The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-20 00:00:00

selves immoral, and therefore they ought, under all
circumstances, to be vigorously and effectually repressed.
The Paris Papers of Wednesday contain little else
of any importance. In the course of Tuesday's sitting,
the Chamber of Deputies passed the Vicinal Roads'
Bill, and the Bill for the punishment of French sub-
jects in the Levant. On Monday night, at twelve
o'clock, Louis PHILIPPE, accompanied by the Prince
de JoiNviLLE, his third son, left Paris for Fontain-
bleau, whence he returned on the following night about
the same hour. The Paris Ministerial prints dwell
with rapture upon the reception given to the Dukes of
ORLEANS and NEMOURS by the King of PRUSSIA.
Even the CROWN PRINCE, to whom their visit was at
first far from being welcome, has vied with his Royal
relatives in entertaining them after the most princely
fashion.

General HARISPE has addressed a letter to General
EvANs, congratulating him on his gallant defeat of
the Carlists before St. Sebastian. We may regard this
as the act of the French Government, and, therefore,
highly complimentary to our brave countryman. We
are surprised that his services have not called forth
some testimony of Lord PALMERSTON's appreciation
of conduct so honourable to this Government as a
Member of the Quadruple Alliance.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, MAY 19.
Five per Cents., 10Sf. 107 f 95c.
Four per Cents., 101 C 50c.
Three per Cents. 82f. sc. S2E
Bank Actions, 2,295. 2,2821. 50c.
Rente de Naples, 102 f. 95c. 85c. 80c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102% %.
Spanish Actives, 4614 46.
Spanish Differes, 22%.
Spanish Passives, 14%14.
Belgian Loan, rive per Cents., 11,2%N.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 54!-;,%.
Dutch Two and a half per Cents., 55f, 50c.
Haytian Loan, 407 f. 50c.
EXCHANOtt ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 40c • money, 251 3714 r.
Three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 25f. 25c.
—Cours Authentique.

BOURSR, QUARTER TO FOUR.—No alteration in the state
of the market has taken place to-day. No business has been
done. The Three per Cents. opened 82f. 20c., and are
now 82f. 15c. Spanish Active Stock opened at 41, but de-
clined to 46. Portuguese Securities are much offered. The
Three per Cents. (Portuguese) have been done at 541.
LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 10c. ; Three
per Cents., 82f. 15c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb-
hards, ; Differes, 16k ; New Loan, ; Actives, 46 ; Pas-
sives, 14+; Ducats, 102 90; Romans, 1028 —; Pedros, ;
Belgians, 1024 ; Dutch. 58f. 50c. ; Haytians, 407 f. 50c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 19 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 22a; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuciles, —; Royal Loan, —.

In the Brussels Papers, received this morning, we
find the following paragraph, to which we respectfully
solicit the attention of our Government :—A letter
from Frankfort, of the 14th May, says—" The letters
from St. Petersburg announce that TAL DE BARANTE,
the French Ambassador, has become the object of the
greatest attention. He is invited to all the private
parties given by the Court, and accompanies the EM-
PEROR in his excursions ; whereas Lord DUREIAM
does not seem to enjoy the same regard." For the
present we shall abstain from offering one word of
comment upon this extraordinary communication. To
Lord PALMERSTON we look for an explanation of it.

By the Virginian, arrived at Liverpool, we have
New York papers to the 25th, and Quebec papers to
the 17th of April. The Mexican Envoy at Washing-
ton has published a bulletin, dated the Ist of April,
declaring that his Government will not recognize any
debt contracted by the Government of Texas, or any
alienation of land or other property made by it. The
most horrible accounts arc received in the United
States from the theatre of war in Texas. General
SANTA ANNA has issued orders to his army to give
no quarter where the slightest opposition is offered
and to butcher indiscriminately all children above ten
years of age. The account of a general engagement
between SANTA ANNA and General HOUSTON was
daily expected.
The Quebec journals merely announce that the ultra-
liberals of Upper Canada have failed in their endea-
vours to stop the supplies.

THE PRESS CONTROVERSY.

(From the Age.)
• •

With this extract from our able Contemporary, The Sun of
Friday last, and the resolutions of the General Meeting,
which are annexed, we might be content to leave the Times
to blunder on in its accustomed vituperative course of falsifi-
cations and infamous attempt at delusion. The apostate and
the traitor are synonymous scoundrels, who are alike despised
and abhorred by honest men of all parties. There is no Old
Bailey counsel who will not attest the proverbial truth of the
ingratitude of thieves. To save the neck of one of these va-
gaonds from the halter, to obtain a commutation of his sen-
tence, or to ingeniously abuse justice by obtaining a verdict on
the minor offence when the evidence fully warrants a capital
conviction ; or, in fact, to do anything less than obtain his ac-
quittal, is to make him your enemy for life.
This is precisely the situation of the Times—they intended
to practise a gross fraud upon the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer—they succeeded in doing so upon Lord Lyndhurst and
Mr. Goulburn ; and because they could not do so upon their
Contemporaries, they work themselves into a windy rage, and
mistake the squeak of their fetid trumpetings for awful peals
of terrific thunder. If Mr. John Walter wished to preserve
an appearance of character, or to have his property properly
represented, why did he not attend these meetings of the
press in person, and not send his thick-headed dolts and dum-
mies to render himself contemptible in the eyes of his more
respectable Contemporaries.
It is enough to make a Quaker kick his mother, to hear
these political pie-men of the Times pretend to character and
veracity. What ! the fellows who play at pitch and toss with
State questions—who shy a brown to determine which side
they shall take—and who would hustle their colleagues !
For ourselves, the shaft thrown by the Times is regarded by
us as a " telum imbelle sine ictu." It is a sufficient reply to
the base insinuations of that degraded journal to point to the
resolutions passed in approbation of the Chairman and Com-
mittee's conduct throughout the whole negociation—,an appro-
bation which the representatives of the Times, who were pre-
sent at the passing thereof (a fact ably commented upon by
the Advertiser, Ledger, Courier, and Sun), tacitly assented
to. Would it not have been the manly, and proper, and
straightforward course, if they had that opinion of the Chair-
man which they put forth with such malice on Thursday, to
have stated it to his face on Wednesday before the assembled
delegates of the Press, instead of concocting their slander in the
secret recesses of Printing-house-square? But no they dared
not. On the contrary, as the Ledger of Saturday states they
admitted—
" The resolution that was passed in approbation of the con-
duct of the present Committee, and did not offer the slightest
opposition to it, indeed was passed nem. con. And that the
admission so honourably made by those Representatives, that
they had not taken the most proper, manly, and straightfor-
ward course,' was so made before any resolution had been pro-
posed, and was not consequent upon any portion of the pro-
ceedings of that day, as the Times would make it appear.
The gentleman who expressed his own, and, as it now fully
appears, the opinions of the other three dissentients, declared
he came to the meeting prepared to do so. We place, then,
against the unwarrantable assertions and misrepresentations of
the Times, the testimony of its own recognised agent, and of
those gentlemen with whom on this occasion he acted in
concert."
If this body of evidence be not all powerful, as old Horace
says,—

Nil intra est oleam, nil extra est in nuce duri
which hard nut we leave the Times to crack. The fact is,
the Times, in not entering their protest or lordly " dissen-
tient," attempted to practice what Ariosto calls the '6 dolce
inganni" upon the public ; but as we have exposed this at-
tempt at deception, we shall now quit the subject. As the
French proverb has it, " Le jeu n'en rant pas la chandelle,"
perhaps. The Times may chew the cud of our remarks with
what gout it pleases—it may laugh at them if it pleases; be

it so,—

Per multum risum poteris cognoseere stultum ;
and with that reflection we leave the Thunderer floored, the
slanderer unmasked, and the cheat detected 1

SUPPLEMENTAL SWINDLING.— The double-
sheet practice originated with the Times; who intended by that,
and other equally unfair means, to crush their rival the Morn-
ing Herald. Double sheets are of very recent origin, and have
always been justly considered a great nuisance by the public.
They are, moreover, a gross fraud upon the revenue and the
advertiser—in the first instance, by imposing an additional
weight of carriage upon the Government ; and secondly, by
the trick of reserving advertisements for two or three days to
enable them to make what they term " a grand display," when
they are printed in close columns, en masse, in a Supplemental
sheet, where the distribution of news is carefully excluded;
consequently, it is never read, but usually cut off and consigned
to very opposite purposes from those which the deluded adver-
tiser had right and reason to expect.— The Age.
The Bishop of London's late dangerous illness was,
we hear, brought on by excessive fatigue in attending to his
numerous arduous duties ; and though his Lordship is appa-
rently in a gradual state of recovery, a long period of retire-
ment and repose will be essential to the complete restoration
of his health.