The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-04 00:00:00

EVENING EDITT6V.

ings of these collectors, and the extortions of which theY
were guilty in order to increase the recipts.os much 'as pos-
sible.
THE HAGUE, FEB. 28.—Their Royal Highnesses tl4'i
Prince of Orange, and Prince Alexander, ?turned yegter.;
day from North Brabant.
It is said tbat the Grand Duke Alexander will be here
in the month of March.
BERLIN, FEB, 22.—Letters from St. Petersburgh say,
that the marriage of the Grand Duchess Maria and
the Duke of Lcuchtcnburg, is to be celebrated on the Ist
of July this year. A palace is fitting up for the young cou-
ple near the Alva bridge, and it is said that a splendid
palace has been purchased for them.
We learn that the Imperial Prince Alexander intends
to extend his journey to England. It is thought that his
Imperial Highness will return by way of Hamburg and
Lubeck.
ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 14 —Commercial Gazette pub-
lishes a statement of the navigation of Cronstadt in 1838 :
" The navigation opened on the 19th of May and ended
the 27th of November. During the 193 days then? ar.
rived at Cronstadt 902 ships, with cargoes measuring
88,838 tens. and 460 in ballast, measuring 46,5141 tons.
Sum total 1.362, being 122 more than in 1837. There
sailed from Cronstadt 1,285 ships, with cargoes, and 32 in
ballast--in all 1,317 ; 43 ships remain for the winter at
Cronstadt, and 8 at St. Petersburg. The first ship ar-
rived on the 19th of May, and the last sailed on the 16th of
November."
EXCHANGE ON LONDON, FEB. 15 —Three Months,
t 1 td.—Journal de St. Petersburg, Feb. 16.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AnsTERnAm, MARcn 1.
Money. ES Ila.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent
Ditto, ditto a per cent.
A:or)! t sviolic, 414 per cent 94% 11514
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent. 79 50
Commercial Company, 4s, per c,nt 175% 1764
Ditto (1532 aid 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto 5 per cont.
Loan 15:.17, 5r er cent.
Licellange on London, One month !I 9714
Two months
BELGIAN kUNDS—BausaLs, Mutat I.
eictuut Debt, 2311 per Cent.
,„53
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cont. 9 34
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
----- 3 per Cent. 6B
Loan of City, 1832, 4 par Cent.
Society of Commerce, 144 per Cent ll9
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 57
National Society .
—l:russels Papers, March 1.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MARCH 1.
hil:s. Monet,
Austrian Metpriques, 5 per cent.
Dil'o ditto 3 per cmt.
Ditto ditto 2.! per cent
Ditto Bank !shares lBl 1481
Anglo-Russian Loan 11,714
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Paper Inscription, C per cent 1 4 101
Russian Inscription. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series ...
94 98
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bends, 5 per cent ....... Ditto, 3 per cent. —
Dutch 4, per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents it) .9814
Pahsh 11,nds, 3 per cents
New Tickets
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 72
Norweeiati lean of Itt34, 4 per cents
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents.... .....
Cortes Loan, 5 perCen'

%.;',
102

- -
Greek 4 per cents. 1g33, guaranteed !iy France
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MARCH 1.-1 S 5% i two months, 13 4%
VIRNNA, FEB 20.—Two months, 9 11!•2.
—Hamburg Papers, Mareh 1.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, nt. 20
five per Cents. Metalliques
Sow- per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
—AlfgemeirieZeitung, Feb. 26.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Fee. 23.
Bills
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent ltrils
Prussian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 10214
hachange on London, three montlts 6 26%
—Prussian Stale Gazette, Feb. 20.
HAMBURG MARKETS,
GRAIN.
Wheat. Marks 522 to 540 )oz.ts, Upland„, .......
Mecklenburg_ 45.) to 540 Meetlenburg ...... 102 to 17.
Magdeburg 519 to 531 -- Elder ...............141, to -;.,
Eider 465 to 453 • Holsteia .....,,,,,,,150 to 174
••---- Auhllt, white 522 to 534 PetersMk Riga._ _ to
red ... 522 to s'o I Malt, Pomeranian 195 t • 204;
Holstein
--to ._
Rye, Mecklenburg.... 240 to 312, Pease, Upland, yellow 253 t,4 lm.i
-- Holstein
Archangel — to Tares •'7l! to 3,5
Bailey, Mcckienburgh 231 to 240 Rapeseed 420 t,, 4',5
-- Magdelifirgh . 255 to 270 Ditto Cakes "i4 t,,
Lower Elbe ... to Linseed ditto
COTTON.
Carolina and Tennessee 7.d to 93. Maranham 9 to 91;
Georgia, Ist sort 9t 0 Madras t % 11
2d s% 9 Surats lO4 6a
3d and 4th .... 71,4 $4 Domingo
COFFEE.
Mocha 10 to 11 Domingo
Hatay :a
Sumatra 4 4 Xi, Porto Rico b;s; 7,,
RIO 4% 6 Havannah 4% 7
Bahia
SUGAR.—(Wit I 894 Discount.)
Havarinah, White ..-
Brown 3X 614 Brown 5, 6
Rio, White- 64 ;34 Pernambuco, White ...6% 7
Brown 5! 554 Brown ...5 h!,i

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LATEST FROM PORTUGAL.

THE SLAVE TRADE.

LISBON, FEB. 25.—Viscount Sada Bandeira's speech,
of which I gave an abstract in my last letter, will have
prepared you to expect what I have now to announce. The
long-peeding negociations for a treaty to effect the total
suppression of the slave trade, as far as Portugal is con-
cerned in it, have been broken off. The Visecutit en-
trenches himself behind his own interpretation of the exist-
ing engagements on that subject with England, and refuses
to grant an extension of the right of search, or to make
any other concession which can at all tend to the at.
tainmeet of the object in view. If his vcrson were cor-
rect, Portugal, if she had not the spirit, would at least have
the letter r I the law on her side; but it is false,
utterly and outrageously false, as may be seen by re-
felling, to the text of the treaties. The case stands
thus : —On the 28th of July, 1817, a convention was
signed in London by Lord Castlereagh and Count de Pal-
mella., the object or which, as therein expressed, was " on the
part of the two Governments, mutually to prevent their
reßpective subj,cts lrom carrying on an illicit slave trade,"
By that Convet.tion, which was intended as a sequel to,
and ampl.fieation of, the treaty of January 22, 1815, Portu-
gal reserved to herself the right of carrying on the soave
trade between the Bth and 18th degrees of Southern la-
titude on the Western coast, and between Cape Delgado
and the Bay of Lawrence Marques on the Eastern coast of
Africa—" but only fur the supply of her Transatlanticpo
sessions," and the very first article in enumerating the
c 's-
cutnstances under which the traffic in slaves shall be con_
11.-
sidered illicit, declares that it shall be considered so when
carried. on by " Portuguese vessels bound for any port, not
in the dominions of his Most Faithful Majesty." By
the
eth Article, the Portuguese Government granted to British
cruizers the power of searching Portuguese vessels, except
within the reserved latitudes. On the I Ith of September
following, a separate article was drawn up, and appended
to the Convention in question, whereby it was agreed
that in default of any ulterior arrangement on the
subject, that convention should remain in force until the
expiration of fifteen years from the day on which the ge-
neral abolition of the slave trade should take place on tile
part of the Portuguese Government. That general aboli-
tion took place on the of December, 1836, by virtue of
a decree issued by the Queen of Portugal for that pur-
pose, and the Portuguese Government having now re.
fused to enter into any ulterior arrangement, the obvious
conclusion from the premises is, that the convention of
July, 1817, has been thereby continued for a period of
fifteen years, to expire in December, 1851, and that Por-
tugal is at liberty to ship slaves from certain parts of the
coast of Africa to her transatlantic possessions, but no.
where else. Now, as Portugal does not possess one
square inch of territory across the Atlantic, it clearly fol_
lows that every Portuguese ship with slaves on board must
be bound to ports not within the dominions of her Most
rl:
cr ano
ffims
Faithful Majesty, and be, therefore, engaged in "
art
illicit slave' trade ;" and as the reservation claimed
by Portugal, in the convention of 1817,
ws
erounded upon the distinction between licit aandillicit, which the subsequent
viehh:tenhgtehey
could refuses
stances has totally destroyed, the whole
being now in every case illicit, the Portuguese
without o British
t itshhe grose
t
s
Govern-
ment have lost the only plea upon
andto granteannaont
continueunlimited
to
rightwsearchthohfoldi, t
cruisers,
violation of both the letter and the spirit of those engage-
ments, ge
ments, by which they are already bound, \Vhetheit.he
British Government will allow itself to be fooled by Sada
Bandeira's quibble, " that Portugal is not bound to enter
into any new treaty till 1851," remains to be seen. I have
good reasons for believing that the conduct of the Portu-
guese Government, in this instance, is more the result of
pique and mortified pride, than of any consideration of
policy, Lord Palmerston having, in reply to their claim
for 180,000 dollars, as compensation for the Diogenes, a
vessel captured about three 'years ago, near Mozambique,
by her-Nlajesty's ship Leveret, stated that her Majesty's
Government, far from admitting the illegality of the cap-
ture, bad testified their approbation of the course pursued
by the Lieutenant commanding the Leveret, by promoting
him a step in rank.
I think that we shall not be long without a serious breach
of the peace of some sort. The Ultras it is now s een,
through outnumbering either of the two other parties in
support
ptobretmtcoomthbeinAeldin;isattriyd
athsetiCieerctehsa,rtseinrgi2tys,
haarevenolet mnat
their at
ch
uin the debates upon the Address, the result has been the
discomfiture of the Ultras, in the question of a vote to in..
demnity to Ministers for having renewed the taxes for 1839,
without the previous sanction of the Legislature. The
Address, it is supposed, will be finally decided upon to-day;
but the early hour at which the mail closes prevents ree
from (-riving you the report of this day's proceedings at the
Cartes. The Ministerial, or Ordeiro party is so small,
that the triumph of the Government on this occasion has
been owing to the capricious favour of the Charterists,
whose precarious alliance may afford a momentary stumu-
Ins, but can give no permanent strength. The presence of
the Duke de Palmella may probably have much influence in
bringing about some arrangement. He arrived by last
paoket from England, and was received in the most flatter_
ins manner by the Queen, aho even sent one of her car-
riages to receive him on landing.
A court martial was held on board her Majesty's ship
Ganges, on Friday last, to try Lieutenant Fisher, of her
Majesty's ship Tribune, on a charge of intoxication while
on duty. He was found guilty, and sentenced to be severely
reprimanded, and put at the bottom of the list for 1837.
As his offence was but a slip of human frailty, it is to be
hoped that this officer will yet be afforded opportunities of
effacing by honourable service the blemish which his indis.
eretion has left upon his professional character.
Some desys ago, in manning the yards of her Majesty's
ship Donegal, to salute the Queen as she passed by, an u„s
cortunate seaman lost Lis hold, fell down upon the deck,
and was killed on tile spc't.
This mode of doing honour to
illustrious personages looks very pretty certainly ; but it it
to discontinue it. Is not the
endaysgeis human life without the least necessity, it woet4
be well "cannon',; roties
sufficiently loud declaration of the respect felt? a

GLAsoow.—Trade contirraes dull here, thouni,
not Tuesday there was a s%iit improvement in the derneiii,
tin the pri'cs, in the Manchester market. A speedy
improvement i% looked for in our market; we wish that we
could a;iliounce something better than topes and expecta-