The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-19 00:00:00

SUMYARY OF c;EIAIS

AND

littbitt Optnifin.

" Who runs may read."

ABROAD.
FOREIGN—COLONIAL.
The French Government has appointed M. Mau-
rice Duval, who, it will be remembered, arrested the
Duchess of Berry at Nantes, Provisional Prefect of Tou-
louse. M. Duval is a man noted for his severity, and, if
we be not much mistaken, more likely to stir up an
oneute than to suppress one.

The Toulouse rioters destroyed the telegraphs on
the 13th instant. The destruction of public property is
one of the most foolish acts that an enraged populace can
commit, as the charges of the repairs must come out of
their own pockets. There is much shrewdness in ths
Hibernian remark, that " a man's self is the last person
upon whom to think of committing suicide !"
In the riots at Toulouse one young man was killed,
and sixty persons wounded. Upwards of an hundred
individuals were arrested, but the mob compelled the
authorities to release them. The Government is en-
gaged in a most inglorious contest, from which, defeated
or victorious, it cannot retire without disgrace. Blood
may flow, and M. Humane remain master of the field,
but will he dare to collect taxes, the imposition of which
is thus resisted to the death ?

Gavin Scott is still imprisoned at Marseilles. The
French Minister of the Interior is desirous of delivering
him up to the British authorities. The large sum of
1,800/. has not been recovered. It was stolen from him
at the hotel, so that even the pilferer has been pilfered.
Colonel Hodges, Consul-General at Syria, has
just arrived in London from Constantinople. Ile shortly
proceeds to Hamburgh as British Consul there.

--a The Spanish Government, for a sum of 60,0001.
is about to cede some useless possessions on the coast of
Guinea to Great Britain. In our hands they will con-
stitute useful stations for vessels engaged in suppressing
the slave trade.

The Ultra-Liberal party in Spain begin to lje very
dissatisfied with Espartero. It is certail4 enough to
make men shrug their shoulders to ,see his partisans in
the Cortes vote him 21,0001. a year as Regent, at a time
when the navy of Spain is so reduced, that shipping can-
not be found to carry 10,000 men at one trip to the Ba-
learic Isles—when Spain has not even 4 packet ship to
carry the llavannah correspondety:e I During
Penin-
sular war the annual cost of
2,000/., and yet the new 4.n" the e
Regency did not exceed
greater then tha- lcssary . they expenses of the office were
are at present. Then there is a
marriage se:Ldement of 32,500/. a year to be provided for
the
Regent Christina ; and all this at a time when
.pain is unable to pay the half-yearly recurring interest
upon her public debt. When patriotism allies itself to
such immense revenues as now accrue to Espartero, in
one of the poorest nations in the world, it becomes an
object of suspicion.

The Spanish Minister of Finance proposed on the
Bth instant, in the Chamber of Deputies, to lower duties
payable at the gates of large towns upon wines, spirits,
and oils.. This is a wise and pcpular measure.
The ecclesiastical schism gains ground in Spain.
Thirty Canons of the Chapter of the See of Saragossa
hare been imprisoned for adhering to the allocution of
the Pope. Unless the Vatican display snore sagacity in
Spain than it has hitherto done, Espartero may signalise
his Regency by entirely separating the Church of Spain
from the Holy See.

A traveller in the French Versailles Railway,
alarmed at a little derangement in the train, fancied that
destruction was at hand, and tried, though hindered, to
leap out of the engine. He 1)41-severed, and the iron steps
coming in contact with his neck, severed the head from
the body.
In the space of 139 years, that is from 1700 to 1839,
the population of France, notwithstanding the revolu-
tionary wars, has increased 13,830,680, nearly an annual
average of 100,000.

AT HOME.
miscEzzatmous.

A little child, on Thursday, was playing on the
parapet of London-bridge, when unbalancing himself he
fell over. A cry being raised he was discovered clinging
to the coping, and had it not been that a man rescued
him immediately from this perilous position, he must
have inevitably been destroyed.

The contest for Church-rates at Hackney closed
on Friday. Church-rate supporters disposed to vote,
and who were accidentally short of cash, found
no difficulty in borrowing it. The votes for the rate,
208 ; against it, 206. But as the check-book of the
parties disagreed, a scrutiny gill take place.
James Adams, who, for the last thirteen years, has
been appointed to the charge of the royal standard on
the Round Tower of Windsor Castle, died on Friday, at
rather an advanced age. Adams received his appoint-
ment from William IV., as a reward for his general good
character and military bravery at Copenhagen, Corunna,
in the West Indies, and at the Havannah.

The three Committees that grew up like mushrooms
in a night, to da honour to the name of Sir David Wil-
kie, have, with great propriety, united themselves into
one, and Sir Martin Archer Shee, Sir William Newton,
and Mr. Allan Cunningham, content for a time with
starting the subscription, and finding an active treasurer
in Sir Peter Laurie, are waiting till Parliament assem-
bles, when Sir Robert Peel has kindly consented to pre-
side at a public meeting. A statue like that of Flaxman,
after Sir Joshua Reynolds, in St. Paul's, and for the
same building, is talked of.

Col. Howard Vyse has been elected at Paris Cor-
responding Member of the Academy of Fine Arts, in
the room of the late Sir David Wilkie.

MONET, TRADE, AND COMMERCE.

The following-are the receipts of the principal rail-
ways in operation fbr the last week—that is to say, up
to the date to which the respective returns are made :--
London and Birmingham, 17,4351. ; Grecnwich,
9261. 17s. 6d. ; Birmingham and Derby, 1,2571. 17s, 3d.:
South Western, 6,307/. ss. sd. ; Northern .and ,Kastcrn,
9061. 13s. Bd. ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 4,909/. ;
Midland Counties, 2,930/. ; • North Midland; 4,4061.95.' lod.;'
Hull and Selby, 810/. 13s. ld. ; MancheSiee and 'Bir-
mingham, 3231.; Great North of England, 1;422/. 1.75. 6d.;
London and Blackwall, 1,004/. 7s. 10d. ; and Great Wes-
tern Railway Company, fbr the week ending for July 11,
12,8261. 14s. Bd.