The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-11 00:00:00

War were either melted by the flames or have become
the prey of the first persons who entered the place.
The loss of the archives of the War department is a
truly national calamity. The beeper of the archives
left his office as usual between four and five o'clock,
after seeing all the stoves put out with which the place
was warmed. Fortunately all the papers connected
with periods antecedent to the present century have
been saved, but various documents relating to the per.
sonnel of the army and military and judicial affairs,
have been destroyed. No cause can be assigned for this
calamity."

It was believed that Senor LIJJA and Senor ME/c-
-oin nAL would be re-elected for Madrid.. They are
both Progresistas.
MADRID BOMA, DEC. 2.—The Three ptr Cents.
were done at 34 ; the Four per Cents. at 21; the
Five per Cents. at 21; and the Coupons not capitalised
at 20.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The Presse contains a long article, in reply to the
statement of the Augsburgh Gazette," that the Govern-
ment of France and England could not have been

surprised at the measures adopted by the Northern
Powers on the subject of Cracow, as it had been un

fait accompli for several months past, and must have
been perfectly well known to the Foreign Ministers
e London and Paris." The Presse says—

" The: Augsburgh Gazette is in error. The occupation
alone of Cracow was known. France and England made
just objections on that head, and they might have ex-
pected that their representations would not have been
answered by a sudden violation of treaties. If it be
true, as asserted by the German journal, that it was
those representations which induced the three Powers
to adopt a resolution which they found would
not receive the assent of their allies, it is a
strange manner of comprehending and carrying on in-
ternational relations, and one which is on a par with
the respect which they showed for treaties. One fact,
however, appears from this statement, which we ought
carefully to remember, and which is, that the Spanish
marriages and the rupture of the cordial understand-
ing had no reference to the resolution of the three
Courts, since that resolve preceded those events.
To this clever argument, which consists in justifying
the suppression of Cracow on the ground that France
and England must have expected it, the Augsburgh
Gazette adds another of a similar nature and of equal

value. It enumerates all the changes made in the
constitution of Cracow since 1830, which were so many
violations of the treaty of Vienna. It remarks on the
refusal made to receive a British Consul at Vienna, and
on the notice given by France and England of the in-
contestable right given to them to interfere by the
treaties of Vienna, and their unwillingness to avail them-
selves of that right. Thus a series of petty usurpations
are referred to to justify a definitive and complete spolia-
tion, and the little respect paid to the remonstrance of
the two constitutional Powers is alleged as a justification
of the absence of all consideration for their past and fu-
ture reclamations. Such is this new justification ! We
know not what importance is to be attributed to this ar-
ticle of the Augsburgh Gazette, written in a scoffing
style, ill-suited to persons who are endeavouring to jus-
tify an act which may produce very serious conse-
quences. But it is of a piece with every communication,
more or less official, made to the present time in the
name of the three Northern Powers. It crowns them
wonderfully well, and we regret that its length does not
permit us to join it to the other documents which we
have collected on this affair, and which is only the emu-
! mencement of an end from which we have much to gain."
'The Epoque announces in very grandiloquent style
that M. GUIZOT will " fully respond to the exigen-
cies of his situation ;" that " he will be faithful to
that policy of grandeur and conciliation, as well as of
firmness and of dignity, which has hitherto prevailed,
notwithstanding the clamours of ambitious men, and
the deceptions of anarchy," and that his protest will
he found "to respond to our expectations." We
should be more inclined to believe that M. GUIZOT
was in earnest in his protest if he had not made this
flourish about it. "In the name of Prophet—Figs !"
The Courrier Francais says—
" The Czar has already broached the question of com-
pensation for the violation of the treaty of Vienna. A
letter from Warsaw, in the Gazette of Aix-la- Chapelle,
of the 6th inst., apprises us of the measures adopted by
Russia. It appear. that, on the 10th of January next,
the line of custom-house existing between Poland and
the Russian empire will be suppressed. Trade will be
free, and the Polish manufacturers will derive vast ad-
vantage from it. At the Russian new year the kingdom
of Poland, after having lost its constitution by an ukase
of the Emperor Nicholas in 1831, and after having been
since governed by the organic statute, will lapse formally
into a Russian province. All the necessary preparations
are already made."
The Daats has a long article on the worn-out sub-
jezt of the violation of the treaty of Utrecht by the
Montpensier marriage, in which it merely repeats
what it has said any time since last September.
On Mlonday there was a Council of Ministers at
the Tuileries, which was presided over by the KING.
A letter from Frohsdorff, in the Quotidienne, says—
" The Archdukes of Austria on the 27th ult. paid
visits to the Duke and Duchess de Bordeaux on the oc-
casion of their marriage. Soon afterwards the Duke and
Duchess went to Vienna and dined en f male with the
Emperor and Empress. The Countess de Mantes
(Duchess de Berry), so tried by misfortune, is at this
moment enjoying all the felicity which Providence has
just granted to the exile. She seems to find in her new
daughter her whom she lately lost, when married to the
Prince de Lucca."
COSTA CABRAL, the ex-Minister of Portugal, is
said to have arrived at Bayonne.
The Moniteur contains a royal ordonnance, de-
claring, that though, according to the treaty of Com-
merce and Navigation concluded in 1826, between
France and England, which ordains that the products
of Asia, Africa, and America, imported in French
vessels into England, and in English vessels into
France, were to be admitted only in bond for re-
exportation ; yet, under present circumstances, as it
would not be advisable to throw any obstacle in the
way of obtaining additional supplies of corn, the said
treaty is suspended until further orders in what re-
lates to American corn and flour imported from
British ports.
The state of monetary affairs in Paris, still con-
tinues to excite alarm.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tues.
dßaailroaatdB4f.a6roecs, ;1 the Five per Cents., 118 f.; the Orleans
,245 f ; Rouen, 872 f. 50c.; Havre, 640 f ;
Great Northern, 6371. 50c. ; Avignon, 872 f. 50c.; Vierzon,
ssit", 25e.; Bordeaux, 557 f. 50c.; Troyes and Montereau,
3351. ; Basle, 220 f.; Dieppe, 352 f. 50c.; Paris and Stras-
burg, 478 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 488 f. 75c.; Paris and
Lyons, 503 f. 75c. •, Lyons and Avignon, 490 f. ; Bordeaux
and Cette, 475 f. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55%;
3r374 the Ditto Domestic Debt, 32%.
quotations for other lines :
SpTanhieshfu Actives,llowing
a
MAnstaLLEs, DEC. l.—Marselles and Avignon, 863 f. 75 •c. ,
Northern, 631 f. 24c.; Paris and Lyons, 4971. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 9.
Boulogne and Amiens, 13!4—Direct Bombay and Madras,
%—East Indian, %—g, ,a—Northern of France
Constituted, 9 7/s— Orleans and Bordeaux, B—Paris and Lyons
Constituted, 434—Sambre and Meuse, 4%.

THE Bonnotim MARBLES IN THE BRITISH MU-
SEUM—Our national collection now contains what is
conjectured to have tormed a portion of one of " the
seven wonders of the world,"—sculptures from the fa-
mous sepulchre of Mausolus, King of Carla, at Petro-
nium, the modern Bodroum, and the ancient and cele-
brated city of Helicarnassus, in Asia Minor. The tomb
of Mausolus is stated to have been in existence so late
as the twelfth century ; indeed, it would appear that it
was only finally destroyed in the early part of the six-
teenth, for it is expressly stated by historians of the
period that the knights of Rhodes destroyed the edi'ice,
which they had opened up in the course of excavating
for materials to repair a fort at the entrance of the her
boor. Portions of the sculptures were then removed
and built into the walls of the fort, and there they re-
mained till, through the exertions of our minister at
Constantinople, permission was obtained from the Sultan
to transfer them to this country. They were recently
brought to England, and are now deposited in the Brit •
ish Museum. They are in bas reliefs, and represent
that favourite subject of ancient myth, combats between
amazons and warriors.
THE QUEENHITHE PENNY CLOTHING SOCIETY.—
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bonus, is annually returned at this season in the shape
of warm clothing, blankets, &c., the object of the society
being to induce the humbler classes to provide for the
contingencies of winter.
The friends of Mr. George Clarke, the last and
only remaining one of the Brighton Coach Proprietors,
invited him to a dinner on Tuesday at the Pavilion Hotel.
In the absence of Mr. George Wigney through indispo-
sition, the chair was taken by Mr. J. 11. Mills; and the
!lon. Mr. Stewart did Mr. Clarke the honour of taking
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the vice-chair. A sumptuous dinner was put on the
-able by Mr. Seaward; and his wines were excellent.
)n the removal of the cloth " The Queen,
and other
loyal toasts were given. The Chairman then produced
a very handsome silver cigar-case, and, after a few brief
Out appropriate remarks, presented the case to Mr.
Clarke as a testimony of respect for his uniform polite-
ness and attention to his passengers, as a Brighton
Coach Proprietor. The case bears the following in'crip-
tion:—" Presented by his friends at a dinner given to
Slr. George Clarke as a mark of esteem, he being the
only proprietor and coachman now left on the Brighton
and London real, Dec. gth,
1846." Mr Clarice, on re-
ceiving the case from the hands of Mr. Mills, acknow-
ledged the compliment in a neat, well delivered address.
The company passed a very pleasant evening, Mr.
Clarke filling his eigar•case over and over again with
.
some of the best Havannahs, which he liberally distri-
buted among his friends. We remember the time when
no fewer that twenty-seven coaches left this town for
London daily, the same number coming into Brighton
(roll London; but, since the opening of the railway, that
number has dwindled down to one,—and this London
coach is the only stage-coach to be seen in Brighton at
the present time,