The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-23 00:00:00

REPRISALS.

General Espartero preceded the shooting of twenty-five
Carlist prisoners, at Logrono, by addressing the following
letter to the Carlist Commander-in-Chief, Maroto
To Senor Don Gulielmo Wylde, Commissioner of her
Britannic M.ijesty's Government at the Head-quarters
of this Army.

Sir,—His Excellency the General-in Chief wrote, on
the 10th instant, as follows, to the superior chief of the
enemy's forces :

" Whon, on the 11 th of October last, I accepted the
convention so much desired, and so often proposed by me,
that both parties should conduct the war according to the
stipulations of Lord Eliot, and to the principles of the
rights of humanity, I did not expect that your subordinates
would so shortly afterwards break the agreement so atro-
ciously as they did yesterday morning between this town
and Viana towards a party of the Provincial Regiment of
Salamanca.

" I should not have had any observations to make if the
parties sacrificed had been killed in regular warfare ; but
that your subordinates should have slaughtered those who
had surrendored, and, after having thrown away their mus-
kets, and given themselves up to such superior force, under
the assurance of the quarter that was offered them, which
assurance was so shamefully violated, is a ferocious deed,
and an insult to humanity, and which will occasion to fall
upon the perpetrators the odious consequences of reprisals
feelin but which having exhausted all the conciliatory
—a severe and afflicting measure, and repugnant to my
gs,
means within my reach, is now the only one that is left me
for putting
a stop to similar crimes.
"The judicial proceedings I have ordered to be institu•
ted, a copy of which I enclose, prove the truth of this
sanguinary event ; although the horrible spectacle of the
atrocious barbarity of their assassins would, of itself, be suf-
ficient evidence.
le consequence of these proceedings I have found my-
self in the grievous necessity of ordering that the prisoners
taken from the faction of the tiger l3almaseda, who were
kept in this depot by an excess of humanity, shall be shot ;
because it was that abortion of the human species (Balma-
seda) who yesterday consummated this horrible sacrifice,
in violation of the existing agreement, his ferocity being so
great that the few living intAvidunls tvlia were discovered

among the dead bodies, and who were only left there be-
' cause their vile assassins considered them to be dead, also
were mutilated carcases, and dragged on a short remnant
of life until their arrival here, only in time to receive the
last spiritual consolations.
" I hope that in future you will, by causing the afore-
said agreement to be fulfilled, prevent similar acts, which
are contrary to the noble profession to which I belong ; but
if, unhappily, they should be repeated, or if any of the pri-
soners who belonged to our ranks should be made to suffer
on this account, for that reason and in that case all those
prisoners who have been taken by this army will have solely
to blame the barbarity of their own people for the sad lot
that will await them ; and unhappy Spain, Europe, and
the universe, will have cause to reprobate you alone as the
cause of the rupture of the stipulations of Lord Eliot, which
will be the inevitable consequence.
" And I forward the above to your Excellency, by his
Excellency's orders, for your due information, and for the
purposes you may deem expedient with regard to the com-
mission which you so worthily fill at the head quarters of
the army.
" God preserve your Excellency many years.
(Signed) " JUAN TENA."
_

" Haad-quarters, Logrom;, Nov. 12, 1838."
The Eco del Comercio publishes the following despatch,
which will show to what a savage extent the system of re-
prisals was carried on in the province of Valencia :
" The Brigadier Chief of the Staff of the Army of the
Centre writes to me from Sarrion, under the date of the
4th instant, to the following effect :—' Excellency, I ad-
dressed to you on the Ist instant, from the head-quarters of
Teruel, the annexed despatch :—The General-in-Chief of
the Army of the Centre, convinced that the noble and hu-
mane conduct hitherto pursued with regard to the rebel
prisoners,',so far from diminishing th sufferings of the brave
of the national army who had fallen into the hands of the
Carlists, had, on the contrary, encouraged the latter to
shed the blood of those unfortunate victims, in violation
of all the laws of humanity, has ordered, by way of
retaliation for the execution of the ninety-six sergeants at
which the ferocious Cabrera presided in the Forcall, that,
on receipt of this despatch, you immediately cause to be
putto death the 28 rebel sergeants confined in the depot of the
Captaincy-General. Ten others, detained here, will be
likewise shot, together with 58 more in Saragossa. The
bearer of this despatch having been taken by the enemy, I
address to you a fresh copy thereof.
" Consequently two rebel sergeants were shot this even-
ing, and orders have been transmitted to the department of
Alicant to execute 19 more. Six sergeants having been
shipped for Catalonia at Carthagena, the General-in-Chief
is to be requested to point out the seven wanting to com-
plete the 28.

" By order of his Excellency the Colonel of the Staff.
" Valencia, Nov. 8. " MIG UEL CORMANO."

BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 21.—The average prices of wheat and
rye, in the week ending the 17th Nov., were as follows :
Wheat, 25.2 f. ; Rye, 14.91 f. per hectolitre. The exporta-
tion of Wheat, therefore, remains prohibited, and it is ex-
empt from import duty. The import duty on Rye remains
at 121.50 f. per 1,000 kilogrammes.

CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SITTING OF NOV. 20.

The President said—

" Gentlemen,—Your deputation has had the honour to
present to his Majesty the Address which you have voted
in answer to the Speech from the Throne. The King an-
swered—

Gentlemen,—The unanimity of the sentiments which
the country manifests is a certain sign of its unalterable at-
tachment to its nationality and of its love of its institutions.
" I see with pleasure that the efforts of my Government
for the development of public prosperity, and of all that
does honour to the country, are justly appreciated.
" I receive with satisfaction, Gentlemen, the assurance
which the Chamber of Representatives gives me of its co-
operation in all the measures that the wants of the country
call for."

The Chamber resolved that the King's answer should be
printed, together with the Address.
M. de Renesse read the following letter from M. Jadot :
" Gentlemen, and dear Colleagues—l have read the
answer of the Chamber to the speech from the Throne.
" I consider it as an engagement entered into by the 83
Members who voted it, to reject every proposal tending to
the dismemberment of the country ; it is on this under-
standing that I assent to it.

" Still kept at home by indisposition, and vexed at not
being able to repair to the Chamber, I yield to my desire
to tell you, that on all occasions I will unite my efforts to
yours, to defend the national honour, of which we are the
guardians. Accept, &c.,

" JADOT."-
Two projects of law were presented, the object of which
is to give legal validity to the treaties of commerce con-
cluded with France and with the Ottoman Porte. After
some discussion they were referred to a Committee.
The Chamber then proceeded to the continuation of the
debate on the law relative to the stamp duties which was
commenced in May, during the last Session.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Nov. 20.
Money. Bi
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
1
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A inort Syndic 454 per cent 954 95 k
,Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 79 79%
Commercial Company, 4,4 per cent 1751i 176
Ditto (1;:32 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Loan 1833), 4 per cent.
99%
Exchange on London, One month l2 lo 91,y,,
Two months
BELGIAN I, UNDS—Bausem.o, Nov. 21
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl A
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cep Cent. ...... ..
nt. 95%
Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent 144
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 143
National Society
—Brussels Papers, Nov. 21. 124
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, Nov. 13.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Foal* per Cents.
Three per Cents.
31%
Bank Shares ... 14851
ni
—AligemeineZeitung, Nov. 18
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE. Nov. 20.
Bills. Money.
Austrian Metal'iques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 3 per cent. SO%% FO
Ditto 9itto 2,1 per cent, —
Lotto Bank Shares 1469 h 66
Anglo-Russian Loan 1(17% 1i,7%
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent lO3 1023 i
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 3 per cent. —
Dutch 2% per Cents. 52% 52%
Ditto 5 per Cents 934 99%
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
New Tickets 1511,4 153
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents ... 717 V, 715,8
Norwegian Loan of 1831, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents — Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent —.
Greek 4 per cents. 18:39, guaranteed by France —.
EXCHANGES LONDON.
HAMBURG, Nov. 20.-19 7% ; tON wo months, 13 6%.
ST. PETRESBURGII, Nov. 9.—Three months, 114.
BERLIN. Nov. I7.—Three minths, 6. 2'2.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 15.—Two months, 12 5.
—Hamburg Papers, Nov. 20.

T URKE Y.—
CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 31.—We have at last got in-
telligence that things have been satisfactorily arranged in
Persia. By a messenger who arrived here two days ago
letters were received from Tabreez, to the Bth instant,
stating that, in conformity to the promise made to the
British Ambassador, through his delegate at the Royal
camp, Colonel Stoddart, the Shah, on the 9th of Septem-
ber, raised the seige of Herat, and on the 12th he and his
army were already fifty-two miles on their way back.
towards Tehran. This important news had inspired every-
body in Persia with the hope that the sufferings of that
unhappy country were drawing to a close. The mercan-
tile body in particular felt confident that they were about
to enter upon the smooth paths of prosperity and fortune.
The presence of the Shah's Court and camp at the
capital will necessarily have a good effect, to begin
with : and then the revival of public confidence
will be quickly followed by a thousand facilities,
without which commerce is mere shop-keeping. It
was concluded also that the Shah, having conceded the
main point to the English Government, will not hesitate to
adjust the minor objects still to be put in order. Mr.
M'Neill was, therefore, preparing to set, out from Tabreez
to return to Tehran, where he and the Persian Monarch are
to meet and settle every thing, and in the mean time he had
sent off Col. Shiell to join the Shah, and assure him of the
renewed friendly disposition of England.
The messenger who brought the above intelligence was
this morning sent on towards the frontier with the de-
spatches from Persia from the Foreign-office. That the
energy on this occasion shown by the British Government
should have led to such desirable results will surprise no
one. Russia intrigues, blusters, and bullies, but the mo-
ment she sees that, by persevering in her reprehensible
course, she must come to blows with England, before
whom she really trembles like a culprit before the execu-
tioner, she skulks off at once. She is like weakness
clothed in armour. Strip off the warrior's garb which in-
timidated, and uncloaked emaciation excites nothing but
contempt. The so-much feared Russian bear is thus found
to be but a bugbear.
On the 27th inst., Admiral Stopford, with the Princess
Charlotte, Bellerophon, Vanguard, 4sig, and Minden, left
Vourla for Malta. The Penzbraite, Rodney
i and Ta lavera
remained, and were to accompany the Turksh flea now
ordered back to Constantinople, as far as the mouth of the
Dardanelles. If, instead of Malta, the Admiral's destina-
tion had been the Black Sea, Russia would at this mo-
ment have been on her knees appealing to that British for-
bearance on which alone her existence depends. The pas-
sage into the Euxine of British ships of war would, it is
true, have been rather against the provisions of the treaty
of Unkiar Iskelessi ; but have we not declared that treaty
to be mazy cwenui as far as we are concerned?

We have had many reports of late on the subject of po -
pular discontent in Georgia, and a rising of the Lezguees
against the Russians, of whom, if the last rumours are en-
titled to credit, fully 6,000 have already been put to the
sword, the rioters taking possession of Shervan. According
to the same authority the Circassians were also fast uniting
to expel their invaders.
M. Achart, the new Belgian Charge d'Affaires, arrived
here a few days ago, and the late Charge pro tempore,
Count Vilain XI V. went off on the 28th for Vienna.
A Russian schooner of war sailed from Buyukdere for
the Mediterranean on the 27th, and it is rumoured that
Russia and Prussia are about to grant to Mehemet Aii a
treaty of protection, which is to be a counterpoise to the
conventions of England and France.
Baron Roussin, the French Ambassador, has finally re-
ceived instructions to enter into a commercial treaty with
the Porte, framed in precisely the same terms as the late
convention with England. This shows that, notwithstand-
ing all the recent appearances of a contrary tendency, the
Courts of the Tuileries and St. James are likely to go
hand-in-band in this affair. France may probably pretend
to interpret the sth article, which attacks the financial
system of the Pacha of Egypt, in a way to suit her own
peculiar views. But as there must be ten conclusive an-
swers for every argument and objection she may bring for-
ward, and as, moreover, it can be easily proved that, com-
mercially and politically, France has been altogether wrong
and acting against her own interests in this matter, it
is
hoped that she will quickly join us in our sounder, safer,
and more profitable mode of proceeding,
The Porte ought very soon to be able to emancipate
itself from the dangerous aid of Greeks, who, from their
knowledge of French, have long had the lead in the trans-
lating and interpreting departments. There are now seve-
ral Turks who speak and write French sufficiently well for
every useful purpose, and all that is required is that they
should be brought forward. To trust a Greek of the Fanal
with confidence is like trusting gold to a thief, or virtue to
a debauchee.
A traveller of the highest intelligence, just arrived from
Syria, and who knows the Druses well, asserts that the
Egyptian troops are making very little progress in with-
thawing from the mountaineers their arms. A few unser.
viceable muskets and rifles are obtained, whilst nearly all
the weapons fit for use are safely concealed. He is of opi-
nion that as soon as the winter sets in, when the wells will
be full of water, and the roads nearly impassable to an army,
the Druses will be on foot again.
The tr:fling disorders that lately agitated the island of
Candia, have been completely put down. If certain persons
who ought to know are to be believed, the movement was
provoked, not at the instigation of the Greek, but of the
Turkish Government ; and the individuals who suffered
condign punishment in consequence, were nearly all of Otto-
man and not Greek origin. Other accounts had previously
stated the contrary.
We had some absurd reports in circulation last week,
about the defeat, by the Kurdes, of the Turkish army in
Asia, under Hafez Pacha, the Commander-in-Chief. As
these may possibly get into some of the public prints, it
may be well that I should here state that, by very recent
advices from head-quarters, everything was ea ceable
that direction, and not a word is mentioned of p
any fight in
in
whatever. One or two letters state merely that the Angles
Polish General Shanowsky, with two other of his country-
men, had been under the necessity of leaving the army, in
consequence of the complaints of M. Boutenieff, that they
might be the means of corrupting the Russo-Prussian
batch of officers now employed under the same Pacha.
Shanowsky and his companions had withdrawn to Bagdad,
where, perhaps, they may be made still more useful in drill-
ing fresh troops.
Very great activity continues to be apparent in all the
warlike departments here, and renewed stores of ammuni-
tion are constantly sent off for Asia. At Topkbane hun-
dreds of workmen are employed night and day. The
Turkish fleet is expected back here by the Ramazan, to
commence on the 18th November.-11/Orning Herald.
A new Swedish Minister, 'Baron Troil, is expected to
arrive here by the Danube steamer on Tuesday next, and
a house has been prepared for bis reception. It is now
eight years since there has been a Swedish Minister resi-
dent here.
Mr. Bulwer intends returning to England before he pro-
ceeds to St. Petersburgh, and will, it is expected, now leave
very shortly. He is to be replaced by Mr. Bank,head, late
Secretary of Embassy to the United States.
(From the Correspondent of the Times.)
from Erzeroum, broug the messenger from
ht by
Persia, mention an insurrection aga.inst the Russ having
broken out in Georgia. According
to the reporti ianns circula-
tion in that city, Shim had been pillaged, and totally de-
stroyed by the Lesgbis, and about 6,000 Russian troops
massacred. The revolt was expected to spread throughout
the province. It was, moreover, stated that two Russian
general officers bad been murdered by the Lesghis, who
were assembled in a numerous body not far distant from
Teflis. Great discontent had manifested itself openly in
that city, and an attack was daily expected to be made by
that tribe. It was to the existence of this insurrection that
every one attributed the orders sent by the Governor..
General of the province to the frontiers to double the usual
quarantine, and on no account to permit any traveller to
leave the country. According to the intelligence received
yesterday from the Crimea, the Russian fleet had sailed
with 15,000 men for Ridout Kaleh, whence this body of
troops is to march on to Georgia.

A US TIA.
BUACIIREST.—I ha ve just Darned a fact which affords
additional proof of the jealousy and discontent of Russia
on the subject of our foreign relations and of her ulterior
views respecting our country. You are aware that the two
islands at the mouth of the Danube aro occupied by the
Russians. From the outset they endeavoured by all pos-
sible means to injure our two harbours of Braila and
Galatz. They began by establishing quarantines • they
next levied a duty of four per cent., to which they at-
tempted to subject foreign goods imported into Moldavia,
but were obliged to forego that pretension, thanks to the
interference of England. They have now devised a still
more efficacious plan to attain their end, which, if they be
allowed to go on, must ultimately destroy our two harbours.
When the Turks were in possession of those islands they
took care, every four or five years, to clear the mouth of
the river of the sand incessantly deposited by the Black
Sea. The Russian authorities have manifested the inten-
tion of no longer removing that obstacle. lam assured
that in the course of three or four years no merchant vessel
will be able to enter. Our only hope now is in the inter-
vention of Austria, who is deeply interested in the matter,
and in that of the Steam-boat Company, which intends
demanding of the Sultan to interfere with the Court of
Russi

PRUSSIA.
We have the following from Berlin, by letter dated the
15th instant :—" Prince Albrecht and his consort are ar-
rived from Silesia, where they have been to visit the here-
ditary estates of the Queen of the Netherlands, and were
present at the laying of the first stone of a new Royal resi-
dence at Kamentz, which is to be erected on a magnificent
scale. Prince Albrecht is one of the richest of the Royal
Family, as the Princess possesses a very considerable for-
tune, and the inheritance of Lord Keith adds largely to
the appanage of the Prince. Their Royal Highnesses
employ the major part of their means in purchasing estates
in Silesia, where land is to be purchased at a moderate
price. Not long ago they gave a million of francs for the
domain of Schlenberg, and more recently acquired that of
Schnellenberg, which adjoins it, for 500,000 f.
The affairs of Moldavia and Wallachia are treated of in
a long article from Bucharest of the 15th ult., quoted by
the Leipsic Gazette, which passes in review the legislative
changes that have occurred in the principalities during the
last five years. It states that the greatest discontent at
present exists throughout those countries, in consequence
of Turkey having attempted to enforce the acceptation of
an obnoxious regulation on the General Assembly, by which
no deliberation of that body can be held valid, unless ap-
proved of by Russia and the Ottoman Porte. The Gene-
ral Assembly had not voted the budget, and had been dis-
solved ; but a new meeting of it was expected to be pro-
claimed before long.

OF ARREST UNDER THE IMPRISON-
MENT FOR DEBT ACT.,--A case has been recently argued
in the Court of Exchequer relative to the construction to
to be given to the 3d section of the Act, which invests a
Judge with discretionary power to hold a defendant to
bail, on an affidavit of his being about to quit England.
The question at issue was whether the section applies to
those cases in which the intended departure of the debtor
is not shown to be for the express purpose of delaying the
creditor, although it may have the effect of so doing. In
the case alluded to (Larnbin v. Willful) it appeared that
the defendant was an officer in the 22d Regiment, now
stationed in Ireland, but that having obtained leave of
absence for a few days he ,had come to this country, and
been arrested during
his sti here, at the suit of the plain•
tiff, under an order from Ba on Gurney. A rule was im-
mediately obtained by the defendant to set aside the order,
on the ground that his leave of absence would expire in a
few days, when he would be obliged to return to his
mili-
tary duties, and that his intended departure would be con-
sequently compulsory, and not with the view of delaying
the plaintiff. On this rule, however, coming before the
Court for argument, Mr. Baron Parke, with the concur-
rence of the other Judges, said that the order for thP, arrest
was perfectly legal, as it was impossible to say 'now long
the defendant might be detained in Ireland 14-his duties,
and it was the intention of the Act to invest the Judges
with a discretionary power, to be exerrfised in any case in
which the absence of a partT
laying a creditor. wQ1.1)?.. have the effect of de-