The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

old and true adage, and the Royal Court of Guernsey
may justly deprecate the continued advocacy on their
behalf of Mr. WILLIAM IL LE MARCHANT.

The state of affairs in the Austrian dominions appear to be
anything but satisfactory to the Government. From a Bo-
hemian correspondent of the Swabian Mercury, whose letter
is dated April 26, we learn that the disturbances in Austrian
Galicia had produced a great agitation among the popula-
tion of Bohemia, who were beginning to suffer from want of
food. " A slight cause," says this writer, " would be suffl •
cient to induce the peasants to rise against the nobles."

Letters from Constantinople of the 22d ult. announce the
arrival in that city of Vice-Admiral Sir W. PARKER. He
had gone as far as Gallipoli in the Hibernia, of 120 guns,
from whence he proceeded to Constantinople in the Virago
steamer. The greatest attention has been paid to him by
the SULTAN and his Ministers. In consequence of the
mediation of the Russian Minister the differences be-
tween the Greek Patriarch and the Porte had been arranged
In Austrian Galicia the people are suffering from the
want of food, and a letter from Lemberg, of the 30th ult..
published in the Augsburgh Gazette, states that many of
the peasants refuse to perform the duties they are bound to
perform to their landlords, and declare that the land ought
to be equally divided among all the inhabitants. The Go-
vernment both in Galicia and Bohemia were endeavouring,
to the utmost of their power, by providing food, to
alleviate the sufferings of the people.
Madrid papers to the 3d have been received.

In the Gazette of the 2d we find the official announcement
of the execution of Sous and eleven (not fifteen, as at first
stated) of his companions, followed by a decree, ordering
that the lives of the other prisoners should be spared.
The; Gazette of the 3d contains a royal ordon-
nance, abrogating the ordonnance of the 15th March, relative
to the offences of the public press. MM. BERROGIN, VELD,
ESCULANTE, and SAcasxr, who bad been arrested in Madrid
at the commencement of the Galician insurrection, were
liberated on the Ist of May. It was supposed that the
Government would suppress the pr2vincial battalions. A
letter from Valladolid, of the 20th, says:—
" The sergeants of a company of the regiment of infantry
of Zamora were brought before a court-martial in this city
on a charge of having taken part in the rebellion of Galicia,
under General Iriarte. The accused, in their defence, said,
that they had passively obeyed the orders of their chief,
and that not knowing General ,Iriarte personally, they
imagined with the other insurgents that he was legally
invested with the functions of Captain-General. The court-
martial, considering that the facts did not involve capital
punishment, and disregarding the requisitory of the judge-
advocate, who called for 10 years' transportation to the Pre-
sidios, merely condemned the sergeants to four years' trans-
portation. The Captain-General, to whom this sentence was
submitted, refused to ratify it, on the ground that it was in
violation of the law, and ordered that not only the president
and the judges, but also the judge-advocate--for not having
demanded capital punishment—should be suspended from
their functions, and imprisoned until the decision of the Queen
should be known on the subject. Another court-martial was
summoned, and this also declared that the offence was not
punishable with death, and bad given a sentence of ten years'
transportation to the Presodias ; the members of the court and
the assessor have been suspended from their functions and
shut up in a fortress."

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday.
On Friday the first article of the Central Railway Bill, au-
thorising the construction of the section between Chaleauroux
and Limoges, was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies by a
majority of 232 to 6. The Gray and St. Dizier Railway Bill,
as amended by the Committee, was adopted, and
it was ordered that, if within six months no
company should offer to undertake the construction of the
road the Government should commence the works forthwith

Among the addresses of congratulation received by the
KLNII on Friday was one from the Lord Provost, magistrates,
and Town Council of Edinburgh. The Epoppe says that Duke
PASQUIER, the Chancellor, is perfectly astonished at the cool-
ness and intelligence exhibited by LECOMTE in answering his
interrogatories, the Chancellor has been heard to say of him,
"He has an intelligent head, with a heart of iron." The
compliment has not been thrown away on LECOMTE, who
declares that if Duke PAseuxEn should be removed by death,
he can never be replaced. Happy Duke PASQUIER, thus to
possess at the acme time the confidence of the KLNG and the
regicide, and to be able to reciprocate compliments with both.
On Friday, the colours taken from the Buenos Ayrean
troops in the engagement of the Obligado were presented to
the KING by the Minister of Marine.

On Thursday, according to the Courrier Francais, an ex-
press was sent off by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the
French Ambassador in London, with copies of dispatches
from Admiral LAINE and other documents relating to the
affairs of La Plata, which were to be communicated by Count
D'S. ST. ASLAIRZ to the British Cabinet.

The success of the attempt to bring the Indian overland
mail to England, rid Trieste, has had the effect of putting
the French authorities on the qui vice, and the Journal des
Debats has an article showing the necessity of reforming the
whole of the Levant service, so as to facilitate
the communication between Alexandria and Mar-
seilles, and also of abolishing, or, at all
events, materially ameliorating the present vexatious
system of quarantine. For years past scientific and commer-
cial men have been urging the necessity of these reforms
As long as France thought she possessed a monopoly these
suggestions remained unattended to. Now the vexations
will probably be removed, and for their removal we shall
have to thank the much-abused principle of competition,
which brings Governments as well as individuals to reason.
The Inree per Cents. closed on tne rams Boyne on aaturaay at
831. 95c. ; the Five per Cents, 120 f. 20c.; the Orleans Railroad shares,
1,2501.; Rouen, 1,040 f.; Havre, 757 f. 50c.; Great Northern,
7651.; Avignon, 920 f. ; Vierzon, 670 f.; Bordeaux, 6251. ; Boulogne,
506 f. 25c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 4031. 75c. ; Basle, 2171. 50c. ;
Dieppe, 450 ; Paris and Strasburg, 5151. ; Tours and Nantes, 5361. 25c. ;
Paris and Lyons, 567 f. 50c.; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
56N ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 31%

The following are the quotations in railway shares .--.
Lyons and Avignon Deflnitives, 527 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cette
Definitives, 511 f. 25c.

MARSEILLES, MAY s.—Marseilles and Avignon, 927 f, 50c.:
Northern, 767 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 5721. 50c.
LvoNs, MAY 7.—Marseilles and Avignon, 9361. 25c. ; Paris and
Orleans, 1,262 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 686 f. 25c.; Northern, 7731. 75c.
ROSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 9.
Central of Spain, 114—Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian, %
Great Western Canapa, 4—Jamaica South Midland Junction, 2
Luxembourg, I —Namur and Liege, 41,4—Orleans and Bor-deaux,
10%— Parja and Lyons COustituted, 7%--Paris ants Strasbourg Con-
stituted, 5%.

CORN IMPORTATION BILL.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
Seldom, if ever, has an announcement been made in
The Sun of such incalculable importance, or one which
augurs such beneficent consequences both to the present
and to all after generations, as the one which we have
at length the happiness of making.—This evening the
Ministerial Bill for the total abolition of the Corn-laws
will be submitted to the House of Commons for a third
reading.—ln the estimation of too many sceptics, a pre-
diction to this effect uttered only three years previous to
its actual fulfilment would have been scouted as the
very insanity of hopefulness. Nevertheless, as expe-
rience has repeatedly shown, principles originally re-
garded as chimerical, and ruinous, and revolutionary,
are ultimately sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the
Legislature. Never was this extraordinary fact more
glaringly attested than upon the present occasion ; never
did its demonstration give promises more glorious of in-
creased happiness, and security, and tranquillity to the
entire human family. What so many popular
advocates have striven for, earnestly, manfully,
and perseveringly, during so many years of
disparagement, and contumely, and discomfiture,
is now rapidly drawing to its realisation. The convic-
tions which the eloquent associates of the League have
been so long fructifying in the popular mind, amidst a
torrent of mingled ridicule and vituperation, have re-
ceived the acquiescence of the representatives in a
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British Parliament. The spontaneous labours of COBDEN,
and VILLIEns, and BRIGHT have been eminently vic-
torious, while the counter-labours of their antagonists
have been eminently futile, for, in all human likeli-
hood, before the termination of this very week the
obnoxious enactments which have hitherto restricted the
importation of foreign provisions, whether grain or cat-
tle, will have received their final condemnation from an
overwhelming majority of the Commons. Of this occur-
rence there is now no vestige of scepticism ; the accepta-
tion of a free-trade policy by Government is as certain
as it was once considered impossible. And yet, with
that invariable quiescence which is the accompaniment
of a knowledge of assured conquest, the public contents
itself with a noiseless though an earnest sense of satis-
faction; it entertains one general sentiment of gladness at
the boon, but that boon is already so certainly its own
that any violent jubilation at its possession becomes su-
perfluous. Natural, however, as this feeling is, we
cannot but look upon our own tranquillity in
making the above announcement without some real
astonishment. The most sanguine worshipper of
free trade could not possibly have anticipated a triumph
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tallying in every particular with those inculeett4in incifheast
motion of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton have
at this moment made in Parliament. As we have
aireacly observed, the acceptation of those principles is
now SO perfectly secure that any ovation or any conspi-
cuous complacency on that very account becomes an
unnecessary exhibition of enthusiasm. We are reduced
to the happy necessity of quietly subsiding into a con-
templation of the consequences likely to result from so
thorough an alteration in the commercial system.
Bearing in recollection, however, the influence which
the majority on the Corn and Customs' Bill will un-
doubtedly have upon the House ofPeers, onits beingfor-
warded thither for their sanction, it becomes not altogether