The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

resolutions ol the association, and has I)..en i vestEd

with all the neces*ary powers.
In the Diet on the 27th the repro,entativi-s of Vaud
gave notice of a proposition probibiiing members of
the Diet and officers of the Confederation from re-
ceiving decorations from foreign Powers, and on the
28th notice was given, for the next day, of a proposi-
tion for transferring from hucerne to Zurich the;
guardianship of the three million francs of the Fe-
deral treasure, which has hitherto been entrusted to
Lucerne.

Madrid papers of the 27. h ult. have arrived.
A d'scovery has been made of an attempt at
putting into circulation a large number of forged
notes, purporting to he notes of the Bank of San
Fernando. The directors have issued a notice
warning the public, and requesting all holders of
notes to bring them to the bank and have them
exchanged for others having an additional private
mark.

The Carlist hands in Burgos have been all dis-
persed, and tranquillity has been restored through
out the province.
A royal ordonnance, removing the restrictions im-
posed by the ordi.nnances of 14th and 231 ►March
last, on the exportation of corn from Spanish ports,
has been published in the Gaceta.
MADRID BOLSA, JULY 27.—The Three per Cents.
cl..sed at 26 t'4,r cash; the Five per Cents. at 11,
Passive. si; and Coupons, 141, cash.

We have received the Paris pipers of Sunday.
They are principally taken up with English elec-
tioneering intelligence.
Another instance of Ministerial -corruption has
been brought to light by the National. An old and
intimVe friend of one of the Ministers of the 29'.h of
October promised a Prefet to procure the passing of a
l.tw giving to him (the Prefer) the concession of a.
railroad. on condition..that he (the friend- of the
Minister) should have .450 shares of I,ooof. each,
without pay ieg for them. This is not a mere scan-
dalous rumour—the-corruptor and the corrupted have
been so lost to ail shame as to cause this bargain to
he officially registered, and so comp'etely- has the
wholesale system of corruption, by which the Ministry
governs, debased and degraded the ferlings of public
men, that neither the officer who registered, nor the
Attorney-General (the official public prosecutor), to
whom such registration mu-t have been no-
tified, wavy anything in the affair suffi,!iently
remarkable to call for comment or observation.
The copy of the official registration of the deed is
given in the National, extracted from the public
register. It is dated 19th May, 1841, and in it M.
GAUZE hinds himself to MM. LABALEN and ALEXIS
DE JUSSIEU to procure during the then session the
passing of a law for the concession of the railroad
from Paris to Meaux, on c,ndition that he shall have
allotted to him 450 shares of I,ooof. each, without
being called upon to contribute anything towards the
funds of the undertaking.
There were rumours that a change of Ministry was
at hand, and the frequent visits of Gaunt Moue to
Neutlly would seem to prove that the rumours were
not altogether without foundation.

Tne Bordeaux and Cette Raikvay Company have
resolved that the Company shall be dissolved on the
20th August.

The Moniteur publishes the average price of wheat
as it appears by the .returns made from the ditl7,,rent
departments throughout France to the Minister of
Commerce on the 31st Ult. The lowest average is
to be found in the markets of Marans, Bord,aux,
and Toulouse, where-the price is 25f. 92c. the hecto-
litre cwt.), and the highest et A•tras, ltoye,
Soissons, Paris, and Rouen, where the price is
34r. 43c. the hectolitre. The Echo Agricole states
that in the Paris flour market of Saturday there was
a remarkable scarcity of flour of tb.e first quality,
and much astonishment was expresse‘,l by the bakers
that the Government would not sealer tile fl.tur in
the attires to be disposed of, now that all uncertainty
with respect to the quantity and quality of the ap-
proaching harvest is ascertained.
The rumoured intention of Government to con-
tract immediately the loan for which it had ob'ained
the sanction of the Chambers produced a rather un-•
1-avourable effect on the speculators. The Three per
Cents. were done in the Passage de rOpera, Paris, on.
Sunday. at 771. 20c. (sellers.)

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE

LONDoN STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 2.
Boul.,gne and Amiens, I4'4—Central of F'rance (O leans
and Vi..lzun), 1543—Denterara, 24i--Great Southern of
Madra,, 1/4—Luxembourg, I ex int.—Northern of Franet,
12%—Over lit)el, 3 dis.

REPORTED SUICIDE OF AN INSPECTOR OF PRISONS.
--We regret to state that there is a rumour abroad,
which has gained extensive credit, to the effect that
one of the In,peetors of Prison.; commit,ed ruici 1r
yesterday, at the board- room of the Penitentiary,
Milbank, by shooting Lin elf.

roar lON FRUIT.—The following arrivals of fruit
tro ihe Continent took pace towards the end ot tht
past week :—'rr:e weliain Forster, from Nassau. 700
ti-zens of pine apples ; the Misunet, from R tterdam,
1,248 bushels of various kinds of fruit ; the Batavier,
from ltottetdatn, 560 -baskets ot cur. ants, 12 baskets (t
molons, 28 ot cucumbers, and 18 of plums, apricots. and
pears ; the James Watt, fr. m Havre, 1 877 baskets ot
ter vari-us ,rids of fruit. ; the Giraffe, from Witter
darn. 1,287 baskets of currants. 21 of pears. and 9
pang. s ..t punts ; Kitinka, from Nassau. 7,200 pita:
apples ; the Antwerpen, from. Antwerp. 3 bask-ts anti
254- sieves of ripe fruit ; the City of Rotterdam, from
.tterdam, 992 bushels of various kinds. Ttiese ext.tt
sive arrivals of the vari u- —1141. A of 11111 t now 111 season
must have had ant fleet u t Slur: a)'s markets, and, In
eun'rquence tie large supplies house growth
fruit of all descriptions is very pleiatitul, iii. n. ec.ssarily
reasonable in price at the pr• F. a 11t1)1..
WEST INDIA PINES. —Yesterday the Sorciere,
front Nassau,arrived at the Civitt m-tiou•e quay, won
30,000 New Providence pine app:es, unit the KatinS.
from El. uthers, with about 20.000. The fruit was is
good condition, and on being put tip to pubic auction
realist-d on the average 30s. pe. lot of twenty.
BRITISH MUSEUM.—Yesterday several 'cases of
Assyrian sculpture, from the ruins of the city of .‘ arse
veh, were deposited in the gallery of Anticptities at th.
British Museum. They wire originally intended for the
French Government, out, frign amisunderstanding that
arose betwe-n the collector and the French auth .rities
they wee offered to the trust--es of the British Museum
who became the purchasers; they ate considered the
fittest specimens yet di-covered. The Xantliian collec•
don at sculpture and architectural remants is now nearly
complete, and will be opened to the public in a few
days.
This morning, about three o'clock, a hay stack in
St. George's Paddock, on the Dover road, vvas discovet en
to be tin fire. By the prompt assistance that was ren-
dered the fire was confined to that one object. We have
not ht and of the origin ot the conflagration.—Canterbtuy
Journal ot Saturday.
ROTTERDAM, AEG. I.—The Baroness D'Eichtal,
Dr. Ct.hhis and fatuity, and th., Hon. Mrs. Philip: and
family. have i-trrived -here on Thurst.'ay by the G. neral
Steam Navigati(w C. rupkiro 's steam ship Rainbow, trim.:
Lorena,. and the Grand Dt.ke of Nassau and suLe, and
Boon Uclitritz left yesterday in the same steamer for
14, budoe.

LEMON JUICE FOR THE NAVT.—A vessel has ar-
rivt d with nearly 200 packagcs of lemon juice for the
service of the navy, acid the Lortis of the Treasury have
giv.n directions for the same to be removed to Dept-
ford, and delivered into.her Majesty's victualing stores
at that de; of ditty free.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A melancholy accident
occurre lat Ardrossau on Wednesday. Two bo s, oue
seven, the other nine years of age, tons of Mr. William
Ford. contractor. had Roue into a b tat, and loosened it
from the rocks to which it was fasten,d. The b .at was
all
he
re mt threweodd,y
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the
erne
1-;ieelsytes hrTt
ea, t.itt,l
carried out to sea, and the bo)s, it is thought, b.-comingalarmed,
been
hwi:trettiadtr.:iwned.
t.
tier
other hat not y, t been found.—Aottli British Mail.
SPECIE FOR THE CAPE.--PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 1
The S ester', Railway Company have br.tuglit
down severity cases 4.f specie belonging to Governinen•
value 100 0001, to go out in the ship Gloriana. Boat;
from the Victory were in attendance to take them out to
Spithead, and they were towed to the ship by the Myrtle.
This specie is in gold, silver, and copper, and intended
for the payment of the troops in that colony.
THE NEW COAL EXCHANGE.—Yesterday the tem-
porary Coal Exchange, erscted on the west end .1 the
Custom house quay, attained its elevation ; on Friday
the Old Exch.dige will be vacated, and on Tuesday its
demolition, as well as the houses in Thames street and
the esst side of St ,Mary-at-hill, will commence to clear
the ground for the new Exchange.
MONET MARKET.—It was intimated at the Batik
yesterday afterm tin that prom the present date the
mum rates t.f discount for first-class paper will be as
follows :—viz.. 5 per ct nt. for bills n t having more
than one month to run, 51 tier cunt. for bills over one
month and under two it unths, and 6 per cent, for bills
A 7,114, two and nut exc'eeditig thr. e months. It is un
derstoud that the dein.,nd for discount at the Bark has
been heavy during the last day or two, and the above
intimati-n., it may he inferred, has been put forth in an-
ticip .tion of an increased pressure in coni.exiou with the
4th of month.— 7'ama.

The late Duke of Northumberland's personal and
fund, d property of which he cited po'sessed within the
province of Canterbury al.,ne, htis been valued at
160,000 L, and the executors have paid to ;he litatop-offike
the duty 0'2,100( ou the ptvbate.