The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-28 00:00:00

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THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, DEC. 28.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 32 ; Highest, 49 : Noon, 38

BAROMETER, 30.05.—W1ND, W. to S.W.
NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes
the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers
fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

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It is gratifying thus to find that the Porte has
yielded to the suggestions of the other Powers,
and adopted a plan which will in all probability
lead to better government in Syria.
The other intelligence in the papers is not of
much interest. The excitement caused by the
Barcelona affair was gradually abating, and the
journals of Monday were chiefly occupied with
discussions on the late ordonnance for the crea-
tion of a Privy Council. The Ministerial papers
of course approve of the measure, while those of
the Opposition object to it; some on the ground
that it should have been a legislative measure,
instead of being an act of the Royal will. The
Constitutionnel takes this view of the measure,
and observes, " That as the only question to be
submitted to the Chamber is the financial provi-
sion necessary for carrying the ordonnance into
execution, none of those ameliorations which
might have been the result of a discussion on the
details of the measure can now be introduced."
The National, after denouncing the measure as
immoral and illegal, gives the ordonnance pro-
mulgated by Louis XVIII. after the battle of
Waterloo, constituting a Privy Council, and ob-
serves, " that the Government of the Restora-
tion endured but for fifteen years. Then came
the Revolution of July, and with it. a Royal or-
donnance suppressing all Ministers of State.
Now, again, on the 24th of December," adds the
National, "we find the Privy Council reconsti-
tuted, which we consider the most audacious, as
well as the most significant among the acts which
most clearly demonstrate the progress of the
counter-revolution. What the Revolution of
July had destroyed is now restored, and at the
same time the Government glorifies in the recol-
lection of that well-constituted period when,
under the protection of foreign armies, the
spiteful Government of the BOURBONS acted
with unlimited audacity against the spirit of the
Revolution, introduced anarchy and discord into
our institutions, and placed the remuneration of
intrigue, and the salary of treason, to the charge
of a ruined country."
" One of the first acts of the Revolution of
July," observes the Commerce, " was the sup-
pression of the Ministers of State. A Royal Or-
donnance, published this,morning, re-establishes
them. We have again followed in the track of
the pure old monarchy. This is a material act
of re-action against one of the consequences of
the Revolution of 1830, and a formal violation of
the Charter. By degrees, as the fortifications
are rising above ground, and the military regimen
is being organised in Paris, the extra-represen-
tative Government is developing itself. An
institution, abolished in 1830, as contrary to the
principles of a Parliamentary Government (the
Privy Council) has been re-established."
The Gazette de France, of Sunday, says :
" The ordonnance which creates Ministers of
State, is another means of influence created for
Government over Parliament. It is a mode of
dominating the representative principle. Sine-
cures are offered to political opponents, and
statesmen are created Ministers for life, to blunt
their eagerness for being Cabinet Ministers, &c."
A report having been in circulation at Paris
that a new creation of Peers was about to take
place, the Presse states that the rumour is with-
out any real grounds, and even that the Cabinet
has postponed the four or five promotions it had
intended to make previously to the meeting of
the Chambers.
The latest accounts from Algiers are to the
15th of December, contained in a letter quoted
in the Sentinelle, of Toulon, to the following
effect :
" On the 2d inst. the three columns of Algiers,
which had been acting separately, united on the Oued
Kechab, at the foot of the Ouanseris. On the pre-
ceding day the rear-guard of the right column was
engaged for several hours with 300 or 400 Kabyles
of the tribe of Beni Ourac. The affair, however, was
riot a serious one, and we had only two men slightly '
wounded. The centre Column, under Colonel Forte,
received no submissions, but the left column, com-
manded by General Changarnier, received those of all
the tribes it passed through, and imposed upon them
heavy contributions of barley and wheat ; so that the
General was able to supply the right column, com-
manded by the Governor-General, with 200 sacks of
barley. A razzia made by part of General Changar-
nier's troops in the night of the 2d produced nearly
1,000 head of cattle."
A letter from Oran, Dec. 10, says :—" The troops
of the Mascara division are in the field, and General
Lamoriciere is to proceed with his troops to join the
expedition directed by the Governor-General against
the tribes of the Ouanserres. The Mostaganem
brigade, under the orders of General Gentil, is out
since the end of November. It is designed to sup-
port the Mascara division."
BOURSE—PARIS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 26.
First Highest I.Amest Last
Pri Pe r Price.
Freneh Five per Cents. 119ce. ric
10... 119 30... 11P ice. 9
10... 119 25
Four per Cents. 101 60... 101 60... 191 60... 101 60
Threes . 78 90... 78 90... 78 85.. 78 90
Bank of France 3320 ...3350 ...3320 ...3345
Laffitte Bank 5,000f...5082 50...5082 50...5082 50 ..5082 50
Belgian Bank BlO ... 810 ... 810 ... 810
1841 lOBO ...1080 ...1080 —lOBO
Belgian Fives
1840 lo4i ... 104 ... 104* ... 104*
Threes 73 .•• 73 73 73
Spanish Active. . 24 ... 24 ... 23i ... 231
Passive
Portuguese Fives 32i ... 324 32i
Neapolitan
Roman lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104
RAILWAY SHARES,
Versailles, L.B l2O ... 120 ... 117 50... 120
R.B 287 50... 290
.•• 287 50... 290
Rouen
Orleans. 627 50... 630 ... 627 50... 630
Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 203 75... 203

STATE OF TRADE.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.—We have had
to-day, contrary to the expectations of many, a very
excellent demand for cloth, accompanied too with a
general, though not a large, advance on most
ties and descriptions of goods. This increase in the
demand, and that before many have made an end of
stock-taking, is a most favourable symptom ; indeed,
it may be taken as an almost infallible sign that more
prosperous times are at hand.
Twist is in fair demand, and the prices are not
higher; this arises from the fact that few of our ex-
port merchants have commenced their spring pur-
chases. Tile market is buoyant.

TuE ARMIES OF GERMANY.—The Allgemeine
Zeitung, of the 21st instant, mentions a plan as having
been in agitation for some time for an annual meeting
of officers from all the armies belonging- to the Ger -
man Confederation. The object of this annual 're-
union is, to afford opportunities for personal acqualint-
: ante to officers who, in case of a war, would., it is
hoped, be called on to fight side by side..
The
laudable zeal which at present prevails in Q-e rmny
for everything that may tend to promote f:nat union
and nationality which alone can make t'ne Germans
strong as a people, makes it extremely probable that
the proposed plan will be warmly take n up, and will meet with much favour among civi'Lians as well as
among military men. It is propo.,,ed that the first
meeting should take place at Leipzie, near which city
the great battle was fought, the " Volkerschlacht," as
it is still called there, the happy issue of which rescued
Germany from the degrading thraldom to which it
had been subjected by the victories of Napoleon.
AFFAIR OF HONOUR IN CLIFDEN.--A hostile meet-
ing took place at Clifden, on Wednesday last, between
Henry Ainsworth Hildebrand, Esq., of Boffin, and
Patrick Bowes Daly, Esq., brother of the Rev. Doctor
Daly of Galway. The parties, attended by their
friends, Wm. Conneys, Esq., of Augbris, for the
former, and Francis Browne, Esq., for the latter, met
in a field near Clifden Castle. After an exchange of
shots, Mr. Hildebrand apologised in suitable terms,
and they left the ground perfectly reconciled. The
quarrel arose out of a discussion on National Educa-
tion, which took place at a private party given at the
house of Dr. Morgan, and at which both gentlemen
were guests.— Tuam Herald.
LYNN.—The Charity Trustees of this town have
commenced distributing a charity called " Crane's
Charity," which the poor of this town participate in
once in five years ; on a former distribution of the
charity, party spirit and political interest ran so high,
that voters (although not requiring it) had it given to
their wives, in order to disqualify them from voting,
but "such things have ceased."—CambridgeAdvertiser,

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VL.N. HALLA
Barcelona, which has thus never been entered
byESPARTERO. It is said that Girona, Figueras,
Olot, Valencia, and other towns, are to be dis-
armed like Barcelona.

MADRID BOURSE, Or THE 19TH.—Five per
Cents., 27k, at 60 days. No transactions for cash.

The French Government has received the fol-
lowing telegraphic dispatch, announcing the pa-
cific settlement of the Syrian question
" VIENNA, DEC. 21.
" We have received accounts that the Porte
has consented to give a Christian chief to the
Maronites, and to the Druses a chief of their own
nation."