The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-09 00:00:00

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 22.

At the board to-day Pennsylvania Bonds advanced
; Reading shares and Long Island Railroad, ; Far-
mers' Trust Company, 4 ; and Canton Company, and
Norwich and Worcester Railroad, ; Treasury Notes,
Ohio Sixes, and Reading Bonds, closed at yesterday's
prices. Morris Canal Company declined * ; and Haar.
lem Railroad I.
Among the banks mentioned in a morning journal as
holding the forged notes alluded to under the police head
in to-day's paper, is the American Exchange Bank. We
are authorised to say that the institution holds none of
the paper in question.
The acceptance of a large amount of Prime, Ward,
and Co.'s bills by Overend, Gurney, and Co., of London,
has prevented:remittances to make up for any deficiency
their non-acceptances would have caused.
EXCHANGE.—Foreign—There is a moderate business
doing in foreign bills, for transmission by the Washing-
ton steamer of to-morrow, without any change in the
rate. We quote as before.—On London, 1081 to 109 ;
Paris, 51. 274 c. to sf. 25c.; Amsterdam, 391 to 40; Ham-
burgh, 354 to 36; Bremen, 7811 to 79.

THE ARISTOCRATIC SMUGGLER.
Start not, gentle reader, at the idea. The laws of
a country are occasionally overstepped by the mem-
bers of every class—aristocrat and democrat alike
commit occasional violations of their boundaries.
The plebeian traveller secretes a small modicum
of tobacco—the titled aristocrat secretes his gal-
lons of spirits. A nobleman residing at Lynd-
hurst, enjoying a foreign ducal title, and of great
wealth whose equipage is daily to be seen in
the streets of Southampton—has just been caught
tripping, and the ruthless myrmidons of Government
have pounced upon him for his offences. The noble-
man in question, we are informed, had recently occa-
sion to dismiss some of the domestics of his establish-
ment, who, in revenge for the conga, communicated
to the authorities matters which had come under their
cognisance in the mansion of their late master, and
which led to the exposure of the delinquencies.
On Saturday last the officers of Customs visited
the ducal residence, and there seized eight half
ankers of brandy, containing about 21 gallons, and a
jar of rum, neatly stowed away in a chest, on which
spirits the accustomed duty had not been paid. The
goods were of course transferred to equally secure,
though probably less secret quarters, at Southampton,
watched over by her Majesty's trusty officials. On
Tuesday an " official " visit was made to his Grace's
yacht, lying at Cowes, which was alike taken posses-
sion of in the name of her Majesty. So stands the mat-
ter at present. We believe that no further proceed-
ings have yet been taken, though there doubtless soon
will be, as it is believed the " Noble Duke" has ren-
dered himself liable either to the forfeiture of the
yacht, or to the payment of a very heavy bond cus-
tomarily entered into by the owners of yachts, to
abstain from such attempts to evade the revenue laws,
in return for which engagements immunities are given
which are not allowed to vessels of any other descrip-
tion.—Hampshire IncMpendent.

HAMBURGII and FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 6.—The average price of corn for the
week epding Oct. 2 was—wheat, 26f. 44c, ; rye, 16f.
21c., being a fall of 74f. on wheat, and 25f. on rye.
The returns from the various markets indicate a
general tendency to fall, but at this time the
corn trade is slack, and very little is doing.
The Communal Council has just had its first
sitting, when the Burgomaster presented the
gold medal of the kingdom to a young man named
Maes Laureat, of the fourth class of the Royal Athe-
naeum of Brussels. The Council then proceeded to
the order of the day, and received the report of the
Administrative State of the town. The project of
the budget for 1848 was referred to the Finance
Committee. An interesting discussion arose
on the subject of connecting a Pensionnat
with the Athenaeum. The great utility of such
an establishment was acknowledged by all, but
the majority of the Council considered that it would
be best to defer it till the Government carried
out the plan of establishing a commercial and indus-
trial university at Brussels. This having been ac-
complished, the Pensionnat could be completely and
effectively organized. This would also be the oppor-
tunity for ameliorating the duties in the lower classes
of commerce and manufactures, and of harmonizing
them with superior courts to which they might be
preparing. The project was adjourned, by 16 against
14, for a short period.
REFUSAL OF TILE POPE TO RECEIVE TIIE BELGIAN
AMBASSADOR.—The great interest which this fact
has excited induces us to give some extracts from
two letters, one of which M. Leclerq has addressed
to the Independence Beige, and another to the Minister
for Foreign Affairs upon this subject.
" Some assert that there was nothing personal in the
refusal of the Holy See to receive me as the repre-
sentative of Belgium:

personal and -official character of M. Alarson,
the Papal Nuncio, is too reputable for the slightest
doubt to be entertained of his veracity, and I cannot
avoid taking advantage of this occasion to say, that I
consider him entirely exempt from the affront which
has been personally offered to me, and, I must add,
to my country, as 1 consider the Holy Father as also
exempt from it, deceived as they have been by per-
sons, who, I wish it was in my power to say,
are not Belgians. But such is the spirit of party,
that the honour of the country is set at nought for
the gratification of indulging its hatred and its resent-
ment. I say party spirit. I do not attribute it to
all the men who belong to what is called the Catholic
party, for many of them are incapable of such an
action, but I streak of some among them. This dis-
graceful incident in our political career is an evidence
how far men may be carried astray when they are not
actuated by the love of truth." To the Minister fur
Foreign Affairs M. Leclerq says, "When with
the approval of the King you offered me the mission
to Rome, I recognised in it a new occasion fur serv-
ing my country, and I at once accepted the offer, not
having the slightest suspicion that my appointment
would not be agreeable to the Holy See. This,
however, proves to be the case ; the Apostolic Nuncio
has notified to you officially that his Court
refuses to agree to my nomination, and that
his refusal resulted from my antecedent conduct,
which would prevent my being received with plea-
sure. It is true you asked for the dispatch which
contained that notification, and on his refusal to com-
municate it without the sanction of the Holy See, you
resolved not to take any step till you should see
whether this request was admitted or refused. But
whatever may result, in this refusal the Nuncio has offi-
cially, as N uncio, and, in the name of the Court of Rome,
given you the notification which I have received ; and
to say the least, it can never be believed that that
Minister has imposed upon you. The communication
which you have asked for might easily inform you
of some details, some textual terms; but you would
learn nothing more. On the whole, it re-
mains officially true, that my nomination is
not agreeable to the Holy See, and that upon per-
sonal grounds, injurious to my character, and for-
mally announced without previous inquiries as
to what might be true or false in these motives.
Two courses remain open to me—either to
renounce the mission, and protest against the in-
jury done to my character, or to wait till after the
explanations shall have been exchanged between
the Belgian Government and the Court of Rome.
When the communication demanded shall have been
granted or refused, and my person justified from every
imputation, I shall adopt the first course. I renounce,
without waiting for ulterior explanations from the
Court of Rome the mission which you have offered
me on the part of his Majesty, and protest vehe-
mently, and with all my power, against the refusal,
so injurious to myself, which has been notified to me
in the name of that Court."
M. Leclerq goes on to exonerate completely the Pope
and the Nuncio, and attribute the refusal to the
calumny of his enemies. These letters demand
further explanation, both from the Court of Rome
and the Government of Belgium.—Flanders Mail,
Oct. 7.

HADIBURGII BORSENILLLLE, OCT. 5.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents ...............• 106
Bank Shares ...................... •• 1600 ^
Anglo-Russian Loan ............... 104%
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 100%
Ditto Ist serieslnseription .
Ditto, hope andCo.,3d and 4th series.. 9G
Ditto, in Certificate..........„ „„ „ 96 _....
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...... 88
Ditto Stieglitz .. • . .„.....
..........
87
Spanish New 5 per Cent ..... ..... •• •• 12 1214
Ditto 3 per Cent .......... •••• • • • • 21 si 2114

BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, OCT. B.—The market is
very dull, and participates in the depression prevailing in
other descriptions of produce.—Bristol Mercury.
A. large steam boiler, in the sugar refinery of
Messrs. Foeltscher and Co., of Suderburg, near Magde-
burg, Prussia, exploded on the 30th ult. The fragments
of the boiler, some of which were carried a distance of
four hundred ieet, struck thirty-three workmen, tour of
whom were killed on the spot, six died whilst being con-
veyed to the hospital, and eight died the following day.
The remaining fifteen were not out of danger when the
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