The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-19 00:00:00

LONDON,

exile at Shumla. Previously he was accused, by
these veracious assailants, of having purloined the
regalia of ST. STEPHEN; and when it undeniably
appears before the world that those jewels
have never once been seen by him, much
less come into his possession, the baffled
detractors of the expatriated charge him with a
crime of a still more flagrant nature—namely, with
having " gambled away a sum of money belonging
to some orphans, which (the money, we presume,
not the orphans) had been deposited in his
hands." Now, be it remembered that KossuTu is
a man of such large renown that his whole life is
before the world—has been, in fact, for some long
time past before the world—scrutinized with earnest
attention, and printed, and published, and read in
all the different languages of Europe ! Be it
remembered, also, that the individual who makes
the charge referred to has, within a very recent
period, been exposed to the gaze of England in his
true colours as a slanderer Be it remembered that
this calumniator is still screening himself
under the shadow of the anonymous ! that
in bringing forward his present accu-
sation he finds it impossible to authen-
ticate it by a single name of any one of the
parties said to have been concerned in the transac-
tion ! and that the statement is nothing more than a
scrambling translation of a paragraph picked up by a
German penny-a-liner, in some hole and cor-
ner, and inserted, still and ever under
the mask of the anonymous, in the columns of a cer-
tain Bohemian newspaper. It is the old story im-
mortalized by GOLDSMITH, of the cat being frightened
by tha splintering of a china chimney-jar, struck by
bullet that glanced off at a right angle through the
parlour-window, and hit the postman, who
was just then coming round the corner with a double
letter from Yorkshire. This crowning testimony of

ill will towards the brave but fallen leader of the
Hungarians speaks for itself; it requires no comment
from us in token of its matchless magnanimity.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The largeness of the majority by which the Minis-
ters carried their measure for the re-imposition of
the wine duties has astonished all parties, and none
are more suprised at the result than the Ministers
themselves, who had, before the commencement of
the discussion, calculated their majority at less than
100. In the course of the discussion on Monday M.
PASSY, who spoke in favour of the Ministerial mea-
sure, admitted that many defects existed in the mode
of collecting the duty, but expressed a hope that, by
the Parliamentary inquiry which would forthwith
take place, means might be devised by which those
defects might be remedied.
The Committee on the Government measure, pro•
posing to give to Pref6ts the power of dismissing the
masters of primary schools, has resolved to recommend
its adopticn as a provisional measure only, until the
organic law on public instruction shall be passed by
the Assembly.
The Constilutionnel says that it is assured that a
courier arrived the day before yesterday in Paris,
with the news of the conclusion at Constantinople of
a treaty putting an end to the Turco. Russian dispute,
and that, after being signed by MM. TITOFF and
STURMER, it was sent for ratification to Vienna and
St. Petersburgh.
The llloniteur contains an announcement that " the
salons of the Elys6e being too small to contain the
great number of persons who present themselves on
the Thursdays, it is necessary to repeat the notice
already given, that, with the exception of the mem-
bers of the diplomatic corps, the representatives of
the people, and the high functionaries of the State,
no person can be received who has not a card of invi-
tation."

The journals publish a communication from
Signor RONCONI, contradicting the report that he
had retired from the management of the Italian
Opera in Paris.
The National publishes the following extract from
the report of the Committee on the Bill for the com-
pletion of the EMPEROR'S tomb, in confirmation of the
account it gave some days ago of the charges made in
that report against M. DUCHATEL
In respect to the second sum of 1,311,980 f. 60c. ex-
pended beyond the original credit, the Committee pill
recal to your recollection, gentlemen, the conservative
disposition of the fiaancial laws of the 25th March,
1817, and the 24th of April, 1833, and the
14th article of the royal ordounance of the 31st of
May, 1838, for the general regulation of the public
accounts, and which declare that no expense or en-
gaL;einent on the part of the administration should
take place, unless they be covered by a regular credit.
These dispositions have been set at nought. Such se-
rious infractions cannot be justified, even by former ad-
ministrative habits, nor by that general facility with
which assemblies and public opinion formerly absolved
Ministers for having authorised such inexcusable extra•
vagancies. Your Commission thinks that the Minister
under whose orders the directory of Fine Arts In.s com-
mitted such faults, and caused such injuries, is responsi-
ble, and that a civil action should be instituted pgainst
him in the name of the itate. And even if, which we
cannot believe, Ministerial responsibility be so illusory
that a former Minister cannot be forced to reimburse
expenses illegally made with his approbation, yet the
severity of the blame which you will pronounce on so
deplorable an abuse of administrative powers will show
that you wish to create a remedy for so inveterate, and
until now so incurable an evil,

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Tuesday at 56f. 25c.; thefFive per Cents. at 91f.
60e.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 7601. ; Rouen, 550 f. ;
Havre, 242 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 461 f. 25c.;
Vierzon, 331 f. 25c.; Basle, 1081. 75c.; Bordeaux,
406 f. 25c.; Paris and Strasburg, 301 f. 25.3.; Tours
and Nantes, 2781. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDOIs STOCK-EXCHANGE. DEC. 18.

Boulogne and Amiens, ?3A—Central of France (Orleans
and Vieraon), 13—Narnur and Liege, 6%—Northern of
France, 13,E dis.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3,4—Paris and
Routn 2134—Rouen and Havre, 914.

SPAIN.
Madrid journdla of the I Ith have arrived.
Three prjects of law were presented to the Cham-
ber of Deputies on that day relative—first, to the
importation of iron; second, the adjustment of the
debt; and third, the electoral law.

MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 11.—The money market
continued very firm, the Three per Cents. closing at
30 11 16 for paper ; tbe Pour per Cents. at 121 ; the
Five per Cents. at 13k; the Debt without Interest at
; and the Coupons at 8.
The following is the proposed law for the ar-
rangement of the national debt :
Art. 1. The public debt of Spain shall be reduced
to one sole class and denomination, which shall
bear interest, for the future, of two per cent. per
annum.

Arts, 2. The payment shall take place at Madrid,
at the office of the National Debt Department, and
shall be effected every half-year, commencing with
the Ist of January, 1850.
Art. 3. In the course of a year, commencing with
the publication of this law, ail securities now in cir-
culation shall be presented at Madrid for conversion,
whatever be their present category or denominotion,
foreign or domestic. _ _

Art. 4. In return -for documents thus called in,
there shall be issued nominative certificates from the
great book of the debt, in which shall be expressed
the amount of the capital, the interest due, and the
person or corporation, or establishment in whose
favour it is made.

Art. 5. The capital represented by these certifi-
cates is inviolable, and their owners shall enjoy them
with entire liberty, without being incommoded in
any way.
Art. 6. Foreigners possessing certificates of the
inscribed debt shall enjoy the privileges conferred by
the preceding article, and shall ever receive their
interest punctually, even should there be war with
the nation to which they belong.
Art. 7. Neither the capital nor the interest of the
public debt can ever be subjected to taxation, loans,
uor duties of any kind whatsoever.
Art. S. The certificates belonging to the New Two
per Cents. shall be divided into two classes, the nego-
tiable and the unnegotiable. Into the first shall be
converted all bonds payable to bearer and other stock
which at present can be alienated. In the second, all
credits which, according to the present laws, are not
transferable.
Art. 9. The capital which shall be:transformed into
the new debt shall be in the following proportion :
Three per Cent. Stock shall bear its full value of
capital.
The Four and Five per Cents. shall be fixed at 75
per cent. and the interests due on the Four and Five
per Cents. at 50.
The debt, with interest, at 5 per cent. on paper
(a papel), 33i per cent.
The Provisional Debt at 25 per cent.
Unconsolidated Stock at 331 per cent.
The debt without interest 25 per cent.
The Passive Debt, 25 per cent.
The unpaid interest on the Five per Cent. (paper),
16f.
Art. 10. All credits waiting for liquidation shall
be allowed in future certificates at 2 per cent., with
the proportionate reduction which the documents on
which they are grounded would have had to submit to
according to the former system.
Art. 11. Special debts incurred by treaties with
foreign nations shall remain in their present state,
and not be affected by the decrees of the present law.
Art. 12. According to the 78th article of the con-
stitution of the state, a commission composed of three
senators And three deputies, chosen by vote in 00011 of