The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

lONIAN ISLANDS.

We have received Corfu papers to the 12th inclu-
sive. Sir H. G. Ward, the Lord High Commis-
sioner, had addressed a letter to his Highness the
President of the Senate, in which, after stating
the existence in Corfu of a secret society to which
several Italian refugees had united themselves
since their arrival in the island, and detailing
some of the proceedings of the society, he adds,
that he should take upon himself the responsibility of
ordering those foreigners, who had violated the rights
of hospitality by their intrigues,
.to quit the lonian
territory, and to place those lonian subjects who be-
longed to the society under the surveillance of the po-
lice until ulterior measures had been decided on. The
papers also contain a long account of the ceremony of
the investiture of Mr. Ward, the Lord High Com-
missioner, as Grand Cross of the order of St.
Michael and St. George, which took place with
great pomp on the 6th. A letter from Corfu,
under date of the 19th, says :—" By the
arrival this morning of the Sharpshooter
from Cephalonia, with a detachment of the 36th
regiment, which was dispatched from this island
on the first outbreak, we hear of the capture of the
priest Nodaro and one of his companions, and the
surrender of Vlacco at Luxuri. Martial law has been
taken off all the districts except Luxuri, where the
trials are now going on. His Excellency Sir Henry
Ward is still there, and the Sharpshooter sails again
to-day for Cephalonia to bring his Excellency and
staff."

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD JOHN
RUSSELL, ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S PRIN-
CIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE.
My Lord,—l am not going to ask you to rehearse
the Articles of your Belief,--but to thank you for
having done a service to honest men of all beliefs, by
standing out against the grcss imposture attempted to
be practised upon the country whose counsels you
direct, by men presenting themselves to you with a
palpable falsification in their hands, of the authority
to which they untruly made profession to appeal.
Your courage has saved the country from the dis•
grace of bowing before the Baal of a lie, got up by
some if not by others, with ulterior designs against
the freedom and progress of the State. But the
danger though parried is not over. A needle cannot
stand upon its point, but if it does no':, fall our way
will fall the other. There will be neither safety nor
quiet till the truth is driven IL:me, to the confusion of
its enemies. There can be little doubt that they
will provide the opportunity.
What I want then to submit to the grave consi-
deration bound to be attendant on the acts of the
prime minister of a great country, is whether if
another bishop should present himself to you with a
heresy for which he ought to be unfrocked, and
inferior churchmen in the receipt of pay and allow-
ances for upholding the faith adopted by the
majority of the nation from the Protestant
Reforine:s should aid him in his apostasy,—
the conduct befitting the first Minister of a Pro-
testant Sovereign, would not be to reply with the
self-possession which few who have witnessed it have
forgotten, and with the still small voice which has
been heard farther than the thunder and the storm,
That the principle they advance is not supported by
Christianity, but is in distinct terms repudiated by
Christianity.
That it is not in the doctrines of the Protestant
Reformers, but, on the contrary, is enumerated among
their grievances in the Confession of Augsburg.
That it is not in the doctrines of the Church whose
ministers they profess to be, but, on the contrary, the
Church in her Catechism and Articles, in strict con-
formity with the injunction of the New Testament,
refuses to admit the obligation of the Fourth Jewish
commandment, and thereby classes it among the
" Ceremonies, Rites, and Civil precepts, which do not
bind Christian men," and not the " ommandments
which are called Moral."
A rebuff of this kind would be the most useful
thing that has happened since Elizabeth stopped the
Churchmen's games in Smithfield.
ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERV-
ANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS.
COURSE OF EXCHA

Amsterdam ...... • ... 12 3

IiGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar• • ••••• • •• ••
Leghorn 31 10
Genoa .. . 26 30
Venice ........
Palermo, peroz ........
Messina ..... ........
Lisbon • • . • .• • • • • • • • • • •
Oporto • • • • • • • . . • • • • . • •
Rio Janeiro ...... . •
Buenos Ayres ........
New York, 21 days'sight
Philadelphia ..

Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 1%
Rotterdam 12 3
Antwerp .... 25 80 I
Hamburgh .11.8. 13 14
&Bona
Paris, 3 days'sight - • 25 50
Ditto, 3 months 25 75
Marseilles •• ...... 25 75
Bourdeaux•—• ..... • 25 75
Frankfort on Maine.... 122
Peter sburgh, 811. Rble.. 36%
Berlin • • ••• • • ..• •• • •
Vienna, effec. 50...—. 10 57
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 58
Madrid ••.. • • 4914
Cadiz 49%
8i1ba0................—
Barcelona • • • • • •

40%
121%
122

Se-rille•• •••• ..... • •• •••

53i,
5314
2614,

PRICES Of BULLION, PER et.
Foreign Gold iu bars X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars • 0 4 10
Silver in bars

IMMENSE TAKE OF FISH.—YABMOUTII, OCT. 27.
During the last weak both the Yarmouth and North of
England fishing boats which follow the shoals of her-
rings, have put daily into this port and harbour laden
to a most extraordinary degree with fish of various kinds
—particularly herrings, soles, and codfish—the herring
boats each having from ten to twenty lasts (10,000 to the
last), or from 100,000 to 200,000 fish on board. So

many were there for sale on Friday and Satutday, that
the curers could not take half the quantity, although
they were cinred, in some instances, for less than the
barbcur dues ; they had, therefore, to be sold to buck-

sters at any price they could obtain, tees of thousands
being thrown overboard. Fresh herring at ls. per swill
of 500, some at even less ; slightly cured, known as
Yarmouth bloaters, at from Is. to Is. 6d. per hundred,
basket included, fine fish. Soles at Gd. per score,
weighing from lilb. to 2ilb. per pair, quite fresh. Cod-
fish, weighing from 101 b. to 121 b. each, for from Gd. to
9el. per fish. Cart loads were taken to Norwich and
other large towns in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lincolnshire,
and retailed on Saturday last as follows:—Fresh her-
rings, 10 for Id.; bloaters, 25 for Gd.; codfish, id. per
lb.; end soles, at lid. to 2d. per pair.
UFE OF COLOURED GLASSES TO ASSIST THE
VIEW IN Fees.—The following curious observation is
made by M. Luvini, of Turin, in a letter to the editor of
L'histitat, at Paris. If it be verified, it may prove to be
of importance to geodetical operations, as well as in ob-
servations at sea :—" When there is a fog between two
corresponding stations, so that the one statiou can with
fi diicutly be seen from the other, if the observer passes a
coloured glass between his eye and the eyo-pii,ce of his
telescope, the effect of the fog is very sensibly diminished,
so that frequently the signals from the other station can
be very plainly perceived, when, without the coloured
glass, the station itself could not be seen. The different
colours do not all produce this effect in the same degree.
The red seems the most proper for the experiment.
Those who have good bight prefer the da:k red,
those who are short-sighted like light red better. The
explanation of this effect seems to depend upon the
fact that the white colour of thefogstniki.etshe glasstoop howaevre-
fully upon the organ of sight, especially
a somewhat large field. On the contrary, by placing a
coloured glass between the eye of the observer and the
eye-glass of the instrument, the intensity of the light is
much diminished by the interception of a part of the
ray s; the observer's eye is less wearied, suffers less, and
consequently distinguishes Letter the outlines of the
objfct observed,—Mechanics' Magazine. •
FOREIGN Hors.—We have occasion again, in con.
icquence of their extent and impel tance, to make allu-
sion to the importations of hops. It will Le recollected
that it was recently mentioned that the importations
from the United States had much increased, and that the
supplies. from lislgium (the only other foreign country
from welch such supplies have taken place) had become
iu some cases extended to upwards of 50 -packages,
instead of, as before, to a tenth or a el:tarter of that
number. We have now to notice the arrival of the large
quantity of 119 boles of this article of marchaudi,e from
Antwerp by tte stcatn-vessel Director, the produce of
Belgium, 85 of which were consigned to different firms
in the metropolis, and 34 consigned to order. With
reference to ti.is large importation, we reed only further
remark that it is double the number of packages which
have been brought on any former occasion from Belgium,
that it exceeds any of the larger arrivals from the
United States of America, and is the largest importa-
tion of hops which has ever taken place from a foreign
country.
ALTERATION OF THE FALKIRK TRYSTS.—It bas
been officially announced that, atter the present year,the
August tryst for cattle and horses is to be hold on the
Be coed Wednesday; that the Sept( rebsr tryst hr sheep
is to be held on the second Tuesdey; and for cattle and
horses the day following; and that the October tryst fur
sheep is to take place on the second Tuesday ; and for
cattle and horses the day following.— Witne.,s.
VIENNA.—Dr. Jacob Goldenthal has just been
appointed Processor of the Hebrew and Rabbinical
Language end Literature at the University at Vienna,
and Dr. Wolfgang Wesseley has been appointed to a
similar Professorship at the University of Prague.—
Jewish Chronicle.