The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-23 00:00:00

FOKEIGN INTELLIGENCE.

gvini.4lle• journal des-Deqats:l •
PARIS, IRC.l:9:—Another -panic has alarmed
the Exchange,- and no one can assign its true
-cause! According •to . some,
,it was the violent'
-death of Vl6'Siittan Mahtnoud, a general revolu-,
tion in T3ssl Y,..;4)*luarch of the Russians on
Constantinople, the .possibility4f serious differ
ences between Austria and:Russia, and finally a
war in the East. They found these . reports on
an unquestionable, fact: they speak also of the
operatiotii Of a great banking-house, connected
with Austria., operations which seem to an-
nounce the ' expectation of great changes in
the East. Why, it'is asked, does Austria make
a New,.:Loan?, We `know no reason, in fact,
unless if 'be the repayment of the, sum due to
'England.: since '1706, and of which the English
Minister,,at theend of the. last Session of Parlia-
ment, annOnn-ced that he.would endeavour to ob-
tain the:.;` restitution of at least a portion. But
we confess that this reclamation, on the part of
'England, conl4-'-nefvei--te . regarded by us as in
earnest, SQ - long as the politics of England and
Austria have .the sarneldiredion. The new loan
of Austria presents. to us only a simple opera-
tion of oir4eralikeconomY ;for exchanging the
old burti4tAfundsmmi debt for new- raiSed_on more
4•lavourable.terrns.,,:The fall of the-Austrian metallici
may hi:ilea he merely' -of the losses'
suffered by the speculators OrLOUdOn'and Paris.
Other4Olfticians of the Exchange look nearer-
home .for a shhi6lt Ofa.larm.:Postilities, according
to them, have commenced. on the Pyrenean fron-
tier : 'the -French 'territory violated--a bloody
battle:-with and --, one of our Ge-
neralS:struck by atveoemy's ball. .Here, without
doubt,. is something better than the revolutions
of the Seraglio, and the strangling and decapita-
tion of `Sultans. To all these fine stories there is
nothing-. wanting bnt 'truth. Therefore they
are treated by men of sense with just disdain,
and the. sudden fall of the Funds ceased as
rapidly as it..had commenced. These manoeuvres
of the Exchange, fatal to the greedy and
credulous herd of speculators without expe-
rience., :could not be brought to act with so much
facility, if the public at large would renounce all
pretensions to fathom the depths of political mys-
teries; and. tease to_risk their fortunes upon sales
and purchases founded on idle rumours.—How
can any Man, witltthe least judgment, believe the
'European Powers disposed to commence in the
west: a. war, trot-merely without necessity, hut
without, any fixed,end or possible utility ? But
if, notwithstanding the wisdom of the king's Go-
vernment—notwithstanding the pacific views of the
Hojy-Alliance--this war must break
.out, at least
the' rigour of the season on which we are entering
must retard the commencement of hostilities.
What rational cause, then, can exist for the present
inqnletudes ?—But the spectacle of these alarms,
which the-mere report of war produced, must
penetrate'all' statesmen with the conviction that
-the maintenance of peace at the present moment
is the first duty to society. The idea of peace
associates with those of order and legitimacy ;
that of war awakens constantly the fear of sub-
version, and of revolutions."
A commercial express
.arrived yesterday from
Madrid. Ile left that Capital on the 10th, at
which period all was 'quiet.—(lbid.)

BRUSSELS; DEC. 17.—Last night, or rather at half-past
one- ih the morning, a fire broke out in the chateau of the
Prince] of Orange, at Tervearen. The cause of this is not
knovin. Happily it was discovered in time, and immediate
astistance being given, the fire was extinguished by two o'clock,
without having done any other mischief than destroying some
part of the small staircase near the dressing room.
A young man named Cuignet, aged 26, a farmer in West
Flanders, who had assassinated his mother, was executed at
Lill .on the-14th inst. He was led to the scaffold bare footed,
hiajfead enveloped in a black veil, and his right hand was cut
off before he was beheaded. This unhappy :criminal dis-
played the. Most ferocious stupidity. •

The Central Prison at Ghent, which the illuttrious Howard
,in -his work on Prisons speaks of as a model, and of which
-otily five-eighths were'finished, is to be completed by order of
the"GoVernment in the course of next year.

SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES GENERAL.

DECEMBER 19.

The Project of Law on the Duty upon Flour and Cattle was
discussed and carried by 72 votes to 27.

. ,
kIIANKFOBT, DEC. 15.—The Allgemeine Zeitung contra•
diets the report of the departure of the eldest son of the Hospo,
.dar of Wallachia for Constantiople.

The last letters from Ancona say, that Count Metaxa and
the other Deputies of the Greek Senate were still in quarantine
:itithat port ; the news that the Pope had abridged the term of
quarantine seems, thgrefore, to be ill:founded: