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

The intelligence from Spain, which is to the 13th
inst., has heen anticipated by the French telegraphic
dispatches given in another place. General RONCALI
it will be seen, has blockaded Alicant, and that town
would probably yield in a few days. Some accounts
say that he had refused to obey the orders of the
Minister of War to shoot the thirty insurgents made
prisoners at Alco2, and would be recalled. This
report, however, has been officially contradicted.
The Three per Cents. were done at 28i for cash,
and 29f at 60 days ; Five per Cents. at 204 at 60
days.

The French Government on Monday received the
following intelligence from Spain :

"TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES.
" BAYONNE, F 16.
" The Portuguese movement has taken place atEB.
Torres
Novas, in the 4th Cavalry. Several arrests were ordered on
the 7th at Lisbon.

" General koncali writes on the 9th from Villa Francasa,
that he has blockaded Alicant, with General Pardo.
" Several of the insurgents had surrendered to him.
" Tire address of the Deputies to the Queen has been sub-
scribed by seventy-two of them."

" FEBRUARY 17.
"We learn from - Orihuela, whence the advicee of the
9th, that the insurgents had abandoned that town, and shut
themselves up in Carthagena.
" Baron Bomfin, who is believed to be the leader of the
late Portuguese movement, has been arrested at Yelvas.
" M. Olozaga has been sent by the Government to reside
at St. Übes."

The following telegraphic dispatch of an earlier
date appears in the lilonite'ir of the same day

" BAYONNE, FEB. 15.
" Forty senators, present in Madrid, have voted an address
to QuEen Isabella, in. whieh they assure her Majesty of their
adhesion to her Government. They voted another address to
the Queen-Mother, expressive of their wish that she should
speedily return to Spain. The Deputies of the majority fol-
lowed the example of the senators.
"The disarmament of the National Militia of Lugo, Cadiz,
Seville, Ceuta, and of the whole camp of San Roque, took
place without any disturbance. Malaga and Ahrieria were
tranquil."

The Paris Government journals make no com-
ments whatever on the intelligenee brought from
Otaheite, and will probably continue to do so till a
commmunication on the subject takes place between
Lord ABERDEEN and M. GUIZOT. Some of the Op-
position journals, on the other hand, praise in high
terms the conduct of Admiral DUPETIT THOUA RS, and
call upon the Cabinet to sanction at once the occu-
pation of these islands in the name of the KING of the
FRENCH. The poor missionaries, of course, come in
for a great deal of abuse.- " M. GuizoT," says the
National, " whatever he may really think, cannot dis-
avow our brave Admiral, and we shall necessarily'
learn, without delay, that- he has ratified the defini-
tive and complete occupation of Otaheite. Let the
Bible-sellers cry out; their Government laughs at
our most legitimate complaints ; let us treat with
contempt the Methodist brawling of those preaching
folks, who, under the missionary's dress, cannot con-
ceal the political agent, and still less the trader !"

The Siecle views the affair in a different light, and
is opposed to any scheme for colonizing "at great ex-
pense an island which cannot be preserved during a
time of war, and will not repay us in time of peace,
for the expenses imposed on our treasury. It will
therefor* be necessary to give way to the intrigues of
this Mr. PRITCHARD, or get deeper and deeper in an
ugly affair." The Quotidienne says Lord ABERDEEN
would with very bad grace exhibit indignation at our
taking possession of the island, and it would be but
too easy to remind him with how litile-se-riiple England
plants her flag wherever she pleases. The British
establishments in China, the encroachments on Gwalior,
the flagrant ninrpatTon- of Sinde, are examples
enough of what England does, but which French
honour would 'blush- to-. imitate." Yet French
honour dethroned the -Dey of ALGIERS, plun-
dered his treasury of several millions sterling,
and seized his dominions, and something more, be-
cause from accident or momentary irritation, he
touched the sacred cheek of the French Consul with
his fan.

The French Funds remain nearly stationary. On
Monday the Th-ree pe-feints. closed at 82f. 35c., and
the Fives at 125 f. 55c.

THE BOURSE-MONDAY, FEB. 19.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 125 65 125 65 ••• 125 60 125 60
Four-and-a-Half.... -112 50 .. 112 50 .. 112 50 •• 112 50
Three per Cents..... 82 85 .. 82 35 .. 82 25 82 35
Bank of France.... .3280 .•3280 —3280 .•3280
Laffitte Bank, 1,0001. Sharesllo2 50 .. 1102 50 .. 1102 50 ..1102 50
Belgian Bank ....... 667 50 •• 670 ••• 667 50 •• 667 50
Belgi au Fives .•.•••• • • . • • • • 107} • • 107} • • 107} • • 107}
1840 ••• • • • 1091 • 109# • • 109} ' • • 109}
1842 •••••••• 110} .• 110} .. 110} •• 110}
Spanish Active .... ••• • • • 31 • • 81 • • 31 • • 31
Passive .••••• •• •• •• 5 •• 51 • • • • 5i
Portuguese Five per Cents •• _ 44#_ 45 • . 44# • • 45
Neapolitan lO4 50 104 75 .. 104 26 .. 104 60
Roman •• 106 .. 106 .• 106

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain .. •. •• •• .• •• • • 805 .. 805 .. 805 .. 805
Versailles, L. 8....... •. • ... 170 .. 175 .. 170 • • 170
Rouen ••• • •• •• •• ••• • •• 823 75 .. 823 75 • • 820 .. 820
Rouen to Havre.. •••• ...... 670 • • • 670 .. 655 .• 655
Orleans .... .• .•• • . 837 50 .. 837 50 • • 830 .. 830
Strasburg to Bale .... .• 242 50 .. 242 50 .. 237 50 • • 238 75
Avlgnou to Marseilles...• 730 • • 730 • • 720 .. 720
Mulhausen to Therm ..... .• 380 -•. 380 .. 380 380

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, L.B.
Rouen 825 .. 825 .. 815 .. 817 50
Rouen to Havre..•. .
Orleans
Strasburg to Rale 241 25 .. 242 50 .. 235 .. 240

Avignon to Marseilles. • .. 740
Montpellier to Cette 445

x•. 741.25 .• 722 50 730
•• 445 .• 445 .. 445

LORD HERTFORD'S Wm.—Another hearing respect-
ing a codicil, claimed by the Right Hon. J. Croker, of
100,000 dollars in Virginia Stock, under the will of the
late Marquis of Hertford, was given yesterday by
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to hear
the Solicitor-General on- behalf of the Right Hon.
Claimant. Lord Brougham, although evidently suffer-
ing under the effects of lumbago, was present, as were
also Lords Campbell, Abinger, Denman, and other Lords.
Sir William Follett having concluded, it was intimated
by the Court that judgment would be deferred to a future
period. Sir Charles Wetherell appeared on the part of
the present Marquis of Hertford, the respondent in this
case.

THE PRICE OF BREAD.—The bakers throughout
the metropolis raised the price of bread on Tuesday. The firs-
rate bakers at the west-end now charge gild. and even 10d.
for the 41b. loaf; the second-rate, Bd. and 7d. Some of the
inferior ones in Whitechapel, Blackfriars-road, Westminster,
Drury-lane, and St. Giles's, only charge 6d. and 7d. Not-
withstanding that there is a plentiful supply of wheat in the
country of English growth, no less than 6,220 quarters of
foreign wheat have been received during the last week in the
port of London-1,500 quarters of which were from Dantzic,
and 1,000 from Odessa. Twenty thousand quarters were
entered on Monday last at the 19s. duty. The price of wheat
at Mark-lane varies from 40s. to 60s. per quarter, and flour
Of superior quality from 465. to 50s. ; second ditto, 40s. to 455.
per sack.

Letters from St. Petersburgh, of the 30th ult.,
announce the promulgation of an ukase, declaring that the
Roman Catholic clergy, of the western provinces of the em-
pire, should be paid in future by the State. They are also
to be divided into five classes : the pastors included in the
first are to receive £looper annum, and those of the last Z 37,

evening, whose refreshing coolness was not suffered
to play upon their pallid cheeks—and far into the
night, whose solemnity and silence were properties
which they had learned only by report; for, how could
they know these through the din of wheels, the hiss-
ing of steam, the hurtling of looms, and the flying of
shuttles ? From the monster mill or the labyrinthine
factory, the same disinterested philanthropy has
tracked the returning footsteps of the overworked
infant and the exhausted adult, perhaps through the
dreary buffetings of a tempestuous night to their
cheerless cottages. It has examined the discomfort,
it has glanced over the desolation, of those miserable
tenements ; it has tasted of the wretched pittance that
has awaited the factory people for their mournful
supper ; and it has contemplated the more wretched
pallets to which they have betaken themselves for
their deep but feverish sleep of " a scant" five hours,
prior to the morning's renewal of their ever-recurring
and spirit-crushing toils!
It is certain that the spirited exertions of an active
beneficence, incited by the noble example of such
men as the late Mr. THOMAS SADDLER, and the present
Lord ASHLEY, have been successful with the master
manufacture's and millowners, to induce them greatly
to ameliorate the condition and to multiply the com-
forts of these hard-working children of labour. The
Legislature, at the instance of Government, has
assiduously addressed itself to the task of protecting
them from oppression—from overwork—from being
rendered, under various pretences and misrepresenta-
tions, accessories to their own wrong, by facilitating
evasions, on the part of the employers, a the
statutes touching the lowest ages at which children
may be employed, arid the utmost daily time for
which they shall work. We are well pleased to see ,
that Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in his official capacity, is
lending a powerful aid to the furtherance and conso-
lidation of these sanatory measures of protection.
We have given, elsewhere, a notice of the Bill lately
introduced by the Right Hon. Baronet, and now be-
fore the House, " for regulating the employment of
children, young persons, and women in factories." It
is scarcely requisite for us to add, that we wish, for
so just and humane a measure, all the success to
which it is fairly entitled ; and to its framers and
supporters, without distinction of party, all the credit
and praise that are due to those who step forward to
befriend the friendless.