The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-22 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

( From the Indicateur de Bordeaux of Sept. 18.)
The accounts received to-day from the frontier do not
confirm the news of the action fought by Rodil and the
rebels between Aspeitia and Ascoitia. We said yesterday
that the news was such as to render confirmation necessary.
The Sentinelle de Bayonne, however, affirms that the action
was a terrible one, and adds that the Carlists have left 600
dead or wounded on the field of battle. That paper must
have confounded dates and places. It was on the 13th
that the Guipuscoans made an attempt on Tolosa, and not
Mondragon ; and they were repulsed with some loss. On
the evening of the 15th they were at Oyarsun. On the
14th Zugaramurdi, with 450 men of the garrison of Eli-
sondo, marched on Valcarlos, wher& the custom-house
'agents of Don Carlos were surprised and carried off.
Only 250 men remained in the fortifications, which,
on account of that small number, were attacked in
the night of the 15th by a strong party of rebels, but
without success. It is absolutely false that Zumalacar-
regui had attempted to take possession of Bilboa, where there
is a respectable National Guard. Zumalacarregui has cer-
tainly come back towards the frontier, and when last heard
of was at Estella. This disastrous war will never be
brought to a close through fire and sword, but it may be
so through the means of protocols. According to a well-
informed correspondent of ours at St. Jean-de-Luz, an im-
portant personage, whose name was not given, but who is
said to be a Duke, arrived on the 16th at St. Pee, on his
way to Spain. It is believed that he is the bearer of
• proposals to Don Carlos. The latter was expected back
in the Bastan, where an interview between them is to take

place.
The military executions continue in Barcelona. On the
10th the two Fonts, who had figured in the Catalonian
bands of Carlists, were shot. They had connected political
enterprise with highway robbery. An officer named Lo-
renzo y Banos, formerly a captain of cavalry, and who had
entered Spain with a brevet signed by Don Carlos, was to
be executed also.

(From Galignani's Messenger of Saturday.)
The Indicateur of Bordeaux of the 17th inst., received
by express, has the following :—" It is quite certain that
Zumalacarregui, after having carried eff a considerable
booty from Viana, has passed the Ebro, and is pursued
by Lorenzo. Different opinions prevail respecting the
route which he has taken. According to some accounts
he is on the. road to Miranda, after having taken pos-
session of Aguilar de Cerbera, where he remained for seve-
ral hours. Others affirm that by forced marches he had
arrived at Onate, having troops at Cogama and Segura.
It, however, seems undoubted, that in his short excursion
he has taken a large quantity of arms from the Urban
Militia. The valley of Bastan is quite free from insur-.
gents, and the troops of the Queen are in possession of the
whole country. Don Carlos is flying in the valley of Elvola,
vigorously pursued by Rodil, who quitted Aspeitia on the
14th for that purposer Espartero occupies Durango." The
Bayonne correspondent of the Indicateur writes, that " the
Carlists menace Bilboa, and some assert that they have ob-
tained possession of it, which is exceedingly improbable. Be-
tween Aspeitia and Ascoitia the Carlists were attacked by the
Christinos ; the affair is said to have taken place on the 14th.
A Carlist battalion of 800 strong was cut to pieces. Report
says that General Harispe has received the official bulletin
of the battle, but this news requires confirmation. From
Marquina the Pretender took his course towards Aribita,
closely pursued by Espartero and Rodil. The latter had at
his head-quarters the Duchess of Grenada, whose estates
had been consumed by fire. The wives of Eraso, of Ma-
rechalar, and of De Rico, all of whom have a command in
the Carlist army, have been carried away from Valcarlos
by Zugaramurdi, commandant of the garrison of Elisondo.
These ladies have been conducted to the latter town,
and closely watched. Their husbands have been ap-
prised that they are considered as hostages. Per-
sons of distinction in Pampeluna whose political opinions
were suspicious have been ordered to quit the town ;
among the number are the canons and others belonging to
the monastic orders, the Count de Guendulein, the Marquis
d'Hio, M. de Bersilla, and Baron de Biqueval. The emi-
gration to France continues more than ever. On the 14th
the number of refugees from Bilboa were 100. The three
provinces will soon be deserted. Report states that a new
party has started up in Spain, whose object is to put Don
Francisco de Paula on the throne ; they are ultra-Liberals.
It is said that money is already in circulation with the effigy
of Don Francisco."
Extract of a letter of the 15th inst. from Bayonne :
" We have just received positive information that a serious
action has taken place between Mondragon and Ochandiano.
Generals Rodil, Cordova, and Angelo, and El Pastor were
in the field from the commencement of the action, and com-
manded the Queen's troops. The conflict was terrible ;
the Carlists left 600 men dead on the field. Several mules
with their burdens fell into the hands of the Queen's forces.
General Rodil and El Pastor put to flight the 4th and 6th
battalions of the insurgents of the Bastan, Navarre, Gui-
belalde, and Guipuscoa. Zumalacarregui had called tlpon
the town of Etchalar to furnish him with 2,000 rations of
bread, wine, and meat, which he was to go for yesterday.
The authorities of Guipuscoa have complained to the go-
vernment that General Rodil has exercised upon them un-
reasonable vexations, producing no benefit to the cause.
The General, in return, has exiled the authors of this re-
monstrance: In the small town of Arizain 12 houses and
the convent have been marked to be burnt."
The Augsburg Gazette of the 16th inst. has the follow-
ing from Frankfort of the 12th :—" The journals of Brunn
wit* these few days have mentioned a projected meeting
between the three Northern Monarchs. No credit is here
given to this report ; an active exchange of couriers exists
-between Basle and Frankfort, the cause of which is diffi-
cult to discover." This journal has also a letter from Rome
of the 6th instant, which says—" The day before yesterday
Don Miguel arrived here, under the titlQ of Duke of Bra-
ganza, and received the customary honours due to an In-
fante of Portugal. Yesterday he was introduced to the
Pope, who conversed with him for half an hour. At this
'audience, the former Portuguese ambassador, Don Antonio
de Almeida, Marquis de Lavraido, officiated as interpreter.
The stay of the Infante in this city will be for several weeks,
and some persons affirm that he will make purchases, in
order to a more permanent residence. Travellers to and
from Naples have latterly been stopped by the police at
Genzano, three posts from Rome, for the purpose of being
searched. It was at first stated that this measure had been

resorted to in consequence of a suspected conspiracy on our
frontier ; but other accounts lead us to believe that the
first search took place on the Neapolitan territory, to pre-
vent the introduction of certain papers. All travellers in-
discriminately have been subjected to search. These mea,
sures' are now put an end to by order of the Cardinal Se-
cretary of State." The Gazette quotes the Funds at
Vienna, on the 11th, Five per Cents., Metallics, 98i ; Four
per Cents. ditto, 881 ; Bank Actions, 1,235.- =-
Extract of a letter from Frankfort of the 15th instant

" Yesterday, at ten o'clock, the population of this town was
in a state of intense anxiety. It was at one time feared
that the scenes of April and May were about to be re-
newed. A great military force was set on foot. Austrian,
Prussian, and Frankfort troops were under arms, in full ac-
coutrements, and strong patrols of cavalry and infantry tra-
versed the city in every direction. Abattalion of the Aus-
trian regiment was stationed in detachmentsfrom distance to
distance, from the guard-house of the parade-ground of the
Zeil!as far as Schoenhausen, where another battalion, with
artillery, defended the head of the bridge, and the
Darinstadt gate. The Prussians had taken up their
position on the Boulevard, out of the city, at the gates of
which were placed three pieces of cannon, charged with
grape-shot. Aides-de-camp went backwards and forwards
with orders from the Major-General, at whose head-quar-
ters great activity prevailed. This military display led to a
belief some intended hostile movement, but after two hours
passed in the greatest anxiety, the peaceable • inhabitants of
the town saw the troops return to their respective quar-
ters. Various conjectures respecting the cause of this event
were afloat this morning ; according to some, a rescue of
the political prisoners had been in contemplation.; others
said that the archives of the Diet were to have been seized,
and the President was to have been the victim of an
assassin's knife ; but the fact is that disturbances had been
anticipated, in consequence of great numbers of students
having arrived from Offenbach. The town is now tranquil,
and to-morrow we shall think no more of it. The foreign
students have received a police order to quit Frankfort
within 24 hours, and in future they will never be permitted
to reside in the town for more than that space of time."
Extract of a letter from Dunkirk, of the 16th instant :
-" The Bordelaise returned to this port on the 13th, after
having been five months employed on the, coasts of Iceland
and Greenland, in searching for the Lilloise, but she leaves
no hope of the existence of the latter. It was not possible
to obtain any positive evidence of her destruction ; but,
from a series of indications, it has been ascertained that the
Lilloise was stopped on her return to France by the ice
near the north of Iceland."
BOURSE, SEPT. 20.-We have had another improvement
in the Spanish Securities. The arrival of Mr. M. N. Roths-
child has raised the courage of the stockholders. The
French Securities are also very firm, Three per Cents. being
76f. .55c: buyers ; Five per Cents., Spanish, 374 ; Three
per Cents., 28 ; Cortes, 42k. No important new from
Madrid. I have seen a letter from Bayonne of the 166,
which gives scarcely any news, and has only been written
to say that the last battle which was said to have been
Fought in Spain is entirely discredited.
:FRENCH FUNDS.-Panic, SEM% 19.
Five per Cents., 105 f. 104 f 95c. 55c.
Three per Cents., 76f. 40c. 30c. 50c.
Bank Actions, 1,760 f.
Bente de Naples, 93f. 50e. 40c.
Roman Five per Cents., 95 94%.
Itente d'Espagne, Five per Cents , 43 4214 %.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 2645,
Royal Spanish Loan, 33 32%.
Rente Perpet.'d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 35% 36i%.
Belgian Loan; Five per Cents., 100.
Hajtian Loan, 265 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON. • •
One month, paper, 23f. 35c. ; money, 2'f 35c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 21: gc. ; money, 25f. 2 lc. • •
-,Cours dtahentique.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS,
Five per Cents., 105 f. 101 f 90c. 10 f.
Four per Cents., NC 20e.
Three per Cents., 76f 46c. 50c. 55c.
Rank Actions, 1,760 f. -c.
Rente de Naples, 93f. :Kt.
Roman Five per Cents., 94% 95.
Bentsd'Espagne, Five per Cents , 42% 41-42%. t•
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents , 26'4 27% 26% '
Bova; Spanish Loan, 32(% Is 4.
Rente Pei pet. d'ETagne. rive per Cents., 36% 36% 36%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 1001 A 100
Haytian Loan, 262 f. 50c.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
(qv month, paper, -f. --c. ; money. 25f. 35c
Three months, paper, -f. -c. ; money, 25f. 25e.
lours ilutheutique. a.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons. 9014%
3t per Cent. shut
Ditto Red
New 334 per Cent
Assented
4 per Cent. /Dissented shut
sank Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 3, 1860.--
Oct. 10, 1859 shut
Jan. 5,186 e 1754
Jan. 5, 1880
April 5, 1880
Jan. 5, 1870

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. .., .
New 5 per Cent. J. ... i -
India Stock • --
.d 62 ~i
Ditto Bonds ~.' " l6 :8 pm.
South Sea Stock
Old Annuities
New Ditto -

r Cent. Annuities,' 11514.
Exch. Bills, .£I,OOO 43.45 43 pm.
Ditto ..500 45 pm.
Ditto Small 45 46 pro
Ditto Commercial pm.
Ditto Advertised. pm•
Bank Stock for Account
India Stock for Account •
Consols for Account ()ON %

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds
Ditto Account .2.7,{,
Portugucseßonds 601.4
Ditto Account BO5-,',
Ditto New Bonds Bl 80%
Ditto Account Bl% SO%
Prussian Bonds lOl
Dittu Bonds, 1822 lOl
Russian Bonds, 1822 • 104
Ditto Account lOO4
Ditto Metallic lo2li
Spanish Bonds 52% I%R, SUN
Ditto to Accun
____ 52>ip 13i

.......
Ditto Bonds, 1833. . -
Ditto Account 1 ID
French, 5 per cent. -4. --c
----- 4 per cent. —f. —c
----13 per cent. —f. —c
--- Exchange .—f. —c.
Dutch, 214 per cent.
Ditto Account 51%
Ditto, 5 per cent. ABS 74
Ditto Account ! 034

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share
£9 114
is. at 5/. pm.) 100 •
25 81/4
150 129
Led at 5/. pm.) 20 :33
20 oi

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1634

We have received by express from Paris the French
papers of Saturday, together with arrivals from Madrid
of the 13th inst. Considering the disturbed state of
Spain, the never-ending bickerings of party in France,
and the various political movements going forward in
the North of Europe, the dearth of any important in-
telligence from the Continent is ' really surprising.
There is not a word of news in the journals before us,"
with the exception of rumours respecting the war in
Spain, which has not been before the British public
some three days since. The Spanish Cabinet is every
day losing ground in the confidence of the Procura-
dores ; and the latter is still more rapidly waning in
the affections of the Citizen-King, and his loyal
courtiers. It is rather strange to hear that Lours
PHILIP is privately chagrined at the conduct of, the. Sp-
anish Deputies in forcing a charter on DE LA ROSA and

his colleagues, but, such, however, is the fact. His MA-
jesty ia exceedingly displeased that Spain should enjoy
a constitutional right to those substantial liberties of
which only the outward appearances—the very sha-
dows—exist in France. The liberty of the press, for

example, -if guaranteed to Ake Spanish people, will
-open the eyes of every intelligent Frenchman to the
disgraceful prosecutions of the National, and every
other able advocate of popular rights in Paris. At
present Spain serves for a foil—a standard by which
the French Government is enabled to multiply the

public privileges by comparison ; but from the moment
the Regent of Spain is obliged to adopt the Bill of
Rights, such standard no longer exists to countenance
despotism in France. The citizen King will then find
himself awkwardly situated with England on the one
hand, and Spain on the other, unless, indeed, he re-
solves upon the adoption of a more liberal policy than
any yet- publicly recommended -by little Harlequin

Till ERS, and his colleagues in the cabinet.
The arrivals from Madrid are chiefly confined to
discussions on the report of the Finance Committee,
and the proceedings of the Procuradores on the new
law embodying the Bill of Rights, of which a report
is given in our extracts from the Madrid Journals.
Most of the public papers in Spain are in favour of

the Financial Report, and use a- variety of arguments
for the purpose of proving that Spain ought not to be
held responsible for debts contracted by FERDIN AND
the VII., without the consent of the Cortes of the
Kingdom. We have before written at some length
on this subject, and, as we think, proved the
danger and the injustice of forfeiting any engagements
entered- into by a Government, and, therefore, we shall
not again enter into the merits of the question, as the
proper time for remonstrance is past ; but there might
be unfairness in withholding from our countrymen the
arguments with which the Spanish authorities seek to
justify their conduct, and, therefore, we give the fol-
lowing from the Observador, a Madrid Ministerial
journal, in answer to some severe strictures in the
Courrier Francais, on the had faith, and worse policy,
of the-REGENT and her Ministry :
" If there is anything odious about Count Toreno's plan, it
is the placing on the same footing our friends and our enemies,
and in paying in the same ,way those who have been receiving
their dividends with impure hands, and those whose claims
have hitherto been annulled. Annulled, did we say ? No, they
have not been, and they are not annulled. In our mind, never
were annulled the rights of those who desired to contribute to
our political regeneration ; in the hearts of Spaniards never
were annulled the claims of the English, which are the more
sacred because they are English. Appeal to the innumerable
vistims who were so cordially assisted, received, and protected,
as soon as they reached the soil of Great Britain. Appeal to
sympathy, to national gratitude, and 'you will see whether
every Spaniard, every Liberal, not only those who were the
objects of English hospitality, but also those who have been
their relations, friends, or compatriots, find a refuge in that
country, does not feel anxious to do justice to that free and
generous nation for the liberality it showed at the time of our
struggle for liberty, and for the hospitality it displayed at the
time of our misfortunes. Let every farthing be paid, without
the slightest question, to every Englishman and Frenchman
who endangered their own interests for our cause. Let those
who risked their fortune for an opposite cause await their reward
until the triumph of Don Carlos. But we will pass to another sub-
ject. What is it that the Courrier Francais desires the French Ca-
binet to do? What can that Cabinet do ? Is the affair any of
theirs? What I would the French Minister, for the purpose
of defending the interests of four stock-jobbers, be so mad as
to threaten Spain ;—for his threats could not be directed
against our Government, inasmuch as it appertains to the
Cortes to vote all matters of finance ? And would French
liberalism permit, for the contemptible interests of four ex-
change intriguers, and gross usurers, who have made immo-
derate fortunes, that poor Spain, who can scarcely raise her
head out of the abyss into which she was plunged by the un-
just war of Buonaparte, and the unjust war of 1823—poor
Spain, we repeat, reduced to misery by Buonaparte and by the
policy of the Bourbons (both French), should bow down
another time in affliction and misfortune, in order that the
hopes of four intriguers, who bear the name of Frenchmen,
may not be disappointed. If. France were truly liberal—if
France were just, she would deal in a very different manner
with Spain ' • and as far as lay in her power, she would indem-
nify us for the evils she his caused us. In place of exacting
the 8,000,000 f., which, with so much complacency, she re-
ceives for the expenses of the impious war of 1823, she ought
to consider that it was her unjust aggression that introduced
disorder, fraud, and deception into her treasury. She ought
to consider that she is the sole cause of the scandalous finance
operations of the Bourse at Paris ; she ought to consider, that
in payment of the innumerable misfortunes which Spain owes
to France, it would be her duty to take on herself the arrange-
ment of this sacrilegious debt, and to compel (for she has the
individuals in her power) those who have taken too much, to
disgorge their gains, and to indemnify those who have received
too little. If this were done, we are very sure that this so
greatly magnified debt would not fail to diminish very consi-
derably.
We do not believe there is an intelligent person in
Europe who is not as willing to impute the sufferings
of Spain to French ambition and French avarice, as
the writer of the above article. But what has that to
do with the real merits of the question ? Can any
bad faith on the part of Spain avenge her on the
wrong-doers ? Will NAPOLEON suffer any disgrace
from the acts of TOREN°, or his supporters ? Or ra-
ther will not the attempt to reach the dead through the
hearts of the living, brand the Spanish name with a
mark of cruel perfidy, which shall render the nation
odious in the eyes of the remotest posterity ? But
what chiefly marks the ignorance of the writer, is his
presuming that only four gambling stock jobbers will
suffer from the non-recognition of the French
del)t. The loan-contractors are too cunning to be
the victims of so shallow an artifice. The sufferers
will be the struggling merchants with small capitals,
and to them the scheme recommended by the Com-
mitige will be utter ruin. As we have said before, the
people of Spain are in justice, and ought to be held in
fact, responsible for the acts of Government, whose
acts were sanctioned by their acquiescence, if not active
support. And this ought to be the rule with respect
to all countries, and then probably mankind would
begin to discover that it was both their duty and their
interest to attend to the proceedings of Governments
with as much care as to those of any other class of
public functionaries. If men will permit the commis-
sion of wrong in their name, they ought to be held
'responsible for it.

•We are at last constrained to break silence on a
subject, which for many months has occupied the
attention of numerous correspondents ; but to which
we, hitherto hoped, it might not be necessary to in-
_ _

vite public regard. Before doing so, however, we
cannot refrain from the expression of our deep regret,
that England contains no institution which its
guardians zealously seek to protect from the noto-
riety attendant on newspaper censure. It is truly
a melancholy task, to be obliged to enter the House of
GOD with a scourge—to hold a mirror up to the Mi-
nisters of the Gospel—and to expose the absence of
the decencies and decorums which should be observed
in the pulpit and the pew. Yet such is the office
which now devolves upon us; and if we content our-
selves for the present with a few brief remarks on the
subject, we shall do so in the hope that the metropo-
litan clergy will obviate the necessity, on our part, of
giving publicity to communications which would reflect
no credit on the religious character of the ecclesiastics
of this country. _ _

There is a custom which prevails with the door-
keepers of certain charity churches and chapels in the me-
tropolis of refusing admittance to all who approach the
House of GOD after the reading of the Second Lesson.
The doors are closed at the end of that part of the ser-
vice, a chain is drawn across, and in answer to an appeal