The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-20 00:00:00

it announces to the world that France has completed the occu-
pation of the province of Constantine, and to assure the success
of colonization in the east of Algiers.
" Vessels can in good weather anchor opposite the Fort de
France, and at this moment the Sphinx is moored within two
cables' length of the shore ; but the road is open to the
north-wind, and when it blows hard vessels are obliged to
take refuge in Store, where they can cast anchor close to the
land. I shall, therefore. establish a redoubt to defend this
latter anchorage. Under the Fort de France a landing place
can be established at a trifling expense. Vessels can, without
difficulty, discharge their cargoes at this point, whether they
anchored like the Sphinx at a little distance, or whether
forced to seek shelter by the bad weather at Stora.
" The result of the operation I have just finished is im-
mense. The advantage of the new position occupied by the
army will not escape your Excellency.
" Constantine is not mere than three short days' march from
the sea. The coaches arrive now in the camp of Arrouch,
and in a few days will be able to come to Fort de France.
The Kabyle population, by allowing us to establish ourselves
in the midst of them, prove that our influence has increased
since last year; they do not hesitate to put themselves in
communication with us, and, like the camp of Arrouch, the
Fort de France will be provisioned by the natives. The ex-
pedition of Stora clearly shows the advantages of the system
which I have constantly followed.
" The army, which during a year has shown so much fide-
lity, has merited well of the King and of France in this cir-
cumstance."

The following extracts include what other news
there is in these Papers of any general interest :
The seventh Chamber of Correctional Police delivered
judgment on Wednesday in the case of Messrs. Raban,
Raison, Bruys, Dussoubs, and Dubose, accused of having had,
on the 27th of July last, warlike arms in their possession, and
manufacturing gunpowder without license. Raban was sen-
tenced to two years' imprisonment and 500 francs' fine ;
Raison, Bruys, and Dussoubs, to 18 months' imprisonment
and 300 francs' fine; and Dubose to one year's imprisonment
and 100 francs' fine.

CRACOW AND POLAND.—A letter from Lemberg, dated the
4th of October, says, " The unfortunate republic of Cracow
advances rapidly towards its destruction. Nine of its most
honourable citizens and magistrates have just been imprisoned
upon the most absurd pretexts, or rather without any pretext
at all. Their real crime is that of having refused to sign the
petitions by which the Cracovians are made to appear to have
themselves demanded their political annihilation, and as the
prisoners, like the former ones, will be accused of plotting
against Russia, it is much to be feared that exile to the mines
of Siberia will be the reward of their patriotic resistance to
the intrigues of tyranny.
" In addition, systematic vexations are pushed to such a point
that the Cracovian people are, as if in the hulks, separated
from the rest of the world. All correspondence intercepted,
every affair of commerce subjected to the formalities of the
police, all passports refused, and the entrance of foreigners in-
terdicted—no more communication, no longer any press, either
free or censured, placing three-fourths of the inhabitants under
the surveillance of the police—this is the state in which these
poor people are held, until a decree of confiscation shall in-
form all Europe of the manner in which the Three Protecting
Powers have extended their protection.
" The transportation of the Polish peasantry still continues
in two or three of the frontier voivodies, and they are still
directed towards the Don, where these unfortunates serve to
re-people the countries which require inhabitants. Serfs from
the interior of Russia begin to arrive to replace them in the
country ; but, except on the property of the Crown, the ques-
tion of knowing to whom the above-mentioned substitutes will
belong will occasion new iniquities.
" Several noble cultivators have been amongst the trans-
ported peasants, and the Russian commanders have caused some
of them to be scourged, who cried out against it. A woman
of Janow was whipped for an act of that nature, and a priest
in the same canton sent to the mines for a discourse to his
parishioners. The Custom-house of Radzivilow has received
employes of a new office ; these are agents of police established
and paid by the Government, to control, as regards the police,
everything which passes in this Custom-house, to suspend the
envoys if necessary, and to give an account to the military
authorities."—Courrier Francais.
PARIS, OCT. 18.—The audience which Reschid Pasha has
had of the Pope, and his speech to his Holiness on that occa-
sion are the general subjects of conversation at Rome. This
very short speech, delivered in the French language, has just
been published by the Diario di Roma, as follows :
" His Highness Sultan Mahmoud has heard with satisfaction
the kind reception which your Highness gave to his Ambassa-
der to the Court of France. lam happy to have an opportu-
nity to express to you these sentiments of my August Master.
I hope that these first relations, owing to the courtesy and
conciliatory spirit of your Holiness, will lead to others equally
advantageous and agreeable to the Holy See and the Otto-
man Empire." The Diario adds—" His Highness re.
plied to this speech in the most gracious terms, and gave
the Pacha to understand the just confidence which he placed
in the Imperial justice with which Sultan Mahmoud protects
(garantisee) the Catholics residing in his vast empire, and
with the punctuality with which the intentions of his Highness
are seconded by the Reis Effendi. His Holiness requested
Reschid Pacha always to protect the Catholics in the councils
of his master, begging him again to recommend them in his
, name.

" The Pacha was very sensible of the reception with which
he was honoured by his Holiness, and promised to fulfil his
wishes. Cardinal Mezzofanti was sent for by his Holiness, to
be present as interpreter at this audience.
" The conference which Reschid Pacha afterwards had
with Cardinal Lambruscheni, Secretary of State, turned
nearly on the same subjects, and was likewise
mutually satisfactory. Reschid Pacha is distinguished
by his amiable and unaffected manners, as well as
by his enlightened and refined understanding. In the
Visit which lie paid to Cardinal Mezzofanti he showed
great erudition in oriental literature, which was the subject of
conversation. His three sons, who are still of tender age,
have likewise been presented to the Pope and to the Cardinal
Secretary of State. Their excellent education, and their
vivacity, render them very interesting."
The Moniteur of the 18th has no official part.
A letter from Limburg, in Galicia, of Sept. 24, says that a
Company of rich inhabitants at Brody has proposed to the
Austrian and Russian Governments to construct, at its own
expense, an iron railroad from Brody and Limburg to Vienna,
aiirs! from Brody by way of Berdytscheff to Odessa, on con-
dition that the Company shall have the two 'roads for one
hundred years, after which they shall belong to the two
States. It appears that the Company has already some idea
that the Austrian Government will accede to the proposal,
for its engineers are already examining the line from Brody to
Vienna, and its agents have conferred with several landowners
in Galicia about the purchase of the land through which the
road would pass.
The Emperor of Russia, it is said, has less hesitation
about authorising the construction of an iron railroad between
Brody and Odessa, as he much desires to see railroads become
numerous in his empire, and as the Company does not ask for
any pecuniary aid. It is affirmed that the houses of Roths-
child and Sins, of Vienna, and the wealthy Hungarian Count
Czetching, intend to take shares, if the plan should be
realised, as we may hope, for it will enrich our province, and
affurd Germany a new means of communication with Odessa,
and consequently with the East.—Le Commerce.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, OCTOBER 18.
Five pet Cents., 109 f. 50c. 45c. 50c.
Four per Cents., 102 f.
Thre-. per Cents., 811. Isc. 10c.
Bank Actions, 2,615 f.
(tente de Naples, 10If 101 f. sc.
Roman Five per Cents.. 10:N14.
Spanish Actives, 19 15.
Belgian Bank, 1,445 E
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 251. 40c. ; money, 45f. 40e
Three months, paper, —f. —r. ; money, 25f. 27%e
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. ME 50c.
Three per Cents., Si f. 15c.
Bank Actions, 2,615 f.
Romans, 103 .7,14 .
Belgian Bank, 1,445 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 20 .
Spanish Actives, 1514.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, Oct 10.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Foer Nr Cents.
Three per Cezits.
Bank Shares
—,WgemeineZeitung. Oct. W.

Messrs. Curling and Young, of Limehouse, builders
of the British Queen, have begun a steam-ship of 2,000 tons,
being 100 more than the British Queen. She is not to be so
long as that vessel, but much wider.—Mining Journal.
LORD DURHAM.—There was a rumour in Dublin
of the resignation of this Nobleman, but so little credence was
attached to the report, the Dublin Evening Post last Thurs-
day denies the statement put forward by the Mail on Wednes-
day evening, that Lord Durham had resigned the Governor-
Generalship of Canada. The news had not reached Glasgow
on Thursday.
Wabash College, in Indiana, a new and spacious
edifice, was nearly destroyed by fire on the 22d ult., with the
library and philosophical apparatus. Loss estimated at 15,000
dollars.—New York Gazette, Oct. 4.
A dreadful hurricance took place on the 6th ult.
understand,
at Rum Key, America. 100,000 bushels of salt were de-
stroyed, several people killed, and a number of houses blown
down. •
We regret to learn that a rather important failure
chcoahns
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eating grapes which had been purposely sprinkled with poi-
son, on the border of a vineyard by the road side—a horrible
likelyunec captain,
includespt ot
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custom, which is said to exist in several localities.—French
Paper.
A medical friend has sent us the following caution
to travellers on railways :—All persons travelling on railways
are strongly recommended not to fix their eyes too intently n
painful and injurious to those most delicate organs. This is
sstUe
raisrisy;
especially urged to those who may have a tendency towards a
commanders, ten lieutenants,
determination of blood to the head, as being very likely to
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captains,
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increase that tendencT.
objects which they pass, as doinopgburi
six masters, nine surgeons,
lieutenants of marines.
So much has the opening
of the London and Bir-
mingham Railway increased the number of travellers through
this town, that the principal inns often have their beds engaged
two days deep; and last week so great was the difficulty of
procuring accommodation, that the Countess of Chesterfield
was obliged to sleep at the Acorn, in T
n, in emple-street.—Bir-
mirTalsh,ethlareset
mingham Advertiser.