The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1847.

ing in positive terms the statement that he had re-
fused to obey her MAJESTY'S orders for his dismissal,
and that the Ministers were sent for to eject him.
He sums up his epistle by saying that what has oc-
curred is reduced to this—" That the QUEEN desired
to dismiss Den PEDRO DE EGANA from the steward-
ship of her royal household, and that Don PEnito DE
EGANA obeyed her MAJESTY'S wishes without the
slightest opposition."
The same paper announces that the Count DE
MONTEMOLIN had been unable to raise a loan in
London.

The Eco del Contercio announces the dismissal of
Senor DE ARONA, whose duty it is to introduce
Ambassadors at Court. He was an intimate friend
of the French Ambassador, the Duke of GLUCKS-
BURGH. General MANUEL DE CONCHA has been
dispatched to the French frontier, with orders to pre-
vent Queen CHRISTINA from entering Spain. He is
to use remonstrances in the first; instance, and should
they prove of no avail, he is to place her under
arrest.

The QUEEN continues to show herself in public,
and is everywhere received with the greatest enthu-
siasm. At a bull-fight, to which she was accom-
panied by her father-in-law, Don FRANCISCO DE
PAULA, but not, it appears, by her husband, she was
loudly cheered, and frequently during her stay there
were shouts of " Long live the Constitutional
Queen !" The Fieraldo expresses dissatisfaction at
her MAJESTY having been greeted at the theatre and
in the streets with " Viras !" to herself, to the con-
stitution, and to liberty, because, it says, that from
" Vivas !" the people pass to insults to individuals,
and from them to scenes of blood and to revolution.
General NARVAEZ has been appointed Ambassador
to Paris, Senor DE LA TORRE D'AYLLON Ambassador
to Lisbon, General SHELLEY Captain-General of
Grenada, General PEZUELA Captain of Andalusia,
and Senor GONZALES BRAVO a member of the Royal
Council. The Embassy to Rome was offered to
Senor MARTINEZ DE LA RosA, but refused.

Countess BRESSON and her son have left Madrid
for Paris. They passed OLOZAGA, en route for
Madrid, at Bayonne. It is said that a decree will
shortly appear restoring to ESPARTERO all his ho-
nours, and permitting him to return to Madrid.
The last news from Portugal is not considered
favourable. The QUEEN'S troops have, it is said,
been twice repulsed before Oporto.
MADRID BoLsA.—The Three per Cents. were done
on the 6th at 32! for cash ; the Five per Cents. at
20i ; the Debt without interest at 6 ; and the Cou-
pons at 17. On the 7th the Three per Cents. closed
at 3:2i for cash; the Five per Cents. and Coupons re-
mained the same, and the Debt without interest ad-
vanced to 61.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Journal des Dehats, in a long article on the
Ministerial Bill for reforming the tariff, praises the
measure as a step in the right direction, and strongly
urges upon the Ministry and the Chambers the neces-
sity of going much further in the direction of free
trade. It says—
" The Bill on the Customs, presented on the 31st ult.
to the Chamber of Deputies, by the Minister of Com-
merce, is a modest proposition in itself, which, however,
possesses an essential character. It is a step in the path
of free trade. The modifications that it makes in the
system of the customs are of no great importance, but
they are in the sense of liberty. Prohibition is suppressed
with respect to a small number of articles, none of which
are remarkable. They are as follow:—Ground chicory,
worked rock crystal, curcuma in powder, brandies not
specially specified in the tariffs, hair •twine, other than
that of goats, cows, and dogs, nankeen by foreign vessels
(the entry was permitted by French ships), different se-
condary chemical articles, hardware goods other than
those described as mercury, tissues of bourre de soie, Cache-
mire fashion, tissues of Chachemire fabricated by the
spindle in countries out of Europe, tissues of horsehair
not mentioned in the tariff, tissues of the bark trees, of
nettles, &c. ; flax tulle, tissues of silk of India, and of
countries out of Europe, not imported directly (the
direct importation was permitted). Each of these pro-
hibitions is replaced by a high duty. The duties are
reduced on a second series of articles, none of which has
scarcely greater importance ; lastly, and what is more
serious, what is the really practical part of the Bill, 298
articles have been struck out of the tariff. With the
exception of about 20, they are objects of little interest.
However, it is only for 113 articles that entry is
abso-
lute ; for the remainder it is subordinate to divers con-
ditions. With respect to 23 artielem, they must arrive
by French vessels or by land ; for 162 they must come
by sea under the French flag, and from certain
places, that is, from beyond the Cape of Good Hope or
Cape Horn, or, at least, be nut of European produc-
tion. The 298 articles yielded to the Treasury, in 1845
3 884,880 f., but nine-tenths of this revenue were given
by 12 or 15 articles, such as saltpetre, nitrate of soda,
dying woods, nacker of pearl, copper, elephant's teeth,
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Lastly, by a peculiarly special favour it is permitted to
import free of duty, iron, copper, zinc, and hemp, for
shipbuilding and the use of shipping, on the condition
that the employment of them in this way be proved; but
chain cables, sail-cloth, and cordages, are not included
in the exemption. On the whole, to consider the law
generally, that is to say, apart from maritime industry,
it is a law of Custom-house reform, which touches
neither iron, ner steel, nor coal, nor any other great
raw material, nor alimentary articles, nor the usual
articles of clothing, nor tools of any description what-
ever. The liberty, therefore, which will be the fruit of
it, will be a liberty infinitely curtailed. And yet we do
not give a bad reception to this law. It is the proof
that for the future the tariff can no more be meddled
with except to render it more liberal. It is a narrow
breach in the ramparts of prohibition, but it is not less a
breach. Public reason will soon know how to enlarge
it, and to assure to liberty, in our commercial regula-
tions, the part it has at present a right to expect, that
which the public interest, in accord with the liberal and
conservative sentiments of the country, loudly demands."
It would appear from the following paragraph,
which appears in the Presse, that the Ministers are
again likely to be annoyed by the headstrong obstinacy
of Marshal BUGEAUD, who seems to be in Algeria,
quite as independent of the Government of France as
the Bey of TUNIS is in his province of the Govern-
ment of Turkey :
" We have always mado it a rule to abstain from
giving an account of what passes in the bureaux and
comoittees of the Chamber of Deputies. We believe
that this partial publicity, rarely faithful, which pre-
cedes the discussions of the tribune has many incon
veniences, and not one advantage ; but it will not be a
violation of our rule to speak of what occurred on Friday
in the committee on Africa, for there was not only a
debate but a resolution, which was on Saturday morning
the object of all conversations in the Chamber of Depu-
ties. the committee on Africa having learned that an
expedition was being prepared against Kabylia, and
being desirous of verifying the truth, begged the Minister
of War to appear before it. The Minister hastened to
comply, anti avowed that the Government, ceding
to the pressing recommendations of Marshal
Bugeaud, had, in spit© of the formal opposi-
tion of the Chamber, authorised the expe-
dition. The letter of Marshal Bugeaud and the reply of
the Minister of War having been communicated to the
committee, it was not a little astonished to read pretty
nearly as follows Monsieur le Ministre—Peace and
the most profound submission reign in Kabylia, and it
appears to me that this is the moment to make a military
promenade in that district,' &c., &c. After the de-
parture of the Minister, the committee believed it
right, on account of the urgency of the case, to adopt a
resolution, the object of which is to protest against
this senseless expedition ; and it charged its president,
M. Dufaure, to wait on the Minister of War on Satur-
day, to communicate this resolution. This, in fact, took
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consequence of Marshal Bugeaud having been suddenly
attacked with a malady which causes serious dis
quietude."

M. 11xnERT, the Minister of Justice, has been re-
elected to the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of
434 to 29.

Lord COWLEY has had a relapse, and great appre-
hensions are entertained as to his recovery.
A letter has been received from Algiers, which
says that Ann-EL-KADZIt has made his appearance
within four leagues of Mascara, and that he had in-
duced several tribes to join him. M. GUIZOT, on the
receipt of this intelligence, dispatched his Under-
Secretary, AL HANSON, to Tangiers. lle is to pass
through Madrid in his way to Morocco.
The Bill regulating the system of secondary in-
struction has been presented to the Chamber of
Deputies by the Minister of Public Instruction.
On the food question the Reforme says—
" In all the neighbouring markets, without exception,
which supply Paris, there has again been a considerable
rise in wheat. It varies from 2f. to 4f. per hectolitre.
The supply was not sufficient at any place, even for local
consumption. Private purchasers were most eager, and
the millers who had abstained from purchasing during
the last month could not obtain any. At other markets,
the growers, not conceiving a rise of sf. to 6f. per sack
to be sufficient, carried away both wheat and samples.
Such was the case at Orleans. At Provins a band of
women came from the environs and vociferously quar-
relled with the millers to obtain some loads of wheat."

Notwithstanding these untoward events, no appre-
hensions were entertained of a scarcity. The orders