The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-06 00:00:00

,urp:0•; Nood and treasure at her dis-

posal.

M. TRIERS and M. GUIZOT are to hold a
conference with the KING at the Chateau of Eu, in
Normandy, where the Royal Family propose to
spend some weeks.
Of general news we find very little in the Paris
journals of Tuesday. A letter from Marseilles, of
the 31st ult., states that a panic took possession
of the merchants of that town, when it was ru •
mowed that a war was probable between France
and England. Their horror of a British blockade
appeared greater than that of the plague itself.
The King leaves Paris to-morrow for the Chateau of
Eu. The President of the Council will leave Paris on
Thursday. He is to stay only three days at Eu, be
cause the serious state of affairs does not allow him to be
longer absent from Paris.
The President of the Council is to return to Eu before
the King leaves that place.
The Madrid Journals of the 28th, %bleb we have just
received, inform us, that on the 29th, in the evening, seve-
ral numbers of the Correo Nacional were burned- at the
Puerto del Sol, which in giving an account of the events
at Barcelona, had said that Espartero had struck one of
the Alcades with his cane. _ .

His Grace the Duke of Devonshire has arrived at Paris.
—Le Constitutionnel.
It is said that the Minister of Marine has just issued
orders to the maritime Prefect at Brest, to reinforce the
French station on the coast and the bank of Newfound-
land with a frigate and two large corvettes. It is said
that these ships are, in case of need, to make our fishing
vessels leave those seas, and direct their return to France.
A letter from Berlin, of the 26th, says—" A French
courier has brought positive information that the Duke
and Duchess of Nemours, on their tour in Germany, will
pay a visit to our Court."
The harvest is over in the south of France. We are
informed that the wheat will be abundant. The accounts
from the other parts of France are, on the whole, very fa-
vourable.—Le Commerce.

130 URSE......PARIS, TUESDAY, AUG., 4.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents ll3 20 ... 113 70 ... 113 '2.0 ... 113 60
4 per Cents lO4 75 ... 414 75 PM 75 104 75
3 per Cents Bl 22 _. 81 60 ... 61 20 ... 81 50
:lank or trance 3275 ...3275 ...2250 ...3275

Laffitte Bank 5,0001. Sh 5200 ...5200 .4195 :.5115
teigian Bank
5 per Cents
31 er Cents
;panish Active 2514 ... 25% ... 2-1 N ... 25
Passive 6 ... 6 ... 6 ... 6
Portuguese 3 per Cents 2l ... 21 ... 21 ... 21
Nea; toll tan 99 80 . 100 10 ... 9t 80 ... WO 10
Roman lOl% ... 102 ... 111% ... 192

RAILWAY SHARES.
it. Germain 625 ... 630 ... 625 ... 6'o
Versailles, It. B 475 ... 490 ... 475 ... 49)
L.B.
Orleans . 490 ... 490 ... 490 ... 490
Strasburg to Bale 260 ... 365 ...:480 ... 365

From the German Papers just received we quote
he following late and interesting intelligence :
_

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 15.—News has been received
from the Black Sea, that the mountaineers of the Cauca-
sus had cut off the retreat of a Russian corps of several
thousand men which was advancing alone through a nar-
row valley, and destroyed it. Whether this news, which
at all events is exaggerated, will be confirmed, remains to
be seen.
NAPLES, JULY 26.—The news of the abolition of the
Sulphur Monopoly has been received with great joy in
Sicily.

BERLIN, JULY 27.—The appointment of Councillor
Eichhorn to the post of Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs,
which was received with great joy by the public, is by no
means so certain as some Foreign Journals have stated.
Still less can the great change in the Ministry, announced
by the same Journals, in which the names of Prince Witt-
genstein, M. Von Rochon, and Count Stollberg, be con-
sidered as official. On the contrary, well-informed per-
sons do not believe any immediate change in the Ministry
of the Interior.
BELGIAN 1. UNDS—ISRussELs, A uo. 4.
Actual Deist, per Ccnt.
llothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ." .... 100
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent.
72

......
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent
Society of Commerce, 4N, per Cent llO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. 9;%
National Society.
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 4.
AUSTRIAN F.UNDS.....VIENNA, JULY :7

Five per Cants. Mctalliques -
For per Cents. Ol%
Three par Cents.
Bank Shares IMO
...Allgenteine Zeitung, Aug. I.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, AUG.BiII,
ls. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares lBlO 18:0
Anylo-Russian Loan IC9IA ton
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Se.ies lO4
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 9B
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 5l 50%
Ditto -
Polish Bondi
New ticket
Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75% 75',4
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Coat.... lO2 1014
Spanish, New 3 per Cents. —

EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS

FROM PARIS.

" A perfect panic svas occasioned in Paris on
Wednesday by a report, that the ratification of the
treaty of alliance by Prussia had been received.
Numerous failures had occurred on the Bourse."—
Times.

THE CUSTOM HOUSE.—We have had occasion so
often to blame the authorities who preside over this
establishment for the slovenly and dilatory manner in
which business has been conducted in some of the
departments, that we feel great pleasure in stating
that a new system in one respect has been adopted.
Formerly passengers arriving from Holland, Belgium,
or France, were obliged to wait for hours to get some
trifling article of luggage passed through the Custom-
house, and, after the most vexatious delay, were in ad-
dition called upon to pay a fee, for which the officers
neither would nor could show any authority. This
un-English way of doing business is properly abolished.
Passengers now arriving by any steam-boats from
foreign ports, have all their small luggage examined
at once. Yesterday the Emerald steam-ship from
Boulogne, arrived at the Custom-house at half
past three, and in little more than half-an-hour the ves-
sel was cleared. A. year ago this would not have been
done in three hours, and it is therefore gratifying to
find that the Custom-house Commissioners have been
aroused by the noise of paddle-wheels and steam-car-
riages to attend to their duty, and keep pace with public
activity. The revenue does not suffer in the slightest
degree. On the contrary, it must benefit by a change
which is in unison with the spirit of the age, and which
encourages that system of commercial enterprise and in-
dustry for which the English above all nations in the
world are pre-eminent.
SPlRlTS.—According to a return laid before the
House of Commons, the entire quantity of home-made
spirits in stock, on the 16th day of May, 1840, charge-
able with the additional duty of 4d. per gallon, was

6,362,912 gallons. The following are the proportions
for the respective countries :—England, 55,432 ; Scot-
land, 783,483 ; and Ireland, 5,523,997 gallons. The
addition thus made to the revenue will be about
106,0481.