The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-20 00:00:00

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1827.

The remains of his late Royal Highness the Duke,
of YORK are this day consigned to the tomb ; and
the nation's grief at the loss they have sustained, and,
the respect they entertain for the memory of his
RoYA r. HIGHNESS, are manifested in a deep and
striking manner. Business of every sort, in this great'
metropolis, is suspended, shops are closed, the parish
bells toll, and all around proclaims that the day is'
given up to mournful observance of the melancholy oc-
casion. The right feeling of the great mass of society
is powerfully demonstrated by their conduct ; and, if
now and then, a quack of some sort—in politics, or
blacking selling—sets his opinion against that of
nearly the whole population by keeping his shop open,
it serves only by the contrast to exhibit his own folly
in a more striking degree, and to remind the observer
of the universality of the demonstrations of grief which
surround him.

Loyalty has herein a complete triumph, and it must
be no less gratifying to the feelings of the ROYAL
FAMILY to observe this sincere attachment of the
people of England to their departed member, than it is
to the lover of the Constitution of his country, to
witness the proofs thus given of the innate respect to
Royal Rank, paid so willingly and so sincerely by every
class of persons.

The character of the Duke of YORK was emi-
nently calculated to increase and confirm these feel-
ings, and while we bow with submission to the
inscrutable ways of Providence, we may, without
impropriety, mourn on an event which has deprived
the KING and his people of their sincerest, their
[firmest friend.

At an early hour this morning an Express reached
Town from Paris, bringing news of the utmost im-
portance, if it:could he depended upon, namely, that a
Manifesto has been published by the Spanish Govern-
ment, expressing pacific intentions, and the formal
resolution to abstain from all acts of hostility towards
Portugal ; but this news comes in so very questionable
a shape that we think there is strong reason to dis-
credit it. Our Readers, however, must form their
own opinion from the facts of the case, which are these.
The non-official part of the Moniteur of Thursday,
the 18th, which is published in Paris in the morning
of that day, contains an article dated Paris, Jan. 17,
(that is, Wednesday,) stating that accounts from Ma-
drid of the 13th say,—" The Swiss brigade set out
yesterday to return to France. General D'A RBA UD
" is to leave us the day after to-morrow. The Spanish
" Government has just published a kind of Mani-
" festo, under the form of a circular from the Minister
" of War to the Captains General, in which it ex-
" presses pacific intentions, and the formal resolution
"to abstain from all acts of hostility towards
" Portugal."
Now it scents almost impossible, that news from
Madrid of the 13th should have reached Paris on the
17th ; but additional doubt is thrown on the authen-
ticity of the news, by the fact that the Etoile, dated
Friday the 19th, which is published on the preceding
evening some hours after the Moniteur, has not a
word of this intelligence in it, but gives the particulars
of letters from Madrid to the Bth January, which are of
a totally different character ; to induce, however, people)
to believe the itioniteur's intelligence, a letter from
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Paris accompanying the express, says,
" The accounts from Madrid in the Moniteur and Etoile are
very interesting, under present circumstances.
" The telegraphic despatch arrived too late to be inserted in the
Etoile last night.

Reports On 'Change speak of the arrival of more recent news,
announcing that Magessi and his troops have been disbande on the
Spanish frontiers."
This letter is not dated, but as it refers to the Etoile
of the preceding night, it must have been written either
yesterday morning or Thursday morning. If the latter,
the telegraphic despatch, which, it says, arrived too
late to be inserted in the Etoile,printed on the preceding
evening, would have been in the Etoile of Thursday even-
ing, dated yesterday morning; while, if the letter were only
written yesterday morning, it is evident that the Tele-'
graphic despatch, which, according to the illoniteur,l
was received in Paris, on the 17th, and appeared in'
the columns of that Paper on the morning of the 18th,
must have been in time for the Eloile of the 19th,
printed on the afternoon of the 18th. The care with
which the prices of the French Funds, after the usual
hours of business, have been transmitted also, raises
suspicions in our minds. They had risen during the
day, and closed at four o'clock, according to the Cours
Authentique, the Three per Cents. at 671., and the
Five per Cents. at 99f. 35c., but according to the list
published subsequently, they closed—the Three per
Cents. at 67f. 25c., and the Five per Cents. at 99f.
40c. Extracts from the Papers will be found in ano-
ther column.

Hamburgh Papers of the 12th inst. have been re-
ceived ; their contents are unimportant, and had ge-
nerally before reached us through the Dutch Papers,
.We subjoin a few extracts:—