The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-21 00:00:00

charges, to have more regard to the accuracy of
statements, and not attempt, by indecent and un-
founded representations, thus to impugn the con-
duct of the Government. The facts of the case are

these; in 1838, a public meeting was called of the
inhabitants of the borough of Bolton, which was
very numerously attended, and at which it was
resolved, with the exception of one individual,
that it was desirable Bolton should be in-
corporated. A petition for the purpose was
agreed to, and put in the course of signature,
when another public meeting of the inhabitants
was by the opposite party convened, to recon-
sider the subject; and it was again determined
that a Charter should be applied for. The pe-
tition was then signed by an actual and consider-
able majority of the rate-payers of the borougli,
and duly presented. A counter-petition was then
obtained, which was said to be signed by more
than 3,000 rate-payers, and both these petitions
were referred by the Privy Council to a
Commissioner, who made his report, and
a Charter was granted. After the Char-

ter was granted elections of the munici-
pal body took place. In 1839 the Council
petitioned that a Court of Quarter Sessions
might be holden at Bolton, and on the state-
ments in that petition the grant was conceded
and a Recorder appointed. A contract for the
maintenance of prisoners was entered into with
the Justices of the New Bailey prison at Salford,
a distance of eleven miles, to which place of-
fenders were committed, and for a time brought
back to the borough to be tried. The decreased
costs for these prosecutions soon proved the
utility of the change, the charges in each case
being reduced from Si. odd to 5/. odd, with the
saving also of the inconvenience and expense of
Jury,lwitnesses, attorneys, &c., travelling eleven
miles to the Salfbrd Sessions. The contract for

the maintenance of prisoners in the Salford gaol
was removed by certiorari to the Queen's Bench,
and on the rule being argued the Judges inti-
mated that inasmuch as there was no gaol in the
borough of Bolton, the law as it now stood did
not warrant the contract, and it is to remedy
that difficulty, which applies to many other bo-
roughs, that the Bill for the better administra-
tion of criminal justice has been brought in.
If the Times will refer to the Parliamentary
Reports it will find that the persons promoting
the incorporation of the new boroughs have not
required or sought the confirmation of the
charters, being satisfied they are good in law and
it is evident that other persons, to whom the
Times has vouchsafed support, have made the
same discovery, and are now willing to abandon
their original opposition for private gain in the
nature of " compensations."

Madrid Journals of the 12th inst. have reached
us. On the previous evening Queen ISABELLA
and her sister attended the theatre of La Cruz.
Her MAJESTY was attended by the Duke of Vie-
TORY, who displayed the most marked deference
to his Royal Mistress. On the 12th a discussion
took place in the Senate on the abdication of
Queen CHRISTINA, in the course of which the
loyalty of ESPARTERO'S conduct was admitted on
all sides. The Minister of the Interior assured
the Chamber that CHRISTINA'S resignation was
entirely voluntary, and that nothing had been
done on the part of the Cabinet to suggest to her
such a resolution. We have never heard the
Spanish Cabinet accused of compelling the ex-
Regent to abdicate. It was too well-known that
her MAJESTY'S abdication had been rendered
im-
perative by her passion for MuNoz, to leave any
doubt about the matter. The wife or mistress of
MUNOZ had rendered herself physically incompe-
tent to discharge the duties of the Regency, and
she prudently anticipated the expression of the
national voice by abdicating.
In the Chamber of Deputies the question of
the relations between the Spanish Government
and the Court of Rome was debated on the 12th.
The Minister of Justice stated that the POPE had
refused to acknowledge Queen IsABELLA, and
that in consequence no Ambassador from Spain
resided at the Holy See. He observed that the
Government was aware that violent sermons
were preached in Seville, Malaga, and various
other cities, and that orders had been given to
prosecute before the civil tribunals all ecclesias-
tics so offending. We question whether it would
not be more prudent to let the priests rave on
after their own fashion. To prosecute them will
only serve to make martyrs of them in the eyes
of the uneducated Spanish people. Left to them-
selves they will soon attract no more attention
than so many bedlamites. A priesthood that
troubles itself with politics, soon destroys its in-
fluence over the popular mind.

The change in the Turkish Cabinet is the only
subject of importance mooted in the French
Journals of Sundtty. This change is thought to
be favourable to France, whose policy, liberal at
home, is illiberal in every other part of the
world, But what France can gain by the acces-
Sion of a Ministry at Constantinople pledged to
concede all the claims of MEHEMET ALI, is
more than we can pretend to discover. An Anti-
RetOrm Turkish Cabinet, however well it may
be disposed to cultivate amicable relations with
France, must, by stopping the prootess of im-
provement, inflict great injury Lin r rench sub-
jects scattered dims-lint every part of the
reason to
However much France may
be rejoiced, we do not think that England has
n ul
'lament the temporary retirementis strong of
-sCHID PACHA, notwithstanding his
bias in favour of British influence. Had Lord
PONSONBY actually represented the state of pub-
lic feeling in this country with regard to the
Eastern question, the case would have been very
different.
The Moniteur Parisien announces that M. Caille, Mar-
shal Souk's aide-de-camp, had arrived in Paris from Algiers,
bringingthe i I in mostis te r
important
wporatar.n t despatches from General Bugeaud

According to the Journal des Debats, the works of the for-
tifications of Paris were to have commenced simultaneously on
every point on Monday last. Upwards of 10,000 workmen
were engaged on Friday and Saturday last, and the contractors
were enjoined to prosecute the works with all possible activity.
The Three per Cents. were done at Tortont's at 78f. 5c., a
shade lower than the closing price on Saturday.
‘A e have received the following letter :--
ALGIERS, APRIL 6.—By the departure of the expedition
the environs of Algiers are left without troops. This morning
the herd of oxen, consisting of 1,200 head, which was in the
pasture grounds of Sidi Kalif, was surrounded by a body of
3610 Bedouins. A battalion of the 20th Regiment came up,
and it was not till after a very sharp engagement that our
brave troops succeeded in recovering the oxen. The enemy
lost many men. We had 11 men killed and 7 wounded:
We have received, by private arrivals, some news of the
expedition. The army had passed on the 4th the Cot di?
Teneah. It will march Several times froth Blida to Medeah
arid ANdeanali, Which Will serve as bases for the operations.
The main operation will commence at the beginning of Ala,.
—Le Constitutionnel.
The .T''

...,..raw[ da Mere eohteitte the follow ing article : -...
r .. We have said, an the authority of letterg from Valparaiso,
that the neva would without doubt being In satisfactory news
respecting the unfortunate crew of the Deiphine, who was left
on a desert island on the coast of Patagonia, waiting in that
perilous situation for the return of Captain Coisy, who sailed
from San Carto to go to their relief:l The Htva is in the
road, and at the time of the departure from Valparaiso no in-
telligence on this subject had been received.
Too LoN, APRIL 13.—Vice-Admiral Hugon's squadron, now
at anchor at the Theres islands, will return to Toulon to cele=
l?rate the King's fete. The squadron of Rear-Admiral Baron
La Susse will, in its turn, pt to sea to ezoT4se the craws,—
Le Commerce.

CITY of LONDQU NATi.i3N4P
The Duke of Cambridge will ho noun the Mansion.house
W
his presence on the 6th of Zi fav, to witness the ex.
SCHOOLs.--
;r'iL'atioll of the children of ti ie. -National School?, and
nis royal Highness will afterwards pate the chair at the
aniTercary dinner of the Aliatitlit - •

of one. So, then, an invasion of Turkey can at
any time be excused by a reference to the suspi-
cions that may be entertained of the amicable-
ness of Russia's intentions by the Governments
of France or England ! This is a startling doc-
trine to advance in the middle of the nineteenth
century. But it is worthy of the quarter whence
it emanates. We have not done with these papers.

In the Times of yesterday there is a long
and laboured article on the subject of a Charter
of Incorporation sometime ago granted by her
MAJESTY to the inhabitants of the borough of
Bolton, and in which it is attempted to show that
the Government have acted with what the Times
continually calls their usual unfairness ; and after
the commission of such acts, of having resorted
to Parliament in an unworthy manner, to bolster
up and confirm such proceedings as have not
the merit of self-support. We think the
Times would do well, before it makes such