The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-05 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
public t9plntom

" Irho runs may read."

FOREIGN.
Louis Philippe is reported to have addressed a let-
ter to Espartero, in which his Majesty states that he
regards the vote of the Cortes, declaring the office of
guardian of the young Queen vacant, and appoifiting
M. Arguelles to fill it, an attack on crowned heads. Sup-
p)sing this to t'e the case, which we willingly admit, as
all the acts of a free people attack some prerogative or
other claimed by crowned heads, a regard for public
decency should have withheld the Citizen King from
being the first to complain. Was the revolution of
July no attack -on crowned heads ? Was Louis
Philippe guilty of no attack on crowned heads, when he
encircled his brows with a diadem, which he had solemnly
sworn to preserve inviolate upon the head of the exiled
Charles the Tenth ? Louis Philippe is so very young a
member of the family of Kings, that any expression of
his resentment at attacks upon their prerogative sounds
in the public ear like an impertinence.
A Toulouse correspondent of the Commerce states
that the inhabitants of that city are resolved to offer, a
determined passive resistance to the taking of the census.
The agents of the Government will be obliged to break
open all the doors before they can make the returns. A
resistance of this sort is a thousand times more to be
dreaded than a hostile revolutionary outburst. Passive
resistance paralyses all the powers of any Government
against which it is opposed.
On 'the 26th ult. M. Arguelles took the oaths as
guardian of Queen Isabella 11., in the saloon of the Se-
nate at Madrid. All the great officers of State were pre-
sent, and the ceremony was very imposing. The protest
of the ex-Regent was officially delivered to Espartero on
the 25th. No notice was taken of it.

Nine Spanish ecclesiastics entered France on the
25th ult., preferring voluntary exile to an obedience to
the Regent's injunction respecting the Pope's allocution.
Will Louis Philippe discover in this expatriation of the
clergy another attack on crowned heads ?
Her Most Faithful Majesty Queen Donna
Maria is trying her hand at match-making. She,
too, is among the- candidates for the honour of
giving a husband to her Royal Sister of Spain. Her
Majesty's protege is her brother-in-law, a good
Catholic, and quite an enthusiastic admirer of ma-
trimonially-disposed virgin Sovereigns. Queen Donna
Maria's experience of the mental virtues of the illus-
trious house of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, imparts much
weight to her Majesty's opinions upon an affair of Such
exceeding delicacy.
Royalty continues to have its inconveniences in
France. The National states, that " since his Majesty
Louis Philippe fixed his residence at St. Cloud, a great
display of military force was observed there. Cannon
was placed in convenient positions, and the numerous
regiments in garrison at Versailles, Sevres, St. Germain,
Rueil, Nanterre, and Courbevoie were on the qui vine.
The brigade of safety,' composed of select policemen,
was established and reinforced. Horse and foot patrols
were constantly on duty, and the bridge was occupied by
a numerous guard, which extends to the Paris road."