The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-16 00:00:00

(FROM OUR CITY CORRESPONDENT.)

The long•expected notice has been issued from the Bank
of England, raising the rate of interest. It is as follows
"Bank of England, Oct. 16, 1845.
" At a Court of Directors, held this day, it was resolved
that the minimum rate of interest on London bills and notes,
discounted at the Bank of England, be 3/. per cent., such
bills and notes not having more titan 95 days to run."

Madrid papers of the Bth state that great indignation had
been excited in the capital by the dismissal of Senor VALOR,
the judge who presided at the trial of Mapoz, LOPEZ, Con-
TINA, and others. The reason assigned for this unconstitu-
tional step is that VALOR allowed some of the defendants to
attack the Government, which they had a right to do, during
their defence. This only shows that there is little chance of
justice in a country where the judges are dependent on the
Government. The Gazette publishes the following notifica-
tion, dated September 30, from the Finance Minister to the
Royal Commissioner of the Bank of- San Fernando :—" Her
Majesty the QUEEN orders me to inform you that the Trea-
sury having/ paid into the San Fernando Bank the sum of
135,087,579 reals, instead of the 120,000,000 ()alas tipulated
in the second article of the convention concluded with that
establishment on the 30th of June last, the said convention
will continue in force during the next months of October,
November, and December, on the terms therein
stipulated." The new tax, it appears, is well paid,
and already begins to ease the Finance Minister of some
of his difficulties. A royal order has consequently been
issued for a monthly dividend on account of the Passive
Debt, amounting to 160,000/. No business was done on the
Bourse on the Bth.

Most of the Paris journals publish the intelligence in the
Semaphore de Marseilles, announcing the surrender of 200

French soldiers to a body of Arabs under ABD-EL-KADER.
The facts are thus stated in that journal, and are not contra-
dicted by the Ministerial papers :—" A small garrison having
sent to General CAVAIGNAC for a reinforcement, which its
weakness in a country in full revolt, and haunted by num-
bers of ABD-EL-KADER'S bands, rendered absolutely neces-
sary, the General, in order not to reduce the strength of his
main body, selected from the field hospitals 200 men, who

were sufficiently convalescent to resume their service, adding

to them a detachment of Zouaves. This small column pro-
ceeded on its march, but was soon surrounded by clouds of
Arabs, who were at once recognised as part of ARD-EL-
KADER'S troops, ready to inflict upon these 200 soldiers the
same fate as that by which the brave men were immolated
at Djemma Ghazaouat. This feeble party could not attempt
to defend themselves without the certainty of falling to a
man, and thus affording to the ferocious Arabs the triumph
of another butchery. They were therefore constrained to do
what was never before seen in Africa—to lay down their
arms and surrender themselves prisoners to ABD-EL-KADER."
These continued disasters have induced the Government to
dispatch additional reinforcements with the least possible de-
lay. A telegraphic dispatch reached Marseilles on Friday,
ordering the immediate embarkation of the two regiments
forming the garrison of that town. Seven Government
steamers were to be employed in transporting to Oran
the different regiments, and the Prince DE JOL.NVILLE, it was
said, would sail in command of a small fleet to the coast of
Morocco, for the purpose of cruising off Tangiers and Moga-
dore during the operations of BUGEAUD. IBitABIM PACHA
who still remains at Pisa, was expected to visit the south of
France, and Paris also, if his health would permit. One of
the Paris journals says :—" The Marquis DE LAvAtErrE is
to set out on the 22d of this month for Lucca, to invite, in
the name of the French Government, IBRAHIM PACHA to
visit Paris, as soon as his health will permit. It is not sup-
posed, however, that the Egyptian Prince can take -this
journey at present, as the air of Paris is prohibited to him as
being too damp. He will pass some time probably in one
of the southern cities of France."

Lours PHILIPPE arrived from St. Cloud on Tuesday to
preside at a Cabinet Council to be held on that day. His
MAJESTY, it was said, would shortly proceed to Fontainbleau.
We subjoin other extracts from the papers :
"It appears from a table published by the Journal des
Chemins de Fer that the receipts of the Paris and Rouen
Railroad for the first nine months of the present year have
exceeded those of the corresponding months of last year by
rather more than 500,000 f.; those of the Paris and Orleans
Railroad have increased nearly 570,000 f. ; there has been an
increase of about 40,000 f. on the St. Germain Railroad; and
a decrease of more than 10,000 f. on the Versailles Railroad
(Right Bank), and of nearly 70,C00f. on that of the Left Bank.
" The Comnierce says that the Prefect of the Dordogne
has been ordered up to Paris by the Government, in order
to account for the publication of Marshal Bugeaud's offensive
letter.

"We learn from Lucerne, by a letter of the 9th inst., that
the investigation respecting the death of M. Leu is concluded,
and the decision come to is, that he was murdered by a per-
son named Muller, an inhabitant of the canton, who has been
foi some time confined in the House of Correction in the city
on suspicion, but is now transferred to a more secure prison,
as it has been discovered that plans were made to facilitate
the escape of the prisoners in the House of Correction. Two
captains in the army of that canton, named Barth and Ulmi,
have been sentenced to death, for the part they took against
the Government in the late rebellion; but it is supposed that
the Grand Council will spare their lives."
The following is an extract of a letter from St. Peters-
burgh of the 20th September, published by the Augsburgh
Gazette

" Every one here believes that the Emperor, in the course
of his journey to the eastern parts of the empire, will visit
the seat of war. No one envies the position of Prince
Woronzoff, and the old Russian party, which obtained the
situation for him, is stupified. Since the death of the Grand
Duchess Alexandra, and that of General Benkandorff, the
latter of whom was replaced in the suite of the Emperor by
Counts Orloff and Klemmschell, the influence of the old
Russian party has preponderated. The blow given to it by
the defeat of General Weronzoff will, therefore, be the more
severely felt. If one of tbisparty had succeeded in the Can.
casus, the members of the Equestrian Order of the Baltic
might have been excluded from office, and the influence of
the German provinces wuuld have thus been diminished; but
the officers who have had any good fortune in the Circassian
war have been, even in the present unfortunate operation, to
a great extent Germans, and it is said that if Prince Wo-
ronzoff fails again in his operations, the direction of the war
will be entrusted to one of them."
" The Gazette des Grisons states that on the night of the
7th of September a young forest, growing on the mountain of
Sauzala, detached itself in the midst of fine dry weather from
the main mass, and fell into the valley with a dreadful crash.
On the 14th a second fall took place, and destroyed every-
thing in the ground below, and very nearly reached the
village of Brischlaws. On the 19th, a third mass of earth
gave way in the midst of a violent storm, and one house was
crushed. Fortunately no lives were lost. The damage is
estimated at 400,000 f.
" The Kjobenhaonsposi, a Danish journal, gives the follow-
ing account of the new eruption of Mount Ileclat—'llecla,
after reposing 80 years, threatens according to private letters,
to ravage Iceland. In the night of the 14 Of Septeppr >lr