The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-03 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From Galignani's Messenger of Wednesday.)
The Courrier Francais mentions a report that Marshal
Gerard, who is the only Minister that accompanied the
King to Fontainebleau, has determined to make an amnesty
for political offenders a Cabinet question as it regards the
other Ministers, and has declared to his friends that he
would return from Fontainebleau with an act of amnesty,
or without a Ministerial portfolio. It adds that it cannot
vouch for the Marshal's having expressed himself in such
decisive terms, although a resolution like this would be in
perfect accordance with his character and opinions.
His Excellency Lord Granville, the Spanish Ambassador,
the Duke de Frias, the Belgian Ambassador, M. Le Hon,
Muftapha Redschid Bey, Effendi the Turkish Ambassador
to France, Namick Pasha, the Ambassador from the Porte
to England, and the Portuguese, Brazilian, and Swiss
Charges d'Affaires, are going to Fontainebleau, and will
remain during the whole of the King's stay. The Russian,
Prussian, and Austrian Ambassadors, and indeed all the
other representatives of foreign Powers at the Court of
France, are invited to pass some daps at Fontainebleau,
but have not yet gone. The King's Ministers will make
their visits at different periods. Admiral Jacob will go
to-morrow. The King will return to St. Cloud on Wed-
nesday evening next, and on the Saturday following will
come to reside at Paris. The Queen and the Princesses
Mary and Clementine will proceed from Fontainbleau to
Brussels. During the King's stay upwards of 800 beds
will be occupied by his Majesty's guests and suite, and by
the performers from the different theatres, who are to play
before their Majesties. All the hotels in the town are also
completely filled with persons who come from far and near
to witness this courtly festival.

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The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of Bayonne of the 27th
ult. has the following extract of a letter from Aldudes of the
23d —" A disease of a suspicious nature has broken out
at Burguetta, two leagues from this commune. On the
19th and 20th ult. eight persons were carried off suddenly,
and four of them belonged to one family. Gen. Cordova
arrived the day before yesterday in the valley of Erro with
a column of 2,000 men. The General has with him as
prisoners the old parish priest and all the proprietors of
land who belonged to the little village of Ortasun, in the
vallej of Estribar, a quarter of a league from Engui. , The
insurgents who were at Burguetta, in the valley of Erro
and Estribar, have withdrawn in the direction of the Bastan
and Salazar. Don Carlos, Zumalacarregui, and Eraso,
with four battalions, occupy the Bastan. Sagastibelza, with
two of these battalions, closely blockades the house Miseri-
cordia, and has broken the mill-stones of the mill at Eli-
ndo,
200 paces
in the Bidassoa, where Zugarramurdi ground
corn consumed by his garrison. The Misericordia is
butthe
paces from the southern extremity of that street."
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The Indicateur of Bordeaux of the 28th ult., gives the
following account of an accident, which, though causing the
loss of one life only, might have been attended by much
more serious consequences :—" Yesterday was the first day
of the service of the new Steam-boat Company. One of
the boats having met the Langonnais, belonging to the
General Company, which had been forced to lay to, in con-
quence of having sprung a leak, took out of her about 150
passengers. On arriving a great crowd of people got upon
the bridge, which leads to the smaller boat used for the
purpose of landing. The steam-boat arrived, and at the
same moment, notwithstanding the precautions taken, the
people rushed forward, and the fore part of the bridge, from
being overladen, broke under the weight, and between 40
and 50 persons were precipitated into the water and mud.
Every effort was immediately made to snatch these victims
of curiosity from a watery grave ; and all were saved except
one young woman, about 19 years old, who had sunk too
deep in the mud. Young lads were employed for three
hours in diving for the articles which had been lost in the
confusion, and numerous umbrellas, parasols, shoes, hats,
shawls, &c., were brought up. Among the articles re-
covered we observed a cooper's compass, a volume of Notre
Dame de Paris, another volume of Victor Hugo's works,
and about 10 or 12 francs in money."
The German National Gazette of Frankfort of the 25th
ult. says—" There are sometimes in political as well as in
private life moments when no activity is outwardly appa-
rent, and yet the most important events are in preparation.
If we are not deceived, there is at the present time a
similar calm in the affairs of Europe in general, and in the
affairs of Germany, as well as in our free state, in particular.
At least this opinion is generally expressed in our circles,
and certainly there are circumstances which confirm it. It
is true that the public expectation, excited by a report that
the great Monarchs of the North are shortly to hold a con-
ference at a given place, has been disappointed, because one
of these Sovereigns has returned to his residence without
having had an interview with his son-in-law. It is, how-
ever, still believed, from the statements of private letters
from Berlin, and not from the journals, that the Emperor
Nicholas will accompany the Empress to Berlin, and from
thence will make an excursion with the King of Prussia to
meet the Emperor of Austria, either in Bohemia or in
Moravia. It is probable that other Sovereigns of the Ger-
manic Confederation will be present at conferences upon the
relations of the Confederation as a great European Power.
If this presumption be well-founded, it will explain the
silence which has been preserved with regard to the labours
of the Congress of Vienna, as well as the long absence of
the President of the Germanic Diet, whose return is still
considered to be the epoch when certain promulgations will
be made, and the public curiosity satisfied." •
The Augsburg Gazette of the 27th ult. states, that the
Hanoverian Cabinet Minister, M. d'Ompteda, has gone to
London, by the special order of the King of England, who
is desirous of a personal interview with that Minister, rela-
tive to the junction of the Brunswick customs with those of
Hanover. M. de Handel, Austrian Charge de Affaires at
Frankfort, and the chief of the Federal Chancery, returned

to Frankfort last week, after a long absence. Count Munch
Bellinghausen is expected shortly in this town.
The Gazette quotes the fund at Vienna on the 22d, Me-
tallies, 5 per cent., 991 ; ditto, 4 per cent., 90/ ; Bank
Actions, 1,260.

BOURSE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. l.—The Three per Cents.
continue rising ; they were in the beginning in demand at
77f. 80c. for the end of this month, and have since fluctua-
ted between 77f. 65c. and 77f. 75c. They are at present
77f. 70c. The Spanish Five per Cents. have kept their
ground at 421 to 42 ; Cortes the same, 42 ; Royal, 39} ;
Three per Cents., 28. Nothing is yet known, and no re-
ports about the remainder of the discussion on the finances
of Spain by the Procuradores.
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FRENCH FUNDS.—PAats, Ocr. 1.
Five per Cents., 105 c. 45c. 53t.. 256.
Four per Cents., 92f. —c.
Three per Cents., 77f. 40c. 55c. &c.
Rente de Naples' 94f. 70c. 75c. 65c.
Roman Fiveper Cents., 90.
Rente d'Eapagne, Five per Cents., 42 42% 43.
Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 26 23;4 27.
Royal Spanish Loan, 39% 30% 24.
Rente Perpettd'Espagne, Five per Cents., 42% 39M 40%,
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 101.
Hay tian Loan, 260 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —£ —c. ; money, 25f. 35e.
Three months, paper, 25f. 2•j4c. ; money, 2.5£ 20c.
—Cour: Authentique.

SPAIN.

CHAMBER OF THE PROCURADORES.

SPANISiI CORTiVg, SEPT. 24.—The President, the Conde
de AlmOdovar, toblc the chair at 11 o'clock, when the mi-
nutes of the previous sitting were read and approved of.
The following motion, signed by the Conde de las Navas,
Lopez, and Carrasco, was then read by the Secretary Belda :
—" We pray the Estamento, in consequence of the erro-
neous reports which appear in the newspapers, to cause an
official or Diario de Cortes to be published." This motion,
after some discussion, was remitted to the committee of the
Home Department.
The President then announced the order of the day,
which was the discussion by articles of the project° de ley
presented by the Government on the subject of the recog-
nition of the foreign debt. The first article of the project
was then read by the Secretary Caballero, to the following
effect :—" All debts contracted by the Government at
various periods in foreign countries, and especially the loans
anterior as well as posterior to the year 1823, are debts of
the state."

The Conde de las Navas, after re-reading the article in
question, proceeded to observe that the debt contracted
by the Cortes and the Constitutional King from 1820 to
1823 was undoubtedly legitimate, and as such a debt of the
state. His only business, therefore, was to resist the ac-
knowledgment of the debts contracted since the year 1823.
I ask if a son borrow money to buy a poniard, and kill his
father with it, is the widow obliged to pay the money ?
This seems to be the case of the Guebhard loan. Senhor
Domecq has said that loans were not taxes, but was it not
necessary to levy taxes in order to pay them ? He says
likewise that the fundamental laws are quoted for every
thing. This is not very strange, for the fundamental laws
are quoted in support of every sort of usurpation. The
Guebhard loan is null in every sense, and in all its conse-
quences, and cannot be adopted without committing a most
grievous injustice. lam of opinion, therefore, that the ar-
ticle, as it stands ought not to be approved of, and that in
its place we ought to substitute the first three articles of the
report of the majority of the committee.
Senhor Domecq denied that he had ever said what had
been ascribed to him on the subject of the application of
our fundamental laws.

Senhor La Santa statedthat the question bad been treated
of under three different points of view—its justice, its con-
venience, and its policy ; but he would apply himself chiefly
to considerations of equity, and would look at it as a ques-
tion between private individuals. If we do not abandon
all the rights of national representatives, I believe it is our
duty to revive that protest, and reprobate all that has been
done in defiance of it.

The Marquis de Torremejia declared that the protest
made by the Cortes there did not attach that character
which it ought to possess if it were to operate as a law,
for it was neither promulgated as such, nor was it assented
to by the Cortes. It was not to be denied that the debt
contracted by the Cortes was more legitimate than the pos-
terior debts ; yet, he thought that though the latter did
not possess the same character of legality as the former,
they still possessed a sufficient degree of legality to entitle
them to be recognized. Regarding the question in an en-
tirely economic point of view, he was of opinion that it
would be impossible to reject in a mass all the debts con-
tracted since the year 1823, because, with respect to the
5 per Cents., they consisted of items of consideration given
to the English Government on account of the 60,000,000
of bonds in payment of the money due to the French Go-
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in itself constituted a repayment, and it had also been paid
in 20th portions, which in the space of ten years equalled
the half of, the capital. The question for consideration at
present was, then, whether that debt should be paid a third
time. He concluded by saying that he could have wished,
in order to give his assent to the article of the Government
up to a certain point, that the words with the exception of
the loan called Guebhard's or Royal Loan had been in an
explicit manner inserted. In such case, he should have
great pleasure in voting for the article, but otherwise he
should feel himself under the necessity of opposing it.
Senhor Palarea—l will not, at the present moment, go
into any argument respecting the legality or non-legality of
the Government which existed before us ; but I will inquire
whether the loans contracted by it, and whether Guebhard's
loan, and all the rest since raised, were contracted according
to the forms of law. In my opinion they were not. The
individuals who lent their money to enslave a nation can
only support their claims by averring ignorance of our laws,
and of the principles of good faith and honour.
The Marquis de Falces approved the first article of the
project as it stood, leaving the mode of liquidating the debts
until the second article came under the consideration of the
Chamber.

Senhor:Garcia Carrasco—lf all'the debts are acknow-
ledged, we shall then have, and very quickly, to speak of an
actual bankruptcy. Nations, as individuals, when they sus-
pend the payment of their debts, or when they say that
they do not pay them because they have not wherewith to
do so, and give no hopes of ever being able to pay them,
lose their credit, and are said to be in a state of real bank-
ruptcy. According to the article,, our nation says, " I
cannot pay," and this is what is called bankruptcy. The
mere announcement of the representation of this project has
been the decline of our funds in foreign countries, and of a
very considerable .decline. The Hon. Member concluded
by adverting to the military operations against the rebels.
On the motion of a Procurador, the 25th article of the
reglamento was read.
SPANISH CORTES, SEPT. 25.

The President took the chair at 11 o'clock, and caused
the order of the day to be read, which was the discussion
by articles of the projecto de ley for the recognition of the
foreign debt and the loan of 400,000,000.

Senhor Trueba—The Minister of Finance has said that
the Guebhard loan was to be a sort of propitiatory victim,
but in my opinion, in the event of its recognition, the true
victim would be the Spanish nation. Senhor Torremejia
observes that the Guebhard loan should be distinguished
from all the rest, but for my part, I can see no reason for
such a distinction. If the Guebhard loan be thrown over-
board, I do not understand why those which are its conse-
quences should be recognised. In my opinion, the whole
should be recognised or the whole repudiated ; at all
events, I am clear that the first article of the project ought
not to be adopted in the terms in which it has been pro-
posed.
Senhor Aguirre Solarte was for retaining the first article,
such as it appears in the projecto.
Senhor Caballero said that there was no alternative be-
tween acknowledging all the loans and not acknowledging
them, and as their acknowledgment would increase the
burdens of the people, which was a certain evil, he pre-
ferred to run the risk of an uncertain evil, which would
result from not acknowledging them.
Senhor Martinez de la Rosa observed that, if the non-re-
cognition of the bonds of the Cortes produced a blow that
was fatal in the markets of London and Paris, it is clear
that a declaration of nullity now as to the other loans, al-
though accompanied by the recognition of the Cortes bonds,
would produce a similar effect.

After the question was declared to be sufficiently discussed,
The Marquis de la Gandara moved that the question
" that the first article of the project should be again referred
to the committee," be put to the vote.
The President submitted the motion for discussion.,"
It was opposed by Senhor Serrano (D. Guies),who moved
that the Chamber should decide not to pass to the discus-
sion of a proposition made by a Procurador until it was de-
clared that the motion should be taken into consideration.

This proposition being put to the vote, it was approved
of by 65 votes to 45.
The proposition of the Marquis de la Gandara was then

Yesterday being the day appointed for swearing in the
Civic Authorities for the ensuing year, the Lord Mayor
and Sheriffs elect, accompanied by the out-going Lord
Mayor and Sheriffs, proceeded in state to the City Assem-
bly-house, in William street, where they were met by the
Common Council. At two o'clock the civic train, attended
by the Recorder, set out in procession to the Castle, where
his Excellency, the Lord Lieutenant, had some time pre-
viously arrived. Shortly after they entered the Castle, the
municipal body were ushered into the presence of his Ex-
cellency, who, attended by his chief secretary,. Mr. Little-
ton, with the principal officers of state and the members of
his household, was waiting in the throne-room to receive
them.

The RECORDER, in introducing Mr. Alderman Perrin,
the Lord Mayor elect, to his Excellency, in an eloquent
speech, remarkably well delivered, adverted to the antiquity
and importance of the office of Lord Mayor of the City of
Dublin. It was an office, he said, of great dignity, honour,
power, and importance. The Lord Mayor, in his own ju-
risdiction, was the next in rank to the King's representa-
tive. He was the civil and military governor of the city,
and took precedence of the King's Judges. After dwelling
upon this topic, the Learned Recorder went into the his-
tory of the Corporation of Dublin, and the successive
charters and grants with which successive monarchs
had rewarded the loyalty and attachment to British
connection, for which this Corporation had always
ben distinguished. He expatiated upon the antiquity and
importance of corporations in general—their utility, and
the duties appertaining to them. He admitted that
in the course of time abuses might creep into the
best and most perfect of human institutions. He
was not an enemy to salutary change, but when
abuses were to be corrected and improvements ef-
fected, he did not wish to see entrusted with the cor-
rection of those abuses the enemies of those principles for
which the Corporation of Dublin had always been distin-
guished. He complimented the late Lord Mayor upon the
mode in which he had discharged the duties of his office,
and trusted that his successor would imitate his example.
lie expressed the thanks of the. Corporation to his Ex-
cellency, the Lord Lieutenant, for the favour and courtesy
they had experienced at his hands. He concluded by ex-
pressing the grateful feelings which the Corporation 'of
Dublin entertained towards his Majesty for having selected
as his representative a distinguished Nobleman from
amongst the Nobility of this country—the possessor of a
name which had shed lustre upon the British character in
every part of the world ; and which, long after the passions
of the present time had passed away, would constitute an
imperishable record o f the national glory.
The usual oath of office was then administered to the
Lord Mayor, after which the Lord Lieutenant proceeded
to invest him with the insignia of his office.
Baron SMITH then very briefly addressed the Lord
Mayor. He had, he said, been anticipated in his topics by
the learned and eloquent Recorder, as indeed all who fol-
lowed him were sure to be. He highly congratulated the
Lord Mayor on the high station of trust and honour to
which his fellow-citizens had raised him, and trusted he
would so discharge his duties as, at the conclusion of the
year, to deserve equally with his predecessor, that praise
which had been so justly conferred upon the latter by the
learned and able Recorder, and which he would not bestow
had it not been justly merited.
The LORD-LIEUTENANT then proceeded to address the
Lord Mayor. Though his Excellency spoke occasionally
with much energy, yet he was at times almost inaudible.
He dwelt upon the importance, and dignity, and high trust
appertaining to the office of Lord Mayor, and upon the
great importance to the peace and welfare of the city, that
those duties which the office imposed should be fairly and
faithfully discharged. He pointed to the example which
the late Lord Mayor had set, in the manner in which he
had fulfilled his official duties during his year of office. He
felt as anxious as any one to preserVe the ancient institu-
tions of the country, unimpaired on their ancient founda-
tions. The surest way to preserve them was, to free them
from those corruptions which, in the course of time, had
become excrescent upon them, and which, if suffered to con-
tinue, must lead to their utter destruction. He would not
spare abuses, wherever they were found to have crept in,
and which, if not pruned, would destroy the finest institu-
tions that were ever formed by the mind of man. It might,
perhaps, have been better to have avoided the topic altoge-
ther' but, as it had been alluded to by the Learned Recor-
der,he felt it necessatry to state those opinions which he
firmly entertained.

Shortly after his Excellency, accompanied by his suite,
retired, and the civic train proceeded to an anti-chamber,
to partake of a collation prepared for them. The pro-
cession subsequently went, in the order in which it came,
from the Castle to the City Sessions-house, in Green-street,
where the Sheriffs (Messrs. Hyndman and Carolin), were
sworn in with the customary ceremonies.
It had been rumoured that a display of party colours was
to be made upon the occasion, but none took place.
The new liveries (crimson, rich trimmed with gold lace),
had a very splendid appearance, but the coaches were plain,•
and by no means remarkable for style or elegance.