The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-17 00:00:00

( From the courier.)

The Paris Papers of Wednesday are so completely
occupied with the reply of M. Thiers to the recent
Memorandum of Lord Palmerston, that they appear to
have neither rooai nor inclination to' enter upon any ,
other subiect. -.ln another column we have given an
analysis of the arguments of some of the leading Journals
upon this document, in order to enable our readers to
judge of the impression its publication has made in
Pari'F. It is not necessary to say more of the articles
which we have perused in the other papers, than that
the opinion they hold is pretty unanimous that M.
Thiers is quite right in all his facts, inferences, -and
proceedings, and consequently that Lord Palmerston is
quite wrong- in his. Hts Lordship, confident` as-he is
in his judgment and the soundness .of his policy.
will it is clear, therefore, have rather a dif-
ficult task to persuade the French to adopt
the same view of his powers and capabilities.
These Journals being sufficiently occupied with M.
Thiers and Lord Palmerston are compelled, for one
day at least, to suspend their inflated and i3obadil.Lke
menaces against England ; but iu the absence of abuse
of their own marmfacture, they draw largely upon their
provincial contemporaries, particularly from the Lyons
papers. We have no room far any of those absurd
ravings, and indeed after the specimens we have already
given of the folly and bombastic puerility of the French
provincial press, we think it only necessary to say that
theSo effusions, heated and splenetic as they are, so evi-
dently betray a diseased imagination, that they are
almost beneath contempt. - It will convey a just idea
of the sort of materials resorted to in order to bring this
country into disrepute, when we state that some of the
parties pretend to believe that the commander of a
French corvette, La Brillante, extorted an apology from
Commodore Napier off Beyrout.

GUNPOWDER IN CIRCASSIA.—Not far from
our konag of that night we discovered a manufactory of
powder ; the machinery consisted chiefly of a large mor-
tar. in which the different ingredients were pounded.
The pestle was suspended to a long and rude lever, not
unlike that of the pumps we find in some parts of Ger-
many. The sulphur is all imported from Turkey ; for,
though there are mines in the country, they have not the
least idea of working- them. Nitre they obtain from a
shrub, which is found all over the country, but which I
am not botanist enough to classify ; it blazes, when ig -
nitcd, like touch-paper. Powder is. of course, made here
in small quantities, and is distribued as bahshisk, or gra-
tuity.—Longworth's Year among the CircassiGns. -
We have 113=-requested' to draw attention to
the ruthless destruction of the monuments of antiquity with
which the county of Wilts, and particularly this part of it,
abounds. Our COrrespondeift-after lamenting that, spite
of the public notice which has been taken of it, the de-
molition of the Grey Wethers on the Marlborough Downs
still continues, asks, whether it be true that the owner of
the estate at Avebury, upon which the remains of an an-
cient Druidical Temple stand, is now breaking up the
stones to mend the roads and build walls on his farm.—
Wilts Independent.

CURIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Monday week an
accident occurred here which had well nigh been attended
with consequences of a most serious nature, but which,
owing to its being checked in time, happily amounted only
to the ludicrous. Whilst the porter of Mr. Simpson,
merchant, was employed in his spirit cellar, he accidentally
broke the cock of a cask full of whisky, which, of course,
was immediately followed by a gush of the spirits stream-
ing plentifully on the floor. The porter, perceiving the
accident, hastened to stop the outlet, but in the hurry of
the moment he unfortunately upset the candle he was using,
which no sooner came in contact witli the liquid than it set
it in a blaze, and the whole floor appeared one sheet of
living fire. The poor fellow, seeing himself thus
surrounded by flames, attempted to escape in order to
alarm the house of the danger; but in the act of doing
so, as bad luck would have it, lie tumbled over,
and fell into the midst of the fiery deluge. His shrieks
soon reached the ears of those in the shop immediatel)
above, who,
the steps which led down to it removed, thus preventing
on coming to the entrance of the cellar, found
the immediate assistance so much required. The alarm
spreading
and the porter was hoisted up, covered as he was with fire,
rapidly, however, assistance was soon obtained,
which was speedily extingui;hed by rolling him to the
door into the street. He escaped from his desperate con-
dition without any material injury, except that his heeds
and face were rather severely scorched. Fortunately the
engine was forward in time to prevent the fire from reach-
ing the other inflammable materials in the cellar, a cir-
cumstance which robabl revented the premises from
being wholly consumed. The whole affair happily passed
causing off without any material damage.—Edinburgh
Courant. py p

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. -- FIVE MEN
DROWNED.—Monday morning a
the village of fishing boat belonging to
a sudden squall, while the crew (six in number) were en-
gaged in shooing their nets, and when about three mites
Hopentan was upset in the Moray Firth by
from the shore. The accident WAS observed by some fish-
ermen in boats not far distaff and all haste was made by
them to render assistance t'o. their unfortunate neighhourt= ;
.hut before they reached the spot five of the crew had dis-
appeared, and they were only successful in saving one man
(John Ralph), who was taken from the wreck in a very
exhausted State. The others had also clung, some to the
bottom of the boat and some to the oars and the 11,ating
spars, bat were unable to retain their hold for any length
of time. Every
other two have not yet beta found.
cover, as speedily as possible, the bodies of the unfortu .
nate sufferers; but it iv.:; noi till several hours had elaps,A
and Daniel Macp
that they succeeded in recovering three of the bodies ; the
exertion was made by the fishermen to re-
The names of the ill_
f:eed individuals who were' drowned were James Ralph,
William Macpherson, J.arnns Macpherson, John Main,
will attain his 90thkeyi:lhon
cept the first, who has left a widow ant; several children.—
Edinburgh Observer. - TFtireiya weren e
next, and
anudnmoanrr:leodnixy.
LORD Ito LLE.—This venerable Nobleman
his Lordship's tenants, with the tradomen and other re-
spoctable inhabitants of Exmouth and its neighbourhnod,
will celebrate the event by a dinner.
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