The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-20 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Mont: of Wedoesday.)

PARIS, JAN. 17.—After some reflections on the
language held by the other Journals, respecting
the events et St. Petersburgb, the Etatle con.
duties as follows :

" We invite the pnblic to he on its guard
against all the falsehoods which the Journals will
not fail to utter respecting the depositions of the
officers arrested at St. Petersburgh. It would
expose itself again to take falsehoods and suppo.
sitions for realities. There were evidently some
persons who were misled on the 2tlth, anti it may
be said that all the soldiers were in this situation.
'The Emperor has pardoned them all. As for the
officers, several of them may, undoubtedly, have
been hurried away by an error, which may be
justified ; but those who dreamt of theories in-
applicable to their country., Santa Roses of the
Banks of the Neva, would be unpardonable,
after the sanguinary lessons which Europe has
.received.

." How criminal are those who, secure from all
danger, basely sow, iu a Journal, ideas which
wiliterminate in some heads thousands of leagues
off; and endanger the tranquillity of States. The
.unfortunate Andoniesky, who put an end to his
days with a pistol, before he %Vali taken ; this un-
fortunate poet, lliteiff Abalensky, and Gleheff
himself, area terrible proof of the danger of their
incendiary writings, which professors of discord
every day scatter with profusion.
66 We then easily understand the motives which
dictate the prohibition pronounced against these
Journals, one after the other. And the call pre-
caution against fire, violations of liberty.
". The following are the promotions made by
the Emperor on his accession :

`, Generals Souchazanett (Commander of the Artillery of the
ouhrdj„ lxleniefP, Poapoff, Stakanoff, Duchakoff, and Tchit.
cherin (commkuding the Dragoons of the Guards), are appoint.
etl A id.tle-Camp General; Count Stephen Apraxin, Major.
.General ; ell the Colonels commanding Battalions of the Regi-
ment Preebruginskiare, appointed Aid.dt.Camp to the Em.

peror."

The directing Senate at St. Petersburgh de-
cided, in its Sitting on the 10th December that a
Colossal Statue shalt be erected to the late Em-
peror, with this inscription :--•
" RUSSIA TO ALEXANDER I."
A circular letter is spoken of, addressed to the
Russian Arubassadors►, in which the new Monarch
professes the l►rinciples of pence and concord
which were followed by his brother.—(Courier
o.rthe Lower Rhine.)
Abelenski, of ishmn we spoke yesterday, was
Aielee•de-Camp to General Bistrom ; and Gle►boff
was employed in the office of the Minister of
Justice.

Accounts from St. Bernard say, that the monks
in the hospital never saw such a quantity of snow.
The • avalanches are dreadfully frequent, and
whenever the .guides set out, they think they
take a last farewell of them. However, since
the first accident that occurred, there have been
no more. The guides have been frequently
overtaken by the snow, but have always had the
good fortune to escape.
(Front the journal des Debate.)
Panes, 17.—Since the death of the Chief
of the Holy Alliance, two Journals belonging to
the Ministry have vied with each other in abusing
England for supporting the cause of revolution,
me fter having aided the bonnets rouges, after
having been the firmest support of crowned heads.
They ask, whither can this change of system
,lead ? This supposes there is no middle term
between absolute power, aml the triumph of the
revolutionary system—a ridiculous supposition,
particularly when applied to a country in which
.every thing is established on a legal liberty, and
which equally rejects arbitrary power, and the
passions of the multitude.
(Proni the Courier Francais.)
PARIS, jAs. 17.—The Etude gives, from the
Official Gazette of Berlin, a letter which shows
how much the circumstances which conducted
Nicholas to the throne of his brother require es-
. planation. " You take me (he says) for a
usurper, and yet I am. ready to give up the
Crown which I have been forced to assume. 1
have only accepted it because my brother has
refused it. But if you will not have me for 14',1n.
peror, here 1. am disarmed, strike!" Who has
compelled Nicholas to mount the throne ? Has
he also not been free ? Is it to four or five hun-
dred rebels, us they are called, that the Emperor
offered to renounce his crown and his life ?
`Would he not by this have recognised the so.
vereignty of the military power ? And is it this
Official Gazette of Berlin which attributes to the
son in-law of the of Prussia this language ?
ritENCII Ft, xn:4.—PA ars, ,Lor. 17.—Five per Cents.
Of. 53c.—Three per Cent 4., 75e.—Itatik Stock, 2,00.
Bente ti.; Naples, 78t'. 15e.—Royal Spanish Loan, 48i1.
ILlytlan Loan, 81110.—Exchange On London, one month, 25f.
• lse. ; three. ditto, NE 90c.—((:ourt eluthentique.)

DitEADPUL FIRE AT linussr.Ls.—On Monday
morning ut three o'clock, a dreadful tire broke
out hi the house of Pieire flooninckx, in the
Faubourg de Ndmur Chaussec d'htelles. The
maid servant leaped out of the window into the
meet, and received an injury. The master and
mistress, and two children and a workman, also
escaped by the window and over the roofs. We
regret to State that an Ettalo lady, 70 years of
age, and her grand.daughtet, aged 8 years, who
lodged in Ow house, perished in 'the flames, as
well as a child of the proprietor,u year old. The
bodies of the English lady and her grand-daugh.
ter have since been found.

At Ow capture of Shit as, by the Afghans, every
person found in arms in that city was put, to the
,word. The massacre being ovor, the conquerors
plundered with their ordinary licentiousness.
One remarkable incident is recorded of the
punishment of covetousness ; some of the soldiers
*haying found in the house or a private man a con.
siderohle quantity of corn, which he bad con-
cealed in prejudice to the other inhabitants,
they tied him to a stake in his gratity, where
ho died of huoger, revenging the death of many
whom this wretch had sacrificed to his avarice.