The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN last sat down to write. He is
guilty of downright plagiarism. The powerful firm
established at Conciliation Hall has distinctly given
out that it has "no connexion with the shop over the
way." This was, no doubt, very annoying to the
Member for Limerick just as be was starting in
business; but no degree of annoyance can justify his
running off with his rival's stock. If he has no
original ideas of his own, he had better shut up his
premises at once, and this is what we earnestly ad-
rise as the best thing to be done.

A letter from Lucerne, published in the Nouvelliste
Vaudois, states that Prince SCIIWARTZENBERG,
colonel in the Austrian service, is expected at Lu-
cerne to direct the military operations of the Catholic
League. Everything continues quiet at Bale, at:So-
leure, and in the Valais. In .the elections at Bale the
Liberal candidates have been returned by an im-
mense majority.

Madrid papers to the 16th have arrived. They
contain no news of any importance. Mr. HEN-
DERSON, the delegate from the Spanish bondholders,
had arrived at Madrid, but had not, up to that date,
had an interview with the Finance Minister, Senor
MON.

MADRID BOLSA, Nov. 16.—The Three per Cents,
were done at 334 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at
20i ; the Five per Cents. at 21 ; the Coupons al
IJ ; and the Debt without Interest at 64.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The annexation of Cracow to Austria is the subject
of comment in all of them, except the Journal des
Debats. Lord PALMERSTON, it would appear, has
already protested against this proceeding on the part
of the three Powers. The Constitutionnel says, "It
was on Tuesday, the 17th, that the Prussian Minister
communicated to Lord NORMANDY the decision corm'
to by the three Northern Powers on the subject (
Cracow, and the Ambassador immediately dispatched
the intelligence to his Government. A letter which
we have received from. London informs us that Lord
PALMERSTON, on the part of England, immediately
protested against this decision.
A letter from Berlin published in the National
represents the confiscation of Cracow as wholly the
work of Russia, and as a step towards the formation
of that Eastern empire which it has been the constant
ambition of every Russian ruler since PETER th(
GREAT to construct.

" That Austria," says this writer, " should have
desired to seize this territory is not astonishing. it
has been a craving desire which has never left MET-
TERNICII since 1815. Prussia had no material in-
terests whatever in connexion with Cracow. Russia
alone was opposed to this desire, and her consent to
it it the present moment is a master stroke of policy
for the following reasons :-1. Hitherto she alone
has been exposed to the attacks of the whole world
for her usurpations and her violence towards Poland ;
now Austria will share with her the same
responsibility and the remembrance of the re-
cent events in Galicia is sufficient to cause
the Government of Prince -METTERNICH to be
classed in the same category as that of the CZAR.
2. Russia, having in the same convention obtained
the recognition of her right to treat the ancient
kingdom of Poland as an integral portion of her
empire, all the protests and remonstrances that can
be made on the part of France and England against this
continuing infraction of the first article of the Treaty of
Vienna will remain powerless against this association
of the three Powers. There will then no longer be
any distinct administration, nor the least hope of
either representation or of national institutions. All
these guarantees are destroyed by the new right'
which the three Powers have just sanctioned. 3.
By this small concession of Cracow to Prussia, and
by compensations quite as slight accorded to
Prussia, Russia attaches these Powers to her
own policy as regards whatever she may hereafter
undertake, in pursuit of the constant object of her
ambition, the possession of the Bosphorus. Austria
and Prussia being much more vulnerable than Russia,
will necessarily stand in need of her assistance against
all the eventualities of the west. Henceforth they
cannot detach themselves from the CMAR." That these
are the views and designs of Russia in thus exciting
Austria to this act of wicked spoliation there can be
little doubt. It seems that the EMPEROR is already
preparing to carry into execution his ambitious de-
signs against the independence of the southern pro-
vinces of Europe, which are again threatened with an
irruption of savage barbarians from the North. A
letter from Odessa, published in the Univers, states
that the Emperor NICHOLAS had ordered the con-
centration of an army of 160,000 men in Wolhynia.
" Against whom," asks the writer,
" Are these preparations intended? Their object is
surrounded with the greatest mystery. Some believe
that the Czar is intent on carrying out the Pansclavism
scheme, others that those armaments are intended for
the Caucasus, where the Russian troops have of late sus-
tained several defeats, and others connect them with the
long meditated plan. of establishing the great Eastern
empire."
In the meantime France is not slow in taking ad-
vantage of this flagrant violation of the Treaty of
Vienna by the three Northern Powers. By that
treaty it was stipulated that the fortress of Hunnin-
gen should remain for ever dismantled. " Why should
not France," asked the Debuts of Saturday,
that the Treaty of Vienna is violated, proceed to re.
construct the fortress of Hunningen ?" And in the
Debuts of the following day we find the following
announcement :

" now

"Four companies have received orders to march from
the garrisons of Mulhouse and Belfort, and take up their
quarters at Hunningen, it is believed, for the winter."
These troops are accompanied by two officers of
Engineers, who are ordered to prepare a draft of the
former fortifications of the place, and an estimate of the
cost of their reconstruction. It is more than pro-
bable, therefore, that the King of PRUSSIA will
have to answer on the banks of the Rhine for
the crimes of which he has been the accomplice on the
banks of the Vistula. The Esprit Public says, that
the manner in which the affair of Cracow has been
taken up by the English press has raised the hopes
of M. GUIZOT, who, on hearing the determination of
the three Powers,:exclaimed, " This is, perhaps, the
bridge by which we may cross the Channel." The
same paper states that the French Cabinet intends to
make overtures to England for a protestation in
common, and that the Due DE BROGLIE will be
dispatched to London to endeavour to bring about a
renewal of the entente cordiale. It is said that M.
GUIZOT'S note in reply to Lord PALMERSTON, on the
subject of the Montpensier marriage, has undergone
considerable modifications since the events in Cracow
have become known.

The Infante Don ENRIQUE arrived in Paris on Fri-
day. He is, it is said, completely reconciled to King
LOUIS PHILIPPE. On Saturday he was present at a
review, in company with the Duo DE NEMOURS and
the Duc DE MONTPENSIER.

The Moniteur Algerien of the 15th has the follow-
ing :—" The news from Oran is most satisfactory.
Tranquillity has not been disturbed for a single in-
stant, notwithstanding the proceedings of ABD-EL-
KADER and Bou MAZA. The last has completely
failed in his attempts to excite a rising among the
Beni- Snous.

The French Three per Cents. declined in Paris on
Sunday, owing to the fall in London. Several bar-
gains were done at 83f. I sc.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, 131/2—Bordeaux, Toulouse and
Cette (Espelete), 3/4—Demerara, 33/4—Jamaica South Mid-
land Junction, 2—Luxembourg, —Northern of France Con-
stituted, 10—Orleans and Bordeaux, 71/2—Paris and Lyons
Constituted, 4N—Paris and Orleans, 471A—Bouen and
Havre, 25.

PRESENTATION OF A PURSE TO THE PRINCE OF
WALES.—Mrs. Fead, the lady of Colonel Fead, C. 8.,
late of the Grenadier Guards, who resides near Black-
heath, presented his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, on his birthday, with a most magnificent and
unique purse, worked with her own hands. Her Majesty
has most graciously acknowledged the present, and con-
descended, in the name of the Prince, to accept the same.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. -- Yesterday work-
men were engaged laying down the electric telegraph
from the Nine Elms along the footway on the west side
of Lambeth-place, Kennington. About fire o'clock,
P.M., its efficiency was tried, nearly opposite Vernon
Chapel, when it was found in good working order to
that point. The wires aro placed in hollow hempen
ropes, well tarred, which are again secured in strong
metal tubes, which are sunk about two feet from the.
surface.

DEFALCATION OF A CLEnK.—A man named Ken-
nett' Sutherland, a clerk in the employment of Mr.
Charles Wace, meat salesman, Newgate-market, has
absconded, taking with him money which he had col-
lected amounting to upwards of 2661.