The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-23 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Major- General the Hon. Henry and Lady King, from
Upper Portland-place, on a visit to Lord Lichfield, at Lough-
borough Hall ; the Hon. Fox Manic, from Hill.street, for
Brechin Castle,Worfarshire ; Lord and Lady Tankerville, for
their villa at Walton-upon-Thames; Vjicountess Fitzharris,
from Grosvenor-square, for Lord Malmesbury's scat, Heron
Court, Hants; Mr. Denison, M.P., from Pall-mall, for the
Denb'es, Dorking; the Hon. Captain George Poulett, R. N.,
for Brighton ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Rice Trevor, from
Stratton-street, for Brighton, for the winter; Vice-Admiral
White, for ditto ; Sir Charles and Lady Desvoeux, for ditto ;
Lieut.-General Blackford, for ditto; the Earl and Countess
Wicklow, from Cavendish-square, for ditto ; Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Snow, from Saville-row, for ditto ; Admiral Mackay,
for Paris; Captain Cartwright, from Upper Portland-place,
for ditto ; the Earl and Countess Cowper, from Stanhope-
street, for Brighton ; Lord and Lady Combermere, from the
Brunswick House Hotel, Hanover-square, for Brighton; Mrs.
Ricardo, from ditto ; Boulton, Esq., and family, from
ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Sutton, from ditto.
CHANGES.

The Earl and Countess of Chichester, who have been on
a tour in Germany, arrived at Venice on the Bth inst. ; Lord
and Lady Ashburton arrived at Milan on the 7th instant, and
left on the 9th for Florence ; Sir Frederick Lamb has left
Italy on his return to resume his duties as British Ambassador
at Vienna; Lord Foley arrived on the 7th instant, at Florence;
Viscount Lowther had returned to Milan on the 10th instant.
from a tour; Lord and Lady Lyttleton, after paying a visit to
their noble relative, the Duke of Devonshire at Venice, left on
the 10th instant, for Genoa ; Lord and Lady Rivers, at Sus-
sex Lodge, Kemptown, from Mistley Hall, Essex ; Lord
Glenlyon, from Blair Athol, Perthshire, for the quarters of
the Royal Scotch Greys, at Dublin ; the Earl and Countess
of Shrewsbury and Lady Mary Talbot, from Florence, for
the Palazza Sulmona, at Rome ; the Earl of Oxford, from
Cheltenham, for Brampton Park, Herefordshire; Lord and
Lady Ashtown, at Cheltenham, from Southampton ; the Hon.
and Rev. James Norton and Mr. Norton, from Anningsley
House, Surrey, on a tour; the Dowager Countess of Buck-
inghamshire, from her villa at Blackheath, for Brighton ; the
Earl and Countess Grosvenor, from Motcombe House, Dor-
set, for Eaton Hall, Cheshire; Mr. and Lady Jane Lawrence
Peel, at Kemptown, from a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel,
at Drayton Manor; Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Alex-
ander and Lady Duff, at Paris, from Dalgety House, N. B. ;
Sir John, Lady, and Miss Beckett, at Brighton, from a visit to
Lord Lonsdale, at Whitchaven Castle ; Lord Haddo, at Bent-
ley Priory, from Brighton ; the Marchioness of Salisbury, at
Hatfield House, from the Bedford Hotel, at Brighton.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1838.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

The Duke and Duchess Alexander of Wurtemberg,
passed through Aix on the 14th inst., on their way to Nice.
M. Thiers arrived at Marseilles, by the steam-packet,
from Naples, on the 14th inst., started again for Paris on
the 15th, and arrived last night.
Marshal Macdonald, Duke de Tarentum, has left his
chateau in Touraine for Italy, where he intends passing
the winter on account of a severe affetion of the throat,
for which he is ordered to try the effects of a southern
climate. _ _

---;The Surprise, which has arrived at Toulon from the
Archipelago, has brought for the Royal Museum at Paris
the bas-reliefs collected by M. Raoul Rochette from the

Temple of Bacchus at Assos.
A luminous meteor was seen on the evening of the 13th
instant at Cherbourg, in the direction of Cape La Hogue.

It appeared about one-third of the size of the full moon,
and passed with great velocity very near the earth in a
south-west direction, remaining visible for nearly two
minutes. It threw out a white flame, and left in its track
a long undulating train, appearing ultimately to fall into
the sea.

The.total population of France on the Ist of January,
1836, was 33,540,910. The total number of births in
1835 was 993,833, viz., 512,361 males, and 481,465
females ;of these 74,727 were illegitimate, being 38,270
males, and 36,475 females. The total number of deaths
was 816,413, viz., 414,625 males and 401,788 females.
The total number of marriages was 275,008, and the in-
crease of population for the year was 177,420.
A violent epidemic malady is raging at the present time
at Corms, in the Aude, where, out of a population of
600, 180 are returned as being affected by it, and 50
dead. It is said to resemble what was called the black
sickness of the 14th century.
The National Guards of four companies of the sth and
6th Legions of Paris, met at a public dinner in the Ven-
danges de Bourgogne on the. 19th instant. The room not
being sufficiently spacious to accommodate the whole, only
434 sat down to table, among whom were 70 or 73 officers.
After the cloth had been removed, M. Hulot, the Presi-
dent, proposed a toast to Electoral Reform. M. Girard af-
terwards rose, and in the name of the sth Legion gave a
toast, " to the English Reformers."
" The patriotic meeting of this day," said M. Girard,
" will make known to the partisans of British Reform our
satisfaction and grateful thanks for the address voted to
the Parisian National Guard by the great Birmingham
assembly. Let us answer the appeal of our friends at the
other side of the Channel by covering with our names the
petition we address to the Deputies of France, in order to
obtain access to the electoral Colleges for all citizens ob-
liged by the law to watch in turn for the maintenance of
order and liberty."
This toast was received with a thunder of applause, and
was twice encored.
M. Hulot then thanked the meeting for the honour it
had done him in appointing him to preside at the banquet.
" Let us retire," said he in concluding, " with becoming
calmness, and not afford our political enemies the slightest
pretext for misrepresenting the pacific object of our re-
union. Let us be firm and prudent. We must ulti-
mately conquer, for the movement which now hurries
along the world cannot but end in the triumph of liberty."
The meeting then broke up, after making a collection
in favour of the poor of the two municipal districts.
The Conpnerce asserts confidently that the Government
has ordered a corps of 40,000 men to be assembled on the
northern frontier of France.
The Courtier Francais publishes a letter of the 10th
instant from Oran, stating that .ome Arabs of the tribe of
Sidi-Khanen, who had arrived, offered to pledge their lives
for the truth of the statement that Abd-el-Kader had been
taken prisoner by the Marabouts of Ain Maidi, and they
added that he would probably be strangled by the Arabs
of the desert.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Psats„ NOVEMBER 21.
rive pe, Cents., lief. Ssc. 70c. 60c.
Thre. orr C nts.. 82f. sc. Slf. 90c.
Rank Actions, 2,750 f.
Rente de Naples, 102 f.. 40c. 50c. 30c.
ttonian Five per Centel.. Ith %.%.
Spanish Actives, 17:16% 17.
Belgian Five per Cents., 103.
Belgian Three per rents., 73f. 40c. 73f.
Belgian Bank, 1,480 E 1,473 f.
iSutch Iwo and a halfper Cents., 51.
ilaytian Loan, 420 f.

EXcoANOIR ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 23f. 32%c. ; money, 251. 30c
1 kree months, paper, 25f. ; money, 25f. 203.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 110 f. 6'c.
Three per Cents., Alf. 73c.
Bank Actions, 2,7301.
Romans, 1013 i.
Belgian Loan, 113
Belgian Bank, 1,4751.
Spanish Actives, 17.
Haytian Loan, 420 f.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 14.—The Valencian mail, which arrived
late in Madrid yesterday evening, brings intelligence of a
correspondence to which much interest is attached here,
having taken place between Cabrera and General Van
Halen. The letter of this monster is quite worthy of the
perpetrator of those crimes which have rendered his name
infamous. After endeavouring to excuse himself for the
assassinations committed by him on recent occasions, be
threatens to renew these horrors, and points out, by way'of
giving greater effect to his intimidation, the execution of
the brother ok Senor Mon, the late Master of Finance, an
officer now a prisoner with the factious of Valencia. Gen.
Van Helen replies to these sanguinary threats, that he is
resolved on following up the system of reprisals, asserts his
intention of having an officer of equal rank with Mon exe-
cuted in the event of the threat being carried into effect
against him, and reminds Cabrera of the fact of the Chris-
tinos having still in their possession ten thousand Carlist
prisoners, whose lives will be held responsible for the con-
duct of their brother-Carlists in the provinces.
The Congress met again yesterday, and sat for a short
period. The expected discussions on the state of siege in
the capital, and the neglected condition of the provinces of
La Mancha and Toledo, did not come on, in consequence
of the absence of the Ministers in the Chamber.
In the absence of Ministers—absent because of being
conscious of having no explanation to offer for their con-
duct—a short discussion took place on the project of law
priding since the last Session with respect to the curtailing
the salaries of retired officers of the Government, and more
particularly of retired Ministers, of whom there is now
the enormous number of some 120 or 130 individuals.
Senor Aubedo and the Conde de las Navas censured the
late Government for having thrown obstacles in the way
of the settlement of this question in the last Session, par-
ticularly by Senor Mon. The conduct of this individual
was defended by his colleague, Senor Castro, on the
ground of delicacy on the part of the Government to in-
terfere with the rights of the individuals interested without
first consulting them. The subject was ultimately referred
to the Committee engaged on the matter last Session.
The spirit hitherto manifested in the Chamber presages a
most bitter and acrimonious Parliamentary warfare.
Letters from Burgos of the 10th instant state that Me-
rino, instead of proceeding into Leon and neighbouring dis-
tricts to sack small towns of money and young men, as was
known to be his object, countermarched from Horrera de
Pisuerga, crossed the Brijula on the 9th, and was making
again for the Sierra of Burgos. He appears too actively
pursued by Hoyos to be able to effect the objects of his
excursions.
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