The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-02 00:00:00

TAX SUN,IANDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 2 1'4.1

reduce the plethora with which, according to the

opinion of one of his assistants, she was sadly
afflicted years ago, and having ascertained all the
symptoms he will in a sole.nn tone address the
wondering bystanders—" Gentlemen, this is a
grievous case—the patient has been waully mis-
managed ; originally possessing a constitution
full of health and vigour, she has been brought
to death's door by the quacks I have just turned
out; her case requires mature deliberation; a
consultation of the whole ftculty must forthwith
be held, and in the meantime nothing can save
her but repose." Having given this advice he
pockets his fee, enjoins all Radicals and Re-
pealers not to disturb her on pain of imprison-
ment, and adjourns the operation for two months.
His coadjutors and the majority of the spectators
express their admiration in loud shouts, and thus
ends the scene. Dropping the metaphorical lan-
guage, which, indeed, is PEEL'S own, the country
gentleman will cordially concur in such a plan,
they will fly off in all directions to shoot par-
tridges and pheasants, careless of the stagnation
of trade and the cries of the hungry for bread.
The country, however, will not remain in repose,
the evil requires a speedy remedy; and before
Sir R. PEEL meets Parliament again in Novem-
ber, or perhaps January, he will find that his
remedy has only given additional virulence to
the disease.

From the extreme degree pf rancour with
which the Tory writers now attack the foreign
policy of Lord PALMERSTON, it would seem that
England only awaits the appearance in Downing-
street of the PEEL Cabinet to cut a quite new figure
in the councils of Europe. The Times discovers
that France has been scurvily treated, and that
the wresting of Syria from MEHEMET ALI, and
estoring it to the Porte, has ruined the moral
influence of the SULTAN, and accelerated the
downfal of the Ottoman empire; the Herald agrees
with a section of the French press that the war
in China is neither more nor less than an expe-
dition to murder an innocent, unresisting people,
because they have the virtue to refuse being
poisoned ; and all the time the Whigs have been
in office the Post has been waging an unsuccessful
war with Lord PALMERSTON in defence of
Carlism in Spain, Miguelisin in Portugal, and Ab-
solutism everywhere. It is rather late in the
day either to attack or to defend the foreign
policy of Lord PALMERSTON. Its unexampled
success in every part of the world is an answer to
everything that Tory malignity can urge against
it. If any other be wanted, we have only to turn
back to the Times' able defence of the Treaty of
the 15th of July in reply to the attacks of the
organs of M. TRIERS. All we care to learn is the
extent of the changes in the foreign policy which
the Tories meditate. Are our Ambassadors to be
recalled from the Courts of Donna MARIA and
ISABELLA 11., in order that Mr. PETER BORTH-
WICK may represent the majesty of Great Bri-
tain at the grated Palace of Don CARLOS, and
that Mr. MACLEAN may display his diplomatic
abilities at the sylvan retreat of the amiable MI-
GUEL ? Will the Tories, to restore the dominion Of
the SULTAN in the East, so endangered by the in-
terference of Lord PALMERSTON, re-establish the
sway of the Viceroy of EGYPT over Syria and
Candia, and re-concede to Russia the guardian-
ship of the Straits of the Dardanelles and Bos-
phorus ? Will they attempt the re-union of
Belgium and Holland? To conciliate France they
cannot surely do less than recognise the conquests
of the CITIZEN KING in Africa, and even treat
with Spain for the cession to our Gallic neigh-
bours of the Balearic Isles, in order that they
may hereafter prove more than a match for us
in the Mediterranean. The latter, of course,
will be on the JOHN BULL principle of fair play,
that as we beat them before in these waters they
have a right to beat us in return.

Whatever sins of omission or commission the
Whigs have to answer for on quitting offi3e
—and GOD knows they are pretty numerous—
fewer flaws will be found in their foreign policy
than in that of any other Administration which
has held office in England for the last three-
quarters of a century. They have preserved the
peace of Europe, without compromising the na-
tional dignity, under circumstances which would
have served a Tory Government to add another
hundred mllions of war expenses to the public
debt. In no instance has Lord PALMERSTON
sacrificed the sacred rights of humanity to any
consideration whatever; for in all treaties entered
into by him with foreign States, we invariably
find that the suppression of the slave trade
holds a paramount place. Our influence abroad
was never greater than it is at present, because
never based upon a stronger conviction of our
disinterestedcess. If we have meddled a good
deal in the concerns of our neighbours, we have
taken ample care to satisfy them that we sought
no exclusive benefit for ourselves. Portugal and
Spain have gained much,without losing anything,
by our interference. We have demanded no-
thing' from the Porte for reducing MEHE-
MET AL! from the rank of conqueror to
the legitimate dimensions of a vassal of the
empire. In China we are as yet the
losers, whatever we may prove in the end; and
if we have revolutionized thrones in Central Asia
we have thereby contributed more to the peace
and prosperity of these countries than to our own
immediate aggrandizement. Not that the nation
has not been greatly benefited by this policy:
Far otherwise. But the benefits which accrued
to England were such as resulted from increased
confidence in British justice, and such as must
ever result to commercial nations having an
equal regard to their own honour and the rights
of others.

The French journals of Thursday have reached
us, but the news they bring was anticipated in
the express from Paris published in Saturday's
Sun.

PARIS, JULY 28.—The audience granted by the King
yesterday to M. Mahul has been the general subject of
conversation to-day. It was asked whether M. Mahul is
restored to favour, and whether his letter to the Journal
des Debate is considered as a sufficient expiation, in
which letter he declares with such ferocious naivete that
he did not hesitate at the shedding of the blood of the
factious ; that it was his right and his duty.

A letter from Toulon—of the 24th informs us that
the Marengo and Triton of the line are appointed to go
to Vendres, to take troops on board and convey them to
Africa. It is believed that the troops which received
this destination are those that were at Toulouse at the
time of the troubles, and which it is thought proper to
remove from it.—Le Commerce, July 29.
Penis, JULY 28.—Joussouf Bey, who commands the
regular Spahis of Oran, has arrived at Paris. He had
an audience of Marshal Soult yesterday. "The 33d re-
giment of the line, which is shortly to proceed to Africa,
continues its preparations at Toulon. In a few days
the battalions and the baggage will be embarked. The
Toulonaise repeats on this occasion what it has said se-
veral times that it is very imprudent to send fresh troops
to Africa in the middle of the summer, and that their
(I,lmrture might very well be deferred till the autumn.—
Le Temps, July 29.
A miliary fever has been raging at Coutances, in
tin Manche, for a month past. Between the 18th and
24;h inst. there have been upwards of 140 cases and 15
de Lths. Among the last is a surgeon of the hospital and
on of the first physicians of the town. As there were
on y four medical men left, application has been made to
Pa is for assistance, and two eminent men of the faculty
are gone down. The disease rarely attacks children, but
acts with the greatest severity on persons between
twenty-five and fifty years of age. The principal inha-
bitants are leaving the place. Hitherto, it is said, it has
not attacked the barracks or the college.
A servant girl, returning home alone on Sunday
evening from a dance at a public place of entertainment,
outside the Barriere du Trone, was seized, on her arrival
at the Rhond Point, within the Barriere, by some brutal
men, gagged, carried into an obscure corner, and there sub-
jected to treatment too infamous to describe. She was
deprived of her senses, and remained on the ground till
the next morning, when she was discovered, restored,
and carried home. Informations laid before the Com-
missary of Police have led to the arrest of several jour-
neymen paper-stainers, as having been participators in
this disgusting outrage.
—lnpulling down the old buildings on the ground of
the Boule-Rouge, on Monday afternoon, a number of
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work to remove the ruins, and at length found him
dreadfully crushed, but stil living. He was carried to
the hospital, where he lies 'with small hopes of recovery.
A few hours afterwards, another man tell from the scaf-
fold in front of a house in the rue Montmartre, and was
seriously injured.
A few days ago, in the village of Mne6 Guen, in
Brittany, a white flag, bearing the inscription, " Bre-

thren, remain faithful to Henry V.. and never forget
your legitimate Prince !" being displayed from the top
of a beech-tree, a brigade of gendarmes proceeded to cut
it down. This was ae_!omplished with resolution, al-
though they were violently assailed with stones and
other missiles from the people. Some of the most re-
fractory persons were arrested;
The Algiers correspondent of the Toulonnais states
that, on the 16th inst., a party of six soldiers and thirty
husbandmen were surprised in the neighbourhood of
Bouffitriek by 100 Arabs, disguised as Moorish gen-
darmes, who carried them all off. Next day the Metidja
was on fire in many places, the Arabs destroying all the
forage wherever they could find any standing. The
Sentinelle states that eight soldiers had been earned off
the day before near Donera. This journal adds, that
several despatches have been recently exchanged be-
tween the Bishop of Algiers and Abdel Karim' .; that the
French Priests go about in perfect security, even beyond
the advanced posts, with Arab passes ; and that there was
an improbable rumour afloat of the Bishop being in ne-
gotiation with the Emir for a peace, by the terms of
which the latter would quit Africa, and come to France.
The Hanover Gazette of the 22d instant contains the
following notice from the Minister of the Interior :--,
"His Majesty has ordained, with reference to the pro-
clamation of the 14th instant, that all illicit resistance
to the Constitution shall be combated with energy, par-
ticularly all influence in the elections ; every attempt of
this kind will De punished according to the existing
laws. A prosecution will be immediately commenced,
and the parties be arrested. The administrative autho-
rities of the police are invited to exercise the strictest
surveillance in this matter, and they are to act with
energy without waiting for superior orders. They are
to put into force the dispositions of the electoral law of
Scptembur 9, 1840, and in case of need those of June
27, 1838, relative to imprisonment., All offences are to
be immediately brought before the competent criminal
tribunal."

-- Captain-General Alvares addressed the following
proclamation to the people of Malaga on the 16th in-
stant :—" The revolted company of Alhucemas has
ceased to exist. The guilty survivors had their uni-
forms torn, as unworthy of forming part of the glorious
Spanish army. Of the 19 leaders in the revolt, 12
are to be shot at Alhucemas, Melilla, and Penon,
where they have been transported for execution on
board the brig of war Heros. The seven others, ani
three more chosen by lots out of the 25 who were to
be decimated, have been shot, and the remainder are to
be conducted to the prisons of the arsenal of laCarraque,
where they will await the fate reserved to them by the
Government."