The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-09 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, MARcu S .

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—West Riding Union, 3 13-16
dis.—Sheffield, Preference, 10% —Sheffield and Lincoln, 14—Grimsby
201. Shares, -11 dis.—Dover (No. 4), 7 7-16—York and Newcastle,
Preference, par—Kendal and Windermere, 4%—Leeds, Fifths, 2%
A mbergate, 4 3-16 dis.— East Lancashire, Preference, 7 7-16.
BIRMINGHAM, Mattel 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to-day was stationary. There
was little disposition to buy or sell. The sales are—Great Northern,
Si. its. 3d.—South Staffordshire, 3% dim.

YORK, MARCH 7.

STOCK EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as fol-
lows :—Great Northern, 11 4—Ditto, Halves (B), guaranteed 6
per cent. 63—Sheftbsld, Rotherham, and Goole, N. div., guaran-
teed 6 per cent. B%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original New-
castle and Berwick), 23% ex div.—Ditte (Newcastle Extension), 19
ex diT.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 7%,

HULL, Itaitcxi-8.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East Anglian '(L. and Ely, L.
and Drm.), Preference, 6 per cent., p.—East Lancashire, 19 %
Ditto, Preference, 7 per cent., 7% North British, Qaarters, 334—
Ditto, Thirds, 4%.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Aleacu 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE. -- The business done in the Stock Exchange to,
day has been as follows :—Great Northern, 11% —Wear Valley
(New), 30K —York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 25% ex div.
GLASGOW, MAsca 7.

STOCK ExcnArtoic.—The following are to-day's transactions:—
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 54—Ditto, 5 per cent. guaranteed,
106—Ditto, Halves (No. 1), 6/. 18s. 6d.—Great North of Scotland,
4s. 6d.—Great Northern, • M.. 3s. 6d.—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick (G. N. E. Purchase or Preference), 8%.

AFFAIRS OF VENEZUELA.
(FRom A CORRESPONDENT.)
CARACAS, JAN. 21, 1849.
In my last letter I informed you, that the constitu-
tional vessels commanded by General Justo Briceno had,
on the Bth ultimo, forced the bar of Maracaibo.
On the 13th ultimo, while at anchor at Baio-seco, they
were attacked by the malcontents with a superior force,
which after a sharp engagement they beat (,ff, capturing
three of their vessels that had run aground.
On the 24th ultimo, the castles of San Carlos were
evacuated by the malcontents, who, abandoning four of
their vessels, with the remainder crossed the Lake of
Maracaibo, and entered the River Zulia.
On the same day Briceno took possession of the cas-
tles, in the dungeons of which were discovered a number
of prisoners detained there during the last six months.
They were so emaciated and weak from the ill-treatment
they had experienced as to be scarcely able to move.
A short distance from the fort were also found eleven
bodies of constitutionalists, killed in the affair of the
13th of November, which had been left unburied, the
flesh having been devoured by vultures.
On the 25th ultimo Briceno followed up the lake in
pursuit.
The malcontents landed at the town of San Carlos del
Zulia, where on the night of the 31st ult. they were
attacked and completely routed by a column under Co-
lonel Ezequiel Zamarra, singular enough the same
individual whose death Soublette and Paez strove
in 1846 so hard to compass, and in which attempt they
would have succeeded but for his escape from prison.
An instance of female heroism, worthy of being re-
corded, was displayed during this attack, and, in fact, to
it the success of the attack is chiefly due.
A lady of the name of Maria Encarnacion Pirela, wife
of a respectable householder of San Carlos, exasperated
by the cruelty shown by the malcontents, took part in
the action; and observing that after more than two hours'
firing the constitutionalists were as far as ever from
taking the town, she seized a lighted torch, and encoura-
ging the soldiers to follow her example, in the midst of
heavy fire, rushed up to one of the houses occupied by
the malcontents and set fire to its thatch. Wounded in
the leg by a grape-shot, she has since been conveyed to
the hospital.
A body of the malcontents under Colonel Andrade
effected their escape, retiring upon the province of Me-
rida, but on the 7th inst. they surrendered themselves up
at a place called " Mocoties."
Thus has terminated the rebellion commenced a year
since by the ex-Generals Pacz and Soublette.
The former remains at Curecoa, the latter at Cartha-
gena, neither of them having by a return to Venezuela
chosen to expose to peril their own persons subsequent
to their flight into New Granada in March of last year.
There is nut a doubt in my mind that the malcontents
would have long since surrendered had they not been
allowed to make use of Curacoa and its dependencies as
bases for their operations; for example, Oruba was the
principal resort of their vessels.
Even children of Venezuelan slaves who, by the law of
the country, are burn free and become so entirely on
attaining the age of 25, have by Paez's associates been
carried away to Curacoa and there sold as slaves.
Considering that Curag is is only a few hours' sail
from the Venezuelan coast, it is most important to the
future peace of the Republic that Pacz be no longer per-
mitted to act there the part of a conspirator against the
Venezuelan Government and nation.
Mr. Leocadio Guzman, the popular member of the Ex-
ecutive Government, promises that great reductions shall
be effected in the public expenditure, and a check be at
length put upon the bare-faced frauds against the
Customs.
It will be well for the country if he be enabled to make
good these assurances; fur the late rebellion has occa-
sioned enormous losses to it in every shape and way;
whilst its character and credit have been completely un-
dermined by the agitation of delusive fiscal and commer-
cial panaceas, and by still more dangerous projects for
evading the payment of debts by the landed proprietors,
14 Moll have been framed by the party called " Cotope-
rices," of which Dr. Sanavria and Mr. Francisco Ramon
Hernand-z, in union with s_veral of the most indebted of
the oligarchy, are the principal members.
The worst feature in the case is, that these projects
are not the wild schemes of an ignorant and excited
multitude, but are deliberately put forward by some of
the richest, although indebted, owners of plantations in
Venezuela, and that their practical effect
.would be to
enrich these at the expense of their creditors, chiefly
foreigners.
Of course the eventual, if not the immediate, loss
would fall on the nation at large, and not upon the
foreign creditors, as intended; but it is to be hoped that
President Monagas, who is one of the largest landed
proprietors, and one of the richest men in Venezuela,
' and who does not owe a shilling, will support his
Minister, Guzman; and that, with the aid of public men
of firmness and integrity of purpose, he will, as he did
last year, save the honour and material interests of his
country by successfully frustrating these suicidal and
dishonest machinations.

The Prince of Orange has signified his intention
of giving a gold cup to be run for at the ensuing Croston
Park races.

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