The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-08 00:00:00

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

STOCK EXCII A No 'HUY:pita o'Clock.—
Th© rumours of war with. Spain and France are.
afloat this morning. in the above Market, but
nothing is positive on th&subject, and all remains
conjecture, 'in 'Consequence of which the funds
have-dropped a little, Consols opened at 804 i,
and went down to SO at which price they are
up to this hour, 'l'he Express from Paris this morn-
ing has brought Monday's prices at 871.85c-.which is
rather lower than the last price from that capita I
Nothing is known as yet in regard to the Colom-
bian L'Ofttl, the Market of which seems very
heavy ; Colombian Bonds opened at 6t, and
afterwards went down to 61-.1; Spanish Bon 's
opened'this morning at 531' and fell to 5:3.

FolittaN FirNos.—There was a. good deal
doing in the above market this morning, and
most persons were sellers of the Spanish and
Colombian Stock, which appears very bear•y at
present. •

The public mind in Paris continues to be agi-
tated by the apprehension that hostilities will
eventually commence between France and
The continued dread of this evil is attributed by
the Conslitutionnel to the furious language of
some of the Ultra Journals. It is astonishing
that that very party which , professes the ut-
most devotion to the principles of Monar-
chical Government in general, and to the
!louse of Bourbon in particular, should per-.
sist in madly endeavouring to plunge their
country into a contest, the result of which
might shake every throne in Europe, and for the
second and last time hurl the 13auaaoNs from
the seats of their power. Letters from Madrid
Say, that the Spaniards openly declare, that, if,
they.are attacked, they will not hesitate to enter
France in . their turn, and to . erect: in it, the
tricolour standard. is France, though ,at pre
sent tranquil, so well affected to the Char-
ter and tp the reigning Family,, that there
is no danger of a general combustion, if the torch
be but applied to the elements of civil war
within her,bOsotn,-that there is no reason to
fear the consequences of popular excitement, if
the most cherished associations .of a great portion
of her people shill be appealed to_ in favour of
the rights and the liberty of Spain, and in oppo-
sition to those who would constrain them to em.•
ploy their arms against a neighbouring, and, as
respects Prance, an unotfendiug state

Bayonne Papers of the 31st ult. came to hand
this morning ; the following are extracts

" We have some, accounts of the motion of the
two parties ht the frontier Provinces, by which
we see that the endeavours of O'DomNet. to pass
the Ebro have failed; •he seeks only to neary
TOBIJOS by long marches. In a letter from
Madrid it is stated that the Spanish Government
has received a note from that of France,but that
the pretensious which it contained had been re•
jected, and that at an interview which the Miui.
ster SAN MIGUEL had on the 20th ult. with M.
LAGAnnt, the French Plenipotentiary, he plainly
told him that Spain would never consent to let
France interfere in its affairs, and that it little
cared for preparations for war and its menaces
that it would be much better openly to declare
war than to preserve the same line of conduct
as hitherto. From the accounts receivedlrom
Saragossa on the 22d, it appears that its citizens