The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-24 00:00:00

THE. SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY,_ OCTOBER 24. 1839

should embrace the children of Churchmen and
Dissenters, without any of those Nectalian distiric;.
tions which are new by tit: Chicirith Made tli
meant. of tienyilig ethication to the poor. The cry
ingdelity and atheism has been raised against
the British and Foreign School Society by this
unprincipled organ of an unprincipled clique.

Mr. TOrPNEL, of the
_Admiralty, has been ap-
pointed a Lord of the Treasury, in the place of
Lord SEYMOUR.

The Honourable Gentleman represented
Ipswich for some time, and has gone down
to canvass the Liberal Electors of Devonport,
with every prospect of success. The men of
Devonport are staunch Reformers.

Letters from Constantinople of the 2d inst. have
been received, but they bring no account of any
progress having been made in the way of definitely
settling the Oriental question. The Council of
War appointed to inquire into the conduct of the
Turkish officers at the battle of Nezib, has so-
lemnly acquitted the Commander-in-chief, HAFIZ
PACHA, of all blame, and the SULTAN has re-
instated him in his rank of Generalissimo of the
armies of Asia Minor. IZZET PACHA and So-
LYMA N PACHA were reprimanded by the Presi-
dent for having neglected to bring up their divisions
when summoned, which neglect greatly contributed
to the loss of the battle. But,as was statod in the first
accounts of the defeat of the Turks by the Egyptians,
it appears that the real traitor wasa Prussian officer,
who was known to be in the pay of Russia, and
who entered the Tuikish army with the intention
of effecting its demoralization, and subsequent de-
struction. When this statement first reached us,
we discredited it ; but it appears that it was fully
proved to the satisfaction of the Council of War.
The name of the Prussian officer thus disgracefully
connected with the defeat of the Turkish army is
Baron TINKE, whose instructions HAFIZ PACHA
proved that he had been commanded by the late
SULTAN to follow, although he frequently had
reason to be persuaded they were ruinous to the
service.

Madrid Journals of the 15th inst., state that the
Fueros Committee, appointed by the Senate,
though composed of only five members, presented
on the previous day no fewer than three reports to
the Chamber I It is, however, but right to observe
that they all harmonise pretty well with the report
adopted by the Deputies, the amendments and al-
terations being little more than mere verbalisms.
The news from Arragon and La Mancha, re-
ceived in Madrid, was heart-rending. Never were
more barbarous atrocities committed than were daily
perpetrated, in the shape of reprisals, by Car-
lists and Christinos. Women were publicly
flogged, and otherwise shamefully abused.
in the most public manner. A party of Christino
officers were seized, while travelling to join the
army, by the monster PALILLOS, and every one
of them put to death. CABRERA, suspecting the
fidelity of his Chief Secretary, caused him and
twenty-three other officers to be shot without any
form of ttial.

The Journal des Debats of Tuesday replies at
great length to the arguments of its French Con-
temporaries against granting passports to Don
CARLOS. The Debats affects to regard the in-
fluence of CARLOS as entirely at an end in the
Peninsula ; and thought it admits the abstract right
of the Government to detain in custody any per-
son dangerous to the peace of France and her
allies, it pleads in justification of the proposed
liberation of the Pretender, the presumed circum-
stance that his detention till the termination of the
civil commotions in Spain, might be tantamount
to imprisonment for life. It further assumes as a
fact a hoax advanced by the Temps, to the effect
that the QUEEN REGENT and the British Cabinet
jointly demanded the liberation of the Pretender,
upon which it grounds its strongest arguments in
support of its views. Now this is altogether very
disingenuous, and very unworthy. a Journal au re-
spectable as the Debats. In , whose name is the
civil war in Spain carried on ? Whose standarc,
does CABRERA and the Count D'ESPAGNE un-
furl in treasonable opposition to the Constitutional
Government ? Surely that of CARLOS. And
does not the very fact prove that the dangerous in-
fluence of the Pretender is not wholly extinct in
Spain ? Were CABRERA to invite his deluded
followers to swear allegiance to himself instead of
Don CARLOS, of the thousands of his armed ad-
herents not ten would be found who would hesitate
an instant to shoot him on the spot. As to the
chances of the civil war continuing during the life-
time of the Pretender, it will be time enough to
begin to alculate upon them when a reasonable
time has been allowed ESPARTERO to crush the
rebellion in Arragon and Valencia. The French
Government, we are confident, would not dare to
insult the common sense and the justice of mankind
by avowing that it feels more acutely the necessity
of restraining the movements of a bloodthirsty pro-
fligate Prince, than the massacre of hundreds of un-
offending Spanish peasants. More innocent blood
has already been shed in the Peninsula than half
the Royal Dynasties in Europe are worth. If the
people were truly wise they would adopt the policy
of that best-regulated of social communities, the
bee-hive. When a strange queen-bee enters
a hive, the workers at once summon the
Queen Regnant to dispute her right to ex-
ercise sovereignty within her dominion. A mortal
combat ensues between the royal rivals, in which
no subject, whether worker or drone, ever takes a
part. They rightly apprehend that it is no busi-
ness of theirs to fight the battles of Royalty ; but
as soon as one of the Queens is killed they readily
recognise the survivor as their sovereign. Were. a
policy somewhat similar adopted among mankind,
the desolating sword would soon be converted into
a ploughshare.
One of the journals announces that Marshal
SOULT has ordered Lieutenant-Colonel SENILRES,
formerly the French Commissioner at EsrAR.
TERO'S head-quarters, to proceed to Madrid, at a
moment's notice. He is supposed to be charged
with some highly important mission.
There is no domestic news of the slightest im
portance in the French journals of Tuesday. The
Courrier Francais has another ankle on the Com-
mercial relations between England and France, the
substance of which will appear in The Sun of to-
morrow, as we have not space for it in our columns
of to-day.
We announced some days ago the departure of M.
Routhier, for London, in the character of Counsel of
the inhabitants of Verdun, who are creditors of the Eng-
lish Government, for the sum of three millions jive hun-
dred thousand francs, in consequence of the residence of
the prisoners of war.
The deputation of that town, consisting of Messrs.
Quintin, Masse. Leoret, and Tribonee, have just been
received at the Foreign-office by Lord Palmerston. The
deputation was received with marked attention, and the
language of M. Routhier, who spoke in the name of
all, was worthy of the importance ofthis entirely national
cause, and of the incontestable rights of one of the prin-
cipal towns of France.

Bayd Bey; dt which *eie thoti d the giedt.6lfiteit of
§tdie; and Which the fihltan also heinotfred with Ms pfei
t+hi•i6;
Og+. 4d xs.A , .

first Highest crvest
Price Price. Price Price.
French 5 per Cent 5.......... 1:0 85 ... 110 90 ... 110 85 ... 1.090
4 per Cent 5,,,.,,.,,,,, 101 :0 11,1 50 ... 101 59 ... 101 So
3 per Cent..........., 81 55 ~. 81 ... 81 55 ... 81 70
llo,nk Of erallre 2835
...29:35 —.2833
Latlitte Bank 5,000 f. Sh 5215 ...5215 ...5212 50 —.52.2 50
1,900 f. Sh
_foe s _lO6O ...1060
Belgian 5 per Cents ex. div lOl X ... 101% ... 101% ... 101%
Bank .................. 720 740 720 ... 535
Spanish Ac ive ..............
... ... 30% 3014
Passive .................. 751 ... ... 7%
Old Deterred
Portuguese 3 per Cents 2414 241 xi 24!4 ... 241 i
lea: olitan
Roman 113% 103% ... 103% ... 1g3%
RAILW A Y SHARE ~
Versailles, It. 8,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 515 ... 515 70 ... 515 515 70
L.B. ............... 305 ... 205 300 ••• 306
Havre
Orleans .
Strasburg to Bale ........... 307 50 ... 303 75 ... 397 50 ... 208 75
Montpellier to Cette

The Dutch Papers of yesterday, received this
morning, state that accounts have reached the
Hague announcing the dangerous illness of the
Empress of RUSSIA. Her Imperial Majesty has
been for several months in a very delicate state of
health.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsTRanAm, OCT. 22

' ey. i
Actual Debt, `2% per Cent
52115.
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent
A mort Svudic,4Y4 per cent 92 .1314
Ditto, ditto, 3Y2 per cent 77 77;4
Commercial Company, 41, per cent l7l 172 U
p ~3
D•tt, (1632 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto 7, 5 per cent,
Loa!, Fix, 5 per cent.
Skis/ 5? ;/y
Exchange on London, One month l2 II
Two months
—Dutch Papers, Oct. 23.
OE
AN 1. UNDS—linussEr.s, ()cr. 22.
Actual Debt, N per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant lOl
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Tent.... --

Loan of City, 1832, 4 3 per
per Cent. O5
Society of Commerce, 4 per Cent ll4
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 6i46 National Society.
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Oct. 22.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS _VIENNA, Ocr 14
Five per Cents. Metalliques -.% Four per Cents. .................. 107
, Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
..._Augelncine &dung, Oct. i i. 153;
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, OLT. Is.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
34
Bank Shares
1051510 10534
1508
It
An 10-Russian Loan
les ussim 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate 101► 101
106%
Inscription, Ist SeriG,
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop! and Co. 3d and 4th
Se ...............................
Ditto in Certificates ................................ 11„, 06%
I)utch dual Debt, 234 Pe Cent •5l LOA
Ditto 5 per Cent 19!4 Polish Bond.
New i icket
Norwegian Lean, 15:34, 4 per Cent......
t iys
S, ankh, New 3 per Cents. 25 21%
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-136KLIN. OCT. 18.

!cut.

Bills. Money.
St. Schuh!. Sch., 416 per cent /03% 101%
l'ru.sian English Loan, IRRI, 4 per cent ICU 162%
•xchange on London, three months 6 2UI.
—.Prussian State Gazette, Oct. .9.

TREATMENT OF POLITICAL

PRISONERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—A letter, addressed to a gentleman who has
taken great interest in the case of my friend, Lovett,
has reached town, which contains a few facts worthy of
public notice ; and I solicit yonr permission, Mr. Editor,
to state these facts to the public.
The great respect and esteem in which Mr. Lovett is
held by all who know him, should have entitled him to
better treatment ; but. what will the public say to the
fact, that Messrs. Lovett and Collins (whose character
for integrity and private worth stands equally high with
that of my friend), are allowed no animal food, but
doomed to dine upon potatoes the whole week, except
on Sundays. An application of their's to the magis-
trates, to be allowed to spend sixpence a day, has been
refu-ed ; but the harshness and injustice of the magis-
trates does not stop at physical privation. Mr. Lovett
wrote a letter of consolation to his aged mother ; and
incredible as it may appear, the letter was withheld, on
the disgraceful pretext that some portion of the lan-
guage was improper. So that a letter to an aged pa.
rent, from a dutiful and affectionate son, is intercepted,
and the letter is prevented from reaching its destination,
to gratify the malignant feelings of these administrators
of justice.
The public, indeed, believe that the severity of
Messrs. Lovett and Collins's sentence has been greatly
relaxed, and a considerable number of persons have an
idea that they were long since removed to the debtors'
side of the prison. It is necessary, therefore, to unde-
ceive them. Messrs. Lovett and Collins are still
treated with the most unwarrantable severity and
injustice. Independently of their miserable dietary,
and of their letters being detained on paltry and
unmanly pretexts, the Chaplain of the prison has
refused to let Mr. Lovett peruse Tait's Magazine, on
the ground that it sometimes contains revolutionary
articles.
-Now, Mr. Editor, I consider that the public should
be made acquainted with the names of the Magistrates
and Chaplain who could act thus disgracefully towards
the brave and honest men now unfortunately in their
custody ; and I am quite sure that if the public arouse
themselves, and do their duty, such cruelty and injus-
tice to political prisoners will no longer be tolerated.
I am, Mr. Editor, your humble servant.
October 24,1839. H. HETHERINGTON.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
(tHiSpAii.l

This ifeitig the day to which Parliartient ttag pro.
s;6e.(l, two O'clock, the Lord Chancellor, the Mar-
quis Of ilormahVy; tind. Viscount Falkland, took their
seats in the House of Ltd ti 4 fotr Majesty's Commis-
sioners for a further prorogation.
The Commons having been summoned, were reple'a
stilted at the bar by Mr. Rickman, the Second Clerk,
and the Messengers ; Mr. Wakley being the only
Member present.

The Commission having been read, the Lord Chno•
cellor declared the Parliament to be further prorogued
till Thursday, the 12th December.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The New York packet ship Mediator, Captain
Champlin, of the Ist instant, has arrived at Ports-
mouth ; old date.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—WC
have had a good demand for Cotton to-day, at a reduc-
tion of id. per lb. on American descriptions, from our
quotations of Friday last. Exporters have taken .500
bags—sales, .5,000 bags.

We have received the Halifax papers to the Ist of
October :

PROROGATION OF THE ASSEMBLY.
isFREDRICTON, 21ST SEPT.—Yesterday at two
o'clock his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor pro-
ceeded in the usual state to Province Building, and
having commanded the attendance of the House of As-
sembly, the Members appeared, with the Speaker at
their head, who addressed his Excellency in the fol-
lowing words :

" May it please your Excellency,
" The Assembly have this Session almost exclu-
sively directed their close attention to the several ob-
jects recommended in your Excellency's opening'
speech. Bills have passed which in their operation can-
not fail to give much greater security than heretofore
to property in St. John's, thereby improving the com-
mercial credit of that enterprising and rapidly-increasing
city.

‘‘ In order to give more early effect to measures
adopted by the Legislature, and to afford relief to
many of the sufferers by the late destructive fire, the
Assembly have passed a Bill authorizing your Excel-
lency to make loans for encouraging the erection of brick
and stone buildings. In this Bill provision is made for
raising the sum required, by the issue of Provincial de-
bentures, and, therefore, not interfering in the
slightest degree with the useful appropriations for the
public service."

The Speaker then presented the Bill for his Excel-
lency's approval, which, with four others passed during
the present Session, were agreed to, after which his
Excellency closed the Session with the following
speech :

" Mr. President and Honourable Gentlemen of the
Legislative Council,
" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of
Assembly,
" The expectations t‘hich I had entertained in calling
you together, have not been disappointed. The mea-
sures which you have presented for my approval, and
which have become law, are calculated to satisfy the
wishes of the country, and I am sanguine in the hope
that this short Session will be hereafter looked back to
by the people of the Province, as most deeply con-
nected with the best interests of its commercial capital,
and, consequently, with those of the Province at large.
"In now closing the Session, it only remains for me to
assure you that no delay shall take place on the part. of
the Executive Government in giving effect to the legis-
lative measures which have been adopted, and I take
my leave of you with the expressions of my sincere de-
sire that the brief interval which may elapse before we
again meet in Provincial Parliament may be marked by
a continuance of the tranquil and prosperous state of
public affairs which now happly prevails throughout the
province.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester-
day's date.
Several Journals have stated that the Government
would assemble the Chambers before the fixed ordinary
time of its meeting. The Ministerial Journal, however,
says it is impossible to assemble the Chambers before the
second Tuesday in November.

Owing to the dullness of the weather, and the
scanty intelligence from the Continent, the various funds
are in an inactive state at present.
Money, both in and out of the house, continues plen-
tiful at a moderate rate for accounts.

We have several arrivals this morning, some of them
of old dates, and those of recent do not convey any
intelligence of importance.
THE FUNDS.

Consols opened this morning at the quotations they
left off yesterday, at 901 -a for Money, and for the Ac-
, count 90i i. The bad weather damps the spirit for
speculation.
Exchequer 8a15., 3 to 1 dLicount ; Bank Stock, 178 k
179} ; India Stock, 245 247.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active continues
steady at 291 -g- ; Portuguese, same as it closed, 351 36 ;
Three per Cents. 241 i- ; Colombian 821 ; Mexican,
31i 32 ; Brazilian 71i 721 ; Dutch Two-and-Half per
Cents, as they left off. .524 i ; Five per Cents. 100,t- ;
Spanish Passive, 7i t ; Deferred, 134.
Scarce anything doing in either of the Markets.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock l79:fi 9 ; India Stock
3 per Cent. Red. SS% 1 Ditto Bonds
I per Cent. Cons.
3 ..? per Cent.... ..... ....... ...... —1 Old Annuities ..•
Ditto Red. 97% , New Ditto
New 3% per Cent 98% 1,41 3 per Cent. Annuities 1751 New 5 per Cent.
--
Bank Long Annuities toexoire Ditto 500 par '2 ds.
Jan. 5, 1860. l3 11-165 Ditto Small ......... ..... 2 I 3 pm.
Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial —
Jan. 1, 1860 — Ditto Advertised ......
Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account ...
April 5, 1880. — India /Rock for Account ... 24714
Jan. 5. 1870 — Consos for Account 905,3f,
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
itrazilian Bonds -

Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds —; Ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
Ditto Accou t
Colombian Bonds — , Ditto Account —
Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic —
Columbian Bonds, 1824.... % —, Spanish Bonds 29!4%
Ditto Account — Ditto Account. Zia%
Danish Bonds
Ditto Aecotint — Deferred l3

Greek Bonds... — French, 5 per cent....... —f. —c.
Ditto Bends, 1825 — ----- 4 per cent. f. —c.
Ditto Account — ----- 3 per cent.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. ---- Exchange. 2sf. 40 -.
Ditto Account , Dutch, 23 per cent _____ ...
Ditto, 6 per Cent. 32% , Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
Neapolitan. Ditto Account ..--......
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CIA, CK.
Brighton Railway Paid.
'3O Per Share.l6%
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, OCTOBER 22. 3 per Cent. Consols
3% per Cent. Stock
Ditto Reduced
Ditto New, 1830
3% per Cent. Debentures... 90%; National Insurance Company
Bank Stock — City Debentures, 4 per cent.
Grand Canal Stock
Royal Canal Stock

H4LF-PAST ONE.
A report prevails that news of some importance has
been received from Spain this morning, at the Spanish
Ambassador's, but the particulars are not known as
yet. The statement is, that one of Cabrera's Generals
has gone over to Espartero. In consequence of the above
report, Spanish, which was in the early part of the
morning at 298 to I, has got up to 29i1 8.
Consols have improved from 90i 4 to 908 for the
Acciunt ; Money 901. Exchequer Bills, Ito 3 dis. ;
Bank Stock, rather lower, 179, have been 179 i ; India
Stock also lower, 2.163 2-151.
In the Foreign Market Spanish may be quoted at
291 ; Portuguese also improved from 354 to 36i s ;
Brazilian, 7Ji ; Mexican, 32}; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., nothing done ; Five per Cents., 100 i.
No further arrivals.

--,----
SENTENCE ON MR. HARMAN, THE CHAR-
TIST.-At the Marlborough Michaelmas Quarter Ses-
sions, George Harman, aged 31 years, was charged with
having published and circulated a seditious and inflam•
matory placard and handbills C' To the Chartists of
Wiltshire") at Trowbridge. The Court was crammed,
and in addition to the presence of William Prowting
Roberts, Solicitor at Bath, who was charged at the
late summer assizes with unlawfully and riotously as-
ssembling at Trowbridge, and who then traversed his
trial till the Lent assizes of 1840, there , were several
other Chartists from Bradford and Trowbridge present.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and the Chairman
sentenced him to nine months' imprisonment in the
county gaol at Fisherton, and at the expiration of
that time to enter into recognizances in a large amount to
keep the peace for twelve months.
Great uneasiness was occasioned here on Tues-
day, by a report which prevailed of Lord Brougham's
death. Such was the confident minuteness of the tale,
that it was even said that Lady Brougham, who is now
residing in Brunswick-terrace, had received an express
notifying the melancholy intelligence.—Brkrihlon Ga-
zelle.

BRUSSELS, OCT. 20.—King Leopold arrived at
Aix-la-Chapelle on the 17th, in the afternoon. His
Majesty stopped half an hour at the I'4,st-office. The
civil and military authorities paid their respects to his
Majesty. The Convention concluded between the
Belgian and French Governments for opening the canal
of L'Espierre, has been ratified by the two Govern-
ments, and the ratifications were exchanged at Paris on
the 16th of this month.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER —Yes-
terday morning, about half•past six, George Moody,
aged 19 years, a bargeman, accidentally fell overboard
from a craft, lying in the Thames off Cheyne-wakl, and
was carried away by the tide and drowned.
Sir John Campbell and Lady Stratheden arrived
in London on nursdav, from the Continent. The
Attorney-General was expected in Edinburgh yester-
day, and will dine with the Society of High Constables
on Friday.—Evening Paper.