The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-22 00:00:00

DON. MONDAY, NOV.EMBER 22T 1841.

as having taken place there on the 29th ult. The Neve
rose six feet above its usual level, and submerged several
of the lower parts of the capital. A considerable num-
ber of small vessels in the river were sunk, and much
damage was done to chimneys and roofs in the city."
The Journal la France hass-the following article :
" The Journal la Presse, publishing the letter of Lord
Aberdeen, triumphantly announces that the English
troops are going to quit Syria. Our London corre-
spondent informed us in his last letter that Sir Stratford
Canning, the new English Ambassador at Constanti-
nople, received, before he set out for his post, secret
instructions from Lord Aberdeen.

"The profits which tho'English merchants have ob-
tained by the occupation of Syria are considerable.
English policy everywhere seeks commercial advantages,
and everywhere, too, for these eleven years, France pays
the cost."

We can assure the Presse that on the Ist of November
no order had been receited to evacuate St. Jean d'Acre,
and that in spite of the promises of evacuation of which
the English Cabinet is so lavish, the fortress of St.
Jean d'Acre will not be evacuated either in November or
in December or in January. We have these details from
a Source so worthy of credit, that we do not fear posi-
tively to affirm their correctness. Events will not refute
us. The Prase is therefore mistaken, and deceives
itself in prematurely announcing the readiness of the
English to evacuate Syria.
The Sentinelk des Pyrenees says, "It is reported that
Lieut.-General Harrispr, Commander of the Corps of
Observation in the Western Pyrenees, is going to be re-
called, and will be succeeded by General Schramm. This
news needs confirmation."—Commerce. _

The Spanish Government, as has been stated, has en-
tered into a treaty. for paying, through its legation in
Paiis, the arrears due to the French Auxiliary Legion,
by instalments, the last of which is to be remitted by the
month of July, 1843. The first remittance of 150,000 f.
having arrived, notice is given that it will be distributed
in the following manner. On -the 20th inst., there will
be paid at the Spanish Legation, No. 34, Rue de la Vic-
toire, one half of the elainis, either to the parties en-
titled producing their documents in person; or to their
duly authorised representatives. All soldiers whose
claims do not exceed 50f. will be paid in Ml.
" It was while the Abbe Cottret, late Bishop of Beau-
vais," says the Gazette de France, ." conducted this
journal against the cause of usurpation, that M. de Jouy,
the Liberal, came during the Hundred Days, and laid a
baton on the editor's table, in order to take possession of
the place. The Abbe, in presence of suck an argument
as this, retired, and did nut resume his pea and the edi-
torship of the paper until the King's return. It was also
under his editorship that Napoleon, who was displeased
with an article contained in the Gazette, but which had,
nevertheless, passed under the eyes of thel censors, sent
some masons to the office of the paper to put plaster over
the types. This was how the liberty of the press was
understood in those days."
A Constantinople correspondent of the Quotidiennc
asserts that, when the Sultana Valide sent to Lady Pon-
sonby the magnificent set of diamonds as a present, the
presents for the ladies of Baron Sturmer, Count Kfcnigs-
mark and Count Titoff, were of less value. "As soon,"
it says, " as the Baron Sturmer, the Austrian Internun-
cio, ascertained this, he ordered the present sent to his
lady to be returned to the Sultana with an expression of
his dissatisfaction at being put upon the same foot-
ing with the representatives of Russia and Prussia—
Powers who,' he observed, had concurred only mo-
rally in the expedition against the Viceroy of Egypt,
while Austria had spent the blood of her soldiers and
ventured the life of one of the Imperial Princes. They
ought not therefore to be confounded in the same testi-
monies of acknowledgment, but the Baroness Sturmer
should be made the object of particular distinction.' The
Sultana on being made acquainted with this incident,
made a new choice of jewels from the Treasury, and
sent them to Baroness Sturmer."
BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17.

frac Highest Lowest

Price Price. Pricy Prier •
French 5 per Cents ll6 10 116 20 ... 116 10 ... 116 15
4 per Cents lOl 75 ... 101 75 ... 101 75 ... 101 77'.
3 per Cents BO 5 80 15 ... 80 5 80 15
Sank of trance
Lattltte Rank 1.0001. Shares 10413 ...IC4II ...1046 -.1040
netaisn'rtank,
Belgian 5 per Cents.
S per Cent..., 1840 10214 ... 10214 ... 102% 1P21,i
Spanish Active ......... .... 52% 23/‘ 22%
Neapolitan lO6 60 ... I'_l6 60 ... 101 60 106 60
Roman, ex 'die lO2l ... 102% ... 102% ... 10234
RAILWAY SHARES.

Verlaine,. . 2ds 205 ... 205 205
R. B 316 25 ...,316 25 ... 316 25 ... 314 2b
Reutn 455 ... 455 ... 455 ... 455
()deem .. 4Bl 50 ... 482 50 ... 4b2 50 ... 4ti,.t 50

itralbu re to Balcoh arcs red. 230

... Wl 25 ... 230

... 23123

From Madrid we have news of the 11th inst.
We regret to have to announce two other exe-
cutions, one on that day in the capital, in the
person of the unfortunate. Colonel FuLaosto,
and the other of a priest at Bilbao, by order of
the remorseless Brigadier-General MARTIN
ZURBANO. The ecclesiastic, whose name was
ZAVALA, was a guerilla chief, and therefore had
in some sort divested himself of the priestly cha-
racter, as well as functions. General SOANE
had been appointed to succeed VAN HALEN as
Captain-General of Catalonia; and on the 9th the
REGENT published a decree, energetically con-
demning the proceedings at Barcelona, and
threatening to punish' their-authors.- The instant
' this missive reached its destination, the Junta
took fright, and the members at once fled to
France. It was rumoured in Paris that the Go-
vernment had received despatches stating that
ESPARTERO had entered Barcelona, and that the
city was perfectly tranquil.

THE HUMANITY OF MODERN LEGISLATION.—
The poor were wont •to have little carts drawn
about by dogs, and we well remember that an
armless man, whose industry and neatness we
long admired, had a nice team. They always
barked with satisfaction at their work, and
seemed to be well-fed and kindly treated. When
the time approached that dogs were no longer to
be used by the orders of the Legislature, we saw
that this poor man had provided himself with a
Shelly. We presume his trade did not pay for
the additional expense, and now the pony we
see is gone ; and the armless man, assisted by a
girl, probably his daughter, a healthy, cheertul-
looking being withal, drag their little cart
through the mud themselves. They must not go
on the pavement—they must not employ dogs,
and so they are obliged to do, in this severe
weather, dogs' work themselves. So the humane
legislator interferes to protect dumb animals
from painful toil, and dooms the young females
of the human specie to perform those tasks
which are supposed to drive dogs mad !
'We regret to state that the police have corn-
menced anew their crusade against publicans for
allowing customers to remain in their houses
after twelve o'clock on Saturday night. Three
were fined on Friday at Marlborough-street
police-office, though in no case was it proved, or
attempted to be proved, that, refreshment had
been served after that hour; Several Magis-
trates have decided that the
if it applies at
all, can apply only to the furnishing of liquors,
but Mr. Hardwick, who appears to be a disciple
of the Agnewite school, ruled otherwise, and
punished the defendants with all the relentless
severity of this unfeeling sect. When will the
publicans unite for their own protection against
the spies that infest their houses ?
We understand that the Princess Royal has
lately been suffering slightly from the effects of
dentition. But, notwithstanding the fact that
the Princess has but seven or eight teeth, she
has thus far passed through that which is fre-
quently one of the severest ordeals of infancy,
and its only effect has been to make her a little
thinner.--Observer. [Why does not our fa-
shionable Contemporary, who knows all the
movements in the Palace, give us some more in-
' formation on these interesting topics? We
should like to know whether the Princess
' Royal can speak, and what she thinks of her
Royal brother the Duke of Cornwall. The
story about seven or -eight teeth, and dentition,
and the severest ordeals of infancy, and the
thinness of the Royal sufferer, any one could tell.]

Extract of a letter front .Alexandria, 26th ult.,
in the Malta Times:—"Thero is no political news stirring.
Ibrahim Pacha left Cairo as soon as his father arrived.
It is said his Highness was in a bad humour on finding the
TreasUry empty. -He is about to put all his offiCers on hal f-
pay, and at the same time to keep them employed in some
way. We understand that Mehemet Ali has given orders
fora general change of uniform and ree'imentals, according
to the fashion of the Sultan ; but he has begged his
kind master to allow him individually to continue the
dress which he has been accustomed to wear during
his life. Several European tailors have been already
employed by contract in the Arsenal. The Nile has
been higher this year than last, and the country (not-
withstanding the embankments had been much raised)
has been overflowed to a great extent. Many planta-
tions of cotton, and fields of Indian corn, were under
water. It was distressing to see the poor Fellahs, many
of whom had spent their last pare, endeavouring to pre-
serve their little property ; and, although they had
raised their mud huts above the dam of the river, yet
the water filtered through, and became stagnant,
which alrgadY began to generate disease. In many
Places the river is so high that it is common to see the
boats navigating the Nile three or four feet above
the ground on each side ; and guards have been sta-
tioned along where this is the ease' to .prevent the
boats from approaching the banks at night, and you
are only permitted to stop at a few places, even for
refreshment, for any length of time, fearing the rush of
the boats may injure the embankment. At Atte the
water is level with the wharf and magazines. This
place is
a disgrace to the Pacha's Gorernment. The
greater part of the produce of Egypt (on the Nile) is
collected in this small focus, to be transhipped in
boats on the canal ; piles upon piles of timber and
coals, as well as merchandise, are here laid scattered
about, and which had been brought from Alexandria to
be shipped for Cairo, whilst cargoes of all sorts of grain
and cotton were being removed from the boats across
this isthmus of a few yards. The,confusion thus caused
can be better iinakibeii than d'engeribed ; and it is with
great difficulty that travellers can pass. It is astonishing
his Highness does not turn his attention to this subject,
and-establish orevor more depots, spas.the better to colas
'intinioate- with the eanal, and facilitate-the transit of men-
chandise, so much ret.rded by this disastrous state of
things." ,