The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 22. IRI9.

slme day, we have before us only a temporary one. It is
necessary that Ministers should declare which they are.
Although we have no right to interrogate our Colleagues,
I think such of them whose names have figured in the se-
veral combinations which have been proposed are bound to
inform us what were the causes to which the sterility of
their efforts are to be attributed. I shall not name to the
Chamber the day on which it will be desirable that such
explanations should be given ; let it be to-morrow or Mon-
day—the earlier the better.

Several voices—Why not to-morrow ? No, no, Monday.
M. Mauguin.—l will add one remark, which concerns
the actual administration. Only yesterday there appeared
in the public prints, in reference to the affair of the English
packet Express, a correspondence represented as having
been signed by our Ambassador. I cannot belied it to
be so, but it is so represented. I demand from the present
Ministers, who are at least responsible for what they do
whilst in the exercise of power, to lay on the bureau all do-
cuments relative to that negotiation. I shall afterwards
beg the Chamber to listen to the explanations with regard
to it.

Several voices—On Monday.
M. Mauguin assented.

Baron Tupinicr (Minister of Marine)—l have no objec
tion to offer to the proposition just made to you by M.
Mauguin, of fixing a day for the interpellations tube ad-
dressed either to the Ministers or to some Members of this
Chamber. The present Ministry, as you all know, is
charged with the Admistration of the country. All our
wishes are fur the moment when a new Cabinet shall be
formed ; but if it is not constituted on Monday the present
Ministry will furnish the explanations demanded. As to
the documents of which the Hon. Member, M. Mauguin,
has also spoken, relative to the pilot taken from the Ex-
press, I request that the Chamber will postpone until
Monday any explanation on the subject.—( Cries of " To
Monday, to Monday," from all parts of the Chamber.)
The President then declared the sitting to be adjourned
till Monday. _ _

From an observation in the speech of M. PASSY, and a
remark made by Baron TUPINIER, it is clear that the
KING was hourly in expectation of entering into new
Ministerial arrangements. It was reported on the
Bourse on Saturday that the KING had either sent for,
or was about to send for M. TRIERS, and to give him
ample powers to form a Ministry. As Marshal SOULT
was to leave Paris yesterday for his seat in the country,
where he purposes to remain for some time, it is proba-
ble that he has at last given up all idea of success, as
the chief of a Cabinet, and that he quits the capital
that his presence may not interrupt other negotiations.
The following list was handed about as including the
names of the Members of a Cabinet, of which TIMERS
would be Foreign Minister and President of the
Council :

M. Dupin, Minister of Justice; M. Dufaurc, of the In.
tenor ; M. Passy, of Finance; Marshal Maison, of War
Admiral Duperre, of Marine; M. Vivien, of Public In.
struction; and M. Sauzet, of Commerce.
_ .

The prohibition of the exportation of corn and flour
from France is to cease on the Ist of May next.
The Journal de Paris has a letter from Petersburgh,
contradicting the reported disgrace of Count NESSEL-
RODE. His Excellency continues at the head of the
Foreign Department.

- .
CONSTANTINE.-All the camps in the province of Bona,
in changing their inhabitants have changed their appear-
ance in the hands of the 20th Regiment of the Line ;
they now have paved streets, plantations, and gardens.
At the camp of Toumoniots, Captain Montanbrun, of the
battalion of Africa, has made a convention with the
Kabyles in the vicinity ; according to which they are re-
ciprocally to protect each other against the robbers and the
assassins who infest that country. In consequence of this
agreement robberies and assassinations have entirely ceased,
and the market outside of the camp is always well sup-
plied. The Kabyles affirm that Zephyrs (the name by
which the Chasseurs on foot of Africa call themselves), are
French subjects, that they are brothers, and ought not to
hurt one another.

At Staender and Philippeville horses have been stolen
even in the very camps. General Galbois sent the Kalifs
Ben Oussa to the spot. A sheik, who was suspected of
being the chief of the robbers, has been arrested, and hopes
are entertained that all the criminals will be discovered.
General Galbois will shortly go to visit the camps between
this and Stora, and punish the guilty tribe if there should be
occasion.

The sentence passed by the Katilas on seven Arabs,
who have been condemned to death and executed, has pro-
duced a great effect on the native population. Since that
time there has not been a single assassination. The open-
ing of a Roman Catholic church and the public celebration
of divine worship, have also had a good effect on the natives,
who looked on us as dogs, thinking that we had no God.
Every Sunday we go to mass, though we arc not obliged
to do so. There is always a numerous congregation ; the
Mahoinetans likewise attend. Lately the Muftis and
Sheiks were present, and in the evening at the General's
they complimented our worthy priest on the ceremonies
performed ; they had much conversation together and
seemed to be very well acquainted with the Old Testament.

CHRISTINA does OUT conscientious Coll6Co.por_.,) 0
Shoe-lane.

The Augsburg Gazette of the sth instant ex-
presses itself in the following terms relative to the
position of the British Government in the East :-
4' India is so nearly menaced on the side of Persia
that it has become impossible to take the long
route by the Cape of Good Hope for the trans-
port of troops. They must now be sent by the way of
Egypt, but there is now nodoubt that MEHEMET ALI will
never lend himself to permitting a passage by this short
route ; and in this respect he is an obstacle which the
English have the greatest interest to remove. This
explains the taking of Aden; and it may also be seen
that from that moment MEriEmET ALt has assumed a
more imposing attitude."
This lets out a secret on the part of our Augsburg
Conremporary (which, by the bye, is no secret at all),
that MEHEMET ALI is jealous of our influence in the
East, and especially of the rapid progress of our steam
navigation in the Indian seas. The PACHA is aware
that the East India Company's navy at Bombay is
about to be converted into a steam flotilla, and that the
shores of Egypt, in the event of his attempting to stop
our communication by way of the Red Sea, could, in
the short space of about twenty days, be visited by a
force from Bombay, sufficient, at least, to convince him
that the march of improvement must not be stopped so
readily, by one inferior to us in power and civilization.
The taking of Aden has been a wise stroke of policy
on the part of our Indian Government ; and although
it was originally intended as a coal depot for the steamers
which ply between India and the Red Sea, the fortress,
in our hand, bids fair, in a political and military point
of view, to become a second Gibraltar, to which place
it bears, both in its natural strength and locality, a
striking resemblance.
That the Pacha of EGYPT was inimical to our oc-
cupation of Aden is apparent, from a report which
has reached us, that previously to the arrival of the
Agent from Bombay, to take possession of the place,
aereeably to the terms of its cession, the Pacha had
sent a body of troops to reinforce its slender garrison ;
and had held out certain prospects to the son of the old
Sheikh, sufficient to force us to storm the fortress,
the success of which is already known to our readers.
In another part of our paper will be found a short
and succinct account of this very important acquisition
to our power in the East.
A rumour was current at Calcutta, when the last
despatch left, that a Proclamation of War against
Burmah bad passed the Council. The promulgation
of it officially, was daily expected.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY. TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK.

Arrivals this morning—Two French, Two Ostend, and
a Dutch mail, with a number of ship letters of old dates,
with the exception of one from the Cape of Good Hope.
The Cape of Good Hope papers received to the 24th
of February are destitute of information, with the excep.
tion that the measles were prevalent and spreading with
great rapidity in Cape Town and its neighbourhood, and
will, probably, extend over the whole colony.
( From the Cape Papers.)
On the 22d February the Trafalgar, R. E. Bagster,
from Liverpool, sailed the 20th Nov., to Sydney; cargo
sundries, passengers 9 in the cabin, and 28 in the steerage;
in entering Table Bay last night, about half-past ten
o'clock, got becalmed near the Anchor Bay, and drifted
towards the shore, after missing stays, she let go her anchor,
but from the strength of the current, and the swell, dragged
her anchor, and went ashore. Crew and all passengers
saved. One woman was killed by a mast falling
upon her.

The Frontier post came in late on Thursday evening,
in consequence of being drawn by bullocks. The sick-
ness among the horses, it may be inferred, has been most
fatal.

(Penang papers received to the 25th November.)
Imports from Europe :_Cotton Manufactures—The
Chinese, from Singapore, have imported largely since our
last of long cloths and Madapottams, and have, in fact, of
late completely flooded our market with most of the suit-
able descriptions of cotton goods, which they have, as
usual, sold at very low cash prices—in many cases under
prime cost.

Exchanges on London—Navy and Treasury Bills three-
and-thirty days, at 4s. 3d. per dollar; Private Bills, with
local indorsations six months, 4s. 6d. ; Calcutta Govern-
ment bills at 30 days, 215 R. per 100 dollars.
We have received the Antwerp papers of yesterday's
date. Since the signing of the Treary of the 24 Articles,
the contents of the above papers are of minor importance.
The above papers contain an account of a fire which
took place in Stockheim as follows :—" Yesterday the 17th
of April a fire took place at a baker's house at Stock-
beim, and in less than one hour and a half 190 houses were
a prey to the flames, and 113 families are thrown into
misery. The fire was not extinguished when the accounts
left."

LIVERPOOI. COTTON-MARKET APRIL 20. —The Cotton.
Market has been quiet to-day, sales being 1,000 bags at
yesterday's prices.

THE FUNDS.

Consols opened this morning about the same prices as
they closed at on Saturday, with very little business doing
as yet, 921 it Money, and 921- 93 for the Account. Ex-
chequer Bilis, 44 46 ; Bank Stock, 1961- 197.
There is a great scarcity of intelligence this morning,
although it is a double post-day, and it was expected that
we should have heard of the arrival of the New York
packet-ship of the Ist instant, for which the merchants are
anxiously waiting to ascertain the state of commercial
affairs in the Unitcd States, as by the last accounts they
were of an unfavourable nature. Spanish Active, as they
closed, 19i 20,4 ; Portuguese, 34 35i ; Belgian, 104 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55a 31 ; Five per
Cents., 102+ 102 A--most of he prices nominal.
In the Cape of -Good Hope Papers, received this morn-
ing, an Ordinance is published, enacted by the Governor,
with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, for
applying a sums not exceeding 151,4051. 6s. Id. to the
service of the year 1839.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
Bank Stack 197
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cans 9•2A X
3 per Cent
Ditty Red. 991, X
New 3 per Cent loo3i9i
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities taexpire
Jan. 5, 1860 14% 7-16
Oct. 10, 1859
Jan. 5, 1860.
Jan. 5, 1580
April 5, 1880
Jan. 5. 1870
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds
Pelgian Bonds

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
India Stock
Ditto Bonds 45 46 pm
South Sea Stock
Old Annuities
New Ditto
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1731
Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 44 46 pm.
Ditto 500 ... 44 46 201.
Ditto Small ............... 44 46 pin.
Ditto Commercial pm.
Ditto Advertised
Bank Stock for Account ...
India Stock for Account ...
Consols for Account ...9270 3
THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds
Ditto Account
1 Portuguese Bonds
Ditto New Bonds

SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING—FRIDAY
BETTING IN THE EVENING.
DEILBY.
3 to 1 agst Cwsar and Dragoman (taken)
7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Caesar (taken)
7 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Dragoman
8 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's The Corsair (taken)
9 to I agst Col. Peel's The Dey of Algiers
10 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Euclid (take 12 to 1)
25 to 1 agst D. of Grafton's colt (taken)

LATEST BETTING AT MANCHErSTBIL

CHESTER TRADES' CUP.
6 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway—taken
6 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole—takata
6 to 1 agst Captain Berkeley's Caravan—taken
10 to 1 agst Lcrd Normanby s Gipsey_offered
11 to 1 agst Captain Healey's Van Buren—taken
15 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff— taken
16 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowlaoy—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam s Modesty
20 to 1 agst Mr. Griffith's Lugwardine—taken
25 to I agst Lord Westminster's Sir Ralph—taken

7 to I agst Mr. G. Clarke's Dragoman
7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Caesar
9 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers
10 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's The Corsair
16 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim
28 to I agst Mr. Thornhill's Euclid
33 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's iEthe •
33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-13ragh
33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Accelerator
•AYS.
10 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wapiti (taken)

PRICE OF SUGAR.