The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-11 00:00:00

he members of the Government had given explana-
tions, in the Committee on the addrEss, to the effect
that it was their determination to keep inviolate the
sales already made. The Minhter of Finance ad-
mitted the principle of the amendment, and pledged
hiinself that the Government would lay the decree,
suspending the sale of the national property, before
the House in a few days, when M. CARRASCO could
lgain bring forward his amendment ; but, in the
mean time, be requested him to withdraw it.
Senor MARTINEZ DE LA RosA also asserted that
kt was the intention of the Government to keep
the sales inviolate, and the amendment was withdrawn.
The Committee on the Reform Bill had finished their
labours, and the report was to be read on the sth,
when it was expected the debate would commence.
The more important changes proposed by the Com-
mittee are the exclusion of any of Don CARLOS'S
family from a marriage with the QUEEN, the presen-
tation of the budget, and all financial laws, to
the Corte3, and the withdrawal of the clause
for restoring the ancient privileges of the mili-
tary and clergy. A slight alteration was made
in the regency clause by which a special law should
be passed by the Cortes for the appointment of a
Regent, in case the Sovereign should be notoriously
unable to govern, as in the case of FERDINAND VII.,
during his imprisonment in France.
On the 2d, the Three per Cents. closed at 271 cash,
and 271 at 60 days. Five per Cents. 20i at 60 days.

The most important intelligence from Paris is the
announcement in the Journal des Debats that the
Government have at last resolved to complete forth-
with a loan of 200,000,000 f. (8,000,0001.) The loan
will be offered in the usual form for competition, and
it was expected that an official announcement to that
e 'feet would appef r'n fla ilicrftetr *f Monday. The
Government journal, in contrasting the state of the
English funds with those of France, cannot exactly
understand, though partly attributing the depression
to the incubus of the loan, why the English Three
per Cents. have, within a short period, risen from 93
to 100, while the French Threes are only 82. It
may rest assured, however, that there are other
causes for this great difference than the anticipation
of a loan of only eight millions sterling. The un-
settled state of Spain, the expenses of the army in
Africa, the small increase in the imports and exports
of the country, and the rather cold manner in which
the Great Powers of the Continent regard the present
dynasty, cannot fail to have considerable effect on the
credit cf the country. The Journal des Debats,
&el- stating the fact that the Government
will, in a short time, contract for the
loan, makes the following remarks :—" The
necessity of proceeding at once to the loan results
:ess from the immediate wants of the Treasury than
From the good situation of affairs, the improved con
lition of public confidence, and the ascendant ten-
dency which the funds of all countries have at present
assumed. The French Government is not so short
of money that it cannot wait still several months,
notwithstanding the extent of the undertakings carried
on at the charge of the Treasury. But the moment
:g favourable, and it will be an agreeable news to lay
before Parliament, when it meets according to cus-
tom between Dec. 25 and 30, that the credit of the
country has undergone with success the trial of a
loan. The imminence of a loan renders the French
Funds, and particularly the Threes, much heavier than
they ought to be. The quotation of the Threes is not
in harmony with the amplitude of the resources of
the country and the solidity of her engagements.
rhe prices of our stocks do not square with our rank
amongst other Powers. In the last few years, the
English funds have advanced in a remarkable
degree. From 92 or 93, the English Threes have
risen to 100. Our Threes, on the contrary, have
declined ; from 86, which they were at in 1840, they
have fallen to 80 or 82, and remain there. Let
once the loan cease to weigh them down and they
/till infallibly resume their improvement. According
to the comparative quotation of the English funds
four or five years back, they ought to be now at 90.
In order that they may come near that amount, all
that is wanted is that we should be definitively free
from loans. From that, two consequences may be
lrawn—first, that considering the favourable circum-
,tances, the loan ought to be negotiated as quickly as
possible; secondly, that the present loan ought to
comprise the totality of the sum necessary to th.
treasury out of the 300 millions, of which the issue is
authorised. It is confidently stated that the Govern-
ment takes this view of the question, and a 3 it ap-
pears certain that all the wants that have been fore-
,'3en may be satisfied with 200 millions, the loan, it
is sa!sl, will not exceed that amount. Depository of
the fund's of the communes, the departments, and the
public estab:%hments, amongst which are particularly
remarked the Ovings' bank, the Government has by
that means an obilgato:y floating debt which allows
it to limit the amount of its consolidated loans. The
loan being restricted to the rnala.rnum of 200 mil-
lions, a sum relatively not very considerable, there
-esults an advantage : it is, that the Government in
nutting the loan up for adjudication, may l'°.Ckon on
t serious competition."
Several of the journals complain of the atrocious
law laid down by the Spanish Procurator-Fiscal on
preferring the indictment against General PRIM.
Even the Journal des Debats is compelled to join in
he cry, and thus denounces the public prosecutor :
We are not aware what may have been the sentence
if the court-martial, but at all events the documents
which we have before us cannot pass without some re-
mark from us. We have not to declare our opinion
even, though we should have a well-founded one on the
part which General Prim may have taken in the con•
.piracy, which has just so fortunately and so miracu-
lously failed ; but we cannot help testifying the surprise
ve feel at the strange doctrine laid down on this occa-
sion by the Procurator-Fiscal. We had no idea of a
mrisprudence according to which simple presumption
would suffice in default of proof for the application of
capital punishment. If proofs of culpability arc not re-
quired for the pain of death, we should like to know for
hat other punishment they could be. The placidity
with which the Fiscal of Madrid exposes this theory ap-
pears to us, we must confess, extraordinary. W have
seen many things in Spain, but we hope we shall not see
Justice rendered there according to such singular rules,
and that the jadges charged to pronounce on the argu-
•nents of the Fiscal will not be contented with mere pre-
sumptive evidence, and will insist on having proofs."
The Constitutionnel, alter expressing great indigna-
tion at the charge of the Procurator-Fiscal calling
on the court-martial to pronounce punishment of
death on simple indications of guilt without proof,
adds :

----
" May the Government of Queen Isabella be wise
enough to grant a pardon, if, upon the indications alluded
to by the Fiscal, the Court should pronounce a condem-
nation. The Government of Espartero slipped away in
the blood of Diego Leon ; the blood of Prim would not
perhaps be less fatal to those who should venture to shed
it. Since the reign of Ferdinand there has been no Go-
vernment in Spain capable of granting pardon. Political
tribunals have in the same succession as the Governments
kept up a ci‘il war, more dreadful than that against
which they acted. Merciless political tribunals are fatal
to all who have recourse to them. We hope, for the
sake of the present Government in Spain, that it will
halt in the cruel and perilous course upon which it has
entered with the executions at Barcelona. If it cannot
be induced to do so by humanity, it should at least listen
to the counsels of interest."
The National, in strong terms, denounces the man-
ner in which the prosecution is conducted ; but ,
CIIRISTINA'S journal, the Presse, is entirely silent on
the subject.
The following tragical event is published in Galig-
nanis Messenger of Friday :
" Yesterday evening, about nine o'clock, M. Jacob,
the box-maker in the Rue Laffitte, was amusing himself
in his shop by threatening his dogs with a whip. As
he was at the same time surrounded by his apprentices,
a person passing by imagined M. Jacob was ill-treating
them, and entering, reproached him with unwarrantable ,
severity. A quarrel ensued, and they went into the
street to fight it out, but were separated by the neigh-
bours. The stranger went away, and M. Jacob entered
a wine-shop to talk over the affair with his friends.
While there, one of his men came to tell him that his
assailant was returned to the shop, vociferating venge-
ance and brandishing a poignard-knife. M. Jacob im-
mediately went to get rid of his troublesome intruder,
but, before be could get hold of anything to drive him
out, he was stabbed with a knife in the breast, and
dropped down dead. The murderer calmly shut up his
weapon, surrendered, without resistance, to the friends of
the deceased, and was carried to the guard-house of the
Opera-Comique."
THE BOURSE--SATURDAY, Nov. 9.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
Fresich Five per C3nts•• •• 119 50 .. 119 50 .. 119 45 .. 119 50
Four-and-a-Half.... 112 75 .. 112 75 .. 112 75 .. 112 75
Three per Cents... •. 82 40 .• 82 55 .• 82 40
.. 3085 .• 83 50
Bank of France 3085 ..3085 .• 3085
Laflitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslllo ..1110 ..1110 —lllO
5,000 f. Shares6o4o ..5040 —5037 50 —5037 50
Belgian Bank ..• •••• • .. ••• • 660 .. 660 .. 660 •.. 660
Belgian -Fives.lB4o .• ••• . • . 10H .. 1031 .. 10H .. 1031
Two-and-a-Efalf.• •• 61 70 •• GI 95 .. 61 70 •• 61 95
Spanish Threes •••• •• • 351 .. 36 351 •• 351
Active •• •• • •
;Passive 5l .. 61 .. a .. 151
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 56 .. 56 .. 56 .. 56
Neapolitan ...... .......
Roms.r• ex div.• .. ..... •• 1031 .. 104 .. 1031 .. 1031