The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-28 00:00:00

LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1838.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRAN CE.

The Gazette of Languedoc has the following article :
We have the following letter from the frontier :—" On
the 18th inst., between 10 and 11 at night, the Cihristino
soldiers, comprising the garrison of the Fort de Vielle, in
the Valley of Oran, mutinied, and killed the Governor.
After he had received several bayonet wounds, tho assas-
sins, seeing that he was still alive, killed him by discharging
several muskets at him. The murderers then compelled
their Captain to quit the fort, and to lead them to the
Custom-house of Rossost, to take the money which might
be there. On reaching that place, about five in the morning
of the 19th, they took possession of the money in the cof-
fers of the Custom-house, and then went to rest themselves.
The Captain remains ill at an inn at Rossost, in conse-
quence of the mental excitement caused by the fear of
being assassinated.

" This mutiny was caused by a reduction of pay, which.
the Governor had thought proper to order for the sake of
the inhabitants of the valley of Instead, of a franc per day,
which was given to each soldier ; they were to have only
50 centimes."

It does not appear that any other excesses were com-
mitted. At least on the 19th, in the evening, when our
correspondent closed his letter, no news of any further
event had been received ; but he adds :—" The Valley
will be greatly to be pitied ; the Governor was an honest,
quiet man, who molested no one, and an enemy to all kinds
of excess. He will be, doubtless, succeeded by another
who will not be so good as he."
VIENNA, Nov. 17.—1 t is said that the Archduchess
Hermine, daughter of the Archduke Palatine of Hungary,
is to be Abbess of the Theresian Convent of Noble La-
dies (of St. George) at Prague. M. V. Ostini, the Luc-
chese Charge d'Affaires at Vienna, is gone to London,
where the Duke of Lucca is said to intend to spend the
winter.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, NOTEICIER 26.
Five per Cents., 110 f. 23c. 30c.
Four per Cents., 104 f.
three per Cents., 81f. 70c. 60c. 65c.
Bank Actions, 2,730 f.
Rente de Naples, 102 f. sc. 102 E 113 E sc.
Roman Five per Cents., 102 101%
Spanish Actives, 171>i%.
Belgian Five per Cents., 102%%.
Belgian Bank, 1,475 f.
Haytian Loan, 415 f. 410 f.

FLICKA NON. i,rf CONDOR.
Ore month, paper, 25f. ; money, 25f. 30c
Three months, paper. '25 2, %r. money, 25'. 20a.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 1101. 35c.
Three per Cents., 811. 70c.
Bank Actions, 2,730 f.
Romans, 101%.
Belgian Loan, 102%.
Belgian Bank, 1,475 E
Portuguee Three per Cents., 20%.
Spanish Actives, 17%.
Haytian Loan. 410 f.

PORTUGAL.

(From a Second Edition of the Morning Post.)
The Royal Tar steamer, Captain Lewis, arrived at
Falmouth on Monday morning, from the Peninsula, sailing
from Gibraltar 16th, Cadiz 17th, Lisbon 20th, and Vigo
22d inst. We have received by her the following interest-
ing communication from our correspondent at Lisbon :
LISBON, Nov. 20, EIGHT O'CLOCK, A.M.—We continue
to hear of various depredations committed by the Miguelite
bands, both in the Algarves as well as in the Alerntejo—
for instance, a party of eighteen cavalry entered the district
and village of Serpa on the 12th, wherein they plundered
such of the Queen's partisans as were supposed to be
wealthy, besides carrying away with them the horses and
arms of the inhabitants, without excepting their own friends
from this sort of forced contribution.

An order has been issued at the Post-office to subject
all newspapers published in the form of pamphlets, and
which are forwarded to the provinces through that depart-
ment, to a rate of postage equal to one-half that which
would be charged on letters of the like weight, instead of
the trifling rate which all other newspapers pay.
Viscount Sada Bandeira's instructions to Admiral No-
ronha, upon his departure to assume the command of the
kingdom of Angola, have just been published, and they
certainly do great credit to the noble and gallant author for
the sincere wish which he appears to entertain for the gradual
extinction of the slave trade, as well as for the means which
he suggests should be adopted for bringing about the pro-
sperity of the colony by other commerce than that of slaves,
and promoting every sort of agricultural pursuit.
I am told Count Durosnel, previous to his departure,
had the Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword conferred
on him, and the star, with the diamonds thereon, as
well as a gold snuff-box, with her Majesty's portrait thereon
surrounded with brilliants. The members of the House of
Braganza have ever been distinguished for the splendour of
their presents.
A laughable occurrence took place at the Royal chris-
tening. When the Royal cortege proceeded to the chapel
in procession, the nobles of the kingdom, according to an-
cient practice, put on their hats, which being perceived by
the President of the Municipal Chamber, he, conceiving
that he might make use of the same privilege, put on his
hat. Neither the entreaties of the Minister of the King..
dom, or of the Lords in Waiting, could prevail on the wor-
thy citizen to take it off.
The Royal Tar steamer, from Gibraltar and Cadiz with
only five passengers, proceeds this day for England.
Exchange on London, 541. Price of bullion on • the
advance.
LISBON, Nov. 20, Eleven o'Clock A.M.
The Royal Tar is still detained, though the mail has
been sent on board long since, and I avail myself of the op-
portunity of acquainting you that it is generally believed
that a financial negociation is in progress between the
Minister of Finance and the Confianca Company, for the
advance of a certain sum of money to Government by
monthly instalments, as formerly, on the montgage of the
Decima Tax and some other revenues, but not those of the
Customs.
Accounts from Oporto bring the news of the demise of
that highly respectable and enlighted man, M. Jose Ferreira
Borges, who was one of her Majesty's honorary Council-
lors of State.
The dividends on the internal debt of the country con-
tinue to be paid tolerably regularly.
The Oporto steamer which sailed from hence for that
place on the 16th was compelled to proceed to Vigo, and
the Quinta de Vesubia steamer, which was to have left
Oporto on the 11th instant, still continues there, owing to
the boisterous state of the weather. It is reported that
two dismasted ships have been seen not far from Cape Rock.

SPAIN.
DEBATES IN THE CORTES.

MADRID, Nov. 17.—N0 division in the Cortes having
yet taken place, from which the opinion of that body on
the formation of a now Cabinet might be inferred, and for
which it is presumed the Queon is waiting, the Cortes,
Government, and the country remain in much the same
position as late letters left them.
The Cortes, which have met daily during the week, are
beginning to present at least that kind of interest which
belongs to the consideration of subjects involving the happi-
ness and liberties of a people. Seldom were debates better
calculated to show the awful effects bequeathed to a country,
or to teach the world how the struggles of a nation may be
defeated by domestic depravity and foreign intrigue. Not a
minute devoted to discussion since Tuesday last but might
be counted by some startling fact explanatory of the in-
ternal evils of the country, and their prolongation by ex-
ternal influences. The time of winding up a long account
of mal-administrations at home, and of unveiling the state
of the foreign relations of the Peninsula, would appear to
have arrived, the ago of delusions and of masked corrup-
tion to have passed. The desire, and indeed the pow er to
reveal the scandalous mismanagement of the military and
financial resources of the country, as well as to place in
its proper light the relative position of the kingdom with
its allies are manifest. On the 15th, General Seoane
drew attention to, and gave a true, but frightful, picture of
the corrupt administration of the public funds. " The pub-
lic administration." he remarked, " was in the utmost dis-
order. It behoved the Congress to take steps to correct
abuses. The deputies must have seen, with regret and
scandal, the nation robbed of the fruits of its great sacri-
fices in blood and treasure through the ill-supplies of the
army. While the latter was in want of every thing, there
were some fifteen hundred or two thousand leeches spread
over the Peninsula, but whose centre was in Madrid, ex-
hausting the resources of the country, and living in a state
of scandalous luxury, while the poor people at whose
expense all this was done were not able, many of
them, to purchase seed for their fields. To these leeches
it was necessary to apply a medicine to make them dis-
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tract made by Toreno with Rothschild for the products of
the Almaden mines,
which he denounced in the strongest

terms. " He denounced," he said, " that individual from
the tribune, and publicly called on him to quit the pleasures
of the Parisian capital, and appear there to answer for his
conduct before a tribunal of his countrymen. He reserved
to himself the proper occasion to make the most important
disclosures on this subject. It was also necessary," he
continued. "to examine certain contracts and arrange-
ments recently made by the General Board of Revenue ;
the Government had just entered into negotiation with the
firms of Garinia (Treasurer to the Queen), Ramisa, and
Bertadano, in which the Government, instead of receiving
advances of money, were anticipating their own paper.
Were these men his brothers or dearest friends he would
persevere in probing these matters to the bottom."
On the conclusion of General Seoane's speech, Senor
Toniprado moved that the contracts for supplying the
army before Morella be left on the table while the discus-
sion on the address to the throne was going on. Both this
motion and that of General Seoane for the formation of
the Committee to which he alluded in the early part of his
speech were agreed to without a division.
Senor Arguelles sarcastically remarked that the reason
of Toreno's absence might be his considering himself sub-
ject only to a summons from her Majesty, he being now a
Grandee of Spain!
It being generally known that the discussion of the reply
to the Speech from the Throne would be commenced yes-
terday, the saloon was densely crowded. The reply to the
Speech from the Throne was read by one of the Secretaries.
As this document is for the most part but an echo of the
Royal Speech, I deem it unnecessary to encumber your
pages with it, and shall only insert the " particular vote"
of Seoane and Olozaga with which it concludes, and which
is as follows :

" Agreeing in the ideas contained in the preceding
document, we have attached our names to it in conjunc-
tion with our esteemed and distinguished colleagues
of the Committee ; bnt there being a difference of opi-
nion between us with respect to the insertion in that
document of a clause against the expediency of entering
into any compromise with Don Carlos, or any mem-
bers of his family, and believing, for reasons which
we shall adduce in the course of the discussion, that it is
of the utmost importance and most urgent necessity that
the Congress of Deputies should declare this in the most
solemn manner, we find ourselves compelled to propose to
them that at the end of the second paragraph be added the
following words :---‘ And to terminate a war in which no
transaction or compromise with the rebel Don Carlos, or
his family, of any kind whatever, is deemed expedient.'
(Signed) " ANTONIO SEONE, and
SEBASTIANO OLOZAGA."
When the Secretary concluded, it waslagreed that the
reply should be discussed ensemble, and Senor Arguelles
rose to address the Saloon. Having spoken for upwards of
two hours, I can no more than glance at the numerous
topics touched upon, and the more remarkable opinions ad-
vanced by him, in the course of a long and able discourse.
Referring to the paragraph of the reply which alludes
to the quadruple alliance, he complained that the ad-
vantages which were expected from the treaty had
not been realized, and that lie would wish to see produced
on the table of the Chamber all the diplomatic information
connected with this subject. Were there grounds for
complaining of the manner in which Great Britain dis-
charged her part of these obligations, as there were for
complaining of the rest ? Certainly not. On the con-
trary there were abundant reasons to be gratified with the
mode in which this nation had discharged her part of the
task. It is true the obligations of the treaty are vaguely
defined ; but for this very reason he was highly satisied
with the Queen of Great Britain, because she had ren-
dered services which it would be the height of ingratitude
to deny.

Senor Arguelles was much applauded at the conclusion
of his long and able discourse.

The Minister, the Duke of Frias, now rose to reply to
the observations of Arguelles. The reply, however, con-
sisted in little more than a narration of the circumstances
under which the treaty was entered into, and qualifying it
as purely conditional—rather a strange construction for a
Spanish Minister to put on the document, but, of course,
the best to escape the dilemma in which the remarks of
Arguelles had placed the Duke and his French ally.
Martinez de la Rosa ventured to differ from the Duke
de Frias on the conditionality of the treaty, and seemed to
think that it was not only obligatory on France, but that it
had not discharged its obligations.
To-day (Saturday) the Congress assembled again, and
after the Committee of the last Session which had been
nominated to consider the state of the finances of the
country was authorised to continue its labours on the
subject of equalizing the payment of salaries, the discussion
of the reply to the Speech from the Throne was resumed
by Senor Munoz Maldonado. Though a Moderado of the
first class, and considered one of the Camarilla party, this
Deputy took the same views of the reply as Senor Arguelles,
and repeated many of his opinions.
The Duke of Frias snd Senor Ponzoa, his colleague,
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was a constitutional Monarchy, would see the quadruple
treaty fulfilled.
Senor Mendizabal arrived in Madrid on Thursday last,
and took his seat in the Cortes the following day.
Funds to-day, Five per Cents., 15i at various dates.

PRICE sd.

consent being obtained, the Danube Steam Navigation
Company would willingly defray the whole expense of this
national undertaking. As further indication of the decided
preference given at Vienna to this new commercial route
may be mentioned the intention the above-mentioned com-
pany has lately expressed of establishing in the beginning of
spring a regular steam communication between Constan-
tinople and Kieustendjeh. Goods and passengers are to
proceed in carriages and waggons from that port to Kara
Sou, at eight leagues' distance. On this large lake, formed
by the Danube, will be stationed a steam-boat, to convey
passengers, &c., to the quarantine at Orsova.
The Swedish Charge d'Affaires, Baron Troil, and his
Lady, arrived here by the Galacz steam-packet on the
6th instant.

The Persian Ambassador to the Court of St. James's,
Hussein Mirza, arrived hem from Trebisond on the 4th
instant. He is bearer of numerous presents from the
Shah to the Queen and her Ministers. Among the 56
bales containing these marks of his Persian Majesty's re-
gard and urbanity is one enclosing 53 Cashmere shawls of
exquisite beauty.
The Secretary of Embassy, Mr. H. Bulwer, is on the
eve of his departure for England. His successor, Mr.
Bankhead, is shortly expected.
Several small vessels belonging to the Capitan Pasha's
squadron arrived here yesterday from Vourla. The rest
of the division was to have left for Constantinople on the
4th inst.

Admiral Gallois has suddenly been recalled to Toulon.
Rear-Admiral Lalande will take the command of the
French division in the Archipelago.
The exchange of the ratifications of the articles of the
commercial convention concluded between England and
the Sublime Porte, which relate to exports, took place on
the 4th inst. between Lord Ponsonby and Nourri Effendi.
According to the latest intelligence from Circassia, the
Russians had landed in considerable numbers in the neigh-
bourhood of Soudjouk Kaleb, and after a slight resistance
on the part of the natives, who had intrenched them-
selves behind the ruins of this old fortress, taken possession
of that spot. This fact, were fitther proof of the menda-
city of the assertion wanting, will best prove the degree of
confidence Lord Palmerston was entitled to when he un-
blushingly informed the House that at the time of the cap-
ture of the Viven, in the bay of Soudjouk, this bay was in
the possession of Russia.
Advices from Servia of the 12th inst., state that Prince
Ghika, the Hospodar of Wallachia, was shortly to under-
take a journey to Trieste, where he was to have an inter-
view with a well-known diplomatic personage. Fresh dis-
turbances had occurred at Delvino, in Albania, towards
the latter end of October. Several lives were lost, but
order was restored at the date of the last accounts.