The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-08 00:00:00

ROBERT PEEL and his colleagues, or Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and his adherents. The former, in accepting
the office of Premiership, ipso facto, pledged himself,
unong other things, to secure the personal safety of
-very individual in the realm as far as the Executive
department would permit, and, as a matter of course,
it became incumbent upon him so to regulate the
operations of that executive department, as his judg-
ment prompted him, and as circumstances appeared,
according to that judgment, to require. From
a sense of the awful responsibility thus appertaining
to his rank as Prime Minister, Sir ROBERT
was driven into the formal proposition of
the Curfew Bill, by the wantonness and fre-
quency of agrarian murders in Ireland. Knowing
•hese things to be actualities, it is evident to plain
sense that the Irish are indebted for this Bill, not to
:he Premier or the Cabinet, but to those ruffianly
marauders who have soddened their land with the
;)lood of murder. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in
like manner, is incited to the opposition
to this same measure from a belief of its
inefficacy as a preventive of crime, and as
an onerous restriction upon innocent millions. Both
statesmen are actuated, we cordially admit, by sen-
timents of conscientious rectitude, though one, by
necessity, can alone be right in his conclusions. The
!nd of this honest difference will be fraught with
nomentous results as regards the two leaders them-
ielves, but of results infinitely less momentous to
the multitude, seeing that in no case can they be the
losers. Our own views upon the matter are uniform,
though apparently contradictory ; we should deeply
lament the secession from office of Sir ROBERT
PEEL, though we should ardently rejoice
it the advent of Lord Jourt RUSSELL to
power, and this because we recognise in them a
;rand feature of similarity ; they are akin to each
other, inasmuch as they are animated with the same
ambition to promote the prosperity of the people.

Intelligence to the 31st ult. has been received at
the Bavarian Embassy in Paris, from Munich, that
"after the closing of the Bavarian Diet, in which
the debates had been very animated, and in which
particularly the encroachments of the clergy and Je-
suits had been warmly denounced, the KING, yielding
to public opinion, which had begun to manifest itself
strikingly, and foreseeing the danger of resisting it
Any longer, suddenly changed his Ministry.:His per-
sonal friend, Count DE PEINSHEIM, an ardent pro-
tector of the Jesuits, and Minister of Finance, the
Chevalier GIESE, Foreign Minister, and the Minister
of Justice, M. SCHRENCK, received unexpectedly
their dismissal, and were replaced by young and po-
pular men. The Director of Police, M. FLORMANN,
one of the most unpopular men in Bavaria, had also
been obliged to resign."
On the 25th of May a public dinner was given at
Leipsic to the 32 Liberal Members of the second
Chamber who voted for the opinion of the minority
of the Committee, relative to the events of the month
of August. About 10,000 persons assembled at the
railway station to receive them, and 600 guests sat
down to dinner.

The German Journal of Frankfort announces that
the Archduke FERDINAND of Este has been appointed
Viceroy of the Austrian province of Galicia. The
same journal states that the Austrian Government
has set the greater number of prisoners taken during
the late insurrection at liberty, and that in almost
every case clemency will be ihowp.
The Augsburg Gazette has the following from
Cairo, but it is dated as long ago As May 1 :

"At the south of Assir, Scheik osse c, who took posses-
sion of Moka after the departure of trfq, Egyptian troops, is
extending his aggressions more and nfot4. He preaches the
holy war to the Arabs against the English. For a year past
he has been in possession of Sanaa, and he has profited by
the disunion in the family of the Iman to replace the feeble
Sall Ali by his cousin Mohammed-Ibn-Yahia. He is master
of the entire mountain on which the coffee is grown, and
has the monopoly of commerce. He is thus able to main-
tain his army. A portion of the mountain of Hodeida still
resists him. Aden, however, has nothing to fear from the
Arabs. Hossein can at most throw obstacles in the way of
the commercial relations of the English, but he cannot injure
their establishment."

The Russian Government has published an official
account of the late military operations in the Cau-
casus. Uf course everything is represented in the
most favourable point of view for Russia; but even
this account admits that SCUAMYL'S army now
amounts to from 15,000 to 20,000 men, and that
he.: is provided with cannon, which for-
merly he did not possess. It appears from
time accounts that whenever the Russians have
attempted to advance into the country of the
Circassians, they have invariably been compelled to
retire, and the Russian generals declare that the
country cannot be subject until the whole of the
existing population shall have been exterminated.
ScnamrL has recently entered into relations with
the tribes on the shores of the Caspian and of the
Black Sea.

The Roman dominions continue in a very agitated
state. A letter from Florence of the date of the 25th
,of May, published in the Journal des Daats, says—
"A secret agitation prevails in the Roman states, and es-
pecially in the legations. It is kept alive by a number of
in spite of the precautions taken by the autho-
pamphlets on political writings spread over the country to a
rgirteieast to prevent their circulation. In the night of the 20th
May, an attempt to murder, bearing quite a political feature,
was perpetrated at Bologna. Lieut.-Colonel Allegrini, of the
Horse Chasseurs, a member of the commission which sat
during the trial of those accused in the affair of Rimini, was
stabbed by masked assassins. His wounds are serious, but
they appear not to be mortal. None of the assassins have
been arrested as yet."..

A pistol shot had been fired at LAVA, a Commis-
sary of Police, at Ancona, and an attempt had been
made in the same city to assassinate a member of the
Military Commission of the Legations.
Letters from Naples state that it is the intention of
the Government to declare Naples and Palermo free
ports.

Madrid papers of the 31st ult., and of the lat
inst., have been received. They announce the arrival
, and contain a letter, signed
zndSILVA CABRAL, and dated
explaining the grounds of their
that they had obtained leave
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from the Queen of PORTUGAL to travel for a year. It
is reported that the Duke of PALMELLA has demanded
the recal of GONZALES BRAVO, the Spanish Minister
at Lisbon, on the ground of his having interfered in
the internal affairs of Portugal, by favouring the in-
trigues and the escape of the CABRALS. The Spanish
Government has ordered two ships of war to proceed
from Corunna to Lisbon for the protection of the lives
and properties of Spanish subjects residing there.
The Bolsa was closed on account of the feast of
Pentecost.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.
The trial of LECONITE, a full report of which wil
be found in another column, concluded on Friday
afternoon. At six o'clock the Court passed its decree,
condemning him to die the death of a parricide. The
condemnation to death was passed almost unanimously,
notwithstanding an eloquent speech from VICTOR
HUGO, urging the infliction of some minor punish-
ment. The KING himself, it is said, is anxious to
spare his life, but the Ministers consider that it would
be bad policy to do so, and the probability is that he
was executed this morning. _ _

The Chamber of Deputies have adopted the Budget
of the Department of Public Works, and commenced
on Friday the discussion of the Budget of the Minister
of War. The standing army for France consists of
280,000 men, for Algeria of 60,000, exclusive of the
supplementary credits, which latter raise it to 100,000
men. The Journal des Debats says :
" The Emperor of Russia, desirous of testifying his satis-
faction at the attentions shown to his son, the Grand Duke
Constantine, while visiting the ports of Toulon and Algiers,
has conferred the grand cordon of the White Eagle on Vice-
Admiral Baudin, and the grand cordon of St. Anne on Rear-
Admirals Parseval and Rigodit. The Emperor has also
placed at the King's discretion three crosses of the Com-
mander of the order of St. Anne, to be conferred on the func-
tionaries of Toulon, who received the Grand Duke during his
visit. His Majesty has authorised the above-mentioned
admirals to wear the orders bestowed on them by the Em-
peror of Russia, and has designated Major-General Galinier,
commanding the department of the Var, M. Frederic Du-
chatel, Sub-Prefect of Toulon, and M. de Ricaudy, Director
of the Port of Toulon, for the crosses of St. Anne which had
been placed at his Majesty's disposal."

On the 29th ult. part of the squadron of evolution,
under the command of his Royal Highness the Prince
DE JOINVILLE, consisting of the steam-frigates Des-
cartes and Asmodee, and the steam-brig Cuvier, en-
tered the port of Villefranche. After receiving the
usual salutes,
his Royal Highness landed and walked
to Nice, where he visited the cathedral and other
parts of the town. The Prince re-embarked the
The King
same evening, and took his departure.
and Queen of the 13xLmAns were ex-