The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-27 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1835.

siderable progress in the capital. Several corps of
National Guards have unanimously signed the petition.
With respect to the important subject of Sugar
Duties, we find the following paragraph in one of the
leading Journals :
The Superior Council of Commerce held another sitting
the day before yesterday, which lasted till seven in the even-
ing. After having heard the new colonial delegates, recently
arrived via Havre, the Council resumed its sittings with closed
doors, and each member was called upon to deliver his opinion
on the question of reducing the import duties on colonial
sugars. The majority of the members were in favour of a
reduction, but nothing definite was decided, although the
Commerce states that a reduction of 12f. per 100 kilogrammes
was agreed upon. On the question of allowing the colonies
to export sugar to other nations, the majority of the Council
also seemed to be agreed in its favour, provided that the
exports should take place in French bottoms. With regard,
however, to the propriety of effecting a reduction of duty by
ordinance or by legislative enactment, the Council did not
come to a vote, but considered it altogether as one of Ministe-
rial responsibility. The Council is to meet to-day, to discuss
the flax and linen question.
The Temps has a sensible article on the railway
panic, which seems to have seized the numerous small
speculators who three months ago were in an agony
lest they should not have opportunities enough for in-
vesting their capital in that description of Stock. We
select an extract from it :
What attracts most awntion at present is the position of
railroad enterprises, the shares of which are more and more
depreciated, and, as we think, far beyond all real chances of
loss. The Havre railroad for example, which is at 910 f.,
would receive 9901. if it were liquidated ; but one dividend
being depreciated drags inevitably after it all others of the
same kind. The St. Germain railroad, which is in profitable
activity, falls, because Versailles is falling, and in spite of the
future dividend : Versailles Right Bank falls, because the Left
Bank Road is not prosperous.
The St. Germain railroad, estimated at its origin at six mil-.

lions of francs, has cost about fourteen. It was necessary to
contract a loan to finish the work. The Versailles railrorl,
Left Bank, is in a worse case. The estimates amounted to
five millions or five millions and a half of francs, and it appears

that if it enters Paris it will cost no less than seventeen or
eighteen millions. The Company thought itself extremely
prudent in issuing shares for eight. millions of francs, keep-
ing a reserve of two millions; but this prudence has become
want of foresight—thanks to the calculations of the official
engineers, who estimated the expenses at only the third of
the reality.
One must not then he as`oiii4ted if the public receive with
distrust these new emissions (,f shares. Comparing the p-e-
-sent with the future, ol,e may well suppose that instead of 90
millions, it is 200 or 300 millions which it will cost to com-
plete the railroad to Havre and to Dieppe. What then can
the efforts of the shareholders do (one person alone possessing,
it is said, 20 millions of francs' worth of shares) to combat the
fall and the mistrust of the public, affected as it is at present
by panic?
The following extracts from the Journals include
all the news contained in them of any interest to an
English reader :
The Ultra- Revolutionary party at Madrid inspires the Go-
vernment with such terror, that our letters from that city in-
form us that Generals Patavia, Eleonard, and Baron de Meer
have been advised voluntarily to tender their resignations, be-
cause the party in question intend to insist upon it by some
violent proceedings, which the Ministry has not sufficient
weans to repress. Arrests continue without intermission at
Saragossa, where a Commission has been appointed, in order
to give an appearance of legality to the most arbitary acts.
The Journal des Pyrenees gives the following news from
Catalonia:— _

BARCELONA, OCT. 11.—Accounts from Reuss say that the
troops composing the garrison of that town had manife,ted
symptoms of insubordination, and that on that account Tarra-
gona had hastened thither. The environs were again infested
by Llarch de Copons.
The defeat and death of Pardinas, and the great losses of
the Constitutional troops, had caused great consternation.
The Junta of Beja sends columns of Carlists to all acces-
sible points to levy contributions, and carry off hostages, who
give security for large ransoms, while the Count de Espagne
is indefatigable in organising his battalions.—Gazette de
France.

A correspondent writes to us, on the 18th, from Logrono,
that Espartero has taken very severe measures against those
who shall endeavour to seduce the troops. This General is
forming large magazines at Logrono, where the army will pass
the bad season. This position is very advantageous to observe
Estella, and guard the line of the Ebro. The Carlist Gene-
ral, Castor, has retired beyond Balmaseda. General Casta-
meda has completed the works fur the defence of Villa Nueva
de Mina, and has conveyed to that place provisions for eight
months.
A letter from Bayonne of the 20th says—" It was not till
October 18 that the arrival of the Prince of the Asturias and
the Princess of Beira in the Spanish territory was known at
Elorrio. They left Elisondo on that day, were to sleep at
Leyra, and proceeding thence by way of Barastegui, to reach
Tolosa yesterday, where Don Carlos was to be ready to re-
ceive them." _ _ _ _ .

A letter from Turin says-" It is thought likely that the
Prince Royal will marry one of the daughters of the Grand
Duke of Tuscany, and that the King of Sardinia will, on the
occasion, follow the example of the Emperor of Austria, by
granting an amnesty without any exception.- Constitutionnel.
WukTEMBERO.-STUTSIARD, OCT. 21.-His Majesty the
King granted a private audience to Count Duyn de Massdam,
charged by his Majesty the King of Holland to ask the hand
of her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Frederika Ma-
tilda de Wurtemberg for the eldest son of the Prince of
ange. In this audience his Majesty presented to the
Count an autograph letter for the King of Holland, giving his
consent to the union. -ilfercure de Souabe.
OcEsSA, OCT. 5.-The correspondence published by some
foreign Journals, and partly dated from our town, has been
read with great astonishment here. Those letters endeavoured
to encourage the belief that a rupture in the East was at hand,
taking care to arid, that in such a case the Porte would figure
as the ally of England. These letters are considered here as
forgeries; the correctness of the date is above all question.
They were not ,rritten here. As to the preservation of peace
in general, our commerce seems to indicate by
its operations
that it relies upon the continuance of tranquillity. If in spite
of all these conjectures Russia be provoked, she would not be
found unprepared either by land or by sea; she is not only in
a situation to repulse all attacks, but even to act on the offen-
sive. Indeed, if the Sultan render himself guilty of a violation
of a treaty, it is enough to cast his eyes upon the map to con-
vince himself that the Russian eagles can arrive at the gates
of Constantinople before the troops of a foreign power could be
disembarked to defend the Ottoman empire in Europe. -
Aro-cure de Souabe.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARS, OCTOBER 25.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 70c. 63c. 80c. 75c.
Four per Cents., 10-.1.
Ore- pr,r Cents. 811. 20c. 15c.
Bank Actions, 2,61uf. 2,645 f
Cente ,re Naples, 1011. 75c. Mc. SCc,
Roman Five pi, trine., 103%
Spanish Actives, 17%5.
Spanish Passives, 4.
Belgian Three per Cents., 73f. 40c.
Belgian Bank, 1,445 E
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 20%.
DICHA NW:, ON LONDON
Ome month, paper, 25f. 40c.: money, 25f. 40c.
T'Are., months, paper, 25f. 27%e.; money, 25f. 27Yee•
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 109 f. 75c.
Three per Cents., 81 f. 15c.
Bank Actions, 26451.
Romans' 103%.
Belgian Loan, 103 M.
Belgian Bank, 1,445 E
Portuguese Three per Cents., 20%.
Spanish Actives, 17%.
Spanish Passives, 4.

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from a quarry upon the moors laden very heavily with stune
fur the North Midland railway, the shaft horse on descending
a hill commenced kicking in a violent manner. The young
min, in his attempt to restrain the animal, was struck down
by the shaft, the wheels grazing upon his side as he lay on the
road. The f.ufforer was immediately conveyed to the house of
Mr. Haigh, a farmer, in a very mutilated state. Surgical
assistance was promptly afforded by Mr. Botham of Chester-
fi. Id. lie now lies in a very dangerous state.—Doncaster
Gazette.

CRUELTY TO LOBSTERS.—In consequence of
the representations made to the Royal Court of Guernsey, that
the practice of securing the claws of lobsters and large crabs,
by means of wooden pegs, was an act of inhumanity, and that
it tended to injure the quality of the fish, the Court, on Tues-
day last, after hearing the conclusions of the Crown lawyers,
enacted an ordinance, whereby persons are forbidden to follow
that practice in future, on pain of incurring a penalty of ten
jolm
Mr. Coombe,
Gibbons, a
journeyman
livres tournois (14s. 31d.). The ordinance has been pub-
lished, and Kited up at the accustomed places, so as to give
due notice thereof to the public.—Jersey Paper.
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at Lambeth-street, on Thursday, on a warrant charging
with neglecting to finish a piece of furniture for his rnas
r, Mr. Jei,kirs, agreeably to his contract. Mr. Jenkins
n Saturday last gave a 100-table out to the prisoner to be
made, and instead of doing it in a week, which was the speci-
fied time, he hid merely worked on it one day and a few
hours of another, and spent the remainder of his time in a
public-house getting drunk. Mr. Jenkins added that he had
suffered severely by the negligence of journeymen, not having
their work finished in the proper time. lie was compelled
to take a warrant out against another of his journey men under
similar circumstances, and in fact such was the state of thirers
at pres.•et tl•at the journeymen thought they had a t„
do just as they liked, without the slightest regard fur the in-
teret of their employers. The defendant plesded illness as
the cause of his absence, but this was disproved : and the
officer on going to execute the warrant found him in the tap-
room of a public-house. He was committed for 14 days to
the treadmill.
On Wednesday last a novel exhibition took place
at Lewes. The town-crier having informed the public that
a person intended to endanger his life for their amusement
by jumping from the bridge into the river, a crowd of peg.
isle were attracted to the spot, where at tide-time, the per-
former, an itinerant sailor, having climbed
to the top of a
—feet ladder erected en the crown of the brid.e, leapt
the wat,r without injuring laimaLlf, and coed), swam
ashore to pocket a considerable sum which had been col.
lected for him among the spectators.