The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-07 00:00:00

filE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAV MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1845.

FRANCISCO DE PAULA, but the cause for this step has not yet
transpired.
Some public business was done en the Bourse on the 29th.
The Three per Cents. were not quoted. The Five per
Cents. were done at 221 cash, and the Debt without Interest,
at 7/, cash.

Several of the Paris journals are chiefly occupied with the
affairs of Syria, and the serious misunderstanding which
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 different—
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 Cupucins
of Syria, written on the 10th of last June, in which are de •
tails of the death of Father CHARLES DE Loeir,rre. His
character is a sufficient guarantee for the truth of the recitals
this letter contains A chief, named HAMMED ABER
MACHAT, came with his followers and attacked our convent,
in which was Father CHARLES DE LORETTE. 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—lst, 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 DE PLOUGHE
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 incontestible 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
PACHA, and his partiality to the Druses :—" The mission
of CHEKIB 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 for the tw• 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 cf 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 CHEKIB 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 CHEKIB 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 Constitutionne; relative to the precarious position of
French residents in Mexico :
" The French naval station in the Gulph of Mexico 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 Charge d'Affaires, 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. Durue 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
Deliats there is a well digested article on the 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 820,000,000, 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 12i are consumed here ; whilst, out of 144 millions of our
products with which we supply her, 721 f millions are articles of
our own manufacturing. What merits particular notice is certain
weakness in our affairs with the Italian peninsula, with Turkey
ant 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 t. England, amounted to 03 minions; 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 of 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 for 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, t) 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, 5021. 50c.;
Basle, 270 f.; Northern, 775 f.; Spanish Actives, 35k.
The following are the quotations for other lines:-
Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 5211. 75c. • ditto (Ca-
lon), 503 f. ; ditto (Ganneron), 507 f. ; ditto (La Pinson-
niere), 501 f. 75c. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 570 f.; ditto
Rosa:Ile!), 535 f. 50c. ; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 526 f. 50c.;
ditto (Decan Lebeuf), 526 f. 50e.; 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), 5121. 50c. • Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 526 f.
25c. ; ditto (Lecointe), 511f.•25c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meri-
dionale), 505 f.; Bordeaux and Cette (Espeleta), 512 f. 50c. ;
Creil and St. Quentin (Carette), 511 f.; ditto (Colbert),
5001. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 5.
Anglo-Belgian — Madrid and Valentia...
Boulogne and Amiens lO
.Namur and Liege 334
Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica ...
Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans arid Vierzon

Do. & Cette (Espeleta)
Do. (Mackenzie's) —
Central of Spain —
Demerara
Dendre Valley ...... 114
Dutch Rhenish
Dieppe & Paris. Janct —
Dijon and Mulhouse
East Indian
Fampoux & Hazebronk
Grt Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's) 3vt
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 2%
Lyons and Avignon 2
Luxembourg ... 1

Orleans and and Bordeaux 11
Over Yssel •••
Paris& Lyons ( Laffitte) 21/2
Ditto (Ganneron's). 3
Ditto (Calon's)
Paris and 0r1ean5...... 451%
Paris and Rouen .
Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Aymara)
Do. (Compte de L'Est)
Paris and St. Quentin.
Rouen and Havre...—.
Royal North of Spain.
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Basle
Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
dent, and Hasselt...
Tours and Nantes
(Dlackenzie's)
Do. (Lefebvre's) —
Verona and Ancona —
West Flanders

THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

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At a late hour yesterday afternoon the Bank of England ad-
vanced the rate of interest on bills at ninety-five days, dis•
counted by them, to 3% per cent.

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MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. —We regret to state
that during the week ending Saturday, Nor. 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.

BROMSGROVE--Risz OF WAGES.--It gives us
much pleasure to state that the wages of the operatives at the ex-
tensive works at Stoke Prisr 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 Buffalo
National Pilot says :—" The common duck of the poultry.yard, if
fed (while fattening) copiously upon the tops of the celery pleat,
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
eonceived. You cannot make a tame bird equal one with the wild
flavour of freedom and foreign travel, but still you can refine on
poultry."

Earl De Grey has sold his valuable estate of
Bracewell, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, together with the
advewson, 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 101. 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 804 an acre, fbr
one year f—Lineolx Chronicle.
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