The Sun. — 1845-10-06 (London, England)

OBF, R 6, 1845.  presents, and holds out little encouragement to men of respcctabily to court civic honours. We need not, therefore Le surprised if citizens of great wealth and high character stand aloof from these civic contests, when they find, that after undergoing all the canvassing and drudgery attendant upon inferior offices, they may be deprived at last of the highest by some popular clamour, or unfounded accusation, and be rejected by the votes of men who have a personal interest, and who in every court properly regulated are not allowed to vote at all. But there is another circumstance which could not fail to operate in the secret conclave. Alderman JOUNSON is a wealthy man. Turtle, and venison, and champagne are indispensable requisites at City feasts, and without them the Egyptian Hall would lose its character. It is for the interest of the citizens, however, as well as the country at large, that the great Corporatio❑ of London should aim at a •higher character, and that its decisions should not be liable to the charge of partiality and oppression.  The Mad, id Gazette of the 27th and 28th of September contains three official documents. The first is a treaty of peace between Spain and the Republic of Chili, formerly a valuable colony of the mother country. By this treaty a full amnesty is granted to all Spaniards and Chilians who may have taken part in the hostilities between the two countries. The independence of the republic is fully recognised by the QUEEN of Spain. The second is a royal ordonnance for the organization of the Council of State, which is almost a copy of that established in France, and the last contains instructions for the formation of the new universities. According to these, the rectors and the directors of the faculty arc edieine are to resign their functions into the hands of the political chiefs of the provinces. This regulation applies to the Universities of Salamanca, Valladolid, Santiago, Seville, Valencia, Granada, Barcelona, Saragossa, and Madrid. The accounts from the provinces are said to be satisfactory, though several additional arrests had taken place. tiolonel ORTEGA, a Member of Cortes, who had been arrested at Saragossa and carried to Madrid, had been set at liberty, without being able to obtain from the Government any reason whatever for the proceeding. On the 26th the execution of a bandit, called PEDRO VINALs, took place at Gerona. It appears he had for a long time been the terror of the province, and when hardly pressed has made his escape into France, but was delivered up by the authorities in virtue of existing treaties. After his that clurl.g his short career, for he was only 34 years of age, he had murdered nine persons and wounded many more. lle had joined the Carlists at the age of 14. On the Madrid Bourse on the 28th business was done in the Three per Cents. to the amount of 6,384,000 reals at 324 cash.  Colonel MONTAGNAC, which leaves no doubt that he had been allured into a snare laid for him :—" Colonel MONTAGNAC, who commanded at Djemmaa Ghiazaouet, being informed by an Arab chief, who had never before given any reason to doubt his fidelity, that Ann-uLKADER, at the head of only a few men, had come to seek refuge in the environs, and was then in a spot inhere he might be easily surprised, set out with a small column of 450 men, composed of the Bth battalion of the Orleans Chasseurs, and two squadrons of Hussars. Oa arriving at the marabout of Sidi Brahira (four leagues from Djemmaa Ghiazaouet, he was suddenly surrounded by an enormous mass of horsemen and Kabyles of the country, and of the frontier of Morocco, whom he charged resolutely, with the intention of forcing a passage. The melee was terrible, for in a moment officers and soldiers were stretched lifeless on the earth, with the exception of eighty men of the Chasseurs, at the Lead of whom was Captain GoREAUX, the only officer who had not been killed. Notwitbstanding the efforts of the enemy, these eighty men got possession of a neighbouring marabout, and shut themselves up in it.