The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-01 00:00:00

INI A.

Tn P. By east SE WAlt.--The total of the Tore*
antler orders for-the expeditiutiagainst the Bur.
mete amounts to 20,000 men, namely, 'it ,ocoty
horn Bengal, 43,000 from Madras, and 't ,000
-from Bombay. Capt. CANNING accompanies the:
expedition as Political Agent, and was to-embark
or Calcutta on the loth of April. The Diana
steam-boat had been purchased by the Govern-
inent-hr 80,000 rupees, in order to proceed with
the expedition. Sir En WA RD .PAGET, the , Com!.
imander:in-Chief, returned to Calcutta'on the tid
-of March, from the interior, and had been unre-
mittingly employed in facilitating all the arrange-'
ments for the expedition.

MAottAs.--It is now stated that Sir JOHN
Mittcoms, K. C. B.) has been appointed Governor
.of Madras) vice Sir TIIOMAS MUNRO.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(Pram the Etoile, dated Monday, Aug.3o.
After mass, the King received the great Dig-
nitaries, the Ambassadors, at the head of whom
was the Papal Nuncio, the Ministers, Marshals,
Peers of France, Deputies, and a great many
•Civil and Military Functionaries. ilia Majesty
.gave a private audience to Cardinal de la Fare.
The Greek Government of Missolonizhi, on
the 16th of July, published two official letters,
one from the Ephori of Spezzia of the 7th, and
the other from Napoli di Romania of the Sth„
announcing the attack of l[psara, the heroic re-
.sistance of the inhabitants, and the departure of
the Spezziots and Ilydriets for that Island.—
These letters tell us nothing new, except what
follows :

h o Ipsariot women fought with as much
►alour as their husbands. They pursued the
Turks with blunderbusses. The Turks, who
had the advantage of treachery and superior own-
berg, rendered themselves masters of only half
the town of Ipsara. In that part of the town,
the women, seeing themselves on the point of
'falling into the power of the enemy, destroyed
each other. Parents killed their children, and
rushed to meet death in the enemy's ranks. The
wind, which sprung up during the massacre, hay-
, ing forced the vessels of the Turks to retire from
'the coast, they fancied they were abandoned,
.and terror seized them. The I psariots took ad-
vantage of it, and were repulsing ►hem, when
the If ydriots and Spezzints urrived."

PICITRUCTION OF THE TREE,. at .THE 13001. E.:
• V4tl63.—For some timo+ past persons have oh-
.served, with-equal pain and surprise, the rapid.
-decay of most of the trees in the inner [Joule-
/verde, chiefly in the quarter of the Panoramas
-;and the Italian Theatre. The cause of this mor-
,:tality was plierstlly Rapposed to, be OW Plithba -
',Cons from the conduits of the hydtogen gas hi
'the neiglibeurhood.• 'Tie hopposition induced'
the .Magistrates to comtnishinu mono scientific
-men, versed in vegetable philosophy, and cliy-
mittry, to make experiments to determine Ow
• effects of the gas on the plantations. The first
•resolts tended at least to throw a doubt on the
deleterious influence ascribed to the gas, and the
-experiments were going onto obtain certainty on
the subject, when circumstances wholly unfore-
seen pointed out a very different cause of the ac.
cidents in question. Young plants have been.
'found mutilated and broken, old trees cut with a
..ssw all round, or pierced to the Centre with an
alqer, the holes being intended: to receive sub-
.:,situnces destructive to vegetable life ; and, lastly,
with their roots to a great, depth watered. with
these substance. The facts have been described
regular protocols,and every one may convince
-himself of the facts, by the first examination of
-the Boulevards above mentioned.. It is difficult
te Conceive, and painful to suppose, the motive
which has induced ill-disposed persons thus to
'devastate the most agreeable promenade in Paris.
'll4.,vever it be, the authorS of these proceedings
will soon be knovin 4 justice is in pursuit of them,
. and they will not all escape the punishment de-
:Creed by the penal code against crimes.. of this
,vature.—(Etoile.)