The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-18 00:00:00

SPANISH REFUGEES.

CABRERA AND BALMASIDA.—The Conslitutionne
has the following :—" The France has stated that the
Spansh Government had demanded the extradition
of Balmaseda and Cabrera, and that if the ministry did
not grant it, it was owing to high intervention. There is
signal falsehood in these lines. Is is true that the
Spanish Government has demanded the extradition of
these two chiefs, and the odious acts of which they have
been guilty explain the demand; but it is false to
say that the Ministry have for a single instant con-
templated a compliance with it. However cruel may
have been the conduct of Cabrera and Balmaseda,
in the course of the civil war, the actions with which
they have soiled their names were political and within
the rights of nations recognised by France, and this alone
shelters them from extradition. When the demand of
extradition was addressed to the President of the Coun-
cil, he did not hesitate an instant to reply, No. There
was nothing of the intervention spoken of. The asser-
tion of the journal to which wa reply is a ea:umny.
Others have pretended that some Foreign Governments
have protested against the demand for extradition. This
is also false. No Cabinet has interfered in it. According
to the free and spontaneous decision of the Govern-
ment, Cabrera and Balmaseda will not be given up to
Spain, but they will remain in Prance ; and if we are
asked, by what right this is done we reply, by the right
which has provided precautions against Don Carlos,
and in pursuance of the duties imposed upon the French
Government by its alliance with Spain. This state of
things will last as long as the security of constitutional
Spain shall require it. No intervention of what( ver
nature can change the resolution of the Government on
this subject. As to the thousands of Carlist soldiers
who have entered France, the Government will treat
them with the humanity which is due to men of all
parties who seek an asylum on our territory."
" The interview of Balmaseda with the Minister of
the Interior," says the Temps," appears to have made
a strong impression upon all who witnessed it. This
man, who is of a very energetic character, spoke with
profound contempt of Don Carlos, who, he says, has
neither the qualities of a king nor of a man. He
also spoke of Cabrera as a ferocious and rapacious per-
son. I have been severe,' added he, but it was always
from necessity. I have ordered women and children to be
shot ; but they were taken with arms in their hands ;
whereas Cabrera was cruel without necessity. He has
appropriated to himself the greater part of the contri-
butions which be imposed. As to me, let my soldiers
be interrogated, and they will say that I never appro-
priated to myself a single maravedas of what I de-
manded in their name. Look at my threadbare and
torn trosysers—at my coat, which is in rags—and at
my purse, which contains only z3oofr. ; but I regard
myself in poverty as superior to Cabrera with his riches
and covered with public execration.'"

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FALNIOUTII HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS.-
The moorings are b,,ing laid in the inner harbour, and the float-
ing wharf will be ready for use in three weeks. Two of the
largest class steamers in the world may then take in coal along-
side, and not touch the ground, at lowest spring tides.— West
B

DREADFUL OUTRAGE.—A shocking murder
was recently perpetrated at Leipsie, Delaware. A coloured
man with his wife, who was a mulatto woman, bnt extremely
light, arrived at that place, when a rumour was circulated that
the woman was white with a black husband. A band of
villains, headed by one named Henry Clark, visited the vessel,
dragged the wretched woman from the cabin, outraged her
person, then covered her body with an inflammable material,
which they set on fire, and left her to die in horrible torments.
One of the crew of the vessel, named Fox, became States'
evidence, and revealed the names of the r( st of the gang.
Some coloured men, it is stated, also participated in the diabo-
lical outrage. Clark was arrested, but succeeded in making
his escape. The details of this affair are appalling indeed, and
the citizens of Delaware owe it to themselves and to the laws
of the country to make an untiring effort to bring the offenders
to justice. Fiends could not have consummated a more diabo-
lical outrage. In a Christian land, and among a civilized
people, it is indeed disgraceful.—New York Express.
SIR THOMAS LANDER'S ALPINE MASTIFF.—
To
give you an idea of his strength, I may tell you an anecdote
which happened a good many months ago. He took a particular
fancy to one of the postmen who deliver letters here. It was
the duty of the postman I now allude to, besides delivering let
ters, to carry a letter-bag from one receiving-house to another,
and this bag lie used to give to Bass to carry. Bass always fol-
lowed that man through all the villas in this neighbourhood
where he had deliveries to make ; and Ile invariably parted with
him opposite to the gate of the Convent of St. Margaret's, and
returned home. When our gate was shut here, to prevent him
from following the postman, the dog always leaped a high wall
to get after him. One day when the postman was ill, or de •
tained by some accidental circumstance, he sent a man in his
place. Bass went up to the man, curiously scanning his face,
echilst the man rather retired from the dog, by no means liking
his appearance, and very anxious to decline all further acquain-
tance with him. But as the man left the place, Bass followed
him, showing strong symptoms that he was determined to have
the post-bag. The man did all he could to keep possession of
it. But at length, Bass seeing that lie had no chance of getting
possession of the bag by civil entreaty, raised himself on his
hind-legs, and putting a great fore-paw on each of the man's
shoulders, he laid him flat on his back in the road, and, quietly
picking up the bag, he proceeded peaceably on his wonted way.
The man, much dismayed, arose and followed the dog, making,
every now and then, an ineffectual attempt to coax him '.o give
up the bag. At the first house lie came to he told his fears,
and the dilemma he was in ; but the people comforted him by
telling him that the dog always carried the bag. Bass walked
with the man to a the houses at which Ito delivered letters,
and along the road, cam (to the gate of St. Margaret's,
when he dropp vg ,and inakin his bow to the man, he
returned hoax