The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

THE SUN', LONDON, TUESDAY
_EVENING, MAY 12, 1846.

representatives? In our innocence, we had always thought
that a public salary, or fees taken from the public, were
;ranted in return for services to be rendered, or supposed to
,e rendered, to that public. But here the fortunate sine-
curie, not satisfied with the large emoluments received
during his life, secures a handsome independence for his
family after his death. It is like the parish watchcoat de-
.,cribed by Swzrr, which the constable desired to have after
his death made into a petticoat for his wife, a jacket for
his son.

Our most gallant officers may perish in the service of their
country on a well-fought field; their names may be en-
deared to our recollections by every tie of gratitude, by
every sentiment of admiration ; they may have purchased
the commission, the possession of which enabled them to
risk, to sacrifice their valuable lives, by the expenditure of
large sums of money, and that money may have been
applied in the public service; they may have left widows and
orphans unprotected and destitute, save in the rich inhe-
ritance of a gallant and honoured name, and yet the nation
makes no provision for objects so worthy of their gratitude,
their protection; but when the sinecurist at length dies
many thousands per annum are to be paid for seven years
after his death to his representatives, the tribute of a
grateful nation for his condescending to accept at their
hands sums sufficient to enable him to roll in pomp and
state, and to acquire and hoard up a princely fortune. Shame,
shame, that such things should be tolerated, should meet with
defenders.

Madrid papers to the 4th instant have arrived. The
Government have determined to dissolve the Cortes without
again calling them together. A circular has been addressed
to the different political chiefs on the subject of making up
the electoral lists, and it is supposed that the elections
will take place in September, and that the new
Cortes will be called together in October. Acccording
to the Hera&lo, the physicians have recommended sea bath-
ing for the QUEEN'S health, and her MAJESTY will certainly
go to the sea-side towards the end of next month, but
whether to the Basque provinces, to Catalonia, or to Anda-
lusia, had not been determined on.

Don ANTONIO ZUMALACARREGUI, who had been Presi-
dent of the Cortes and Minister during the regency of EsrAu-
TEA°, died at Madrid on the 2d. Don ANTONIO was the
brother of Don Tomas ZUNALACARREGUI, the celebrated
Carlist chieftain.

MADRID Boma., MAY 4.—The Three per Cents. were al
32% cash ; Five per Cents. not quoted; Bank of San Fer-
nando, 310; Bank of Isabella 11., 187. Exchange on Lon-
don, 37%.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. On Satur-
day the Central Railway ( Vierzon to Chateauroux) Bill
passed the Chamber of Deputies. The railway is to pass
through Nevers instead of through Moulins. The Bordeaux
and Bayonne Railway Bill, which still remains to be dis-
cussed, will not, it is thought, pass this session. The fol-
lowing is a list of the railway Bills which have passed the
Chamber :—The Bordeaux and Cette, the Western, the Caen,
the Dijon and Mulhau.sen, the St. Dezier and Gray, and
Central.
In the Chamber of Peers, on Saturday, the discussion on
the commercial treaty with Belgium commenced. The fol-
lowing extract from the Journal des Debats shows the great
progress which the sound doctrines of free trade are making
in France—
" If anything was wanting to prove the progress which
the doctrines of commercial liberty are making in the higher
and more enlightened regions, assuredly it would be found in
the language heard on Saturday in the Chamber of Peers.
Count Beugnot showed in an excellent speech the great inte-
rest that France had in closely allying herself to Belgium,
and preventing the latter from identifying herself with Ger-
many. In this report the Count regards the conventions
concluded by France as entirely insufficient. He does not
accuse the Government; on the contrary, he acknowledges
it to be in advance, on this question, both of the Chambers
and country, but he accuses the interested coalitions, which
for our part we have always strongly opposed."
IBRAHIM PACHA leaves Paris in about a fortnight for
London. On this subject the Constitutionnel perpetrates the
following amusing bit of absurdity :
" The British Cabinet has watched, not without jealousy,
the long stay made by Ibrahim Pacha in France. It has
therefore intimated to the Cabinet of the Tuileries that it
would be glad to receive in its turn the son of Mehemet Ali,
and our Government has neglected nothing that could tend to
the gratification of this wish, in spite of the repugnance felt
by the Egyptian Prince to expose his health, which is hardly
re-established, to the intemperature of the English sky ;
Ibrahim Pacha will therefore go to London in about a fort-
night. The British Cabinet, always pre-occupied with the
question of the transit across the Isthmus of Suez, will,
doubtless, not fail to make use of all the means of seduction
in its power with respect to its guest, in order to draw him
into their views on the subject. The journey of Ibrahim
Pacha in Europe will thus serve more to further the views
of England than ours. On his return the Prince will visit
Holland and Belgium."
The concluding portion of this paragraph contains a
clumsily awkward admission. " The journey of IBRAHLM
PACHA in Europe will thus serve more to further
the views of England than ours." IBRAHIM PACHA
then, according to the Constitutionnel, was invited to
France only to serve French interests. The PACHA,
no doubt, appreciates the cempliment. On Saturday the
PACHA dined at the Hotel de 'Ville. The Duke de MONT-
PZNSIER, who was present, proposed the health of MEISHMET
Am, the regenerator of Egypt, and of his son Imts.l.lM
PACHA, their illustrious guest. The Egyptian Prince, having
returned thanks, proposed the following toast To the King
and to the city of Paris, the capital of civilization and the
arts, the great monuments and liberal institutions of which
do honour to the genius of man, and are the object of univer-
sal admiration; to his Royal Highness the Duke de MONT-
PENSIER, who honoured Egypt by his visit, and whose pas-
sage left indelible recollections among those who had the
honour to approach him."

The Constitutionnel contains the following in relation to
the approaching trial of LEcomra :
"An important circumstance had for some time created
some difficulty in the affair of the assassin Lecomte. The
authorities were not able to discover the history of the gun
with which he had committed his crime. The gun is a
double-barrelled fowling-piece of excellent quality, though
not very splendid in its appearance. In the search made at
Lecomte's lodging another dcuble-barrelled fowling-piece
was found, which was recognised as the one which he pine-
rally used when he was a guard in the forest. It was there-
fore concluded that, as Lecornte had left his gun in Peril, he
must have got from a third party, or have bought at the last
moment, the gun with which he fired on the King. Lecornte,
either to give himself more importance, or from some other
motive, had made a great mystery of this question, but the
matter is now cleared. It has been ascertained that the gun
was sold to Lecomte six years ago by a gun-maker in Puris.
He had made use of it at Orleans. It has been recognised
by the gun-maker, and by several persons who had seen it in
Lecomte's hands. The report of the commission appoit.td
by the Court of Peers to draw up the charges will be made
on the 18th of the present month. The trial will take place
in the beginning of June."

The journals have advices from Algiers to the 3d inst.,
announcing that ABD-EL-KADER, who had for some time
past concealed his movements, had suddenly re-entered the
Kabyl country, and was in the vicinity of the Jurjura.
Owing to this other unexpected irruption, it was behoved
that the French columns under Marshal BUGEAUD and the
Duke D'AUMALE must again hasten to the east of the pro-
vince of Algiers.
According to the Pr'esse, it was with the greatest
reluctance that Queen VICTORIA yielded to the desires
of her Ministers to postpone her intended visit to France.

It was a fortnight before her consent to the postponement
could be obtained. The Univers, the organ of the Jestiits,
has a long article describing the progress of the Jesuitii in
various parts of the world. It thus alludes to the progreas of
the Jesuits in England :—" The zeal of the Order is not less
active in England. According to authentic data, 98 Protes-
tants, instructed and guided by those venerable ecclesiastics,
returned to the faith of their fathers in 1843, and in 1844 and
1845, 172 others have imitated their example, and, never-
theless, nobody in England is thinking of expelling them
from the British dominions."

The Prince DE JoisviLut arrived at Toulon on the Cth.
On Saturday the KING and the Royal Family removed
from the Tuileries to the Chateau of Neuilly, where they
will reside during the spring.
The Three per Cents. were done at Tortoni's at 83f. 95e.

BUSINESS DONE LN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TEE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, May 11.
Boulogne and Amiens, 124—Dutch Rhenish, Gys —East Indian,
Ys—Louvain and Jemappe, —Luxembourg, 2—Namur and Liege,
41A—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 7%—Paris and Rouen, 40A—
Sambre and Meuse, 5%.

A variety of very charming objects, sculptured in
Italy, from beautiful Cararra marble, are to be sold at Robin3's
Auction Rooms, on Thursday. We particularly noticed the
figures of Diana, Pysche, Cupid, Cleopatra, the Virgin, and
Infant Samuel and St. John, as being very fine examples of
modern art ; likewiss a noble model of the Warwick Vase,
with so me remarkably fine busts ; whilst the chimney pieces,
of various forms, covered with the most beautiful sculpture,
would adorn a palace, and, as the opportunity to obtain such
splendid objects seldom occurs, we have little doubt the
present will be well appreciated.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean's visit to America is pro-
ducing golden results, and were they to repeat their engage-
ments at all the places where they are solicited to do so, their
return to this country would be extended to an indefinite
period. T'hey were last heard of at Mobile, from whence they
were proceeding to St. Louis.
On Monday evening the artillery division of the Hon.
Artillery Company, under the command of Captain Iselin, with a
demi-battery, , was exercised with cartridge, in the spacious grounds
of the lion- Company, Finsbury. The guns were advanced by
horses. The various evolutions were well performed, and the firing
given with peat steadiness and precision. Sergeant-Major Beard,
of the Royal _Artillery, superintends the drills generally, and has been
appointed by Captain Iselin drill instructor for the remainder of the
season.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne enter-
tained a large circle to dinner last evening, at Lansdowne House.
The Noble Ziarguis and Marchioness have another dinner party on
Friday next_
ThQ Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and
family have :arrived at Grosvenor House from Alotcombe Ilouie,
Dorsetshire.

Lady Lyndhunt will give a grand ball on Monday
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next, in honour of the debut of the lion. Sophia Copley, the youngest
daughter of the Lord Chancellor.
Yesterday afternoon tho Countess of Jersey had a
juvenile party In honour of the youthful Prince Paul and Prince
Louis Estoril, izy, children of their Royal Highnesses Prince and
Princess Nicholas Esterhazy.
DEATH OF VISCOUNT HOOD.—We have to record
the death of Viscount Hood, who expired on the Bth inst. at his resi-
dence in Bryicriston-square, at the early age of 38. He was son of
the second Viscount, by the daughter of the late Sir Andrew Snape
Hammond. Ills Lordship was born In 1808. The first Peer was the
celebrated admiral who took part in Itodney's celebrated victory
over the Count de Grasse.
THE TOVrEß.—Yesterday afternoon the metropolitan
police took posnession of the Tower of London for the first time.
They have superseded the old ordnance watchmen, and will do duty,
day and night, -within the fortress. A station-house has been erected
fur the accommodation of one sergeant and thirteen men.
THE OUTRAGE IN WESTMINSTER.—Upon inquiry
this morning at the Westminster Hospital, it was stated that the Uu•
fort‘wate wen:tall, Elizabeth vulio, is going 9arnyclulikkv.