The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-20 00:00:00

some of the grievances to be discussed in the ensuing
session, but unfortunately they are already stale.
Most of them have been brought forward repeatedly
in the Chambers, and the journals have written about
them till even French readers have become nauseated
with the endless repetitions. Our readers, of course,
will presume that these subjects are the affairs of
Otaheite, Morocco, the right of search, and the royal
visit to Windsor Castle.

The Kixo, by a royal ordonnance, dated Dec. 16,
has conferred the title of Duke on Baron PASQuIER,
Chancellor of France, and President of the Chamber
of Peers. The National thus ironically points out the
services of the Noble Peer, which entitle him to this
distinction :

" This morning's Monileur contains great news. Baron
Denys Etienne Pasquier has just received the title of
Duke I Most people will laugh ; as for us, we think it
woful. Devote your whole life to notoriety—court the
muses and danseuses—become the favourite of Camba-
ceres—rise, under the protection of an imperial wing,
into the prefecture de police—tumble down under the
hand of Mallet—then be ready to salute an invasion,
and to order the Emperor's statue to be torn from the
top of his column—let the hands of the Austrians and
Prussians raise you again to power—be a fluent orator,
an elegant teller of trifles, an inevitable Minister, a De-
puty, a Peer, alternately President of the two Legisla-
tive bodies, and an unexpected member of the French
Academy—weather every storm by seasonably lowering
and raising your head—serve nine Governments in fifty
years—keep a store of compliments ready for every
dynasty, aad sugar-plums for every royal christening—
exhaust yourself to attain glory and master fortune, and
when years shall have frozen your blood and weakened
your faculties, a man shall take you at random and make
you a duke. Poor Denys Etienne Pasquier I"
The same journal contains some unwelcome intelli-
gence for Spanish bondholders. The Madrid cor-
respondent of that paper says— •

" It appears that the foreign creditors of the Spanish
Government arc to share in the ruin that is being
effected by the Government; whilst despotism is insured
to the country, bankruptcy is imposed upon the State
creditors. You have seen by the late decree relative to
the Three per Cent. Stock, that no notice is taken of the
old Fire per Cent. Debt, which principally affects
foreigners. Now, on the one hand, there is no longer
any payment of interest ; and, on the other, the securi-
ties which were to guarantee the debt are destroyed.
It is clear, therefore, that the interest augmenting the
capital, and no resource being created for this augmenta-
tion, the stock will fall to a low price, and the holders
of bonds will have in their hands only so much waste
paper. Is this what had been stipulated ? Certainly
not ; the Cortes and the Crown had solemnly pledged
themselves in the face of Europe to make national pro-
perty the guarantee for the creditors. By the fol-
lowing table you will see how they have been
deprived of this guarantee. The securities taken
away from them are :-Ist. 1,200,000,008 reels, the
estimated value of the property of the secular clergy.
2d. 300,000,000 reals, the value of the nunneries which
remain unsold. 3d. 200,000,000 reals, the value of the
convents of the monks remaining unsold. 4th. 800,000,000
reals, the amount of the censos of the secular clergy, and
of the religious orders of both sexes. Total 2,500,000,000
reels (25,000,0004) Here then is a total guarantee of
2,500,000,000 reels taken from the creditors of the
State, and particularly the foreign creditors. With this
sum, and by respecting the mortgages solemnly appro-
priated ;by the Cortes to the public debt, there
existed the means of wiping off in a period of eight
years the sum of seven thousand five hundred millions
-of reels (1,875,000,000 f.) By the dispositions of the law
regulating the sale of national property, a third of the
passive debt, at the rate of fifty per cent., was admitted
in payment of national property ; and two-thirds of the
active debt, the first third not bearing interest, and the
second a debt bearing interest at four or fire per cent.
By this means, then, and by continuing the sale of na-
tional property, admitting foreigners as well as Spaniards
as purchasers, and the law making no distinction
between them, Spain might in eight years have com-
pletely paid off her old debt, and have had no other bur-
den than her three per cent. debt. The advantages of
this sale of national property were so considerable, both
for the State and the purchasers, that since 1836 there
have been disposed of in Spain 210,000 properties. The
sale is now suspended, to the prejudice of the treasury
and of the public auditors, and to the exclusive profit of
the counter revolution. Now look at the difference
which is made between the various creditors. Spaniards
who had contracts with the Government during the civil
war are paid with three per cent. renter, at the rate of
32, 35, and 40 per cent. But foreigners, who lent to
the State in 1834 and 1835 400 millions of reals
(100,000,000 f.) at 60 per cent., and who have not had
any interest since the end of 1836, are now offered three
per cents. in payment of the interest due to them, but
are required to receive the stock at par. And are
their interests guaranteed for the future ? No. All
that is proposed is to pay them in this way for what is
due from 1836 to 1840. They are at the same time de-
prived of the mortgages which had been granted to them
of the only means whioh they possessed of one day re-
covering their capital."
THE BOURSE—WEDNEsDAT, DEC. 18.

First Highest Lowest Last
Prim. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents l2O IS .. 120 20 .• 120 .. 120 15
Three per Cents... •
New Loa* •• •
Bank of France 3275 ..3275 • • 2270 ..3270
Latlitte Bank, 5,000 f. ShAresso92 50 —5091 50 ..5985 ..5085
Belgian Bank. ..... 650 .. 660 .. 650 • • 660
Belgian Fives,lB4o lO4 • • 104 .. 104 • • 104
1842 .• 1061 .. 1067 .. 106/ .. 1067
Two-and-a-Half.. •. 62 GO 62 GO .. 62 60 .. 62 GO
Spanish Threes •••••• • • • • • • 377 • • 371 • • 377 • • 377
Active •
6 6 .. 6 .. 6
Neapolitan ••.•••.• • • • • • • • 98 68 •• 98 70 .. 98 65 .. 98 70
Roman •• • ••• ..

RAILWAY fiIHA•RES.
515 .. 300 .. 600
54C0Q0 400 .. 392 50 .. 392 50
Rouen • • • . —loo • 1040 ..1033 7b —lO3B 75
Rouen to Havre......... 802 50 .. 805 .. $O2 60 802 50
Orleans ll2O ..1123 75 —ll2O ..1123 75
Strasburg to 312 .50 .. 316 25 . 312 00 .. 312 60
Avignon to Marseilles.• .• •• 920 .. 930 .. 920 .. 927 50
RAILWAYS FOR THR ACCOUNT, JAN. 3.
St. Germain 1022 60 —1022 50 —lOl6 25 ..1016 25
Versailles, R. 8..... ••.... • • 510 .. 520 .. 507 50 • • 507 50
400 .. 400 .. 392 50 .. 395
Rouen 1037 50 —1045 ..1037 50 ..1040
Rouen toillevre••
Orleans •••...••........•••1112 50 ..1127 50 ..1112 50 ..1123 75
Strasburg to Bale.• •••••• 312 50 .. 312 50 .. 312 50 .. 313 78
Avignon to Mareeilles•• •• 922 50 .• 932 50 . 922 50 .• 927 50

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. - The number
of deaths during the week ending Saturday, Dec. 14,
far exceeds that of the preceding week, and probably
is the highest of the whole year. The average is N 6,
and the return for the week ending Dec. 7, 988, while
the last return is 1,201. The increase has taken
place chiefly from diseases of the throat and lungs,
the total number under that head being 444, while
the average is only 28a. The deaths from bronchitis
are 43, average 14 ; pneumonia (inflammation of the
lungs), 145, average 79 ; asthma, 65, average 24.
The deaths from small-pox are also very high-51. Of
these fifteen died under 1 year, thirteen 1.3, ten 3-5,
nine 5-10, two 10-15, and two 30-40 yearn. The
suicides were five ; and seven persons, chiefly chil-
dren, were destroyed by burns or scalds.

THEATRES,.
DRURY-LANE
Th Pak P.13.11'0P OP TIIE sluAr,
Sin,—Will allow me to avail myself of a place in your
columns, to express my astonishment at the Editor of the
Times having admitted into that paper an attack upon
the management of this theatre) oh the mere report of an
anonymous correspondent. There has noter been the
remotest idea of repeating The Revolt qf the fiarriti, that
ballet having been withdrawn from the play•bills by Mr.
Bunn's express orders, immediately after the late mourn-
ful circumstance.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your
obedient servaht,

J. COOPER, Stage-lianttger.
Theatre Royal D,raq-Lane, 12 o'clock A.m., Dec; 20.

STEAM-BOAT WHISTLE.

The following letter has been addressed to the editor
of the Ti.mes
Sii—Wiii you allow me through your columns to
suggest a simple plan to prevent collision of steam-vessels
in foggy weather, and which would have prevented that
awful catastrophe at Greenwich on ,Tuesday with the
Sylph and Orwell The railroad engine lids itti
and why not the steam-boat? which might be kept up
during the whole of the passage in a crowded river during
such a fogv—i dial, Sir, yotirs respettftillyi G,
Long-acre.

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at Derby, last week, five were purchesed for Fridce Al-
bert, by an agent of his Royal Ifighness, vix., Countess,
for 11 guineas ; Forester, 15 guineas ; Necdwood, 6
guineas ; Rummager, 22 guineas and Vengeance, 9
guineas. Two of these hounds were presented by Prince
Albert to his brother, the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg
and Gotha, who took them With him iti the illaCk eagle
to Ostbild, oh flue day last.
By the will of the late Colonel Olney, who died in
1836, the sum of 8,000/ is given to the Corporation of
Gloucester on the death of his wife, upon the condition
that the Council should, within ten years after the testa-
tor's demise, provide a suitable site for building some
almshouses. Of the principal sum of 8,0001, 1,300/ is
to be spent in the erection, and 1001. in furnishing,
leaving the interest of 6,6001. to support the establish-
ment. The providing of a site has lately engaged the
attention of the Council, and in order that the poor may
not lose the benefit of the bequest, some of the members
have offered to subscribe towards the purchase of land
for the building. It is curious, however, that the weekly
allowances to the number of inmates, clothing, &c., pre-
set lb d by the testator, exceed in amount the interest of
the money, so that it will probably be necessary to apply
to the Court of Chancery for a new appropriation. The
case offers a serviceable hint to benevolent individuals,
either to see their bounty laid out properly during their
lifetime, or to leave their wealth unclogged by condi-
tions which may swallow up the principal portion in li-
tigation.
FATAL CAB ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening,
between four and five o'clock, a fine little boy, named
Thdmas Appleby, the son of highly respectable parents,
residing in Crescent-place, New-road, was run over by a
cab at the end of Judd-street, and killed on the spot.
'The driver was called on to stop, but refused to lend the
least assistance, and drove on towards the City at the
same furious pace, and has since then escaped detection.