The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-24 00:00:00

MON A Y EVENING, JANUARY '24, 1846.

declared he had proposed as a test of eonfi knee or no
confidence in the Ministry, was passed by 148 to 37.
In the nine sitting Senor MENDIZABAL brought
forward his Bill relative to the payment of the
clergy, and the maintenance of public worship, but
notwithstanding he supported it by a long and able
argument, it was, after a speech by the Minister of
Finance, rejected by 134 votes to N.
General NARYAEZ had paid a visit to General
ESPARTERO, as had also General FIGUERAS, the
Minister of War, General CORDOVA, Inspector-
General of Infantry, and several other distinguished
persons. The officers of the garrison also called at
the General's house to pay their respects to him.
The Journal of Seville publishes the following
curious electoral, governmental, and population
statistics :

In Spain, with a population of scarcely 14,000,000
of inhabitants, no less a number than 279,374 indi-
viduals are in the pay of the Government. It must
be observed, however, that under this class are com-
prised 120,000 soldiers, composing the army, 9,468
under the ministry of marine; 28,884 of the secular
clergy, and 9,566 nuns. Amongst the 95,735 indi-
viduals under the other departments of the State are
comprised the pensioners, half-pay officers, and
monks out of convents.

The journalist then goes on to give the following
electoral statistics. The total number of the consti-
tuency of Spain is 99,129, out of a population of
14,000,000, and the number of electors in each
province is as follows :-
Alava, 300-Albacete, 1,320-Alicante, 2,800-
Almeria, 1,574-Avila, 837-Badajoz, 2,256-Ba-
leares, 1,904-Barcelona, 6,746-Burgos, 1,229-
Caceres, 1,999-Cadiz, 2,942-Canarias, 1,040-Cas-
tellon, 1,250-Ciudad Real, 1,754-Cordoba, 2,298
-Corunna, 2,795-Cuenca, 1,675-Gerona, 2,198-
Granada, 2,698-Guadalajara, 1,081-Guipuzcoa,
450-Huelva, 1,255-Huesca, 2,659-Jaen, 2,315-
Leon, 2,383-Lerida, 1,627-Logrono, 2,058-Lugo,
1,639-Madrid, 6,968-Malaga, 3,363-Murcia,
1,417-Navarre, 1,554-Orense, 1,375 - Oviedo,
2,023-Palencia, 2,923-Pontevedro, 1,505-Sala-
manca, 1,577-Santander, 968-Segovia, 730-Se-
ville, 3,534-Soria, 498-Tarragona, '2,267-Teruel,
1,322-Toledo, 2,669-Valencia, 3,221-Valladolid,
2,382-Vizcaya, 450-Zamora, 1,246-Zaragoza,
3,613-Total, 99,129.

Accounts had reached Madrid from Lisbon to the
10th. The Portuguese Ministry had been com-
pleted by the nomination of Baron FRA.NCOS SOLLA
to the War Department. He is a decided Cabralist.
The Comte DE THOMAR had refused. the appointment
of Minister to the Court of France.
MADRID BOURSE ON THE 17TH.—Threes, 27i;
Fives, 17 ; Exchange on London, 48 10.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and Sunday.

The affair of M. PETIT, hi which a corrupt traffic
in places was traced directly to M. GUIZOT himself
and to his secretary, M. GENIE, was on Friday the
subject of discussion in the Chamber of Deputies.
The matter was brought under the notice of the
Chamber by M. Onzr.Loe BARROT, who laid particu-
lar stress on that part of the letter of M. BERTIN to
M. PETIT, in which he says, " I shall transmit to
you the verbal answer of M. GUIZOT, as he could
not do it in writing." M. GUIZOT did not attempt to
deny his guilty knowledge of this affair, but contented
himself with saying that he had received a chequered
inheritance from his predecessors ; that such a sale of
offices should not happen again ; and that some of the
statements of M. PETIT were false, and others insig-
nificant. He, however, cautiously abstained from
giving a direct denial to any single allegation, wind-
ing up by his usual threat of resignation. There-
upon M. °DILLON BARROT rose, and made the follow-
ing crushing reply :
" He said—that after the speech which they had
just heard from the Hon. Minister, the discussion
could scarcely be prolonged. He had long been
aware that they could not agree with regart to
politics, but he now found that they could not do so
on questions of honour and morality.—(Murmurs from
the Centre). He had brought forward facts in such
a manner, that he believed it impossible for the
Government to escape the alternative, of either de-
claring them false, or accepting the responsibility
attendant on them. But such was not the case.
'But no,' said the H on. Gentleman, turning towards
M. Guisot, you call these facts insignificant, you a
political man, raised to the Presidency of the Council,
representing the Government in its highest degree, you
dare to style insignificant the fact of having sought
out a third party, who would purchase the resignation
of which you stood in need, and of having repaid that
third party with a place in the Finance. Such a
fact has taken place in your office, through the
agency of him who represents you, and you think no
more of it. The whole Chamber has been already
moved, not by an act of direct complicity, but by one
of simple tolerance, and when the act of complicity,
which we now denounce, is accomplished with your
concurrence, with your approbation, and even at your
office, after the solemn discussion which had taken
place in this Chamber, after the solemn engagement
which that discussion drew from you, what signifies
the language which you use to-day !—(Loud appro-
bation from the Left.) The engagement which you
have taken does not doubtless signify that you will
not participate is the bargain; one does not engage
oneself to be an honest man and a loyal Minister.—
But the members of the Court of Accounts who
have accepted these bargains have not participated
in the pecuniary sacrifices which the movement has
caused.—(Hear, hear.) It is a third party who paid
for them, and that third party has been repaid with
a place which should have been the legitimate reward
of old and honourable services--and yet these you call
insigniEant facts I—(Hear, hear.) Believe me, you
will require all your moral force in order to with-
stand the trials that await you. You entrench your-
self in your pride ; but when the Government is con-
cerned, set your personal pride aside, for it has
nothing to do here. Permit me to tell you that you
put the majority to a very cruel trial. You build on
the confidence you imagine you inspire ; but that
confidence, allow me to tell you, has in it something
very insolent.—(Great agitation.) All you do is
to turn towards your majority, and say, Continue
to vote for me as hitherto, and all will be well !'—
(Loud approbation from the Left.)"
M. DUPIN, M. BILLAULT, M. TRIERS, M. Du-
FAURE, all tke ex-Ministers in the Chambers in fact,
declared that during the time they had held office no
tuch corrupt practices had existed, and that at least
they had not left M. GUIZOT an inheritance of cor-
ruption ; and M. LACAVE LAPLAGNE, who was
Finance Minister under M. GUIZOT at the time this
corrupt sale of a receivership of the finances took
place, declared that he never knew of this sale of
offices for money, and that if he had been aware of
the existence of such a practice he would have de-
nounced it.

M. LUEREITTE then moved the following reso-
lution :

" The Chamber, without approving of the explana-
tions given by the President of the Council, and in
reserving the rights which result from the Ministerial
responsibility, passes to the order of the day."

Whereupon M. GUIZOT repeated his threat of re-
signation, and then M. DE PETRANIONT, coming to
the rescue of the Ministry, moved the following order
of the day :
" The Chamber, relying on the wish expressed by
the Government, and on the efficacy of the measures
to be taken to put an end to a long-standing and
objectionable abuse, passes to the order of the day."
M. iDARBLAT, a former supporter of M. GUIZOT,
proposed a third order of the day as follows :
" The Chamber, afflicted and dissatisfied, closes the
debate on the incident, and passes to the order of the
day."
M. GUIZOT considered the order of the day pro-
posed by M. DARBLAT as precisely similar to that of
M. LIIERBETTE, and rejected it for the same reesons.

M. LIIERBETTB declared that he should unite his
order of the day to that of M. DARBLAY.
_ _

The Chamber then proceeded to vote on M. DAR-
BLAY'S order of the day, when the numbers were—
Against it
In its favour
Majority .
M. DARELAY'S order of the day was consequently
rejected.
That of M. DE PETRAMONT was then adopted by
a show of hands.

M. GuizoT has thus gained another most damaging
victory. The Opposition papers are indignant
against this servile majority, which is willing to vote
whatever M. GUIZOT may command them to vote.
The National says—
" The 225 satisfied members presented themselves
yesterday, as they did last year, to amnesty the stig-
matised Ministry. Last year, after an accusation,
proved to be true of 100,000 f. exported for a theatri-
cal privilege, there were 225 satisfied ! This year,
after a complicity in the sale of finance situations
had been demonstrated to the world, there were 225
confiding deputies I Let France hold up her head
with pride I Morality, justice, and truth have

triumphed in the Chamber. All 1.,11,t. this in-
teligent and powerfal country cont.,ins of in,
stincts and greatness, of elevated sentiments of sub I
lime inspirations, are embodied in M. Guizot, whom
the 225 satisfied Members bear in triumph on his
shield ! The Cabinet may clap its hands ; we shall
break ours to pieces in joining in the movement ; if it
has songs, we have hymns ; if its heart overflows,
ours is inundated ! Long live the Minister Cur-
tius !" Long live the immortal phalanx of the 2'25
Let the same crown encircle their foreheads ! Let the
same rays of light illumine their august faces Let
them march together united and triumphant, like
those celestial hosts whose symbolical nudity is
adorned rather than covered by the unbound zones of
modesty and virtue ! We bless the heaven of our
country for having given us this rare and marvellous
spectacle. Honour to M. Guizot, who took into his
speculations the affair Petit Honour to the 125 who
feel confidence I"
Even the Danis and Conservateur seem ashamed
of the task of defending M. GUIZOT, and content
themselves with passing general eulogiums on his
policy, and declaring that the Opposition are mistaken
if they imagine they shall drive him from office.
The Presse says—" Yesterday evening there was a
good deal of talk of a resolution come to by the whole
Cabinet to withdraw from M. DUPlN—after the vote
on the Address—his functions as Procureur- General
at the Court of Cassation."
The difference between M. RICHOND DES BRCS
and M. GARNIER PAGES has been settled without a
hostile meeting.
The (general debate on the Address commenced on
Saturday in the Chamber of Deputies. The
Chamber was addressed by M. BERVILLE, an
Opposition Member, M. DARBLAY, a Con-
servative, and follower of Count MOLE, who
gave notice of the following amendment on the
paragraph relating to the Reform banquets :—" If the
agitations, which have taken place since the Chambers
last met, have produced in some quarters manifesta-
tions kostile to our institutions and to our social laws,
they have proved that the ancient majority of the
country, even in the dissentient opinions, are incon-
testably attached to them;" M. DUCHATEL, who
defended the Ministry, M. DESHOUSSEAUX DE GIVRY,
formerly a staunch supporter of the Ministry, but
who declared that he had no longer any confidence in
their policy, either foreign or domestic, and M.
Ducos, who has always been a consistent Opposi.-
tionist. The general discussion was then declared to
be closed, and the discussion on the first paragraph
was ordered to be taken on Monday.
The Presse says—" For several days the Bank
of France has been extremely circumspect in select-
ing the bills presented for discount, and has refused
many from provincial houses. The amount of its
discounts, however, since the beginning of the year
has greatly exceeded the average sum ."
The same j ournal says that Messrs. Roniscurun
Brothers have just concluded an agreement with the
Messageries to bring from England SOO,OOOl. or
600,000 f. per day in ingots, and gold and silver specie.
The Toulonnais states that, according to ioforma-
tion obtained from a good source, it can announce
positively that AUD-EL-KADER is not to remain long
at Fort Lamalgue.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EICHANGE,_JA.w. 22.
Boulogne and Amiens. 133 A—Northern of France, 11 ex
int.—Over Yssel, 2—Paris and Lyons, 51/2—Paris and Rouen,
34%--Paris and Strasbourg, 4% —Tours and Nantes, 3.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
M. JULLIEN.
The following letter appeared in yesterday's Sunday
Times :

64 TO TEL► EDITOR.

" Sir,—ln the absence of M. Jullien from London,
I feel it my duty alike to tim and the public to take
the earliest opportunity of contradicting certain
groundle‘s and malicious reports which have been
most industriously and insidiously circulated to his
personal disparagement, and to the injury of the great
establishment over which he presides.
" As his personal friend and professional adviser,
and one intimately acquainted with the real state of
his affairs, I beg most emphatically to deny that
there is an el:ecution either in Drury-lane Theatre or
in his house in Harley-street, or in any other pre-
mises of his whatever. I deny also that he has fled to
Paris, or left London for any other purpose excepting
that of carrying on his ordinary series of concerts
throughout the provinces, which from the very effec-
tive mode in which they have everywhere been per-
formed and appreciated, are certain to prove (as they
hare hitherto done) highly remunerative, and more
than sufficien t to countervail any present weekly loss
from the scenic representations of the Theatre Royal,
Drury-lane.
"M. Jullien, in making his calculations, never
anticipated for the grand opera an immediate success
in a pecuniary point of view, in consequence of the
immense oulday for the repairs and decorations of
the theatre, and for putting the lyric drama and bal-
let on the stage on a scale of unequalled completeness
and magnificence. But from the patronage he has
already received (and which he has endeavoured most
strenuously t o deserve) he feels confident that he will
ultimately be rewarded for all his labour, anxiety, and
expenditure.
" May I beg that you, Sir, with your usual can-
dour and liberality, will give insertion to this com-
munication, from,
" Sir, your very obedient servant,
" C. LEWIS.

" 9s Grum mor-street, Bond• street,
January 91, 1848."

HA Y'MARKET THEATRE.

A new, original, piquant, witty farce, intitled
Dearest Elizabeth, was produced here on Saturday,
with the moist deserved success. The dearest Eliza-
beth, who is the heroine, is Betsy (Mrs. Keeley),
servant in th .e household of Mr. Lionel Lax (Mr.
Keeley), whci, albeit a married man, sets up as a lady
killer, and, hike all lady killers, has the greatest
aversion to married servants. Betsy, however, has
contracted snatrimony with llumphery (capitally
acted by Mr. Clark) her fellow-servant, and having
got hold of a letter of her master's, addressed
to " Dearei it Elizabeth," sbo keeps possession of
it, and h olds it over him in terrorem. lie
pretends thi it she herself is the Elizabeth to whom the
letter is addressed, and while giving her a kiss,
snatches th e letter from her.: Humphery becomes
jealous, the letter sets everybody by the ears, and,
to appease Humphery, Lax persuades his friend Mr.
Winch (R,igers) to declare that the letter had been
written at his dictation, to a dearest Elizabeth of his
(Winch's) own. At this juncture Mrs. Winch
enters, and Lax, to his surprise, recognizes in her the
"dearest E lizabeth" of his bachelor days—the genuine
heroine of the letter. She is at first outrageous at
finding t hat Winch has been writing to
another Elizabeth, but a whisper from
Lax calms her, and the unfortunate letter is
burned just', in time to prevent Mrs. Lax from being
acquainted with the story of " Dearest Elizabeth."
The piece was admirably performed. To say how
richly unc tious Keeley was in Lax, and how de-
lightfully vulgar and independent Mrs. Keeley was
as Betsy, .is unnecessary; every playgoer will know
the treat that is in store for him, and as to Mr. Clark
all we can say is, that his acting was as perfect, after
its kind, as, the acting of the Keeleys—it was perfect.
The house was crowded.

In consequence of the Austrian Ambassador declin-
ing to represent the Tuscan affairs in this country, it is
said that it is the intention of the Grand Duke to send an
Ambassador to our Court. The expediency of this measure
is too obvious to need comment.

IMrORTINT JUDGMENT.—In the City County
Court, on Saturday, an action was brought by a Mr.
Hewitt against Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., the
well-known bankers, to recover the amount of a crossed
cheque, on account of Knapp and Co., bankers, of Abing-
don, sand who had become bankrupts. The facts wore
these ;—The money had been paid into the Abingdon
Bank, and advice thereof was given to the plaintiff,
who applied next day to Messrs. Williams and Co. The
plaintifyi not applying in person, the cheque drawn
by Williams and Co. upon themselves was " crossed"
Spooner and Co. (the plaintiff's bankers). The cheque
was not paid in on the same evening, and the
next da y Messrs. Williams and Co. refused to honour it,
on the ITround that Knapp and Co. had become bank
rupts, a.nd that they (Williams and Co.), so far from
having nioney in hand, were creditors. His Honour
said the evidence bore out this fact, but the defendant,
by giving their cheque, had admitted
ittehdadalso admit
legally theirltieda-
bility to fay the amount, and
that if the cheque had been presented before " clearing
hours" it would have been paid, according to the mist an
of bankers. The defendants had, unfortunately for
themselves in this case, made themselves liable, and the
judgment must be for the plaintiff.
ILLNESS OF THIS KING OF DENMARY.--COPEN•
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Lord John Russell, who has been slightly indis-
posed, will return to London from Richmond, with his
family, to-morrow for the season. On Saturday after-
noon the Noble Lord received a visit from the Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
Tneir Majesties the King and Queen of the Bel-
gian 3 are expected to arrive at Windsor Castle, on a
visit to her Majesty, on Monday. This intended visit
had before been announced, but has been unavoidably
postponed by the lamented demise of the Princess Ade-
laide of Orleans, hor Ilia;esty's aunt.

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INDIA ANL, CHINA.
(From the Herald.)
We have received by extraordinary express our
files of papers and private correspondence, in antici-
pation of the overland mail, from Bombay, of
Dec. 15 ; Calcutta, Dec. 7 ; and China, Nov. 28.
The most important news brought by this ar-
rival is that supplied from Calcutta, which repre-
sents the truly disastrous effects of the late com-
mercial embarrassments in London upon the mer-
cantile community in that Presidency. Nine highly
respectable firms had been compelled to suspend pay-
ment, and it was impossible to calculate how far the
serious consequences of these failures would extend.
" Credit and confidence," says the Bengal Burkaru
Price Current, "were at once annihilated, and busi-
ness in every branch reduced to cash transactions.
The acceptances of no European house could be dis-
counted in the bazaar."
The intelligence from Bombay is of no political
importance. The Punjaub and Sinde were tranquil.
Lord Hardinge was expected to leave Calcutta early
in this month (January). Commercial matters bad
assumed a more healthy aspect, with an appearance of
a gradual improvement.
The accounts from China are entirely of a peace-
ful nature ; and the feelings of the people of that
empire towards the English authorities is evidently
partaking of a more pacific character. His Excel-
lency Sir John Francis Davis had returned to Hong-
Kong from his mission to the coast of Cochin China,
where he had gone for the purpose of accomplishing
some commercial arrangements. Trade was in a
very depressed condition, and.prices had generally
declined.

(From the Bombay Times, Dec. 15, 1847.)
SUMMARY.—A cold season and no wars was till
last year an anomaly in our annals. The former
exception now promises to become the rule. We
have at present around us the bright spectacle of
peace and contentment throughout all our domi-
nions. The Punjaub is as quiet and peaceful as
any of our own provinces, and more prosperous
than most of them. The Seikh Government has
determined to give 30,0001. a year for the construc-
tion of roads, and double this sum as soon as
they can afford it. The lesser of these is more
than twice what is bestowed by Government
on roads throughout the whole of the Bombay and
Madras Presidencies together. At Lahore, g ardens
have been laid down by the European soldiers ; these
will supply them at once with recreation and with
food, and become schools of instruction for the Seikh
cultivators. Colonel Lawrence left Lahore on the
2d December, on his way to Calcutta, from which he
embarks with the Governor-General. Sinde is tran-
quil. One regiment is to be withdrawn from it, leaving
betwixt 16,000 and 17,000 troops behind. Colonel
Dundas, commander of the forces on the Indus, is
at present on a tour of inspection. The order for the
formal annexation of the country to Bombay has
arrived from England, but has not as yet been pro-
mulgated. Mr. Clerk, Governor of Bombay, pro-
ceeds to Sinde about the first week of January.
He will remain for some weeks with the Com-
missioner, when considerable changes are ex-
pected to occur. Till then, matters will remain
Probably much as they were under the late Admi-
nistration. There are still some disturbances of
no great moment in the Goomsoor country, and
the usual amount of clamour from the Niaam's
capital, Hyderabad. The story about the Niaam's
brother having built up his wife and her slaves in the
palace, with a view of starving them, seems one of
those fictions which gain currency from time to time
when a native chief is in bad odour, and there seems
some prospect of his territories being appropriated.
Such things afterwards form the grounds on which
war and conquest are justified ! The late commercial
intelligence has proved most calamitous in Calcutta
--in Bombay only one house has fallen, and that
through no blame of its own ; no other failure here is
apprehended. The festivities at Lucknow in honour
of the Governor-General are over, and his Lordship
himself by this time in Calcutta. He leaves early in
January. Lord Dalhousie is expected to spend a
week with his relative the Marquis of Tweedale at
Madras.

A disastrous fire occurred at Mazagon on the
evening of the 13th, and destroyed the conter ts of an
extensive woodyard ; this is the second time within
this ten months that the same spot has been the scene
of conflagration.