The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-22 00:00:00

the -Ministry is exceedingly chagrined and em-
barrassed at the success which the conduct of the
brave Admiral 'D U PET I T Tnoumts has just obtained.

But it must make up its mind to act. The welcome
which public opinion has given to this act of vigour
and sound policy will not permit it henceforward
to draw back; without being covered with shame.
Willingly or unwillingly, it must accept the new
colony with which our navy .has enriched us. We are
accustomed to the ridiculous language of the journals
of London, and we expect, in reference to this matter,
to read 'in their columns furious declamations
against the unbridled ambition of France. Those
accusations, and the abuse attendant on them, will
find us perfectly indifferent.. The English them-
selves, at least all those who are acquainted with
their epoch, do not believe one word of those griev-
ances, repeated from the time of PITT, and which are
flung as food to the prejudices, and antipathies of old
John Bull. They know what task their mis-
sionaries have imposed on themselves in the latitudes
of Oceania, and they will perceive that, if the condi-.
tions of our treaty with the chiefs of the Society
Islands have of necessity been changed, it is solely
because the influence of the Methodist traders, who
had seized on the chief power in Queen POMARR'S
name, had rendered the maintenance of the protecto-
rate impossible. In the bottom of their
hearts they will render justice to France;
and there is not one who is not of opinion,
that in an analogous situation, ‘England would have
been obliged to do what France has done. But it is
not precisely according to sound pense and justice
that the English journals will regulate their opinion.
There is a fact, in all this, which occupies and annoys
them. Our marine has exhibited vigour, in seas
where our flag was scarcely known, and where Eng-
land reigned supreme. With our taste for civilisation,
and with that admirable faculty of assimilation, which
is peculiar to France in her relations with new nations,
Gon only knows where this first step may lead us. If
such is, in fact, the cause of anxiety to the English
nation, we are sorry for her, but it will not turn
France away from the path where her destinies call her."
The Ministerial journals preserve a strict silence on
the subject. The Chamber. of Deputies have been
engaged for• several days in discussing the Game Bill
in Committee, when the Government was beaten in
a division on a rather important clause. One of the
clauses exempted from the provisions of the Bill the
Crown property, though the penalties enacted by it
were to be enforced against trespassers on the royal
domains. Against this privilege the Opposition de-
clared, and the article was rejected by a considerable
majority. Upon this, Ministers are stated to have
retired from the hall, leading away a large number
of their voters, and the consequence was that the
ballot on the whole Bill could not take place, and the
house adjourned.
Queen MARIA CHRISTINA arrived on Saturday at
Chalons, where she slept. She embarked next day
for Lyons, receiving royal honours throughout her
journey.

THE BOURSE-TUESDAY, FEB. 20.

First

Highest Lowest Last

'Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. .... 125 65 .. 125 65 .. 125 55 .. 125 55
Four-and-a-Half.— 112 50 .. 112 50 .. 112 50,, • 112 50
Four per Cents... • • 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50
Three per Cents... .• 82 35 .. 82 35 .. 82 35 • • 82 35
Bank of France ..... • • • • .• • 3280 ..3280 ..3280 —3280
Laffltte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllo2 50 ..1105 ..1102 50 .. 1105
5,000 f. Sharesso72 50 .. 5072 50 '.. 5072 50 —5072 50
Belgian Bank
Belgian Fives . • • 1071 • • 1071 • • 1071 • • 1071
1840 .... •• • • 1091 .• 1091 .. 1091 1091
1842 •••••••. 1101 .. 1101 .. 1101 .. 1101
Dutch:Two-and-a-Half 561 .. 561 .. 56t .. 561
Spanish Active .••••• • • • • • - 31/ .. 311 .. 314 • • 31;
Passive 54 .. 54 .• 54 .. 51
Old •Deferred• ••• .• • 71 .. 71
New Deferred ••.• • 13 .. 13
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 451 • . 451
Neapolitan. 105 .• 105
Roman .

•• 454
.. 105
• • 106

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain • • ..... ....... 805 .. 805 • • 805 ..
Versailles, •
L.8.........170 .. 170 .. 170 ..
Rouen'••••••
Rouen to Havre
Orleans •• • • ••.• • •• • • • 833 75 .. 836 25 • • 832 50 ..
Strasburg to Bale .... •.•
Montpellier to Cette 455 455 • • 455 ..
Avignon to Marseilles.— • • 735 • • 735 • • 730 • .

805
340
170
617 50
657 55
836 25
240
455
732 50

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
St. Germain • 805 .. 805 .. 805
Versailles, R.B.
L. 13 l7O .. 170 .. 170
Rouen..•.•.•-••••••

.. 805
.. 340
170
817 60
660
837 50
240
455
732 50

Rouen to. Rowe ..• ....... 655
Orleans ..

Strasburg to 8a1e.... • • • • • • 238 75 .. 240
Montpellier to Cetto • . • • .... 455 .. 455
Avignon to Marseilles• • • • • • 735 • • 735