The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Public Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN. •
--:We were misinformed yesterday respecting the
postponement of the trial of Madame Laffarge for the
robbery of the diamonds. No time has been allowed
for bringing her witness from Mexico. In the mean-
time those quacks, the phrenologists, have been
at work upon the cranium of the unfortunate
woman. On her appearance in Court, the Corre-
spondent of the Presse discovered that her mouth,
although large, expressed a " sarcastic cunning, im-
patient to attack," and that her physiognomy pourtrayed
" treachery and audacity." Of what use is trial by Jury
in a country where men allow their minds to be in-
fluenced by such absurdities ?
The King of the French and the ex-Regent of Spain
are hard at work plotting the downfal of the Constitu-
tionalists in the Peninsula. Never did Espartero stand
in greater need of the support of Lord Palmerston. We
greatly fear that Spain will have cause to mourn in tears
of blood the accession of the Tories to office.

Among the most ridiculous of the designs of the
French Legitimists is one for placing the young Duke of
Bordeaux,HenryV., as his partisans style him,on the throne
of Syria. Unfortunately, the Great Powers have recently
declared the occupation of this throne to be one of the
rights of the Sultan. The French Carlists, however, will
not be content without a throne for their idol, by way of
preparing him for a triumphant return to France, when-
ever it shall please the Republicans to rid the world of
Louis Philippe. The madness of a Legitimist, like that
of a Tory, is incurable. As easy would it have been to
restore the Stuarts to the throne of England twelve years
after the Revolution of 1688, as to dream of reconciling
the French to the sway of the elder branch of the
Bourbons.

The force of steam and the increasing necessities of
unrestricted intercourse are gradually breaking down
obstructions. The movement of the Turkish provinces
that border the Danube has led to the dispensing, on the
part of Austria, with the quarantine at Orsova; so that
travellers may now proceed up that river without impe-
diment, and make the passage from Constantinople to
Vienna in thirteen days.
The German Papers say that the Duke d'Aremberg
intends to give a tournament on the occasion of his
daughter's marriage to Prince Aldobrandini Borghese.
Upwards of two hundred silver rings arc to be prizes for
the victors.

From the Hamburgh brig Helene, which arrived
at Falmouth on Sunday, from Buenos Ayres, we learn
by the Master's report, that an action had taken place
between the Buenos Ayres and Monte Videan squadrons,
off Monte Video. A great many men were killed and
wounded on both sides, and though their ships were
much shattered, neither party boasted a victory.
The second Affghan campaign has been of a dif-
ferent character from the first. From the beginning of
January, 1840, to the month of March in this year, our
troops have been engaged in 23 conflicts, chiefly with the
fierce predatory clans of the country. We have sus-
tained 13 defeats or checks in the mountains, or before
their natural fortresses. We have lost 1,400 men and
17 European officers ; and the service on which the
British army is engaged, at an expense of 3,000,0001. or
4,000,0001. per annum, is a perpetual desultory warfare.