The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-29 00:00:00

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.

A correspondent of one of. these journals gives
the following account of the conduct of the new
POPE, while a Nuncio at Naples, during the pre-
valence of the cholera.
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" In 1836 I was at Naples, where I had the honour of being
personally acquainted with the present Pope, who was re-
siding there as Nuncio. He left in that city souvenirs which
can never be effaced, particularly from the hearts of the poor.
At the time of the cholera, he sold his carriages, his furni-
ture, and his plate, and distributed the proceeds amongst
the unfortunate persons attacked by that disease. During
the whole of the time that it lasted he never ceased to give
to the sick the consolations of religion, and also aid from his
purse. He was always on foot in the visits which he paid
to them and when observations were made to him on this
point, 1:e replied—' When the poor of Jesus Christ are dying
in the streets, his ministers ought not to go through them in
iaso.'"
Accounts to the 20th have been received from
Algiers. In consequence of the massacre of the
wounded French in the province of Constantine,
by the Arabs, several French colonists have become
so alarmed that they have deemed it prudent to retire
to Bona. A band of Kabyles on the 12th suddenly
attacked a detachment of the garrison of Bugia
which had sallied forth to cut hay in the neighbour-
ing plains. The mowers were compelled to fall back
on the troops.
The Journal du Havre devotes a large space to a
letter from the master of a French trading vessel, the
Ville de Caudebec, giving an account of his having
been run against by the Highlander, of Liverpool,
in March last, and materially injured without any
offer of assistance being made afterwards by the
master of the English vessel, of whom
he speaks in the most contemptuous manner.
It having become known in Paris on Thursday
that the PEEL Administration was really near to its
close, the Bourse was much agitated. Stocks and
shares, the latter especially, declined.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thurs-
day at 82f. 85c. ; the Five per Cents., 120 f. 35c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,242 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,005 f. ; Havre,
725 f. ; Great Northern, 716 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 870 f. ; Vier-
zoi, 622 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 580 f. ; Boulogne, 465 f. ; Basle,
217 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 405 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 487 f. 50c. ;
Tours and Nantes, 507 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 530 f. ;
Spanish Three per Cents., 373/4.
The following are the quotations in the new lines :
Lyons and Avignon, definitives, 498 f. 75c. ; Bordeaux
and Cette, definitives, 470 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 26.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12.74—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), 1 4—Central of Spain, 74—Jersey, 34—Luxembourg,
I%—Lyons and Avignon, 134—Northern of France Constituted,
134—Orleans and Bordeaux, 9N—Paris and Lyons Constituted,
574—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 41,4—West Flanders, 314,

SIR Rontawr PEEL. The statement that Sir
Robert Peel left town for Osborne House immedi-
ately after the Cabinet Council on Friday, was erro-
neous. The Right Hon. Baronet remained during
the whole afternoon at his residence in Whitehall-
gardens.
On Saturday, at twelve o'clock, Sir Robert Peel
left his residence in Whitehall-gardens, for Osborne
House, Isle of Wight, to have an audience of her
Majesty. Sir Robert was accompanied from town
by one of his sons. Sir Robert proceeded to the
terminus of the South-Western Railway, and left by
the half-past twelve o'clock train.

We understand that Mr. Dean has resigned the Chair-
manship of the Board of Customs, and that he is to be suc-
ceeded by Sir Thomas Fremantle, the present Deputy Chair-
man.—Observer.
We learn further that the Right Hon. George R.
Dawson, who has for some time been a member of the Board
of Customs, is to be appointed Deputy Chairman in the place
of Sir Thomas Fremantle.— Observer.
We have to record a further proof of the kind conside-
ration felt by Sir Robert Peel for the afflicted family of the
late Mr. Haydon. Not content with the prompt pecuniary
assistance extended to that lamented artist in the last hours
of his life, nor with the liberal sum transmitted to his be-
reaved widow and orphans, tke Premier has made permanent
provision for a son of the deceased by appointing him to the
situation of landing-waiter in the Customs.—Observer.
Mr. Augustus Paget, precis-writer to the Earl of
Aberdeen. has been appointed second paid attache to the
British Embassy at Paris.—Observer.
Mr. John Duncan, the African traveller, has just
arrived in London from Dahomey. He is the bearer of a
proposal from the King of Dahomey, an intelligent chief,
for the suppression of the slave trade. Such a treaty would
have the most beneficial effects, as the seaboard of Dahomey
is now the chief slaving ports on the west coast of Africa.
Mr. Duncan's description of his reception at the Court of
the King, is truly interesting, as showing the rapid progress
towards civilisation which has in a short time taken place
in that kingdom under the rule of a sagacious chief, and his
example bids fair to extend itself all over Soudan,
HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION,—Yesterday morning
the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Worcester, delivered a
sermon at St. Mark's District Chapel, North Audley-street,
on behalf of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of
the chest. The Rev. Prelate took his text from the 9th
chapter and 16th verse of the Gospel of St. Luke, and after a
very energetic appeal, a collection was made, amounting to
591. 9s. 7d.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JUNE 26.—There has been
a better demand for West India sorts this week, and the
market having been freely supplied with samples, about nine
hundred hogsheads and tierces have found buyers at steady
prices ; middliug to good grocery 523. to 555., fine 565. to
575., low middling fine 50s. to 515., loose brown to good
strong refining descriptions 48a. to 535. 6d. Nothing doing
in Mauritius or Bengals. Rum is still very quiet, and
nothing done worthy of notice.—Bristol Mercury.
ELECTION or CHIEF RABBI OF THE JEWS IN 'FRANCE.
—PARIS, JUNE 17.—At seven o'clock this evening the Central
Consistory and the delegates met at the Hotel de Ville, to
proceed to the election of a Chief Rabbi. Messrs. Anspach
and Halevy were not present, and Dr. Callen, the delegate of
the districts of Paris, entered rather a serious protest against
the proceedings of the college, and abstained from voting.
The result of the scrutiny appeared to be as follows : the
number of votes were eighteen, out of which Chief Rabbi
Ennery had 17.—L' Univers Israelite.
DESTITUTION IN HARRIS.—If the Shetlanders are
badly off, the poor Hebrideans of this island are in a much
worse condition. Contrary to expectation, the potato crop
which was stored in pits, turned out all but a complete failure,
hundreds of barrels having been found, on examination pre-
paratory to planting, in an unsound state, and not even fit
for cattle. Many of the tenants who were wont to have
60 and 100 barrels, could not muster a sufficient quantity
for seed; and it was with great difficulty that many procured
the same even at an exorbitant price. The potato crop being
thus nearly exhausted, nothing remains for their support
but a part of the small supplies of barley and black oats,
which grow on the bleak and sterile hill sides, or in the
mossy swamps on the low ground—and with many this is
even exhausted. If such, then, is the present condition
of the tenants, what must that of the paupers be, who are
almost wholly dependent on them for support—albeit
the tenants pay 3Ad. per pound of assessment for the
poor on the amount of rent payable by them? One
case of death from alleged starvation has already oc-
curred near Tarbert. Such is the destitute state of the
poor, that they go to the sea-shore and gather limpets,
cockels, and other shell-fish ; and by digging in the
sands of Scarista, they get a species of small fish
called sand eels. On these, and these only, do many of
them subsist. Even the bed-ridden, who, from dire
necessity, are forced to leave their sick beds and crawl
along to the sea-shore, live on shell-fish. I learn from
one of those unfortunate people, that half-a-barrel of
cockles is required for the support of his family (three in
number) every two days, allowing only two meals per diem,
sad that he has to dig several square yards of sand before
getting sufficient to fill his creel. The poor man says that
staintiaonne;;
if he had as much meal as would enable him to take a little
gruel with the cockles, he would feel contented.—Caledonian
Mercury.
dressed like a mechanic, called at a bookseller and
A COUNTRYMAN AT FAULT.—On Wednesday morning,
Imvhinicstherwasf
Place.
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inquiries,said inquired
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at Stratford-
Place. feogrude-
in his pocket on thealtTch office of the London and West-
banking-house in Stratford,
place. Ile was told the
he produced trhee
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Ile stated he
was
draft,
mus,t, be at
the latter bank, which is 4, Stratford-place.
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Stratford.ha d conie
the shop for that purpose. —Essex Stundwd.
CAMBRIDGE HORSE Yam—This fair, which is cele-
brated for its great show of horses, commenced on Tuesday,
and continued three days. The supply this year was exceed-
The best description of
ingly good. young carriage horses
uin •
35 to 45 g
fetched prices varying from
reached guineas each, and
well-
matched pairs of greys or baysas high as 140 guineas.
1 and sound hunters made from 45 to 50 guineas,
and Well-bred
and adapted for
and those of high pedigree, Cart horses sold at heavy country,
mate 0 and 70 guineas.
from 16 to prices varying
from 15 to 25 guineas, and colts lB guineas each.
10/ and •
unbroken sold from 51. to pairs broken to
Ponies
guineas the pair. One •
harness made from 24 to 30 gi pair of
pyebald ponies fetched 45 guineas. There was a
good busi-
nesser cwt. ;
565.
in cheese. The best old made and 60s. P
new and inferior quality 455. to 50s. per cwt.
as one of the
A MAD Doc.—On Fiilay, about , noon
• one of
Clapton omnibuses was passing through Mare-street,
dog of the bull- terrier
the horses was seized by the nose by a
I T
breed, which was only got off with so
me difficuty
m amongst the passe he
rs-
cry of "Mad dog" excited much alarm amongst
an ,
by and through the village, and after a brisk dspeedy
chase the animal was destroyed in a yard at Homerton,
where it had taken refuge.