The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-04 00:00:00

merely at presentihat this alliance exists. It dates
from the Spanish marriages—those ' fortunate unions,'
' that great affair,' which we opposed, to the great
scandal of our dynastic contemporaries. It was next
endeavoured at any cost to prevent the great Powers
from joining in the protest of England. The Govern-
ment, as usual, acts the part of a mendicant, and it is
now known what is to be the price which France is to
pay for her silence. To ally herself with Austria in
ordpr to suffer her to oppress all Italy, would have been
crookedsho policy, li cy,
demand and it
theit
1 too perilous an act of extravagance. But the Cabinet
assistancewas agreedof
Austrian
that,
Ibtdaaoyn Ipioatne:s a,
prince should
would not give t. it any opposi-
tion. The same tolerance was accorded in respect
of Swiss affairs. Let one canton demand assist-
ance from Austria, and France will agree to it.
Foreign intervention in an independent country was
then accepted by M. Guisot, and he hastened to treat
it as a piece of good fortune by joining England in
the question of Portugal. It was a road opened to a
new ally, Prince Metternich, whose hand we eordially
shook after the massacres of Gallicia. Unfortunately,
the British Government became too soon acquainted
with these private conventions, and it was sufficient that
they originated in Spanish affairs that she should cross
them. Thus, whilst the Austrians were making menac-
ing demonstrations at Ferrara, England gave orders to
her fleet to sail towards the Adriatic. Whilst our am-
bassador, M. Bois-le-Comte, was rid culous and imper-
tinent towards M. Ochsenbein, Lord Palmerston wrote
to his Minister at Berne a letter filled with polite com-
pliments,
and encouragment for the new chief of the
Vorort. The same antagonism occurs in all places, and
what is distressing for us is, that the British Govern-
ment, assuming everywhere the honourable part, inte-
rests the population, flatters their tastes, and offers her
sympathy and her assistance to all who aspire to
liberty. The English journals are eagerly sought in
Switzerland as wed as in Italy. The feeling of the
British Government is supposed to be found in them I
and, as that feeling responds to the popular wishes, those
journals are . translated and distributed in all public
places. To this point are we tallen 1 A Government
sprung from the revolution of July allied at pret•ent to
Metternich I The name of Frai.ce united with the
odious name of Austria, which repreents the oppression
of twenty different nations ! The generous force of our
country associated with a false Government, without
dignity or pity I The young and hardy spirit of the
French revolution dragged after that old feutonic body,
wJrn out with debauchery and violencel All that con-
stitutes our glory, our moral force—all that chasacte-
rised our expansion and interested popular sympathy—
the protection of the weak—the useless struggles tor the
liberty of the world—all that has crowned the brow of
our country, and which rendered it dear to the oppressed
as a hope for them,—all have been immolated and sacri-
ficed by that miserable system of which the passage will
retain in our annals the recollection of a public degrada-
tion and a scourge."
The protest with which the National commences
its observations is, as far as the great majority of the
English journals are concerned, quite unnecessary ;
they have never been so unjust as to confound the
French Court with the French People.
The Gazette des Tribunaux gives the following ac-
count of the reported assassination of a woman by

the Princ of Eca.mum. :
"About a month back Prince d'E—, who for the
moment was living in an apartment in a furnished hotel
in the Rue St. Honere, kept by the son-in-law of one of
the huissiers of the Tribunal of the Seine, was sud-
denly seized with a fit of madness, just as he was
ascending one night to his bed-room, preceded by his
valet de chambre, who held a light. Without any ap-
parent motive, he threw him,,elf on the servant,
struck him repeatedly, and, after having forced him
down on the stairs, trampled him under foot. ' But
do you not know me, Monseigneur ?' cried the
man ; 'it is I, your servant ! you want to
kill me !" I know perfectly well who you are !'
replied the Prince, redoubling his blows ; ' but I must
absolutely kill you, and I will let you go only when
dead!' rhe cries of the valet roused up the other occu-
pants of the hotel, arid they rescued the unfortunate man
from his master's hands; the Prince, however, in place
of entering his own room, slipped out of the hotel and
escaped. It would seem that it was at this moment,
whilst still under the empire of his fit of madness, that
he proceeded to the residence of a woman with whom
he had previously been on the most intimate terms, and
who had even accompanied him in a voyage of circumna-
vigation which he made four or five years ago. He gave
way on seeing her on the night in question, it is said, to
great violence, and even gave her a stab of a knife in
the breast, yet without doing her any great injury.
However that may be, the Prince's mother came the
next day in her carriage, accompanied by a physician,
who declared the Prince's mind to be considerably af-
fected. She carried him off, it is said, to her property
in Berry, and shortly after he was taken to Aix, in
Savoy, for medical treatment. No declaration was made
to the authorities of his conduct, and no complaint was
preferred. These circumstances were, in fact, a month
old, when public report seized on them and gave them to
the world with versions both inexact and contradictory."
The Gazette de France says it is able to contra-
dict the report of the young Duke DE PRASLIN having
committed suicide. The Duke, adds the Gazette, is
only between thirteen and fourteen years old, not
seventeen, as the journals have stated.
The Toulonnais of the 29th contains the following
account of the disturbances in Naples :
" Tne Neapolitan frigate, Stromboli, has just arrived
here from Naples, which she quitted on the 22d, bound
for Marseilles. She put into Toulon on account of bad
weather. She left at Naples the Souverain, the Ocean,
and the Friedland, men-of-war, the Psyebii steam-
frigate, and other French vessels. According to private
letters events had assumed a very serious appearance in
the kingdom of the Two Sicilies; the insurrection had
made great progress, and the troops of the Government
having been defeated in different encounters, showed at
that time some hesitation. Several towns were in the
power of the insurgents."
- These accounts are probably exaggerated, in order
to prepare the way for Austrian intervention with
French connivance. This assemblage of French
ships of war in the Bay of Naples denotes a foregone
conclusion.

The Three per Cents, closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 76f. 65c.; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 30c.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,227 f. 50c.; Rouen, 9501. ;
Havre, 572 t. 50c.; Great Northern, 533 f. 75c.; Avignon,
5851.; Vierzon, 567 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 265 f.; Basle, 1751.;
Paris and Strasburg, 390 f.; Tours and Nantes, 370 f.;
Paris and Lyons, 3931. 75c. ; Lyons and Avignon,
448 f. 75c.

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THE LATE LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR EDWARD
BARNES.—The inauguration of the bronze statue erected
to the memory of the, late Sir E. Barnes, Governor of
Ceylon, in testimony of the respect felt for him by the
European and native inhabitants of the island, and by
his friends in England and in India, took place at Co-
lombo on the 25th-of June last, in the presence of the
present Governor, 'Lord Torrington, Sir Emerson Ten-
nent, and other gentlemen, both civil and military. A
salute of 17 guns was fired on unveiling the statue, and
the band of the 37th Regiment played an appropriate
air. From the inscription on the pedestal it appears
that the services of the late Lieutenant-General are pro-
perly estimated by those who have survived him ; and
from an article in the Colombo Examiner on the subject
efforts to form read-makingrm good
in Ceylon it may be inferred that his
roads have been of great service,
and are worthy of being imitated by his successors. He
is said to have laid the foundation of the prosperity of
Ceylon, and to have changed the island from a military
garrison to a large exporting and importing colony.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.— The ar-
rival of grain is again small. There is a moderate
demand for wheat at nearly the rates of last Friday ;
some samples of new broucht from 48s. to 545. per
quarter. The little new barley offering sells readily
at 345. to 365. per qr. Oats are dull sale, and id. to
Id. per stone cheaper. In beans, And other articles, no
material alterati n.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Yesterday her Ma-
jesty's Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners
announced their intention of dispatching two vessels, of
400 tons burthen, from Deptford, on the 14th of Octo-
ber next, with male and female emigrants to S) dney
and Port Philip.
The report of the death of M. Soulie is contra-
dicted. His health is, on the contrary, improving.
HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH.--A man
named Thomas Leith was tried at Edinburgh, on Wed-
nesday, for murder. The Lord Juitice Clerk presided,
supported by Lords Ward and Crichton. The evidence
given was of a kind that lelt no doubt that the prisoner
had poisoned his wife, and the probable cause appeared
to be a quarrel respecting a woman with whom the
prisoner was connected. The jury found him Guilty,
but recommended him to mercy, simply, it appeared,
from an aversion to capital punishment. The prisoner
was
isnensttaentnced to death, and the execution fixed for the
22d
The Queen of Holland is about to proceed to
Malta and Madeira. Her Majesty will be accompanied
by her second son, Prince William Alexander, who it is
said will remain some time at Madeira in order to re-
establish his health.
CORONER'S INquErr.—An inquest was held yes-
terday by Mr. Bedford, at the Westminster Hospital, on
the body of Abrahatit Eclminston, a gun-case maker, of
No. 12, Macclesfield-street, Soho. It appeared that, on
Monday last, a gentleman be-ught a pair of pistols to
the deceased to make a case for them. In the afternoon
the deceased asked his son fora bullet or a marble, as
he wanted to shoot a cat. The boy left, the room by
order of the deceased. Shortly after a report was
heard, and the deceased was found lying upon the floor,
and one of the pistols. which had been recently dis-
charged, by his side. He was attended by two surgeons,
who found one of his jaws fractured, and was removed
to the atiove hospital, where he died. The jury returned
a verdict, " That the deceased died from the effects of
injuries caused by a pistol being exploded in his mouth,
but whether with a suicidal intent or not there was not
sufficient evidence to show."
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