The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-17 00:00:00

tiviltßY OF itriVi

AND
bitet Optitton.

" Who runs may read.'

POREIGN.

A Council of Ministers was held on Tuesday at
the Tuilleries, at which the King presided.
On Monday evening their Majesties received the
Austrian Ambassador, Count d'Appony, the Ministers
of Bavaria, Holland, the Hanseatic Towns, and Saxe
Weimar, and the Charges d'Affaires of Russia and
Switzerland.
Accounts have been received from Algiers dated
the (:th inst. They state that the expedition, Which
was on its march against Abd-el-Kader, was favoured
with very fine weather, and the troops were, accord-
ing to the letters received at Algiers, full of health
and spirits.
A letter from Rome, Nov. 28, says :—"A commu-
nication has been made by the Russian Embassy of the
nomination of several Bishops by the Emperor of
Russia. Up to the present time the Pope has refused
to confirm them.
The Journal de Frankfort states, from Breslau, that
the convention between Russia and Prussia for the
reciprocal giving up of deserters has been extended
indefinitely, and is now, contrary to the statement of
several German journals, in full force.
Advices from Athens, of the 30th ult., state that
the Howe ship-of-the-line, and the Scout brig-of-war,
Nvere anchored at the Pincus.

Naples is now in its full gaiety, by the arrival of
strangers, who intend sojourning for the winter. All
the best houses in Chiaia are already occupied by
English families of distinction, and the season is ex-
pected to he very brilliant. The Barone:3s de Roths-
child has announced her first ball for next week. The
Accademia balls began on the 28th ult., with their
usual splendour.
The Leipsic Gazette states that, next year, the Jews
in Poland are to be subject to military service, with-
out being allowed, as hitherto, to provide substitutes.
The Smyrna journals of the 29th ult. announces
the arrival there, on the 27th, from Bey rout, of the
Devastation British steamer. According to the news
brought by that vessel, the Druses, having vainly de•
manded the liberation of their Sheiks, had risen in
arms against the Turks.
According to rumours at Constantinople the affair
of Servia had assumed a serious aspect, as the Russian
Envoy, it is stated, insists on the Porte retrograding,
and causing the abdication of the newly-elected Prince
and the reinstatement of Prince Michael.
On the 23d ult. a conference was held at Pera ot
the representatives of the Five Powers on the Syrian
question. An ultimatum was to follow, insisting that
the Maronites should have a Christian as ruler, in-
stead of an Ottoman governor.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Post has the following remarks on the present
Condition of Spain :—" It is strictly true that from
1812 to 1842 we have seen in Spain the acts of one
continuous revolutionary drama. We overlook the
alternations of success, now leaning towards the ex-
treme supporters of all things as they were, and now
setting in with the tide of liberalising innovations,
for the chief point of importance is the result of the
long-protracted struggle. Antiquated prejudice,
regal and aristocratic privilege, have been trodden
under foot—Reform has triumphed—the favourite
military leader of the ultra-Liberals has been placed
in the position of virtual sovereignty. The mark
of destruction has been put on every thing not
new, the very name of antiquity being looked on as
a death-warrant. Spain has her Parliament she
has realised the glories of popular representation
Her philosophers and reformers asked for consti
tutional Government. They have it. What fur-
ther can the most forward of them seek for ? At
how huge an expense of the bone and sinew
of national power have all these fine things been
brought to pass ? What woeful and wide-spread de-
solation and bloodshed—what unimagined desecration
of all that Spanish Christianity regarded as holy—
what miserable breaches of public and private faith—
what squandering of her treasure—what river-like
libations of her best blood—has the world been wit-
nessing in the course of her progress to freedom. And
bow much the better is she now for that freedom ?
The revenues of ecclesiastical establishments have
been distributed amongst her soldiers and political
adventurers—debt has been heaped on debt, till her
appearance in the loan market would be the signal
for a burst of mingled indignation and derision. By
her own representations, she has left herself without
the means of paying even a fractional interest on what
she owes. Her name has become a bye-word for
swindling insolvency; and, in point of national pres-
tige, her standing is less respectable than that of the
meanest limits of the State beyond the Peninsula."
"The responsibility," says the Chronicle, " that
really belongs to England, in connexion with the late
events at Barcelona, is !ight enough. The absurdity
of charging us with having run a line of battle ship
aground, that we might distribute her materiel to the
authorities of Barcelona, is too gross to advert to for
any other purpose than to show the lengths to which
the defamers of England, in the French press, are
disposed to push their hostility. Such an accusation
is simply ludicrous—incredible even if Lord Hadding-
ton had been at the helm of the Formidable instead of
at the head of the Admiralty. But the facts, at least,
upon which other charges rest are true. It is true
that the protection of the British flag was refused
to the rebels of Barcelona, and that our Consul
declared that he could not consent, by granting
such protection, to levy war upon the Sovereign to
whom he was accredited. This conduct, it appears,
is approved of by the British Government, as it
undoubtedly is by all parties of the British people.
Now if the English Consul at Barcelona was right,
2S he undoubtedly was, in stating that to grant the
protection sought by the rebels would be an act of
hostility' against the Spanish Government, what
option is left to the Regent but to demand the recal
of the French Consul, who avowedly has been guilty
of that act of hostility ?' It is true the French Go •
vernment, by adopting the act of its agent, may place
the Regent in a difficulty similar to that in which he
was placed by the departure of M. de Salvandy from
Madrid. But, upon the other hand, the French Go-
vernment must be contented to avow itself the abettor
of this insurrection, and to accept all the responsibility
of an act of hostility' against the Spanish Govern-
ment. Is the French Government prepared to excuse
the conduct of its agent in having, by false representa-
tions of the state of Catalonia, Arragon, and
Valencia, induced the military in the Atarazanas
to capitulate ? In the general outcry raised
against Espartero in Paris we can understand the
motives of the Republicans and the Carlists. The
latter denounce him as Robespierre on horseback,'
and, strangely enough, for having put down a demo-
cratic insurrection. The National denounces the
' inhumanity' of the bombardment, but without con-
descending to point out in what other way the autho-
rity of the Government could have been asserted.
What we cannot understand, however, is the tender-
ness of French Conservatives for Republicans on the
soil of Spain and Portugal. We know how the Louis
Phi!ippist Conservatives treat Republicanism at home :
but Republicans at Barcelona and Lisbon are quite
favourites with French officials, journalists, and con-
suls. This is very strange."
The Herald thus describes the wicked inventions and
calumnies of the Paris journals against this country :
" Just in proportion as there is not the shadow of a
cause does the violence and rancour of the French
press against England become more phrenzied. Our
Paris contemporaries seem during the last few days
to have pressed some of the most exalted residents of
the Bicetre and Salpetriere into their Anglo-maniac
service ; for it is charitable to assume that nothing
short of insanity could pour forth such commingling
fury and nonsense as have degraded those journals
since it became apparent to their unwilling vision
that the insurrection at Barcelona was fruitless to
disturb the Regetey of Espartero, and would ter-
minate in the signal and righteous punishment of
that city. The wickedneas and folly of the at-
tacks on England because Espartero is able to sup-
press revolt in Catalonia would be contemptible were
they not indicative of future clanger to the peaee of
14:,;:ope, of a condition of the public mind of France
'swim-010,1; to note, and of an obstinate determination
to indulge in teLf-deceit ; they would be .
'
vvefethgv not mischieseus, and might be safely lets to
the refutation their absurdity contains were they not
eagerly swallowed ity millions of French subjects.
The second city oF Spain was for three weeks in the
possession of an ignorant mob who had expelled the
constituted authorities and the garrison after dreadful
slaughter. The English caused the
outrage, cry the
French journals una voce; the
ches to put down the outbreak
have
Reegent of Spain mar t
sirnninpunishtthed the criminal
ness they unanimouslylu
engaged therein—the English;.
Es )artero, in the deplora
ble but obvious exerciseso'fohs duty,i bombards the town
—the English have
an
inducedhimto fire, they contem-
poraneously roar;
is English ship of war runs ashore
in the port and obliged, to enable her to get off,
to unload her stores—the English are supplying the
Queen of Spain's troops with ammunition, they madly
vociferate; the English
Consul declines to protect
rebellious subjects of his Sovereigns ally—what de-
testable cruelty, they exclaim. Were the Barcelo-
nese to walk for the next six weeks on their heads—
the English have done it, would be the outcry of
these public instructors
e of France. Nothing is too
puerile, inconsistent,
outrageous, or detestable for their
malice to leave unrecorded against England. It is in
vain to correct the falsehoods propagated by their
telegraph, to rectify the misintelligence of their
journals, to show
the folly of their gobemoucherze,
to, disprove their inferences, and to pick out the speck
of truth from the mountains of lies they pile
thereon
—aisle French, if truly pourtrayed by their journals,
have made up their minds that England has excited

disturbances at Barcelona, in order. that Espar'Lero
may find an excuse to sign a treaty of commerce
with this country to punish the Catalonian manufac-
turers—or rather. the Catalonian smugglers, who are
by far the more important and influential body.
Either we or they. must be human 'fiends;
for the
people who could project and attempt so diabolical a
design, or they who could invent such a scheme and
ascribe it to another nation, are out of the ordinary
run of humanity."
VIONEY—TRADE—COIVIIKEXCB.
The ten towns of Manchester, Liverpool, Notting-
ham, Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford,
Holin-
forth, Blackburn, and Rochdale, have already fur-
nished 12,7521. towards the Great League
Ftuid—
which is above one-fourth of the sum required.
The expected trade with China, in serges inn ker-
seys, has given a stimulus to that department of trade
in Devonshire.
An Anti-Corn-law meeting of the inhabitants of
West Hackney and Stoke Newington was held on
Thursday evening, when Mr. Sydney Smith, and the
son of Col. Thompson, addresFel the company, among
whom were many ladies.
PUBLIC INEPILOVEYIENTS.
In reference to the fires and loss of life Ivhich are of
weekly occurrence in this large city, it is considered
that there ought immediately to be orgr:nised argu
lar " brigade for the protection of life from fire.
NAVAL AND IVIILIT.A.BIr.
The operations upon the wreck of the Telemaque
have been discontinued, the winter having
The engineer expresses himself confidant that the
vessel contains articles of gold. set in.

LAW 11.1", TD POLICE.
The House of Correction contains at the preFen
time, 1,137 prisoners ; the New Prison, 96. The
consumption of bread in the first is 4,223 cwt. per
annum; on which, by the system of contract, 35.
at
d.
is saved upon every cwt. more than formerly, gre
benefit accruing to the county.
LITEIZARY AND ECIENTIFIC•
The epilogue and prologue to Terence were
by the alumni of Westminster School on Thiirs
the
evening. The principal subject of the former wys_
hits at the
Dotheboys' Hall system, with
passing
Income-tax and Corn-laws. spodken

counT—rilsrzoNlll3l6s.
The Prince de Broglie arrived at Manchester House
on Sunday last, with disP aches from Paris. •
tett
Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone are esPec
from Longford Castle, Wiltshire, at GorhamburY•
Lord Lovaine and Lady Susan Percy are now On
a visit to Lord and Lady Prudhoe, at Stan wick Park.
Lord and Lady Willoughby D'Eresby and Miss
Willoughby still remain on the Terrace, Piccadill
the,
The Dowager Countess of Charleville will pass
winter at Brighton. The Earl of Charleville ha.s ar-
rived in Dublin, from Charleville Castle, Tallamore.
Sir Charles and Lady Cecilia Des Vceux are ex.:
pected to remain at Tunbridge Wells until the close of
the month.

miscza.z.iiiVEol73-
There are now upwards of 300 streets in the
western parts of London without names affixed. ,
Among the species of birds now being forwarded
the Zoological Society, is one from Western Afrie !'t
e, 1 called pulih, a kind of mocking-bird. So exquisite is
its note, that to call an orator or poet by its nam
considered the highest compliment.
The Messiah will be repeated at Exeter Ball 00
Friday, the 23d instant.

REVOLT AT BARCELONA.
The following extracts from private letters, we-
a'
inclined to think, give a tolerably fair account of th
e
injury done by the bombardment :
4, than
ISARCELONA DEC. 6.—The bombardment, tha
God, is at an end ; and of the 50,000 to 60,000 per
sons who fled from the city on the 2d instant, wor
it was known that the firing would commence on
tue
following day, two-thirds have returned. The eiT
presented a melancholy appearance on the 3€l, wit
ex‘
the shops shut up, and the streets deserted, , •
cept by the resisting rabble. Some of the ecriee-
houses however,
were open during the O4
wither-
in the evening, and they were crowded. P
nothingsons,
q sons, who were sitting as tranquilly as ifd that
extraordinary had been going on. It is sai
about 1,000 shells and shots were fired ; but iffls,:
they must have been purposely ill-directed, for
damage, except in a few places, is very trLqing .n
such a quantity of projectiles, and very few jives in-
such
have been lost. You may suppose
was, no serious intention on the 3d of doing much ~)0L
!nage, when I tell you that the gas lamps werelight
as b 1;
as usual in the evening, and not a lamplighter li.viv;,!
injured. In the course of the night, indeed, IL 'e
lamps were broken, but that was all. I had rather!!!
awkward visitor myself in a cannon-ball which te-Re
down my chimney, bnt it rolled in the most bro'Llic)ats
that their
manner near my feet. The greatest damage 'm,'
the Hotel de Ville, a portion of the inside of Iv.`".-11
was burnt. I saw four houses 'burning at
the fire was soon put out: There is not so gre?thfit,;•oll
feeling of irritation hereagainst the Regent FS
have been expected. The truth is that the resPectt,
able inhabitants were as anxious as himself to Pti
down mob rule."
once, but
/14,i
(Extract of a letter from a British naval officer.)_ e
" DEC. 4.—At 11 yesterday .the citadel at th
top of Montjuich, which commands the- city, and has
been in possession of the Regent's troops, commenezil
the bombardment by firing shells and shot,
upon the town in all directions, and appeared t° clod
much destruction. Some of the houses sccrn.,qi
to have taken fire in three or four different
one being the principal head-quarters of the inrissLet
gents. There was a cessation of firing at on,
for about half an hour, when it again well' ,when
and continued slowly until about midnight,
lvbeg
which do
it ceased. In the afternoon a message came off tonise.
the English to mediate with the Regent Vent
quence of which Captain Grey, of the Belvidera,
art
ashore to Montjuich, and succeeded in saving the 13,,an.
of the town called Barcelonetta from being fired yren'
as well as the shipping. To-day everything has
01V ins
tranquil ;we observe the inhabitants again truce
0
about on the outskirts of the town ; flags or
taarts
flying; and troops are marching in from differ
Sod,
to take possession. From reports we have rec
the loss of life has not been great, which, lOveescied
would have been the case had the troops P rel•ved
to attack the town with musketry, which it is be' i•
der
was the intention, but for the timely sorre"
the city." • --

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LORD GILLIES.—His Lordship is still at Learning;
ton, and we regret to learn that his complaints h
t°
assumed an appearance which causes great anxiety
his friends.—Scotsman.
THE COURT.—WINDSOR, THURSDAY* P---:, Will
vr O.'.
It is now finally determined that her 'MaiersuZ -el..
not visit Claremont until after Christmas. It out a
pected that the Court will leave Windsor for ab for
week or ten days in the early, part of January',
p
ro
Claremont, returning to the Castle thence, ao v
ceeding to Buckingham Palace for a lengthened sta., t
the last Monday or Tuesday in that month. : a are
reason, passion, and superstition.
The three great things that govern 1-nankin rns
a few; -the two last share the bulk of mankind, an
possess them in turn; but superstition is most powe
The first Vve ...,1
ful, and produces the greatest xnischiefs.
THE LATE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND, STC e
IN THROGMORTON-STREET. A favourable change
took place on Thursday in the condition of the.u_.
—Luke.
vs
fortunate Elizabeth .Magnus, barmaid at th c
Po-
tion Mart
on Tuesday morning last, and great hopes ar,_ :ail,.
entertained of her ultimate recovery, although 57,
1 the ''',;''
not yet be pronounced out of danger. •C ir.
11: lewith a • ""-
potman, still remains at St. Thomas's 1-105.1)-.3
1 g not Yet ''ll3A
police-officer .constantly in attendance. fas his ''4fi.
sufficiently well to undergo' an examination, .
so
~,,31,
peoteoonir
agitated state a mind prevents the wounds healing,,i,i-: ei
soon as they might do under other
The Dowager Countess' of Chichester, the Alarq :1 ~;!).
of Bristol, the Right Hon. H. La the
len:,
Sandon, Lord A. Hervey, Lady E. Balfour, the It.
Mrs. Hanbury Tracy, Lady Pitzwygram, Mr,; the.
circumstances.
John Mildrnay, the Hon. G. M. Fortescue, area
~
clergy and leading. gentry of Brighton, haYe e°l"i
forward with subscriptions to commemorate the sign
success of the British arms in China and Affghanistai;
by raising it fund to alleviate the suffering's et. the
poor during the approaching winter.
Thursday week a fight took place between Free-
man, the American giant, and Perry, alias the Tipton
Slasher, for 1001. aside ; which, owing to the fog--;
after fighting nearly an hour and a half
after
put on
1:-.111 Thursday. Freeman and his party, after being"
movefl :-wice by the Magistrates, pitched at Mel'
bourne Common, near Royston, where the an Me
fight between Owen Swift and Brighton Bill
took place, the latter of whom was kill
hour for
ed. The
American and his friends, after waiting an
the other party, who did not show, left the ground. ...-
Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby, of Wellington-street, i 5
preparing for the press a "a History of Early Printed
Books;" a work for which his father has been
It for
wil up-
-1
wards of 30 years collecting the materials.
be extensively illustrated.
COLLEGE LIFE.—The " Life" led by the students
of our English Universities was almost a sealed book
to half the world until the publication ofd of it.
" Peter
Priggins's" admirable sketches of one grade
The same writer's new work, just p
et u
esb the picture,
lished, under
the title of " College Life," compl
by furnishing all its other phases, and with a breadth
of humour, a fund of anecdote, an original view of
character, and a graphic force of style, that leave-
.:
us less to regret in the premature loss of
of ou
is r great k
humorist, Theodore Hook. The value th wor
is greatly enhanced by the circumstance of its author,
Mr. Hewlett, late of Worcester College,
Oford,
having laid aside his mask, and thus proved (w
up
was, however, felt to be the case, from his first ,-
of
pearanee in the literary world), that his pictures
' College Life" , (strange as they are) are draWu
1 from actual Observation and experience.