The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-24 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From Galignani's Messenger of Monday.)
The Augsburg Gazette of the 17th instant has the fol-
lowing of the 10th, from Vienna :—" By the fire at Neu-
stadt, 600 buildings including three churches, became a
prey to the destructive element. The number of persons
who suffered amounts to 9,000, many of whom have lost
everything they possessed. The loss of human life has
also been great : the number of victims has not been ascer-
tained, but they are supposed to be about fifty. The im-
mense damage may be easily conceived, when it is remem-
bered that this town is an important commercial depot, con-
taining manufactories of every kind. Combustible materials
are supposed to have been designedly laid in different parts
of the town at the same moment." The same journal has
the following from Constantinople, under the date of the
26th of August :—" Many persons are of opinion that the
Syrian affair is not at an end, that the present tranquillity
is but momontary, that the insurgents secretly cherish their
original pretensions, and are silently preparing to extort by
violence that right which is now denied them. Mehemet
Ali returned to Alexandria with but a small suite : he was
labouring under great depression, and gave orders for all
his disposable force to be sent into Syria, in order that
offensive operations might be resumed as soon as Ibrahim
had recovered from an illness under which he was suffering.
at St. Jean d'Acre. At the same time a new levy of re-
cruits was ordered to a greater extent than was ever before
known. These facts, with others of like import, have
been extracted from the correspondence of the consular
agent to an Ambassador residing in this capital. The
Porte has received similar communications, and has also
obtained information from the late theatre of war, pur-
porting that public feeling is in a state of great excite-
ment, that the Syrians continue to arm themselves,
and brand such of their countrymen as traitors who ven-
ture on establishing friendly relations with Mehemet or
his son before their just rights had been granted. The
rival tribes have also entered into bonds of fraternity, and
are now in a condition to bid defiance to the power
of Mehemet. Within these few days preparations have
been renewed in the arsenal for fitting out the fleet, which,
it is said, will set sail for the purpose of counteracting fresh
supplies of troops from Alexandria,—a perilous experiment,
when it is remembered that the English squadron lies off
Vourla, and seems to be only waiting for the movement of
the Turkish fleet against the Egyptians in order to strike a
decisive blow, and render it unfit for future operations."
According to a private letter from Bayonne, dated the
17th instant, " Captain Iturria, with two .companies from
the garrison of Elisondo, surprised, on the morning of the
13th, Don Xavier San Esteban, a Carlist agent, Madame
Eraso, and four other persons, who were at Valcarlos ;
but having passed through the Aldudes, the French gar-
rison stationed at that point claimed the prisoners, and
conducted them to St. Jean Pied-de-Port. On the
13th, Zumalacarregui placed fifty men and sixty horses
at Carascal, three leagues from Pampeluna, in order
to prevent the landing of any provisions at that town.
He arrived on the 15th at San Esteban, where he col-
lected all the rations from the Cinco Villas. On the same
day Captain Don Leon Iriarte arrived at Irurita, with
100 men and three horses from Pampeluna. The Carlists
from the Bastan appeared also on the same day at Elisondo,
having taken flight after the last action. Yesterday
500,000 francs were sent hence to General Rodil. After
the last affair four officers of the sth Carlist battalion of
Navarre were taken and immediately shot, by order of Ge-
neral Rodil. In pursuance of an order of the day issued
by General Rodil, fifty-two families, belonging to Pampe-
luna, have been sent to Foria and Saragossa."
The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of Bayonne of the 18th
inst. has the following extract of a letter from the frontiers
of the 16th :—" We have nothing new except that the day
before yesterday the insurgents attacked Tolosa, and were
repulsed by the garrison, which made a vigorous sortie.
The loss of the Queen's troops was three or four killed,
and twelve or fourteen wounded. A cadet taken prisoner
was executed on the spot. It seems that the insurgents
experienced a great loss in killed and wounded. Other
bodies of Carlists are said to have again entered Berra."
A letter from Geneva of the 18th inst. says :—" Orders
have within these few days been received at the French
frontier to examine most strictly all persons coming from
Switzerland, and particularly from Geneva. Inhabitants of
Geneva alone are admitted at Ferney and Saint Genys with
passports from the authorities of this town. A report has
been spread that the Duchess of Berri is at Friburg, but
it is totally unfounded. The fact is, that attention has
been awakened by an extraordinary agitation amongst the
legitimatists who have been resident at Friburg, several of
whom have sold the property they had purchased in that
canton, and removed to Geneva or Lausanne. The Bernese
Government conceives that it has caught the thread of an
aristocratical conspiracy, which was to have broken out
simultaneously in several communes of the canton, and
chiefly in the ci-devant bishopric of Basle."
The following is from the Observateur Suisse of Berne :
—" All the contingents of the cantons assembled at the
camp of Thoune broke up on the 14th instant, and re-
turned to their respective homes. A party of them, com-
posed of men from Vaud, Berne, Thurgau, the Grisons,
Argau, and other cantons, passed a night at Berne. The
Prusso-Neufchatelise, however, thought it best to form a
party distinct from the rest, and returned to their princi-
pality incog. by cross-roads and by-paths. In all other
respects the most perfect harmony prevailed, and no un-
pleasantness occurred at the camp, except that which was
occasioned by the men of Neufchatel wearing the Prussian
cockade and medal. By way of ridicule, the other soldiers,
and particularly those of the smaller cantons, suspended
potatoes and radishes to their button-holes, and those of the
Vaud and Berne copper pieces of five batz each, to repre-
sent the Prussian medals."
Extract of a letter, of the 6th inst., from Naples :
" Leon Sebastian of Spain and his consort, who are ex-
pected here, are believed to be coming to endeavour to
effect a reconciliation between our King and his sister, the
Queen Regent of Spain. Don Miguel has invited several
officers of the English navy, resident here, to join him in an
expedition against Don Pedro, which is preparing in Hol-
land, but hitherto his overtures have met with nothing but
refusals. The King has been much displeased by libels on
his private life, published in the Gazette de France, and has
consequently very much limited his evening parties, be-
lieving that the author of these articles had been admitted
to them. The eruption of Vesuvius has much diminished.
We are, however; still in a state of apprehension, for Salva-
tore, the noted cicerone of the mountain, predicts another
explosion much more violent. The lava has reached within
a mile of Scafati, a small manufacturing town on the Parno,
and had well nigh interrupted the communication between
Castellamare and Nola. 300 families have been driven
from their houses, and have lost the whole produce of their
lands. The Government has granted them a temporary
relief of 5,000 ducats, but this is not one-hundreth part of
their losses. The King has been twice to visit the scene of
destruction." -
The Augsburg Gazette, of the 18th instant, has the fol-
lowing extract of a letter from Vienna, of the 11th in-
stant :—" A widely-ramified conspiracy has been discovered
at Constantinople, the object of which was to get rid of the
Sultan. It is generally supposed that Mehemet Ali is the
secret instigator, for considerable sums of money have been
found upon the persons of those implicated. Many arrests
have taken place, and a commission of the Porte has been
sent to Broussa, to inquire into the facts, and bring the
conspirators to justice.- A camp of Turkish troops is aout
to be assembled in the neighbourhood of Koniah. Several
regiments of a newly organised militia have been ordered to
join it. The formation of this corps is similar to the Na-
tional Guards or Landwehr of other countries. The move-
able regiments are to be assembled once every year for mi-
litary exercises. This camp seems principally to be esta-
blished as a corps of observation for Syria."—The Gazette
quotes the funds at Vienna, on the 13th—Metallics, 5 per
cent., 99 ; ditto 4 per cent., 88i ; Bank Actions, 1,238.
The Berlin State Gazette quotes the funds on the 15th,
4 per Cents. cash 99, paper 99k.
Extract of a letter from Alexandria, dated August 6 :
" It is supposed here that Mehemet Ali, in taking rein-
forcements of troops in Syria, only followed the impulse of
the Anglo-French policy, which fears that this important
province may fall again under the dominion of the Porte,
and indirectly under that of Russia. It has been consi-
dered that the aggrandizement of the Ottoman empire
would be virtually the aggrandizement of that of Russia. The
culminating point of the Anglo-French policy consists in
founding, in the teeth of the Ottoman empire, and with its
ruins, a power half Oriental, half European, which could
be set in opposition to the Porte, or rather to Russia.
Colonel Campbell, an English diplomatic agent, followed
Mehemet Ali in Syria. It appears that the revolt was in
a great degree put down by money. The Pasha, it is said,
drew from his treasures large sums, with which he bought
over the chiefs of the insurgents. He also borrowed of the
European merchants, with whom he was running accounts.
At the same time that he was buying over the chiefs he
caused several villages to be sacked, in order to strike terror
into the country. What is certain is, that Ibrahim Pasha
has been extricated from his difficult position—that the
insurgents have returned to their respective homes, and
abandoned the defiles of their mountains—that in forty
days Mehemet Ali returned to Alexandria, with six of the
notables of Jerusalem as hostages. The works for barring
the Nile are being carried on with activity. From 15,000
to 16,000 men are employed ; the number will be carried
to 100,000 and even 120,000. This operation will triple
the territorial wealth of Egypt. This country has hitherto
produced 400,000 quintals of cotton ; henceforth it will
produce 1,100,00 or 1,200,000. The overflowing of the
Nile in the present year proceeds in the most desirable
manner., The harvest of cotton will amount to 200,000
qUintals, but they will all pass into the hands of the mer-
cho who have glade advances to the Pasha. The ad-
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