The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-19 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 19,

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Rumours for a day or two have been afloat,
founded on the authority of a letter from St.
Thomas's, dated the 13th of May, stating that
accounts had reached that island from La Guayra,
of Bolivar's having been defeated by Canterac,
in a pitched battle in Peru, and that Lima was,
in consequence, re-occupied by the Royalists.—
Letters, two days later, from St. Thomas's, which
we have seen, are wholly silent on the subject,
and the report is now utterly discredited. It is
almost impossible, from the distance, that any
very recent intelligence could reach La Guayra
from Peru. The journey is, immense ;it would
have to travel from Lima to Trnxillo on the
coast, from that to Guaquil, thence over land to
Quito and Bogota, and so on to Caraccas and La
Guyara, a most tedious and difficult route. The
last accounts from Lima, to the 31st January,
stated negociations to be then on foot between
Bolivar, Canterac, and the Peruvian Congress,
for a general accommodation. The Spanish Ge-
neral, who is a decided Constitutionalist, having
been apprised of the restoration of despotism in
Spain, had changed all his plans in consequence.
it is very unlikely that this -negociation should
have been suddenly broken off, and a decisive
battle fought, ending in the defeat of Bolivar,
and the capture of Lima ; all, too, within so short
a time, particularly when we know that both ar-
mies were considerably removed from each other,
and in a country where every movement is so dif-
ficult. Every thing tends to discredit the report
altogether. Some occurences of a painful nature
are said to have taken place at Maracaibo, where
the troops had mutinied, from the delay of pay.
No vessels from that place had arrived for some
time, and the result was not, in cvsequence,
known.

[THE TIMES.]
A letter from Mexico of the 2Gth of March
has been received, which states that the country
enjoyed perfect tranquillity, and that the elec-
tions of members for the Congress of the States
of Mexico had taken place in every part, with-
out any opposition whatever. The Government
had received intelligence of the departure of the
Ex-Emperor Iturbide from Italy, and of his ar-
rival in England ; in consequence of which the
General Congress had passed a decree for annul-
ling the pension of 25,000 dollars, assigned to
him on his abdication.

EMORNIING POST.]

We received-last night, by Express, French
Papers to the 18th inst. They are still almost
wholly taken up with the bickerin,,gs of parties,
and contain very little intelligence. The Jour-
nal des Dawes, which is now the chief organ of
the Opposition, has an article from Odessa,
dated the 23d of May, which states that a
Turkish Corps, from Scala Nuova had landed on
the island of Samos, but had been entirely de-
stroyed. Letters of the 3,1 of June from Trieste,
however, are silent on the subject ; and it seems
more likely that, if the intelligence were correct,
it would have been received through that chan-
nel instead of the more distant and more cir-
cuitous road of Odessa. Private letters re-
ceived from Paris in the course of yesterday stat-
ed that reports prevailed in the French capital
of serious commotions having broken out in
Madrid and Cadiz. The King's brother, Don
Carlos, was said to have placed himself at the
head of the Ultra Royalists, by whom many
French soldiers had been assassinated. The
latter, it was added, had, however, ultimately
triumphed, and had caused the most Ultra Mi-
nisters to be turned out. The only French Paper
which notices these rumours is the Quotidienne
(now Ministerial), and it only notices then to
declare" that they had no foundation whatever."
Now, this is going perhaps too far on the other
side; it is difficult to believe that Spain is en-
tirely at rest under the mismanagement of the
present Despot, but there is no doubt that the
reported insurrectionary movements are greatly
exaggerated.

[MORNING HEttALD.]
Mr. Brougham last night presented a Petition
from the (louse of Keys, in the Isle of Man,
complaining, tiist, that they were not admitted to
be present at criminal trials as superintendents of
the Jury, according to the Constitution of the
Island, and, secondly, that the Duke of Athol,
the Governor; reprimanded a Judge for having
tried one of his Grace's servants for perjury, dis-
missed that Judge afterwards without a public
discharged at once a man under senteuce
for having knocked dot% La a witness, and assault-
ed the Judge before whom he was on his trial
fer riot, and punished two men as guilty of a fla-
gitious crime, in having inoculated for the small-
pox. Mr. Peel replied to the first part of
the Petition, that the question was now be-
fore the Privy Council. The charges against
tf-i Duke of Athol %lore substantially ad-
mitted. The Isle of Man, though well known
to the Romans, and the consecrated retreat
of the Druids in times of Roman persecution,
is egregiously unknown to the people of Eng-
land at present. The terms of Keys,S, Deem-
essiou
ster, Tinwald, Fir. sounded early this as
foreign as a description of the political institu-
tions of Tombuctoo. This repetition of toe sub-
ject by Mr. Brougham brings us nearer to an ac-
quaintance with the Celtic character of the chief
island in the Irish Channel. No part of Irelands
appears to suffer more from party violence and ar-
bitrary misrule. The Duke of Athol (a High-
land Chief) seems to enjoy the pride and power
of exclusive
jurisdiction here, in all the purity
and glory of the fifteenth century. If all the
chicfs of clans in the IliAlands had retained
their high powers undiminished, Mr. Peel would
have his hands sufficiently full of appeals and
cemplaints. In the early
part of the Sesssion, it
was stated that the Attorney-General must be a
perpetual absentee, for fear of catchingthe rageof party feeling. It seeps a
pity that the Go-
also required to be rernectually
vernor not