The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-02 00:00:00

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GERMAN PAPERS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 30.—Would it be believed
that the foreign relations of the Porte give it as much un-
easiness, nay, even more than its domestic concerns ? The
treaty with Russia is still a matter of discussion, and the
subject of violent altercations between the Reis Effendi
and the Representatives of England and France. The Reis
Effendi abides firmly by his arguments, and affirms that
be cannot understand why so much noise is made about
an alliance which, if it was not directly advised at an un-
fortunate period to the Porte, was, at least, so far pro-
moted on the part of England and France, that they
pointed out to the Sultan the way which he had
to follow in future, and which he was now taking.
He cannot, he says, account for the dissatisfaction which
is now signified to the Porte because it has formed a close
connection with Russia, and endeavours to be on friendly
terms with that power. Since our mature examination
of the late treaty, and the convention of Adrianople, it
appears that no exclusive privilege is given to the Russian
nation, but that it is only placed on the same footing as
the most favoured nations, the United States, for instance.
With respect to the apprehension that Russia would have
the command of the Dardanelles, to consider them so is
wholly unfounded, because in future none (without one
exception), are to enter the Straits without the permission
of the Porte.

The Porte seems to be acquainted with the resolutions
of the three Powers at Munchengratz, which are said by
the diplomatic gentlemen here, to be very useful to it in
its present situation.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 26.
VIENNA, DEC. 20.—The Archduke Palatine has ar-
rived here, from Presburg; the Archduke Maximilian,
from Linz ; M. Verstolk, Minister of the Netherlands,
and M. du Shil, Minister of Darmstadt, both plenipoten-
tiaries to the Congress, have also arrived. The Hunga-
rian Chambers are proceeding rapidly in the despatch of
business. Count Lucchesi Palli, husband of the Duchess
of Berry, has come here for a few days from Gratz. It
is said that he wishes to settle in the Austrian dominions.
Prince Joseph of Schwartzenburg died a few days ago at
his residence in Bohemia, at the age of 64.
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DEC. 24.—1 t is now said that-the Sultan is not satis-
fied with an annual tribute of 50,000 ducats from Servia,
that the city of Belgrade is placed under Servian juris-
diction, and the taxes levied are not to go to the Pacha,
but to the Government. All political afftirs relative to
Servia have been decided by a firman of the Sultan, which
has reached Crakojewatz, and the return of the
Servian deputies, from Constantinople, is now looked
for. Prince Alilosch is expected at Belgrade, on
a visit to the Paella ; some sly he will fix his residence

there or at Semendria. It is not known what has been
done relative to the indemnity due to the Turks who pos-
sessed property in Servia. The Pacha has paid them pro-
visionally the quarter of the year's income.
ROME, DEC. I7.—The monks of St. Antonio continue

to pray for Donna Maria in spite of the prohibition of the
Pope. They have protested against this prohibition, de-
claring that force must be employed to prevent them.
The Spanish courier, so long expected, has arrived at last
with numerous letters for the clergy. The Spanish Mi-
nister has formally denounced the recognition of the young
Queen by the Holy Father. The courier, on his return
to Spain, was plundered of everything by brigands near
Ronciglione. This news has terrified travellers, as it is
long since robbers had been beard of hereabouts.
The Spanish Government is using strenuous exertions
to obtain the recognition of !he Queen here, as well as at
Naples, but without success. The King of Naples persists in
saying, that in justice to his successors, he will maintain
the Salle law. This will be very annoying to the Queen
Regent, as many of the European Courts will not recog-
nise her until the King of Naples has done so ; and also
because the clergy of Spain keep their eyes fixed on
Rome, so as to follow the impulse that emanates from the
holy city.

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VIENNA, DEC. 21.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 94
15-16 ; Four per Cente., ; Bank Shares, 1,23.
Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 27.
BERLIN, DEC. 16.—The freedom of commerce, which
has been so greatly extended, fills the manufacturers with

joy and hope, and it is anticipated with pleasure, that
the trade and manufactures of Prussia will receive a

favourable impulse.

This joy, however, is not wholly

free from apprehension, for the manufacturers of the
neighbouring countries, especially of Saxony, may raise
a dangerous competition. People are at a loss to under-
stand how the diminution which must nee.s.arily
ensue in the receipt of taxes, by the adoption of
the general tariff, can be made good ; and it is
almost impossible to increase the direct taxes. It is be.
lieved that a very rigorous prohibitory system will be
adopted towards foreign countries. The new organization
of the Courts of Justice will, it is affirmed, cause a dimi-
nution of the receipts to the amount of nearly twu
millions.

MUNICH, DEC. U.—Negotiations are in contemplation
with Austria, in order to extend the commercial inter.
course between the two countries.

Baron Grise, Minister of State, will set out in a few
days for the Congress,..at Vienna.—Frankfort Papers,
Dec. 27.

HESSE CASSEL, Dec. 20.—8 y a recent judgment of
our High Court of Appeal, it was decided that the or-
dinances anterior to the charter, which subjected all
writings without distinction to the Censorship were an.
nulled by the charter, and consequently the freedom of
the press is established, and there no longer exists any
Censorship, except in cases provided for by the laws of the
German Confederation ; so that it is decided to be con-
trary to the constitution to subject to the Censorship
works consisting of more than twenty sheets. —Nurem-
burg Correspondent, Dec. 24.

Morpeth election is fixed for this day, Tues-
day, Dec. 31. The Hon. Captain E. Howard passed
through this town on Thursdayievening to pay his re•
spects to the electors, and will no doubt be elected without
opposition.—Tyne Mercury.

John Thomas Mayne, Esq., of Teffont
House, Wilts, is announced as a candidate for the repre-
sentation of Totness, in the room of J. Cornish, Esq.,
who, it is understood, will shortly resign his seat.—Bath
Paper.

A map has been published by. the Reforma-

tion Society exhibiting the situations of Roman Catholic
chapels, colleges, and seminaries in the several counties of
England, Scotland, and Wales, and also the present sta-
tions of the Reformation Society up to January, 1833.
From this it appears that the total number of Catholic
chapels in England and Wales, in 1833, was 423, and
in Scotland 74, being an increase in England and Wales,
since 1824, of 65 ; and in Scotland, since 1829, of 23
Roman Catholic places of worship. The counties in
England possessing the greatest number of Catholic
chapels are—Lancashire, 87; Yorkshire, 52 ; Stafford-
shire, 25 ; Northumberland and Middlesex, each 19 ;
Warwickshire and Durham, each 14; Hampshire, 12 ;
and Lincolnshire, 11. There is no Catholic chapel in
the counties of Rutland or Huntingdon. In Wales Ca-
tholicism seems to have made but little progress-6 out
of the 11 counties into 'Thiel' it is divided not h tying a
Catholic chapel in them, and there being only 8 chapels
in the entire principality. Inverness-shire and Banffshire
appear to be the most Catholic counties in Scotland, there
being 17 chapels in the former and 12 in the latter
county. The Reformation Society has yet been enabled
to establish only 46 stations throughout the whole of
Englan,f, Wales, and Scotland, to counteract the rapid
strides which Popery seems to be making.
THE COURT AND THE CAMP PAPERS.—
The " Court Journal" for the New Year is to commence
with a complete show-up of the French Gambling-houses,
and the " Naval and Military Gazette," with an expose
of the murderous doings of the Russian Autocrat, and his
army, in Poland. These two subjects alone are certainly
rich enough to infuse a high degree of interest into those
Journals, the perus.l of which is now become indispen-
sable with the fashionable and military classes.

CAUSES OF INDIGESTION.—Among the
chief causes of indigestion (says Dr. Watson Philip, in his
treatise on this disease) which act directly on the mus-
cular fibres of the stomach, are narcotic and other offen-
sive substances received into it. I have found that
although opium applied to the external surface of the
alimentary canal and heart produces no sensible effect on
their muscular power, applied to their internal surface, it
produces the same effect as when directly applied to the
muscular fibres themselves, impairing their power, unless
the quantity be extremely minute, and instantly destroy-
ing it if the quantity be considerable. It is probable
that other offensive substances acting on the stomach,
tobacco, distilled spirits, strong peppers, those of an acrid
or putrid nature generated in the stomach itself, &c.,
may also in the same way immediately affect the muscular
fibres. It is not uncommon for a fit of indigestion to be
induced by taking suddenly considerable quantities of iced
fluids. Violent and repeated vomiting also debilitates the
muscular fibres of the stomach. But of the causes which
immediately affect them the most frequent and powerful is
morbid distension, the most common cause of which is
citing too fast ; another frequent cause being high season-
ing and great variety of food, or such as particularly
pleases the palate, by which we are induced to eat !after
the appetite is satisfied.

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1834.

The Paris papers of Monday and Tuesday
have arrived this morning. Their contents, except
as regards Spain, are unimportant. The account
from that country, however, are interesting. The
Guerilla chiefs, sensible of their inability to
contend against a regular army on similar prin-
ciples of organization, have divided their forces
into small bands, with which they scour the
country, raising contributions from the wealthier
inhabitants, and increasing their strength by
additions from a starving peasantry, many of
whom are indifferent to the cause which they
support otherwise than as it affords them
the means of subsistence. This is to be
expected in a country like Spain ; and it is
sheer ignorance alone of the condition of its
inhabitants, and of the localities in which
this predatory warfare is carried on, which leads
some persons here to draw inferences as to the
probable duration of the contest from the news
which reaches us through indirect and doubtful
channels, of the proceedings of the insurgents.
There is no country in Europe of which so
little is known here as Spain. During the last
fifteen years, not more than one in a thousand
of those who have visited the continent for
purposes of health, pleasure, or information,

have entered Spain. They have amused them-
selves in Paris and at Naples, written tours of
Germany, and filled our print-shops with views
of the Rhine ; have toiled to the top of Mont
Blanc, leaped over the chasms of the Mer de
Glace, or defaced the tomb of poor BYssuE
SHELLEY with inscriptions ; but few indeed have
visited Spain, and acquired knowledge respect-
ing the resources of a country, or the education
of a people so important, although so little
known, to the rest of Europe. Of those who
write or have written respecting Spain not
one in fifty has been in the country, and
the few who have been there rushed through
it hastily, in order to reach the capital and
visit the Escurial, or perhaps extended their
journey to the plains of Granada to take a
view of that terrestrial Paradise of the Moors,
the Alhambra. This was not the way to obtain
a knowledge of the Spanish character ; yet upon
the reports of such travellers the people of
England have formed their opinions of Spain,
and have set down the whole of the peasantry as
a mass of bigoted and idle vagabonds. Having
had better opportunities of forming a correct
estimate of the people of Spain, we are not
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of Spain the peasantry have as strong notions of
independence as the people of any country in
the world ; and in Estremadura and Castile the
peasants are only the slaves of the priesthood
from the despotic laws, which throw power
into the hands of that pestiferous class, and
make the peasantry dependant upon the con-
vents for subsistence. What is to be expected
from men who are not allowed the opportunity
of gathering the fruits of their industry, and
who are only kept from starvation by the supplies
of bread and soup which they receive occasion-
ally from the convents? Is it surprising that
hey are induced to enrol themselves in predatory
bands, headed by priests, certain as they are in
this way of obtaining food and raiment, with a
show of independence which they would not
have in their own villages ? and are we to deduce
from the existence of these bands that the
Spanish peasant is a hugger of bigotry and a
hater of political liberty ? If the Government
were liberal enough to remove the curse which
hangs over the peasant, he would be the de-
fender of the laws instead of arming himself
against them. If the priesthood, instead of
being the lords of the soil, and tyrants over its
cultivators, were dependant, as they ought to
be, upon their free contributions for support,
there would be little of the bigotry and degra-
dation which are supposed to belong essentially
to the Spanish character as regards the mass of
the population. Let us but see a free Govern-
ment, and the ranks of the priesthood will soon
be abandoned. Why are the Spanish army
notoriously opposed to the priesthood? Because
they are no longer dependant upon them for
subsistence, and are not compelled to receive as
the gift of charity a small portion only of what
has'been wrung from their industry. The regular
troops are formed of the peasantry, as well as
the bands of the insurgents ; their condition,
however, has been changed, and they act dif-
ferently. Were a Government to be formed in
Spain, with liberality enough to emancipate the
people, and prudence enough to temporize with
the priesthood, whilst they gradually deprived
them of their temporal authority, the Spanish
peasantry and the poorer classes generally of
Spain would have a very different reputation in
other countries.

The accounts from Madrid in the French
papers, state that the Government had received
official intelligence that Don CARLOS was at
Chaves, and that RODIL had seized the junta
who were with him. They contain a letter from
Oleron, confirming the discovery of a conspi-
racy in Arragon, the ramifications of which ex-
tend to Huestra and Barbastro, and, by several
points of Caspe, to the rebels of Morella.
The naval preparations in France are continued.
FRENCH FUNDS.-Paets, DEC. 30.
Five per Tents., 101 E 104 f. sc.
Four and a Half per Cents., 100 f.
Four per Cents., 90f. 50c.
Three per Cents., 751. 74f. 95e.
National Loan, 103 f. 90c.
Bank Actions, 1,790 f
Rente de Naples, 91f. 90f. 90c. 70c.
Roman Five per Cents., 90% 91.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 18.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 4l 41.
Royal Spanish Loan, 86 85
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 69 69g 69.
Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 96Ni.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 251.. 25c. ; money, 25f. 20c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 15c.; money, 25f. 10e.
-tours Authentique.
FRENCH FUNDS.-Pmts, Dec. 31.
Five per Cents., 104 f. 103 f. 95c. 104 f. se.
Four per Cents., 90f. 40c.
Three per Cents., 74f. 9,ic. 95c. 75f.
National Loan, 103 f. 90c.
Bank Actions, 1,705 f.
Rente de Naples, 90f. 70c. 91f. 90f. 90c.
Roman Five per Cents., 91g
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., IN.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 41 41g.
Royal Spanish Loan, 86
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 69 6930.
Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 96.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, 25f. 20c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 15c.; money, 25f. 10c.
-Coors 4uthentiaue.

We have received German Papers to the 27th
inst. They contain another article from Con-
stantinople of the 30th of November, in which

it is stated that the SULTAN has received some
satisfactory communication from the Munchen-
gratz Confederates. It would appear from this
that the Emperor NICHOLAS will not abandon
the advantages which he has gained in Turkey
without a struggle.

The report of the Committee of the House I
of Commons appointed last Session to consider
the general state of parochial registries, and the
laws relating to them, and the expediency of a
general registration of births, baptisms, marriages,
deaths, and burials in England and Wales, has at
length been printed. We shall endeavour to give
it entire to-morrow ; for a more important and
interesting document will not, we imagine, come
before the public till the meeting of Parliament.
The conclusion to which it appears the Com-
mittee unanimously came was, that a national
civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths,
should be established,—that it should include all
ranks of society, and religionists of every class,—
that the register should be kept in duplicate,
one to be forwarded to a central office in
the Metropolis. The Committee do not at all
propose to discontinue the present ecclesiastical
registrations of baptisms, deaths, and marriages,
but simply for civil purposes to cause a perfect
account of them to be kept. Of the inconve-
niences of the present imperfect system of regis- '
tration, if system it can be called, the litigation,
the deterioration and loss of property it occa-
sions, there are few who have not at some
period of their lives been made to feel to
their cost. We cannot imagine, therefore, that
there will be any popular impediments thrown in
the way of the practical working of any reasonable
provisions which the Legislature may frame for
putting this important subject upon a proper
footing. Indeed the Committee appear to have
much greater dread of opposition from selfish
bigotry than popular ignorance ; but whatever
may have been once apprehended from the efforts
of the clergy, and they appear by the report to
have been powerful enough at one time to throw
out an improved Registration Act, little fear
need at present be entertained of them.

The little village of Lalleo, in the Duchy of
Parma, was completely reduced to ashes on the 14th ult.,
by the carelessness of an individual who went to sleep in
his stable with a lighted candle. Twelve houses fell a
prey to the flames. The loss is considerable, and three
persons were deprived of
_their lives by the calamity.—
Italian Paper.