The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-24 00:00:00

the same promptitude on behalf of their dependents
•ied neighbours. had the Scotch landlords been
negl;gent or exhibited less self-devotion, they would
have been aided by public loans and grants, having
acted in a more correct and proper manner, that
aid should not he withheld from them, and the con-
templated measures for Ireland should be extended to
all parts of the United Kingdom visited with similar
affliction, and where the people are suffering under
a deprivation of their accustomed food or means of
livelihood.

We have received news from Oporto to the 13th.
Since the death of MACDONNELL the Miguelites have
everywhere joined the Septembristas. Count DAS
ANTAS had marched from Oporto to attack CASAL, and
another division of the insurgents, under Baron FERNOS
had marched in the direction of Berea d'Alva, and
CiESAR VASCONCELLES, at the head of 2,500 men, was at
Pennafiel, prepared to dispute the passage of
the Douro with SALDANNA. This force had
been joined by 800 Miguelites under BERNARDINO
The remains of MAcDoNNELL's band have joined DA
ANTAS. MENDEZ LEITE, a Septembrista officer, at the
head of 300 insurgents, had surprised SeLnafixa's depot
of arms at Averro (which is within the lines occupied by
SALDANNA'S army, and only eight miles from; his head-
quarter➢), and had captured 230 stand of arms, a quan-
tity of ammunition, a considerable sum of money, and
several prisoners. Among the latter is the son of SAL-
DANIIA'S military secretary. The insurrection was
spreading in Algave, and Faro has been fortified by the
insurgents.

Madrid journals of the 15th have arrived.
General PA.VIA. had resigned his office of Minister of
War in consequence of the refusal of his colleagues to
permit him to exercise the authority of Generalissimo.
General JOSE CONCHA will, it is said, succeed him.
MADRID BoLsA, FEB. 15.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 32 ; the Four per Cents., 20%; the Five per Cents.,
20%; the Coupons, at ]B% ; and the Passives, at G.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The trial of the National for publishing a libel re-
flecting on the KING took place on Saturday, and ended
in the acquittal of the National. The libel was con-
tained in an article cottm,,nting on the removal of the
French Consul from the:Mauritius, and it concluded by
declaring that the ICINa alone directed the whole policy
of the state. This libel the counsel for the National
justified, and quoted from the speeches of successive
Ministers for the purpose of proving the direct and per-
sonal interference of the KING in various affairs of state,
stigmatising such interference as unconstitutional. The
jury, after deliberating a quarter of an hour, brought in a
verdict of acquittal. This is the severest blow that the
system has yet received, and is tantamount to a censure
on the KING.

The Presse continues its personal attacks upon Lord
NORMANBY. It is now confessed that M. GUIZOT in-
tended by what he said in the Chamber to offer a per-
sonal insult to the British Ambassador. The fact is,
M. GUIZOT is endeavouring to play the same game that
he played as French Ambassador in London in 1840, to
intrigue with English parties or rather partizans for a
change of Ministry,so as to secure eitherafaineant Foreign
Secretary, whom he can bamboozle, or a worse than
fainéant, who will aid him in carrying his project of
securing Orleans domination on the Continent and in
the Mediterranean. This intrigue, however, will not
succeed, and the fact that any English Minister held
office as the nominee of GUIZOT, or of Louis PHILIPPE,
would be alone sufficient to secure his downfal.

M. MARTIN (du Nord) has resigned his Ministry o
Justice, on account of the precarious state of his health
It is reported M.M. LACAVE-LAPLAGNE and CUNIN
GRIDAIIIE were also about to leave the Cabinet.

CABRERA'S brother-in-law, General Pow, has escaped
from Avignon.
The French steam-frigate Caraibe has been driven on
shore in Senegal. Twenty seamen and boys perished
among the breakers.
The KING of the BELGIAN. is expected in Paris.

The Echo Agricole states that the price of flour in
the Paris market on Saturday still maintained itself be-
tween 100 and 105 francs per sack of 157 kilogrammes,
according to its quality. The transactions in wheat
were very limited, but large quantities of foreign rye
were purchased for the consumption of the interior of
France, and particularly the department of the Allier,
where that grain had completely failed. The Courrier
du Bas Rhin announces that prosecutions had been in-
stituted againt 17 individuals accused of having had re-
course to fraudulent means in order to cause a rise in
the price of provisions.

The Moniteur states that the trial of the works of
art of the Havre and Rouen railroad, by the moving
weight, was proceeding satisfactorily. The viaducts of
Barentin and Malannay bad withstood it with complete
success. The Council-General of the Roads and
Bridges had at last approved of the plan proposed by the
Northern Company for the construction of the Creil
and St. Quentin Railroad between Creil and Noyon
fhe line is definitively to pass through Pont St. Maxence
Ribecourt, Comp'egne, Thourotte, Ourscamp, and
Noyon.

Th© Three per Cents, wero done in the Passage de
l'Opera, on Sunday, at 78f. 45c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 22.
Dutch Rhenish, 4—Louvain a la Sambre, I ki—Northern 01
Trance, 12%—gleans and Bordeaux, 7%.

THE LOAN OF EIGHT MILLIONS.
The following notice has been sent to the Governor and
Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England :
" Treasury Chambers, Feb. 23, 1847.
" Gentlemen,-1 beg to inform you, and to request
that you will make it known in the usual manner, that.
Lord John Russell and I shall be ready to see any gen-
tlemen who may be desirous of contracting for a loan of
Eight Millions for the service of the present year, on
Thursday next, the 25th instant, at one o'clock, in order
to fix the conditions of the loan, and manner of the
kidding; and I hope it will be convenient to you, or one
of you, to meet those gentlemen here at that hour.—l have
the honour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
(Signed) " CHARLES WOOD."
" To the Governor and Deputy-Governor
of the Bank of England."

INTEREST ON EXCHEQUER-BILLS.
Exchequer bill Office, 2, Whitehall-place, Feb. 23, 1847.
The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have
determined that the new Exchequer-bills, to be dated 16th
March, 1847, charged on aids and supplies, shall bear an in-
terest of Twopence per Centurn per Diem, instead of One penny
h alfp,„
y, as stated in the advertisements from this office,
dated 16th February, 1847 : And also, the Exchequer-bills
dated in the month of June, 1846, charged on aids and sup-
plies, which are now outstanding, shall on and after the said
l6t h March, 1847, bear an interest of Twopence per Centurn
per Diem.