The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-07 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Tats DAY.
Amsterdam.... ••• • .. 11 17 '.•• • • • • •Gibraltar . - Ditto, three months
.. 11 18U !Leghorn ••• • • - Rotterdam ...... 11 18% Genoa
Antwerp ....... 25 40 Milan ..
8ru55e15.......25 40 Venice •
Hamburgh ..... ....... 13 5% Naples ..
Altona
Paris.
Palermo
25 20 Aessina
Ditto, three months . • 25 40 'Lisbon ...
Marseilles.... • • .... 25 42%!0p0rt0 ....... Bourdeaux .......... • • Rio Janeiro .
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Frankrort•on.klaine
—. • 119% !Buenos Ayres ..
Berlin . .........• ••• • York, 60 days' sight
Vienna ........ • • 11 40 'Phi'ladelphia
Tr........
Petersburgh.... • ... .. 11 40 PRICES or BULLION, PEE oz.
........ 381,E Foreign Gold n Bars £3 17 9
Madrid ....... 49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 00 0
Cadiz.......... •• • • .... 501 Spanish Doubloons
Seville .
8arce10na........ ••• • • • New Dollars
Silver in bars

• • • • • • • . 30 6.5
• • • • • • .. 25 55

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111ABKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The market for colonial is firm, but the feeling
can hardly yet be ascertained. The quantity of British
plantation landed last week at the East and West India
Docks was 827 hhds 35 tierces 105 barrels. There were
taken for home consumption 1,676 hhds 165 tierces 418
barrels. The stock in the same places is 12,523 hhds 1,505
tierces 3,267 barrels.
COFFEE.—This article is flat.
Rum.- The quantity landed at the East and..:** India
Docks last week was 335 puns 35 hhds. There wep. talc
for home consumption 298 puns 24 hhds ; and export
192 puns 242 hhds. The stock in the same places is 13,372
puns 559 hhds.
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SALTPETRE.—At auction, 951 bags Bengal sold`tit 25s to J
25s 6d for mid, 104 to 9 per cent., and 27s 6d to 28s for I
good, 6 per cent, refraction.

RieE.--3,000 bags Moufmein offered by auction were all
taken in at 103 6d to 11s for mid peeled.
SPlCES.—Nutmegs, 29 casks Dutch limed were taken in
at is &l to 2s 9d for ord and good mixed ; Cassia Vera,
20 bales realised 52s for mid.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 47s 3d per cwt on the spot, and
town 49s 3d.
TEA.—There is a brisk trade. Common Congou 103 d,
and finer sorts is Oid, being id higher than last week. •
HAY MARKETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 4/ Os ; clover
ditto, 3/ 15s to 4/ 18s ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 10s per load.
A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand.
.CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 4l Os; clover
ditto, 3/ 15s to 41 16s ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 12s per load.
Trade rather dull, at late rates. _

WHITECHAPEL. —Meadow hay, 2/ 15e to 4/ Os ; clover
ditto, 3/ 15s to 5/ Os ; and straw, 115 s to 1/ lls per loath
Supply good, and trade dull.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Dec. 7.—Wind at Noon, S.W., with rain.
DEAL, Dec. 6.—Arrived--Roman Emperor, Sydney ;
Parsee, Cotfield, Calcutta ; Sennoe, Westcott, Mauri-
tius ; Despatch, Gales, Algoa Bay ; George Wilkinson,
Quebec. Sailed—City of Glasgow, for Calcutta ; Har-
mony, Port Phillip.
PLYMOUTH, Dec. 6.—Sailed—Propontis (s), Africa.
FOWEY, Dec. 5. Arrived—La Belle, Rio.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 6.—Arrived, Mary, Broun, Laguira;
Prince of Wales, Quebec ; Josefina, Havana ; Sea Eagle,
New Orleans ; E. C. Scranton, New York ; Centurion,
do.; New York, do. ; Daniel Webster, St. John's, N.B. ;
Celestial, Halifax, N.S. ; Brittania, Quebec ; Anna
Mooka, do. ; Sir Harry Smith, do. ; Closina, Prince
Edward's Island. Sailed—Africa, Melbourne; Alexander,
Calcutta ; Alarm, Ceylon ; Alice Jane, Jamaica ; Pol-
lak, New Orleans ; Europe, Philadelphia ; Celestial
Empire, New York.

FLEETWOOD, Dec. 4.—The smack Hope, from Liver-
pool, with timber, capsized to-day, 10 miles from Nor-
breck, crew saved.

MURDEROUS OUTRAGE BY POACHERS.—George Pidd
and Richard Vine,, said to be well-known poachers, have
been committed to Norwich Castle, for trial, for taking
part in a desperate outrage on the preserves of Mr. J.
Augustine, of Wettery Hall, near Swaffham.
THE ROYAL NAVY.—Yesterday the supplemental esti-
mates of the Royal Navy for the year 1852-53 were printed.
The whole charge amounts to 113,1001., and 100,0001. for
the expenses of steam machinery for naval purposes during
the year ending the 3d April, 1853.

The Senate met at the Palace of the Luxem-
bourg at 1 o'clock yesterday. M. Mesnard, First
Vice-President acted as President. M. Mesnard
has been charged with all the business of the Senate
since the resignation of the ex-king Jerome. The
sitting was very short. Two projects of a Senatus
Consultum, transmitted to the Vice-President by
the Minister of State, were read. One of these is
relative to the civil list of the Emperor. The
amount of the Civil List is not fixed in the draft of
the law ; it is left to the munificence of the Senate.
It is stipulated that a sum of 1,500,000 f. shall be
charged to the Civil List for the dotation of the
hereditary Prince. The Emperor will have the en-
joyment of the forests, palaces, and manufactures
of the State, but the expense of maintaining them
will be defrayed by him.
The other Senatus-Consulturn, concerns the modi-
fications to be made in the Constitution of the 18th
January. The principal one refers to the manner
of voting the budget. The Legislative Corps had
hitherto the right of voting the budget chapter by
chapter. It is now proposed that it shall be voted
ministry by ministry—that is, the expenditure of
each department to be voted en bloc, or rejected.
Modifications are demanded in the project as
respecting the minutes of the proceedings of the
Senate ; and new attributions are created relative
to the publicity of the sittings of the Legislative
Corps. Both projects will be examined without
delay in the bureaux, and two commissions will be
named for that object.
The organic decree relative to the nomination
of the hereditary Prince was not laid before the
Senate, but it appears certain that the ex-King
Jerome will be the hereditary Prince.
In the project of the Senatus Consultum on the
Civil List there is no mention, it appears, of the
dotation of the Viceroy of Algeria. A special de-
cree will fix that dotation, which will probably
amount to 1,200,000 f. or thereabouts.