The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

at the surface, are to be found, the Herald does not te.

us. Some arable El Dorado territory he must mean,
because he is precise in showing that these are "pro-
ducts of a soil cultivated by human labour." We might
otherwise have supposed he meant to write "products
of the earth below the surface" cultivated by man. But
the " soil " referred to, wherever it be, has more than
a Guano power of forcing production. This soil is
further stated to grow " skins and hides," and "furs."

To the last, at any rate, we must object, in limine, as
any sample of " agricultural produce ;" and the Herald
will make but little way in the future progress of its
Anti-League argument, if the other data, upon which
it is raised, involve such false designations of things as

Letters from Madrid, which are to the Ist instant,
state that honours and rewards were being bestowed
on the Members of the Cabinet, the disturbances
having been for the present put down. M. GONZALES
BRAVO and the Marquis DE PENAFLORIDA have been
nominated by her MAJESTY Knights Grand Crosses
of the order of CHARLES M. General MAZARREDO
has been appointed a Lieutenant-General, _ and M.
CARRASCO, the Minister of Finance, has been ele-
vated to the dignity of Count Of SANTA OLATLA. M.
DONOZO CORTES, who was the person sent to Paris
to invite Queen CHRISTINA to return to Spain, has
been made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of
IsABELLA the Catholic, and has been appointed pri-
vate Secretary to Queen IsAnELLA, with a salary of
50,000 reels.

The Paris papers of Sunday have been received.
Being Easter Sunday the day was observed with
rather more solemnity than usual, and but little busi-
ness was done at TORTONI'S.

The Editors of the Gazette de France and the
Nation have each been sentenced to a year's imprison-
ment and a fine of 12,000 f., for a libel on the Govern-
ment. The offensive publication was a letter, written
by M. DE ROCIIEFOUCAULD, Duc de Doudanville, ad-
dressed to the Gazette, in which it first appeared, and
afterwards copied into the Nation. The author of the
letter has not been prosecuted.

The articles in these papers being mostly on domes-

tic subjects, have not much general interest. The
vote of the Chamber of Deputies on the Stamp Duties
on Newspapers does not excite so much attention as
might have been expected ; the Commerce only has
an article on the question.
A paragraph in the Journal Ilavre states that a
conspiracy had been deteCted among the black popu-
lation of Cuba, the object of which was the-destruc-
tion of all the whites in the colony. Captain BouR-
DIN, of the Tigre, who communicates this intelligence
to the journal above named, states :
" Some days before my departure a vast conspiracy of
the negroes was discovered, the obiect-of which was to
seize upon the whole of the island of Cuba, and to mur-
der all the white population. Numerous arrests had
Tajrnefaodrt3 u,
ntaakteneniplace, and the number was daily added to.
among the number of those who are in
prison there figure several of our countrymen (French),
all planters from the neighbourhood of Matanzas, and
among them are some of the most esteemed of the num-
ber. These unfortunate men have been arrested on the
declaration of a free n&gro, who was formerly the slave ;
of one of them. The negro, it is said, for the pimpose
of warding off the suspicion which fell upon himself, I
went and accused his old masters, and thus got them
iwprisoned. AI. Molhe4, the Consul-General of France