The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-14 00:00:00

produces a greater revenue. The imports for the
three quarters ending 20th June 1824, were in
value 58,987,137 dollars, viz.:-49,378,393 pay-
ing duties, and 9,608,744 free of duty. The de-
crease of imports in the third quarter of 1824,
compared with the corresponding quarter of
1823, was 333,226 dollars. A lucrative trade by
land i►► furs, &c. has lately been opened between
Missouri and the internal Provinces of Mexico;
the profit on which has in some instances been
estimated at 1000 per cent. The formation of
Chartered Companies for Banking, Insurance, and
other objects, proceeds with great activity, espe-
cially in the State of New York, where a list is
given of no less than 45 Companies, which in-
tend applying to the State Legislature in the
course of the Session for the extension of former
or grant of new Charters, besides a vast num-
ber of applications of a similar nature, all with-
in the flints of that one State. The population
is increasing at a rapid rate. The States of
Georgia, Alabania, and Missouri, have advanc-
ed in the last four years 150,085 ; viz. from
535,476 to 685,561. The present population of
the City of Washington is 16,606, exclusive of
persons in the public service who inhabit the
Fort, Barracks, and Navy-yard. The number
of ma.alfacories in the State of Massachusetts is
161 ; the aggregate amount of their capital, as
stated in their respective Charters, &c. is about
211 millions of dollars, but their actual capital is
-believed to be greater. With the increase of
wealth there seems to be at least no diminutio❑
of delinquencies. We observe that the prisons of
New York contain 1396 inmates, being an in-
crease of 132 during the past year. The cases
tried in the Police Court at Boston for a single
week (chiefly petty offences) were 60 in number.
The President of the United States has sent a
singular message to the Legislature, hinting that
on some old pecuniary transactions the country
remains his debtor, and desiring to have his ac-
counts settled. This is a civil mode of dunning
the American people ! Another message relates
to the piracies by which the American trade
has so much suffered ; and a third message
states that Commodore Stuart, who com-
manded the North American squadron on the
coast of Peru, has been superseded for miscon-
duct. Captain Porter has also been called to
account, for his violation of the territorial juris-
diction at Porto Rico. This does not surprise
us, for we remember a most impudent violation
of the English territory by this same person
many years ago at Malta.- It seems that the
Emperor of Russia, by treaty with the United
States, has fixed the boundary of his territorial
claims on the North-west coast of America,at lat.
54. 40. What business the United States can
have to concern themselves about that part of the
North-west coast we cannot conceive. They
have not a shadow of right to any territory there
themselves. It appears that they are still urging
their claims to a compensation by the King of
France, for the spoliations they suffered from
Buonaparte ; but we apprehend with little chance
of success. Great complaints are made of the
imposition of new duties at the Havannah on
American commerce ; and some of their writers
revive the old project of seizing the Island of
Cuba to prevent its falling into bad hands. We
presume the Government does not entertain any
such unprincipled project ; they, however, are
not inattentive to the extension of their military
posts by land, and, with this view, a Bill has
been brought into Congress for forming an esta-
blishment at the mouth of the Oregon.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Last night we received Hamburgh and Dutch
Papers, the former to the 4th, and the latter to
the 9th inst., but though they contain advices
from St. Petersburgh, Berlin, and Stockholm of
recent dates, they have not the slightest political
interest. The intelligence from the Russian capi-
tal is to the 23d ult., at which time the dread-
ful storms from the ' south-west had wholly
ceased ; but another evil had appeared in the
extraordinary mildness of the weather
From a want of snow, the internal trade
began to suffer great obstruction, which ren-
dered the roads unfit for sledges. However, as
the consecration of the waters had taken place
with the usual pomp, the fears of the multitude
would probably be relieved for the moment ;
otherwise this interruption of the ordinary course
of the seasons would be ascribed, like the over-
flow •>f the Neva, to the lukewarmness of the
Government towards the struggling Greeks.—
There is not the least allusion to the pre-
tended malady of the Emperor ; on the con-
trary, there is a presumption that he was
in excellent health, as it is stated that
a splendid ball was given on the 19th
at Court, in honour of the birth-day of the Prin-
cess of Orange. Neither is there any hurt, re-
specting the impression likely to be made by our
recognition of the New American States ; but, as
the news could not have been received at that
date, no fair inference can be drawn from this
omission. However there are accounts in these
Papers from Berlin, of a date subsequent to that
at which the decision of our Government was
known there ; and as we have in them no men-
tion of the subject, we presume it is regarded as
one of such paramount and general importance,
as will not be noticed in an official manner, till
all the members of the Holy Alliance have con-
sulted one another. We are strengthened in this
opinion by the circumstance of no formal notice
of it having appeared as yet in the columns of the
Moniteur ; and therefore it is impossible as yet
to say exactly the effect it may have. The as-
surances in the King's Speech, respecting the sen-
timents of foreign Powers, have obviously a prior
reference, as Ministers could not be apprized at
the time of their view of the matter. In this un-
certainty we have the strongest possible proof of
the impolicy of agitating so irritating a question
as that now before the British. Parliament, and
so certain to excite ill will at a period when the
country may stand in need of her undivided
energies.

In the important cause, " Mr. Serjeant Rough v. Sir John
Murray," late Governor of Demerara, which is to be heard
before the Privy Council on Saturday next, Mr. Denman, Sir
J. Mackintosh, and Mr. Tyndal have been retained as Counsel
for the complainant.