The Sun. — 1841-07-17 (London, England)

ABROAD. I'OREXGN—COLONIAL. The French Government has appointed M. Maurice Duval, who, it will be remembered, arrested the Duchess of Berry at Nantes, Provisional Prefect of Toulouse. M. Duval is a man noted for his severity, and, if we be not much mistaken, snore likely to stir up an oneute than to suppress one.  The Toulouse rioters destroyed the telegraphs on the 13th instant. The destruction of public property is one of the most foolish acts that an enraged populace can commit, as the charges of the repairs must come Out of their own pockets. There is much shrewdness in the Hibernian remark, that " a man's self is the last person upon whom to think of committing suicide !" In the riots at Toulouse one young man was and sixty persons wounded. Upwards of an hundred individuals were arrested, but the mob compelled the authorities to release them. The Government is engaged in a most inglorious contest, from which, defeated or victorious, it cannot retire without disgrace. Blood may flow, and M. Humana remain master of the field, butt will he dare to collect taxes, the imposition of which is thus resisted to the death ?  Gavin Scott is still imprisoned at Marseilles. The French _llinister. of the Interior is desirous of dclivering him up to the British authorities. The large sum of 1,8001. has not been recovered. It was stolen from him at the hotel, so that even the pilferer has been pilfered. Colonel Hodges, Consul-General at Syria. has just arrived in London from Constantinople. Ile shortly proceeds to Hamburgh as British Consul there.  The Spanish Government, for a sum of 60,0001., is about to cede some useless possessions on the coast of Guinea to Great Britain. In our hands they will constitute useful stations for vessels engaged in suppressing the slave trade.  'rho Ultra-Liberal party in Spain begin to be very dissatisfied with Espartero. It is certainly enough to make men shrug their shoulders to see.his partisans in the. Cortes vote him 21,000/. h year as Regent, at a time when the navy of Spain is so reduced, that shipping cannot be found to carry 10,000 men at one trip to the Balearic Isles—when Spain has not even a packet ship to carry the Havannah correspondence ! During the Peninsular war the annual cost of the Regency did not exceed 2,000/., and yet the necessary expenses of the office were greater then than they are at present. Then there is a marriage settlement of 32,5001. a year to be provided for the ex-Regent Christina ; and all this at a time when Spain is unable to pay the half-yearly recurring interest upon her public debt. When patriotism allies itself to such immense revenues as now accrue to Espartero, in one of the poorest nations in the world, it becomes an object of suspicion.  The Spanish Minister of Finance proposed on the Bth instant, in the Chamber of Deputies, to lower duties payable at the gates of large towns upon wines, spirits, and oils. This is a wise and pcpular measure. The ecclesiastical schism gains ground in Spain. Thirty Canons of the Chapter of the See of Saragosst have been imprisoned for adhering to the allocution of the Pope. Unless the Vatican display more sagacity in Spain than it has hitherto done, Espartero may signalise his Regency by entirely separating the Church of Spain from the Holy See.  A traveller in the French Versailles Railway, alarmed at a little derangement in the train, fancied that destruction was at hand, and tried, though hindered, to leap out of the engine. He persevered, and the iron steps coming in contact with his neck, severed the head from the body.