The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-04 00:00:00

thermometer is below zero. But there is no
accounting for tastes. Mr. CoBBETT,
with that noble spirit of disinterestedness
for which he has been at all times so remarkable,
proposed that Ministers should purchase and
circulate two million copies of his sermon
against drunkenness ! We fear the people
would find these far more difficult to swal-
low than the spirits against which Mr.
BUCKINGHAM has expended so much vir-
tuous wrath. However, the experiment
is worth making, and as Mr. COBBETT
is a true patriot, and firmly convinced of
the efficacy of his remedies, we do not see that

he can do better than circulate them at his
own expense. The unsold copies will, no
doubt, go a great way to further his patriotic
ends.

'We learn by the French Papers of Monday,
that the doubts which had been previously
entertained with respect to the re-formation of
our cabinet, had in a great degree given way
to a hope and even confidence in its stabi-
lity. This has, no doubt, arisen from
more correct knowledge on the subject ;
for the accounts in the London papers were
mainly calculated to excite very serious appre-
hensions as to a total change of policy by the
Government of this country. In this appre-
hension, -and in a doubt of the stability of
the Cabinet, we naturally participated with
some of our contemporaries, and that
purely' from a supposition, that instead'
of a -Cabinet acting upon one cordial and uni-
form:Course of policy, we should have an Admi-
nistration pulling different ways on great public
questions. But, happily, such is not the case.
If the Ministry be weaker in debate—less
dexterous in making the worse appear

the better cause—they fully make up
for such equivocal merits, by a more honest
singleness of purpose, and a determination to
give effect to what the Cabinet wills—for
the business promises to be done by the whole
Cabinet, and not by a majority urging on the
refractory minority in a sullen obedience to
what they heartily hate. It was this disunion
of sentiment which no doubt has hitherto so
obviously contributed to paralyse the course of
the Administration in many of its measures.
But the future promises to make amends for
the past. There will henceforth be no halting
in the right path —a line of policy once adopted
on any particular measure will be pursued with
firmness, and carried to a proper conclusion.
A Government, to be strong in the affections
and confidence of the people, must be honest in

its intentions. And this we are assured the
present Cabinet mean to be. As unity gives
strength, it is no doubt to this conviction that
the French people have begun to regard the
late changes in our Cabinet with satisfaction.
A Morning Contemporary states, on the
authority of its private correspondent at Ma-
drid, that, • " on the 23d ult., M. DE REY-
NEVAL, the French Ambassador to the Spanish
court, was grossly insulted at Aranjtez, where
the QUEEN REGENT now resides—that he
himself was pelted with stones, and that the
glasses of his carriage were broken. The per-
petrators of this scandalous outrage were Gardes
du Corps. The affair had, of course, created
much sensation, particularly in the diplomatic
circles. M. DE REYNEVAL despatched a
courier to his court, on the 24th ult., with a
representation of the insult.
" At that date it was reported and believed that the
Russian Minister accredited to the Spanish Court had re-
ceived peremptory letters of recall. The publication of
the quadruple treaty of alliance was looked for with intense
interest. The judicial division of the Spanish territory had
just been concluded. There were to be 451 districts, in-
dependently of the four northern provinces. A chain of
400 facciosos and other offenders had just left Madrid for
the galleys.
A body of troops was being organised in Estremadura
by General Figueras. It was reported that 12,000 31i-
guelite soldiers had passed over to General Rodil.
" Our correspondent incloses us the law of elections for
the Cortes, which is in the main satisfactory- The num-
ber of Procuradores (or Deputies) is to be 185, thus re-
t urned:—Alaval—Albaceta, 3—Alicant, 6—Almeria, 3
Avila, 2—Badajoz, s—Barcelona, 6—Burgos, 3—Caceres,
3—Cadiz, s—Castellon de la Plana, 3—Cindad Real,
4
Cordoba, s—Corunna, 6—Cuenca, s—Gerona, 3—Gra-
nada, 6—Guadalajara, 2—Guipuscoa, 2—Huelva, 2
Huesca, 3—Jaen, 4-Leon,, 4—Lerida, Logrono, 2
Lugo s—Madrid, s—Malaga, 6—Murcia, 4—Navarre,
3—Orense, s—Ovedo, 6—Palencia, 2—Pontevedra, 5
Salamanca 3—Sanlander, 2—Segovia, 2—Sevilla, 6
Sorio, 2-ITarragona, 3—Teruel, 3—Toledo, 4—Va-
lencia, 6—Valladolid, 3—Vizcaya, 2—Zamora, 2—Zara-
goza, s—The Balearic Islands, 3—The Canaries, 3-11a-
vannah, 2—Santiago de Cubo, I—Puerto Principe, 1—
Puerto Rico, 2—The Philippine Islands, 2."_

FRENCH FUNDS.—PAR's, JuNE2
Five per Cents., 106 f. 105 f. 83c. 106 f.
Four per Cents., 94f. —c.
Three per Cents., 79f. 45c. 40c. 35c.
National Loan, 1415 f. 80c.
flank Actions, 1,820 f.
Rente de Naples, 97f. 50c. 41c. 45c.
Roman Five per Cents., 96 Y,;.
Rente fr Espagne, Five per Cents., 32 32 sis 2
Hente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 4.5 443 i 45.
Royal Spanish Loan, 84M.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, rive per Cents., 74% 74 74!4.
Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 98%.
Haytian Loan, 260 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 3.5 c. ; money, —f. c.
Fhree months, paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, —f. —c.
—t dutheuligne.

German papers contain some vague hints
respecting the nature of the discussions of the
German Congress, but no news of any decided
or important public- nature: lie woollen ma-
nufactories, it seems, have been all put a stop
to throughout the Grand Duchy of Posen, in
consequence of there being no market for their
productions, owing to the strictness of the Cus-
tom-house regulations on the Russian frontier,
which are founded on a system of rigorous pro-
hibition :

VIENNA, MAY :M.—Five per Cent. Metallique,s, 99ft
Four per Cent., 91k ; Bank Shares, 1,288.

CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.—Sir E. Sugden
left town last night for Cambridge to renew his can-
vass of the constituents there, entertaining no small
degree of confidence as to his ultimate success.
The London and Southampton Railway
Bill, now before a committee of the House of Lords,
seems to create much interest among their lordships ;
so much so, that there is daily a very full attendance
of peers. The Dukes of Wellington, Cumberland,
Buccleuch, Sutherland, the Earls of Radnor, Rosslyn,
Cawdor, &c., are constantly present.
The remains of the late Vice-Admiral
Plampin, who died lately at Florence, were brought
to England last week, and interred at Wanstead.
The Gallant Admiral was advanced to the rank of
Rear-Admiral, at the flag promotion which took place
at the Peace, and in Feb., 1817, he hoisted his flag
on board the Conqueror, 74, as Commander-in-Chief
on the' St. Helena and Cape stations. , This com-
mission, as one of the guardians of Napoleon, he held
for the customary period of three years, during which
the only disagreeable result of his duty was the neces-
sity of dismissing, by courtmartial, the surgeon of his
own ship, for making communications to the attend-
ants of the exiled Emperor.