The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-21 00:00:00

till the whole capital amounts to 800,0001. There

cannot be a doubt if the creek Government act
with good faith in this affair of the new Bank, but
that its establishment will prove of immense service
to Greece. We place, however, very little confi-
dence ' in the professions of King OTHO and his
1 Ministers. His MAJESTY has a good deal of the
busy-body in his nature ; and, like most people
who busy themselves overmuch, is constantly med-
dling with matters which he does not understand.
Whoever may be cook, he must have a finger in the
pie. Now this Royal meddling with commercial
establishments is always injurious ; and should
OTHO want money, we are apprehensive that the
political economists of Greece would have a hard
task to make him comprehend so much of their
system as to understand why a Bank with his
Royal authority for making it, should refuse to
supply him with as much as he might think proper
to demand. OTHO, no more than the " good old
GEORGE the THIRD," that Tory pattern of a
patriot King, would ever discover, if left to his
unaided reflections, how an apple could get into the
heart of a dumpling !

----
Madrid Journals of the 12th inst. have been re-
ceived. A report prevailed there that an assassin,
employed by CABRERA to kill ESPARTERO, had,
in mistake, murdered Colonel LA vrrrA, the chief
of General LEON'S staff. The desertions from the
Carlist ranks were exceedingly numerous. Madrid
was tranquil. The Five per Cents. were at 27 for
cash, the demand being very inconsiderable.

It was announced in Paris on Wednesday even
ng that a revolution had broken out at Constanti

nople, but that the Government succeeded in crush-
ing it after some blood had been shed. The Temps
of Thursday states the rumour to be • without
foundation.

Three subjects of considerable interest occupy
he columns of the Paris journals of Thursday—
he affair at the Mauritius between the Colonial
Governor and the Captain of the Isere ; the pre-
sence of the Duke of BORDEAUX at Rome ; and
the escape of the Count DE CROUY CHANEL,
arrested on the charge of being one of the princi-
pals in the Bonapartist-Bourbon conspiracy. Re-
specting the Mauritius affair, the National, the
Qnotidienne, the France, the Capitole, the Jour •
nal de Paris, and the Presse, are all for nothing
short of a war with Great Britain. Their national
honour has been stained, and nothing but blood,
or the sight of England on her knees at the feet of
France can wash it out. The constant efforts of
the organs of the Legitimist and Tory factions on
both sides of the Channel to stir up strife between
two great nations, cannot be too strongly depre-
cated. The labouring classes of England and
France are in a condition sufficiently deplorable
without adding to their misery by entailing upon
them the burthen of more war taxes. We have
already had too much of the tinsel glory
derived from cutting the throats of our fellow-crea-
tures. When will the people learn that the quar-
rels of States must always be to them a losing
game—that there can be no true honour in going
forth to murder their fellow-mortals, with whom
they have never had any cause of anger, at the
bidding of a profligate Minister or an unjust
Prince ? Nations, like individuals, are too prone
to quarrel, and the efforts of the press ought to be
unceasingly directed to the repression of this brutal
propensity. If we are to have contests with our
neighbours let them consist in the rivalry of dif-
fusing intelligence, and the blessings of an en-
lightened civilization. Wars are the legacies
which barbarism has bequeathed to us, and were
the people wise they would no more think of re-
viving them to settle questions of right than they
would of throwing aside their garments, pulling
down their houses, and returning again to the life
and customs of their savage ancestors.
A letter from Rome dated the 4th inst. states
that the French Ambassador, M. DE LATOUR-
MAUBOURG had communicated an official note to
the Papal Government, declaring that all diploma-
tic relations between the Courts of Paris and Rome
were suspended, and would continue so till his
Holiness give a satisfactory explanation of his con-
duct in receiving the Duke of BORDEAUX. On
the other hand the Papal Internuncio at Paris has
complained to the King of the FRENCH of the in-
solent bearing of his Representative at Rome, and
represented that the POPE only received the
Duke as Head of the Church, and at the ear-
nest solicitation of the Empress-Mother and
the Court of Austria. For ourselves we are
of opinion that the French Government acted
very unwisely in attaching the slightest importance
to the presence of the Duke of BORDEAUX
at Rome, or whereever else, out of France, he
might choose to take up his residence, It is
the national choice, not the right of descent which
henceforth must form the basis of a claim to the
Throne of France. The last revolution has de.
stroyed in France all knowledge of preten.
ders to her sovereignty whose claims rest on heredi-
tory succession.

The escape of the Count de CROUP CITA NEL
from the gendarme who was conducting him to
the Conciergetie, is supposed to have been winked
at by the Government, who would prefer having,
as little as possible to do with Prince Louts NA-
POLEON. The C'apito/e treats the matter with
great levity ; and perhaps, wisely too, as its prin-
cipal editor, M. DURAND, being one of the per-
sons implicated, can have no reason to wish the
Government to view it in a serious light. We mad•
here mention, that the Countess de CROUP
CHANEL has been arrested on suspicion of aiding
the escape of her husband.

The Journal du Mare of the 18th inst. publishes the
following return of the trade between France and Spain
, durint, the
year 18:39 :

Exports from France into Spain :—Natural produc-
tions of the country, 12,176,301 f. ; foreign ditto,
8,200,909 f. ; French manufactures, :33,48.5,689f.; fo-
reign ditto, 16,3;34,779—t0tal 70,197,5581.
Imports from Spain into France :—Articles of manu-
facture, 27,742,491 francs; of consumption, 3,501,372 f.;
manufactured, 4,702,751L—1n all, 35,946,614 f.
It appears by these returns that the exports from
France into Spain exceeded the imports from Spain
into France by 34,250,944 f.
The Ministers met yesterday, the 18th, in an extra-
ordinary Council, at the Palace. It was at this meet-
ing that the Cabinet proposed the first outlines of the
opening speech from the throne. The Ministers have
thought it best not to enter on this discussion too long
before hand, for fear of exciting among them personal
demands and divisions.—L' Ushers.

A letter frc.m Vienna, dated the 10th, published in
the Leipsic Universal Gazette, says that Austria has
given instructions to Prince Esterhazy, who is now at
Paris, to negotiate an arrangement between France and
England in the Oriental question, so as to compel the
Cabinet of St. Petersburg to accede to the stipulations
which these three Powers may conclude between them.
As this mission of Prince Esterhazy will detain him too
long at Paris, Baron Neumann has been sent from
Vienna to London, to take his place there.
BOURSE.—PARIS, THURSDAY, DEr. Ig.

irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price.
irench 5 per Cents lll7O ... 112 ... 111 70 ... 11195
4 per Cents lO2 102 ... 102 ... 102
3 per cents BO 40 ▪
80 50 80 40 ... So 50
Bank of ',ranee Ogg i 990 —2980 ...2987 50
Laftitte Bank i,ooof. Sh 1077 50 ...IWO —1077 50 —.lOBO
5000 f. Sh 5220 ...5220 —.5225 ...5225
Belgian 5 per Cent‘
3 per Cents
Bank ........ .... 815 ... 850 ... 815 ... 850
Spanish Ac,ive ............. 2.5!4 •
251,6 2,54
Passive ...
Portuguese 3 Per &nis:
(% 23},i ... 2;4
Neapolitan
vlteormsaiann.e.s..., ...... ............................................................................... 15001750 1500171
LB..
Orleans . • 952 50 ... 452 50 ... 432 50 452 50
Strasburg to
133
eASPHALTEs3IASI,ID 315 313 75 ••• 313 75
IT
Yarn (Maberly's)
425
370 8270 ... U•%IENS
37 ... . 370
Seyssel (English) ••• 425 425 ... 425

The Mayor of Bristol,
Fr anklyn, Esq.,
the High-sheriff, Richardr Vaughan, Esq Thomas
Daniel, and George orrall, Esq., had the honour to
be included with the Royal party at dinner at his Grace
the Duke of Beaufort's, at Badminton, on Friday.—
Bristol Gazette.