The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-09 00:00:00

all the leaders of the Progresista party, including,
among others, CORTINA, LOPES, MADOZ, GARREDO,
GERNICA, ORS, and BENEDICTO. These arrests have

taken place, it is said, in consequence of proofs of a
conspiracy being discovered from intercepted letters.
The Madrid Gazette was published at a late hour on
the Ist, and from the decrees and proclamations pub-
lished in it, the Government evidently anticipate a
general rising in the east of Spain. The provinces
of Alicante, Murcia, Albacete, Valencia, Almeria,
and Castellon de la Plana, are ordered to be forthwith
declared under martial-law. The war steamer
Isabella 11., brig Nervion, and a schooner of war, are
ordered to proceed immediately to blockade Alicante ;
and the most severe measures are contemplated with
respect to the insurgents, as may be seen from the
following atrocious decree issued by the Government,
dated Madrid, Feb. 1, 1844 :
" 1. All the chiefs, officers, and sergeants who belong to
the army, provincial militia, national militia, carabiniers, or
navy, who have taken part in the rebellion of Alicante, shall
be shot, wherever they can be met with, upon the sole identi-
fication of their persons.
"2. If, after the insurgent troops of all arms have been
invited to place themselves again under the loyal standard
within a short space of time, which remains at the discretion
of your Excellency to fix, they do not present themselves,
they shall be decimated whenever they can be come at, ac-
cording to the regulations.
" 3. All the inhabitants who have taken part in the revolt
at Alicante, as leaders of the rebellion, shall be shot.
"4. The captains-general and commanders remain
strictly responsible for the execution of the preceding dis-
positions."
Another journal, the Posdata, states :

" News has been received from Murcia that the provincia
regiment of Valencia had left Alicante disarmed, having
refused to take any active part in the insurrection, and that
the only force there consisted of National Guards and Cara-
biniers. It says that D. Pantaleon Bonnet, formerly a Carlist
chief, is President of the Junta of Alicante; and 1). Manuel
Carreras, an Exaltado leader, Vice-President.
" Several other deputies and other persons have been ar-
rested, and orders are out to take up some sixty persons
altogether ; besides which, five couriers were sent off express
in different directions, last night, with similar orders to the
provinces.
" A circular has been sent to all the captains-general an-
nouncing the revolt at Alicante, and ordering them to consult
with the political chiefs, and to be prepared to proclaim mar-
tial-law if required."
The following is another account, with additional
particulars, furnished by a Madrid Correspondent :
" The President of the Council was called at eleven
o'clock, on the night of the 31st, by the Secretary of
the Council, when a Council was immediately sum-
moned. After reading the official dispatches an-
nouncing the insurrection at Alicante, and the inau-
guration of a Junta in that town, the Ministry took
energetic steps to put it down. Very important
correspondence was consequently stopped and seiz ed,
by order of the Government, and in consequence of
discoveries then made, a great number of persons
were arrested in the course of the night. Among
the persons arrested are MM. MANUAL CORTINA,
PASCUEL MADOZ, GERNICA VERDA Y PEREZ, I. B.
Ammo, and GARREDO. All the Deputies are de-
tained for the present at the Caral de Corte. All
the garrison is under arms, and since last night every
military post is doubled. A small flying column left
Madrid during the night, which is to proceed by
forced marches to Valencia, to reinforce the military
division of that province. The details of the affair
are not published, and the only thing known here is
the fact of the outbreak, and the measures taken by
Government. The Government did not wish the
details to be published in the Gazette. It is said that
the Commander of the Custom-house Carabiniers,
named BONNET, is at the head of the movement; and
that having surprised the authorities, he imprisoned
the military Governor, M. LASCALA, and the political
chief, M. RAMON CERATT, and the Provincial Com-
mandant of Valencia.
" The Junta in its proclamation, and the insur-
gents in their demonstrations, cried out, ' Down
with tyranny, down with the executioners!" Down
with the Government!' Viva liberty!' Viva the
Contitutional QUEEN !' The Government has given
orders to prevent the spreading of this unexpected
movement to Valencia, Murcia, Malaga, and the
coast. It is reported that the insurgents have carried
Valencia and Santander. The news here created an
extraordinary degree of excitement.
" P.S.—The Government has just received dis-
patches from Murcia. They state that some part of
the Provincial Battalions of Valencia did not take
part in the movement, but they were, nevertheless,
disarmed by the authorities. The only troops re-
maining, therefore, at Alicante, were the National
Guards and the Carabiniers, who, it would appear,
were at the head of the insurrection. The head of
the Junta is Don PANTALEON BONNET, and the Vice-
president the celebrated Don MANUAL CABRERA.
Search has been made for M. LOPEZ JoActimm and
FERNANDO MADOZ, to arrest them, but they cannot
be found."
The funds, in consequence of this unfavourable news,
on the Ist of February, fell 11 per Cent. The Three
per Cents. were done at 28 for cash, and 28 at 60
days, and the Five per Cents. at 20i at 60 days.

By accounts from Paris of the 7th, w•e learn
that the Government had come to a determi-
nation respecting the formation of railroads
throughout France, and that the plan proposed by the
Minister of Finance (LAPLAQNE), and supported by
the KING, had been adopted. According to this plan
the working and traffic upon the lines, and supplying
the engines, &c., are to be done by companies, while
the State undertakes to form the embankments and
cuttings, and lay the rails. No loan will be required.
This had a favourable effect on the funds, for, though
depressed by the news of disturbances in Spain, they
soon recovered. The Three per C ents., which had fallen
to 81f. 70c., closing at 81f.80c., and the Fives at 125 f.
The new elections of Deputies at Marseilles, Tou-
louse, Montpellier, Ploermel, and Doullens, in conse-
quence of the resignations of MM. BERRYER, DE
VALMY, DE _ LARCY, DE LAROCHEJACQUELIN, and
BUN DE BOURDON, the Legitimist Deputies, are fixed
for the 2d of March next.
THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, FEB. 7.

First Highest

Lowest

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. •• .. 124 80 .• 124 85 .• 124 85 • • 124 90
Three per Cents..... 81 85 • • 81 80 • • 81 70 • • 81 80
Bank of France... .• 3285 .. 3285 ••3285 ..3285
Laftitte Bank, 5,000 f. Sharesso7o 5070 • • 5070 ..5070
Belgian Bank .. • ..
Belgian Fives .••• • • • .• 107 .. 107 • • 107 • • 107
1840 ........108 .. 108 .. 108 •• 108
1842 ..•..... 1101 .. 1104 .• 110/ 110/
Dutch Two-and-a-Half .• •• • 554 551 .. 55i 551
Spanish Active •••••• • • • • • • 313 • • 31i • • 31 • • 31
Passive .••••• • • • • • • 54 • • 51 • • 51 • • 51
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 481 • • 484 • • 481 .. 481
Neapolitan ................ 107 .. 107 .. 107 • • 107
Roman
_• • 1064 • • 1064 • • 1061 • • 1064

RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8.••..... • 346 25 .. 346 25 .. 346 25 • • 346 25
L. 8.• ••• • • •• • • 180 • • 185 .. 177 50 185
Rouen ••••
Rouen to Havre ...... • • 710 • • 710 • • 690 .. 701 25
Orleans •••• 853 75 856 25 .. 852 50 .. 855
Strasburg to Bale.. • • • • 242 50 .. 243 75 • • 240 .. 242 50
Montpellier to Cette . • • • • • • • 500 • • 505 • • 500 .. 505
Avignon to Marseilles.. • • • • 772 50 • • 776 25 .. 770 776 25

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, 347R.8..••••••• 347 50 . • 352 50 347 50 352 50
180 .• 185 .. 180 .• 185
845 .. 845 •• 845 • 845

Rouen

Rouen to Havre........... 700
Orleans • • . •

•• 701 25 690
860 850

• 701 25
• 860

Strasburg' to Bale. - • •
Avignon to Marseilles

. 242
. 775

.• 240 •. 243 75 .• 243 75
•• 777 50 - 770 •. 776 25

Pix or THE MINT.—The trial of the Pix of the Royal
Mint took place this morning in the Comptroller of the
Exchequer's Office, Whitehall, before the Lord Chancel-
lor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master of the
Mint, the Comptroller of the Exchequer, and other
Privy Councillors. The principal members of the Gold-
smiths' Company were summoned, and having been ,
sworn to test the weight and fineness of the coinage, and
also the amount of alloy, the Lord Chancellor proceeded
to charge the jury, commenting on the large amount of
coinage since the last trial of the Pix in March, 1842,
the gold coinage exceeding twelve millions, and also a
large amount of silver coinage. His Lordship explained
the different standards of gold and silver, the allowance
to the officers of the Mint, both as to weight and fine-
ness ; the manner in which the specimens in the Pix
were selected from each quantity of bullion coined in
the Mint ; and directed them to compare these specimens
with the " Trial Plates" of gold and silver kept in West-
minster Abbey. His Lordship gave permission to the jury
to proceed to Goldsmiths' Hall there to assay the
coinage, and intimated that he should be at the House
of Lords from five to half-past six o'clock to. receive
their return, and after that hour, should the jury not
have completed their return, his Lordship would receive
Councillors
them at his private residence in George-street. The
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EARL OF CARLIELE.—The account of his Lordship's
health received in town this day is favourable, viz., that
" The Noble Earl is rather better."

The next mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, and
the lonian Islands, will be made up on Thursday morning,
the 15th inst., and for Egypt, India, Hong-Kong, and China,
on the morning of the Ist of March, via Southampton. The
overland closed mail to India, via Marseilles, on the evening
of the 4th of March, if not detained. The West Indies, Ma-
deira, Bermuda, St. Jago de Cuba, and Venezuela, on the
morning of the 17th instant, to be forwarded by the Clyde
steamer, via Southampton. Sydney, Ne'r South Wales, on
the morning of the 29th inst., to be forwarded by the Supe-
rior, via Gravesend. British North America, Bermuda, and
the United States, on the evening of the 4th of March, to be
forwarded by the Caledonia steamer, via Liverpool, Halifax,
and Boston.