The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-19 00:00:00

IDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1852.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

•
CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The Cotton and Railway Share Markets at Lisbon
were closed yesterday.
The six weeks' average price of wheat is 38s. 11d.
per quarter, and the quantity sold last week was
109,376 quarters.
A more limited business has been transacted in
most staples during the present week, and ,Frices-
have undergone no essential changes. Sugar has,
in some instances, been dearer, and has generally
an upward tendency, holders not having offered
much. Ceylon Coffee is held for very full rates;
Saltpetre has been lower; Cotton in more demand;
Tallow well maintained; and Tea and Rice have
been taken steadily for home consumption.
The steamer Plata, with the West India Mail has
arrived. She has 862,334 dollars in specie on
board. The following is from Jamaica:—
" The weather during the past week has been very
fine. The rains have continued, but very moderately,
and our gauge shows that the fall of water during the
week has only amounted to 2,500 gallons to the acre.
The atmosphere has been clear, and the weather ex-
ceedingly cool and pleasant. The highest range of the
thermometer was 85, whilst the night register has been
73 without any variation. The accounts that we have
reeeivedj from the rural districts are most encouraging
for the interest of the planters; but whilst we congratu-
late our agricultural friends upon their present bright
prospects, we regret exceedingly to state, that the
labouring population, in several districts of the parish,
are suffering much from the want of employment.
The regret which we express, is not for those per-
sons who, from habits of idleness, and whose inert-.
ness, render them unfit for employment; but rather
for those whose habits and inclinations render them
at all times desirable labourers to be employed
upon estates. A great deal of distress consequently
prevails among our rural population, from there not
being any employment for all of them. The fact is,.
that out of crop the estates cannot afford employment to
the whole of our labouring population, and these latter
have not yet recovered from the fatal effects of cholera
and small-pox upon their system—both physically and
morally—to have remedied the neglect of our native
productions for the sustenance of themselves and their
families during this period of the year. The high prices
of the necessaries of life is also an aggravation to the suf-
fering of the masses, which, if not remedied ere another
year shall have passed over us, will be likely to lead to
consequences that are too painful to be contemplated
with indifference. It is an act of wanton injustice, as
well, also, of cruelty, to grind the labouring man down
to ls., and in some instances to 9d:, per day, and then
tax his food to such an extent that the humble pittance
of his wages cannot furnish his family and himself with
sufficient food to sustain nature."

The baneful operation of the heavy import duties
is thus described :

rrdayfigures as
" According to our Import Duty Bill, the duties upon
goods which are not bondable must be paid before they
are landed from the vessel in which they are imported.
These duties are returned when the goods are sold and
exported, provided the exportation takes place within
three years of the period of importation. The duties
have therefore to be advanced, and the interest, which in
the course of a year, and upon large importations, is
considerable, is lost, or forms a heavy item in the charges
on trade. That portion of them paid on goods which
have not been exported within the period mentioned, is
of course not returned, and also goes to swell the charges
mentioned. The internal trade of this island in dry
goods has been such, that very little of the foreign goods
which are bondable has been placed in the warehouses.
The necessity of opening original packages for the pur-
pose of assorting the articles, has rendered the right to
bond such goods of little or no value to the importers."
There had been smuggling into Kingston disco-
vered.Turkishnowbl:inollhheolldd.ers, convened
under r :
receipts,
1852.
. £16,418 15,361
by,o TheeT
htthhi
se mlcd
aaoesnyte t:wr ai naercgeet
loiornsf, is now
44,656 42,030
9,373 8,599
9,612 9,129
22,930 22,312

Great Western
North Western
South Western
Brighton ...
Midland .

South Eastern
North Stafford 5,270 4,976
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lrncashire and Yorkshire
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick
These, it will be seen, are all very favourable.
The English funds are buoyant this vorning.
Consols for transfer are 100 i to 1001, and for ac-
count 1001. The New 3 per Cents. bring 102 i to
1031, and the Three per Cents. 991 to 100. Bank
Stock is 222 i to 223. Exchequer Bills are 755.
premium. East India Stock has been 277.
The foreign market is steady, Mexican Bonds are
about 25k, Chilian 107, Buenos Ayres 74, Sardinian
991 to 100, Spanish 3 per Cents. 51/ to 1. New
Deferred do. 24 to 25, and Dutch al per Cents.
65k. Turkish Loan has been 2/ to 3 premium.
Railway Shares have a firm appearance and
there is a fair business doing in them.

BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE 0' CLOCKTHIS DAY,
( From the Official List.)

Business done
.. 223 2;
.. 99k 100
.. 100 i k
. 102 k 3k
277
....... 100 i
March. Juno.
73 73 70

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities....
New 3,} per Cent. Annuities..
India Stock
Consols for Account ,
Exchequer Bills lid.
£lOOO..
£5OO
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.,
Australian Scrip 5 per Cent.
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Chi Han Bonds, 6 per Cent... lO7
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent lo6i
Grenada Bonds, I per Cent.
Ditto Deferred 10i
Mexican 3 per Cent............
Ditto for the Account
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent ...
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent . . ... ........ 51i
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852. 3 2i 6 p
Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent 651
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 97i

Consols
Ditto Account, Dec. 9

HALF-PAST TWO.
100 i
1001

WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 18.—The La Plata, West
India arrived at 8 a.m., with the
West
her voyage homeward, fever
of a most virulent form broke out on board, and
her commander, Captain
\est India Mail s
mteaailsm:sihiop;
William Allan, the pur-
ser the third engineer, and six of the crew have
fallen a sacrifice. Several of the passengers were
also ill. Mr. Powell, her Majesty's Collector of
Customsesvessel hears from the Customs' authority in London the
v
in the Southampton river, but
that no communication whatever is to take place
is t
o at
this
port, has decided that until he
with her. No newspapers have as yet been (sent
on shore. We learn, however, that the yellow
fever prevailed to a
remain
great extent in most of the
West India Islands. La Plata brought 850,000 dol.
andvs7 passengers. She left St. Thomas's pl the
4th.
Since the above was written the mails have been
fumigated and dispatched by the mail-train. The
ship brings upwards of 800,000 doh in specie, 55
serons of cochineal, 5t bales of sarsaparilla, and a
quantity of general merchandise. Her latest dates
are—Grenada, Oct. 26 • Chagres, 28 ; Demerara,
;
28 : Barbadoes, 28
Jamaica 28 ; Porto Rico,
Nov. 2 ; St. Thomas's, 4 ; Panama, Oct. 20. There
are 87 passengers on board, amongst whom is the
Bishop of Sydney. The Plata spoke the Falcon,
emigrant-ship, Nov. 6--all well. No orders had
been received from London respecting the vessel.
It is fully expected here that she will be ordered to
the quarantine ground at the Motherbank. Mr.
Wiblim, the medical inspector, is still on board,
and will not be permitted to leave until the ship
receive pratique. She is still at her moorings in
the river, strictly guarded and no communication
allowed with her.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.---The Prince President, who
returned yesterday from Fontainebleau,
_attended
the Opera Comique last night in state, where he
was received with great warmth. The exterior of
the Theatre was illuminated and ornamented with
eagles and crowns in gas, and the interior gor-
geously (arranged. In the complimentary verses
sung by actresses representing the Fine Arts, the
Prince was addressed as " Sire," and treated with
the deference due to Imperial Majesty. After the
performance of the Domino Noir,' the Prince left
amidst renewed marks of respect.
There is an article in the Moniteur which would
seem to have for its object to remove the pain pro-
duced on the minds of Legitimists by the publica-
tion in the Moniteur 9f the manifesto of the Count
de Chambord, side •by side with the atrocious de-
nunciations of the refugee Socialists. While there
is a disclaimer of intention to put on the same line
a party respecting the principles of order with
savage committees preaching up assassination,
it is, nevertheless, insinuated that the quasi
Royal manifesto is calculated to lead to the same
result. Both alike, it is argued, resist the paternal
sovereignty ; the demagogues, by seeking to substi-
tute their own personal will ; and the Count de
Chambord, by placing his personal rights above
those of the country. The paper then proceeds to
point out the inconsistencies of the demagogues,
who, so long as it served their purpose, proclaimed
the sovereignty of the people, and as soon as the
people abandoned them deny the right of the nation
itself to change what they call the Republic. No
less inconsistent is the Count de Chambord 'declared
to be in setting up any other claim than that
founded on the declared will of the people in 'face
of history, appealing to the origin of the Pepins and
Capets, who superseded the natural heirs by and
with popular consent. " The national will is,
then," says the writer in the Moniteur, " the
principle and right of every dynasty."
The Pays, writing to the same effect, goes, how-
ever, more at large into the subject of the late
manifestos, administering a severe castigation to
the Socialist refugees.
Galignani gives the following account of the visit
of the Prince President to the Operq. Comique
" The Prince President went last evening in state to
the Opera Comique. He arrived about half-past seven,
and was received with loud cries of Vive l'Empereur !'
The front of the theatre, in the Rue Marivaux, was lit
up with gas, representing the cipher of the Prince, and
eagles with outspread wings. The entrance of the theatre
was ornamented with flowers, and hung with crimson
velvet. In the saloon the bust of the Emperor Napoleon
was placed at one end, and that of the Prince his nephew
on the other. When the Prince entered the box reserved
for him, the whole audience rose and received him with
acclamations, even the ladies joining in the cry of
Vive l'Empereur !' In the Prince's box were the ex-
King Jerome, Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, his son,
and Generals de Lourmel and Roguet. In the adjoining
boxes were the Ministers, General Magnan, General
d'Hautpoul, Prince Murat, M. de Morney, M. Mocquart,
and other persons of note. The performance -consisted
of the Domino Noir, with Madame Ugalde and Coudere,
in their original parts, and a cantata, called the Fetes
des Arts, Chant de l'Avenir, the words by M. Mery, and
the music by M. A. Adam. The usual curtain was re-
placed by a new one prepared for the occasion represent-
ing the palace of Fontainebleau. When this curtain
rose, another was seen behind it, representing velvet
sprinkled with bees, and bearing a colonade, on which
were inscribed the names of the towns which the Prince
visited during his tour. Towards the end of the cantata
the scene changed, and discovered a view of the Louvre
as it will appear when terminated. This view called
forth loud applause. At the end of the cantata, two
figures of Fame descended from the clouds bearing an
imperial crown. The whole performance passed over
with great eclat, and the Prince left the theatre at half-
past eleven amidst renewed acclamations."

REDUCTION OF THE FRENCH ARMY.
PARIS, THURSDAY.
The following are the terms in which the Moni-
teur conveys the news of the long-expected an-
nouncement:—

"On the Ist January, 1848, the effective of the army
amounted to 380,500 men. After the revolution it was
raised to 446,808, at which figure it stood at the period
of the first election of Louis Napoleon. By suc-
cessive diminutions, the number had fallen on the
Ist January, 1852, to 400,594 men. His Highness the
Prince President has just given orders to the Minister of
War to reduce it to 370,177. This effective comprises the
army of Africa and that of Rome. On the Ist of Decem-
ber, this important measure will be realised; it will be a
reduction of more than 30,000 men in less than a-year."

The Moniteur contains a series of instructions
regarding the mode of taking the vote on the
Senatus Consultum, which, if fairly carried out, as
no doubt they will, cannot fail to ensure fair play.
The bureau or committee of each electoral college
is to be composed of a president, of four assessors,
and a secretary, chosen from amongst the electors.
The president is to be the mayor, or his delegate ;
and the assessors are to be taken from amongst the
municipal councillors, or, in default thereof, of two
of the oldest and two of the youngest electors
present. The list of persons entitled to vote is to
lie constantly on the table, and each name checked
off and certified according as the vote is given.
There are also the usual orders for sealing up the
ballot-boxes, taking the total, and remitting the
results certified to the Corps Legislatif.
The Patrie, on the eve of the vote for the Em-
pire, enumerates the services rendered by Louis
Napoleon. First, with regard to the clergy, there
is the restoration of the Pantheon to the service of
the Church ; then the appointment of priests to the
navy, the addition to the salaries of the canons of
St. Denis, the authorisation for religious orders of
' women, the introduction of bishops into the Senate,
the credits allowed for different churches, grants
for the benefit of the lower orders of the priesthood,
and the payment of the debts incurred by the
Bishop of Algeria. The Government journal
next dwells on the formation of the Senate and
other bodies of the State, as showing great construc-
tive power. Then comes departmental decentrali-
sation, by which freer latitude of administration is
afforded the local authorities. The reform of the
university. Then
.comes. the army, with the re-or-
ganisation of the military equipages, of the hospital
service, of feeding and clothing, the restoration of
the pensions attending the cross of the Legion of
Honour, and the institution of the military medal.
Nor has the navy been forgotten—this branch of
the service is reminded of the development which
has been given to the elements of force and promise
already contained in it by the decrees re-organising
the Admiralty Board, the regulations for the mari-
time inscription, the coast and deep sea fisheries,
and the new disciplinary code for the merchant ser-
vice. Finally, the people at large are reminded of
the development given to railways—the immense
employment afforded bypublic works—the improve-
ment of sea-ports—the completing of the Louvre—
the opening of new streets—the conversion of
the Five per Cents.—the redemption of the canals
—the institution of mortgage loan and other loans
banks—the extension given to the operations of the
Bank of Fiance—the reduction of the rate of in-
terest—the mutual aid societies encouragement to
sanitary institutions—the whole crowned with the
Crystal Palace preparing for the Exhibition of
1854. The Patrie dwells, too, on the attention
paid to the colonies, and the impetus given to emi-
erration. In diplomacy, there is the solution of the
question of the sanctuaries at Jerusalem, the treaty
of commerce with Sardinia, the treaty of navigation
with Holland, the Plate River Convention, opening
its navigation, with that of its tributaries, to Eu-
rope, the indemnity to French merchants whose
ships had been sequestered at California, and the
literary property treaties. With such a summary
of acts before the country the Patrie looks with
most complete confidence to the coming vote.
The Bourse was agitated, and public securities
declined in price. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
opened at 107 f. 80c., and closed at 107 f. for the
end of the month; the Three per Cents. closed at
85f. 75c.; Orleans Railroad shares, 1,750 f.; new
shares, 1,095 f.: Rouen, 1000 f. ; Havre, 550 f. ;
Great Northern, 895 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 870 f.;
Paris and Lyons, 960 f.; Lyons and Avignon, 800 f.:
Western of France, 780 f.; St. Dizier to Gray,
590 f.: Caen to Cherbourg, 640 f.; Dijon to Besan-
con, 630 f.; Bordeaux to Cette, 650 f.

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