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which I was authorised to select and cause to be purchased, have all haen designated ; but, the appropriation not prov ing iMI:c ;int, conditional arrangements only have been made t ot their acquisition. It is for Congress to decate whether thole conditional purchases shall be sanctionefi, and tele humane intentions of the law carried into full effect. The navy, as will appear from the accompanying report of the Secretary, 1t been usefully and honourably em ployed in the protection of o ur c ommerce and c iti zens i n the M e diterranean, the Pacific, on the coast of Brazil, and in the Gulf of Mexico. A small squadron, consist ins, of the frigate Constellation and the sloop-of-war Bos too, under Commodore Kearney, is now on its way to the China and Indian seas, for the purpose of attending to o r interests in that quarter; and Commander Aulick, in the sloop-of-war Yorktown, has been instructed to visit the Sandwich and Society Islands, the coasts of New Zealand and Japan, together with other ports and islands frequented by our whale-ships, for the purpose of giving them countenance and protection, should they be required. Other smaller vessels have been, and still are, employed in prosecuting the surveys of the coast of the United States, air ctcd by varous Acts of Congress ; and those which have been completed will shortly be laid before you. The Exploring Expedition, at the latest date, was pre paring to leave the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, in far ti.or prosecution of objects which have thus far been suc cessfully accomplished. The discovery of a new conti nent, which was first seen in lat. 66 2 S., ton. 154 27 E., and afterwards in lat. 66 31 S., lou. 153 .40 E., by L'eu tenants Wilkes and Hudson, for an extent of eighteen hundred miles, but on which they were prevented from landing by vast bodies of ice a Lich encompassed it, is ore of the honourable results of the enterprise. Lieut. Wilkas bears testimony to the zeal and good conduct of his °di cers and men ; arid it is but justice to that officer to state, that he appears to have performed the duties ria,igned to biro with an ardour, ahlite, and perseverance which assurance of au honourable issue to the under_ siaa e s. The renort of the Postmaster-General, herewith trans mitted, will exhibit the service of that department the past year, and its present c ondition. The transportation has be en maintained during the year to the foil extent autho rised by the existing laws—soma impsovements have been tffectsrl rahich the public interest seemed urgently to de mand, but not involving any material additional expendi trier ; the contractors have generally performs:l their en gagements with fidelity ; the postmasters, with few excep tions, have rendered their accounts and paid their quar. tsrly balances with promptitude ; and the whole service of the department has maintained the efficiency for winch it has for several years been distinguished. The Acts of Congress establishing new mail routes, and requiring more expensive services on others, and the in creasing wants of the country, have for three years past carried the expeniitures something beyond the accruing revenues ; the excess haying been met, until the past year, by the surplus which had previously accumulated. That bu. plus having been ( xhmsted, and the anticipated in crease 'n the revenue not having been realized, owing to the depression in the commercial business of tire country. the finances of the Department exhibit a small thticieney at th close of the last fiscal year. Its res iurces, however, are ample; and this reduced rates of compensation fer the transportation service, %chic) may be expected on the future lettings, from the general reduction of prices, will the increase of Revenue that may reasonably be antici pated ft em the revival of commr rjal activity, must so or place the finances of the department in a prosperous con dition. Considering the unfavourable circumstances which have existed during the past year, it is a gratifying result that the revenue has not declined, as compared with the preceding year, but, on the contrary, exhibits a small in crtta,e, the circumstances referred to haviug had nu (ALr eff e t than to check the expected income. It will be seen that the Postmaster- General suggests certain improvements in the estitV;,limcrit. designed to reduce the weight of the mails, cheapen the transportat o 1, ensure greater regularity in the servicr2, and secure a con siderable ic:itsetion in the rates of letter postage—an ob ject highly desirable. The subject is one of general in terest to the community, and is respectfully recommended to your consideration. Tee suppression of the African slave trade has received the continued attention of the Government. The brig Dolphin and schooner Grampus have been employed during the last season on the coast of Africa, for the purpose et' preventing such portions of that trade as was said to he p:osecuted under the American flag. After cruizing olf those parts of the coast must usually resorted to by slavers, until the cJmniencoment of the rainy season, these vessals returned to the United States for supplies, and have since been despatched on a similar service. From the repurts of the commanding officers, it appears that the trade is now principally carried on under Portu guese colours, and they express the °pit - lien' that the ap prehension of their presence on the slave coast has, in a great degree, arrested the prostitution of the American flag to this inhuman purpose. It is hoped that, by con tinuin,g to maintain this force in that quarter, and by the exeitions of the officers in command, much will be done to put a stop to whatever portion of this traffic may have been carried on under the American flag, and to prevent its use in a trade which, while it violates the laws, is equally au outrage on the rights of others and the feelings ut Tile efforts of the several Governments who are anxi ously seeking to suppress this traffic must, hov.ever, be directed against the facilities afforded by what are now re eugniied as legitimate commercial pursuits, before that object can be fully accomplished. Supplies of provisions, water-casks, merchandise, and articles connected with the pra.iecution of the slave-trade, are, it is understood, freely cal-1.1,A by vessels ~.f Intiitot,ut oations to the slave factories; and the effects of the factors are transported openly from one slave station to another, without interruption or pu nishment by either of the nation.; to which they belong, engaged in the commerce of that region. I submit to your judgments whether this Government, baying been the first to prerli6it, by adequate penalties, the slave trade—the first to declare 1, piracy—should not be the first, also, to forbid to its citizens all tradu with the slave factories on the coast of Africa gis ing an example to all nations in this respect, which, if fairly followed, cannot fail to produce the most effective results in break, ing up thos , dens of iniquity. , . M. VAN BUREN. Wusbingtou, December 5, 1840. DEATH OF SCOTT, THE DIVER (PURTIIER PARTICULARS.) Fur sonic time past bills had been pasted about the town, tile following of which is a copy : " Challenge to the world.—On Mouday next, January I I, 1841, and during the week, Sam Scott, the American diver, will run front Harry Godfrey's, the White Lion, Drury-lane, Wateiloo-bridge, and leap into the water, a height of 40 feet, and return back to the house within the hours of one and two. P. S.—S. S. will be in attendance daily at the above house, open to any wager." In consequence of such announcement, Waterloo-bridge anci every approach thereto was densely crowded on Mon day, and at a few minutes after two o'clock, Scott ar_ riv, rt. when he was greeted with the plaudits of thou sands of tee-tons, who had assembled to witness his ex ploit. He was dressed in a pair of canvas: trousers and blue check shirt, basing on his head e. silk handkerchief. lle wore {wither shoes, stockings, t:or other article of ,soperel Os his arrival he appeared as confident as usual, :sad asceridieg a ladder placed against a scaffolditig, erected over the second arch of the eridge, on the Middli sex Side. tied his handkerchief, which he took from his head, to use ref the upright poke, and then affixed a lope to the top cross pose. Coaling down again, he festehed sonic tat money-boxes to tee scaffolding, and re. anerkieg, " \Vi.y, you all seem cranky," went up the ladder He then placed his head within the rope, and swats for a few seconds, after which he strung with his ieet uppermost. Having done that he r e gai ne d th e l a dd er , and exclaiming, " Now I'll dance olice inure upon air be fore 1 dive," placed its head for a second time within the rope, and swung himself off. In that position he remained about five minutes, wtan nut being observed to move fears were entertained that something had happened to him, and kaife was called fur to cut him down, but some seconds .elapsed before ene could be obtained, when a person named Brown ran up the ladder, and dividing the rope extricatud I, ni Mr. Havers, surgeon, of York-road, Lambeth, and another medical gentle han, who were near the spot, rushed fora/aid and opened the jugular v e i n , f rom w hi ch b ut a few drops of blood flowed, andia all appearances he was dead. 1 .1, wa s, however, immediately placed in a cart, and con .4cycd to Chaaing-cross Hospital by some of the F divi on the sp o t, w h en i t was , sion o f po li c e, who were on duty foetid that life was not quite extinct. Every exertion, un d er the superintendence of Dr. Golding, senior p h ys i_ cian to t h e h o spital, was made to restore animation, first by electrifying bins, next by cupping, and lastly by p l ac i ng hint iu a warm bath, in which be had only been a few se *c°lds when it was discovered that he had ceased to exist. IDeceased was about thirty years of age, and was a flee ena e 'l muscular y cast a gloom over those who had re viously seen inclancho-171anieflitntiudile:nnt . no through his performances, and had a pre iusly Cfl h im go through his perfcrtnanccs, and had a tt r itred yesterdayto e knees a repetition of them. It having b e ers generally rumoureetlthat deceased was is a his death occurred, it is state of intoxication at t he due to say that it lias heenti ln ascer tained beyond doubt that such w as no t the fact, but Let h accident is to be solely attributed to the slipping o of a knot in the noose from under his chin in such a Mannar us to c.:.tl - s e suffocation. The sensation created by the untimely fete of this un fortunate man w ill pro b a bly ren d e r a few a parti c ulars rela tive In hi s life and career not unacceptabla to the public, d the principal p ort i on b e i ng co ll ec t e d front the deceased himself, may add to the interest. The story that he was not an American, but a native of Deptford, is untrue. Scott, according to his own showing, was born at Phila . eielphia, in the united States, and at an eat ly age entered the American navy, and served on board several frigates, in whieb be commenced his daring feats as a diver, by jumping from the topmasts of the vessels he served in into the sea. His extraordinary courage and prowess as a diver rendered hint very popular, and after quitting the naval service ho travelled about the Union, exhibiting, and col- I ectea a g ood deal of money as the rew ar d o f hi s dar i ng. partieulat ly in the cities of New York, Boston, an d Palk_ n e iphia, He subsequently visited Canal:, an d made sonic tremendous leaps from the banks of the St. Lase_ which intersect that errantry ; but hi s Tepee and the lak es was from a precipic e below the sthei d'oeuvre A s to leap in g when, according . tr!liis ow n state Fulle of the Niagara, zing cl.stenee of 093 feet i n t o t h e anent, he jumped the ante ,water, which he accompeae _ i; 1 al without injury or inconve nience. Incredible as this f ea t may appear, Scott s o ng ' hotly averred that he had performed if .nit' arid was willing could be found ' o' to attempt it again in this country, a -e9 sufficient altitude for tine Ile has been in Eng purpose. - nearly all land upwards of t we l vemont h s , and has visited • the seaports, and h as t a k en some astonislonea leaps in the Isle of Wight and Pembroke Dockyard. We first heard of him in London about three or four months ago, when he made several leaps from the top-gallant mast of a collier .brig moored off the Town-pier at Gravesend. He next came up to Deptford, and jumped front the masts ati: a large Amurican ship. Upon one of these occa linens an accident befel him similar to that which termi nated fatally on Monday. lie was going through his usual antics, such as clinging cith his test to the spars, J and letting his head hang down, fixing his head in a noose, &c., when the noose suddenly slipped tight, and he hung su,pended. The spectators thinking this merely one of his ordinary feats, vociferously applauded him, when it was perceived that he was turning black in the face, and an alarm was raised that the diver was strangling. A moment afterwards Scott made a desperate effort to extri cate himself, by flinging his feet up aloft, and managed to loosen the rope and get his neck out. In answer to the in quiries of the crowd below, as to whether he was injured— Scott replied in the negative, exclaiming, " The hemp that is to hang me is not grown yet." It is a singular fact that the subscripain in his behalf among the spectators amounted to nearly double upon this occasion to what it had done before. Tisis is a striking illustration of the de praved taste of sight-lovers in England, for the greater the danger the more liberal arc they in their rewards. LOSS OF THE THAMES STEAMER ON THE SCILLY ISLANDS. [FURTHER PARTICULARS.] News was received in Liverpool yesterday morning of the loss of the steamer Thames, Captain Grey, ply ing between London and Dublin, on the rocks of Rose vere, one of the Silly Islands, yesterday week, and of the destruction of the captain, crew, 14 passengers, and a number of recruits, making a total of at least 60 souls ! We have been favoured with two accounts of this deplorable event, the former being the substance of accounts received in this town from various quarters, and the letter being an extremely interesting account from the pen of a gentleman residing in the Island of St. Mm y. They are as follows : We regret to have to state the loss of the steamer Thames, on the morning of Monday, the 4th inst. on the Scilly Island rocks. it would appear, from the situation in which the hull of the Thames was placed, and from the statement of the man who was saved, that the com mander had mistaken the Scilly Lights for those of the Long-ships : the commander, Grey, expecting the vessel would have floated next tide, as she made no water, re 'named on board, keeping the other boats of the vessel by him. It appears that several of the crew, having tuk,Ji one of the boats, left the vessel, but the Captain having prevailed on them to return and take the three females who were on board, they did so, when a number of recruits having jumped in, the boat was swamped, ar.d all List. A shore boat then came to the vessel, and the three fern des were taken from her by means of booming the boat (A . so as to prevent a similar accident from a rushing of the other persons on board. The vessel went on the rocks about five o'clock in the morning, after a tremendous night of snow squalls and much lightning-. A strong north-east wind setting in wiih the flood tide, and the vessel having unfortunately listed to windward, from being smooth water a heavy sea arose, and the vessel was lost with those that remained on board, including the Captain, remainder of the crew, four cabin passengers, and eleven deckers, with seine recruits. " St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, 6th January, 1841. " Gentlemen,—l beg the liberty of sending you an account of the total loss of the Thames steamer, of Dub• lin, which sailed from that port for Plymouth and Lon don on Saturday afternoon the 2d instant, with a gene ral cargo, and sixty-five souls on board including crew and passengers, and dreadful to relate, only four persons save - d. From the evidence of the survivors, taken be fore a jury, summoned this day, to inquire into the death of those bodies lound on shore, which at present amount to nine men and one woman, it appears that the ship was a great way out of her course, and when she made the Scilly Light mistook it for that of the Long•ship Light at the Land's End. The seaman saved says the Light was in sight when he came on deck at 4 a.m. (of Monday the 4th inst.) but how long the light bad been seen previous he could not say, and that the other sailors said it was the Long•ship's Light, but about half an hour after she shipped a sea that filled her, and stopped the engines ; they then discovered the rocks around them, and that it must be Scilly ; the captain had sail put on her, the ship became quite unmatiagt able, and about five o'clock struck on some rocks near an unin habited island called Rosevere. A boat from St. Agnes, the nearest inhabited island, went to the ship, at imminent risk, and succeeded in taking off the wreck a Miss Morris, one of the passengers, and the two stew ardesses ; the boat dared not near the ship fearing a rush from those on board, they had therefore to draw the females through the sea by a rope fastened round the waist one end on board the ship—the other end the boatmen had ; this was about half past eight o'clock a.m., and shortly after a very heavy hail storm came on, w hen all hopes vanished of having any more assist ance from slime ; the flood set in, and the wind in creased to a heavy gale, with very severe hail storms from N.E. to E. N.E., the boat which had the survivors on board, and another boat attempting to make the ship were both nearly lost, the former was not found till some hours alter by a large pilot boat, when the people were taken on board and the boat towed into St. Ag nes ; the scene of the wreck is about three miles to the N.V. of that island. The ship had only two boats ; one was stove in by a sea, the other some recruits gut into, and lowered her into the water beturn any on board were aware of it ; two gentlemen jumped tur her, but jumped short, sank, and were seen no mere ; the recruits not being able to manage the boat, she soo❑ filled, went down, and they also soon perished. Thus were sixty or seventy human creatures left without any means of saving them selves, and in such a dangerous place, three miles from any inhabited island, and, after nine o'clock, a.m. no hope whatever of any assistance from the shore. The seaman saved states that about ten a.m. the quarter deck began to give way (all under water forward), when the captain with about twenty more got into the main rigging. They were not long there before the main mast went overboard, and all soon perished, either by drowning, or killed by the fall. At this time there were many more on the quarter-deck, when about eleven o'clock it was lifted up in a body by the sea, and afterwards separated into several pieces, en one of which this sailor stood with seven more fel low-creatures ; four only besides himself reached the island, Rosevere, a short distance from the wreck), the others were washed off whilst floating between the wreck and the shore ; when the raft reached shore, they were all washed off by a heavy sea, the man saved fortunately got hold of a rack, held titl the sea receded, and then scrambled a little higher up till he found he was safe ; he then looked round for the others, but never 5 , 1 W thou). He soon began to look for shelter for the night, when shortly he found a porter barrel ; he knocked in the head, and crept into it, otherwise he would likely have perished of cold, the night (Monday) being very severe. Next morning, by break of day, he was taken off, as were also the dead bodies of seven men anif one woman ; two other dead bodies were ►eft :hat day, (Tuesday .sth) in consequence of the wind freshening, and a heavy sea round the rocks. The two bodies lett yesterdly were brought to th:s is:dud to day, (IVednesday), the other eight were brought yes. terday. The stewardess recognised the bodies of Jack, (the steward), a seaman, Griffiths, a stoker, name un known, another seaman, named Quin, or Quinlan, be longed to Dublin ; another seaman, name unknown, and one recruit. The female was the wife of a soldier, who also perished, as did also the infant which the mei thLr was suckling. 'lnc names of those saved are a Miss Morris, whose father perished on board, a Mrs. Aly.rs, first cabin stewardess, Mary Gregory, second cabin stewardess, and J. Kearness, " Unfortunately for this shipwreck, ail the large pilot boats were high and dry when they would have been of vast service ; for, had they been all Alt, they, early in the morning—say from seven till nine o'clock—in all likelihood would have saved every soul, as they are large enough, and could have received the passengers and cre.v from the smaller boats as they took them from the ship, but this could not have been done later than half pa•t eight or nine o'clock. It Las been a most heart rending shipwreck. The frantic cries of the sufferers could Le heard occasionally at St. Agnes. Ycu are at li berty to make any use of this communication you please, only if published, I should wish that my name be with held. I have embraced the first mail leasing this for the main after this melancholy occurrence, therefore the information will he as early as any." PENZA.NCE, JAN. 8.---The Scilly packet, after being detained several days by contrary winds, arrived this morning ; by her we hear of the loss of the Thames Irish steamer, which took place about five o'clock on the morning of Monday, the 3d inst. The Thames was on her voyage from Dublin to London, and the weather being exceedingly boisterous, with showers of hail and snow, they lost their reckoning, and, mistaking the St. Agnes (Scilly Islands) light for that of the longships (near the Land's-end), ran on the Cribewidden rozk, and in a short time became a total wreck ; out of about seventy per.ons on board, only four were saved. These were a young lady passenger (who with her father was going t) London), two female attendants belonging to the steamer, and one of the seamen. Soon after the vessel struck she was discovered by the inhabitant s of St. Agnes, ~nd one of the boats' crews, at the risk of their lives, im mediately put off to render assistance ; they succeeded its rciti la near her, and though there was scarc e ly a h ope of ) h Captain, with the true brav e ry o f a British a i , t ord er edthat riot safe; a man the should three leave were thee s vessel avd until the females were w.rc then prevailed .uhpohnertobgdobei:lattlidie wbaosat,eobaustetiaaneonthtleyr efused to p art sav ed is named Morris; she wanted t o stay l } by t : l o ie u n v g e ssel, he had reached the I s l e bet was thrown over by her father. Th e h a e e c a o sk ntr o i f ve p d or t t o er b b e c ai 3otaf r rwl e c d ccie t o l h , r e res t to esca p e , an d seaman sa ved ones his life, after o iu F g t d o r s i e v v e e n a o r, n f i ro h m ore t , lt t e o c e ir h t e u a m d out ; h e dr a nk a little, and uffe in this cas k he p a sted the Monday night, a season of most unparalleled severity. young gild, had oni C y a b p e t e a n in m G ar r r a t y e , d t t h h e re c e o w m e m ek an s d e e re r, h a e f m n e e t his untimelyman WATCH YOUR DIVIDENDS.—The hoard raised round St. B art h olomew's Church, which is so constructe d a to leave but a narrow passage between Threadneedle street and the Rotund a of the Bank, now converted into the Dividend Pay.otE ee , is complained of as being in its present state a publi c i nconvenience. Besides, light being c itircly excluded by the awsiing above, it affords facilities kir the depredations of the class of thieves who never fail watch the Bank at the periods of the year when the lividends are in course of payment, NOTICE. , 6 THE CHINA SUN, Which was RE-PUBLISHED on WEDNES DAY LAST, with the LATEST NEWS from CHINA, IS NOW ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at the Sun Office, No. 112, Strand. IN PROGRESS, THE _RAILWAY SUN. With a MAP of all the RAILWAYS in the United Kingdom ; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, and a great variety of Information and other particulars connected with Railways. THE CORONATION SUN, PRINTED IN LETTERS OF GOLD WITH A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, Can be sent by post free to all parts of the. Empire. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London. Now ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo. with 12 Ilustrations, rfuE SPORTSMAN in FRANCE, Comprising RAMBLES THROUGH PICARDY and NORMANDY, And BOAR SHOOTING in LOWER BRITANY. 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Persons desirous to purchase for one of the next Distributions may re-:cive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS --)EcTus and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH OUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION, contains SEVEN HUN. DRED DIVIDENDS, amounting to £72,170, The Dividends being £25,000 £6OO £l2O £BO 5,000 400 110 70 1,500 200 100 60 1,000 150 90 50 Sterling. 600 THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. NDER Ow MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRI-: THIS EVENING, JAN. 13. Will be repeated Ehakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug. Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madam,. Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repented, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mo•PIIi ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to nmence at Sere% o'Clock. Tickets and places for theßoxcl to be taken of Mr. Grogan the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may no had upon application. • Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Pricy, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 23. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. ; Gallery, la. Private Boxe s to be had so'ely of Mr. And: ems, bookseller :67, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Triumphant Success—lmmense Novelty—Crowded Houses— Second Night of Ainsworth's Tewer of London. THIS EVENING, JAN. 13, Will be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and . - - entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. The Tableaax Vivans, ,plendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of the celebrated George Cruikshanks. After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELLBOUND GOSLINGS. In which the unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Family; Mr. Southby, the Original Closn ; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the asuinisiing Gyrnnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran coni's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioramie Synopsis of Syria. :THEATRE ROYAL VICTORIA. Triumphant . succoss of Alr. J. T. Haines' New Domestic Drama. Grand Finale—lnterior of the Tin Alines in Cornwall ! THIS EVENING, JAN. 13, ' • . . . And every Evening until further notice. will be performed. THE YEW-TREE RUINS, or THE WRECK, MISER, AND TIIE MURDERER. Cain Kynan, Mr. Haines (who has been expressly engaged for this occesion); Valentine Trevalian, Mr. Hicks; Sir Alfred Penreugh, Mr. Dale; Beatrice Penreugh, Miss E. Montague. To conclude with the Grand Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN JACK OF NEWBURY, or BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP, and the OLD WOMAN of BERKELEY. Harlequin, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Mademoiselle Gooder ham ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard ; Pantaloon, Mr. Ashburv. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. EXTRAORDINARY AND NOVEL ATTRACTION. Arrival in England of M. LAROCHE and M. NOEL, sur named by their own countrymen The Incredibles of Paris. The LESSEE begs respectfully to inform his numerous Friends and the Public that the Wonderful Performances of these extraordinary Artistes will take place on MONDAY NEXT, the 18th January, when will also be performed Mr. Haines' highly successful Drama of the YEW TREE RUINS, or the WRECK, the MISER, and the MURDERER. To con clude with the Grand New Comic Pantomime of HARLE QUIN JACK of NEWBERRY, or " BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP," and the OLD WOMAN of BERKELEY. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS AY. Nfornin.7 43 nnmutes after 3 I Evening 7 inn: tens after G. ,:=,,,,, ,- ~ ~ ; , . .‘ik. ---, .- - ~.. jto ~,,--„,,,,..---,::-.‘ ...- „.,,,,,,,,.,,-, Poht, LONDON: WEDNESnRY, JANUARY 13. It4l. We publish in our columns of this day the Par_ SIDENT'S Message—the last which Mr. VAN 13UREN is ever likely to deliver to the Congress (if • the United States. Copies of it reached us from Bristol and Liverpool at the same time, having been brought to Liverpool by the packet-ship Sheffield, and to Bristol by the Cosmo, which ves sels left New York on the 19th u!t. They sailed five days in company, when the Sheffield fell to leeward. Our thanks are due to our Bristol Cor respondent for the obliging attention manifested on this occasion. The Message is moderate in its tone, and pacific in its tendency. The Presidency of Mr. VAN BUREN being about to expire, he has taken oc casion to submit to the consideration of the Con gress the leading principles by: which ..his four years 'administration were guided. These may b e reduced to two—namely, the maintenance of peace, and an adherence through good and evil report to the cash system. The peculiar objects of Mr. VAN BUREN'S horror are a National Bank and National Debt, and against these his dying kick is ruthlessly directed. Mr. VAN BUREN'S objec tions to a National Debt, though not over and above complimentary to the monarchical Govern ments of Europe, are sound, and based upon the safest political policy. We recommend the passa44e to the earnest attention of our British Liberal statesmen :-- The policy of the Federal Government, in extinguish ing as rapidly as ;,ossible the national debt, and subse quently, in resisting every temptation to create a new ine, deserves to be regarded in the same favourable light . Among the many objections to a national debt, the certain tendency of publ , c securities to concentrate ultimately in the coffers of foreign stockholders, is one which is every day gathering strength. Already have the resources of many of the States, and the future industry of their citi zens, been indefinitely mortgaged to the subjects of European Governments, to the amount of twelve millions annually, to pay the constantly accruing interest of borrowed money—a auto exceeding halt' the ordinary revenues of the whole United States. The pretext which this relation affords to foreigners to scrutinize the manzgcment of our domestic affairs, if not actually to intermeddle with them, pre. nts a subject for earnest attention, not to say of serious alarm. Fortunately, the Federal Government, with the exception of an obligation entered into on behalf of the District of Columbia, which must soon be dischar. , ed, is wholly exempt from any such embarrassmeut. P also, as is believed, the only Government which, having fully and faithtully paid all its creditors has also relieved itself en tirely from debt. To maintain a distinction so desirable, and so honourable to our national character, should be an object of earnest solicitude. Never should a free people, if it be possible to avoid it. expose themselves to the ne cessity of having to treat of the peace, the honour, or the safety of the Republic, with the Governments of foreign creditors, who, however well disposed they may he to cul tivate with us in general friendly relations, are neverthe le3s, by the law of their own condition, made hostile to tic success and permanency of political institutions like ours. " Out of debt out of danger" is a homely maxim , not truer of individuals than of nations ; nor do we believe the cotruption of political principles en gendered by jobbing in national securities, in coun tries deeply in debt, to be compatible with the main tenance of simple republican institutions. Mr. VAN BUREN takes great praise to himself for having diminished the public expenses during the four years of his administration. The expenses of the current year, for example, he calculates wilt be less by nine or tell millions of dollars than the expenses of 1837. This is a legitimate subj:ct of self gratulation ; but looking at the pr. sent financial and commercial condition of the United States, and comparing it with what it was at the close of General JACKSON'S second Presidency, w e cannot discover any peculiar claims which Mr. VAN BUREN possesses to the gratitude:of his fellow-countrymen so far as relates to the mere question of financts. During the Presidency of Mr. ADAM half the national income was required to pav the interest and l;rincipal of the debt then existin4. Forty-Fly,: millions of dollars were expended in this way during the four years this distinguished statesman was in office. General JACKSON succeeded, and during the eight years he administered the government of the United States, sixty-foul millions of dollars were required to extinguish the public debt. When Mr. VAN BUREN entered upon the Presidency he found the debt extin guished, and an overflowing Treasury, and at the expiration of four sears he makes it a matter of boast that, after diminishing the expenditure to the amount of nine millions of dollars, a million and a half of surplus will remain in the Treasury with out there having been any fresh taxes imposed. 'Tis true that extraordinary expenses, to the amount of twwnty millions, are enumerated, but even this proves nothing extraordinary in the finan cial ability of the PRESIDENT. We are happy to learn from the Message that there is a fair prospect of a speedy and ami cable settlement of the North Boundary question. " The excitement," says the PRESIDENT, " which grew out of the territorial controversy between the ' United States and Great Britain, having in a great measure subsided, it is hoped that a favourable period is approaching for its final settlement." And after enumerating the steps taken by both Govern ments to effect a speedy and amicable adjustment, he continues :—" From the character of the points still in difference, and the undoubted dispo sition of both parties to bring the matter to an early conclusion, I look with entire confidence to a prompt and satisfactory termination of the negotiation." We are well pleased to receive such an assurance from the mouth of the PRESIDENT of the United States. The question cannot be settled too soon for the welfare of Great Britain and the United States. While it continues in abeyance, evil-dis posed persons have it in their power to disturb the harmony between two nations whose uninterrupted friendship is essential to the progressive civiliza tion of the human race. The Message concludes with a denunciation of the atrocious African slave trade, which cannot fail to give pleasure to the fridnds of humanity in every part of the world. The PRESIDENT states that two American vessels are at present cruizing off the coast efAfrica, charged with instructions to pre vent the violation of the American flag by any parti ciliation in that infamous traffic. But the PRESIDENT doss not stop here. Finding that the pastefforts of the opponents of slavery have been unsuccessful. he proposes, as a remedy of the evil, the suppression of all trade whatever with the slave factories on the African coast. His words are worthy of being remembered :—" I submit to your judgments," he observes, in concluding his Message, " whether this Government, having been the first to prohibit, by adequate penalties, the slave -trade—the first to de clare it piracy—should not he the first also to for bid to its citizens all trade with the slave factories on the coast of Africa ; giving an example to all nations in this respect, which, if fairly followed, cannot fail t 9 produce the most effective results in breaking up those dens of ini quity." This is a noble conclusion of a Message which, taken all in all, is of an extremely satisfactory character. As it will be universally read, we have touched but upon a few of the leading points in it, and these we have not had time to examine very carefully. The commercial treaties between the United States and Portugal, Belgium, and Prussia, manifest the zeal with which America pursues her commercial interests in every part of the world. Besides the New York Journals, we have re ceived files of Canadian Papers, from n hich want of space prevents us making any extracts in our columns of this day. Lord SYDENIIA M had suc ceeded in maintaining undisturbed the tranquillity of the Upper and Lower Provinces, notwithstanding several attempts to get up once more the steam of rebellious excitement. The sympathisers, too, on the American side, were kept in pretty good order by the Government of the United States, which certainly has nut been wanting in proofs of good and kindly feeling towards Great Britain. For commercial intelligence we refer to our City Article The Reform Act, the necessity of which the Times has not yet denied, 4 abolishing a number of boroughs before held by the aristocracy, places the Ministers of this country, let them be who they will, in a state of dependence on the upper an middle classes. That Act, incomplete as it was, and little as it has answered the expectations of the public, and extended, as it must be, to embrace the great mass of the disfranchised, in order to re store public contentment, was the consequence of previous concessions to the people. It was granted to their demands, arising from a conviction that the then existing system was no longer tenable. The successive increase of the democratic, and the successive decay of the aristocratic power, which compelled the several successive concessions al luded to, and will yet compel the still further con cessions now demanded by Reformers, leads to the conclusion that the progress which they indicate is natural and necessary. Sir ROBERr PEEL was one of the foremost Ministers to do homage to this necessity. His Jury law, his ameliorations of the criminal code, his vely reluctant repeal of the Test Act, his still more reluctant repeal of the Catholic Penal law, were fotced from him by public opinion. He and his party resisted th em as l on g as possible. The y were not able to hav e t h e i r own way as Ministers, they were compelled against their will to yield to the public sentiment ; and yet they remained in office, they took on themselves the re sponsibility of pas s i ng , those measures, though they disapproved of them, and continued for months and years to gather the sweets of office, though de nied, according to the Tory interpretation of the phrase, the power of governing. They were not allowed to coerce the governed, the governed co• creed them. Catholic Emancipation was actually kicked out of them by Mr. O'CONNELL and the Catholic Association, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL 1 nrul the Disente , rs kir: l “'d out, d: t!Ii.:: rcpi:,al of the Test Act. Yet those doughty, blustering heroes, those divine-right men, those angels, as they fancy themselves, appointed to govern and keep in order, by the help of their endowed priesthood, this puissant nation, condescended to continue to hold office till they were kicked out by an ultra rump of Tories, which they afterwards made their head, going with the Whigs. So greedy of office, how ever, were they while they were denied power, that it is understood that they would have carried some modified Reform B:11 when Lord GREY resigned in 1832, had the nation been willing to allow the blustering cowards again to assume, with patronage and pay, the nominal management of affairs. Such being a brief but correct outline of the conduct of Tories in office—and it ought not to be forgotten that in 1835, when Sir ROBERT PEEL'S friends thrust him in once more, he adopted Whig measures, arid attempted to gain the support of the Dissenters by guileful promises —such being the conduct of the Tories as Ministers, is it seemly in one of their organs to re proach the present Ministers with a willing deference to public opinion, and with a supposed detertumation, whenever it may be strongly pro nounced by the constituencies, without the support of which they cannot carry on the Government, to yield to it whether in office or out of office ? Our readers cannot have forgotten the extract of a letter from a member of the League, which vie inserted in our Journal on Saturday. The Times makes that letter the subject of the remarks which we have copied into another part of The Sun, and which at first read very formidably. Stripped, however, of the plumage of rhetoric, the facts which this article states against Ministers are, first, that they do not now, as the Tories did, give way to public opinion ; and, secondly, that they will give way, as the Tories did, when that opinion is so strongly pronounced as to break up, or endanger the breaking up of the Minis try. Their conduct might be justified, if necessary, by a Tory precedent ; but we maintain that it is strictly according to the principles by which every Ministry must henceforth be governed. They have done nothing to satisfy the Reformers, because they can do nothing. The Reformers are nut united in demanding any one reform, and the Lords are against all reforms. They hate amend ment. But when the Reformers are so united and so powerful as to give an impulse to public opinion in any one direction, the Whig Ministers who acknow ledge the necessity of fo:lowing public opinion— unlike the Tories, who deny it in principle, and yield to it in practice—will endeavour, either i❑ office or out of office, to give effect to it. In all that we see nothing but consistency, nothing but an honourable attachment to principle. Let the Walsall election decide that the whole town popu lation will have none but Corn-law repealers to re present them, and the Ministers, who mainly ex ercise the power of the town population, will, as the servants of the public, become Corn-law repealers. They will do the bidding of the popular will, as they acknowledge its supremacy, and will not, like the Tories, humbly obey it, and at the same time hypocritically pretend to form and chain it. The Times should have been taught, by its own experience, to spare such invidious remarks. It did, with others, bully the Tories out of the reforms which they were compelled to give. With others, very powerful horn wealth, still more powerful from prescription, and more powerful than all from the daring quackery and hypocrisy, by an alliance with !lie priesthood, calling to their aid the powers of darkness—with these the Times has forfive long years bullied the Whigs, and bullied them unsuccess fully. Dark as it has painted their enntinist, thoy have not given up their Lichfield House com pact, they have not yielded to Lord STANLEY and the bigots, they have not sacrificed O'CoN NELL, and, worst of all, they have not professed the least inclination to repeal the New Poor-law. If the Times had been able, consistently with its allegiance to its new masters, to bully the Minis- tern, in order to get the repeal of the Corn-laws, it might have been successful. But it now sees that the great popular theory of free trade in bread is to become a living motive for action ; it sees that its own situation, binding it hand and foot to the Tories, precludes it from taking a wholesome part i❑ the great movement of the town popula tion ; it foresees the certainty of a great success in which it cannot participate, and, true to its princi ples of conduct, it :tries beforehand to bully the Ministers from doing what is right. As it has failed to bully them into repealing the New Poor law, so it will fail in bullying them from giving their assent to a repeal or modification of the present Corn-law, whenever the town population shall take up that great question as it deserves to be, and as, apparently, the town population arc now resolved it shall be taken up. Already branded as a recreant and a renegade from a noble cause, it is only requisite to convince tile town population that the Times has been an unsuccessful bully against it, to place that journal in the proper position to which its wanton and mis chievous inconsistency must ultimately doom it. Our " Bath Correspondent informs us that at a meeting held in that city on Monday, at which a host of the clergy of the Establishment were present, they, and the rest of the gentry who had met to dole out charity to the people, were dis tinctly and repeatedly told that the people wanted justice, not charity. As our Correspondent ob serves, this is a new, and it is a most gratifying feature in the character of the populace. It shows that they have acquired the ennobling sentiment of sitlf-respect, and they disdain to receive back as alms a small part of the wealth which is extorted from them by law for the behoof of the priest. hood. They begin to discriminate between evils brought on by their own improvidence, inflicted by the hand of nature, or imposed by institutions ; and they see that the mass of their sufferings is caused by those who pretend to be their benefactors, and claim to be their guides and rulers. While they thus learn to despise the assumption of an ignorant clergy they acquire a deeper reverence for the ALMIGHTY. We are glad that their feelings and opinions are taking that turn, for it is impossible that they should continue in their present miserable condi &Lion, and not trace that to the hand of the op pressor, or to their own folly, without learning an ineffaceable lesson of infidelity and impiety. The clergy rave, at their meetings to promote the Chris tian education of the people, about heathenism and infidelity, lint they never ask themselves how much these states of the popular mind are promoted by the contrast between their doctrines and their con clu have frequently thought that if they had resolved to make the people atheists, they could follow no bett€r course than to attribute all the misery which they, and the social institutions they support, are instrumental in bringing on society, to the great, first and last, ever-living CREATOR. The Church of England for example, has for many years been the cause of strife in the land, yet they affirm that it is GOD'S Church. To gratify its miserable malignity, the Dissenters were for a 'wig time denied the pi ivileges of citizens, yet they are told that this malignancy was of GOD. The wretched avarice and political ambition of the clergy, doomed the Catholics to slavery in the land of their fathers; but they, too, were instructed air this agent of wrath is GOD'S Church. The Church rIOW !4.;V:c1:;6 ViAth tIH according to the priests, is also of GOD. Eccle siastical Courts are the instruments it uses to in struct men in the ALMIGHTY'S attributes, and they are also of GOD. Tithes are notoriously said to be of divine origin, though time and experience. the popular voice and the decrees of the Legisla ture, have all denounced them as ruinous to the land. A Bishop receives five thousand or ten thousand pounds a-year. Deans, Prebends, and other members of the higher clergy, revel in opulence, Rectors favoured of fortune, hold two or three liv ings, and very frequently reside at neither ; they, too, have large incomes, while the Curates and working clergy have very often no larger incomes than journey men. Nevertheless, the Church which cheats the deserving labourer of his just hire, and bestows it on the idler, is GOD'S Church, and ordained by him. It is in possession of large rev enues , given, to in struct the people, and the clergy affirm that it is according to GOD'S ordinances that they divert these funds from the service of the poor, to enrich themselves. Even now is the Church lifting up its mitred front to oppose the education of the people ; nevertheless the people , are taught that it comes directly from Him, and exists by His ap pointment. Such assertions, continually acted on, while the conduct of the clergy is directly opposed to the precepts of Christianity, are well calculated to make our people lose all reverence for their CREATOR. Fortunately for the future morals of so . ciey, they are raising themselves above their pre tended teacher:, and no longer believe thaL the miseries they suffer come from GoD. They call ou t against men, and demand —not charity, but justice. Should the voice of the Bath people find an echo in the land, it will confer a signal benefit on pos terity. We have of late more than once stated that it was not improbable that some alteration wouM be proposed in the Corn-laws this next session. A similar opinion is embraced by a writer in the 146th Number of the Edinburgh Review just published. An article on the effects of the protective system based on the excellent evidence and report of the Impor t Duties Committee, contains the following passage:— " So long as the Corn laws exist in their present shape, the same event [the derangement of the ,currency] will recur every bad harvest that takes place; because the graduated scale of duty will prevent that early importation of corn which enterprising merchants would have recourse to, the moment any prospect of a deficient harvest showed itself. Such is the condi tion in which all the great interests of the country —com merce, manufactures, revenue, profits of capital, employ ment of labour, is placed by these laws ; and as the true state of the case is now fully understood, it cannot be a matter of doubt, that a proper remedy will be ap plied to the evil. On a question of this kind, adverse di visions in Parliament are of very little consequence with regard to ultimate success; for when a case is so unjust, and has no solid basis to rest upon, any defection amongst its supporters will lead to complete defeat. Symptoms of such a defection have appeared. In conversation, no. thing is now so common as to hear landlords who are in telligent and impartial, and above seeking to add a few hundreds a-year to their rent rolls by a too-high price of bread, admitting that the prevent plan of the Corn laws is wrong, and that a fixed duty ought to be esta blished in place of it. The opinion of a considerable body of them was expressed by those who admitted in the debate of last S,ssion, that a change was necessary. It may safely be anticipated, that the preva lence of this disposition will soon lead several of the prin cipal landed Members, in both Houses of Parliament, to declare in favour of a fixed duty; and when this happens, the defeat end surrender of the exclusionists of foreign corn will be instantaneous, and a new law will pass. In point of fact, the state of the question has come to be, not so much whether the laws shall be altered, as what shall be the fixed duty. The exclusionists will, no doubt, do what they can to have it made so high as to be prohibitory ; but the liberal landlords, after they have carried the repeal of the graduated scale, will not act with such unfairness. They will inform themselves accurately about the price of corn in foreign countries, and the charges for transporting it to the kingdom ; and when they find that the average price abroad is 40s. a quarter, they will be convinced that a moderate duty, added to the 10s. a quarter for charges, will afford the British landlord an ample protection. They will be the more disposed to come to this conclusion when they reflect that for tins six years ending in 1837, the average price in England was no more than 50s. ; and that with this price, cultivation was never more extended, or carried on with more spirit and greater success. The fixed duty proposed will not, however, sa tisfy the justice of the case, nor enable our manu facturers to recover their lost ground and keep on a line with their rivals. " The last news at Not tingham," says Col. THOMPSON in a letter to the Leicestershire Mercury, "is, that German goods of the same quality are offered in America fifty per cent. under the price of Nottingham." If that be an approximation to the truth, and if new and vi gorous rivals are starting up in every part of Eu rope, to load our struggling manufacturers with a fixed duty on their bread will cripple them for the race, and will speedily make them break down. Now that we see this proposition of a fixed duty put Forth, accompanied by the assertion that the state of the questio►► is not whether the law shall be al tered, hut what shall lie the amount of fixed duty, we shall make it our business to re-examine the proposition with 'attention, and shall hereafter state the result. The Paris Journals of Sunday have just reached us. The Chamber of Deputies was occupied with the Report of the Committee on Petitions, and a project for the extension of Departmental Roads. h e overflowing of the river Tet has laid Perpigian under water. Several houses have fallen, and much property destroyed. The question of the fortification of Paris is, however, the o►►ly one that seems to interest the capital. The following paragraph, from the Debats of Sunday, contains the latest news relative to this all-engross il►g, subject : " Marshal Soult, in the Commission of Fortifications, consented in the name of the Ministry to the simultaneous execution of the detached forts and wall of circumvaliation. During five consecutive sittings the Commission examined different inhabitants of the suburbs, and then proposed amendments to the ministerial plan. Oa the 6th Marshal Souk gave his answer, which adopted some of the amend- 'Dents of the Commission; but ha rejected two amend silents, one being a change in the place fixed on for de tached forts, the other an augmentation of the sums to be allotted. Government proposed spending fifty-five mil lions of francs in 1841 and 1842. The Commission pro posed to spend eighty-seven millions, which would have upset ail he plans of the Finance Minister. The Minis try having persisted in its views, the Commission decided• on acceding to the views of th- Ministry." There was a fall of snot Saturday night in Paris, which, although a thaw ILA come on en Sunday, had blocked up the roads. No mails from Germany, Spain, Italy, or England had come in by one o'clock on Sunday. Great activity is displayed in tracing the Coburg rail road, which is to connect Coburg, Hildburgbausen, Meiningen, Gotha, Weimar, Erfurt, and Eisenart, and is to join the Prussian railroad further north. The work %Nil' begin in spring. What an advantage when this is finished traveller can go in two days to Nurem be-g. the centre a South German commerce, or from Bannb,rg, the junction of the Main and the navigation of the Ludwig Canal to Berlin, or B:cmen, or Ham!turgli. Franconian Mercury. 130 URSE.—PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 9. f irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price, Price i-r. - !.. 0 ::,, per 1. Hits 4 per Cents 99 ... 99 ... ki .. 99 3 per Cents 77 25 , 77 45 .., 77 95 ... 77 40 6,1,: , of trance Liitfitte &ink I.ooot. Sli lOlO ...1 1 145 ...11410 ...1615 5000 f. Shares 5130 ...5135 —.5130 —.5135 .?.4,igiari /lank i,;inish Active 24% ... '34% ... 1!4;( ... 24% Passive 5% ... 6 ~. 544 •.. 5% Nea:,olitan ''onion.. RAILWAY SHARE.% St Liermain Versaillcs,lt. 13 4OO ... 405 .. 4CO ... 405 LB 305 ... 307 50 ... 305 ~. 305 Orleans . Stragtiorg to Bale 245 ... 245 •... .41 75 .. 245 Aulhausen to fhann CAFE LIE PARIS.—.SUNDAY, JAN. 10. HALF-PA. , T Two.—Last night, Saturday, the Three per Cents for the Account were d one at 7 7 f . 30c. No thing has I)_,co done to day, unless it be one bargain re ported to have been fat 77f. 321 c. The Dutch P..pers, which arrived last night, of the 9th, mention the death at the Hague of his Excellency J. E. Baron de IMEY VAN SHEEF KERK, Minister of State. The following wai the price of the Dutch Funds Bth January : DUTCH FUNDS.—ANSTSILDAM, JAN. 8 Money. Bills. tctual Debt, '234 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amon Syndic,4% per cent B6 86Z Ditto, ditto, 33{, per cent 70% 71 Commercial Company, 43{, per cent 157% 159% Ditto (1815 and 1H37) 5 per cent. Loan 11.137, 5 per cent. i 91 14 954 Exchange on London, One month l9 0 Two months ...... Dutch Papers, Jai,. 9. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BcsuN, JAN. 5, Bills. ltfonsy. St. Schuld. Sch., 4% per cent. lO3 /01‘ Prussian Engnsh Loan, 1830, 4 per c e nt 100 90; Lxchange on London, three months.,, 43 16% —.Prussian State (iezette, Jan, 6, MONEY and COMM ( -1 1 Al v c 1"-' CITY, TULbOAY EVENIN The nrrival of three New I r ,rk packets to-dav, ekwe j great activity in the Am.rican trade; and although th e political news is i n t erest i ng o f i tse lf , t h e commercia l ba' vices were, of course, more immediate) , so, and were ge' nerally considered favourable. It seems by the accounts from Canada that it is not determined which shall be the scat of Government ( 0 ' the union of th.• Provinces. The Foreign Exchanges were rather better this ::fit noon. On Paris the quuration was 25,55 c. to 60e. ; vn Aq ,- sterdam 12 2.1, to Hamburgh, 13 7toA- ; a nd 09 Frankfort, 148:1. The Fund. closed heavily, Consols at 89,1,- for molt:1 and time, and Exchequer Bills at 9 4 . p rem . India Stoll" however, advanced to 2494, and Bank Stock %la s firm Ht 165. The Foreign Stocks hid a downward tendency. Si 1 0 •111 Actives realised 2.1 to ; Portuguese, New, 31; 4 7 - ; 13 ' 1- zilian 70,i to 711 : and Dutch Five per Cents , 961 The Railway Shares were dull. Great \Vcstern off et 27, and the Fifths at 61 prem. ; Brighton wurc 1 1361 to 61- discount. The exports of the precious metals from the port" ( London in the week ending Thursday last were only 1, 09 ounces of silver coin to the West Indies. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON .VIAL. ET, JAN. 11.—The sales day are 4,000 to 5,000 bags, chiefly American desc , ir tions, at full prices. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 11. 7 '7 The Market today has been somewhat languid, prices have rather a drooping tendency. Hull aiidlhY , 44 ; South Western, 59 ; Manchester and Leeds, 8 2 ; Ditto New, 31 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 26; J- 01- don and Birmingham, 173 to 174 ; Ditto Qaartar Shire s ' 284 ; Midland Counties, 83 ; New Ditto, la.'"4-; Lond° l) and Brighton, 431. New York Papers of the 19th of December Ill ° arrived, by which we have received the President's Mel', sage, which was delivered on the 9th, the contents el which are not of much interest, and have not created " 11 greet excitement at New York, Accounts from Philadelphia of the 15 t h o f 13..ta ..r state that Stocks continue heavy, and prices, in niaa stances, merely nominal. United States Bank roi• and may be quoted at full a 4 or 1 per cent, higher 1 1 ' 9 ' previous rates, but with very little sale at the 13,0 ° Board. United States Bank at 66. Closing price' United States Bank at 66H 66A- ; Exchange, 8} 9, Accounts from Philadelphia state that the navigation entirely unobstructed with ice, and vessels and prod I arriving and d epart i ng as thual at this seas on . Busitiess t i. dull, and operations in merchandise very limited. It appears from the Report of' the Secretary ot e re Treasury to Congress this session, that the exports 03' 1 1 the twelve mo n th s w hi c h prece d e d l ast October, anosn to 131,571,950 dollars; whilst the imports during ° II same petiod were only 104,805,891 dollars, We have received Montreal papers to Dec. 9 : It is gratifying to learn from the Toronto papers that try Hon. H. Dunn has placed at t h e di sposa l o f the Cati 'j Emigration Association, 2,000 acres of land of the best Lir se , iption, and 500 acres of whi c h h e h as ma d e a free Ot. Mr. Sheriff Jarvis has also given 1,600 acres, LOWER CAN ADA. —The shipwrights employed in sn l i e. ral dockyards struck work on Thu rs d ay morn i ng on a de mand for increase of wages ; and we believe that the O a r, bination has now become general. 6,000 person& by tb means arc thrown out of employment. The weather during the last few days has become vet: changeabl e ; w e h a d a lit t l e snow l ast even i ng, and bar; high westerly wind thi s morn i ng w i t h i n di cations of more snow. A good fall would be serviceable to our farmers, for the roads at present are in a very bad state. The British market is heavy this morning. CWl Ol* which left off yesterday at 89' 8 1 for the Account, have re; ceded to 894 ; Reduced, 894 ; Exchequer Bills, 9 11 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1631 164 i-; India Stock, 245 2 4i ' In the Foreign Market Spa n ish A ct i ve i s a l so head' left off at 244 at present may be quoted 244- ; 145 ; sive, 64 j ; Deferred, 12i Portuguese same t o tbe , left off, 31i 324 ; Three per Cents.. 191 `.Ol zilian, 704 714 : C o l om bi an , 23;424 ; Mexican, 281 -g e ; Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cent s . 50 . 1 ; Five P Cents. 984 4. SHARES,—Great Western, 28 29 prem. ; N ew, 13 1 4 prem. ; London End Brighton, 6,1 dis. ; Blacloss o dis. ; Birmingham, 83 85 prem. ; Southarapt% l 574 581 per share ; Croydon, 12.1- :1 1 per share ; Greerivo e 8 9 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 13 South-Eastern and Dover, 144 14 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT OICE RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 .85 - Eastern Counties - Great Western Ditto New ... bo - London and Brighten London and Birmingham 9O 172 Londan and Croydon (Trunk)... 133...... 125 to - -- ,dr FROM TEXAF. —Th e N ew Orleans Papers of the 7, 0 of November and the I s t inst., brings u s th e d eta ils most remarkable piece of treachery. and meditated cruel t i o i The first accounts that reached New Oricans-wed el the 30th ult., that on the 23.1 of October Tex ts had been handed over by Molano to Montego, and alt 5.0 to death by five times their own number, after a desP er re , resistance; but, on December 1, f ur th er a d v i ces w ere so ceived at New Orleans, br oug ht b y a passenger from or , Antonio, which gave a v er y different account of the ion tt This gentleman, a Mr. Dwyer, on his way from Siin) a r ters;o to Hudson, fell in with J.rti.,n, the cos.u.a. h o of the betrayed Texians, and learnt from !dor 'no on discovering th e treac h ery of their Feder3'..e. allies, the Texians withdrew to a walled atiel °s ' - a in the vi c i n i ty, d etermined to face the ~, At this time the citizens of Saltillo, considering tb - cholera at an end, opened their houses and shops and r' l 4 , a lle the soldiers what ever t h ey w i s h e d to eat and dr ink. 'lto consequence was th a t most o f t h em g ot drunk, arid this situation were ordered by th e i r C omman d er to at' fink 0 4 Texians. The battle commence d a b eut two P.m . ' an lasted nearly nine hour s . Th e T ex i ans were well pro tee ed from their assailants, well arme d, an d abundantly auPPli j with ammunition. The result was t h at the in:oxiO r e incapable of inflicting injury, were slaughtered On hands. At this juncture the besieged sallied forth 6 0 captured three pieces of cannon , w hi c h they turned V:3'o the enemy, and m o w e d th em d own lik e grass. Mere r'oo four hundred o f t h e treac h erous f oes were left lifeles ' the ground. e t Consols continue h eavy, an d may b e quoted at P re ',l9 a , 894 for the 15th inst., which is settling day in Con%d Their heaviness it is supposed, is owing to the put '- calls which take place on the alaove day. Reduced, 5118; discount. Bttnk cock, also lower ; E 24 x B ch ; eq l t n ie d r ia i ß li o ll n s d , s 9, India Stock, In the Foreign M ar k et li tt l e doing, Spanish Aeli e• 1/ 0 , 24; Portuguese 324- ; Three per Cents., 204- ; Brazi, j l ' 3 70i ; Dutch T wo - an d -a- H a l f per Cents. 504 0 ; '- Loan, 963. In Shares s carce anyt hi ng doing. Birmingham Peci a Gloucester, 85 ; Easte rn C ount i es„ 9 ; Great Wes ter 93 ; Ditto, New, 63 ; London and Brighton, 431 ; I°r" don and Birmingham, '72 ; London and Croydon, 125' CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock "' di ° 3 per Cent. R e d 894 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 894 Ditto Old Annuities ..• -.- 31 per Cent Red 9l Ditto New Annuities... New 3/ per Cent .. 974 Ex. Bills, 1,000/...,95d " New 15 per Cent ... - 9IT: Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small VP"; Jan. (860 Oct 1859 l4 15-16 India Stock for Acct Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. A uttrian, 5 per cent... 1085 Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto..... l3razilian Bonds .. 715 Prussian, 5 per cent.... fluenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. ..• Chilian, 6 per cant Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, 1824 . 231 Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent. French,s per cent... Greek, 1825, 5 percent. Exchange .. —f. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 281 French, 3 per cent... o 'c • Ditto, 6 per cen t, 1825. Dutch, 25 p er 8ent...... h Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent— • SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ......... . 36 1 Eastern Cou nt i es R a il way (23 paid) ..... ...... 9 Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 63 Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ' lok Gosport Junction Railway (35 pd) London and Brighten Railway (50 laid) •, 43 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 172 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) .. 125 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY); Amsterdam C F. 12 5 Gibraltar... .......... ..• 4 "' Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2 U. 12 51 Genoa Antwerp l2 43 Milan Hamburgh.......M.B. 13 10 Venice............. 47 Alton' l3 lON Naples Paris, 3 days'sight 25 40 Pa ermo, per oz Ditto, 3 months 25 65 34 , r Ar ' A Lisbon - . i2l ',`l In n. , ...vo° Rio Janeiro 24 ',l Bahia 27 ', f. Buenos Ayres - q New York, 21 days' sight 46 i f Philadelphia PRICE OF BULLION, TER 011, Portugal G o ld C o i n Xo 0 ; Foreign Gold, bars.. 3 1 7 0 New Doubloon 0 2 1, ...... .... 23 70 13ourdeaux .„ . 25 75 Frankfort on Maine.... 149 Petersburgh, 3 U 5....., 37 Berlin Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M lO 4 Trieste, ditto lO 6 Madrid Cadiz... 35fr 8. - -oelona - Jarcelona Seville 3bi New Dollars.. 0 4 / 0 1 Silver in Bars 0 5 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A lad aged 16 was placed at the bar before Mr. Ald man Johnson charged with robbing his master, Mr. Brt 34° a solicitor, r es idi ng i n Falcon-square, Aldersgte-stroeto Ma*chant, an i ns p ector o f t h e City police, stated( taue, Mr. Bruton informed him four five-pound notes nor'l stolen from his office desk, and t h a t h e suspecte d a F e o who had been a l ong t i me i n h i s employment as cler ag o disappeared a few days ago ; yet having placed cor ,fide n e , in him for a . length o f t i me he did not desire his allfr-, hension except on i ncontrovertible evidence. He ("id. chant) having made inquiries relative to this pers/30 A 4 5- den disappearance, found that it arose from pecuniary culties quit e i n d epen d ent of his connection with Mr. v'c i ton. S u spi c i on was therefore directed to another so urc e ` and som e f ourpenny p i eces being marked were left ails night on the d es k, w hi c h upon searching the prisoner " morning were found in his pocket. ing The inspector no t h av i ng h a d an opportun i ty of lE6cre, the notes as y e t, requeste d t h at t h e prisoner might belied nded for a day or two, whiehlwas accordingly come ith. ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.—The elell cht.rch-wardens, and inhabit an t s b are lib era ll y su bscribt d : and distributed to the poor, during the last week, uP, 9lB ,:j o r of' 4,000 tickets for coals, eac h t i c k et ent i t li ng the bol d to 1 cwt., besides donations of blankets, bread, 4C. MORN YNG EDITION. THE. SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA Y. JANUARY 13, 1841. MORNING EDITIO'; _.. INN.. Thar 'tail, est y 'ren t Milli girl Ak e rept 1 40 11 poi 'o tq, tiv gerl tigu le e , 1.4i4