The Sun. — 1836-09-07 (London, England)

LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 109 f. 25c. ; Three per Cents., 801. 15c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, Guebhards, —; Differes, 104 ; New Loan, —; Actives, 30; Passives, 91,1 ; Ducats, 99 75 ; Romans, 1021-; Pedros, 67 ; Belgians, 1031; Dutch, —c. ; Haytians, 375 f. 500. Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 261 ; Continuation, —c. ; New Differes, —; Five per Cent. Perpetuelles, —; Royal Loan, —.  Madrid Journals to the 30th ult. inclusive have been received. The Espagnol of the 28th states that an insurreotion has taken place in Lisbon, and that Queen Donna MARIA has been compelled to proclaim the Constitution of 1820. MM. FREIRE and  SILVA CARVALHO were dismissed, but their sue•  cessors had not been appointed. We find in the same journal an exposition of the Government Junta of  Andalusia, in which it declares that it will re• tain its power till after the meeting of the Cortes.  The same junta has addressed the inhabitants of Cadiz, calling upon them to imitate its example. Advices from Malaga state that the authorities are about to adopt measures for bringing to justice the murderers of the late civil and military governors of that city. The following extract of a letter from Valladolid, dated the. 21st ult., is the only communication in these journals worth extracting : The remains of the section of Gomez, upwards of one thousand men, appeared yesterday, as if by enchantment, in the neighbourhood of Palencia, and entered it at four in the afternoon. We learned last night this from the National Guards, and other persons who had fled from Palencia hither. Word was dispatched to Brigadier Ping Samper, who commands 2,000 men in Pegnafiel, to hasten in the direction of the Carlists. We have sent from this about 100 horse to reconnoitre, and about 700 of the National Guard to support him. According to the last news, Gomez stayed but six hours in Palencia, taking the road from it to Cevico de la Torre, in order to regain the Sierra.  Ire before announced that the Portuguese auxiliary brigade had left Vittoria to march towards the frontiers of Portugal. It has, however, suspended its march, in pursuance of the order of Espartero.  In an able pamphlet on the " growth of Russia,'  o which we briefly adverted a few days since in The  Sun, occurs the following passage :—" At the acces• sion of PETER the First, in 1689, the population of the Russian Empire was fifteen millions—at the accession of CATHARINE the Second in 1762, twentyfive millions—at her death, in 1796, thirty-six -millions—and at the death of the Emperor ALEXANDER, now eleven years since, fifty-eight millions. The acquisitions of Russia from Sweden are greater than what remains of that kingdom. Her acquisitions in Poland are nearly equal to the Austrian empire. ller acquisitions in Turkey in Europe, are of greater extent than the Prussian dominions, inclusive of the Rhenish provinces. Her acquisitions in Turkey in Asia are nearly equal in dimensions to the whole of the smaller States of Germany. Her acquisitions in Persia are equal in extent to England. Her acquisitions in Tartary have an area not inferior to Turkey in Europe, Greece, Italy, and Spain. The acquisitions she has made within the last sixty-four years, are equal in extent and importance to the whole empire she had in Europe before that time. The Russian frontier has been advanced towards Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, and Paris, about one hundred miles ; towards Constantinople five hundred miles ; towards Stock holm about six hundred and thirty miles ; and towards Teheran, a thousand miles." These territorial acquisitions, it should be observed, have not been obtained by Russia in open war, or by legitimate means, but by an indefatigable perseverance in the most reckless course of dastardly, unprincipled intrigue, that ever disgraced the historical annals of an empire. She has seldom or never dared openly to make encroachments on her neighbours, but, except in the case of Turkey, has taken advantage of their domestic dissensions, to offer herself as a mediator, and under this pretence to march an army into their dominions, and wrest from them their fairest possessions. Thus she acted towards Persia—thus towards Poland—thus towards the Crimea, and the Southern Ukraine. At the time she overran the provinces of Caucasus, then under the sway of Persia, she had but just concluded a peace with that State ; and commenced her operations by publishing a Manifesto filled with the most fulsome expressions of good will towards the