The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-30 00:00:00

the Carlists. We do not know what the result may be—the
firing continues to-day.
"As for us, we are continually firing on them. They are
making covered-ways before the place—we see heaps of sand
rise before the fort as if by enchantment Thr_s Carlists work
like moles."
We have the folowing letter :

ST. SEBASTIAN, DEc. 24.—A report has been circulated
that the Carlists, having attempted to storm Guetaria, by
means of the breach which has been effected,. had been re-
pulsed with loss by the English artillery. If this affair took
place on the 23d, the thing would be probable, for reinforce-
ments had been received, as I wrote you yesterday ; but if any
other day is meant, the rows is tt fable, which I much fear is
the case, eve❑ from the affectation of mentioning the English,
without any honourable notice either of the Spanish troops or
of the French, who have devoted themselves to the defence of
that fortress. We shall know to-morrow."
This morning some floating ice appeared in the Seine at
Paris. A letter from Rouen, of the 27th, says—the Seine
was frozen over at Croissat, and the boats are stopped. A
letter from Bordeaux, of the 25th, says—that enormous masses
of ice come down theGaronne, and the steam-boats could not
leave the port.—Messager, Dec. 28.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARts, DECRIVBEIL 22.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 21• c. 30c. 4 c. 35c.
Four per Cents., 9!)f. 59e.
Three per Cent. 79E 9)e. 95e. 81e.
Bank Actions, 2,115 E
Rente de .4aples, tEL 7Cc. 80e.
Roman Five per Cents., 100!!, 1111 101 q.
Spanish Actives, 4934 497,
Spanish DifEeres, 2514.
Passives, 151` % 16.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents , 10114
Portugue,e Loan, Five per Cents., 5414,
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 54.
Haytian Loan, 410:

EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 251. 55e. ; money, 25f 521,e.
Three months, paper, 25f. 4th. ; anoncy, 25f. a7y3c, ,
—fours Authontique.

Bowls?: THREE o'CLocK.—The article inserted in the Moni-
ker, viz., that France has accepted the mediation of the
British Government in the American question, has had a very
favourable influence on the market. The Three per Cents.
have been done during the Bourse between 80f. and 80f. be.,
with a firm market. The Spanish securities, particularly the
Passive, are much in demand. At the close of the Exchange
the stocks had improved, and the market looked upwards.
QUARTER TO FOUR.-Five per Cents., 108 f. 55e. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. 25c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, 25! ; Gueb-
hards, —; Differes, l8i; New Loan, --; Active:, 50;
Passives, 16i; Ducats, 97 85'; Romans, 101 i ; Pedros, —;
Belgians, 10li ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, 410 f. .--c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 14 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 251 ; Five per Cent. Pei pe-
tuolles,
P. S. The Spanish securities are now quoted officially for
money by a resolution of the Chambre Syndicale.
VIENNA, Rae.. W.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 1018- ;
Four per Cent. ditto, 991; Bank Shares, 1,372. —Allgemeine
Zeitung.

Madrid papers to the 23d inst. have been received.
They bring accounts from the north of Spain, highly
favourable to the Constitutional cause.
The following copies of a Bill demanding confi-
dence in the present Government, and a Royal Decree
to that effect, are taken from the Madrid Gazette of
the 22d inst :

" Art. 1. Her Majesty's Government is authorized to con-
tinue in the receipt for the year 1836 of the rents, taxes, and
contributions specified in the law of the 26th of May last, and,
without altering their essential characteristics, that a trial may
be made of the alterations which may seem convenient in the
system of administration and collection, for the purpose of in-
creasing the produce and diminishing as far as possible the
burdens and prejudices arising therefrom to the tax-payers and
to trade, applying the produce to the expenses of the State,
and subjecting it to the conditions provided and expressed in
the law above-mentioned for the regulation of the budget of
1835, it being competent for the Government to diminish the
expenses, but not to increase them.
2. Her Majesty's Government is also authorized to adopt
such measures as may seem necessary for the more complete
organization of the armed force, and for the attainment of the
great object of bringing the civil war to a speedy termination,
but without conferring the power of accomplishing that pur-
pose by means of new loans, nor by the alienation of the pro-
perty of the State, which is destined, or is hereafter to be
destined, to the consolidation and redemption of the public
debt, and the amelioration of the condition of the whole of
the creditors of the nation.

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"3. The Government will present the budgets for the year
1836, and will render an account to the Cortes in the next
Legislature of the use which has been made of these extra-
ordinary powers.

"JUAN ALVAREZ Y MENDIZABAL.
"MARTIN DE LOS HEROS.
" ALVARO GOMEZ.
" Madrid, Dec. 21, 1835."
This measure having been presented to the Chamber in the
sitting of the 21st, it was agreed to be referred to a committee
consisting of Senors Ferrud, Fontagud Gargollo, Carrasco,
Aguirre Solarte, Ortiz de Velasco, Llano Chavarri, Crespo
de Tejada, and San Justo y Calderon Collantes.
"ROYAL DECREE.
" Most Excellent Sir—Her Majesty, the Queen Regent has
been pleased to address to me, under date of yesterday, the
following Royal decree
In the hope that this year the public con'ributions may
be legally collected, without diminution or impediment, consi-
dering the great wants of the public service, and taking into
deliberation that the extraordinary circumstances in which
the nation is placed have not permitted my Government to
form estimates of the expenditure and income, nor to take
the necessary measures in the administration of the public
Treasury, so as to be prepared to propose to the Cortes the
means of covering all the ordinary and extraordinary expenses
of the State, I, in the name of my august daughter, Queen
Isabella 11., hereby authorise my Secretaries of State to
propose to the Cortes a project of law, asking for a vote of
confidence in such terms and fashion as they may deem most
convenient.'

" In Rubric, by the Royal Sign Manual

" Dec. 21, 1835.
" JUAN ALVAREZ Y MENDIZABAL
" Th e President of the Chamber of Procuradores."
The Gazette of the 22d contains an article, of which the
following is an extract
" In consequence of an application from the Spanish Go-
vernment, his Majesty the King of the French has given or-
ders that the troops in the departments adjoining the Pyrenees
should be reinforced, and their numbers doubled, as also that
measures should be taken by the Custom-house department,
for the purpose of impeding, as far as possible, the contraband
traffic with the insurgents, and at the same time that all the
partisans of the Pretender who may be found in those frontier
departments may be passed into the interior of France, without
listening to any objection whatever, in order that the good
understanding which exists between the two Governments
may be maintained ; communications to this effect having
been transmitted to the Spanish Consuls at Bayonne, Oleron,
and Perpignan, to these Consuls instructions have been
transmitted by her Majesty's Government."