The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,
_SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1848.

declare that they will have no President at all, and seek
to convert the Assembly into a chamber."

Admiral CASEY has been appointed to command at
Toulon.

M. LEDRU RoLux has brought an action for defa-
mation of character against several persona who
have been spreading reports charging him with
embezzlement of the public money while Mi-
nister of the Interior, with receiving bribes, and
with having liberated forfats. The defendants
are M. CAUCHY, a person employed in the Ad-
ministration de Forks, and chef de bataillion in
the 2d legion of the National Guards of the
banlieue ; M. BIGNON, sen., a literary man ; M.
BIGNON, jun., a horse dealer; M. GERIN, a retired
colonel of engineers; IM. P.Lutart, colonel of engi-
neers; M. TRUESSART, an ex-commissary of police;
M. BASSET, formerly director of the Opera Comique;
and M. LAROCHE, principal clerk of an avow. The
charges of defamation are as follow :—Against MM.
BIGNON, senior and junior, GERIN, and PAULIN, for
stating publicly that M. Lana.u-RothiN had taken
14,0001. from the public treasury and invested tl.e
money in the English Three per Cents. ; against M.
PAULIN, in addition, for having stated that the chef of
the gardes-chiourmes of Brest had twice received
orders from M. LEDEU-ROLLIN to set the most dan-
gerous forcats at liberty ; against M. TRUESSART, for
stating before the Committee of Inquiry of the
National Assembly that M. LEDRU-ROLLIN bad taken
100,000 f. of the public money to promote the in-
surrection of June; and against MM. BASSET and
LAROCHE, for stating publicly that the nomination of
M. BASSET, as director of the Opera Comique, could
only be obtained by an engagement to pay a sum (,f
63,000 f. guaranteed by M. LEDRU.ROLLIN.
In the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday
the debate on the clauses of the Constitution regu-
lating the election of President of the Republic was
resumed, and an amendment was moved by M.
GEM, to the effect that the President should be
nominated by the Assembly, that he should be nomi-
nated for an indefinite period, mid should be re-
vocable at the will of the Assembly. M. JuLEs DE
LASTETRIE followed, and contended that the ballot
for the President ought not to be direct, but a deux
dsgres. After a short speech from M. LJBBLOND, who
defended the election by the Assembly, M. DE LA-
MARTIXI ascended the tribune, and was addressing
the House at the hour of post.

Accounts from, the wine district state that many
of the proprietors have organized a simultaneous re-
sistance to the collection of the additional 45 cen-

times tax.

At Rouen the workmen in some of the factories
have refused to work eleven hours a day, and several
of them have been arrested in consequence. Trade,
however, seems reviving in. the district, and many
' of the principal manufactories, which had been shut
up since the Revolution, have been re-opened.
The Finance Committee has rejected the proposition
for the creation of two thousand millions of eons
Itypathecarios.
BOURSE—Peeps, TutTnspaY, OCT. 6.
THREE O'CLOCK.—The Funds were weak all this day;
they opened below the closing prices of yesterday, and
gradually tell till the close. Tne Railways followed the
same course. The uncertain state of the Government,
the disturbances at Lyons and Rouen, the diminution of
20 millions in the account current of the Treasury, and
the bad prospects for the winter, all contributed towards
this result. The Rouen Railway Shares we, e particular
sufferers: rumours connected with the money transac
tions of the company are said to have been the cause.
Fur the Account, the French Three per Cents. have
Wien 15c.; Five per Cents. have fallen 35e., and the
Loan 40c, For Money, the Three per Cents. have
fallen 5c.; Five per Cents. have fallen 40c.; and the
Loan 45c.; Bonds du Tremor not quoted; Bank of France
Shares are 201. lower; Belgian Bank Shares not quoted;
Five per Cents. (ex. div.) are at 77i; Spanish Active
not quoted; Three per Cents. have laden per cent.;
Passive nut quoted; Roman Debt is the same as yester-
day; Rothscnild's Receipts have risen 1 per cent. Ex-
change oa London (30 days), 25 37i; ditto (90 days),
25 20. Railway Shares for the Account, settling of
October 15—Rouen were done as low as 3861.25 c.; Mar-
seilles are at 180 f.; Northerns have fallen 3f. 75e.;
Strasburgs are the same as yesterday; the others nut
quoted. For.Money—V ersailles (Left Bank) have fallen
21. 50c.; Orleans, 31. 75c.; Ruuens, 121. 50c.; Marseilles,
51.; Bales, 21. 50c.; and Bordeaux are quoted ex. div. of
If. 44c., at 3711. 25c.; Havres, Vierzons, and Lyons are
unchanged.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Ocr. 6.
Orleans and Bordeaux, %—Paris and Lyons, 41A—Roues
and Havre, 7%—Tours and Nantes, lA.

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Madrid Papers of the Ist October have arrived.
Letters from Barcelona state that the Carlist chief
CALETRUS had had an interview with General CoR
DOVA, to arrange the conditions for the submission of
himself and his band to the QUEEN'S authority.
CALETRUS, it is said, has undertaken, in consideration
of the receipt of a large sum of money, to betray
CABRERA into the hands of CORDOVA.

NARVAER has, it seems, managed to get into
a quarrel with General SAUNDERS, the American
Minister. On the 30th September, at two'clock, the.
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fore the embassy door, when a party of civic guards
approached, and prevented the coachman from
starting. Their leader then inquired which of the
embassy servants was FzuNANDo. The individual in
question, who was no other than the footman, then
putting up the step, on hearing his own name from
the mouth of a policeman, who stood with a warrant
in his hand, made a precipitate retreat within the
portal of the embassy. Meantime the ladies, in con-
siderable alarm, alighted. The General was not at
home ; but it was soon explained to his family that
about two years back FERNANDO had been drawn to
serve in the army, but had then procured a substitute .
which substitute having just been shot in Catalonia:
FERNANDO became liable to serve in his place. The
civic guard remained baulked of his prey in the
portal of the embassy till the General came in.
Meanwhile the ladies proceeded on foot through a
shower to the place of their engagement. When the
General entered he observed with considerable sur-
prise a large crowd of COMMOD people about his door,
with the three-cornered hats of the tall gensd'armes
in the midst. The chief policeman attempted to
explain his mission and show his warrant, where-
upon the General observed that he was not
in the habit of receiving messages from the Govern-
ment is that form, refused to look at his warrant,
and expressed his intention of extending the fullest
protection which the American flag could afford to
his servant; and upon intimation on the part of the
policeman, that the latter would be put to the dis-
agreeable necessity of entering the house in order to
seize the servant, admonished him of the responsibility
which he, his employers, and the Spanish Govern•
ment, would incur by violating the domicile of the
Minister of the United States. General SAUNDERS
has addressed a most energetic note to the Spanish
Government, demanding immediate satisfaction for
this gross outrage, and unless he receives it, and also
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NEWMARKET RACES.-- , nr. perceive by the an..
nouncements of the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany, that very unusual facilities, both in the manner
and cheapnesss of travelling, will be provided
for the lovers of sporting to witness the spirited
exhibitions at Newmarket Races on Monday and
Tuesday next. Just fancy a trip to Newmarket
and back, by special trains, for six shillings and four
shillings !—a distance of one hundred and thirty
miles for a few shillings ! —to see the finest
racing in the world ! If this be not giving the
frequenters of the Second October Meeting a turn,
and that in good earnest, we shall be puzzled to find
its parallel in the annals of sporting for all
time to come. The directors of the Eastern
Counties have displayed their usual tact in thus
taking advantage of the fine weather by such
liberality, and, no doubt, sportsmen will be too happy
to meet them half.way, by " taking time by the fore-
lock." They can never have a better chance!

AMERICAN TuuTLEs..—By the Washington steamer
from New York a parcel of live turtles has been received
by Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, which is a novel impor-
tation from that quarter, and has become subject to a
duty of 55. per cwt., being a distinction made by the new
tariff from turtles of British taking, which are admitted
duty free.