The Sun. — 1841-08-09 (London, England)

FOREIGN.  The acquittal of Mr. M'Leod is confidently anticipated in the American Journals to the 20th of July, received this morning. We have long ceased to enter tain any apprehension as to the taking away the life of this gentleman. Indeed, from the outset, we never supposed that the Yankees seriously contemplated involving themselves in a war with Great Britain by a provocation so atrociously reprehensible as the judicial murder of a British subject. Brother Jonathan and his Holiness the Pope will shortly fall to loggerheadS unless the Vicar of Christ reverse the order of apostolical salutation by the lip worship of a part of Jonathan's person, quite as unattractive as the Papal toe. It appears that some two or three years ago, the Pope summoned the Bishop of Detroit to Rome. The Bishop, Dr. Rees, obeyed the summons, when his Holiness ordered him to resign his diocese. This the Yankee Prelate refused, and was at once consigned to the dungeons of the Inquisition. These facts were reported to Congress on the 18th of July, and it was expected that the President would call the Pope to a severe account for the incarceration of an American citizen, for ecclesiastical acts alleged to have been committed within the jurisdiction of the United States. The affair was making a greater stir than the M'Leod case.  Advices of the 2d instant from Lisbon represent the interior of Portugal as in a most unsettled state. Murder, sacrilege, and robbery are crimes of daily occurrence in the .Algarves. The Government was preparing a law for the more expeditious hanging of culprits. If the Portuguese Government can find no better moral teachers than the hangman and the gallows, the condition of that part of the Peninsula is indeed hopeless. From France the news is more interesting than politically important. Abd-el-Kader is growing more troublesome in Africa, and appears really bent upon bagging the head of General Bugeaud. This is an impertinence which the French Commander-in-Chief threatens to resent with tragic effect as soon as he catches hold of the Emir.  The Criminal Tribunal of Tulle, at its sitting on the sth instant, agreed to postpone the trial of Madame Laffarge for the diamond robbery for a period of twenty weeks, to allow her principal witness, M. Clave, to return from Mexico. The following is a list of the jewels delivered into the Court, and which are to be produced in evidence, viz. :-122 diamonds, a star of brilliants, a fragment of an ornament composed of a pearl and brilliants, and another fragment of an ornament in the form of a pompon, 10 fragments of other ornaments, a round box containing a ring set with brilliants and other stones, a small gold chain, and pearls, a velvet book-cover, a box with four pearls and two gold pins. The whole are inclosed in a box belonging to Mme. Laffarge." The Jews of Smyrna are exposed to the most wanton outrages on account of their religion. One of them was recently thrown into prison because a cat was missing ! and no crime is committed of which they are not supposed to be guilty by the bigoted inhabitants. Why do not the European Consuls interfere to protect these poor people ? The little war-kindling ex-Minister Thiers arrived sin Brussels on Friday morning from Courtrai. Without stopping to pay his compliments at Court the small statesman proceeded by the railway to Liege, with th© intention, as was supposed, of visiting Germany. His organs in Paris have prepared the Courts of Vienna and Berlin for the magnificent reception of the political Tom Thumb of the nineteenth century. The Dukes of Cadiz and Seville, Infants of Spain, left Liege on the sth inst. for Holland.