The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-06 00:00:00

FOR. THE SUN.

SPANISH EMIGRANTS.

_M►i. EDITOR—The compassion and bounty of

the British People are called forth in behalf of
SPANISU EMIGRANTS, and it is not inconsistent
with benevolence to convert those generous feel-
ings to national benefit—naY7 it is but just to

do so. The industrious Frenth Emigrants, on
the edict of Nantes, introduced many valuable
arts into our cou►►try. The Revolution Emigrants
were, of a different description ; perhaps the pro-
lligate, proud, and idle portion of them, by

mingling with our Nobility, have tended to in-
Crease gamingand other kinds of licentiousness.
f the modern Spanish Emigrants comprise virtu-
cosS, industrious, or skilful men in any art or vo-
cation, surely this nation is entitled to employ
them honourably and reasonably, according to
their several abilities. Perhaps, Sir, the working
_portion of the (leads of Colleges at Oxford and
Cambridge might find some credit and advantage
from appointing one or two Spanish Scholars at
each University, either in the Libraries or as
Public Teachers. Probably Dublin would do
the like—and it may be inquired whether,
among the various appointments of Government,
some beneficial niches are not vacant for Spanish
knowledge ? As for the main body of those Emi-

grants, I sincerely recommend them to direct their
steps speedily to South America, after obtaining
suitable grants of locality and protection from
the new Independant States. Old Spain is
rotting in her accumulated corruption, and to
pine away life in the unpromising hope of a re-
turn is unbecoming men of sense and men of
spirit. Sir, your obliged Serrent,

January 4, 1825.

A. C.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Advices have been received from New Smith
Wales, to the 14th of August, at the Colonial Of-
fice, from Major-General Sir l'uomas BRISBANE.
The affairs of the colony were at that time in
a most prosperous state.; and of the successful
efforts to promote agriculture, some idea may be
entertained from the subjoined letter. The do-
cuments alluded to, we shall publish speedily.
" DEAR Stu, " Sidneyy, August 10, 1824.
" We do ourselves the pleasure of sending you a Copy of the
last Anniversary Report of the Agricultural Society, by which
you will see that we are soon likely to become a Colony of the
first importance to the British Empire, notwithstanding the
great difficulties with which we have had to contend.
" We ourselves, from our own landed possessions, will soon
be able to send home large quantities of valuable produce, and
have been not only the first to engage in the timber trade for
ship building, but contiuue to be amongst its most active pro-
moters: and although we are daily extending and perfecting
Our plans--even now we are preparing blue gum plank, at the
rate of nearly 100 load per month—we now cut it of the best
quality, seldom in shorter lengths than 30 and often upwards
of 40 feet; the consequence of which will be, that at a very
short notice-we shall soon be able fully to freight a ship of any
burthen : and in the disposal of such freights we shall always
feel the greatest pleasure in giving a preference to any ship of
your own or of any friend whom you may please to recommend
to our house.

With the most sincere good wishes, and best compliments
to Mrs. Brown, we remain, dear Sir, your's, very truly,
" BERRY and WOLLSTONECRA FT."
" To George Brown, Esq. Rateliff Cross, London."

GREAT FIRE IN PARIS.—On Saturday morn.
ing, at six o'clock, a violent fire broke out at the Bazaar, Bou-
levard des Italiena. The keeper of the Bazaar, upon opening•
the doors, between six and seven, was nearly suffocated with
smoke. He immediately gave the alarm, and the sapeurs-
pompicr4 hastened to the spot with the greatest promptness,
but the flames devoured with such rapidity, that the roof fell
in before the engines could be set in motion. This establish-
ment contained a great quantity of goods of every description,
which were entirely consumed. The tradesmen who held
shops in front succeeded in removing their goods upon the bou-
levard, the passage of which was interrupted by gendarmes,
sent to the spot to protect the property. The animals of a
small menagerie established in the building perished in the
flames; among them was a boa constrictor, for which the owner
wigs offered a considerable sum a few days ago. A jeweller is
said to have suffered to the amount of 40.000 francs, and a
dottier in shawls to the amount of 100,000 francs. Such was the
excessive heat, that the money in the tills was melted. The
smoking beams were carried out upon the boulevard in propor-
tion as the fire was extinguished, and with them were mixed
the remains of trinkets, gold combs, bracelets, ear-rings,
watches, clocks, &c. Happily no person perished. At one
period the Bains Chinois were considered in danger, but as the
fire had attained such a height that no hope remained of saving
the Bazaar, the principal eflbrts of the sapcurs-pampicrs were
directed to the adjoining premises. A number of industrious
persons and families are by this lamentable catastrophe reduced
to distress. To alleviate their sufferings, a number of indivi-
duals have sent.donations, and contributions are now receiving,
at the Cafd de Paris. The exertions of the sapeurs-pompiers,
gendarmes, and other troops, upon this occasion, were above all
praise. It is remarkable that the premises upon this spot were
consumed by a destructive fire about 20 years ago. The cause
of the fire is unknown. Some attribute it to a flue of the BaMs
Chinois ; others to the gas ; and others to chaugereftcs left in
some of the shops. A singular circumstance is that the keeper,
Who usually sleeps in the Bazaar, was absent,•it being the eve
of the New Year's Day.—(Gtaignani's Mersever.
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TIIE CROCODILE OF THE GANGES.-Dr. C•
ABEL, of Calcutta, has investigated the structure and charac-
tex of the Cuintneer, or Ganges Crocodile, and compared it
with its described congeners, from an individual of great size,
measuring 18 feet from the extremity of the nose to the end of
the tail. It had been destroyed by a spear driven into the neck
at the junetion of the head with the cervical vertebrae. In most
of Its external characters it agreed with the C'rocodilus Bipor-
cedar ; except that the toes of the latter are represented by
Cuvier and Lacepede as more or less united by membranes or
webs ; the hind feet of the Crocodile Proper, according to
Guvier, are palmated to the extremity of the toes. This cha-
raste.r is wanting in the Cummeer, in which the inner toe of the
hies 4 and two inner toes of the fore feet-are perfectly free, not
being connected by any membrane. If this peculiarity he of
constant occurrence, it makes the Cummeer not only- a new and
ttndescribed species, but it also vitiates the description of the
family and of the genus of Crocodile heretofore given. Al-
though the putrescency-of the body of the animal prevented any
deliberate examination of its internal structure, the contents of
its stomach were exposed, and found to consist of the remains
of a woman, of a whole cat, of the remains of a dog and sheep,
of several rings, and of the separated parts of the common
banglas worn by the Native women.

There were four North American Indian
• Chiefs at Moorfields•Cathnlic-Chapel, on Christmas-day. One
of them is a King of one of the back settlements. They came
in a carriage provided for them by Government, and on enter-
ing the Chapel. they knelt down among the poor, until they
were dissovered by the attendants at the Chapel, when, they
were &hewn into a seat in the gallery.
NEW Currom-HousE.—There are unpleasant
,rumours afloat respecting the new Custom-house ;
tile foundation is said to have given way in rather
an alarming manner at the eastern wing of the

FRENCH FINANCIAL MEASURES.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, JAM. 3.

AU the Ministers were present.
M. de Villele presented the projet of a law respecting the
Civil List.

An. 1. The property acquired by the late King, and undis-
posed of, as well as the Mews of Artois, acquired by the private
property of the reigning King, arc added to the endowment of
the Crown.

2. The Civil List is fixed for all the reign of the King at 25
millions (francs), to be paid annually on the orders of the Mi-
nister of the Household.

3. There shall be paid, moreover, seven millions annually as
an appanage to the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family.
4. the property restored to the House of Orleans, in execu-
tion of the Royal ordinances of May 13 and 20, and Sept. 17,
and Oct. 7, 1824, and arising from the appanage erected in
1661, 1G72, and 1682 for Monsieur, brother of Louis XIV, for
him and his descendants in the male line, shall continue to be
possessed on the same title and condition, by the head of the
branch of Orleans till the extinction of the male line, in which
event they shall return to the State.
5. A sum of six millions is to be paid for the obsequies of the
late King, and the coronation of the reigning King.—(To be
discussed on Wednesday.)
M. de Martignac 'presented the bill for indemnifying the
emigrants, entitled " Project of law on the indemnity to be
granted to the former proprietors of real property (Men:Awls)
confiscated and sold for the benefit of the State, in execution of
the laws on emigrants."
Title I. Allocation and nature of the indemnity.

Art. 1. There is allowed an indemnity to Frenchmen, former
proprietors of landed property situate in France, confiscated
and sold for the benefit of the State, in execution of the law con-
cerning emigrants.

2. For property sold, the indemnity shall be an amount of
three per cent. stock equal to 20 times the revenue ascertained
by the proces-verbaux of adjudication.
(Where the revenue was not estimated, the indemnity is to
be equal to the amount of sale, making allowance for the de-
preciation of assi,'mats.)
3. Where the relatives in the ascending line bought the pro-
perty, the indemnity is the real value of the payments by them.
4. Where the former proprietors or their representatives have
repurchased, the indemnity is the real value they have paid.
5. The ?vides three per cent. given as indemnity, shall be
delivered to the former proprietors or their representatives, in
fifths in five years, to bear interest from the time of the delivery.
6. A credit of 30 millions of reutes is placed at the disposal
of the 31inister of Finance, to be inscribed in the following
order :

6 millions - June 22. 1825 6 millions - June 22, 1828
6 millions June 22, 1828 6 millions - June 22, 1829
6 millions - June 22, 1827
with dividends from die day on which their inscription is
authorized.

Title 11. regulates the manner of preferring claims, and the
allowance to be made for debts due on the estates and defrayed
by the authorities at the time of sale.

Title 111. declares the law applicable to the representatives
of those transported or condemned during the revolution.
Title IV. Property attached to charitable establishments is
provided for.

Title V. The right of creditors only to be considered as far
as concerns the capital of their credits.
Title VI. Term for preferring claims :—One year for inha-
bitants of France, 18 months forthese in other parts of Europe
and two years for those out of Europe.
The Minister of Finance then proposed the following project,
which has for object to afford the means of indemnifying the
emigres without new taxes.
PROJECT OF ♦ LAW CONCERNING THE SINKIN•3 PEND,
AND THE OPTIONAL CONVERSION OF 5 PER CE/iT.
RENTES INTO 3 OR 4 PER CENTS.

Art. 1. The renter acquired by the Sinking Fund from its
establishment up to the 22d of June, 11115, shall not be annihi-
lated nor diverted from their application to the purchase of the
Public Debt before the 22d of June, 11130.

2. The renter which shall be acqUired by the Sinking Fund
from June 22, 1825, to the 22d ofJune, 1830, shall be cancelled
for the benefit of the State, as they are purchased, as well as the
coupons of interest attached to them.
3. Dating from March 22, 1825, the sums accruing from the
Sinking Fund shall not be applied to the purchase of public
Stock when the price is above par.
4. The proprietors of 5 per cent. rentes on the State shall
have, dating from the day of the publication of the present law
till June 22, 1825, the faculty of demanding from the Ministry
of Finance their conversion into inscription of lefties, at the
pric2 of 75, and to date from the same day of the publication
of the same law to the 22d September, 1825, the faculty of re-
quiring this conversion into 4i per cent. at par, with guarantee
against reimbursement till the 22d September, 1835.
The renter so converted shall continue to bear interest at 5
per cent. till the 22d of December, 1325.
5. The sums arising from the diminution of the debt under
the conversions authorized by the foregoing article, shall be
applied to the reduction, from the year 1826, of an equal pro-
portional number of hundred parts of the land-tax, personal
tax, taxes on moveables, doors, and windows (contributions
foncieze, personelle, mobiliaire, et des porter et fenetres.)
To this end a statement of the annual produce of the dimi-
! nution of these interests shall he drawn up by the Minister of
Finance on the Ist October, 1825, and serve as the basis of
a Royal Ordinance, which shall realize on the assessments of
1826, the diminution of impost granted by the present law.