The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-17 00:00:00

English cholera is exceedingly prevalent in their
vicinity. At Sherbourne no less than thirty -four in-
dividuals, out of a population of scarcely 500 soul 4,
have been destroyed by that malady. 1 Im,ster meet-
ings are being again convened in Ireland, with
the avowed purpose of calling the attention of
those in authority to the prevalence of destitution
and the-dismal and portentous aspect of the future.
The potatoes are again diseased—the very foliage of
the hedges is blackened and scorched by the infec-
tion—thousands are unemployed—money and meal
are rapidly diminishing—and a sullen despondency
characterises the afflicted districts. The Ministers
will assuredly have no idle moments after the proro-
gation of Parliament.

Tranquillity is by no means completely re-esta-
blished in Austrian Galicia. Although the insurrec-
tionary movement has been put down, incendiarism
is increasing, and the peasantry, in every instance,
refuse to render the least assistance in extinguishing
the flames. The following is from the Breslau
Gazelle :

"A traveller was lately going in all haste from Wieliezka
to Bochnia, when, just as he reached Gdow, he perceived
a considerable fire raging at about a league from the high
road. Soon afterwards two men on horseback arrived,
crying, Open the barrier quickly.' They were two
domestics from the burning chateau, who came to demand
assistance from the commandant of the garrison, the pea-
sants having set fire to the barns which contained all the
product of the late harvest. The owner of the chateau,
having called on the peasants to assist in extinguishing the
flames, offering to each of them a recompense of live francs,
they laughed in his face. The commandant of the cara-
bineers immediately sent twenty-four men to protrct and
escort the unfortunate proprietor, Baron de Lipowski, to
Slawkowice. Fires are seen almost every night in different
parts of the country. The Galician peasants, who are at
this moment in a most demoralised state, seize on every op-
portunity to injure the lords, either by destroying their pro-
perty or attacking their lives. Such are the results of the
deplorable revolt which has taken place; the innocent and the
guilty suffer from the same blow."
The Emperor of RUSSIA has ordered a large force
to be concentrated in Volhynia at the beginning of
September.

The Duke of SAXE COBURG-GOTHA has issued an
ordonnance, ordering all proprietors of game to pay
the farmers for the damage the game may do to the
crops, and authorising the farmers to kill game when
it does too much damage, provided they first give
notice of their intention to the forest keepers.
The King of DENMARK has addresSed the following
rescript to the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauen-
bourg :
"We have been informed that at a public meeting held
on the 20th of July, at Neutnunster, there were discussions
on the subject of our Royal Proclamation of the Bth, con-
cerning the order of succession in the Duchies of Schleswig-
Holstein and Lauenbourg, and the relations in which they
stood with regard to Denmark in:virtue of public right, and
that resolutions were come to having for their object to act
contrary to what we had published on that subject. We
therefore see ourselves placed in the sad necessity of adopt-
ing measures to prevent in future such steps, which cannot
be tolerated. It is consequently enjoined on the police au-
thorities of the Duchies of Holstein not to permit any meet-
ings where the relations above alluded to shall be made the
subject of discussion, or where it may be proposed to draw
up petitions in order to exercise an influence on the said re-
lations, and not to permit any announcement of such meet-
ings to appear in the journals, and to immediately dissolve
any such meetings at which questions of the kind may be
raised. It is at the same time prohibited to circulate any
petitions concerning such objects, and to collect signatures,
even in the places where there may be no meetings."

Madrid papers of the Bth have arrived. The
Herald() has another violent article on the subject of
Portugal, recommending the invasion of that country,
nominally "to require the execution of existing
treaties as regards Spanish emigrants," but really to
restore to power the CABRALS, the tools of the
Afrancesado faction. The army assembled
in 1820 for the invasion of South America,
proclaimed the Constitution in the Isla de
Leon, and freed Spain from despotism. It
is not impossible, but that the army destined for
the invasion of Portugal may follow their example.
Desertions to the Portuguese take place daily, not-
withstanding the ferocious bandos of Villalonga, and
it is evident that, the Spanish army is by no means
well disposed towards the existing order of things.
The same paper publishes accounts from Lisbon of the
4th, which represent a Miguelite movement as impend-
ing in the north of Portugal. We do not attach much
credit to this rumour. It has been the policy of the
CABRALS and their supporters to represent every
movement in Portugal as Miguelite. Even the move-
ment which ended in their banishment, and in placing
in pc,ver Viscount SA DA BANDEIRA., the chief of the
Septembristas, and one of the few honest states-
men whom Portugal possesses, was represented
by the CABRALS as Miguelite in its
origin. The arrival of Don FRANCISCO D'Asgs
was dully expected in Madrid. 'F he Duke DE
'TERRAGUAS has been appointed eorregi(lor of
Madrid, in the room of the Marquis of PENA-
FLORIDA.

MADRID BOLSA, AUGUST B.—The Three per
Cents. V* er e dune at 33-k for cash; the Five per Cents.
at 22 ; the Four per Cents. at 21i ; the Passives at
; end the Coupons at 20.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
HENRY was examined on Wednesday by Duke
PASQUIER, the Chancellor, and the other members
of the Commi,4sion.

The Di,bats says that he has confessed that one of
the pistols was loaded with a piece of rod-iron of the
,:alibre of the pistols ; but the Gazette des Tribuneaux
asserts that he has still refused to declare how the
pistols were loaded. The distance from the spot
from whence HENRY fired, to the balcony, has been
measured, and found to he 61 metres.
The Rlinister of Public Works is going on a tour
of inspection along the coast. On Wednesday he left
Ilavre for Honfleur.

The distribution of the prizes of the Concours
Giineral, between the colleges of Paris and Versailles,
took place on Wednesday, in the large amphitheatre
of the Sorbonne, which was crowded on the occasion
GUIZOT, who had just returned from the country,
was present, and took his seat on the bench reserved
for the professors of the faculty of letters. Precisely
Ott twelve o'clock the 'Minister of Public Instruction,
Grand Master of the University, entered, preceded
by the deans of the faculties, the academic
council, the inspectors-general, and the royal
council. As soon AS M. DE SALVANDY had
taken the chair, the usual Latin oration was pro-
nounced by M. FEUGERE, professor of rhetoric at the
Royal College of HENRI iv. When this was con-
cluded, the Minister of Public Instruction addressed
the pupils. After which, M. BOURDON, Inspector-
General of the University, rose to read the list of
the prizes. The first prize for the second class of Greek
composition was awarded to PAUL DE SALYANDY,
,on of the Minister of Public Instruction.
The pupils, when his name was proclaimed,
applauded loudly, and did the same when the
name of young VICTOR lIUGO was announced
fur the first accessit of Greek translation en
seconde. On the name of young GUIZOT being
twice proclaimed for prises in the fifth class,
for Latin translation, nearly the whole assembly rose
ipontaneously and turned their eyes towards M.
GUIZOT. The son of CASIMIR DELAVIGNE had an
accessit in Latin composition. The announcement
was followed by a loud call for the Parisienne, which
was played when the prizes had been all pro-
claimed, the Minister of Public Instruction first ob-
serving that he had ordered that this should be the
case before the call was made from the galleries, and,
a s
stated that over, the
however irregular that was, he would not retract
his determination from respect to the memory of the
illustrious pcet who had bequeathed this national song
tolinFisrtaetricoef.
Public Instruction
th e Parisienne
rose,
oseand
the business of the day was ended.
The pupils who had gained the principal prizes
afterwards dined with M. DE SALVANDY, the Minister
of Public Instruction. The young VICTOR lIUGO,
CASIMIR DELAVIGNE, and GUIZOT, were specially in-
vited. Some of the papers state that M. GUIZOT, on
his entrance, was saluted with virats by the majority
of the audience, although some of them struck up the
chorus from the opera of Charles VI., "Jamais en
France l'Anglais ne regnera," but that when his son
was announced as one of the Laureats, the cheers
were general and enthusiastic.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 83f. 65c. ; the Five per Cents., 1221'. 10c. ;
Rouen
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,270 f.;
.., 9E2f. 50F.;
Havre, 6931. 75c ; Great Northern, 70
non, 893 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 622 f. ; Bordeaux, aaf...i Avig-
Dieppe, 415 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 49.31. ; Tours and
Nantes, 5051. ; Paris and Lyons, 517 f.
50e. Lyons and Avig-
non, 4951.; Bordeaux and Cette, 4851.' Belgian, 2it. ;
Spanish Active, 320.; Ditto Three per Cents., 36%.
The following are the quotations for new lines !
MARSEILLES, Ana. B.—Mareilles anti Avignon, 872 f. 50c.;
Northern, 710 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 50.5 f. .11 902 f. 50c.
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