The Sun. — 1842-09-13 (London, England)

BEL. amiss ride post from Brussels to Paris, and from Paris back again to Brussels—in vain do conspirators dog Imperial heels on the banks of the Nevaand Spanish patriots make bonfires to celebrate victories over Carlism ; the sombre aspect of dullness is reflected from every country and countenance west of the Caspian. The Paris journals, in a few instances, have made mighty efforts to dissipate the stagnant appearance of things in France. One, fur instance, tried the -blowing up of a bridge by a new infernal machine, but it was hardly so much as copied, and only read by printers. The Patrie tried its hand at a report that the Government was about to establish a bench of Bishops in the French Chamber of Peers. The Univers, however, the organ of the.priests, by promptly contradicting this report, leaves no room fur doubt or surmise upon the su:tject. That journal says :--" The Government is not so enamoured with the clergy as to entertain such an idea, and even if it did, we doubt its being bold enough to risk its realisation. On the other hand, we may safely venture to assure La Patrie that the episcopacy, clergy, and Catholics of France would not see in that act a great subject of joy • and we hesitate not to declare that five prelates wouldi not be found sufficiently devoted to the existing order of things to accept such a favour with resignation. The creation of ecclesiastical peers would but slightly increase the influence and political power of the clergy, and might often compromise its moral power, the only means by which it can hope to bring back to the real faith the men of the present day." There is the usual sprinkling of murders assassinations, and robberies, in the French papers, but the horrible and the disgusting are little read, save by ladies of very nervous temperament, and the dowagers of a byegone age. The Penny Magazine put an end to the Newgate Calendar. We have, however, contrived to glean sundry extracts from the French journals, most of which will be found interesting : The Gazette de France, of Friday evening, contains the following mysterious announcement :—" M. de Molene, Juge d'lnstruction, and M. Mongis, Substitute of the Procureur du Roi, were on Thursday summoned to Joinville, near Saint-Maur, by a mysterious circumstance, relative to which it is to be hoped that the officials journals will give some explanation. It appears that the preceding morning a dreadful explosion took place on the bridge of Joinville from an infernal machine, which was placed there, filled with balls awl other projectiles, by none of which, fortunately, was any person wounded. These Magistrates have not been able to discover either the object or the authors of this machine, of which the shattered remains alone were left." The Commerce of Saturday morning, in allusion to the above, says :—" It was not on Tuesday, as the account would seem to indicate, that the explosion took place, but on Sunday, before five in the morning. The machine, which was placed under one of the arches which extend over part of the meadow, appears to have been formed of a tin box about a foot long, and it would seem that the hour and place were chosen for no other purpose than to ascertain what effect the apparatus would produce. The pieces of iron inclosed in the box have left their marks on the stone arches, but no real damage has been caused. The authors of this attempt, and their motives, have still to be discovered. It is said that the persons who were arrested in the first instance by order of the Mayor hare been set at liberty."