The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOTDON.--SATpRDAY, JANUARY l5, 1842

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The trial of the editors of the National and the Ga-
zette de France, accused of attacking the rights of the
King, and of exciting hatred and contempt against the
Government, in an article published by the former on
the 20th September last, and repeated by the latter, was
brought on Tuesday before the Court of Assizes. The
two cases had been united in one indictment ; but it
being proved to the Court that M. Delaroche, of the
National, was from illness unable to appear, the Court
put off his. trial to another session, and ordered that of
the Gazette de France to proceed forthwith. Upon this,
M. Foueauld, the editor of the Gazette, determined to
make default. and withdrew. In his absence, M. Tho-
rig-ny called for judgment. The Court sentenced M.
Fouvuld to a year's imprisonment, and a fine of 4,000 E
This is the first fruit of:M. Dupoty's conviction by the Peers
orra charge of constructive treason. Verily Louis Philippe
cannot too soon make out the Precureur-General's patent
of nubility. He is already qualified for a seat .in the
French State Hospital of Incurables.
The French Newfoundland cod fishery for 1841 has
been much less successful than that of 1840, which was
by no means remarkable for its produce. From the port
of Granville 56 ships with crews, amounting to 952 men,
went out to the Great Bank. The aggregate amount of
the take in 1840 was 4,030,782 fish ; but last year it was
no more than 2,801,000 fish, weighing 7,000,500 kilo-
grammes, valued at 1,715,961 E, from which being de-
ducted one-fourth as the crews' share, there remained
for the owners 1,211,971 francs. The cost of fitting
out the ships for the fishery was 1,568,000 E ; conse-
quently there was an aggregatea!oss of 356,028 E, or
6,357 f. for each ship.
A letter from Alencon, chief town of the Orne, enu-
merates the following series of deplorable events which
have happened there within the last three weeks : —On
the 20th ult., a maiden lady, aged fifty, threw herself, in
a fit of insanity, into a well, and was drowned. —On the
25th, three men made a brutal attempt upon a young
woman, but were defeated by the assistance brought
to her by her cries.-,--On the 31st, a lady was
wounded, but not dangerously, by her son-in-law, be-
cause she protected her daughter, who had fled to her to
escape his brutal treatment. The infuriated man, to
avoid the punishment due to his attempt, committed
suicide in the night.—On the 2d inst., a countryman was
robbed on the Champ de Foire, and so severely beaten,
that he remained senseless on the gronnd for several
hours, but at last revived.—On the sth, a captain on the
retired list,. enjoying an adequate income, and much re-
spected by all who knew him, got np early in the morn-
ing, went to the principal entrance of the cemetery, and
there shot himself.—And, on the 6th, Lecomte, a man
condemned to death for the murder of his wife, was
executed.
On the interrogation of Mallet, the accomplice of
Quenisset, by the Chancellor, Baron Pasquier, the Ga-
zette de France remarks—" This name of Mallet must
have brought to the recollection of the former Prefect of
Police of the empire one of the most striking episodes of
his life. Another Mallet committed M. Pasquier to
prison, and a cobbler, on seeing him pass by with the
Duke de Revigo to the Conciergerie, cried out--' Good !
good ! the Imperial shop is broken up !!' M. Pasquier
has had his revenge ; he signed the lists of proscription
in 1815, and is now interrogating another Mallet, a con-
spirator."
Madrid letters of the 4th say that M. Salvandy had
made every preparation for commencing his return on
the sth.
The Finance Minister had read to the Deputies his
budget for 1842. He states the deficit at 180,000,000 of
reels. The revenue is from 7 to 800,000,000 of reals,
of which the War-office absorbs 600,000,000.
" The Pope," says the Diario di Roma, "has appointed
Cardinal Patrizzi to be his Vicar-General for the city and
diocese of Rome, in the room of the late Cardinal Della
Porta Rodiana. His nomination must be gratifying to
the Roman nobility, as his eminence is a Roman Prince
by birth." There are very few local appointments made
by the Sovereign Pontiffs, which ought to gratify the
pride of the Italians. They share among them, and have
done so for a thousand years, all the richest offices of the
Romish Church.