The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-16 00:00:00

RIDA. Y EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1846.

Tories, whose sentiments are invincibly in favour of
absolute monarchies. At every period, when the ill-
will of the English Government shows itself towards
France, we are shown the prospect in perspective of
an alliance with Russia. But, in the first place, this
alliance is not, that we are aware of, offered to us; and,
were it even offered, it would not probably be obtained
except on revolting and impious conditions—the aban-
donment of the Poles, of the Italians, of all suffering na-
tions, without speaking of the more or less remote
abandonment of Constantinople. At such a price
the alliance of Russia would be too dearly purchased ;
France entire would reject it. We believe in the possi-
bility of an alliance with part of Germany, when
Prussia shall have a Liberal constitution, and shall be
interested in preserving it. Until that time a serious
and sincere good understanding with Great Britain
founded, not on the exchange of some courteous words
between princes, but on the true interest of the people,
and on the community of the principles which govern
their institutions, is what is to be desired for our
country. This understanding might have been esta-
blished after 1830, and again in the
year 1836, if the
fear of the ultra-Conservatives had not paralysed all
movement. In the last ten years it has only existed in
aprearance ; now it is quite broken, broken by the advo-
cates of peace a tout !nix, for a family interes', and, it it
must be said, for a dowry! It is a serious responsibility
which is taken before the country by those Ministers
who have so many times repeated to us that
the entente cordiale was for us a sheet anchor,
for the preservation of which no sacrifice of
power or of dignity was too great for the nation to
make. This responsibility appears to them apparently
lighter because they have not now to deal with a Tory
Ministry, with a Conservative Ministry professing like
themselves to be opposed to the most legitimate wishes
of the people. Who are Lord Palmerston and his col-
leagues? Powerless mischief-makers, who will be easily
overthrown, if they do not take part in our dynastic
arrangements. This is a sad calculation, and a dan-
gerous illusion. We are perfectly of opinion that our
Government, even after having committed a fault, should
not yield to arrogant menaces, to importunate clamour;
that it should maintain its right when that of others has
not been violated; we do not feel the slightest sympathy
for those pretended Spanish patriots who range them-
selves behind the English Ambassador, to cry with all
their lungs, ' A bas la France!' But we again call on
our Government and thogreat Conservative party, before
giving way to their fits of ill. humour against the Whigs,
before denouncing them to the animadversion of the ab-
solute cabinets as the natural supporters of revolution
in the world, to look around them and to see what sup-
port would remain to them in Europe on the day when,
no longer able to reckon on the British Cabinet, they
shall have turned against them all the interests of the
revolution."
The National has an able article, from the pen of
"A Veteran Diplomatist," in answer to the arguments
of the Presse, on the treaty of Utrecht. The answer
is complete. In allusion to the slight degree of im-
portance which the National attaches to the treaty of
Utrecht the " Veteran Diplomatist" admits that " the
KING elected in 1830 has completely accepted the
treaty of Utrecht," and then proceeds to show, by
the most incontrovertible arguments, that by
the provisions of that treaty the issue of the
marriage of the Due DE MONTPENSIER are
absolutely excluded from the succession to the
throne of Spain. With regard to the distinction
which the Presse attempts to draw between the
wording of the preliminaries of 1709, in which all
the French Princes were excluded from the throne of
Spain, by succession, marriage, convention, or other-
wise, and the text of the treaty of 1713, and from which
it draws the conclusion that in 1713 the principle of
exclusion was abandoned, the " Veteran Diplomatist"
replies --" What was in effect the question under
consideration in the preliminary negotiations of 1709 ?
It was the recognition of CHARLES of Austria as
King of Spain. It was very natural, under those
circumstances, to carry out the principle of absolute
exclusion as regarded all the French Princes without
exception. And you are astonished that this abso-
lute exclusion of all the French Princes
is not reproduced in the treaty of Utrecht, that is to
say in the very deed by which one of those Princes
received the crown of Spain !! ! The negotiators of
the treaty must have been idiots if they had exactly
copied the preliminaries." But the solemn renun-
ciations of 1712 are not less clear, nor less precise,
nor less obligatory. There was no n ecessity to ex-
clude Princes from the succession who, by their own
act, excluded themselves and their descendants for
ever. It was sufficient to verify these renunciations
in the treaty, and to incorporate them with it as an
integral part of it. This was done, and it was added
that the treaty should be observed scrupulously,
and with good faith. It is then to the terms of the
treaty—to the clear and precise expressions of the
documents annexed to it, that we must return'
Now, the Presse insinuates that the word mar-
riage, which it carefully underlines, is not to b
found in the text of the treaty of 1713, although it
does occur in the preliminaries of 1709. This is
puerile when we consider the words of the renuncia-
tion of the Dake of ORLEANS. The rights of our birth
or all others which may belong' to us in any manner
whatsoever in which the succession may arrive at our
line. He declares himself both for himself and for
his descendants excluded, incapacitated, and abso-
lutely incapable; and for ever. Who can maintain
after this that the case of marriage has not been
provided against as well as those of testament, con
vention, &c.

"Besides, if the son of the Duc DE MONTPENSIER
should succeed to the throne of Spain, it would not
be by marriage, but by inheritance, and in virtue of
the rights of the INFANTA, therefore the omission of
the word marriage in the treaty of Utrecht does not
invalidate the principle of exclusion, and under exist-
ing circumstances is of no importance."
We regret we cannot find room fur the whole of this
admirably written article, which proves that the Duke
of ORLEANS renounced for himself and for his children
and descendants, however distant, for ever, and what-
ever might be their sex, all right of succession to the
Spanish throne, in whatsoever manner that right
rnight accrue to them, and that this renunciation was
registered by the Parliaments of France and Spain as
a fundamental law of the two countries.
According to the Courrier Francais, Captain
BRUAT had captured two English missionaries at
Otaheite and kept them prisoners until he should re-
ceive instructions from France.

An army of observation is to assemble on the
Swiss frontier.

75e. ; Rouen, 937 f: 50c ;
The Three per Cents. dosed on the Paris Bourse on Wed-
nesday at 82f. 65c.; the Five per Cents., 1174 55c. • the
SGharreeast,4te..rn, 7004 •
, Avignon, 890 f.. ;
; Tours
011r:vearen,s70R7af.il5rooacd. ;
; Paris and
LSytroasnsb,usrglif.49sosf.c.;
Vierzon, 610 f ; Bordeaux, 5a6E 2gc• Boulogne, 475 f.;
Lyons
Troyes and Montereau, 360 f. ; Basle, 222 f. 50c.; Fampoux,
and Avignon, 4851. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4774 50c.;
a3l9ul"kapntieesp,pseo2346ssof:c;.
Spanish Domestic Debt, 34i

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 15,
MBoulogne and Amiens, 14%—Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette
ackenzie), o,4—East Indian, and Liege, 1% orthern
of France Constituted, 12i Orleans— and Bordeaux, 754—Rouen
and llavre, 27%.

TIIe
CABINET.—Lord John Russell has issued in-
vitations to all the members of the Cabinet to a Ca-
binet dinner, to be given on the 27th of the present
month, at his residence in Chesham.place. At this
meeting the further prorogation of Parliament will
be settled, Parliament at the present time being pro-
rogued to Wednesday, the 4th November.

....tie directors of the Chester and Holyhead Rail-
way Company entered into contracts, on Wednesday the
14th, fur the construction of the tubular bridge across
the River Conway, and also for the construction of a
great portion of that across the Menai Straits, to be
called the Britannia Bridge. The Conway Bridge is to
be completed and fixed in its place in eight mouths from
the present time. The Conway Bridge is 400 feet span,
the Britannia Bridge 450 feet span. The greatest span
of any rigid bridge hitherto executed, is 240 feet.
TUB SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY EXTENSION.—
Durkg the last few weeks very considerable progress
has taken place in carrying into effect, by order of the
directors of the South-Western Railway Company, the
Act of Parliament for the extension of the line by arches
from Nine Elms, Vauxhall, to Pedlar's-acre, adjoining
the Ilungerford Suspension Bridge. There is a direct
opening made from the terminus to Vauxhall-walk, the
line being intended to pass through the large area of
ground in the front of Vauxhall-gardens. From the
IVandsworth-road to the Vauxhall-road nearly the
%hole of the piers are built, and which are about four
feet in width. On some of them the arches are in course
of being turned. Between this distance there will be
three bridges, which will be constructed with strong iron
girders. On the north side of the Wandsworth-road the
level with the arches will be continued to the railway
from the viaduct by a mound of earth, which is now in
the course of formation, The occupants along the
greater portion of the remainder of the line have been
treated with, and nearly the whole of them have agreed
to terms without submitting to a jury. At the south of
the Archbishop of Canterbury's grounds, in Church-
street, several houses have been removed, and between
that part and Vauxhall the line will be rapidly extended.
The line will then, by the late Act of Parliament, after being
brought to Pedlar's-acre, be continued to London-bridge.
It is stated that on the completion of the viaduct the
effect will be a diminution of the tolls connected with the
Surrey trusts to a sum of above 8,0001.
BEQUEST TO THE BOTANIC GARDENS AT KEW:—
The Rev. John Clowes, of Broughton Hall, Manchester,
had in his possessien a most valuable collection of orchi
daceous plants, which he has by his will bequeathed to
the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where arrangements
are now being made for their reception.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CRT, QUARTER TO THIIEE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
12.000 bale's, including 2,000 American, 1.000 Pernams
and Bahia, 500 Egyptians, and 500 Surat cn specula-
tion. The market closed with much animation, and,
compared with last Friday's rates, prices of all descrip-
tions are fully id. per lb. higher.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty yesterday
afternoon, received contracts for 100,000 gallons of rum
for the navy, at a trifle below 2s. 2d. per gallon.
There has been a full amount of business done in the
Consol Market this morning. For the Account the cur-
rent price is 9.51 i, and for Money the range taken has
been from 94-i to 95f. The Government brokers
bought but sparingly. The premium on Exchequer-
bills has just advanced from 14s. to 17s. Bank Stock
has receded from 2061 to 2051.
Spanish Stock is dull of sale; the Three per Cents. at
374, and the Actives at 264. Mexican Bond. have been
done only at 231 and i-, the Grenada Stock at 211-, and
the Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. at 584.
A very quiet market has ruled for Railway Shares
and Set ip.
We have jest been favoured with the following im-
portant letter relative to Mexican Bonds:-
" Sussex- place, Regent's Park, Oct. 16, 1846.
"Sir,-An extract of a certain document, in reference
to the late conversion of Mexican Bonds, having been
published in this day's Times, accompanied by a letter
signed by 'B. Gomez Ferias,' I beg to state that I
shall forthwith prepare a communication which shall,
with the least possible delay, be transmitted
to the commuter, for the information of the
bondholders, and which, I doubt not, will place matters
in their true light, and give full satisfaction.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " THOMAS MURPHY.
" To G. R. Robinson, Esq., Chairman of the Committee
of the South American Bondholders."
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock .206% 205%
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 94 93%
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 95% 947,,, 95%
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 ... 94%
New aq per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 9%
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 10 1-16
Consols for Nov. 26 95%304
Exchequer Bills. 1% d. 11,4 d.
1,0001. -
... ... 14 17 - pm.
Ditto Small
.., .. 14 17 - pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Granada, 1 per Cent. . . 2l
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent. -
Ditto for the Account • 23 1,4
Portuguese 4 per Cents
41%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840.- -
Ditto for the Account .
Ditto 3 per Cent... -
Ditto for the Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 911
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PEI SITARS.
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2%...... 2% to -
.. -
Armagh, Coleraine, &Portrush 1% - ...... to -
Aylesbury and Thame l%
...
Belfast and County Down .. 4%
.. - - Birmingham and Gloucester..loo ......128 -
Do. New (iss. at 7% dis.).. 17%....,. -.._ - Birmingham & Oxford June... 2 -
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction 23/4
... to -
Boston,
Stamf, , & Birming... 225. Bristol and Exeter - -
Do., New - -
5
Bristol and G10uce5ter......... 30 -
to -
Bristol and Liverpool June... 2% - ...... to -
Buckinghamshire B4s. ..... - -
Caledonian -
Ditto, Half Shares -
Ditto, Extension -
Cambrian - -
and Grand Junct.. 425.
Cambridge and Oxford -
1% to -
Chester and Holyhead 27% .... - -
Churnet and Blythe 2 -
Chester and Manchester 42a. -
Cheltenham and Oxford2 - Clydesdale Junction 2O -
- -
Cork, Blackrock, & Passages 225. ....•
Cork and Killarney - -
Cork and Waterford l% - -
Cornwall
.. to -
Ditto, Half Shares ...... ... 2% ..... - •..... to -
Cornwall and Central Devon 2% - ...... to -
Derby and Crewe 2% - to -
Direct Lincoln, East Retford, .
and Sheffield Junction 2% - to -
Direct Northern -
Direct Norwich 1 - to -
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 10 -
Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2% - ...... to -
Dublin and Galway ...... ...... 4 - -
Dundalkjand Enniskillen ... 10 ...... - -
Eastern Counties 141. 16s 2114% to
Do. New l2/. 16s - ... to -
Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d - -
Do., d 0.... N 0.2,6/. 138.4 d... - -
Do., York Extension los. -
East Dereharn and Norwich 1 - to -
Eastern Union 35 - to -
I?itto, Quarter Shares B% - .. to -
Do. Extension to Harwich 1% - ..... to -
Do. Cambridge and Ely... 2% - to -
East Lancashire -
Ditto, New
East Lincolnshire 14..... 1 -
East and West of England... 1% - to -
Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... 50
' Ditto, Halt Shareslo
to
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% to - .
Edinburgh and Northern ... 10 -..... to •
Edinburgh and Perth a -
Ely and Huntingdon
% to •
Enniskillen and Sligo ......•.• 21/2 _
to .
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 5% -
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ...... - -
Ditto, New - -
Do. IA Shares (5 per ct. gua.) 12% ..... - .. -
Glouc.,Aberystwith,and Cen.
of Wales - ..... to -
Goole, Doncaster, Sheffid., &c. 425.
Grand Union (Nott. & Lynn-
) 1% - ... .. to-
Great Eastern and Western... 2% - ...... to -
Great Grimsby and Sheffield 10
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 27% - • to -
Great Munster ... 2% ...... to
Great North of Scotland
-
Great North of England lOO
......235
Ditto, New 5 - -
Ditto, New
Ditto, New"to -
%...... 21% to 2
Great Western .................. 85
Ditto, Half Shares 5O ...... - .. ... to -
Ditto, Quarter Shares -
Do. New
Ditto, Fifths 20 - ...... to -
........ ..
Harwich and E. C. Junction 2 .
-- Hull and Selby 5O .... -- ..... to ...... - ...... to.-
Ditto, Quarter Shares - ...... to--
Ditto Half Shares -
Ipswich' & Bury St. Edmunds 11% ...... - • - - ..
to -
-
Killarney Junctions .......... 114 ...... ..to -
Kendal and W indermere ..... 1%...... - ....
. to
Lancaster and Carlisle ....... 45 ...... - - -
Larne; Belfast, & Ballymena 425. . ..... - .. . -
-
Leeds and Bradford ........... 3_o ..... 733/4 -5/(... to 74
Leeds and Carlisle ........... 213 ...... - -
Leicester and Birmingham... 223.
Leizester and Bedford ...... 225. ....
Leeds and Dewsbury
........
... . 22%.. -
...... - -
-
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction 21,4 -
to o-
Do.
and Bury ......... .. 14 ...... -
London ik Blackwall-16/. 13s. 4cl. . . .... - -
Do. New . ..... 3 ...... - ...... to Do. Extension ....... 7% ...... - .... to
-
London and Brighton ... 50
Do. Fifths .................... 40 - ..... to -
London and Croydon...l3/. 15s. 9d. - ...... to Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . - . to -
-
London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d - ...... to -
Ditto Preference ...... ...18/ 17s 2d -
-
London and North Western..loo 194 193... to 195
Do. Quarter Shares ...... .. 2 - to -
Do.
do. New • „•..,.... ... 2
•••
••
Do. do. Fifthsto -
Do. Eighths G. J. 12% - to -
Do. New Quarters ...G. J. 5
Do. 40/. Shares.....L. &M. 8 ..---- - -
London and S. Western-.. 41/. 6s. 10d. 69 -
Do. New consolidated Bths.. 40 - to -
Ditto New -
Do. New lB - to -
London and Y0rk........ 2% - ... .to -
Ditto Half Shares -
London and Windsor ......... 1,-4 - to -
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 21,E - ...... to -
Londonderry and Coleraine-. 12% - to -
Londonderry and Enniskillen 12% - ...... to -
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham ............ 15 -
Manchester and Leeds ......... 82 Ditto Half Shares -
.. Ditto Quarters ...... 38 ...... - -
Ditto Fifths . ............... 2 - ...... to -
................. 3 - ..... to -
Ditto Six
teenths ..... ...... 614 - ...... to -
Do,
Extension -
Manchester and Birmingham 40 72% ...... to
Ditto Quarters (A)
Ditto Quarters (15) - to
-
Ditto Quarters (C)
.. 1 -
Il
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 425. %
anchestt,r,Birmingliam, and p... to --
MouldJ unction
- ...... - ...... to --
.Manchester and Southampton 2 ...... 1 Midland 100 - -135 •
...... to 13 ...... to -4
Ditto Fifths - ...... to --
Ditto, New 24 ...... 341 A %.. to 36
Midland. Birm., and Derby 100 .....109 .... to --
Midland and Eastern Counties 2 - ...... to -
Mhlld. Great Western(lrish) 15.5.....
.. - ...... to -
Newcastle and Berwick -
Do North Shields. .... - - ... .. to -
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ..... -- ...... to -
Newmarket and Cheseerford 2/. 12s ....... - ...... to -
Newport and Abergavenny. . 21,4 ...... - ...... to Newry and Enniskillen .....• 4% ...... - ...... to -
-
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 1%...... - •
...... to _
Norfolk . ..........100 ...... 131 ...... to 133
Do. Half Shares ......... ... 7 .... 1014 ...... to Ditto Extension ............ 6 ...... 7IA to ---.
--
North British .. ...... . ....... 25 ...... 33%
Ditto Half Shares. . ....... .. 11 -
DDitto Fifths - ............... - 5 - ...... to
Do. Quarters ................. 14
itto, Extension ............ %... to --
1U .....• to -
Northern and Ea5tern......... 50 .. - .to
Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)... 45 ... -- ......
to- -
Ditto Quarter Shares ...... 12% • -- ......
to-- *-
Ditto New . .................... 1 ....... to =
North Staffordshire ............ 425. -▪
1% ...
-
North Wales ..................... 3% - .... .... to Isil P
North. & South. Connecting 26/ -
Northampton, Banbury, and 8. ..... ' ...... to --.
Cheltenham ... ........ .... 2 ...... --- ...... to -....
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton ... .............. 1154p1 ...... -
...... to -
Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltn ham
3374 ...... -
...... to -
Portsmouth Direct ............
Preston and Wyre .......... 25 - ......
- ......
to- -
Ditto, Half Simms ...... „ 41z •...... - **"' -- ---
...... ..... ...... to ....

English

,oreign

CORN EXCIIANGE-FRIDAY.
Although our statement of arrivals shows the receipt:of a
full average supply of English Wheat, the number of samples
of that grain on show was small. For most descriptions the
demand was firm, at fully Mt nday's quotations. There was
more inquiry for free foreign Wheat, and, in some instances,
selected parcels produced rather more money, the value of
other kinds being readily supported. We were but moder-
ately supplied with Barley, the sale for which was very firm,
at extreme currencies. There was a steady business doing in
Malt, at very full prices. The supply of Oats was miserably
small, while the Oat trade was firm, at late rates. Beans,
Peas, and Flour as last advised.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat, Barley.
6,070 qrs. 3,190 qrs.

Oats Flour.
3,910820 qrs. 3,740 ski.
and
6,2,60 570 brls

- ***** 1 4:170 I 440
Malt, 3,580 qrs.
NEGATE AlvD ZEILDEZTIELEIMIG.
The
ons, general demand was in a sluggish state, at our quota-
,

At per stone, by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d.
I. d. to s. d.
Beef, inferior.... •. 2 8 210 Mutton, Inferior ••3 10 4 0
middling .... 3 0 3 2 ---- middling.. 4 2 4 4
--- prime large •• 3 4 3 6 --- prime ••• • 4 6 410
V- prime small •• 3 6 3 8 i Pork, large.... ••• • 3 6 4 6
eal , ..• •• 3 8 46' I - small •••••• •• 484 10
Lamb,.Os Od to Os Od.
smrsurzzsao.
The supply of Feasts on offer here this morning was toler-
ably good as to numbers, but of very middlin qudity. The
primest Scots, &c., moved off' steadily at full g
prices, but all
other kinds met a slow inquiry at late rates. There were in
the market 260 Beasts, 290 Sheep, and 19 Calves from
abroad. With Sheep we were scantily supplied, while the
sale for them was firm, at fully Monday's improved curren-
cies, and a clearance was easily effected. Qalyes, the supply