The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(From the Paris Papers of Wednesday.)
On Monday evening their Majesties received the Tus-
can Minister, Count Mollien, M. Vigier, General Count
de Latour d'Auvergne, and several ladies.
The Spanish Minister, M. Olozaga, bad an interview
yesterday with the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Committee on the Fortification of Paris Bill sat
yesterday morning. At one o'clock the Minister of War,
Marshal Soult, entered, and remained tll four. The sit-
ting did not break up till half-past five.
After the King had reviewed the crews of the Belle
Poule and Favorite at the Tuillcrics, on Saturday, his
Maj sty gave to the commander of the Favorite 3,0001. to
be distributed ameng the mLn of the two ships. Each
ajilor will have 71. 50c. for his sharp. The Prince de
Joinville, after the rt etption, informed the men that each
of them, without distinction, would receive a go!cl medal,
to be struck in commerr oration of the transfer of the remains
of the Emperor from St. Helena.
It is stated in the Constilueionnel that numerous travel-
lers to Russia have this winter perished with cold, and that
considerable quantities of game are picked up there frozen
to death.

The budget for 1842 (says the Dcbats) will comprise a
complete plan of finances, and an exact expose in detail
of all our resources. It will contain a particular chapter
for extraordinary expenses, in which the Minister will de-
mand, in order to cover them, the faculty of creating
Rentes. There will, therefore, be no special Bill for a
loan, as has been announced.
The Constitutioonnl mentions a rumour of Count de
Flahault being sent to St. Petersburgh to replace M. do
Baraate, who is to go to Vienna as Ambassador, instead
of M. de St. Aulairc ; while this latter diplomatist will
take the post lately occupied by M. Guizot at London.
" We understand," says the Presse, " that the French
Government has selected Baron Billing as a fifth commis-
sioner, to act, in case of a disagreement, as arbiter between
the two British and the two Neapolitan Commissioners who
arc to discuss the settlement of the su'phur question. Baron
Billing isthe senior of French Secretaries of Legation, and
by a fortunate coincidence, has filled that office both at
London and Naples. The British and SieilianGovernarients
have hastened to notify, that no choice could be made
wtiich could be more agreeable to them, nor one
which could inspire them with greater corifidecce. Baron
Billing, to all the guarantees which his character and for-
tune give him, joins the advantage of being well informed
in matters of litigation, having to occupy himself with
them every day as a member of the Commission of Indem-
nity fur the colonists of St. Domingo. A better choice
could not have been made."
Advices f-em Algiers of the 15th instant state that
Abd el- Rader has given a conje of three months to hit re-
gular infantry, in order to save the expense of keeping
them during the winter months. The Bishop of Algiers
had written to Abd-el-Kader to propose the exchange of
somo Arab pr:soncrs against M. Massot, military sub-in-
tendant, who was captured near Voucra, ire the early part
of the campaign. The Emir had replied with great po-
liteness that he was ready to give M. Massot up without
any conditions, provided two French horsemen would come
and fetch him from Razza, and to whom he would give a
safe conduct. At the same he demanded a safe conduct
fur a horseman of his own as far as Algiers.
The Havre 'Journal quotes advice@ from Buenos Ayres
of the 21st October, and from Monte Video of the 29th.
At the former place a considerable quantity of merchan-
dise had been introduced, notwithstanding the blockade.
Most of the French residents, who had been protected by
the British Consul, were preparing to depart. Admiral
Mackau's division had arrived at Monte Video on the 25th,
in 31 days from Goree. Preparations were making first
for a landing at Martin Garcia, and then for going up to
Buenos Ayres. It was said that a Lieutenant of the
French navy had been put to death by Rosas, but no par-
ticulars were known. The total number of French vessels
of war, gun boats, &c., in the Fiats, were forty-four.
At Venice letters mentions the arrival of the Duke de
Bordeaux in that city on the 17th inst.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.--SITTING OF Dec. 29.
The President read to the Chamber a letter from the
Minister of the Interior, announcing that his Majesty will
receive, on the Ist of January, at noon, on the occasion of
the New Year's-day, the grand deputation of the Cham-
ber of Deputies, and all those Deputies of the Chamber
who may choose to join it.
The order of the day was the adjourned discussion on
the factory child-lalsour bill.
M. Renouard, the Reporter of the Committee, an-
nounced, that conformably with the instructions of the
Chamber, the Committee had re-considered Article 10,
and had coma to a resolution to propose the following mo-
difications on Articles 10 and 11 :

" Art. 10. The Government shall establish inspections
to watch over and secure the execution of the present law.
The inspectors are to have the power of compelling the
production of all registers, regulations, &c., connected
with the execution of the law, and of examining the cer-
tificates of the children and the children themselves ; they
arc to have the power to adjuin to them a physician, to be
chosen by the Prefect.
" Art. 11. The right of preparing and recording a Re-
port to prove the cases of contravention shall only belong
to inspectors, prefects, and sub-prefects, without preju-
dice to the direct action of the law officers of the Crown.
These Reports shall be considered evidence until proof to
the contrary be offered."
Art. 10 was put to the vote and adopted.
A discussion now ensued on Art. 11. Several Members
spoke shortly for, and others against, it.
The Minister of Justice said, he preferred the article as
it stood originally, for it came more within the limits of the
common law than the present draught.
M. Renouard supported the article as modified by the
Committee.

The original article was then read ; it was as foliows:—
" Art. 11.—In case of contravention, reports shall ba
prepared by inspectors, which shall be considered valid
until proof to the contrary be offered."
M. Renouard then proposed a new article as No. 12.
viz..—

Art. 12 —Par. 1. In cases of contravention of the
present law, or in the regulations:of the Government as re-
gards its execution, the managers of establishments shall
be summoned before the Juge ac Pail of the district, and
punished by a flue, which shall not exceed 15f."
Paragraph 1 was then adopted.
Paragraph 2 of Art. 12 was next read:—
" The contraventions which may take place, either as to
the admission of children under the prescribed age, or as
to excess of labour, shall be punished with fine in every
case ; but the total amount of the fine for the Fame
offence, although in several cases, shall not exceed 200 f."
—Adopted.
Par. 3. " In the event of a second commission of the
same offence, the offenders shall be tried before the Tri-
bunal of Correctional Police, and, if found guilty, be pu-
nished with a fine of from 16f. to 100 f. If there be several
cases, the total fine shall not exceed 500f." Adopted.
Par. 4.—" The fathers, mothers, guardians, and all
persons who may, in sending children to factory labour,
have been guilty of a contravention of the law, or the re-
gulations made for its execution, may be sentenced by a
Jugs do Paix to a fine of sf. for a first offence, or any fine
not exceeding IM. for a second offence."
M. do Lgmartit.o objected to this paragraph, and de-
manded its rejection by the Chamber.
M. Renouard supported the paragraph in the name of
the Committee.

The paragraph was then put to the vote and carried.
Par. 5.—" When the same offence shall have been re-
peated isithin 12 rnetitli, it shall be considered a second
offence, liable to the increased penalties."—Adopted.
Art. 12 was then adopted in its ensemble.
Art. 13. " The present law shall not be obligatory until
six months after its promulgation."—Adopted.
The Chamber then proceeded to the ballot on the en-
semble of the Bill. The numbers Isere—
For the Bill lB5
Against it

The Bill w•as then declared to be passcd, and the Cham-
ber adjourned to the following day.

SPAIN.

MADRID, DEC. 22.
The Duke de la Vitoria continues to be slightly in-
disposed.
The press has undergone some moiifications lately.
El Pueblo Soverano has discontinued publishing; the
journal El Constitucional, ‘illich is about to appear, will,
it is said, espouse the principles of the Regency Ministry.
It is not believed here that the difference between Spain
and Portugal will be carried to extremities. British in-
fluence will no doubt find the means of settling that affair
amicably.
By a circular, dated yesterday, the Minister of the In-
terior, Senor Cortina, gives notice to all the competent
authorities that, as all the provincial deputations are to be
installed on the Ist of January, it is necessary to proceed
immediately to choose electors who are to name the De-
puties to the Cortes, and propose the new Senators that
arc to be elected. In the principal towns very few elec-
tors of the Moderado party have shown themselves for the
election of the provincial deputations and Ayuntamientos.
On the 22d of December 48 bargains for 24,400,000
reels in the New Five per Cents. were done at 28k- for
cash, and 29 at sixty days' date. In Vales non consoli•
dated 130,000 piastres were negotiated in three operations,
at 13, for cash and at thirty days' date. In the debt
without interest one bargain was affected for 2,000,000
reals, at 6k, at sixty days' dates. Exchange on London
at ninety days, 36g.
It is generally thought that so great a rise in stock will
not stand. A large failure had been announced on the
Madrid Exchange.
( Frottl the Madrid Gazette.)
CIRCULAR FROM THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR TO THE

POLITICAL CHIEFS.
The periodical press has often pointed out Abuse! and
violent acts which it supposes have been committed in the
elections of alcadcs for the next year. Although the rage
may increase with bad intentions of facts of slight import-
ance—althoug,h slander may have invented sonic which
have never existed, it is yet posdblo that sumo exceases
may have been committed which the law must suppress.
In every way it behoves the dignity of the Government,
and that of its agents in the provinces, to seek out the truth
of those allegations with all possible celerity. Therefore,
the Provisional Regency of the kingdom has resolved that
your Excellency shall make known to it, by return of post,
without omitting the most trifling circumstance, all that
has taken place during the period of the elections. Your
Excellency most likewise give an acconnt.ot the measures
nbich it Las adopted for respecting the law and freedom o"
voting enjoyed by citizens.
MAI id, Dec. 18.

MANOEL CORTINA.

SECOND elm:wilt.
The Provisional Regency of the kingdom has noticed
your Excellency's several n ports and those of his pretle-
ces,:or, which i dorm it have excited the zeal of the Procu-
radores Reales, in order that they may indict several
journals for divers articles which they arc of opinion come
within the scope of the law as to being suppressed. The
Regency has charged me to make known to y our Excel-
lency that its intention is no way to shackle the free exer-
cise of the faculty of expressing their opinions, which is
granted to all Spaniards by Article 2 of the Constitution.

MORNING EDITION.

H iwever severe may be the censure on the measures re-
sorted to be the Government, and however vi,derit and re-
peated may be the atti.eks of which the members of the Re-
gency are the object, your Excellency is to abstain hence-
forth from similar proceedings, by allowing the Procura_
dores Reales full liberty to act according to their own con-
viction.

Madrid, Dec. IS. MANOEI, CORTINA.
To the Political Chief of the Proyince of Madrid.

LEVANT NEWS.

The Scamandre steamer, bringing the Levant mail, ar-
rived at Marseilles on the morning of the 2tith ult. (Sa-
turday last) ; but, in consequence of the quantity. of water
she shipped during an exceedingly stormy passage, there
is reason to believe that a large portion of her :et-erg has
been destroyed or rendered al!ogether illegib'e. The sub-
joined communication from a Cos respond,eat at Marsedles
will be found to embody the substance cif the intelligence
brought by the Scamandre

Dxc. 26.
The Scamandre steamer, from the Levant, wh,c'► was
due on the 21st, did not arrive here until this morning,, the
26th. As far as Leghorn she had a very s'ormy pacrsage,
'end between that port and Toulon she was in such danger
that all the passengers were obliged to wor k rt the pumps.
The letters were so completely swamped that they formed
a sort of paste, so that it was almost imposs We to tilt-
cover the addresses. Several commercial documents have
thus been lost, and one of the first Greek mercantile houses
has received several envelopes without their content's.
This vessel brings letteis from Alexandria of the 7 h
of Decernb,:e. Those received by the Pl:ae•ou Here dated
the 12th, so that those just revived are of no interest, ex-
cepting that they bear witness to the deplorable position of
M. Cochelot and the merchants, whose protector he is by
a legal fiction. This functionary goes no more to the
palace, and the mercht.nts are quite resolved to .have co
further disputes with the natives, as in the present posi-
tion of our Government they mould be sure to b.t in the
wrong. The Egyptians even go so far as to reproach our
Consul for having caused all their misfortunes by having
persuaded the Pacha not to allow the fleet to leave the
port, as they say that it would have brought the English
squadron to action, and have enabled Ibrahim to recover
his lost ground. This
.funfc.ronade cornea rather. badly
from people who carried away the guns, in ord2r that they
might not be obliged to fight, as soon as Commodore Na-
pier hove in sight. But the French Government has
so conducted itself as to be treated with deserved contempt.
Constantinople letters are dated Dec. 8.
The Sultan's loan with the English bankers has been
ratified at London, by the obligation to make the first
payments very shortly. This money is exp.•cted with
great impatience, as one of the first principles of the
Treaty is that the Turkish Government shall call in all
its nommade paper, which is now at a discount of five or six
for cash.

A fearful tempest has lately- swept over the Black S. a
and the Sea of Marmora, and incalculable damage has been
done. The vessel belonging to the Danube Company,
which was chartered by the Government to carry troops
and money into Syria, has been wrecked in the Sea of
Marmora. The soldiers completely pillaged tliC • vessel
before leaving her, and three of them, who jumped over-
board, have perished.
The Russian steamer from Odessa to Constantinople
was wrecked on the coast of Khili ; the engine became in-
jured during the storm, and the vessel, no longer minding
her helm, was thrown on the rocks, and nineteen men and
passengers perished ; the captain, however, was saved.
The Trebisonde steamer had 600 men on board, five of
whom were swept away by a wave; three others have
gone raving mad from fright and cold, and were obliged
I to be lashed to the masts; twenty more, who were taken
at Constantinople, have their limbs completely frozen.
The changes which have been talked about in the Divan
are confined to Mehemet Reschil Pacha, the Chief of the
Artillery. This functionary, who must not be confounded
with his namesake the Grand V:zier, was educated at Paris,
but is, nevertheless, a bigoted Mussulman, and has numer-
ous enemies.

The Circassians have lately reaped some more triumphs
over the Russians. They have taken and razed to thou
grounds the fortress of Ghelingik. This place was one of
the firmest strongholds of the Russians, with a fine deep
bay affording excellent anchorage for their flee t. As sooa
as the Admiral saw that the Circassians had got into the
fort he opened a tremendous fire from the fleet upon the
place, without distinction of friends or foes; but although
the carnage was fearful, all his efforts were unavailing and
could not save the fortress. The only place they now pos-
sess is the stone fort of Tuapa, and the Circassians are
now making preparations to attack it.

EGYPT.

The following iatereepted letter from Ibrahim Paella to
Mehemet Ali, received from Constantinople, will be read
with interest

TRANSLATION.

" Ejub Aga yesterday brought MC the letter of your
Highness, which I read and understood fully. On the
same day, the 3d Ramadan. Slim and limavl Paellas,
with Goubran Effendi, arrived here. The hasna being
low, I was unable to make the payments. 47,000 purses
are indispensable, and you must send them to me.' Selim
and Ismael report that neither the artillery nor the cavalry
regiments havo any barley, and it is impossible to procure
any, because the peasants conceal everything. They will
neiiher contribute nor give anything ; the infidels of Saida
have made them itv•-olent.

•- are in want of many things; Syria will be no
longer tenable, if the sea is not soon tree. Affairs stand
thus :--Eleven days ago had your highness ordered me
to withdraw hence, I should not have done so. At pre-
sent everything has changed. Our infantry would be
good, but the Syrians arc worth nothing ; I had allowed
them to leave me, after obliging them to render up their
arms. The Arnauts being in league with some seducer,
demand either their pay or discharge. I have allowed
them to retire. The same with a part of . • •
We are alone. The rains and cold are disagreeable.
The bivouacks are worth nothing. I cannot hold my
yo(usryriHo Highness present position till the end of the Ramadan ; but in
case should d desiresiialt tnootabbaendoanbi
able to
Schan
temporarily,hness
take away the cannon. Our enemies receive assistance
from Constantinople and Malta. Ship., soldiers, and
ammunition arrive daily, and they overrun the coast of Sy-
ria in as many hours as I could do in days. It is there-
fore prudent not to come here with the fleet, for the Eng-
lish would take it before our eyes. The Consuls have
given me to understand that Acre will be bombarded;
bombarded perhaps, but taken not yet. Everything there
is in excellent order. Mahmoud has requested matrosscs,
and I have sent 340, for, to use in my position here, they
would be useless. From the frontier there is nothing new.
Maghium Hey is at Aleppo. Ahmed Bey will withdraw
as soon as the Ottoman troops advance. The season is
unfavourable to our enemies, who are not very numerinl.
Nlaghium supposes that at Aleppo there are both spies
and people to seduce our soldiery, and that the vulgar ate
blind. The same may be said of. Damascus."
* A purse is about fil. sterling in round numbers, cOn.e-
quently the sum required by Ibrahim would be 2:35,000/.