The Sun.
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TILE SUN, _LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1836

the subject, and we call on all our Contemporaries to do
the same. Let them do as the petitioners to the House of
Parliament do—send in separate memorials, and load their
Lordships' tables with their complaints. Then they will
get redress. Pass by, at once, all petty officers. One of
our subscribers writes us, " There appears to have been a
general pillage of newspapers on Saturday last. Not
one arrived in this town.—Wate,fwq Chronicle.—Th(.
same Journal affirms that " The abuses at the head
of the Post-Office Department, are as palpable a,
they arc intolerable. For the last week, the Mil-
ford and Dunmore steam-packets, with one exception, have
not arrived at this harbour until late in the evening ; and,
generally, not until after nightfall. The additional postage
lately levied on English letters, via Milford, was under the
ostensible pretext of improving the South Wales' roads,
and placing a superior class of vessels on the station. St
far, however, from any improvement, the station has under=
gone a most evident change for the worse ; in short, then
never was sack a shameful, dishonourable, and dishonest ex-
hibition of indifference to the wants and wishes of a large
trading community. We use the word dishonourable, be-
cause the direct promise made to the memorial of the
merchants and traders of Waterford, has been violated ;
and we say dishonest, because an additional tax has been
levied on the letters, for an alleged purpose, which pur-
pose has not been fulfilled. hied such conduct been prac-
tised by an individual, or a private company, it would have
been justly designated a fraudulent transaction ; but the
elevation of the persons concerned in this case shelters
their delinquency, For all the benefit the public at present
derive from the packet station in the south of Ireland, it
might be abolished altogether, as their letters frequently
arrive as soon, and with more certainty, by the Dublin post.
This misconduct is a serious loss to the revenue, as it pre-
vents the intercourse and profit which would be the result
of a speedy communication between both countries." Our
opinions on the defects of the system under which the affairs
of the Post-office are conducted, have frequently been full)
and freely expressed. The evils arc in the system, and
until an efficient corrective be applied to that system, it
were as unjust prematurely to charge Colonel Maberly, or
any other individual among the functionaries acting under
it, as it is manifestly foolish to expect the sudden disappear-
ance of all legitimate grounds of complaint. The Sun of
Monday, which was of course due on Wednesday morning
at ten o'clock, did not roach its destination at Waterford
until the following Thursday. A delay of this kind is not
merely an inconvenience to the members of the Press, but
the public service is injured, and the public interests are
damaged by a delay in the transmission of public intelligence

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
Pants, Nov. 26.—The Sentinelle de Bayonne. of the
22d says :—" The reports lately spread respecting the tak-
ing of the suburb called Old Bilboa, are contradicted by
the following facts ; the reports of which we speak fixed
the taking of Old Bilboa on the 17th ; now, letters of the
19th speak, on the contrary, of the resolution which is
daily more decided of the National Guards to bury them-
selves under the ruins of the city. Every house is fortified,
and should the enemy even succeed in entering it, he would
not yet be master of it. There was, however, a ground
for these reports. Two isolated houses before Old Bilboa,
called Barrio de Mena were taken ; this event, exaggerated
as usual, gave rise to a report that the town was taken.
At the beginning the Carlists might have hoped to take
Bilboa by a coup de main ; but at present the enter-
prise is more difficult, if not impossible. The artillery
and the garrison are numerous, and admirably seconded by
the National Guard ; provisions, ammunition, and hands,
are not wanting ; even the women rival the .men. With
all these elements of a long and courageous defence, the
aid of Espartero will not even be necessary to prevent the
Carlists from entering Bilboa."
The Indicateur of Bordeaux says that Bilboa still held
out on the 21st., and it adduces by way of proofs, extracts
from the Phare of the 21st. We suppose that the Indica.
taur only meant to say that it was known at Bayonne on
the 21st that Bilboa was not taken. It is possible, however,
and we hope that Bilboa will hold out long enough to be
relieved, or to turn out the assailants by its resistance.—
Journal du Commerce' Nov. 22.
(From the French Papers of Friday and Saturday.)
Princess Lioven intends to spend the winter in Paris,
and has engaged an apartment in the splendid Hotel de
la Terrasse, Rue de Rivoli. The Princess pays frequent
visits to the Royal family, by whom she is treated with dis-
tinction and great affection.—Courrier Francais.
A profusion of proclamations from Don Miguel, au.
nouncing his intention to return to Portugal, were
buted in Parts yesterday. This pretended
:ioeurnent, ac-
companied by some most disgus*.:.ng pamphlets against
Queen Donna Maria, is, Lowever, devoid of all proof of
authenticity.
The new American Minister to the Court of France,
Mr. Lewis Cass, has arrived in Paris. He alighted at the
Hotel Meurice.
The Prince de Jolnville, although he performed a qua-
rantine of fifteen days at Malta, must, in compliance with
the sanitary regulations, remain as many more on board
the Iphigcnic, in the roadstead of Toulon, before lie lands;
and consequently will not arrive in Paris till the Bth or 10th
of December. We are happy to learn that his Royal
Highness is in excellent health.
The Journal de Cherbourg states, that upwards of 70
merchant ships have been forced to take shelter in that
harbour from the extreme violence of the gales from the
south and south-east ; and were waiting for a favourable
change to continue on their way to the coasts of Brittany
and the colonies.

The legitimist Journal La France gives the following
dated Goritz, 16th inst. :-" The obsequies of Charles X.
took place on Friday. The inhabitants displayed great
grief, and mourning was generally worn. The procession
was followed, not only by the garrison and the authorities,
but by many persons of distinction. The crowd observed
perfect silence ; the shops were shut, and many houses were
hung with black. The cortege proceeded to the cathedral,
where high mass was performed, and afterwards went on to
the Franciscan Convent, which is a short distance from the
town, and where the body was deposited in a vault. The
Dukes of Angouleme and Bordeaux followed on foot.
The Duke and Duchess of Angouleme, and the young
Prince and Princess, and all those who are with them, are
enjoying good health ; the whole of the Royal Family are
assembled together at the residence of the Count de Stras-
soldo. The town is perfectly healthy, and the cholera no
more thought of, as it had completely disappeared from the
environs and the whole of the north of Italy. La France
adds, that the Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambas-
sador to the Court of Vienna, on hearing the news of the
death of Charles X., shed tears, and returning home imme-
diately was the first to put on mourning."
FRIiNICH FUNDS.-PAute, Nov. 25
• Five per Cents., 10Pf. sc. 15c. 10c. t'e.
Four per Cents., 13-lf. 25c. 40c. SOc.
Three per Cents. 79f. 30c. 40c. 35c.
Bank Actions, 2,300 f.
Bente de Naples, 98f. 4Cc. 45c. 20c.. 23e.
Roman Five per Cents., 99%.
Spanish Actives, 19 19104.
Spanish Passives, 594.
Belgian Loan, rive per Cents., 101.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 31% .
EXCHANGE ON LONNON.
One month, paper, '251. 30c.; money, 2.51. 30e.
Three months, paper, -f..-c.; money, 754 e.
-Cour, duth,itiave.
FRENCH FUNDS.-Pants, Nov. 26
Five per Cents,, 10Bf. 15c..
Four per Cents., 98t: 50c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 30c. 35e. 4r.c.
• Bank Actions, 2:3004 •
ente de Naples, 93. f. 2045. 10c. 20c. 30".:,
Roman Five per Cents,, 99%.
Spanish Actives, 19144%.
Spanish DllThresi 7%!i.
3_pallisll Passive.,,
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 101 100%.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 30.
EXCHANGE ON LopmoN.
Ole month, paper, 25c. 40c. ; monev, 25f. 37Y,c
Three months, paper, 251. 17 c.; money, 25f. 1734 c.
-..caors Allthei‘tivie.

BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUL—The rise in the Three per
Cents. not having continued to-day, the general opinion is that
we shall have a reaction on settling-day, (next Thursday).
The opening price was 791. 35c. ; a trifle was done at 79f.
40c., and the present price is again 791. 35c. The Spanish
Active Stock remained at 19i. Towards the latter end of the
Bourse some bargans were done in the Three per Cents, at
79f. 50c., bnt they immediately receded to 79f. 45c., sellers.
LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 106 f. 20c. ; Three
per Cents., 791. 45c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, ; Gueb-
bards, —; Differes, —; New Loan, —; Actives, 19i Pas-
sives, 5} ; Ducats, 93 25 ; Romans, 99i-; Pedros, ;
Belgians, 100,; Dutch, ; ilaytians, —e. ; Mi-
guels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 29 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 7 ; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —; Three per Cent. Portuguese; 30.

THE QUEEN'S GENERALS.
MADRID,
.Nov. 20.—Rodil refused to deliver up his
command to the General sent under him, or to receive even
the dispatches of the Government from the hands of the
Commissioner Cardero ; but, on the contrary, threatened
to have him shot, and sent him under a guard to the next
town to make the best of his way to Madrid. As soon as
Cardero was left by the escort with which Roth' had obliged
him, he went to the Constitutional Aleade of the place.
showed him his authority, gave him the Government dis-
patches, and charged him on pain of death to go to Rodil's
head-quarters, and instantly deliver the dispatches of the
Government to that General. At the same time he wrote
to Ribero the second in command, to inform him that
Rodil was displaced, and' ho invested with the command ;
and to various leading officers of the corps, threatening
them with the displeasure of the Government if they
obeyed an order of the traitor General. Cardero had been
likewise accompanied by a friend to the head-quarters of
Roth!, who while he was with that General was busy com-
municating the object of his visit to two or three Chiefs
of known fidolity so that; by the time the Alcade

r rive, 3,
1 Rohl had begun to discover that Cardero had
beat him as completely as Gomez ; consequently, seeing
Ii at the ground was taken from under him, and that he
was likely to get nothing by resistance but a struggle, and
a couple of brace of bullets in the back, he, without hesi-
tation, informed the Government that he had no sooner
received their orders than he had obeyed. He is sent to
I3adajoz, where the Government have ordered him to be
tried by court-martial. Unless this is a different court-
.martial from any since the death of the King, it will be-
gin, and be continued, and never end. Rola will he for-
gotten, until some new convulsions throw him up again—
a favourite general of somebody or other, or perhaps a Mi. (lister, a Patriot, a Republican, a Carlist, or what not. Ro-
dil is a man of very small powers of intellect ; but civil,
facile, and active. He is said to be easily governed by
those about him—has no principles—is greedy of money—
a good deal of low ambition, and very cold-blooded. Few
men have executed more of the persons under his , orders than he has. He has never been successful either in
America or in the Peninsula. He was always behind Don
Carlos in Portugal. He was always too late in Navarre,
Ind La Mancha, and Estremadura. He has always been
what he called in one of his despatches, parallel to the
centre. Opinion is pretty equally divided here as to
whether he was bought over by the Carlists, or whether lie
was playing some silly game with ultra-Exaltados in this
plaCe. It is certain he has but to choose between being a
fool or a traitor.
In person Rodil is a good-looking, compact little gene-
ral, sprightly, active, and smooth-spoken, with rather
handsome military-looking features, somewhat weather-
beaten, and about fifty years of age. He is inclined to
be corpulent, but in Navarre was accounted by his own
staff the most indefatigable restless officer in Spain. If
he slept at all, he slept in his boots. Plinter, the unfortu-
nate brigadier, our countrymen, who, betrayed and sold
by Rodil, is now dragged a prisoner by the sanguinary
rabble of Gomez, was the chief of the staff of his van-
guard, and used to say that though he had. called Rodil at
all hours of the night, in all weathers, in the worst of coun-
tries, and after the most fatiguing marches, he never found
Rodil undressed, and never in bed.
General Alaix was, I believe, a sergeant. He is popu-
lar in his division, chiefly because he is the dirtiest man
in his army, disdains water and washing, entertains an enor-
mous black beard, and never quits a shako such as six-
feet grenadiers wear. He is terrible to look at, and the
strongest man in the Queen's army. What he has been
about since Villorobledo is perfectly incomprehensible, and.
unless one adopts the easy interpretation of traitor, it is
difficult to divine what his conduct means. Can he and
Rodil have been in some diabolical combination, or has
Rodil paralysed him by secret orders is
It must be told that a most suspicious circumstance has
transpired with regard to Rodil since his conduct has been
so much canvassed, and one only wonders that it was not
talked of before ; but in this Strange country one cannot
count upon any thing.
An offiLier was in the prison of Madrid as a, Carlist, his
name Baiquez. He had been with Zumalacarregui ; had
left him and gone to Paris ; had made up some story to the
Duke of Fries ; got a passport to return to Spain by Bar-
celona. Mina sent him out of Barcelona ; he came to
Madrid, the general home of all intriguers, and was re-
cognised in a cafe by an officer who had been opposed to
him in Navarre, and who, being a Navarrese, accused him
of having burnt his house, robbed him, murdered his
kindred, and God knows what. The result is that Colonel
Baiquez was handed to prison, to take his trial under pre-
vious charges (he had escaped from prison twice) of being a
Carlist conspirator. Three days before Rodil left Madrid
he secretly, that is without noise, took Baiquez from prison,
and put him as a principal officer on his own staff, where he
has been during all Rodil's quixotic marches and counter-
marches in the classic plains of La Mancha.
Narvaez is a fine military-looking man, stout, jovial in
appearance, active and alert, with as good spirits as talent,
ambition, the consciousness of possessing plenty of re-
sources, and an enormous appetite, can make a man of
forty. His bravery is undisputed ; fighting is his elernotit,
and he has not been raised and fostered in the arm by se:c,
men as Cordova and Seoane, because he was Tali; but he has a General's head, and reminds in-
y strongly of
one of our young Generals qf , -at only,
or a Calvert. Of him have s army, a Picton
Spain. If he .eettaltes "
and
....ome.z, Gomez is ruined.
his rabble, ; but I f- /"opes-,*in common with all
all
the fight wilt ' Gomez is well aware of this, and as
• ne a race, no one knows who will win, for Go-
Laud a tremendous start.
Where all these combatants are at this moment no one
knows—not even the Government. The neighbourhood of
Seville is probably occupied at this moment by Narvaez and
Ribero, and perhaps Gomez is seeking the mountains of the
Serrania de Ronda. He will thus endeavour to wind along
mountains all the way from the Sierra Nevada and the Al-
pujarras to the mountains of Aragon.
It is said Cabrera left him in Truxillo with 400 horse,
and has made his way across the country to,Aragon, by
Ciudad Real, Valdepenas, Albacete, &c. This is very
possible, and also that he carries with him three waggon-
loads of money. Certain it is that the other day a letter
was received here from Manzanares, stating that the milieu
and troops in that town, united from all the country round,
were entrenching themselves in some ancient fortifications,
and determined to resist to the last. To resist what i
According to their own showing, 700 cavalry, laden with
gold, occupying a town about twelve or fifteen leagues off.
This would be incredible were not the tremendous moral
effect of Rodil's conduct taken into consideration.
From Espartero the latest date is the 14th of this month
(printed in the Gazette by mistake the 16th). He has
been attempting to cut off Sanz in his return to Navarre,
and failed altogether. Sanz has got through, apparently at
leisure, though there is no doubt but that his expedition has
been an utter failure. He has met with nothing but hard
blows. Half his force has been extinguished, and all his
cavalry, which, it is said, was the best the Pretender had.
But lie has got back, and, it will be represented; covered
with glory and laden with plunder. Glory and plunder
often in official despatches in this country mean .nothing
more than hunger and rags.
The French General, Lebeau, attacked Estella on the
Bth, threw 150 grenades (printed .50 in the Gazette by
mistake), into the town, and then retired—God knows why
or wherefore. This was intended as a diversion for Bilboa
which the Carlists never fairly left, and have been hammer-
ing at again now for some time. It is royal sport to get
upon a bill, and knock a town down about people's ears,
By ibis time, however, Espartero must have marched,
though, if the truth must be told, he had not, at the date
of his last dispatch, been able to march for two days for
want of shoes. The destitution which his army is in
is ter-
rible, as are admirable their good temper and enthusiasm in
the midst of all their privations.
However, before now, Espartero has marched, and pro-
bably the siege of Bilboa ip raised—it may be that be t„
had to fight a battle. Espartcro is a brave fine but
all who know him tremble when there isow
° .estion of his having a battle to fight.
C 0 ItTE S. SEss'ne oF Nov. 17.
P
The Session of this dae
Report of the CO opened with the discussion of the
Cep- respecting- the extinction of the
n b
the name of " Propios." These propios
a " offices
P' .andsknf—.
yestates belonging to civic corporations, and the
proceeds intended to be applied to defray the public ex-
pence. MM. Armendariz and Valdes opposed their cx
Unction, on the ground that the Corporations of every town
and village were better able to manage their concerns than
the provincial deputations assembled in the capitals; and
MM. Fontau and Carrera de Nevares supported the Re-
port, from their conviction that the Corporations frequently
abused their power, and saddled their districts with a load
of debt uselessly contracted, and, besides, that those offices
were unnecessary when provincial deputations were esta-
blished.
The Report of the Committee was agreed to.
The Chamber then proceeded to discuss the Report of
the Finance Committee relative to the loan of 200 millions
of reals. It was conceived as follows :
" Ist. The Government is authorised to obtain the ad-
vance of 200 millions, with the precise condition that ifs
proceeds be dedicated to the maintenance and equipment of
the standingarmy,
" 2d. The Government is to inform the Cortes by the
15th of January next at the fa'rthest, of the state of the in-
gress of this loan.
"3d. The CoMmittee is of opinion that the Cortes
should authorise Government to make use of the proceeds
of the bells and other effects belonging to the suppressed
convents, for the purpose of affording resources to Govern-
ipent to meet the most urgent necessities of the State." M. Mendizabal defended the conduct of Government,
and the necessity of acceding to the present proposal. The
Government, he assured the Cortes and the nation, would
scrupulously fulfil this and all their other engagements, and
added that the reimbursement of this advance should be
made by means of Treasury bills, which from the Ist of
March would he admitted in part payment of contributions
and duties. He implored the House, if possible, to pass
the measure unanimously, as by doing so they would
strengthen the Government, and render the ingress of the
proposed loan comparatively easy.
SITTING OF NOV. 18.
The de bate of the preceding day was resumed.
M. Cardero, Deputy for Leon, and who dresses in the
old style of the mountaineers of that province, with a huge
broad-trimmed hat, short jacket, and loose trousers tied
immediately below the knees, rose to speak for the first
time. He proceeded to prove that the distribution of the
quotas assigned by the Government to each province, was
unjust, and particularly so as regarded his native province,
which was in a state of utter misery. He agreed, however,
to the necessity of authorising the Government to raise two
iundred millions, but combatted the manner in which the
quotas were assigned,