The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-23 00:00:00

(From the Courier.)

The Paris Papers of Saturday have reached us, but
those of Sunday, which should have arrived this morn-
ing, are still due. Friday's Papers contain hardly a
word of news. The chief incident was the nomination
of the commission on the fortifications. In our usual
Summary we give the names of the members chosen,
who, for the most part, are favourable to the plan.
Nu doubt M. Thiers will be appointed the Reporter to
the Commission. Some discussion took place in the
Chamber on Saturday, previously to the nomination, but it
is not worth reporting. It is rather amusing to find that
the French Journals, which have been so outrageously
violent almost ever since the fact of the Treaty of July
-.vas promulgated, actually ascribe all the irritation anl
excitement to the London press. Thus the Debats, which
ou ,ht to know better, goes the length of asserting that
" the language used of late by the London press, so far from
being calculated to calm the irritation existing in France,had
a tendency, on the contrary, to re-animate and render irre.
concilable the old enmity existing betwen the two countries."
The Debuts goes on to say, "in truth, we expected
that the English Journals would have borne better what
th_•y call their victory : but it has turned their heads,
as is generally the case with people unaccustomed to
suce, as. They kno.v not even how to preserve that re-
serve and dignity so easy for thole who have succeeded,
and so painful for those ts ho have been worsted; they
enjoy their triumph as parvenus enjoy their fortune—
that is, with insolence, prodigality, and bad taste."
The bad taste, not to say falsity, of this insinuation, is
so apparent, that it is not necessary to say cnc word in
refutation of it; for it is notorious, except to the heated
and muddled imaginations of the French enthusiasts,
that while ill France all sorts of taunts and insults
have been vented against this country, and even in
the Chamber of Deputies, the English press has only
replied with calmness and dignity, merely meeting the
splenetic effusions of the day with contempt A denial,
which may be deemed official, is given in these papers
to the ridiculous report first broached by the Mi-
nisterial Chronicle, that Turkey intended to insist
upon the decheance of Mehemet Ali. Our readers
will remmber that we treated the report from the first as
an improbability, because it was almost impossible to sup-
pose that one of the Powers which was a p +rty to a cer-
tain arrangement for restoring peace, could, alter the con-
clusion of a difficult negotiation, refuse to abide by a set-
tlement which it was the interest of all to effect. The
Univsrs says that the expense of the late Napoleon cere-
mony will not exceed 1,200,000 francs.

ACCIDENT AT TILE POST-OFFICE.--00 Fri-
day last two men, named Jones and Smith, in the employ
of Mr. Cobbett, painter and glazier, of Northumberland-
street, Strand, were engaged in cleaning the windows of
the Great Hall in the New Post-office, St. Martin's-le-
Grand, when one of the ladders slipped, and Smith fell and
was very se%erely bruised ; Jones escaped without injury.
Fortunately the ladder caught against the coping-stone, or
both men would have inevitably been killed, the height
from the flooring being upwards of 40 feet.
BYRON'S CII A It I TY.—The custode who showed
us the apartments was loud in his praises of Lord Byron,
ar,d recounted various instances of his charity :—" fie
could not see a person in distress without succouring him,"
said be, " and the poor of Ravenna and its neighbourhood
soon discovered this benevolent disposition, and beset him
every day when he went to the Pigneta. But it was not
money alone that he gave them signora ; kind words and
a patient hearing of their misfortunes accompanied his
gifts ; and, paupers as they were they valued these scarcely
less. I remember well his meeting a poor woman of ex-
treme age, and his telling her to come here ; when be
not only heard her talc of distress, but gave her gold, and
a weekly pension beside."—Lady Blessington's Idler in
Italy, Vol. 111.
The Editor of the Nouvelliste des Ardennes has
Philippe,'he resonsible Editor of par la grace des
been proceeded against by the law officers of the Crown
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the Emancipation, of Toulouse, has been condemned by
default to two years' imprisonment and 6,000 f. fine, for a
libel against the King.