The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-29 00:00:00

from Beyrout, in the Semaphore of Marseilles,
and his statement is received with avidity, " are
generally accused of having fomented the troubles
which now desolate the Libanus. These Eng-
lish are the engineers, the soldiers, the travel-
lers, and a Consul-General of Syria, command-
ing the troops of her Britannic Majesty ( Colonel
Rose), aided by the ships and steamers which
are constantly hovering on the coast of Syria.
After having furnished arms to the mountaineers
of the Libanus, and withdrawn them from the
power of MEHEMET ALT, to place them under
that of the Turkish Government, the English
reckon on their gratitude, and expect to acquire
a great influence in those countries; unfortu-
nately the Christians of the Libanus detest the
English, more on account of their religion than
from any other motive; and the English for
some time found that as long as the Christians
should he the most powerful party in the moun-
tains, they would not be able to spread their
priests, their bibles, their principles, and still less
to establish an influence there ; and for this rea-
son it is that they revenge themselves for the in-
gratitude of the Christians, and to accomplish
their ambitious end the English have incited the
Druses against the Christians, and brought about
these deplorable events."

We need hardly take the trouble to apprise
our readers that there is no foundation whatever
for this calumny. There are, we believe, some
agents of the Bible Society in Syria, as there are
French missionaries, but their books and tracts
are equally distributed among the Maronites
and Druses.

The Moniteur of Friday has the following
news from Spain :
" The Custom-house station was established at Irun
on the 21st inst.; prohibited goods, such as cottons, and
most articles of colonial produce, are no longer allowed
to pass. Those which are liable to duty are to be
admitted free up to the 30th. The political chief of
Barcelona has ordered the members of the municipalities
of the province, who had been dismissed by the Radical
Junta, to resume their functions. The state of siege
continued on the 22d. The three battalions of National
Guards, who had been disarmed, are not to be reor-
ganised; the others are to be so when all the members
of them who are offensive to the Government shall have
been removed."

• M. SALVANDY, the French Ambassador to the
Court of Madrid, was expected to set out for
Spain on Sunday morning. This may he taken
as a decided proof of the restoration of more
amicable relations between the Governments of
M. GUIZOT and the Duke of VICTORY.

The morning before last, the concierge of a house in
the Rue du Platre au Marais not appearing at an un-
usually late hour, some of the tenants forced their way
into his lodge, and found him dead from two causes com-
bined. It appeared that he had gone to bed with a
lighted brazier in his room, but finding suffocation
coming on, he attempted to get up. Being too weak
to rise, he had got hold of the cord which leads to the
gate to help himself, but in the confusion of his brain
he twined it round his neck, and this added suspension
to suffocation.

The Lynx of Brussels states that, early on Tuesday
morning, simultaneous visits of the police were made at
its offices and at the residence of its responsible editor,
M. Van den Plas, and also at the apartments of Mlle. Pi-
card, in the Rue des Hirondelles. M. Van den Plas was
conducted before the examining magistrate,and after his
interrogation was detained in custody. On the same day
M. Ernest Vandersmissen, jun., was committed as an ac-
complice in the late plot. The police has also arrested
M. Vandewalle, an agent, intrusted with the private
affairs of General Vandermeeren. They are all three in
close confinement in the prison of the Petits Carmes.
Several of our Paris Contemporaries give the follow-
ing piece of news. Our readers may form a judgment
of its authenticity, by the writer being ignorant even of
the name of the British Ambassador, who is not Lord
Strangford, but Sir Stratford Canning :—" Lord Strang-
ford, the new English Ambassador at Constantinople, is
said to have received the following instructions :—First,
to demand the demolition of the fortifications at Soulina,
raised in contempt of the treaty of Adrianople, which
interdicts the Russians from forming any works on that
island. Secondly, to claim free entrance into the Da-
nube without performance of quarantine. Thirdly, to
to urge the Divan to undertake the canal of Kustendji.
which will save vessels passing by the Danube from hav-
ing to account to the Russian officers on entering the
lower part of the river. Fourthly, to obtain alterations
in the treaties which favour the Russian trade, or rather
that which is carried on under protection of the Rus-
sian flag."
A letter from Troyes of the 23d inst. states that Pot-
tevoie, whose exectition was to have taken place on the
22d, but was postponed on account of the guillotine being
out of order, was executed on the following day, the
guillotine having been in the meantime repaired. At
the scaffold, the priest who accompanied the criminal
addressed the crowd, stating that the want of religion
had alone brought Pottevoie to an untimely end, and
urging all present to avoid his example. The criminal
himself merely said that he asked pardon of God, but
that he ought not to have been executed, as the man
whom he had struck was not dead. It appears that Pot-
tevoie, notwithstanding his depraved disposition, had
whilst in prison tamed a pigeon and a sparrow, to which
he was tenderly attached.
Accounts from Lons-le-Saulnier, in the Jura, state
that after a fortnight of the finest weather the winter had
set in suddenly, and the ground is covered with snow to
the depth of from 13 to 15 inches. On the 16th inst.,
at twelve o'clock, the following phenomenon occurred.
The weather was frightful, the atmosphere very cold,
and the wind whirling the snow to a great height in the
air, when there was a tremendous explosion of thunder
and a single flash of lightning, which set fire to the
tower of the church, but fortunately the smoke was im-
mediately seen, and measures taken with such prompti-
tude that the re was extinguished before any great da-
mage was done.
The police has lately been extremely active in tracing
out a number of thieves, who take up their abodes in the
environs of Paris, whence they come into the city to
commit their depredations, and afterwards escape to their
obscure retreats. Six were found two days ago, and
their arrest is deemed the more important, as they are
all old offenders, and some of them are known to be
chiefs of gangs.
" On Wednesday," says the Memorial Bordelais, " we
had the satisfaction of seeing brought into execution a
measure of police long demanded. Commissioners and
officers have visited the places where milk is sold, to as-
certain and note the frauds which are practised in this
trade. Numerous vessels of adulterated milk were emp-
tied into the kennels, and informations laid against the
delinquents." This is a good hint for the police autho-
rities of the capital.
A. letter from Amsterdam of the 21st inst. says :
" Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, who has returned
from Berlin, has been to Loo to pay his respects to his
father. The King, notwithstanding his anxious desire,
has not been able to do the same, as the ex-King attaches
to the visit conditions to which, as King, he cannot accede.
The ex-King will remain at Loo until the 30th inst.
There was a considerable fire occasioned on Thurs-
day evening at La Chapelle St. Denis, a suburb of Paris,
by some children lighting and throwing about chemical
matches, which they had bought of an itinerant dealer
in these articles. The flames caught a number of old
carriage bodies in a depot, and the whole were consumed.
Another fire occurred the same night near the Barriere,
at the end of the Rue Grange aux Belles, in a manufac-
tory of painted leather. Notwithstanding the prompt
assistance given everything was consumed. It is said
the proprietor was not insured.
The Commerce of to-day publishes a letter from Mos-
taganem, dated the 10th inst., relative to the last expe-
dition of General Bugeaud, and General Lamoriciere,
from which it would appear that the resistance met with
from the troops of Abd-el-Kader, and the fatigue and
sickness in the French army, were greater than would
be inferred from the accounts hitherto received. This
letter states that the men and horses on their return
were nearly worn out with fatigue, and that the hospital
of Mostaganem did not suffice for the reception of the
sick ; 200 sick had, therefore, been sent to Oran in the
Euphrates, and 200 in the Sphinx, a larger number still
remaining at Mostaganem, and 300 at Mascara. The
fcesaonrdBtahssemofbloeodtouhneder Abd-el-Kadert between the 4th
13,000 men, regulars,
the 12th, although the enemy was defeated, the resistance
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is represented to have been so vigorous that General
Bugeaud considered it prudent not again to divide his
forces, which amounted together to 11,000 men. The
destruction of Saida, however, which had enabled Abd-
el-Kader to maintain his authority in- that part of the
country, had produced a great moral -effect upon the
tribes, who had hitherto been kept in subjection by him,
and they were, as stated in the accounts already given,
coming over to the French.
Our readers have not forgotten that the Contemporaine
had instituted an action against the Temps, which, in an
article on the affairs of the Letters had spoken of her as
guilty of forgery, and that she demanded 50,000 francs
damages. Our Correspondent informs us that according
to a report spreading in some circles, the action will not
be persisted in, the Contemporaine having, it is said, re-
ceived the sum which she claimed as damages, but it
should seem that the 50,000 francs have not been paid
by the Temps. As this affair is of some importance, we
think itßroiguß
right tsoEre_p_porAittailsl, that is done, and even all that
is said respecting it. We must now wait to see whether
the action will proceed or not.—Quotidienne.
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