The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-12 00:00:00

On Monday the Biihop of LUCON, assisted h
several prelates, commenced the holy work, h.
preaching a sermon on the subject at the church
Notre Dame des Victoires.

The Stock and Share-market continued firm on Tuesday.
The Three per Cents closed at 82f. 30c. ; the New Loan at
82f. 25c.; the Five per Cents, at 1181. 45c.; the Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,175 E ; Rouen, 980 f. ; Northerns, 7221.
Bor-
deaux, 6121.50 c. ; Boulogne, 500 f. ; Troyes and Montereau,
;Vierzon, 6501. ; 50c. ; Havre, 770 f. ; Avignon, 905 f,
425 E ; Basle, 240 f. ; Fampoux, 500 f. ; Spanish Actives, 36 ;
ditto Three per Cents, 38; ditto Domestic Debt, 34%; ditto,
Passives, OA.

The following are the quotations for other lines:—
Paris3f. 75c.; ditto (Ganneron ), 6f.
Sud Est, 4f. • Paris and Stras-
bourg and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 71. premium ;
ditto (Bechet'), If. 50e. ; ce-
d dittot t o
(Toaaapl (talon),
no
16nice, ;r
e3l: Uni0n,5501.e,; ;
veurs-Gi;n6raux, 3f. 50e.; Tours and Nantes ( Mackenzie),
6f. ; ditto (Drouillard), 51. 50c. ; ditto (O'Neill), 61 ; ditto
(Lefevre), 61. ; Delamarre, 51. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon
Talabot), sf. ; ditto (Lecointe), par; ditto (Compagnie
i eridionale), par; Griolet, 21.; Bordeaux and Cette (Mac-
kenzie), par; ditto (Espeleta), If. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par;
Charleroi (Kysaen's), 485 f. The Lyons definitive shares
sold for 80f. premium ; Strasbourg ditto, 30f. ; and the
Nantes, 501. _ _ _

i Nuxr,irttd,Ei;7,...• --
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHAN.GE, iho, w.
itugli:Aelag!lladnAni lens.. 2%
Bordeaux SrMediterran North Jamaica
... .
Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierson -
• _ . ...

Do. Cette (Espeleta)
Do. ( Mackenzie's) l9
Callao, Lima, and Pa-
titic Coast
..
Ceylon .
Demerara
1,
Dendre Valley ...... 4
Dutch Rhenish ... 714
Dieppe & Paris Janet.
Dijon and Mulhoase •,.
East Indian
Fampoux & Ilazebrouk
Grt Northern of France
Constituted l3
Do. Pepin le Hallam —
Great Saris and'lLyUni
Great Western Bengal 2
Great Western Canada
Jamaica S Mid. Junction
Da. North Midland
Do. hxtension .... .
Jersey
Louvain and Jemappe
Lyons and Avignon —
Luxembourg

Orleans and Bordeaux 15
'Over Yssel .... . ....... .
Paris & Lyons (Littlitt e) 2
Ditto (Oanneron'a) 4
otto
Ditto (Sad Est)
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rotten —
Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron's)
(Coolpe de '1 'F
Do. (Aymard's) 2l/i,
Paris and St. Quentin •—
Rouen and Havre__
Royal North of Spain. _
Sambre and Mete
• U'llds' •
etivastiarg an ,e
Tournay,Jurbise, Lan_
den, and Ilasselt
Tours and Nantes
(Mackenzie's)... .....
Do. (Imciiovre?s) ..... •-
Do. (O'Neill's)
Trinidad
Verona and Ancona....
West Flanders

Report says that Sir ROBERT REEL'S resignation
was received by her MAJESTY without hesitation,
although Sir ROBERT BERL'S line of intended policy
wouldoN RUSSELL have had
wasd her MAJESTY'S warm support. Lord
jff
sent for; but, as the
Noble Lord is at present in Edinburgh, some davo
, ;
.-‘ 4
must elapse before' he can obey the summons. Par-

liament cannot now meet so early as was expected;
and upon the course taken by Sir ROBERT PEEL, will
dppqnd the prosppct qt. q 44sqltitioil• lit believed
that Sir ROBERT will support Lord dotty ItrissELL
in his general policy. The Premier was almost alone
in hia views in his own Cabinet.

Are 9nderstand that, in gonsequen4e of the resig.
nation of Ministers, her MAJESTY
will leave Osborne.

House on Saturday next, in order to be in nearer
com.nunication with those who are to become her

NEW ADVISERS.

)JEATII OF Sat W. REID BART.--We understand
that acCodhtilia4been received froin Ceylon of the death of
Sir W. Reid, Bart., of Barra who died on the 20th October,
on his passage from the Mauritius.' The de:cased Baronet
bud ml 4 succeeded his brother, Sir .TOlin 4eid, within the
last few mbnths. • The.deceased was born in' 1795.
Posr orricE.—lt is a strange and anomalous fact
that a letter from Paris reaches Galashiel, .100N7 o:9n. k.,',4.(1
from Giast;ow, toh4larctkiautcshuaityl,l4 twenty-tout bOtirli at

can be no doubt whatever of the facts to
which we have adverted. They are stated
by French writers cn the spot, and are recorded as
the ordinary occurrences of the day. One of these
correspondents, who writes from Marshal BUGEAUD'S
camp, on the 19th of November, says:---" The
Marshal reached Bel-Assel to-day, bringing with
him the spoils of a monster razzia made in the
environs of the Riou. General BOUEJOLLY'S
column is on the Menassa, among the Flittas, where
he has fixed his camp, at a placed called Dad Sidi
Ben Abdallah. From this spot he sends out de-
tachments in every direction, as from a centre, to the
extent of 12 and 15 leagues, harassing the people,
and killing without mercy every man they meet with.
On the 7th 44 Bedouins were shot in the country of
the Garboussas. Yesterday were scoured the fright.
ful ravines of the Chaufas, in the country of the
Sidi Gayas, and two grottoes, in which about 100
persons had taken refuge, were filled with sufibcating
smoke. We are carrying on a war in the
true spirit of Attila. Women and children alone
are spared. The enemy shows no disposition
to surrender at discretion, the only condition on which
mercy can be granted. We are then to continue our
work of extermination until we are stopped by the
badness of the weather. We must also of necessity
begin again in the spring, unless at that period we are
called away, as there is every appearance of our be-
ing, to the frontier of Morocco, where the storm is
beginning to lower. ARD-EL-KADER has become more
powerful than ever." The National has a spirited
article, denouncing these horrible scenes. We give
it without abridgement, and have no doubt that it
will be responded to by men of all parties in France
:
"Two letters, from which we give extracts, bring us
news, which will awaken in the minds of our readers
sentiments of indignation, such as the dreadful exploits
of Colonel Pelissier gave birth to some months back. M.
Bugeaud recommences the barbarous war which he had
the deplorable courage to cry up in his official joureals.
Furious at not being able to put down the insurrection
which his incapacity had favoured, he takes revenge
somewhat in the manner of those savages who use a
victory only to proscribe and massacre. Already have
thirteen villages been burnt down in the neighbourhoed
of Tlemcen. General Bourjolly, in the words of one of
the letters, goes on rooting out the populations, and
killing without pity every man that falls into his power.
As many as fifty prisoners have been shot in a single
day. In fine, to inaugurate worthily the new work of
extermination, the horrible drama of the Dahra has been
renewed—two grottoes have been smoked out, and God
only knows how many poor wretches have been kiiled
there I All this is very fine ! M. Bugeaud commits
fault on fault. He permits Abd-el-Kader to get up a
revolt, and to depopulate the centre and the frontier of
the province of Oran; he exhausts himself in useless
efforts, and when he sees the Emir, profiting by his strange
aberrations, come and brave him in the neighbourhood of
the Flittas, he finds nothing better to do than to decide
on frightful reprisals, to order heads to be cut off, and to
stifle his enemies by hundreds in the asylums to which
they have fled. 'lt is a war worthy of Attila,' says the
writer of one of the letters. Was it thus that General
Lamoriciere acted when he also could abuse his victory
over the insurgents of the western frontier? No. Every
where the campaign was commencing when the massacre
of Commandant Montagnac's heroic column took place
The blood of our murdered brethren cried for ven-
geance, and it might be supposed that a vigorous blow
struck at this moment would retain the wavering tribes
in their obedience. General Larnorciere knew how to
stop the arm of his soldiers, because he comprehended
that a French army ought never to forget that it fights
in the name of a nation marching at the head of the ci-
vilisation of the world. M. Bugeaud is not of the same
way of thinking. His incapacity has contributed to keep
the Arabs from us, arid his violence drives them into the
army of Abd-el-Kader—nothing will be wanting to the
African glory of Marshal Bugeaud. In place of burning
men and villages, M. Bugeaud would do better to direct
his attention to our enemy, who profits wonderfully by
the delays of our army ; it was necessary for the Emir
to advance as far as Loha, near Tiaret, for the Gene-
ral-in-Chief to; consent to send after him one of his
lieutenants with some:battalions ; and, to come up
with this antagonist of such known activity, he placed
at the disposal of General Joussouf a column composed
principally of infanary It was with 1,100 foot soldiers
and 300 cavalry that this officer went in pursuit of the
Emir to the skirts of the desert of Sahara! Infantry
to act against a man almost unapproachable, well
served also by innumerable spies, and surrounded by
the best cavalry in the province of Oran ! M. Bugeaud,
however, deems it more useful and more glorious to
renew the lamentable success of the Dahra ; he is sure
to be in every spot where Abd-el Kader is not. Yester-
day he was lost in inextricablemouiraies, whither no real
cause invited him to go ; to-day he has quitted Sidi Bel
Assel, where he arrived with a column, harassed with
fatigue ; now he triumphs in the country of the Flittas,
where the absence of the most enterprising partisans of
Abd-el. Kader leaves him ample opportunity to extermi-
nate by fire and sword what remains of the tribe. We
do not hesitate to declare that this new fault of M. Bu-
geaud gives the finishing stroke to our cause in the in-
surgent province. The blind vengeance of the Governor
will be the most powerful auxiliary of the Emir, and all
hope of coming to a lasting pacification appears to us
indefinitely adjourned. We say nothing of the moral
prejudice which may result to our army from the atro
cities of which they are found to be the instruments "
The articles in the other journals are without in-
terest for the English reader. Prayers for the con-
version of the British nation to the Catholic faith
commenced in the Paris churches on Monday, and
to to be continued for eight days. The following
notice has been posted in the principal churches :
" At the request of the bishops of England, expressed
to the Archbishop of Paris by the Bishop of Mittello-
pelis, prayers will be offered up to God during eight
days, reckoning from the present day, on the occasion of
the holy immaculate conception of the blessed Virgin
Mary, for the entire return of the English nation to the
Catholic, Apostolic, anal Roman faith."