The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-17 00:00:00

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1829.

We are desired to contradict the paragraph in
the Morning Herald, that a Banker's Clerk
had disappeared and taken with him 50,0001.
The following is the fact:—One of Messrs.
DRUMMOND'S collecting clerks left their house
without notice on Saturday evening, the 10th
inst.; upon checking the Notes which he had
received on that day in payment of the Bills and
Drafts, it was discovered that he had entered
one Bank Note of 2001. as 5007., lea Ting a de-
ficiency of 3001. out of 13,000/., the whole
amount with which he was intrusted.

While we feel great pleasure in giving in-
sertion to the above, we cannot help remark-
ing
,upon the mischievous disposition exhibited
in certain quarters to make mountairs of mole-
hills, by endeavouring to make the worst of
every thing in all that concerns the Banking
business of London and the country generally.
But these ill-omened birds will get their reward
in due season.

In pursuance of a warrant from the Right
Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons, a
Writ for Electing a Burgess, to serve in Parlia-
ment for the Borough of Clifton Dartmouth
Hardness, in the County of Devon, was issued
yeAerday from the Crown-office.

The French Papers do not possess any parti-
cular feature of interest—at least nothing of a
novel character. According to an article from
Constantinople a forced armistice exists between
the two armies in consequence of the bitter cold,
which is 1:-:uch more severe than usual, while
the immense quantities of snow in the defiles of
the Balkan render all communication impos-
sible. Now, if this account be true, and the
probability in its favour is perfectly natural, how
absurd is it for the German Journals to be con-
stantly taxing their ingenuity to impose upon the
e,::dulity of their readers by fictions about the
total discomfiture of the Russian Army—the
reinvestment of Varna, and the dexterous move-
ments of HUSSEIN PACHA'S Cavalry, when
the Turks themselves, who are surely more in-
terested in the I.;•.iiness, say that they cannot
move a foot for the cold, and the tallies of snow
rendered nearly mountain deep. These German
Romancers should recollect that they overstep.
the modesty of nature iu making the Turks
skip over difficulties insuperable to the Russians ;
for if the Russians could not retreat, in conse-
quence of the weather, how could the Turks
pursue in the face of the same weather ? These
Journals should bear in mind the advice of the
net—

Lest folks suspect your tale's untrue—
Keep probability in view.

The Constitutio,ciel contains a communica-
tion from M. ALEXANDRE DE LABORDE, the
Deputy, on the state of the Spanish finances and
the swindling Spanish loans lately contracted at
Paris. The sums which FERDINAND has to
Pay within the next six months amount to
29,732,000 francs, or about 1,200,0001 sterling,
namely—
Francf.
As an indecnnity to the English 18,000,000
Interest on Guebbard's loan ............ /3,223.000

Be-payment of the sth series of the same loan 4,509,000
Lir:Test on the money stipulated to he paid td

France

9,000,000

29,732,000

M. DR LATtoRDE calculates that his coun-
tr:inen have already, within the course of a fear
years, been cheated out of the awn of
400,000,000 of francs, or 16,000,0001., by
Spanish jugglers. This amount of course in-
cludes the unpaid bonds of the Cortes, GruEn-
HARD's, or the Royal Loan, and the rente per-
petuelle securities, which alone are estimated at
upwards of five millions sterling. Not one ma-
ravedi of this sum is likely to be ever recovered.
The advice of M. DE LABORDE to his cowl-
trymen not to trust FERDINAND applies with
equal effect to the people of this country.

The Allgenzeinc Zeitung of the 10th inst.
confirms the accounts already published of the
great exertions making by Russia for the reorga-
nization of the army destined to act against
Turkey, which is to be three times as great as
last campaign. From all we hear, the Russians
seem to be setting about the business in earnest
this time :

FRONTIERS OF R1.;5814, DEC. 25.
We have letters from the theatre of war, where