The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-07 00:00:00

union of the two nations rests on a community
of interests? Every government existing in Spain
ought to be considered by us the government by
right; for such is the only national policy that suits
a free people which respects the liberty of others.
We think it our duty to insist at the approach of
the session on those principles of conduct.
France, by the fault of her Government, is sepa-
rated from Spain, and all her relations remain
interrupted between the Cabinets of Paris and
Madrid. This state of things, which was before
considered as provisional, it is now attempted to
render definitive. Spain is a field of battle which
is abandoned to the English at the very mo-
ment that we have not in Europe a single ally
left. We have already an enemy on the Rhine,
and now measures are being taken which will
produce one on the other side of the Pyrenees.
We were not sufficiently isolated, and now a
blockade is prepared for us. We hope that the
Chamber of DeputieS will protest solemnly
against this line of policy. The men who govern
us must be taught that inaction is not talent, and
that France is riot obliged to them fbr having
alienated from us our natural allies. Since the
ill-timed tirades of M. MOLE against the Swiss,
the Government has not committed a greater
fault than this interruption of relations between
France and Spain. Let us prove to Spain that
public opinion here is convinced of it, and that
there is not on this point, as well as on many
others, any mutual responsibility between the
Ministry of October 29 and the nation."
The Presse, in reply to this, says :
And what is the policy pursued by the French
Government with regard to Spain ? In our opinion
it has only returned by kindness all the acts of hosti-
lity of the Anglo-Spanish Government of Madrid.
To the manifest preponderance given to English in-
fluence; to projects of treaties of commerce suspended
solely by the opposition of Catalonia and the Cortes ;
to the tariffs so prejudicial to the trade of our southern
departments; to that malevolence which is always
observable both in words and actions, the French
Ministry has only returned reiterated proofs of good
feeling. It has detained Don Carlos beyond perhaps
what the law of nations would warrant, and doubtless
beyond what is in accordance with the ancient,re-
nown of this country for hospitality. It watches with
the most severe and vexatious rigour over the exiles of
September. Last year it sent an Ambassador to
Madrid, a concession which was met with a fresh in-
sult; and this yearit does all that it can to dissemble the
resolution taken by the Cabinet of Madrid to cause Eng-
lish interference in the affair at Barcelona—a resolution
of which it is as certainly and perfectly informed as our-
selves. What can it do more, unless, indeed, it
throws itself on its knees at the Spanish Legation, and
supplicates for France in Spain a little place by the
side of England ? Had the French Cabinet made a
concession of this sort, what clamours would have
been raised against it ; to what reproaches for want
of patriotism and of dignity would it not have been
subjected ? The Courrier is right in saying that
France is not to consider what form of government
is established in Spain. This is national policy; it is
ours, and we have always proclaimed it to be so.
Whatever may be the party, whatever the Govern-
ment which rules in Spain, France has not to demand
of them the reason of their existence ; but it should
require good international relations, an alliance useful
and sincere, the respect of her rights and her inte-
rests. Let the Government of Madrid be Carlist,
Moderate, or Radical, as it chooses; but it is for us to
form a faithful ally, that the interests both of Spain
and of France be not sacrificed to England. This is
all we ask, and all we require.
The Journal des bebats, a Ministerial paper,
gives the following account of the state of affairs
at Barcelona on the 28th and 29th ult.:—
The inhabitants were in painful anxiety as to the
fate which awaited them after a revolt in which the
deposition of the Regent was so audaciously decreed.
The words attributed to him are certainly well calcu-
lated to alarm their minds. He is said to have de-
clared, " I will deliver them up to Zurbano, and he
shall rebuild the walls of the city with their bones."
Van Halen is also said to ha%e been determined to
shower down upon the rebels shells and rockets until
they were all consumed. In fine, General Seoane,
Governor of Madrid, has used the following terms in
the Senate :—" Too much weakness was shown in the
treatment of the rebels of last year. For every finger
spared then three hundred heads must now fall !"
This sentence stands textually in the report of the
sitting of the Spanish Chambers. At Barcelona they
were persuaded that the Captain-General, Van
Ilalen, seriously intended to carry his threat
into execution, and was preparing to do so
when the Regent arrived. Mortar batteries and
congreve rockets were planted on the ramparts of
Montjuich, which commands the town within half a
cannon-shot, so as to be ready by the 25th, but the
energetic remonstrances of the French Consul gained
a respite of two days, and the Barceloriese two days
more by overtures. At last the Regent arrived on
the 29th, a pacific Junta was instituted, and from that
time a bombardment would have been a monstrosity
without necessity or object. The town was filled
with terror. The inhabitants moved out in masses,
and encamped at the foot of the glacis. More than
50,000 people are said to have thus left their homes,
either to bivouack in the fields, or seek shelter in the
surrounding villages. The French and other foreigners
hastened to the port, and embarked in the ships of war
and packets sent from Marseilles; they are said to
have amounted to between 1,400 and 1,500. With
them were many Spaniards. Many French also re-
tired-to places in the country to wait till the crisis
was past. Amidst all this general commotion of a
population amounting to 150,000, neither robbery nor
any personal violence was committed. At the end
the public peace seemed to be no longer disturbed by
anything but the retributive severities of the General.
The Quotidienne, a Carlist paper, joins with the
Radical National in reprobating the policy of
General BUGEAUD, and more especially the
French Government, in Algiers :
Nobody (says the Quotidienne), has warred more
than General 13ugeaud. No one has attacked more
tribes, destroyed more towns, burnt more farms,
executed more razzias, carried away more flocks, or
burnt more crops. And yet he is no more advanced
than his predecessors. General Bugeaud himself does
not believe in the submission of the Arabs. He says
so, and he writes so. And he uses his very incre-
dulity as an argument to sanction a permanent army
of 80,000 men in Algiers. And all this time the
much-talked-of colonization exists merely in the co-
lumns of the Moniteur Algerfea.
BOURSE—Psars, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 45... 119 50... 119 55... 119 60
Four per Cents. 101 50... 101 50 .. 101 50... 101 50
3 per Cents 89 65... 80 75... 80 60. 80 75
Bank of France 3315 —.3325 ...3315 .. 3325
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1055 ..1057 50...1055 ...1055
5,000 f 5080 ...5080 ...5080 ..5080
Belgian Bank, 1841 1067 50...1067 50..,1067 50...1067 50
Belgian Fives, 1840 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041 Spanish Active. 23/1 ... 23i ... 23A ... 231
Old Deferred 10 ... 1D ... 10 ... 10
Neapolitan... lO6 25... 106 60... 106 25... 106 60
Roman, ... 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain' Sao 830 ... 830 ... 830
Versailles, R.B 265
... 265 ... 265 ... 265
Rouen ' 627 50... 632 50... 627 60... 632 50
Orleans 605 ... 607 50... 605 ... 607 50
Strasburg to Bale 202 55... 203 75... 202 50... 203 75
BELGIAN FUN _ a-13nussa.s, atc. 3.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent,
54
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent.o2 X
Lean of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ....... 99%
Three per Cent..... Thirty-seven ns, ditto
(1849) ............... 163 (4
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 97
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent — Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent
National Society . . ..... ... ..............
Exchange on London (short) ..... ...................
—Brussels Papers, Dee 3.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, Nov. 25.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four Three
per Cents. ..... ........... .
100% per Cent,. ............................................
774
Bank Shares ...«« .... .. .. ......... 1624
.••• ..... AO •• l• Allgemelne Zeilung, ..... 29.
HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Dec. 2.
Austrian 5 per Cents
Rank Shares , 110
Anglo-Russian Loan 1635108% 18
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate lO3 14—%
Inscription, Ist series lO3 _—
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series — Ditto in Certificates 9B --
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 67% 86%
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......... 51% :51
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Bonds
New Tickets —
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent.
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE or THE PRIVY COUNCIL.—
The Court has been occupied this morning with the
consideration of a petition for an extension of Simis-
ter's patent, as applicable to stays. Several witnesses,
some of them staymakers, have been examined in sup-
port of the patentee, and were cross-examined by the
Solicitor-General, on the part of the opponents to the
extension of the patent. The case is expected to
occupy their Lordships the whole of the day. The
Attorney-General was in Court in the early part of
the sitting.

TEE ACCIDENT AT SALISBURY.--A Correspondent
writes to state that the account of the lamentable
accident which occurred on Thursday last at East
Grafton Church (not Bishopstone), was not occa-
sioned by the falling of the arch or nave itself, but
from a part of the unfinished compartment of the
vaulting in the nave, which fell, owing
.to the negli-
gence of the mason, in not wedging up the centering
when ordered to do so. Had this duty been attended
to, no calamity would have happened.