The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-03 00:00:00

their work in starving down the people, allowed
the population to expand to the end of 1836.
Then begun deficient harvests; then the law for
strangling the people, which shut them out from
the food of the United States, and which pre-
vented the people there or elsewheie from culti-
vating food for our people, came into full and
too terribly effective operation. The growing
trade with the United States was suddenly
checked, the prosperity of our people was rudely
arrested. In 1837 they began to suffer bitterly ;
in 1838 their sufferings were great; in 1839 they
increased, because the previous dreadful year had
deprived them of their means; in 1840 they
were aggravated; and in 1841, if some change
be not speedily made in their condition, their
fate will be unspeakably calamitous. The check,
then, which the population has received, dates
from the end of 1836; and during those years the
people have undergone all the sufferings which are
coincident with being starved out of existence. The
untenanted houses at Stockport, Bolton, Paisley,
Manchester, and Leeds, which were built on the
scale of progress which the population had made
to the end of 1836, though a fool of a Commis-
sioner could see in them only an evidence of
greedy over-speculation, testify to the deep dis-
tress and desolation which have fallen on the po-
pulation and arrested its progress since 1836.

duced to meet without her boundaries, would wield
their influence in her behalf, and by their presence allay
any latent jealousy betwixt England and France. From
such a jury a definitive sentence of arbitration would be
obtained, the result of the courteous collision of diver-
gent opinions ; and with this great advantage, that,
from the very first meeting of the Conference, a vigilant,
controlling influence, would be established over the
Peninsula."

What would Englishmen say, if, after having
quarrelled, they had established a Government
which suited them, though it might not suit their
neighbours, a Congress of the despots of the Con-
tinent, who had taken no other part with us

than to make our dissensions as bitter as possible,
should assemble at Paris to alter our arrange-
ments, and settle them according to the views of
the opponents and enemies of England? Eng-

lishmen would spurn the dictates of such a Con-
gress ; yet an English journal proposes such a
one to control ESPARTERO and the Spaniards.
They, like Englishmen, will, under the pre-
sent circumstances, spurn the interference of the
Great Powers ; and the Minister of England who
should now unite with them against ESPARTERO
to settle the affairs of Spain, would deserve to
be impeached and exiled to the genial Court of
the CZAR. If such an infamous policy be con-
templated by the Tories, oppressed as the Go-
vernment is with difficulties at home, they must
design to embarrass and distract the whole of
Europe.

How can it be otherwise f We have a law to

limit our people, as nearly as possible, to the food
which our own territory can supply ; and fifty
years ago ADAM SMITH informed our legislators,
though he informed them in vain, that such a
law was tantamount to starving out of existence
all the population who might be able to obtain
food from other quarters.

The French Journals of Monday are naturally
occupied with the recent caricature of a rebel-
lious conspiracy at Brussels. Were it not that

it involves the fate of a few reckless adventurers,
and the happiness of their families, we should
hardly deem it worth writing about. Whether
the rebels belonged to the Orangist faction or
not, is of little consequence, as there is really no
party in Belgium so hostile to King LEOPOLD as
to threaten the stability of his Government.
The citizens of Paris are again crying out for
some diminution of the imposts on the importa-
tion of beef. Their obtuseness of intellect is
such, that they cannot yet be made to under-
stand how France is more prosperous by com-
pelling them to dine on broth made of the flesh
of dogs, cats, donkeys, and worn-out horses, than
on young fat German oxen at a still cheaper rate.
They, in their ignorance of the Conservative be-
nefits of home production, blindly overlook the
interests of the cat-rearers and dog-fanciers.
Were their revolutionary prayers attended to,
what would become of all the old ladies who now
rear tabbies for the Parisian market? What dog_
fancier could live by stealing and skinning
poodles, were the restaurateurs supplied with
young fat beef at an equally cheap rate? Still
the Parisians will not be convinced, and the
Monopolists protest that they shall starve in
their ignorance.

We shall not, however, have a complete
view of the horrible effects of the Devil's
laws, unless we take into consideration the
natural law of population, which increases in
a geometrical ratio, or at least an accelerated
ratio. instead, therefore, of the increase of
population having been less during the last half
of the decennial period, it ought to have been
greater. Nor is there any reason, except the
Corn-law, why it should not. The facility of
communication with all parts of the empire, and
with foreign countries, has in the same period
been much increased. New fields have been
brought into cultivation at home, and vast fields
have been opened to us abroad. Millions
of acres across the Atlantic smilingly woo the
industry of man, and the infamous and impious
law has forbidden man to cultivate and fertilize
them. Our merchants and monied men lent

their capital to make railroads, construct canals,
and open up the far West to the enterprise of
the world, and then the law forbade them, and
forbade the world, to reap the rich re-
ward that was prepared. Had our na-
tional policy not shut our ports to grain

from other countries, and diverted the
stream of emigration from the fertile plains of
the Mississippi to the Southern Pole and half-
barren Canada, the population might have
continued to increase, according to the natural
law, in an accelerated ratio, to this year. The
infamous law has prevented it, and caused all
the misery which ever marks a stationary or de-
clining population.
If it be said, as it sometimes idly is, that a
manufacturing is a poor and a degraded popu-
lation, is it not, let us ask, the business
of Government to .inquire into the causes
of such a degradation, if it exist, and, if
possible remove them ? Than the smiths, miners,
colliers, bricklayers, carpenters, engineers, prin-
ters, carters, &c. &c., who abound in the manu-
facturing districts as well as hand-loom weavers,
and over-wrought factory girls, there are no finer
men, both physically and morally, in the em-
pire. There is no reason, whatever, therefore,
why the rest of a manufacturing population
should not be equally sturdy, were the manu-
facturing towns drained and built with some re-
gard to the health of the people. Whatever may
be the lot of the population, it is clearly the duty
of Government not to place any obstacles in the
way of their supplying themselves with food ; and
the Government which does so forfeits the cha-
racter of a protector, and acquires that of a mur-
derer of the people.
It will be observed that the progress of popu-
lation has been most retarded in Ireland, where
there are few or no manufacturers. Here we see
the exemplification of the clearing system of the
BRUENS and the BERESFORDS, and the sad ef-
fects of a people being reduced to live on luinpers.
The Irish have been killed off by typhus and
famine, consequent on being deprived of food
and shelter. After all that can be said in favotir
of the starvation system it does not increase the
agricultural population, for besides the compara-
tive little increase of the Irish, who are almost all
agriculturists, it is in evidence that the agricul-
tural population of England has not increased at
all tantamount to the inhabitants of towns.

The Presse has a clever article, dissuading
the Government from the adoption of a retalia-
tory coenmercial policy towards the United States.

General O'DoNxELL has arrived in Paris to re-
port to Madam MuNoz the bad success of the
revolutionary movement in Spain. What ex-
planation she will deign to give her dupe respect-
ing her disavowal of himself and his partizans,
we pretend not to know but the interview will
be rather awkward, the more especially as
O'DONNELL has expended what little fortune
he possessed in this mad attempt. But from
the strong force which Louis PHILIPPE is
concentrating on the Spanish frontier, it would
appear that General O'DONNELL is not long
destined to remain without employment. The
CITIZEN-KING is said to be dissatisfied with the
trifling number of throats cut in the Peninsula.
On the question of naval disarmament, we find
the following in the Toulonnais:--
The disarmament of our naval forces, against which
we have so often protested, is now probably going to take
place. Nevertheless, all France being against this un-
timely dislocation, a different method has been taken to
accomplish it than was at first intended. The sailors who
have served for four years, three and a half, and even three
years, have been ordered to be dismissed from service.
We hear that even the sailors who have scarcely been
forty-two months on board the Government ships will
also be dismissed. The sailors are not to be all sent
away together ; care has been taken that they should
leave only in small detachments, that their number
may not make them be remarked on their way
home. They have received permits authorising
them to servo in the commercial navy. Men
from the northern provinces are to be embarked
on board the Jena, destined for Brest, that they may
not have to cross all France. These sailors will be re-
placed by conscripts, and soon after, under pretext of
insufficiency, the vessels which the fresh equipages will
no longer be able to manage, will first be put on the
roads and afterwards disarmed. These precautions
show the intentions of the Government, which, at all
,events, were foreseen. A fact also worthy of remark is
the neglect of filling up the number of young officers.
From Madrid there is no news of a later date

The Post, which, no longer ago than last
Thursday, talked of settling the affairs of Spain
by marrying the young QUEEN to either one
of three Princes, including a Prince of the
House of Coburg, used the following language
yesterday :—" THE WRETCHED CHILDREN OF
QUEEN CHRISTINA, SHOULD THEY BE SPARED
THE SILENT INROADS OF POISON, OR MORE SUD-

DEN DEATH, AMIDST THE MURDEROUS CON-

FLICTS OFCONTENDING FACTIONS-ARE MERE PUP..

PETS, THE TAINTED OFFSPRING OF AN ABAN-
DONED WOMAN." What a lofty idea of Royal
feeling and Royal moral dignity must this Tory
writer, who has undoubtedly been admitted at
Court, entertain'' He proposes to marry one of
three Princes to one of " the wretched chil-
dren of Queen CHRISTINA"--" the tainted off-
spring of an abandoned woman," and hesupposes
that either of these Princes would, for the
sake of a Crown, take up with that kind of
woman which a man of ordinarily decent
feeling would shun with the utmost care. What
respectable man would like to unite himself
with the tainted offspring of an abandoned
woman ? Three Princes, according to the Post,
would be competitors for the disgraceful alliance.
Such a sentence, in a preux Ministerial Journal,
gives the people more insight into the corrupted
feelings, and corrupted manners of Courts, than
a whole volume of scandal.

than the 25th ult. The address of the National
Guards of the capital to the young QUEEN, with
her MAJESTY'S answer, will be found in another
part of The Sun. In the same cUlumn will be
found some interesting gossip from the Spanish
frontier, to which we direct attention.

The Annual Session of the Council General of the
Seine was closed on Friday. During the discussion on
the door and window-tax and the patent-tax, the ques-
tion of the census was brought on the tapis. The Council
recognised the legality of the measure, but at the same
time recommended that the census should be taken ac-
cording to the ancient mode and the last instructions
given by the Minister of Finance. The following is an
extract from the recommendation addressed by the mem-
bers to the Prefect:—" The Council-General persists in
its repeated desire that lean cattle should be ad-
mitted into France duty free—that the duties levied
at the frontiers on all other cattle should be regulated
by weight, and not by number—and that an uniform
duty should be fixed whereby the burthen of such
imposts would be greatly lessened. The Council also
expresses a wish that the Government should seriously
inquire whether there cannot be adopted an uniform
and moderate rate of postage for all letters throughout
the continental territories of the kingdom—that there
should be a reduction of the charge of all letters between
soldiers in actual service and their families, and particu-
larly for those who are in Africa—that the delay of
twelve hours, so injurious to commeree, for all depart-
mental and foreign letters passing through Paris, should
be abridged ; and lastly that the charge on all money-
letters, or at least those containing small sums, should
be reduced.

We have received the following from Amsterdam, of
28th ult. :—" Yesterday the definitive refusal of the King,
as Grand Duke of Luxembourg, to ratify the treaty be-
tween Luxembourg and the German Customs Union, was
officially communicated to the Prussian Minister at this
Court. This event has created a great sensation in the
diplomatic corps, as it was known that the King had re-
ceived from Berlin an energetic note on the subject of
his refusal to ratify the treaty, and that Austria and
England had also expressed apprehensions as to the con-
sequences likely to result from it. The Belgian and
Dutch Commissioners who are now at Antwerp to settle
that part of the treaty of peace between the two countries
which regards the use and navigation of the Scheldt,
have agreed on a very important point, which has been
the subject of negotiations for two years, viz., the
fishery on the eastern Scheldt. Belgium, in return for
some equivalent concessions on the part of Holland, re-
linquishes all claim to it.

At the same time, this delicate-minded writer
is one of those persons whose claims on the
respect and obedience of other men are much
more vast than his genius. He is also a politi-
cian of great eminence in his own conceit, and
has a plan to " settle definitively the affairs of
Spain by a Congress of the Great Powers"
Does such a proposition emanate from the Mi-
nistry ?Itsloiut
tintended as a feeler ? We believe
'
it is • but Tories have quite enough on their
hands without
iotli,T,onrhdfeaserhtihoant. ther may set them right after their
embroiling the affairs of Spain,
proposition deserves to be stigmatised as
thAetutioi%is,eli.iiiomilei elnnt
lnEssph,itzEoiffilo
infamous.
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eh
he i ha ai se br
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de i nt
session of
seilieoli'vanteidnobrye tstei nation.skill
tthan
thilet,wtoo.rllsd. office ilii:eplotass-
a formidable
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the
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ass
en
deli ei
by
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ambitiousi
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kinsman.
ned woman"
goinsman. The
corrupt and worthless intriguers ofteCourtisool-f
Paris and Madrid, aided by some cut-throat
diers, who, when they stir up war instead of put-
ting it down, are a disgrace to human nature,
have completely failed in their endeavours to
change the Government of Spain into the tool
of their base purposes. At this motnentan Eng_
lish writer, but a true Tory, proposes that Es_
PARTERO shall be deprived of the advantages of
success, and that a Congress of the Great Powers,
hi which England is to take the lead, shall do
that, or something like that, for Louis PHI-
LIPPE and the " abandoned woman" which they
have failed to accomplish for themselves by their
scandalous attempts at provoking rebellion.
The Spaniards are not, according to the Tory
writer, to settle their affairs in their own way,
but it is proposed that
There shall " assemble immediately a Cbngress of the
great Powers, to settle definitively the affairs of Spain.
Austria, Russia, and Prussia, who have ceased all di-
plomatic iutemurse .with _that wretched land, easily-in=

VVe find the following proclamation of the King 'of
Prussia in the German Journal of Frankfurt ; it is dated
Nolbnietz, Sept. 6:—" We Frederick William, &c., have
appropriated to the endowment of a Protestant bishopric
to be established at Jerusalem, with the concurrence of
England, the sum of 15,0001. sterling, the interest of
which, viz., 6001. sterling, forming the half of the salary of
the Bishop, we will pay beforehand. This sum is to be re-
mitted to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the
Bishop of London. as trustees of this episcopal see. If
at a subsequent period this capital can be invested in the
purchase of lands in Palestine, but with our consent, the
capital shall be paid up to the before-mentioned trustees.
This sum of 15,0001., shall be mentioned in the act of
endowment, but if the lands purchased in Palestine yield
a revenue equal to an interest of more than four per
cent., the surplus shall be given, not to the Bishop, but
to b devoted to the funds of the bishopric.
" FREDERICK WILLIAM."
Two infamous outrages were committed almost simul-
taneously a few evenings ago. About ten o'clock a young
couturiere, returning from her work along the Rue du
Faubourg St. lionore, was stopped by two men, one of
whom drew from 'his pocket a small bottle, uncorked
it, and threw the contents in her face, which in-
stantly became dreadfully burnt. One of her eyes
was totally destroyed, and the other so much injured
that there is little hopes of its sight being saved. In
other respects -the poor girl is frightfully disfigured.
The 'mem. attempted to run away, but one of them,
named Lebran, Was followed by some persons who were
passing, and saw the cruel act, and secured. On being
spite. intimate
brought to- the object of his vengeance, she recognised
him to be the nephew of a person with whom she had had
an
connection,ebranis detained atid vt, hion hadcust
custody,
afiriodma jealousy
or ealousy
warrant
hadat. n
has been issued against his uncle. Tlie other act was
perpetrated in the Rue S
struck n
b seoo nis
about the same hour on
the same evening, when, as a tradesman was returning
some corrosive
or some
liquid
missile, home, he suddenly received a blow on the back, 'as if by
a
him,fou n
and
d that
burnt a bthotrtoleu ofh
bis clothes_ to his skin.. In this instance = the assa..
-ant was caught. and secured'. -110- d kanother
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THE SUN, LONDON; WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1841.

tradesmen in the same line, named Schneider, who hoped
by these means to-disable his 'rival.
On Saturday evening, two men made .their way, by
means of false keys, into an apartment in the rue
Monsieur-le-Prince, believing its inhabitants to be ab-
sent ; but they had hardly entered when the door was
shut to with a loud noise, and they found the occupant,
a gentleman of courage, standing by them with a sabre.
He kept the rogues at bay till he called in the neigh-
bours, with whose assistance he seized and bound his
unwelcome visitors. They were soon after safely lodged
at the Prefecture, with the tools by means of which they
hoped to have done a profitable job.
The body of the man who threw himself off the Co-
lumn of the Place de la Bastille, a few days ago, has been
recognised at the Morgue by his friends ; but his name
has not been allowed to transpire. He was a Frenchman
of respectable family.
The Moniteur Parisien states that at a sale on Satur-
day, at the Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs of the for-
feited pledges, from the Mont-de-Piete ; he saw a five-
franc piece put up and sold for 4f. 70c. ! This pledge
had been in pawn 15 months, and the Moniteur naturally
asks, who could have been the madman who deposited a
five-franc piece to receive only three fifths of its value ?
The German journals state that an engineer of Vienna,
named Klein, has invented a method of preventing
sparks and ashes from the fires of the locomotive engines
of railroads from falling on the passengers in open wag-
gons, without, however, diminishing the current of air
necessary for the fire. The experiments made on the
Vienna railway have been so satisfactory that it has
been resolved to adopt his apparatus, and to-burn wood
instead of coke. M. Klein has taken out a patent for his
discovery.
A letter from Strasburgh, in the Augsburgh Gazette,
states that the Treaty of Commerce between France and
Holland is beginning to bear fruits. A great deal of
cotton had arrived by the Upper Rhine, and within a few
weeks about 3,000 bales have been imported into Stras-

burgh.
The Armoricain of Brest says that the Belle Poule fri-
gate is shortly expected in that port.
A letter from Mostaganem of the 16th ult., in the
Constitutionnel, states that while the expeditionary column
was in the flat country, the town of Mascara was twice
attacked by Bou liameidi, the Lieutenant of Abdel
Bader, who tried to take it by assault, but was repulsed
with loss. The regular battalions of the Emir's troops
suffered the most in these attacks.
General O'Donnell has arrived in Paris.
The Gironde states that the three millions of francs,.
said to be sent by Queen Christina to the insurgents in
Spain, never reached its destination. "The money was
stolen," says this Journal, " and the incident occurring
during, a serious political conflict, is characteristic of our
epoch." The Temps kas a report to the same effect.
Letters from St. Sebastian of the 26th October, say
that the persons taken at sea by the National Guard of
the city, while they were endeavouring to reach the
coast of France, were eighteen in number. Among them
are the Marquis of Santa Cruz; the Count de Corres, the
Marquis of Valmediano, the Marchioness of Santa Cruz,
late governess to Queen Isabella, the Countess de Corres,
And Don Manuel Larrondobuno, member of the foral
deputation of Guipuscoa. . They are all to be tried by
the Military Commission at St. Sebastian. It is

affirmed that General Rizo has been shot at Bilbao, when
Espartero's troops entered. There are also reports of
the execution of General La:Hera, and his two Aides-de-
Camp at Santander.—Gazettc de France.
A report is spread at Paris that the Regent Espartero
had granted an amnesty, or was on the point of granting
one. The Ministerial papers make no mention of this
news, of which the Ministry was said to have received
notice.

A letter which we have received from Bayonne, dated

the 20th October says:—" The Christino officers who
have taken refuge at Bayonne, live in abundance; it is
asserted, that three millions have arrived here which
have been distributed among them and the soldiers who
followed them. The attention whichlis shown them, gives
credit among the public, to the absurd report which they
circulated of a French intervention in Spain.

Isf. Duchatel, our prefect, who arrived at Bayonne the
day before yesterday, has changed the itinerary of the
Christino general officers. Instead of going to Pau the•
go to Bordeaux.
The Memorial des Pyrenees says :

." The Governmei

we are assured, has given orders for several regiments,
garrisoned in the south, to march to the frontier
of the Pyrenees. Part of these troops are already on
their march.
It is said that General Bulhieros will have the chief
command of those troops (about 100,000 men), and will
have his headquarters at Pau.-- Constitutionnel.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
WORCESTER AUTUMN RACES.-TUESDAY.

AND

FOREIGN.

Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added. Mile and
a quarter heats. (7 Subs.)
Mr. Jones's Emperor, 3 yrs, 7st 41b 0 1 0 1
Mr. Moss's Frailty, 6 yrs, 9st 41b 0 0 1 2
Mr. Pettit's Victor, 3 yrs, ist 61b 1 0 0 3
Mr. Samwell's The Knight, 5 yrs, Bst 21b 0 2 3 dr
Mr. Walmsley's Comical John, 3 yrs, 7st Ilb 0 0 2 dr
The Cavalry Plate of 501. was won in two heats, by
Mr. J. Wood's Old Field, 6 yrs, beating Mr. Smith's
Tom, 5 yrs, and seven others.
Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added. Mile and
a quarter heats. (10 Subs.)

Mr. Jones's' Ilenley, 4 yrs, lOst
Mr. Cowley's Spangle, 6 yrs, 10st 131 b 0 0 2
Mr. Ekins s Duenna, aged, list 121 b 0 2 0
Mr. Aplin'S The Baron, 4 yrs, lost 81b 2 0 0
Mr. Price's Victoria, 5 yrs, lOst 1 dis.
Handicap of 5 sot's. each, and 20 added. Mile and quar-
ter, heats. (6 Subs.)
Mr. Collett's The Dean, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b 0 1 1

Sir C. Cockerell's Bugle, 3yrs, 7st slb 1 2 3
Mr. Arthur's The Star, 3 yrs, 7st 21b
Mr. B. Taylor's br. to Rosetta, 4 yrs, 9st 121 b 2 0 dr

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Nov. 3.—Wind this day at noon, E., variable.
DEAL, - Nov. 2.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Eden, Noble,
Singapore. • 'Arrd. from the River, and sailed, Bermond-
sey, South Seas •, Wasdale, Mauritius ; Sisters, Cape
Coast Castle. Sailed the outward bound.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 2.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Potter,
Valparaiso ; Nelson, Village, Quebec ; Invoice, Odessa ;
Mary, Hamburgh, with loss of bowsprit, having been in
contact with a steamer. Sld. J. Bagshaw, Calcutta ;
Jane . Anderson, Bombay ; J. Anderson and Kyrlain,
Jamaica ; Isabel, Antigua ; Heroine, Barbadoes; Lotus,
Sierra Leone ; Agnes, Cape de Verds ; Rebecca, Ma-
deira. • The Emma, Jones, for Waterford, has put back,
having been on [shore on the North Bank. Arrd. off;
United States, Rochester, Warwick.

HULL, Nov. 2.—Margaret, Leith to Petersburgh,
was totally wrecked in Falkenburgh 21st ult.,. crew saved.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Wind N.W.—Arrd.
ship Sapphire, Quebec ; do. Spider, Rio; do. Britannia,
Mediterranean ; Montreal, London for New York. Sld.
Florence, Madeira.
CORK, OCT. 31.—Arrd. Woodbridge, London for
Sydney ; Prince Regent steam-packet, Deptford.
FALMOUTH, Nov. I.—Wind N.W. to N.N.W.—Fresh
gales and squally.—Arrd. Magnet packet, West Indies
—sld. from St. Thomas 28th Sept., with 45,000 dollars
on freight. Sld. Montrose steamer, Vigo.
KINGSTOWN, Nov. I.—Arrd. Wexford, Quebec.
KINSALE, Nov. I.—Arrd. Phoenix, Sangster, Dal-
housie, with loss of rudder, boat, sails, ; Busy, Ban-
gor, for Dungarvon, towed in with loss of sails, and bow-
sprit broken ; John Miller, Honduras.
SHIELDS, OCT. 31.—Frederica, from Brest, which got
on the Head Sand 27th, was broke up last night.

THE MARKETS-THIS DAY.
CORN EXCHANGE.

Thai fresh supplies of Grain were very short, the
weather being dry, and our buyers showed less inclina-
tion to purchase. The prices of all kinds of Corn were
as stated on Monday, with little doing. The demand
for Flour has slackened in consequence of the advance
in price.

SUMMARY OF NEWS',

VI ttblic 14; ptnton.

" Who runs may read."

On the 26th ult., General Rodil issued a Proclama-
tion dated from San Sebastian, in which he offered a
free pardon to all insurgents who would claim it within
twelve days, except the abettors of the rebellion at
Pampeluna, Vittoria, and Bilbao, who are to be shot
without mercy. All deserters are likewise to be shot,
as well as the encouragers of desertion, and the spread-
ers abroad of idle rumours to the prejudice of the Go-
vernment. As Rodil is a man of blood, the exceptional
articles in his proclamation will doubtless be executed in
all their relentless integrity.
The. Regent Espartero, has addressed a proclamation
to the army of the North, invoking their co-operation
in crushing the rebellion, and adding that he has the
fullest confidence in their loyalty and devotion to the
person of their old General and companion in arms.
Generals O'Donnell and Urbistondo are reduced to in-
digence by their late insurrectionary attempts in Spain.
‘Vill,Christina Munoz requite them for their losses in
her service ? _ _

In a letter from Bayonne, of the 2,9 th ult., we find the
following statement:—" The total number of refugees who
have, up to the latest date, entered France since the
breaking out of the counter-revolution, may be esti-
mated,. including officers of every rank, at about
..4,000 persons. More, than. 1,500 entered by St. Jean-
Pied-de-Port and Sarre, and nearly 2,500 entered by
various other points,,, The disposition of this body is
thus arranged :--,--(rDonnell, .Ortigosa, Urbistondo, and
the General staff, are stationed at Pau ; the other
officers, of superior rank, are quartered in two or three
villages in the_immediate neighbourhood of that town ;
the captains and subalterns remain, .some at Condom,
and others at Dax, whilst the great body of the men are
quartered at the two last-mentioned places. Such a dis-
posal..of. a force so lately in rebellion in their own coun-
try looks as if the French Government really intended
that it should form a sort of advanced guard, to be ready
at a moment's notice to re-enter Spain.' "We have heard

it whispered that Louis Philippe is resolved upon making
another revolutionary attempt in Spain, and that he
awaits but some Republican movement in Cadiz, Barce-
lona, or Malaga, to declare himself."
The following from the Memorial of Pau would indi-
cate that General Zurbano, though a stern, bloodthirsty
officer, has some sense of humour:—" Zurbano, on read-
ing in the Patriota that his head was put at the price of
100,000 reals, replied that the head of the President of
the Government (Montes de Oca) was worth no more
than a haunch of venison and a bottle of wine, which was

all he would give to those who might get hold of him."
General Leopold O'Donnell has arrived in Paris. Ii
would be curious to witness his first interview with Ma•
dame Munoz.

The Tuulonnais has an article to the effect that a dis,

armament of the French naval force has been resolved
upon. It appears, however, that the discharged crews
will be replaced by conscripts, so that an additional naval
force will be created.

The French Journals of Monday occupy their leading
columns with the insurrectionary conspiracy at Brussels,
which appears from all accounts to have been a most
wretched affair.