The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-20 00:00:00

La Valletta."

EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS
FROM PARIS:

DEFEAT OF THE CARLIST FORCES.
Intelligence has just been received from Paris of a
defeat sustained by the Carlists on the frontiers of Ar-
ragon. The town of Cantavieja was attacked on the
II th by General Ayerbe and finally taken, not, how-
ever, before the Carlists had set fire to it previous to
their relinquishing possession. The capture of Canta-
v:cja is likely to prove a severe blow to the gradua
declining resources of the Carlists.--•Herald.

,tIDLOW ELECTION.—The nomination is fixed for
Thursday (to-morrow), and the polling will take place
Oil Friday. The candidates are Mr. Larpent, Liberal,
and Mr. B. Botfield, Tory. The impression among
the friends of the former is, that he will be returned by
a majority of twenty.

At Lady Willoughby's last Soiree the beauty
of several ladies was remarkable, in the style of dress of Sir
Peter Lely's pictures ; amongst them we noticed Lady Ashley,
Lady Powerscourt, Mrs. L. Fox, Lady Southampton, Lady
W. Russell. &c., &c.
The Earl of Hansfield and the Dowager Coun-
tess and the Ladies Murray, are staying at Caen Wood, their
beautiful seat at Hampstead.
His Excellency the Hon. Ralph and Lady
Mary Abercromby arrived at the Admiralty, on Monday, from
a visit to Lord and Lady Duinfermline, at Stubbing Court,
near Clieste.:field.
Mrs. Yates, the actress, is said to be labouring
under a severe indisposition, and symptoms have shown them-
seves of an incipient dropsy.
A lady asked Mr. Jekyll, " what was the dif-
ference between a solicitor and an attorney." " Precisely the
same," he answered, " as between a crocodile and an alligator.",
TIIE WEATI-lER.—Yesterday, from morning
till night, was the fast dry dly we have had after a week in
which rain was the rule and fairness the exception.-- Glasgow
Herald.
AMA LTHUSIAN PARISH.--In the course of
an inquest held on Tuesday in Marylebone, and the jury being
somewhat tardy in assembling, Mr. Wakley, M.P., observed
that he found less difficulty in getting a jury at the village of
Perrivale, Aliddlesex, though in that parish there were only
thirty-two inhabitants, and not a sufficient number of inhabi-
tant householders to constitute a jury. In it there was neither
public-house nor beer-shop, and in the reign of Charles the First
it contained 26 inhabitants, increasing
only by six souls in the
space of about two hundred years; yet the parish was Lilly
seven miles distant from Oxford-street.

CONVICTIONS FOR COCK-FIGIITING.---TtleS-
day Mr. Andrew Wake, an opulent inhabitant of the town
of Uxbridge, appeared before Mess: s. Dagnall and Newdigate,
the sitting Mngi. trates, on summons at the instance of Mr.
Thomas, the Secretary of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, for having on Easter Monday last assisted
at a cockfight which took place at Cowley, in the parish of
Hillingdon. The case having been heard, the Bench said it
was their firm determination to put a stop to such disgraceful
scenes, and in all future cases they would inflict the full
penalty. The defendant was then fined in the sum of 50s.
and 103. costs., which he immediately paid. Mr. George
Clayton, also a resident of Uxbridge, was also summoned, and
the Bench fined the defendant in a similar penalty, which
was paid.
the Parliamentary inquiry into the admi.
nistration of the currency by the Bank of England is proceed-
ing, it may not be unprofitable to consider the position of
many of the issuing banks in the north of England, and par-
ticularly in Yorkshire. These Companies, projected as they
were when times were good, and
,carried on without due
c'iscritnination, have been the cause of much embarrass..
ment. They induced numbers of the inferior class of traders
to extend their business at a moment, when it was thought,
from a variety of symptoms, to be more prudent in mercantile
men to contract. The parties thus backed, who have entered
into speculations requiring capital, have found that, in the
hour of need, they have no sure foundation to rest upon,
for the banks that have advanced them funds beyond all
bounds, cannot afford, during a scarcity of capital, to
continue their accommodation, and therefore sales of
commodities must be forced at inadequate prices. The
banks, naturally anxious to divert attention from their
own indiscretions, and to conceal their own weakness,
charge the Bank of England with reducing the circulation and
bringing down prices, affecting of course to forget that their
customers have been compelled to part with their goods at a
low rate on account of the inability of the Joint-stock banks of
issue to repeat their favours when money was to be obtained
only upon the first class of securities. The policy of issuing
backs has unfortunately led them to make undue ad-
vances to individuals who have had no resources to
fall back upon in the event of the miscarriage of
their speculations; and if, in consequence, both the
banks and their customers suffer, it is clearly owinc, to the mal-administration of their affairs, and not to any actse'
of the Bank of England. It will no longer answer for parties
in their predicament to endeavour to mislead the public by at-
:empt ing to saddle upon the Bank of England the responsibi-
lity of evils which have resulted entirely and exclusively from
their own delinquencies. The trick has been thoroughly ex-
ploded, and when resorted to it will, for the future, be consi-
dered rather as an aggravation of their previous misconduct
than the contrary. In these, as in ordinary eases, it is essen-
tial to the success of persons making serious accusations against
others that they should come into Court with clean hands.
Morning Pc.it.

ROYAL PASTIME.—This same Empress was
very fond of the Countess Tchernicheff, and frequently ordered
her into her pt esenc;,,
to divert her by amusing conversation.
This poor lady became, however, exceedingly
unwell, and her
legs swelled so violently, as to make it quite a martyrdom for
her to stand. The Empress, never conceiving the possibility
of a subject being tired in the presence of her Sovereign, qnd
not swishing to deprive herself of the entertainment she expe-
rienced in her society, for a long time saw her suffering before
her eyes, without offering the slightest relief. One day, how.
ever, perceiving her ready to faint, anti vainly trying to support
herself, first on one foot and then on the other, yet still forcing
her spirits into gaity, the Empress took compassion An her
poor favourite, and said, " Thou mayst lean up in that table,
and Anna Ivanovna (her Majesty's chief attendant) shall
stand before thee, and screen thee from me, so that I may not I
see thy attitude.—Mentoirs of the Princess Do :v
c/dm.

entrusted Lord KEANE with a confidential commu-
nication to Lord PALMERSTON.
FIRFS IN GERSIANY.—The town of Baja, one of the
most flourishing of the Banat, situated upon the Danube,
at the junction of the Francis Canal with that. river, was
almost totally destroyed by fire on the Ist of May. Baja
was one of those places whose rapid growth testified the
rapidly increasing prosperity of Lower Hungary. It
counted 16,000 inhabitants and 2,000 houses, of which
1,700 are consumed. The number of fires is very remark.
able, and is probably occasioned by the dryness of the
shingle roofs, which are so common in Germany, and
which, warping in the sun's heat, catch flying sparks with
ease. Thus the town of Indenburg in Styria, Pforzheim
in tile Grand Duchy of Baden, Kremmen, near Berlin,
and Sondheim. on the Rhon m:,untains, have within a few
days all been destroyed by fire.
BAVARIAN LAW OF COPYRIGIIT.—A recent Number of
the Bavarian Official Gazette contains the law for the
protection of literary property, passed by the recently dis-
solved Chambers. The stipulations arc, the preservation
of the copyright of works of literature and art to the
author's heirs for thirty years after his death. If the
author be represented by a corporate body, the reservation
is only for fifty years from the date of the publication.
Persons pirating are, in addition to the indemnity to which
the author is entitled, to pay a fine, varying from fifty to a
thousand florins, to the Crown. The Act includes all the
new mechanical means of multiplying works of art—
Daguerrotypes, galvanic attraction, &c.
Letters from Monte Video announce that'Arana, one of
the Ministers of Rosas, accompanied by Mr Mandeville,
the English Consul, at Buenos Ayres, had had a confe-
rence with the French Admiral Dupotel on board the
Acteon. Arana declared, in this interview, that if the
blockade were raised his Government would accept the
proposals made by M. Nicholson. in the name of M. Mar-
tigny, in which case Rosas would not be re-elected Pre-
sident ; but it does not appear that Admiral Dupotel is
authorised to conclude any diplomatic arrangement. Oa
the 7th March entire tranquillity prevailed, the militia and
the civic guard had been discharged; there remained in
the town ono( a very small garrison. The army under
Rivera was at Duranzo, and was going to set out on its
march for Entre Rios, in order to join Lavelle at Bagada.
A French flotilla, consisting of a corvette, four brigs, and
several smaller vessels, had ascended the river Parana, in
order to co-operate with Lavatla in his attack on the Ar-
gentine territory.—Le Constitutionntl.
We have received to-day letters from Malta of the 6ai
of May. On the 29th of April, in the evening, the Hydra
packet, which left Naples on the 27th, and: had touched at
Palermo, arrived at Malta with the news of the suspension
of hostilities. The Governor of Malta published ou the
next (lay the following proclamation
" The Governor has the satisfaction to give notice that
having received official inrormation of the removal of the
embargo laid on British ships in the ports of Naples and
Sicily, his Excellency has immediately revoked the or-
der for the detention of the Neapolita❑ and Sicilian ships
in the port of this island, arid has directed that all the ships
detained shall be set at liberty.
" GREIG, Secretary to Government.

In fact, the vessels embargoed, as well as those taken
' by the English cruizers and brought to Malta, have been
released by Admiral Stopford. —Le Commerce.
BO URSE.—Palas, MONDAY, MAY 18.
irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
reoch 5 per Cents ll5 20 ... 115 35 114 93 ... lis 35
4 per Cents les
... 105 105
3 per Cents B4 50 8-1 75 ... 81 56 84 75
tank of trance 3320 ...3350 ...5350 _3330
Laffitte Bank I,uool. Si,,, llOO —llOB ...Ins) ...IP 0
5,000 f. 2197 ...5197 50 ...5197 50 _5197 50
ilelg:an Bank 9 0 ... 900 ... 9OO
sk,er Cents 103% ... ... 103% 103%
3 per Cents 7', .. 75 15 75 JO 7; 20
New York
Ohio lO2 65 ... 102 65 102 65 102 65
Dutch 2% per Cents ... 51% ... 511,i 54t6
Aciive :111 ... 20 .—9.% ... 29%
Passive 7% 7% 71i 7lq
Portuguese 3 per Cents
21
floinan .........
RAILWAY SHARES,
St. (lermai,,
Versailles, IL 11 265 565 ... 565 ... 565
L, B. :181 ... 385 ... 382 50 ... 382 50
Orleans
5,37 ... 507 50 ... 507 5U ... 507 5U
tilhansen to 'Mann
Strasburg to bale
DUTCH FUNDS.—AmmtitnAm, MAY IS.
Money. Bills.
Actual Dabt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A oitoi t tivadie, 4 % per cent 91% 021(
Ditto, ditto, 3;. per cent 76 76%
Commercial Company, 4,4 per cent lBl% IS2
Ditto (13:1•.! and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto 11437, 5 per cent. lOO% Pn
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.. 98% 98%
Exchange on London, One month ll 92%
Two months - 11 83
—Dutch Papers, May 1941
AUSTRIAN FUNDS._VIENNA, MAY 9.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Fear per Cents
101%
Three p,ir Cents.
82,u
Bank Shares
1865
...411gemeine &Rung, May 14.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, MAY 15.
St, Schuld. Sch., 4t Bills. Money.
, cent. 103,4 102%
Prussian English Loan,per 18311, 4 per cent 103%
I,:xeliange on London, three months 6 19%
—Prussian Slats Gazette, May 16.