The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-04 00:00:00

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heads—a !al:ounce pa; t of the Arab system 01
%I/al-fare, is very likely to be somewhat ex-
aggerated. But wholt,r or not, the report
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of so inauspicious a commencement of hostilities
has created a great deal of excitement in Paris.
In the eyes of the Court its worst feature is the
ridicule with which it will cover the expedition of
notthe Duke of ORLEANS, whose speedy return will
fa;.l to be attributed to his knowledge, that if
he waited longer in Africa he would find
plenty of real, instead of sham-fighting.
Upon these events it would be premature
to speak with any deree of confidence. We
shall therefore for the present confine ourselves to
an enunciation of the opin:ons of the French Jour-
nals of Monday, as we find them summed up in
the columns of a Paris Contemporary. The Con-
Vitutionnel observes, that ,ince ABD-EL-KADER
has broken the Treaty of Tafna, the Government
will not fail to take advantage of the rupture to
destroy his power and consolidate the dominion of
France in Algeria. Trie Courrier Francais at-
tributes the attack of the Arabs to the military
promenade to the Iron Gates, which, it says, was
calculated to provoke a war, and has had the effect
of causing the French troops—decimated by sick-
ness—to be the attacked instead of the attacking
party, a fearful odds, irr such a warfare. The
Commerce, however, is confident of the triumph of
France. It denounces the Treaty of Tafna as the
primary cause of this rupture, but is equally san-
guine as to the utter prostration of the Arab chief.
The Quotidienne hints fears and suspicion of Eng-
land, which, we need Lardly observe, are as un-
founded as they are indicative of the spirit which
pervades the French Royalist faction. Tire Siecle
end the Temps observe that this not the time for
talking of the faults of the Government, hut for
action, for conquest, and for glory. The National,
Which is equally warlike in its tone, is furious in its
reprobation of the blunders of the Cabinet. Thus
all the French Journals are unanimous iu support-
jog a war policy in Africa.
Of other intelligence, there is little of any mo-
ment in the Jounals of Monday.
The people of Havre," says Cie Journal of that
town, " have now under their eyes a proof of the good
effects of free trade. Numerous orders for flour have
been sent to the United States. Already 9,000 bar-
rels have been entered, and as many more expected.
Hitherto Cie price of flour in our markets has main-
tained itself ; but the knowledge of this fact has pro-
duced its effe6., and in the market of Montevilliers it
has fallen 4 fr. a sack."
The official table of the prices of wheat in the French
markets, made up to the 30th ult., shows that the
highest price per hectolitre (24 bushels) has been
26fr. 46e. in the markets of Bergues, Arms, Roye,
is3oissons, Paris, and Rou2n ; and tbe lowest 20fr. 95c,
in arose of Saumur, Nantes. and Marans.

The price_ of the four pound loaf cor the first fort-
night of the present month is reduced to 17 sous.
During the last month 2,231,893 fr. were paid into
the Savings' Bank of Paris by 16,413 depositors, of
whom 2,306 were new, and 1,651,000 fr. were drawn
out.

Letters from Valparaiso, of the 15th of July, give a
deplorable picture of the molestations of all kinds to
which the French are exposed in the Polynesian islands.
—L'Ocianie.
The state of things has improved at Otaheite since
the arrival of the Artemise frigate, and of M. Alorenhout
i the French Consul in that Archipelago. But it would be
desirable dvat there shonld be Consulates in the other
is:ands, and that a French squadron should be stationed
in those Vas, where our seamen ere every moment in
danger of being plundered and murdered. Thus, for
instance in the Sandwich :elands, the position is not
tenable. A French Consul had been placed there by
Captain Dupetit-Thouars, but the person whom he had
chosen was not qualified to fill '-he post permanendy. M.
Dudort is, in fact, a trader the Mauritius, and
.his own commercial interest obliges him to traverse the
seas, and hinders him from residing. His long and fre-
quent ausences thus leave our commerce without protec-
tion, exposed to annoyances of all kinds, which the
English missionaries are continually promoting against
every thing that has a French air.
These missionaries, whom the Debals very recently
characterised as civilisers, enrich themselves with a cu-
pidity which ma) be called atrocious, at the expense of
tile unhapy people on whom they have fastened them-
selves. At Fladai, the American Methodists endeavour
by all the means in their power, and they are not very
delicate on this point, to maintain for their exclusive
Profit tile monopoly whico they have succeeded in esta-
blishing of all the productions of the island, Our
vessel cannot even take in wood and water
without the permission cf the Reverend Gentlemen,
for which they are paid very dear. It would be most
d:..sirah;e that the Government should send thither a
a consul not quite so great a voyager its M, pudort.
The obligation to reside should be an indispensible eon-
d'tion. The necessity of a naval force is no less ma.
rifest, when we know that the insolence of the Minister,
Blumsfeld, at Havai, has gone so far as to trespass on
the residence of the English Consul, paid to burn the
British flag.—The Capitole, quoted by the Commerce.
BOURSE.—Pai: Mommv, DEC 2.
Hishesi Lowest Last
c Price Price.
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Roman •pj 101 JoAyi lois;
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V.' SHARES.
RAIL'.`
St. • ,0 .„ 550 ... 550 550
47.) ;it 50 ••. 4i2 412 50
Versailles,
.!,7 50 •41/7 SC) •.. 07 50 ::97 50
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Orleans- B. ' •"`" "
Strasburg Bale.. ...•. .... ... 30,, . atti
It'arn ASPHAL'fES AND BiTU
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AU:ARIAN FuND:.;.--Vt6I,A.A. Nov 23
f,ve per Cee.., 1\1,:i;•1•;q,,c;
Feel'. 'le: Cent- 1: o`6
'three nee Cers.
Bank Shares;
..-Allgenzeine wit:. Nov, 28

Ma3rid Papers of the 25th ult. have arrived.
The Liberal majority of the late Cortes were very
active in their eideavours to defeat the Government
at the forthcoming oketion. They had held several
'acetings, organized Committees, and prepared
addresses to the nation. Ile war in Catalonia
and Arragon was in reality making. no progress,
and it was not expected that anything cou!fl be done
b ...fore spring. Another Bergara Convention was
spoken of, to which it was said that CABRERA
Was now inclined to listen.

Since the arrival of the mail from Lisbon, it has
been stated that the administrati • • •on of SAJROZA
was at an end, a„d
the
Colin' BOAITIM to form
QUEEN had empowered
a new administration.
He was to be assisted by Messrs.
iDo R.
and COSTA D
E FN"
sECA, MAGALHAEs, FLO
CABRAL. The present T
Portuguese Minister at
Paris, Viscount DE C•RREIRA ;
' .5 spoken of as
likely to be the new Minister for Foreign
This change, it is supposed, will be auspicious
both both to Portugal and England, ensuring order there
ere
mod re-establishing friendly relations with us.

Alen, particularly religious men, or those who
sham being religious, because they think religion is
for the good of tlie people, are strangely inconsis-
tent. They cry out that there is a great want of
relicrion amongst the people, and they subscribe
and build churches, endow clergymen and send
out missionaries to inculcate religion. But
when the Catholics do the same—when they build
churches and send out missions, anti subscribe
money to promote religion—the religious men of
our land set up a hullabaloo, a weeping and wail-
ing, only to be matched by Irish crones at a wake,
against the progress of the Roman Catholic reli-
gion. We should have thought that would have
Pleased them. But what these persons require,
and what they subscribe to obtain is, that other peo-
Ple should think as they think, and worship as they
worship. They seek for conformity to strengthen
theira own belief. Have they doubts, then—are they
apprehensive, and can they have no peace—have
they no reliance on their own convictions, as long
as men are found who do not agree with them ?

Laugh and joke as much as you can at the close
of dinner. It helps digestion mere than cheese or
Champagne. Indeed moderate fits of laughter are better
limn pills.—New York Paper.

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