The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-04 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

VIENNA, Am, 23.—Accounts from Alexandria of June
20 ; froM Biemont of July 1 ; and from Smyrna of July
20, give so many statements, all agreeing with each other,
respecting the insurrection in Syria, that they suffice to
afford a correct view of that important event. Under the
protection of nearly 18,000 regular troops, distributed in the
sea-ports from Adana to Gaza, and from the declivities of
Mount Taurus to Aleppo, Damascus, and as far as Jerusa-
lem, Ibrahim Paella has been able gradually to establish the
administration of the country, according to the spirit of his
father's instructions, which were to treat all parts of it on the
same system. This alone was very oppressive to several
districts and tribes which had before enjoyed entire liberty.
At the beginning of this year, the greatest discontent pre-
vailed among the inhabitants of Lebanon, and of the moun-
tains of Samaria and Judah. The taking young men by
force to recruit the army, caused this discontent to mani-
fest itself in the course of May, most of all in Naplous, and
the rapid spread of the insurrection,as well as the losses which
the Egyptians everywhere experienced, proved that they had
not been prepared for so ardent an attack, and that they were-
in fact taken by surprize. On the news that detachments
of troops employed in levying recruits in the mountains of
Samaria had been cut to pieces, or driven away, Ibrahim
sent a regiment of cavalry, which fared no better, and at
the same time sent for reinforcements to his father, who
On the 29th of May sent the 2d Regiment of the Guards
by sea from Alexandria to Jaffa, and ordered the 30th
Regiment of Infantry from Caria to Alexandria, where it
arrived on the 6th of June, and more favourable news hav-
ing been received, set out on the Bth to march back again ;
but on the 15th was again called to Alexandria, for the
purpose of being conveyed to Syria, with all the troops
that were ready, under the command of Mehemet Ali in
person ; at the same time the renegade Soliman Pacha
was ordered to march from Cairo to Gaza through the dis-
trict with two regiments of cavalry. The cause of this
energetic proceeding was the losses which Ibrahim
Pacha had sustained on the 3rd of June. With 8,000
men, including the 2d Regt. of Guards, &c., he had marched
from Joppa to Ramell, and on the sth advanced towards
Jerusalem, where the Egyptian garrison was hard pressed.
On reaching the defiles of the mountains, one battalion was
entirely destroyed. Ibrahim himself reached Jerusalem
by way of Bethlehem, but the Bedouins of the environs sur-
rounded the city, while others, in numerous detachments,
scoured the plain, and plundered and laid waste the whole
country between Mount Carmel and Gaza. A regiment
that had hastened from Damascus was attacked in Na-
zareth, and overpowered in the plain of Erdrelon, before it
could reach the mountains of Samaria. The loss of the
Egyptians in these several actions was estimated at 6,000
men. Lebanon was tranquil, but, on the other hand, se-
veral Arab tribes beyond the Jordan had joined those of
Samaria. The number of men under arms is stated to be
20,000. On the 26th of June, Mehemet Ali had sailed
from Alexandria with 20 transports ; six ships of the
line, six frigates, six corvettes, and eight brigs were
at Alexandria preparinc, to put to sea. The Smyrna
Journal of the 26th July, publishes the official note of
Boghas Jusseef Bey to the European Consuls, (dated 3d
July), announcing on the authority of a report from
Ibrahim, of 26th June, the submission of the inhabitants
of the mountains of Naplous, Jerusalem, and Hebron.
The latter admitted the report as stated, but believed that
it has cost the Egyptians great sacrifices, and that it will
be impossible to enforce in Syria Mehemet Ali's system of
Government.—Austrian Observer, Aug. 24.
VIENNA, Auc. 23.—Letters from Alexandria, of 4th
July, have been received here by way of Leghorn. Their
accounts of the affairs of Syria are much more favourable
for the Egyptian Government, and great progress towards
the pacification of the province seems to have been made.
But these letters agree that Ibrahim has sustained severe
losses, and is urgent for reinforcements. The report of an
insurrection in Upper Egypt is unfounded.—Allgemeine
?eitung, Aug. 29.

Religion has had her quibbles as well as law. Odo,
Bishop of Bayeux, half brother to William the Conqueror, is
represented in the celebrated tapestry worked by Queen Ma-
tilda, his sister-in-law, with a mace in his band. Ecclesia
non novit sanguinern, said the canon ; and the worthy Prelate,
when he despatched an antagonist, would not have spilt his
blood for the world—be only broke his bones.
TURNIPS.—The most prolific source of present
plenty, and the highest improvement upon the agricultural
system of our ancestors, is beyond all question to be found in
our sheep husbandry. It was the want of winter food for
cattle which disabled our forefathers from maintaining the
vast flocks which now supply food to our augmented millions,
and compelled them to subsist throughout the winter on salted
provisions. Until the beginning of the eighteenth century,
turnips were only cultivated in gardens for culinary purposes,
when Lord Townsend, attending George I. in some of his
excursions in Hanover, noticed them cultivated in open fields
as fodder for cattle. In spite of the prejudices he had to
surmount, and in defiance of the ridicule which shallow cox-
combs lavished upon him, this enterprising Nobleman, to
whom the community are so deeply indebted, succeeded in
persuading some of his tenants in Norfolk to sow the seeds he
brought from Germany. The heaths, wastes, and warrens
of Norfolk, which without turnips might have remained to
this hour in their primitive barrenness, speedily under this
management produced the finest corn crops in the world ; and
land in that county, which before Lord Townsend's introduc-
tion of turnips was not worth more than 2s. an acre, now
readily lets for 255. and 305.--Baxter's Library of Agricul-
tural Knowledge.
THE WORD OP COMMAND.—One day as Lieu-
tenant-General Count de Lubersac, the founder of the Military
School of Light Horse in Paris, was reviewing his pupils,
44 Sir," said he to M. de Rochegude, " your boots are not in
proper condition ; what should you say if I sent you to pri-
son ?"—" Why, General, I should say that you sent me
there apropos de bottes." The General turned away laugh-
ing, and continued his inspection. The Count, who was one
of the greatest riders in France, was very fond of attending
the exercise of the young troops. The pupils used to go
through their evolutions three or four a breast, and as soon as
they had done, another four followed, and so on. While M.
de Rochegude was one day waiting for his turn, and amusing
himself by lashing the horses of his companions with a switch
he had in his hand, the Count, suddenly perceiving him, said,
" Monsieur de Rochegude, dismount." To stand and hold
the horse by the bridle, instead of going through the exercise,
was conceived as a severe punishment. The moment after-
wards, the four who were being exercised returned to the ranks,
and the Count gave the word for the next fou . Rocrhegude,
ending himself one of these next, followed the three who were
nenr him, holding his horse by the bridle. " Trot 1" said
the General, who was thinking of anything but what was
passing before him, and Rochegude trotted accordingly.
" Gallop I" next said the General. The burst of laughter
which here followed the word of command drew the Count from
the distraction into which he was plunged, and he cried,
" Halt ! Sir, what do you mean by this trifling ?"—" I was
not trifling, General," said Rochegude; "you gave the word
to four—l was the fourth, and I obeyed it ; you commanded
me to trot, and I trotted, to gallop and I galloped." " Ido
not like to be taken quite so literally, Sir," said the General ;
" give up your horse, Sir, you shall go to prison." His horse
was taken from him, and with downcast eyes he was about to
leave the ground, when he turned back, went up to the Gene-
ral, and said, " General, am I to take literally what you have
just said to me ?" The smartness of the retort was too much
for the General's gravity, and bursting into a hearty laugh he
replied, " No, my boy, remount your horse."—Le chameleon.

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1634.

The Paris papers of Tuesday have been all received,
with intelligence from Madrid, dated the 26th and
27th ult. The French papers contain the copy of a
despatch received by the Government on Monday
from Bayonne, stating that the Carlists to the
number of 4,000, under ZAVALA, on the 29th
ultimo, attacked a body of troops commanded by
ESPARTERO, near Lcquietio, and that the Car-
lists were defeated with great loss, although the
QUEEN'S troops did not exceed 1800 men. We
can hardly give credit to this tale of modern prowess,
when we consider that the Carlists, besides their su-
periority of numbers, are stated to be the assailants.
The probability is that this story is altogether a fabri-
cation. The authorities at Bayonne know the vara-
ciousness of the Parisian appetite for novelty, and in
our opinion, whenever there is a dearth of real intelli-
gence, a substitute is provided by a battle, a hasty
retreat, or some other nine-hour's wonder.—always
taking care that no town be sacked, no village burned,
and no prisoners taken above the rank of corporal.
On Saturday last the principal holders of. Spanish
Stock in Paris held a meeting, at which it was resolved
that a deputation should wait on M. MAUGUIN, the
Deputy, and request him to be the hearer of a respect-
able remonstrance from that body to the Spanish
Ministry, against the schemes recommended by To-
RENO, and the Finance Committee, with respect to
the Foreign Debt. M. MAUGUIN agreed to act as
the Deputation required. On Tuesday the Remon-
strance was publicly signed on the Bourse by the
holders of the Spanish Perpetuelles.
The only particular intelligence from Madrid, is
that the Chambers, at the sittings on the 25th, re•
ceived the Report of the Committee on Criminal Law,
drawn up by M. LOPEZ, the Secretary, and are ex-
pected to embody its recommendations in the new code.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PAkts, SEPT. 2.
Five per Cents., 1011 f. Vt. 4A.. 25c.
Four per Cents., 02f. 75c.
Three per Cents., f 7.1 f. 90c. 75c.
National Loan, 3?k'.
Bank Actions, 1,76.1. —c.
Bente de Naples. 92E 10c.
Homan Five per Cents., 92 92.
Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents , 3-7 42
Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents , '23% 245 2.15.
lloyat Spanish Loan, 3014 31 315.
Bente Per et. d'Espagne. Five per Cents., 31 305 M.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 0S 99.
Haytian Loan, 265 f.

EXCIJANGE ON LONDON.
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-Cours Authentiquc.

The lamented death of the late Judge JEBB has
occasioned a vacancy on the Irish Bench, to the filling
of which every political eye in the Sister Island is most
anxiously directed. In the present political strife be-
tween the standard-bearers of Sir HA two uwr LEES,
and the train-bearers of the " Member for all Ireland,"
the smallest advantage gained is celebrated as a triumph,
and every consideration is sacrificed to the gratification
of personal spleen, religious rage, and party turbulence.
A Dublin correspondent, whose communication on this
subject appeared in yesterday's Sun, stated that the
old Tories of the Irish metropolis were in agonies at
the prospect of a Whig Judge, Whigly appointed,
presiding on an Irish judgment-seat ; and we have still
more recently learned a further confirmation of the
truth of this intelligence. We can only speak conjec-
turally of the blessing conferred on society by the ap-
pointment of judicial functionaries from among the most
violent political partizans, as such appointments are not
in much vogue on this side the Channel ; but, doubtless,
there is much internal comfort in the consciousness of
living in a country where the profession of certain
opinions gives impunity to legal transgression ; nor is
it at all surprising that persons who for the first time

in their lives are about to be subjected, not to the
"glorious uncertainty of the law," but to the unavoid-
able certainty of punishment when amenable to it, should
struggle with might and main to avert so fearful a ca-
lamity. The Irish Tories have had every thing so long
after their own hearts, in whatever related to honour-
able appointments, lucratiVe employments, and official
sinecures, that they at last began to fancy themselves a
superior order of beings from the crushed population
whom they had made the instruments of their ambi-
tious clamberings to place and power. But they now
see the delusion under which they laboured. Their
glory has departed from them ; and they stand before
the world stripped of the purple and fine linen in which
the Kings of the earth arrayed them—their only cover-
ing confusion, and their sole strength the energy of
despair and dissolution. The destruction of the Assy-
rian host, was hardly more sudden and unexpected than
the everlasting sinking of Toryism in the realms of
England. How beautifully applicable is the noble
poet's description of the subjugation of the former, to
the utter and hopeless ruin of the latter :

" Like the leaves of the forest when summer in green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen ;
Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hatkblown,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn."

Withered and strewn indeed are the decaying frag-
ments of a system of foreign and domestic policy—of
political and prelatical power, which bitt yesterday was the
pride, the admiration, and the boasted glory of England.
A divine right to set with impunity the laWs of God
and nature at defiance—a divine right to ieduce man
to be the slave of man, with a life dependant on the
caprices of a fellow mortal—a divine right to sit
in the shade, while others are toiling in the sun—
to suffer from idleness and excessive repletion, while
others are sinking under the weight of their bur-
dens and perishing from inanition—to commit
crime, and visit the innocent with its conse-
quences—to reduce men to the condition of brutes,
in order to secure to a select few the most
unbounded licentious indulgences—all these, and
many others, which in the " palmy " days of the
" Heaven-born Minister," flourished as so many bay-
trees by the side of a river, and like the lofty cedars of.
Lebanon, reared their green heads in the clouds, are
now shattered, blown down, uprooted, and their sap-
less branches strewn over the land.

But Toryism in Ireland assumes a more malig-
nant and detestable character than it ever has done
in this country, because it is there drugged with
the poison of spiritual hate and religious rancour.
It seeks not there the triumph of a party, but the per-
secution of a sect. The Government is imperiously
called upon to look to, and steadily counteract the
machinations of this evil principle. The Ministry
must look the dangers that threaten them in the face,
and by measures, at once energetic and decisive,
overcome them. They must not be found coquet-
ting with either party, and alike refuse admittance
to the emissaries from Black Rock, and Derry-
nane Abbey. We would not, under any doubt-
ful circumstance, cast imputations on the character
and legal ability of any Member on the Irish Bench,
but as a body we are bound to say that the majority of
the Judges are men whose known and expressed opi-
nions ought not to entitle them to that share of public
confidence required from them by the nature of the
duties they are called upon to discharge.
We therefore sincerely hope that in any choice
which the Government may make, in selecting a Judge
to occupy the seat on the Bench now vacant, sufficient
care will be had, that the candidate will be a man
of decidedly liberal opinions, connected with _no
party, but that of the Government and the
people.
Several highly-respectable members of the Irish Bar
have been named to us as aspirants for the honour of
the vacant Judgeship ; and were we asked whom we
should choose from among them, we should most cer-
tainly name Sergeant PERRIN. We would
prefer
Mr. PERRIN, not in depreciation of the claims of
Sergeant O'LOUGHLIN and others, but because
we have for a long time narrowly watched
his conduct, both as a Member of the
Irish bar, and a member of the British
House
of Commons, and under every circumstajice, wehave found him a wise legislator, a sound consti-
tutional lawyer, and an honest man. We know the
Government mean well ; we know, also, that the
Ministry are resolved upon doing ample
justice to
Ireland ; and, therefore, as an earnest of their sincerity,
we call upon them to meet the wishes of all liberal
people, by the performance of one miracle at least—
the appointment of a no-party Judge in Ireland.

The Morning Post is just now in high spirits
about the Grand Conservative Dinner intended to be
eaten (and, we should hope, digested) by all those
Tories whose political disappointments have not yet
affected the integrity of their gastric juice. Our co-
temporary speaks in terms of admiration and bewilder-
ment, of the " energy with which the preparations" for
this wondrous festival are being accomplished," and
expresses a fond hope that the " pains and expense
may be such as to render it worthy of so dignified a
guest as the Duke of WELLINGTON." We hope so
too, for though politically opposed to his Grace, our
hostility by no means extends to his " creature com-
forts," and sorry, indeed, should we be, were we to
learn that he had travelled all the way from London to
Lancashire for the purpose of presiding at a " banquet"
that was not in emu respect worthy of so " illustrious"
an appetite. We wish him a good dinner. Can we be
expected to say more ? Indeed, after his herculean
struggles in the last Parliamentary campaign, this is
the very least his Grace deserves at the hands of the
Tories. Having been much reduced, no doubt, by his
fierce encounters in their cause, it is fit that they should
now fatten him up—put him through a handsome
course of feasting, and so enable him to take the field
next session, in, what trainers call, " prime condition."
But our contemporary's anxiety is not confined
merely to this branch of the subject ; it has a far more
sweeping and comprehensive range. Not only is he de-
sirous that the " dear Duke" should be creditably
dined, but also that all England should be made ac-
quainted with the precise spot where the unparalleled
dinner is to take place. In short, he lays down its
geographical position and bearings, east and west,
with all the pains-taking minuteness of a Captain
Ross laying down the position of Boothia ; and least
this information should not be explicit enough, proceeds
still more specifically to inform us that the " tent" in
which the Conservative knives and forks ale to clatter,
" is erected in a bowling-green attached to an hotel,
under the direction of a committee of management,
and covering an extent of 105 feet of ground, by 66 in
breadth," adding, in a style of descriptive beauty
which George Robins might, and no doubt does,
envy, that this tent " is perfect in its roof, and sup-
ported by timber which, as in its naked state it might

be unsightly to the eye, has been rendered most pleas-
ing to it by being neatly encased in white linen of a
glazed surface." It is a pity that our cotemporary,
who, more lucky than Dr. SYNTAX, has gone " in
Search of the Picturesque," and found it, does not
descend to more domestic particulars, and acquaint
us with the Bill of Fare to be served up at this
glorious symposium. This would be -more gratify-
ing intelligence than any he has yet imparted; not
that we disparage his graphic description of the tent,
but that we think (and we suspect most Conservatives
will think with us) that the matters to be eaten in it
are far more worthy of consideration. In the state of
ignorance in which our contemporary has left us on
this interesting portion of his theme, we should say, if
we might venture on a guess, that, whatever other
dainties may be wanting to " accomplish the purposes
of the festival," calves' heads will not be among
the deficiencies ! But to be serious. Our con-
temporary, we perceive, has vast expectations from
this dinner. He imagines that it will be the means
of annihilating the Whigs, and it is with peculiar sa-
tisfaction therefore that we are Able to assure those
among our readers who may read of the preparations
with dismay, that if there is to be a Tory dinner in
England, there is to he a Whig one in Scotland. In
fact, a sort of duel of dinners is about to take place,
and we have no doubt that the Tory one will be
worsted in the encounter.