The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-20 00:00:00

lwas given in the Rospoli Palace. At the end of the great saloon,
/was his Majesty's picture, painted by Mr. Maesar, artist, of
Ghent. The number of the persons present was 900.
Count Van Leiderkerke, his Majesty's Ambassador to the Swiss
Confederation, presented his new credentials on the 12th Dec.

It is asserted on good authority, that the project of law on the
organization of the courts of justice, will be presented on the 20th
of this month.

HAARLEM, JAN. 15.

The Queen of the Netherlands, a merchant ship, from Bata-
via, has just brought newspapers to the 26th of August last.—
Their chief contents relate to what we already knew of the spread-
ing of the insurrection, in consequence of the taking prisoners of
the two guardians of the young Sultan, and of four out of the
six persons who accompanied them. It seems that for
want of European troops, it had been fotind necessary to
give the Princes an escort of only 8 hussars and 50 Javanese
infantry. On the other hand, our ally Mangko Negoro, seems to
have depended too much on the Dessas of Djocjocarta, which
at first seemed to submit to their lawful Prince ; but as,
soon as the insurrection broke out anew, immediately rose,
again. The rebels immediately put to death the two guar-
dians and the four Princes. It does not appear from these Jour-
nals that any bad consequences had resulted from this event. The
Government having sent for all the troops that could be spared'
from the other colonies, expected no fewer than 1500 men, half,
of them European soldiers. On the other hand, 750 men were
already armed of the 1000 sent from Europe.

srocrtiotst, JAN. 2.
By a Royal Ordinance the importation of rye is allowed from
the 1 st of April to the 31st of May, on payment of a duty of two
Swedish bank dollars per tan.

Rye flour may also be imported, on payment of the same duty
per twelve lispounds.

IiAMBURCH, JAN. 12.
Letters from Berlin affirm, that some preliminary arrangement
has been made respecting the, affairs of Greece, without stating
lany particulars.
_ .

"The accounts of the King of Prussia continue to be favourable,

On the 10th of this mouth the light-house at Travemunde was
truck by lightning. The roof and the upper part of the building
were burnt.

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
AMSTERDAM, JAN. 16.-10. 5. ; Two Months, 11. 97i.
HAMBUROH, JAN. 12.-36. 7. ; Two Months, 86. 4.
Ltirsic, Jax. B.—Three Months, 6. 104.
BERLIN,9.—Three Months, 6. 271.
VivfxA, Ditc. SO.—Two Months, 9. 59.
CHRISTIANIA, DEC. V.—Two Months, 6. 66.

The absence of Viscount GRANVILLE, our Ambassador
at Paris, from a recent diplomatic dinner, given by
M. DAMAS, gave rise to many observations in the French
Papers; but all speculation might have been saved by the
recollection of one circumstance, namely, that the death of
the Duke of YORK prevented our Ambassador from entering
into any society until after the funeral of his ROYAL HIGH-
NESS'S remains.

The statements of some of our cotemporaries, that Lord
BERESFORD had declined the chief command of the Por-
tuguese Army, unless he united in his own person the
office of Minister of War with that of General-in-Chief,
are incorrect. His Lordship, from considerations which
may be inferred, declined to accept the command, without
being independent of the Minister at War. If subject to
the orders of this Minister, the services of the army might
have been rendered ineffectual at the most important
junctures.

'We have not room to-day to enter at length into the
question of the application made by Persia to this
vernment for assistance and subsidy, under the treaty
signed at Teheran in Nov. 1814., but must beg to refer our
readers to an article on this subject taken from a Morning.
Paper, which will be found under our head of " Spirit of
the Public Journals." We have ever viewed the war car-
rying on between Russia and Persia as fraught with immense
consequence to our Eastern Empire, and we have not hesi-
tated to expose what we conceived to be the evident policy
of the Court of St. Petersburgh, nor to declare what we
considered the policy of our own Government, should
lead them to do in opposition to the views of Russia ?
We were not aware, however, that a positive Treaty would
require of us a line of conduct on this crisis consistent with
the admitted policy of the country for the security of our
dominions in the East.

We extracted yesterday from an Irish Paper, the circum-I
'stances of an assault on Mr. O'CONNELL, by a Mr.
SHEEHAN, brother to a Proprietor of the Evening Mail.
We were glad to perceive that Mr. O'CONNELL had ap-
plied for redress to the laws of his country, instead of vio-
lating those laws by undertaking the vindication of his
own wrongs. Indeed we perceive by the subjoined ex-
tract from the Freeman?: Journal, that Mr. O'CONNELL
is pledged never to fight a duel again, and it is a resolu-
tion which we highly approve; having had the misfortune
to kill a fellow-creature in an affair of that sort, Mr.
O'CONNELL has most properly determined not to run the
risk of repeating the offence. We only wish that men
generally could purchase this liberty of acting as con-
science dictates, without paying for it the same fearful price.
The only sensible regulation in the whole Code of Honour
seems to be this—that there is no necessity for killing more
than one man—shooting a second is understood to be
purely gratuitous. But the necessity of having killed some
one person, which this very limitation implies—renders it
difficult to put these laws in full operation ; for the human
race in that case would be much in the situation of the
two cats which had eaten one another down to their re-
spective tails. Summunt jus, would be truly aroma
injuria. But we have frequently expressed our opinion as
to the utter absurdity and wickedness of these laws of
honour, and shall therefore not fatigue our readers by a re-I
petition. No one can blame Mr. O'CONNELL for declin-1
ing to kill a second man, but if he has a right to think for
himself after that act, surely it is hard that others may
not do so before killing any one. If killing one man is
right, killing two must be doubly so; but if killing one be
wrong, why should it confer privileges on the perpetrator ?
We may add that we strongly recommend to Mr.
O'CONNELL to bear in mind Mr. SHEEHAN'S remark, that
if a man makes a resolution not to fight a duel—he should
at the same time, make another not to wound the feelings
of any one. The following is the extract we allude to :
Mr. Sheehan said, he felt awkward at being now, for the first
time in his life, brought up to a Police-office, and he must be
allowed to say a few words as to the provocation. He would put
it to the Magistrates, was it likely that he would walk up to a
man in the street, and assault him without provocation ? It would
not be right, perhaps, in that place, to allude to the purpose for
which the offence was given ; but it was said that Mr. O'Connell
had made a resolution not to give the satisfaction which one
• gentleman owed to another ; he admitted that Mr. O'Connell
was perfectly right in this resolution, but having made it, he
ought to be more cautious hew he indulged in hia abuse of indi-
viduals.

M;:O'Connell—Mr. Sheehan is very right ; I have made such
a resolution, and I would give every shilling I am worth that I
had made it twenty years ago.
Mr. Sheehan—Pah ! Pah ! If a man makes such a resolution
he should, at the same time, make another—not to wound the
feelings of any man. Mr. O'Connell, at the Catholic Association,
made as gross, as slanderous, and as false a charge against my
brother and myself as could be made.

THE FUNDS.