The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-23 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, AUG-UST 8, 1847.

which it would accept the satisfaction due to M. Mus-
surus shows its moderation, and the spirit of conciliation
by which it is animated. Consequently the last resist-
ances which have just been manifested at Athens have
naturally surprised us, and may again put in question a
difference which appeared to be resolved. We are con-
vinced that the Cabinet of Vienna will not follow M.
Coletti on this ground, and that Prince Metternich will
act at Athens in a manner to put an end to this situation,
and to prevent the complications which might result
from it. At the present time the opinion of the Austrian
Cabinet on this question must be known to the Divan, an
extraordinary courier having arrived last Wednesday
from Vienna with dispatches for his Excellency the
Count de Sturmer."
The same journal states that the rebellion in
Albania is acquiring a gravity which alarms the
Porte :
" The insurrection gained ground every day. The
number of rebels was estimated at 6,000, Those
Upper Albania are commaninql by Z-invi Bey, and these
of Lower Albania by Dj..uleka. It is known that great
rivalry reigned between the populations of those two
dis•ricts. This time it appears that the interests of the
revolt have superseded ev-ry othar consideration, and
that the imurtents of Upper aid Lower Alhanig
fraternise, make exchanges of arms, ammunition and
provisions, and concert their means of defence. This
understanding creates a new situation which, however,
is not without precedents, and the Porte has taken
energetic measures for suppreesing the revolt. Till now
no engagement has t k n place between the rebels aril
the regular troops. Toe military authorities have wisely
thought that it WAS preferable to wait the arrival of the
blockading squadron which is to cruise on the coasts of
Albania, and the reinforcements of troops which will be
sent to the army of itoumelia. Besides several regiments
which are cn the spot contain a considerable number of
Albanians, and it is necessary to take some precautions
to be quite certain of their fidelity before leading them
against the rebels."

Letters from Ferrara, of the 13th, state that the
Austrian troops on that day took military possession
of the city, and placed loaded cannon, attended by
gunners with lighted matches, in the public squares.
The Legate again protested against this step, as a
violation of the treaty of Vienna.
The Patria, a Florence journal, of the 13th, says—
" Two of the four little forts raised since 1831 along
the Po, about a league and a half from Brescello
(Modena), were given, 13 is well known, to Austria after
the death of Duke Francis IV. These two forts have
❑ow an Austrian garrison. Ten or twelve Austrian
battalions are concentrated on the left bank of the Po,
opposite Brescello. They are building at present a
bridge of boats, to be able, if necessary, to cross the Po.
A great number of arrests were effected last week at
Reggio and Modena. Matters remained in the same
position at Ferrara on the 10th."
Another Florence journal, named the Alba, has the
following, in answer to the question, "Has Austria
the will or power to intervene in Italy ? "
"To the forty or fity thousand men of Austria
Pius IX. can oppose upwards of four hundred thousand
men animated with that spirit of liberty which gives
birth to prodigies and heroes. A single cannon-shot in
Italy would set Europe on fire. A single cannon fired
in Italy would accelerate the events which Austria
should be prudent enough to postpone with the greatest
care. In one word, Austria would not have to struggle
against a few insurgents, as in 1831, but against the
national guard and disciplined troops, supplied with
cannon, arms, provisions, entrenchments—in a word,
against troops possessing all the means, both moral and
material, which a well-constituted Government can
supply. And if the fate of arms, as it is probable, should
thclare in favour of right, what would be the future of
Austria in Italy ?—and if the events of the Roman
States should produce a counter. stroke in the other pro-
vinces of Italy, what would be the consequence ? In
cue word, the Italians are ready to receive the Austrians;
and Nletternich and his Hungarians intimidate no onein

Ica!y."
It is said that the object of the late conspiracy at
Rome was to seize on the person of Pius IX., and to
carry him off to Subiaco, towards the Neapolitan
frontier, where he was to be kept as a hostage by the
Cardinals. Five hundred carbineers were for that
purpose to have spread terror through Rome, by
falling on the population on the night of July 17,
throwing about inflammable matters, and setting fire
to the hay stores of CICERONACCHIO.
The civic guard of Bologna is actively organizing.

The Swiss Federal Gazette announces that the ma-
jority of the Swiss Diet has just fixed a delay of a
fortnight for the Sonderbund to destroy all the forts
that it has raised, on pain of a vote from the Vorort
for their destruction by the federal troops.
The Executive Council of Berne has just ordered
the calling out of several battalions. We do not yet
know whether it is as Federal Directory, or simply
as Cantonal authority, that it has come to this deci-
sion. However that may be, it is to be supposed that
circumstances of a certain gravity could alone have
called forth the order of the Executive Council.
The Moniteur Grec of the 10th gives the KING'S
speech on the opening of the Chambers at Athens on
the preceding day.
The following is the passage in which his MAJESTY
alludes to the differences between Greece and
Turkey :—" I should have been happy to have an-
nounced to you, gentleman, that the differences which
I regret to say have arisen between my own and a
neighbouring Government had received a settlement,
to bring about which I have expressed my desire, and
used every effort, but I have reason to hope, that this
solution will not be much longer delayed, and that
it will be in conformity with the dignity of both
States, whose interests are becoming every day more
and more identical.'

The payment of the instalment due on the
loan Our engagements to the
protecting
is
s thus
it our duty to direct our
serious makemeasures, which while they
soatte h Powers altilouo de
to d
those to :—"
support the interests of the Exchequer, of agriculture,
and of navigation, shall p!ace us definitively in a po-
sition to liquidate
thestir tyi o
loan
aqt
nou paye. itself,
Faithful
it
thenhtf
ue rl ets
ot,
this
nd
honour
and credit of the coun-
principle, my Govern-
ment has satisfied the reiterated demands of one of the
three Powers for the payment of the half-year's in-
terest and sinking-fund due in the month of March."

Madrid journals of the 15th and 16th inst. have
been received.

The Palace questiond still continue unsettled, and
it was stated that the QUEEN had signified to Senor
PACIIECO that if, in consequence of no reconciliation
having taken place, any or all of the Ministers should
sbi io
egndeastironu:
SALAMANCA,ofreigrli she would accept their re-
it was said, would, as warm•
ing pan to .N ARVAEZ, bi the ad interim chief of a new
Cabinet. Tnus the intrigues of the Afrancesados are
hastening to a crisis, and with the return of NARVAEZ
will come the forced abdication of the QUEEN, and
the virtual destruction of Spain as an independent
monarchy. The country of the Cid will become in
fact an appanage of the House of Orleans, adminis-
tered by the Duc DE MONTPENSIER, as Algiers will
be administered by the Due D'AUMALE —that is, if,
as the Afrancesados and their masters fondly imagine,
corruption has completely destroyed the old Castilian
spirit.
RAFAEL TRISTANY, at the head of 100 Carlists,
was on the 9th defeated by the QUEEN'S troops at
Balsaremy, in Catalonia.
MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 16.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 26i for cash ; the Coupons at 15; the Five
per Cents. at 17 for paper ; and the Debt without In-
terest, at 51.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday. They are principally occupied with the
details of the murder of the Duchess DE PRASLIN by
her husband, who is in custody on the charge, and
for whose trial the Court of Peers has been convoked.
The whole of those details, together with the royal
ordonnance convoking the Court of Peers for the
trial, appear in another column. As might have
been expected, the National and the other Repub-
lican papers take advantage of this dreadful occur-
rence to excite the popular indignation against
" those in high places," and it must be confessed that
the conduct of the upper classes in France has been
such as to make the remarks of the National tell with
crushing effect against existing institutions.
" The Peerage is called on by royal ordinance to con-
stitute itself this day into a court of justice. Yester-
day morning
arrest of the Duke de Praslin. Certainly justice re-
M. Pasquier had issued a warrant for the
quired nothing less, and the Parisian population, excited
to indignation by the recital of the assassination, found it
strange that, by a scandalous exception, the man against
whom such crushing and
arose, should enjoy
a particular favour, and be simply detained in his own
house. The sentiments of equality which always
exist in the midst of the people did not deceive it.
But the
rigorous terms of the Charter, the Duke de Praslin, Peer
people must be told that, according to the
ot France, had the right to go about in all liberty.
But what he did was execrable. That matters little.
But the dismal scene, such as it is record, 1, creates a
sentiment ot horror. Introduce himselt in ~ chamber
lighted by the flickering of a night lamp—surprise a '
—and
kfinf::,ril.t:i.islic
ary:th:vrorat
throwing the furniture, seeking is rampart somewhere
against her executioner, pursue her like a wild beast—
engage in an unequal struggle—beat her face with the
butt-end of a pistol—hack her bleody flesh—and aban-

don her at last when the rattle of the last agony tells
that all the blows have told—it is crime pushed to the
extreme of savage ferocity ! Yes, without doubt ; but
if Article MI of the Charter be observed, the criminal
Peer of France has the right to be indignant at being
detained even in his own house. His inviolability is
complete, absolute; no Procureur du Roi, no judge can
touch his person without committing an act of illegality.
M. Pasquier himself, in ordering yesterday that this
chevalier d'honneur should be thrown into prison,
openly violated the charter. The Droit showed this yes-
terday morning in a very remarkable article. The text of
Art. 29 is formal : No peer can be arrested without
the authority of the Chamber, and can, only be tried by
it in a criminal matter.' For the Deputies an exception
is admitted in the case of fiagrante delicto—for the Peer
of Frauee the fiagrante delicto does Hot exist. lie may
kill, steal, assassinate, be surprised at the very moment,
and say to the authorities who arrest him, ' If you have
not a vase of the Chamber of Peers, ou commit en ille-
gality in touching me.' It is consequently necessary
that the peerege should be assembled, that it should de-
liberst,. that it shoul.l ~uthorise the arrest ; till then All
that is done against a peer, even if he be the most atro-
c;ous of assassins, is null, contrary to the most in-
disputable text of the fu,damental law. M. Pasqui:-r not
au! horised by the peerage, has no more tight than khe
first commissry i f I.4olice w h.. may arrive; al M. Praslin,
armed with Art. 29, may attack the Procureur du Roi, the
Procureur GA 4, al, the J Lige dlestruelion, and M. Pas-
quier himself, for the il,egal constramtexei cised on hi. in-
vieluble psrs, en Let us incline ourselves with respect be-
fore these dispositions which consecrate equality before
the law. Let us repeat, in bowing to them, the profound
motives which M. Mahul, Deputy and commentator of
the Charter, has given for this difference in the condition
of the Deputies aed the Peers; the former are subjected
to the rules of the common law in all times, in cases of
fiagrante delicto ; the Pe:l.s are at all times above the
common law. Why? The illustrious Mahul will tell
It would not have been becoming,' this learned
writer affirms, to unite ths supposition of fiagrante de-
licto committed by members to that body of the State
wnich is the most eminent in dignity.' Thus a Deputy
is surprised with his hand in the money-bag, and he is
arrested ; that is becoming ; but a Peer during the
night cuts the throat of the mother of nine children, and
the Charter will not suppose in a member so eminent in
dignity a case of
,fiagrante delicto—that would not be
becoming. The authority of M. Mahul is immense ;
but this great genius has not discovered the true reason.
In a democratic society like ours the Peerage is an
institution so useful that the inviolability of its mem-
bers is an affair of public order; and especially
in the time in which we live, each of the Peers has the
virtue of the wife of Caesar, which suspicions cannot
reach. Suspicions must appear absurd to everybody
after what we have recently seen. Suspect M. Taste,
Peer of France and a President of the Court of Ces-
sation, of having made a traffic of his functions for
100,0001.—that is abominable. Pretend that Mr. Cu-
bieses, Peer of France, gave all, or part, of those
100,000 f.—that also is shameful. Noblesse oblige, and
the new knights think on this point like the old ones.
What a pity that the Prince de Berghes gave himself
up in his youth to a little fantasy for forgery! And
why was M. Gudin in such a hurry? With a little
more skill his fortune would have progressed rapidly.
We have at present only two Ministers condemned for
corruption, an officier d'ordonnance, a chevalier d'hon-
neur, stealing at play; a chevalier d'honneur accused
of assassination; these are trifles for persons eminent in
dignity. From this we conclude that Article 29 of the
Charter makes a very useful exception to common
law, to good sense, to public morality, and that in vio-
lating it M, Pasquier has been guilty of an evident ille•
gality, and of an unconstitutional act. We demand,
therefore that until the vote of the Chamber be given,
the Duke de Praslin, Peer of France, and Chevalier
d'honneur to the Court, shall be permitted to go at

large."
The Journal des Debats affects to be excessively
indignant with the National tor attempting to make
" the solitary crime and inexplicable firy of an out-
rageous madman a pretext for unworthy insinuations"
against society as a body. The Republican Na-
tio,al is, however, not alone in its opinions on this
matter. They are the opinions also of the great body
of the people. Among the crowd assembled in front
of the Hotel Sebastiani on Friday there were con-
stant allusions to the " Affair e Teste," and to other
recent revelations of the corruption and immorality
of the higher classes of society. Even the Siicle,
which is any thing but Republican, being the organ of
the dynastic Opposition, and which may be con-
sidered !s speaking the sentiments of the great ma-
jority of the respectable middle classes of France, has
the following comments on the ordonnance for con-
voking the Chamber to inquire into the charges
against the Duc DE PRASLIN :-
The Chamber of Peers is again summoned to assem-
ble as a court of justice. A terrible and melancholy task
have its own privileges brought on this assembly during
the present year! After an accusation of swindling and
corruption against two of its Members, it is now called
on to pronounce judgment on an accusation of murder.
What a deplorable tatality at a moment when so many
scandals or acts of corruption, frauds and perjury, are
imputed to men who have under the present system en-
joy ed that share of influence and honour; at a time when
the trials of MM. Teste and Cubiires, of Benier, of
of Lagrange, without speaking of those
which the Government has suppressed, follow in succes-
sion, to the stupefaction of the justly alarmed country!
It would appear that it was not sufficient to have seen in
the heart of the Government, and even in the most ele-
vated sphere, the development of the most odious cupi-
dity, it was necessary that a crime almost inconceivable,
which at intervals impresses the imaginations of nations
with terror, should warn society that it is no longer go-
verned by the laws of morality, and that it is at length
time for it to offer sacrifice to other deities than selfish-
ness and fear."
As if to add to the excitement which has been
created by the murder of the Duchess DE PRASLIN)
another murder was committed on Thursday, in the
open day, in the shop of M. MEYER, a money-
changer, near the Bourse. A man entered and pre-
sented a bill of exchange, and whilst the clerk was
unfolding it, seized a bowl of gold and notes, and
attempted to run off. The clerk seized him, and
immediately the thief drew a poniard and stabbed
the clerk to the heart. He was at once seized and
committed to prison.
The Court of Peers met on Saturday, under the
presidency of Duke PASQUIER, the Chancellor,and the
ordonnance constituting the court for the trial of the
Due DE PRASLIN for murder having been read, the
Attorney-General presented his requisition, and the
following were nominated a committee to conduct
the preliminary investigations :-The Duke DE-
CAZES, Count DE ST. AULAIRE, Count DE PONTE-
COULANT, M. VICTOR COUSIN, M. LAPLAGNE
BARRIS, and M. VINCENT ST. LAURENT.
The National still continues to denounce the
scandalous corruptions of the Government einployds
of all grades, more particularly those connected with
the commissariat of the army of Algiers.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse,
on Saturday, at 76f. 75c.; the Five per Cents., 118 f.
35c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2301. ; Rouen,
950 f ; Havre, 600 f. 25c.; Great Northern, 5331. 75c.;
Avignon, 625 f. ; Vierzon, 5751.; Bordeaux, 475 f.;
Boulogne, 3651.; Dieppe, 280 f.; Base, 1751.; Paris
and Strasburg, 392 t. 50c. ' • Tours and Nantes, 3724..
50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 395 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Avig-
non, 4481. 75c.
MA.ItSEILLEI, AUG. 17.-Marseilles and Avignon,
6071. 50c. ; Northern, 5261. 25e.
LYoNS. AUG. 19.-Paris and Rouen, 957 f. 50c. ; Avig-
non and Niarseilles. 607 f. 50e.; Viozon, 5651. ; Northern,
528 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 3921. 50e. ; Orleans,
1,236' 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE., AUGUST 21.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14-Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 161/2-Dutch Rhenish, 3-Northern of France,
10F4-Orleans and Bordeaux, 5-Paris and Orleans, 48-
Sambre and Meuse,B7/s.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
PAISLEY RACES.—FRIDAY.
The Anybody's Stakes, of 5 soya. each, 2 ft, and 20
added. From the North-East Corner. Once round.
Mr. Merry's Pilot, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b walked over
The Silver Bells, with 50 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of
5 sovs. each, the second to save his stake. Two miles
and a dis. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Merry's Ohanticlear, 4 yrs (H. Robinson 1
Mr. Robertson's Tom Tough, aged, Bst 111 b
Mr. H. H. Johnstone, Roper's Daughter, aged 3
The Hunters' Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and 20
added. Heats. 2 miles. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Speirs's Alligator, aged walked over
The Railway Stakes of 10 sovs.° each, h ft, with 25
added. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs. Heats.
Once round and a dis. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Merry's John Harris, 5 yrs (H. Robinson) 1 1
Mr. Brunel's Titus Oates, 4 yrs, Bst 61b
The Aftershots Free Handicap, of 3 sovs. each, and 15
added. One mile and a dis.
Mr. Nicoll's Moscow, 4 yrs (H. Robinson) 1
Mr. P. Flood's Pawnbroker, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b 2
Mr. Campbell's Waverley, aged, 7st 71b
Toddy Ladle, Bst, Titus Oates, Bst, and Alligator
7st 51b, also ran.

The falling stars which generally appear about this
time of the year were observed in Belgium on the
nights of the 9th and 11th instant. On the first of these
occasions, as seen from Brussels, they were compara-
tively few in number, but, on the second, they amounted
to about twenty eight or thirty per hour. At Bruges
Mr. Forster counted thirty-five in an hour, and describes
one as leaving a column of sparks of reddish colour
behind it. M. Mceler made similar observations at
Dorpat.
A CHARTIST DA-rm.—The Chartists are raising sub-
scriptions to establish a hank, to be called tile: " Labour
Bank," with a capital of 50,0001.
RFFUSAL OF CHURCH-RATES.--At a vestry Of St.
Gttaberwvll, Ins,: week, a church rate of l 1. in
the i.ound was rejected by a mpjority; hut a poll of the
parish was demanded, and will take place to-day and
to-morrow. This is the first time that the aplutal rate
has been refused iu that parish.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool was heavy on Satur-
day, and there was no alteration in prices. Sales 3,000
bales. Railway Shares generally were better, and prices
still rather tended upwards.
There are advices of three days later date from New
York. The Money Market was easy, and it is stated in
the accounts before us—
" We do not see any immediate prospect of any specu-
lative movement in anything but Cotton. Unless some
unforeseen accident should happen to the grain crops
now on the ground, there will be no chance for any
speculations in breadstuffs; and the only article in which
we think a movement of that nature can spring up is
Cotton. Account: from the growing districts are uni-
versally had, and if the injury to the plant anticipated is
reali,e'l. there wilt be another short crop, and course a
err. spoodi, g itoprov !petit in [Aces. It is pretty well
settl, d tie new crop uow coming to market wilt
not exceed eighteen hundred thousand bales, and should
the cop m w inaturii.g be an') where in the neighbour
hood of that quantit), we see nothing to prevent, prices
adv,incipg at least 25 per cent. above ruling rates.
" The great lulling off in the exports to Eurtpe or to
for,ign ports sine the Ist of September last, has re-
duced the stocks in those parts to a very low point, they
being oily about euc.halt what they were last year at.
corresponding periods, and even a moderate demand fi r
consumption, without any increase in the rate of supply
would clear out the stock altogether. It will re
quire a crop equal in extent to any we have
ever had to bring up the stocks to the point
they needed from. A yield of two millions of
bales or less from the crop now growing, will
compel the manuf,cturers to reduce the consumption
below their facilities. In anticipation of another defi-
cient crop, hold, rs are very stiff, and more disposed to
hold at prey, nt prices than to accept them."
The exchange on Loudon was supported at about
1054 to 1064.
The state of affairs in Mexico had not assumed a
more definite appearance, but the American journals
still manifested some confidence in the success of the
negotiations entered into by Mr. Trist.
The India Overland mail brings precisely the news
we anticipated after the account of the extraordinary
pressure experienced in the English money market
should have arrived out. Produce and manufactures
were pressed upon the markets of Calcutta
and the other Presidencies, and at the
very period when, from the reduced imports
comparatively low stocks, and commencement of the
business season, an active trade was experienced, the
account of the panic here has disturbed every reasonable
calculation.
There are no other failures actually reported in the
Corn Exchange to-day, but the stoppage of Messrs. W.
R. Robinson and Co., the senior partner, being the Go-
vernor of the Bank of England, is stated in some quar-
ters to be heavier than at first mentioned.

The English Stock Market has been in a very quiet
state this morning, but there is a decline in the quota-
tions of -a- to per cent. There have been further money
sales of Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities, and al-
though cash is not quite so scarce in the Stock Ex-
change, it is far from easy. From Amsterdam we hear
of loans for a month upon stock being made at
four and four and-a-half per cent., a decided in-
crease, resulting, no doubt, from the recent ad-
vance here. The exchange also comes lower from
Paris, and these circumstances, conjoined with the
aspect of affairs at Madrid, and the mistrust in commer-
cial circles, checks the improvement in prices which
otherwise might occur. Consols have been 87 to 4 for
delivery to morrow and for Thursday, while the rate for
October is about 87 The value of Exchequer •bills
has reached par to 3s. premium. The New Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents. have been 89i to 89. Bank Stock
is steady at 1961.
The Foreign Securities have been very quiet again.
Spanish Three per Cents. are about 30 to 1, and the
Five per Cents. 201 to a. Portuguese Four per Cents.
have been market' 271. Mexican have been done at 18: