The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-16 00:00:00

with despatches for Madrid. Of their contents nothing
is vet officially known ; but we trust that even now
the Noble Lord has become aware of the importance,
not only to Spain but to Europe, of an active armed
British and French intervention. Had his Lordship
adopted such a policy when we first recommended it,
the Peninsula would be now as tranquil as Yorkshire.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Thurday have
been received. The Moniteur officially announces
the embarkation of the Duke of Nsmotnts for Bona,
on the 11th instant, from Toulon. Preparations for
a grand attack on Constantine are nearly completed.
The French Journals abound in gossip on the subject
of the elections ; but they contain no news, save what
may be so considered in the following extracts, relative
to the progress of events in the Peninsula :
A letter from Saragossa, dated the 6th inst., will serve
to refute all the absurd news published by the revolutionary
journals at Toulon respecting the late events in Arragon.
Its contents are as folloAs :
" The Carlists have surprised a corps of two thousand
men belonging to Oraa's division, and made them all pri-
soners without firing a shot.
Patillos is considerably increasing his force with the
soldiers who join his ranks. He has constituted a civil
government for the regulation of the contributions and de-
mands,of rations. It is affirmed that all the inhabitants of
the province of Toledo are rising en name, and proclaim
the authority of his Majesty Charles V.
" Cabrera is in the kingdom of Valencia with eight
thousand men, and combines his operations with those of
Don Carlos, who, with a strong division, operates on Melina
and Arragon.
t. A gdneral spirit of discontent prevails at Saragossa ; a
great many persons go and join the army of Don Carlos,
fearing the frightrul scenes that may take place in the midst
of the revolutionists."—Gazette de Languedoc.
Thereii nothing official in the Moniteur this morning.
A letter from Naples of the 27th August says; " Our
Government seems resolved to turn a deaf ear to all the re-
monstrances of the French Government. Yesterday the
despatches lbr the French Legation, brought by a French
steamboat from Marseilles, were not allowed to be received.
The vessel has been obliged to keep the papers on board.
The last French steamboat has arrived in eleven days front
Constantinople."
It appears from the last letters from Messina, that the
cholera has appeared at Reggio.—Le Commere.

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FRENCH Ft:NM-Pun, SErr. 14.
Five per Cents.. 108 f. 30c. 41c. 35c.
Four and a Half ner Cents. 102 f.
I 0( f.
5 f.
507 45c. 55c.
r
Bank Actions, 2,430
f 2,437 f. 50c.
ThreeFu p pere r
Rente de Naples, Wit 10c.
Ce Cents.,
Cents.
Roman Five per Cents., 101.
Spanish Actives, 21 21,,i 20%.
Spanish passives, 4%
Brussels Society, 1,675 f,
Belgian Bank, 1,450 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents 26 25%14,
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 52f. 85e,
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 421Ae.; money, 25f. 40,
Three months, paper, 25f. 27%c. ; money. 25f. 25c.
-( ours Aulhentseue.
LAST ?RICH'S.
Flue per Cents., lalf. 35c.
Three per Cents. WE 55c.
Bank Actions, 2,437 f. 50c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101.
Belgian Bank, 1,450 f.
Brussels Society, 1,675 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 20.
Spanish Actives, 2034.
Spanish Passives 4%.
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 52f Mc.
BELGIAN FUNDS-Bausem.s, SEPT. 13.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, b per Cent. lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions.- 92.4
Loan et City, 1832, 4 per Cent
Society of Commerce, 45; per Cent l3B
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l4O
-Brussels Papers, Sept. 14.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-Viawws, Seer% &
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Sharon 1353
-411gemeine Zeiiung, Sept 10.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to patro-
nise the shipwrecked and distressed Sailors' Asylum Can-
non-street-road ; the object of which institution is not only
to relieve seamen in distress of every nation, without regard
to their religion or creed, but also to protect others from
falling into the hands of those who make a livelihood by
plundering them of their hard earnings immediately on their
arrival in port. In accordance with the latter object, lodg-
ing is offered free of expense to such seamen as choose to
bring their, chests and bedding to the asylum.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford, and
Lady Louisa Churchill, have arrived at Warwick House,
Worthing, on a visit to the Duchess of Marlborough.
The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have left St.
James's-square for Doncaster, on their way to Raby Castle.
A Reverend Tory Clergyman not a hundred miles
from Bruton, lately made the following declaration :—" The
principles of the Tories are to keep down the people—the
swinish multitude ;—I don't speak at random, hut with
great respect when I say, I believe God Almighty is a
Tory." This same divine has been noted for years past for
his intolerance towards Dissenters, which must have been
from the true spirit of Toryism, the principle of " keeping
down" or oppression.—Wilts Independent.
Among the papers of the late Mrs. Piozzi some
curious anecdotes have been found of Dr. Johnson. It is
well known that Johnson was a great tea-drinker. One
evening, while at tea with Mrs. Piozzi, who had on the oc-
casion introduced for the first time a valuable set of china,
the Doctor, in helping himself to sugar, took it from the
sugar-basin in his fingers, on which his hostess said with a
smile, "Oh fie, Doctor !" The latter having brooded over
the rebuke, became sulky and brutish, and after tea flung
his cup and saucer under the grate, observing, at the same
time, " Madam, as I have contaminated your cup and
saucer with my fingers they are not fit to be used again."
Among the grandees who have been at Baden-
Baden this season the German papers have not failed to
name the great Mr. Crockford, " proprietor of the great
gaming house in London." lie offered to stake 1,0001.
three times running at rouge et noire, but Chabert, the di-
minutive Crocky of Baden, was too prudent to accept the
challenge. Among the persons of fashion now at Baden
are—Lord Lyndhurst, Marshal Gerard, the Polish Coun-
tpss Plater, and a few others of equal rank. Baron Heec-
keren is likewise there, the man who has acquired the me-
lancholy notoriety of having killed the most eminent Russian
poet of his day.
Sir 11. Peel has recovered from his late attack of
sciatica, and is now entertaining a party at Drayton Manor.
Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges died on the Bth inst.,
in the 75th year of his age, at Campagne Gros Jean, near
Geneva.

Captain Martyn, of the Guards, is about to load to
the altar one of the daughters of Lord Canterbury.

Mrs. Hall's new novel of " Uncle Horace" is being
dramatised for the Haymarket Theatre. _

We understand that the requisition to Joseph
Hume, Esq., to accept of a public entertainment to ha
given to him in the Scottish metropolis, has in the few
days in which it has been in the course of signature, re-
ceived the names of 500 individuals. It is still lying for
signature in various places throughout the city.—Scotsman.
VAUXHALL—Green made another ascent yester-
day, accompanied by Mrs. Green, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Geta-
ble, Mr. Spencer, and Mr. Green, a surgeon. The balloon
descended in about three quarters of an hour after leaving
Vauxhall,' at Westcurrill, three miles below Purfleet, di-
rectly facing Alderman Harmer's, at Greenhithe. The
company procured a chaise at Purfleet and returned to the
gardens about 12 o'clock, after enjoying a most delightful
trip, the evening being remarkably tine.
Stamped letter covers are to be brought into imme-
diate use in the London penny post department.
We are happy to zee that the drama is "looking
up," and that the nobility are patronizing native talent.
Earl Waldegrave presented that astonishing child Miss
Davenport with 20/., for a box at her benefit, at Rich-
mond, on Monday last, as a mark of his sense of her talent.
Her houso was the greatest since Kean's time.

The ensuing Criminal Court Calendar, made up,
as usual, to last night, contains the names of 196 pri-
soners committed for trial to the Session, which com-
mences on Monday morning next. There will be a daily
addition of charged offenders during the sitting of the
Grand Jury ; the total may b• calculated at 220, besides
traverse cases. The Court is expected to sit seven days.
The sea-trout, a fish that was known in the Tweed,
and some other of the rivers of Scotland thirty years ago,
is now become extremely numerous; their fry seldom leave
the river till they are nearly as large as a small Loch.
fine herring.
WHEAT AND FLOUR IN FRANCE COMPARED
WITH Lo•m3os.—The highest price of the best wheat in
Paris is '26 francs per 4 hectolitre, which is equal to 395.
9d. per English quarter, The highest price of the best
P,ssoz and Kent wheat in London being 71s. per quarter,
shows that fine wheat is 31s. 3d. per quarter dearer in
London than in Paris, or 801 per cent. ; and that the 71s.
which in London buys but eight bushels of wheat, will, in
Paris, purchase upwards of fourteen bushels of the finest
quality. The highest price of flour of the " first mark" in
Paris, is 53 francs per 159 kilogrammes, corresponding with
two. ad, per English sack of 2SO pounds. The highest price
of the best ki ti*Oiati ii dour in London being 555. per
sack, shows fine flour to be :Its. per ituk, 44Ferin I,oqon
than in Paris, or 64 per cent. ; and that the same money
o•Ljp,ll in London will procure but 280 pounds of fine flour,
will, in Pariz, purchase 460 pounds of the finest quality.—
'This is a precious exempl;ficatiou of the " beneficial" ope-
ration of the Corn Laws, or 13regd 6i/c1