The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-12 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

AgROAD-FOUEIGIT-COLONIAL.

The Villa da Praia at Terceira has been utterly
destroyed by a series of earthquakes, which shook it
tremendously for three or four days. So the Ando-
rinha cutter of war brings intelligence.
The appointment of M. Mahul to the Prefecture
of the Upper Garonne led to a slight cmeute at Toulouse
on the Gth instant. Fortunately no lives were lost. The
particulars will be found in another column. The dis-
turbance originated in what Lord Castlereagh called " an
ignorant impatience of taxation"—a popular disease et
this moment very generally prevalent in other countries
as well as in France..

The French Committee of the Holy Land and
Syria have issued a proclamation inviting Christians of
all nations to co-operate in the emancipation of the
Christian inhabitants of the East. To this document is
attached the names of several distinguished legitimists.

-- A letter from Vienna of the 2d inst. states that the
Porte was so pleased with the promptitude with which
Mehemet Ali had forwarded the first instalment
of the tribute, that orders had been given for forwarding
a new firman to the Pacha, reducing the annual tribute
for Egypt from 80,000 purses (400,000/.) to 50,000
purses (250,0001.)
—lt was reported at Vienna on the 2d instant that
Lord Ponsonby, now that the Eastern question is
virtually settled, may be shortly expected in Eng-
land. There are noblemen whom, for the most
opposite reasons, we never wish to part with, and Lord
Ponsonby is one of them. Some we would retain among
ul because they do snore good at home than elsewhere ;
others, because they are less mischievous. Lord Pon-
sonby belongs to the latter class.

The Spanish Government has ordered 10,000 troops
to be in readiness at Malaga, to embark fur Africa, to
punish the insurgent garrison at Alhucemas. Such
energy is praiseworthy.
The Portuguese Government is-about to increase
the import duty on foreign goods and manufactures,
with the absurd view of protecting- native industry. The
increase 'on the present duties will vary fi'om 33 to 11
per cent. By this notable scheme Portugal hopes to rid
he rself of English woollen goods, Scotch shawls, and Irish
butter. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. The
Portuguese Legislature will but increase the smuggler's
gain at the • expense of the honest trader. The smug-
gler's best friend is the monopolist.
The Portuguese war cutter Andorinha, sent to the
Azores to look for the President, has heard nothing of
that ill-fated vessel. The steamer supposed by the
Captain of the Conde de Patina to be the President, has
turned out to be the French war steamer Tonnerre,
which arrived at Fayal on the Ist of May.
In the Canton of Tessino, in Switzerland, a riot
took place on, the Ist inst., in which ten peasants were
killed and several wounded. The object of the rioters
was to dissolve the present Government of the Canton..

The brother of the King of Prussia was so severely
injured by the closing of a window, by a gust of wind,
against his shoulder, that it was found necessary to bleed
him twice ; a severe fever ensued, from which his loyal
Highness is now recovering.
The number of passengers landed at Ostend, from
England, by the steam-packets, during the last month,
was 714, and the number of those who sailed for Eng-
land, from the same port, 597.