The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-16 00:00:00

17011EIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Gazette de France, dated March 14.)
PARIS, MARCH 13.—We have received from
Toulon a private letter, dated the 7th of March,
which contains the following particulars :
" There will remain in the Morea 4,000 men,
forming a brigade, which will be under the command
of General Schneider. All the rest of the troops
of the expedition will return with Marshal Maison,
who is expected here at the beginning of the month
of April, according to the local arrangements which
have been ordered, and the despatches of the Minister
of War, which M. de Chabot has taken to the
Morea.

" According to the news from Egypt, received
at Marseilles, it seems that the Pacha is preparing
an expedition, which is supposed to be destined
against Candia. He hastens the building and the
equipment of his fleet, and is continually raising
troops. It is said that the Porte stimulates him,
and makes him great promises.
" Colonel Fabvier rnay, perhaps, return with the
troops from the Morea, where he meets with great
difficulties. He is directly opposed to Count Capo
d'lstria, and the Greek military chiefs will not have
any thing to do with him."
Fvn,Tcli Fulins..--PARIS, MARCH 13.—Five per
Cents., 108 f. sc. 108 f. 108 f. sc. ; Three per Cents.,
78f. 25c. 20c. 35c. ; Bank Steck, 1,825 f. ; Naples
Stock, 82f. 80c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 81if. ; Haytian
Loan, 525 f. Exchange on London, ene month, 25f.
Ssc. ; three months 25f. 20c.— Cours Authentique.

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terday evening, announce that a new conference bettreeit
the Turks and the Greeks had not led to any result. A
body of 1,500 Greeks, coming from Spaskia, have made
an incursion into the province of Pedia, situated between
Candia and Spina Longa, and massacred all the Turks,
men, women, and children, who had not time to escape.
Sulieman Paella applied for assistance to Capt. Maitland,
commanding the English ship of the line the Wellesley,
which immediately sailed, and picked up on the coast 211
Turks who were flying to escape death. Capt. Maitland
landed them at Candia.

The English squadron has received orders to quit the
island. The French frigate Syrene had sailed away some
days before.

Our City Correspondent says that gold is again
returning to this country. From 80 to 100,000
sovereigns have arrived this morning from Paris.

If we wished further proof of the favourable pro-
gress that the Catholic Question is making with the
intelligent and the liberal-minded, in what were once
the most uncompromising Protestant districts in Eng-
land, it would be found in the circumstances that
have lately taken place at Leeds. In that populous
and influential town, which twenty, aye, we may say
even ten years ago, was strongly opposed to Eman-
cipation, it is a notorious fact that the petition in
favour of the Bill, brought into Parliament for the
settlement of the Catholic Question, has obtained
8,000 signatures in little more than one day ! These
signatures, be it observed, have not been obtained
by fraud or forgery, they are not the crosses or
scrawls of old women, convicted felons, and charity
boys, but the real honest legible signatures of some
of the most respectable individuals in Leeds and its
vicinity. At Newcastle-upon-Tyne the same en-
lightened feeling prevails, the Common Council of
that town having last week unanimously agreed on
a petition in favour of the removal of the Roman
Catholic disabilities, and which resolution, when
publicly announced on Change, was received with
loud enthusiastic cheers. We leave these two im-
portant facts to work their own way : they are
worth whole volumes of argument or declamation.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CIT. Y, TWELVE o'CLour.

The advance which took place in Consols on
Saturday was not sustained at the close of the day,
they left off rather heavily at 874, at which rate they
opened this morning for the account; the report of
Mr. Stratford Canning having proceeded to Con-
stantinople on a pacific mission seems to have caused
a trilling improvement, and they are now 87-3 for
account, and 87i a for money, but with little business
doing. Exchequer Bills, 51 3 pm.; India Bonds,
45 47 pm.

Scarcely any thing has been done in the Foreign
Funds; the Northern Bonds maintain firmly the high
price of Saturday, Russian Bonds being 94i 95,
and Danish, 64i 5 ; the other Foreign Securities
are nominally at the undermentioned prices.
In Shares there is a complete stand still.
We regret to notice the continued complaints of
want of business with almost all classes of tradesmen
in the City, and however plentiful capital may be in
some quarters, the middling classes of the commu-
nity are at present suffering very considerably, as
is shewn by the numerous engagements which they
are unable to satisfy from such a state of affairs ;
but, m the Spring trade will shortly commence, it
is hoped a more satisfactory turn will take place ;
at all events much of the distress which is contem-
plated by many will be ameliorated.
Three per Cent. Consols, 87i ; Ditto, for Account,
871 ; Four per Cent., 101 i ; India Bonds, 45 7 pm. ;
Exchequer Bills, 51 3 pm. '

FoaucN.—Brazilian, 614 3-; Buenos Ayres, 33 4;
Chilian, 21 2 ; Colombian, 18 ; Danish, 64i 5 ; French,
Five per Cent., 108 4 ex. div. ; Three per Cent., 78 3-;
Greek, 13i ; Mexican, Five per Cent., 20 ; Six per
Cent., 233- 4; Peruvian, 13 14; Portuguese, 441 i;
Russian, 944 5 ; Spanish, 9-1 4.
MINES.—AngIo Mexican, 771 5 dis. ; Brazilian, 31 3
pm. ; Bolivar, par, 10 die. ; Colombian, 21 20 dis ; Real
Del Monte, 120 30 per share ; United Mexican, 2s}
274 die.
TWO O'CLOCK.

There has been no feature to notice in the Stock
market; Consols continue at 871 i for Account,
with scarce a transaction. The Foreign Funds con-
tinue without the slightest variation.
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THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Account, 87! f ; for Money, 87i i.

DIED.—At Chelsea, on the Bth inst. in the
85th year of her age, Mrs. Selina Howard.
The name of the Eatl of Chesterfield, who
presented several petitions on Friday in the House of
Lords was by some mistake omitted in the Report.

We are sorry to learn that accounts have been
received in town of the death of Sir Humphrey Davy.
The fact has been communicated to us on good authority,
but we are unable to state any further particulars.
GEORGE TIIE FOURTH'S BRlDGE.—Yes-
terday the Commissioners for the improvement contracted
with Mr. James Milne, for the building of the new bridge
across the Cowgate, for the sum of 13,500/. The tene-
ments which occupied the site are nearly all taken down,
and the work will be commenced almost immediately, and
finished before the end of 1830.—Scotsman.

THE TUNNEL.—The guide mine, in the
King's Park, was carried though on Wednesday last.
This is a small tunnel, about the height of a man, and
fuur or five feet wide, which is first cut, and serves both as
a guide in cutting the larger tunnel, and as a drain to carry
off the water, the quantity of which that collected in the
part previously cut, rendered constant pumping necessary.
More than one-third of the large or full-sized tunnel is also
now arched over and completed.—Scotsman.

The French Papers of Thursday and Friday, which
arrived yesterday, are chiefly filled with the proceedings
of the Legislative Chambers. Those of Thursday con-
tain the speech of the Minister of Finance on pre-
senting the Budget. The statements of the French
Financial Ministers on such occasions :usually embrace
the period of three years,—the accounts for the preced-
ing year as passed,—the accounts of the current year,
so far as they can be ascertained,—and the estimates for
the succeeding year. The expenditure for 1827, as
concluded and liquidated, amounted to 961,682,145
francs, or about 38,500,0001. sterling ; and the receipts of
the revenue amounted only to 957,431,769 francs, leaving
a deficit of 4,250,376 francs, or about 160,0001. sterling.
Various items afterwards enumerated raised the supplies
for 1827 to 989,448,052 francs, thus snaking a deficit of
32,016,283 francs. The revenue for the year 1828 was
982,758,694 f. The produce of some of the taxes has fallen
below the estimate of the Minister, and that of others has
exceeded it. The votes of credit for the ordinary ser-
vice o; the year 1828 amounted to 964,028,933 f, Sup-
plementary credits to the amount of 71,387,319 f. will be
required, thus raising the expenditure for the year 1828 to
1,033,515,552 francs, or upward of 41,000,0001. sterling.
In thin large excess of expenditure over income, are included
the charges of the accupation of Spain, of the expedition to
Greece, of the blockade of Algiers, and of the fleet sent to
Brazil. For most of these services, special credits had
been already granted. In the present year (1820), the
Minister calculates that his last year's estimates of ex-
penditure will be exceeded, by the department of War
bi,00,000 of francs, by the Department of Marine
18,000,P0U of f;a4osi and by the Department of
Foreign Affairs, 3,500,000
thus making a total
increase of more than 2,000,0901. sterling. The Mi-
nister proposes to fix the votes of credit for the ensuing
year (1830) at 977,935,329 francs, cr about 39,000,0001.
sterling. revenue to meet this charge is calculated at
979,52,224 francs, being a very small excess over the
expenditure. 'the reading of the extensive statements
from which these remarks are taken, was followed
the forlPal with
presentation of the accounts to the Chamber.
No debate takes 'lace on them till they are examined in 1.
commission, and reported upon by its chairman.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS..

Lord TENTERDEN, the Marquis of SLIGO, and
Lord HARRINGTON, sat on appeals to-day.

BALL V. MANNING.

This case came before their Lordships upon ap-
peal in error from the Court of Exchequer Chamber
in Ireland, the material question in which appeared to
be whether a deed, executed by John Hunton Ball
in October, 1785, was invalid, in consequence of the
weak capacity of his mind at the time of executing
it. Mr. Ball was entitled, as first tenant in tail, to
certain estates in the county of Kilkenny. The deed
in question was executed for the purpose of pro-
viding for the younger children of the mother of
Mr. Ball, by a second marriage. Launcelot Hunton
Ball, the next brother to John Hunton Ball, raised
the question as to the validity of the deed by filing
a bill in the Exchequer, asserting that it was exe-
cuted for no other purpose than to prevent the
estate coming to him. An ejectment was afterwards
brought, for the purpose of recovering the
lands, which was compromised. Mr. Hunton Ball
subsequently, however, refused to abide by that, and
brought another ejectment, during the pending of
the proceeding in which‘ he died. The issue in that
ejectment was tried before Mr. Justice Jebb, whose
charge to the Jury was considered by the defendant
to be incorrect, and a bill of exceptions was filed.
Upon that bill of exceptions coining on to be heard
in the Court of King's Bench in Ireland, their Lord-
ships overruled the exceptions. The plaintiff, in
error, then brought his writ against that judgment
of the Court of King's Bench to the Exchequer
Chamber, where it was argued before a full Court.
The Judges were divided in their opinions, but in
consequence of the rule of the Court, the judgment
of the King's Bench was ultimately affirmed.—
Against that decision the parties appealed.
Mr. SUGDEN and Mr. SWAINE appeared for the
appellant, the SOLICITOR-GENERAL and Mr.
JERVIS, jun. for the respondents.