The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-16 00:00:00

SUM \',ARY OF NEWS

Corn-laws, and thereby add one more to the
numerous reasons we already have for respect-
ing their consistency, and that stern, Spartan-
like integrity of which they have always made
such a boast.

The intelligence from Constantinople, brought
by the Levant mail, is to, the 27th, and from
Alexandria to the 26th. The 'mortality among
the cattle, it appeared, still prevailed ; and ME-
IIEMED ALI had been obliged to quit Mansourah,
as the plague had broken out at that place. The
accounts from Syria are not favourable. Some of
the Albanian soldiers had revolted against the
Turks for want of pay, and the country altoge-
ther was in a very unsettled state. The Court of
St. Petershurgh has, it is reported, refused its
assent to the measures of the Porte with regard
to Servia, and is said to have signified through
its Ambassador, that if it were persisted in M.
DE BOUTENIEFF would demand his passports.
No facts of importance bad occurred, however,
since the last accounts.

The accounts from Madrid are to the 7th. On
that day an extraordinary Gazette announced
that Barcelona had surrendered, and the empire
of the laws had been restored. The capital still
continued tranquil, and the accounts received
from the provinces are equally satisfactory. The
latest intelligence from Barcelona will be found
among the French news.

The Three per Cents. were done at 21 15-16, at
60 days, the Five per Cents. at 26 3-16 for cash,
and 26 9-16 1 at 60 days.

The Paris papers show no symptoms yet of
returning reason and honesty, in regard to the
revolt at Barcelona. The Presse, which repre-
sents Queen CHRISTINA and her party, and per-
haps also the French Court, is furious at the
failure of the rebels, and the just punishment in-
flicted on them by ESPARTERO. Aware that the
lamentable and disastrous events in Catalonia
were produced by agents on the _French side of
the Pyrenees, the writer in that journal trics to
cast the - blame on other parties, and chiefly on
the English and the existing Government
of :Spain-, both so cordially hated by the
Chi•istinos. No invention, no falsehood, no
calumny is spared. Fort Montjuich was
suppled with ammunition, from the Rodney,
English officers pointed the guns against the city
of Barcelona, and English ships were ready to
open their guns to batter it to pieces, all to en-
courage English commerce. But the truth will
yet come out; falsehood cannot long prevail;
and judging from the wrath of this journal, and
also that of the cautious and moderate Debats,
independent of other circumstances, we feel the
strongest conviction that time will bring to light
the real instigators of this wicked insurrection,
and that those who are now so loud in their de-
nunciations of England will turn out to be the
guilty parties. The thllowing summary of the
late events sufficiently shows the spirit which
animates the Conservative party in France. It
contains nearly as many lies as paragraphs :
" The number of persons already arrested," says
the Journal des Debats, "is more than 400. These
unfortunate persons are dragged to the citadel, where
a Military Commission is constantly sitting, and there
they are shot, after a sort of trial of the most sum-
mary description. It is even said, in a letter from
Perpignan, that Van Halen, on his entrance into
Barcelona, had four persons seized and shot, because
he fancied that he had seen them taking part in the
collision of the 14th of November. The punishment
of death decreed against every person retaining arms
of any kind, and the premium of 10,000 reals pro-
mised to denunciators, produce an enormous mass of
objects of high value. The terrified inhabitants-delirer
up in haste not only muskets, but fowling-pieces, pis-
tols, richly-mounted swords, oriental poniards, in short,
all those objects of luxury, which are rather curiosities
than really offensive weapons. The disarming has
thus become a considerable source of booty; it is a
confiscation, the produce of which is not controlled
by any person in the interest of the public Treasury.
As to the rigour with which it is carried on, it is car-
ried to such an excess, that a seizure was even made
at the theatre of the innocent pikes and swords used
in the performance. The Regent intends, it is said,
to disarm the entire country, and to be prepared, by
this concentration of force, for the day when the
treaty of commerce with England shall be made
public at Catalonia. It is now estimated that more
than 1,000 projectiles, shells, &c., were fired upon
Barcelona, without reckoning those projectiles
which were intended to, set houses on fire. There
was in Montjuich a store of 1,600 shells, of which
half Were thrown, and a fresh supply was to
have 'been broUght. by sea , from Tarragona and
Tortosa. All the letters agree in .stating that
the English ships of war were ready to furnish
a supply, if necessary, and even to fire uptln the
town if the resistance had continued, and add that
arrangements hadbeen made on board for this pur-
pose.' This cruel bombardment—this furious, re-
action—these military executions were unnecessary;
nothing has shown that such frightful measures were
requisite. What the Regent is doing at Barcelona
is nothing but the gratification of personal vengeance.
Many Spaniards say that the movement at Barcelona
was foreseen and desired by the Regent.' It was
spoken of two months previously at Madrid as an
approaching event. The authorities of Barcelona al-
lowed the turbulence of the National Guards to have a
free 'course. The Republican° was not prosecuted,
notwithitanding its daily programme of revolution.
When the day of combat in the streets arrived the
Generals retired to the forts after a resistance of only
three hours, and Van Halen would have evacuated the
city as well as the citidel even if lie had not been
compelled to do so by force. All this was, as is said,
concerted in the interest of foreign manufactures. It
was even remarked that the bombardment had been
only delayed in order to wait for the English ships,
and that it began almost as soon as they had made
their appearance in the roads."

The following telegraphic communication was
received by the French Government during
Tuesday :

" PERPIGNAN, DEC. 12.
" Yesterday three regiments left Barcelona for
Girona. Orders had been given for 1,000 men to
be employed daily in the reconstruction of the citadel.
The Rodney has sailed for Malta, leaving the English
frigate the Inconstant. The Etna, which left Barce-
lona yesterday at three o'clock, arrived at Port Vendres
this morning, with forty passengers. She will return
to Barcelona to-morrow."

BOURSE—PARIS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14.
First Highest :.owest Last
Price. Price Price. Price.
Five per Cents. 119 t 5... 191 60... 119 55... 119 60
Four per Cents. 101 50... 101 50... 191 50... 101 50
Threes, ex div. 79 25... 79 25... 79 25.. 79 25
Bank I,ooof 1055 ..1055 ...1052 50...1052 50
5,000 f 5080 —.5080 ...5080 ..5080
Belgian Bank, 1841 lO7O ...1070
...1070
Belgian Fives lo3k 103 k ... 103 k ... 1031
1840 104 k ... 104 k ... 104 k ... 104 k
Spanish Active. . ... 23i ... 2si ... 23i
Portuguese Fives 32 ... 32 "'32 ... 32
Neapolitan
Roman lO4l ... 1041 ... 104 ... 104
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, LB ll O... 122 50... 110 110
R. B 268 75... 270 ... 261 75... 270
Rouen
Orleans. 625
... 625 ... 622 50... 623 75
Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 203 75... 203 75
Yesterd. k filth'

French

Laffitte

_ esterday 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—was put off
till yesterday. Freeman and his party, after being
moved twice by the Magistrates, pitched at Mel-
bourne Common, near Royston, where the unfortu-
nate fight between Owen Switt and Brighton Bill
took place, the latter of whom was killed. The
American and his friends, after waiting an hour for
the gather party, who did not show, left the ground.
EXPENSES OF TILE LATE CONTEST IN YORKSHIRE.
—A paragraph appears in the Leeds papers, to the
effect that Miss Rhodes, of the Stafford Arms Hotel,
Wakefield, filled as many as 8,000 glasses of brandy
during the election for the office of registrar, and
Charged them to the committee acting on behalf of
the lion. Arthur Lascelles. The statement is wide,
of the mark by several thousands ; and 800 would be •
much nearer the truth. The gross amount of Miss
Rhodes's charge to the committee is 2,1701. Mr.
Hodgson's expenses fall short of 4,0001. Mr. Las-
celles will hardly be free, it is said, for 5,500/. or
6,0001. Both parties are paying off as East as the bills
can be got in; and we hear of no grumbling on either
side in regard to deductions from the charges in the
bills.— York Courant.

Baussm.s' DEC. 11.—On Friday the 16th of this
month, the fifty-second anniversary of his Majesty's
birth will be observed in the usual manner.—lt will
be remembered that the Chamber of Representatives
has resolved to sear,...h for, c _Meet, and publish docu-
ments relative to the ancient natioxil assemblies of
Belgium. We learn that the Chamber has just ac-
quired some highly interesting MSS. towards this
collection. These papers (between 550 and 600)
concerned the States-General assembled at Brussels
and Antwerp in the years 1576, 1577, 1579, and 1580.
Count John and Lady Cecil Delafield, left Mivart'a
HOtel yesterday, for the Earl of Limerick's seat in
Bedfordshire.

AND
Vtil)ltc apinton.

" IVho runs may read.'

FOREIGN.
A Council of Ministers was held on Tuesday at
the Tuilleries, at which the Xing 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
the sth 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 comrau-
nication has been made by the Russian Embassy of the_
Algiers dated
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.
Advises from Athens, of the 30th ult., state that
the How ship-of-the-line, and the Scout bri of w
g-a,
were anchored at the Pirmus.
straners, who intend sojourning for the winter. 41'
Naples is now in its full gaiety, by the arrival All
the best houses in Chian are already occupied DY
English families of distinction, and the season is ex
pected to be very brilliant. The
child has announced her first ball for next week.
thec
Accademia balls began on the 28th ults with r
usual sendour. Jews
out being
The Leipsic Gazette states that, next year,. the
t.
in Poland are to be subject to military service, wi
Baroness de Bothr
The Smyrna journals of the 29thhet. announces
the arrival there, on the 27thi -from yrout, of
Nivis
allowed, as hitherto, top rovide substitutes.
Devastation British steamer. According to the„ne,_.
brought by that vessel, the Druses, having vainly
mended the liberation of their Sheiks, had
men
arms against the Turks.
According to rumours at Constantinople
the a
of .Servia had assumed a serious aspect, as the Bua a.iri
ag,
Envoy, it is stated, insists on the Porte retrosra,j
and causing. the abdication of the newly-elected r"'
and the reinstatement of Prince Michael..era of
On the 23d ult. a conference was held a Syrian
the representatives of the Five Powers- on the th at
question. An ultimatum was to follow, insist
rules''
in-
the Maronites should have a Christian as
ff.
stead of an Ottoman governor.
ULIC 010.
The Post has the following remarks on the Presseet o
condition of Spain :—" It is strictly true that one
1812 to 1842 we have seen in Spain the acts of the
continuous revolutionary drama. We overlook
..
setting in
alternations of success, now leaning towards the_e:or
treme supporters of all things as they Were, nll_9,
for the chief point of importance is the result of the with then tide of liberalising innovatioe _
regal and aristocratic privilege, hare
lung-protracted struggle. Antiquated Prejaddeo
under foot—Reform has triumphed—the fa vote
military leader of the ultra-Liberals has been placed_sk.
in the position of virtual sovereignty. The mark
of destruction has been put on every thing _ as
new, the very name of antiquity being looked 'she
a death-warrant. Spain has her Parliament
has realised the glories of popular representatisv,
Her philosophers and reformers asked f}
coist:;...
ther can the most forward of them seek
tutional Government. They have it. been tro
Wha?t f
how huge an expense of the bone and sren,
of national power have all these fine thing's
de-
brought to pass ? What woeful and wide-spreads._
solation and bloodshed—what unimagined desecral:u7
of all that Spanish Christianity regarded as bwhat miserable breaches of public and private faithlke
what squandering of her treasure—what risertit,
libations of her best blood—has the world been v',
nessing in the course of her progress to freedom.,;'?
how much the better is she now for that freeabsve
for .
The revenues of ecclesiastical establishments
been distributed
adventurers—debt' has been heaped on debt, "Li Del
anaongsV-her -soldiers and P.ll her
appearance in the -loan market would be the s g„
for a burst of mingled indignation and derision.._o7t,
her own representations, she has left' herself wituchat •
the means of paying even a fractional interest onci for
she owes. Her name has become a r
swindling insolvency ; and, in point of bebopalS
tche-
tige, her standing is less respectable than that„ei "
meanest limits of the State beyond the PeiHns—e. that
really belongs to. England, in connexion
"The responsibility," says the Chronck, ,!Rte
events at Barcelona, is light enough. The ahsur
of charging us with having run aline of battle:then
aground, that we might distribute her materiel tfor
authorities of Barcelona, is .too gross-to advert; o.
any other purpose than to show the lengths to il_te
,the defamers of England, in the French pros,
ta.oi'
'disposed to push their hostility. Such an assn'
is simply ludicrous—incredible even if Lord gad( ;f
ton had been at the helm of the Formidable instead t,
at the head of the Admiralty. But the facts, et letarso
with thed.t
upon which other charges rest •are true. It
refused
vv
that the protection of the British flag'. a:s' re tool
to the rebels of Barcelona, and that our Cools
declared that he could not consent, by gran
.to
such protection, to levy war upon the Sovereigenrs,
whom he was accredited. This conduct, it aPP,. it
is approved of by the British Government, "le,
undoubtedly is by all parties of the British. Pe?Pht,
Now if the English Consul at Barcelona was ?the
as he undoubtedly was, in stating that to
an grand of
protection sought by the rebels would be
t awiset
hostility' against the Spanish Governnien,
option is left to the Regent but to demand theo.urvilyty
of the French Consul, who avowedly has bench GO •
of that act of hostility ?' It is true tbe -D oleo
vernment, by adopting the act of its agent, mag.e'llhe
the Regent in a difficulty similar to that in wul from
was placed by the departure of M. de Saland3i Go.
Madrid. But, upon the other hand, the Frejace'ettor
vernment must be contented to avow itself the a .i.t,
of this insurrection, and to accept all the reseensibel
rn-
of an act of hostility' against the Spanish G:;cuse
ment. Is the French Government
the conduct of its agent in having, by false reP and
tions of the state of Catalonia, Arragon,
soo
Valencia, induced the military in the Atara
raised
to capitulate ? In the general outcryd the
against Espartero in Paris we can understan ,he
motives of the Republicans and the Carlists.
latter denounce him as yßobespierre on liorse(.be ask,'
and, strangely enough, for having put dove a I T.he
cratic insurrection. The National denouncest
cola'l
prepared tiese
nta,
inhumanity' of the bombardment, but witiwiluthoe
descending to point out in what other way
rity of the Government could have been "se tender-
What we cannot understand, however, is the the
ness of French Conservatives for Republicans Louie
soil of Spain and Portugal. We know how'home t
Phi!ippist Conservatives treat Republicanism at
quite
but Republicans at Barcelona and Lisbon are ql
favourites with French officials, journalists, and con-
suls. This is very strange." • end.
The Herald thus describes the wicked inventions
calumnies of the Paris journals against this con.ntwry. s
" Just in proportion as there is not the shadisroeli
the a
rted.
cause does the violence and rancour of the,J-. Our
press against England become more phrenzie,.a days
Paris contemporaries seem during the last w
to have pressed some of the most exalted maniac ,r
the Bicetre and Salpetriere into their
Ang
nnothing
service ; for, it is charitable to assume that•nliri
short of insanity could pour forth such coninii
fury and nonsense as have degraded those jou
vision
since it became apparent to their unwilling to
that the insurrection at Barcelona was ,frulesSter-
disturb the Regency of Espartero, and would
of
minate in the signal and righteous punishment
residents of 7it-
that city. The wickedness and folly of the 3'
tacks on England because Espartero is able to stirre
press revolt in Catalonia would be contemptible we,.
or
they not indicative of future danger to the peace
Europe, of a condition of the public mind of France
melancholy to note, and of an obstinate determination
to indulge in self-deceit ; they would be laughable
were they not mischievous, and might be safely left t•
the refutation their absurdity contains were they ,not
eagerly swallowed by 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 ,1
slaUghter. The English caused the outrage, cry the
French journals una voce; the Regent of Spain inar- s 3
ches to put down the outbreak and punish the criminals el
engeged:therein—the English have stimulated his Hig-
hness they unanimously shout ; Espartero, in the deplora-
ble but obvious exercise of his duty, bombards the town
—the English have induced him to fire, they contem-
poraneously roar; an English ship of war run3ashor e
in the port and is obliged, to enable her to get offi
to unload her stores—the English are supplying the
Queen of Spain'e troops with ammunition, they madly
vociferate; the English Consul declines to protect
rebellious subjects of his Sovereign's 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 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 gobemoucherie,
to disprove their inferences, and to pick out the speck
of truth from the mountains of lies they pile thereon
—the French, if truly pourtrayed by their journals,
have made up their minds that England has excited