The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-31 00:00:00

ARMY AND NAVY.
THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL,
and NAVAL and MILITARY MAGAZINE for
APRIL, 1832, will contain—
Considerations for Manning the Navy for futur!War—
Twn Drys at St. Helena, by an Officer—The British Ca-
valry in the Peninsula, (continued)—Sebastian Cabot—.
On the Mari ime Population of the British Empire, No. 3
--Memoirs of the services of Admiral of the Fleet, Wil-
horn Price Williams Freeman—of the late Admiral Sir
Richard Bickerton, Barr. K.C.B. and K.C.—of the late
SVice-Admiral Henry Paulet, K. C. B.—Royal Naval
chool—.Modern Instances of Sub-marine Volcanic Erup-
tions, &c.—Phenonienon at St. Helena—Gri.ece—Zisea's
Retreat from
ans Vision—Reviews and
Prague—A Veter' Vi
Critical Notices--Memoir of the early Operations of the
Burmese Wsr ; addressed to the Editor of the United Ser-
vice Journal, by Lieut. H. Lister Maw, R.N. &c.--Ge-
neral Corresp,,ridence—Editor's Portfolio—Proceedings at
the General Meeting and Commemoration Dinner on the
Establishment of the Naval and Military Library and Mu-
erucn—Parliamentaty Abstract of Naval and Military Af-
fairs--Courts-Martial—General Orders and Circulars_
Promotions and Appointments—Annala of the Fleet_
Obituary, &c. &c.
Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington-
street.

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Captain Franklin's Narrative
of his visit to
the Courts of Russia and Sweden, embraces the latest accounts
of those places, and includes also statements relative to the pur_
suits and manners of the fashionable classes in Stockholm,
Petersburg and Moscow ; particularly as regards their soirees,
musical parties, and private theatricals. The anecdotes of our
countrymen in the northern capitals, particularly Lord Blom-
field, Lord Ileytesbury, Sir J. Wylie and others, confer an
especial interest on this journal, which may be said to display
the kind of life a well introduced stranger leads in those cities.
DUELLING IN FRANCE.--.. THE PEN AND
Twit Swoau.—ln consequence of some reflections dy the edi-
tor of the Tribune on Marshal Lobau, Commandant of the Pa-
risian National Guard, four officers on the staff of the Marshal
last week paid a visit to the office of the Tribune et Mouvement,
with--to use homely language—a very bullying message.
Taken unawares, the principal editor refused to meet a body of
persons, but offered to give the Marshal himself personal satis-
faction. The affair got wind, however, and in the course of
the day many hundred young men left their cards at the office
of the Tribune, praying to be allowed as assistant Editors (Re-
d
teura ; to take oft' the odds ; and accordingly the Tribune
of Thursday- intimated to the Etat Major publicly in its co-
lumns, that sixty-seven " editors of the Tribune" were ready
to go out with the sixty-seven officers of which the Etat Major
(staff) is
opposed.com Saturday produced the first of the duels
resulting th challenge en niasse. The principals in this
affirir were General Jacquerninot (of the Etat Major) and M.
Behnonte, the editor (in chief: of the Tribune. The former
war attended by General Gourgaud and Colonel Taunton ; the
• latter by Colonel Bricqueville (a Deputy) and M. Cartel, editor
of the National. After an exchange of shots, the seconds in-
terfered, and that particular affair at last was made up. It is
by no means Certain, however, that the remaining iilxty.esix
aliens of the Etat Meyer win
!ix e net call out the remainingenters of the Triitoor,sixty-

The extent of the controul exercised over the
German Journals could hitherto only be estimated
by the foreign reader from the dull spiritless
nature of their contents. Now, however, the
restraint appears in a palpable shape. It is no
longer a thing to he conjectured, a conclusion to
be mentally drawn, in the way we have described,
but presents itself without disguise to the eye,
and may be measured by the hand. In fact,
the pages of the German Papers now exhibit
large blank spaces—those glaring proofs of the
exercise of the censor's arbitrary power which
once distinguished the French Papers. This
has first occurred in the Allgemeine Zeitung, a
paper which is remarkable for the caution with
which it is conducted, which avoids giving of-
fence to any kind of authority, and pays due re-
spect to " the powers that be" of every descrip-
tion. The subject of the article in which the
lacerations of the censorship remain obvious to
occular inspection, is the new law of the press
for the GrantlDochy of Baku. Like most of
ther long-winded dissertations made public
through the same channel, it is extremely
moderate both in its language and its senti-
ments. Singulailv enough, it is dated from
" the North Sea, March 2," but it has nothing
in common with the stormy character of the
quarter in whit h it purports to have originated.
It is calm as if it had sprung from the Pacific,
and cool as if it had been at the Pole. Our
readers are, perhaps, aware that a law on the
police of the press, from which touch advantage
has been expected in Germany, was passed by
the Legislature of Baden some months a,o.
This law, which was finally promulgated on the
28th of December, came into operation on the
Ist instant, but we have not yet seen any
of the fruits it was to have produced. In
the mean time, the Diet of the Confederation,
which holds its sittings at Frankfort, was not
slow to show a dread of the influence which this
law may have on free discussion. That body
of venerable conservatives soon passed an admo-
nitory resolution against the execution of Baden
law, and afterwards, turning its attention to the
products of the Press in the Bavarian States,
fulminated on the 2d instant a decree prohibit-
ing the circulation of the Tribune, the West-
bole, and the Zeitschtvingen in Germany. This
decree has been already carried into execution
in the city of Frankfort, Hesse Darmstadt, and
other German States. It is said, however, that
the decree did not pass the Diet unanimously,
and that some of the Deputies of the Constitu-
tional States refused to vote until they should
receive instructions from their Governments.
The North Sea article, to which we have al.
bided above, appears in a Supplement of the
Allgemeine Zeitung of the 20th, and is conti-
nued in another Supplement, published on the
21st. It commences by stating a report that
the Government of Baden intends to vindicate
its law of the press, which is consistent with the
constitution of the State, .and. has been •sanc.
tioned by the Representative Assembly, against
the decision of the Federal Diet. The Confe-
deracy is viewed as a mere political association
or alliance of States, forming no State of itself,
and conveying no governing power to the Diet.
No resolution of the Diet can acquire the force
of law in any particular State until after it has
been adopted by such State according to its own
constitutional forms. The Confederacy has no
right to interfere in the internal government of
the States. The writer, however, gives it as his
opinion that it would be highly advantageous
for the whole of Germany were all the States to
agree upon some general rule for certain things
which he describes ; but of such agreement he
thinks there is little hope. He says—
" The Act of Confederacy directs, that the Diet shall
proceed to draw up uniform regulations for the freedom
of the press, and the security of authors and publishers
against literary piracy, and to deliberate respecting the
trade and intercourse of the several Stares.' Since then,
this illustrious assembly has had many hundied sittings,
and what has been done on these subjects? Almost
nothing ; for in defiance of the gentle hint given by the
Vienna Ire ity of 1820, only some appearance of pre-
parations for deliberation have been assumed. On this
account, single Governments of the Confederacy have
had no hesitation in regulating these matters according to
their own views, without, the Diet having shown any disposi-
tion to oppose them, or to call them to account for so doing."
Here a chasm to the extent of about 15 lines
occurs. Reasoning in so quiet a manner, what
can the writer have here to alarm the censor ?
Perhaps he had ventured to conjecture that the
regulations of the press hitherto adopted by dif-
ferent German States had not been interfered
with, only because they were less liberal than that
of Baden. Indeed, he is soon after allowed to
observe that Prussia has entered into conventions
with four or five States, one of which is Austria,
respecting the reprinting of books, and that the
Diet had never declared these treaties contrary to
the act of confederacy. He then very simply
asks why the same silence might not have been
observed with respect to any other State of the
Union ? But no sooner had this unlucky ques-
tion dropped from his pen, than some half-dozen
lines are extirpated from his essay. After this
second display of power, the censor had become
less severe, or had found the writer more cautious,
for the erasures extend only to one or two lines,
or a few words, at a time. It will easily be con-
ceived, however, that these petty inroads on the
text serve to destroy the sense, as much as the
more violent mutilations. How far this plan of
breaking up articles into fragments had been
acted upon by the German censorship, we are
not enabled to state, this instance of its applica-
tion to the Allgemeine Zcitung behig the only
one we have yet seen.— Times.

It is rumoured that Mr. Portman is to be one
of the new Peers, and, at all events, it is said, he will not again
be a candidate for Dorsetshire. A correspondent, who sub.
scribes himself a Dorsetshire Freeholder, suggests that the libe.
ral freeholders should make choice of Mr. Robert Gordon, the
Member for Cricklade, who enjoys great popularity in the
county.—Chronicle,
THE RUSSIAN TRADE.—The Deputation
of Merchants which the day before yesterday had an interview
with Lord Althorp, impressed upon Ministers the necessity of
an abolition of the Hemp Duty. The members of the Depu-
tation stated the injurious consequences which must result
from the abolition of the bounty on linen, without the duty on
hemp was, as had been promised, immediately done away with.
Various statements were laid before Lord Althorp, to prove the
great injury that was done by the duty to the ship.owners, and
to thousands of the lower orders, who would be wholly de.
priced of support, if the duty was now continued. Lord Al.
thorp heard the representations of the Deputation, and ad.
mated that the trade had strong claims to obtain the boon
sought for, but the present state of the revenue, his Lordship
said, would recent any branch of the revenue being lessened.
It is mentioned, in order to show the little profit resulting from
the spinning of hemp, followed by the poor in Dundee„,it-
broath, tte. at their own homes, that for Is. 10d. they spin a line
that would extend over a distance of seventeen miles.