The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-28 00:00:00

°Of 21 ; Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese. Five per
Cents., 35+ 351 ; the Three per Cents., 21 211,- ;
Spanish Five per Cents., 15-1,- 16k; the Three per
Cents., 2.01 21.

. .
. A speculative demand, which had arisen for deal-
• ings in Spanish Bonds, has been suddenly checked by
the announcement that M. Calatrava has in course of
preparation a complete account of the liabilities and
sources of the income of Spain. Senor Calatrava
resided for many years in England, and, during that
time, earned the reputation of being a highly honour-
able and straightforward man of 'business ; his pro •
ceedings since his accession to office have not been
such as to alter the opinion of those who then knew
him, but rather to strengthen it.
The subject of Indian finance has at length become
' to be seriously considered, and the discussion at the
General Court to-morrow is looked forward to with
anxiety. This, it is supposed, will i,e protracted to a
, great length, as the notices of motion for an account
of the Atfghan war will naturally include a detail of
the policy pursued. That the revenues of India have
been seriously (commercially) trenched upon
.is be-
yond a doubt, and it is to be feared that the results
may be severely felt at home.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY. 1
Amsterdam CF.I2 9 "Gibraltar...
7%
Dolan
........ ..•• .•• 30 40
Ditto, at sight
Antwerp
......
1122
Rotterdam ...... ...2 U. 12 9 •Genoa "26 0
31
Ilamburgh 11.13. 13 14frIVeniee ... 47
Altona ................. . 13 I 5 i Naples ..
Paris, 3 days' sight •
... 25 65 iPalerrno per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months...,_ 25 90 !Lisbon . : 5O
Marseilles
Bourdeaux
25 95 !Rio Janeiro
23i Frankfurt on Maine... 131 i Illahia .... ................. 23 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 36,i /Buenos Ayres
Berlin ..
Vienna, etrae. fl. 3 M 959 .Philadelphia ............. 44
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao .. .. .
Barcelena
36 'New Dollars— ...... 0 0 0
Seville

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
ADMIRALTY ORD,ER,
The following paragraph has gone the round of the
daily Papers •:
" COMAIISSIONING TEN MEN•OF-WAR.—SIISEIt-
NESS, SATURDAY' SEPT. 24.—Three first-rate, three
second-rate, and four third-rate men-of-war are or-
dered to be brought forward at this yard, ready for
commissioning. India and China are reported as
being the destination of some of them."
The truth of this matter is said to be as follows :
Some months ago the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty ordered estimates to be prepared for them
at the principal dockyards, showing the expense of
putting a number of ships of the line in such a state
of repair and forwardness as to be available for imme-
diate commissioning, should circumstances make it
necessary that a larger naval force should be employed
in active service, or shculd the ships on foreign stations
require to be relieved, or want such repairs as can be
done only in our English dockyards.
Their Lordships, having obtained the estimates from
the authorities, have it, we believe, in contemplation,
although n'thing has yet been definitively settled, to
do away with the system of having what is foolishly
called " demonstration ships," and to bring forward.
in lieu of them ten ships of the line at each of the
three principal ports, Viz., Sheerness, Portsmouth, and.
Plymouth, to be denominated " advanced ships of the
ordinary." It is understood that these ships are
always to be kept in such a state of readiness for com-
missioning and proceeding to sea, as regards their
hulls, that they shall neither require docking nor.
caulking, nor any work to be performed on board!
them, on being ordered for service, except to adapt
the ports to the guns, and to take down any tempo!.
rary ordinary fittings, such as shipkeepers' cabins, or-
dinary galleries, Sce. To meet this; intention the
ships selected for. advanced ships will be regularly
docked in turn from time to time, to have their hot-.
toms properly cleaned, Sec., as riezessary, so that they
may be in such a state as to proceed to sea, when
ordered, without risk of waiting to be docked for
either a year or two.
Should these intentions of the Board of Admiralty
be ultimately acted upon, of which there is litth
doubt, a bona fide force of thirty sail of the line, the
majority comprised of new ships, will always be ready
for service on any emergency. This force not being
commissioned will be no additional expense to the
country, and the constant overhauling that the ships
will have, in their turn will preserve them from that
decay which many fine ships in ordinary have hereto-
fore suffered ; and in the long run will amply com-
pensate lbr the small amount that is required to he
expended upon them to keep them in a proper,. effi-
cient state; while the inestimable advantage will be
gained of having such an imposing fleet ready equipped.
for sea in the space 'of ten days or a fortnight.
Letters from Plymouth state that 'the St. George,
120; Koval 'William, 120; Royal Adelaide, 110;
Albion 90 ; Canopus, 80 ; and the Clarence, Bouihey,
Foudrant, Wellesley, and Impregnable, line-of-
battle ships, are likely to be brought.forward there as
.
"'demonstration ships. "

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Tyne, 28, Prince

' Regent, 120, Edinburgh, 72, President, .50, (;on way,
28, and Athol troop ship, are in dock for repair; the
artificers are taken off from the whole of them, with
the exception of the President, for the purpose of
building the new ships and the bringing forward 10
line-of-battle ships into an advanced state, so that in
case of their being required on an emergency, they
would be ready to receive men without waiting for
the dockyard, and being incommoded by the artificers
working while the ships are fitting. These advanced
ships are not in future to be called demonstration
ships, as at present, but ships in an advanced state or
crdinary. The like number are to be brought for-.
ward at Sheerness and Plymouth, so that if there be
a change of the French Ministers, and the war party-
should be in power, we shall at any rate be ready
with ships to meet them, and in a little time men with
hearts of oak would, no doubt, be found to man them.

Three of these ships, the Vanguard, 80, Vengeance,
84, and Powerful, 84, are already in hand. The
Powerful was the ship Charley Napier commanded
while performing his feats on the coast of Syria.
The Athol troop-ship was built from the timber
grown on the Duke of Athol's estate (Scotch larch) :
she is now upwards of 20 years old, and is ordered to
he repaired with similar material, and she will then,
no doubt, run 10 years longer, proving the durability
of the larch timber.

The Orestes, Captain the lion. Carnegie, M.P.,
went out of the basin into the harbour on the 23d
inst., and the Powerful brought in. The Frolic, 16,
constructed o i the plan of Commander Hendry, is
fitting in the basin, and the Samarang, 28.
On the two slips that have been repaired the Albert,
90, and the Royal Frederick, 110, are in frame : the
Albert is a similar ship to the Albion, that was
launched at Plymouth a few weeks since. The
Eurydice, 26, a frigate on the plan of Admiral Elliot,
who commanded the fleet at China, is progressing fast
to completion : it is supposed she will be launched
text May.
amAenggrme,heatii di eias s Italian
l et timberevery
finehas been
timber,
Nvh icirj
is thought mach of, from its beautiful curvature, for
the purposes cf ship building.

THE CAILBUL PRISONERS.
The following letter has been addressed to the
Editor of a Morning Contemporary
'Dublin, Sept. 23.

other news-
papers SlR,—Thq Morning Chronicle, and
papers in the service and pay of the late Government,
aldwtheel
laontt
other
e rl tki:,liffecgseh
an
si
rldnart!"7
of
fa vob
honourcen endeavouring opuarr itn go f toth
the
prove
Government,t l
sietae, crueltyonan
dt
haei
svoe.
or:
the British troops, hampered in Afghanistan, in. not
noofwthe 13ri-
advancing (without means of transport) to the rescue
i(i)fatoitilisr
ofu nithkaczi:ry
mmander-in-Chief,
psssuiend a by
active
servicee late
bestlt aNtltitlll:orpietrvitlatphst:t, on the first advance
description, to
in the fiPeelrde.mP" or-
ders Khan
bcountrymene
tish army into Afghanistan, the iraionsyt
:orbidding ladies, or women of
As long as the Commander-in-Chief
(oleirisltl'lVeetrreCei
j
Henry Fane, was with the , General Sh-
hably obeyed ; but long before army this order was pro-
ladies and multitudes of women be quitted India
and other places then in women hastened to Caubul
all military oblio•atioi our possession, released from
is by civil authority.
They are all prisoners,
very unfortunates oners and
will 1 it will be seen that these
and dishonourdis-
gracethe to the British arms.
advance women that would alone prevent any
on our part (even supposing that our troops
were perfectly •
equipped for a forward movement on
Caubul.)
A.kbar Khan • . of
, at the first intnnation a move on

s capital, will send in such a message as this

" Move at your peril : I have hitherto treated your
ladies and prisoners kindly, but the first move towards
Caubul I shall consider myself releaSed from all obli-
tzations towards them and you.
I believe such a message (and such an one will
most assuredly be sent) would even puzzle the writer
of the Indian articles in the Morning Chronicle.
Let the writer only inquire what treatment Chris-
tian ladies and women might undergo in the bands of"
furious and bigoted Mahometans ; if he did, he would
learn that which might in common charity (leaving
the defence of Whig policy aside) deter him from
urging measures which would only lead to outrages
upon our unhappy women a hundred times worse
than death itself.

HENRY PANE, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Aide-de-Camp to the late Commander-
' in-Chief in India.

If there is a delicate, deformed, or weak-minded.
child in a family, it is generally the favourite with
parents. This is a beautiful illustration of natv,ri.
taking the part of the most helpless.