The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-10 00:00:00

the latter greatly to outweigh the former. The Gateshead
Observer makes the following suggestion :
" Now, it strikes us that no legislative interference is
necessary fer the relief of the London consumer. The trade ,
is perfectly free. Any inhabitant of London can charter a
vessel at Newcastle, or send a vessel thither—can have a cargo
of coal at the regular price. and his vessel loaded in the
r.:gular turn—he can have his cargo brought to London—
if a merchant, he can sell his coals—if a consumer, lie can
take them to his cellars without the intervention of any
factor whatever. The factors arc the mere consequences,
not the causes, of the system. It is the absence Of compe-
titien amongst the dealers, the habit of buying of the factor in
London ratio r than of the fitter in Newcastle—which has put
so much in the power of the coal. dealers. The coal-owner or
ship-owner is surely not to blame. The former would of course
rather have ready money at home, and the latter a fixed remu-
nerating freight, frcm an importer, than run the risk of distant
markets. The cure, therefore. rest; with the consumes them-
selves. The coal offices of Newcastle are as open tss the in.
habitants of London as to those of Leith, Dundee, Portsmouth,
klamburg, or St. Petersburg. In these latter places no factors
li.re required—no millions arc conveniently pocketed.
'I tie
ppirit of enterprise in the consumer extends beyond the pre-
rincts of his cellar. When he thinks himself imposed upon, be
,takes the matter into his own hands, instead of grumbling
through the columns of a newspaper, or plaguing the Legisla-
pre with petitions for the removal of a grievance of which, in
truth, he is himself the cause."
We should like very much to see the consumers of the
metropolis take this matter into their own hands, and we
are not without hopes they will ; but there arc some impe-
diments of which the Gateshead editor is not quite aware.
The following passage will explain one :
Supposing a fleet of three hundred to arrive, and the price
to be 215., what would they offer ?--- Forty.
Suppose my ship to be the 41st, and wish to bring it to
sale, and did sell, as I can sell without the intervention of a
factor if I please, what would be the consequence of my doinr,
that, with regard to my turn of loading in the North?-317
Scott would be directed by the factors to report that such ship
hail violated the regulations. She would be prevented getting
a cargo.—Answer of M. Clarke, factor, to the Committee of
the House of Commons, June 13, 1536.
Those, therefore, who wish to unload their ships without
the intervention of the factors would be excluded front
purchasing coals.

Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 28th ult., have
reached us this morning. The Gazette of that date con-
tains the following account of the movements of the rebels
in La Mancha:—
" It is known, through advices received in the Home-office
from La Mancha, that the faction of Don Basiiio at Navas
de San Juan ordered rations to be prepared for them on
the 23d at Carolina, at three o'clock in the evening. On
the 29th they arrived at Santa Cruz de Mudela, having
advanced a strong guard of cavalry before them on the road
to Valdepenas. The convoy, which left Madrid a few days
back for the Andalusias, has halted in Manzanares, in conse-
quence of these movements of the factious. Manzanares affords
a safe retreat."
Not a word about the movement' of ORAA and NAR-
VAEZ, and just as little about SANZ. Where have these
heroes concealed themselves ? In Madrid rumours of
an immediate change of Ministers were in circulation.

The Paris Journals of Thursday do not contain a syllable
of news of any political importance. The rumoured ar-
rival of General BOURNIONT at the Pretender's head-
quarters, in quality of an Ambassador from one of the
Great Northern Powers, turns out to be a Carlist fabri-
cation. The General has neither joined, nor does he in-
tend to join, Don Cantos in any capacity. The Journal
des Debats, in noticing the extravagant reports circulated
b) the Quotidienne, a Royalist Journal, relative to the great
personages figuring as diplomatists at the Court of Estella,
says :

" The pretended Ambassadors of the Great Powers of
Europe, appear to be only some Prussian and Dutch officers
who have formally renounced the service of their country to
follow the Pretender's fortunes : among others may be
mentioned Colonel Kaiserling, Prince Lichnowski, and Baron
de Randen. As to M. de Vaerst, who has been transformed
into a diplomatic agent of Prussia, he is editor of the Breslau
Gazette. and he is gone to visit in person the Court and camp
of Don Carlos, to write accounts of them from the Basque
provinces to his paper at home. The affairs of Spain do not
offer a perspective brilliant enough for the Cabinets, supposed
to be the most favourable to Don Carlos, to be tempted to
compromise themselves with the rest of Europe by a bold and
derisive step."
Genr2ral HARISPE has arrived in Paris, but not on any
special mission relative to the civil war in the Peninsula.
His return to the frontier is not alluded to in any of the
Journals ; and his friends report that the resumption of
his duties in the Chamber of Peers is the sole object of his
return to the Capital.
It is confidently affirmed that there will be no reduction
of the interest on the Five per Cents. this year. as 'Ministers
are of opinion that such a step could not be taken just now
without greatly injuring public credit.
The following are extracts from the Journals :
The Sentinelle des Pyrennes, which is a Journal of the
Christino party, has the following news :
FRONTIERS OF NAVARRE, MARCH 10.
" On the 23d of Feb. there was an exchange at Viana of
:380 Carlist pris9ners for an equal number of Christino soldiers.
Don Favier Soto, the Colonel Commandant of the Fort of
Burgota, oho was employed on this mission, was very well re-
ceived by the Christino officers. Among the prisoners were
17 officers who were at the depot of Guembe. On the 24th,
24 Carlist battalions and 10 squadrons occupied the valley of
La Solanas and the environs of Este'la.
" Don Carlos and his Court occupy at Estella a Palace re-
cently furnished for the occasion.
" In consequence of what passed at the bridge of Belascoain,
and the burning of the houses in the nie,ghbouring
inhabitants of the valley of Echauri have voluntarily taken up
arms in favour of Don Carlos. villages, the
" The column of Don Diego de Leon, composed of eight
hatallions of infantry and 600 horse, went on the 25th to the
villages in the environs of Pampeluna, escorting a convoy of
corn for that city. On the 26th the same column vvent t the
valley of Echauri, and occupied Astrain, LarraLta, Mara,o and
Gaolka, on the other side of the Alga. On the same day
(the 26th) ten Carlist batallions, under General Carmoa,
came and occupied, in the same valley, Vidaurelta, Echauri,
Elio. &C.
" Ewartero is gene with a division to the Encartaciones."
—La Gazette de France.
FRENCH FUNDS. —Nets, MAitem 8.
live per Cent._ 107 E 4:.c. 3,5 c. 6:,c,
Four per Cents., 102 f.
Clue Kr Cents. 711 f. 90c. 75c.
Bank Actions, 2,,i45f 2,050 f.
dente to Naples, 99f. Gue.-50e.
Roman Five per Cents.. 10174 N.
Spanish Actives, 20 20%,
al rnish l'assit es, 4t 4.
14s4n, Five per Cents, 104'4.
Belgian Bank, 1,50.1 f, 1,507 f. t,Oc. 1,510 f.
Portuguese Loan, Threv per Cods. 183 i.
Dutch Two and a Half psi' cents.. 55.
ll,ytian Loan, 40.1.
EICIIANGR ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —f. —c.: money, 251. 51r
Three mouths, paper, •25f. 37 -•
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 107 f. 75c.
Three per Cents. 791. 95c.
]Sank Actions, 2,651_11.
Romans, 101 •
Belgian Loan, 101%.
Belgian Bank, 1,510 f.
Portugue,;c Three per Cents., ISS,
Myth!' Loan, 400 f.
Spanish Actives, ..:41!;.
Spanish Passives, 4.

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THE COAL TRADE.—London is supplied with
coal from the Tyne and Wear by three descriptions of per-
sons ;—lst. By the coal-owner, who, when he cannot find pur-
chasers for his coal at home, charters vessels, and consigns the
article to the faators in London for sale. 2d. By the shipowner,
who, when he cannot procure such a freight as pleases him,
buys the coal of the coal-owner, takes it to London, and places
it for disposal in the hands of the factor. 3d. By the specu-
lator, who, calculating upon the chances of the market, buys
the coal, freights the ship, and sends it at his own risk for
sale. This, our commercial readers will know, is very
different from the usual mode of supplying other markets ;
the dealers generally purchasing their cargoes at Newcastle,
tilactTionhagel
tctoohaeelv-neoerwyc
neasepsripitlyi.actraOeira t
te intermediate services
obliged,the br
regular
g uActlar of
price,Pa r
andlia-
vessels of those applicants in a regular turn. They
r,tolohef“,:‘al'n:a(tfa?'sleytooLt°oohsrbbeell'iged to keop offices open during certain hours, an
to exhibit the Turn book when demanded. It is true that
attempts have been made, as, we believe, in the case of the
Eliza, to evade the meaning of the Act, by demanding an
extra price foe coal from persons refusing to enter into such
arrangements as the coal-fitters proposed—but such demands
have been as successfully resisted as they are obviously illegal.
Gateshead Observer, March 3.
The Education scheme for Ireland, which was de-
vised Ly Lord Stanley, is characterised this morning by the
Times, like most of the other schemes of that pink of Toryism.
to be "a mere bul bl wliich costs this Protestant kingdom
many thousand pounds per annum, for forcing it down the
throats of a community, among whom, it is universally unpopu-
lar." The bubble, however, is one of the latest and most ap-
proved contrivances of our Legislature. All partie., till now,
except the very UW a-Protestants headed by the Bizhop of
Exeter, bare combined to praise it, Tories as well as Whigs
oand both cheerfully proposed to promote suc-
cess
te dby fora it
by
which
a Lord
to t tant c
he
ad s t
y by
l egis the
latioProtestants,
n, b
na:l klitional grant. Should it be bow rejected by
the Catholics, while it is d
v
should it des,eive to be called a " bubble," we shrill have one
proof
ptiblc in all things, perhaps, but his
strong love of power, insists in making his will the law fcr
other men, and which is the very soul of arrug4nt Toryism.
more
oSreta onti.ey, the
'ornetaet m fully
ofe n
that
Should the Committee of the House of cpmmons
sit tino on the Coal trade limit its inquiries, so as to he unsa-
tisfactory, we I:dieve that a most distinguished Nobleman will
propose to institute a full ine.lßry before a Committee of the
House of Lords.
We regret ti hear that Alderman WittehesteF,
whose domestic calamities deprived him of reason, died last
night at the Asylum to which he had been removed. His
death occasions a vacany in the Ward of Vintry, of which he
was Alderman. It was impossible, we understand, to make
him take fue,d, and before his decease he suffered under severe
spasms of ,
the stomao,