The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

demned M. DUPOTY, Editor of the Journal du
Peuple, for participation in the attempt to assas-
sinate the Royal Princes. This participation con-
sists in his having edited a Journal which was
subscribed for by the proprietor of the wine-
shop in which the conspirators were in the
habit of assembling. Why the builder of the
wine-shop was not included in DUPOTY'S sen-
tence the Peers only can explain, for he
was equally criminal with the able writer now
about to be made the scape-goat of the sins of
the Cabinet. But the French papers are too ter-
rified to do more than allude to this iniquitous
proceeding. The National knows that the
President of the Court longs to pounce upon it,
and therefore discreetly remains silent. The
Siecle is in the same predicament. The Temps,
which being usually more moderate is less impli-
cated, has the following remarks on this infamous
trial :

" Of this we are certain, that the Government (un'-
worthy of being called the Government of July) would,
if it could, re-establish the censorship. But this the
Charter forbids. Therefore, not being able to silence
the Press, the Ministry defame it, and strive to die-
honour it. They would prefer, no doubt, to buy ; but
unluckily for them there are certain men belonging to
the Press who would prefer to be ruined rather than to
sell themselves. As a last resource, and in defiance of
truth and justice, the Press is compromised in a procedure
for high treason. We think Government might find a
more consistent and more honourable method of proceed-
ing againsi; the fourth power of the State, than by any
sort of legal pursuit whatever. Till men are found at the
head of affairs of sufficient political capacity to compre-
hend the subject, all that we can say is, that the Press is
one of the indispensable elements of our institutions ;
that the public will never submit to be deprived of their
own unshackled organs and that the Ministry, at once
weak and violent, who prefer to persecute instead of con-
ciliating, or who decline to combat their opponents with
their own weapons, will only have exemplified for the
hundredth time the fable of the serpent and the file."
As the charter is now no better than a piece
of mere parchment, the press of France ought
at once to unite in demanding the restoration of
the censorship. No abridgement of the freedom
of opinion can exhibit such tyranny as 'is shown
in the prosecution of M. DUPOTY ,by the Court
of Peers. Writers in France are no.longer pro-
tected by the laws or by the charter. Neither
are they amenable only to the laws—they are
every instant at the mercy of a tribunal worse
than ever disgraced this country when a JEF-
FRIES sat on the Bench, and a Colonel KIRK was
charged with the maintenance of public order.
The Bishop OfCIIARTRES and the French Press
are at loggerheads about the state of religion in
France. Recently the Journal des Debats pub-
lished some well-written articles condemning
French ecclesiastics for adopting the supersti-
tions of the dark ages, and praising the modera-
tion of the Church of England, more especially
the Puseyite and Newmanite section of it.
The Bishop, in a pastoral letter levelled at the
Debats, repelled these attacks upon the priest-
hood. The Debats replied, and the Bishop re-
joined. As this theological conflict is nothing to
us, we merely refer to it for the purpose of
quoting the writer in the Debats' curious com-
parison between the Anglican and French
Churches :
" I said that the Anglican Church inspired respect, but
neither sympathy nor love, for it wanted heart. It is
impossible not to admire the dignity and profound
gravity of English manners, almost the melancholy of
those inspired by religion. The Anglican Church forms
the character, the Roman Church the heart. The
former makes great citizens, the latter great men.
I consider the Anglican Church under its political, not
its dogmatical aspect. The Anglican Church was con-
solidated by a political revolution, and hence it be-
came a national institution. So that it is patriotic to be
Protestant ; and the nation is religious because its reli-
gion is national. The influence of England throughout
the world is crippled by its religious propaganda. And
in the evangelical Church at Jerusalem, England has
raised a standard more dangerous than its armies and its
fleets.
" With respect to Romanism' we have long heard
of religious resuscitation. When we look for it,
what do we see in those little gilded churches, so
well warmed and carpeted, where saints and martyrs
are dressed in the fashion, where the credo is sung
to a waltz tune, and the elevation takes place to
the tune of a country dance ? It we go to a ser-
mon, we hear the preacher address his congregation as
Messieurs, not as his dear brethren; he talks of the
Christ and of the Virgin Mary as Marie. They seek
to secularise the Divinity. Do they speak of Christian
morality ? Oh, no--but of Pythagoras, Epicurus, and
Spinosa. And when we escape from church to our
journal we find the preacher there already, presenting
a note, stating how the Abbe N- preached to-day
to a large congiegation, and made the most profound
impression."
The following extracts include the miscella-
neous news in the Paris Journals of Tuesday :
The Univers contradicts the article in the Gazette de
Dauphine, announcing that the Pope had had an apo-
plectic fit, on the authority of a letter from Rome, written
by M.Boricelli, the Camerlingo of the Pope.
" Our readers must be informed that there is no
Roman Prelate named Boricelli, there is no such officer
as that of Camerlingo at the Chamber of his Holiness;
there is a Camerlingo, but he is a Cardinal. Lastly we
have letters from Rome of the 10th, at which time his
Holiness was in excellent health."
A letter from Port Mahon, in the Catolico of Madrid,
states that the British Consul in that port has recently
been converted to the Catholic Faith.
The Memorial of Pau relates that, between eleven and
twelve o'clock on Thursday night last, an English
family, living in one of the finest houses of the Rue du
College, in that town, were alarmed by the attempt of a
person wrapped in a handsome cloak, and believed to be
a man of fashion, to get into the house. The cries of a
female servant, who it seems first saw him, alarmed the
household, and compelled the invader to make his re-
treat. He deterred the domestics from pursuing him,
by presenting what they in their fright fancied to be a
pistol, but which, it is believed, was only the barrel of a
great door-key.
M. Domenico Menozzi, a celebrated Italian scene-
painter, died a short time since at Milan.
A few days ago, an Antwerp journal states, a wager
was laid by two butchers of the village of Borgerhout, as
to the comparative strength of their dogs. One of them
was harnessed to a cart containing 15 hectolitres of coals
(about 2,4001b5. English), which it drew with ease from
the canal to the village.
On the 17th inst., says a Liege journal,' as an inhabi-
tant of that town was putting on the leather cover of his
fowling-piece, which was loaded, in order to go on a
shooting excursion, the gun went off, and the charge
entered the body of his wife. On the 18th she was still
living, but no hope was entertained of her recovery.
A young mantua-maker, of the Rue St. Mery, having
fallen desperately in love with a gentleman who happens
to have been born in the same place as herself, the silly
girl, at a loss how to communicate her passion to its ob-
ject, and excite a reciprocity, consulted a friend, a bas-
ket-woman of the Rue Marivaux, who introduced her to
a soi-disante witch, and the latter at once promised to
render the fates propitious on receiving 350 f., the amount
of the savings known to have been made by the semp-
tress out of her earnings. This money was to undergo,
it was said, some process of alchemy, and the residuum
was ne-d:t day presented to the poor girl in a small piece
of iron, which she was to throw into the river, repeating
5 Paters and 5 Ayes. This was done, but the gentleman's
heart still remained callous, and the love-sick damsel be-
came more and more impatient. The sorceress then en-
joined her to make the proof of the Gospel of St. John
as absolutely infallible. This was to be done by the weak-
minded creature, holding a key suspended by a thread
while the cunning witch read aloud the whole Gospel,
and if the key turned the charth would be successful.
The key, however' remained' as inflexible as the iron
heart of the beloved object.- Other cabalistic tricks were
tried, but all equally in vain. - At length the girl be-
came convinced of her having been duped, and applied
to a Commissary of Police, who has sent the two con-
federates, the witch and the basket-woman, to be tried
for fraud.

We learn that the attempt made upon the life of the
portress in the Rue des Tournelles, a liew days since, was
not a deliberate act, but committed by a lunatic. The
young man had, for three weeks before, exhibited un-
equivocal proofs of insanity, reproaching his mother-in-
law with being in league with traitors to give him un-
wholesome victuals, and, at other times, pretending that
there were plots to suffocate him. As he had lucid inter-
vals, the good woman would not have put him under con-
straint, but he is now placed in a Maison de Sante. His
father's admission into Bicetre was on account of the
same malady.
Two men were suffocated the day before yesterday in
a well at Aubervilliers, near St. Denis, into which they
had descended for the purpose of cleaning it, without
taking proper precautions beforehand to ascertain the
state of the air at the bottom of the shaft.

The Moniteur Parisien states from Carthagena, 24th
ult., that a Spanish coast-guard vessel having captured
a small English trading vessel in a situation near the
coast prohibited by the Custom-house regulations, and
the master of the. English £vessel having declared this
to the captain of an English brig of war then in the
port (the same who on a former occasion rescued an
English vessel which had been seized by the autho-
rities), th© latter waited on the Governor, and de-
manded the restitution of the captured vessel. This,
however, was refused, and the prize was retained. The
account adds that on an investigation it was proved,
notwithstanding the assertion of the captain of the brig
to the contrary, that the vessel which was seized was in
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