The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-15 00:00:00

BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 13

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cent, ll6 70 ... 116 75 ... 116 70 ... 116 70
4 per Cents lO4 60 ... ,04 60 ... 104 60 ... 104 5.0
3 per Cents B4 45 ... 81 60 ... 84 45 ... 84 60
Bank of France 3:,70 ...3570 ...3570 ...2570
Laftitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1125 —.1125 ...11:5 ...1125
5,0000 Sh 5250 —.5250 —.5250 ..5250
Belgian Bank
5 lacy Cents
3 per Cents 76 80 ... 76 80 ... 76 SO ... 76 83
United States Bank Loan 9B ... 93 ... 98 ... 93
Spanish Active 2771, ... 27h', ... 27.% ... 27%
Passive 655 ... (711. ... (44 ... 6'
Neapolitan lO4 20 ... 104 30 ... 104 20 ... 104 30
Roman lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 164
RAILWAY SHARES,
Versailles, R. B 540 ... 340 ... 540 ... 540
L. B 350 ... :60 ... 350 ... 360
Orleans .
Strasburg to Bale 425 ... 432 50 ... 425 ... 432 50

Madrid Journals of the 4th inst. have reached us.
The Ministers had thought proper to ask a vote of the
Chamber to indemnify them for arbitrarily suppressing
the Journal Revolucion. They obtained 92 votes
against9—a majority large enough to encourage them
in the infraction of any other law that opposes the realiza-
tion of their political system. In the Madrid Gazette
of the 3d inst. we find the followin, Articles, preceded
by a Royal Ordinance signed by the Queen and counter-
signed by the Minister of Finance :
" Art. 1. The Government is authorized to continue to
recover as formerly, the reales and contributions, to the
exclusion of those which have been cancelled by the Cortes,
and to apply the same to the expences of the State, in con-
formity with the law of the 27th of July, 1838.
" Art. 2. The authority granted to the Government
by the preceding article will cease to be in force on the
31st of December, 1840, if from the present time to that
period a subsidiary law be not decreed, and the project
thereof presented to the Cortes.
The Five per Cents. on the 4th were as low as 2.4.ZT
on the Madrid Bourse. _ .

The following summary of Spanish news is from the
Monilcur of Saturday, compiled from Bayonne Papers
of the Bth inst., and the Pharr of the I Oth :
" Balmaceda, at the head of 3,000 infantry and 400 ea-
valry, has thrown himself into the mountains of Soria. Ge..
neral Ribero has left P:mpeluna with his division. The
troops arc marching in two columns along the Ebro, and
proceeding in the direction of Miranda.
" A Cabinet courier, who left Madrid on the 2d, and
reached Bayonne on the 7th, announces that the rebels no
longer occupied the road.
" Bands were traversing the neighbourhood of Aranda,
plundering and ravaging everything in their passage.
Three villages have been burnt by those bands.
" Brigadier Zurbano was expected to arrive at Aranda
on the Sth, at the bead, it was said, of 5,00,J men."
The Phare des Pyrenees of the 10th inst. has a letter
from Perthuis of the 7th, announcing that Cabrera crossed
the Ebro near Filix on the night of the Ist inst. with 4,000
infantry and 300 cavalry, marching towards Berga. The
division of General O'Donnell, 10,000 strong, was in close
pursuit of him. The division of Brigadier Van Haien was
also instructed to operate against the Carlists advancing
from Lower Arragcn. The column of General Salccdo
was to arrive at Olot on the 4th, and the force under Ge-
neral Carbo was to present itself before Berga on the
same day.

By the arrival on Saturday of the Royal Tar steamer
at Falmouth, from the Mediterranean, we have received
Lisbon papers of the Bth inst. On the 4th the Chamber
of Deputies concluded the scrutiny of the contested
elections ; and on the sth proceeded to the election of
a President, Vice-President, and four Secretaries.
Senhor I. DE S. PINTO DE MAGALHAES was elected
President ; Senhor PESTANA, Vice-President ; and
Senhors ELIAS, MATTA, MOURA, and VARGAS, Se-
cretaries. After which the Chamber resolved itself
regularly constituted, and prepared to enter upon the
discharge of its Legislative functions. All the officers of the
Chamber are Chartists, a denomination of a very different
signification in Portugal from its popular acceptation
in Great Britain ; the Portuguese Chartists being the
the Conservative party, the Constitutionalists the re-
form body, and the neptembrists the ultra-radical or
republican school of politicians. The election of the
Standing Committees occupied the Deputies on the
7th, so that up to the date of the sailing of the Tar
steamer, no business was done to manifest the line of
conduct likely to be pursued by the new Cortes. The
country was quiet, and the abuse of England had
ceased to be so palatable to the taste of the newspaper-
reading public. The Queen, though far advanced in
pregnancy, enjoyed, as well as her Royal Consort, ex-
cellent health.
It is worthy of a passing remark, that the cessation
of the abuse of England in the Portuguese Journals, is
not the result of British naval inactivity in suppressing
the slave trade, nor of any concession made to Portu-
guese prejudices or pretensions by the British Govern-
ment. We are indebted for the absence of scurrile
attacks upon us in the Lisbon Papers to the proposed
Commercial Treaty between England and France.
Portugal, at the eleventh hour, begins to tremble for
the sale of her wine. Her scurrilous writers have at
last caught a glimmering of the fact, that were England
to encourage the consumption of the vintage of France,
to the exclusion of that of Portugal, a fatal blow would
be given to the prosperity of their country.

We learn, on good authority, that when the miscreant
fired at the Queen, the horses started off, and the
Queen remarked to Prince Albert how foolish it was to
make a coise in that way to frighten the horses. Prince
Albert at that moment was about to make the horses
stop and jump out, when the Queen, seeing a man aiming
a pistol at her, stooped suddenly down as he fired, and
Prince Albert then called out loudly, " Drive on."
FORMATION OF POLITICAL OPINION.—A writer in
the Spectator announces a series of papers which we con-
sider to be of first-rate importance. He is to develope,
or attempt to develope, the causes af political opinion.
As the figure of the earth is the source of our geography,
as the visible stars continually observed are the source
of our astronomy, as the recognised and ascertained pro-
perties of the metals and of wood and other material bodies
are the sources of all our arts and of all our true opinions
concerning them, as our own physical and moral pro-
perties are the prototypes and sources of our moral opi-
nions and moral principles, so it is quite certain that
our political opinions have their sources in some
facts and some laws of our common being, as capable,
we hope, of being ascertained, as the sources of our
geography and astronomy. To trace them, or as the
writer says, to " peep a little into the springs and sources
of political opinion, as they develope themselves in the
human mind," is indeed, " not an idle task, nor an unin-
teresting one," but one worthy of the attention of the
best philosopher of our day, and one which just now the
peace of society demands snould be efficiently performed.
We will point to one circumstance only in corroboration
of this 1
iew, and wish the investigator God speed in his
endeavours. At present not merely political opinions of
extreme novelty and strangeness, have come to prevail
n society and excite much alarm, but religious opinions