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

the members of the Government had given explana-
tions, in the Jommittee on the addrtss, to the effect
that it was their determination to keep inviolate the
sales already male. The Minister of Finance ad-
mitted the principle of the amendment, and pledged
himself 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
again bring forward his amendment ; but, in the
mean time, he requested him to withdraw it.
Senor MARTIN= DE LA, ROSA also asserted that

GIJILDHALL.—(THIS D.
Robert Thompson was charged before Sir John Pirie
with having stolen Gl. from a public-house in Smithfield.
Mrs. Lee, the landlp.dy of the Half-moon, Smithfield,
st!ted that the prisoner came to her house on Thursday
night about quarter-past eleven, and engaged a 13wd for
the night. lie went direct from the bar to the bedroom.
She closed the house a few minutes before twelve o'clock,
and placed 61. in silver, which was in a canvass bag, in a
room on the second floor. In the morning she found
that the prisoner had left the house, and that the money
was gone.
Mrs. Lee's servant swore that the prisoner was the
man who slept at the house on Thursday night.
Police-constable 456 stated that he went to 102,
High-street, Wapping, accompanied by the last witness,
where he found the prisoner. The last witness said,
" That is the man that slept at my mistress's house on
Thursday night." The prisoner immediately turned
round, and said, "Do you mean to say that I slept at
the Half Moon?" although the name of the house had
not been mentioned by either of them.
A solicitor who attended for the prisoner called seve-
ral witnesses, who gave the prisoner an excellent cha-
racter. His brother-in-law's servant deposed that he
did not leave the house, 102, Wapping, on the night of
Thursday. It appeared, however, that she had formerly
been in the service of the prosecutrix, and left her iu a
somewhat mysterious manner.

it 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the sales inviolate, and the amendment was withdrawn.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 Cortes, 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 27i cash,
and 27i at 60 days. Five per Cents. 201 at 60 days.

The solicitor contended that he had given sufficient
proof that the witnesses had been mistaken in the pri-
soner, and that he was entitled to his discharge.
Sir Jolt)/ ham could not satisfy his own mind in the
case, unless he sent it before a jury. He had no objec-
tion to remand the prisoner, and he was accordingly re-
manded until Thursday.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Nov. 11.—Wind N. to N.W., fresh breeze
and cloudy.
DEAL, Nov. 9, A.M.—Wind S.S.W., hard ; P.M.,
W.S.W., moderate ; 10th, W.S.W., a strong gale.—
Arrd. 9th, Mauritius, Simpson, Antigua; Luzon, Boston;
Feiro, Miramichi. 10th, Shalford, Tate, Mauritius ;
Cumberland, Brice, and Welcome, Quebec. 10th, at ten
A.M., the wind shifted to S.S.W., strong gale with very
severe squalls until two Eat., when it moderated and
shifted to the westward ; several ♦essels lost anchors and
ran for Ramsgate ; the remainder of the outward bound
rode out the gale all well, most of them with
two anchors down. The Earl Leicester, from Odessa
to London, got on the rocks off Deal Castle, but
was assisted off leaky, with loss of rudder and
pieties broken, and will proceed to Ramsgate.
The hull of a vessel of 358 to 400 tons, on her beam
ends, copper apparently new, and net long in the water,
being quite clean, was passed, sth ult., lat. 33 N., lon.
59 W., by the Mauritius, in the Downs. The John and
Mary, of Dublin, from Quebec to Liverpool, out 57 days,
was spoken. 24th ult., with 4 feet 10 inches water in her
hold, and making 2 feet 6 inches per hour, having
sprung a leak the 21st ult., by the Cumberland, arrived
in the Downs, which has experienced very severe wea-
ther since that time, and it is feared the John and Mary
will not get home.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 9.—Wind S. to W.N.W. ; 10th,
S.S.E. to W., squally.—Arrd. Oriental (steamer), Alex-
andria, left 24th ult. ; Malta, 29th ; Gibraltar, 6th inst.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 10.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. her
Majesty's ship Nimrod, Bombay, sailed August 10; Cape
of Good Hope, Sept. 19 ; Ascension, Bth ult.
Fabsionzu, Nov. 10.—Wind S.E. to E., fresh breezes.
—Arrd. 9th. Canopus, Esnouf, Labrador, sailed 14th
ult. ; Lady Wright, Cavea, sails split, &c. ; Ann Raw,
Ichaboe. 10. Himalaya, Bunn, Valparaiso, with loss of
bulwarks ; Tam O'Shanter, Lawrence, Ichaboe. Sld.
Peterel packet, Madeira, &c. Off, Neptune, Bahia for
Hamburgh; Actif, Rio Janeiro.
WEXFORD, Nov. B.—The James Matheson, Cushing,
from Liverpool to China, got ashore in the North Bay,
h, re, this morning, %% ith fore and mainmasts cut away,
crew saved, cargo expected to be saved if the weather
moderates. P.S. The vessel is full of water.
DROGHEDA, Nov. B.—The Ellen Gower, Duff, of
Dumfries, ft ow Liverpool to Newry, got ashore this
morning at Baltriggan, but is expected off if the weather
moderates ; crew saved.
LEITH, Nov. 9.—The Caroline, Hopperworth, from
Steids to Stettin. has put in here for repairs, being very
leaky. The Sunderland, Davidson, from St. Petersburgh
to Gloucester, arrived here this morning from St. Mar-
garet's Hope, in a very bad condition.
OFF CORK, Nov. 6.—Wallace, Valparaiso.
OFF CAPE CLEAR, Nov. s.—Ann, Falcon, Jamaica
for Liverpool, with mainmast sprung ; Albion, Quebec.
LEITH ROADS, PREVIOUS TO Nov. 7.—Arrd. Theo-
dosia, St. Petersburgh for London, leaky and both
pumps going.
LOUGHSWILLY, Nov. 6.—The Robert Burns, Messen-
ger, from St. Petersburgh to Liverpool, has been brought
in here waterlogged, having been on Skerry Vow Point,
and has been beached.
TEIGNMOUTH, Nov. 7.—Arrd. Leander, Miramichi.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 9.—Wind S.E., moderate ; 10th,
S.S.E. to S. ditto..—Arrd. England (16th ult.) and
United States, New Yolk. 10th, Herculean, Gibson,
and Symmetry, Bombay ; Matthew Peace, White,
Ichaboe ; Unicorn, Toe zel, Buenos Ayres ; Prince
Lellewym, Gibbs, Macao ; Selina Watts, Porto Rico ;
Isabel, Griffiths, Antigua ; Emily, Foyle, arid Ranger,
M'Millan, Paraiba ; Cantab, Maracaibo ; Archelaus,
New Orleans and Boston ; Southerner and St. George,
New York ; Dorchester, Crowell, Boston ; Perseverance,
Bennett, St John's, New Brunswick ; England and Oak,
Quebec ; Eusebius, and Margaret and Anne, Newfound.
land. Off, William Mitchell (supposed), China ; Agri
cola and Indus (ditto), Calcutta ; Rosendale (ditto).
Macao; Czar (ditto), Ceara; Islaen (ditto), Barbadoes;
Satellite, Argentina, Greenock, Greetelevre, Chacoes,
Carena, and Severn.

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 rect would apps: r t'seMn *tett. of Monday. The
Government journal, in contrasting the state of the
English funds with those of France, cannot exactly
understand, though partly attributing the depression
ro 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
,f 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
sredit cf the country. The Journal des Debats,
►tter 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-
•lency which the funds of all countries have at present
assumed. The French Government is not so short
►f money that it cannot wait still several months,
lot withstanding the extent of the undertakings carried
,n at the charge of the Treasury. But the moment
s favourable, and it will be an agreeable news to lay
)efore Parliament, when it meets according to cus-
tom between Dec. 25 and 30, that the credit of the
.:ountry has undergone with success the trial of a
oan. The imminence of a loan renders the French
'unds, and particularly the Threes, much heavier than
.hey ought to be. The quotation of the Threes is not
in harmony with the amplitude of the resources of
:he country and the solidity of her engagements.
[he prices of our stocks do not square with our rank
imongst other Powers. In the last few years, the
English funds have advanced in a remarkable
legree. From 92 or 93, the English Threes have
..isen 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
will infallibly resume their improvement. According
',:o the comparative quotation of the English funds
four or five years back, they ought to be now at 90.
En 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
drawn—first, that considering the favourable circum-
itances, 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 the
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 as it ap-
pears certain that all the wants that have been fore-
seen may be satisfied with 200 millions, the loan, it
is said, will not exceed that amount. Depository of
the funds of the communes, the departments, and the
public establishments, amongst which are particularly
remarked the savings' bank, the Government has by
that means an obligatory floating debt which allows
;t to limit the amount of its consolidated loans. The
loan being restricted to the maximum of 200 mil-
;ions, a sum relatively not very considerable, there
-esults an advantage : it is, that the Government in
putting the loan up for adjudication, may reckon on
s 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
f the court-martial, but at all events the documents
.vhich 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-
spiracy, which has just so fortunately and so miracu-
lously failed ; but we cannot help testifying the surprise
we feel at the strange doctrine laid down on this occa-
sion by the Procurator-Fiscal. We had no idea of a
jurisprudence according to which simple presumption
would suffice in default of proof for the application of
.apital punishment. If proofs of culpability are not re-
quired for the pain of death, we should like to know for
what other punishment they could be. The placidity
with which the Fiscal of Madrid exposes this theory ap-
pears to us, we must confess, extraordinary. We have
seen many things in Spain, but we hope we shall not see
justice rendered there according to such singular rules,
and that the judges charged to pronounce on the argu-
ments of the Fiscal will not be contented with mere pre-
sumptive evidence, and will insist on having proofs."
The Constitutionnel, after 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 :

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

BRUSSELS, Nov. 7.—We were mistaken in stating
yesterday, after another journal, that the general census
of the population of the kingdom is to be taken towards
the end of next month, and that instructions had been
given for that purpose. The fact is that a sum of money
from the next budget of the Minister of the Interior
has been asked for to prepare this important operation,
the time for which is not yet fixed.
The Russian Government has published in the
Northern Bee the account of the produce of the mines
in the Ural mountains in the first six months of 1844.
The mines of the crown yielded 68 poods 291bs. of gold,
and those belonging to private individuals 164 poods
131b5., in all 233 poods 2lbs. (the pood is 401bs. Russian,
361135. English.) Of Platina the mines of private per-
sons yielded 75 poods 51bs., those of the crown only albs.
The Chamber continued to-day the debate on the pro-
ject of law for increasing the salaries of the judges.
The Minister of Finance presented a project of law for
the prorogation of the law of the Ist of June, 1842, which
authorises the Government to modify the regulations re-
specting importations for transit direct or transit through
the entrepot.
The King is expected to return from Ardenne on
Saturday.
BRUSSF2S, Nov. B.—A general debate on the project
of law relative to the inc Lease of the salaries of the
judges was closed to day.
The increase asked for the First President and the
Attorney-General of the Court of Cessation was rejected,
as well as that proposed for the Advocates-General in
that Court ; this last increase was rejected only by the
votes being equally divided, (35 for, 35 against, and one
declining to vote).
Some provincial journals have given assertion to re-
ports to the most unfavourable prejudices against the
attempt of the Belgian Society's Colony at Santa
Thomas. It is to be desired that the facts should be
cleared up, and the matter conscientiously investigated
by men v‘ orthy of confidence for their knowledge and
impartiality. We are assured that the Government has
just decided on a regular investigation, in which those
persons who have returned from St. Thomas from dis-
gust and for other reasons shall be examined ; the direc-
tors and persons employed by the company will likewise
be interrrogated. The Frankfort journal says, " Mr.
licks of Maintz, well known for an invention, which
consists in cultivating all kinds of land without manure,
and obtaining from sundry soils a larger produce than
the best lands now afford, lately arrived from Belgium.
lie affirms that at Brussels he was perfectly well re-
ceived by the Court, by the Minister, and in general in
Belgium by competent judges, and found the greatest
readiness to support his plan for a subscription. He in-
tends to go to England and France, where he hoped to
have more effectual support than he has yet met with in
Germany."
We learn that Mr. Bicks has just set out for Paris
with Baron Lapeyrouse, to make a beginning, and enter
into some arrangements with the present capitalists.

" 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 civil 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 registral statistics of Lancashire, as detailed
by Mr. Cobden, and stated in our last, indicate that the
time is not remote when that county will practically
assert at the hustings the principle of unrestricted com-
merce and free-trade. Twenty-one constituencies out
of twenty-five, instead of twelve against thirteen, is a
fearful look out for the protectionists ; and it the Coun-
cil of the League are not greatly mistaken in their
figures, it is high time for the monopolists and their
Prime Miniater to be on the alert—as there must either
be a change of measures or a change of men. Sir Ro-
bert Peel, though an excellent tactitian, cannot perform
impossibilities ; and the Lancashire anti-free-traders
must either give way to men who will really represent
the interests of their great emporia of trade, or extend
the maxims of their narrow policy, so as to suit the in-
creasing intelligence and the dilating energies of the age.
If the perseverance of the League, in opening the eyes
of their fellow-countrymen to the evils of a restrictive
' policy, be pregnant with results of this importance when
a good trade, and two good harvests, have replenished
the national coffers, what will not renewed exertion
effect, if a succession of ditninished crops, and a decrease
of our India trade, should force the perils and evils of a
restrictive policy upon the minds, we had almost said the
stomachs, of all classes. 'We feel assured, to use the
words of a London Contemporary, that "The great
province of trade will no longer swell anti-commercial
lobbies, and give the plausible sanction of its approval
to anti-commercial measures. The time is at hand when
Lancashire will be ashamed of its share in the sliding-
scale, and Liverpool—aye, Liverpool itself, unless Bir-
kenhead is destined to be the real Venice of the west—
will emancipate itself from the fetters of monopoly, and
become alive at length to the magnitude of the blunders
which it sanctions.—Carnat von Herd!.

The National, in strong terms, denounces the man-
ner in which the prosecution is conducted; but
CHRISTINA'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
nut, he was stabbed with a knife in the breast, and
dropped down dead. The murderer calmly shut up his
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THE BOURSE--SATURDAY, Nov. 9.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Csnts•• •• 119 50 .. 119 60 .. 119 45 .. 119 30
Four.and-a-lIalf..•• 112 75 112 75 .. 112 75 .. 112 75
Three per Ceuts.•• .. 82 40 .. 82 35 82 40 .. 82 50
lank of France 3085 .. 3085 3085 ••3085
; matte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslllo ..1110 •• /110 —lllO
5,000 f. Sharesso4o 5040 —5037 50 —5037 50
Belgian 8ank........
Be*lan Flves.l44o •••• • • • • 103: .. 103: .. 163! •• 103:
Two-and-a-Half.... 61 70 .. 61 95 .. 61 70 • • 61 95
Spa.eish Three 5............ 351 .. 26 .. 3.51 •• 35i
Active •• • ..... •.•• 321 .. 321 .. 32f .. 321
Passive . . 51 bf 51 bf
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 56 .. 56 .. 56 .. 56
Neapolitan
Rowan, ex ..... 1031 .• 103: .. 1031 .. 103 i

YSTERIOUS DEATIL—The managing clerk of a
solicitor, near Brunswick-square, came home, after
leaving a tavern where he had been drinking till twelve
o'clock at night, with a severe wound on his head, the
effects of which caused his death on Friday, previous to
which he had been only able to declare that he had been
attacked by a man in the streets.
An old maiden lady, named Simpson, residing at
Snainton, near Nottingham, has such a penchant for
green, that she has painted her bonnet, shoes, house,
furniture, fire-irons, and even her lap-dog of that colour,

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