The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-25 00:00:00

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SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vubitt Opinton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The French Court of Peers' decided on Thursday the
fate of Quenisset and his accomplices. Baron Pasquier,
the President, in the absence of the prisoners, pronounced
sentence of death upon Quenisset, Colombier, and
Bazier ; imprisonment for life upon Dufaur, Jarrasse,
and Petit ; imprisonment for fifteen years upon Mal-
let and Boggio ; imprisonment for ten years upon Lau-
nois and Boucheron ; detension for five years, and loss
of all civil rights upon M. Dupoty, for writing a
Journal read by the conspirators ! A similar sentence
was passed on Bazin; and Prioul, Martin, Fougeray,
and Considere, were acquitted. The necessary prepara-
tions were made for the decapitation of two of the three
prisoners condemned to death.
The King of the French will open the new Session of
the Chambers in person on Monday. "It is reported,"
says the Constitutionnel, " that in the last meeting of the
Council of Ministers a warm discussion arose on a para-
graph in the Speech from the Throne which M. Guizot
had proposed. It was a question in this paragraph of
giving express approbation to the project of the treaty of
commerce with Belgium. M. Humann is said to have
opposed himself very energetically to its adoption, and
the Council was unable to come to any decision at this
sitting."
During 1840 there were 144 money letters, containing
230,000 E, confided to the Post-offices throughout France,
and have not yet been claimed. The total number of
such letters not claimed since IS3O is 482, and the value
of their contents 765,8001'.
In a letter from Madrid of the 15th inst., we find the
following In the event that any of your Liverpool
readers should feel disposed to enter into contracts with
this Government--which I neither recommend nor dis-
courage—l convey the intelligence that tenders will be
received at the public offices on the 15th of February
next, from such parties as are willing to sell to the
Spanish Government five thousand tierces of Havannah,
and two thousand hogsheads of Kentucky. in both in-
stances leaf, tobacco, at prices which shall not exceed
20:1 dollars per quintal of 100Ibs. for the first-named,
and 13 dollars for the other, deliverable in equal propor-
tions in May, June, and July following, at the Govern-
ment stores of Corunna, Seville, Alicante, Valencia, and
one other port, the payment to be guaranteed by the
mortgage of one-third the gross proceeds of the whole-
sale and retail sales of the article at the Government
stores. Your readers are not, probably, aware that the
sale prices are about 1,000 per cent. more than those of
purchase."
M. Mendizabal, the ex-Finance Minister, and M.
Weisweiller, Rothschild's agent, had arrived in Madrid,
on the 15th from Paris.
The Correo Nacional states that its editor has been
acquitted by the Jury of the charge preferred against
him by the Government. A letter from Oviedo, in the
Castellano, announces the capture of seven bandits who
had, for some time past infested the neighbourhood.
The municipal elections in Alicant were the occasion
of serious rioting. A band of 20 or 30 assassins entered
the hall in which the elections of the parish of St. Mary
were quietly proceeding, and one of them stabbed with a
poniard M. Luis Maria Proyet, a deputy in the Cortes,
who was acting as secretary in the assembly. Strong
measures were immediately adopted by the authorities,
and several of those miscreants were apprehended and
committed for trial.

General Amor had been arrested by order of Genera
Rodil, and was to be tried 'by the court-martial sitting
at Vittoria.

Four new periodicals have been started at Madrid, the
Independienle, the Argos, the Peninsular, and the Censor
del Ambos Mundos, the latter especially dedicated to sub-
jects connected with the colonial possessions of Spain.
On the 14th inst. Sir Robert Gordon was formally
received by the Emperor of Austria, to whom his Ex-
cellency presented his credentials as Ambassador to
Austria.

Letters from Constantinople of the 30th in the Gazette
of Upper Germany of the 20th inst., state that advices
had reached the Turkish capital from Beyrout of the
march of Selim Pacha, Governor of Syria, at the head
of three thousand men, for the Lebanon, and that
the Maronites had laid down their arms on being
summoned, but that the Druses had retreated into the
mountains; Colonel Rose (the British officer) had gone
on a mission to the Emir of the Druses to induce them to
submit.

A letter from Smyrna of Nov. 27th, says, "By con-
fidential letters from Alexandria we learn that an Euro-
pean Power has been instigating Mehemet Ali to acts of
hostility against the Sultan ; but the Pacha, who has not
forgotten the lesson given him last year by England,
does not seem inclined to risk losing what he has been
allowed to retain. French agents are very busy in the
Archipelago. One of these aunts lately received a re-
mittance of 2,000,0001. through a house at Smyrna.
The money came direct from Marseilles."