The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. G.—Private letters from Petersbn 4 . - 4 of the 15th December, give some credit to the news published by a German journal, on the prospect of a Constitution for Poland, which the Russian Cabinet is said to have in pre paration. If we may believe the writer of this letter, the Swedish Constitution will be taken as a model—that is to say, there will be four Estates represented in takin g part in the Le gislature, viz..,-1. the Clergy ;2, the Nobility ;3, the Citizens; aid 4, the Free Peasants. The introduction of this 4th e) ass is supposed to be intended to facilitate the progress . .ve emancipation of that class, and to make use of it4in trder to counterbalance the immense power of the Po- Lail nobility. We find it difficult to believe in the accuracy of theserc ports, which the Russian Government doubtless circulates for the purpose of palliating the enormities which it has committed, and is daily committing in unhappy Poland. The accounts of the health of the King of Sweden con tinue to be unfavourable ; it is daily declining.—.Messager, Jan. 7. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—SITTING of FRIDAT, JAN. 6. M. Cunin Gridaine, Vice President. The sitting was fixed for one o'clock, but there not being more than half a dozen Deputies present at that hour, the proceedings :lid not commence until two. At an early hour the Ministerial bench was occupied by MM. RosrAmel, Persil, Guizot, Duchatel, and Gasparin. There -port of the former sitting having been read and adopted, M Persil, Minister of Justice, ascended the try rune awl, presented, on the part of the Government, follow ing projects of law :—Firstly, a project of law upon the responsibility of Ministers, as amended 1 :,) , the Chamber of Peers during the last session ; secondly, a project of law relative to the organization of tke Council of State ; and, thirdly, a project of law upon a new organizati on o f courts of justice and magisterial functions. These projects of lam having been laid on the President's table, M. Gasparin, Minister of the Interior, presented a pro ject of law, the object of which is to " insure to the Go vernment a monopoly of telegraphic establishments." The Minister observed that the Government had decided upon this measure after due deliberation, and for motives of an urgent nature. It was evident that private essablishments and companies of telegraphs exercised a power which was subject to be abused and be productive of serious injury to the country. For instance, if the news of the insurrection at Lyons had been transmitted by telegraph, not only to St. Etienne but in various other directions where evil dis posed persons resided, and where there was a considerable number of workmen, the insurrection might have become general, instead of being limited to a single spot. Th e events which had taken place at Marseilles, Nan.'..es, and other towns, fully proved the necessity of a Ir,v upon this subject. Even lately at Tours the telereaph had been made use of for an improper purpose.----•and certain signs bad been agreed on, to convey ir.Celligence so as to pro duce a rise or fall in the funOls, and thus give rise to a shameful species of garrnling. It was true that commercial men had recourse to telegraphic commu nications, with the view, of facilitating their speculations ; but the ordinary wide of rapidly transacting such business ought to suffice 7, besides, in a short time, the existence of various rail-roa ;I s would greatly increase the celerity which commercial in',,ercourse required. However, the great ob ject was to prevent telegraphs from being used for political purposes, and therefore the Government had determined not to ilow a competition in the exercise of this powerful mael•:ine. The first and sole article of the project of law wafi as follows : " The Government alone shall have the power of erect ing and using telegraphs, and any private individual who shall establish a telegraphic communication shall be subject to an imprisonment of from one month to a year, and to a fine of 1,000 to 10,000 francs}'—Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed and distributed. The Minister introduced a Bill relating to insane per sons, containing 14 articles, the principal of which are as folloa►s : Art. 1. No individual afflicted with imbecility or mad ness, whose interdiction shall not have been pronounced, can, under the penalties provided for in article 120 of the penal code, be placed or retained in any hospital or other public or private establishment set apart for the treatment of mental aberration, except by virtue of an authorization or order from the Prefect. 2. The authorization shall be delivered on the demand of relatives. For military men it shall be declared on the demand of the military authority. 3. In case of imminent danger, attested by the certifi ficate of a physician, or by public notoriety, the mayor may order the necessary provisional measures to be adopted, in case of the individuals designated in article 1, taking care to refer the case within 24 hours to the Prefect. 4. Every individual placed, by virtue of the preceding articles, in the establishments therein designated, shall no longer be detained there on the cessation of the causes which may have led to his detention. Art. 5. 'Every authorization or order delivered by virtue of the articles 1 and 2, shall within three days be notified by the Prefect to the Procureur du Roi of the arondisse ment, in which is situate the residence of the party indi cated in the order ; also to the Procureur du Roi of the arondissement, in which is situate the establishment in question. The remainder of the articles, from 6 li,o 14 inclusive, re late to minor and local dispositions. The bill was ordered to be printed, distributed, and subtr:itted for examination to the standing committees, and at 3 o'clock the sitting was adjourned. (Frorr, the Papers.) We find that the Journal de Paris of Friday evening takes up once more the incident said to have occurred in the Committee, Upon the address. All we have to state in reply to repeat the observations we formerly made, and Pir.Ace in its strongest light an explanation which onr watagonists endeavour to distort, but which we deem it or„ r d uty to maintain in its proper shape. The difficulties in this matter could be easily avoided were it merely 13ecessary to substitute a personal quarrel for a political quest i on. W e h ave b een informed, that an in incid'ent had occurred in the committee, the various de tail'i of which (if correct) are not favourable to the cha racter of M. Thiers. This statement found its way into our columns, having emanated from a source which we had every reason to believe well informed, an whose ve racity cannot be questioned. The version we gave of this matter has been contradicted by the Journal de Paris. The editors of that journal, not forming a part of the commit tee upon the address, follow our example-that is to say, they tleny what they have heard denied, as we had affirmed that which we had heard affirmed. If it be their wish to become guarantees for M. Thiers, and that M.Thiers is satisfied with this system of responsibility by procuration, it is right to say that we do not act by procuration for any parties, for the fact we mentioned did not come from any particular indi vidual. We heard the same recital from the lips of several persons and in different quarters. It was repeated in the fashionable circles, in the saloons, and by a number of pub lic journals, and amongst others by the Journal General de France, on the very day that it was reproduced in our co lumns. On this account we have been rather surprised that the Journal de Paris should have conferred on us a mono poly of its ill-temper. These bursts of passion are in vain, and cannot decide the question. For our part we leave it between M. Thiers and the members of the committee ; we have no desire either to seek or transmit an answer from auy party. We, however, have no hesitation in maintain ing as a positive fact, that the statement we published has become a matter of notoriety and general conversation. As long as M. Thiers and the members of the committee ab stain from giving a positive denial to this history, every one is at liberty to rely upon evidence which appears the most correct. -La Pair. FRENCH FCNI)S.-PARIS, JAN. 6. Five per Cents., 1 08 f. 90c, 109 f. Sc. 10c. sc. 109 f. Four per Cent., f ::y fl 60 e. Three per 79f . 60c. 70c 60c. Bank A e t ',ons. 2,360 f. Rente "Zie Naples, 98f. 2.'";c. 35e. 40e. Rov.ian Five per Cents., 100% 101. s" , panish:Actives, 25% 24, 25%. • Spanish Differes, Spanish Passives, 6% 3 ,4%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102%. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 44%. Portuguese Three per Cents, 30% 30 ::9%. haltian Loan. 370 f. SXCHANCR ON LONDON. One month, paper, 251: 35c. ; money, 25f. 32%c. three months, paper, 25f. 12%e. ; money, 251. 12%c. -tours Alithentnue. FRENCH tUNDS -FARM, JAN. 7. Five per Cents.. 1091. sc. 103 f. 85c. Four and a Half ner Cents. 1010 75c. Fmk", per Cents., 99f. 60c. Varee per Cents., 79f. 50c - Lank Actions, 2,360 f. 2,350 f. Rente de Naples, 96E - 35c. 40c, Roman Five per Cent's., 101. Spanish Actives, 24% 25. Spanish Ditleres, 9j4. Spanish Passives. (5 % • Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents. 44%. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 29%. MECHAM:Z ON LONDON. Onemonth, paper, 25c. 35c. ; money, 25f. 32%c. Three months, paper, 2.51.12%c.; money, 251. 12%c. -Coors Authentiaue. BOURSE, HALF-PAST Fous.—This has been a day of almost complete stagnation here. With the exception of the Spanish Active all other foreign stocks evinced a tendency to fall. At one time, since the opening of business here, the Spanish Ac tive was at 244, but within a quarter of en hour of the close of the Bourse it rose to 25, at which price it was much in de mand. This improvement was owing to a report that accounts had reached announcing the entry of Alaix into Durango ; but up to the present moment the Spanish Ambassador has received no such intelligence. Still the pushing up of the funds proves that some information of the kind has been received and cre dited b 3 some parties. rnicEs. Five per tents— 109 f. toe. 'Mite per Lents. 79f. 75c. !tank A,tions, 2,f3501: Petite de tint,les, 9E , 'f. 70c. Roman Five per Cents., 101. .13!ug - els Bank, apA. I'ortupie6c Loan, Five per Cents., 443 i. Portuguese Three per Cents., 297 i. ,ipanisli Actives, 25. S”anish Passives, 0%. Spani,h Differes, New Differes,lll,4. SPAIN. (From the Madrid Gazette of Dectmbet• Z 30.) SECRETARY OF STATE ' S ontrx (FOREIGN AFFAIRS-.) Senor Don Miguel Santa Maria, the Envoy Extraordi nary of the Mexican Republic to this Court, has officially communicated to Her Majesty's Government, that since yesterday the ports of the said Republic in both seas ate open to the Spanish flag and commerce, that the stAbituctB or her Majesty engaged therein may enjoy all the considera tions and security which the equity and good national fIA4 I of Mexico until the next definitive treaty of commn`,.ce and navigation specifies them, and assures in the most solemn manner the rights and guarantees they ha.ve to cn t io.y manently under the protection of dipl.',lnatic, tuttl consular agents, which by her Majesty'', ~ rderls it Announced to the public for the information'!: coulffictee. . I .IOBE .MARIA CALATRAVA. Madrid, Dec. 29, 1836, ROYAL DECREE. The prir. c s ipal negotiations, which from the beginning I s° ber:,:volently received, having been happily terminated, I had efficaciously endeavoured to complete the con ciliation between Spain and Mexico, and being desirous, as well as the authorities of that country, to anticipate the be nefits of peace and reciprocal commerce of two people that never ought to have ceased to consider ecteh other as bro ters, I have decreed as Queen Regent, in the name of my august daughter, the Queen Isabella 11., what follows ;- 1. There is no more hostility to be undertaken or car ried into effect on the part of my Government or any of its subjects against Mexico, its citizens, or inhabitants. 2. The Mexicans who are already or may come to esta blish themselves in Spain, are to be treated and considered as the subjects of a friendly Power, and in a manner cor responding with the noble character of the Spanish nation. 3. The Mexican merchant ships will be admitted like those of friendly nations in all Spanish ports open to foreign commerce, subject to the laws and existing regulations. (Signed by HER MAJESTY.) Palace, Dec. 29, 1836. To Don Jose Maria Calatrava, President of the Council of Ministers. (From the Jlia'!.rid 6?aette, Dec. 29.) HOME DF.I•ARTNItNT.—CIRCULAR. Her Akjesty the Queen-Regent being acquainted with the representations made by the Ambassadors of their Ma,;;;;sties the King of the French and the King of Great Britain, relative to the circumstance of many subjects of those Powers residing in Spain having been included in the lists formed in this capital and other provinces for the pre sent recruitment (Quinta) of 50,000 men, has been pleased to resolve that you should inform their respective provincial deputations and ayuntamientos, that considering this being a measure opposed to the diplomatic treaty concluded with the said nations, they arc to abstain from including such individuals in this recruitment. I apprise you of this for your information and direction. God preserve you many years. Madrid, Dec. 18, 1836. To the Political Chief, &c. DEC. 24.—Letters from Vinaroz, of the 19th, state that the death of Cabrera is asserted by all the dispersed rebels arriving in that vicinity. Forcadelle has, therefore, pro hibited all mention of the fate of Cabrera under pain of death. The united band was on the 18th at Alcanar and Alderona, and on the 19th at Cerica, drawing rations, and collecting the dispersed to prepare for fresh incursions, which might be avoided if the column of Borso, in conjunction with the troops coming down from Rosselle, attacked them. The position of the right wing of the army of the North is as follows :—The divisions of General Iribarren is at Alcandre ; the French Legion at Lodosa ; C oun t Clonardi's brigade i n th e li ne o f te river Aro-a ; a squad ron of the regiment o f B our b on at Murillo. In La Rioja the best spirit prevails, and there is not a single rebel to be found in it. The first brigade of the Portuguese Auxiliary Corps and its cavalry entered Palentia on the 21st. The second brigade followed it next day ; the former having marched to Annesco, and the cavalry to Fromista in the direction of Reynosa. Barcelona letters from the 18th to the 21st represent the state of Catalonia as much changed within these three months. The rebels have suffered many defeats. Roy de Errolles, their most renowned Chief, Arbonez, whose ra pid marches and ferocity filled the Conca de Tremp with terror; Ramont and Llarch de Capons, who was well ac quainted with its localities ; and finally Grigset, was routed at Esplaza. These repeated disasters have abated their spirits and moral force, and caused an active pursuit, which makes those wretches expiate their crimes. Nor have we been less fortunate in the Ampurdan. The Chief 1.1% - lorca had one-fourth of his men killed. Nothing more is wanted but that the brigades of Aspirez and Niml io s h ou ld h unt T r i stany to death. (From El Castellano of the 29th.) INTELLIGENCE FROM THE ARMY. It appears indubitable that the Government has con ferred an active military command on General Saarsfield, and that he has accepted it. He is to lead a respectable corps of troops assembled at Pamplona San Sebastian, and, with the French Legion, is to operate against the centre of the rebels besieging Bilboa. Another, equally nume rous, is to act on the side of Orduna and Espartero, at Portugalette. Each of the three is said to be strong enough to beat the rebels. The Government provides the means, and we hope to have a most glorious campaign of it. God be with us all. Letters from Valencia of the 25th ult., state that the Carlists no longer show themselves in that province except in scattered bands. They are in the greatest misery. If they were vigorously pursued at the present moment; it would have the effect of completely destroying the remnant of their partisans and prevent them from again forming a numerous body. The Chevalier Metaxa, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis ter Plenipotentiary of the King of Greece, was yesterday evening admitted to an audience of her Majesty the Queen Regent, to whom he presented his credentials. He ad dressed the following speech to her " Madam,—At the moment that I have the honour of presenting to your Majesty a letter from the King of Greece, appointing me his Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of the Queen of Spain, your august daughter, I consider it my first duty to express the sentiments which actuate the monarch whom I have the honour to represent. King Otho has no stronger wish than that you should be fully convinced of his constant friendship, and of the ein cerc hopes he entertains for the glory and prosperity of your government. As far as regards me personally, I shall consider myself the happiest of men, if, by unwearied care, I can succeed in drawing closer those tics of friend ship which have been so fortunately established between Greece and Spain, and thus merit the exalted kindness of your Majesty, and justify the confidence of my Sovereign." The Queen-Regent was pleased t o gi ve th e f o ll ow i ng reply :—" The li ve ly satisfaction I experience in learning the affectionate sentiments of my august brother, the Xing of Greece, is not a little augmented by your being the in terpreter of his feelings of attachment to the throne of my daughter. On my part I entertain the most ardent wishes for the prosperity of your Monarch and of his people, and I shall exert myself on all occasions to consolidate those relations of amity and mutual interest which exist between the two nations."—Eco. It is said that General San Miguel has gone to Sara gossa, instead o f p rocee di ng t o Madrid, as he was directed. It is added that symptoms of disorder have manifested themselves in the former city, where the news of the no mination of General Quiroga as Captain-General has been badly received. —El _Mende. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 7.—This evening arrived the Repa Gobernadora steamer, Captain Leiot, front Sautttrider, which port she left on Tuesday ; she brings about forty invalids, and her information is highly creditable to thr... Queen % cause. The rout of the Carlists in their retreat from Bilboa was most complete ; and Durango is now exposed to the forces of Narvaez and Alaix, Which are con -,.!entrated at Vittoria ; to those of Espartero, reinforced by the Bilboa garrison ; and also the corps of Ribero, which is at Santander. A general movement is to be made upon the Carlists' head-quarters the moment the country, now impassable from the depth of the snow, will allow it ; and preparations were making to embark Ribero's corps, with some other choice troops, to be landed at San Sebastian, and from thence to advance with Evans's corps, under Evans's orders, upon Hernani. The Carlists were dispi rited, and in want of provisions and clothes, and money was short ; many desertions had taken pla ce f rom t h e i r force, and som e of the brigadier generals had fled into Prance. It was expected that two or three corps in front of San Sebastian would lay down their arms, now Bilboa had been relieved ; they had threatened to do so ; several mortars which the Carlists had buried in their retreat from Bilboa had been found and brought into the town. Eguia, the Carlist commander-in-chief, together with Lord Ranelagh, were both very nearly taken by the Christians. Evans's Legion could turn out 4,600 bayonets in good condition, and he had also 2,000 well-disciplined Spanish under his orders. The Reyna is in bad order, and must be discharged out of the service ; she sails to-night for the River. The Inconstant, :36, Captain Printr, had left Santander for Eng land.—Hampstiire GERJLINY. FRANKFORT, JAN. 2.—The Editor of the Oher Po amts Zeitung has received from the universally esteemed States man whcs , -3 name is signed to it, the following declaration, which he communicates to his readers with the greatest pleasure, as it is calculated to correct the reports in circula tion resnectinz Greece, which are so much at variance with each other:— If the un ,l : e rslgned did not loow from his own obber. I vat i rA the soured and tht o tie various. reports coneeplint OttZo-, ana the state of affaiil di 6 tohlained in public Jourpilr, an OrViihi (k.lopled from - the Hanoverian appeared in the supple monk ;36'2 of the Ober &Wilma Zeitri44s wthitA have surprised him more !toll. t tgv does. Theun dersigned wenV t.';'(!, refrained froin . taking notice of this airtitiA *hie.ll partly 'relatet • t`o sitbaiion; did no't believe', that b?" Utit the aegree ot''et•cdibility of R ( *Wl* he might (and for the sake of the '24od nlise ought to) contribute to a due appreciation of the whole—leaving further correction to it ft which will soon arist a h`e d'01 . 641 that what is stated in that art:rel'e t-,l`:,q. to his relation with the affairs of at'C'ae, and his views of them, is entirely destitute or truth ; that there is not, and never has been, any prohibi tion to the Bavarians returning from Greece, to publish what they have seen or learnt in that country, and that if the majority have considered such communications as out of their sphere, or inconsistent with their sense of duty, no inference can hence be drawn of the prejudice of Greece and its Government. (Signed) " A. F. VON MIEG, " Councillor of State to his Majesty the King of Bavaria." PORTUGAL. (From the Diario do Governo, Dec. 24.) LISBON.—A report from the Minister of Marine and Colonies to her Majesty represents the defective system ob served in the regulation of Portuguese merchantmen, and which has been the cause of serious inconveniences as has been respectfully represented by the Portuguese Consuls in Foreign Ports, and 'by divers authorities in the kingdom for the general interest of trade and of the shipowners, &c., it as proper to adopt speedy measures to prevent this in convenience, measures which are equally called for by the agents of the Portuguese nation, whose ships appear in fo reign ports in a most shameful state, in the respect of their papers. The Minister subjoins a decree—adopted by her Majesty—for keeping the ships papers in a more regular manner, with a model of the register to be kept, &c. Dte. 26. The _Mario contains the statutes of the Com pany of the Tagus and Sado, in 4 chapters and 53 articles. DEC. 27.—Her Majesty has appointed Commissioners to examine a plan proposed by Colonel Manoel Martini, for improving the navigation of the Tagus. The Conde de Taipa is President of the Commission. DEC. 28.—Don Joas Carlos Augusto Beynhausen, Mar quis of Elracati, having recovered his quality of Portuguese Citizen, her Majesty, desiring to make use of his known abi lity and long experience, acquired in the government of several colonies with which he has been entrusted, has ap pointed him Governor-General of Mozambique, in the room of Don Antonio Joao de Mello, who was appointed to that office on the 27th of October this year. DEC. 29.—A decree of her Majesty regulates the mode of effecting the levy of 8,700 men, mentioned in the de cree of November 25, conformably with a recommendation of the Viscount de Sada Bandeira. Her Majesty has resolved to appoint various :commissioners to assist the Government in its labours for the organization of the army. The decree concludes in the Diario of Dec. 30, and fills seven columns.—Diario, to Dec. 31 inclusive. BRAZILS. RIO DE JANEIRO, NOV. 11.—The Correia Official of this date, contains a notice from the Minister of Justice to the effect that—" Numerous robberies and murders being committed in this city, most of the perpetrators of which are not discovered and brought to justice, as for the sake of the laws and of society they ought to be ; the Regent, in the name of the Emperor, seeing with deep regret that such crimes are, as it were, unpunished, desires you to re commend to the justices of peace the greatest vigilance to discover the persons guilty of such atrocious crimes, and which so much contribute to demoralise a country where they are committed with impunity, and that as soon as a person said to have perpetrated any such crimes shall be taken, he shall be immediately tried in due form of law. The Regent most earnestly recommending this subject, hopes you will enforce it on the Justices of Peace, and re port any negligence on their part. A. D'AGUILAR PANTOGA, The Judge Chief of the Police. —Correia Official, Nov. 11. gliTtittiljtt ill 1404111_1 up the Palacio (as the house is called), they titvlAtbib la the confusion, have got into the city. I have only time to say that all the authorities, civil an.. military, hate waited noon Colonel Wylie and Captain Lapidge, to express their deep and grateful sense of the great exertions made by them and the Whole of the British officers and men of his Majesty's tessels, dtiring this tb- Markahic sieg e and that the inhabitanti of all clauses and • -- ' Tne national Guards ; ateconstant and energetic in a) isp ay itig their affection, if I may so express myself, for their Bri tish friends: The tjenerallin;.Chiet has written to the British Amhas- Satter at Madrid, reeptcsting that his Excellency will apply to the British GoVerntrient for permission for Colonel %Yvlde; his Britannic Majesty's Commissioner, Captain La• ecitimatiding the Ilifigdoi;e, Lietifenant Le Hardy, commanding the Saracen, and all the ofileefl of those two vessels ; to accept the Cross of the distinguished Order nj of isoikliA the Cotholit, is d OitittiOttill of the Queen's high sense of their invaluable services. The' fAti.t officers and men are to have (if permitted) the Order of Isabeliki which is generally gite.ti to meritorious Spanish sailors and soldiers. Colonel Colquhothi, etittithaticling the British loyal Artillery, and the officers under his colt - inland, are also recortittidoded for the Order of Isabella the Catholic. PRICES 01 , STOCKS THIS Rank :..4tock. Aiiii.l4... 2111 i! 3 per Cell% tied. ful S9S 3 per Cent, Cons ~..,......8:1A 914 !,; ,1 per Cent. ,• Si "Mt() fl - • ......:11 974 New :OA per Ceuf New s_per Cent Wink Long, Annultlesto expire Jan. 5, OCt Jan. 5. IPSO Jan. 5, EkS) . April 5, ......... .„ Jan. 5, 1870 , O:nnium 15% PRICES OF 1.OI;EICN FUNDS Austrian Pond's Ileigian Bonds— ......... 101 Ditto Accouut... ......... Bratilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Diu,. Account - Chillian Bonds Ditto Account . Columbian Bonds . I►itto Account. Columbian Bonds, ..... 27:ti 8 Ditto Account '''ne 8 Banish Bonds ... Ditto Account Greek 80nd5.... .. Ditto Bonds, 18 5 — Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Acconi • Ditto, 6 per cent Ditto Account ..... ........ Neapllitan ..... ....... ........... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Cata Branca Mining Company Great Western Railway Company 3O 48}6, London and Birmingham Railway Company 7O 140 London and Southampton Railway Company 3O 24% Manchester and Leeds Railway Company South Western Railway Company 1 0% PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, JANUARY 7. 3 per Cent. Consols SS% Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 894 Ditto Reduced — Ditto, 4 per cent — 3% per Cent. Stock.... 96% Hibernian Bank — Ditto New, 1830 96% i City of Dublin Steam C 0.......- 3t i per Cent. Debentures...— 90% !National Insurance Co — Bank Stock 261 , City Debentures, 4 per cent... Royal Canal Stock 3I Ballast Office Debentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock — per cent MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due 0 America.......... 1 3 France 0 3 Lisbon 0 I 8razi1....... ..... 0 0 Ousrii.&Jersey 1 0 Malta i Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg I oMex 1 co 0 0 Carthagena ..... 0 r) Holland 2 Dublin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica ...... .... 0 0 Sweden 0 1 Flanders HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. M0rnhig.....,...38 minutes after 4 I Evening...... 59 minutes after 4. HAMBURGH, Dzc. 12. ON approach of the COMMENCEMENT of JANUARY, all those who may have to write to us before that time, are requested to do so without delay, and to be particular in directing, HEINE BROTHERS, in HAMBURGH, and to observe, that a letter with one inclosure doubles the Postage only, but several inclosures would by far increase the same. Thus 101., 201., or 301., for instance, if remitted in One Bank of Eng land Note would only cause double Postage, but 101. remitted in two notes, would be liable to a much higher charge. It is there fore most advisable, for any Person having to remit Money to Ham burgh, to forwarl the amount in One Note; or having to receive Money from Hamburgh, to receive the same in One Note, when ever possible. Of course remittances from Hamburgh to England, surpassing the usual amount of One Bank of England Note, may rather be made in Bills of Exchange, on London. We request not to orerlolk these particulars. HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURGH. P. S. To persons having to remit 8/., on receiving a Ten Pound Note, we return Two Pound in the cheapest way possible. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 25 minutes past Three o' Clock. •41P 'i;11 v,‘4' LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1837. As the session approaches, the Reform Meetings in crease in number, and the Reformers in energy. De termination has succeeded to hesitation—hope to de spondency—confidence to distrust. The language now everywhere spoken, has ceased to be that of regret for the events of the past session ; it has changed to that of exulting anticipations of the forthcoming one. The Reformers now feel that the game is in their own hands, and are resolved, that that game shall not be lost by any coldness or distrust on their parts. Are we premature in hazarding this assertion ? Not so : for we have abundant warrant for it in the recent meeting at Bath, and the still more recent one at Glas gow. At both these places the popular voice has spoken out in language that there can be no mistaking. But will Ministers take heed to this warning voice ? We hope—nay, we are sure—they will, for interest not less than principle commands them to do so. The dinner given to Mr. OSWALD on Thursday last at Glasgow is, in its way, not a whit less impor ant or significant than that given to Messrs. ROEBUCK and PALMER at Bath. It speaks, trumpet-tongued, the sentiments of the vast body of Reformers. The language uttered was not that of violence, but of firm ness. There was no attempt made to influence the passions ; on the contrary, the speakers appealed wholly to the reason. Well, said Mr. OSWALD "situated as we are, with a House of Commons chosen as the present one is, something must be done to bring the Lords into harmony with them. ' Yes, and this something must be done promptly too, other wise the Reform Bill must be repealed.. 'Tis idle to talk of half measures ; the grievance must be boldly grappled with , and a corresponding remedy at once applied. Temporary expedients will but ward off the evil hour, whose approach is inevitable. But, fortu nately, we have no need to enlarge on this theme, for the country is fast waking to the conviction, that the existence of an irresponsible Chamber is incompa tible with Reform. The Lords have long enough sat in judgment on us, we now feel that it-has become our duty to sit in judgment on them. We ask nothing from them that is theirs; we gladly leave them in pos session of their stars and garters, robes and coronets, their black wands and their white wands—and much good may these baubles do them. We merely ask that they will not tamper with our rights, or take sit unhandsome advantage of the power which circumstances have given them. Let them act towards us in this spirit, and we seek not to meddle with them ; but let them play over again the game they played last session, and on their own heads fall the penalty of their rashness. Opinions are of slow growth in the minds of the People ; but once formed they are irrevocable. And what says popular opinion as respects the Lords ? Why just this, that they must promptly iTform themselves from within, or expect as promptly to be ref ormed from without. . The chief questions broached at the Glasgow dinner, were those of Peerage Reform —the Ballot—and Triennial Parliamentg, Now all these are sound prac tical subjects,. and to tthese accortljngly—riot forgetting BILBOA. DEC. 29.—The Carlist faction has experienced a mortal defeat ; a blow from which it cannot recover. The whole of the enemy's artillery has fallen into our hands ; it con sists of 28 guns, among which is the monster-mortar, as it is called, a 36. pounder, several 24 and 18-pounders, and the rest twelves, nines, and howitzers. The greater part of these are beautiful brass guns, with all their ammunition and appurtenances complete. The whole park of artillery, in fact, is taken ; the mules attached to the same are also in our possession, together with a quantity of military stores of every description, which are coming to light in the neigh bourhood daily. The quantity of gunpowder is very great. The official returns cannot be made out. There are 150 prisoners taken—among them nine officers, one of whom was aide-de-camp to the general of engineers ; besides there were a hundred wounded Carlists found in different houses at Oleaveaga, &c. Hitherto it has been impossible to ascertain the Carlist loss. It must, however, have been very severe ; the field of battle was strewed with their dead bodies and those of the Queen's soldiers. After their signal defeat the Carlists fled by Galdacana towards Durango. Eguia was asleep at his quarters in Oleaveaga when an officer brought him the intelligence that Las Ban deras was taken, and that the Queen's array was advancing. He flew into a violent rage, and ordered the officer to be shot, for having, as he persuaded himself, told him a false hood. He soon, however, found the report to be a true one, and fled upon the back of a mule, across the floating bridge opposite to San Mauros. Three Englishmen also slept at Oleaveaga on Christmas-eve ; from the description of the inhabitants I imagine one of them to have been Lord Ra nelagh, whose predictions in the various letters which have appeared in the Times have been proved to be incorrect, in a manner astounding to the Pretender, whose cause Lord Ranelaghespoused, to the astonishment of all those who know, as I happen to do, that he was received with hospi tality and kindness at San Sebastia❑ by General Evans ; and had every opportunity given to him, as a mere traveller and observer, which he stated himself to be, of knowing our strength at that station. But let that pass. The returns of the loss on' the Queen's side are not yet made up ; but it is calculated at about 900 ; of whom from 200 to 250 were killed. Among the latter was the brave Commandant Ulibarrena, who commanded the light companies d'elite during the daring attack on the night of the 24th. The Baron de Meer, and General Mendez Vigo were wounded, but not dangerously. Since the army entered Bilboa, the weather has been so extremely severe, that the streets and roads are almost im passable : the snow is several feet deep ; and it is a curious fact, that for the last six winters the snow has not laid on the ground. Notwithstanding these impediments, I have visited the batteries round the city, and the positions where the severest injury had been done, The defence made by by the national guards and garrison of Bilboa ) cannot by too highly praised. The national guards have had thirty nine killed and 90 wounded during the siege ; of the killed, eight ware officers belonging to the most respectable fami lies in Bilboa. The whole loss in killed and wounded is estimated at nearly a thousand. The hostile batteries were many of them within half-pis tol shot of each other, and at the entrance at the suburb of Zendeca, the Augustine Convent, and a large house called El Palacio, the former occupied by the Carlists, and the latter by the Queen's soldiers, are not more than ten yards apart. In that vicinity it was that the trioSt desperate at tempts of the Carlists .Wcri4 t*.tt.t., and that the greatest slaughter t 94 blftte. 'Cho whole street of Zendeca i s corn fActZly destroyed ; the ruined walls of the houses are knocked through and through with cannon balls, and you can only reach Old Convent over heaps of ruins, A very remarkable incident occurred at this convent, which is within ten yards of the large house, where the out pickets of the Queen's were. One night, about a fortnight ago, the sentinel, a young Oaliciati recruit, heard an un usual noise, like persons working or knocking_ at intervals at some heavy object With a large hamtner, He mentioned it to his officer ; more attention was paid to the sounds, which became now perceptible. The circumstance having been reported, to the proper authorities; the Chief Engi neer and other officers attended, and it apiicared clear that the enemy were making a mine from the Augustine Con ven to the house. Immediately a countermine was com menced, and as it advanced the surmises which hard been formed were realised : the miner was distinctly heard at his work, and the countermine was proceeded with with due caution. At length, after several days, the end of the Carlist miner's crow-bar was thrust through the, thin parti tion of earth which remained between him and the Chti§tino delver —th e latter caught hold of the bar and endeavoured to pull it through ; the Carlist supposing, no doubt, that the stop to his bar arose from its having got hitched between two stones, or something of that sort, worked it from side to side, in order to extricate it. The Christine held on, and worked with him, until the aperture having become suffi ciently large, he gave one strong pull at the crow-bar, wrested it from the hands of the Carlist, threw it behind him, 'and thrusting a blunderbuss which he had for his pro tection into the hole, fired at the scared miner, who was killed, and the enemy's plan frustrated. Had the Carlists . DAY Al UNE O'CLOCK. fndia Sto&k Ditto . ~,,, . ...H 14 12 pm. south Sea Oktmek - Old Annuities , New DittO 13 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 11114,11,1100,....,23 21 24 pm. 113itto • 5(10..4 ! Ditto Small I Ditto Commercial 16 13 pin. VitW Advertised-- ....... pm Bank Stock for Acc0unt........ 211 India Stock for Acc0unt........ ( Consols for Account 90% 1 I,oi THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Minds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds 19 20 19 1 /, Ditto Accoin.t. Ditto New Bonds .. — Ditto Account 4Bl 56 8 Ditto, 3 per cent 3l Pruisian Bonds Russian Bonds, 1822 IO9N Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, IR3I ris% 6 534 Ditto Account 25; 6 f)! French, 5 per cent.......... —l. —e. 4 per cent. —f. —c. 2 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange — f —c. Dutch, N per cent. 54' 4 3414 Ditto Account 5 1144 Ditto, 51}er cent 102304 Ditto Account ~~ the claims of poor Ireland—we should bend cur whole attention. We should agitate them dailr, and brill , them before the public mind in as many forms as pos ..cinecially at the present m omen t, w h en sible, more speculation is busy with the ,7 vents of the approa c hi ng session. 'Tis sound doctrine to strike w, t '.. l e2 the iron is hot ; ritttl tiolY is the time to impress on Minister:' the necessity of making the Ballot and Triennial Par liament open questions—now, while opinion is so loud and so general in their behalf. Sir JOHN MAXWELL, who was the chairman of the Glasgow Dinner, made many pertinent and forcible remarks on the all-engrossing subject of Reform. Sir JOHN is a steadfast, trustworthy Liberal ; one who neither precedes, nor lags behind, his age. He is Reformer, not from fashion, but from principle ; hence he can give reasons for the faith that is in him. We sec that he is about to stand for Renfrewshire. We trust he vv.!! by successful ; for his addren, which we have read, breathes a fine ? frank, manly spirit. He does not mince matters, or toll> in ambiguous hustings' phrase ; but states boldly and unequivocally, what he is, and what he is not. He is no trimmer — no manifesto-mongering Tory--no waiter on the chap ter of acc - dents—but a Reformer of the honest, down right school—an advocate for triennial Parliaments — for an extension of the suffrage—and for clapping a muzzle on the incorrigible House of, Peers. Thus re commended, the worthy Baronet cannot fail to suc ceed with the Renfrewshire Reformers. The attempt on the part of a few hot-headed Irish Tories to revive the defunct Orange Societies in the sister kingdom," has turned out a complete failure. We were told some time ago in the magniloquent lan guage which that tiny party generally employs, and which contrasts so beautifully with its 'own insignifi cance, that the new Association—nick-named " Pro testant"—was to throw into the shade all the asso• ciations, confederacies, and combinations, that ever were formed to support the grand principle of " ascendancy." Not only were all the members of the old lodges to be re-incorporated under a new name, but every Protestant in Ireland, whether Epis copalian, Presbyterian, Independent, Baptist, or Quaker, was to rally round an institution possessing so remarkably national a character T. Well, what has been the result of all this prognosti cating gasconade ? A meeting thinly attended, and shirked by every person of importance—we might even say, respectability—belonging to the party, was held in Dublin many months ago, by way of giving the tone to the country. The little influence that such a meeting might have had, was de stroyed by the appearance on the platform of that pious vagabond O'SULLIVAN, who never fails to damn every cause on which he fastens himself, and of whose OKertions on that occasion some of his friends showed their sense by not reporting a single word of a two hours' oration delivered by the said O'SULLIVAN. We have heard little or nothing of the " Protestant Association" since that time. No branch associations that we are aware of have been formed. A general disinclination seems to have prevailed among the Tories to connect themselves with the new adventure, and a complete damper has been thrown upon the hopes of the mischievous gang who originated the scheme. That this is the true state of the case,. and no fan ciful or over-charged picture of ours, is as clear as day light—as clear as the confession of the mouth-pieces of the. clique can make it. At a meeting held the other day at a place called Omagh in the county of Tyrone, for the purpose of formino , a County Conser vative Association, and at which the Marquis of ABERCORN, a Scotch Lord distinguished for the amount of his wealth and the thickness of his scull, presided, there were grievous lamentations uttered over the lukewarmness of the Protestants in this good cause. The Rev. GREY PORTER let out the truth in a speech delivered at this meeting. The Rev. Gen tleman insisted very strongly that there was nothing but union, determination, and every thing that there should be, among Protestants of all denomi nations, adding, with immovable gravity of counte nance, that " Strong delusion seems for the moment to have overtaken some men of renown—men of reputed understanding—men of stake, who have hoisted neutral colours, afraid to unite themselves with C o nservatives—afraid to shake hands with the Radicals—too honest to betray us with a kiss, and too proud to associate with Republican Repealers. Let them beware—their case is directly the contrary of Conservative, for their neutrality is hatching eggs which will destroy themselves.—(Hear.) Such tem porising' policy—such coquetting and indecision, is not suited to the spirit of the age—the march of intel lect." This is,no doubt; very encouraging to the Tories, and a sure and certain sign of indissoluble union I On Thursday last, the respectable and influential inhabitants of Belfast and its vicinity gave a public dinner to Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, M.P., in tes timony of their approbation of the straightforward con duct of that Hon. Gentleman. Mr. CRAWFORD has, unquestionably, great claims upon the gratitude of the Irish people ; and if he continue in the course which he is now pursuing, those claims will ex tend to every other portion of the empire. By waiving minor differences . of opinion among them selves—by carefully eschewing whatever threatens to disunite the reformed interest—by advancing in a body, and with determined energy, whenever a great point is to be carried—and, above all, by presenting a firm front to the Tories, can the Liberals only hope to achieve for the people the blessings of good govern ment. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, in the course of his recent misunderstanding with Mr. O'CONNELL, has shown that he is capable of sacrificing his private feel. ings upon the altar of public good, and thereby proved himself worthy of the confidence which the country reposes in him. But what we most admire in his con duct is the oal with which he advocates the right of the poor to relief from the soil. His manly and con sistent advocacy of a Poor-law for Ireland, is sufficient to entitle him to the respect of all, who desire to promote the real happiness of the oppressed and famished population of that coun try. As he has made this question in some measure his own, the people of England expect from him un remitting exertion in bringing it before Parliament. The sympathies in his favour are confined to the par tizans of no faction or party. They pervade the breasts of all who have reflected deeply upon the chief causes of Irish misery and degradation. The whole of the French Papers of Thursday, Fri day and Saturday, have been received. The Moni teur continues to publish congratulatory addresses to King Louis PHLLIPPE on his providential delive rance from the attack of the assassin MEIJNIER. The Paix contains the following paragraph respecting this affair : " It is now positive that Meunier has made important disclosures. He belonged to several secret societies, and his name appears in the lists found at the residences of Blanqui and Lamieusseus. We are even assured that in these lists four persons named Meunier appear to be in scribed, one of them with the Christian names of Fr. Pierre. The last of these names, however, is not perfectly legible ; the initial-P. alone is distinctly written. We arc now war ranted in believing that the object of these secret societies was regicide ; and, as this presumption is.justified by the appearance of a regicide's name in the lists found in the possession of men condemned by a Court of Assizes, and proved to have belonged to secret societies, the Government would burthen itself with a serious responsibility, were it to neglect applying to the Chambers for preventive measures to counteract the horrid machinations of such associations." The prospect which this statement exposes to the Royal Family of France is indeed frightful. No vigi- lance on the part of the Government can protect the life of the KING, if the design to assassinate him be so extensively ramified. The police may seize and de capitate the actual conspirators, but that cannot destroy the motives tthigh induced them to associate for the commission of such a crime ; consequently a host of fartatiqs, equally regardless of life, will take their places. These be strengthened by the sympathies of the relatives of those who shall have been pot to death, and vvho, to revenge what they will regard as personal wrongs, will countenance every attempt to destroy the KING'S life. In what way, then, would we recommend the Go vernment to act ? Confine the guilty for life in some lunatic asylum—treat the accused as idiots, as mad men, and not as regicides. Cutting off heads is not the best way to teach a discontented people to respect the laws. To prevent the recurrence of such crimes, King Louis PHILIPPE must restrict himself to the discharge of those duties which appertain to the office of a constitutional Monarch. Let him rest content with maintaining . the dignity of a constitutional King, and leave to his Minisi:rs the real direction of those affairs for which the nation is disposed to hold them responsible. In the Journal from which we have copied the above respecting MEUNIER, we find the following paragraph : " Amidst the various reports which have transpired re lative to the discussions of the Committees on the Address, there is one which appears to present a singular character of gravity. 'I be subject under consideration related to Constantine ; the Ministerial Members produced docu— ments to prove that all the demands made by Marshal Clausel for men and money had been satisfied, and that the Ministers of the 6th of September bad in this respect more than fulfilled the engagements of their predecessors. An ne-Minister of the C a binet of the 22d of February warmly supported the contrary opinion, and to give authority to his argumects, in a moment of forgetfulness, drew from his pocket an official document, which he had inadvertently taken from the archives of the Administration. This act created a strong s ensation. The ex-Minister instantly felt the full force of his imprudence, and offered to restore the document. It was at first refused, but eventually accepted, after a minute of the date s, place, and circumstances of its et i s dorsed on the document. On return had been carefully Tuesday evening, at the Chate,;u, an eminent functionary, who is in the habit of misconstruing every action, took this business in a serious light, and designated it as a crime, and as a mis-employment of public documents." The' ex-Minister" alluded to above is M. TRIERS, late President of the Council. The doctment pro duced by him was a letter addressed to himself by Marshal CLAUSEL, and which, the ex-Minister con tended, was written to him in his private capacity. The " eminent functionary" referred to is M. DuPnr, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and in right of office a member of the Committee for drawing up the Address. He insisted on placing the letter in the Ministerial archives, with instructions to furnish M. THIERS with a copy of it. After the close of the sitting, he proceeded to the Tuileries, and informed the KING of what had occurred. It is said that his MA JESTY was greatlyincensed against the ex-Minister, and complained bitterly of his ingratitude. But be this as it may, M. TRIERS quite disconcerted the Ministerial Members of the Committee. M. BERNARD and M. GASPARIN were struck speechless by the severity of his attacks upon them. Count MOLE tried to throw all the blame of the reverses before Constantine upon his immediate predecessors in office, which led to the intro duction of the letter already spoken of. This silenced the Ministerialists. The truth could not be denied, and therefore an outcry was raised about M. TRIER:.'' means of possessing himself of such a document. What else is of moment in these Journals will be found in our extracts from them. The battles in the Chamber of Deputies will commence upon the bringing up of the Address. In the meantime, the Ministers are busy bringing in Bills, with a view to draw over the waverers, to support them in their struggle for the retention of office. t news from either the capital We have no importan. or the north of Spain. In the extracts from the Royal Decrees for the Ma drid Journals, will be found . regulation of commercial interco:use between Spain and Mexico, and for exempting British subjects, resi dent in Spain, from compulsory service in the army. Some interesting details are given of the stl ate of Bil boa, from the correspondence of a person on the spot. Southey, the Poet Laureat, has been for some time engaged on a tour among his early friends in the west of England. He has not visited London for more than two years, but he is expected to pass a short time in the metro polis on his return from Devonshire, towards the end of January. As the North Devon coach was proceeding from Southrnolton to Bideford, on Tuesday night, it came in con tact with a cart, in which were Mr. Doun and Mr. Brealey, both farmers of Wymbridge. The cart was upset by the violence of the concussion, and both of its passengers were thrown out. Mr. Brealey was killed on the spot, and Mr. Doun so injured that little hopes are entertained of his re covery.—North Devon Gazette. A deplorable event occurred at Trowbridge on Thursday a ft ernoon , Several boys , from 12 to 17 , were imprudently s lidi n g on the river, near Cradle-bridge, when five became ingulfed to a very deep stream ; two were got out alive, two others dead; and a third on Friday morning. The death of the Duke of Montrose puts an end to the sinecure of Justice-Genesral in Scotland. This no minal office has been worth to his trace, from first to last, about 70,000/. There seems to be some ,doubt as to who ought to succeed his Grace as Chancellor o the Univer sity of Glasgow. The nearest to his Grace, fo,. his merits in connection with our judicial system, is Sir A rchibald Campbell, of Succoth. The Professors ought to elect him by all means.—Glasgow Argus. HAUBURG, DEC. 28.—0 n the coast of Ripen a scaled bottle was washed on shore on the 10th inst., con taining the following note :—" 'Sarah, off Valparaiso. We are wrecked ; crew 31, passengers 14. General Phips and family are already washed overboard. This, please the Al m i g h ty -, will be the first announcement of this wretched shipwreck and loss of life. When this may be found, let it be noticed. [The signature (one syllable) not legible.] Capt., Sarah." _ _ _ CANA OF GALLILEE.—This place, called by the Arabs Keifer Keema, is now a poor little village, but pos sessing. the purest and most delicious water possible she b est, the Chris tians of Palestine say, in the world. From it were the vessels filled for the marriage. The house is still shown in which the miracle was performed ; and seine earthen jars are sun k into the floor, which devout searche r s for relics are made to believe were the very jars in us e on that day. A church w as built over the spot, whi c h, lik e all others of a simila r purpose, is in ruins. Some travellers have fancied that the same sort of water-pot is carried by the viymen now. We were not so fortun a t e a s to witness the ceremDDY of i drawing water ; but none so large, at any rat e , can be still n use. There are very few inhabitants in Cana ; and it is, like other places, nearly washed away by th e rain and snow.—lllajor Skinner. The sale of the Mancitifster Times, from the altera tionp of the stamp duty on newsp'.a son the 17th of Sep tember, to the 31 st of December, ,eing a period of sixteen weeks, was 60 , 160 being an averag e of 3,7 , 6 . 0 for . each pub lication. Hereafter, the distinctive die, woich we earnestly recom mended, will put this beyond doubt,—Manchester Times. The attention of the people in this neighbotJhond , continues to be very much occupied with the county %Ace. tion. Both parties are fully on the alert, and both speak with confidence- of their prospects of success. It rs expected that the election will take p l ace in abou t a fortnight from this date, as the writ is said to be returnable by the 25th of this month.—Greenock Advertiser. Mr. Scotland Black, o f L e ith, was drowned iii Lochend on Thursday, the 29th ult. Mr. B. waas in the constant habit of walking or riding before breakfast. On the morning of the day men tioned, he went to Lochend, and incautiously venturing on the ice alone, it gave iVtIY, when unfortunately be sunk, never again to rise. Our sessions list both for town and county, presents a serious amount of crime and pun ishment.---Nottingham Review. THE NEW COMIC PF:RIODICAL—THE HUMOUR. IST.—The plan recommended by Mr. Hook, of incorpora ting this new comic work of Mr. Colburn's with the " New Monthly Magazine," has proved a most judicious one. The demand for the January Number of the " New Monthly" haying been far greater than could be satisfied. A new edition is now, however, on sale at the various booksellers. - This day is published, in 2 vols. Bvo., price 245. in cloth, THE AMERICANS, in their Social, Moral, and Political Relations. By FRANCIS J. GRUND. " The author must at once be allowed an acquaintance approach ing familiarity with the matter he handles ; his thoughts on politics are liberal, just, and comprehensive ; he gives the most complete and extended view of American character we have yet met with in a single work ; and his style is clear and flowing."—Spectator. London ; Longman, Rees, Qrme, and Co. •