The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-24 00:00:00

1'011.1.1/G.Tc.

In the Paris journals of Wednesday we find it
stated that Abd-el•Kader has again re-appeared in
the field. It seems that, with a thousand horse and
proportionate number of infantry, he surprised
General Lamoriciere near Mascara, and fought an
action, in which the French were, of course, vic-
torious. But the circumstances were serious enough
to induce General Bugeaud to embark for Oran, from
whence he will send a new exped.thn.
The Constitutionnel has discovered that the right
of search and the suppressibn of the slave-trade have
been rendered lucrative by us, the negroes seized
being distributed amongst our colonies. The French
cruisers, it says, never once within the last two years
intercepted or captured a slave vessel. This is cer-
tainly a proof of the vigilance of the French cruisers.
The 'Commerce gives the following intelligence
from Toulon It appears by letters from Africa,
received by the last courier, that a certain number of
tribes had pretended to place themselv,s under our
protection merely to save their harvest. Now that
the corn is safely placed in their silos, they throw off
the mask. They will have occasion to repent their
treachery, for the Governor-General is preparing to
punish them severely.
The Messager says—" For some time past a dis-
cussion has been going on in some of the Journals,
relative to the gum-trade at Senegal, and the mea
sures taken by the local authorities to regulate this
commerce. The question is well worthy of the im-
portance attached to it, and is likely to be speedily
decided, as the committee, just appointed by the
Minister of Marine, is to meet on Friday, and will in
all probability terminate its deliberations in the be-
ginning of October."
Since the conclusion of the linen convention be-
tween France and Belgium (writes a Hanover corre-
spondent of the Franconian Mercury), our kingdom
has been inundated with all sorts of articles of British
hempen and flaxen manufactures. It would seem as
if it was intended systematically to annihilate our
linen manufactures generally. Hanover now appears
to be the entrepot chosen by the English manufac-
turers. Our country is overrun with travellers and
agents of that nation, who not only sell these articles
but take orders for more. The principal object of
these emissaries is to indispose the people against the
German Customs' Union, and hitherto their exertions
have been crowned with success.

Most of the sea-bathing places in France and other
countries appear to have had an excellent season this
year, in consequence of the long-continued fine
weather. This has been the case at Boulogne, Havre,
and Dieppe, particularly the latter ; and, according to
the Feuile d' Ostende, that town has been favoured with
an immense number of visitors. The journal alluded
to declares that not less than 40,000 persons have so-
journed for different periods during the summer at
Ostend.

The Swiss journals state that a deputation of the
merchants df Basle intend to wait on the King of
Prussia. on his passage through their city, in order
to ask his Majesty how the accession of the Helvetic
Confederacy to the German Customs' Union could
be effected.
In a Madrid letter of the 14th we read :—" The
Minister of Finances has regained some favour from
two reasons. In the first place he has succeeded in
raising a little money, and secondly, he has dismissed
two persons holding high offices, who, without pity
for the treasury, committed the most disgraceful mal-
versations. The amount raised by the Minister,
however, is too small to satisfy the claimants. The
troops murmur, and it is reported that the Colonel of
one of the regiment- in garrison here has threatened
to resign, if at least a small portion of the arrears due
to his officers and men be notpaid."

A fatal duel, fought in Cadiz, was the all engross-
ing subject of conversation in the Spanish capital.
Senor Reisch, the political chief of Cadiz, having
taken offence at some articles in the Globo journal,
sent a hostile message to the editor, Senor Llorente.
Senor Reisch, after several shots had been fired with-
out effect, proposed that they should fire at "clothes-
burning proximity," which was agreed to. The toss
to see who should fire first having been won by the
journalist, he made a movement to discharge his pistol
in the air, when his opponent declared that if he did
so he should still insist on his shot at him and kill him
if he could. Senor Llorente, to save his own life, was
obliged to fire, and shot Senor Reisch through the
heart.

A report having been current that, notwithstanding
the amnesty of 1838, several hundred Italians, con-
demned for political offences, were still in prison in
the fortress of Szegedin, in Hungary, the Augsburg
Gazette publishes a letter from Milan, stating that
not one political prisoner remains in that fortress.