The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

130 URSE.-PARIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 13.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents ll3 95 ... 113 95 ... 113 70 ... 113 70
414 per Cents ......
4 per Cents 99 40 ... 99 40 ... 99 49 ... 99 40
3 per Cents 7O 10 —. 79 10 ... 78 80 ... 78 80
Ilan", of erance
[,•-itfitte Bank moor shares 5160 ...516: ...5155 ...5135
I,ooof. Sh — ... ... -- ..• --
kelgian Bank
5 per Cents lOl ... unk ... 101 ... Ist
3 per Cents ...... ~. •.. •••
New Loan... ......
ipanish Active l'3% ... 233,i ... 23% ... ~.34

Passive —
Portuguese 3 per Cents
Neapolitan lO3 90 ... I('3 95 ... 1:3 90 ... ,153 95
Roman .10.1. ... 104% ...104; ...10l
. . ... _

Dutch 9).i per Centc.... ......

511; 511; ... 51!:i

RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain
Versailles.ll. B 360 ...365 ... 360 ... 360
L.B X37 50 ... 237 50 .. 22.5 132 50
Orleans .
Montpellier to Cette
Str3sburg to Bale 236 25 ... 236 25 ... 235 ... 235
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The Madrid Journals received are of the 6th
inst. They do not bring a syllable of political
news of any interest. The Chamber of Deputies
adopted the Report of the Committee which pro-
nounced the legality of the abdication of Queen
CHRISTINA.

A letter from Madrid gives the following narrative :—"The
young Queen was passing through the city a few days ago,
in her carriage, accompanied by her sister, and attended by the
Marquis de Santa Cruz, and other persons of her suite. The
Marquis observed that there were le,s troops then usual es-
corting the Royal carriage, and calling to tke Marquis de San
Carlos, who commanded the party, asked the reason. The
officer replied that he had detached some of his men to ac-
company the viaticum, which was being borne to a sick per-
son. The young Queen upon this, said to him, ' You have
done right, but another time you will stop my carriage, and
invite the priest to enter it, and we will conduct him to the
house of the sick person, and afterwards to the church. This
was one of the recommendations to me by my mother at Va-
lencia, and I wish to comply with it.' Orders have since been
given that this may be done on any future similar occasion."
TRADE OF SPAIN.—The Consul-General of Spain in Bor-
deaux has published a return of the trade and navigation be-
tween France and Spain in 1839, from which it appears that
the exports of the former to the latter amounted to 82,656,086 f.
and the imports to 37,351,914 f. ; leaving a difference against
Spain of 45,304,172 f.
The Four per Cents. were done at 214 cash; and
10,200,000 reals were negotiated in the Five per Cents. at
25Lfor the 10th and 12th instant, and at 26 7-16ths at 60 days.

QUACKERY IN RELlGlON.—Protestant Asso-
ciations, and Operative Protestant Associations
are again making a display in the Tory Journals.
All men are sensible that these meetings are
quackery and dupery. Those who get them up
seek to humbug a set of dupes and impose on the
public. There is no heart or truth in them; no
sincerity except in the poor dupes who pay their
money. Two announcements of such meetings
in a Tory Journal remind us of a short passage
in Mr. Carlyle's late work "On Heroes." He
says, " Quackery and dupery do abound in reli-
gion 3 above ail in the more advanced and decay-
ing stages of religion they have fearfully
abounded; but quackery was never the originating
influence in such things; it was not the health
and life of such things, but their disease, the sure
precursor of their being about to die. Quackery
gives birth to nothing, gives death to all." The
Church of England, if this be true, with its
evangelical quackery on the one hand, and its
Puseyite quackery on the other, its High
Churchism and its Low Churchism, its Protes-
tant associations, its pastoral societies, its Church
extension schemes, its demands on . the public
purse, its puffery and dupery in every quarter of
the land, must be on the point of death. There
is quackery enough in it to kill a dozen estab-
lishments. " Man every where," says Mr. Car-
lyle, "is the born enemy of lies." As the An-
glican Church, with its sworn to, but not ob-
served, Articles—with its dead formulas and want
of living faith, is one great lie; if Mr. Carlyle
be himself one of those heroes he writes of—one
of those men of insight and sincerity—the poor
Church will soon come to an end. The sooner
the better. It is only a wretched political con-
trivance, usurping the attributes, and mocking
the hallowed emotions of religion.
The British Queen displayed on Sunday last,
as well as on the first Sunday of her appearance,
a mass of choice and original matter, such as no
Sunday journal ever exhibited. Next Sunday
she will give an interesting biography of the
Duke of Normandy, which- will be followed by
a splendid likeness of the Prince. It will be
some gratification to learn that the British Queen
is the unquestioned supporter of the interests of
the Licensed Victuallers, and that whenever they
are in danger she will be prepared to shield
them, so far as she can, from mischief. Her
pilot has " braved the battle and the breeze" in
their favour for a number of years, and nails his
flag to the mast of their protection.—lllorning
Advertiser.
REDUCTION IN GERMAN POSTAGE.--On the
6th of this month the British postage on letters
passing between the United Kingdom and
Hamburgh and Lubeck was reduced from ls.
6d. on letters posted in London, and from ls.
Bd. on letters posted in the country, to a uniform
rate of 6d. The Hamburgh Post-office has also
reduced its rate on British letters from about
4d. to 2d., so that upon London letters there has
been a positive reduction of ls. 2d., and on
country letters of is. 4d., as respects Hamburgh
correspondence,