The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-02 00:00:00

INTIRIOR.

" Bayonne, Oct. 28.
" Madrid was quiet on the 25th inst. Brigadier-General
Quiroga y Frias has been sentenced to death."
CATALONIA.

" THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 21ST MILITARY DIVI-

SION TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.

"Perpignan, Oct. 29.
" The demolition of the bastions, called the King and
Queen of the Barcelona citadel, began on the 26th, at
nine A.m., in presence of the Junta of Vigilance, and of
the municipality. The National Guards afterwards
defiled on the square of the Constitution, before the
Members of the Junta, each individual holding in his
hand a stone of the citadel. General Zabala and the
political Chief have protested against this act of demoli-
tion. The remainder of the troops of the line at Barce-
lona had been directed towards the frontiers on the 25th.
In the afternoon the 3d battalion of the National Militia
had taken possession of the citadel."
The same official Journal announces Royal or-
dinances dated the 25th ult., appointing Baron
DE BILLING Agent and Consul-General in Egypt,
to replace M. ROHAN CHABOT, who has been
acting as Charge d'Affaires at Alexandria since
M. COCHELET'S departure. Baron DE LANGS-
DORFF, First Secretary of the French Embassy
in Vienna, goes to the Brazils as Minister, in
place of Baron ROUEN. The Marquis DE CHAS-
SELOUP LAUBAT, Deputy, is named Envoy to the
Germanic Confederation, in place of Baron DEF-
FAUDIS. And Baron DE BORQUENEY for Con-
stantinople, to replace the Count DE PoNToss.
More diplomatic movements are announced by
the Constitutionnel. That paper states that M.
HUMANN, jun., will be named First Secretary of
the Berlin Embassy. M. LUTTEROCH Will be
appointed First Secretary at the Turin Embassy.
M. HAUSSONVILLE was expected to be the First
Secretary of the French Embassy here, and
MM. MERCIER, DE MERODE, CONASSIN, and
the Marquis DE CONTADES would accompany, as
attaches, M. SALVANDY to Madrid.
For some days past we have heard of an intention to
suspend the fortifications, and to execute 5 or 600 lea-
gues of iron railway, which will cost 5 or 600 millions
of francs.
It is said that the Deputies who are coming to Paris,
are a little ashamed of having suffered themselves, last
year, to be led away to vote for the bastilles ; that the
opinions of the provinces had had its influence on them,
and that on the eve of new elections, they comprehend
the necessity of repairing as far as possible the fault
which they have committed.—Gazette de France.
We are assured that M. Charles Lucas, Inspector-
General of Prisons, is gone to Mont St. Michel, with
instructions from the Minister of the Interior to ascertain
the truth of the statements of Mme. Caries, sister of
Barbes, concerning the internal administration of the
prison.
It was stated yesterday at the Luxembourg that in
consequence of the additional number of persons ar-
rested as accomplices in the attempt of Quenisset, the
reading of the act of accusation is indefinitely post-
poned.— Temps.
A letter from Berne of the 20th of October says--
" The Diet in its sitting to-day, foreseeing the impossi-
bility of a majority being obtained to decide at length,
either one way or the other, the unfortunate affair of tho
convents of Argovia, has unanimously voted the adjourn-
ment of its sitting till information shall have been re-
ceived: from the Valais, respecting the absence of the
Deputies of that State. Angry words passed between
the Deputy of Berne, President of the Diet, and the De-
puty of Neuchatel."—Conzmerce.
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, OCT. 30.
irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price.. Price
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3 per Cent 5............ 79 65 ..79 7,) 79 65 ... 79 73
LoanBo E 5 ... 85 80 85 ... 80 85
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Bel ian 5 per Cents
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Dutch 2)4 per Cents. 544 5`2 52S 1
521,2
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4Ta 5 ••• 5 ••• 4%
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Rowan ..•• 104 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104
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St. Germain 725 ... 725 725 725
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Orleans . 478 75 ... 478 75 ... 478 75 ... 478 75
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THE NORWICH CHARTISTS continue, we see,
alive to the importance of the cause they have
taken in hand, and active in supporting it. The
clergy, it appears, persist in their design to hold
a meeting to obtain subscriptions for the propaga-
tion of the Gospel, which has called forth the
following letter. W e re-publish it, because, as
the Editor of the Norwich Mercury remarks, it
lays bare the danger to which the peace of the
country is expotied :
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORWICH MERCURY.
SlR—The letter of the Dean of Norwich to the Mayor
of this city is an insult to the working classes, and shows
the difference between cant and Christianity. When
poverty with hollow cheek and sunken eyes is stalking
through the land, when the starving millions are lifting
up their hands, and with one voice calling aloud for
bread, what must be the feelings of the working man
who, returning home destitute to his famished wife and
children, announces to them that a public meeting
has been called at St. Andrew's Hall !—not to con-
sider what steps are to be taken to provide against the
consequences of the coming winter, when cold shall be
added to hunger, and the tide of human misery shall rise
up so high as to flow in at the rich man's door ; nor to
pass a resolution that "no rich man can lay his head with
safety on his pillow, while the multitude are famishing
in the midst of plenty"—but for what ? Why to sub-
scribe money to build churches, and to propagate the
gospel in foreign lands !! !Great God, can these men be
Christians ? Did the great Founder of our faith thus
:feed the multitude when they were a-hungered ? When
they asked him for bread, did he give them a stone, a
church ? Does the Dean of Norwich think that the
o-arving operatives of this city will sit mute, and see their
misery mocked by an appeal to the charity of the public in
be half of an object so vague and questionable, when real
and palpaple poverty, gaunt and meagre, surrounds him
on all sides and stares him in the face ? Are these men
o blinded with wealth and luxury that they cannot see
a cloud gathering afar off, and read in the voices of the
e opie the hand-writing on the wall. Ignorant and
c espic able as we are, we have sense enough to know that
nran was not made to perish in the midst of plenty.
Instead of challenging us to another meeting at Saint
./..ndrew's Hall to witness an exhibition of ostentatious
c parity, why does he not call together the rich and the
F mat, axl make a gathering for the immediate and press-
i3g wants of thousands of his fellow-citizens ? What
would be thought of a man who went abroad to do acts
of c •harity, when his children were left starving at home?
Alt hough I have no hopes that you will make this pub-
lic, the Dean will find us at our post at Saint Andrew's
Hal 1, when he will have another opportunity of seeing
that ; the voices of a starving people c ann ot be stifled.
A CHARTIST.

I n that letter is much matter for reflection,
and of grave and solemn warning. Is it possible
1. hal. the ruling classes can be blind to the conse-
q uevees of continuing to run in their present
vree.r
MEIaCANTILE MARINE.—We were misled by
ih a language used by the Shipping Gazette to
:.u:p:pose that it contemplated some plan of giving
o t he mercantile marine a military rank and
link Form. We have since been informed by that
Jon irnal that its proposition was to establish a
dot ird to license masters and mates of merchant
shil )s, as pilots are licensed. We have not so
mut di confidence in such Boards and licenses as
our Contemporary. It is a French fashion, and
it is rather disgraceful for the most successful
mail time power in the world to copy from the
ie:tst successful. Our Contemporary gives the
fol lo wing instances of ships being badly officered,
wh are lamentable proofs that ship-owners
are inadequate to govern their own property,
and way, perhaps, suggest to some persons
another cause for the reported decay of our
shit Ting than reciprocity treaties. Shipowners
are v ery often now mere capitalists, and no lon-
ger, as they used to be, seamen or shipmasters.
They want a Board to help out their own defi-
cienci
" W e have, for instance," says the Shipping Gazette,
" a vet sel navigated home from the coast of Africa by a
boy, one of the crew ; the mate had died—he was the
former navigator, the master being ignorant of that art.
A ship bound to India loses her master at sea, and after-
wr,rds falling in with another vessel, borrows a mate
that- al ae may continue the voyage, having no person on
boat 11 capable of directing her course. A vessel from a
Scot ch port bound to Calcutta arrived at the Cocoas ! A
ship ,wl lose master was killed by accident, left two mates,
neit) ier t.f whom was trustworthy ; but the ship, being
at T imor, some shipmaster interfered, examined the ap-
pren tiee a to his qualifications, and, finding that he
knew ' something of navigation, entrusted him to take her
to S 3 ch ley, in which he succeeded."
W e have no doubt that merchant ships are
very o ften improperly officered, hut so are men-
of-war , all the officers of which undergo exami-
nation , and are appointed by those who are sup-
posed to have the interest of the service much at
heart.
Euyezi LAND A WHEAT EXPORTING COUNTRY.—
Mr. G tristopher, the Member for Lincolnshire,
waeins. disposed to dispute with Tambof Stanley
his cla .im to sit in Munchausen's chair. The
latter made a province of Russia, which
sca reel) " grows food enough for its own fifteen
hundred thousand inhabitants, send 38,000,000
qu arters'/f grain in one year to St. Petcrsburgh ;
th a tbrme r, however, seems to us to have out-
dc one this, for he assured his hearers at Barton
Let F,ngi anal, which does not grow food enough
fo its; own people, sent upwards 900,000 bushels
o fhe r own growth to the United States in the
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