The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-09 00:00:00

"ISLINGTON MARKET.

" Notice is hereby given, that the business of the
above market will commence for the sale of cattle, sheep,
and pigs, on Tuesday, the 9th, and Thursday, the I I th,
days of January, and for horses on Wednesday, the 10th
day of January, 1849; and will continue open on the
same days in every succeeding week.
" The lairage is now complete, with water laid on to
each lair. Fodder, with every other requisite, will be
supplied on the premises en the most moderate terms; and
no tolls will be taken for cattle remaining in the mar-
ket, after the first day, beyond the entry for sale and one
day'sslairage, if ultimately sold in the market."

COURSE OF EXCH]
Amster aam .........• 12 2%
Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 0%
Rotterdam .... • ..... 12 2%
A.ntwerp • • 25 70
Hamburgh —1.1.8. 13 11%
Faris, 3 days' sight .. •• 25 35
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 65
Marseilles • ........... 25 62%
. 25 65
Frankfort on Maine.... 121%
Petersburgh, Sil. Itble.. 36!,i
Vienna, effec. fio 11 33
Trieste, ditto.. .. .. 11 36
Madrid 47%
Barcelona • . • •
5ev111e........ • • • •

LNGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Leghorn .. .. ••.. • • 32 0
Genoa .. ••• • .. .. •• .. 25 25
Milan .. „
tiaples .. • • .. 40
Palermo, per0z...... 118%
Messina ... ..... 118
Lisbon.. .........• .• .. 514
0p0rt0.... .. 52
Rio Janeiro •• . .. •• - •
Buenos Ayres .. .. • • --
New York, 21 days'sight
Philadelphia .... •
MOUS OF BULLION, YEE OZ
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
IPortligal Gold Coin • • 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
0 4 10
Sille7inDltirarsa........o 4 11%

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING.
The British and North American royal mail steam-
ship Niagara, Captain Ryrie, has just arrived from
Boston and Halifax with the mails and passengers
from Canada, the United States, and the lower pro-
vinces. She sailed from Boston on the 27th, and
Halifax on the 29th ult., and brings 46 passengers.
The steam-ship Europa, hence for Halifax and
New York on the 16th ult., had arrived out at Flail-
fax on the 29th ult., landed her Canada mails, and
proceeded for New York.
By this arrival we have advices seven days later
than those brought by the Canada on Wednesday last,
and they comprise—Boston, Dec. 27 ; New York,
Dec. 26 ; Philadelphia, Dec. 26 ; Baltimore, Dec.
25 ; Mobile, Dec. 22 ; New Orleans, Dec. 21 ;
Montreal, Dec. 22 ; Quebec, Dec. 21 ; and Halifax,
Dec. 29.
The New York Weekly Herald, of Dec. 6, says':—
" The gold excitement: is undoubtedly subsiding
through the country. Conversations upon this matter
are growing less animated, and persons who, a week
since, thought or spoke of nothing that was not con-
nected with California, are gradually settling
down to their usual occupation. Emigration
to the gold regions from the United States,
as far as :we can ascertain from various sources
within our reach, has been as yet exceed-
ingly small. In fact, the number now on their way
amounts to nothing; but if the preparations on foot
are fully carried out as is anticipated, and the per-
sons who have resolved to seek their fortunes there
make good their resolutions, the list of gold-diggers
will, in less than a year, fill an enormous parchment.
Many, we are inclined to believe, who have
already sacrificed much at home to the desire of
seeking wealth on the Pacific, are now showing
symptoms of vacillation ; with many, a want of de-
cision of purpose is clearly perceptible, and they are
acting under feelings swayed between hope and
fear. The probability is, that not more than a third
of those who have entered upon arrangements to
proceed will venture farther than they have already
gone. The disadvantages in both sea and land
routes are so great, that but a few will hazard
their lives and little possessions, for that which is
as yet an uncertainty. The number of vessels up
for the Pacific, at this port, has not been enlarged
since yesterday ; at Boston, Philadelphia, and Balti-
more, we do not hear of any additional movements
of interest. The owners of the Crescent City, which
leaves on Saturday, for Chagres, have made an en-
gagement with a gentleman who has crossed the
Isthmus several times, to proceed by express to
Panama. It is his intention to make all possible
arrangements at Panama for the dispatch of passen-
gers to San Francisco, and, by arrangements along
the road, to facilitate the transit or the Isthmus. The
steamer Isthmus, under the command of Captain
Baker, will sail for Chagres to-day, with about sixty
passengers."
The New York Commercial Advertiser, referring
to the same subject, says—" Like the official letter
of Governor Mason, it seems to confirm and
strengthen even the wildest representations that
have reached us from private adventurers,
and as it travels through the country will
no doubt add fuel to the burning excite-
ment that pervades all classes. Even the most
dogged incredulity is staggered by such successive
waves of testimony in support of accounts which at
first were regarded as little better than mere fables."
The people in all parts of the United States were pre-
paring to start by the hundred for the " gold region."
The New York papers publish a very long report
in reference to the Post-office, and in compliance
with a resolution of the House of Representatives. It
is an extremely lengthy document, extending over
several columns of the various papers. It is the pro-
duction of Msjor Hobbie, who was some time since
in this country, and who appears to be a very humble
imitator of Mr. Polk in his dislike of brevity.
From the document we gather that the United
States cannot profitably have the cheap postage sys.
tern applied, for the reason that there are more unpro-
ductive mail routes than in England. In America the
document does not appear to have met with much fa-
vour, or occupied much attention ; and in this coun-
try it will certainly command less, since we cannot
find that any allusion is made to the mail arrange-
ments between this country and the United States.
The report suggests the adoption of a reduced and
uniform rate of inland postage.
THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION.—We translate from
the Montreal Minerve the following extract of a let-
ter from a Canadian Missionary, the Rev. Father
Tache, dated Isle a la Crosse, Hudson's Bay
Territory, 20th January, 1848 : " There is
this country, save an nothing new inexpedi-
tion
which is already en its way in search of
Captain Sir John Franklin, who left England in
1845, for the purpose of attempting to explore the
north-west passage into the Pacific. The teen com-
posing this expedition winter near this place, at Fort
Cumberland, with Mr. G. Deschambault, and will
pass through here in the spring. Sir John Richard-
son, who is to leave Montreal in a canoe, will be here
about midsummer. I believe this expedition per-
fectly useless. Either Captain Franklin has by
this time got back to England, or he has perished
in the ice. Besides, the expedition cannot reach

the Arctic sea before the summer of 1849. The

firing of cannon was heard at the last past on Mac-
kenzie's River both last winter and the winter before.

They were probably signals of distress. Unfor-
tunately, it was impossible to go to their assist-
ance. A Dr. Hay is also in search on this side. No
news of him has been received, and fears are enter-
tained for his safety, so much the more as he em-
barked in open boats, and his rashness at sea is well
known." The report that the firing of cannon was
heard in the winters of 1846 and '47, towards the
mouth of Mackenzie's River, seems to confirm that of
the Esquimaux Indians, that a " big canoe" had been
seen ashore there.—Quebec Gazette.
_ _

Congress had adjourned for the Chrismas holidays
after having closed the third week of the session, and
during which many important questions had been
partially considered. There had been several pre-
liminary discussions in the Senate on the Panama
Railway Bill of Messrs. Aspinall and others, and which,
by the last accounts we were informed, was almost
certain of being passed. Now, however, it is reported
that, in consequence of the decided opposition it had
met with in some quarters, there is but little pro-
spect of its passage. There had also been several
spirited discussions on the reference of the Bill for
the admission of California and Mexico as a Federal
State, which involves the question of slavery. So
far as the measure had gone the Southern men had
been successful. The following is an abstract of the
Bill :

Sec. 1. After the Ist day of April, '49, all that part
of the territory of the United States known as Upper
California shall be organised into a temporary govern-
ment, provided nothing in said Act shall be construed
to prohibit the government of the United States from
dividing said territory into two or more territories.
Sec. 2 provides for vesting the Executive power of
said territory in a Governor.
Sections 3 and 4 provide for the Secretary and Le-
gislative Assembly, mode of electing members, &c.
Sec. s.—Every free white male citizen of the United
States above the age of twenty-one years, an inha-
bitant of the territory at the lime of its organize,-
tion, shall be entitled to vote at the first election,
provided that no officer, soldier, or seaman, in the army
or navy of the United States, shall be allowed to vote,
unless the said territory has been his permanent domi-
cile for six months, and no person belonging to the army
or navy shall be elected to any office.
• The next four sections relate to the judiciary, &c.
Sec. 11th provides that the governor, secretary, judges,
attorney, and marshal, shall be nominated, and by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, appointed by
the President of the United States.

The salary of the Governor is 1,500 dollars as Gover-
nor, and the same as Superintendent of Indian Affairs;
of the Judges, 2,000 dollars each; and of the Secretary,
1,500 dollars.
Sec. 12. And be it further enacted—that the in •
habitants of said territory shall be entitled to enjoy
all and singular the rights, privileges, and advantages
granted and secured to the people of the United
States, north-west of the river Ohio, by the articles of
compact contained in the ordinance for the government
of said territory, on the 10th day of July, 1787, and shall
be subject to all the conditions, restrictions, and prohi-
bitions in said articles of compact imposed upon the peo-
ple of said territory.
The Bill goes on to provide that a delegate to the
House of Representatives to serve for two years may be
elected. Also for the establishment of a collection dis-
trict, and a port of entry, and the post of collector, whose
salary shall be one thousand dollars; also, for the eats-
biishment of suitable ports of delivery.
The Bill contains twenty sections, and is an exact

copy of the Oregon Bill which passed last session.
In reference to the subject of slavery, we may men-
tion here, that on the 23dLult., the Southren members
of the Senate had a Caucus meeting at Washington,
to consider the subjects/ of the assaults of the Abo-
litionists upon the institutions Of slavery and the
harmony of the union.- Sixty-tight: members worn
present, and although reporters were excluded we learn
that a committee, to consist of one member from
each state was ordered to be appointed, and
who are to make a report on the 15th of January. In
the house of Representatives on the 21st, a resolution
was carried by a majority of nine, instructing the Com-
mittee of the district of Columbia to report a Bill to
abolish all traffic in slaves in the district. A motion
was made to reconsider the subject, which remained un-
decided when the House adjourned. The passage of
this resolution was probably the cause of the Caucus
meeting of Southern senators.
The drainage of the everglades of Florida, as proposed
by Mr. Westcott's bill, had occupied a large share of
the attention of the Senate, but at the last accounts no
progress had been made with it.
The resolution offered by Mr. Miller, calling upon the
President for the production of any correspondence be-
tween the Governments of Spain and the United States,
in reference to the side and purchase of Cuba, had again
been brought up, but its passage was opposed on the
ground that it would interfere with the President's pre-
rogative, &e. The matter had been passed over, but not
definitively settled.

A Bill to admit articles of the growth and production
of Canada into the United States free of duty, upon con-
dition that like articles of the growth and production of
the United States be admitted into Canada, was before
the Senate. It passed the House of Representatives last
session, and there appears to be no doubt that it will
now become law.

The New Yorh Journal of Commerce says, " The
character of the tariff debate i❑ the House leads to the
conclusion that it is not really intended to repeal the
tariff of 1846, and to restore that of 1842 this session,
even so far as the action of the House is concerned."

Lewis Cass, jun., had been nominated Minister to
Rome, but it is said the nomination would not be con-
firmed. Mr. Servier had been 'nominated as Commis-
sioner on the part of the United States, to run and mark
theiboundary between the United Statei and Mexico.
The steam-ship Panama, which sailed from New York
for California on the Ist of December, put back to that
port on the 24th with her machinery damaged.
The cholera had broken out at New Orleans, and
one case is said to have occurred at Staten Island. At
the former place, on the 16th ult., there were 11 new
cases and seven deaths. On the 20th it was still in-

creasing.
The advices from Venezuela :represent the state of
of the country as being in a very deplorable condition.
The partizans of Mongas and Paez have sworn to ex-
terminate each other. The papers contain various re-
ports of the successes achieved by the forces of General
Paez in the capture of Maracaibo, and in several engage-
ments that took place in Cumana. The provinces of
Truxillo and Mereda have pronounced against Menges.
The commercial accounts furnished are scarcely so
favourable as those last received. The Stock Market is
described as having been less active, with an increase in
the demand for money consequent upon the closing of
the year, when payments are usually large. A com-
parison of the prices current at the departure of the
last steamer and the present exhibits a decline in
Treasury notes of per cent. There was an active
demand for bills for remittance by the Niagara, and
the supply was limited, holders appearing to wait for
the 10th January packet, in the expectation that there
would be more calls for bills to meet the interest on
bondf, stocks, &c. The quotation for bills on London
ranged from 1084- to 109. In the New York Cotton
Market no change is reported, and there was very little
business doing. At New Orleans the accounts taken
out from this by the Canada had had a favourable effect
upon the market, and caused an increase of business,*
with an upward tendency in prices.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

CAMBRIDGE-HOUSE, JAN. 6, 1849.

The Duke of Cambridge has been pleased to appoint
the Rev. Thomas Scard, M.A., to be one of his Royal
Highness's Chaplains.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 8.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Phocion
Roque as Consul, at Malta, for his Majesty the King of
Greece.

WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 9.

2d Dragoons—Lieutenant Philip Antrobu3, from the
91st Foot, to be Paymaster, vice William Crawford, who
retires upon half-pay, dated Jan. 1.
16th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Michael Creagh
Singleton, from half-pay 50th Foot, to be Lieutenant,
vice Cassidy, promoted, Jan. 9.
20th Foot—Ensign George finish Adams to be Adju-
tant, vice Hallewell, promoted, Jan. 9.
32d Foot—Ensign Edward Chippendall to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Reed, who retires ; Ensign Pen-
rose John Dunbar, from 31st Foot, to be Ensign, vice
Chippendall, Jan. 9.
37th Foot—Lieutenant John Brown, from the Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Cumming, who
exchanges, Jan. 9.
62d Fcot—Quartermaster John Nowlan, from the
70th Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Boyd, who ex-
changes, Jan. 9.
66th Foot—Lieutenant George Charles Downman to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Astley, deceased;
Ensign George Watson to be Lieutenant, vice Down-
man, Nov. M, 1848; Edward James Storey, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Watson, Jan. 9, 1849; Quartermaster
Mathew Reilly to be Adjutant (with the rank of Ensign)
vice Ross, deceased,' Nov. 26, 1848.
70th Foot—Quartermaster Thomas Boyd, from the
62d Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Nowlan, who ex-
changes, Jan. 9.
72d Foot—Lieutenant William Parke to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Hope, deceased; Ensign Cecil
Rice, from the 80th Foot, to bo Ensign, without pur-
i chase, Jan. 9.

80th Foot—George Sullivan, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Rice, appointed to 72d Foot,
Jan. 9.

91st Foot—William George Conway Gordon, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dunbar, appointed to
32d Foot, Jan. 9.

Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant James Henry
Robeson to be Captain, without purchase, vice Minty,
deco aced; Ensign Samuel Head to be Lieutenant, vice
Robeson, Nov. 20; Robert Horatio George Minty, Gent.
to be Ensign, vice Head, Jan. 9.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Robert Gordon
Cumming, from 37th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice
Brown, who exchanges; Lieutenant Charles Theophilus
Jlement to be Adjutant, vice Bagenall, promoted, Jan. 9.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Windsor
Henry Humphreys, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to
be Lieutenant, vice King, appointed to the 74th Foot,
Jan. 9.
MEMORANDUM.—The commlasioii of Lieutenant John
Rotton, as Adjutant of 36th Foot, has been antedated
to 13th September, 1848.