The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-31 00:00:00

THE FRENCH PAR. (From the Morning Herald.) The suspension of the French Advocates, Dupont, Pinart, and Michel, for their honest and fearless discharge of their duty to their clients, in exposing and denouncing the falsifi cation of written documents by the Law Officers of the Crown, on the late political trials, has excited the sympathy of the Bar and the public for the victims of this act of paltry oppres sion. Instead of being disgraced by the sentence of vindictive poiver, it has raised them in public estimation; they are felicitated upon the virtue, the firmness, and the talent that detected and exposed the snares of blood which were laid for the lives of innocent men. They receive the rewards of those intrepid defenders of liberty and life, whom neither the smiles nor the frowns of power could seduce or terrify. Public opinion avenges their just cause upon their oppressors, and they are followed into their temporal retirement by the applauses of their country. This outrageous attack upon the independ ence of the French Bar has, we grieve to say, found its apologists in England, in free, enlightened, and generous England, where conduct of such a description on the part of Government would call forth a •orm of indignation from the universal people which no Government could safely en counter. Who are the apologists of this cri minal attack upon public rights, and upon jus tice itself ? Some of the Whig Journals, with whose party the independence of the bar" was, like " the liberty of the press," a standing toast when exclusion from power made them, on all public occasions, suppliants for popularity. What is the defence set up ? It is that it is only a quarrel between the Bench and the Bar on a point of decorum ; and that it is, conse quently, too insignificant a matter for public discussion. The sentence was inflicted, say the Whig apologists of this act of tyranny, not by the Government, but by the judicial authority, and, of course, the Government has nothing to do with it. Now let us, for an in, stant, suppose that in England the sys tem of interrogating prisoners existed as it does in France, and that on a trial for treason in the Court of King's Bench it was discovered that the answers of the prisoners were falsified, and that the Crown officers were obliged to admit she falsification, or in other words, the forgery of evidence to affect the lives of the accused. Every one must admit that the most malignant species of forgery is that which is intended for the destruction of human life, and no terms can be too strong for its reprobation. Let us suppose the counsel for the accused, upon detecting such forgery, applied to the disgraceful attempt the severest terms of reprobation that the language could supply. Let us suppose that they spoke with indignation of the conduct of the law officers of the Crown, who, if ignorant that such falsification had been effected after the original documents came into their hands, had grossly neglected their duty ; and, if not ignorant of it, were still more criminal. Let us suppose that the law officers took no notice of the expressions of honest indignation on the part of the Counsel, until they were disappointed of their prey by a verdict of acquittal—that then they denounced the Ad vocates whose intrepid ability had torn to shreds the meshes of falsehood in which it was sought to entangle the lives of the prisoners, and that the Court, the ready instrument of the oppressors' will, pronounced a sentence of sus pension upon the virtuous " delinquents," whose able discharge of their professional duty, and fidelity to their important trust, constituted their splendid crime. Let us suppose, we say, that such things had happened in the Court of King's Bench, and would or ought public opi nion acquit the British Government of the odi ous responsibility of those proceedings on the part of the Law Officers of the Crown ? Dare they take such a course without the permission of the Government ? If it were pretended that they did, and Government did not instantly displace them from offices which they so dis honoured, they must be taken to be agents of the wilt of Government for that vindictive act, as well as for all the purposes of the prosecution. In resisting of late some attempts that were made to innovate upon the administration of justice in England by introducing some of the most objectionable parts of the French practice, we observed upon the facilities for oppression which such practice would afford in all mali cious prosecutions, and more especially in po litical trials, where Government has an interest in crushing political opponents. Soon, in deed, were the arguments which we then adduced against the advocates for the compul sory interrogation of prisoners illustrated by new experiments. Twenty-seven individuals are taken into custody, upon a c harge of intending to °vet throw the Government. If the whole affair was not a mere police plot, it certainly looks very like it. At all events there was no real evidence to justify the depriving these persons of their liberty, and putting them on trial for their lives. In England they must have been discharged at once on being taken before a Magistrate, unless he ssere a Magistrate who thought the Home Office could confer on him the power of attempting to extract evidence by compulsory interrogation. In France the Magistrate, relying upon that power, deprives those men of their liberty, and then five 2nonths are spent by the interrogators endeavouring to extract from the lips of the prisoners themselves, by the ingenious process of mental torture, evidence to insure their own conviction. This fails, and then, as a last resort, the exa minations so obtained are falsified, and the Counsel who detect and denounce the atrocious proceeding, and who bear their clients unscathed through the fiery ordeal, are themselves made the objects of political vengeance, and attempted to be deprived of their means of livelihood, by a temporary banishment from their profession. It is consolatory to know that while those ho nest Advocates gather honourable distinction in stead of disgrace from their punishment, they are not likely to suffer in their income, as many of their brethren of the bar have offered to hold their briefs, and continue to do so until the term of their suspension shall have expired, should their appeal against the monstrous sen tence be unsuccessful. Nye placed some time ago the solemn, grave, and decorous administration of justice in the i superior Courts of this country n contrast t‘ ith the criminal procedure of the French Courts, which are, as we then stated, disgraced by scenes only worthy of a theatre or a bear-garden. We believe we may as fairly contrast the purity of the English Judges with the com plaisant morality of those of France, who lint too often only allow us to see in their acts the distorted image of Justice as reflected by a po litical mirror. The march of the French Go vernment has been for some time past towards despotic power, and its attempt to put down the independence of the Bar is perfectly in keeping with its unceasing efforts to crush the liberty of the Press. LISBON, DEC. 20. With respect to the military operations, it has been reported that the Miguelites have evacuated Alcacer do Sol, and that General Lemos has fallen back on Elvas, but the account needs confirmation. The ardently desired wet weather has set in these four or five days, though not violently ; may it continue, as those at Santarem would be compelled to evacuate that place in a week or ten days, or risk the loss of all their artillery, heavy baggage, and stores ; for even the Abrantes road, which is still open to them,would become too soft and deep to admit of gun car riages travelling over it. The baggage, hos pital, and magazine waggons, drawn by oxen, are still more slow and unwieldy, and would stick fast inextricably in the mud and mire. Still a further stay at Santarem would become impossible, forage being already so scarce that the cavalry horses received but one ration in a whole week. The Miguelite infantry has been for some time half naked, barefoot, and filthy, las the deplorable looks of their deserters show, The French army under Junot were so much elutin g ttic Irrvaß;o.. .f 1007, clim rim ce firclock was serviceable, and not a gun could be dragged along, the whole artillery being em barked in boats, and transported down the Tagus. If compelled to retreat it will be doubtful, therefore, whether the demoralised Miguelites can keep together until they reach the lines of the Zezeres in front of Abrantes, the probable direction of their flight. As that river swells often 20 feet in a single night, they may he cut off altogether by the sudden rise of this mountain torrent. Between Gallegao and Auzniaga, a little to the eastward of Santarem, Junot's troops had to march in the water two feet deep for upwards of an hour, if we may believe Baron T hie bault's Relation of the Expedition to Portugal in 1807-8. A comparison of the proceedings of the two armies will best explain the reason why Marshal Saldanha appears to be in such high spirits as he is represented to display at his head quarters at Sintieira, he having, no doubt, read the various works on the French Peninsu lar campaigns. The friends of the Queen's cause in England may now safely augur well of the campaign. The Government, it seems, has some posi• tire intelligence of Don Miguel equipping a squadron in some foreign port. The old line of-battle ship, the Rain/ia ; which was lying at anchor dismantled at a great distance, has been moved nearer to the arsenal, and it is to be fitted out immediately—an expense not likely to be incurred under any other supposition. The Admiral has told his officers that there will be some more work cut out for them. The Count de Taipa remains at the Duke of Terceira's house unmolested, but has suspended the publication of other letters ; the charge of exciting rebellion and conspiring to depose the Regent being quite enough for him to encounter and rebut at present. Respecting the Queen's marriage, a question surrounded with diffiuchies and of the most important consideration, some curious sur mises are now afloat. England and the Queen's own inclinations object to the Duke of Nemours, and France is equally averse to the much talked of alliance with the Duke of Leuchtenburgh. To cut this Gordian knot, though not with the sword, yet by reasons of state necessity, in lieu of the sharp da r t o f C u pid, a Neapolitan Prince, whom the Queen never saw, and can neither like nor dislike, has been propos ed to neutralize the conflicting objections of France and England. This new aspirant to the Queen's hand uniting the suffrages of the great Powers, and being likely to satisfy the Portuguese nation, nothing remains, there fore, to be consulted but her Majesty's heart and taste, perhaps likewise a stagger ing obstacle. England ought to be on the watch respecting this projected union ; this Neapolitan sprig of Royalty being still a Bourbon and a re lative of the Queens of France and of Spain, as well as of the hopeful Duchess of Berry; for it has always been a rule of the soundest policy of Eng land to prevent the accumulation of many crowns on the brows of Bourbon Princes, as well as of the Napoleon dynasty, against both of whom, and their spreading, such long and expensive wars have been carried on. Sir J. Campbell remains to this day a dose prisoner in the castle of St. George, and the British Ministry has declined to interfere in his behalf. LISBON, DEC. 22.—The importance of the instructions to M. Sarmente, and the increasing intricacy of the question of British and Spanish interference, together with the expediency of accepting or declining the same, have occasioned a further detention of the James Watt, at 501. per day. At three o'clock on Friday, the Miguelite forty-eightgun frigate, Princesa Real, Severiano Jose de Mesquite, commander, her captain having died on the voyage, entered the river Ta gus, standing in boldly and unsuspiciously under Miguelite colours, between Fort St. Julian and the Bugio, situated on a rock midchannel. Nei ther of the forts hoisted any flag, but suffered her to proceed well up and a good way within the bar, when the fort of St. Julian (which had its guns run in, but every thing ready to belabour her if she attempted to put about) displayed the Queen's standard and fired at her a blank cartridge, followed hy the discharge of a double.shotted gun. The Bugio Castle observed the same etiquette, when she anchored and proved the vessel above described, 241 days from Goa in the East Indies, laden with tea, rice, pepper, drugs, cinnamon, ivory, and a variety of Asiatic produce, having, moreover, on board 20,0001. sterling, or thereabouts, in cash for Don Miguel, and various sums for merchants' account. Yes terday morning, at eight o'clock, she fired a royal salute, , from h er or i g i na l an chorage, under the Queens colours, and in the afternoon she was moored above the arsenal. After Miguel's flag had almost disappeared from the surface of the ocean, and hardly a single ship of war of his was known to exist, save and excepted the squadron said to be equip ping for him at Flushing, this valuable capture forms as seasonable as unexpected a windfall and godsend to the Queen's finances, and deprives the Usurper pro tanlo of his means of aggression. A series of fortunate circumstances threw this rich prize into the Queen's possession. She sailed from Goa eight months ago, of course before the defeat of Miguel's squadron and the capture of the capital. But had she put into the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, Rio Janeiro, Bahia, or any of the western islands,.or spoken a single ship in the Atlantic, she must- ,have learned the reverses of the Usurper's fortune, and could have gone to some friendly or neutral . port, and saved that much out of4be, fireA him.. It is also singular that she - I' , . t 1 ..,- in with any cruiser of our. .: ':''''• ;r which, in the opinion of so I A .- .1, say much in favour of the . ; tgila . n j: and. activity of that squadron. The ZWceso Teal (some call her the Princeza ; de Bea); sailed from hence near three years agcn to Angola and the East Indies, carrying io the former place which is the Botany Bay * Siberia of Portu gal, convicts, chiefly consisting of political pri soners, the victims of Miguel's usurpStion• She is an old, but still serviceable and very good ship, being well built, though near twenty years old, and even in this respect makes a valuable addition to the Queen's naval force. Two vessels, the Principe Real and Orestes, are under orders to sail to the Cape de Verde Islands and Africa, to bring back the surviving exiles, among whom are many persons of distinction of both sexes. But the preparations for the expedition are rather slow, and the officers of the navy are said not to be very anxious to go to that climate. The Don Pedro frigate, Captain Bertram, was to convey them, and to reconnoitre, if not to at tack, Madeira en 2 ifteennt. _ . Tile rain continues gently. winch was for some time past northerly, has chopped round to south and south west. The rainy season may, therefore, set in regularly, for which the army before Santarem was so anxious. PRICES OF SHAItES THIS DAT AT ONE &ewer. Paid. Per Share. Alton Mining Company £7 7% 34 Anglo Hex. Min. Co. (iss. at Si. pm ) XlOO 9 Bolanos Mining Company £l5O Brazilian Mining Company £s Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £ 2O Ditto National 22% Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Comes Cata Branca Mining Company ..... Rritish Iron Mining , Coronanv £so Columbizn Mining, Co. fiSs at 54 pm.) 51 1 4 English Mining Company 12% General Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. • 4 £lO I ff.Vrro AltinlEPT,Fah ~ _ i 'ruled 17ex. IlTin. Co. r (iss. at 21. pin... ) 40 Ditto New Scrip 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp. ...... Protector Insurance Comp. . £2 Australian Co. Canada Company General Steam Navigation Co. l3 National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of I reland 62 V, £P4 51, 11. f t• 143 1131 LI 5 6 21% 48 GERMAN PAPERS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 30.—After years of fear and danger, hope and tranquillity have returned to us, and if we have still some apprehensions respecting the future the grounds of them are out of the circle in which they can be laid to our charge. The Asiatic provinces are perfectly tranquil; they accustom themselves to the new institu tions which have made great progress in the European parts of the empire. The affairs of Servia are happily brought to a conclusion ; the regulation of the frontiers with Greece is settled, and the stipulated sum of eighteen millions of piastres has just been paid into the Sultan's treasury. The struggle between conflicting opinions which was manifested even in the seraglio is allayed. Edhein Effendi, the commissioner of the Porte, who was sent to Egypt, has returned with a'present of 10,000 francs to the Sultan, and with a promise that the dreaded vassal will pay an annual tribute of 32,000 francs, be ginning with the year, 1250 of the Hegira, that is from May, 1834. Mehemet Ali has, besides, lately declared his respect for his word given, and for the engagements entered into at Kiutakia, and reemznized the sincere union of all parts of the empire with each other, as well as his own perseverance in strict obedience to the Sultan, as the shield and protection of his own existence, While we thus have no ground for alarm in the interior, and may resume exertions that have been often interrupted, and indulge in the most pleasing hopes that our position with respect to our powerful neighbour, who has been so many years our enemy, gives us security far the future, without which the wounds in the interior could not be healed, or the organization of the empire accomplished. What Sultans who governed under far more favourable circumstances could not attain has been effected by Mahmoud, who changed his dreaded adversary into a friend, and gained for the preservation of the empire the powers that hitherto had laboured for its over throw. This admirable fact may effect the revival of the prosperity of the empire ; and those who sincerely wish it cannot but willingly assist in maintaining and strengthening this happy union. The security which arises from the state of our affairs both at home and abroad has induced the Sultan to let the fleet return to the arsenal. This confidence is fully justified by the con duct of Russia, which is also placing its forces on the Black Sea on the peace establishment, and has, besides, just given permission to his Ambassador at Constantinople to leave his post. So far as has transpired, the lean. from Count Nesselrode to Count Butinieff says expressly that the state of domestic and foreign tranquillity which the Turkish empire enjoys, and the absence of all danger, had induced the Emperor to grant him the leave of absence for six months, which lie had requested, to attend to fa mily affairs. Thus we should be in a most favourable situation entirely conformable to the interests of Europe itself, did not the threatened increase of the English and French farce in the Archipelago appear as an unexpected storm in the serene sky. We are not without an expla nation of this phenomena, but we endeavour in vain to reconcile it with the principle constantly professed by the two maritime Powers of preserving the Turkish empire. These Powers did not protect us in 1828, when, after a measure which was necessary, but which struck the empire to its foundation, Russia attacked us; nor did they protect us a year ago, when Ibrahim was within a few marches 'of the capital and a universally hated faction brought revolt and conflagra tion into our own walls. The humiliation which the Porte then underwent led to the most important victory it ever could obtain ; but it is certainly not indebted for this victory to the maritime powers, from which it was obliged to extort it. The consolatory fruits of this vic tory are now before us. Ail the circumstances on the side of Russia, which were formerly dangerous to us— the number and superiority of its forces, its diplomatic influence, its geographical position, its vicinity to us.-- are become so many advantages. The clear terms of the alliance secure, besides, to the Porte the choice of the moment when it shall think fit to make use of it, and, therefore, release it from all depere!enee on its powerful friend. This treaty might and should be considered as the regeneration of the Turkish empire ; and yet this i, pre cisely what the maritime powers envy it, though they affect to desire t h e p reservat i on o f th e Sultan's thron e . W e will not touch on the question of right, for on this there can be no difference of opinion; but how is the acknow ledged interest of the Powers compatible with the dif ference which their measures aim at, if they do not obtain ? If the great European Powers, altogether in one and the same firm language, in word and deed, ex press their will that the Turkish empire shall be preserved in its present extent, it will be preserved ; for neither from within nor from without will ambi tion then find a foot of ground on which to establish itself and act against it. The new institutions will gain strength, and the empire, which some people believe now to be at the last gasp, will show the falsehood of this notion for centuries to come. Instead of this interesting union, the two maritime powers pursue selfish objects, contrary to their own real interests, and prefer the petty and flseting interests of the day to the great and permanent wants of all; they speak of their apprehensions for the Turkish empire, which they alone excite, and would oblige the Sultan to save himself by quarrels through them ; whereas they have but to allow him repose that he may be able to support himself without receiving the help of any one. They talk of the preservation of the empire, and do everything that can bring it to ruin. These contradictions cannot but efface, in the Divan, the lest traces of mistrust of Russia, and attach the Sultan more and more to that power. The reinforceinent of toe English and French fleet, whlch is to be increased to thirty-five sail, may compel Russia on its side again to arm some vessels. The two maritime powers will then not have advanced a step by their threats, but it witl be more difficult for them to retire to a more just policy; arid if the Port and Europe are threatened, it is by those two powers alone which seem to be irretrievably engaged in a system of errors. VIENNA, DEC. 20.—Five per C e nt. M e t a lli ques , 94 13-16 ; Four per Cent-,84; ; Bank Shares, 1,229. Agoemeine Zeitung, Dec. 25. VIENNA, DEC. 16.—The Ministers Plenipotentiary are successively arriving. Baron Verstolk Van Soelen, is expected to-day. The Sittings will be held at the Imperial Chancery. The Chevalier Porkesch, Von Osten, who is appointed Charge d'Affaires from Austria to the King of Greece, will set out in the spring.—Frankfort Papers, Dec. 25. The retrains of Mr. James Brougham were on Saturday list rerrrived from Brougham-hail, and dei). kited in the family vault at Skelton, in the county of Cumberland. The funeral was strictly private, being atieuded only by the Lord Chancellor and Air. Brougham, 31 P. for Southwark, the sole surviving brothers of the deceased. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECENIBER 31, 1833. The year, which is now within a few hours of its close, though in the course of its progress it has given rise to many heart burnings and some disappointments, yet has, upon the whole, been a satisfactory one. Its commencement, however, was less auspicious than its close. The Irish Coercion Bill was a sad damper to public expectation : it seemed to indicate a return to the old systems of government, and even threat ened, at one period, to hurl Ministers from their " pride of place." Fortunately, however, they were persuaded to soften down some of the most offensive clauses of the Bill ; and thus it passed in a mitigated shape ; though still quite uncon stitutional enough to justify distrust and appre imension. The Irish Church Reform Bill was the next measure. This was intended to act as the lump of sugar to reconcile Ireland to her coercive black-draught ; but the sweet bore about as fair a proportion to the sour, as Falstcthrs halfpenny-worth of bread did to his tavern bill for sack. Of course, therefore, it has been ac cepted by the country only as an earnest of something better. The Irish Church cannot remain in its present state. Its luxuriances must be still more rigidly pruned, or the outcry against it will continue as loud as ever. The remaining ministerial measures are such as may be looked back on with satisfaction. The formal Abolition of Slavery, the arrangement of the East India Question, and that with the Bank of England— of this last provision we cannot speak in such terms of praise as of the two former—restored to Government much of the popularity which it had lost by the Coercion Bill. The Corpora tion Inquiry was another favourite measure, which has been actively going forward during the recess, and will produce its fruit in due season. The year 1833 then may, we repeat, be pronounced o❑ the whole, satisfactory to the great cause of social and political improvement. It has given several sturdy blows to the wedge of Reform, which 1831 must drive in still deeper. It has given us cause for hope— for confidence ; shown us our strength, and taught us how legitimately to exercise it. Above all, it has removed us still further from all chance of Tory misrule, stranded the WELLINGTON party, and taught Sir ROBERT and his discreet clique, that we can go on very well without them. As a voucher for the future, therefore, we have no reason to be otherwise than contented with the past. We cannot, however, extend this admission to our Foreign policy. Here the year 1833 has proved but one long bitter disappointment. Russia pursues her tortuous line of policy, un thwarted, and apparently unheeded ; Turkey, our old ally Turkey, nods to her fall, and not one Christian Power puts forth an arm to save her. It is perfectly astonishing to witness the gigantic strides which Russia has made during the last year. She has crushed out the last sparks of opposition in Poland ; para lyzed all the councils of the SULTAN ; strength ened her interest in Persia ; bribed or bullied Austria and Prussia into silence; and reduced France and England to time melancholy condi tion of mere helpless lookers-on. Here then the year 1833 has been sadly defective. It might have strengthened all the chances of European tranquillity,—it has diminished them one half; for so long as Russia is permitted to continue her present subtle manoeuvres, peace can be at best but problematical. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. They state that the Spanish Government had been compelled to contract a loan for 44 millions of reals with the bank of San Fernando and four commercial houses, to cover the public expendi ture for the last half year. The Captains-General and the Bishops of all the provinces had been p k i fdered to Madrid, to receive orders, or give an em of the way in which they had performed their diitiest Paris continued tranquil. We have received Frankfort Papers to the 25th inst. The Allgemeine Zeitung contains a very long, and apparently semi-official, article from Constantinople, dated the 31st ult., which is worthy of attention. The writer, after drawing a very glowing picture of the present happiness and tranquillity of the Turkish empire, which he attributes entirely to the alliance with Russia, in obtaining which the SULTAN is represented to have used admirable tact in uniting a dreaded enemy into a cordial ally, proceeds to utter a violent diatribe against Great Britain and France for disturbing the harmony whichsubsists between Russia and the Porte, under a pretence of de siring the welfare and integrity of the Turkish empire. It is asserted that the SULTAN has no mistrust of the Emperor of RUSSIA ; that whilst he was disniantling hi - s" fleet, the Emperor was (Ado- pinc.itl g ol..: F o isl aic the Black Sea on the peace establishment ; and that naval preparations of Great Britain and France will alone prompt similar actijk9n the part of Russia ; and, finally, that ta SUbTAN is re solved to cling to Russia, as the onb) ally whose support he ought to receive in the present emergency. The article to which we have alluded, although dated from Constantinople, was evidently dic tated by the Russian agents in that capital. It is an adroit way of launching a manifesto against Great Britain and France, and there are really some points about it which are unanswerable. For instance, the SULTAN is made to say that when his empire was threatened by Russia no assistance was given to him by those Powers who now profess so much anxiety for his welfare, and, therefore, that they have no claim upon him against the influence of Russia which has become his protectress. It is quite true that we did not interfere to preserve Turkey from the fangs of Russia. It is quite true that we have no claim upon the goodwill or friendship of the SULTAN; but it should be remembered that if we have hitherto neglected the appeals made by the SULTAN to us for support, we at the same time committed an act of folly, as regarded our own interest, from the effects of which we are now endeavouring to extricate ourselves. We are not increasing our naval force in . the Mediterranean, and con templating some positive demonstrations against Russian influence in Turkey from any attachment to the SULTAN, or any dread of the overthrow of his power from personal considerations. The events of the last few months have shown that the SULTAN has become the mere vassal of the Emperor of RUSSIA, of whose views upon Turkey no doubt can be entertained. The only questions with which the Cabinets of Great Britain and France have to do, are, Ist. Is Turkey under the influence of Rus sia? 2dly, Would the extension of the Rus sian dominion in Turkey, whether the Turkish Empire be actually incorporated with Russia, or the SULTAN be the vassal of the EMPEROR, be injurious to us, either as regards our mercantile interests, or as connected with the balance of political power in Europe ? These are the only points for us to consider, and if they be answered in the affirmative, as they must be, the sooner we show our determination to check the growing power of Russia, the sooner will the peace of Europe, and our own interests, be placed on a permanent basis. The abstract of and copious extracts from the speech of the PRESIDENT of the United States of America, delivered on the 3d Decem ber, which we yesterday gave, render it unne cessary for us to do more at present than notice one or two points, which seem particularly worthy of attention. As regards ourselves, the PRESIDENT annotinces that he has made over tures to the British Government, with respect to the disputed boundary on the Canada frontier, which he hopes will lead to a settlement of the question, and that the negotiations. opened some y e ars ago with us for the erection of lighthouses on the Bahamas, had been successful. Upon this subject the PRESIDENT says, " These works, when completed, together with some which the United States have constructed on the western side of the Gulf of Florida, will contribute essen- tially to the safety of navigation in tbat sea. This joint participation in establishments interesting to humanity and beneficial to commerce is worthy of two enlightened nations, and indicates feelings which cannot fail to have a happy influence upon their political relations. It is gra tifying to the friends of both to perceive that the inter course between the two people is becoming daily more extensive, and that sentiments of mutual good have grown up befitting their common origin, justifying the hope that by wise counsels on each side, not only unsettled questions may be satisfactorily terminated, but new causes of misunderstanding prevented." We heartily concur in the sentiments here expressed, and doubt not that they will be reci procated by our Government. A part of the statement of the PRESIDENT, with respect to the relations of the Republic with Spain, will be read with great interest by all the friends of free trade in this country. It runs thus— " By the first section of an Act of Congress passed on the 13th of July, 1832, the tonnage duty on Spanish ships artiving from the ports of Spain was limited to the duty payable on American vessels in the ports of Spain, previous to the 20th of October, 1817, being five cents per ton. The Act was intended to give effect, on our side, to an arrangement made with the Spanish Govern ment, by which discriminating duties of tonnage were to be abolished in the ports of the United States and Spain, on the vessels of the two nations. " Pursuant to that arrangement, which was carried into effect, on the part of Spain, on the 20th of May, 1832, by a Royal order, dated the 29th of April, 1832, American vessels in the ports of Spain have paid five cents per ton, which rate of duty is also paid in those ports by Spanish vessels ; but as American vessels pry no tonnage duty in the parts of the United States, the duty of five cents payable in our pelts by Spanish vessels, under the Act above-men tioned, is really a di.criminating duty, operating to the disadvantage of Spain. Though no complaint has yet been made on the part of Spain, we are not the less bound by the obligations of good faiths to tvuove the discrimina. PRICES OF STOCKS THI: Bank Stzeit 3lper Cent. Red. 8 8704%1 3 per Cent.Conq shut 3,4 per Cent. 9 .7(., Ditto Red 97 %%% IsTew34 per Cent, 3 tier Cent. Ann. 1726 - 4:per Cent. 1826 Brink Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5,186 P l7 Oct. 10, 1559 - Jan. 5,1860 Jan. 5, 1880 - April.% 1.880 ..... ... -- I Jan. 5, 1870...-.:..i0n........---;,. A.PRICES OF FOREIO Ail*lan:Bonds ...... 'IT Bellian Bonds 'l -1964,' Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds ...47 1 ,0i Ditto Account - - 6 7 81( Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account 21% Chilian Bonds... ' Ditto Account 0 1 Columbian Bonds ..... 19% Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1824 2244' Ditto Account 2.2 3 4 Danish Bon 3 .... ........ 73% Ditto Account 73% Greek 80nd5.......- — Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account — hiexican Bonds, 5 per cent 29 1 4 Ditto Account iha , ti per cent Ditto Account 3B Neapolitan S9 29% Due. MAIM Arrived. Due. Arrived. O America 0 0 Hamburg 1 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Cartllagen , 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 1 O Flanders 0 1 Malta ... 0 1 France 0 0 Sweden 0 O Guarnsey&Jersev.. 1 I 1 Waterford 0 HIC:I7 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-11ORROW. Morning ... 8 minutes after 6. I Evening...3o minutes after 6. ERRATUM. We have to regret that a mistake of our printer yesterday oc casioned a transposition of matter in a small part of our im pression, which must have caused some embarrassment to those of our readers into whose hands it has unfortunately fallen. At the end of the twenty.sixth line of the fourth column of the second page, the quarter column at the top of the fifth column should be inserted. The sentence and a half thus displaced in the fourth column should go to the bottom of the fifth column, whilst the gap in the top of the fifth column must be supplied by the piece now at the top of the sixth column. Atilt+ , o ri.:44 , 10), . e'sv ;t4 - -; -....-. ~ . '_', -. , - --',frd , x ' ~-„,------_,. _, DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock — Ditto Bonds 25 23 pm. South Sea Stock — Old Annuities 67% New Ditto --- 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 45 46 pm. Ditto 500 45 46 pm. Ditto Small 45 46 pm. Ditto Commercial ..... .. —pm. Ditto Advertised .... pm. Bank for Account ...... 212 India for Account Cons' fer-Atcount 89%34 IAY Al ..5[6 - Ditte New Bqnds - 7..56%%% Ditto Acconnt '56% % Prussian Bonds lO2 Ditto Bonds, 1842 lO3 'Russian Bonds, 1822 lO4 Ditto Account lO4 Ditto 111 lO3 Spanish Bonds, 1821 Ditty Ac Ditto Bonds, 189.3 I Ditto Account 'French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Exchange ;-1 —c. —3 per cent. —l. -- Exchange —f —c. [Dutch, cu p. c 5l 50% Ditto Account bt Ditto, 5 p. c 94% 5 4% Ditto Account 95 Fr3nch Scrip 4 pm. t tion, and I recommend that the Act be amended#4 Cl ingly. As the Royal order above alluded 1 10 ' ports of the Balearic and Canary Lamb, as of Spain, it would seem that the provisions Congress should be equally extensive; and ti payment of such duties as may have been ceived, an addition should be made to the 501 at the last session of Congress for refundii ting duties." Tbi Cons chair. Mr. The Military President of the Ui sees clearly enough that to levy di; duties on Spanish vessels in Am must be a losing game to America, has more vessels than Spain has, quently would pay more discrimin, in Spanish ports than she wo't►.ld levy vessels in her own. Those of our who are silly enough to exclaim reciprocity treaties, want to feel the di duties levied upon their own vessels can be made to understand the bene from those treaties. The only other points of any gent which we did not notice yesterday w nouncement that all but two tribes of by treaty retired to the west of the _ and the recommendation of the PRESIDENT the Legislature to revise the Consular sy o of the United States, and so to alter the mode electing the President and Vice-President, the Republic as to remove every intermet agency in the election of those officers, and, limit their eligibility to one term of either or six years. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DIV FROM LI.OYD•s. - DE %L. 30.—Wind squally.—The out hound • remain. Arrived the Vrow Elizabeth, Danizic, for North America—all well at the back Goodwin ; and Margaret, Youena, from Memel. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 30..—Wind W.—lt blew a gale all last night and to-day. PLYMOUTH, DEc.29.—Wind W.—Arrived the II Cumming, from Fayal. FALMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Wind W. to W.S.W., breezes, and squally.—Arrived the Flamer steam-p from the Mediterranean—left Malta on the Bth Gibraltar on the 23d ; and Cadiz on the 24th. MARGATE, DEC. 30. —Arrived off port, the J Cooke, from Riga. DOVER, DEC. 30.—Arrived the John Edward, Ma from Port-au-Prince, leaky, bound to Hamburg. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Arrived the Willie] Charlotte, Koldman, from Bremen, very leaky, and r damaged. BRISTOL, DEC. 30.—Arrived the County of 1 1 broke steamer, from Oporto—sailed 23d inst. GLOUCESTER, DEC. 29.—Arrived the Alert, 0 b rton, from Wyburg. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 29.—Arrived the Richard, WO from Bahia; the Alice, Hall, from Savannah; Peggy, Ruslin, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; the Bristol, Pritchard, from Quebec. LYNN, DEC. 30.—Arrived the Elizabeth Gard' and Tale, Lerford, from St. Petersburgb. YARMOUTH, DEC. 30. —Arrived the Mary Cotting, from Riga; Mary, Taylor, from St. Pen burgh ; and Medleys, Morris, from Riga. LOWESTOFFE, DEC 29.—Arrived off port the Etigi Richardson, from Riga. to inCitr t yK 9 well as LA O; e of the vr: that for d' i i " impropepik im appro .", tog disetiv , rnited 9i# t‘ iscrimi 1 1 lerican ,' because '?" 1 and c t toing 4 ‘ on SP ' r shipo against, iserimin before :fit they • neral int were thejt F Indians Mississi There freem spect a benev highe at th Liver of the the A 11 Were origii . and in t to s pro . THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—t At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CU i4BERLANI). Clover Hay ss. per load lower, Straw from 2s. to 3 s . .per 0 higher than last quoted; prices otherwise stationary. St' shoe t, and trade dull. I:oarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 5 to X 5 4 gew Meadow Hay 3 10 Useful Old Ditto 3 15 Fineer UplaHaynd Meadow and Rye-grass Hay ...... 0 1 Clov Oat Straw £1 Bto £1 101 Wheat Straw... 110 1 SMITHFIELD. Supply limited, trade dull, and prices barely stationary 4 Coat. heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .z 3 0 to A , " 4 New Meadow Hay 3 10 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 5 4 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay ..... Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s o... Generally Oat Straw ... £1 4to i 1 6 I Wheat Straw 1 8 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The only foreign arrivals this morning are the Expre; from Paris by the French Mail, anti a Malta Mail, vit, ° sailed on the Bth Dec., from Gibraltar 23d, an d 07, Cadiz on the 24th. We have not yet learnt theinforiv tion she brings. By the French Mail we have accounts from Bayo ol/1 that General Pastor, having learnt that the Carlists , returned, to the number of 1,500 men, to Onate, itnm c diately proceeded to that town and put them to The lndicateur de Bordeaux states tbat Setura the place where General Pastor attacked the Carlists. The Sentinelle of the Pyrenees says that Catslogne eo Arragon, which have been so quiet to the present tit! )l begin to show symptoms of fermentation, excited by P , priests ; and that partial insurrections have taken place' They write from Paris that Count d'Appony, the Al' trian Ambassador, and Count Puzzo di Borgo, proceed to the Prussian Ambassador's, and had a long confae ll with him. Letters from Lombardy state that 150 persons I] been arrested of all classes—nobles, priests, and mail men. A whole battalion of grenadiers has been sent b to Austria. The Austrian Observer gives accounts from C orl ett tinople of the ht December, at wbich period all was q ui in the capital and in the provinces. A long account has been published from Oran or battle in the plain of Tamczouat with 6,000 Arabs, whi lasted thirteen hours, and, extraordinary to relate, 1 , French had only one man killed, and 25 wounded, o n some horses. THE FUNDS. We have but scanty arrivals this morning, and I express from Paris is of a meagre description. The dulness of the weather causes a dulness in Funds. Consols opened at the price they left off yol day, 89- for the Account, with scarce a bargain doini yet. The Foreign market is in the same state as that of ; prices are nominal as per yesterday. HALF-PAST ONE; We have seen a letter from Lisbon, of good authori stating that the English Government are new going take serious and active interference in the affairs of FI tugal, and that Don Pedro and the Regency will con!I with the measures adapted by the English Cabinet, proo that Don Miguel leaves the country, and that the (2 0 and constitution continue in force. We have reason to believe tlat the letters from Vie , are of a pacific nature. We have no fresh arrivals to the present hour, Consols have continued the most part of the morning 891 for the Account, with little doing. This is settling day in the Foreign Market, and not, the Times quotes, yesterday; all is as yet going off We i Dutch Stock 504 51 ; Portuguese 56i i; Spanish 254 Brad 67 671-. THREE 0' CL OCO Consols for the Account, Sq. The Message of the President of the Unite' States reached town by the American ship Co/urnb li from New York, bound to Bremen. The speech ' forwarded by express to the North and South Americ i) Coffee- house. MONEY-MARKET.—Among the current tt pies of the money-market, the late extraordinary frio committed relative to the money sent from the Navy Office is one which has occupied much attention, a nd has induced a very strong conviction that the system present acted upon is a very improper and unsafe one, p. O ductive, too, of considerable trouble and expense whi t might as well be avoided. Why s hould not, i t i s as ked, business of this sort devolve on the Bank of England, erl' l considering the great advanta g es acquired by the ne charter, might with great pi oinletY be called on to debv i at the different naval stations , at its own risk, all the not' an , l specie which may be required to make the Goverl b y t h e additional circulation of notes it P. ment payments? The . . B ink has a direct advantage in t i operwion, duces, setting aside the liberal pay assigned for trausae_ d l i " tie general business of the country. If it were supPu* — Fossil)le, far the sake of the argument, that the Go eerg 'tent business connected with these payments could I intrusted to any private bank, any Portsmouth or ply mouth bank would no doubt willingly furnish the gold I silver wantefl, without any charge, if permitted to W their own notta for the remainder.— Times. ocei the tion yell Edi rig tits pro be