The Sun. — 1836-01-23 (London, England)

FRENCH PAPERS.  (From the Courrier Francais.) The three councils of .trade assembled yesterday in the hall of the Council of State for the purpose of considering the question of the duty on sugt;rs. The Minister of Commerce laid before the Councils an ,•-xpose of the respective situations, in regard to the production of sugar, of the colonies, and the native soil. He stated the amount of imports and exports, and of the duties levied. He .;ntimated, that in the course of last year the manufactories of beetroot sugar had yielded an equivalent equal to the value of 25,000,000 f., which is about the third of the annual quantity consumed by the country, at the price of 35f. per civuintal—a quantity that the colonies cannot, under the present state of things, supply for less than 25f., taken on the spot. There are now 50,000 hectares of land in France devoted to the culture of beetroot, and the Minister has laid stress on the fact that in the districts to which that culture is at present chiefly confined, the value of land has doubled. M. Sylvester, Secretary to the Agricultural Society, spoke at great length in favour of the native sugar. He did not admit that this source of industry could at present bear any tax. M. Bignon, a merchant of Nantes, spoke to the contrary effect. He defended the interests f the colonial article, and concluded by suggesting the propriety of establishing a duty of 15f. the quintal on beetroot sugar, and of Thcreasing by 22f. the amount of premiums now,allowed on the exportation of refined sugars. M. Charles Dupin likewise spoke against the interests of the beetroot sugar mani; facturers. (From Galignani's IllessC.nger, Afternoon Edition.) A letter of the 15th inst. &oh:, Perpignan gives us the following details of events at Barce.lona since our last accounts :—" All the prisoners who we,'" put on board the Rodney, including Gironella, have been t:ansferred to the Childers, which was to sail on the 12th for Palencia, where they were to be embarked in Spanish vessels for the Havannab. Several chiefs of the faction have fled,• or concealed themselves, since the return of Mina. Colonel Montero, ex-Governor of Vich, has been arrested as, an accomplice of Gironella. General Pastors has been pat under arrest for not having prevented the invasion of the citadel, and the massacre of the prisoners ; but what could he do, when he was certain that the troops which guarded them were in concert with the murderers ? The effect of the occurrences of the 4th and sth had been felt at Tarragona. The populace was about to massacre about 75 prisoners, the remainder of those who have been transported, when the Governor requested the captains of the French and English ships the Egli and the Tyne to receive them on board, which was immediately alone. Having failed in this, the people drew up a list of procriptions, containing about 250 names, but these were reclined to 100 by delegates from the companies of the National Guards, who had demanded it. Of these proscripts 35 had already been embarked, to be transported to Ivica• Some persons, who were supposed to have fallen victims to the massacres of the night of the 4th, happily made their. escape. Among them are three Frenchmen, the only ones known to be among the prisoners in the citadel, and who have been claimed by the French authorities. They have been liberated, and are about to return to their own country. The events at Barcelona have had no effect on the trair quillity of Valencia. On the 9ti: the Civil Governor is' sued a proclamation, recommending union and order. An English squadron, was expected at. Alicaot.,