The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-06 00:00:00

has taken place between Baron DE BOURQUENEY, the French
Ambassador at Constantinople, and the Ottoman Porte, rela-
tive to the murder of a French Missionary in the Lebanon.
Some English correspondents from that quarter had stated,
that the French Consul at Beyrout had demanded that the
person chiefly implicated in the death of the priest should be
put to death without trial—a demand not at all likely to be
made by the representative of a Constitutional Government.
The account given in the Constitutionnel is very differs nt—
we are inclined to think more near the truth. "We shall
give," says that paper, " the following extract of a letter
from Father FRANCOIS DE PLOUGHE, prefect of the Cupueins
of Syria, written on the 10th of last June, in which are de •
tails of the death of Father CHARLES DE LORETTE. His
character is a sufficient guarantee for the truth of the recitals
this letter contains :—‘ A chief, named HAMMER ABER
MACHAT, came with his followers and attacked our convent,
in which was Father CHARLES DE Lout:rm. At the
sight of these barbarians the missionary fled, but was
pursued, overtaken, and cut down by the sabre with des
perate wounds on the head and shoulders, and being finished
with musket shots, and his body torn open and burnt after
taking out the entrails.' Our agent at Beyrout demanded of
the Turkish authorities—l st, that the chief author of this act
of barbarity should be brought to trial, and, secondly, that
the tribunal called upon to try him should present guarantees
for the justice of its judgments, which are not to be ordinarily
found in the Turkish magistracy. The issue of this affair has
proved that our Consul has had good reason for not relying
upon the impartiality of the judges of Beyrout. The details
contained in the letter of Father FRANCOIS DR PLOtiGHE
above cited show that the murder of Father CHARLES was
not an accident of war, that the sufferer was a French subject,
and therefore that our Consul had an incoutestible right to
interfere in the process against his murderer." The
Presse gives nearly the same account, and according
to that paper, no arrangement had been come to, and the
state of affairs in the Lebanon was daily growing worse,
chiefly owing to the despotic conduct of the Turkish
FACHA, and his partiality to the Druses :—" The mission
of CIIEKIB EFFENDI, which was represented as one alto-
gether of conciliation, cannot fail to bring forth new disturb-
ances. It is now averred that the Ottoman' Plenipotentiary
has taken under his protection the man whom public rumour
had designated as the murderer of Father CHARLES, and that
he does not intend granting any of the indemnities claimed
by France fur the twe convents burnt down during the
civil war. But that is not all. We learn that, at the date
of the 11th, CHEKIB EFFENDI was preparing to attack the
Libanus, in order to effect the disarming of the moun-
taineers. The foreigners established in the mountain, sum-
moned by him to quit it, refused to comply with this
injunction if their property was not guaranteed. This de-
mand, supported by the Consul, was at first favourably re-
ceived by CIIEKIB EFFENDI, but soon after he objected that
the guarantees ought to be given by the Porte, and not by
him. The Europeans then declared that they would remain
in the mountain; that CIIEKIB EFFENDI was free to act as
seemed fit to him, but that they reserved to themselves the
right of making good their rights. Such was the state of
matters when the last account left." The following appears
in the Constitutionnel, relative to the precarious position of
French residents in Mexico :
" The French naval statism in the Gulph of Mexi..o has
(says the Constitutionnel) at this time only two twenty-gun
ships, La Perouse and Le Mercure—a force far from sufficient to
command respect. The number of French in Mexico, according to a
census taken in 1835, exceeds 12,000 persons, established chiefly
in the towns of Mexico, Vera Cruz, Xalapa, Puebla, Acapulco,
Orizaba, Santa Fe, Zacatecas, Campeachy, Tabasco, and Tam.
pico. M. de Ciprey, on quitting Mexico, left his fellow-coun-
trymen under the protection of the Spanish Chargé d'A trsires, who
has at his disposal only a Spanish sloop of war. With the well-
known character of the Mexicans, the situation of the French
may be well conceived to be precarious, in a country whose in-
habitants bear an inveterate hatred to foreigners, although they
are the sources of all its commerce and industry."

At the opening of the Paris Courts of Law for the
session on Monday, M. Dus'LN the Procureur-General, made
a long speech on the history of the rise and progress of the
common law of France. It contained nothing political, and
was interesting chiefly to the lawyers. In the Journal des
Debats there is a well digested article on tha trade of France
with foreign countries, from which we give these brief ex-
tracts:—

" Let us remark, In the first place, that our exchanges with the
north of Europe amounts to 520,000,000, whilst those in the
south are only 710,000,000. The superiority, which was for.
merly in favour of the Mediterranean, is now passed to the North
Seas and the Baltic, and this has arisen from the progress which
Germany has made in commercial and manufacturing enterprises.
Our trade with Belgium has increased from 156 millions to 179
millions, and the difference has been entirely in the purchases
which we make In that country. _

" With England our situation with regard to the exchange of
manufactured products is more favourable. Out of 145 millions
of merchandise which she sells us, 54 are manufactured articles, of
which 121 are consumed here ; whilst, out of 144 millions of our
products with which we supply her, 72k millions are articles of
our own manufacturing. What merits particular notice is certain
weakness in our affairs with the Italian peninsula, with Turkey
and Greece. From 76 millions our exchanges with the whole of
the Mediterranean have fallen to 65. In 1844 our trade with
the United States, the most important of our commercial allies
next to England, amounted to 33 millions; in Africa (not including
Algeria) our relations make sure but slow progress, and we already
begin to reap the fruit of that foresight of which the Government
gave proofs in multiplying and strengthening our factories on the
coast •f Africa between the Seregembic and the Bay of Gabon.
" to sum up, the foreign trade of France, a moment slackened
in 1842, resumed its elasticity in. 1843, to which the operations of
1844 have given a still livelier impulse. Increase appears through-
out every branch, and the progress of neighbouring countries in
manufactures has not by any means Injured our exportation. This
is a result which responds in the most satisfactory manner to our
internal activity, and prepares us in a worthy manner fur the open.
ing of the legislative session of 1846."

The Money and Share Market was very heavy on the
Paris Bourse on Tuesday, owing chiefly, it was said, ti) a
scarcity of money, as well as some unfavourable advices from
London.

The Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 60c. ; the Five per
Cents., 117 f. 90c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,187 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 1,015 f. ; Havre, 805 f. ; Avignon, I,ooof. ; Vierzon,
735 f. ; Bordeaux, 645 f.; Troyes and Montereau, 502 f. 50c.;
Basle, 270 f.; Northern, 775 E ; Spanish Actives, 35k.
The following are the quotations for other lines :-
Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 521 f. 75c. ; ditto (Ca-
lon), 503 f. ; ditto (Ganneron), 507 f. ; ditto (La Pinson-
niere), 501 f. 75c. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 570 f.; ditto
Rosamel), 535 f. 50c. ; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 526 f. 50c. ;
ditto (Detail Lebeuf), 526 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg (Hin-
guerotl), 513 f. ; ditto (Bechet), 505 f. 50c. ; Tours and
Nantes (Mackenzie), 521 f. 25c. ; do. (Drouillard), 504 f. ; ditto
(O'Neill), 512 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 526 E
25c.; ditto (Lecointe), 511 f. 25c.; ditto (Compagnie Meri-
dionale), 505 E ; Bordeaux and Cette (Espeleta), 512 f. 50c. ;
Creil and St. Quentin (Carette), 511 f. ; ditto (Colbert),
500 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 5.
Anglo-Belgian - Madrid and Valentin... -
Boulogne and Amiens lO Namur and Liege 33%
Bordeaux &Mediterran - North Jamaica -
Bordeaux and Toulouse - Orleans and Vierzon -
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) - Orleans and Bordeaux 11
Do. ( Mackenzie's) - Over Yssel ......... -

Central of Spain
Demerara
Dendre Valley ...... 114
Dutch Rhenish
Dieppe & Paris Janet —
Dijon and Mulhouse
East Indian ...... 31%
Farnpoux & Hazebrouk
Grt Northern of France
(Latlitte's)
Ditto ( Rosamel's)
Do. (Le Boeuf)
Do. Pepin le Halleur —
Great Paris and Lyons —
Great Western Bengal
Jamaica S. Mid. Junction
Do. North Midland —
Do. Extension
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe
Lyons and Avignon 2
Luxembourg

Paris & Lyons (Laffitte) 21,4
Ditto ( Gann eron's). 3
Ditto (Calon's)....
IParis and Orleans 4514
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Aymarda)
Do. (Compte de L'Est)
Paris and St. Quentin.
Ronen and Havre —
Royal North of Spain —
Sambre and Meuse 6
'Strasburg and Basle
Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
dent, and Hasselt —
ITours and Nantes
(Mackenzie's)
Do. (Lefebvre's) —
Verona and Ancona —
IWest Flanders

A Cabinet Council assembled soon after two o'clock this
afternoon at the private residence of Sir Robert Peel in

Whitehall-gardens: The Lord Chancellor arrived from his
Court at twenty minutes past two o'clock. The Duke of
Wellington and all the Ministers in town attended.
MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—We regret to state
that during the week en•ling Saturday, Nov. 1, there has
been a great increase in the number of deaths, as compared
with several previous weeks. The total number was 948,
exceeding that of last week by 174. The increase has taken
place chiefly in contagious diseases, and those of the lungs,
and other organs of respiration. The deaths from
measles on the previous week were 52, average 31, while
during the last week they amounted to 87. Those caused
by bronchitis, pneumonia, and consumption, had also in-
creased considerably. The violent deaths were 32, of which
12 were from fractures and contusions, 4 from drowning, 7
from hanging, 6 from burns, and the rest from wounds and
poison. Of these 6 were suicides.

The squadron under the orders of Admiral Par-
seval Deechenes, which was erroneously stated to have been or-
dered to the coast of Morocco, has arrived at Toulon.
BROMSGROVE.—RISE or WAGES.—It gives us
much pleasure to state that the wages of the operatives at the ex.
tensive works at Stoke Priar were raised last week 10 per cent.
The men's wages were reduced by that amount more than two
years ago, to meet the difficulties of the times, and it is creditable
to the proprietors to find them conceding this increase when better
times had put it within their power.—Worcestershire Chronicle.
CELERY FOR DUCKS.—A writer in the 13tilitio
National Pilot says :—" The common duck of the poultry yard, if
fed (while fattening) copiously upon the tops of the celery plant,
will attain a juciness and a flavour that must call forth unqualified
approbation from every epicure. It is the wild celery plant that
gives peculiarity of enchantment to the canvas back, and the
celery top will add a charm to the duck of the yard that cannot be
conceived. You cannot make a tame bird equal one with the wild
flavour of freedom and foreign travel, but still you can refine on
poultry."

THE POOR-HOUSE SYSTEM Or ENGLAND.—
WRETCHEDNESS OF TILE MASSES.--A went heartrending exposé
of the misery—the abject wretchedness of the English poor, has
recently been made in the course of an investigatien into the con-
duct of the Governor of the workhouse of a place called Andover.
The most sickening details of the sufferings of the unhappy
wretches confined in this " bastile " are given in the evidence. It
appears that the poor creatures were daily in the habit of fighting
for the putrid fragments of cartilage that adhered to the bones
which came from the " Governor's " table ! The sick were robbed
of their necesaries—the female inmates subjected to beastly a-ssaults
—and a systematic course of outrage and cruelty perpetrated for
years under the very noses of the " Guardians of the poor !" And
this is only a sample—one solitary case—of the abject poverty and
misery of the English masses. What a contrast to the condition
of the same classes in this country !"—American paper.
Earl De Grey has sold his valuable estate ( f
Bracewell, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, together with the
advowson, comprising from 1,200 to 1,300 acres, to Robert Hop-
wood, jun., Esq., of Blackburn.
Land for gardens has lately been offered to the
public near Peterborough, at 10/. per acre per annum. This rent
was by some persons considered exorbitant ; but what will those
persons say when they are informed that a small piece of garden
ground has this week been let after the rate of 201. an acre, for
one year Y--Lincoln Chronicle.