The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-16 00:00:00

;. ROYAL DECREE.

" Desiring to contribute by all possible means to the wel-
fare of every Spaniard, as I promised in the Manifesto of the
23d of May last, and taking into consideration the object of
the Royal Decree of the 28th of February, and the Royal
Order of 12th of March last, as likewise the proximity of the
public sales of national property,"and the justice of aiding the
creditors of the State, and putting an end to their uncertainty
by rapidly effecting the conversion of the three classes of Debt
into the new Bonds, which will be received in part payment of
purchase of said national property, I am pleased; to command,
in the name of my august daughter, the Queen Donna Isabel
11., that the following regulations shall be observed :-
Ist. There shall be consolidated this year 834,752,067
reals, and two maravedis veilon of the debt, without interest;
347,041,271 reals, and twelve maravedis vellon of the debt
current, with interest, at five per cent. in paper ; 268,605,658
reals, and sixteen maravedis vellon of vales (securities), not
consolidated; which sums are approximately one-third of this
total of the three debts, liquidated up to tha 29th of Feb. of
this year, and are composed of two thirds of the amount which
has been presented of the first (species), of all of the second,
and one half of the third.
2d. In order to effect the conversion with the speed required,
and that the new bonds may come into circulation as
soon as possible, which are to be admitted in third part of
payment of national property, the converting price men-
tioned in the 17th article of my Decree of the 28th of Fs.
bruary, shall be fixed at 50 to 100 for the present consolida-
tion, instead of waiting for that which it may bear in all the
present month of June.
" 3d. On the 15th of June instant the conversion shall be-
gin, and shall be continued successively with all possible de-
spatch until its conclusion, in the terms which the Royal Sink-
ing Funds shall publish. You will take due notice of this,
and adopt the necessary measures for its being carried into
effect.

" Signed by the Royal Hand, at the Prado, June 5, 1836
" To Don Felix, &c., y Blanco."

Letters and Paper from Madrid to the 7th inst. have
been received. Their contents are very uninteresting.
A Royal Decree, addressed to the Minister of Jus-
tice, appointing a Commission to inquire into the
present law of entails, with a view to the correction of
its abuses, appears in the Madrid Gazette. The
Espagnol having announced the bankruptcy of the
firm of RAYMAN and CARBON-NELL, of London,
MENDIZABAL has addressed a letter to the Editor of
that Journal, enclosing one from the Bankers in ques-
tion, in which the announcement is flatly contradicted.
The capital continues tranquil.

German and Brussels papers have been received thi
morning. The former state that the report circulated
about the occupation of Silistria by 20,000 Russian
troops is unfounded, as Russia will evacuate the ter-
ritory as soon as she can effect the removal of her mili-
tary-stores. This requited the presence of 12,000 ad-
ditional troops ; but tbat force, together with the garri-
son, will be drafted into the interior of Russia as soon
as the stores can be conveyed into the Russian territory.
The same journals bring advices from St. Petersburg
to the 27th ultimo, which state that their Imperial
Mijesties, the EMPEROR and EMPRESS were about
to repair to Peterhof on the Baltic, which they had
selected for their residense during the summer months.

The accounts from Athens are to the 19th ult.
'll country was then tranquil. It was expected that
Kin OTITO would shortly return to Greece.
The Belgian Journals contain some correspondence
on the suhject of En2lish anal Russian Policy, with
respect to the navigation of the Black Sea ; but as
the Nu...ter throws no new light on the question, we
shall not further concern ourselves with his lucu-
b:ations.

VIENNA, JUNE 6.—Five per .Cents. 104 ; Four por Cents.
99,1- ; Three per Ccnts. 76 3-16 ; Bank Stock, 1,3674.
FRANKFORT, JUNE 11.—Exchange on London, 1511 ; two
months, 150 —Frankfort Paper, June 12.
BELGIAN FUNDS, BRUSSELS, JuNe 13.
Actual Debt, 21., per Cent.
Rottisoltild's Loan, 5 per Cent.
.I.roari of City, 1832 4 per Cent 9-4.
tiocety of Commerce, 4, por Cent II4IA
P.ank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ll9
—Drassels Papers, June 14,
DU 1 Cll I' U N I.I6_—A4STEnnAM, JuNE 15.
Money. Bills.
Actnzl D,l:t, '..?t!, per Cent.
Loan (IK.C) 5 per cent.
A ir:M t :`,Vntiic,-0:, per vent 1i7",(3 PSY,
Ditto, ditto, :1!';, Err cent SI t-2
Comnercial Ccuipiny, 4.., per c.nt 17.,:;,:i 17-04
Ditto (I tilt and 1t3:33) 3 per cent.
Loan 18311, It r cent.
Exc:lange on Loudon, One ,Hoot!, l2 17
Twn montla
—Dutch Papers, June 15.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JUNE ;1.
FOREIGN FUNDS. tills. Money.
Austrian Nletallio,ties, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent.
Dlt to ditto 3 per cell,
Ditto Rank ShAres 1371 13,9
_. ._....

--... ~.............,
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Anglo-Russian Loan
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent —
Rusaian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Ceridicides
rortuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent SO 704
Ditto, 3 per cent
Dutch 2,., ?cer Cents
Ditto 5 per Cent. —
Polish I;onds, 3 per cents.
A liglo-Dainsli Loan, 3 per cents 74U 74%
Norwegian Loan of 1E434, 4 p,r cents.
Spanish, in piastres. :1 per Cents —
Cotton Loan, 5 per Cent 4l 41
Creek 4 per cents. 18:3:1, guaranteed by France 93% 05
—Hamburg Papers, June 11.

The Moniteur of Tuesday, which we have received
together with the other Paris Journals of the same
date, contains the following telegraphic dispatch from

Toulon :
" The Nestor, ship of the line, arrived on the 3d instant at
the mouth of the Tafna. On the 4th, at nine, o'clock A.M.
the troops she had conveyed from France were landa, and
immediately marched to the French camp, which they safely
reached. The army was abundantly suppned with provisions.
The health of the troops was excellent. On the 6th, the
Nestor met at sea several sail of ships, supposed to be the
squadron of Admiral Hugon. The second reinforcement there
would have landed on the 7th."
The Moniteur Algerein, of the same date, contains.
an account of an exchange of prisoners between the
French army and ABD-EL-KADER, near Tafna, on
the 15th ult. The Arabs, it appears, are bitter ob-
servers of the usages of civilized warfare than the
Spaniards.
The accounts from the North of Spain, contained
in these Journals, are not of much importance. The
following are extracts :
" The intelligence received from Villafranca, where Don
Carlos still has his head Quarters, is up to the 7th inst. The
General-in-Chief, Eguia, still was at Escoriaza, as his head
quarters ;'but a plot had been discovered between some trai-
tors and the Christino chiefs at Vittoria. The latter were
informed verbally, at every moment, by trustworthy agents,
posted at different intervals, of all that was done or projected
at the Carlist head-quarters. A Christino deserter, from
Vittoria, haviugbeen presented to General Eguia, gave him
the clue to this conspiracy. Numerous arrests were effec-
ted immediately."—Gazette de France.
" Persons generally well informed on the affairs of Spain
talk much of a long memorandum which General Cordova, now
Duke de Mendigorria, presented to the Queen-Regent on his
arrival at Madrid, on the present policy of Spain, and the cha-
racter of the civil war. This memorandum finishes, it is said,
by advising an intervention, as the only means of putting an
end to the evils which desolate the Peninsula. The Queen,
it is added, laid this important document before the Council
of Ministers, who discussed it on the 30th, in presence of the
Commander-in-Chief. The result of this Council was the
sending off urgent dispatches to the Spanish Ambassador at
Paris."—Memorial Bordelais.

" An account from Passages, dated the 9th inst., states the
rebels made another attack, at three that morning, on the ad-
vanced posts to the east of Passages, principally defended by
the English Marines. Forty Spaniards of the regiment of
Saragossa were surprised, in a house within the entrench-
ments, by one of the enemy's battalions, which, however, was
driven back. Out of the forty Christinos, one was killed by
the bayonet, and seventeen wounded. The Carlists left nine
dead behind them, and their wounded must have been much
more numerous. On the side next St. Sebastian a demi-
battalion of English, with some Chapelgorris, advanced at
day-break and seized a house occupied by the advanced posts
of the enemy. They met with no resistance, and having set
it on fire retired to their original position.—Phare de Ba-
yowm.

Xe.me vague reports have been circulated of a revolt bay-
ing takcii.' Place at Barcelona. The Junta, lately dissolved, is
said to ha.Ye been called by the people to resume its functions.
It is said, pos'4tiyely that Cordova has returned to his head-
quarters. We eve informed that, during the engagement on
the 6teii inst., General Evans led on, in person, a battalion of
the regiment of Segovia, whiz a degree of bravery reprehen-
sible in a General-in-Chief. The position of thearlsts
wa4 carried, and their loss, althcugh not accurately known,:
must have been very considerable. On the side of the An
Christino division 140 were wounded, and about 40 killed.i°-
The wounded have been carried hi St. Sebastian. A guer-
rilla
o
bind of eight2en awn, belonging to the regiment
San Fernando, has gone user to the side of the Queen'sf
troops. Fifteen Chapelgomis, who had fought like lions,
and were going to surrender, -were sun'ounded by English and
ChapelAo:ris : they all peris'bed."—Sentinelle ile Pyrennees.
Such are the accounts from the seat of war con-

FRENCII FUNDS.—Partts, JUNE 14.
Five per Ci,nts., II Rf. 20c 10c. 15e.
Four pc r Cents., 101 f. 90c.
Thrte per Cents. SUE SOf. sc.
Dente de Naples, 1044. woe. sc.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%.
Spanish Actives, 4114%1/.
Spanish Passives, lz%.
Belgian Loan, rive per Cents , 102%.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 51•%%•
flaytian Loan, 397 f. 50e.
EXCHANGE ON LONRON.
One month, paper, '2sf. 40.:. ; money, 251 40.:.
lhree months, paper, 231. 117!4c. ; money, 25f. 25c.
—fours Authenl!que.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1836.

tained in the French Journals of Tuesday. They
certainly leavo us little room to hope that the civil war
can be put down without foreign intervention. What
the new Duke DE MENDIGORRIA, better known in
Madrid by the more appropriate title of " Duke of the
Skylarks," means to do, now that he has returned to
the head-quarters of the army, is, of course, only known
to M. RAYNEVAL.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—SITTING or JUNE 14.

M. Dupin took the chair at one o'clock.
M. ST. MARC GERARDIN laid upon the table the report on
the Bill relative to Secondary Instruction. Ordered to be
printed and distributed.
The order of the day was the debate on the Bill relative to
the credit of 100,000 fr. demanded for the retiring pensions of
the employes of the department of Foreign Affairs. The four
articles of which the Bill consists were adopted with but little
discussion, and afterwards the ensemble of the Bill on the
ballot by a majority of 209 to 32.
The Bill for a credit of 1,200,000 fr. to re-establish the
communications interrupted on the roads and navigable rivers
of France was, after a short but uninteresting discussion,
adopted by a majority of 224 to 8.
The Bill for a credit of 200,000 fr. for the celebration of
the anniversary of the revolution of 1830, was afterwards
adopted, without discussion, by a majority of 199 to 34.
The Chamber had just proceeded to the ballot on some Bills
of local interest as our reporter quitted the Chamber.
PARIS, JUNE 13.—We have no letters from Madrid, though
we expected the particulars of the defeat of Valdez by Car-
brera. The letters from the line of the Ebro, contain only
lists of Carlists who desert the cause of the Pretender. These
desertions have lately become so numerous, that, if we were
cot aware of the disgust which the Navarrese battalions feel,
we should be almost tempted,to attribute them to a stratagem.
Cordova had not rejoined his army.
There was a whisper on 'Change of a manoeuvre of the
Spanish Government to procure money, of which it has such
need. A sum of above one hundred millions of reels in cou-
pons of the active debt, was said to have been given at such a
low price to some speculators at London, that the latter im-
mediately realised a profit of 40 or 50 per cent.
If this operation has really taken place, the Cortez will
doubtless call M. Isturiz to a strict account for it.

Count Millman, the Envoy of Wurtemberg at Paris, has
hired a country house fur the summer fourteen leagues from
Paris. On his arrival he was received and feted by the ma-
gistrates and the National Guard, who went to meet him.
e certainly cannot blame the Minister of Wurtemburg for
seeking relaxation in the country from his important labours ;
but we think he ought not to fix his residence out of the de-
partment in which the Court resides. We do not think it
right in a country like France for the constitutional authori-
ties, or National Guards, to do homage to a foreigner, what-
ever may be his rank, or his personal merits.—Messayer,
June 14.

BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.—In the morning business was
very brisk, but it has since slackened, and the market at 12st
became fiat. Three per Cents. opened at 80f. 15c., sellers,
avid have since recovered to 801. 20e., buyers. Spanish Active
Stock is steady at 41i, I ut very little business is doing in any
Spanish securities.
LAST PRICES.-Five per Cents., 108 f. 40c. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. 20c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. SpaniA, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, ; Gueb-
livnds, ; DitTeres, 14 ; New Loan, —; Actives, 411 ; Pas-
sives, 12i1 ; Ducats, 100 35 ; Romans, 1024 —; Pedros, —;
Belgians, 1021 ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Hoylions, 3971. t Oc. ;
Miguels, 17 ; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 19 ; Con-
-c. ; New Differes, —; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tus,les, —; Royal Loan,

Two centuries ago the people of England knew so
Utile of Russia as scarcely to admit her political ex-
istence : a century hence—and provided the interest
now so generally felt in all that concerns her be sti-
mulated. by the Free Press of Europe—our very arti-
zans will be as familiar with the institutions of Russia
as they now are with the principles of the Federal Go-:
vernment of the United States of America. The ra-
pirlity with which Russia has risen from a state of
comparative insignificance to a position from whence
she must command the attention of all Europe—the
:stealthiness of her almost noiseless conquests—the
growing conviction that such a power so circumstanced
within, and so encompassed on all sides, cannot, even
if she would, remain stationary—and more than all, the
certainty that she cannot add another acre to her im-
mense territory without endangering the commercial
greatness of England—have all, more or less, produced
that anxiety in the public mind respecting the projects
of Russia, which must eventually lead to results in
which the civilized world will have an equal interest
with ourselves. The Press teems with able publica-
tions, explanatory of Russian influence abroad, and
greatness at home—publications in which, for the first
time, we find the vast resources of that vast empire
fully developed—the condition of her population accu-
rately described—the oppressive form of her Govern-
ment, and its tendency to brutalise all beneath its
sway, dwelt upon in a spirit worthy of writers more
intent upon ameliorating the evils that endanger the
peace of Europe than in promoting an aggressive
movement. Among the foremost of these we may
class the British and Foreign Review ; the early
numbers of the Portfolio; France, England, Russia,
and Turkey ; and a very able pamphlet just published
by Mess%. RIDGWAY, entitled, The People of
Russia, and the Policy of England, which will be
sought after with avidity by all who desire to become
well acquainted with the physical and moral condition
of the aggregate of the Russian population. It is un-
questionably the most lucid exposition of the actual
:state of the great bulk of the inhabitants of Russia
which has yet appeared.

The author begins with a detailed account of the
physical and political condition of the several classes
which compose the population of Russia—a labour of
some difficulty, as the whole nation is a mere non-
entity before the supreme will of the CZAR. He di-
vides the nation into three great classes—the nobility,
the citizens, and the slaves; subjecting, as he pro-
ceeds, the two last classes to numerous subdivisions.
He amply accounts for the familiar acquaintance with
the fuhctions of the Executive Government displayed
by the Great Officers of the State, in their intercourse
with the Representatives of Foreign Powers, by
pointing out the numerous ranks or gradations by
which the highest Nobles must ascend to the dignity
of Ministers. The classes of rank are no fewer than
fourteen in number ; and such is the precision with
which each gradation is regulated, that every ad-
vance in the civil, the military, or the ecclesiastical
department, corresponds with a certain grade or
degree of rank in the two other departments of the
public service. Thus a Field-Marshal in the army,
which is the highest military rank, is the equal of a
Chancellor of the Empire, or a Metropolitan Arch-
bishop—the highest ranks in the civil and ecclesiasti-
cal services. " Every Russian, be he noble or not noble,
unless he have rank—in other words, unless he belong
to one of these fourteen classes—is a mere cypher, and
cannot hold any public appointment." Need we seek
further for the reason why the Russian Government is
so well served by her agents at all the Courts of Eu-
rope ? Diplomacy is not with the CZAR a conve-
nient mode of providing for the support of younger
brothers of noble families ; and for ridding the Court
of a class of danglers or bores whom it might be trou-
blesome to get rid of by any other contrivance. The
result of such caution is now but too manifest to all
the Great Powers of Europe. Russia has gone on
and imperceptibly, gaining greater
gradually, steadily,
victories by her diplomacy than the rest of Europe put
together by force .of arms. Fier true aggressive policy
was neither to babble, to boast, nor to menace; but to
wheedle; to cajole, to implore, to deprecate, and when
hard pressed only to resist passively—and that policy
she adopted.
But notwithstanding her immense extent of territory
—the deplorable ignorance of her population—and the
physical strength and the well-contrived organization