The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-18 00:00:00

DAY,-EVEN]NG- EDITION.----FI4:IIWCAM" 18, 183.

quence of the works of the new railroad, is now soliciting
to be replaced under the foolishly paternal gurdianship of
the Government.
" In other terms, he wants the Ministry to pay his debts,
to put his manufactories again into good condition, and to
restore them to him in the sequel, when all is going on
well. _

It would be strange if the Government should become
a manufacturer of rails and steam-engines, in competition
with manufacturers who work with their own capital. We
do not suppose that the Chambers will be very eager to
accept such proposals."
As for us, our task will be easy, and we shall not have
much trouble to demonstrate how injurioui such an arrange-
ment would be —Courier Beige.

----BaussELs, FEB. 15.—The King arrived at Brussels from
Lacken this mort!ing.

Fornari, the Papal Internuncio, had an audience
of the King, and presented his new credentials, appoint-
ing him Nuncio at the Court of the King of the Belgians.
At noon the Council of Ministers met, and remained
sitting till two o'clock. The King presided.
A detachment of the train of Artillery has arrived at
Brussels this afternoon, on i;s way to the camp.
The Liege Journal says that a letter from Vcnloo an-
nounces that that fortress is to be placed in the most for-
midable state of defence.

A petition is circulating at Bruges, addressed to the
Chamber of Representatives, to the effect that, as the
Conference has irrevocably decided, and as Belgium can-
not resist all Europe, the petitioners beg that the final
treaty may be accepted, and an end put to a state of things
which cannot be prolonged without endangering the safety
and the welfare of the people, and even the influence and
action of the Government.

PESTII, FEB. 4.—Baron Wisselengi has been convicted
of high treason, but with circumstanccs of mitigation, and
sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The afftir has
yet to come More the higher court, whose decision is ex-
pected at the end of this week. It is probable that sen-
tence will soon be passed on M. Kossuth, who issued
a manuscript Gazette. Great numbers of workmen are
employed in raising a dam on the bulks of the Danube,
by way of precaution, which is looked upon as very
The patriarch Archbishop of Eslaw has just ar-
rived here on his way to Vienna.

Bois LE Doc, FEB. 13 —The Bth battery of field ar-
tillery passed through here yesterday on its way from Oss
to Boxtel, where, as ;sell as at other places in these pro-
sinces, workmen are actively engaged erecting and arming
batteries.

FISDHOVEN, FEB. 13.—There is no foundation for the
report that some Belq.,ian partisans had attempted to make
themselves masters of the battery No. 2, at Wuensel. In
truth this would not be an easy matter, as the frontiers are
everywhere occupied by regiments of hussars and dra-
goons

AMSTURDANI, FEB 15.—We learn that the men of the
levies of 1832 and 1833, absent on furlough (that is, those
belonging to the capital), to the number of 1,600 men,
will leave this city to morrow morning for their several
corps.

I3nussELs, FEB. 16.—We learn with pleasure that all
the masters of ateliers, manufactories, &c., in the environs,
have agreed to declare to their workmen, that if there
should be any disorder or tumult caused by ill-diF.p)sed
persons, all those who should have absented themselves on
that day, will find the establishments closed against them
on their return. We recommend all persons who are
friends to the interest and honour of the city, and of the
whole country, to make the same declar.:tion to the ser-
vants or workmen whom they employ. In this case the
rioters may be easily counted and pir. down.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsrEitimm, Fr n. b.
Ditto,AArtrti:tlela
,si )tvt7o,bt ,
iiS, 2 , .
,I,4yetpcteeier (Ant
urt,.e 54 n 4
Cent
t. ilrloney. 13.11;.13.11;.
15431r:0i,„i 101
).-o-i ii .?,i
Ditto, ditto, 31, per cent 73 7.1%
Commercial Company, I ~ per c._nt 175 175%
. _
Ditto (1502 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto 1837.5 per cent.
Loan 1937, .5 ;.er cent.
Exchange on London, line month l2 0.14
Two mon:hs
'SELL AN 1. UN DS-011USSEL, Feu. 16
Actual Delft, 2' per Cent. ...
notlischilii's Loan, 5 per Cant. PS%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. CS%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent hl
Society of Commerce, 4 k.,,,per Cent ll9
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 5l
National Society . ...
—Prussels Papers, Feb. 16.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-171Extva, Fug. 6.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
—AllgemeineZeitung, Feb. 12.

We have received the whole of the Paris Jour-
nals of Friday and Saturday. They contain very
little news of any moment. The election contest is
still carried on with great vigour. That sublimated
abstraction of soliloquizing humanity, M. DE LA-
MARTINS, has published a manifesto by way of
Ministerial set-off against the manly, constitutional
address of M. THIERS. This rhapsody is gene-
rally read, and as generally laughed at. The wags
of the Chamber pretend to believe that M. DE LA-
MARTINE'S address is copied from some Parlia-
mentary document in the archives of Louis the
Fourteenth.

The price of the quattern loaf in Paris is about
7d. British currency. The people complain of it
as exorbitant.

The following extract from a Paris Journal would
seem to throw some light on the mysterious in-
trigues of that Constitutional incubus, General
ESPARTERO

Our disputes with Ministers, excited all kinds of ambi-
tious projects. We find to-day, in the Memorial Borde.
lais, the following article :
" It is said at Madrid, that General Espartero wishes
that Don Carlos should be supported by Europe in found-
ing a dynasty, as the Emperor of Mexico, and that his
second son Don Juan Carlos should marry Queen Isabella,
Don Carlos would require nothing but transports for all his
adherents, and a great part of his army would follow him
to the new world, and this would put an end to the Spa-
nish contest. Maisto might then become Commander-in-
Chief of the Mexican army, and Espartero, Constable of
Spain. By this means, France would be indemnified for
its expenses and claims on Mexico by means of loans, and
England would find other very solid compensations, in ar-
ranging the policy of the Peninsula, and preparing a future
state of prosperity for the fine countries cf America, which
now present only a scene of misery and anarchy, injurious
to the manufactnres and commerce of Europe."
The Journal L'Europe announces that its editor has
been again summoned before the Judge, for having inserted
in the Number of February a fragment of the inculpated
article of the National. This fragment, which contained
only facts without comment had escaped the notice of the
Parquet; but it has now thought fit to include us in the
proceedings against the National and the Echo Franrais.
The ex-Notary, Armand de Fabre, was arrested at
Nice on Saturday. He had about him 680 francs in
money, and a bank-note of 1,000 francs.—Le Commerce.
BOURSE—PARis, SATURDAY, FEB 16.

MONEY and COMIVIERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL, COTTON MARKET OF SATURDAY.—To-day
tl.e market has been exceedingly quiet, and the sales only
amount to 1,500 bags, mostly American, 7id. a Bid., and
New Orleans 92d. a 101 per lb.
We have received the Journal of Antwerp of the 16th
February.
M. Van de Weyer has received orders to sign the
Ultimatum on the 15th. The Act will be notified to the
Chambers on the 19th.

The treason has been accomplished by twelve Represen-
tatives.—Belgp.
Arrivals this morning :—Two French, two Ostend, one
Dutch mail; also a mail from the West Indies by the
Tyrian, sailed from Barbadoes on the 23.1 December, St.
Thomas, Jan. 10, and Cape Henri, Jan. 15.
By the above conveyance we have received Jamaica Pa•
pers to the 9th January :—" A requisition is about to be
resented to- the Custos of St. Catherine, for the purpose
of convening a meeting of the inhabitants, to take into
consideration the situation in which the county is placed—
the best and most effectual measures to be adopted for the
preservation of property—and to prepare a memorial to her
Majesty, on the state to which the Island has been reduced "
Our accounts from the country are distressing; we will
n go over them now, in the hope that, after the excite.
rne;it of the holidays, some improvement will take place.
We learn that his Excellency the Governor proceeds on
a tour round the island in the steamer Dee. He will leave
Port Royal on Wednesday morning. His object is to
advise the negroes to resume labour, and continue it upon
the receipt of fair and reasonable wages, and not to give
any just cause of complaint.
We have received the Journal of Antwerp one day later,
of Sunday, Feb. 17.
BRUSSELS, FEB. 16 —There was a meeting of the Catho-
lic Notables of the Chamber of Representatives, to advie
the measures to be taken in the present circumstances.
Af.er a long debate and an animated discussion they
uaanimousiy agreed not to enter into a serious resistance.
We learn that money has been given to several artisans
to surround the public tribune in concert with the police,
and to hiss MM. Gendibeen and Dumertier, if they speak
against the mutilation of Limburg and Luxemburg.—
Belie.
The G Nernment arc so convinced that they are acting
against the views of the nation, that they expect re-
. istence on the part of the people. A great number
of muskets which were in Brussels have bQen thrown pell-
.
inell into waggons, and sent to Liege.
They. w rite from Louvain that the banking-house of
Messrs. Is— has suspended payment yesterday ; the cre-
ditors assembled to debate if they should give them time.
S x months was given them.
We have received Trinidad papers to the 29th Decem-
ber. No news of importance in them.

We have received i3arbadoes papers to the 27th Decem
tier. The prospec. is, we are informed from various guar•
tors, alarming on the score of provisions.

First Highest 1 isw,st Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
Frenc-h 5 per Cents.
3 ptr Cents. 7B 75 —.79 75 ...79 70 _lB 70
Bank of France 2(100 _2'300 _2600 ...2600
Lafitte Bank I,ooof. Sh
5,000 f. Sh. 5185 ...5195 —.5185 ~ 5190
Belgian 5 per Cents.
3 per Cents. C.B 50 ... 119 SO ... 69 50 ... 68 50
Batik 555 ... 560 ... 555 ... 561
Coupons
Spanish*Actise
Neapolitan
Roman
RAILWAY

THE FUNDS.

Consols, which closed on Saturday at 921 1,-, both for
Money and the Account, opened this morning at 92i 93.
Exchequer Bills, 64 66; India Bonds, 61 63; Bank
Stock, 205 206; India Stuck, 2541 51.
In the Foreign Market little business doing as yet.
Spanish Active, which closed at 1981, may be quoted
rather lower, 191 i ; Portuguese same as they closed, 361 ;
Three per Cents., 224 t ; Belgian, 99,1- ; Colombian,
284 91 ; Mexican, 231 24 ; Dutch Two-and a• Half,
541 i 5 : Five per Cents., 1028 -1-,.
PIaUES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
,link Stork — India Stock
.; per Cent. Red. 9:3%% Ditto Bonds —Pm
:3 per Cent. Cons. 93 2% South Sea Stock —
.;.y per Cent . Old Annuities —
Ditto Red. lOO% j New Ditto
New f; y,,, per Cent llieyi., : 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
New 3 per Cent.
3avk Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ... 64 62 inn.
Jan. 5, 1860 IS 1-16,,4 Is Ditto Small
Oct. 1•I, 1859 l4 15-16 Ditto Commercial — —pm
Jen. 5, 186 , l4l, Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account ... --
April 5, MO — India Stock for Account ... 255 6
I Jan. 5, 1870 — Consols for Account 9-e-Vei
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Austrian Bonds I Peruvian Bonds

Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
MOWS Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds

D tto Account
Columbian Bonds 2B, Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824 21:1% 30;,4 Spanish Bonds .
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account — , Ditto Account. 19% lA lA, %
Greek Bonds ' French, 5 per cent. —l. —c,

. .
Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent.
Ditto Account
7,loxican Bonds, 5 per Ceti.. Exchange. —f. —c.
Ditto Account —' Dutch, 24,' per cent. ..... —.54% 5
Ditto, 6 per Cent ' Ditto Account 55
Ditto Account
Neapolitan i Ditto Account —
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Paid.
13razillan Imperial Mining:Co. (issued at 51. pm ) VI
Ditto Macaubas Cocaes 25
British Iron Company
lnited Mexican (issued at 2/. pm.)
Great Western Railway Company 65
Brighton Railway
Lvntlon and Birmingham Railway Company 90

ptichestor and Leads Railway Company • 51
I3ritish North American Bank

l'er

Co:cnial Bank

1 0 L 1
172 1
68

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB. 16.
3 per Cent. Consols 924 GrandCanal Debs. 6 per cent. 934
s% per Cen•. Stock
Ditto Reduced - Hibei nian Bank

.t SH,RES.
St. Germain „. 570
..... 570 ... 570 ... 570
Ve sailles, R.B.
L.B.
Charleroy 445 ... 450 ... 445 ... 450
ASPHA urEs AND Br-

Ditto New, IS3O ...... 997.1 City of Dublin Steam Comp.
:.Iy.', per Cent. Debentures 93 National Insurance Company
flank Stock .... — City Debentures, 4 per cent.
'rand Canal Stock
Royal Canal Stock

HALF-PAST ONE.
Demerara papers to the 27th Dec., just received, state
that the first Christmas holidays since the final emancipation
of our population arc now nearly over, and never do we
recollect holidays passing with more order, decorum, and
general sobriety.
An advertisement which has bcen:issucd byiGovernment.
reducing the interest of Exchequer Bills from 2d. to ild.
per day, equal to 2i per cent., being a reduction of 4 per
cent. per annum, has had a slight effect on the British
Market.

Consols, which were in the morning 928 for the Ac-
count, have since receded to 921, Money 928, they had
reached 93; Exchequer Bills fell to 58, at present 58 61 ;
in India Bonds nothing done ; Bank Stock, 205 6.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Actives, 19+ ;
Portuguese, 354 6+ ; Three-per-Cents., 24; Belgian,
991; Colombian improved near 1 per cent., 30i; Mexi-
can, 24i; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 541 55 ;
Five-per-Cents., 1028 s.
We have no further arrivals.

Tu ,!ENS....
leyssel (A) 25, 0 ...25 0 —2500

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 92i.

-.25141

We have received this morning Madrid Papers
of the 9th inst. inclusive. M. PEREZ DE CASTRO,
the recently appointed President of the Council
has hardly quitted his chamber since his arrival in
the capital. What share the disorder he found
affairs in may have had in producing his pre-
sent indisposition, is a subject of very general
surmise. On the 7th General SEAONE produced
the heads of his long threatened bill of impeach-
ment against Count TORENO, which was at
once referred to a Select Committee. The ac-
counts from the Provinces were only interestinc, to
the lovers of the horrible, from the number of re-
taliatory murders which they recorded. Several
of the victims were young men, not exceeding
twenty years of age.
But the most important news from the Spanish
capital is the prorogation of the Cortes for an in-
definite period, by a Royal Ordinance of the Bth
instant. This is, indeed, a most perilous proceed-
ing, if we regard the social and moral disorganiza-
tion of Spain, at the present moment. According
to letters received in Paris on Saturday, the proro-
gation of the Spanish Cortes was followed by a
dissolution on the 10th—a measure still more
hazardous

AN TI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATIONS

The following is the petition presented by Mr. Villiers on
night, and ordered to be printed in the votes for distribu-
tion this evening, of the leading individuals from the pro-
vinces in London against the Corn laws. On this petition
Mr. Villiers fotinds his motion on Tuesday, for hearing
evidence at the bar of the House of Commons against the
existing duties on foreign corn :

" To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, the Pe-
tition of the undersigned Merchants, Manufacturers, and
others, engaged in Trade and Commerce, humbly showeth—
" 1. That your petitioners are deeply interested in the trade and
manufactures of this country.

" 2. That all restrictions on trade and commerce are abjured by
your petitioners as injurious to the general increase of the wealth
and capital of this and all other countries.
" 3. That the existing duties, prohibiting and restricting the im-
portation of foreign grain, are most injurious to the interests of your
petitioners, and a grievance to the people at large.
" 4. That the duties on foreign corn oppress all the industrious
classes, by artificially affecting the price and supply of the ' daily
bread' of the people, thereby forcing the community to subsist on food
at more fluctuating and generally higher prices than those at which
it could otherwise be procured.

" 5. That the benefit intended :,y the opening of the ports for the
import of foreign corn under the present system is frustrated by the
uncertainty of the supply from foreign markets when required on
occasions of urgent scarcity.

" 6. That the extremely irregular and uncertain import of foreign
grain has rendered that trade in the highest degree speculative and
hazardous :and has caused ruinous losses to a great number of persons
engaged in a commerce essential to the community.
" 7. That the rapidly increasing population of the United King.
don], computed to exceed 1,000 a day, and the limited extent of
the territory of Great Britain and Ireland, render it most unwise to
restrict the people to the food raised from their own soil.
" 8. That the restrictions on the importation of corn necessarily
incapacite: he corn-growing countries from purchasing British
manufactures, and afso induce foreign Governments to impose
high duties on the manufactures of the United Kingdom, these
combined causes producing a very rapid and premature growth of
manufactures in foreign countries, by which the consumption of
British goods has been limited, both in those countries and in the
common markets of the world.

PROROGATION OF THE CORTES.
" Taking into consideration the grave interests with
with which my
Government is at present occupied, parti.
cularly those connected with the approaching campaign,
which I wish to be conducted with the utmost zeal, in
order to terminate as speedily as possible the deplorable
war which exhausts the country ; and whereas the wor-
thy representatives of the nation, after the long and pain-
necmris,
era
Session of last year, have now sat three months of the
present Session, a circumstance equally painful to them
and prejudicial to their interests, whilst their presence in
the provinces mighenthusiasmt b,3 extremely beneficial in reviving
if
loyal, ofr
a the people, who, ever
constant, and firm, as Spaniards ought to be, may
receive es
a say
ore the
lively
iropl lomore skilful direction,
from the example and advice of the depositaries of their
confidence;

" 9. That your petitioners believe it can be proved by irrefragable
evidence that the operation of a restrictive policy has not been bene-
ficial to the agricultural interest; that it has checked agricul-
tural improvement; and that the apprehension which exists, both
as to the quantities of corn which would be imported from foreign
countries, and the effect of such importations on British agricul.
cure, are wholly groundless.

" 10. That your petitioners deemselves authorised to state, that
in the above allegations they have the concurrence and express the
sentiments of many hundreds of thousands of our fellow subjects, as
declared at many most bumerous public meetings, holden in different
parts of the country upon this important question within the
last two months.

" Your petitioners, therefore, pray that they may be heard by
themselves, their witnesses, agents, or counsel, at the Bar of this
Honourable House ; and be permitted to produce evidence on al!
the allegations of their petition, to show the great injuries to which
the interests of your petitioners are exposed by the said duties on
foreign corn ; and that your Honourable House will proceed to exa.
mine into the nature and extent of the grievances of which your pe.
titioners complain, with a view to afford such effectual i elief as to
this Hcnourable House in its wisdom may seem meet.
J. B. Smith, Manchester William Rawson, Nottingham
Robert Hyde Greg, Manchester and Manchester
J. Aiken, Liverpool Thomas Barker, Preston
Joshua Walmsley, ditto Thomas Close, Nottingham
Jcseph Sturge, Birmingham Thomas Wilson, Kendal
William Scholefield, ditto Isaac Wilson, ditto
John Johnston, Glasgow John Johnson, Derby
William Weir, ditto Robert Longdon, ditto
James Garnett, Bradford C. J. S. Walker, Manchester
Robert Milligan, ditto Peter Martineau, Tower Ham.
Hamer Stansfeld, Leeds lets
Edward Baines, jun., ditto J. Wynn, Wolverhampton.

" In the name of our august daughter, Isabel IL, and in
my capacity of Queen Regent,
agreeably to the 26th ar-
ticle of the Constitution, and the advice of the Ministers, I
decree the following :
reserving
" The Cortes of the present Legislature are prorogued,
to myself to recal them as soon as the motives
which induced me to prorogue them permit.
" Such is my command, which you will communicate to
the Cortes. " THE QUEEN.
" Given at the Palace, Feb. 8, 1839.
" To Evaristo Perez de Castro, Piesident of the Coun-
cil of Ministers.
" EVARISTO PEREZ DE CASTRO.
" Madrid, Feb. 9."
General NARVAEZ has addressed a second letter
to the Spanish people in justification of his flight
from his native country.

MORE WORDS FOR Music.—We have been
talking a good deal lately about " words for music," and what sort
of things they ought to be. The Morning Chronicle selects a speci.
men from the latest libretto, which places the success of our
exhortations, so far, in a remarkable point of view. Here it is—
" One fatal night, as slumbers o'er us stole,
A fearful noise disturb'd our tranquil rest ;
'Twas loud as torrent's roar—as thunder's roll—
And, in an instant, we were up and dress'd !
'Phis puts us in mind of an anecdote we once heard of a man who
had run away from a• mad bull, with some damage to his unmen.
tionatles. " The bull," said he, in an eloquent and sublime crescendo
(that ought to have been set to music, " the bull roared like thun
der—l ran like lightning—and, in jumping over the hedge, tore my
breeches as if heaven and earth were coining together."—The Mu-
sical IVorld.