The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1853.

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

the Epoca, the Observator, and Clamor Publico have
presented an exposition of the situation of the press
to the Minister of the Interior.
The Three-per-Cents. were done at 42k ; the Sh
New Three-per-Cents. at 23 5-16 ; the Debt of the .
first class at lof ; and that of the second a•.; sg. Si
The following is the letter addressed by Marshal
Narvaez to the Queen of Spain : 1:
"TO THE QUEEN.
" Madam—The Duke of Valencia, captaingeneral in 3]
the army, grandee of Spain of the first class, and senator
of the kingdom, comes humbly to the feet of your Ma- 27
jesty to ask the reparation of the offence offered to his
22
dignity and his person by the order of Dec. 9.
" Withdrawn in a corner of the Peninsula, the writer St
St, of the present letter supported with a generous resigna- 50
tion the numerous insults which, without any motive, 50
the Government of your Majesty heaped on him from 50
the moment that he voluntarily abandoned the direction 25
of the affairs of State. He was waiting fox the opening
of the Cortes to occupy his place in the Up?er Chamber, 25
and he had returned to the capital, the usual residence of 25
your captains-general. His duty was to be present at
20
the discussion of a question, the most important per- 25
haps in your Majesty's reign—a question which ought
to exercise a decisive influence on the destinies and on 25
the happiness or misfortune of the loyal Spanish nation. 25
" The writer had not given any pretext for his pre- St,
sence in the capital being calculated to cause any umbrage 50
to the authorities. Yet, on the 9th of December, at an
advanced hour in the day, he received orders to leave St.
Madrid in four and twenty hours, and to proceed to 10
Vienna, to examine the state and progress of the Aus- St.
trian army. As a submissive subject and an obedient t:
St.
soldier, he left for Bayonne, where he has stopped to
address to your Majesty his humble complaint. •
St. st.
" The world in general, as well as the writer, could St.
not regard the illusory mission thus given to him in any
other light than an exile ; and in that point of view what St.
confidence and what credit could he hope to enjoy in a 12
foreign country ? What would be said when one of the 50
first dignitaries of your kingdom was seen to be charged 16j
with a mission so little commensurate with the rank of std
your captains-general, where a simple colonel could just
20
as well execute it ? 14
50 " Thus, then, this commission is only an exile in dis-
20
guise, although it appeared so pressing to your ministers 11
that they caused the writer to depart with a precipitation 10
altogether excessive, and in causing his residence to be St.
surrounded by police-agents. What I have we arrived St.
at a time when the Duke de Valencia is an object of 20
suspicion to the Government of his Queen ? The loyal 10
soldier who now addresses your Majesty cannot think St.
of such a matter without indignation. Can so many 5'43
services termed eminent by your Majesty yourself be 25
forgotten ?
• 25
"Whence, then, comes this outrage to his loyalty ? St.
Allow me for a moment to recapitulate certain facts 8
which can never be forgotten. Your Majesty was still St.
in the cradle, an orphan and without support, when a St.
prince of her own blood disputed the throne. The strug- 50
gle, and of a terrible character it was, lasted for seven 25
years. The Spanish people took up arms in the name 103
of Isabella and liberty. Blood flowed in torrents, and 't6
Spain suffered incalculable evils to ensure the triumph 25
of that noble cause.
50
" At last the throne of your Majesty was firmly fixed,
20
and at the same time the old liberal institutions of Spain
were restored. But that restoration of the public liber- St.
ties had taken place in the minority of your Majesty, 15
and that noble nation, not wishing to impose the law on 50
the monarch who filled the throne, renounced voluntarily St.
the first constitutional compact, leaving your Majesty at 16
full liberty to act as you pleased. It was in that way 18
that your Majesty freely proposed the constitution of 1845, which the nation accepted, and which realised the 820
alliance of the monarch and the people.
20
" Under that regime the spirit of order has cast such 10
profound roots that the most profound peace has not st
ceased to prevail in the whole of the interior of Spain
during these last years of European revolutions, when
all the thrones were shaken to their bases, and when
that of France toppled down with a dreadful crash.
Amongst us every one respects the laws, every one
obeys the authorities, every one respects and cherishes
his Queen.

THE SHARE MARK:MTS.

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

As this is the season of the year at which the
manufacturers and wholesale merchants of Paris
take stock, there has been but little business trans-
acted by them during the last week. The export
trade, moreover, has received a check by the de-
termination adopted by the South American mer-
chants not to purchase except at long credits. The
retail trade of Paris has been very dull during the
last week, the incessant rain having deterred pur-
chasers from venturing into the streets. The
accounts received from the manufacturing towns
mention a marked depression in commercial matters
since the commencement of the month. The woollen
manufacturers in particular are much discouraged,
the absence of cold weather having considerably
diminished the demand for their manufactures, of
which it appears there is a large quantity on
hand.

RAILWAYS.

Closing Prices Business done
Yesterday. , Yesterday.

The iron masters in France are prosperous.
They have succeeded in raising the price of iron
from 10f. the 1,000 kilogrammes, to which it fell
after the Revolution of 1848, to 20f. The demand
for wrought iron is good. Several manufacturers
have refused 285 f., speculating on the orders on
hand, which will give them full employment for
two months to come. Cast-iron is likewise rising
in price, and that which was offered some time
since at 1201. now brings readily 125 f. There has
been no variation in the Paris corn market since
the end of December. The same struggle con-
tinues between the millers and the bakers, the
former endeavouring at every market to raise the
price of flour, which the bakers have as yet suc-
cessfully resisted. The reserve in the stores
amounts to 58,000 metrical quintals. Flour of
very superior quality is quoted, as a month since,
at 581. the sack of 157 kilogrammes ; good quality
varies from 55f. to 56f. ; and ordinary from 53f.
to 54f. Business is extremely quiet in the depart-
ments. Very little is doing in the wine markets
in the south ; and no business is transacted in the
Herault or the Roussillon ; and the only wine sale-
able at Bordeaux is that of superior quality. •
Accounts from the provinces state that con-
siderable injury has been caused by the rains.
It would appear that the following ships of the
line are now building in the French dockyards,
and for the greater number of which the screws
have been ordered :
Louis XIV., Ist class, at Rochefort.
Annibal, 2n41 class, at Lorient.
Austerlitz, ditto, at Cherbourg.
Duguay-Trouin, ditto, at Lorient.
Eylau, ditto, at Toulon.
Fleurus, ditto, at Toulon.
Navarin, ditto, at Toulon.
Turenne, ditto, at Rochefort.
Ulm, ditto, at Rochefort.
Wagram, ditto, at Lorient.
St. Louis, ditto, at Brest.
Alexandre, ditto, at Rochefort.
Castiglione, ditto, at Toulon.
Donawerth, ditto, at Lorient.
Fontenoy, ditto, at Toulon.
Massena, ditto, at Toulon.
Tilsit, ditto, at Cherbourg.
Duquesne, ditto, at Brest.
Jounville, just launched at Brest.
Jean Bart, at Lorient.
In addition to the preceding 20 ships of the line
obe fitted with screw propellers, the following
frigates of the first class are building :—Armorique,
Victoire, Entreprenante, Semiramis, Pallas, Guer-,
riere, Circe, Dryade, esolu, Flore, Hermione,
Junon, Themis, Bellone, Amazone, Magicienne,
Astree, Ceres.
Independent of those 18 frigates there are 15 other
vessels of different classes building, which are to be
all propelled with screws.
Rumours relative to a modification in the Cabinet
are again in circulation. It is said that M. d'Au-
di ffret is to assume the direction of the Finance
department, and that General Canrobert will be
appointed Minister at War in place of Marshal St.
Arnaud, who wishes to command an expedition to
Kabylia.
A non-commissioned officer of the garrison of
Lille has been arrested, on a charge of attempting
to seduce from their duty some others of the same
rank at Arras.

St,
St,
St.
St.

"It is in such a situation that the Government, of
your Majesty publishes unconstitutional projects of re-
form which sow defiance, alarm interests, and arouse
political passions, and appear to di ive the Throne to-
wards a precipice. Your Government has itself wit-
nessed the sad impression caused by this unlucky pro-
ject at Madrid, which offered the spectacle of senators,
deputies, grandees of Spain, generals, capitalists, assem-
ble in a body, to preserve the Throne from the dangers
it incurred.

" The writer of this letter was called upon to join all
that Spain boast] of most distinguished to concert the
means to prevent so great an evil, and he found it neces-
sary to take an active part in the electoral meetings in-
stituted to that end. This is the motive of the conduct
of the Government towards him. This is why he is ex-
patriated and outrages heaped upon him.
" May your Majesty hearken to the prayers of a loyal
subject, who has so often given you good counsel, and
who only breathes for the good of your Majesty and the
country. He therefore supplicates your Majesty to give
such suitable orders that he may be relieved from the
humiliating position in which a flagrant injustice has
placed him.

The Bourse opened exceedingly dull to-day, the
impression produced on the speculators by the ar-
ticle in the Moniteur of yesterday on the English
press being very unfavourable. Some large pur-
chases made at two o'clock by influential parties
produced a re-action, and the Three per Cents.,
which had fallen to 80f. 5c., rose to 80f. 60c., and
closed at 80f. 40c. for the end of the month ; the
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 105 f. 50c. ;
Orleans Railway Shares, I,olof. ; Rouen, 990 f. ;
Havre, 500 f ; Great Northern, 845 f. ; Basle,
352 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 775 f. ; Paris and
Lyons, 882 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean,
730 f. ; Western of France, 670 f. ; Caen and Cher-
bourg; 615 f. ; Dijon to Besangon, 522 f. 50c. ; Bor-
deaux to Cette, 568 f. 75c. ; shares of the Bank of
Credit Mobilier (issued at 500 f.), 755 f.

"May God preserve the precious life of your Majesty
For many years.

" I place myself at the royal feet of your Majesty.
(Signed) " DUKE OF VALENCIA."
"Bayonne, Dec. 15, 1852."

SWITZERLAND.

The Council of the States of Switzerland adopted ,e.
in its last sitting a bill according, with certain moth- 6'
fications, all the concessions of railways which wore 3)
demanded.

AUSTRIA. 7
The fourth part of "An Attack on the Left Bank
of the Rhine and its Contingencies," is contained in 6
the Augsburg Gazette of the Bth. The impression 10
which it produces is that Germany is wofully afraid 20
of its Gallic neighbour. The writer is of opinion st.
'that " the French might bring together 300,000 or
350,000 men and 900 cannon for the invasion of 5
St.
Germany, while the Confederation could certainly
dispose of 485,000 men and 1,160 guns. Radetzky, St.
the Prince of Prussia, Wrangel, Hess, Schlick, &c., St•
are regularly pitted against Castellane, Magnan, 6;
d'Hautpoul, and even Changarnier and Lamori -
ciere." To say the least of it, the article is a highly 50
imprudent one. An order has been issued by the
War Department here that all officers who have St.
leave of absence and are abroad, must keep the 16
Austrian Legation well informed of their where-
abouts.
St.
Much ado is made about the paper currency of St,
the Bank having been reduced from 199,000,0001 ci
to 195,000,0001 during the last month, while the SI
amount of specie was only 112,0001 less than in
November. The amount of bank-notes is not too
great for such an empire as
Austria, but every one
is curious to know when something will be done to-
wards increasing the stock of hard cash.
A Mr. Wiett is gone as French Consul to Bosna
Serai, in the Herzegovina, and Mr. Longworth will
represent England there.

PRUSSIA.
The first of a series of four weekly fetes has been
given at the Palace in Berlin in a style of splendour
unknown in the annals of the simple• Court of Ber-
lin, at any rate since the commencement of the
present reign. It closed with a concert, at which
Fraulein Wagner and Formes, the basso, so well
known at her Majesty's Theatre, sang, assisted by
the notabilities of the Opera here. The day pre-
vious there was a grand dinner party, followed by
a and stag-hunts and coursing were ar-
rangedncert with dinner afterwardsat the Palace in Charlottenburg. The Court will
co
in;the Grunewald,
remain in Berlin only four weeks.

SINGULAR INCIDENT.—About 21 years ago, a young
man named Wickam, of Great Oakley, lived fellow-
servant with a young woman named Reed, at Mr. J.
Salmon's, Great Clacton Wash. A report becoming
current that there were proofs of their being on too
intimate terms, Wickam enlisted into the Rifle Brigade,
where he subsequently rose to the rank of a sergeant.
n died, leaving no and d
It turned out that the scandalous rumour respecting the
young woman was false and unfounded, and she after-
wards married to a young man named Deer, of Ramsey,
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caer:Le,d otinlla gthoeodhgrusobeaerydrapery busi-
nesschildren. In about 12 months she married again to a
piing man named Henry Morley, from the Castle Inn,
Ramsey, but a short time after she was again left a
widow, with no children. About a month ago Wickam
received his discharge with a good pension and came
home to Great Oakley, when he
_sought and found his
"laxly love" in the business above spoken of, and strange
to say, this renewal of " old acquaintance" resulted in
his marrying her by licence at Ramsey church. Thus
the old soldier, " tired of war's alarms," left the service
of Mars to enlist in the more peaceful corps of Hymen,
and assist his partner thrice wooed and thrice won in
the grocery line.
HOSTILE MEETING. BOULOGNE, JAN. 16. Une
affaire d'honneur, which took place here during the past
week, has caused no small sensation in the fashionable
circles of this locality. The belligerents were an Hon.
Captain C ,of the C— Guards, and a Major
M—, also holding her Majesty's commission. The
cause of quarrel was very trifling, arising out of a few
words spoken at a public dinner table, which not being
able to be satisfactorily explained on the spot, "a meet-
ing " was determined on for the:next day ; but, strange
to say, on the arrival of the parties at the field of battle,
they were unprovided with pistols. The matter was,
therefore, adjourned until Saturday morning, when the
major received the fire of his adversary (happily without
effect) without returning it, and immediately afterwards
acknowledged himself in the wrong. The seconds in
the matter were Mr. A— 13---, formerly of the
Madras Cavalry, and brother of a distinguished M.P.,
and Lieutenant A—, R.N., son of a gallant admiral.
LAUNCH OF THE GRANITE CITY.—One of the finest
clippers yet built was launched from the building-yard of
Messrs. Walter Hood and Co., Aberdeen, last week.
She was named the Granite City, and is intended for the
India and China trade. The Granite City is of the fol-
lowing dimensions :—Length of keel, 155 feet ; rake for-
ward, 18 feet ; rake on sternpost, 8 feet ; length over all,
from taffrail to figure-head, 193 feet ; extreme breadth,
31A feet ; depth of hold, 19 feet, and measures 806 tons
by the old rule, or 771 tons by the new rule of measure-
ment, and is estimated to carry 1,409