The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-13 00:00:00

ance :

Two systems of policy had been placed in presence ; the
one admitted the possibility of an intervention ; the other ex-
cluded that possibility. He (the Minister) would defend the
latter system. The Quadruple Treaty, when signed, bound
France to nothing—(" Oh, oh I")—but merely stipulated that
an application should be made to her when her co-operation
might be necessary. In a month afterwards France engaged
to close the frontier of the Pyrenees, but bound herself to no-
thing further. Government had fulfilled all the obligations
entered into by France, and, with the exception of an armed
intervention, had afforded all possible aid to Spain. Govern-
ment ardently desired the triumph of the Liberal cause in
Spain ; but he was boudd to state his opinion unreservedly,
that in no case could France intervene in that country.—
(" Oh, oh 1") The situation of France was not sufficiently en-
couraging to admit of an army of 80,000 men being sent to
occupy Spain. France had already done for Spain more than
she had been required to do, and as long as he should be at
the head of affairs more should not be done.
The debate of this question was resumed on Thurs-
day, and was not brought to a close up to three
o'clock. MM. PASSY and MAGUIN followed on the
same side as M. TRIERS. The latter thus forcibly
pointed out the error of which France had been gniltv,
in refusing the first co-operation demanded by the
Spanish Government :
The gradual revelution in French policy formed an immense
circle, in performing which France had first allied with Eng-
land and then deserted her. Yet at an enrly epoch two squa-
drons of horse, sent after Don Carlos, would have terminated
or prevented the war. Later still, two years ago, the war re-
quired 25,000 men to terminate it. It would now demand
80,000. Let Don Carlos mount the throne, and this force
would no longer suffice. Such was the progress of the question.
There is no other intelligence of any interest in the
Paris Journals of Thursday. From the North of
Spain, no accounts had been received of a later date
than those referred to in The Sun of yesterday.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS. JAR. 11.
Five per Cents., 1081 99c. 109 f. 10°f. 95c.
Four and a Half ner Cents. 1051. 10c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. nnc.
fhree.per Cents., 79f. 35e. 30e. 40c.
Bank Actions, 2,020 f. 2,630 f.
Rente ue Naples, NZ 201.
Roman Five per Cents., 101.
Spanish Actives, 21 2,1%44.
Spanish Passives, 4
Belgian Bank, 1,496 f. 1,495 f. 1,4101-. 1,492 f. Sc.'
Portu;uese Loan, Three per Casts. 191.4.
Haytian Loan, 2;9l'f.
EXCRANGZ ON Lorton:v.
One month, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 47%c
Three months, paper, 25f. 32N,c.; money, 25t. 321,4 e.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 109 f. 29c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 55c.
Bank Actions, 2,650 f.
Romans, 101.
Belgian Bank, 1,4921.
Spanish Actives, 2A.
Spanish Passives, 4%,.
Haytian Loan, 3901.

For the Funds and News of the day, see the third
page.

IRELAND.

(vnoM OUR OWN CORRIZSPONPENT.)
DUBLIN, THURSDAY,
THE GREAT REFORM .BANQUET.

The day of this great demonstration has at length arrived,
and the anxiety and curiosity of the public is at fever heat.
Nearly ssven hundred tickets, indeed all that could be issued,
are already disposed of, and the laggards are now offering a
premium for admission. Five pounds have been offered for two
tickets, and refused ; and the demand for tickets at an extra
price is so great that the Committee has issued a regulation
making it necessary for the seller of a ticket to have the pur-
chaser's name and address indorsed upon the back of it.
Fourteen hundred Ladies' tickets have been issued, and
even one cannot now be had (to use an Irish phrase) " for
love or money." There will be a dozen and a half different
tables arranged to fjrm a magnificent and imposing coup d'ceil.
At the grand table Lord Charlemont will preside, and on his
right and left will be seated Lord Brebszon, Daniel O'Con-
nel, M.P., Robert Hutton, M. P., George Evans, M. P.,
Lord Fingal, Lord Cloncurry, Lord L'smore, Lord Cremorne,
Lord Gormanstown, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Sir John
Kennedy, Bart , Sir Percy Nugent, Bart., Richard Sheil,
M. P., James Power, M. P., Nicholas Bail, M. P., Henry
Grattan, M.P., Morgan O'Coneell, M.P. ' John O'Connell,
M. P., John Maher, M. P., Colonel Burg-oyne, and Mr.
Fraecis Finn, late member for Kilkenny.
It would be vain to attempt to name a tithe of the " lions"
who will be scattered over the other tab'es—enough that they
will include the most eminent, respectable (in the best sense
of the adjective of many meanings), and wealthy individuals
not only of the metropolis, but of the kingdom. The fact of
Lord Cremorne attending is one of great promise to the li-
beral party. He is a young nobleman wanting a few months
of being of age, who has vast property and influence in this
country. In Monaghan alone he possesses nearly a whole
barony, and will be able to rescue that important county from
the Tory faction. His father was a Peer of the people when
few merited or sought that title, and this is the first public
act in the life of the present Lord which indicated his inten-
tion of taking the same course.
At this hour (five o'clock) the doors have been thrown
open, and the arrivals are exceedingly numerous, though the
dinner will not be on the table for nearly two hours.
THE NEW SHERIFFS, COUNTY CLARE.—Knowing, as all
the world knows, the perfect impartiality and freedom from
bias of the Irish judges, it is hard to account for the following
piece of, shall I call it, chicanery, which has taken place in
Clare with reference to the choice of a new Sheriff for Clare.
The present Sheriff, Mr. M‘Mahon, returned a list to the
Judges of Assize, as in duty bound, containing a number of
names, out of which they might select three names to submit
to the Lord Lieutenant, out of whom to appoint Sheriff.
The names submitted to the Judges were those of ten gen-
tlemen of the highest respectability in the county, five being
Protestants and five Catholics, an arrangement evidently fair
and important. Well, what did their Lordships? Why, returned
a list in which not one cf the two names were retained, the
three chosen being thorough going Tories. What the Lord-
Lieutenant will do under such circumstances is not yet known,
but it is confidently hoped, since the Judges set him the ex-
ample of stepping out of the list, lie will not fail to pursue a
similar course with the list prepared by them.
KILKENNY CORPORATION.—The Mayor of Kilkenny and
the citizens hare been for some time in communication about
the propriety of calling a meeting for the purpose of repealing
the by-laws of the Corporation of the 19th ef November, 1657,
and 25th of June, 1753, and all other by-laws which directly
or indirectly transferred, or purported to transfer, from the
Mayor and citizens at large, to the Mayor, Aldermen, Masters,
and Wardens or Common Councilmen, the power of making
laws, statutes, and ordinances for the government of said city ;
said assembly then to proceed to make such an enactment as
might re-invest the Mayor and citizens at large with municipal
powers as ample as originally granted to them by the charter
of his late Majesty King James the First. The Mayor, how-
ever, declined calling the projected meeting without con-
sulting the law officers of the Crown, and they, on being con-
sulted, refused to give any opinion on the point, as it involved
the rights of individuals. Thus the matter stands at present,
but thus it cannot long stand, as the people of Kilkenny have
taken up the question with great zeal and interest. The result
is anticipated with much anxiety by both parties.
A CORPORATION DINNER.—On Tuesday last the greedy,
guttling corporators, dined together on the occasion of She-
riff Quinton's first " official dinner." The sobriety and de-
cency that would be looked for from such an assembly, is small
indeed; for the Dublin Corporation have always contrived to
out-Alderman all other Aldermen in bigotry and absurdity. It
is true that, upon this occasion, the " glorious memory" was
omitted, at least the Orange Press, the only one admitted,
says nothing of its being given ; but Ernest of Hanover was
pledged with nine times nine, and the toast of " the Lord
Lieutenant, and prosperity to Ireland," was received with dis-
approbation, and cries of " Away, away I" Sir Francis Bur-
dett was of course eulogised, and Lord Melbourne abused ;
and after several similar matters of course had been performed,
their Worships got duly drunk, and separated by the assistance
of the new Police.
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HARD FROST—SUDDEN DEATIL—The frost has been more
Gloucester,
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English gentleman named William Fowles, from Minchin-
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Limerick to Dublin. He has been in the habit of
doing busi-
ness in Limerick for several years, and he left it ou Tuesday
w
on the outside of the mail ; and when he arrived in town he
had to be moved from the coach to his hotel, Challoner's,on
Eden Quay, where he died in a few hours. He was buried
this day.

IMPORTANT.—The new police last night took into custody
two fellows who were disturbiag the streets with cries of " No
Popery 1" On searching them there was found upon the
person
of one of them, earned William Warwick, the warrant of an
Orange Lodge, dated the 11th of December, 1837 ; and yet
we are told Orangeisrn is extinct 1 This document is at pre-
sent in the hands of the authorities.

Yesterday, there was a grand display of skating in
the Regent's-park. The quadrille, the waltz, the figure of
eight, and the figure three were ably executed. Sir William
Newton took the lead. He is considered to be the first per-
former of the present day. There were present William Ains-
worth, James Murray, R. Staveley, the Chiltons, the liellvars,
the Pages, the Thorntons, and C. Brooke, Esqra.
At the beginning of November an aged ecclesias-
tic of Paris, and his housekeeper were apprehended on a
charge of horse-stealing; a circumstance arising from the
fact of their having found a horse stra3ine• on the southern
boulevards one evening, which they took 'home, and subse-
quently sold. They were brought before the Tribunal of
Correctional Police a few days aeo, to take their trial for the
imputed offence. It came out, however, from the depositions
made by several respectable witnesses, including some eccle-
siastics, and the Rector of St. Eustacho, that the Reverend
Personage now inculpated was a man of extreme simplicity
of mind, that he had taken the horse home from pure com-
passion for the animal, had kept, and afterwards disposed of
it, without the least idea of criminality entering into his mind.
lie never thought of advertising it, and did nct know how to
get rid of in, so he sold it. Himself and his housekeeper were
therefore acquitted by the Court.