The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-20 00:00:00

REFINED SUGAR IMPORTED.

Francs.
. 80

From India .
From other countries out of Europe B5
From the entrepots 95
In foreign vessels
DUTIES ON DOMESTIC SUGAR.

Frs. Cts.
Ist Raw Sugar of every shade
2d degree.
3d degree.
4th degree 2O
sth degree
The Moniieur of Saturday publishes an accomit
of the finances of France during the year 1839.
We extract from this document the Return of the
Rentes inscribed in the great book of the public
debt on the Ist of January, . 1840, including the
different kinds of Stock and the number of Share-
holders of each :

Holders. Francs.
Rentes, 5 per Cents. ... 230,975 147,112,481
Rentes, 3 per Cents ... 30647
, 35,793,290
Rentes 4i per Cents ... 925 1,026,600
Rentes, 4 per Cents ... 2,900 11,978,776

Total ... 265,447 /9:,,911,137
The annuities inscribed at the same date represented a
debt of 3 925,050 f., and the pensions of every description
piid by the State amounted to 53,210,330 f.
The Committee of the Chamber to which the
proposal of a grant for defraying the expenses of
the war in Africa NT as referred, made its report on
Friday. The grant is approved of, but the Go-
vernment is recommended to be content with the
occupation of certain points along the African coast.
There is no additional news either from Alex-
andria or Naples in the French Papers. They
publish, it is true, letters from Naples, but they
merely recapitulate the intelligence which appeared
in The Sun of Saturday. • The following extracts
are from the French Journals :

The Indicateur de Bordeaux Vof the I6th instant pub-
lishes the following notice, which had occasioned much
speculation :

" CONSULATE OF RUSSIA.
" The seamen of ail ranks who have served in the Me-
diterranean on board the Russian squadro❑ commanded by
Admiral Count de Heydn during the last war against
Turkey arc invited to present themselves at the Consulate,
furnished with the,r titles, to receive a communication
that interests them.

" The Consul, J. C. WITTFOOTH.

" Bordeaux, April 15, 1840.3"
CORN RlOTS.—Public tranquillity was disturbed on the
13th inst., at Dorat, in the Upper Vienne, in consequence
of a sudden rise in the price of grain. Some incautious
expressions used by an individual at the fair held on that
day induced the people to believe that strangers were buy-
ing up the wheat for the purpose of procuring a rise in its
price. The people assembled tumultuously, and assailed
three persons, who were pointed out as the forestallers, and
severely ill-treated. They were, however, protected by the
gendarmes.
AFRICA.—Very unfavourable reports arc spread in Paris
respecting the little expedition which Marshal Voice has
sent to Cherchell. his affirmed that the bad weather,
forced marches, and the attacks of the Arabs have caused
the little column to suffer greater disasters than those of
the first retreat from Constantine. We hope that this
fatal news will be contradicted by the Ministry, and still
more decidedly by the event, but our affairs, both at home
and abroad, are conducted in so singular a manner that we
may expect anything. Trouble and defeats are the fruits
of the Ist of M.irch.—Capitole.
SPAIN.--FRONTIERS OF SPAIN.—The Sentinelle des
Pyrenees gives unfavourable accounts from the North of
" An insurrectional movement, which has assumed an
alarming appearance, is organizing (says that Journal) in
the Biscayan provinces. If we may believe some accounts
which have reached us, it may perhaps be on the eve of
breaking out. In fact it is now the Passion Week, at
which season of the year the people are more in contact
with the Priests ; and if it is true that the latter are the
instigators of the insurrection, it is to be feared that after
Easter the provinces, which now appear to be so tranquil,
may become the theatre of a new war.

The English seem to be preparing to quit Passages ;
but it is not believed that they have any real intention of
doing so. The following letter is written from Passages
to the Sentinelle on the Bth of April :
" On the 4th of this month an English brig and corvette
arrived in this port. It is said they came to take on board
the Artillery, and to convey it to Portsmouth. Notwith-
standing all the declaration of the English Government,
we persist in believing that it will not abandon Passages,
and that it merely seeks to gain time to evade the appli-
cation that may have been made by tho French Govern-
ment is probably all that it desires."—Le Commerce.

BOURSE.—PARIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 18.
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
rench 5 per Cent. lll 25 ... 111 45 ... 111 15 ... 1,1 .5
414 per Cenis • 107 107 ... 107 ... 107
4 per Cents.— lO4 25 •04 25 ... 104 2-i 104 25
3 per Cents B3 25 . 83 25 ... 83 25 ... 83 25
Bank of r ranee 3'ol ...32:1!1 _3230 _32.30
Lattitte Bank 1,0091. Sh lOB2 50 ...1082 50 82 50 82 59
5,000 f. 5200 ...52 —5200
Belgian Ra,nk BB5 ... 8 5 880 880
5 per Cents 10354 103, ... 10N ... 10314
New• York•... 9O 45 9: 45 ... 90 45
State of Neer York ..... . Ix! .., 90 50 ... 0:.) 10 90 50
4.11110:' • • 102 40 02 10 ... 102 10 ... 102 10
soltiosts, Active 29% .2n%, k 954.
Passive 7xp Zai! ... 7%

Old Deterred 7%. ... 7 ... 7%
Portugnese 3 per Cents 25 ... 25 ... 24 25
Neaolitaii
Rornai. 10434 ... 104,
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. B 6lO ... 610 ... 610 ... 610
L.B. 3(48 75 ... 75 ... 2,S 75 ... 2Si 75
Orleans

Strao,org to Bale
qulhausen to fhann . 435 455 5 ... 495
HAMBURG BORSEN HA.LLE, Aran M.

Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents. . IOS 101i4
Bank shares H-1-4 1,11
An 10-Russian Loan , 11'8%; ltS%
llussi.th 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series 10.(
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Lo. 3d and 4th
Se, iti
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch ctual Debt, 4', pe, Cent 52% 62
Ditto a per Cen' 9B
Polish Loud
New t icket
Anglo. Intnish Loan, 3 per Cent
Nutwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent...
Spanish, New 3 per Cents. 21%
EXCHANGE* 0,7 LONDON.
STocKnoLm, APRIL 10.—Seventy-five days, 12 3.
CIIRIsTIANIA, APRII. 8.-1 hrec months, 4 I'S
PETERSBURG'', APRIL 7. --Two months, 28,48 pence
BERLIN. APRIL 14. —Three months, 6. i 95,
LElp..qc, APRIL M.—Two mo ths, 6. 13.
BREMEN, APRIL 14.—Two months, 611.

The Madrid Journals received are of the 11th
inst. They winounce the tranquil termination of
the late unexpected Ministerial crisis, for which
everybody appeared at a loss to account. That
men should steep themselves to the lips in political
guilt, and afterwards cast to the winds those rewards
for which they had bartered their reputation, is
certainly very strange. What is more remarkable,
their successors in the Cabinet, MM. ARMEN-
DARIZ, SANTILLAN, SOTELO, and NOZAGORY,
profess themselves of theiropinions and their party
a fact which their consenting to draw in harness with
PEREZ DE CASTRO and ARAZOLA, the remain-
ing Members of the late Cabinet, sufficiently testify.
General ESPARTERO'S head-quarters were on the
10th inst, a Aguaviva, about two hours' march
from Mas de las Matas. On the 7th, the Christina
General AYERBE took the fort commanding the
town of Villarluenga, where the Carlists had esta-
blished a manufactory of arms. On the same day
there was a skirmish between a portion of the Pro-
vincial Guard at La Cerollera, between Aguaviva
and Monroyo, and two rebel battalions, with about
300 cavalry. The rebels were in the place when
the Queen's forces, on their march to Monroyo,
appeared in sight. The former retired to a height
close by ; and a small detachment having been or-
dered to dislodge them, this was effected with the
loss of an officer, and twenty-seven men of the Pro-
vincial Guard wounded ; and between sixty and
seventy of the rebels killed and wounded.
On the 9th, General LEON took Penanrova after
considerable resistance on the part of the CarlistE.
An 8-pounder, made at Cantavieja, and twenty-
one prisoners, fell into his hands. The QUEEN'S
troops, by a series of well-combined movements,
were gradually approaching Morella and Canta-
vieja, the last strongholds of the Carlists in Spain.

BRIGHTON AND SHOREHAM RAILWAY.—This
way opens this day. A great number of people are
now in Brighton, and it is expected that the ceremony
will be one of great splendour and interest. The grand
line from London to Brighton is in a state of great for-
wardness, several of the sections being on the point of
completion. We think that a little more energy would
soon complete the whole line.