The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-01 00:00:00

the new services the personnel, and the duties of each

department.
The Constitutionnel says :—" We can announce as
certain, from our pri'vate information, that after the
vote of the Spanish Senate on the Constitution Re-
form Bill, already adopted by the Chamber of De-
puties, M. MARTINEZ; DE LA RosA will return to
resume his post of ambassador at Paris. Marshal
NARVAEz will again fake, ad interim, the portfolio of
foreign affairs.
The Reine Blanche, the arrival of which ship at
Brest we announced yesterday, having files of the
Ocianie Francais to the 14th of July. The last
number of that journal thus announces the arrival of
the British sloop-of-war Carysfort at Otaheite :
" At the moment of going to press, her Britannic Ma-
jesty's sloop of war Carysfort, Captain Lord Paulet, ap-
peared off the ridge which closes in the roadstead of
Papeiti, and, without entering, saluted the flag of our
commander, which was returned by the Uranie. At
the same time the Governor received a visit from Lord
Paulet. The Carysfort brings private letters from
France, which come via Panama, with dates up to Fe-
bruary 26th, but no dispatches for the Governor, nor a
single journal. The Governor has only received a letter
from an officer, who commands one of King Louis Phi-
-lippe's ships in the South Seas, announcing that a
French journal which had reached Valparaiso, gave in-
telligence that the whaler Elizabeth, which left Otaheite
within the first fortnight in November in last year, car-
rying dispatches, informing the Government of the mo-
tives which forced Admiral Dupetit Thouars to convert
the protectorate of Otaheite into an absolute posies.sion
of the island, had made her passage to Havre in 95 days.
The same journal, of the date of Feb. 29, says, that, after
the reception of the dispatches we have mentioned, his
Majesty declared that he could cot accept the full pos-
session, but must adlieie to the protectorate. We
that the Governor has not received any official dis-
patches, but, nevertheless, on reading the letter sent to
him from Valparaiso, he hastened to send the chief of
his staff on board the Basilisk, with a letter to Queen
Pomare, acquainting her with the state of affairs, and
inviting her to come on shore. This letter was inter-
preted to Queen Pomare in the presence of the bearer,
and the Captains of the Carysfort and Basilisk. Pomare
replied, that she determined not to land, but would go
to Borabora, and there wait the conclusion of the
affair."
The Oaanie of July 7 contains a long summary
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of the recent expeditions against the insurgents,' and
then gives textually the report of Captain BONARD,
of the Uranie, stating minutely the whole of his pro-
ceedings in the affair of Ponnavia.
The same journal adds:—
" Mr. Makinn, the" English missionary, who was
killed at Hapape, was at the moment when the ball
struck him in the forehead, in the balcony of his house,
occupied With looking at the movements outside. The
column was defiling before him, and the insurgents, who
had just taken position in the huts which our troops had
evacuated in order to go forward, were at a very short
distance from the column, and so masked as not to be
seen. There was no expectation of being attacked at
the moment. The sharp-shooters had come in, and the
column was advancing tranquilly, when at the instant it
was passing the house where Mr. Makinn was standing,
a sharp fire of musketry, proceeding from the huts occu-
pied by the natives, was directed against the rear-guard.
The balls passed over our soldiers' heads, and one struck
Mr. Makinn right in the forehead, and killed him on the
instant. The Governor had saluted him the moment
before in passing."
•It would appear, from a letter dated Papeiti, July
8, and published in the Journal des Debats, that the
situation of the French in Otaheite is anything but
pleasant. The writer . says :
" The insurgents haven become remarkably bold ; to
say the truth; the entire population of the island, with
the exception of two or' three districts, have risen against
us, encouracred by , foreign instigation, and furnished
with .arms and ammunition of every kind. You will say,
perhaps; why do yoilsuffer this ? I answer.that, although
Otaheite is only twenty-five leagues in circumference, we
have not small vessels, enough to keep outside a watch
which would render almost impracticable the facilities of
communication with the neighbouring islands ; and how
can we, in the interior, keep up a good police in a country
of which we 'occupy "so small a portion ? Be this as it
may, the mischief has been done, and has propagated
itself insensibly, without;l imagine, its importance being
well understood, for, even if peace were made, would
there be any security for the colony, when the whole
population could risein arms at the first signal ?
_Cowards the conclusion of his letter he adds :
"We must not,:however, despair. The presence in our
roads of the English steamer Salamander will, without
doubt, change the current of events, the captain observing
an opposite line of conduct to that of his predecessors.
Far from seconding the insurgents, he has written to
them to state the true position of England as regards
France, and has threatened to join with us if they should
attack Papeiti. This step is probably only the prelude
of an entirely new policy on the part of the representa-
tives of England at Otaheite."
The Natives had attacked and burned down the re-
sidence of the French missionaries. The Oceania
gives the following account of its destruction :
"A. the moment when the steamer was entering the
harbour, a very thick "smoke arose behind the cocoa-nut
trees, beyond the camp of the tiranie. It was the house
of the French Missionaries which the natives had setfire
- to.-- The next morning the *chapel also was. burned to
the ground. The missionaries have lost everything:
The holy vessels and. all the objects used in Divine
worship were pillaged by the natives or destroyed by
the flames. It is fortunate that the missionaries had
left their house in time."
Since the above was written, the Paris papers of
Tuesday have arrived. The
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he has pursued, and that after that the Ministry
would resign, and that Count MOLE would 'be en-
trustel with the fonnr.ion of a new Cabinet.
The Moniteur announces that the KING has signified
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to M. VILLEMAIN his deep regret at seeing hiiii7retire,
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partment of Public Instruction ad interim
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THE BOURSE—MONDAY, DEC." 30.
First Highest Lowest Last
Trice. Trim • Price. Price.'
French Five per Cents 120 50 .. 120 75 .. 120 50 120 60
Fours ..••
Three per Cents.••.• 65 25 .. 85 30 .. 85 25 .. 65 30
New Loan •••••••• 86 55 .. 86 55 . 86 50 86 55
Bank of France 3190 -.3195 ..11190 •..3195
Lent. Bank, I,ooof. Shareslo92 50 .4092 50 .•1092 50 —lO2 50
5,000 f. Sharesso9o "5100 ..14090
Belgian 8ank...... ... 625 .. 630 .. 625 .. 630
Belgian Fives, 1840 .• •• 1044 .• 1041 .. 104} .. 1044
Spanish Threes •• •• •• •• •••• 381 •• 38: 38} 381
Active •••• • 37 • • 37 .. 37.
Passive • 6* .. 64 Gi
Portuguese Five per Quits 614 .. 614 61 .. .61, ..
Neapolitan•••••-•••••• •- • • 96 • • 96 .. 96 56
Roman •• • •••• ••
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain... ..........1030 -.1030 ..1030 ..1030
Versailles, R.B. •
• L.B.•••••• •••• •• 380 •• 380 •• 375 .. 380
Rouen .......... ..
Rouen to •• •• •• 822 50 .. 830 .. 822 50 .. 830
(means
~••..,•••..•••...1136 25 ..1148 75 ..1136 25 ..1143 75
Strasburg to Bale.• •••••••• 307 50 .. 307 50 • 306 25 .. 301.50
Avignon to marsemes.• .•.. 930 • • 935 .. 930 .. 035
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, JAN 3.
Versailles, R. 8.. • ••••• • • • • • 495 .. 495 • • 488 73 .• 495
L.8.............330 .. 380 .. 375 --
Rouen .... •••••• • • • • • •1060 .-1062 50 .0860 ~1062'50'-
Rouen to Havre. ••• •. 825 .. 830 .. 825 •• 830
Orleans .......... • ••1136 25 ..1150 ..1136 25 —1145
Strasburg to Bale•••••• •• 306 24 .. 307 50 .. 306 25 •: 306 25
Avignon to Marseilles...". 930 .. 940 . 930 ....2.937 50