The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-19 00:00:00

A Toulon letter, in the Constitutionne/, says that
Admiral Baudin, the Maritime Prefect, has just caused
several persons, employed in the dockyards, and various
departments under his control, to be arrested on charges
of fraud.

The Saone at Lyons froze so suddenly the other day.
from the stoppage of the floating ice, that seven barges,
six of which were empty, were caught in the ice, and the
pressure being excessive, were crushed and sunk.
A gendarme, while on duty at Maidevrier, in the
Maine-et-Loire, a few days ago found a poacher armed,
who fled at his appearance. The gendarme pursued him,
but he turned round when on the point of being taken,
and discharged his fowling-piece point-blank at the gen.
darme. The latter was killed on the spot, and the mur-
derer, though immediately followed by two other gen-
darmes, who were at hand, contrived to escape.
The press in Belgium has during several years been
increasing in productiveness. In 1837 it produced 180
original works, in 1838 210, in 1839 290, in 1840 320,
and in 1841 348. They were divided as follows
:
General history 5, history of Belgium 43, literary his •
tory, philology, and bibliography 6, literature bio-
graphy 16, fine arts 11, grammar and lexicology 10,
juridical and legislative sciences 13, medicine and sur-
gery 17, travels 3, theology and philosophy 7, commerce,
industry, and administration 7, botany 3, political, reli-
gious, and other pamphlets 57, public instruction 7, nu-
mismatics 3, mathematics and mechanics 6, statistics and
political economy 2, academic essays 21, heraldry 1, geo-
graphy 1, periodical miscellanies 29, annuals and alma-
flacks 12, the• scenic art 4, and various other works 11.
The number of journals remains very nearly the same,
for though some have ceased to appear, others have
come forth to supply their places. The reprint trade has
assumed a great extension in Belgium, being occupied
in nine-tenths of its business with French works. Thus
a Belgian Company is now selling for If. 40c. the same
work which M. de Balzac sells in Paris for 7f. 50c., and
which other Companies in Belgium sell for 3f. There
are 2,000 subscribers to the works issued by this Com-
pany, and they receive a volume every week at the price
of 70c. Another Company is publishing, under the
title of Tresor Historigue,, the best works of French con-
temporary historians, at If. 25c. for the octavo volume.
Thus Thiers's History of the Revolution, which sells for
40f. or 50f. at Paris, and for 20f. or 30f. by the larger
Belgian Companies, is sold by the Company i 1 question
for 12f. 50c., and it is illustrated with 10 lithographic
portraits. There are 2,000 subscribers to this work, and
it has returned a profit of 2,500 f. in ten weeks. The
historical works of De Barante, Mignet, and Villemain,
have been equally successful.
The Cardinal Prince de Croi, Archbishop of Rouen,
has just given 3,000 f. to the poor of that city.
The Augsburg Gazette has the following from its Paris
Correspondent

" Notwithstanding the persevering efforts of M. Hu-
mann, and the considerable reductions in the army ex-
penses , made by Marshal Soult, the Budget about to be
presented to the Chambers will show a deficit of
30,000,000 f. If we reflect that, during the last year,
Algeria alone cost 130,000,000 E, a deficit of this extent,
considering the state of derangement in which the Ad-
ministration wasofonnd on the accession of the Cabinet of
Oct. 29, will not appear to bo so very great."
The following is from a letter from Vienna of the Bth
of January :—" Since the sth of this month, Henry of
France (The. Duke of Bordeaux) has been out every day
in a carriage, and descended (without being carried) the
staircase of the palace which he inhabits. These trials
have restored to the muscles the strength and pliability,
which a state of forced repose had made them
lose. Dr. Watemann seems to be certain that

by the end of the nCQh,-iliePrince will be able ~to
walk, with the assistance of only one person. He conti-
nues to receive many marks of attention. The Emperor
sent one of his aid-de-camps to compliment him on the
new year. All the Archdukes have visited him, as well
as Prince Metternich and the members of the diplomatic
body."—Gazette de France.

It was affirmed yesterday at the Foreign-office that
the Cabinet of the Tuileries had addressed to the Spanish
Government a note relative to the French resident in the
Peninsular.—Constitutional.
The English Journals have not arrived.

The con-cession of the right of search creates a great
sensation in the journals, the most inclined. to optionism,
which have preserved the least spark of feeling
for the national honour. Thus the Americair pub-
lished at Brest, the port which saw Duconedie return as
conqueror, but paying with his life for his victory over
the English flag, cannot allow that such a stipulation
has been agreed to. The refusal of M. Guizot to com-
municate the treaty may already prove to the Americair,
that its hopes are ill-founded. What is honourable is
not concealed in this manner. The Moniteur has said
that the treaty was nacratifled ; this is an additional rea-
son for examining it, since it is still time.—Commerce.
BOURSE—peals, MONDAY, JAN. 17.

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THE WAR IN SYRIA.—The public will be
happy to learn that the Gallant Commodore Sir
Charles Napier has written a history of the late
war on the coast of Syria, which may be expected
to appear in a few days. Having himself been
the life and soul of the expedition,
.which
drove Mehemet Ali out of Syria, and filling
the rank of second in command, no per-
son can be so competent to supply all the
details of that brilliant campaign as the
Gallant Commodore. Moreover, it was by Sir
Charles that peace was negotiated with Me-
heinet Ali ; and it cannot but greatly
interest the public to learn all the details
of a negotiation between two such extraordi-
nary diplomatists. The future historian of our
Naval annals will owe a deep debt of gratitude
to our fighting Commodore Napier.
The Morning Post is, we believe, mistaken
in supposing that the descriptions it has quoted
of the condition of the factory labourers under
former Tory Governments is causing great
chagrin in the Anti• Corn-law party. All who
wish well to the labourers are glad to see the
Tories take that view, though they are very
sensible that it is only taken now, for the first
time, as a means of warding off an attack on
the Corn-laws. There is no intention of benefit-
ing the people; but they will be benefited by
the confession implied in the Tory charges, that
they are not as well off as they ought to be. At
the same time, the Post must be very ignorant
if it be not aware that pictures equally dark
could be drawn of the condition of the peasantry,
and on better authority than Mr. Gaskill's book.
The Report of the Poor-law Commissioners teems
with passages indicative of distress, misery, and
immorality in the agricultural districts. There
is a great probability that the condition of the
labouring classes will be permanently improved,
now that the different parties accuse each other
of having treated them ill.