The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-30 00:00:00

plomatic circles than one announcing the intended
abdication of the Emperor of AUSTRIA. This
monarch, whose mental incapacity lad to a family
agreement, during the life-time of the Emperor
FRANCIS, for changing the order of succession,
begins to find the questions which now agitate
Europe too much for his feeble intellect, and the
statesman upon whose shoulders the burthen of
Government hitherto rested, no longer enjoys the
health essential to the discharge of such high func-
tions. Should, however, the Eastern Question be
speedily and amicably settled, it is not improbable
that the Emperor will continue to reign for a
few years longer. The Archduke FRANCIS
CHARLES JOSEPH, who is already named as the
successor of his brother FERDINAND, is in the
thirtieth year of his age, and has a family of three
sons and a daughter. Rumour speaks of him as an
amiable and accomplished Prince, of great na-
tural abilities, and well acquainted with the duties
of government.
Prince METTERNICH is said to have told Lord
BEAUVALE and others that the last proposal of
' concession made by MEIIEmET ALI ought to have
been accepted by the Porte. This strongly indi-
cates the pacific views of the Austrian Cabinet.
Russia, on the other hand, is alarmed at the pros-
pect of a reconciliation between England: and
France, and is therefore for carrying everything
with a high hand. If France be indeed wise
enough to abandon her absurd state of isolation,
and cordially re-unite herself with Great Britain,
the Treaty of London will prove a bin. pill to the
Autocrat.

The following extracts from the French Papers
embody all they contain in the shape of general

nevus :-

:MEETING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS.—An un-
usual number of applications for tickets to be present
at the opening of the Chambers having been nude, the
Qu•estors have announced that it is not in their power
to (:omply with them, as the tickets appopriated to the
M'inbers of the two Chambers, the diplomatic body,
and, other personages, who are entitled to a preference,
will, absorb the whole of the disposable places
Preparatory to the opening of the Chambers work-
me's
are assiduously employed in taking down all
the worksheds and palings, and in clearing away all
other obstructions to the entrances in the Palais Bour-
bon from the Quai D'Orsay. The front now looks
like a needy-erected edifice, having been completely
scraped and repaired. The peristyle, the statues on the
steps leading up to the Chamber, with all the sculp-
turEd ornaments, are quite white. The sculpture of
the pediment, representing the different departments
offering their tributes to France, has not yet been un-
covered.

M. Dupin arrived in Paris on Monday, and was im-
meaiately received by tha King. Admiral Rosamel
bad also arrived in Paris.

The Courtier de Lyon of the 27th announces that a
great Reform dinner took place on the 26th, in a
rner.doiv adjoining that city. Between 3,000 and 4,000
guests sat down, at immense tables, branching off from
a rostrum erected in the centre. Several patriotic
orations were delivered in favour of Reform, and in the
evening the company re-entered the city, singing the

The Gazette des Tribunaux explaines the circum-
stance mentioned in the Presse of Tuesday, that a man
naried Placet had been arrested at St. Cloud, in pos.-
sesuion of a double-barrelled fowling-piece, which had
hee,a cut down to the length of a carbine, and which
was loaded when this person was arrested. It would
appear that Placct had his gun for the purpose of
poaching, and not with the intent of assassinating some
person as was suspected ; for on a gunmaker having
drawn the charges of the two barrels, they were found
to contain only powder and small shot. This journal
adas that Flacet had been committed to Laforce on a
charge of illegally carrying arms without a license.
1%1. Gisquet, the late Prefect of Police, in his memoirs
calculates the number of thieves in Paris who exist by
plunder at 10,000 ; of those he considers that 6,000 live
by picking up stray property, and that 3,000 of the
latter add to the former occupation that of picking
pockets. Of these, again, ?,000 would not scruple to
enter an apartment by pickicg a lock; and of those
1,000 are confirmed housebreakers ; to which may be
added 600 who arc capable of adding murder to robbery.
EXPORTATION OF HORSES.—TIIC Commerce, in its
second edition, observes, that the A ustrian Government
had determined to forbid the exportation of horses from
its dominion , and publishes the following correspond-
caw dated Vienna, the 19th instant, to prove that
Au: aria cannot, like the other governments, plead a
cram, of horses for its own use to justify this restriction

" VIENNA, OcT. I9.—The Austrian Government
having been informed that French horsedealers were
travelling through the districts of Saltzburgh and
Carinthia, for the purpose of purchasing horses
for account of the French army, has given the strictest
orders to forbid this traffic, and to keep a strict watch
that ne,horses should pass the frontier. Other French
dt*ers'in horses. had travelled into Hungary for the
same abject. In this latter country there is such an
abndance of horses that those animals range the woods
without interruption. It is only within a few years that
some Armenians have rented the vast pastures situated
between the Danube and the Theiss, from which they
draw horses in thousands. •

" It is true that the Austrian Government cannot,
according to the Hungarian constitution, forbid a free
trade in horses, and consequently the French horse-
dealers might purchase as many horses as they pleased,
but it would be necessary to pass those horses out
through the Austrian territory. And it ought to be
observed that Austria is at present so well supplied, that
it i. calculated that from 1815 to 1839 there has bcen
au increased produce of:400,000 horses within the Aus-
trian dominions."

The Swabian Mercury mentions a report which re-
quires confirmation, that the garrison of Mentz was
about to be reinforced to two-thirds of the force neces-
sary for the war establishment.
The Correspondent de Nurenzburg announces, that
the Emperor of Austria has sent the cordon of Maria
Theresa to the Archduke Frederick, for his conduct at
Beyrout."
A letter from the frontiers of Italy, says,—
The Sardinian Government astonished at the extraor-
dinary armaments of France, particularly on the
Piedmontese frontier, has resolved to be ready to make
a vigorous defence, and, in the first instance, to place
the artillery on the war establishment."
We have a letter from the frontiers of Spain, which
says, that " on a report being spread that the French
Government was having Perpignan fortified, as well as
some other places oni the frontier of Roussillon, four
Spanish regiments have marched from Catalonia to
forma camp of observation on that side."
It is
.observed that within these few days there is a
very frequent exchange of couriers between the English
Government and its Ambassador at Madrid.

It is said that M. Guizot gives up the plan of fortify-
ing Paris.—Gazette de France.
The Toulonnai.l of the 23d gives the following news :
—" It is affirmed to-day that the whole of the Levant
squadron returns:to Toulon. The Meteore steam boat,
it is said, has taken orders to Admiral Hugon to return
with all his troops.
" What seems to confirm this report is, that the here,
which had a cargo of provisions for the Levant squa-
dron, has put back to our port, and is shortly to sail to
the river Plate."
Admiral Rosamel has arrived at Paris. M. Dupin
arrived at Paris yesterday evening, and immediately
waited on the King.—Le Constilutionnel.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 28._Official.—The Ottoman Go-
vernment caused notice to be given on the 24th of Sept.
to the Minister resident of Belgium at Constantinople,
that the b'oelcadc of the ports of Syria and Egypt would
commence on the 17th of Oct.—ilioniteur Beige.
Prince Cantacuzeno (a Wallachian nobleman) and
his family have arrived at Brussels from Bucharest.
A letter from Berlin of the 19th October says :
" Negotiations are still going on relative to the recogni-
tion of the neutrality of Belgium in case of an European
war. King Leopold appears to have taken advantage
of this opportunity to approximate to Russia, by endea-
vouring to prove how necessary the present state of
affairs rendered the presence of a representative of Rus-
sia in Belgium.

BOURSE.—PAras, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28.
HALF r AST THREE. —The market has been tolerably
brisk, though it is understood that the Ministerial ar-
rangements are not definitively settled. For the Account
the Three per Cents. opened at 74f. 50c., advanced to
741. 75c., declined to 74f. 35c., and closed at 74f. 55c.,
a rise of 20c. The Five per Cents., from 1071. 10c.,
rose to 107 f. 60c., and closed at'lo7l. 35c., a rise of 350.
For Money the Three per Cents. are 15c. lower, and the
Five per Cents. 40c. The Bank of France Shares arc
40f.. the Laffitte Bank 1,0001. Shares, and the Belgian
Bank Shares 51. higher. The Belgian Five per Cents.
as yesterday, and the Three per Cents. 25c. higher. For
the Account the latter 67f. and 67f. 25c. The Spanish
Active, which had not varied from 224, closed at 221
Neapolitan Bonds are 25c. better. The St. Germain
Railway Shares an 5f., Versailles Right Bank 10f., Ver-
sailles Left Bank 7f. 50e., and Orleans sf. better. Tho
Strasburg to Bale unaltered.
I int Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price" Price
French 5 per Cents lO7 10 ... ;07 50 107 10 107 40
434 per Cents 9; 50 97 50 97 50 ... :0
4 per Cents n
91 50 ... 91 ... 01
91 50
3 per Cents
74 70 74 75 71 55 "' 465
Bank of trance 2925 ••• !.'925 '" 29 5
Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sh.., lOl5
...1015 ~. 1015 -.1615
81'
13elgian Bank
5 yer Cents 90% ~. 96K 96,„in "' IP4
67
rex Cents 6i 75 67 .6*
Spanish Active ...
22% .„
Passive 556514 .„ 5 IOA PI A ;i1 'h
New PeferreDeferred „„,, „,