to them by the Ottoman Porte. On the sth Prince Mi-
chael visited General Baron de Haner at Semlin. He
was accompanied by his uncle and two Aides-de-Camp.
Princess Lubitza is at Kragnjewitz."
The Malta Times says :—" His Excellency Lieutenant-
General Sir Henry Bouverie arrived here last Sunday
morning, and landed at the Custom-house, at 8 o'clock,
where a guard of honour, composed of the light company
of the Royal Malta Fencible regiment, with regimental
colour and band, received his Excellency with arms pre-
sented, the band playing, God save the Queen.' His
Excellency was saluted by the garrisonoccording to his
high rank. On account of some recent untoward events,
we hear that the arrival of Sir Henry Bouverie created an
universal joy in the minds of the people. In fact, it is
clear that the Maltese are now greatly afraid of losing
his Excellency—their fears, however, we are happy to
say, are totally unfounded.
The Queen of Portugal prorogued the Chambers onthe
18th instant.

The birth of the Prince of Wales had caused great joy
among the English residents at Lisbon. Lord Howard
de Walden was about to give a grand diplomatic dinner
on the occasion, and all the vessels of war in the Tagus
had been dressed out, and fired royal salutes in honour of
the birth of an heir apparent to the British throne.