The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNES,)AY, NOVEMBER 1, 1837.

salt of the affair of the 14th, has been to enable Espar-
tero to place his forces between the Pretender and Zaria-
tegui. This latter is pursued by Lorenzo, in the direction
of Villafranca, whilst Espartero returned from Barbadillo
and Sales de los Infantes—(interrupted by nightfall)."
The substance of the news here given, appeared in
most of the London Journals of yesterday. The pas-
sage of the Ebro by Don SEBASTIAN is not con-
firmed, though the general belief in Paris is, that the
Prince arrived, along with SANZ, at Estella.
There is a good deal of election gossip in the Jour-
nals of Monday, in the details of which an English
reader could not be expected to take the slightest in-
terest. The following are extracts :
It is the Pharc which has been sent to Bona with the
despatches of the Government for General Voice : it left
Toulon on the 23d, at six in the afternoon. These dis-
patches were transmitted from Paris to Toulon by the
telegraph.
The Gazette du Midi of the 26th says :
" The sick from Bona are beginning to arrive. Two
ships anchored in the road yesterday ; they had taken on
board 276 sick, of whom 108 being convalescent, were re-
moved at Algiers to the brig Desire. The physicians de-
clare that they have not observed any case of cholera during
the passage."
The Courtier de Lyons says :
" We are assured that Napoleon Louis Bonaparte has
obtained passports to go to England by way of Munich,
Magdeburg, and Hamburg. We arc also assured, which
is much less probable, that the Duchess of St. Leu, in the
last moment of her life, made her son solemnly promise to
abjure all ambitious projects, and to pass the remainder of
his life in retirement. What is certain is, the Prince was
still at Areeenberg on the 22d."
There is nothing official in the Moniteur this morning.
This is the third day that the mail from Madrid has not
arrived.
It was lately said that Count Gonfaloneire had received
permission to reside at Montpellier, but it appears from the
following lines that the permission is not so limited :
" Count Mole, says the Belgian papers, has authorised
the French Legation at Brussels to sign the passport of
Count Gonfalioniere for his free return to France."
FRENCH FUNDS —PARIP, OCT. 30.
Five per Cents., 109 f GOc. 4 c. 50c.
Four per Cents., 100 f. Sc.'' 30c.
Thr,e per Cents., 801. 95c. Slf.
Rente de Naples, 09f. 4! c. 25c. 20. c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%.
Spanish Actives, 20% 21.
Spanish Passives, 44%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102 g, 103.
Brussels Society, 1,657 f. s'c. 1,655 f.
Belgian Bank, 1,47 Cf.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 22%4%.
EXCHANGIR ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 50c. • money, 25f. 47%c
Three months, paper, 25f. ; Money, 255..30r.
—Cours Authentiaue.

other subjects connected with their temporal affairs."
This is rather a charitable construction upon the con-
duct of our legislators—hereditary and elective. " Cha-
rity," we are told, " thinketh no evil," and here is a
proof of it in a Christian Bishop I Many of the laity, it
s well known, hold tithe property, but how insignificant
in amount compared with that held by the Church ;
yet, to give even a colour of truth to the insinuation of
the Bishop of ROCHESTER, the laity ought to possess
the larger portion ; for if they do not, it is clear that
they would gain by the entire abolition of tithe.
There are sonic things in the Act which the Bishop
cannot stomach ; and one of these is, that waste
lands are exonerated from the future payment of tithe.
The consequence of this arrangement must be, that there
will be no provision for the cure of those unhappy
souls that may be located there in after times, but
what " may be derived from voluntary contributions.'
What a horrible calamity The mode, too, of
commuting the tithe is, according to our Bi-
shop, liable to some suspicion, but he com-
forts himself with the reflection that the value
and quantity of the tithe varied before ; and if they
should do so after the commutation, the Clergy will
not be worse off than they were. What gross igno-
rance is here exhibited The value may in future
vary ; but every tyro knows that there cannot be any
variation in the quantity, the very object of the Act
being to make that invariable.
The next subject that provokes the Bishop's ire is
the Marriage Act. His Lordship of ROCHESTER IS
perfectly horror-stricken at the profanity of which the
Legislature has been guilty in passing this Act. Be-
cause, forsooth, people are no longer compelled to
employ ministers of the law-established Church to tie
the nuptial knot, but may " choose their own
ministers"—aye, there's the rub—or may dis-
pense, if they think fit, with a religious ceremony,
therefore " Christianity is set at nought." By way
of a clincher, the absolute necessity of a religious ce-
remony to make a marriage valid in the sight of GOD,
is proved by a misquotation of Scripture. The words,
" Whom, therefore, GoD bath joined together, let no
man put asunder," are, according to the Bishop of Ro-
CII ESTER, proof positive that a religious ceremony is
essential to marriage ! Now, the Right Reverend
Father in GOD has here shown that be is not much
better acquainted with the Scriptures than he is with
the Tithe Commutation Act. There are no such words
in the New Testament. The Bishop has fallen into an
error not uncommon among persons of his cloth. He
has mistaken the Book of Common Prayer for the
Bible. We must, therefore, refer him to the " law and
the testimony," where he will find that the answer
given by our SAVIOUR, when the Pharisees were
attempting to entrap him into the decision of a point
of law, had not the most remote reference to the
celebration of marriage as a religious rite. It related
solely to divorce, and was purposely expressed in the
form of a general proposition, to which no objection
could be taken by the most cavilling and snare-setting
Doctor of Divinity in the whole Jewish nation.
We must also inform the Bishop, that the law which
connected the celebration of marriage with the Church
of England is not quite a hundred years old—that
certain classes of the community were excepted from
its operation—and that the law of Scotland, where
the people are fully as religious as in England,
requires no religious ceremony to make the marriage
contract valid. If, therefore, the Legislature has
" set Christianity at nought" in this instance, it is
not the first time that a Legislature has committed
at sin.

LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 55c.
Three per Cents. 81f. sc.
Rente de Naples, ll.lf. 35e.
Roman Five per Cents., 102,6.
Belgian Loan, 103.
Belgian Bank. 1,470 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 22%.
Spanish Actives, 21.
Spanish Passives 4%.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

The return of Grain and Flour this morning is very !mall,
except of Oats from Ireland, of which there is a good quan-
tity. There is very little Wheat for sale, and prices remain
as last reported. Barley, Beans, and Pease are unaltered.
The prices of Oats are unvaricd from last report, but the
trade is dull. The millers unexpectedly reduced the top price
of Flour to 525. per sack, after the Market on Monday.

ABB! VALS.
I Wheat. Barley.
English
Irish - -
Foreign 670 -

Oats. I Flour.
1,°40 (vs 1 1.040 sacks.
10,209 1 -

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
We have no arrivals this morning, with the exception of
the French Mails, and an Express from Paris.
This being a holiday at the Bank, Stock Exchange, and
Foreign Market, very great dulness prevails in the City.
The Royal Exchange is open, but few Brokers or Job-
bers have as yet made their appearance ; and, owing to the
bad state of the weather, it is not expected that many of
them will come to town.
To the present hour no speculations have been entered
into, and the prices of the British and Foreign Stocks are
nominal.
The two American packets, which are anxiously ex-
pected, have not as yet made their appearance—no doubt
contrary winds must be the cause.
Consols may be quoted 93 to 931 for Money and for
the Account.

Be that as it may, the Bishop has great consolation
in thinking that " the good sense, the piety, and
moral feeling of the people will render the new
law almost entirely inoperative." We thought that it
was the duty of a Bishop to preach obedience to the
laws—to teach the people to respect the laws as the ne-
cessary means of securing the peace and good order of
society. We find, however, that we were mistaken.
To set them at defiance, or at least to " render then
inoperative," is now declared from the Episcopal
Throne to be a proof of good sense, piety, and moral
feeling in the people I

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
We have a vcry thin attendance at the Royal Exchange
the present time. Most of the brokers and jobbers have
already taken their departure, finding that no speculations
were transacting. Two or three trifling bargains are re-
ported to have been done.
Consols at 93 to ; Portuguese about 32 ; Spanish l 9
20 with Coupons. Indeed the prices are almost nominal.
We have received Liverpool letters, dated yesterday
evening, six o'clock, which do not mention the arrival of
the American packets, or of their being in sight.
A Special Court is now holding at the India House,
for the purpose of granting a sum of 20,0001. for the benefe
of the Marquis of Wellesley.

The whole of the Paris journals of Monday have
been received. The Moniteur contains in its official
columns the following intelligence from Africa :

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 93 to 93k.

" TOULON, OCT. 29, FIvE, A.M.
" THE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MINISTERS OF WAR
AND MARINE AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL.
" The Etna, which sailed on the 25th from Bona, arrived
yesterday evening. The despatches were immediately for-
warded by estafette. I have nothing official from Bona.
A number of officers who left Constantine on the 20th
have reported that no fighting has taken place since the
13th. The Arabs outside the town come daily to the
market, which is very abundant., and, notwithstanding the
emigration, a number of the inhabitants are favourably
disposed. The Princes are in perfect health, and are well
established in the Bey's palace ; it is stated that they arc
to quit Constantine between the 20th and 30th. The
heavy artillery, a part of the materiel, the remains of
General Damremont, and a convoy of wounded, have
arrived at Guelma. There have been fib cholera eases at
Bona since the 22d."

Three large churches in the Gothic style are now
building in the large parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney. One
of them is nearly completed. A new church is in the
the course of erection in the Kent-road, another in the
parish of Rotherhithe, nearly two miles from the old
church, where two others are to be erected, and one in
Holloway. Additional churches will be shortly built in
the parishes of St. George, Southwark, and St. George in
the East, where there is a great want of accommodation for
the religious public.
We hear with much surprise that the system of
education, or some other cause, operates to deprive Ro-
man Catholic children of all advantages from the Upper
Naval School at Greenwich. Now that all ranks in the
navy are equally open to the Catholic as to the Pro-
testant, it seems at once inconsistent and cruel to deny
to the child—it may be the helpless orphan—of a Ca-
tholic officer the blessings of that charitable institution.
We sincerely trust that we have in this matter been
misinformed.—S?lnday Paper.
The Archduke John of Austria and Prince Adal-
bert of Prussia embarked at Yalta on the Ist of October
fer Constantinople, where they arrived in perfect safety
after a stormy passage of three days.
HOPS.—At the late fair at NiVeyhill the prices turned
out to fall short of what the majority of the growers anti-
cipated some of whom, however, had the good sense to
remember that the largeness of the old stock in hand was
such as could by no means justify those expectations.
A Correspondent, who has had some experience
upon the subject, recommends persons who use omnibuses,
especially during dark weather and short days, to be always
supplied with loose silver, and never to use or show a purse.
FRENCH LITERATURE.—The number of works
of every description printed in France during 1836, was
5511, which may be thus classified ;
Science and Art
Belles Letters
History
Theology
Jurisprudence

If the French succeed in gaining the confidence of
the natives, they will have little difficulty in keeping
possession of Constantine. The cruelties of the BEY
rendered him an object of terror rather than of reve-
rence to the inhabitants, whom he ruled with a rod of
iron ; nor is there a Governor whom they would not
prefer to him, provided proper respect be paid to their
religious observances. When the French entered
ACIIMET'S Palace, they found it occupied by twenty
of his wives, and eighty female attendants, whom the
Princes gave orders should be treated with the utmost
respect. The officers who were honoured with an in-
terview with the fair inmates of the BEY'S harem,
were not impressed with any lively idea of his taste in
the selection of female beauty. The following extract
from a letter from Bona, dated the 21st ult., contains
some interesting details of the capture of Constantine
not found in the accounts hitherto published :

" The chiefs of two of the most important tribes in the
environs have made their submission. They state that the
leading men have been massacred by Achmet Bey; be-
cause they refused to assist him. Nearly all the tribes
who had joined him, and more particularly those along the
coast, have also come in. Several persons, suspected of
having been emissaries of the Bey, have disappeared from
Bona. Some of the Arabs of the plain have made offers
to supply the army with cattle, and to give hostages for
their faithfully delivering them. Several staff officers are
about to sail for Toulon, whence we are expecting reinforce-
ments and supplies, necessary for maintaining Constantine
and the camps during the winter, and for preventing our
communications from being intercepted. We have still a
great many sick, though the general state of health is
much improved. All the wounded at Constantine are
doing well, but those belonging to Achmet's army are
dying fast away. We have not 500 killed in all ; but four
or five times as many of the Africans and Turks have been de-
stroyed, although a great number escaped from the town be-
fore and during the assault, which succeeded on the first
effort, and was not necessary to be renewed four or five
times, as has been stated. This report may have arisen from
there being three columns of 300, 600, and 1,000 men, pre-
pared ready in the trenches, and who mounted the breach in
succession, and irresistibly drove the enemy before them.
Seven or eight bags of gunpowder, of 1001bs. each, placed
on the breach, to be used if wanted for burstir, open the
doors of the houses, caught fire, and by the explosion some
of our men were killed. This has given rise to a report that
they had blown up by a mine formed by the enemy. All
the inhabitants of Constantine are venting their curses on
Achmet, who may probably be murdered by the Arabs, to
whom he is now obliged to entrust his safety ; for his regular
paid troops are by no means either so good or so many as was
believed. No money was found in Constantine, at least
none belonging to the Bey ; but the mosques are still rich,
though plundered by Achmet. There are large stores there
provisions and merchandize."
From Spain no news of any interest is contained in
the French Journals of Monday, except the following
telegraphic despatch, which is Incomplete :
" 1301IDEAUX) OCT. 26, Half-past Six, r.m.....Th9 re-

—Statistical Journal. 5511
HEREFORDSHIRE CATTLE.—At the sale of Mr.
Jellicoe's Herefordshire cattle, by Mr. Cooke, on Monday
last, at Beighterton, near Si►iffnal, six cows averaged 521.
3s. 4d. each ; two bull calves, 601. 10s. each ; four heifer
calves, 261. 2s. 6d. each ; and two yearling heifers, 421.
10s. each. One of the bull calves was purchased by J. R.
Smithies, Esq., of the Lynch, Herefordshire ; the other by
John Walker, Esq., of Burton Court, One cow and a cow
calf were bought for 1191. by Mr. Price, of Poole House,
Upton-on-Severn, from whose stock the late Mr. Jcllicoa
bred nearly the whole of his herd. The six calves were by
Mr. Price's bull O'Connell, and were all calved since the
4th day of March last.—Gloucester Journal.
REVENGE OF A BULL.—About two years ago, a
farmer residing near Fort George had occasion to beat a
young bull on his farm, to turn him off a field. The animal
appears to have retained a keen sense of his ill usage, for,
whenever his master happened to come near him, he evinced
a disposition to attack him. 011 Sunday last, while fold-
ing the cattle, the farmer was driving in the bull amongst
the rest, when the enraged animal suddenly sprung upon
him, threw him down, and tossed him round the court.
If not rescued in time by a servant who came with a
pitchfork to his release, the individual in question would,
in all probability, have been killed on the spot. He was
much injured, and his clothes were torn in shreds.—lnver-
ness Courier.
There arc fewer English of distinction at present
residing at Naples and Castellamare than has been known
for several years, and the approaching winter is not expected
to be distinguished by any brilliant entertainments by the
British visiters. The melancholy deaths of Lady Drum-
mond and Sir Richard Dolberg Acton, who had for many
years contributed to the gaieties of the Neopolitan circles
of fashion, by their balls, concerts, and evening parties, have
been severely felt there. The Court and the corps diplo-
matique will, however, do what they can to enliven the
fashionables ; and San Carlos will be open three times a
week—Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays.