The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-01 00:00:00

Tynemouth. Sir BENJ. HALLS speech was
characterised by good sense and discretion. Mr.
O'CONNELL was the next speaker, and, tal'ing it
all and all, we have no htzitatiiin in Stating his
peeth was the best he has made for many years.
After a brief allusion to the object of the meeting,
he painted in glowing colours the folly of the Aris-
tocracy, the madness of the Chartists, and the
apathy cf the ZNlinistry, in taking no steps to coun-
teract the baneful effects of either. He adverted to
the present condition of Ireland, of which he was
proud to be called the representative, to the
state of our financial affairs, to the disjointed state
of European politics in consequence of the revolu-
tion in Turkey, which in all probability would
bring on a general war in a month, and triumphantly
asked in what position the trade, the commerce,
the institutions, nay the Throne of the Queen of
ENGLAND would be, if his countrymen, denounced
by Tory prints as rebellious subjects, had joined
with the torch and dagger men of England ? His
speech, altogether, is well worthy a perusal, and we
will not destroy its effect by partial quotations. We
recommend it to the attention both of our High-
Tory, and our Ultra-Radical readers.

We have received copies of two Imperial Ukases,
promulgated by the Emperor of Russia, making
several changes in the currency of the empire.
The following summary of them will prove inte-
resting to merchants and others having commercial
relations with Russia :

1. The silver ruble, and its fractional parts, as now
in circulation, is henceforth to be recognised as the only
legal measure of value, for the whole empire. All taxes
are to be paid in this currency, and all the expenses of the
Treasury are to be calculated therein.
2. The existing Bank notes return to their original des-
tination; that is to say, they will henceforth serve as a
representative of value, and as a means for facilitating
commercial intercourse ; their value, however, is per-
manently fixed at the invariable price of 330 pal:wr copecs
for 100 silver copecs.
3. In all payments, the person paying has the choice
of paying in silver, or in paper at the rate of 350 copecs.
4. In the payment of importation and exportation
duties, the silver ruble will continue to be reckoned at 360
copecs till the Ist of January, 1840.
B. All Government accounts, and those between private
individuals, as well as all contracts and dealings, will be
reduced to the Jiver valuta. The latest term for this re-
duction, throughout the whole empire, is fixed fur the Ist
of January, 1840.
6. Russian gold coins will be received and paid in all
Government offices with an agio of 3 per cent. Thus the
imperial of 10 rubles in gold is to be calculated as worth
10 rubles and 30 copecs in silver; arid the half-imperial, at
5 rubles 15 copecs in silver.
7. Foreign exchanges and prices of merchandise will
henceforth be quoted in silver only.
It has been farther resolved, that from the let of Janu-
ary 1840, a bank for deposits (caissc de depot) shall be esta-
blished, where silver may be paid in, and certificates to a
corresponding amount given in exchange, which will al
ways be payable on demand. To this establishmen
merchants will be attached.

The Madrid Journals received, are of the 23d ult.
Preparations were making for the celebration of the
QUEEN'S birth-day (the 24th) which had been fixed by
ESPARTERO for his grand attack on Estella. Verily,
ESPARTERO is careful not to steal a march upon the
enemy. The Carlists are never attacked by the Duke
of VICTORIA, under a month's notice, at the very least.
If DON CARLOS be found unprepared, the fault is not
attributable to his polite adversary. In the capital, the
elections were exciting the liveliest interest. The Exaltado
candidates were Senors ARGUELLES, LOPEZ, MEND'.
ZABAL, CANTERO, CALATRAVA, CABALLERO, OLO-
ZAGA, OSCA, GOMEZ, PASDO, and MIRANDA ALONZO;
and their motto was, " The Constitntion of 18;37, fully
and faithfully executed ; and the conclusion of the civil
war, without any transaction with Don CARLOS." Mr.
ASTON, the newly-appointed British Minister at Ma-
drid, was not expected to arrive before the beginning
of September.

There is no news of any general interest in the French
Journals of Tuesday, the whole of which we have re-
ceived. On the subject of the negociation between the
Banks of England and France, the Journal des Debats
writes as follows :
" For some days past Messrs. Curtis and Baring have
occupied themselves in Paris for the Bank of England with
a convention to modify the course of Exchange, of which
the prices were calculated to favour the export of the pre-
cious metals in London, and which threatened to exhaust
the gold in reserve at the Bank of England, and thus ori-
ginate a serious commercial crisis. After some explana-
tions the treaty has been definitively concluded, with the
I co-operation and under the auspices of the Bank of France.
Several principal Parisian banking houses have engaged to
accept the Bank of England bills for a sum of fifty million
of francs ( two miliions sterling). The Bank of France
will open at these houses a special credit, and will discount
these bills. For the guarantee of the French capitalists
and of the Bank of France the Bank of England will de-
posit
at the latter equal security, consisting of the public
funds of the English Government. This intervention of
French capitalists in the affairs of Great Britain, and this
support given by the Bank of France to the Bank of Eng-
land, arc not only acts dictated by honourable international
feeling, but are measures at the same time of wisdom and I
of great foresight in favour of French industry, for there is
a❑ intimate connection between English and French com-
merce, and the one cannot prosper if the other is shaking ;
and any event which would affect the Bank of England
would have a terrible counteraction this side of the channel.',
The fetes terminated on Monday night without the
slightest disturbance of the general tranquillity. The
following summary of the amusements of the populace is
taken Irom a French Journal --
FETES FOR JULY.
The weather on Tuesday was highly favourable for the
annual rejoicings of the 29th of July; the sky was clear,
the sun shone out bright and warm, a refreshing breeze
prevailed, and a dry evening allowed of the illuminations
and fireworks being seen to the best advantage. The
usual amusements in the Champs Elysees, on the esplanade
cf the Invalides, and at the Barriere du Trone, were carried
on with much spirit. The booths and dancing establishments
displayed rather more than usual, and the inhabitants of
Paris seemed to enjoy themselves to the utmost. The sports
on the water occasioned much amusement to the spectators.
The ascent of M. Margat in his balloon from the Pont
d' Orsay was effected successfully at 5 o'clock, and the breeze
wafted him gently away to the north-east of the capital.
Several small balloons, with only a basket attached to them,
were sent up during the afternoon. His Majesty and the Royal
Family appeared on the terrace over the arcades of the
Tuileries during the concert in the evening, and were re-
ceived with perfect respect by the dense crowd that filled
the garden. Throughout the afternoon, in the Champs
Elysees, &c., where the temporary theatres were erected,
the ordinary displays of bloodless, not powderless, battles
took place. We thought that our friends, the Arabs, had
all been culbutes, and done for last year ; however, these
worthy warriors again made their appearance on the present
occasion, and gave a noble victory to the deathless heroes
in red trousers, who attacked them from two in the after-
noon till near the witching hour of midnight. At half-
past eight the display of fireworks on the Quay d'Orsay and
the Pont de la Concorde began, and lasted till half-past
nine, without any intermission. They were really magnifi-
cent this time ; three smaller bouquets and two immense
ones of unusually long duration, besides a most brilliant
display of flaming pyramids, cascades of fire, showers of tri-
coloured lights, and three fire balloons, which, at a consider-
able height, sent forth showers of coloured fire, added to a
most beautiful exhibition of fireworks on the water, gave
great eclat to this part of the festival. The Royal Family
were at the windows of the Pavilion de Fiore ; and the
Place de la Concorde, the quays, the garden of the Tuile-
ries, &c., were crowded to excess. The bouquets at the
Barrier,: du Trone were also unusually good. The illumi-
nations burned brilliantly, and among them the dome of the
Pantheon, lighted all over, formed a new and imposing
picture. The Arc de Triompe de l'Etoile, and the cen-
tral avenue of the Champs Elysees (which was lighted in a
novel manner, by clusters of coloured lamps suspended
across the road), with the Invalides, the Chamber of De.
puties, the Madeline, the obelisk of Luxor, &c.. were ex-
ceedingly beautiful. Owing to the excellent precautions
taken by the police, the circulation of the masses of the po-
pulation was well maintained, and we have not heard of any
accident worth mentioning.
In Galignani's Messenger of Tuesday we find the
following remarkable communication from the theatre of
war in Spain. We will not venture, however, to vouch
for its correctness :

A letter from Onate, of the 24th ult., says :
' " Maroto and his partisans have thrown off the mask
1 with regard to Don Carlos, and are now openly trying to
[ make an arrangement between the two hostile parties in
Spain, notwithstanding the opposition of the Prince and
his immediate friends on one side, and of Espartero on the
other. Maroto and his supporters are stated to have the
abdication of the Prince in view, rather than not effect a
settlement of the question in this manner ; and to that end
the Carlist minister of war, Montenegro, had waited on the
Prince, on the 21st, to represent to him the exhausted state
of the treasury, the want of all necessaries experienced
by the army, the long standing of the arrears of pay,
&c., and recommending Don Carlos to consent to an ami-
cable settlement of the question in dispute. The Prince,
in reply, ordered Montenegro not to mention the subject
to him any more, and declared his intention of proceeding
immediately to Estella. The minister set forth the
danger of this proceeding, and on quitting the Prince im-
mediately issued strict orders that nobody should either
enter into or leave Onate without express permission, so
that Don Carlos is now held a close prisoner there by Me-
moo. The Prince, who had wished to get away secretly
from Nlaroto's reach, had previously issued an order to all
the Carlist refugees exiled by Maroto to retire into the
interior of France, knowing that such an order would not
be attended to, and using it as a cloak for his own designs.
Our correspondent adds that, such is the feeling of all
classes of inhabitants of the Basque provinces towards the
Prince, the moment they became aware of his being kept a
prisoner by Maroto they will rise to a man in his favour,
and a bloody re-action against the General will ensue."
BO UR SE. ---PA kIS, TUESDAY, JULY 30.
HALF-PAST THREE. —The business has been brisk in the
Hume Stocks. For the Account the Three per Cents.
opened at 79f. 80c., rose to 80f. 5c., and closed at 80f.,
being 25c. higher than on Saturday. The Five per Cents.
from 1 1 n. 95c., declined to 111 f. 85c., advanced to 119 f.
10c., and closed at 112 f. 5c., a rise of 15s. For Money
the Threo per Cents. are 2.5 c. higher, and the Five per
Cents. 15c. The Bank of France Shares are unvaried i

THE str, LoSThoST, THURSDAY, A

from their former quotation, as are the Laffitte Bank 1,000%
Shares, those of 5,000 f. are of. lower. The Belgian Five
per Cents. havq not been quoted. The Three per Cents.
tor the Account 72f. 50c. The Spanish Active has not
varied. The Versailles Right Bank Railway Shares are
15c. better. The only alteration is a decline of 2f. 50c. in
the Orleans. Nothing again done in St. Germain for
money. Some experimental trains went yesterday the '
whole way to Versailles, and it is said the right bank will
be opened to the public on Sunday.

I irst Highest Lowest Last
Price I'rice. Price. Place
French 5 per Cents H2 ... 112 10 ... 112 ••• I 2 5
4 per 4 ents
.1
3 per Cents .(7)4
,j 5
...... 1;43) :.... 1,.(;
,5
...... 8
103,
Bank of e'rance 2750 —.2750 ...2750 ...2730
Latfitte Bank I.ooof. Sh lO5O ...MO —.1050 ...1050
5,000 f. :'h 5215 ...5215 ...5215 ...5215
Belgian Bank 777 50 ... 780 ... 777 50 ... 760
Spanish Ac ive
Passive 3 4
... ... 4 ..• 4
Neapolitan ••• 100 ... 100 ... 99 90 ... 99 90
Roman lO2 ... 102 ... 101% ... 101. ii
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, N. B 677 50 ... 682 50 ... 677 50 ... 082 50
• L.B. :335 ... 345 ... 335 ..• !-115
Havre
Orleans .
Strasburg to Bale ••• 327 50 ... 330 ... 327 50 ... 330
Montpellier to Cette ...... ... 400 ... 400 ... 397 50 ... 397 30
ASPHA LTES AND BITUMENS.
Seyssel (A)
DUTCH FUNDS.—Asorrnanam, JutT 29
.51 % 5544
Actual Debt, `2!...f , per Cent Money, Bills.
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent
A inert Syndic, 4% per cent ................•
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent Bl% 82
Commercial Company, 4,:, per cent 173%, 173%
Ditto (1532 and 1833)5 per cent.
Ditto 1837, 5 per cent
Loan 1'637, 5 Per c0nt..... .................. - 1(0q
Exchange on London, One month l2 05
Two months
BELGIAN 1' UNDS—HitUBSELPI, JULY 39.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, .5 per Cent
4 per Cent.
Loan of Thirty Millions,
Loan of City, 1832, 4 . per Cent
3 per Cent.
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent ll7
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 74%
National Society . _
—Brussels Papers, July 30.
A USTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JULY 22.
Five per Cents. Mctalliques
Four per Cents.
101%
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares B2
—AligeineineZeiturtg„ July 27 .. 1523
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, JULY 25.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent Bills. Money,
.. ........
...low, 102
7i%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent.. 103!,4 1(12
I••xchange on London, three months ... 6 21%
—Prussian State Gazette, July 26.

Letters from Constantinople of the 10th ult., have
been received. The capital continued tranquil, not-
withstanding that the defeat of the army, and the defec-
tion of the fleet, was generally known. Old KOSREFF
"'Actin, who may be said to enjoy the supreme autho-
rity under the SULTAN, had quietly disposed of the dis-
affected, as a number of shaven polls were seen floating
in the Bosphorus. The Divan was very busy, and the
couriers attached to the different embassies were flying
in all directions. HAFIZ PACHA had fled with the re-
mains of his army to Malatia, where he proposed to
rally his forces, and march back to the Euphrates.
Besides the letters from Constantinople, we have
received the Augsburg Gazette of the 25th ult., in
which we find the following correspondence from
Alexandria :

" Aintab has been re-taken, and the garrison under
Osman Pasha made prisoners of war. Ibrahim generously
amnestied the inhabitants of the city. The Egyptian
army entered Anatolia in three columns by Orfa, Aintab,
and Marasch. The object of this expedition was to pursue
and disperse the Ottoman army. Five thousand of the
prisoners have enlisted in the ranks of the Egyptian forces,
who are to be sent to Arabia. A Russian army was ex-
pected to land in Anatolia, in which case Ibrahim was
determined on marching against the invaders. This intel-
ligence was considered certain in Egypt.
" The Egyptian fleet, which is still cruising before
Alexandria, has just been reinforced by the ship-of-the-
line, No. 12, whose armament was attended with many de-
plorable accidents, 80 persons were killed by the fall of
the masts or some other cause, owing to the haste with
which the works were conducted. The ship itself was
nigh being wrecked on quitting the harbour, having re-
mained during several hours lying on a rock near the coast.
Fortunately, however, the wind was low, and by means of
an Egyptian steamer and the boats of several trading yes_
sets the ship was got off without being much damaged.
" The British squadron, from Malta, is expected at Alex.
andria."

Married on Tuesday, at Watford, Herts, the
Viscount Newry and Morne, son of the Earl of Kiimorrey,
to Anne Amelia, eldest daughter of General the Hon. Sir
Charles Colville, G. C. B.
We are credibly informed, that amongst the Tory
claims at the ensuing Registration for this Borough, will
be one on behalf of the ci-decant Radical, Mr. Samuel
Wells, in respect of his occupation of a printing-house,
as one of the trustees of the Independent Press !! ! Mr.
Wells has also announced his intention of becoming a can-
didate for the Borough at a future eleet'on.—[ Some of
our readers may recollect, that Mr. Wells on a former
occasion offered himself for Cambridge, in the literal sense
of the term, for as he could obtain no support amongst
the electors, he was compelled to be his own proposer at
the hustings. Mr. Wells has also been at various times
an unsuccessful candidate for Peterborough, Eye, Sud-
bury, Canterbury, Dundee, and some half-a-dozen other
places; and has ineffectually endeavoured to obtain a seat
in the Common Council of London, as representative for
the ward of Farringdon without.]—Cambridge Advertiser.
THE TOTNES ELECTION.—We apprehend that
Mr. Baldwin has no chance. His conduct towards Mr.
Parrott showed that he never expected to win. What
business had he to attack Mr. Parrott upon his private
circumstances? and surely Mr. P. had a right to resign his
seat without consulting Mr. Baldwin I I—Devonshire
Chronicle.
Lady Eleanor Howard, eldest daughter of the
Earl and Countess of Wicklow, is to be united in about a
month to Mr. Stuart, a cousin of the Marquis of London-
derry. The gentleman is a widower, and reported to be
very rich,
We learn from Avranches that the carriages con-
taining, the prisoners condemned by the Court of Peers ar-
rived there on Tuesday, at two P.m. Armand Barbes,
Martin Bernard, Delsade, and Austen were then succes-
sively taken out, and taken to the prison, without being
allowed any communication with each. other. The van then
took the road towards Brittany, to carry Mialon to his des-
tination (Brest). The following morning a covered van
took Martin Bernard, Delsade, and Austen to Mont St.
Michael. Armand Barbes followed in a cabriolet, escorted
by the gendarmes of the place. They were then con-
ducted to their cells, which are a very comfortable sort of
dungeon, being large, airy, clean, &c., with a southern
aspect. Each cell contains four 100p-holes two feet high
by six inches, strongly barred with iron. From these cells
the prisoners have an extended view of the coast of Nor-
mandy and Brittany, and the dreary waste of sands which
separate the castle and the coast. The old abbey is at pro.
sent the prison of three legitimatists, who have also lately
been condemned.—Gazette dcs Tribunaux.
On Tuesday morning an inquest was held at the
Guy Earl of Warwick, in Belton-street, Long-acre, before
Mr. Wakley, M. P., on the body of Mr. George Duckett,
aged 69. years. The deceased bad formerly carried on an
extensive business as a tinman and brazier, but through
losses in trade and other misfortunes of late years, he had
become reduced to great poverty. On Sunday night be
retired to bed with his wife in his usual state of health, and
on the following morning Mrs. Duckett, on awaking, dis-
covered her husband a corpse by her side. He had evi-
dently expired without the slightest struggle. Verdict--
" Natural Death." The deceased was just on the eve of
coming into possession of an estate of the value of 1,2001.
per annum, bequeathed to his family by the late Dr.
Harris, of Doctors' Commons.
EFFECTS OF NURSING.—A farmer residing in
the neighbourhood of Lockerbie had, some time ago, in
his possession a bitch of a cross between the bull-dog
and terrier, which displayed a most remarkable propensity
for destroying hares; eventually she became so skilful as
to be able almost entirely to fend for herself. However
economical this practice might be, her master discouraged
it as much as possible, for lairds have a most surprising
dislike to sporting dogs being kept on a farm ; but all was
of no avail, hares were gobbled up without either
law or license, and it was not until the all-engrossing
duties of a mother came upon her, that "poor puss"
obtained a short respite. Our farmer wisely recollecting
the proverb "that what is bred in the bone will remain in
the iesh," determined to root out the sporting mania, and
forthwith the poor hare-hunter's numerous progeny were
consigned to the tender mercies of the mill-pond—thus suf-
fering unmeritedly for the sins of their mother, who,
after pining for a day or two, disappeared for some
hours, and returned bearing a leveret in her mouth, which
she suckled with the greatest care for a fortnight, and would
have continued to do so, had not a strange dog killed the
adopted denizen of the field ; she then brought a second
home, which unluckily shared a similar fate; but strange to
say, although a considerable period of time has elapsed,
she has never been known to kill a single hare since.
numerous cases have occurred in which the milk imbibed
has had a remarkable effect on the suckling—a fact turned
to admirable account by Sir Walter Scott in the " Fair
Maid of Perth ;" but this is the first instance we have met
with of the giver of suck having its disposition so entirely
changed by the exercise of the maternal duties. —Duntfries
Courier.

IRISH PREJUDICE.—At an inquest held on
Monday before Mr. Wakley, M. P., at the Middlesex
Hospital, on the body of an Irishman, named Morrisy, who
died in consequence of being kicked in the groin by his
owe horse, Mr. Gerrard, the house-surgeon, observed
that deceased laboured under inflammation of the peri-
toneum, and was going on well until Sunday last, on the
evening of which day he died, in a great degree from the
excitement consequent upon the visits of numerous rela-
tions and friends, who continually tormented him and
wished to take him home. The Coroner—Are the
promiscuous visits of friends and acquaintances permit.
ted ? Mr. Gerrard—We. cannot prevent them, parti-
cularly on visiting days. The Coroner—l am very
sorry for it. The excitement they cause frequently
snaps the slight thread by which patients' lives are held.
Besides, visitors to hospitals are continually introducing
ardent spirits, the giving which to patients destroys in an
instant all the good the doctors may have previously done.
The Governors and arectors have the power to prevent a
multitude of visitors, and they ought to exercise it. The widow
of the deceased, a powerful woman, said her husband told
her he was kicked by the horse whilst rubbing down its legs,
and she complained bitterly of the house-surgeon, who she
said had opened the body after promising be would not do so.
She vowed with words and looks of vengeance that she
would " do" for the surgeon the first time she caught him
in the streets. The Coroner told her that it was by his
orders the body was opened, and asked why the Irish were
so much prejudiced against post mortem examinations?
Mr. Gerrard said such examinations, it appears, rendered
dead bodies unfit for a " wake." Verdict—" Accidental
death."