The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-28 00:00:00

MEHEAuii-T. ALI will resist the execution of the
treaty, that the Great Powers cannot control
him without kindling the flames of an European
‘var. T. Comn2eice, on the other hand, intimates
that the ..,Ission of Count DE SAINT AULAIRE
to Koni;l-I,,votth, where he has had interviews with
Prince 11'IL:TTERNICEI and Count WORONZOW, is
Pacific, and that the French Government is already
on the verge of re-uniting with the Four Powers.
The Univers has a long and very able article on
the Eastern Question, to some points in which we
shall take an early opportunity of calling attention.
The illoniteur of Wednesday has the following
significant notification
The Minister of Justice has just ordered the Law
Officers of the Crown to !investigate the transactions
which have lately taken place at the Bourse." "In exe-
cution of the order of the Procureur-General," adds the
Gazette des Tribunaux, " the examining Magistrate has
commenced the investigations of the recent transitions
on the Stock Market."

The following paragraph is from the Ministeria'

Presse :

" Those who circulate false reports on the Stock Ex-
change for the purpose of influencing the price of the
public funds. are less guilty than those who have made
use of the Government information to realise immense
sums by time bargains ;"and states that "a public func-
tionary, whose name is in every one's mouth, received
from one stock-broker a sum of 1,164,000 f. (equal to
46,0001. British) for his profits on one month's time
bargains."
"It was said yesterday evening that M. Dosne,
father-in-law of M. Tillers, and Receiver-General of
the Department of the Nord, had quitted Paris for
Lille. His departure, which is said to have been
caused by some observations of a Deputy in the salon
of the President of the Council, has led to comments
which we will abstain from repeating."
If the inquiry be pursued we have no doubt that
some very disgraceful transactions will be brought
to light.
The only general intelligence from Paris will be
found in the annexed extracts from the Journals of
Wednesday :
Mr. Porter, the English Commissioner, has arrived
in Paris, it is said, bearer of powers to sign the com-
mercial treaty with the French Commissioners.
A letter from Leghorn of the 20th instant states, that
the Sphynx steamer having been despatched from Tou-
lon to Malta in quest of a personage of distinction com-
promised in the affair of Louis Bonaparte, and that
personage having sought refuge in Tuscany, the steamer
brought instructions to the French Consul to demand
that he be given up, and returned to France on the
19th. The same letter adds, that the Russian Go-
vernment had freighted 80 transports for the purpose
of conveying to Constantinople a portion of the army
destined to protect the integrity of the. Ottoman empire.
The (Jourrier Francais states (and a letter from
Berlin corroborates the statement) that " the reason
why the Emperor of Russia did not come to Dresden to
meet Prince Metternich was, that he was not on good
terms with the King of Prussia, who he expected would
have abdicated in favour of his brother Charles accord-
ing to a promise which the Emperor asserts the King
had made him 12 years since."
All who return from the Levant speak of the Emir
Bechir as having acted treacherously to the people of
the Lebanon. But for him, the mountaineers would
have made a very different resistance to the Pacha.
The French Consul was constantly with him, and his
physicia❑ is a Frenchman. Our readers may draw
their own inferences from this.
Letters from Constantinople, published by the Leip•
sig Gazette, relate that at the last review of the troops
six musket shots were fired at the Sultan, and that his
cloak was pierced by two balls. It was accordingly, to
all appearance, a vast conspiracy. A letter from Con-
stantinople, dated the 6th, stated that within this fort-
night mere than 1,500 persons had been strangled and
thrown into the Bosphorus. The plan was to place on
the throne the Sultan's brother, who is only nine years
of age, with a Council of Regency, of which Khosrew
Pacha was to be the head.—La Gazette de France.
We find the following statement in the Independant
de la Moselle of Aug. 24 :
" The following fact, the authenticity of which we are
able to guarantee, may give an idea of the sentiments
which animate certain States of the German Confede-

ration.
" In one of these States very near to our department
the name of which we suppress because we should al.
ways regret exposing to danger the most influential
men of a population, which has given us marks of
lively sympathy—in one of these States, we say, the
principal merchants assembled to consider of means to
avert the inconvenience of certain measures arising from
existing circumstances, but very prejudicial to their in-
terest. In the order of ideas there is but one step from
commerce to politics, and this step was soon taken.
Our neighbours compared the honourable and disin-
terested conduct of France and that of the Powers
who signed the-treaty of London, and wholly approved
of our proceedings.
The conference, commenced in this manner, soon
went further. One of the persons present, hurried
away by the effervescence which prevailed in the
meeting, having expressed a wish that the State of --
might be united with France—this wish was received
with enthusiasm by all the persons present, who were
the principal citizens of
This fact may afford matter of reflection to the So-
vereign of the German Confederation.—Le Constuu-
tionnel.

BOURSE.-PAkIS, WEDNESDAY, Atia. 26.
1 irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 I.er Cents ll2 75 ... 113 20 ... 112 70 ... 113 20
3 per Cents 7E/ 45 ... 80 5 ... 70 45 80 5
Rank of terance 3175 ...3180 ...31C0 ...3190
Latlitte Bank I,ooof. Sh loio ...10511 ...1050 _lO5O
5,000 f. Sh 5150 ...5150 ...5130 ..51:0
Belgian Bank
5 rer Cents
3 uer Cents 6O 30 ... 60 30 69 ...
Spanish Aciive
... 25% 251/4, ... "25%
Passive
... 6% ... 6%
Portuguese 3 per Cents 22% 22% ... `-e2
Neapolitan lOO 100 100 100
Roman ISO 100 ... ... 100

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
465 445 463 460
Versailles, It. B
LB.
Orleans .
Strasburg to Bale 355 ... 355 ...:145 ... 350
BELGIAN 1 UNDS—Baussats, AUG. 26.
e.ctual Debt, 23 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. ............ 14)%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
-- 3 per Cent.
19%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent
Society of Coramree, 4 % per Cent lO9
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 85%
National Society.
Exchango on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 26.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, AUG, 18
liv per Cents. Metalliques • lOB%
Fotcr per Cents lOO%
Three psr Cents.
Bank Shares 1766
—Allgenzeine Zeitung. Aug. 23
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Ann. 25.
Stills. Money.
Austrian 5. per Cents.
Bank Shares.... ..... . 1695
Ariel°. Russian Loan ln+ 1073 i
RUSSi7.II 5 per Cent. !st series, Certificate 103
Inscription, Ist Se.: toS lO3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th
Series
97M:
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 50% 50
Ditto 5 per Cent us
Polish Bonds
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cene eh* 74% 74%
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cu:.e
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, AUG. 25.-13. 4A —Two months, 13 3,
CtlßlsrlAalA, AUG. 15 —Three months, 4 74.
STocKnoLm, Aun. 18.—Seventy-five days, 11, 40.
LEiesie, Ann. 21.—Two mo„ths, 6. 13.
BERLIN, Ann. 22.—Three months, 6. 18,

PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT TO THE CITY.—\%
stated hist evening, in our Second Edition, that the
visit of his Royal Highness to the City would be post-
poned, in consequence of the alarming illness of the
Princess Augusta. 'lbis morning, however, her Royal
Highness not being considered in immediate danger, the
foliowing Notice has been stuck up at Guildhall :
" Friday, Aug. 28, 1840.
" Notice is hereby given that his Royal Highness Prince
Albert will positively visit the City this day, as originally
intended. (Signed)
" G. F. 110 OKE Y, Comptroller."

THE RIVAL TWINS.—Mr. Gregg, commonly called
Reverend, to the great abuse of an expressive word,
has been raving a speech, it appears, at Llverpool, in
which he spoke of Popery as "anti-Christian," " ab-
surd," " knavish," " most abominable," " devilish,"
" filthy," " fulsome," " blasphemous ;" of the Popish
religious service as " a mockery," "a dumb mass," " a
horrible profanation," " necromancy," and " witch-
craft ;" of Popish priests as " Romish wolves,"
" special instruments of the devil." " The Popish
system," he said, was " worse tha❑ Paganism," a
" puppet-show" system, " the Babylonical beast of
Rome." " Popery was of the devil—it abode beneath
the wrath of the Most High—it was the prime plague
and pestilence of the world." Considering the close
resemblance of the Church of England to the Church
of Rome, that their faith is the same, their ritual alike,
their religious service similar, it is less politic than cor-
rect in Mr. Gregg so to describe the Church of Rome.
Ho is, no doubt, well acquainted with its character,
and, being a priest of the closely connected Church of
England, is initiated into all its mysteries. The public
will derive much benefit from certain charlatans ex-
po.';ing each other.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—In a few days
we shall have the part of the line between Bristol and
Bath open for the public accommodation. During the
past vreek many splendid runs have been made on the lino
by the powerful engines already hece. The longitudinal
bearings give a solidity of appearance to the rails, Which
altoucthor removes any fear from the spectator, even
when the engines are travelling at their greate,t speed.
They move with noiseless rapidity, and no sound is ceard
but the " breathing," as it. may be termed, of the monster,
who rushes past at a pace double that of the fleetest horse,
--Bristol Standard.