The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-10 00:00:00

IND TIIEATRE.
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tion of the Infante Don ENRIQUE, to whom it was inti-
mated that he had better lose no time in setting
,ut on his travels. The Infante accordingly
embarked immediately, and on the sth arrived at
Gocoa, and immediately proceeded to St. Jean de Luz.
lie was expected to arrive at Bayonne in the evening.
iris father, Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, held a levee at
Madrid on the 2d, which was brilliantly attended.

The Duke and Duchess of SAXE COBURG GOTBA
lauded on the 3d at Barcelona.
General O'DoNNELL has been recalled from Cuba, and
General RoNCALI has been appointed Governor of the
Island.

MORIAN; the singer, has been decorated with the
Cross of ISABELLA the Catholic.

MADRID, BOLSA, APRIL 2.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 31 3-16 at 30 days ; the Five per Cents. were
not quoted ; the shares of the Bank of San Fernando
were 280 ; ditto of Isabel, 170.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.

On the previous day the Minister of the Interior had
stated iri the Chamber of Deputies, in reply to M. LEDRIS
ROLLIN, that it would be attended with danger to the
public service to give any information at present on the
subject of the disturbances at St. Etienne ; but that,
hereafter, he would give every information in his power
on the subject of these disturbances.
The Courrier de Saint Etienne of the 6th instant
.-ays

" The strike still continues, but it is easy to perceive that
he mass of the miners are only restrained from resuming
work by the moral influence exercised over them by the most
ardent of their companions. Yesterday morning the men
if the Cote Thiolliere were about to go down into the pits,
when a large troop of the dissentients came and forced them
away."

The Courrier de Lyon of the same day has the follow-
ing :

" At the moment of going to press, we learn that the
directors of the Compagnie Generale des Mines have taken
measures to satisfy their men that the reports of the inten-
tion of the company to reduce the rate of wages was totally
unfounded."
The subject of free trade seems to be progressing in
France. The following article on this subject, from the
Journal des Debats, will be read with feelings of interest
by every free-trader. It is evident from this article, for
the Debuts is a semi-official journal, that the French
Ministers are much in advance of the Legislature in the
science of political economy.
" The absolute isolation of nations, which is the object of
prohibitionists, is a countersense in the present day. Is it
peace or war which exists in Europe ? Is it peace or war
which ought to be encouraged? Is the most evident proba-
bility in favour of peace or war? What is a peace in which
commerce, destined to bind nations together, is subjected to
a thousand obstacles, a thousand delays; a thousand vexa-
tions? If it is the maintenance of peace that Governments
demand and ought to demand, they go right against their
object in placing at each frontier excessive tariffs, like an
unscaleable wall. Foreigner remains synonymous with
enemy, just as if the cannon was still roaring, fora free trade
between two nations is publicly qualified as a tribute paid to
a foreign power, in place of becoming in the official language
what it really is, a profitable arrangement for both parties, what
is done but to excite relative to commerce those ideas of
hostility and implacable jealousy, of which the political
effects are so justly dreaded? It has been declared a
thousand times to the friends of prohibition, without their
being able to give it an answer, that these abso-
lute prohibitions, these exorbitant duties, place every-
thing on a wrong footing, and in the end injure the very
persons they were intended to protect. Let us take, for
instance, the fabrication of linen threads and cloths by
machinery. Great Britain, in whose manufactories work is
done on so immense a scale, had produced a complete revolu-
tion in this article, and it was necessary to raise ourselves
to a level with her. The principal impediment in this
improvement consists in the dearness of the spinning
machines. What, however, is done! At the moment
that England permits the exportation of these machines,
hitherto prohibited, in place of opening to them every
entrance free of duty for a period of four or five years,
which would infallibly produce the creation of numerous
spinning factories, the duty on them, already elevated, has
been augmented to an extreme amount. This, forsooth, is
called protecting the national labour. It must be stated
that this most ill-judged measure is one of those which the
orators of the League delight in referring to most frequently,
to prove to their auditory to what inconsistencies the prohi-
bitive system was sure to lead. Quite lately even ideas of
free trade, presented with extreme moderation, and with due
regard to the prejudices of nations, excited a sort of disdain.
They were considered mere Utopian schemes, young men's
dreams. Adam Smith was a madman, political economists
light heads ; and in order to merit the title of a practical man,
the first condition was to greet free trade, even in a miti-
gated point of view, with a smile. The practical man in
commercial matters was he who •had no fixed principle;
who had neither read nor written anything on the subject,
if not to cause a laugh against pnlitical economy. What do
practical men think of the matter at present? Is Sir R.
Peel a practical man? Is the avowal which he has made of
his old prohibitive illusions an error, or the act of a great
statesman, strong in his knowledge and his conviction? Is
the striking homage which he has rendered to the memory
of Adam Smith the enthusiasm of an unthinking scholar?
We know well that our prohibitive gentlemen will say—
' Oh, this is another Machiavellian trick of la perfide Albion.
England, which produces everything cheaper than other
nations, has nothing to fear from the general reduction of
duties; let us not be the dupes of this ruse de guerre.'
What England, however, produces cheaper than others is
not wheat, which is certainly as important a matter as any
other; nor glass, paper, silk goods, nor articles of fashion, or
bronzes. The act of ie English Government is a sincere
one, inspired by a profound conviction. This conviction
takes Its origin in facts, and the result is, that the English
;Government takes this step the first without demanding a
return from any one; it is not a bargain which it makes
with other nations, but an example which it gives. It is an
act of enlightened policy, a decisive demonstration in favour
of the peace of the world, which thus receives a precious
pledge. From what passes in England it must come to pass
that in France, as elsewhere, in consequence of the move-
ment that has declared itself, the old prohibition system will
be shaken, and that the duties will be successively modified
so as to facilitate free trade. The formidable phrase of a
tribute paid to foreign powers will lose its power and prestige.
It will .be generally understood that commercial - trans-
actions profit the two contracting parties, nation and nation
as well as individual and individual. Already some Govern -
'rents, shaken by the example of Great Britain, give the
signal. Absolute prohibitions will disappear from the
code of nations, from ours at least, where they are still so
multiplied. It will be admitted that it is good for foreign
ccmpetition to make itself be felt, in order to stimulate ma-
nufacturing improvements. The various great interests of
the kingdom are as little tractable in England as with us,
and yet we find that they yield to evidence, and accept what
is commanded by the general interest. We do not deny
that absolute liberty of commerce is, like perpetual peace, a
Utopian scheme ; but still it is one of those schemes which
we ought to endeavour to approach as much as possible, and
towards which we ought each day to make a step. The
ultra-conduct of the partisans of the prohibitive system has
at length produced a reaction which will impel us strongly
in the course just alluded to. Such is the state of things,
and we consider it fortunate for the country."
The 11ational gives vent to its Anglo-phobia in an
article which only proves that the writer is annoyed by
our recent triumphs in India, representing the victories

of Moodkee, Feroz2shah, Aliwal, and Sobraon, as being
merely gained by disciplined troops over a horde of
barbarians, forgetting that those barbarians had been
drilled, trained, and instructed for years by AVITABILE,
ALLAItD, and VENTURA, who had learned the art
of war under NAPOLEON, and who had fre-
quently led
.the Seikhs to victory. The men,
however, who shrunk not from Seikh cannon will
hardly be " frighted from their propriety" by the
"p,Ter pellets" of the National. The account given in
the .Fentaphore of Marseilles of the defeat of a large
Arab force near Tlemcen, by General CAVAIGNAC, is
confirmed. The combat, it appears, was very obstinate,
and the Arabs lust 100 killed. The French also had a
great number killed (among them one officer), and
Colonel CAGNON, of the Hussars, had a horse killed
under him.

The Fromm Algerienne (an Algiers journal) of the 2d
says :—" As we were going to press we learned that a
telegraphic dispatch had been received announcing that
AI3D•EL-KADER, having been surprised by General
YUSUF, has withdrawn with a small number of horsemen
to the tribe of the Ouled Sidisi Skihs, to the south of
the Chots, and consequently to the south of our posses-
:ions in the west, towards the frontier of Morocco.
This news appears certain, and it is added that the Ex-
Emir, beaten, pursued, and hunted by our troops, ac-
knowledges himself that he is unable to continue any
longer the struggle in which he has been so long en-
gaged."

M. Oct,ER late Colonel of the 7th Legion of the
National Guards of Paris, and who was a candidate for
reelection, has been rejected by a large mokrity, because
as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies he voted for
the indemnity to Mr.PRITCHARD; such,"at least, is the
cause assigned by the Siecle for his rejection.
The Stocks and Shares again improved on the Paris

Bourse on Wednesday.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 75c. ; the Five per
Cents., 120 f. 30c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,237 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 1,040 f.; Havre, 747 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 765 f.;
Avignon, 917 f. 50c ; Vierzon, 695 f. ; Bordeaux, 634-'.l.
9•
Boulogne, 505 f.; Troyes and Montereau, 420 f. • Basle, 232 f.
50e. ; Dieppe, 450 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 525 f.; Tours and
Nantes, 547 f. 50c. ; Par:s and Lyons, 580 f. ; Belgian Two-
and-a Half per Cents., 56%; Spanish Three per Cents., 36%.

The following are the quotations for other lines:—
Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot), 508 f.; ditto (Le-
cointe), 503 f. : ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 502 f. 50c.;
Vordeaux and. Cette (Mackenzie), 502 f. 75c.; ditto (Espe-
Iota), 509 f.; Cl iarleroy, 490 f. '
LYONS, AP:au. 6.—Marseilles and Avignon, 921 f. 255. i
Paris and Chie ans, 1,232 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,032 f. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIIIN RAILWAYS AT TIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Arm'. 9.
Butch Rhenia k, iN —East India', % —Great Northern of France
Constituted, 15-- Great Indian Peninsular, %—Great Western Ben-
gal, %—Louvain and Jeinappe,l%—Luxembourg, 1 %—Namur and
Liege, I%—Orlet 'us and Vierzon, 16%—Orleans and Bordeaux,
10%— Over Ywel, 3—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, s%—Rouen
and Havre, 29.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.—A notice has been given
that the Tweet steamer's passage to Madeira baying been
protracted, fro es heavy weather, for nearly five days beyond
the estimated t ime, it is expected, in consequence, that the
corresponding ship from the West Indies, whose departure
from Bermuda dependent upon the arrival of the Tweed,
will not reach 1 iouthampton until two or three days later
than the usual d de. No anxiety need, therefore, be felt in
the event of a delay thus fully accounted for.
THE BERKEI WELL MORDER.—James Read, who has
been acquitted I f the above murder, has just been appre-
hended for the robbety of Mr. Trantor's handkerchief and
waistcoat, and ill is in Birmineihalli•