The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-14 00:00:00

reiources io the new activity which the labours on our high roads,
our ►troug places, and our maritime arsenals will assume.

" I have reason to hope that the alterations which will be fixed
for the public services, will be sufficient for many years for all
their wants, and that I shall be able hereafter to apply the ex-
cesses of produce to the reduction of the most onerous taxes.
" Let us return thanks, Gentlemen, to Divine Providence for
a situation so favourable, and let us labour in concert to increase
sad to strengthen it, in order that my people may long gather
the fruits. France, industrious and tranquil, will acquire a new
grandeur, and her successes in peace will shed no. leas éclat than
would be acquired by her warlike virtue, should honour oblige
her to display them."

The 'toile says, that his MAJESTY was received
with reiterated cries of " Vive le Rol !" which were
renewed after the Speech, and accompanied him till
his departure.

The French Funds do not appear to have under-
gone much alteration in consequence of the Speech of
the KING. The 5 per Cents. left off on Tuesday
night in Paris at 99f. 20c. to 40c., and the 3 per
Cents, at 68f. 30c.
The Etoile states, that according to the latest in-
telligence received at Paris from Portugal, the party of
the REGENT was at Evora, and . the party of DON
MIGUEL, which entered by the route of Estremos,
was at Evoramonte, and that nothing is known of the
Marquis de CHAVES' column since the occupation of
the Castle of Braganza.
In another column will be found some, interesting
intelligence from Madrid to the 3d December, and
from Badajoz, in extracts from the Journal des De-
bats of Monday and the Etoile of Tuesday. All com-
munications tend to confird the view taken of the con-
duct of Spain by our Government.

We received this morning the Austrian Observer
of the 2d inst., the Allgemeine Zeitung of the '7th,
and Brussels Papers of the 13th, from which the fol-
lowing are extracts. We have no room for comment
VIENNA, DEC: 1.

The letters from Constantinople of 10th November bring little
worthy of notice from that capital, where tranquillity had not
been disturbed since thelast commotions on the 18th and 19th of
October.
The death of Gours is confirmed by accounts from Smyrna of
the 3d November. Some say he was murdered by one of his
own soldiers, while pointing a cannon at the enemy; others, that
he was killed by a bomb. The siege of the Acropolis was carried
on with great activity by the Seraskier Redechid Paella : unfor-
tunately many of the monuments of antiquity, particularly the
Parthenon, had suffered considerably by the bombardment.
According to positive accounts another attempt to relieve the
Acropolis, on the 21st October, had been defeated by the be-
siegers; it was made by the Greeks and Philhellenee assembled at
Eleusis and Salamis, under Karaiskaki and Fabvier (whose force
is mated at between 2 and 3,000 men). The Greeks, however,
are said to have succeeded in throwing 200 fresh troops into the
citadel.
A landing was spoken of, which Collett; and Karatosso, who
hadassembled sometroops at Segatho and Skopelo intended to
inake in the Council of Talanta, in order to oblige the Seraskier
t y this diversion is his rear to raise the seige of Athens. But as
)this plan was in agitation at the end of September, when Count
liarcourt left the Archipelago, , and nothing has since been done,
the execution of the plan seems to have met with some difficulties.
ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 19.

Two merchants houses here, are to advance money to the Pacha.
Probably they will obtain the permission to export cotton and
linseed. The whole quantity of cotton will not exceed 9,000
The people become daily more dispirited. Here and in
the vicinity, tranquillity has not been interrupted ; but near Cairo
the country -people bad revolted ; however, they were soon quelled
by severe measures. A regiment with four pieces of cannon, re-
stated Order:. The peasants are obliged to furnish corn at so low
4Price, that after paying the taxes, they have hardly sufficient to
live; be4des shey",tresaid in treasury bonds, which are 20 per
tent Wow par. The whole country and the public tranquillity
thereby endangered.
amiss-Ku, Dec. 10.
We learn from good authority asys a paper published at the
Hague, that the report of the marriage of her Royal Highness the
Princess Marianne, with a Prince of Prussia, is at present destitute
of foundation..
report is in circulation in the city, that an English youth,
lb, Year* of age, an orphan, who was adopted by an individual
,with whom his father and mother bad lodged in Mg,. has just
"i4APpeared (having been carried away by force), as he was going
t" receive a legacy left him by his adopted parents, who died lately.
Dire. 12.—The sluices of the basin of Terveuren have been
Veued, and the communication made between the sea and the
canal, after which the channels were opened which have been
Made in order to draw off the water from the Polders which were
in
undated. This important operation' was 'perfectly successful.
There has been no public sitting of the Second Chamber of the
states General.

We have deep regret in stating that the health of
`ll*. CANNING has suffered severely from the effect
ut. the great exertions which he made on Tuesday
evening. He was in consequence unable to attend in
his place last night, and it therefore deVolved on Mr.
REEL to move the adjournment of the House to the
Bth of February, which was carried. unanimously. In
making the motion for adjournment, Mr. PEEL avail-
ed himself of the opportunity of expressing his entire
satisfaction at the feeling manifested by the House
and the Country on the measures determined upon by
His MAJESTY'S. Government, in behalf of Portu-
gal, and his conviction that the surest method of
Preserving peace was to maintain good faith unim-
Peached and inviolate. The Right Hon. Gentleman
"Iso made an important communication to the House,
vie. that on Monday, the 12th February, Mr. Ms-
-11(1880N would submit a motion to the House, which
would specifically introduce the great question- of the
t=orn
Laws, and mention in elaborate detail the state
°I the existing laws, and the views of his MAJESTY'S
130yerliment on this most important subject.
For the other proceedings in the House we must
refer our readers to our Parliamentary report.

We have given in another column some curious
particulars from our correspondent at Cadiz, which will
be perused with interest, considering the present situa-
tion of affairs in that quarter. The picture given of
Spain is truly deplorable—without money ~without
arms--without credit—and without energy, she-dares
to invade .Portu,pl and rouse the sleeping vengeance of
this country. The French are by no means satisfied
with their present condition in the Peninsula, anti the
better, though, perhaps, not the most numerous
Portion of the Spanish people, naturally feel indig_
Inuit at the presence of a foreign army in their
Country to uphold the desptism of FERDINAND, and
Perpetuate the bigotry and oppression of an avaricious
priesthood. The .naval fbrce of Spain, once so powerfid,
is now unable to guard her chief port (Cadiz) from the
insolent daring of a few Colombian privateers ! But all
this is us it should be—,the natural consequences of
misrule and bigotry working their own destruction.
Spain, though fallen and degraded, yet retains the recol-
lection of her former greatness and the spirit of her sons
only slumbers in the apathy of their Government, wait-
-1114 fbr the day of retribution when the return of her
"lied triots shall rouse the vengeance of the people
hrek the fetters of superstition and tyranny on the
Reeds of their oppressors. The Government of Spain
and her people are as distinct as their respective mte-
iseste---the one has every thing to lose—the other
every thing to gain. The Priests have filled the cup