The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1838

Europe—the local taxes are seized by the public dignity of Cardinal, in the Consistory of the 13th, as was
authorities in the different provinces—and to such a I announced. The Pope hi his allocation pronounced a most
flattering euloo'ium on the Bishops, the Clergy, and On
l al-
degree of poverty is she reduced, that she has not gium, his most faithful ally, whom he chiefly intended to
honour by his promotion."
means, it is said, to pay even her representatives at
iNfi.s
cE. 171..11 E R '24.
Foreign Courts. Under such circumstances, with an frihvieFe;pl;:rNC(e;ollitnst..,ll.lljlBirilf.l:
IS6i6cici. 65c. :,oc. 55e.
unpaid and discontented army, with the indifference Bank Actions, i.),635f. 2,610 f
dente de Naples, 10, •f.
approaching to hostility of the only Sovereign that Roman Five par Cents., 102
Spanish Actives, 19V,.
could effectually support her, and with the cordial and Belgian Three per Cents., 73f. 00c.
steady assistance which her opponent receives from so 450 f.
Hayßelgian Bank, I,tian Loan, 360 t.
many quarters, we can feel no surprise that the Car-
lists are at present so much elated. Some of them
are even confident that ESPARTERO, who now dic-
tates to her MAJESTY, will act the part of General
loN lc, and do for hire, what that officer did for
love of country. Whatever turns up, however,
whether Don CARLOS or ESPARTERO be master,
the people, judging from the past, can have
little hope of peace or security for the future
under either dynasty ; and who could blame them if,
imitating their French neighbours, they should attempt
to establish another form of Government. No people
have displayed more loyalty than the Spaniards, none
were ever so ill requited, and the present generation
have, above all others, tasted the bitter fruits of implicit
confidence in an Absolute Prince. The " beloved" nut-
DINAND, some thirty years ago, began public life by
plotting against his father—he was restored by the
unanimous voice of the people, and one of his first
acts was to destroy their favourite Constitution, which
he had solemnly sworn to observe—he subjected the
country, at a later period, for five years to the dominion
of the French, and on his death-bed he left them the
present legacy. They may well say, with the Pro-
phet of old, " Our wickedness is great in asking for

a King."

The whole of the French Journals of Tuesday have
been received. The Journal des Debats denounces
as revolutionary the petition of the National Guards
for an extension of the suffrage. On the other hand,
the Journal de Paris strenuously and powerfully sup-
ports the petition, and complains that'the just demands
of the French people are treated with ridicule by the
Ministerial Press.

The Swiss question increases in political interest,
as the instructions of the several Cantons to their
Deputies continue to be made known. The Com-
merce, which has uniformly opposed the policy of the
Government with respect to this question, thus sums
up the reasons to the contrary, in despite of which
Ministers will persist in their infatuation :
" We are disposed to believe for an instant, that in spite of
the ill-concealed hostility of Belgium and Holland—in spite of
the new complications of Spain—in spite of the attitude of
Russia and England, and of Turkey and Egypt—in spite of
our affairs with Mexico, Tunis, and Buenos Ayres—in spite of
our interior embarrassments, the scandal of so many trials and
prosecutions—the perilous provisional state of Algiers—the
weakness of the Administration—the increasing question of
electoral Reform—the blows given to the trading and capitals
by the depression of the railroad shares--the agony of our
colonial establishments—the languor of our maritime com-
merce, and of our exportations—the contest which exist: be-
tween cane sugar and beet-root sugar—notwithstanding all those
things, we say we are disposed to believe that the Minister will
have the courage to break our relations with Switzerland, and
to undertake this war."

The Berns Universal Gazette states that Prince
Louis NAPOLEON has sought and obtained permis-
sion to retire to England. We cannot state whether
this report be, or be not, correct.
The following extract from the Semaphore of Mar-
seilles of the 21st inst., excited a good deal of interest
on the Bourse :
" The Frahcois I. arrived on the 20th inst. at Marseilles
with the unpleasant intelligence that the well-known banking
house of U- and Co., at Leghorn, had stopped payment.
This failure, the full extent of which is not yet known, but
which is supposed to be for a large amount, added to the
failure of a less considerable firm a few days before, had com-
pletely paralysed commercial operations at Leghorn and
Genoa."

EXCIIANOR ON LONDON.
Ono month, paper, 251. 3744 c.; money, 2:.f. 35c.
Diree months, paper, 251. 25e. ; money, 251. 20e.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 108 f. 90c.
Three per Cents. 801. 50c.
Bank Actions, 2,6101.
Romans, 102
Belgian Bank, 1,440 f.
Spanish Actives, 11.44.
Portugue-e Three per Cents., 23.
avian Loan,-360.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 24.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 254 per C•nt
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A ,ort syndic, 41.4 per cent 95 95)
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent 7o' 79%
Commercial Company, 4' per cent 169 171 14
Ditto (l x:32 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Loan 4 I.er cent.
Ditto 18:37. 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 12%
Two mon'ts
BELGIAN 1 INDS-131109mA, SEPT. 25.
Actual Debt, 2!4 per Cent. -
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant. .........
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 91%
-- 3 per Cent.
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 97
Society of Commerce, 41,.;, per Cent l5O
Batik of Belgium, 5 per Cent llOl4
National Society .
Prussels Papers, Sept. 25.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, SEPT. 20.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch. 4 per cent 103% 1022,4
Prussian English Loan, 18.30, 4 per cent 1034 102%
It;xchange on London, three monfas 6 22i4
—Prussian State Gazette. Sept. 21.

What other news there is in these Papers will be
found in the subjoined extracts. The unhappy Poles,
it seems, have not yet drunk all the dregs of the bitter
cup, presented them by the tyranny of the CZAR :

Major-General Lawcestine has been named Commandant
of the Cavalry Brigade of Paris. Major-General de Mornay
takes the command of the Cavalry Brigade at Versailles.
Major-General Fleury de Bourckoltz has been appointed
Commandant of the Department of the Seine-et-Oise. Major.
General Negrier is charged with the command of the Depart-
ment of the Nord, at Lille. M. Bord, Military Sub-Inten-
dant, has been appointed to the residency at Dunkirk.
The Universal Gazette of Berne states, that Prince Louis
Napoleon has obtained a passport for England.
The Sentinelle des Pyrenees states, on the authority of let.
ters of the 16th from Arrigorriaga, near Bilboa, that Maroto
was establishing his head quarters there. Several battalions
had already arrived in the village, and ten were to assemble
there on the 17th, with the besieging artillery. A quantity
of ammunitions and provisions were arriving every
instant
from Durango, and the operations against Bilboa were ex-
pected to begin without delay. 800 Christinos had embarked
at St. Sebastian for Portugalette, and were to be immediately
joined by two other battalions. These troops had been or.
dered to ensure the communications between Bilboa and
Portugalette, which the Carlista threatened to intercept. We
know already by telegraph that Maroto and Don Carlos were
at Balmaceda, a little to the south-west of Bilboa, on the 19th.
The Warsaw journals have recently contained a notice of a
contract to be entered into for the transport from Warsaw to
St. Petersburgh of the sons of the Polish noblesse admitted
into the corps of cadets,
or into the regiment of nobles.
" This decree," says the Augsburg Gazette, from 'which we
quote the statement, .‘ has need of no comment. As all the
Polish establishments, civil and military, have been suppressed,
and as a Polish army is no longer in existence, we cannot but
congratulate the young Poles on the delicate attention which
sends them to St. Petersburgh to complete their studies."
" Early in the present month," says the Courrier Francais,
" several hundreds of persons were carried off from the
southern part of the Waywode of Lubesk, in Poland, and
immediately conducted, under an escort of infantry and
esvalry, towards Ekatorinaslay. It is said that they are not
to remain in this government, but will ultimately be sent into
the country of the Don Cossacks. This is the more probable,
as a number of Poles have already been transported to this
almost desert country, Russia finding a necessity for re-
ps.opling it, in order to preserve the Cossacks of the Black
Sea to oppose the Caucasians."
STUTGARD, SIMI% 16.—During the King's sojourn at
Fredrichahafen, Louis Napoleon endeavoured to obtain an au-
dience of him, but all his efforts were useless. The agent to
whom the Prince (it is not known for what reason) confided
this mission, to solicit this favour, was an Italian refugee, who
arrived at the Castle in a post-chaise, which he caused to be
driven into the court-yard of the castle sans ceremonie, without
even taking the trouble to have himself announced. It was
signified to him immediately that be was to leave, and a third
person was charged to inform Louis Napoleon that if his mes-
senger of a new kind wished to avoid " disagreeables," he
had better avoid showing himself upon the territory of Wur-
temberg.—Franconian Mercury.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 22.—The King and Queen arrived at
Ostend
yesterday evening by the iron railroad, as well as by
the di,irrences.

We perceive that our talented Contemporary, the
Brighton Herald, is engaged in deep controversy with
the Standard and the British Magazine—with the
first on the subject of the Corn-laws, and with the
second on the more knotty points of Theology. From
the high character the Brighton Herald enjoys, and
the position it holds among the first provincial Journals,
we have no fear of the result.

INCREASE OF NEWSPAPER READERS.-Thirty
years ago there was but one Brighton Paper—the
Herald—whose circulation at that time did not exceed
five hundred weekly. There are now four Papers in
the same town, and the circulation of the Herald is
fifteen hundred weekly. It is true that the population
has increased in the meantime from fifteen thousand
to fifty thousand; but when it is considered that the
increased circulation of the Brighton Herald is as 3
to 1 to what it was thirty years back, and that there
are now three other Papers which enjoy fair circula-
tions, the immense increase of Newspaper readers is
evident.

Colo—nel Paixhans will shortly be at Liege ; the object of
his journey is to study the great line of the iron railroads,
those in Belgium being the only ones on the Continent.
There was no difficulty in laying down the small portion of
iron railroad that France possesses; the difficulties will not
begin till there are several sections and branches crossing each
other.

SEPT. 24.—A special train was sent yesterday on the iron
railroad to Ostend for the use of their Majesties, who, with
the young Princes, arrived at the Palace of Laeken in the
evening.
M. de Theux has returned to Brussels.
Prince Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte arrived yesterday even-
ing from London, at the Hotel de Belle Vue. He
Guchard, Keeper of the Ar-
nrtouannceledh,ismso.n .
•
Is accom-
chives of the Kingdom, has just published a detailed and very
panAisedwebyaihr
remarkable essay on the Austro-Belgian debts. He proves
iesa already
" that the Austro-Belgian debt, as it is called, is a purely
Austrian debt, contracted in our provinces; that it was not
even indirectly for the advantage of Belgium, but exclusively
for that of the Emperor's German dominions that the loans
sk ere contracted ; that the funds raised by the loans were
always sent to Vienna ; that the German Treasury always paid
the interest and provided for the redemption of the loans; that
whenever such a loan was contracted the Emperor always
bound himself to repay the lenders out of his German Trea-
sury ; that the loans were never agreed to nor recognized by
tl,e Estates of the country ; and that the King of the Ne-
therlands could not in 1815 take upon him the Austro-
Belgian debt, except on consideration of the sovereignty which
he acquired by the union of Belgium with Holland; we have
also proved that in the negotiations in 1815 and 1816 between
Austria and the Netherlands, on the accessory pretensions of
the Court of Vienna, the interest of Belgium was again sacri-
ficed. That far from being indebted to Austria, Belgium had
a large claim upon that country. We now ask any impartial
persl;n, whether Belgium would not be entitled to throw off
the burden of the Austro-Belgic States, and if it consents
to bear, whether it would not be just that Austria should
indemnify it by some equivalent advantages."
The Courier de la Meuse says, " We have just received the
news of the promotion of the Archbishop of Matinee to the