The Sun. — 1841-01-29 (London, England)

SARAH YOUNG.  We call public attention to the letter in another place, headed "Tithe Commutation Expenses." The subject is likely, we understand, to be brought before Parliament in the shape of an amendment in the Tithe Commutation Act. Certainly the principle complained of—that of imposing the whole expenses of the commutation on tenants for life, while they can reap only a small portion of the benefit—is unjust. Whether Parliament will be able to find a remedy for its own wrong, may be doubtful ; though there does not seem to be an insuperable obstacle to fixing on each estate the expense of the commutation, so that every succeeding possessor should pay in proportion to the advantage he derives from the commutation.  We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of Wednesday. The speech of M. TRIERS, which occupies more than eight columns of the illoniteur, is too long to allow us to give even a summary of it to-day. This speech, which occupied three hours in the delivery, and which, says the Constitutionnel, refuted every objection made to the Committee's plan of fortifying Paris, closed the general debate upon the Bill, which the Chamber proceeded to discuss, article by article. If all France was inspired by the sentiments of M. TRIERS, we should not long continue to enjoy the blessings of peace. Instead of contending, like M. GUIZOT, that the fortification of the capital was a guarantee of peace to Europe, he proved that the idea was never entertained but when France indulged in dreams of conquest. He assured the Chambers that if it employed all the resources that national grandeur, art, and a long peace had placed at its disposal; France might brave, not only Europe, but the world. In a still more Vandal spirit he alluded to the stripping of the Louvre of works of art in 1815, and asked the Chamber in what it differed to France whether these works were destroyed by the cannon of a besieging army) or carried away in triumph to adorn other capitals? M. TRIERS chose ,to forget that the works of art of which the Allies deprived Paris, were those of which they had been disgracefully pillaged by her. Not a picture, nor a statue, nor a relic of antiquity to which France could establish other than a robber's title, were taken from her. But whether or no, who but a Vandal would destroy an immortal work of art rather than witness its humanizing and ennobling effect upon the mind of an enemy 1 M. TRIERS  had also the hardihood to affirm that the English and the Allies within the lines of Torres Vedras amounted to 70,000 men, that MASSENA'S force was 40,000 ; and that had Marshal SOULT ably supported MASSENA the lines would have been forced. This brought the Marshal upon his legs, who in substance told the ex-Premier that he knew nothing of what he was talking about. The hulk of the Allies were engaged with him, and yet MASSENA could not force the lines because they were impregnable.  On Wednesday the discussion of the Bill article by article was commenced. M. BEA umoNT moved an amendment uponithe first article for reducing the grant from an hundred and forty millions of francs to twenty millions. It was rejected. M. JANVIER next moved its reduction to thirty-five millions, and upon this amendment the Chamber was debating up to the departure of the mails for London :  The Univers of this morning has the following paragraph " The letters ascribed to the King, of which those published by the Gazette de France a few days ago, and those which the Government prosecutes, are said to be one hundred and ninety.three in number. It is affirmed that 20,000 francs were paid for them by the two honourable gentlemen whom the Morning Post accuses of having purchased them." The affair of the National is to come on before the  Court of Assize on the 13th of February next.  We find the following account in a letter from Bilbao of the 19th :—" A frightful event has just spread consternation in the country. " On Sunday, the 17thlinst., the inhabitants of a small village in the district of &plata, in the Encurtacionea, were:attending mass ; six armed men entered the church. They forced the persons present to fall down with their faces to the ground, they called Don Augustin San Gine, dragged him out of the church, and after they had murdered him, found their way into his house, where they seized his son, whom they also assassinated. They fled into the mountains before the few inhabitants could recover from their terror. The motives of these murders are unknown. THE Ex-KiNa OF