The Sun. — 1824-12-29 (London, England)

MORNING POST.] The accounts received yesterday from Paris were chiefly of a private nature, and contained more speculations than intelligence. The early expression of party feeling by the Peers, moderate as it had been, was generally considered as likely to produce new political combinations on the part of the Government.— Charles X., it was thought, had delayed making any :alterations in his Ministry until he should have felt the pulse of the Chambers, and the strength displayed by the Opposition in the Upper Branch of the Legislature, was supposed to ,have revived his ancient prepossession in favour of Viscount Chateaubriand. This, however, is little more than matter of opinion, and as long as the Opposition, though respectable and even strong in numbers, can neither outvote nor even balance the adherents of the Ministry, whatever secret partialities the Friend may feel, the Monarch must and will resist them. A dvices had arrived from Madrid; to the 17th of December. Ferdinand's return to that; capital, though it had been the cause of much splendid display in honour of Prince Maximilian of suxony, the Queen's father, had not quieted the fears nor removed the dissatisfaction of the inhabitants. It was reported that the senseless King, who cannot even make a serious attempt to reduce his emancipated and unassisted colonies to subjection, had determined to embroil himself in a quarrel with the United States, by withdrawing his recognition of the cession of the Floridas to the American Union, as having been given under the influence of the Cortes ! The intelligence both from France and Portugal states that the negotiations carried on actively, though secretly, to induce the latter Power to recognise the independence of Brazils, were drawing to a close, and seemed likely to be attended with complete success.  We received yesterday accounts from Canton, to the Bth of May. They inform us that cotton was in good demand there, at 13 or 14 tales, according to the quality. Opium was quoted at 1080 to 1100 dollars per chest for old Patna, and 1030 to 1050 for new. Bombay Malina was 800 to 820, and Bengal ditto 820 to 880. Old Benares was good sale at 960 to 980, and Turkey was 1000 per picul. Pepper was exceedingly dull, and the stock remained undindnished. The Com Patty's Treasury was open at 207 on Calcutta. We also had Papers from Bombay to the 30th of August, and from Modras to the 15th. It will be seen by our extracts in another i.olutnn, that Lieut. Fen wick, who was tried for the murder of a native on the Guicomar territory, had been discharged from custody by order of the Supreme Court, on the ground that the evidence did not bear out the indictment in certain formal points. From Madras we learn, that although the distress of the native population continued, yet that Government were giving employment to many in making a road between the Presidency and Poonamalee. The weather had undergone a considerable change for the better. There is no fresh intelligence in these Papers from the seat of war.—(lbid.)  of an obnoxious 'cork. There is an example still more strictly analogous in France, A few years since, the Metropolitan Chapter, we believe it is called, of Paris, denounced with all the thunders of its ecclesiastical authority, the philosophy of the 18th century—especially in the writings of Rousseau antLAVoltaire. What was the consequence ? For one edition which was announced, four or five were actually published and sold by rival publishers, who were induced to speculate by the very prohibitory letter of the Clergy. Such, at present, is the case in Ireland with respect to the Bible. We have heard, that for one instance in which a Bible was read before, there are at present at least ten. We say read—for of the distributed Bibles, under the old system, but few were ever read or opened. They were like Goldsmith's bacon—" kept for a show." There is but one way in which the interdict against the Bible could be effectual—that adopted in Spain. It should not be allowed among the people at all.— It should be seized as contraband at the Customhouse. This was the way in which the Reverend Fathers of the Inquisition acted, and they understand these things ; and until the Catholic Clergy in Ireland can do the same thing, their interdict is idle wind, or, worse for them, defeats its own purpose. This, probably, will not content the Bible distributors, who, like Lord Somebody, in a recent popular Novel, wish to see people happy but then the happiness must be of their choosing, and administered by their hands.