The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-30 00:00:00

All the journals, with the exception of the Russian
Presse, express their approval of the spirit exhibited
by all the London papers, without exception, in
peotesting against the usurpations of the Northern
Powers. The National, in an exceedingly well
written article, proves that the great culprit is the
Emperor NICHOLAS, and that Austria and Prussia
are merely his vassal states. The article in the
National, after stating that NICHOLAS represents the
barbarous idea of brute force, which he wishes to
reign paramount in the west of Europe, thus con-
cludes :—" He is Emperor, he commands brute
legions, he holds in his hands the life or the death of
50,000,000 of human beings ; the unity of empire is in
his person, he is at once legislator, judge, executioner,
and pontiff. He believes he has a mission, he has
given himself one at all events—it is to regenerate by
an infusion of Cossack blood the civilisation of the
west, grown luxurious and corrupt. It is with him
then, above all, that we must come to a strict ac •
count, and if this barbarian power is not checked in
its progress our own generation will perhaps find
itself compelled to make the choice which NAPOLEON
prophecial at St. Helena it would one day be the fate
of Europe to• make—to become Republican or Cos-
sack."

The Council-General of the Bank of France has
ust affixed its dividend for the second half-year of
[646 at 79f.

The French Three per Cents. were exceedingl
firm on Sunday in the Passage de l'Opera, at 80
90c. buyers.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 28.
Boulogne and Amiens, 15%—Great Indian Peninsular, %
Jamaica South Midland Junction, VA—Luxembourg, %
Namur and Liege, 314—Northern of France Constituted,
1034—Orleans and Vierzon, 1414—Paris and Lyons Con-
stituted, 81/2—Paris and Orleans, 491/2—Sambre and Meuse,
41/2—West Flanders, 3.

TREATMENT ofJE WS in HANOVER

IN 1846.
An act of barbarity has recently been perpetrated in
Germany against a Jew, which, to a certain extent, is
unparalleled in modern history. We call it unparalleled,
because it did not proceed from a frantic mob, but from
a deliberate Government—because it did not originate
in a heated populace, but was executed under corer of
the law. We abridge the melancholy particulars from
Der Jude:—

" Shulm Moses, a Jew about fifty years of age, was a
native of Germany, but his father having died in his
infancy, and he himself having with his mother (who
married a second time) led a wandering life for many
years, he could never ascertain his birth-place. He
subsequently settled in the kingdom of Hanover, married,
and became the father of three children. Having in the
spring of last year come under judicial examination, he
could not prove his country, and thus became, as it is
termed in the German law, homeless. Shulm, after a
fortnight's imprisonment, was released, receiving orders
to leave the country, and under penalty of corporeal
punishment, never more to enter it. No regard was
paid to his representation that having been settled in the
country for nearly half a century, and not knowing his
native country, the neighbouring Governments would
send him to the states whence he came, viz., Hanover.
He was first sent into the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg,
the authorities of which immediately sent him back to
Hanover. Having thns, though involuntarily, returned
into the country, the penalty of corporeal punishment
was inflicted, and he himself then sent into the neigh.
bouring duchy of Brunswick. The authorities returned
him again into Hanover, and the poor wretch underwent
a second time the degrading punishment for an involun-
tary act. Upon this he was sent into Prussia, but again
returned, and was again punished. It was a heart-
rending scene to behold the miserable Shulm in the
midst of the winter, on foot, laden with the few things
he still possessed, hunted about by the authorities from
place to place, and followed on foot by his wife, with a
babe at her breast, and two little children, one of five and
the other of four years old. At last, when no country
would receive him, he was kept in custody at Hoya, in
Hanover. It was in vain that a humane lawyer, Opper-
man, applied for him to the Diet of Frankfort : he re-
ceived no answer, and equally unsuccessful at first was
the application of Shulm to Government for means to
enable him to go to America. His benefactor then opened
a subscription, when the public showed itself more
humane than the Government. The latter, however, at
last came forward, and the miserable wretch was enabled
to embark at Bremen for America. Throughout the
whole transaction it is not the people of Hanover, but the
Government, that has behaved most inhumanly."—The
Voice of Jacob.

STORM AT GENOA.—A. letter from Genoa states,
;hat on the 12th instant a violent storm suddenly rose in
that neighbourhood, and caused considerable damage.
About four in the afternoon the commandant of the port,
perceiving the mercury to fall suddenly, and the wind to
change from north to south-west, sent word to the various
vessels to make all snug for a storm. Scarcely had
the intimation been given, when the tempest com-
menced, and raged for some time with dreadful fury.
The waves broke over the two moles and the quays,
and even sent their spray into the neighbouring streets.
The vessels lying in the harbour were driven violently
against each other, and in several cases injured. Three
were driven from their moorings and lost. One was
a Greek merchant brig, which was dashed against the
coast, and in five minutes was in pieces. The other
two were Sardinian craft, one a three-master and the
other a brig. The crews of the three vessels were saved,
with the exception of the three men belonging to the
Greek brig. Prince de Carignan, who exercises at Genoa
the functions of admiral, was busied for some hours on
the quays organising means of conveying help. Thirteen
men perished at Genoa, and the accounts from the coast
are terrible. The Dante steamer was at one time in great
danger, but fortunately escaped.
WOOLWICII.—SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION IN WOOL-
wicrt DOCKYARD.—Between seven and eight o'clock on
the evening of Christmas-day, one of the police con-
stables on duty in the dockyard, when near the great
chimney of the foundry, thought he perceived a spark
ascend from a place where about 300 tons of coals were
stored for the use of the foundry and boiler-makers'
department. On proceeding to the spot, to ascertain
whether there was any fire or not, he discovered that a
large quantity of the coals were in a state of combustion,
and from the quantity converted into coke it was evident
they had been burning some time. An immediate
alarm was given, and the crews of the vessels in the
basin and harbour were brought on shore to assist in
quenching the burning coals. A number of convicts
were also brought on shore from the Warrior hulk, and
continued at work until three o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing in removing the coals from the place where the fire
originated. It is not known by what means the com-
bustion began, but it was evident that it must have been
spontaneous. Some imagine the fire took place from the
coals having been placed on the wooden blocks of the
floor of the shed when in a damp state, and became
heated; others are of opinion that the spontaneous com-
bustion originated from the water of the coals passing
betwixt the blocks to the concrete, as that substance was
quite hot, and the outer sides of the wood deeply
charred, as if the fire had ascended from the concrete
betwixt the blocks. A full report of the circumstances
has been forwarded to the Admiralty, to be investigated.
STOPPAGE OP DISTILLERIES AND BREWERIES IN
IRELAND.—A meeting of the inhabitants of Belfast was
held in the Town Hall, on Thursday, to consider the
propriety of memorialising Government to suspend the
use of grain in distilleries and breweries while the exist-
ing scarcity of food continues in the country,
when the following resolutions were agreed to :
" That the present high price of provisions, and
the amount of distress prevailing in this country,
require every attention to the economising of food, and
that for this purpose measures of an extreme nature
should be adopted." "That with this view the meeting
is of opinion that all distillation from grain in these
kingdoms should be forthwith suspended." " That it is
the opinion of this meeting that brewing from grain in
these kingdoms should also forthwith be suspended."
It was then agreed that a memorial should be presented
to the Lord Lieutenant, and a deputation appointed to
wait on the Irish Government, and urge the necessity of
the immediate adoption of the measure.
AMUSEMENT AND GENEROSITY.—On Wednesday
Lerd Eglinton, with a rink of Kilwinning curlers,
played on Craufurdland Loch, against Reginald H. Crau-
turd, younger of Craufurdland, and an equal number of
Fenwick men, for two loads of meal and a cart of coals,
to he given to the p ,or of the winner; parish. After a
keenly contested game, victory declared for the Fenwick
Evening Post.

dates for the functions of President of the two Chambers.
There appears a sort of wish to deprive the Marquis de
Miraflores of his post as President of the Senate, as he
has been reproached with entering into relations with
some Members of the Opposition. In the Chamber of
Deputies it appears certain that M. Bravo Murillo will
be put forward for the Presidentship; an opponent will,
however, be found in the ranks of the Ministerial party,
as the Deputies devoted to Narvaez intend giving their
support to M. Castro y Orozco, who can also reckon on
the votes of a certain number of personal friends. The
candidate of the ' Puritans' will be M. Pacheco; and
of the Progressists General Evariste San Miguel. The
feeling of rivalry which exists between M.. Murillo and
M. Castro y Orozco is an additional proof of the want
of accord which exists in the Spanish Cabinet, and
which must lead to a speedy modification of it. The
Ministry had for a moment adopted the idea of refusing
a passport to M. Olozaga, to prevent his taking his seat
in the Cortex, but it gave way before the scandal which
it was feared such a step would cause. Another plan
was devised, which was to sound some of the Deputies
who were in favour of the exclusion of M. Olozaga, and
get them to promise to bring forward a proposition to
that effect, when the electoral returns were being
verified. The Ministry hoped in this way to get the
man excluded without causing his direct proscription.
The result of the elections put a stop to this plan. The
Progressists expected, at most, to obtain forty votes in
the new Chamber, and the Ministry did not think their
number would be even so great. The electors, however,
have sent about one hundred Opposition Members, and
in addition all the eminent speakers of the Progressis'
party have been returned. The proposition to exclude
M. Olosaga would, therefore, give rise to a long discus-
sion, in which the Ministerial orators would not have the
best of it. The Ministry would undoubtedly obtain the
majority, but all the scandal of an arbitrary measure
would rest with it. It is, therefore, probable that the
Ministry will not call forth a debate which would turn
to its own confusion."