The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-26 00:00:00

Offord, Thomas 01, Leigh-street

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Puttock, James

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Rosier, Walter
Rudd, George 1, Clarence-place

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1838.

adequately represented in the House of Commons,
which is any thing rather than a mirror of their opinions.

We defer Mr. HARVEY'S speech at the recent
Meeting in Southwark till to-morrow, as we prefer
that it should be accompanied by those remarks we
shall have to make upon it. There is much it which,
at the present time, merits more than ordinary attention,

The agitation for the abolition of the compulsory
payment of Church-rates by Dissenters, keeps pace,
we are happy to observe, with the agitation for the re-
peal of the Starvation Code and the Extension of the
Suffrage. In the populous and wealthy parish of
Edgbaston, the " west-end" of Birmingham, a nu-
merous and highly-respectable meeting was held on
Monday last, at which the High Bailiff presided, for
the purpose of resisting the levying of a rate, clan-
destinely, in our opinion, imposed upon the honest
and unsuspecting Dissenters while engaged in cele-
brating the emancipation of the negroes. A full
report of the proceedings will be found in another
part of The Sun, to which we refer such of our
readers as are desirous of fully comprehending the
merits of this question, and the progress which it is
making in public opinion. The speech of honest
JOSEPH
this STTJRGE, the friend of the negro, and the
consistent advocate of liberty of conscience, will be
found worthy of a careful perusal. Meetings like
must greatly accelerate the ultimate triumph of
genuine Christian liberty.

Our last Advices from Madrid are of the 17th
inst. The Ministry was then supposed to be in con-
siderable jeopardy. To allay the ferment, the Cortes
were summoned to meet on the Bth of November.
Some individuals were arrested on a charge of sedition,
but no account of the discovery of any new plot had
transpired. The QUEEN had sent the Order of
MARIA LOUISA to Lady PONSONBY, wife of the
British Ambassador at Constantinople, as a token of
her MAJESTY'S gratitude for the active part taken by
his Excellency to procure the recognition of the Porte
of the Sovereignty of Queen DONNA ISABELLA.

We have received the whole of the Paris Jour-
nals of Monday. Their contents are more varied
than politically important, with the exception of the
following letter from Limburg, Austrian Galicia,
dated the 9th instant, which we copy from the co-
lumns of the Commerce, a Journal of very high
character :

66 We have just received letters from Podolia, dated the
Ist instant, which inform us of considerable movements of
Russian troops towards the Turkish frontiers. Two divisions
of infantry, one of cavalry, and a brigade of artillery (in all
20,000 men), have just been posted, en echelon, from Kamie-
ni,.ts Podolski to Doubousares. The sth corps in Bessarabia,
under the orders of General Liediers, composed of 36,000
men, and 118 pieces of cannon, were assembled at Kiche-
new, Ismail, and Kilianova. The 5,000 Cossacks forming
the corps of the liettman Wasilewski have taken a position
along the Pruth, from Skoulary to Ismail. 24 squadrons of
Lancers aro encamped near Bendeny, and before the end of the
present
month General Baron Rudiger will arrive with the 3d
corps of 36,000 men and 118 pieces of cannon from Kiew at
Ackerman. Thus 120,000 Russian troops and more than 400
pieces of artillery will in a few days be collected on the Turk-
ish frontiers. A flotilla of transports is stationed in the port of
Kilianova, and a sufficient number of pontoons have already
been built for the use of the troops under the orders of
General Lehner.
.‘ It is aaserted that Field. Marshal Paskewiteh will take the
command of this force, to which has been given the name of
' the Acting Army of the South.'

‘‘ All them preparations and movements of troops have been
executed by virtue of orders given by the Emperor Nicholas
during his stay in Germany. It is therefore probable that
the interviews of the Sovereigns at Berlin, at Toplitz, and in
Bavaria have not been so foreign to politics as the censured
Journals of Russia and Germany maintain."

Presuming the statements made in this letter to be
correct, it is for the Government to make an early
comment upon them. The results of the past, unfor-
tunately, offer no guarantee for the wisdom of the
future ; but it is highly probable that the Noble
Foreign Secretary may profit by the knowledge which
he has recently acquired on the subject of the popu-
larity of his policy as regards Russia.
The KING of the FRENCH daily transacts business
with his Ministers. Every hour has its allotted
duties, in the performance of which his MAJESTY is
said to be very exact. The members of the Royal
Family appear frequently in public, and are all very
popular.

The following extracts from these Papers contain all
the news they bring of any general importance :
The Duke of Orleans left Paris yesterday for the camp at
Luncville.

The Commerce states (in a letter from Toulon) that about
the end of October the squadron destined to obtain satisfaction
from the Mexican Government would amount to 27 vessels,
viz., 6 frigates, 8 corvettes, 11 brigs, and 4 bomb-vessels.
The following is from the Pariser Zeitung :—" It is known
that the King of the French announced to his Prussian
Majesty the birth of the Count dc Paris by an autograph letter.
The King of Prussia replied by another letter written with his
own hand. Frederick William is understood to have de-
clared that France and Prussia should now more than ever act
in concert."

The Messager states that a Cabinet Council, held on Satur-
day, has decided on lowering the colonial sugar duties. It is
believed at Havre that a reduction of 20 per cent. will be pro-
posed by Ministers on these duties as soon as the Chambers
meet. The Presse, a Ministerial Paper, confirms the state-
ment of the Messager relative to the decision of the Council
of Ministers, and says that the Superior Council of Com-
merce will receive a summons extraordinary to deliberate upon
this question.
The holders .of Spanish Stock have published the following
letter in the Messager :
" An article in your Journal has directed the attention of
the public, and especially of the Committee of Spanish Fund.
holders, to the treaty proposed between the Spanish Govern-
ment and the house of Rothschild for the concession of the
mines of Almadon, the, produce of which had been formally
destined for the payment of the dividends of the Public Debt.
The Committee has devoted its most serious attention to the
treaty; and, without wishing to prejudge its determination,
which will become definitive only on receipt of the official do-
cuments expected from Madrid, the Committee ventures upon
the assurance that all acts calculated to deprive the creditors
of the guarantees belonging to them, in virtue of laws or trea-
ties, will be as thoroughly investigated, and as strenuously
opposed by it, as the infamous projects of bankruptcy con-
ceived and attempted on the Paris Stock Exchange, by the
ex-Minister Mon, the nephew and imitator of the Count
de Toreno, of disastrous memory, whose considerable
fortune and immense territorial possessions' (to use the
words of the decree) procured for him a few days ago the
title of a Grandee of Spain from the Queen Regent. The
creditors of Spain might add another title to those conferred
on the Count de Toreno. But the Committee will take care
at he
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unfortunate fundholders, and the same check is predicted to
M. Mon's successor, unless he presents to the public such con-
ditions of a loan as may satisfy their legitimate demands.
" Paris, Sept. 22."
To this letter the Messager subjoins a remark that Ca-
brera, under the walls of Morella, put an end to the treaty
Rothschild. The evening journal proposed between
j
the Madrid Clabthininektaanthdatththee house of
Adminis-
tration of the Duke de Frias will scarcely sign a treaty on
which Cabinetoth d
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afraid
Vienna
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and adds
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declared to the firm in Paris that it will
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in any loan or treaty the object of which may
dßhoa Rothschild
reduced
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the
proportions
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voted a
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be to assist the Spanish finances—a declaration which has
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all the attempts of Messrs. Toreno, Mon, and
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grant of mines the financial measure that was to have saved
Spain. ce to rte s Messrs.; an
A letter of the 18th inst. from the frontiers of Navarre states
that Maroto, with twelve battalions, two squadrons of cavalry,
and eight pieces of artillery, marched from Durango on the
Toted Blanco,
h y tt oh e
16th inst. for Biscay. By his orders all the Christino pri-
soners at the depot of Arcona and Guembe, including Colonel
Cobs, were conducted on the 14th to Mondragon, in Gui-
puscoa, to be exchanged against 600 Carlist prisoners. The
exchange was to take place near Vittoria. Garcia, with the
occupied
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first division of Navarre, consisting of five battalions of in-
fantry and two squadrons of cavalry, quitted Estella and the
environs of Solana on the 15tb, for the villages of the Ribera
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An
stilla
peasants and two companies of sappers were con-
stantly at work. Among the various orders recently issued in
s round
wi theth th etmowans,mtulicehianshapboistsainbltes wereof t
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the event of an attack from the Christinos, to abandon their
(werethe garrison ade
sonic a
homes, taking villages
and destroying every object that might be of use to the enemy.
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companiesattaek ofed by the
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16th, in order to gather wood on a neighbouring mountains
T
trifling
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were sustained on both sides. Don'and
Carlos, it is said, intend,
to grant an amnesty in favour of all Spanish emigrants from