The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-26 00:00:00

(From the Courrier Francais.)

" We have at length been made acquainted with the non•
ratified treaty entered into between the house of Roths-
child and the Spanish commissioner. It is important to
inquire if the treaty has, in fact, determined the proposition
of a bankruptcy submitted by M. Toreno to the Cortes.
" The treaty was signed in the early part of June. At
that period there was still reason to believe that Spain
would soon be governed by men worthy of her confidence,
who would feel the necessity of restoring the national credit,
and putting order in her finances, and of once more be-
coming entitled to the confidence of the world by the ac-
knowledgment of the Cortes' debt, so disgracefully trodden
on by the legitithate King.
" It word appear that at that time a loan of 50,000,000
at 3 per cent. was treated for. The 3 per Cent. was quoted
on our Bourse at the rate of 41 to 42. Four propositions
had been made to the Spanish Government. Two London
houses made offers, the one for .500,000,000 reels, one-half
fixed at the price of 42, in six monthly and equal payments
from the 10th of June, the other half to be optional (fa-
cultative) at 42i, after the acknowledgment of the
Cortes ; no conditions about the payment of interest, the
sinking fund carried back to ten years, and the faculty of
ratifying in London after the approbation of the Spanish
Government. All this—as may be perceived,—was in-
admissible.
" The other London house only treated about the hold-
ers of Cortes' bonds, and proposed that one of its mem-
bers should be appointed commissioner on behalf of Spain,
to come to an understanding with them. It would be use-
less.to refer here to the two other propositions, made at
different rates, and which were not accompanied by any
guarantee. The dividend, however, was about to become
due, and no funds whatever were provided for the payment
of it. Under these circumstances, it appears to us that
the treaty entered into with the house of Rothschild was
made to answer in two useful ways. It was not a ques-
tion about contracting a new regular loan at a lower or
higher price, but merely one of borrowing some 15,000,000
in order to provide for the half-yearly charge. The new
Government would afterwards have had an interval of some
months to negotiate a new loan. This sort of respite
would have enabled it to obtain momentary relief, and give
it time to advise on the best means of contracting an im-
portant loan on good conditions. We may add, that the
loan was agreed to by Messrs. Rothschild only on the for-
mal promise stipulated in the contract, that a proposal
would be submitted to the Cortes for the acknowledgment
of the debt of 1820. This contract, however, M. Toreno
refused to ratify, and determines upon bankruptcy.
" Messrs. Rothschild offered to lend the Spanish Go-
vernment the sum of 15,000,000 francs (600,0001. sterling)
at 5 per cent. interest and 2 per cent. discount, on the se-
curity of a deposit of 30,000,000 of Spanish paper, that
paper not to be issued or sold by the lender" but in case of
non-payment in due course of the money advanced. By
the 6th and Bth articles of the contract, it appears that the
house of Rothschild was to be entitled to negotiate the
first loan that the Spanish Government should stand in
need of ; it was not specified that the preference thus
conceded to the house of Rothschild was to exclude all
other offers, but it was merely to be given to that house,
if its offers should be as high as those of any other."
(The Courrier, after giving the above account of the
conditions on which the loan with the house of Rothschild
was contracted, goes on to show that it was an act of folly
as well as of iniquity on the part of the Spanish Govern-
ment not to have abided by that contract, and pursued the
course which it pointed out, and to have, instead of doing
so, made the proposal amounting to a formal declaration of
insolvency, the particulars of which have been already re-
peatedly before the public.)

(From the Constitietionnel.)
" The arrival in Paris of M. de Talleyrand seems to have
created some stir in our diplomatic circles. It is generally
believed that he has brought the supplementary articles
which have been added to the quadripartite treaty. If we
are rightly informed, the object of those articles would be,
in the first place, to prevent, by the most active surveil-
lance, the arrival in Spain, by sea, of all kinds of aid in-
tended for the. Pretender. That clause particularly con-
cerns England and France, and is especially directed against
Holland and Sardinia. The arrival of a small squadron in
the waters of Catalonia already shows that that part of the
treaty has begun to be executed. It is further stipulated
that in the event of any active intervention becoming ne-
cessary, it should fall to the share of Portugal.
(From the Journal du Commerce.)
" The Gazette de France,which possesses means ofinforma-
tion peculiar to itself, does not fail to enumerate a new series
of successes obtained by the partisans of Don Carlos. It
is now Zumalacarreguy who has taken up a position on the
Ebro. According to that same veracious authority the
Carlists are masters of the whole extent of Biscay, and the
possession of two points on the Ebro gives them the com-
mand of all Castile. This is a true crescendo.

" The Quotidienne reveals to us this important fact, that
Zumalacarreguy now commands only a detached corps, and
that there exists a principal corps which is not under his
orders, and whose march he iq to eover. Th. Quotidicnne
does not exactly know who commands that corps, but sup-
poses it must be Don Carlos ; but Don Carlos is not able
to command a single battalion. Is it probable that Zuma-
lacarreguy will long remain content with a secondary part ?"
The letters and papers received to-day from Bayonne,
Pau, and Bordeaux, are without interest, being quite desti-
tute of any fact relating to what is passing on the other side
of the Pyrenees.

(From the Temps.)
" The National, which during the last two years has
been dragged from one tribunal to another, in consequence
of a decision of exceptional justice, has at length been
brought before a proper tribunal, that of the country, in
the Court of Assizes held this day. The charge brought
this time against the National by the public prosecutor was
that of a direct attack on the person of the King, made on
the occasion of the Royal speech, delivered at the opening
of the Chambers. It pleaded not guilty,' on the ground
that the personal and active part taken by the King in the
administration of the Government dispensed that paper
from the observance of the law which prescribes that the
Royal acts shall be free from censure when they are con-
stitutional. The country has, through its organ, the jury,
consecrated that doctrine for the tenth time on this occasion,
and absolved the press, doubtless for the purpose of evincing
in a striking manner its disapprobation of a violation of
principles which the true friends of the constitution and the
monarchy have every day cause to deplore."
The National is obliged to remain silent on the subject
of the trial of its principal editor, NI, Carrel, which took
place on Saturday, but all the other Paris papers give a
report of it, and most of them indulge in comments on the
result.

MRS. TROLLOPE'S VISIT TO A BELGIAN
FARM-HOUSE.

The dairy at the house was really a beautiful sight, even
though at one end of it we perceived a nymph skimming
cream with her fingers. This, indeed, is the universal me-
thod ; and if anything could reconcile one to the strange
operation, it would be the delicate rosy tips of the Rubens-
like fingers we saw so employed. I have never in any
country remarked finer crops than in the sandy plain round
Ostend. The mode of husbandry is careful and laborious ;
but the returns are very great. The constant application
of manure converts the arid soil into a fine loam ; and every
inch of it is as carefully weeded as the nicest garden. This
fatiguing but necessary part of good husbandry is performed
chiefly by women, who crawl along the ground on their
hands and knees, and in this attitude appear to draw the
weeds more effectually and with less labour than can be
done by stooping. The ploughing of this district is, as may
be supposed, peculiarly light ; and is often performed by a
single mulch cow. No part of Flemish farming appeared
to be more worthy of attention than the general manage-
ment of their cows. They are constantly kept in stables,
and fed twice in the day with green meat, of almost every
possible variety of vegetation. The collecting this is one
of the many agricultural labours performed by women ; and
it is no inconsiderable feature in the picturesque aspect of
the country, that groups of maids and matrons are perpe-
tually seen bearing, with wonderful ease and activity of
step, enormous loads of fresh-cut fodder on their heads. I
have seen many a pair of bright eyes, and many a dimpled
cheek, peeping out sometimes from a bundle of flowery
clover, sometimes from a bush formed of the young shoots
of forest-trees, -and not unfrequently from the thrifty
gatherings of every weed, or handful of tufted grass, that
grows beside the road. That there is much economy of
everything but labour in this is very evident : and, as far as
I was able to judge, the cows prospered marvellously by
this regular mode of furnishing their meals in the stall, in-
stead of permitting them to be constantly browsing in the
fields. I never met with either bad butter or adulterated
milk ! and it appeared to me that there was a greater
abundance, and freer use of both, than I had been accus-
tomed to see elsewhere.

The harvest season was never known to be s?
nerally early throughout the country, and the business 19 now
rapidly progressing. The weather has continued very ring and
warm, with the exception of from Sunday evening,
when there was a continuance of light rain.. t.cea.pers have
been in great demand, and consequently at 13:0 prices.
.At
Ulverston and Dalton, the ruling markets in the grain district
of Low Furness, the wages were last •week from 4s. 6d. to 6s.
per day, with meat, drink, and lodgings. Last Sunday, the
principal hiring day at Dalton for the season, during the morn-
mg the wages advanced to 6s. 6d. per day, but the influx of
reapers became so great, that the prices were reduced to
3s. 6d. Ter day, and many did not meet with engagements at
that.—Kew:id Mercury.