The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-05 00:00:00

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FORMIGN.
CHINA AND INDIA MAIL.—A telegraphic despatch
from Marseilles, received in Paris on Saturday morning,
announces that the British Government steamer,. from
Malta, with the Overland India mail, reached Marseilles
on Thursday last (the 31st ult.). The dates are Bom-
bay, March 1 ; Calcutta, Feb. 19; and Madras, Feb. 20.
Letters and papers are hourly expected.
Lord Aberdeen's note to Mr. Everett on the question
of the right of search is commented upon by our Paris
contemporaries. The Courrier Francais says :—" Eng-
land must have some other interest than that of the re-
pression of the slave trade, for we have never seen her at
any other period expose herself to a conflict with all civilised
nations on a question of principle. The English themselves
carried on the slave trade as long as it answered their pur-
pose to do so ; their philanthropy on this subject is of
fresh date; theßritish Cabinet, besides, must be convinced
although it will not say so, that its efforts, real or pre-
, tended, to put an end to the traffic in slaves have com-
pletely failed. That traffic is now more active and
destructive, than it was fifty years ago. M..Bunton es-
timates the number of slaves annualy exported from
Africa at 150,000, whereas Mr. Pitt in 1792 estimated
it at only 80,000. All the grand display of principle
that has been made, and all the treaties which have been
entered into, have not snatched a single victim from
slavery. Africa has gained nothing, and Europe has
lost all that it could lose. We have surrendered the
liberty of the seas without ensuring that of the blacks.
The National has the following upon the same sub-
ject If the right of ascertaining the nationality of
vessels under the flag of the United States were to be
conceded, what would be the result ? English officers
would board American vessels under the pretext of as•
certaining whether they were really American, and they
would not withdraw quietly after being convinced that no
deception had in this. respect been practised. They
would not leave until they should have taken an ac-
count of everything interesting to the trade of their own
country, and have scrutinised the papers and made
themselves acquainted with all the secrets of their com-
mercial rivals. "What took place with the Marabout.
and other vessels, under similar circumstances, leaves no
doubt on this subject.
The amount of deposits in the Paris Savings' Bank
during the last mend' was 3,139,277 f. by 21,867 deposi-
tors, of whom 2,849 were new depositors. The amount
of reimbursements was 2,604,000 franci.
A letter from Rome, in the Quotidienne, gives the fol-
lowing as the bases of the contemplated concordat between
the Holy See and Portugal :—First, the restoration of
the bishops who have been exiled ; secondly, the re-esta-
blishment of the four religious orders of Saint-Benedict,
Saint Jerome. Saint Dominick,. and Saint Francis ;
thirdly, the restitution of the conventual property of
these orders ; and fourthly, the re-establishment of tithes
upon term's to be settled by the Portuguese Government.
The Madrid Espectcrdor, a ministerial journal, an-
nounces, upon the authority of aletter from London, that
Mr. Turnbull, the English Consul at Havannah, has been
recalled, at the remonstrance of the Spanish Government,
which had complained that Mr. Turnbull, who is an
ardent advocate fur the abolition of the slave trade, had
been endeavouring to carry out his views of emancipa-
tion in the Havannah in a way dangerous to the interests
of the Spanish Government. -
The Madrid and Barcelona journals came down to the
27th of March. The accounts from all the provinces are
satisfactory. The Deputi2s who are gone to Tulado, ac-
companied by Mr. Aston, the British Minister, have not
yet returned ; tley were expected on the 27th.
The approtelling arrival Of the Infant Don Francisco
at Madrla
was much talked ain that city. It was said
that isf. Alio would shortly go to the North of Europe,
to join the sons of the Infant, and accompany them to
Spain. A marriage between the eldest soil of Don Fran-
cisco and Queen Isabella ens again spoken of.
It was stated in Madrid that the AVnister of Finance
would transmit to London in the month of May 60,090/.
for the payment of the British Legion claims.
The Eco del Conwrcio has a long account of outrages
said to have been committed on the Spanish flag by
vessels of the Republic of Uruguay, and calls upon the
Spanish Government to send out some ships of war to
enforce respect to the merchant-vessels of Spain trading
on the coast of that republic.
A letter from Constantinople of the 9th ult., in the
Leipsic Gazette states that a serious difference has arisen
between the Persian Ambassador and the Porte, on ac-
count of the refusal of the latter to admit 2,000 bales of
Persian silks, which are waiting on the frontier at a
duty of less than 6 per cent., instead of 2 per cent., as
heretofore.