The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-13 00:00:00

" MARSHAL VALES TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.

" Blida'', Nov. 2.
" The expedition of Medeah has completely succeeded,
Abd-el-Hader has not dared to oppose our march, and we
have had no serious engagement. We have had 32 me n
killed."
" THE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF MARINE.
" Toulon, Nov. 7.
" A razzia has been executed on the 22d, with the
greatest success, over the tribe of Beni Macomb (province
of Oran).
" Twenty men, women, and children have been taken,
among whom were the wives of different chiefs, as also a
much-venerated marabout. 943 bullocks, 2,600 sheep
and goats, 60 horses, 3 camels, 40 mules, 300 donkeys, 20
complete saddles, arms, money, &c., fell into our power."
A letter from Tripoli, of the Bth of October says:—
" The greatest confusion prevails here. The Paella has
ls%tely sent by sea about 300 soldiers to succour those of
Misurata who were attacked by the Arab hordes of Abd-
el-Ghelil and Ghuma. A serious action took place in
which the Livantines were defeated, 400 of them were
left on the field of battle ; amongst whom were four
superior officers. The Pacha on learning this disaster fell
into a violent passion, and to avenge the death of his
soldiers, immediately caused six Arabs to be shot—
four of whom had been six months in prison, for no
other reason but that they were born in a country which
does not acknowledge his authority. The massacres in
the prisons continue."—La Gazelle de France.
The Lucca Journal of Nov. 2, publishes the following
Account:
"The Levant steam-boat arrived at Leghorn, on the
30th of October, and brought us letters from Constanti-
nople of the 18th, in which we remark the following im-
portant passage : The political horizon begins to clear
up. The Porte has accepted the mediation of France to
settle amicably the difference with Mehemet Ali. The
Ambassador of France is at present on good terms with
the Porte, and has continual conferences with Redschid
Pacha, to bring the question to a pacific solution. In con.
sequence of this people's minds begin to Le more easy,
and peace is considered as certain and near at hand."—Le
commerce.
BO URSE.--PAnts, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price Price
112 ... 112 ... 111 ,0 ... 111 5,1
French 5 per Cents
4 per Cents 96 75 ... 96 75 ... 9t3 75 ... 96 75
SO ..... 80 ... 79 50 ... 79 50
3 per Cents
Hank of mince ! 1:1360 ...3370 ... 3345 ~. 3345
tieigian Bank
945 ... 950 ... 910 ... 1/49
9',” ~. 99 .. SkN ... 99 .
5 ',er Cents
ier Cents 69 25 ... (9 25 ... 69 15 ... 69 15
Spanish Active 23 ... 2311, ... ;23
... 23
Passive 5% ... 5N ... 5,,it; ... 5 ,It',
104 ... 104 25 ... 104 ... ,04 25
Neapolitan
10J ... 100 •... 99.3( ... 99%
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES,

St Germain
Versailles, It, li 9OO ... 4' 0 ... 397 50 .., 307 50
L.B.
Orleans ..
495 .., 407 50 ... 405
—.7495
S.rasnurg to Bate
BELGIAN 1' UNDS—BuuasELs, Nor. IT,
Actual Deot..2!„;, per Cent,
It ,ithschild's 1...411, 5 per Culit ll7
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent B7
3 per Cent.

—Thirty•seven------- •• (1944_
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent rtJ
Society of Conniwce, 4 ',, per Cent llO
Bunk of Belgium, 5 per Cent... t-if
National Society .
Exchange on London (short)
—b'russels Papers, Nov. 11.
DUTCH FUNDS.—Asfs•refwAst, Nov. 10.
Money. Bills.
ictual Dstit, 214 per Cent
:RR°, ditto 5 per cent.
A mot t Syndic,,l},i per cent B7'g 88
Milo, ditto, 34 peg cent 7..ey 7:1
Commercial Company, 4., Percent l6oy 161%
Ditto (18.35 and 1837) 5 per cent. .......
Loan 1:.•,:i7, S per cont.
Exchange on London, One month ll 9714
Two months
Dutch Papers, Nov. 11.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, Nov. 3
rive per Cents. Metalliques
For per Cents
Three twr Cents.
Bank !shams
—Allgoneine Zeilung, Nov. 8.

The subjoined intelligence, Which we have rea-
son to believe is well-founded, although corning
from a questionable source, copied from the
columns of our old fashioned, garrulous Contem-
porary, the Morning Herald, now deep in the
confidence of the Parisian and Newcastle Ur-
quhartites

Lord Palmerston has. we understand, delivered his
ultimatum to the new French Cabinet. If Mehemet
Ali submits, without further delay, he will be secured
Egypt hereditarily, and the Pachalic of St. Jean
d'Acre, with the exception of the fortress, which is to
be restored to the Porte.

The Soult and Guizot Administration, it is expected,
will accept these terms, and recommend an immediate
submission to the Viceroy.
M. St. Aulaire is, we understand, to be the new
French Ambassador at our Court.
We likewise are infcrmed that Austria and Prussia have
delivered notes to the French Government, complaining
formally of the large military preparations made by France,
and announcing their intention, if these levies continue, to
raise their establishments to a war footing. To which
note the French Government has replied by giving every
assurance that no further increase should be made to either
the military or navtl force.

The confirmation of this news will give great
pleasure to every fr;end of peace in Europe. We
repeat that we have good grounds for believing it
to substantially correct.

The author of " Sam Slick," alias Mr. Justice Haly-
burton, seems to be a person of good memory, and to
be capable of using some of that information, acquired
when in petticoats, which most men are apt to despise
as the amusements of their childhood. For example, in
" Peter Parley's Annual," published by Simpkin and
Marshall, there is a story by Mary Howitt, drawn, of
course, from an American source, called " Barzillai
Bunker and the 'filler which narrates very pleasantly
that the food of Barzillai's cattle was plundered nightly
by a worthless neighbour ; that one night he detected
him carrying off a truss of hay, to which Barzillai set
fire unknown to the thief, who, thinking it had been
kindled by fire from heaven, was scared out of his wits,
and made a confession to the plundered Barzillai. Mr.
Justice Halyburton, remembering this old story, which
is said to have occurred near New Concord, in 1795,
has put it into the mouth of SAM Slick, and it forms
one of the most arousing, and not the shortest of the
anecdotes told wi,h much gusto by the Clock-
maker in the volume just published. We can no
more find fault with Mr. Justice Halyburton,
than with Captain Marryat, for vamping up old
stories, whether of the cockpit or the nursery, for the
amusement of landsmen and grown children ; but it is
somewhat pleastert to know that they have both largely
borrowed from such sources, because it makes ordinary
mortals look with less astonishment at the supposed
boundless imagination of these men of genius. For the
comfort of such, we take the liberty of stating that some
portion of " Sam Slick " is borrowed from the books
which our children read ; as many of the best things of
Marryat's are old cockpit stories.
PosT-OFercE.—Notice has been issued by tbe Post-
master-General, " that on and after the 20th instant,
the commission charged on money-orders for transmis-
sion, will be reduced on sums not exceeding 21. from
Gd. to 3d., and on sums above 2/. and not exceeding
51., from Is. Gd. to Gd." This is an excellent regula-
tion, for which the Post-office authorities deserve great
credit. It will confer a great benefit on the middle
and lower classes, and put a stop to the robbery of
money letters, so long a disgrace to the establishment.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK:

LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.-1 he sales
to-day are 3,000 bags at about yesterday's quotations.
LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, Nov. 12.—Chester and Bir-
kenhead New Shares, debs. ; Grand Junction, 213 ;
Great Western Half Shares, 484- ; Fifths, 84 ; London
and Birmingham, 1651; Quarter Shares, 27; North
Union, 73.
(From the Singapore Free Press.)
In our number of the 16th Nov. last we announced that
the Dutch had captured Barns, and there was every pro-
bability of their soon taking the other two neighbouring
ports to the southward. By the return of the brig Har-
riet to this harbour, we are enabled to acquaint our readers
that Capoas and Sinkel have been conquered by the
Dutch, after a struggle, in which 2,000 Achinese arc said
to have been killed, with only a trifling loss on the part
of the Dutch, who have since declared their new acqui-
sitions free ports for the next three years, with liberty to
all nations to trade and settle there. Several hundred
Chinese have already emigrated from Padang to Barns,
Tapoas, and Sinkel, at each of which places the Dutch
lava established opium, spirits, and other farms or mono-
polies.
By the arrivals from Penang during the week vt e have
received Penang Gazettes of the 23d May, from which
wu notice with pleasure that our friends there are stirring
themselves in the matter of the Dutch aggressions in Su-
matra.
Private advices of the same date state that produce was
generally declining. 'l'in had been sold as low as 15 30
dollars, latterly at 15 dollars. Sumatra Black Pepper
had been sold at 5 dollars. Exchange on London 43, 101
to 4s. 10d. Money was very scarce.
SIAM, —The Fairy has brought us letters during the
week from Bankok, from which it appears that the rumours
of our preparations against the Chinese had created sonic
sensation there. Singapore Exchanges on London de-
dining—Navy Bills at 30 days' sight have been sold
4s. 6d., and private bills at six months' sight at 4s. 9d.

(From the Bombay papers to the Ist of October.)
" The order for the assembling of the army of observa-
tion upon Nepaul is out. The following corps to rendez-
vous at Mazufferpore-3d, Bth, 23d, 36th, 50th, 59th,
68th, and 73d Native Infantry, also a wing of the 2d Local
Horse, and the Bth, 40th, and 41st Native Infantry, to
hold themselves in readiness to move at a moment's notice.
Her Majesty's 21st, 31st, and 62d are the Europeans to be
employed, if the rascals do not come to terms.
" A letter from Rangoon states that a fire broko out
and destroyed 3
,500 houses, the night after the coronation
at Ameerapoora ; many lives were lost in the fire, or by
water."
We have received Demerara papers to the sth Oct.:—

" The ship Captain, which arrived a day or two ago from
Martinique, brings intelligence that all the war vessels and
forts in that Island ware being equipped and victualled, in
anticipation of a speedy outbreak of hcstilities. One of the
first questions was on:landing, ' Have you heard nothing
yet of the war between France and England.' "
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, Nov. 10. —The Dutch Funds,
without their having much improved, were still firmer
than yesterday. The Actions of the Society of Com-
merce improved I per cent, and the Integrales were
buoyant. Half-past Four o'Clock. Integrales, ;
Bills of Exchange, 22 1-16 ; Society of Commerce, 1611.

CAIVIBRIDGE ELECTION OF
HIGH STEWARD,-(BY EXPRESS.)

FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL—THIS DA
The polling commenced this morning at eight o'clock,
but it was carried on very languidly, and up to nine
o'clock not more than sixty fresh votes were polled. at
that hour the numbers were as follow:
Lord Lyndhurst .................... 961
Lord Lyttelton .....................479
Majority ......... . .............. --482
At half-past nine o'clock, his Grace the Bishop uf to
coin entered the Senate House, accompanied byb Lou
L:.ndmliAt tenurst, and he recorded his vote for that No
leman
aid tremo'clock theendous cheeporinll closed. The numbers were, as
follow :
Lord Lyndhurst. ...................... 973
Lord Lyttleton ...................... 487
Majority for Lord Lyndhurst
The proceedings then ended.