The Sun.
London, England, 1827-05-21 00:00:00

LIES OF TILE DAY.

The Journal du Commerce.—According to orders
given by the Ministry to the Prefects. the National Guard
had not taken arms on the artival of the Dauphin at Tours.
The same and the Courier Francais.—Accounts from
Lisbon, of the 3d, announce the change of the Ministry.
M. &Palma is appointed Prime Minister, &c.
(From the 'Journal des Debats.)
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

MADRID, MAT S.—Orders have been issued by the
Minister of War for the Army of Observation to retro-
grade to the same distance from the frontiers as the Armies
of England and Portugal are at present posted. These
orders have been the result of the complaints made by Mr.
Lamb and M. Lima, with respect to the movements in ad-
vance of our army, which appeared to have no other object
than to support the insurrection of Elva*, and extend it to
other places on the frontiers of Portugal.
A Cabinet courier, dispatched by the Count d'Offalia,
arrived here on the evening of the 4th, bearing dispatches,
which announce, that that diplomatist had completely
failed in the object of his mission to Paris, and it is now
affirmed, that he will return without proceeding to London.
PARIS, MAY 17.,—A serious question has arisen on the
discussion of the budget of Foreign Affairs. An Hon.
Deputy has submitted to Ministers the following unan-
swerable dilemma :—" Have you recalled from Madrid your
Ambassador or your Embassy? If the first, your instruc-
tions have been misunderstood ; if the second, you have
been compelled to submit to conditions. Who imposed
them?"

Neither the Minister for Foreign Affairs nor M. de Mous-
tier, who were present at the sitting, replied to this question.
M. Dndon mounted the tribune to justify the silence of
his. Honourable Friend, M. de Moustier; M. de Moustier
ill doubtless mount the tribune to justify the words of
his Honourable Friend, M. Dudon. All this is extremely
natural : one piece of service demands another. We shall
then learn how, with respect to a people who are dying
under the standard of the cross, it was permuted to excite
laughter, where pity at least was called for. The sittings
of yesterday has given a new weight to this discussion.
Our former Ambassor in Portugal, M. Hyde de Neuville,
who, for a moment, re-established our tottering au-
thority at Lisbon, whose entire life has been an act
of devotion to legitimacy; M. Hyde de Neuville,
whose conduct shrinks, not from the publicity of the
tribune, has judged that that of his old colleagues
might, like his own, be revealed to France and to
Europe. He has called on the Minister, with all the au-
thority of his past conduct, to repel an accusation the
most serious that ever was preferred against a diplomatist.
M. Hyde de Neuville, who has ever executed the instruc-
tions of his Court, has refused to admit that a Minister of
France could not execute his! Such facts, however, on
which, perhaps, the fate of the Peninsula may depend, are
serious. The occupation of Portugal by an English army,
has been denounced from the tribunal at Lisbon, as the me-
laneholy fruit of the conduct of the French Ambassador,—
" Conduct," says M. de Villa Real, " which must not he
confounded with that of the French Government." Even
the Baron lie Dames, who took notes during the speech of
M. Hyde de Neuville, did not ascend the tribune in order
to disclaim either the conduct of the accused Ambassador,
or the reproach of having yielded, by his recal, to condi-
tions which it concerns France to know that she has not
submitted to.

What are we to think of this discussion ? Do our Mi-
nisters imagine that the Budget of Ecclesiastical Affairs
has already been forgotten ? No, France will thank M.
Hyde de Neuvills, in having elicited the explanations which
she expects, without departing from the reserve that his
ancient functions imposed upon him. France will be
grateful to him for his attempt to throw light on a ques-
tion which it has been wished to wrap in obscurity ; but
while it does justice' to him who has spoken, it will perhaps
judge severely of those who imagine they did right to be
ilent.

(From the Quotidienne.)
(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.)
MADRID, MAY '7.—We read in the Lisbon Gazette of
the 2d, a despatch from General Caul*, dated Elvis,
April 30, at nine o'clock in the morning. That General
announces to the Minister of War, that tranquillity has
just been completely re-established in the city, in conse-
quence of a skirmish engaged in by the Royalists, in the
morning of the same day. In the bulletin of General
Caula, we remark a total absence of details. The brevity
of the despatch, as will as the battle that had taken place
in the streets of Elves, do not epeak very favourably for
the Regency.
Panes, May 17.—The lecture of M. Recarnier did not
take place this morning ; it is affirmed that it has been de-
finitively adjourned to the month of June. Some farther
tumult was observable this morning, but net in the College
of France, it was in the Medical School. Previous to the
hour of opening the lectures, a strong detachment of gen-
darmerie came and stationed themselves at the square of
the school. The Dean of Faculty intr.,ated the commander
of the detachment to have the goodness to retire, because
the presence of an arieled force appeared to him to be use-
less, and might lead to exasperation. On this request
being preferred, the gendarmerie retired. During the first
portion of the sitting, the most profound calm prevailed,
but some of the scholars thinking ,that they perceived
among the auditor', an agent of the Police, they called him
out, addrescing him by the name of " Spy.' On the man's
denying that he was, they began to examine him, and
finding on Lie person his bine card, they threw him out of
the Hall. Pursued up and down the School-place, the
agent received a violent blow, and he narrowly escaped
being thrown into the haeln of the fountain. Eseapiug
for an instailt from the hands that held him, the poor
wretch fled towards the rue d' Observance, but he was
again caught there, was beaten afresh, and left on the spot.
This circumstance was i.,l;e only disagreeable one that marked
the day; we hope it will l;!.. the last.
The King of Bavaria arrived at Rome, on the 3d May.
Cardinal Hatfelin, Minister of his Kaiesty to the Holy See,
went forth to meet, the King in the fiernitaien way. On
the 4th, his Majesty visited the Vatican, to testify to the
Spiritual- Chief of Christianity his sentiments of veneration.
Ris Holiness welcomed the August Prince, with marks of
iterticular affection.