The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-12 00:00:00

nd quantify incinded in lit, and worth neither yrin-c nor less,
the value of a ,tand,trd pound will remain invai;able, while the
quantity of gold or silver, or any other single commodity,
which it may command in the market, will be changing as
often as such article may be scarce or abundant, or much or
little in demand."

Such is the substance of Mr. CROSS'S project, necessa-
rily divested of most of the facts and arguments by which
he supports its importance and practicability. We trust,
however, that we have quoted enough to induce those or
our readers who take an interest in this all-important sub-
ject to procure a copy of the pamphlet, and give the author
the benefit of a fair and consecutive perusal.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Sunday have been re-
ceived. On the Bth inst. the Duke of NEIIOURS landed

at Havre after a most perilous passage from Africa. His
Royal Highness was suffering from the fracture of his left
arm, which rendered him unable to endure the motion of a
carriage. On the 25th ult. the Phare steamer, appointed
to convey the Duke to France, left Gibraltar, whither she
had been driven by the stormy state of the weather. The
next day she was forced to seek shelter in Cadiz, and on
leaving that port nearly foundered in doubling Cape St.
Vincent. While walking the deck at Oporto the Duke fell
heavily on one of the port-holes and fractured his left
arm at the elbow. On leaving Oporto •a fire broke out
in the coal-room, and was with the greatest difficulty
extinguished, but not before the consumption of the
fuel on board. A fresh supply of coals was obtained
at Corunna, after which the Phare put out to sea,
and was driven into Falmouth Roads. The next day a
violent storm compelled the Captain to seek shelter behind
the Dike of Cherbourg ; so that the Phare was a whole
fortnight in effecting the passage from Gibraltar to Havre
—a distance usually sailed by vessels of inferior power in
four days. When the Duke's arrival at Havre was com-
municated to the Government, the QUEEN, the Princess
CLEmElsroma. of Orleans, and the Dukes of ORLEANS and
AUMALE, set out from Paris to receive him.
The Moniteur of Sunday has the following official an-
nouncetnent :
" Baron de Keenneritz, the Extraordinary Envoy and Ple-
nipotentiary Minister of Saxony, was admitted on Saturday to
a private audience of the King, to whom he handed letters
from his Sovereign in answer to the notification of the marriage
of Princess Marie of Orleans with the Duke of Wirtemberg.
Similar letters were also presented to Louis Philippe, on the
part of the Queens of England and Spain, by Mr. Aston,
Plenipotentiary Minister of her Britannic Majesty ; and
Count Campuzano, Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary
Minister of her Catholic. Majesty."
Letters from Semlin of the 24th ult. state that Russia is
doing all she can to prevent the establishment of the
Servian Constitution. Prince DoLconouxt, who has been
for some on a secret mission from the EMPEROR to Prince
Almoscx, appears to have succeeded in sowing the seeds
of bitter dissension among the leaders of every party. In
conducting these intrigues Russia receives the secret sup-
port of Austria, who hates Constitutions; and who is
willing, at any risk and in any quarter of the world, to
assist in overthrowing them. Russia is equally active in
extending her influence in the East, and unless checked
will soon be able to number Persia among the provinces
subject to her sway. In the mean time fresh levies are
ordered to recruit the army in Circassia, the EMPEROR
having vowed the subjugation of all the independent tribes
occupying that country, with a view of anticipating a future
appeal to arms.
The Journal des Debals publishes a letter from Pest
of the 25th ult., announcing the great excitement occa-
sioned by prep irations for the election of the Archbishop
of KARLOWII Z, chief of the Ilung.irian Greek Church,
under the Constitution granted to Hungary by Mailia
THERESA. The number of electors is 75, of whom one-
third are Churchmen, one-third Nobles, and a third,
Officers in the Army. As the members of the Greek
Church have greatly increased, the EMPEROR has been
petitioned to treble the number of Noble Electors.
PA ars, DEC. I.—A letter from Havre of the ninth says :
" Our Chamber of Commerce met yesterday to consider the
question of iron rail-roads, to which so little attention has
hitherto been paid. The Members of the Assembly appointed
Mr. Reilly President of the Chamber of Commerce, and M.
Ferrere to go to Paris and take the necessary steps to obtain
the line from Paris to Havre."
The Journal du Havre says:—" The Chamber of Com-
merce has decided at one of its late sittings, as tine Chamber
of Commerce of Havre had done before, that the permission to
export sugars ought not to be granted to our colonies."
The Journal du Havre of the Bth says—" Yesterday 25
Captains of merchantmen met at the Captains' Club,' to di.-
cuss the question relative to the re-exportation of the sugars of
our colonies. Several of the persons present at the meeting
spoke, to show the reason which should induce the Captains
to reject a faculty which would tend to annihilate the last re-
sources of our national navigation, and to break the commer-
cial compact which still binds the colonies to the mother coun-
try. After having favourably received this manner of stating
the question, the Captains decided unanimously, not only that
there was no ground to admit the proposal relative to expor-
tation, but that even in case the colonies should solicit this
privilege, France, both for its own interest and theirs, ought
to oppose any concession of this kind."
A letter from Vienna, of the 26th November, in the Franco-
nian Mercury says :—" It is now decided that the Govern-
ment will not contract any loan this year. The financial
accounts offer the most satisfactory results ; all the expenses
are provided for, and it is long since the finances of this
empire have been so flourishing."—Le Commerce, Dec. 10.

From the north of Spain the latest advices are of th
6th inst. ESPARTERO had then given orders for another
attack on the Valcarlo lines on the 7th, in order to
open a direct communication with France. The Carlists
were then in readiness to receive him, having anti-
cipated his intended movement in that direction. In
Estrernadura and La Mancha, the Carlists are esta-
blishing themselves in such numbers, that it is doubted
whether the Government will be able to dislodge them
during the winter. They have seized Guadaloupe, and
opened a foundry in it for the manufacture of arms. It is
likewise supposed that they will attack Almaden, in order
to possess themselves of the quicksilver mines, now mort-
gaged in the House of RontscHun.

Advices from Constantinople, of the 15th ult., announce
the sudden death of PEnTIFF PACHA, after having
drank coffee with. EMIR PACHA, Governor of the
Capital. According to the current rumour, the coffee
was substituted for the sack, and though not so silent,

was altogether as effective a method of getting
rid of a functionary, whom England would neither
see in office, nor Russia in disgrace. By the same arrivals
we learn, :,that the Russian Army south of the Kouban
was flying before the Circassians, and that eight Russian
vessels had recently been shipwrecked on the Circassian
coast during the late boisterous weather.

Parliament, it is understood, will adjourn on the
22d instant, and will not meet, after the Christmas holidays,
until the Ist of February.
On Tuesday last, one of the boilers of the Haswell
colliery exploded, by which means several of the workmen
were severely soalded. We understand that the recovery of
some of them is very doubtful.—Sunderland Herald.
Mr. Morrison, the late Member for Ipswich, whose
absence from the House of Commons is felt as a great loss, is
gone down to Sudbury, and has every chance of being elected
for that.borough.
SMITHFIELD CLUB DINNER.—The anniversary
dinner of this excellent Society took place yesterday evening at
the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-
fields. The tables were laid for 300, but from the unexpected
presence of a greater number of gentlemen than had ever at-
tended on a similar occasion, it became necessary to arrange a
separate apartment from the Freemasons' Hall, where the
banquet was served to accommodate nearly a hundred extra
visitors. Amongst the most conspicuous personages present
were, besides Earl Spencer, the President of the Club, the.
Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Scarborough, Earl Talbot,
Lord Wm. Lennox, Viscount Maidstone, Sir Owen Pell Col.
Sibthorp, M.P., C. H. Hindley, Esq., M.P. Hillyard,
Esq., Messrs. Grantham, Smith, Senior, Baker, Wilmot,
and many other distinguished agricultural gentlemen.
Recollecting the Show of Roots at the Bedford
Conservatory, Covent-garden, last year to be very superior,
we have been induced to pay it another visit ; and we beg to
assure our agricultural readers that some of the finest speci-
mens of Turnips ever grown are now to be seen at that place,
particularly Purple-top Swede, several of which, as we under-
stand, were exhibited at the Highland Society of Scotland's
recent meeting at Dumfries, and from their magnitude and
handsome shape attracted the notice of every one present.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, YESTERDAY.
—We have had rather an animated demand for Cotton to-day.
The sales are estimated at 5,000 bags of all descriptions, and
chiefly to the trade, at a slight advance on our quotations of
Friday.
SPAS OF GERMANY, AND THE CELEBRATED
SPAS OF BATH. It is curious that two circumstances should
now be operating simultaneously—a strong recommendation,
by the public Press, of the German Spas, particularly of
Baden, whereto our nobility and gentry throng, and the deca•
dente of the medicinal Hot Springs of Bath. Alas, for the
far-famed city of King Bladud and Beau Nash ! The prin-
cipal source of its fame and attraction seems rapidly declining,
and that owing to the litigious spirit of the Town Council,
who appear determined that their newly-acquired powers
shall not rust for want of using in some way or other. The
admirers of Bath will regret to learn that there is every pro-
bability of the Hot Springs being entirely lost. A recent
visitor to that town informs us that, about two years since, a
brewer there, while sinking for a supply of cold water, hit
upon the chief source of the Hot Springs. Finding, however,
that the public Baths were prejudiced, he considerately. pro-
posed to resign the Spring in exchange for a moderate supply
of cold water. Unfortunately, the Town Council, instead of
displaying_ a correspondent feeling, preferred going to law ;
and, hence, while these ill-timed proceedings have been
pending, the Hot Springs have almost dwindled away, pre-
senting a wretched instance of party spin it and private pique.
One set of Baths is wholly closed—another partially ; and so
embittered have the litigants become, that while they quarrel
there is every chance of the grand origin of the celebrity of
" the Bath" being irremediably lost.