The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, x 346.

The affair of the French Consul in the Mauri-
tius is the subject of comment in most of these papers.
The Notional says, after quoting the account
which we gave yesterday—
" Such are the facts as they are reported. Hitherto
the offence appears evidently to have been given by an
English agent to a representative of France, and yet
England has been the first to complain; for we are
assured that M. Guizot has received from London a
dispatch, couched in very strong terms, demanding the
recal of M. Barbet de Jouy, and threatening, in case of
delay, to withdraw his exequatur, which is saying, in
fact, that he shall be turned out of this land. It is thus
shown that Lord Palmerston eagerly seizes all oppor-
tunities, good or bad, to excite misunderstanding and
create a quarrel. But this time neither a marriage nor
a dower is in question, and, though he spends his ill-
humour upon another affair, !leis convinced that be will
find M. Guiz as yielding and accommodating as he
was haughty, stiff, and tenacious in the matter of
30,000,000 f."

The Quotidienne which, like all the Legitimatbt
organs, is of course but too happy to have an oppor-
tunity of finding fault with English officials, com-
ments upon this occurrence in the same strain, and
lauds the French Consul to the skies. In remarking
on the demand of Lord PALMERSTON for the recal of
M. BAREET DE JOUY, the Quotic&nne says—

" The answer to this imperious demand would be easy
for other men. Has nut England a consul at Algiers
without any regular exequatur, and whose residence
there bas been for sixteen years a living protest against
the glorious conquest of the Restoration, an insult sub-
mitted to with marvellous patience ? But it is muTh
more in conformity with the temperament'of the systeme
to recal M. Barbet de Jouy. His name will be inscribed
on the long and honourable list of the disavowed, which
was opened with the name of Admiral Dupetit Thottars.',
The Debuts has a long article on the affairs of
America, in the course of which it rejoices at the fall
of Mr. POLE, which it anticipates cannot be much
longer delayed. It specks, indeed, of his defeat as of
Ittz fait accompli, and adds':—
Mr. Polk has been beaten because he deserved to be
sO;for entering upon an unjust war, perilous not only
for the honour of the American arms, but for the very
institutions of his country, and for carrying on this im-
politic war with great rashness and great want of finan-
cial foresight."

Almost all the journals comment on the wording of
NI. GUIZOT'S protest against the annexation of
Cracow, which we gave yesterday from the Presse.
The Opposition papers all consider it as a very tame
affair, utterly deficient in that energy which it was
said it would exhibit, and concerning which the
organs of the Ministry have recently made such a
flourish.

-It was rumoured on the Bourse on Thursday that
the Spanish Ministry had resigned.
Coo RS AUTIIENTIQV F..—PARIS, DEC. 10.—French Five per
Cents., 118 f. sc. 10e.; Four per Cents., 105 f. 60c. Three per
Cents., 80f. 83c. 85c. 80e. 85c. 90c. 85c. ; Bank Actions,
3,195 f.; Rente de Naples (Rothschild's), 102 f. 50e. ; Romans,
1.00 ; Belgian Five Per Cents. (1840), 100A,i- ; Five per
Cents. (1842), 101; Spanish, 83. Exchange on London—
one month, money, 25f. 45c. ; three months, money, 25f. 30c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAY:; AT nth
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 11.
Anglo-Belgian, 3—Dutch Rhenish, 434—East Indian, %
—Jamaica South Midland Junction, 114—Luxembourg, 3%1
—Orleans and Bordeaux, B—Paris and Lyons Constituted.
s—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4—Sambre and Meuse,
1124—Teurnav, Jurbise, Landeu, and Hasselt, 614—West
Flanders, 27. g.