The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-25 00:00:00

EUROPEAN GOODS.

Beer, Wine, and Spirits.—A heavy stock in wood, which
continues unsaleable, owing to the want of empty bottles.
Marine and Oilman Stores.—Anchors and chain cables
of small size saleable; large size seldom wanted.
Sail Canvas.—Good English still wanted.
Cotton Goods.—Plain, printed, and coloured, no im-
portations since our last, and the demand during the week
has been rather dull. The description of plain goods
mostly wanted are common qualities of cambrics, madda-
pollams, long cloths, and grey shirting, of which there are
few in the market, while middling and fine qualities are in
little request, and the market well supplied.
Prints of all descriptions continue dull.
Turkey red cloth in fair demand, but at low prices.
Twist.—Grey mules improving, and stock much reduced.
Woollens.—Camblets no demand.
Bernbazetts.—Scarlet wanted.
Gunpowder.—ln less request, but stock small.
Penang Papers, received to the 11th November.
There have been no arrivals during the week from any of
the presidencies, although the Heroine has been for some
time expected.
The Lisbon mail brings accounts that the Minister of
Finance has declared in the Cedes, that no less than
thirteen months' pay are due to the troops in the
second military district, as many to those in the
third, seventeen months to those in the fourth, ten
months to those in the fifth, sixteen months to those
in the seventh, and fourteen months to those in the eighth,
but there are not more than 4,000 men in these provinces.
The troops in the Lisbon district have nothing due to them
—they amount to above three thousand men.
The Dublin Paper, received this morning, has an ar-
rival from New Brunswick Post-office.

ARRIVAL FROM NEW BRUNSWICK.

" We are favoured by a mercantile friend with a file of
St. John's Journals to the 24th, being several days later
than the accounts from those provinces received through
the New York Journals. The St John's Courier, of the
2rd, contains long details of military movements and ar-
rangements, general orders, from the Lieut.-Governor,
for the enrolment and marching of the militia. There
is, in fact, every indication that Sir John Harvey
was preparing himself for the alternative of actual hostili•

ties. ARoyal Gazette Extraordinary published at Frede-
ricton on the 21st, contains an Act passed by the Legisla-
ture to amend the Militia Law, with respect to farming of
the several companies of Artillery, and sea fencibles, with
battalions, &c.

The St John's Courier, in reference to the quarrel with
Maine, says, that the commencement of hostilities must be
dated from the moment the Americans- make an infringe.
merit on the territory, which has always been under the
controul and jurisdiction of Britain, and over which the
United States have never exercised any authority.
The 69th Regiment had embarked at Halifax for New
Brunswick.
The letters overland from India received this morning
are not of a later date than previously received, via Mar-
seilles.

The Lisbon mail does not bring any important news,
with the exception that the Government ecffers wants re-
plenishing.
Consols opened this morning at the same quotations
they closed at on Saturday, 924 both for Money and the
Account ; Exchequer Bills, 56 58; India Bonds, 58 60 ;
Bank Stock for the opening, 200 201 ; India Stock, 252
254.

In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 19- 2(1-; Por-
tuguese, 34} 35 ; Three per Cents., 211 22 , Belgian,
102 A ; Brazilian, 791 i; Scrip, I disc., prem. ; Colom-
bian,- 291; Mexican, 231 24; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 55 56; Five per Cents., 1038
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT uNE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock lndia Stock

3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons. 9:2 71,
3 per Cent
I)itto Red.
New per Cent 10(!i
New 5 per Cent. -
Bank Long Annuities toexpire
Jan. 5, 1860
Oct. 10, 1859
Jan. 5, 1460.. .......... ...,„ -
Jan. 5, 1880
April 5, MO
Jan. 5, 1870
--
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds

Ditto Bonds 59 pm
South Sea Stool'
OM Annuities
New Ditto
3 per Cent. Annuities, 17:)1
E!:ch. Bills, Xl,OOO ... 57 : 5 pm.
I)itto 500 57 55 pm.
Ditto Small 57 55 pm,
Ditto Commercial — pm.
Ditto Advertised
Bank Stock for Account... _ol
India Stock for Account
Consos fcr Account 927 i%
7111 S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE.
Peruvian Bonds

Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account .........
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds

Ditto Account
Portuguese Bonds
Ditto New Bonds
:14 yii
Ditto Accoun` 34%•X k,
Ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Prussian 801.13

D ttu Account
Columbian Bonds
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824 ...291,6 894 Spanish Bonds... —
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account Ditto Account. ...A% 20 1974
Greek Bonds French, 5 per cent....... f. —c,
Ditto Bonds, 1925 — 4 per cent.
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cerit — --- Exch,mge. —f. —c.
Ditto Account ..... . Dutch, 2% per cent. ..... ... .551;
Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account SSN
Ditto Account
Neapolitan Ditto Account —
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT OE O'CLOCK.
PaiNd. Per Share.
Undon and Birmingham Railway Company... 0 61
London and Southampton Railway company 38/. 17s. S. 41%
Midland Counties Railway Company. ............ 60 43
HALF-PAST ONE.
Ltviatroot COTTON MARKET OF SATURDAY.—The Cot-
ton Market has appeared rather quiet to-day, and we have
had a fair and steady trade. The demand has been about
3,000 bags, sold at fair prices.
Last Friday's Dutch mail has arrived; it does not con-
tainexpected she
any political news of importarcc. Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 55 1-16; Five per Cents., 1001 13-16 •
,
Spanish, 18 3-16.
with an inactive
The Liverpool steamer, from New York, is looked for
the Maine
withkill muchfiring
important
anxiety by the
intelligence merchants,
respecting
question.
Petitions from the sugar refiners of London, for a re-
duction of the duty on sugar, the produce of free labour,
have been presented to the Legislature.
Cons&s to the present hour continue at the morning
pricesmarket; Exchequer Bills, 55 57 ; India. Bonds, .58 62 ;
both for time and Money,
Bank Stock, 200 201 ; India Stock, 252 254.
In the Foreign Market Spanish_ Active of 921 i
rather heav
19; 20 ; Portuguese also lower, 341 4 ; Three per Cent:,
21i ;1,; Belgian, 1024: Brazilian, 794 :1- 1 3
; Colombian,
')9' ; Mexican, 23i -24; Dutcl T
- w3°-alul-a- Half per
Cents., 551 i; er Cents., 103 k
Five p ~
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Rank Stock ... .................... i-...7._
DittolTlia 73toant ........................
3 per Cent. Red ...................
3'?1..51
Ditto Old Ai;;;; .. . 7 ............... 59
3 per Cent. Ccas ...............
1011" Ditto New A u.ti.es... ..•
3% Cent. Red ..............
..i',;o% 4 . Bills, Ain
per
New 3% per Cent.............. ouut ....•2' 55
Dittosool • r2d pm.
New 5 per Cent ...................
Ditto • •••• ...... .5
5001
Long Annuities to expiren
iz Bank Stock ' " 55 pm
Jan. 186 I ................. Ai India ' Stock for Opg ...
Oct. 1859 .................. ..-
Consols for Act .............
Jan. IS6O ..... , ............ F—O
REIGN FUNDS. ............. •••• 9234
Portuguese )er cent.
Rends, 51
Ditto. New Ditto .
r.tPruussslaia.n,B,
50,,7
cen
.. ...................... 34%
Ditto, Metallic. 3 per cent...llli
Spainsh, 5 per cent . ................
Ditto, Consolidated .............
French, 5 per eent........ .........
Exchange ......... . ...... —f. —c.
French, 3 per eeni .......... —t: —c
Dutch, per ceri.t.: ....... —r --`•
Dittos per cent............ ......... 55N
k RE5..... 10314
Tway ....................... . la

Asturian, 5 per cent............
Belgian, 5 per cent. .............
Brazilian Bonds ..................
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent .. ...
Chilian, 6 per cent ...............
Colomb.an, 6 per cent..........
1524. .........................
Danish, 3 per cent ...........•••
Greekperßonds,cent.,
51,82..
55pe.
......
.. --
Mexican, 5 per cent .............
Ditto,Peruvian, 1525,6 per cent.... 17
SIL
Great North of England Rail
Grcat Western Railway
London and Brighton Bailor;
London and Birmingham 11.1
London and Southampton
li
London and Cioydon

.................. 71

V. ...................... : 10
......
Lilway ........................
lfil
3.llv.ray ..................... 4214
(Trunq ................. 114

THE MINISTERIAL PLOT.

BY A TORY ALARMIST.

" We conclude that there is some plot or other, hidden
under the affectation of wounded pride, which was exhi-
bited by Ministers on Friday I"—Morning Post of this Day.

Go, sound an alarm through square and street,
Bid the Church-bells toll, and the muffled drums beat ;
Send heralds abroad, and tell each town-crier
To shout, like a Stentor, " Thieves !" " Murder 1" and
'' Fire !"

" Thieves"—because the vile Whiggish tvights,
Have a scheme to despoil us of all our rights;

" Murder"—because they're determined to burke
Whoever opposes their handy work ;

And " Fire"—because 'tis their ardent desire
( The monsters 1) to set the Thames on fire ! 1

Yes, they've a Plot—a horrible Plot,
To ruin us all, though we know it not;
To hang the Tories by couples, slack !
On the Palace-yard lamp-posts, back to back ;
To impale Joe Hume (this will make him stare)
On the railings in front of Bryanstone-square;
To hocus each Irish Priest so frisky,
By mixing pure laudanum with his whiskey ;
To seize on the Bishops by way of fun,
And ancint them with " forty stripes save one,"
In case their Lordships, as often they've done,
At a delicate crisis, should cut and run;
And when they have done all the mischief they can,
To give up, as the principal part of their plan,
Old England, bound hand and foot, to Dan I

Such is the Plot which, horrid to speak,
Will be ripe for action on Easter week ;
'Twas fully revealed to my shuddering sense
By a Whigling himself, in confidence;
And the tidings have made me such fear evince,
That I've been in hysterics ever since !

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Times of this morning contains a leading article
on the debate on the Army Estimates, which took place
in the Commons on Friday night. This article is penned in
a most querulous, hypochondriacal, and sets out in the fol-
lowing triste, manner :—" A man of the least foresight and
observation has only to look round him, and then ask him-
self from what quarter of the habitable globe it is that em-
barrassments of the most perplexing character do not
appear to thicken for the British Empire, and evils the
most appalling to impend over its tranquillity, foreign
and domestic." Our Contemporary then goes on to say;
—" And in what capacity is England at this moment to
support a war? The entire augmentation proposed by
Lord Howick, now under the actual existence of hostilities
in the East and West, will do no more, when completed,
than bring up the British Army to the amount determined
upon by the Duke of Wellington's Ministry as the peace
establishment of the Empire for 1829, and which was the
real force kept on foot during Lord Grey's Administra-
tion."
The Morning Chronicle has an elaborate leading article,
whose object is to point out the necessity of union among
all classes of Reformers, so that they may struggle in good
fellowship together, for the attainment of Household Suf-
frage, the Ballot, and Triennial Parliaments. " The fruits
of the Reform Bill," observes our Contemporary, " have
ceased to satisfy any large class, except those of Anti-
Reformers. No party—no fraction of a party can take its
stand on the finality of the Reform Bill, and reasonably ex-
pect either to exercise any influence over the people, or to
achieve any good for the people." The Chronicle then
goes on to say :—" The time is ripe for union. Batted
hopes—insulted petitioners—almost insurgent multitudes—
the feebleness of Government—the insolence of faction—
impaired resources, threatening prospects, experiences,
and warnings—all demand of us to be united and prevail ;
or to take each petty section its own petty and separate
course, and so betray a cause which we have not virtue to
uphold."

The Morning Post, alluding to Lord John Russell's
speech in the Commons, on Friday night, remarks as fol-
lows :—" An impression hat gained ground since Satur-
day, that Ministers have at last become frightened at the
situation to which they have brought the affairs of this
country, and are now rather inclined than otherwise to
abandon the affairs of Government, which they find alto-
gether beyond their powers of successful management.
We think that the circumstances of the case give some
ground for these speculations ; but we find it very difficult
to believe that the present Ministers have any wish to re-
sign, or any intention of doing so, until they are actually
driven from the situations they are so incompetent to fill."
The Morning Advertiser remarks in the course of a
loading article on Jewish disabilities :—" We understand
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has signified to some
of the leading members of the Jewish persuasion, that it is
his intention, during the present Session, again to bring
forward his Bill for the Abolition of the Civil Disabilities
of Jews. This is very honorable to the Right Hon. Gen-
I em an. "

The Morning Herald, speaking of the Navy Estimates,
which come on again for discussion to-night in the Com-
mons, says :—" The state of the country is beyond prece-
dent alarming, No persoi can peruse the masterly state-
ments contained in the speech of Sir Henry Hardinge on
Friday, without feeling that the military power of England
is altogether inadequate to the purposes of national self-
defence. False notions of economy have led to this pe-
rilous state of things.!'

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
The Edinburgh and Cornwallis, of 74 guns each, ar-
rived at Havannah from Vera Cruz on the 26th January.
The Stag frigate left Rio de Janeiro for Rio Plate, on
the 15th of January; the Calliope, 28, and Wizard, 10,
were at Rio Janeiro on the 22d of January.
The Medea steamer and Charybdis brig of war were at
Bermuda on the 17th of January.
The Castor, 36, has quitted her station off the coast of
Spain, in the neighbourhood of Barcelona, having been
relieved by the Carysfort, 28, assisted by the Jaseur, 18.
Arrived yesterday, from the River, the Meteor steamer,
Lieut. Pritchard, with a few seamen for the Powerful and
stores for Plymouth Dock-yard. She will be paid wages
on Monday sad proceed to Plymouth, and from thence to
her usual duty at Falmouth.

It is said the Inconstant, 36, Captain Pring, will take
out Vice-Admiral Sir T. Harvey to his command in the
West Indies. Captain John Parker is to be his Flag
Captain, and T. Triphook, Esq., his Secretary. It is
understood that the Winchester is to be fitted for the flag
of Sir Thomas Harvey.
The Zebra, 18, Commander Stopford, sailed on Sunday
for Lisbon and the Mediterranean ; as did also the Marquis
of Hastings, with convicts, for Van Diemen's Land.
Sir Graham Moore will relieve Lord A. Beauclerk, as
Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, on the Ist of May,
with Captain Eden as Flag Captain, and Joseph Edye,
Esq., now with Sir P. Durham, as his Secretary.
The launch of the Royal Sovereign, of 110 guns, is
postponed till the Ist of May; it is not certain that her
Majesty will be present.
The following men-of-war were lying at Malta on the
16th instant :—Princess Charlotte, Ceylon, Rodney. Asia,
Vanguard, Bellerophon, Hastings, Talavera, Castor, Tal-
bot, Harlequin, Scorpion, Beacon surveying vessel, Magpie
cutter, and Confiance steamer.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 21.—The Boreas, Dutch corvette,
sailed last Saturday for the Texel ; and the Scylla, 16,
Hon. Joseph Denman, arrived from Lisbon; she has since
come into harbour to be paid off. The Acorn, 16, Com-
mander J. Adams, sailed on Thursday for the Cape of
Good Hope; and the Wolf, 18, Captain E. Stanley, was
paid off. The Harpy, 10, Lieutenant Ellman, on her
arrival at this port, is ordered to be paid off.
PROMOTION.-Clerk.-William Weaver of the Howe
the rank of Purser. , ,

APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants.—H. Hawkins, to the
Donegal ; W. Armitage, to the Melville. Chaplain.__
Rev. John Moore, to the Implacable. Secretaries.—J.
Triphook, to be Secretary to Sir T. Harvey ; E. Waller,
to be Secretary to Sir John Ommanney ; and J. Edye, to
be Secretary to Sir Graham Moore. Master—C. T.
Noddall, Second Master, to the Winchester. Mates.—
W. N. Hastie, to the Powerful ; C. D. O'Brien
(ten years constantly at sea as a mate) to the
Meteor. Midshipman.—C. B. Strong, to the Power-
ful. Assistant-Surgeons.—Forbes, in charge, to Weazle,
vice Read, invalided; A. B. Curror, to the Water-
witch ; F. B. Pascoe, to the Snipe ; D. Buchanan, to
Curlew ; C. W. Wilkinson, to the Britannia ; W. Craig,
to the Melville. Clerk.—Wm. Crealock, in the Store-
keeper's Office, Plymouth, from the 3d to the 2d class,
vice Shaw, deceased. Warrant Officers.—James Rogers,
Acting Carpenter, to the Rhadamanthus ; Isaac Thomas,
from Supernumerary Gunner of the 3d to that of the 2d
class, for sea service.

By a new regulation respecting the pay of petty officers,
such as are serving in small line- of-battle ships, frigates,
and smaller vessels, will get a small increase of pay ; the
Armourer is in future to be called Blacksmith, an his
Mate is to be Armourer. Two new ratings are added,
entitled Captain of the Mizen Top, and Painter, who are
to receive 365. monthly, in all ratings. In future the
Master at Arms of the frigates will have 495. per mensum,
and in sloops 475. ; Ship's Corporals, and those classed
with them in frigates, 445. ; in sloops, 425. : Sail-makers,
and their class, in frigates, 495., in sloops, 475. ; Captains
of Tops, and their class, in frigates, 405., in sloops, 38s. ;
Sail-makers' Mates, and their class, in frigates, 435., in
sloops, 40s.