The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-17 00:00:00

COLONIAL MARKETS.

To.day there is very little doing; the only Sales advertised being
small parcels of Bengal and Mauritius Sugar. There is very little dis-
position to purchase ; and very great reluctance to sell at lower prices•
This keeps quotations much the same; but where they alter, they be-
come easier. No large sales can now be effected, and none but needy
buyers are in the Market. British Plantation Sugar is rather easier,
but not sufficiently to specify its value in lower figures. Cof-
fee remains much as it was, except that Brazil is Is per
ewt. lower than it was la,t week. Tea of most deserip-
ti 311 S is look ❑g rip, and Bohca must be quoted Id. per
lb. higher than it was last week. Spices and Rice arc firm ; and
Rum may be regarded as ld. per gall. higher than it was last week. The
proceedings in I'arliameat last night are expected to have a favourable
effect on the Canadian trade, but it is yet too early to specify cs'eets•
The stock of B. P. sugar is 18,310 libds. and tierces, against 25,999 at
this time last year. The stock of Coffee is as follows ,2,996
ca.ks and 1,239 barrels and bags ; Ceylon 24,739 bags, Mocha 3,824
bales, Brazil 32,304 bags. Just now we have no imports, owing to
the ice, which is now so serious and extensive an obstacle to business
as alraost to suspend transactions.

INDIGO SALE—(SECOND DAY.)
The sale to-day progresses much in the same way, and is much of
the same character in every respect as it was yesterday, which we re-
ported. Much that is put up is bought in ; and that which sells, fetches
about the previous market prices. These prices are about 3d. to 6d.
per lb. higher than last sale prices. That which is bought in is done so
at prices averaging 61 per lb. above last sale. There are but few per-
sons at the sale ; and there is a strong disposition in holders to prop up
the Market.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JAN. 16.
Our Cotton-Market is still in a very inanimate state. The sales to-
day, which were unusually small, were chiefly in American descriptions,
at lad. to Sd., prices being the came as yesterday. The transactions
amount altogether to 1,000 bags.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, J►N. 16.
Wheat and Flour continue to be moderately supplied to this market,
but of oats and Oatmcal we have had a large supply fresh up. In con-
sequence of the se►ere frost, which has blocked up the canals, it is
im-
possible to forward grain or any other article into the interior to any
extent except per railway, and this circumstance has caused
country dealers to purchase very sparingly of Oats, owing to
which a slight reduction has occurred in the value of this article.
Wheat, however, especially Irish samples of good qualities, were in good
demand at this morning's market, and have realised 9.d. to 3d. per
70 lbs. advance since Tuesday last. Flour also is Is. 6d. per sack
dearer, and has been taken to a fair extent. Oatmeal, though not any-
thing higher, was also much inquired fur. All other articles in our
trade remain stationary.

LONDON :
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1835.

Parliament re-assembled yesterday.
In the HOUSE OF Loans, after the preseotation of soiree pe-
titions, the affairs of Canada were discussed. Lord GLENELO
laid before their Lordships the sequel of those papers relating
to Canada which he had presented to the House en the day
their Lordships adjourned for the recess. The Noble Secre-
tary for the Colonies then gave notice that on Thursday he
would move an Address to her Majesty on the subject.
In the HOUSE OF COMMONS also the affairs of Canada
formed the principal subject of discussion. Lord JOHN Rus-
5P.1.1. concluded a speech of considerable length by moving an
Address to the QUEEN, which, after thanking her .Majesty
for her gracious communication of papers relating to
the affairs of Canada, and " assuring her Majesty
that the anxious consideration of this House should
be given to the preparation of such measures as the prz-
Fent exigency may require," proceeded "to express to
her Majesty the deep concern that a disaffected party
in Canada should have had recourse to open violence and re-
hellion, with a view to throw off their allegiance to the Cr.),,vn. '
T., declare to her M ijesty their satisfaction that their designs
h_d been opposed, no less by her Majesty's loyal subjects in
North America thin by her Majesty's forces, and to assure
her Majesty that, while the House was ever ready to afford re-
lief to real grievances. they were fully determined to support
the efforts of her Majesty for the suppression of revolt and the
restoration of tranquillity."
Mr. Hunt:, Mr. Gaol's, and Mr. LEADER concurred in
condemning the conduct of Ministers. The latter lion.
Member moved en adjournment till to-morrow, in order to
affurd time fur maturely consiiering the consequences of the
Ministerial proposition. Mr. BAINES being, as he stated, taken
by surprise, and believing it utterly impossible to deal fairly with
a question so momentous without deliberation—seconded the
tion. The House divided on Mr. LEADER'S motion, which
was lost by a majority of 160-28 voting with, and 188
apinst, the Member for Westminster. The Address was then
agreed to.
Lord JonN RUSSELL. aftei wards gave notice of his inten-
ti,,n to bring in a Bill for the temporary government of Ca-
r Lada, and proposed to have it read a first time to-morro-.v (this
d iv), and a second time on Monday.
The House then, at a Quarter to 03.3 o'Clock, adjourned.

The Government nostrum for the pacification of
Lower Canada was developed in the House of Com-
mons last night by Lord JOHN RUSSELL in a speech
which, from first to last, was one jumble of Ministe-
rial indecision, inconsistency, and error. The plan pro-
posed by the Cabinet is to suspend the Constitution
of 1791—vesting an ad interim power of ruling the
the Colony in the Governor in Council—and to send
out Lord DURHAM as Governor-General, Vice-Ad-
Iniral, and Captain-General of her MAJESTY'S terri-
tories in North America, to he associated with ten
Representatives of each Province, and three Mom-
b:!rs of each Legislative Council, to frame a new
C institution for Canada—which Constitution shall
he submitted to the Imperial Legislature, to be
adopted in any form which the Lords and Commons
of Great Britain may think proper. Now this is a
remedy ten times worse titan the disease. Lower Ca-
nada is in a state of insurrection ; the simple elements
of an impartial consideration of the wants and grie-
vances of the Province cannot be collected at the call
of any funcLionary ; passion has usurped the em-
pire of reason, and partisanship the place of patriotism.
The rebellion has already disqualified many men well
adapted by their previous inquiries, experience, and
pursuits, from taking any part in the framing of a
new Constitution ; and the men so disqualified will
not fail afterwards successfully to impede its operation.
Ministers themselves cannot be ignorant of the
character and principles of the persons with
whom Lord DURHAM must necessarily be as-
sociated, in discharging the duties of the mission
thus entrusted to him. In the first place he
is to be assisted by three Members of the Legislative
Council—a body hateful to the Liberals, and enjoying
no share of the confidence of one in fifty of the mass
of the peaceable Canadian population. Even Sir J.
CARNAC, who denounced liberalism in no moderate
terms, admitted in his speech' last night, that the
Constitution of the Legislative Council was avowedly
one of the greatest causes of the bitterness of feeling
which prevailed in Canada ; anti that so long as it re-
mained in its present state it would continue to be a
great grievance. He asserted that it had never been
a source of strength to the Government, or of benefit
to the people—that it had the sympathy of no
class in its favour—that it was at variance with
the interests of all classes, and a screen for the
grossest abuses of the Executive—and that in ad-
justing prevailing dinrences it would be for the
Government to determine whether it ought not to be
wholly abolished. And from a body so constituted
the Whigs propose the selection of an ex-officio quali-
fied class, to frame a popular Constitution for Canada!
This last is the crowning blunder of the
Whigs, whose mismanagement of the Govern-
ment of the Canadas we believe to be unex-
ampled in the annals of this country. Lord
Jody RUSSELL gravely assured the House of Com-
mons that this country had nothing to reproach itself
' with in regard to the Government of Canada—that
the Provincial administration was neither tyran-
t nical nor corrupt—and that the Canadians were
any real grievances. Wherefore then abo-
lish Constitution ? Why entertain the absurd
i"dieia"the without
the
if the Canadians are disposed to rebel with-
out grievances, they will become peaceable when their
liberties are more restricted ? The House of Assem-
bly can now stop the supplies. W ill a less power put
it in better humour ? Had the last concessions to
the Canadians been accompaned by a strong
military force that the Sup-'.;me Government
only manifested a determinatio i neither to be
coerced nor bullied—not a dro:i of blood would
be now shed in either Provirce. It was the
vacillating policy of the Governnyel, the temporizing
expedients of the Executive, and t'ec leaving the Pro-
vinces without garrisons, for the dishonest purposes
of making the people of England believe that the
Canadians were perfectly contented, that induced the
insurgents to take up arms at the time they did. Let
such as doubt this read the following extract from a
dispatch from the Governor of Uglier Canada, Sir
FRANCIS BOND HEAD, to Sir JOHN COLBoRNE,
Lieutenant-General of the Forces in the Lower Pro-
vince :

" Toronto, 31st October, 1837,

Dear Sir John,—On the receipt of your despatch of the 24th, which
I received yesterday, I immediately begged Colonel Foster to carry your
wishes into Old, by sending you down the 24th regiment. Colonel
Foster told me you were good enough to propose that a guard shculd be

I,ft for me and for the stores and commissariat, but I begged to give up
my sentry and orderlies, and, in fact, to send you the whole of the
:24th which is stationed here. _ _

" I will now endeavour to explain to you the course of policy I am
desirous to pursue. lam sure you will l.e of opinion that a great deal,
if not the avtole, of the agitation which is carried on in Lower Canada
is intended to have the immediate effect of intimidating the two Houses
of PArliamcnt in England, by makiti.: them believe that republicanism is
indigenous to the soil of America, and that nothing else will grow there.
"But Mr. Papinesu knows quite well that this assertion will not be
considered as proved unless Upper Canada joins in it, and accordingly
Mr. M`Kenzie and his gang, under his directions, are doing everythi
in their power here to get up anything that may be made to pass for
agitation in the London market _

This province is, as far as my experience goes, more loyal and more
tranquil than any port of England ; however, this c.oes not matter to
Mr. M`lienzie, provided be can get up a few sets of violent resolutions,
which you know very well are easily effected.
" Now what I desire to do is completely to upset Mr. Papineau, so
far as Upper Canada is concerned, by proving to the people in Ergland
that this province requires no troops at all, and consequently that it is
perfectly tranquil.
" I consider that this evidence will be of immense importance, as it
at once shows the conduct of Lower Canada to be factious ; whereas,
could it, under colour of a few Radical meetings here, be asserted that
the two Provinces were on the brink of revolution, it would as you
know, be argued as an excuse for granting the demands of Mr. Papinecu.
I consider it of immense importance, practically to show to the Canadas
that loyalty produces tranquillity, and that disloyalty not only brings
troops into the Province, but also involves it in civil war.
" To attain the object I have long had in view, I deemed it advisable
not to retain, either for myself or for the stores, the few men we have
been accustomed to require ; for I felt I could not completely throw
myself, as I wished to do, on the inhabitants of the province so long as
there remained troops in the garrison.
_ .

" I cannot, of course, explain to you all the reasons I have for my
conduct, but I can assure you that I have deeply reflected on it, and well
know the materials I have to deal with.

" The detachment of artillery and the barrack-master, whn, I under-
stand, is to take up hie quarters in the barracks, will be, I believe, suffi-
cient to take care of the barrack stores. The arms I have put under
the charge of the Mayor, which I am confident will arouse a very ex-
cel!ent feeling, which will immediately spread over the province. The
military chest will be deposited for safe custody in the vaults of the
Upper Canada Bank, where it will be much safer than in its present
remote situation.

" I enclose you a copy of a communication I have addressed to the
Mayor, and also to Mr. Foote, which will explain the arrangements
have made, for which I am quite prepared to take upon myself all the
responsibility I hare incurred.
" I have now to azk you to assist me further in the policy I am pur-
suing, by removing the 24th regiment from Kingston, so as to tal:e
them out of Upper Canada. I have not the slightest occasion for
them, particularly in that direction, where all Is nothing but loyalty ;
but if they remain there, themoral I am desirous to attain will be spoiled,
for it will be argued in Eng'and that all which has been done in Upper
Canada is merely that the troops have been moved from the midland to
the eastern district. I am afraid you may find difficulty in finding
room for them in the lower province, but if by any exertion you can
effect my wishes, I feel confident you will do so.
" It is with reluctance I have incurred the responsibilities I hay,
mentioned ; I know the arrangements I have made are somewhat irre-
gular, but I feel confident the advantages arising from them will be
much greater than the disadvantages.
" What I am about to do will arouse loyal feeling throughout the
province at a moment when it is f.f inestimable importance."

The re cult of this trick—for it deserves no batter
name—was that Toronto, was all but captured by
the rebels, who, in a few hours, mustered three
thousand strong, and actually dictated the terms upon
which the Governor himself was to quit the Province
True, they were defeated—but that was more
owing to their own misconduct than to the
power or prudence of the Esecutive. Had the
Government here, and its representatives in Canada,
known how to make its policy respected, Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S coercive Resolutions would
have been hacked by a force strong enough
to silence every whisper of rebellion from Quebec
to Toronto. To threaten without the power of
executing a threat, was in the last degree puerile
and impolitic. When Lord BROUGHAM protested
a,ainst the Ministerial resolutions—when those
Liberal Members of the House of CommonS.
in the confidence of the Canadians, rose in
their places, and predicted the commencement of
a civil war, as the result of their adoption—
it was surely high time for the Colonial Secre-
tary to take measures for the conservation of
the Colonial tranquillity. Ministers mistook a dis-
play of haughty pretension for a display of
power, and the consequence very naturally has been that
the leaders of the disaffected in Canada, seeing they had
only threats to oppose them, have set the power of
the Mother Country at defiance.' To this blunder-
ing oversight—this uncalled for and preposterous
display of impotent despotism—is Great Britain
indebted for die blood and treasure it may cost to re-
store tranquillity on the Banks of the St. Lawrence.
We confidently predict that this last scheme
of the Whigs will prove as abortive as the
coercive resolutions.. The plan is altogether fal-
lacious, and we are not quite sure that strong
objections will not be raised against the placing
Lord DURHAM at the head of it. His Lordship's po-
pularity has not been augmented by his recent dis
play of Statesmanship at St.:Petersburgh. If it were
thought requisite to select a Nobleman of Liberal opi-
nions, and high pretensions to popular confidence,
why was Lord BROUGHAM overlooked ?

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The following are extracts from the French Papers :-
The MoiJiteur publishes this morning a comparative view of the pro-
duce of the indirect taxes for the years 1837, 1830, raid 1855. In 1837
the produce was 626,630,000 f. ; in 1835, it was 583,942,000 f. The ex-
Ce,s in 1837 above 1833 was therefore 42,688,000 f. In 1836 the receipts
were 610,307,000 f.; the increase in 1837 above 1836 was therefore
16,323,000 f.
Ti:e increase in 1837 above 1535 was on the stamp duties, customs,
salt, spirituous liquors, the sale of tobacco, and the Post-office. The
increase in 1837 above 1836 was under the same heads, only in the
customs there was a falling off of 29,000 francs. The fourth quarter of
1837, compared with the fourth quarter of 1836, shows an increase of
0,821,000, almost equally divided between the three months. In Dec.
1837, there was, however, a diminution of 588,000 in the stamp duties,
but an increase of 1,206,000 in the customs.
PERPIGNAN, Jan. 9.-The Carlists, to the number of 600, commanded
by Borguia Borges and Sancho, arrived yesterday evening at Alp, and
went into cantonments. this morning in the villages of Daz, Cashans,
Verg and Ves Cutlers. They passed the day there, and sent out orders
fur provisions.
Persons who pretend to be well informed pay that they expect the
Carlist division of General Urbistondo to proceed together to Puycerda,
and blockade it. The Governor of Puycerda has caused the farms nearest
the town to be burnt.
The inhabitants of Puycerda have been busy removing from yesterday
morning to this evening.-Commerce.
FRENCH FU NDS -PARIS, JAN. 15.
Five per Cents.. 109 f. 6, c. 75c. bsc. 45c.
Four per Cents., Ulf. 90c.
fhree,ner Cents., 79f. (I c. 55c. 45c. 50c.
Bank Actions, 2,113 f. 2,621 f. 5Cc. 2,6:3ef. 2.,r32f. sere.
acute it. Naples, SRC 2.;c. tic. 25c. 35c.
Roman Five per Cents., 10114.
Spanish Actives, 2,04%%.
Spanish Passives, 4%.
beigiao Loan, Five per Cent., 103.
Belgian Bank, 1,495 f 1,500 f.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 19i.
Haytiati Loan, 390 f.
gIicHANOR ON LONDON.
One month, paper, -f. -c.; money, 25f. 47 4c
Three months, paper, 25f. 32%e. ; money, 251. aNe.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 109 f. 45c.
Three per Cents., 79f. Ste.
(lank Actions. 2692 f. 511 e.
Romans, 101'4.
Belgian Lean, 103.
Belgian Bank, 1,50n1
Portuguese Three per Cents., 19}.
Spanish Actives,
Spanish Passives, 4%.
flaytian Loan, 390 f.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

From the unusually heavy press of Parliamentary and other matter,
we are unable to give the leading articles of the different public Journals
of this morning. We must content ourselves therefore, with a
brief summary of their contents :—The Ckronicle comments
with satisfaction on the debates of last night and of the speech
of Lord John Russell, and congratulates its readers on the
appointment of the Earl of Durham to the ollice of High
Commissioner for the adjustment of the differences in our Canadian
provinces ; the Times comments in most eulogistic terms on the speech
of Sir Robert Peel; and the Post assures its readers that little or no-
thing is to be hoped for from the new appointment of Lord Durham. The
Herald takes nearly the same view of the case.