The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-09 00:00:00

in Europe by France, from her conduct on the Eastern
Question. The opportunity for pushing on such a
negotiation is considered by the French Ministry .as not
a bad one, when England, the most jealous of the
neighboUrs of France, is likely to be distracted by a
change of Ministry ; and when Holland, amused
with the projected marriage of the Prince de Joinville
to the Princess Sophia of Orange, will not take alarm at
seeing the French Custom-house officers replace those of
Belgium under her very nose. It !is possible, too, that
France may have received some inadvertent marks of
amity from Prussia and Austria which may have en-
couraged her to try the effect of a coup de diplornatigue ;
and that on the whole she may expect to succeed in
wheedling the Belgians into this pretended alliance.
On the other hand, the interested opposition of certain
classes of French manufacturers, coal owners, iron-
masters, &c., is thwarting the proposed scheme ; and it
is not unlikely may adjourn any further steps in it until
the next Session of the Chambers. The German
States are doing all in their power to prevent any union
of the kind from taking place ; and strong representa-
tions, as we have every reason to believe, have already
been made to the French Cabinet on the subject. The
strenuous opposition of England, Russia, and perhaps
Austria, will, it is to be hoped, nip this scheme in the bud,
or else France will, with a single stroke of the pen, gain
practical possession of the whole of Belgium. How the 13e1-
: gians can deliberately, and with their eyes open, wish for
any closer union with a despotic Government like that of
Louis Philippe, or with a generation of notoriously colt-
rupt statesmen, such as now alone compose the Cabinet
of the Tuileries, is inconceivable ; for the very first
effects of the Customs' Union would be the paralysing
of their own manufacturing industry and the annihila-
tion of that good will in Eastern and Central Europe
, upon which the prosperity of Belgium so much depends.
On all these accounts the arrival of King Leopold at Pa-
ris is looked forward to with anxiety.
It is commonly believed that the Government has not
ordered the arrest of' the late Mayor of Toulouse and his
deputies, as has been rumoured by the journals, though
it would no doubt do so, if it dared, and a great deal
more. The Mcssager, which is the Ministerial evening
paper, and the Moniteur, continue to publish daily tele-
graphic despatches from Toulouse, as if it was a place of
the utmost importance, and they thus show the alarm
felt by the Government at the late disturbances.
The last accounts from Algiers show that General La-
mmiciare's column was rather roughly handled on its
return to Oran from Mascara, the Arab enemy closing
with the men in good style, and when not attacking
them in due form, harassing them excessively from the
rear. The proportion of 800 sick out of about 4,000
men (the total force) is enormously large, and shows
the ravaging effects of the climate on European consti-
tutions. The Governor-General, in aklressing the 17th
light infantry just before it embarked the other day for
France, observed that in Africa the corps had been " a
column of glory"—it was now going to be " a column of
order." A nice warning to the Parisians, that in case of
an emeute this regiment, which is to be quartered at
Courbevoie, near Neuilly, will be ready to show what a
razia is, in the true African fashion. The reign of for-
tifications, Bastilles, and bayonets, is beginning here with
a vengeance !

The number of the families now at the waters of
Wiesbaden, is said by the Frankfort Journal to be
2,150 ; of whom 1,652 are Germans, and 498 foreigners.
The latter comprise 244 English, and 77 French families.
A shock of earthquake was felt at Holbeck, in Den-
mark, on the 15th ult., accompanied by a loud noise in
the air, similar to the discharge of artillery.
The formation of a new series of galleries at•Ver-
sallies is talked of. They are to occupy the attic above
the Queen's apartments, facing the orangery, and will
be a continuation of rooms lately opened above the Ga-
lerie des Batailles.
A woman named Marie Gervais died, a few days
ago, in the hospital at Montpellier, at the age of 110.
She was admitted there as a sempstress, in 1762, being
then 32 years old, and remained an inmate , from that
time till her death.
During the last mouth the number of passengers on
the Paris and Corbeil Railroad amounted to 86,285, car-
riages 62, horses 74, and the receipts 116,365 fr,
On the 15th inst., the 71st anniversary :of the birth
of Napoleon, the dome of the Inv slides is to be com-
pletely- illuminated.

The ilgrain Gazette gives us the following some-
what astonishing story :—" A short time since a Turk,
who was known to have gone to bathe in the Danube,
near Belgrade, did not return, and was missing for three
days. At the end of this time his body was discovered
among the rushes on the bank, and clinging by the arms
to the trunk of a tree, while his lower limbs were fast in
the throat of an enormous fish, the silurus glanis, weigh-
ing three quintals (rather more than 500 weight) !"
The Company of the Messageries Royales has just
been condemned by the tribunal of Pontoise to pay
25,000 fr. damages to a traveller, who was obliged to
have his right arm amputated last May, in consequence
of injuries from the overturning of one of its diligences
in that town. The accident was proved to have been
owing to the imprudence of the postilion and conductor.
The Havre Journal publishes the reports deli-
vered to the legal authorities of Leghorn and Naples,
by the captains of the Pollux and Montegibello re-
spectively, concerning the unfortunate shock, which
ended in the sinking of the former vessel. The re-
ports state positively that each captain saw the light of
the other long before, and that they were, with a proper
number of their crew, on the decks, endeavouring to
steer clear of each other. The captain of the Pollux,
however, states that when, after the shock, he leaped on
board the Montegibello, ho 'build no one on deck except
the steersman, and he was obliged to get the passengers
from one ahlp to the other by means of his own crew, there
being none of the Montegibello's men to aid him. Ile
attributes all the fault to the Captain of that vessel.
This Journal states that the plan for raising the Pollux
has been suggested by a sailor, who has contracted to
carry it into execution, and consists in letting down
chain-cables, forming an oblong round the hull of the
vessel, and then warping them tight, by means of run-
ning-knots and capstans, worked on board a sufficient
number of lighters.. It is expected that, by this method,
the ship will be readily got up.
We learn from the Journal tle let Metertize, that on
Saturday last the depot of powder at Liverdun, kept
there for blasting works in fotniing t 1 canal, blew up,
killed five men, wounded many more, and did consider-
able damage, The cause of the accident is not stated.
A peasant of Romeyer, in the Drome, being ena-
moured of a young girl of the village, and driven to des-
peration by her refusal of him, and engaging herself to
be married to another, followed her into the fields a few
days ago, and there murdered her with his gun. Her
body was found nearly half consumed, the gun having.
been discharged so close that the fire of the wadding had
caught her clothes. The man hiinBtli Wttg found soon
after, a lifeless corps,. in a Vrood, half a league off, where
he had committed cuitide with the same instrument.
A eaeo which has been for some time before the
Nets Tribunal of Correctional Police, in which Messrs.
Monnier, Latte, and Baptiste, were prosecuted by M.
Victor Hugo—M. Monmer for writing, M. Latte for
publishing, and M. Baptiste, who is the Director of the
theatres of Mete and Nancy, for performing an opera in
Italian, in four acts, called Lucrecc Borgia, which was
an Imitation, and in great part a translation, from Lu-
crece Borgia, a drama in three nets, by M. Victor Hugo,
was decided yesterday. An exception made to the com-
petency of the tribunal, as regards M. Baptiste, was
allowed ; but judgment was given as follows against the
other two defendants, viz., each to pay a fine of 100 fr.,
their work to be confiscated, and all future sale prohi.
bited. In the course of the trial it: Victor Hugo stated
that he laid no claim for damages:
After the trial Of the ti'd.lie§ Alt the publication of
the letters ascribed li it to the King, M. Johannet, one
of the eiditort, republished from that journal the report
of the trial, in the form of a pamphlet unstamped. This
was regarded by the Stamp-office authorities as a viola-
tion of the law, the republication being, in their opinion,
identified with the journal, and the whole of the edition
was immediately netted. An action was brought by M.
Johannet against the Stamp-office department for this
reiture, and was decided yesterday by the Tribunal
Civil of Paris, which declared that the pamphlet was
a separate work from the journal, and not liable to
stamp-duty ; and it therefore ordered the restitution of
the copies seized, anti the rt....J..1 of all the restrictions
upon the sale of the work. The costs were thrown on
the Btattp-office.

A report has been circulated 'on Change today
(says Le Commerce) that the city of Toulouse had been
declared in a state of siege. We think that the Mindary
will contradict this improbable n3-ece of news.
The camp at CIA,- :
de s. The ...,inpeigne is to be put off' for ten
y
t_nops are to be assembled there ott the tat
,of eptember, instead of the 20th of August, The la-
bours of the harvest wilt by that time be completely
ended.—Le Centitwtionttet

The itioniteat says e—,-" On aefttint of the state of
the atmosphere no neWs t6iiitt lC received by the tele-
gaph during the atty, but a despatch received this morn-
ilk announces that tranquillity continued to prevail."
• - The Emancipator, of Toulouse, of the :.Id, makes
no meition of troubles, which it was feared might take
Place oh Sunday or Monday. The authorities, however,
contintoct'o take measures of precaution.
The j,nrnal de Cherbourg says, " It seems certain
that orders h,„O been received at Cherbourg to forward
with the neate-, diligence the completion of all the ships
of war buildingb 1. the dockyards."
The Germat.
Journals endeavour to conceal as
much as possible ta, critical state of the Austrian
finances, but we learn limn good authority that cenlmerce
is completely at a stand ..1 the pititwfaotripg prninces
the—ch
of Austria, in consequence ,f the numerous hankruPtelea
which have taken place at V,,,pa, Trieqp,re4th Yenlee
. ? . 7
and Prague,
work, because
the oefst:-bollikshmineop47l,,,.„.„, without..
th.ostic
find it impossible to pay them, in i employed
merce,
financial crisis or which Vienna is 0;211. se.quenee '‘. 'I

tile
c'-tre.—Le

,
.....,NconDiTs.--It is said that Sir Robert Pet
to negotiate a concordat with the Pope for the
, vern,
ment of the Catholic Church in England and i land,
Before he begins such a negotiation, he will have r fr'. ,o-
cure the repeal of some laws, of which repeal his 4nelL the Churchmen may not approve. nroposes

RETORT COURTEOUE.__A llussiat lady
being engaged to dinner with M, de Talleyrand, ,it that
time Minister fur Foreign Allairs, was detaint,i a full
houruests -by some unexpected accident, 'l'"'l'"famished
g
grumbled,
and looked at the;. watches, On the
lady's entrance, one of the corz,pany observed to his
neighbour in Greek, " Whet ' woman is neither young
nor handsome, she ought e Arrive betimes." The lady,
turning round sharpl , :‘,..:osted the satirist in the same
language, "Whey ~ woman," said she, " has the misfor-
tune to dine with , Avages, she always arrives too soon,"
DINNER TO THE HoN. Mit. MOSTYN.—
On Tuesday last a public dinner was given to the Hon.
Member for Flint, at tha Town-hall, at which about Uu
~bQntlenion sat clown; gip evening passed otf with great
,Conviviality.

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