The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-15 00:00:00

on which the Bill is founded, runs thus :

" In entering upon the examination of the project of law
submitted to their consideration, the Committee has found
two decisive questions solved :—The State gives and should
give instructions ; the State offers to the public an instruc-
tion suited to their wants ; but the State does not exclusively
exercise the right of instructien ; private individuals have
the right delegated to them ; what is done by the State may
be done by every Frenohman, qualified by his acquirements
and his character. Such is the public right as laid down by
the Charter. It is the duty of the State to spread far and
wide the advantages of instruction, and to satisfy the solici-
tude of parents for the welfare of their children."
In the Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, Marshal
SOULT brought in a Bill for granting a sum of
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6,880,000 f. towards improving the fortifications of
Havre. On the ?Lame day M. LEDRU RoLLIN was to

bring on a motion, of which he had given notice,
relative to the dispatches brought by M. REINE from
Admiral DUPETIT TIIOUARS. lip to the hour of

post, however, no discussion had taken place, owing
to the absence of Ministers. We are glad to find that
some of the Paris papers are showing a just indigna-
tion against the Court, though they nominally throw
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the blame on M. GuizoT, for conferring the Order o
the Legion of Honour on such men as BRAVO and
NARVAEZ. We extract from the Siecle the following
just remarks on this shameful prostitution of an
Order which Frenchmen had hitherto regarded with
such veneration :
" We refused before now to believe the news which we find
confirmed to-day in the dispatches from Madrid, and by the
testimony of our Ministerial papers. The Grand Cordon of
the Legion of Honour has been sent in the name of the King,
by M. Bresson, the AmbasF•ador of France, to General Nar-
vaez and M. Gonzales Bravo. Thus our Government ren-
ders itself officially responsible for all the violences by which
these political adventurers had signalised their dictatorship.
M. Guizot ought, in fact, to feel a lively sympathy for a
Minister who has brutally practised in Spain the same sys-
tem of intimidation that he himself, it will be remembered,
glorified among us. It is not enough to characterise as the
French party, a party which, after having glided into the
rank of the Spanish Liberals, from whom it asked an asylum
on the ground of being an auxiliary and of amnesty, all at
once threw aside the mask, dismissed the Cortes, proscribed
the men whose plain dealing it had deceived, and multiplied
military executions, but the chiefs of that faction are to be
decorated with the Cordon that Massena, Key, Brune, Da-
voust, Montebello, and their rivals in Flory, paid tor with
their blood, and acquired by scores of victorious campaigns.
To honour perjurers, to recompense servility—audaciously to
replace in the ministry of public affairs magistrates who had
been turned out of it after a solemn investigation—these are
the acts which characterise the :.ystem."
We subjoin additional extracts from the papers.
We read in a letter from Milan, April 2, in the Augsburg
Gazette :—" We have received a letter from Malta, informing
us that at the present moment there are at most but twelve
Italian refugees in the island, so that the reports in circula-
tion relative to the designs of the refugees are necessarily ex-
aggerated. On the other hand, letters from the Lombardo-
Venetian kingdom announce that several regiments have re-
ceived orders to hold themselves in readiness to march, in
case an intervention should be deemed necessary."
In a letter of the 2d inst. from Milan, quoted by the
Cologne Gazette, it is said—
" The negotiations for a marriage between the Duke de
Bordeaux and Princess Maria Carolina of Naples, are so far
advanced that their union is.now beyond all doubt. The ill-
ness of the Duke d'Angouleme is the only cause for delaying
the nuptials. The two sons of Admiral liandiera have gene
from Corfu to Malta, where Mazzini, the Chief of Young
Italy, was expected from London."
" We learn from Munich that the King of Bavaria has
published a decree, in virtue of which Protestant soldiers are
to be no longer forced to be present at the service of the
Roman Catholic church, or Catholic soldiers to attend on the
occasion of religious ceremonies in Protestant churches. In
cases of religious processions, however, they are still to be
called upon to form the line, that being considered a service
of public order, and not identifying them in any way with
,he religious character of the proceeding."
THE BOCIRSE--SATuRDAY, APRIL 13.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents.• •• •• 123 30 123 30 • • 123 10 .. 123 10
Four per Cents•• •• 106 30 •. 106 30 106 30 106 30
Three per Cents.• •• • 83 50 83 50 • • 83 50 • • 83 50
Bank of France
Lanitte Bank, 5,000 f. Sharosslss ..5155 ..5155 ..5105
Belgian Bank..•• • .
1841
Belgian Firm 1831.. • • 102/ .. 1021 • . 1021 .. 1021
1840
Spanish Active .... ••• • • • • 35 •• 35 .. 35 .. 35
Threes ••.•••• • • • • • 371 • • 37f • • 374 • • 371
Passive ....• •.• ...• GI • • 61 •• 61 • • 6i
New Deferred ••.• • 15/ .• 151 •. 151
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 47 .. 47 .. 47 •• 47
Neapolitan .....
Roman • •
RAILWAY SHARES.

Versailles, R. 8... •. • ...... 382 50 .. 382 50 • 382 50 • 382 50
L.B. ..
Rouen.•
Rouen to Havre 7lO .• 720 .. 710 .. 715
Orleans •• • • • • • • • • . • • • . 955 .. 960 .. 955 .. 960
Strasburg to Bale •
Avignon toplarseWes 765 • • 772 50 .. 76S .. 770
Mulhausen to Thann
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR TILE ACCOUNT. _

Rouen
Rouen to Havre••
Orleans ........, .....
Strasburg to Bale • • • • • . 292 50 .• 295 .. 287 50 • • 291 25
Mignon to Marsvales• •• • 765 •• 777 •• 765 • • 771 25

The Irish State Trials will now again occupy public
attention. On Thursday next Counsel will move, in the
Court of Queen's Bench, in Dublin, to set aside the ver-
dict, and for a new trial, on the grounds of unfairness
and error in the proceedings. What the result of this
application will be it may not be difficult to guess; but if
it meet with a refusal, and sentence be passed, then the
appeal to the House of Lords will be prosecuted. Sir
Thomas Wilde and Mr. Kelly lead for the applicants.
Sir Robert Peel returned to his residence iu White•
hall-gardens this morning from Windsor Castle. The
Right Hon. Baronet left town on Sunday evening to at-
tend her Majesty.

BURNING OF A COTTON FACTORY AT HACKNEY.—
On Saturday, at about half• past twelve o'clock, a great
deal of alarm and excitement was manifested amongst
the inhabitants of Hackney and its suburbs, by the
cotton and wadding manufactory belonging to Mr.
Duprey (of No. 60, Aldgate, and also No. 23, Norman-
street, St. Luke's), situated in Weymouth-terrace, in
the Hackney-road, being discovered on fire. The
factory stood by itself, in the rear of the houses in
Weymouth-terrace, and was in extent between 50 and 60
feet in length, 30 in depth, and about the same in height, the
building, having formerly comprised three dwelling-
houses. There was a great quantity of machinery in
different parts, which was propelled by a ten horse
steam-engine on the basement of the factory, and at the
outbreak of the flames the works were in full operation.
As regards the origin, it is impossible to form the
slightest idea, for it appears the workmen were sud-
denly alarmed by a body of smoke issuing forth from
one of the machine rooms, and before there was
sufficient time to ascertain the cause, the flames
rose with extraordinary violence, and all were
necessitated to effect an instant escape ; many, in fact,
had to leap out of the first story window. The alarm
having been given to the police, immediate intelligence
was sent off to the various stations of the brigade in the
east end of the metropolis, and in the City, but before any
engines reached the „spot thy fire heal burnt throughout—
the factory, and was in a vivid blaze from the lower floors
to the roof. On the arrival of the first engine, which
was that of t' '? parish of Hackney, it was conveyed up
to the entrance, and got into play from a supply of
water near the premises. Soon after, two horse-engines
of the brigade, from Jeffrey-square and Whitecross-
street stations came, and were subsequently followed
by eight other engines and about forty firemen ;
many of them were directly got into operation, the
plugs of the East London and New River Compa-
nies emitting an excellent supply of water, but
notwithstanding the efficient exertions of the fire-
men, who were under the charge of Mr. Braidw ood, the
superintendent, the flames were not subdued until
the factory and its contents were all but burnt to the
ground. On the ruins undergoing inspection, the folly
of covering wood with sheets of iron, to prevent the ex-
tension of fire, was fully exemplified. One of the prin-
cipal rooms on the ground floor had been lined with iron
throughout, even the doors and ceiling included, yet,
strange to say, the damage here, though the fire com-
menced in another part of the factory, was greater than
in any other portion of the ruins. 'I he loss is stated to
be very heavy.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—Lord Francis Russell
was married on Saturday to Miss Peyton, at St. George's
Church, Hanover-square. Immediately after the ceremony
Mr. Peyton gave a b cakfast at his house in Cheaham-place,
to the following members of the respective families :—The
Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Lord and Lady John Russell,
Lord Wriothesley Russell, Lady Henry Russell, Lord Charles
Russell, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Rornilly, Countess of Tan-
kerville, Lady Charlotte Fitzwilliam and her two younger
sisters (who acted as bridemaids),. the Earl of Orford, Lady
Pollington, Lady Maria West and the Misses West, Hon.
Captain and Mrs. Rous, Sir Henry and Lady Peyton, Colonel
L'dny, Mrs. Lloyd Wynne, Mr. and Mrs. ay, &c. At two
o'clock the newly-married couple left town in a travelling
chariot and four for Oakley, near Bedford, the beautiful seat
of the Duke of Bedford, and long his residence during the
lifetime of the late Duke.
BRITISH BENEVOLENCE.—Mr. Wakley, M.P., has
received several letters from different parts of the count.-y,
containing remittances for the relief of Brown and his family,
whose case appeared in the papers of last week. The police-
man on duty at Allsop-mews, where the wretched family re-
side, states that humane individuals constantly drive up in
their carriages to the place to assist them. Mr. Wakley says
that it is impossible to give even a remote idea of the amount
of charity that is privately distributed in the metropolis.
DEATH OF THE LAST OF THE STUARTS.—OId James
Stuart, commonly known by the name of Jeremy Strength,
died:on Thursday morning,:the 11th inst., aged 116. His
death was caused by an injury which he received from a fall
ou Thursday last.