The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-10 00:00:00

ONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLO cR - . The arrivals this morning consist of a French mail, a mail r! - Oro Vera Cruz, •by the Sheldrake-sailed on the 10th No velr ber, Havant - 13h the 30th August ; a l so , s hip l e tt ers fr om 11 Q aduras, Oporto, Canton, and St. Helena-Sydney the 11th of August, and Mauritius the 27th October. We have received Sydney papers to the 11th August. The -following are extracts :- " Tne WEATHER.-The Northern districts of the Colony ore looking extremely bad for want of rain, and, judging from khe - present appearances, the crops will be a failure. "" A fine large whale was captured in the harbour on Satur illy last. " The following arc the last market prices from the Hobart Town Courier,. 20th July :-There is no alteration in the - prices of Colonial produce since last week. Wheat, ss. 9d. to 6s, ad. per bushel; Potatoes, 3/. 53. to 41. 10S. ; Hay, 5/. 10s. to 6/. 103. per for:. The sales of Wheat have been brisk during the week, and is still in demand. No alteration in the price of Flour. Butchers' Meat 6d. to Bd. ; Mutton 4id. per lb. - Pork, 7d. t o Bd. ; V ea l , 10d. to Is. per lb. " . 4AN RIVER -We have received some numbers of the • P eraGazette down to the 17th June :--.1 The Natives-Some : little jealousy has been created amongst the Perth natives, by a. a. arrival of the King George. Sound natives over land. " Rain is much wanted in the pastoral districts, the reports nee have received from the York district regarding the state of the flocks, we regret to observe, are not very favourable; we hear of s:-veral lambs leaving died for want of nourishment." We have received Canton Papers to the 22d August. It was reported at Canton that the Chinese Admiral bad made an apology or an excuse to the British Admiral, for the act of 'aegression committed by the Bogue fort, in firing on the schooner Bombay, and having explained it away by assuring Admiral Maitland that the act was unauthorised by any order, and 'vas committed by an inferior officer. This is not credi. 4 0- and we think it impossible that Admiral Maitland could Evare been imposed upon by such a flimsy and false explanation. COMMERCIAL REMARKS-IMPORTS, Cotton._.The sales during the week have been numerous, 'but the aggregate quantity of Cotton sold, small. Cotton Yarn-Continues dull, the stock is heavy, with pro . specs of large importations. ' Long Cloths-A good deal of inquiry existed last week, - several thousand pieces white were sold at dols. 4-20 a 4-40. Long Ells-Are rather fir mer , an d a b out 2 000 pieces have vhanged hands. • Opiume-For these last few days there has been an native ti'vmand both for the .Bengal and Maliva drug ; prices have ;.gradually advancFd. Melilla, 700 dollars cesh, and 720 at a . • fortnight. New Patna, 600 dollars cash, and 615 per chest for two weeks. . Deliveries of Opium from the Ist to the Isth - :inst. :-Patna, Old, 130. New. 411 ; Benarcs, Old, 17, New, 100 • Maliva, 541 ; total, 1,199 chests. Woollens continue steady, and a few sales have been made. The Sheldrake, from Vera Cruz, has brought a freight of 10 0,000 dollars. She sailed le: fere San Jean d'Ulloa was captured by the French squadron. A vessel has arrived from Philadelphia, at Liverpool, with papers two days' later cl,tes than those previously received. . They do not contain any fresh accounts from Canada. Mauritius Papers received to the 17th December. From Ol e Price Current of the 16th inat : -Exthange, Mauritius Government Bill s , t hi rty d ays ' sight, q Tier cent. premium ; Bank Bills, six months, nothing done ; Priwe Bills, nin, ty 'days' sight, from 2 to 3 per cent. discmunt. The excitement of the merchants in the City still con tinues to ascertain further pea - ticulars of the dreadful hurricane at Liverpool, and wt- are sorry to say that the ac counts received this morning continue disastrous. Neverthe less, we have some consolation in announcing that the st eamer which returned to the Lock:mods has s ave d a number of per eons from perishing 'in that wreck. We have reeeived• further accounts from Canton of the 25th August, whi c h state t h at Ad m i ral Maitland had obtained from the Chinese Admiral an ample apology for the insult offered to the! British flag, by firing on the Bombay passage boat- Admiral Maitland had in consequence resumed his for- Tller annhoa-age in T ung -k oo l B ay. The p l easure-bouts which a d not teen allowed to sail during the dispute had again been Permitteel to do so. The edict of the Viceroy was strictly en f ) 1)-4 *.d, to prevent passage-boats going up the river. COllBOl5 opened:this morning at the prices they closed at yes lerdaY, 94i- i for the A ccount ; R e d uce d , 931 . 3 ; Exchequer ,:laills, 66 68; India Bonds, 63 65 ; Bank Stock, 2021- 203 k. , In the F ore i gn ' M ar k et S pan i sh Active may be quoted 'Ft - a; Portuguese, 334 1 :1; Three per Cents, 21-i 22 ; Bel gian, 994 i ; Brazilian, 77-4 78 ; Colombian, 271 284; Alexi 'earl, 244 i ; Dutch Two-and- a - Half per Cents., 54-1 i ; Five per Cents., 104 i. The Spanish m a il o f T ues d ay, as well as the Ostend, are still due. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 555 , India Stock -a Per cent. R e d . 9314 i ' ............ ......•••• --- Ditto Bonds 64 MI. 9 Per 'CLiit. Cons. 9-A % . Smith Sea Stock - ' 3 '. nee Cent lold Annuities - LDit ro Ited. looli% : New Ditto - iew "! 4 per Cent lo o ,i %; 3 p er C en t. Annuities, 1751... - New 5 per Cent. .ran. Ba, ,k Long An to expi re ' Ditto &X) 5, 1860 l4 15-16 15 Di t t o S ma ll 63 66 pm Jan. 5, Oct. 10, 18 1859 ..14 12-16 ,Ditt o C ommerc i a l - - pm. Jan. 5, 1880 60 -- Ditto Advertised ......... - - pm. April 5,. 188(1 -- ; Bank Stock for Account - -- India Stock for Account Jan. 5, 1870 - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds , Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds - Ditto Account B uenos Ayres Bouds Ditto Account - 21% Ditto Accoußt C hilian Bonds - ~ 1 ' tto Account - yolumbian Bonds Ditto Account - ali' Account nililaii Bonds, 1824 ......28 77i 8 Spanish Bonds . - - 13iiit_to Account .)11,*p Bonds Ditto Bonds 1834 - 14,,,,13cc0unt .................. - Ditto Accot sr. IN% D , 11Z11%. i.w................ - i French, 5t Per eceelil,tt.. ~....... LI: -c: 11,./)xilctia) Account 1--- 3 roe cent. oi tto n Bonds, 5 per Cen'.... - ---- Exchange. -f. -c. Ditto Account ...... ... ........ - Dutch, 2 , 4 per cent. th tt " o "P Per Cent .............. .. - ' Ditto Account Nea,„..„:7cmunt ... .............. 24', Ditto, 5 per cent... ..... - "&nali. .......................... -1 Ditto Acc0unt........ ?PACES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK fruition Imperial Mining C o Ditto AlacmbasC (lssued at 5/. pm.) Pa '.. i N d l . Per Shate, tuenm.ties Railway Birmingham and D "aes '2s , ' astern c o er" Ra"waY Company tate?aesso In Railway Company ... . 'at arli:chk.s_tnedr aßnidn:i:nhi:ll a l! : hi 45 Ccrnpsr.y S,f) .4 dots and Croydon Railv , ay Company 2O Railway lO ''''. Do , Extension .............. 3% lli-rth land Railway Company. , B i e f 'Zent. consols ........... ee Grand Canal Deis. it per cent. 93% . ier C Stock ............ 100 Ditto, 4 per cent. ••• ....... •••• - Ditto Cent.eed ............. . -- Hibernian Bank 24% Nrc , 7 ,18 30 ......... 100S4 City of Dublin Steam Company 1153 i ~, ,,i, sto tt . Debentures .. 92% National Insurance Company - Y5l R Cana l .- ... ......... .... 196 City Debentures, 4 per cent - *rand s to Ballast Office Debentures s 4 per - Canal Stock -- . cent - HALF-PA ST ONE. ;.,!be accounts received this morning from Dublin of the Bth ~7t b i t , _, we are sorry to state, are of a similar disastrous nature ruth.ose from Liverpool, with the exception that it was a land dov:icane. At Athlone from 40 to 50 houses were blown sh n ; entire ricks of hay and corn were carried across the t r 2 nn on• The town of Lougbrea is nearly all consumed by houses houses burnt, and 100 levelled to the ground ; 70 t ,"en consumed in the town of Moate ; on the es- T a _te s , af the Earl Illf Clancarty, not a tree is left standing. fa",a,Aelaryborough an immense destruction of property took tz : • Carlow has suffered much. In Newry there was an di, e i, use destruction of property. Further particulars of these sr...teers will be found in another part of the Paper. The be letters from Canton is morning, of the 25th August,,rl. state that there was nothing f i l mportant in the Papers. rtiim:ee,nz tea had not made its appearance in Canton at that it was expected that much injury had been expe ct in the tea districts by the heavy rains, and the crops .71 expected t o b e very short. . cING-nese THIS MORNING, HALF-PAST 10 o'CLoCIt.- T he Te a so ld at public sales, imported from Assam, and t val ued by the brokers to the East India Company at Is. 7d. s"poerilsb. i . 9 d.p ,h; er lb., was sold at 2s. 44. t o 3 s . 4d. per lb. ; at the le time Tea o f b etter qual i ty from China, was sold at Is.4d. de r lb. s must evidently 'be bought by the puffing tea a ers, 9 p 3 Consol s may be quoted at 94 / 1- -,} for the Opening ; Red uce d 0 04 ; Ex:ock, Exchequer Bill s , 68 66 ; I n di a B on d s, 64 ; B an k in the Foreign Market Spanish Active 173- i- ; Portu- Rtlese sae ' ; Three per Cents., 21,-I.i- ; Belgian, 99+ I ; Bra- Zilj b an ' 771 784-; Dutch Two-encl.:, Half per Cents, 544- 1 ,i e , '' Per Cents. 104 i. c The a b ove report of the Assam Tea is correct ; there were }:!lign 1 ) : eight chests, and we suppose they were purchased a t that p r ice as R curiosity . , Government Brokers purchast d six thousand Consols at 921 ex-dividend. a T here is lit t l e d o i ng i n S hares- G reat W estern 12 prem. ; koedon and Birmingham 77i prem. THREE O'CLOCK. Consol s f or the Account, 941 i Th /1:?4 ~~ 78'§ 168 7% 13.41 A the e beautiful piece of carving in the parlour of aith,oAurngberican Stores, 56, Oxford-strect,,is not, as reported, . Work of the celebrated Italian modellist Cavilliac, evidently the masterpiece of an artist his equal in g e nius end talent. wb9tl Tuesday a Young man, named Richard Keefe : employed in the - factory of Messrs. Hughes . a 'ler, o f Ny,, accidentall, got entangled in the nlachi nory of a PP ste ' arn-en ' • e and before he could be extri "ted he was mangled i g n m a ' shocking manner, and was at 7o e- removed to the London Hospital. On examination cr, ''i t e r s found that hi, left arm, and the thumb and the two . fusers of the right land were so shattered that awn t''ttpcin Was deemed absolutely r.ceessary as the only means Al,. reserving life. The operation has been performed by Hamilton, one of the surgeons of that institution, with Tl 'uFh care and skill, and from the present state of the patient th ere i s every hope of his recovery. -:1-1 Alicris: OF CRUELTY IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM. 1 -- - t At the Southampton Quarter Sessions last week, Char t-; 11 ° 11 e, the nurse employed at a lunatic asylum near not!thampton, was convicted and fined W. for an assault on b _ Inmate of the asylum named Strong. The case, it will hew,orecollected, excited much interest during thu inquest the re the Coroner, the .Tu y- having returned a verdict that tri.death of Strong had been accelerated by ill-usage. The .„;II of another person on a similar charge was postponed nu next sessions. THE HURRICANE. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. provinees, as From all the papers we have received from the well as from Scotland and Ireland, the s+- - ..erm appears to have estructive in its cense been wider in its scope, and more . quences than any previous ee we remember. To the ac :ceders yesterday we have to add much counts leid before our '7,ence furnished by our arrivals to-day. The additional intell . .eport begins with briefly noticing the calamitous following t'ffre.4l of the hurricane in England, proceeds to Scotland, and concludes with Ireland, where the violence of .the elements appears to have done even more injury than elsewhere. MANCHESTER —ln the township of Manchester there has been Mush less damage than in the outskirts, and less shah tcrcd parts of the town ; but even there the devastation has been frightful. And in addition to numerous comparatively slight disasters, such as roof s b e i ng str i ppe d o f the lead, an fl windows being broken in numerous houses, we regret to state, that eight cottage houses in Rider-row, between Great An coat's -street and St. George's-road, have been completely de stroyed. At Stretton there was one fatal result to life of the storm in this township, at Clapper Hill, an old house, occupied as a farm by Mr. Goodier, one portion of which was the residence of an elderly single lady, Miss Royle, with whom re,ided her niece, M-s. Sandiford, and her child. 'A little after seven o'clock in the morning, Miss Royle and the child were in one bedroom, and Mrs. Sandiford in another part of the house, when the wind blew down a tall chimney through the roof in the bedroom where Miss Rule was at the time kneeling in prayer by the side of the bed. Part of the brickwork struck her on the back of the head, dreadfully fractured her skull, and killed her instantly. The child was in bed, and escaped without injury. 'Lie servant, in another bedroom, was driven to make her escape; slates from the roof coming through the ceiling of the room, and falling upon the bed in which she was tying. In the country surrounding the town of Manchester the tem pest has left traces of its fury. On all sides (says the Guar dian, whose account we subjoin in an abridged form) we hear of buildings demolished or unroofed, large chimneys blown Cowin trees uprooted or broken, and other melancholy cone quences of the storm. OLDHAIL—The storm we experienced here with great seve rity, and caused great and wide-spread injury to the roofs and chimneys of houses, factories, &c., and to the timber and fruit-trots growing in the neighbourhood; and the following rases are of a serious description :—A factory, four stories high, and ten windows in length, newly built, and not quite finished, belonging to Messrs. J. and J. Wilde, of Turf-lane, Roy ton, and which stood in a very exposed situation, was en tirely bloWn down a little after six o'clock in the morning, and now lies a complete mass of ruins. What seems very extreme dietary is, that the roof of the building was found lying upon the wreck of the walls and floors entire, not a beam or a ratter heing displaced, nearly the whole of the slates and ridging. ?toies in their places, and, what is 'most extraordinary, con ,idering the height from which it had fallen, the greater part of the glass in the sky-lights unbroken—one sky-light in parti cular not having lost a single square ! At another unfinished mill, belonging to Mr. Jacob Taylor, of Scott Field, Prim rose Bank, the chimney was blown down, and, falling upon the building, cut through it, from the roof to the ground flour, leaving the whole interior a mass of ruins. ASHTON AND STALYBRIDGE. —A lamentable accident occur. red et the old factory belonging to Messrs. Thomas Harrison arid Sons, Stalybridge, where a chimney, which had been re built about twelve months ago, broke di at the square of the tesilding, and the upper part fell in one solid mass upon the roof of the mill, breaking through that and all th e fl oors d own to the boil e r-h ouse on the ground floor. This occurred about half-past six o'clock in the morning, when the hands were all at work, and for a time the most exaggerated reports prevailed respecting the loss of life. It happened, however, most provi dentially that the rooms upon which the chimney fell were prin cipally used as store-rooms. One, however, on the second floor frsm the ground was used as a drawing-in room, where 9or 10 persons were employed in drawing in and piecing the ends of warps. A large portion of the floor of this room (which was fire proof), together with the See persons who were standing upon it, was carried by the falling chimney through the next floor, and down to the ground floor of the engine -house ; and one, a woman, was killed on the spot, as well as the engineer of the mill, who happened to be in the engine -house at the time. Four others were more or less severely hurt; one, who is now at the Manchester Infirmary, having a leg broken, and some other severe injuries. Four of the persons employed in the drawing-in room were fortunately standing, at the time of the accident, upon that arch of the floor which was the farthest from the chimney, and which was left standing, and they es c-ped unhurt. The mass of falling rubbish broke the main steam-pipes leading from the boiler; and it is believed that tl.e engineer lost his life rather from the steam which rushed out, than from the falling materials, as no •serious wound or fracture could be found upon him, but he appeared to have teen dreadfully scalded. We understand that an inquest is to be held upon the bodies, at the White Hart Inn, Stalybridge, this morning. BURY. —In this town no less than seven large chimneys have been wholly or partially demolished. Several dwelling- Louses have been very severely injured, amongst which are the rectory-house, the house of Mrs. Haslam, at Cliesham, and that of Miss Clegg, who was much hurt, and very narrowly escaped with her life, a chimney having fallen through the roof into her bedroom. The number of dwelling house chimneys blown down, and of houses partially or wholly unroofed, is here as elsewhere extremely great; and the streets were covered with bricks, slates, and chimney pots, in every direction. ROCHDALE.—Notwithstanding the great amount of damage tq property, and the numerous instances in which house-chim neys fell through the roofs or rolled into the streets, we can nit learn that a single person has been killed, or seriously in jured. The storm began about two in the morning, and ap p-ared to be at its greatest height from four to six. About *lye o'clock the barometer was observed to stand at 27. 80. Bolero:v.—Throughout the whole town almost every build ing has suffered more or less damage; but, we are glad to add, there has been no loss of life. The buildings and trees in the country about Bolton have also very generally suffered ft om the storm. BLACKBGEN.—In this town, and the immediate neighbour hood, the devastation produced by the storm has been exces sively great, far exceeding any thing of the kind that has oc curred from a similar cause within the memory of man. No less than eleven factory chimneys have been levelled, namely, those of Messrs. Feilden and Townleys, Messrs. Cartwrights, Messrs. Turners, Messrs. B. Eccles and Co., Messrs. Eccies and Abbott, Mr. J. Forrest, Mr. J. Thompson, Messrs. Brier-- and Messrs. Co., Messrs. Bulcocks, Messrs. I'. Livesey and Co., Cort and Harrison. Several of these chimneys, ley and we believe, have done very serious damage. At Messrs. Cart wright's factory, in King-street, the chimney cut clean through the building from the roof to the ground floor, and the damage mill probably not be less than 1,0001. In consequence of the of these chimneys, and the threatening appearance of many others, none of the factories in Blackburn were at work until the afternoon. In the surrounding country also very extensive mischief has been done, the exact particulars of which we hate not beer, able to learn. At Clitheroe, we understand, a large drying-stove belonging to Messrs. Thomson and Suns, calico printers, was entirely blown down, and much other (I.:mage done. BI'RNLEY.—The hurricane commenced here about two, and raged with great fury until screw, having done considerable earrage in Burnley and tie neighbourhood. No lives have been lost, though several persons have sustained more or less injury. The mercury was down at the very lowest point in tire barometer. LANCASTER.—The storm extended to this town, though, apparently, its force was not quite equal to what was expe rienced in the Southern part of the county. Several factories and private houses were more or less damaged, and three of the well-known elm-trees or: Castle Hill were blown down. We hear little of the storm to the Northward of this place, except that the mail was twice blown over on Shop Fells ; and the guard, finding it impossible to proceed with the coach, was obliged to put the bags in a cart, in which he pro ceeded until he was able to procure a post-chaise. TODMORDEN, HALIFAX, &c.—The fury of the storm was v( ry great in the vale of Todmordcn, where two mills, one in Dalesgates, belonging to a Mr. fimmerton, and another be longing to a Mr. Hinchliffe, near Mytholm Bridge, were entirely blown down ; as was also a chimney at the mill of Mr. Frith, of Todmorden ; but wo do not hear that any lives were lost. In the neighbourhood of Ripponden, two chimneys were blown down—namely, those of Mr. J. Whiteley and Mr. H. 13inns, the latter of which fell upon the factory, and did very groat damage to the building and machinery. In Halifax, the house of a man named Jennings, a cabinet-maker, situate in Pellon-lane, was entirely blown down ; and the poor man, with his wife and child, buried in the ruins, and killed on the A severe accident also happened to Lewis Alexander, Esq., the well-known solicitor of Halifax, who was at break fast. when one of the chimneys of his house fell upon and very severely injured him. We are glad to learn, however, that he is considered out of danger. We learn, also, that at Leeds arid Hull the storm was exceedingly destructive ; but we have not heard any particulars of the damage done, except that many vessels had been lost in the neighbourhood of Hull. HULL.—We regret to state that the result of the hurricane at this place has been an extensive loss of Ff . ,: and property, both en water and land. We commence with some of the casual ties on shore. The accidents have been very numerous. About 40 feet of an octagon chimney attached to a new steam corn-mill, in Wincolmlee, the property of a gentleman named Morris, residing at Leeds, which was finished on Saturday last, fell into the river about five in the morning. The round top and sails of a lofty mill in Trippet, called the Cato Mill, was severed from the machinery, about half-past nine, and fell partly into the river, but chiefly upon a warehouse or shed, the roof of which was entirely destroyed. The top of an other mill on the Holderness read was unseated about the same time, but did not fall down. About an hour earlier one of the pinnacles, with a vane, fell from the tower of Christ Church, through the roof, into the gallery, the floor of which it broke, but did not pass through. In the course of the forenoon, while some workmen were removing the rub bish, another vane, with part of a pinnacle, fell through the other side of the roof, and alighted within two yards of them. occasioning a similar damage ; the remainder of the pinnacle presented a threatening appearance, as did also one of the pinnacles of High Church. During the day one could scarcely enter a street or a yard in the town but it was strewed with fragments of chimney-pots, bricks, tiles, or mortar; se veral other gable ends, particularly in West -street, and one in the Groves, and numerous stacks of chimneys, have been de molished, but we have not heard of any personal injury in the town, excepting that of Mr. T. 8.. Blundell. Spring-row, through whose roof a stack of chimneys fell early in the morn ing, part of which falling on him while in bed, wounded him seriously, but not dangerously. There have been se veral narrow escapes. In one instance a gentleman living ey rid abor e of: the oil 'lion )o pro- ke) 2 to ice Ling o pro y hope n ation, and a ge. and the pub it. No t ore re- Lard on nt proof oomph-- c graced ent, nor tepben3. ouble of is such hicb his ly, whilst ;ecret art ispend,ed he road lee.!t of because His your nor, ant !mobility pity for e neigh '-respect, kid pre ihat his Sir, do yourself. I do feel when I Laily con' and who example :uleate. its ; and 'LAY. yes terciaf he,r Ma- lo joined eded the Lord and lelbourDe yesterdaY, Earl 0, un.s. Mr• Lion frorg r w ith the •street. yesterds/ Foreign of Coo. I CE. er House , Incashire; it to Lady the }Jon. lk, in St' t.on. nt ; Lord land. .serburgb. a visit ;° Stepheo Naples; their seat• sit .to 61 Cona,ta n ' the Mbu . " m Kent' tam Halo a tour it, Deno r Canter' thamptos' tinbr;( l o arnioidge of CO' for WO unbridge rnmank r cr uiso . l , n :d to visit 30. Lady ( i f of Dor Hamill °' v benefit of I cl , s gran t in t" ompanY' lth, wile!' and their ) Deev e t regime' de Cot ll V red, and' indigent , Deen©' se veral ished I Stanley' Sanct 9 ' h p s oes ts c i nada, so ada, hale ,ve been Cart° ) partoo the Hoy: nond, 51 ,buck, , t include! 'are, go Charle s •espective !ssional l l' int, A ll ! eal rchioness r 'ount 1 36 ; Lord an d nd LB ,l l -d Cant," Gerrarw d, °pc" !, on the his seat' season as hither Govern' he coavb, anntol His t m onth. iberaliti at of a s there i 5 Scotch r this fr Any worl c , eir cruel ger chug THE LONI)ON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 11.33 i). in the It -sessle-road rose from his seat to go up stairs after ~,eakfast, but thought he would stay a minute ; he di so, and in that short interval a stack of chimneys through the roof, and broke the chamber floor, in th. exact spot which, in one minute more, he would have oc cupied—probably for the last time. Another stack of chim neys, in the Pottery, fell upon a bet which had, on th, previous night, been occupied by an invalid young lady, whr, on Sunday had removed a few miles into the country. In th. country we are sorry to l ear n consequences more disastrou. have been e xp er i ence d. A t N afferton, near Driffield, water corn-mill, the property of Mr. Thompson, v. as you, down, and three children and a nursery-maid were killed and Mrs. Thompson had her thigh broken. The Searbe rough mail Was delayed on the road an hour and a half, consequence of the horses being unable to contend against the wind, which was chiefly from the westward. In th. Humber many casualties have occurred, besides the loss o' the two sloops reported in The Sun of yesterday. Between four and five o'clock in the morning the sloop Nile, of Malton John Sykes master, laden with wine, rum, sutiar, coff , e, and other groceries, from hence for Melton, and riding in our roads, went down, and the master and crew, three in all, no: having been seen or heard of since, it is feared they are on board. Another sloop, called XL., John Speight, was seen from the pier to be riding in a most dangerous condition, near the lime-kilns, the water continually washing over it ; the helpless crew were also distinctly Yen making futile efforts for their own comfort. Several gentlemen offered liberal sums to induce the commander of first one and then another river steamer to attempt to rescue the crew. Such was the state of the river that several declined ; the task was, however, undertaken and accomplished by Captain Faulkner, in the Laurel, which, although accustomed to make three or four trips daily to Barton and back, did not venture out on any other occasion than this during the day. It was truly gra tifying to see Captain Faulkner with his small vessel bring the doop and crew in safety to the harbour. Two of the three pers um on board were, however, reducel to insensi bility. One of them, named Goadby, soon recovered, but Captain Speight remained very unwell at the General Elliot for some time after. None of the river steamers either arrived or sailed during the day, with the exception of the mail to New Holland, which made one trip instead of three. She passed some hatches and other articles near Hessle, from which it is supposed a sloop had sunk near that place. She also saw a keel at New Holland, coal-laden, sunk near the shore, but nothing was known of the crew. Early in the morning, a sloop,. named the Gift, of Patrington, Hawksworth master, went down near Hedon Haven. Hawksworth, his daugl)ter in- law, and a man, perished. J. Day, his son-in-law, swam on shore and was saved. Several bags of cheese, boxes of oranges, and hogsheads of wine have washed ashore near Marfleet, u here also three bodies are said to have been found. Two light keels, from Louth, commanded by William Burns and A. Normanton, and two billy boys, drove ashore near Marfleet. During the afternoon the sloop John and Harry, of Patrington, ljing near the garri son , h o i sted a signal, upon which five men went in a boat on board, pumped her, and remained. Several craft slipped their chains in the roads, and arrived safely in the harbour ; amongst them a sloop, William Carmichael, master, and a billy-boy, J. Watson, master ; Henry Tyas'ivessel, from Patrington, with corn, also got safe into harbour. PRIISTON.—The storm of wind, which commenced here between two and three o'clock on Monday morning, has done considerable damage to property. The seven, and quarter to nine o'clock railway trains were unable to proceed to their des • tination, it being thought dangerous to attempt to pass over the Ribble Bridge in its present unfinished state. We are sorry to have to record loss of life as well as destruction of pro perty. One young lady, resident in Charles -street, was killed by the falling of a stack of chimneys; and rumour states tl at four other individuals have lost their lives. PRESTON. —The destruction of property in this town has been very great, and, we regret to learn, that two persons lost their lives from the falling of chimneys. One of them was Miss Lowe, daughter of; the late John Lowe, Esq. banker. LINCOLN.— Sunday will be long remembered for its tremen dous gale. In every part of the town devastations took place, but we were more fortunata than our country neighbours, who had to contend against fire in the midst of the furious storm. In the course of its progress a frmily that occupied a small to nement, in the premix( s of Mr. Thorpe, maltster, Newland, had a very narrow escape. The man named Ellis anticipated the fall of a chimney, and removed his children a few minutes before it fell, carrying in the roof and smashing the bedsteads and floors. Two boats were sunk in Brayford. It is reported that great loss has occurred in the Trent and Humber. WORCESTER. —This city and county experienced a frightful gale of wind in the night of Sunday last. There was a slight frost in the morning, with a dark cloudy sky ; the thereto• tnt ter at 8 A. Si., stood at 36., and the barometer at 29 55, the wind from the south-east. About eleven A.M. a few particles of snow fell, and from one to two P. M. there was a consider able fall of snow ; it then turned to rain, and rained all the evening. After three P.M. the barometer began to fall suddenly. By about nine P. M. a brisk gale of wind commenced from the south-east, the baro meter having fallen to 29.5. The wind then gradually went round to the south, and at midnight it blew a perfect hurricane, with rain. The roar of the elements was now tremendous, shaking buildings to their foundations —trees were prostrated in every direction ; the wind in the course of a few hours went round westward, and about four a.m., it veered a point or two to the north of west, and at this time the hurricane oppeared to be at its greatest height; tiles and slates flew about, and many chimneys were blown down. At daylight on Monday morning the barometer stood at 28.85, and the gale still continued. All the windows exposed to the rain, particularly those fronting the west, were covered with crystals of salt, caused by the fine particles of the spray of the sea being driven by the force of the wind. This never happens but in extraordinary hurricanes. Dr. Dalton, of Manchester, first proved this fact, by analysing the substance found on his windows during a violent gale. Berrow's Journal contains a long catalogue of the damage done. Barns have been blown down as well as chimneys, hut the trees appear to have suffered most at Crow's Nest ; forty valuable trees were blown down, one of which was com pletely uprooted and carried fifteen yards from the spot on which it grew; several immense pear trees, of at least 200 years' growth, were shivered to pieces. At five o'clock the storm was most violent, when a wall at Claphill Cottage fell in upon the bed of a woman and her child, who were for some time buried under the ruins, but by a most ereiful dispensation of Providence escaped without the slightest injury, though the bedstead on which they lay was broken to pieces. At Croome Park and the adjoining parishes a great deal of timber has been blown down belonging to the Earl of Coventry; the buildings have also been greatly injured. Part of the roof of Pirton Church was torn off. A gentleman, in riding the distance of six miles, counted no less than 150, chiefly fruit trees, which had been blown down the gale. The coaches were obliged to diverge from their acccstomed route in consequence of the numerous trees lying across the read. HEREFORD.—Here the storm appears to have been equally violent. WOLVERHA MPTON. —At Wolverhampton and the neighbour hood the hurricane commenced about eleven o'clock on &an day night, and continued its devastations till daylight the following morning. The wind was chiefly north-west, but veered considerably during the night. The collegiate church ar.d several other buildings have suffered severely, as has also the timber on the Chillington estate, no 1-ss than four hundred fine trees having, it is said, been prostrated by the storm. Tettenhall Green has also again been visited. LIVERPOOL. —Loss OF THE PACKET SHIP PENNSYLVANIA. —The Liverpool Courier of yesterday has little in addition to that intelligence which appeared previously in our Paper re:a rive to the supposed loss of the Pent,sylvania packet. We copy the following paragraph from its columns : A report was prevalent at an early hour in the evening that tiro Pennsylvania, New York packet-ship, which also saile-1 on Monday, had gone to pieces. About eight o'clock, how ever, the masters of No. 1, and No. 8, pilot-bo ts, who had been out with the Victoria steam-tug, brought further intelli gence of the Pennsjlvania, which proved the fallacy of the 'former report. The Victoria had brought thirty-three pas sengers from the New York ship Locks& oo s, which was aeround on the banks, with a heavy sea making over her. They left fifty passengers still on board. The Pennsylvania had run about half-a-mile to the east of the Lockwoods, with several of the crew in the rigging. Another vessel, with painted ports, apparently an American, was seen on the north beak. The steamer Avon (the Dublin mail due on Monday) was seen going into Beaumai is to repair. It was rumoured last night (Tuesday) that the roadstead of the Menai Bridge had been destroyed by the storm, the chains having been left hanging to the supporters, uninjured. Pas sengers were crossing the strait in boats. The Cambridge, (writes the Courier's Correspondent,) re mained at anchor in the river, during Sunday night and Mon day morning, biding " the pelting of the pitiless storm ;" and early in the morning, she bad drifted close to the pier -head, where she was for many hours, in the most perilous situation, as witnessed by thousands of spectators, being in imminent danger of dashing against the pier walls, by which a valuable cargo to the amount of about 300,0001. sterling would have gone to the bottom. In such a predicaroent nothing but the utmost exertions could have saved the ship ; and Captain Bursley felt proud to acknowledge that such exertions were wei by his officers and crew as saved the vessel from becom ing a total wreck. SCOTLAND. (From the Glasgow Chronicle of Monday.) SNOW STORM AND FLOOD IN THE CLYDE.—Since Thurs day last we have had one continued storm of the most tremen dous character. During the day on Sunday there was an ap parent intermission. The wind subsided for a few hours, but still the atmosphere boded evil, and by ten at night the ele ments were again in frightful commotion. The wind:became fearful, and as it brought torrents of rain the snow went rapidly off, falling from the house tops with a noise like thun der. It was well that the hurricane took place during the night, as from the avalanches of snow, and the falling of cans from the chimney tops, the streets would have been extremely dangerous during the business part of the day. This (Mon day) morning . the snow had nearly disappeared, but the rain continued, with the barometer at 27 9-10th inches ; a lower mark than it has indicated for twenty-five years, with one ex ception. This mrrning (Monday) the Molendinar was greatly flooded. It rose above the Gallovvgate.bridge, and went down some of the clJses on the south side of the street, to the alarm and damage of the inmates. At the Spoutmouth, also, the burn flooded the houses and worked considerable mischief. The river is very much swollen to-day, indeed more so than it has been for a considerable time back. At half past two it was over the breast wall on the south side of the river, which is about two feet higher than the front of the quays on the north side. It is feared that the fresh may rise considerably higher yet, as it is not tidal high water till about seven o'clock. Luckily there was no ice in the river to spe,k of, or the flood would have been much hi her. The snow has been very deep in the Uplands. On Satur day night, Sunday and Monday mornings, the Southern Mails were seven hours late. They were brought in by past chaises. DUMFRIts—TERRIFIC HURRICi.NR.—WC extract the follow ing particulars from the Dun!fries Courier of yesterday : Since Friday we bad - every variety of weather—frost, snow, rain, flood; but these were very bearable alternations com pared to the truly awful tempest which followed—a tempest which, as regards resistless intensity, impending danger, and appalling magnitude, bore a closer resemblance to an Af, ican simoon or a West India tornado, than the storms, however tierce, that sweep at certain seasons the more temperate re. gion3 of the earth. From all quarters we learn that anything approaching to the hurricane alluded to, is not remembered in the south, or, perhaps, any other part of Scotland ; and most assuredly, we ourselves have no recollection of a night so dis 'nal, or a morning so disastrous. How far the storm extended w e have no precise information; but if its range was at all general, as we fear was the case, prodigious must have been the damage done at sea and land. While we write, the ele ments have not yet subsided into their usual tranquillity; The storm commenced at ten o'clock on Sunday night, and :t that time the wind was, as near as may be, due South. But shortly after one o'clock on Monday morning it got round to West, and, however alarming the gales were previously, they, from that time, blew with tenfold fury. The elements, in fact, seemed rending—the walls of every house shook every bed vibrated—slates, cans, chimuies, were perpetually heard falling —ever, solid lead proved unfaithful to its trust— panes and casements were wrenched from their holdings...-. hock succeeded shock, and the noise during the entire night was more deafening than the battle field—many persons never went to bed at all, while such as did, enjoyed little if any re. oose—wailing sounds of indescribable expression per►aded the air, and repeatedly the ruffian blasts rose and fell—diectae ay in th e distance to return with accumulated anger and fury. " The night has been unruly ; where we lay Our chimneys were blown down; and as they say Lamentirgs heard i' the air ; __The obscure bird Clamoured the lire-long night; some say the earth Was feverous and did shake." Day-light dawned on a scene of havoc such as was never witnessed in the town of Dumfries, or any other town within the wide locality of which it is the centre. On both sides of the river, the devastation was such, that the Queen of the South exhibited much of the appearance of a town sacked, while the stuffings that guarded every casement, reminded such as been abroad, of barricades hastily hoisted against a common ent - -my. _ _ To particularise every case of havoc would be a work of per. feet impossibility ; and there is scarcely a family in town who have not a tale to tell of their own experience of the hurricane. The tide on Sunday rose to an unusual height long before the storm began, and from this circumstance, combined with the extraordinary oscillations of the barometer, we infer that aerial influences have been at work, with the laws of which we are but little acquainted. At half-past ten on Sunday morn ing., the glass stood at 29 0-10; at the same hour at night, it was 28 4-10 ; end at a quarter past five on Monday morning, it stood at 27 2 10. From the appearance of the surface of the column at that hour, when it was again ascending, it must have been the tenth of an inch lower at least. On re ferring to the Register for Dccembfr last, it will be found that the lowest point was 28 2-10, which at Liverpool was accounted v ry remarkable. In addition to the hundred and odd trees laid prostrate at Arbigland, a great amount of damage has been sustained in many other quarters. As yet we only know of three disas ters at sea, all of which are reparable at some little expense. Two trading vessels, the Skylark and Adelaide, were driven en shore at Conhcath, where they now lie. The Jane, the property of the Messrs. Turner, while crossing from the Cum berland side, with a cargo of coals, was driven across Black shaw-bank, and now lies high and dry near Caerlaverock Castle. Messrs. Walker had three rafts of wood securely moored at the quay, such, however, was the force of the wind, and the agitation of the waters, that two of them broke loose, and have drifted it is believed to the Caerlaverock side. ha that case little damage will ensue, even should a few stray planks find their way to the Isle of Man, to he reported sold and paid for, under some slight drawback, by the Custom house officers. The Nith rose to a great height, covered the lower part of the dock, overleapt its embankments in many pl ices, and still rolls more majestically along than it has done ridav for a lengthened period. The Greenock Advertiser enumerates a list of casualties, .aone Gf them, however, happily are of a very serious cha racter. The following is an interesting incident :—A girl about ten years old was carried by the violence of the wind over the steam-boat quay. A young man named Black, car renter In the brig Margaret, who witnessed the accident, leaped into the water, which at the time was in a most agi tated state, and at considerable personal risk succeeded in sav ing the girl's life. EntNnunon.-- --" About noon yesterday it had become corn oaratively calm, and the snow in exposed situations had long before that time completely dissppeared. Between Sunday ❑ight and yesterday morning the mercury in the barometer again underwent a remarkable depression, such as we had lately occasion to notice, baring fallen in the instrument to t,n•!. tenth of an inch below 28 Last night we had a return of smart frost.—Edinburgh Advertiser of Tuesday. IRELAND. ' (From the Dublin Evening Post of Tuesday.) Dublin and, we apprehend, the greater part of the country, his been visited by the greatest storm within the memory of an) man now living. In every direction round this city the oldest trees have been uprooted. The Phoenix Park, for in stance, exhibits a scene of devastation like what we read of storms in the American forests, and hundreds of those beau'i ful elms planted by the great Lord Chesterfield, and which have stood for near a century, are now prostrated. Houses have been blown down, and Evesrie fear, too, many—have been. lost. Such particulars aslteizuld glean from our Con temporaries, and as we derived from our letters, will be found collected in the following detail. The hurricane, as far a 3 our 'accounts from the country enables us to judge, raged with equal vehemence North and South. A letter from Timrle.i„ which we subjoin, gives a terrible picture of the damage tLtiteto`that town a❑d iti vicinity, principally by the dc.struction of the haggard& Fi•om Belfast ate have received a similar account. In the West the conse quences have been frightful. A great fire has occurred in Moate, in the county of Westmeath; eighty-seven houses have been burnt down in Loughrea ; there was also a ruinous fire in Ballinasloe. Limerick has suffered severely ETROPOLITAN LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. This Institution, which is held at Salvador House, Bishops :a•e, was opened on Thursday, the 3d instant, with a Con c:.rsuzione. The excellent suite of rooms appropriated to the urposes of the Institution were thrown open at seven o'clock, when refreshments were served to the company, who after erds visited the exhibition in the Reading and News-rooms. We observed some very splendid paintings, the principal of a hich was the original portrait of the Queen, by Chalon ; it was painted by the express command of her Majesty, and is the property of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, arid was graciously lent for the purpose of exhibiting on this °evasion. There was also a fine painting of Grace D truing a-.d her father proceeding to the wreck of the Forfarshre the portrait of a distinguished Member of the Royal Humane Society ; some admirable studies from nature, by J. H. Nixon, Esq., and some fine old paintings. Among the Geo logical specimens we noticed a beautiful section of " Ammo• nites Parkinsonii," some beautiful specimens of fossil fish, f, cm the Purbeck and Mountain Limestones; a fine fossil tooth " Elephas Primogenlus," also one of the 'Mastodon from !"s; rah America. There were also some splendid anatomical pr laratioes. We particularly noticed a very fine skeleton of the Cod's head, which was exquisitely mounted, a splendid skeleton of the boa constrictor; also a remarkably well•stuffed specimen of the boa attacking its prey—a fawn. At eight o'clock the Company adjourned to the Theatre, where the President, Thomas Bell, Esq , F. R. S. F. L. S., &c. &c., de -I.vcred a most appropriate address. He particularly descanted on the i mportance o f th e y out h o f t h e metropo li s attending such an I nst i tu ti on , which would prevent A them seeking amuse ment at places of a frivolous, if not hurtful nature; he also urged th e atten ti on of his auditory to the library, which he was anxious should not be a mere circulating library, but one containing works that had been carefully select e d ; an d h e hoped th at many w h o then heard hi▪ m would come forward and augment the library by donations, observing that he had iiimself set t h e exam ple. We understood that th e L earne d Pre sident presented his Monograph of the Testudinata, containing very splendid coloured figures of the tortoise family ; also his work on Br itish quadrupeds. The address was morr.enthusi astically received. After the address the Company again visited the reading and news-rooms, w h ere, i n addition to the before-m en ti one d attractions, three very powerful micro scopes were ex hibited; also some ver y sp l en di d,conchological specimens, We cannot but rejoice at the addition of this institution to the numb er o f those ve ry valuable establishm ents. It is situ ated in a l oca li t y where such an insti▪ tution was m uc h nee d e d, anti as it p o ssesses reading and news rooms, w hi c h are open from eight i n the morning until eleven at n i g h t, we have no doubt it will be found of great utility to th e i n h a bi tants of the city, especially as tl:e news_ room is well s u ppli e d w i t h t h e Morning and Evening Papers, and the reading room with the Quarterly, Monthly, and Weekly Periodicals, and various Pamphlets. The syllabus of the lectures for the current half scar, is issued. Among them we n o ti ce some of great inte rest. A library of circulation and reference is attached to the institution, which a ppears t o h ave been carefully selected, and contains copies of mast of our standard works. We under stand that classes for the study of languages, music, drawing, &c., are in the progress of f ormation. We sincerely hope ti.e institution will meet with the encouragement it deserves knowledge th ne among mankin d. at it will be eminently successful in diff us i ng useful STEAM FROM THE CLYDE TO NEW Y ORK ._ Glasgow is not to be behind Bristol or Liverpool, in hay in; a line of steamers across the Atlantic.—Glasgow Chronicle. The new farce in rehearsal at Drury.lane is under stood to be from the pen o f M r. Charles Dance, author of Bloc Beard. It is to be entitled Now or Never. The Marquis of Sali s b ury ' s new banquetting room, which has been just completed, at Salisbury House, Ar lington-street, is one of th e no b !est apartments for enter taining company in London. The embellishments which have been so long in progress at Hatfield are also completed. DISTURBANCES AT LA ROCHELLE. The high price of bread throughout France has given rise to s-me serious disturbances at La Rochelle, for the outbreak of which the attempted embarcation of a quantity of corn for ex portation by some of the merchants of the town appears to have furnished the immediate pretext. The following par ticulars on this subject we gather from the Ministerial evening Journal of Saturday, and from a letter of the 31 instant from La Rochelle. It seems that on the 31st ultimo a considerable assemblage of porters and workmen formed around a number of waggons laden with the corn itcstined for exportation. The movement shortly assumed so serious a character, that the municipal autho rities felt the necessity of intervening, and adopting the , eniciliatory measure of obtaining an increase of salary for the porters. The calm thus produced, however, was but mo nientary, and the next day the mcb were still more exaspe r..ted than before by the arrival of several waggons laden corn and flour, which were on the point of being con veyed on beard a foreign vessel in the harbour. Groups col lected round the waggons with a view to prevent the embar c ton of the corn; and, as the civil and military authorities were compelled to interfere more actively than en the previous day, two or three persons wire slightly wounded. The Mu nicipal Council then assembled, and to prevent further disas ters suspended the embarcation of the corn, with the consent of the merchants themselves, who were charged with the ope retion. This prudent decision again restored a temporary gree of tranq u illity ; b ut t h e next d ay (t h e 2d) the dis turbance broke out more violently than ever. About 200 National Guards were posted at the Mayory to preserve order, and the Porte Royale was closed, but was soon forced open by at least 1,200 peasants from the commune of Dom piers, who marched to the Mayory in a compact body, and demanded the immediate suspension of the embarcation of t!.e core, and a reduction in the price of bread. The Deputy Mayor (M. Goa), who was on the spot, in vain endeavoured to arrest or repulse the malcontents, who, after overcoming aid ill-treating the National Gu proceeded to the hotel of the Prefecture to repeat their demands. From the Prefecture (v here they were reinforcied by a number of the working men of the town), they marched successively to the houses of the M yor, the Deputy Mayor, and other respectable inhabitants, in all of which they committed various excesses and acts of violence and depredation, especially in that of the Deputy Xl,yor, breaking his furniture iu pieces, and plundering his wife's diamonds. To one home, belonging to a merchant en gaged in the corn trade, they attempted to set fire. By this time the armed force, which had been summoned by the nmeicipal authorities, arrived at the scene of riot, and aft,•r another ineffectual attempt at conciliation on the part of the Deputy-Mayor, the troops were ordered to fire. The rioters upon this assailed the troops with stones, but in the end dispeised, the peasantry battering down Porte Royale as they quitted the town. One woman was killed, and several meo were wounded on both sides, though the mob suffered less severely than the military, who considerately fired as high as possible. A battalion of the garrison of Rochefort, some gendarmery, and other troops from the nearest military points, robin into La Rochelle on the 3d, and during the whole of the day the drawbridges remained raised. These precau tions appear to have restored order, as the Government on S turday received a telegraphic despatch from Bordeaux, an nouncing- that all was again tranquil, and that the authorities acre b eked by sufficient force to repel any fresh attempts a disturbance. " LA RGCTIELLE, JAN. 4.—Tranquillity has been restored lirre, and although martial law has not ben proclaimed, yet we rem :in in a state of blockade. The bridges are raised, ,ind no person is allowed to enter unless such as arc well kn')..vn in the town. The authoritie3 arc the more particular in that respect, as all the inhabitants of the surrounding country are on foot. About 1,200 men have taken a position at the mouth of the river of Marans, to stop the vessels laden with corn, and all along the road they changed the Mayors and commanders of the National Guard. Fears are entertained for Marans, and this morning, at ten o'clock, half a battalion, with two pieces of artillery, and thirty Gendarmes, have been marched thither in all haste. Th, Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the force is furnished with the strictest orders, but we hope he will not be under the necessity of executing them." CAPTURE OF ST. JUAN D'ULLOA (From the Illoniteur Parisien ) We have received news from Mexico of the highest impor tance. The fort of San Juan d'Ulloa is taken ; the French n,.vy has signalized itself by a brilliant feat of arms,' and the policy of the loth April received a solemn sanction. This news arrives very opportunely as a reply to the hostile insi nuations in the project of the address—insinuations which have been commented on in the most malevo'ent manner by the Journals of the coalition. It is needless for us to add any comment to the official despatches which we publish below ; they spak sufficiently strong of themselves, and we hasten to lay them before our readers : TO HIS EXCELLENCY COUNT MOLE, PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL. " New York, 16th December. " Monsieur le Comte,—With an unspeakable feeling of sitisfactien and just national pride, I hasten to announce to your Excellency the glorioui news that we have received, a tow rninufes before the departure of the packet boat, of the taking of Vera Cruz by the French squadron, after a bombard ment of only three hours. His Royal Highness the Prince de Joilv;lle took a most honourable share in the attack, and is in good health. At t.vo o'clock on the 27th November the attack took Mace. Three of our frigates, a corvette (that of the Prince), arid two bomb vessels, anchored r,t, the distance of cannon shot from the famous Castle of Ulloa, against which they directed a well-sustained fire of shells and heavy artillery, and :it the expiration of four hours completely silence I the fire of 100 guns from the enemy's citadel, demolishing all the works of the place, and the famous redoubt Della Caballero, and killing and wounding 600 of the Mexican garrison. Towards six o'clock in the evening the Mexican Commandant capitu lated, and the fort was immediately occupied by the French forces. The Mexican army in the neighbourhood of Vera Cruz was 5.000 strong, but the Mexican officers considered this force insufficient to protect the town, which was commanded by he artillery of the fort. Admiral Baudin, who covered him self with glory on this occasion, has permitted 1,000 Mexican s tldiers to remain in the town for the purpose of preserving order. The capitulation is said to specify that till of tits e settled the French are to keep noz-ession of the fort, and the .tlextean civil authorities, as before, to exercise full authority in the town ; that only 1,000 men shall remain in it, and that the rest of the Republican army shall retire into the interior. The French Admiral has addressed circulars to all ;he Con sols, announcing that the port will in future be open to ves rels of every nation. The express sent by Admiral Baudin t oar Minister at Washington arrived in sixty hours from Ve a Cruz at New Oilcans, set off again immediately, and oroliably arrived on the 14th, the day before yesterday, at the , eat of the Federal Government. I am not aware whether M. de Pentois will have had time to write this important in telligence to your Excellency, as I have received nothing from him. G.A protects France ! What is regarded as impos possible for all is not even difficult for her arms. The effect ,tf tliii success will be immense on public opinion in the New World, and it has occasioned the utmost joy among our coun trymen. Annexed are extracts from the jou . nals announcing :his happy event. " I have the honour, &c. "L. DE LA FOREST. (Signed) " New Orleans, Dec. 5 " ( ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.) (From the Journal des Debats.) New ORLEANS, DEC. 7.—The weather was exceedingly favourable for the attack, the sea being quite calm, and the steamers being able, with the greatest facility, to tow the ships into their proper places. The Herniinie, Captain Bazoche, was not present in the action, her crew had suffered so severely from the yellow fever that she had been obliged to go to Ha vare.ah to recruit their health. The Iphigenie, which had also lost many of her men, was obliged to take the crew of the Laurier on board, and luckily arrived just in time for her com mander, Captain Parceval, to take his share in the action. This brave officer, having had cause to complain of seme ecent ca►umnies, v.ept with rage at Havannah at thinking that he should not arrive at Vera Cruz in time. Admiral Baudin rewarded his zeal by a special order of the day, and placed him at the head of the attacking division. The sailors could not restrain their joy when they knew they were going to attack, and exclaimed that they would revenge their shii;mares who had been carried off by the yellow fever. The girrison of the fort made no opposition to the vessels taking up :heir places, although they remained by the side of their guns with lighted matches. The Admiral had reserved the greater part of his squadron for the second day's attack, expecting an obstinate resistance ; and in the division of the reserve had included the Creole, commanded by the Prince de Juinville. When, however, the signal for the attack had been given, the Prince made such urgent entreaties to the Admiral, who had been quite inexorable on this point, that he allowed him to take a part in the action. The Creole could not be taken inside the reefs for want of room, and she therefore cruised round the fort as a tirail leur. The Prince had some time before been despatched to Havaenah by Admiral Baudin, with the delicate mission of asking the Governor, Admiral Tope, for the plans of St. Juan d'Ulloa. The Governor refused the young Prince, who, when he left Havannah to rejoin the squadron, exclaimed, " It is all very well ; I will bring him back the plans of St. Juan d'Ulloa my self, drawn on the spot." The ardour of the sailors in serving their guns was so great, that although the Admiral male the signal for stopping the attack three times, in order t o verify the pointing of the guns, the men paid no attention to the orders, but kept up the fire without any intermission. The Iphigenie fired 3,400 shot from 30 guns, in four hours ; and received 160 shots in her hull; she had only eight men hors de combat. A shot struck the quarter-deck of the Ne reide, within a few inches of Admiral Baudin, while he was talking to some of his officers. The Creole dismounted one of the batteries of the fort, and a shot went into the Prince's cabin, shattering to pieces all his plate, &c. The Prince laughed at the incident, and took off his hat to salute the Mexicans. The Creole was the only vessel that sustained the fire of the batteries of the town, the fort intervening be tween it and the frigates. The delay granted by the Ad miral to the envoys who came to demand a truce was till teelve at night, at which time they returned; but, as the turns could not be agreed upon, Lieutenant Doret was sent ashore with them to General Rincon, in order to declare that if the capitulation for the town and the fort was not s'gn. d by eight o'clock in the morning the assault would immediately take place. At five minutes to eight the sig rit are not having been given, Lieutenant Doret took up his hat to go, and General Rincon signed the capitulation im mediately. By the articles-of this document he engaged to g i v e up the fort that day at two o'clock, with all its materiel and stores; the garrison to march out with arms and hors — tnn 's of war, but under the engagement not to serve against France within eight months. Vera Cruz was to remain occu— r pied by General Rincon ; but the garrison was to be reduced from 4,000 to 1,000 men, for keeping order, the blockade was to be raised, and the communications with the interior and the exterior were to be perfectly free. General Rincon was to furnish the Ftend' garrison of St. Juan d'Ulloa with fresh provisions, and to indemnify the French inhabitants of the city for all damage or loss sustained by them during their flight from the town while the action lasted. Admiral Baudin, on his side, promised to give up the citadel and its materiel as soon as the difficulties between France and Mexico should be settled by treaty. In the fort were found sir hundred killed or wounded, and one hundred and ninety-five pieces of cannon, among which four bore the inscription " Louis XIV., au Due d'Anjou (Philip V. of Spain)" ; these the Admi r al snt on board the C reo l e . G enera l S a nta Anna had been into the fort before the capitulation was signed, and styled it a heap of ruins. I' was this that decided the Governor-General, Gaona, to accede to the capitulafol. Seven or eight vessels of different nations were spectators of the action. The Vera Cruz Journals have styled the capture a surprise, and say that the fate of the French is now in th© hands of the Mexicans I All the vessels detained by the French squadron had entered V, ra Cruz. A Belgian vessel had been sent into Vera Cruz before the attack by Admiral Baudin, to fetch off those French inhabitants that wished to come away, and about 300 availed themselves of the opportunity. Before the fort had surrendered, the Mexicans having informed Admiral Baudin that they were in want of surgeons for their wounded, he im mediately sent the surgeons from the squadron. The greatest enthusiasm has been excited at New Orleans by the pews of the capture of St. Juan d'Ulloa." FRANCE. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES-SITTING OF MONDAT. COMMENCEMENT OF THE DISCUSSION OF THE ADDRESS. M. Liadieres first occupied the tribune, and began by declar ing that it was not his intention to speak in the course of this debate.—(This declaration caused great merriment, in despight of which the orator continued.) He declared the Address to be " respectfully violent, and academically revolutionary." He thsn alluded to the speech of M. Guizot, two s ears back, to the electors of Lizeux, so much at variance with his present conduct and sentiments, and he lamented the ver sa tility o f public men. D ur i ng the first months of the present Ministry the Liberal Oeposit ion applauded its conduct in dissolving the Ch mbesi aced granting amr.e ty; yet it now joins M. Guizot in condemning this Ministry, which was truly one of regeneration. He would say a word on the Ad dress. It was revolutionary—and recalled the worst days of the National Assembly. He upheld the Par l'amentary capacity of the present Ministers. Nor could the conduct of their successors be one jot different when they did reach office. And the reason was clear, being that the Chamber did not wish the, existing policy to be changed. The coalition would be able to fulfil not one of the promises which it had male to the Left. The orator then made a warm panegyric of the Ministry, whose greatest fault was over-complaisance to its adversaries. It would retire covered with the laurels of Vera Cruz and Constantine. He would vote for the amendments to be proposed in the address. M. Guizut then rose and said that for some time the word coalition was in every mouth. This meant that there were numbers of men in the Chamber who were convinced that the present system of government boded ill to the country and to the throne. Although such was his conviction, he had still not varied from his old principles and ideas. His present position was not new. It had occurred before in the reign of Charles the Tenth, when thrown into opposition he had come to act with parties not altogether pos sessing the same opinions with him. Both parties, however diffeiing, were now as then united in the necessity of defend ing and furthering the new i n t erests o f F rance, and the truth of representative Government. These two parties were the Conservative and the Reforming parties, formed after July —one labouring to preserve what existed of monarchial and govermental institutions ; the other devoted to the defence of the public liberties. These parties were in. telligible ; the combat between them was loyal, fair, constitutional. But instead of conducting the Govern. ment with either, a kind of bastardy party had sprung up between them, supporting itself now on this side, now on that, flattering and betraying both by turns. This he declared to be anarchy—a system which destroyed the spirit of all Go vernment, which united all parties against it, and which had been brought into the Chamber by the present Government. The present Miaistry was incapable of accomplishing or effecting any thing c,amplete or sound. His efforts before 1830 had been directed towards toweling legal modes of op position, and his efforts since 1830 to founding legal modes of Government. He was no ultra. He had been accused of being an enemy to liberty, as he was now accused of aiding to demolish Government. He deserved neither. He was without ambition, except that of making his ideas triumph. It was the inaptness of the present Ministry that drove them back into resistance and discontent, while those who had been all along most attached to the King's Govern ment, had been driven into alienation and opposition. Thus it bad given rise to that want of accord, of fixed parties, of hat balance bete ma the great pawers, on which a Govern ment could find support. And hence it had found firmness and fixedness nowhere, and in the most favourable circum stances it had not known how to gain a single advantage for the country. The adoption of the dddress, as presented, would prove the first step to a remedy. As such he would vote for it. M. Mole said the last speeches had stigmatised the Cabi net as funeste. The Chamber had heard how the justice of so terrible a condemnation was proved. The Ministry was ac cused of falsif)ing the representative system of the country. Ilc would ben. the Guirober to look back to the state of things v. hen this Ministry was formed. It was on the 15th of April ; and then, a 3 no x, Xll. Guizot called his Cabin• t funeste, because it was about to give the amnesty, and pursue a policy of con ciliatiou.—( Left speaking.) We have Vie following letter from Toulon of the 2nd of J: _ We have just received recent news from the Levant. Rear-Admiral Lalonde, who left Tunis on the 29th of November, arrived on the 10,h of December in the Roads of Smyrna with the Hercules (the Admiral's ship), and the San Pare of the line, and the Favorite corvette. It appears cer tain that the squadron of the Levant is going to be augmented; the Triton of the line, Captain Hamelin, is on the eve of its departure for those seas; and it is said that other vessels will shortly follow." The Sentinel& Picarde says, " It has been reported that Fit Inspector of the University will shortly arrive at Amiens, to shut up St. Acheul and to visit St. Requier, to make an investigation there."—Le Constitutionnel. The Queen of the Belgians arrived at Paris this morning at nine o'clock. It is s:tid to have been her Majesty's intention to go to Pisa with the Prnm-s Clementine, but the late ac counts will doubtless cause her to change her resolution. The Triton, Captain Hamelin, in which Rear-Admiral Gal lois, had hoisted his flag, was admitted to free pratique at Toulon on the 2d. Admiral Gallois came on shore very ill, and was conveyed to a country house in the neighbour hood. The Diademe of the line, and the Tarn and Egerie transports, are going to take on board troops for Algiers, and arc to bring back the 11th, 6th, and 13th regiments of the line. —Le Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, JANUARY 7. rive per Cents., 1 Ilif sc. Four per Cents., 102 f. 1 hreo per Cents., 781. 90c. Bank Actions, 2,66 't: - ente de Naples, 99f. 10c. - Roman Five per Cents., 100 y, Ditto 101 k Spanish Actives, 17.4 Belgian Five per Cents., 100 Ditto BP% Belgian Bank, 535 f. ..... . . _ . Portuguese, Three p‘r Lents. 21% tlaytian Loan, 4(of. Ditto Esc:Hamm on LoxuoN.—•)nemonth, paper, 25f. 15c; mono y, nr. isc T tee months, paper, 25t. —c ; money. '2s'. —r• THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. Fish were scarce, and prices high. Turbot, 7s. to Iss. 203. and 353. ; Soles, Is. to 49. per pair; Lobsters, Is. to ss. each ; Cod, 2s. to ss. 10s. and Iss. For Butchers' Meat there was an increased demand. Beef, iid. to 80. ; Mut ton, ild. to Sid. ; Veal, 81. to Sid. ; Pork, lid. to 80. CITY FISH MARKET. Supplies were short and prices high. Turbot, 7s. to 155., 205., 253 , and 30s. ; Soles, 93. to 3s. 6cl. per pair ; Lobsters, is. to ss, each ; Cod, 2s. and 3s, for small, and 10s., 155., and 20s. for large; Whitings, 4d. and Bd. each; Haddocks, Bd. to Is. 2d. each. TEA SALE-FOURTH DAY. There was a good attendance of the trade, and the prices of yesterday ruled the transactions. 30,200 packages have passed the sale, of which 14,980 have been sold. COLONIAL MARKET. Not much business passing. British Plantation Sugar and some kinds of Mauritius are 6d. to Is. higher than they were last Friday. Coffee is tolerably firm ; 189 casks and 123 bags British Plantation sold at their previous worth, as did also 250 chests yellow Havannah Sugar. For to morrow we have public sales of 400 bags of Mauritius Sugar, 700 of Bengal, and 600 of Siam. Twenty tierces Ginger, and 18 bags Pimento; some small quantities of East India Ginger and Pepper; 3,000 bags Bengal Sugar and 72 casks '25 bags B. P. Coffee; and also 120 cks Barbadoes Sugar. The stock of B. P. Sugar is 26,985 hhcla. and trs. and 1,492 brls., Bengal 21,628 bags, Manilla 71,810 bags, Mauritius 71.810 bags, and Havannah 16,374 boxes. Tbo stock of Coffee is for B. P. 4,231 cks. and 4,617 brls. and bags, Ceylon 10,253 bags, Mocha 3,186 bales, Sumatra 7,795 bags, Brazil 38,444 bags, and St. Domingo 14,064 bags. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, Fer the Week ended Jan. 4, 1839, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and 'Amos in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat SOs 2d f Oats Barley 3Bs 31 I Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE !NE WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat... ...... '77s. 3d. I Oats ......... 5.. 7d I Beans 414. 4d. Barley ...... ... 3tis, 21 Rye ......... 4Ss. :Rt. Pease 446 Od. DUTIES ON FOREIGN coltN. Wheat ..... ... Is. Pd. I O a ts I Barley 7s. hid. Rye A marriage is said to be on the tads between Mr. Thomas Parker, M.P., son of the Hon. Colonel Parker, and nephew and heir presutnptive of the venerable Earl of Macclesfield, and Miss Knightley, (laughter of Sir Charles Knightloy, M.P., and Lady Knightley. Mr. Parker, we believe, is in his 28th year, and the lady in her 20th. .