The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-11 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

BELGRADE, JULY 23.—Letters from Constantinople of the
15th inst. confirm the departure of Prince Stourdza for Jassy,
and mention the arrival of Marshal Marmont in that city,
without making any observation on it. They also announce
that a report was current in Constantinople that the English
fleet, which had left Smyrna on account of the plague, had
entered the harbour of Suda, in Candia, in consequence of
which the most extravagant reports were circulated, but which,
on account of their extreme improbability, do not deserve to
be repeated. The reason of the fleets having gone to Candia,
should such prove to be the case, is probably no other than
that as all the neighbouring Turkish islands and anchorages
are more or less infected with the plague, it has been found
more convenient to go to Candia, than to perform quarantine
in one of the Greek islands.

Mu AUG. 3.—M. Moriz Mayer, Lieutenant in the
regiment of Greek Lancers, arrived here on Thursday last,
with despatches from Naples, which he left on the 15th June.
Tranquillity now prevails in Greece, even in Maina. The
preceding reports that eighty men had been killed there, were
very exaggerated—the loss scarcely amounts to 20 men.
VIENNA, JULY 31.—Five per:Cent. Metalliques, 97 3-16; Four
per Cent., 871 ; Bank Shares, I,223.—Allgemeine Zeitung,
August 5.
PROM THE LOWER MURG, JULY 27.—Yesterday about noon
a most dreadful storm passed over the district of Gaggenau
(in the baillewick of Rastatt) and the neighbouring country,
particularly Rothenfels. A shower of hailstones poured down
for fifty minutes without ceasing ; there were hailstones as
large as hen's eggs, and a mass of ice soon covered the fields
which were just before clothed with the richest harvest. This
afternoon the hail stones lie to the depth of several feet. All
the plants in the fields and gardens are quite destroyed, the
fruit trees stripped of their fruit and leaves, and many
of them torn up by the storm, the vines are not only
bared of their grapes but the stems themselves so much
injured that it is feared they will produce nothing for years to
come. The meadows are covered with sand and stones, the
paths in the fields and forests broken up ; and in the village of
Gaggenau all, the windows that were not defended by shutters
were shattered. In short the beautiful entrance of the Murg-
thal presents a melancholy picture of desolation.
MUNICH, Aco. I.—lt is still affirmed that the King will
take a journey to Italy, for the benefit of sea-bathing.—Eranc-
fort Papers, Aug. 5.

The disarmament of the National Guards of Stras•
bourg appears now to be going on regularly. The number o
muskets delivered up, amounts to 1,073.

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S FAMILY.—" With re-
gard to his family I have not much to say, for I know but
little. Sophia was a baby when I first visited him, about two
or three months old, and I have watched her progress ever
since. By the time she had passed beyond the years of in-
fancy, I perceived that she was formed to be the darling of
such a father's heart ; and so it proved. She was a pure child
of nature, without the smallest particle of sophistication in
her whole composition. And then she loved her father so !
0 how dearly she loved him I shall never forget the looks
of affection that she would throw up to him, as he stood lean-
ing on his crutch, and hanging over her at the harp, as she
chanted to him his favourite old border ballads, or his own
wild Highland gatherings. Whenever he came. into a room
where she was, her countenance altered, and she often could
not refrain from involuntary laughter. She is long ago a wife
and mother herself, but I am certain she will always cherish
the memory of the most affectionate of fathers. Walter is a
fine, manly, gentlemanly fellow, without pride or affection
(affectation?), but without the least spark of his father's ge-
nius, that I ever could discern ; and, for all the literary com-
pany that he mixed with daily in his youth, he seemed always
to hold literature, and poetry in particular, in very low esti-
mation. He was terribly cast down at his father's death. I
never saw a face of such misery and dejection ; and though I
liked to see it, yet I could not help shedding tears on con-
templating his features, thinking of the jewel that had fallen
from his crown. I always considered Anne as the cleverest of
the family--shrewd, sensible, and discerning, but I believe a
little of a satirist ; for I know that, when a mere girl, her as-
sociates were terrified for her. Charles is a queer chap, and
will either make a spoon, or spoil a good horn."—From the
Shepherd's Paper an Frazer's Magazine for August.

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1834.

There have been many ominous predictions, and a
vast deal of unmeaning noise made about the Lords
throwing out the Irish Tithe Bill. We have always
thought that it grants a boon to the Landlords to
which they have no right, but things have been
brought to such a pass in that country by the
mismanagement and obstinacy of the High Church
party, that right and justice are overpowered by
dire necessity. The full amount of tithes could not
now be collected but at a sacrifice a thousand times
more to be dreaded than the loss of 300,0001. a-year—

a civil war. WELLINGTON gave up a great prin-
ciple which, on yielding, he still declared to be
just, and which he regarded as one of the bul-
warks of the Protestant Church, in order to
prevent his fellow-citizens from imbruing their
hands in each other's blood ; and would he and
his party now incur such an awful responsibility merely
for the sake, if it were possible, of saving that sum ?
It would cost the country ten times the amount even to
make the experiment, and then they would be as far
—nay farther—from their object than ever. But
the idea is absurd—he has already declared,
that Tithes can no longer be collected in Ireland,
and if some settlement is not speedily made, the Pro-
testant Church in that country must be destroyed. On
what ground, then, of consistency or expediency, could
we combine with others to defeat such a settlement ?
As for a change of Ministry, or the event of the Lords
and the Commons disagreeing on this point, that.is still
more out of the question. If Ministers were always
to resign their places on account of such a difference,
we should have a Tory and Whig Administration
alternately every three months. Had the question
been brought forward at an earlier stage of the Ses-
sion, probably the Legislature might have made a bet-
ter bargain with the landholders. It is now decided.

It is singular enough that within these few days
two public trials should have taken place which ex-
emplify all the objections urged by the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR against throwing open Coroners' Courts. In
the case of TREVANION v. DANBUZ, public decency
was grossly outraged, and the name of a third party,
an innocent Barrister, bro-ught forward, who had no-
thing more to do with this crim. con. affair than he
had with the rape of HELEN ; and at the trial at
Chester of two of the murderers of Mr. ASHTON, evi-
dence against others of the accomplices was given,
which would tell them to lose no time in making their
escape. In these instances the public might be satis-
fied with the verdicts, had the trials been carried on
with closed doors, but would they be satisfied with the
decision of a secret tribunal on an affair like that which
has been called the " Manchester Massacre ?" In

all cases of this kind, whether coming before Coroners'
Courts, or Criminal and Civil Courts, it ought to be
safely left to the Jury to decide when the public
should be excluded. To leave the law as at present,

gives a power to one individual which the House of
Commons will not long sanction.

The addresses of the Proceres, or Chamber of

Peers, and Procuradores, or Chamber of Deputies,

answer to the Regent of SPAIN'S. speech from the

Throne, have, after several days' discussion, been pro-
posed, and are the general subject of discussion in
the Madrid Gazettes of the 22d instant, which we

have just received. The interest excited by these docu-
ments, copies of which will be found in another column,
will not long be confined to Spain ; it will make its way
into the heart of the German Confederacy, and the
heads of the Holy Alliance will quail in terror before

it. The spirit of freedom has indeed fired the repre-
sentatives of Spain. They have measured the depth
of degradation into which ignorant monarchs, a super-
stitious populace, an indolent haughty aristocracy,
and an avaricious mendicant priesthood, have sunk a
country once the most chivalrous in Europe ; and they
appear to have come to the glorious determination of
again elevating her to at least a level with nations blessed

with a free constitution. The Gazette inform us,
that when the address of the Procuradores was being
read in the Chamber of Peers, several of the members
started as if an apparition had made itself visible
in the midst of the assembly. We can well believe
this. We are very certain that the ghost of one of the
old Caliphs would not have more alarmed some-of the
venerable Hidalgos than a recommendation from the

Procuradores to unshackle the press. All we fear is,
that, as only a small number of the Representatives
are yet arrived in Madrid, owing to a well-grounded

dread of the cholera, the majority who are still absent
will not re-echo with sufficient energy the address of
their colleagues. However, the Ministry have received
lesson the first. They now know what measures they

must adopt, if they would obtain the support of the
Deputies, wlt:lout which they cannot carry on the
Government of the country. The Deputies them-
selves, in their address to the REGENT, have
shown that they not only know the sources of the
evils with which Spain is afflicted, • but that they
dare state them, in language so bold, so energetic,
and so plain, that the QUEEN is reported to have been
considerably alarmed at the degree of frankness with
which questions affecting the wisdom of her deceased
Royal Consort, have been treated. Thus speak the

Deputies :
" The aspect of affairs in the interior of the country your
Majesty has told us, ' is far from being .as flattering as our
patriotism could wish.' The Chamber must add that it is
doubtless more melancholy than your Majesty could well
believe. The existence for years of an atrabilious system of
Government, an erroneous legislation, a blind Administration,
and a powerful reaction against the acknowledged principles of
all good social organisation, have reduced us progressively to
the greatest degree of depression and misery."
This is indeed language which no person can mis-
take ; language as condemnatory of the past govern-
ment of Spain as can well be expressed. But nothing so
alarmed the more conservative of the Proceres as that one
of the means suggested for reforming the system should
be by the removal of all odious restrictions on the
liberty of the press. On this point the Deputies
observe :
" The liberty of the press, this sentinel and guard to the
other guarantees, requires to be relieved from the restrictions
which circumscribe it, and which render it almost a nullity.
The abuses of the press can be prevented or punished by the
promulgation of good laws for the purpose ; but neither pru-
dence nor justice can authorise the relinquishment of a posi-
tive good from considerations of imaginary danger, nor can
it be said that the faculty of expressing thought exists while
that faculty is subjected to a previous and arbitrary censure."
We trust the Ministry will pay due regard to these
sentiments, which are as just, as they are new to the
Spanish Government. The independence of Spain
must, for the time to come, mainly depend on the
intelligence of her people. Let the freedom of the
press be asserted, and all is gained. This would for
ever cripple the power of the Holy Alliance.
The debate on the address of the Procuradores
was fixed for the 3d instant (Sunday), and was ex-
pected to be unusually long and interesting. Some
of the Ministers had, it was reported, proposed to
divide the Chamber upon it, and throw it out ; but
they were dissuaded from the adoption of a course
which would not fail to awaken the jealousy of the
Deputies. We believe that the Ministry, after trying
a softening down of some clauses, will adopt the address,
in the hope that when the whole of the Deputies
are assembled, they will find as many moderate men as
will enable them to carry such measures as they may
think it prudent to propose. But be this as it may,
the address shows the danger which the Government
will have to encounter, should it, after crushing the
Usurper, against whom every power must be first
directed, attempt to withhold those advantages from
the people which they are naturally led to expect from
changes which have been effected in the Spanish Con-
stitution.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Saturday. The Moniteur, with other Papers of the
same date, contains the following
The Government received yesterday, by telegraph, intel-
ligence from the frontier, dated St. Pee, August 7, according
to which General Rodil entered Elisondo on the 7th at the
head of 6,000 men. Don Carlos, obliged to make a precipi-
tate retreat, fell back towards Leissa. Numerous emigrations
have begun to take place. The wife of: Zumalacarreguy and
her children have presented themselves at Ainhoa, on the
French territory."

This is the only intelligence worth notice contained
in these Papers, except some observations to the effect,
that the English Press were misinformed in stating
that the Spanish Government had applied to France for
aid to quell the insurrection in that country. It is
also stated that Louis PHILIPPE has withdrawn
his acknowledgment of the Prussian Consul at

Bayonne, in consequence of a certain prominent part
taken by that official in support of Don CARLOS.

We do not often derive so much pleasure from the
perusal of a public document as we have from a care-
ful inspection of the plans, and consideration of the
suggestions, contained in the Second Report of the
Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, just
printed by order of the House of Commons. Notwith-
standing the low ebb at which the tide of Ireland's
prosperity stands at present, we predict, from the gre,
improvements that are now being carried on, in clear
ing harbours, opening canals, and making roads along
the eastern, southern, and northern coasts, that the
day is not very long distant when Ireland will, from
being a bye-word among the nations of Europe, be-
come equal to some of its proudest states in industry,
wealth, intelligence, and love of order. The worst crimes
of Ireland are the results of the poverty and despair,
rather than of the evil disposition, of her population.
Public works, besides giving employment to thousands
of her labouring poor, whom want has rendered almost
desperate, will be the means of inducing capitalists to
establish factories where facilities are afforded for
carrying on an extensive trade ; and will enable agri-
culturists to raise produce wherever a line of good road,
a cheap water carriage, or convenient shipping, sup-
plies them with a sure market for the fruits of their in-