The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-02 00:00:00

Madrid journals of the 24th ult. have been received,
but they bring no fresh intelligence. Advices from
Barcelona of the 25th state that the four Ministers
arrived at that place on the previous day, and that a
Cabinet Council had been immediately held, but the
result was not known.
The Madrid Bourse was closed on the 24th.

We find, in the Paris Moniteur of Sunday, a long
and rather curious article, setting forth the impover-
ished state of the KING'S private finances, and urging
the necessity imposed upon the State, by an Act
passed in 1832, to make provision for the younger
branches of the Royal Family. It appears from this,
that on Louis PHILIPPE'S accession to the throne, his
family estates, by virtue of a Royal Ordinance issued
by Louis XIV., became annexed to the domain of
Ithe Crown. The appanage of the ORLEANS family
was thus alienated, and the younger Princes became
deprived of their claim on the eventual succession ;
and this opened to them, at the same time, a claim
for compensation, inasmuch as, in 1832, when the
civil list was settled, there was a special article by
which provision should be made for the younger sons
and daughters of the KING, in case the private domain
should be inadequate for that purpose. The article

then shows that the whole amount which the KING
received in 1825 (5,000,000 f.), as an indemnity, in
virture of the law passed in that year, had been ab-
sorbed by the completion and embellishment of the
Palais Royal ; and so low have his finances at
times been, that he had been compelled to
accept pecuniary aid from his sister Madame ADE-
LAIDE, yet to supply the charges imposed upon him as
a King and a father, the KING has been and is forced
to contract debts which, from day to day, increase,
which encroach upon his private domain, hitherto the
sole patrimony of the Princes his younger sons, and
the Princesses his daughters. The article thus con-
.
eludes :—" In order that this grave question may be
suitably submitted to the examination of the Cham-
. hers, good citizens and all just and sensible men must
be enlightened as to the truth of the case, and assist
themselves in clearing that cloud of gross errors and
perfidious falsehoods so carefully raised to deceive the
country with regard to rights and facts. It was often
said in France, 'lf the KING knew it. The KING'S
Government says now, Let the country know it !'
France will not permit that the Royal Family should
not preserve, under our constitutional monarchy, the
rights and station legally guaranteed to the family of
the Duke of ORLEANS."

The discussion on Railway Bills still continued in
the Chamber of Deputies. On Saturday the lines
from Orleans to Vierzon and Chitteauroux were voted,
and on Monday the discussion was to commence on
the Strasburgh line.

The trial of the murderers of M. CADOT, the banker,
•at Pointoise, was again adjourned on Saturday till
next day.

COLONEL STODDART AND
CAPTAIN CONOLLY.
Captain Grover has received letters from Dr. Wolff,
dated from the 12th to the 15th April, 1844. The first
was written at Mero, which now belongs to Bokhara,
and the last was written in the desert distant only three
days' journey from the capital.
Dr. Wolff says—" I advance confidently towards
Bokhara, and, if the King does not stop me, in three
days I shall be in the capital."
The Doctor has received great kindness from the
Khaleefa Abd Arrahman, who is described as the
spiritual guide of the King of Bukhara, and is dig-
nified with the title of Majesty. "He has given
we," writes the Doctor, " letters to the King of
Bokhara, and tells me positively that Stoddart is
alive, Conolly not quite certain. No public exe-
cution had taken place of either of them lam his
guest ; he has just now entered my room (this was at
More), and showed me a letter he has written to the
King of Bukhara, stating that it is of the highest im-
portance that Stoddart and Conolly should be given up
to me, and reparation made to England for the insult,
and not to keep me longer than three days. This letter
will be dispatched by an express Turcomaun, and will
reach Bokhara before me, Ms Majesty also sends with
me one of his own relations to introduce me properly to
the King of Bokhara. His Majesty also desired me to
express to the Queen his ardent desire to become a sin-
cere friend of the British nation."
Dr. Wolff expresses his indignation in strong terms
against Colonel Stoddart's confidential agent at Meshed,
who bad intercepted the correspondence with Bokhara,
and is thankful that Colonel Shiel had forwarded Cap-
tain Grover's letters by an express messenger. He says:
" Had Muhammed Ali Seraaf, Stoddart's agent, received
them, the =heal would have kept them." The Doctor
concludes: "I cannot write much for the Turcomautts
sit near me ort the ground you must not expect
long letters, for 'write in a stealthy manner."
Sir Robert Peel having requested Captain Grover to
communicate to him " the last accounts that had been
received from Dr. Wo.'ff, relative to Colonel Stoddart
and Captain Conolly ;" the above extracts were sent on
Thursday last, the day Dr. Wolff's letters arrived ; they
were communicated at the san.'e time to Lord Aberdeen
and to the Military Secretary.
Captain Grover thinks it right to state, in justice to
his absent friend, Colonel Stoddart, that among the nu-
merous letters and journals of Dr. Wolff, there is not the
slightest hint or insinuation that the Colonel had become
a 11 ahomedan.

Many changes of stations are about to be made
among the staff officers of pensioners in the Un;ted Kingdom.
We believe that in the London district there afe to be six
captains and a field officer, and that at all the largestations—
Edinburgh, Dublin, &c.—field• officers will be nominated.
There is now little doubt that Government has determined
oh making the pensioners a most effective little tsrmy of re-
serve.—Naval and Military Gazette.

only prices the farmer can realise for his Cereal pro-
ducts, bread stuffs, &c.—on the other, to the burdens
of tithe, poor-rate, county- rate, &c. ; and, if his pro-
perty be encumbered, to his mortgages, the interest
upon which, for advances made in a " depreciated
currency" with high prices, he has now to pay in an
artificially enhanced money—in gold. " With such
reduced rents, and lowered prices, and heavy bur-
dens," he says, " I cannot pay you remunerating
wages." Now, agricultural protection is getting as
much out of public endurance as manufacturing pro-
tection; so that for this state of things protection is
rarely ever suggested as a remedy. What is to be
done ?

In the meanwhile the desperate incendiary is at his
suicidal and devastating work. In Essex, Suffolk,
Hertfordshire, Norfolk, the midnight destroyer—
goaded doubtless to desperation and to crime by the
wrongs of poverty, and the cravings of want, the
claims of helpless infancy, and the misery of his
home—is committing to the flames the garnered
harvests of former years, or the means and appli-
ances necessary to get in that which is next to be
gathered. What sentiments can more powerfully
excite his frenzied despair than the bitter conscious-
ness of his own willingness and ability to work, con-
trasted with the hopeless destitution which alone
will follow upon his labour, where masters and
landlords are equally straightened in their present
means, and in despair of their future chance of bet-
tering them ?
The new banking law of Sir R. PEEL presents
aspects fatal alike to manufacturing, commercial, and
agricultural enterprise. In carrying out to their
full extent the hitherto dormant !mischiefs of the Act
of 1819, and in aggravating the intensity and
enlarging the sphere of action of those evil influences
it had already developed, the Bill now pending before
Parliament will be deplorably signalised. It will add
the guilt of lighting up a hundred incendiary fires in
districts where its baneful propositions are about to
ensure the ruin of the unfortunate agriculturist, who
may no longer look for temporary accommodation or
sympathy in his honest struggles against adverse
seasons or accidents—to that long catalogue of
ills, in which the memory of Sir R.ODERT
PEEL and the Currency Act of 1819, will be: asso-
ciated to posterity as the proximate causes Of the
distress of our labouring population at various in-
tervening periods, and at the present moment. We
have enormous wealth, the most magnificent revenue
in the world ; a commerce whose parallel has not
arisen in the history of mankind. We are supreme
among the nations, and the business of Time, himself,
seems to be but to develope, year after year, our new
and uncalculated resources for the increase
of our opulence, and the consolidation of our
power. We are in profound peace with all
the world ; and yet, in the centre of an imperial do-
minion, the metropolitan home of our greatness, as
well as in the provincial capitals of our commercial
and agricultural greatness, we have widely-spreading,
accumulating, unarrested poverty and discontent.
That poverty is of the most afflicting and most abject
character. This discontent manifests itself in the
most insidious, and the most open forms. What can
be the cause of these phenomenon, moral and political ?
Are these gifts of Providence, and these happy acci-
dents of nature, to be neutralised by some radical vice
in our monetary system, that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
autocracy may not be shaken in the House of Com-
mons, nor his financial imbecility be recognised
and denounced without it ?