The Sun. — 1841-12-25 (London, England)

BAYONNE, DEC. 19.—The Spanish Government has just appointed M. Soler, formerly Secretary of Legation in Greece, to the post of Consul at Bayonne, Marshal Saldanha, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Portugal in Austria, arrived at Bayonne the day before yesterday. He is to embark at Marseilles for Italy, whence he will proceed to Vienna. Lieutenant-General Espeletta, formerly Captain-General of the island of Cuba, has passed through Bayonne on his way to Spain.—Commerce. It being a question at Toulouse what means should be taken for introducing greater uniformity into the lines of the streets, and for widening the narrowest ones, the Minister of the Interior, on the recommendation of the Prefect, has most judiciously adopted the principle of ordering the general plan for this purpose to be drawn up by an architect of taste and judgment, who is a member of the Committee for the preservation of monuments. M. Mege has, therefore, been instructed to present a plan in which all the public monuments shall be respected, and not sacrificed to the supposed exigencies of the locality (as is unfortunately too often the case in Paris), and in which all private houses and buildings of historical interest shall be carefully preserved. If a similar plan had been adopted a few years ago in the capital, at Rouen, and some other large towns in France, the country would not now have to deplore the loss of many of its most valuable historical relics ; and Paris, in particular, would be much richer in public and private buildings of real national value even than at present. In no part of France is public and official Vandalism carried to a higher point than in the capital. The Royal Academy of Medicine made a distribution yesterday of the annual vaccination prizes to the candidates who obtained them for 1839. The grand prize of 1,500 f. was divided between Dr. Belloz, of Besancon; Dr. Litschgi, of Molsheim, near Strasbourg; ar.d Dr. Nichet, of Lyons. Four gold and 100 silver medals were also awarded. The total number of vaccinations effected in 1839 was 528,265, being 45,417 more than in 1838. In the same year there had been 14,917 cases of smallpox, of which 1,497 were fatal; but in 1838 there had been only 9,411 cases. The number of hands engaged in mining operations in Belgium is reckoned at from 38,000 to 40,000. Out of these about 100 suffer from serious accidents every year. A farmer and his wire, at Nonan-sur-Loire, having been accused of petty robbery, and fearing the consequences, vent last week to a notary at Beaugency, and made their wills in favour of the children of the husband by a prior marriage. They then proceeded to a relation's at Courbouzon, where they dined. A short time afterwards the husband was seized with violent pains, and died. The medical men, who examined the stomach after death, found in it sufficient arsenic to kill twenty persons. The question is whether this was an act of suicide or of murder by a third person. The general belief is, that both the deceased and his wife had contemplated self-destruction, but the latter had failed in her resolution when the time came to carry it into execution. The Magistrates are making the requisite inquiries to ascertain the truth.  A correspondent at Amsterdam confirms the statement that the ])utch Government had decided on establishing, as soon as possible, a line of steam-packets, to run regularly between Amsterdam and Batavia, the capital of the island of Java. Depots of coals and provisions are to be formed for them at Cape St. Vincent, in Portugal; at San Jorge del Mira, on the coast of Guinea; at the Cape of Good Hope, and on the island of St. Paul, lying about 600 geographic leagues from Java, and nearly desert.  A letter from Luxembourg, in a Frankfort journal, gives the following particulars of the late melancholy affair in that town :—" It appears that at the ball supper at Diekirch, in honour of the King Grand Duke, M. Durion. the burgomaster, having made a speech against the German Customs Union, which was severely criticised by a Dr. Kuborn, M. Dumont, the receiver of the registry duties, went up to the Doctor with a knife in his hand, and challenged him to repeat what he had said. Kuborn having repeated it, Dumont plunged the knife up to the handle in his heart."  The Correctional Tribunal of Chatelherault, in the Vienne, having, on the 23d inst., been called upon to try certain inhabitants of the commune of Cernay for resistance to the Government agents for taking the census, delivered a long and elaborate judgment declaring that resistance to an illegal act is a lawful right ; that the agens des contributions did not possess the quality auth.rising them to take the census ; and, consequently, the resistance opposed to them in this quality did not constitute either a crime or offence.