The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

MADAME LAFFARGE.

We extract the following from the Gazette des Tri-
bunaux :—As we have already announced, the affair of
Madame Lafarge is already decided, and unless the ap-
peal
.she has made to the Court of Cessation be admit-
ted, the judgment against her bt• default is absolutely
confirmed. They. wrote to us from Tulle, on the 19th,
that all the witnesses have quitted the town. M. Brissot
-Thivars has forwarded to us the following letter, dated
Guadalaxara, 17th February, with a request that we
would insert it :
"My dear Sister —lt appears that- you have been
sadly tormented on my account, in the prosecution of
Madame Laffarge. Who could ever have guessed that
this woman would set up such a defence ! For my
part, I cannot conceive how - any advocate could take
upon himself to bring forward such evident calum-
Mes. I have no fear that my reputation will sutler on
this account. It results from my letter, since they have
done me the honour to read it on the trial, that Mdile.
Capelle was the inventor of an itrigue, in which she
showed a nascent talent. AS to poor Mine. de Leotaud,
she remained a long time foreign to it ; as soon as Elie
became acquainted with it, she immediately entreated
me to think no more about her, and craved my pardon
for having been the innuedut cause of vexation to me.
During the whole of the title I passed in Africa, I never
heard the names of the two ladies mentioned, except that
that they were married, and then I was so ignorant of
the name of the husband of Marie Capelle, that I paid
little attention to the murder of M. Lafferge. Could I
imagine that matter would arise out of it to bring
me before the public ? This has given me but
little concern on my own account, but I suffer
from the idea that Mme. de Leotaud should be tor-
mented for me, who have never thought of her but
with sentiments of the deepest respect, without hopes,
without delusive expectations. It is so long since we
have spoken to or seen each other, that I never could
have expected that we should be reminded of each other
in a manner so unpleasant Nevertheless, no persons of
understanding will suffer themselves to be deceived by
this calumny, and M. de Leotaud, as I learn from France,
conducts himself with perfect propriety towards his wife.
In this he does well, for nothing can be more worthy ofour
respect than a young woman unjustly calumniated. If
we -lived in a more frank and loyal age, when the purest sentiments were not unworthily perverted, I should.
have yielded to the first dictates of my heart, and le," written to the husband of this unfortunate lady,
ing that his wife was worthy of his love, an". deserved
all his affection. But would". he 'have li`,cened to my
words ? Might he not have replied—W',y do you inter-
fere? What right have you to defend P. person with whom
e': efore suffered things
you have no connexion ? I 6
attempt at her justifi-
to take their course, thinkingli.„).-
cation by me would dov M,'came de Leotaud mere harm
than my silence. Ciec'emstances speak so plainly for
themselves, that none but people of bad faith can doubt,
and lam satisfied that my silence will be rightly con-
strued. What aiei,earance can my asking money to in-
sure my silence have, if I had a right to claim a different
recompense ? As if love could pass away so quick, and
so far become degraded, as to barter with its object for a
bag of piastres ? This may have been believed by those
who know me not, and the contempt I have ever felt for
riches. Ido not mean to say by this that Ido not wish
for money, but I love it only as it would raise me to the
rank .of. her I aspired to, and not that it should place be-
tween her and me the insurmountable barrier of con-
tempt. However, my ambition has been gratified in a
strange manner. I have sought for fame, and calumny
has answered me from the depths of a dungeon, while
Poesy looked on smiling in pity.—FELIX CLAVET."

DUBLIN, AUGUST 21.—A lucrative appoint..
ment has become vacant this day by the death of Max-
well Blacker, Esq., Chairman of the County Dublin, and
one of the Counsel to the Excise. The chairmanship
was worth about 1,2001. a year, and the other situation
about 5001. It is generally supposed that Mr. Monaghan,
late Counsel to the Castle, will be nominated to these
several appointments.
" The rains," says the Courrier Francais,
" have had the effect of
.pushing vegetables in some in•
stances to a monstrous size. In the plain of St. Denis
onions have been gathered weighing a pound each, and
roots of beet of 101bs. each, which will yield half a pound
of sugar."—We doubt these weights.
A letter of the 30th ult., from Bucharest, in the
Moniteur Parisien, gives the following particulars of the
late disturbances at Braila :—"Parties of Bulgarians and
Servians, united in arms under a leader named Datitsch,
declared to the authorities of Wallachia their determina-
tion to cross the Danube and give succour to their fel-
low-counfiymen, who had been ill-treated by the Turks.
Notwithstanding the opposition of the magistrates, these
men raised a standard, issued proclamations, and began
to conduct themselves in a manner which threw the
whole of the inhabitants into a state of terror. The
troops of the garrison not being sufficiently strong to re-
press the insurrection, the people of the country were
called in, and they came armed with all kinds of rude
weapons. The magistrates, thus finding themselves am-
ply reinforced, informed the insurgents that they were
at liberty to go over the river in aGreek vessel pointed
out to them. They accordingly marched down to the
shore, and thus lost their vantage-ground. They had
necessarily to pass through the quarantine building, and
when they .were once•within it the gates were closed be-
hind them. On reaching the vessel they were unable to
make use of it, as her sails and tackle were all taken out,
and in fact they were caught in a trap. The troops and
their irregular auxiliaries fell upon the deluded party,
and they were soon entirely subdued, with the loss of
-about twenty killed and wounded."
'A fine *tun; by Rubens, from the Royal col-
lection at Munich, was sent some time since to a porce-
lain manufactory at that place to be copied. It was be-
lieved to have been Stolen from thence, and had certainly
disappeared. The :police, however, made a strict search,
and found that one of the:persons connected with the
establishment had taken it out of the frame, and secreted
it under the flour of a garret in the building. Fortu-
nately the picture was uninjured, and the thief has been
sent to prison.

A New York Journal states that a boy hav-
ing got his father's snuff box, indulged so immoderately
in the titillating dust that lie sneezed himsdf to pieces.
His remains having been gathered up, a Coroner's In-
quest was held over them, when the enlightened Jury
returned a verdict of " Snuffed out."
A physician of Narbonne, named Gautier, was
a few days siii3e returning in a cabriolet, from a country-
house on the Canal de la Bobine, with his wife, her bro-
ther, and child, when the horse suddenly took fright,
backed, and fell into the canal, dragging with him the
carriage, and all who were in it. Dr. Gautier, being in
front, easily gained the land, and the infant, which floated.
by its long clothes, was taken out of the water without
injury ; but Madame Gautier, who was only 25, and her
brother 17, were drowned, and their bodies were not
discovered till next morning. The horse was stifled in
the mud.

A letter from Geneva states,—On the 31st ult.
several Communes of Soleure.held a grand festival,
commemoration of the anniversary of the adoption of
the Bernese Constitution. The provisions for the feast
were taken to the summit of a mountain. An immense
bonfire was made in the evening, which, however, occa-
sioned a lamentable accident. As the Mimes began to
subside, a blacksmith, named Girard, remarked for his
violent Radicalism, raised One of the brands which had
fallen from the heap, and kicked it with his foot into the
fire, exclaiming, "So would I have every aristocrat
served !"' In doing this, his foot slipped, and he felt
back over a precipice 300 feet deep. Ile was killed on,
the spot--leaving a widow with three children, and a
fourth in expectancy, whom the aristocrats he reviled
will have to maintain."

•
According to our advices from Beyrout, which
are dated the 14th ult., says the Temps—" The Porte
was disposed to grant the people of the Libanus the pri-
vileges they claim, and reduce their tribute to 3,000
purses (375,000 f.), viz., 1700 as a tribute to the Sultan.
and 1,300 for the expenses of the Emir and the Govern-
ment. The mountaineers were then quiet. An Austrian'
ship of war had arrived a few days before at Beyrout,
bringing to Selim Pacha a sabre, richly ornamented, as
a present from the Archduke Frederick, who was his
companion in arms at the capture of Saida. The Aus-
trian Consul received by the same conveyance a med--5,
and the insignia of an order, which were deliverd to hint
when on his death-bed. The Captain of the Adstrian
ship afterwards•went to Lebanon with the Consul's dra-
gothan, and delivered to the Pacha from the Archduke
100,000 f., half of which is to be applied in repairing the
churches, and the other distributed among such inhabit-
ants as have most suffered from the late war.
Advices from St. Petersburgh state that ',mere
has not been a single day of rain there for the, last two
months. The drought has been so great, that in two-
thirds of Russia the corn will be parchr,d up and unpro-
ductive.

According to the census of the population of
Naples made for last year, the iPlAabitants of the capital
amounted, on the Ist of January last, to 337,865. The
births had been 13,916,, and deaths, 13,465. Among the
latter was that of a woman at 103, and those of 199
other persons between 90 and 100.

As the mail wr.; passing, on Sunday last,
tween Bordeaux and Toulouse, the horses to;li. fright at
precipice, killed the &elver and the horses,
a
some enrts, near Toulouse, ran awai, dragged the car-
radgthea courier's le;,, The bags were sent on to
in eb
r overoke
Toulouse, but not till ar.',,er considerable delay.
M. Reys Cure of Gonceliti in the Isere, waR
tried, on 'le 13th inst., before the assize for the depart-
gregation, said that the revolution of 1793 was
iitehi, fur having, in the exercise of his ministry, and be-
fore a con
sanguinary, but produced great good in abolishing the
noblesse • that he had made vows for a similar revolution
because the rich would become servants to the poor, and
that all would be brought to the level of equality. Ile
had also said, " The bad King who governs us is a Ci-
tizen King, but is in accord with the rich to crush the
people, and you poor people must unite with the clergy
this new
(fur the clergy are also part of the people), and then
King, this Citizen King, will fall like the others,
and we shall become the Government." The Jury re-
turned a verdict of
guilty, and the Cure was sentenced to
six months' imprisonment, a fine of
6001'., and to pay the
costs of the prosecution.
' A FORGER IN TUNIS,--A letter from Tunis
gives the following Recount of the punishment for
forgery, in the sale of some property of a person
of some note, performing there similar functions to
thou of a notary in France. Immediately after con-
viction of the offence, his right hand was cut oir, rather
dexterously, and the wrist was dipped in boiling pitch
to check the Weeding. This being done, he was placed
upon an ass, with his face turned towards the tail, and
the saverecl hand suspended over his back, and paraded
through the streets of Tunis, after which he was taken
to his house, without having lost public consideration,
as., amongst the Mussulmans, the infamy of the crime
does not outlive the punishment~,Galignuni's Messenger

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
POST.—The position of Ministers at the present mo-
ment is anything but an enviable one. In addition to
the painiul consciousness that they are doomed to a
speedy expulsion from the offices they love so well,
they suffer from several minor causes of affliction and
embarrassment. They begin at last, we are credibly in-
formed, to repent the unprincipled tenacity of office
which prevented their resignation when the House of
Cormeons had declared that they were unfit to govern
the country, and which again forbade them to resign
when fee people of the United Kingdom had de-
clared that in this instance, if in no other, the House
Of 'Commons bad spoken truly and acted well.
It cannot, indeed, excite much surprise that Mi-
&eters should look forward to Tuesday next with
anxiety and alarm ; and still less can the embarrass-
ment and distress in which they have laboured
so diligently and successfully to involve themselves
excite any cummisseration or sympathy in the minds of
honourable men. We see honest and straightforward
men of all classes of society and in every quarter of the
town rubbing their hands with infinite glee while they
ask each other, " What are Ministers to say in the
Queen's Speech, which the Queen will not speak for
them, on Tuesday ?" The conjectural replies to this
question are various and even opposite. But however
they may differ in other respects, every reply that can
be given to the question is equally an indication
and presage of the weakness, confusion, and disgrace
to which Ministers are irrevocably doomed—self-
rienmed. Will they make the Corn-law queition, upon
w deli they have just appealed to the country, a prominent
topic of the Queen's Speech ?or will they not ? Weak-
ness, confusion, and disgrace must result from either de-
termination. In the former case they will swell the ma-
jority against them on the address by the votes of all
those Members who, though disposed to yield to Minis-
ters their general support, have been returned to Parlia-
ment upon the faith that they will maintain without
flinching the interests of British agriculture. In the lat-
ter they will excite the disgust and incur the contempt
of the whole body of their free-trade partisans, who will
very naturally and justly accuse them of betraying and
sacrificing the cause by so pusillanimous and treacherous
a display of the white feather. Here is one stumbling-
block in the path of Ministers, and we have some reason
to surmise that up to this moment the Cabinet is very far
from unanimous as to the manner in which they shall
ettempt to overcome it.
lIERALD.—Where men begin to despair of making
head against a successful adversary, but are afraid to
avow, pnblicly, the fact of their despair—they are
pretty sure to give out that his forces are distracted by
internal divisions. They attempt to disparage the repu-
tation of his success by ascribing to him a thousand ac-
cidental advantages—hich he really never possessed ;
—and to console themselves for the shame of present
defeat, by anticipations of future discomfiture to their
rivals through divided councile, and the factious preten-
sions of their members. The language which is held by
the organs of our Whig-Radical Government has, for
some time past, afforded amusing indications of this
very ancient and somewhat clumsy policy. The
whole stock in trade of their hopes and prospects of a
return to power consists of reiterated speculations on
the difficulties which it is assumed must necessarily
beset Sir Robert Peel in his attempts to reconcile
the conflicting claims and views of his various sup-
porters. One of these organs—a cackling ben, which
. sits upon every mare's-nest, entertains that primitive race
of persons who are really its "readers, with a daily
elaboration of this fond absurdity. A great deal of
allowance, of course, is to be made for the habitual ins-
pressions on these subjects which the thorough-going
hack in the service of Whiggery " all over the world,"
must have acquired in the course of so long a period
of equivocal services as it has now devoted to the
cause of the most sordid and selfish party to whose hands
the destinies of this empire were ever confided. The
whole of that party seem to treat the notion of a great
public leader attempting to govern this country upon
uny certain and defined bases of an enlarged and pub-
lic-spirited policy—without being deterred from the
prosecution of his generous, object, by inability to
provide place, office, emolument, or pension for all the
needy relatives and greedy dependents of a party in
possession of power—as a height of romantic virtue on
which it would be mere idiotcy to speculate. We are
told by one of these organs that " in sober earnestness
there is at the very threshold of power a most serious
division in the Conservatioe ranks." And what (do the
public imagine) is this assumption founded upon ?
Upon, truly, a most portentous, a most formidable con •
junction of circumstances. It seems that the Morning
Post has actually fallen out with the Times! Nay,
more—that the Times has intimated some hesitation and
doubt whether it may feel disposed to extend its patron-
age and support to the new Government !—the Times
eondemning the existing Corn-laws, and intimating its
hope, rather than its expectation, that the first official
act of Sir Robert Peel will be to put them down ; and
the Post,—on its own " assurance"—of " enjoying the
full confidence of the leaders" of the Conservative
party—pledging itself with as much aliegy as may
be supposed to enter into its eompositioll*" that Sir
:Robert Peel entertains no such views as the Times
has rashly imputed to him." It is time that this sort
of delusion should cease. Sir Robert Peel is at the
head of a party, the principles of which the Whig-Radi-
cals never will be taught to appreciate. The true in-
terests of the public service, the course which may best
consist with the public honour, the policy which may
best consolidate the public safety, will be the great ob-
jects of all Conservative Government—no matter under
what leader. The same disinterestedness which they
have already displayed in opposition, the same steady
evotion to the welfare of the empire,—not to the per-
sonal aggrandisement of the Members of their own
priety,—will be their characteristic qualifications for offi-
cial power. their irresitible claims on public confidence.
The inherent distinction between the principles of the
Whig-Radicale and those of the Conservatives, will
acouire, from day to day, increased development ;
and a grateful country will learn to render due honour
to public men whose first care for the public service
,will be—to provide efficient and trustworthy servants
for the discharge of all its various duties, and the main-
tenance o.` their establishments on a footing. of perma-
nent vigour and activity. Such, in short; is the just
authority or influence, among the Conservatives, of the
nrinciples for the udication of which they have so suc-
ices:V.-ally combined all the various classes of a party
(" of the same name, but 'of a different nature " as the
Government Journal phrases it)—that the leader of
that party must respond to them. He will no more ven-
ture, be he who he may, to depart from them, on any
essential points or leading questions, even to retain the
" confidence" of the Morning Post (!) or to propitiate
the sanction of the Times, than the party itself will ever
-eenture to forfeit its popularity and authority with the
enentry by imitating the shameless nepotism of the
Whijs, in swamping the public departments and the
higher classes of office with their troublesome depen-
dents or needy relatives,—whenever the long line of
Elliots and Cowpers and Russells and Greys and Foxes
which have been provided for, by the especial champions
of Parliamentary Reform, shall have left any vacancies
for other Ministers tts supply !
TIMES.—The fastest friends of the present Corn-
laws, in effect, if not in intention, are the Jacobin blas-
phemers, who, with a profaneness too glaring to be called
hypocrisy-, daily pollute the most sacred names and
subjects for the purposes of faction. We say, for the
purposes of faction ; because, although we think it by
no means a mark of fiction to argue against the Corn-
Jaws, we look upon it as perfectly clear that the mass of
folly, falsehood, and wickedness, which disfigures a cer-
tain portion of the Ministerial press, is not, eve by those
who use it, imagined to be argument at all. It is the
misshapen offspring, on the one hand, of the selfishness
of certain class-enterests, whose motive for agitating this
question is the
desire - of gain, which they would wil-
lingly secure to themeelves by any amount of public or
private mischief, and who look upon the excitement of
popular passions and the dissemination of popular
fallacies as the nearest road to their end. On the
other hand, it is taken up by a political party,
always unscrupulous enough, but now in a rabid state,
and gnashing its teeth under the paygsofmotto recent() defeat.
Any Anything to inflame the people is their
cast about for the materials of sedition with the energy
of men whose existence is at stake. If an opportunity
offers at the same time to degrade and dishonour the
name of religion, it is eagerly seized, as being quite in
the way of their trade. In fact, when they take religion
into into their loathsome embrace, and still more, whe
p they
orevail upon any of the outward professors of religion
become accompie.ces in this prostitution o`' sacred
they probablya.ppear to themselves to be
answer-
ing a double purpose, and killing two birds with one
stone. But in this, as many other things, they are
.gross self-deceivers. They cannot succeed in bringing
religion into contempt, because England is a religious
country, and they are universally known to be 1101-
low impostors, scorners of everything like real reli-
gious principle. Still less can they palm upon the
people at large (whatever they may do with weak and vain
and not entirely disinterested men like Mr. Baptist
Noel) the belief that their uncharitable blasphemies are
either honestly meant, or true in fact. Every candid op-
ponent of the Corn-laws feels indignation at the at-
tempt to represent what (as the Wesleyan Conference
accurately stated) is " primarily a question of political
economy," as a religious question ; and shudders at the
Jacobinism which stigmatizes all who think differ-
ently as tyrants who " cannot with a clear conscience
ask for their daily bread." Such arguments will help no
cause ; they carry their own condemnation palpably
-written upon the face of them ; they dishearten and dis-
gust intelligent and honourable friends, inspire enemies
with a confidence, both moral and intellectue!, in their
own views, and convince neutrals that measures which
need to be so supported must be rotten even to the core.
GLOBE.--The dislike which the Tories, as a party,
cherish towards the Queen is a matter of notoriety.
They have taken no pains to conceal its existence, but
have manifested it in every possible way upon every oc-
casion. They may, therefore, be said to glory in their
shame. It is, however, no less the dots- of those who
profess to be governed by another disposition, and con-
sider that affectionate and loyal respect is due from every
subject to the Sovereign, without reference to party pre-
dilections, to disabuse the decent part of the nation of
an opinion they might otherwise entertain, that the
changed position of the Tories might possibly have
lyre ught a change in their disposition and language
towards the Illustrious Lady who occupies the Throne.
Seeing they are now likely to attain the objects fur
whi,ch they consented to become the maligners of
Royalty, it might certainly be expected that they would,
at !least, moderate their dislike, and from policy, in the
absence of principle, conceal the mortification with
wh
n they burn, on finding, that the Queen remains
unsiaakPn in her attachment to the constitutiunal prin-
ciples to which she has manifested a preference from the
terme meat the
14.0epstrechof
• hands. government was committed to
11' 'grin to pay oTt
py are not satisfied alltling. 'They have an arrear of
they will do so with interest.
Obtaining the Government un-