The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-05 00:00:00

ovoid of vivacity—devoid of spirit—devoid of every

thing that woulic induce one to suppose that the
speakers had imbibed any thing more generous or
exhilirating than a tumbler or two of small swipes.
To be sure, a brace of Parsons abused Ministers at

pretty considerable length, in which it is but fair to
state, they were kept in countenance by a brace of
Lords ; but the abuse was of the dullest order; fiat,
prosy, and so supremely common-place that
it were far easier to tritle a silk purse out
of a sow's ear than to glean any thing like
spirit or intelligence from such stale, Conservative
twaddle. Why will the Tories persist in talking such
intolerable nonsense, when they have so many party
Journalists, whose bounden duty it is to write it for
them ? They had far better hold their tongues—bear-
ing in mind that a still tongue maketh a wise head—
and trust to their leaders to extricate them from

their present humiliating position. Such advocates
as Lord MAIDSTONE and Parson ROBINSON,

the former of whom—at the Conservative feed of
which we are now making honourable mention—did
nothing but endorse the arrant trash spoken by the
other, can never, even by the remotest possibility, do
their cause the slightest good ; but, on the contrary,
are every way calculated to endanger it, as proving
to the satisfaction of ail Tight-thinking people that
your thick-and-thin Tory partizan in just the
same incorrigible noodle that he ever was. Hav-
in,t thus briefly alluded to the speeches of the
Parson and the Peer—in charity to these
gentlemen, we forbear giving samples of their oratory
—why should we refuse to do justice to the anti-
Ministerial phillipic of a Baronet who rejoiceth in the
title of Str CHARLES KNIGEITLEY, and who so-
lemnly assured his Northamptonshire audience, that
he " would rather go without a shirt, and wear
wooden shoes, than allow any Radical to contaminate
the representation of the county." This allusion
to " wooden shoes," argues a very wooden head
in the person who made it ; but what can he

expected from a country gentleman, of a Tory way of
thinking, who gets up at a late hour, after d;nner, to
make a political " demonstration"—what, but that
he should demonstrate his own forty-parson power of

aiming at the overthrow of the Constitutional Charter.
In addition to these sources of popular discontent,

the political surve►llance of the police is becom-
ing daily more intolerable. Suspicion stalks abroad
in the ermine of the very Judges of the
land. A look, an unguarded expression, a scrap of
unintelligible writing, are all ample grounds for in-
carceration in one or other of the wretched dungeons
with which France is studded. How long such a state

of things can continue we may not pretend to deter-
mine, but in this country they could not exist for a
single day.
The news from Madrid is of the 26th ult., and from
Sarragossa of the 28th. On the 26th, the latter city
was visited by a violent storm which did much damage.
On the following evening the authorities announced
the receipt of the following intelligence from the fron-
tier of Catalonia:—

" His Excellency the Second Commandant has just re-
ceived a dispatch from the Chief of the Reserve Brigade
of Upper Amgen, wherein he informs him of the victory
gained by the brave men under his command, and the de-
termined National Guards of Ta:narite and the neighbour-
ing places, over the combined factious commanded by the
chieftains Gravat de. Mousenet, Griset de Batra, Llar ne
Capons, and the Cura of Vidcamp ; a hundred of the
rebels having been left dead on the field, and 180 prisoners
in our possession, among sshom is the second in command
of the Curd of Vidcamp. Likewise twelve loads of muskets
and various war stores."
We have no news from Madrid. The following
are extracts from the French Journals. Many of them

are interesting :
The Memorial des Pyrenees has an account ram Se-
gorbe, which states that letters from Cabrera to the Count
d'E:pagne have been recently intercepted, in one of woich
it is said—" I have collected 2,600 young men, who will be
clothed and armed within a month ; I have victualle I all
the fortified places for eight months ; my troops have had
six months pay ; and I have sent 4,000,000 into Navarre.
I am now waiting for a favourable moment to fall up in the
provinces of Murcia and Grenada, where I hope to find a
large sum of money and a great number of men, w:io Kill
be very serviceable in accomplishing what has ben cur:-
certed."

According to letters from Gex, of the 29th ultimo, a
column of 3,000 men, coining from Lyons, was expected
in that town on the 2d instant, and quarters were preparing

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in the neighbouring districts for a corps of about 10,000
men. A similar movement of troops was also observed in
the department of Doubs, in the the direction of Pontarlier.
On receipt of this intelligence, the Council of State of
Geneva immediately called out the double contingent
of troops of the canton, and ordered various measures of
defence for the safety of the place. The ramparts of the
city on the French side were lined with artillery in the
course of the day, and works were being constructed on
the frontiers opposite Ferney. The Syndicate and Council
of State of the canton hastened by a proclamation to ap-
prise their fellow-citizens of the approach of the French,
and of measures of safety they had thought proper to adopt
for the protection of that portion of the frontier until the
Federal Diet should take a final decision.
By a decision of the Chamber of Accusation of the 2d
instant, the editor of Le illes.ia:ier is to be tried for a
libel at the next Session of the Court of Assizes of the
Seine. The affair will consequently come before the Jury,
and the editor of the incriminated journal will be allowed
to adduce evidence to substantiate his a,sertions. M.
Mauguin, the celebrated barrister and deputy, has under-
taken his defence.
The National says, that domiciliary visits continue both
in Paris and the environs, without any apparent motive for
these persecutions of the police.
The Augsburg Gazette, of the 29th ult., publishes a
letter from Bessarabia, dated the 12th, announcing that
General Roth, who was lately appointed to the command
the trans-Cauessian and Circassian army, had left Odessa
for that destihation. Extraordinary preparations were
making in every quarter for the ensuing campaign, to re-
venge the atrocities commited by the Circassians on the
crews of the Russian vessels shiparecked along their
coast on the 11th and 12th of May last. These prepa-
rations were so formidable, that a general belief prevailed
that they were intended to counteract the hostile attitude
assumed in Asia by the British Government. It was
thought, that immediately after his return from Germany,
the Emperor would undertake a journey of inspection in
Southern Russia.
Private letters from Turin of the 27th ult., state that a
dreadful conflict took place in the neighbourhood of that
city between a Sardinian and a Piedmontese regiment ; se-
veral men were killed ou each side, and so strong were
their exasperation and rage, that all attempts to appease
the tumult failed, until a regiment of cavalry was called out,
and by a charge separated them.
According to recent advices from Berlin, the betrothing
of the Prince Royal of Bavaria with the Grand Duchess
Mary of Russia was celebrated in that city, in presence of
the Imperial Family and the Royal Family of Prussia. The
Prince Royal has entered his 27th year, and the Grand
Duchess is 17. The marriage will take place in the course
of next spring.
The Commerce reprobates the concessions made by the
French Cabinet to the Russian Government, wilch repays
them only with open disdain. " And yet," observes this
Journal, " whenever Russia requires the services of France,
she has scarcely the trouble to demand them, and it mieht
be thought flea her acceptance of them is considered a
favour by the French Government. Poland has been un-
hesitatingly sacrificed to Russia, and the course is now left
clear fir her intrigues io Germany. The Czar protects
Don Carlos, and inmiedi ;tidy the French Cabinet
sympatltizes with the Spanish Pretender, notvvithstand-
iig that his triumph would place the country in dan-
aer. Liberal Saitzerland is not in the good graces
of the Autocrat, and tau the Administration
of Count
Mole do le,s than come to an 'pen rupture with the
best and surest ally of Fraece? What result has the
French Cabinet derived from its weak concessions ? The
northern Powers are its allies when the spirit of Liberalism
is to be combated, but not when any deeionstration of
Royal fraternity or sympathy is required."
The Emperor of Austria, as we learn from Milan, ar-
rived on the 22d ult. at Cremona, where he remained till
the 24th, and then proceeded to Mantua. Their Im-
perial Majesties have been everywhere received with great
Numerous persons have been arrested in Russian Lithu-
ania, as we learn by a letter of the 24th ult. from Dantzte,
and confined under a strong guard in two convents at
%Vilna. It is said that they have been detected in a con-
spiracy for the complete extirpation of the Jews in the
Russian empire. A special commission, under the Pre-
s dency of Prince Trubetzkoy, is appointed to investigate
the affair.

FRENCH FUNDS. -Pasts. Omosatt
rive pet t ems. 11)31. 4 ,c. 31. t.
Four per Cents., 10,1.
110 - per Cents., B(Ji Vc. 80e.
Bank Actions, 2,640 f.
Acme .:e Naples, 104 f. 30c.
Roman Five par Cents., 0.21 103 10-2 ft.
Stianish Actives, 1914.
Belgian Five per Cehts., 104%.
Belgian '1 hrce per Cents., 7.1 f. 50c.
H2CHAB44OOI L.INDON
Onv month, paper, Ilftf. 411 c.: money, MI 37%e.
"fkree months, paper. '251 25 . money, :25,.
LATEST PRICES.
Fire per Cents. 1091. 25c.
Three per Cents., 80f. 75c.
Bank Actions, '2,610f.
Romans, 103.
Belgian Loan, 104%.
Spanish Actives, 1914.
BELtsiAN S U I,ll3S—Baysszt.s. Oct 3.
Actual Deist, 2N, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 tier Cent. lOl-.4
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent.
Loan of City, Mk:. 4 per Cent 97
Society of Commerce, 4 k, per Cent
Batik of Belgium, 5 per Cent .....
National Society .
—lSrussels Papers, Oct. 3.
HAMBURG UORSLN HALES. 00%2.

r;1,*(1,1...8,15t:. 111:i:
Austrian Metpl'iques, 5 per rent.
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,s onsi
Ditto Mt to 2j per cent
Litt° Bank shares
Anglo-Rus,ian Loan 1410 14373
Russian 5 per cents Metal.
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1, (0 .t ~j%
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th 2A 101;..
Series
Ditto, Certificates
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~ 6;-,,,
100 4
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Polish Funds, 3 per cents.
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Mil 13.)1,
New Tickets .........................................
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7.), ,
Norwegian Lean of 1834, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres,3 per Cent 5........
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent —
Greek 4 per cents. 1933, guaranteed by France ....
EXCHANGES ON LONDON. --
Honour°, OCT. 2 —l3 8,4, ; two months, 137%.
STOCKGOOI. SEPT. 27,—Two months, 12 2.
Buirwm. SEPT. 19..—Ftirt.e m•itths, 6.25.
--liambur, Papers, Oct? '2.
PRUSSIAN I•IINDS.—.BeULIN. SEpr• .
giiii nn"'
Money.
4
St. geliiild. Sch. per cent Ili!!
Pfl.l,4i.in Eilgii:h Loan, IS3O, 4 Pei cent. Itgli. 1024
102• X
14xchange on lAndon, three triont%s „., 6 23
—Erwrin., Sue.' Gazette. Sept. CO.
AUSTRI kl,l FUNDri....VI:NNA, SEPT'
95.
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Four per Cents.
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Bank iihar,,
—Allgemeing7giang, Sept. 30. .5S

A WONDERFUL SHEARER.—Among flip shearers
emp`oved on a farm in this neiAihourhood, Dairsic Muir, is a
woman named Colvillt, who has reached the advalced age of
92. Shp pro=erutes ter labour with great vigour, and is raid
to be the last on the field at bight and I first in the morning.
--Invernas Courier.