The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-13 00:00:00

heal questions relating to that country should be
kept as widely separate as possible from those of a
strictly religious character. Whatever, then, may be
the disfavour with which many of the Irish may
view their religious position, when compared with our
own, we think that now that Mr. O'CONNELL
intends to give his support to the Admi-
nistration, no more hurtful course could be pursued
towards Ireland than that of prematurely forcing the
vexatca qumstiones of ecclesiastical polity. We feel
convinced that repeal never will be carried, but if it
ever is to be, it must be exclusively upon its own
merits. If these can be fairly made out, the advo-
cates for repeal cannot be indifferent to the advan-
tages of enlarged political power and improved civil
institutions, and in this light, if in none other, the
future benefit to themselves of strengthening the
hands of the Government, whose declared intentions
towards Ireland are so consolatory, must, or ought to
be quite apparent. We shall learn with rejet that
the Irish Liberal Members take a different view of
this matter from ourselves.

Accounts have been received from Constantinople
of the 27th, and from Athens of the 30th ult. MEHE-
MET Aut was at the SULTAN'S country house at
Therapis. He intends making the tour of Europe
before returning to Egypt. Sir STRATFORD CAN-
NING, who left Constantinople on the 26th, had before
his departure presented a note to the Porte, remon-
strating against the re-appointment of Ri a. PACHA,
against whom charges of peculation had been recently
clearly substantiated.
The treaty of commerce between Greece and Ha•
nover has been ratified, and on the occasion the King
of HANOVER conferred the grand cordon of the
Guelphic order on MM. COLETTI and CANARIS, the
Greek Ministers.

The differences between the States of Holstein and
the King of DENMARK, on the subject of the suc-
cession to the throne, still continues. The Members
of the States have resolved to engage in no business
until they have adopted the necessary measures to
protest against the KING'S letters patent, and as,
owing to the obstacles thrown in their way by the
Danish Government, it was impossible for them to do
this, the Members have withdrawn altogether, thus
bringing the session to an unexpected termination.
The Nuremburgh Correspondent says :

"All the Agnats of the Duchy have sent a protest to Co-
penhagen. It is thought that the divorce of the Prince Royal
of Denmark will take place. The Prince proposes to con-
tract a third marriage in the hope of having au heir. The
Danes are wrong in talking of an unique monarchy, as no
such monarchy exists. Schleswig is a sovereign Duchy,
whilst Holstein and Lanenbourg are German Duchies. These
three Duchies have nothing in common with Denmark, ex-
cept the circumstance that they are under the King of Den-
mark, who bears the title of Duke. The Royal Commission
attaches great importance to what was done under Frederic
IV. The statute of succession of Frederic 111. to Schleswig-
Holstein was confined to the male line only, while the same
sovereign established for the succession to the throne of Den-
mark both the male and the female line. The right of suc-
cession of the line of Ploen is contested, and it is sought to
prove that the line of Sonderburg has renounced."

Intelligence from Rome of the Ist instant has
been received. Notwithstanding he was suffering
from an attack of the gout, Cardinal Gnzr was still
engaged in planning measures for the reform of the
administrative abuses, from the existence of which
Rome has so long suffered. He intends shortly to
publish a full Ministerial expose of the present state
of affairs ; and the POPE has announced his deter-
mination to make known annually the exact state of
the finances.

Several Italian exiles in France have taken advan-
tage of the amnesty, and have set out on their re-
turn to their country. They received thirty francs
each from the French Government for their travel-
ling expenses to the frontier; and on their arrival
there, a further sum was given them out of funds
provided by the Papal Government.

Madrid papers of the 6th inst. have been received.
The troops on the Portuguese frontier continued to
desert in great numbers. In the provinces several
incendiary fires have taken place, by which a consi-
derable amount of property bas been destroyed. The
directors of the Bank of Isabella 11. have declared a
dividend of two-and-a-half per cent. on the nominal
capital (equal to five per cent. on the capital paid
up) for the half-year ending in June last.

MARID, BOLSA, MAY 6.—The Three per Cents. were done
at 33% for cash, the Five per Cents. at 23, the Four per
Cents. at 2114, the Passive at 62'8, and the Coupons not to
be capitalised at 20.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.

Duke PAsQUIER was engaged on Monday in the

examination of JOSEPH lIENRY, at the Conciergerie.
HENRY Was taken on Tuesday morning, under a

strong military escort, to the garden of the Tuileries,
where he pointed out the exaet spot where he stood,
and the direction in which he fired. The Debats
states that the pistols used by HENRY were not the
common pocket pistols called coups de poing, which
only carry from six to fifteen paces at most. They
have been tried by two experienced persons, M.
MOUTIER LEPAGE, the gunsmith, and a captain of
Artillery from Vincennes. It has resulted, from
several experiments made at different distances, that
at 100 metres (331 feet) a ball struck the wall, but
without precision. At 60 metres (nearly 200 feet) a
ball passed through a plank from two to three centi-
metres (about an inch) thick. At the same distance
a leaden slug passed through the plank, and could not
be found. At 35 and at 40 metres (120 to 130 feet)
the balls passed through the plank, and were beaten
flat against a wall at some paces distant from it. The
experiments were repeated ten or twelve times, and
with the same results. M. LAPLAGNE BARRIS has
been appointed by the Chancellor to draw up the
report, which will be presented to the Chamber of
Peers in their sitting on Monday next.
The Moniteur has just published a report on
the commerce of Algeria in 1844. The total
amount of the commercial operations of the
of which 83,000,000 f.
8,000,000 f. exports. This
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amount far exceeds any former return. Out of the
20a0n0d,000f,
83,000,000 f. of merchandise imported, 80,000,000 f.
were consumed in Algeria, of which 47,000,000 f.
were of French, and 33,000,000 f. of foreign produc-
tion. The amount of goods imported liable to duty
was 15,500,000 f. The tariffs applied to the
French possessions in Africa are far from being ex-
orbitant, and are not levied too much with a view to
protection, since it will be seen that the valtie of
merchandise exempt from duty exceeds by 62 per

cent. those subject to duty, and that there is imported

into Algeria 40 per cent. of foreign merchandise.
The export of native produce of Algeria only amounts
to about 3,272,0001., the remainder of the 8,000,0001.
being made up of foreign merchandise re-exported.
The exports to Algeria show a continued progress.
Out of 11,000,000 f. worth of cotton goods, for in-
stance, France sends for 8,500,000 f.
Accounts from Algiers of the sth state that M.
SALVANDY had embarked at Djemma-Ghazaouat for
France. Negotiations are pending with ABD-EL-
KADEIt for an exchange of prisoners. On this sub-
ject we find the following in the Memorial des
Pyrenees:—

"We announced, some days since that the family of
Lieutenant-Colonel Courby de Cognord had received from
that officer a letter, mentioning that a proposition for an ex-
change of prisoners had been addressed by Abd-el-Kader to
General Cavaignac. We have now the satisfaction to add,
that Marshal Bugeaud has confided this delicate negotiation
to the French Consul-General at Tangiers, With instructions
giving him the greatest possible latitude. The Governor-
General of Algeria has made known these facts to the fa-
mily of Colonel de Cognord, adding a hope that he should
soon have to announce to them the restoration to liberty of
that gallant officer and of his heroic companions in mis-
fortune. We also learn that the Queen has deigned to state
in reply to a letter written to her Majesty on the subject by
Madame de Cognord, that she personally felt the most lively
sympathy in the of those gallant captives, and that the
King, to whom she had communicated the letter, shared
in the same sentiments, and had recommended int ne most
pressing manner to the Minister of War that every ex-
ertion should be made to restore them to liberty as soon as
possible."
The Presse states that the French Government has
dispatched one of the directors of the Post-office to
England to obtain information as to the working of

the system of the penny postage.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Tues-
day, at 83f. 75c.; the Five per Cents., 122 f. 30c. ; the Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,271 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 967 f. 50c.;V Ilavren,
,
627 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 562 f. 50c. ; Basle, 220 f.; Fampoux,
415 f.; Paris and Strasbourg, 497 f. 50c. • Tours and Nantes,
507 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 521 f. 25c. :Lyons and Avignon,
492 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cettee, 485 f.; Spanish Three per
Cents., 36%.
ierzo
700 f. ; Great Northern, 708 f. 75c.; Avignon, 895 f• ;
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 12.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12%—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), 114—Dutch Rhenish, 5% —East Indian, 14--Great
Western Bengal, % Louvain ala Sambre, PA —Luxembourg, li
—Madrid and Valentia, I—Namur and Liege, 3—Northern of France
Constituted, 12 XI —Orleans and Bordeaux, B—Over Yssel, 2% die.—
Paris and Lyons Constituted, s%—Paris and Rouen, 37% —Paris
and Strasbourg Constituted, 4 —Una and islante4 Constituted,
4ji—Welt FAllders, 3N.