The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1847.

continue. In reply to the letter of King OTHo, the
SULTAN desires that the settlement of the differences
may be left to the two Cabinets; and the Turkish
Minister insists that COLETTI shall apologise to M.
MUSSUEUS.

Madrid papers of the 16th have arrived.
The Senate have authorised the Ministry to try
General SERRANO for insubordination. The measure
was opposed by Senor LUZUBIAGA, and General
CONCHA refused to vote.

The QUEEN had sent for Senor PACHECO, and
requested him to form an Administration, but he had
refused to do so. •

Nothing shows more completely the subjection of
the unfortunate QUEEN to the tyranny of the French
Government than the present Ministerial crisis. She
is anxious above all things to free herself from the
French yoke, and as a first step would fain get rid of
her present Afrancesado Ministry. Her MAJESTY
wishes to appoint General SEExANO Prime Minister,
and immediately the Afrancesado Cabinet attempt to
banish him to Navarre, by making him Captain-
General of the province. Her MAJESTY refuses to
sign the decree, and the Ministers threaten to resign.
The QUEEN would be but too happy to accept their
resignation ; but, after a visit to the French Embassy,
a change comes over the Duke of SOTOMATOR and his
colleagues. They will not resign. They appoint
SERRANO Inspector of Troops in Navarre, and on his
refusing to accept the appointment bring him to trial
for insubordination; and, backed by French influence,
set the QUEEN at defiance, who cannot (such is
the degraded state to which LOUIS PHILIPPE has
by his intrigues reduced Spanish statesmen) get any
any one to brave the vengeance of an unprincipled
and anti-national faction by countersigning their
dismissal.

MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 16.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 301 for cash; the Five per Cents. at
19i ; the Debt without interest at 54 ; and the
Coupons at 17.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Minister of the Interior made on Saturday a
most important communication to the Municipal
Council of Paris. He informed them the Baron
JAMES DE ROTHSCHILD had appropriated 5,000,000 f.
(200,0001. sterling) to the purchase of corn and flour
for the supply of the inhabitants of Paris. The corn
and flour is to be purchased in foreign countries, and
sold in Paris at the prices of the day. Should there
be any loss on the transaction, such loss will be borne
by the Baron ROTHSCHILD,—shouId there be profit,
such profit to be devoted to the purchase of bread,
to be distributed gratuitously among the poor of Paris.
This will give Paris thirty-five days' consumption in
addition to the eighty days' consumption already in
store. But while Paris is thus amply provided for,
the provinces are suffering. Outrages of a very
serious character have taken place in the department
of the Loiret, and notwithstanding the presence of
large bodies of troops, plunder has taken place to a
considerable extent. On one occasion a detachment
of 50 Infantry and 25 Hussars were so hemmed in
by the people as to be incapable of moving. While
they were thus put hors de combat, boat loads of grain
were carried off by the peasantry. The following
letter, dated St. Maio, March 17, is published in the
Journal des Debuts :

"A scene of confusion, occasioned by the imprudence of
the British Consul, Mr. Thompson, took place at our last
corn market. A sack of flour of 50 kilogrammes, offered at
first for sale at 32 francs, having been subsequently bought by
Mr. Thompson for 35 francs, a mob immediately congregated
and cried, Down with the Englishman ! Down with the
forestaller 1' gendarmes on duty immediately re-
paired to his assistance, and invited him to retire from the
market, where the peoplq were becoming rather riotous.
Mr. Thompson, who scarcely understands French, followed
the gendarmes, and requested them to come to his house to
explain the affair to his family. There he felt the impru-
dence he had committed, and expressed the regret he ex-
perienced. The prices subsequently declined in the mar-
ket, and a few hours afterwards the same sack of flour sold
for 26E"

The IVforme mentions a trifling fall of 18 cen-
times in the price of flour in the Paris market on Sa-
turday. The transactions were calm and the sales
difficult. The price of the sack of flour of 157 kilo-
grammes continued from 117 f. to 125 f., according
to the quality.
Mademoiselle MARS, the greatest of French ac-
tresses, died on Saturday. She was in her 69th
year, having been born on the 19th Dec., 1778.
The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de l'Opera
on Sunday at 79f. 7ie., after having been at 79f. 15e.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, 3Ltacu 22. _

Boulogne and Amiens, 16%—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Constituted), I%—Dutch Rhenish, 4 4—East Indian, % —Louvain
a la Sambre, I—Luxembourg, I% —Namur and Liege, 43,4 —North-
ern of France, 13 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 6%—Paris and Lyons,
61,4—Paris and Rotten, 34% —Paris and Strasbourg, 2% —Rouen
and Havre, 26%—Sambre and Meuse. 64 .

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have issued
cards for a grand entertainment on Saturday next to their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Lord Brougham intends to leave town early in
the ensuing week for Paris, to pass the Easter recess in that
capital.
THE COLONIAL Brsuoraxcs.—lt has been defini-
tively settled by the Committee for the Management of the
Colonial Bishoprics Fund, that the present diocese of Aus-
tralia shall be divided into three separate sees ; the central
portion being superintended by the Right Rev. Dr. Brough-
ton, now Bishop of Australia, but whose title will henceforth
be Bishop of Sidney. The district of Port Philip -it is in-
tended shall also form a separate see, under the name of the
Bishopric of Melbourne. To this diocese the Reverend
Charles Perry. ALA., of Trinity College, has been appointed.
Out of the northern coast of New South Wales another
diocese, with a name to be derived from one of the principal
settlements (Newcastle or Maitland probably) will be formed.
The colony of South Australia is also forthwith to be erected
into a new diocese, and its first Bishop will be the Rev.
Augustus Short, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, now rector
of Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire. So soon as the Colo-
nial Bishoprics Fund shall admit, the Cape of Good Hope
and Sierra Leone, with other places, will be constituted se-
parate sees.
PRESENTATION OF COLOURS. PORTSMOUTH,
MARCH 22.—Her Majesty's 43d Regiment, of which Lieu.
tenant-General the Hon. Sir Hercules Pakenham, K.C.8., is
colonel, were presented with new colours this afternoon, on
Southsea Common, by the Hon. Lady Pakenham. The
colours were consecrated by the Rev. Mr. Madden, who was
some years since an officer in the regiment, and wounded in
it. The usual addresses were made on this occasion, but in-
stead of the general practice of the officers giving an expen-
sive ball and supper to their friends, they subscribed a con-
siderable sum of money, and gave all their soldiers and their
wives and children a good dinner, with plenty of pudding
and beer, and to each of the sergeants the addition of a bottle
of wine. Lieutenant- General Sir H. Pakenham will resign
the lieutenant• governorship of this garrison and the com-
mand of the south-western district to Major-General Lord
Fitaclarence early in the ensuing month.
THE COUNTY COURTS.—The District County Court
of Westminster, which includes the inhabitants west of
Temple-bar and Holborn-bars, south of Oxford-street. to
Bayswater, across Hyde-park to Sloane-street, and from
thence to the river by Chelsea Hospital, was opened (at pre-
sent in Castle-street, Leicester-square) on Wednesday last,
and will be open every day (Sundays excepted) between the
hours of 10 o'clock and 4. In this court and the other county
courts just established, all actions for debt or damage under
201., that is for moneys owing or matters of contract; all
cases of assault or injury to the person or goods in which the
damages claimed do not exceed 20/. ; all matters in dispute
between masters and servants, or masters and workmen,
under 201., may be tried and disposed of in less than 14 days.
A debt of 20/, may be recovered for less than 2L, which the
defendant would have to pay with the debt, and smaller
amounts at a proportionately less expense if parties attend in
person. The great advantage of these courts to the public
over the old system will be the expeditious mode in which
business will be disposed of, the small amount of expense
attending the proceedings, and that persons may see to
their own business (if so disposed) instead of employing at-
torneys or agents at a great expense, and often incurring,
from negligence or dishonesty, the ultimate loss of their
money. The evils thus counteracted had got to such a head
that parties frequently rather consider their debts under 20/.
as bad debts than go to law with the forlorn hope of reco-
vering them.
THE THEATRE AND THE Currics.—A Berlin cor-
respondent of the Leipsic Gazette gives an amusing instance
of misunderstanding between a theatrical manager and the
critics. Kustner, the manager, for some offence, withdrew
several free tickets from the litterateurs. No sooner had he
done this, however, than he began to dread the consequences.
To make himself secure he has addressed a note to the
critics, threatening that if they make any further attacks
upon him he will resort to the severest mode of punishment
—he will publish the mercenary letters he has received.
S e wads r GREAT
RUNNING MATCH FOR ONE HUNDRED
POUNDS.—Yesterday one of the most splendid races took
place at Gannick-corner, near Barnet, for 50/. a side, between
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well
known as two of the fastest runners of the present day. The
betting at starting was nearly equal. Both men got well off
together, and after one of the most speedy races ever wit-
nessed, Seward came in the winner by three yards. Westall's
friends lost large sums of money on this event.
THE LORD RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
GLASGOW.—We regret to learn that our city and University
are not to be honoured, during the approaching adjournment
of Parliament for the Easter holidays, by a visit from Lord
I John Russell, the newly elected Lord Rector of the Uni-
versity. His Lordship has 2, we are informed, acquainted the
authorities of the University, that in consequence of the
pressure of public business, he will not be able to visit Glas-
gow until the conclusion of the session ; and we understand
the present arrangement to be, that the installation will take
place on the Ist of November nest.—Glasgow Argus.
GLASGOW Pm IRON TRADE.—The trade has par-
taken of the general depression, and prices must be quoted a
shade lower; there are, however, few makers disposed to do
business just now, and the few transactions that have taken
place this week have been among dealers only. We quote
prices at 71s. nett cash for 3 stone 7lbs.—National Advertiser
of Saturday.
GLASGOW COTTON MARKET.—The dullness in the
cotton market which we have before noticed still continues,
and prices of American and Surat have given way per lb.
since this day week. The demand is very moderate, and all
from the trade.—National Advertiser.