The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-02 00:00:00

after such a series of unheard of crimes and extortions.

The cruel Balmaseda, another chief who refused the
offer of peace that was made him after the retreat of Don
Carlos, and who preferred acting the part of 'a banditti
chief, has been obliged to escape to the very frontiers of
France. He had availed himself of the siege of Morella,
and of the concentration of Espartero's troops on that
point, to advance close to Burgos. He had become
the terror of Old Castile, be had even crossed the
Douro, and during some days had excited some
alarm by his bold excursion at the •riomcnt that
the Queen was proceeding to Saragossa. But two Gene-
rals hastened to attack him, and he was soon obliged to
cross the Ebro to seek retreat in Navarre. There he
hoped, but in vain, to excite insurrection, but the inhabi-
tants had had teo much of these plundering chiefs, and
Balmaseda was unable to stand his ground. Ile has been
obliged to advance towards the Pyrenees, and we see by
the telegraphic despatch that a large number of troops has
entered France as fugitives.
It is in the midst of these happy events that the Queen
Regent has reached Saragossa, whence she will proceed to
Catalonia, which is now occupied by lispartero's army.
The health of the young Queen is the motive assigned for
this tour, which cannot fail having a beneficial effect on the
provinces thrctigh which the Royal travellers will pass, as
the population will see that the cause of the Constitution
Is gained by the young Queen and her mother thus pro-
ceeding through their dominions,
It is also worthy of remark, that it was from the mo-
ment when Spain no longer relied on an intervention,
when the opinion of the Cgetes was announced hostile to
the measure, that the re,oureei, of the nation, which were
reckoned insufficiet.;‘, manifested themselves on all sides;
the guld and t,!..41 soldiers of the country alone provided for
and recruited the army, and thus the victory which has
been a,,t4laed is decidedly a national one.

.NrA LI BRA N'S PENCHANT FOR PORTER.---
Nlnlibran had borne along the true first acts on the first night of
performance of The Maid of Artois in such a fhod of
triumph that she was bent, by some almost superhuman
effort to continue its glory to the final fall of the
certain. I went into her dressing-room previous to the
commencement of the third act, to ask how she felt
and she replied, Very tired, but," (and here her eye of fire
- suddenly lighted np) " you angry devil, if yon will con-
trive to get me a pint of porter in the desert scene, you shall
have an encore to your finale." Had I been dealing with
any other performer, I should, perhaps, have hesitated in com-
plying with a request that might have been dangerous in
its application at the moment; but to check her powers
was to annihilate them. I therefore arranged that behind
the pile of drifted sand on which she falls in a state of ex-
haustion, towards the close of the second scene, a small
aperture should be made in the stage ; and it is a fact, that
from underneath the stage, through that aperture, a pewter
pint of poster was conveyed to the parched lip of this
rare child of song ; which so revived her after the terrible ex-
ertioa the ace ie led to that she electrified the audience, and ha-1,
strength to repeat the charm, with the finale to the Maid or
ifetoie. The novelty of the circumstance so tickled her fancy,
and the draught itself was so extremely refreshing, that it was
arranged during the subsequent run of the opera, for the negro
slave at the head of the Governor's procession to have in the
guard suspended to his neck the same quantity of the same
beverage, to be applied to her lips on his first beheliiing the
apparently dying Lsoline.— The Stage BeAre and Behind the
Curtain.
ROYAL TRADESMEN.—Near Cumee is the
!alga of Fuser°, where the pleasure of the excursion, to some
travellers, finishes with a feast of oysters, fir which this lake is
famous. It belongs to a very distinguished oyster monger—
the King of the Two Sicilies—whose agents open the fish and
!supply the visitor:. They do strange things in this way in
Italy. At Rome, the Cardinal Doria used to be the milkman
to those who chose to send to palace for the necessary ar-
ticle to the ten-drinkin7. -2,nalish; and at Naples, the only good
butterman is :slajesty ; and these who wish to have this
article gent!..ne send to the Court for it, whence it is issued,
impre;6od with the Royal arms. His Majesty is also the chief
or Only dealer in gunpowder, salt, tobacco, &c. &c.
THE FRENCH AND PLUNI•PUDDING.—NO
prejudice can be stronger than that of the French against plum-
puddine.. A Frenchman will dress like an Englishman, swear
like an Englishman, and get drunk like an Englishraan ; but if
yen would offend him for ever, compel him to eat plum-pud-
ding. A caw of the leading restaurateurs, wishing to ap-
pear extraordinary, have "plumb-pooding" upon tleir cartes,
oat in no instance is it ever ordered by a IrFrichinan.
Everybody has heard the story of St. Louis—Negri
Quatre, or whoever else it might be—who wishing
to regale the English Ambassador on Christmas day
,one,
with a
plum-pudding, procured an excellent recipefor rnak.
which he gave to his cook, with strict injunctions that it
should be prepared with due attention to all the particulars.
The weight of the ingredients, the size of the copper, the quan-
tity of water, the duration of time, everything was attended to,
except one trifle—the king forgot the cloth, and the pudding
was served up like so much soup, in immense tureens, to the
i
sarprise of the Ambassador, who was, however, too well-bred
te express his astoniehment.-- Every-Day Book.
On the arrival of the Ditian diligence at Nantes,
on Monday last, an Englishman alighted, who was about six
feet in height, and calling to the attendant at the office, desired
he would take care of his little brother, whom he had left in-
side. The worthy, official mounted the steps, expecting to re-
eeive a child in his arms, but to his astonishment saw a " bit of
a baby" come forth, measuring full seven feet !
The United Kingdom, a large ship, built last
year in our American Colonies, arrived at Liverpool a few days
ago from Charleston, with the following enormous cargo:-
3,288 bales of cotton, 693 barrels of tar, 820 barrels of turpen-
bine , and ether minor artietle;, materials which, if piled in
shape, might be made to resemble no inconsiderable village.