The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-15 00:00:00

MARY OF NEWS

AND
public Opinion.

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ABROAD.
PORZIGN—COLONTA.L.
Lord Palmerston's speech at Tiverton, in which the
atrocities committed by the French army in Africa was
severely censured, has raised a tempest of wrath in Paris.
Most of the Journals are furious at the idea of French-
men being accused of inhumanity in war, and rake up
the annals of our Indian conquests, to find missiles to
cover us with confusion. The to quoque style of defence will
not do here. The French Government has pompously set
forth, in the official columns of the .2lfoniteur, the number
of razias .--;xecuted by French troops, and the journals
have all quoted them amidst acclamations of joy. Now
a razia is the surrounding of a village (often in dead of
night) by a strong body of troops, butchering the inha-
bitants, firing their dwellings, taking away their cattle,
and carrying their women and children into slavery.
Is this a system of honourable, manly, or humane war-
fare ? Is it not, rather, a system worthy only of
savages ? The-French journals are furious because they
have the grace to feel ashamed that the world should be
made acquainted with acts so atrocious. Lord Palmer-
ston struck home, because there was no denying tho
truth of his statements.

A heavy fall of rain dispersed the rioters at Tou-
louse on the 9th inst. A more serious emeute, prepared
by the secret societies, broke out on the 12th ; and a
telegraphic despatch, which appears in the Moniteur of
yesterday, received by Extraordinary Express, states
that M. Mahul, the new Prefect, was forced to fiy out
of the town to save his life, upon which the Government
cancelled his appointment. A rumour ran that he was
killed by the mob. The troops remained firm. M.
Humana had better give up his darling scheme of
taxation.

The charitable institutions of France consist of
1,328 hospitals, possessing a revenue of 52,222,152 f.,
and ministering _relief to 152,820 indigent ; 6,275 cha-
ritable boards, disposing of a revenue of 10,315,768 f.,
and assisting 695,932 individuals ; 42 moats-de-piete,
possessing capital to the amount of 35,000,000 f., which
are loaned on nearly five millions of articles ; 127,507
foundlings under 12 years of age, who cost the State
upwards of 10,242,000 f. annually ; and 40 special insane
institutions, and 22 mixed, the annual expense of which
averages 400 f. per individual, and in which are treated
upwards of 12,000 patients.

The Ayuntan;iento, or governing corporation of
Havannah, have addressed a memorial to the Spanish
Government against the abolition of the slave trade.
The memorialists cite the case of Jamaica, and the high
protecting duties which the Tories claim- for sugar pro-
duced by five labour, in order to enable the planters to
compete with the producers of sugar in slave-holding
States. We predicted that such would be the result of
keeping up the high protecting duties. We foresaw that
the instant it was put abroad that protection was wanted
for sugar produced by free labour, a powerful impetus
would be given to the inhuman traffic in slaves. The
Tories opposed the abolition of the slave trade to the
last ; by feigning to afford protection to our West India
planters they are now doing all in their power to revive
it. To abolish slavery throughout the world it was only
required to demonstrate that free labour was the cheapest
labour. This the Whigs attempted to do, but Sir Ro-
bert Peel aad the Tories, who in their hearts doat upon.
slavery, foreign and domestic, prevented them. There
was a time when the planters of the Southern States of
the great American Union, would have celebrated Sir
Robert Peel's accession to office by a bonfire of tar bar
rels and old negroes and negresses. As it is, the crack
of the driver's whip will sound merrily, when the Tory
squadron casts anchor in Downing-street.

Loud complaints are made of the state of penury in
which the young Queen of Spain is kept. Her Most
Catholic Majesty is reported to have only thirty dollars
a month allowed her. Now, when it is considered that
all the moral, and physical, and even fanciful wants of
the Queen are munificently provided for—that she
has her choice of several 'palaces to lodge in—
that her wardrobe is too extensive for her powers
of arithmetical calculations—that a host of attend-
ants are in constant readiness at every hour through-
out the day 'it'd night to anticipate not only her reason-
able wishes but her caprices—and when, more than all,
it is remembered that her Majesty is yet but a puny
child of eleven years of age, it may be asked to what
rational use she can devote half the monthly allowance
granted her by the Government ? The Queen, like most
children of her age, is fond of the ostentation of relieving
street beggar& but nation staggering under the weight
of its debts may be excused for not indulging even a
Queen in a practico of such questionable utility.
Senor Arguelles has been elected by the Cortes
Guardian of the young Queen of Spain.

A temporary Cabinet has been formed in Greece.
Prince Mavrocordato's name is not found in it.

In Candia the insurgents have suffered some re-
verses. With their characteristic barbarity the victorious
Turks burnt the conquered villages.
The Pope has pronounced anathema maranatha
against animal magnetism. He condemns it as irreli-
gious and immoral.

AT HOME.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. O'Connell, addressing the Carlow electors on
Tuesday last, exhorted them to peace and good-humour
in these words :—" My friends, I entreat you to be
quiet, peaceable, and orderly. Let us part as good-
humouredly as we possibly can. For my part, I am too
old to afford to be angry, for anger is an enemy to
beauty, and I wish to preserve mine." If, as the old
adage says, " Handsome is as handsome does," then Dan
must be a perfect Adonis, for his present exertions in
the cause of good government are most exemplary.
Among some curious Parliamentary records of
bribery in the age of Elizabeth, which are quoted by a
Morning Paper, we find the following singular passage :
" Thomas Long, a very simple man, and unfit to serve, is
questioned how he came to be elected." This is a
question which not a few of the Tories would, we sus-
pect, have considerable difficulty in answering. W hat
reply, for instance, could Mr. Attwood give, if bound to
say truly how he came to be returned for Harwich ?
All that could in strict justice be said either of him,
or by him, as regards his election, would amount to no
more than this—namely, that, like Thomas Long, he is
" a very simple man, and unfit to serve." It is asto-
nishing how many of the Tory party are in the same
predicament ! We know of at least a hundred, who
are all very " simple men, and unfit to serve."
A Correspondent writes us word that " an itine-
rant vendor of sticks has taken up his stand in the
neighbourhood of St. Stephen's, where he proposes to
sell sticks dirt cheap." Cheap as this man may be in his
prices, there are sticks that may be had much cheaper
within the walls of the House of Commons, for we
firmly believe that one-third, at least, of the Tory sticks
in Parliament might be had for an old song, if the
Whigs thought them worth buying. But what Whig
Minister in his senses would ever think of purchasing
such a stick as Borthwick ?

The Lincoln Gazette says—" We are informed that
a member of the Wesleythi Methodisl Society has been
expelled for the grossest bribery and corruption at the
recent election for Boston." If there be any truth in
the proverb that the " greater the sinner, the greater the
saint," then this man must be a paragon of Apostolic
sanctity.

Old and unhappy recollections are again being re-
vived in Ireland, and every man, whatever his party, will
have reason to deplore it. A gentleman from Monas-
tereven states that when he was coming through that
town, he perceived the pinnacle of the steeple of the
church decorated with Orange lilies.
The Limerick Chronicle says :—" A distinguished field-
officer, totally blind, was led to the hymeneal altar last
week, by a blooming bride, fair, fat, and forty•" This is
a matter-of-fact illustration of the well-known poetical
saying, that " Love is blind."
Mr. O'Connell, who has been returned for the
county of Meath, is also announced as a candidate for
the Yorkshire of Ireland, the county of Cork, and is
certain of success.

Mr. Benett, Member for Wilts, suspected for many
years of being a Tory in disguise, like Mr. George Ro-
binson, formerly for Worcester, has followed the example
of that gentleman, and openly declared for the winning
party. To the credit of the last House of Commons,
" waiters on Providence" were as rare as black sheep.