The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-15 00:00:00

be absent who can by any possibility reach the
House.

We received the Dutch and Flanders mail
last night, with news from the Hague, Amster-
dam, Vilna, and Wallachia; but the intelligence
is destitute of importance.

DUTCH FUND-S.—AMSTERDAM, Fss. 12
Wiley. BlM's.
Ictual D4l)t, C% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per ce:at.
A mart Syndic, 4 .!..,', per cent Shit Li
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 1.0% 71
Commercial Company, 40i,. per cent l5'N its
Ditto (1335 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loon 1V37, 5 per cent.
exchange on London, One month 1::
Two months ......
Dutch Papers, Feb. 13.
BELGIAN Nti N DS—B at; a and , Fee. 12.
Actual Deht, 2% per Cent.
Rothilchild's Loan, 5 per Cent V7%
Lean of Thirty Million:, 4 per Cent, B9
3 per Cent. —

Thirty-seven

%,• '1
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent ;A)
87%
Society of Commerce, 45i per Cent li -42.
Rank of Belgium, 5 per Cent
National Society.
Exchange on Lomlom (Admit)
—Brussels Papers, Feb. 13.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vts.iss, FEB. I
Five per Colts. Metalliques
.. 10414
Four vei Cents. ,..
5.f44
Three per Cents.
BEIM shares • ..
;COS
....Alliemeine Zeiiung, Feb. 9
HAMBURG 1101fSENHALLE, FEB. G.

Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank shares lO3
A In- It ussian Loan l6oi
ittlf,Sl4ll 5 per Cent. Ist sencz, CGrtiticate lO3 :
Inscription, Ist ..............«............
Itusiian 5 per Cent. liopc and Co. 3d and 4th
Snifs
961.4
Ditto in Certiiicates ................................ 9C% 96%
Dutch Actual Debt, 254 pc, Cent
Ditto over CenL ....... ........ .
Pulkii Bond.
New ticket
7% 157
Anglo.. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent
i a
NewLoas per .
Loan,
....
1,1
wish,Sp 3,4
Xt.:IIANG ES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, FEB. 9. —l3 s.—Two months 13 3
Latesic, Fco. s.—Two :no ths, 6. 1s k.,
PRUSSIAN FUNDS...-BERLIN, Fee. 9.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4!".,, per cent. ............ .103 N Ir3ii
Prussian English Loan, 15.30, 4 percent. 100%
xcli:.nge on London, three months... 6 0%
—Prussian Stala Gazette. Feb. 10.

Her MAJESTY'S packet Express, from the Bra-
zils, and Star from Mexico, arrived at Falmouth
on Thursday morning. The former sailed from
Rio de Janeiro on the 15th of December, and
has no freight. The latter dates are, from Tam-
pico the lath, and Vera Cruz the 23d of Decem-
ber, and from Havannalt sth of January, with a
freight of 800,000 dollars. Lieutenant R. B.
JAMES, the Commander, and other officers
and crew of the late packet Spey, lost in the
Bahama Passage, by striking on a coral reef,
on her outward voyage to Mexico, are come
home in the Star from the Havannah, having
succeeded, ere they left the wreck, in recovering
all the stores, besides sixty bottles of quicksilver,
which were shipped by her. From Rio Janeiro
we learn that the elections had terminated gene-
rally against the Ministers, their favourite can-
didates being thrown out, whilst the Opposition
party had succeeded in returning two of the ex-
Ministers high upon the list. The Exchange had
declined 31d., and just before the Express sailed
intelligence had been received by steam-boat
from Rio Grande stating that the insurgents
were still unwilling to submit to the authority of
the Central Government. An official personage, '
named BENTO DA SILVA LISBOA, has come pas-
senger per Express, and it is reported that his
mission is connected with negotiations for an
alliance between the two sisters of the EMPEROR
and the members of some royal family- in Europe.

If we have hitherto abstained from comment-
ing upon the arrest and imprisonment of Mr.
• M‘LEon by the Magistrates of the State of New
L York, on a charge of murder and arson, arising
out of the burning of the Caroline steamer in the
winter of 1837, it has been because we supposed
the whole affair safer in the hands of the Govern-
ment than in the hands of persons disposed to
make it a handle for producing a hostile collision
between two great nations who ought always to
be at peace. But as our Contemporaries have
been influenced by no such scruples, we find
that we cannot remain silent without the suspi-
cion of an indifference, which we certainly do not
feel, to the fitte of a British subject unjustly de-
prived of his liberty, and whose life is considered
in peril. The burning of the Caroline was the
act of the British Government, and the indivi-
duals engaged in executing that act were no
more responsible to the laws of the United
States, after its successful accomplishment, than
is Commodore NAPIER to the penalties which
attach in Egypt to the blowing-up of 'magazines
and the firing upon the flag of the Piten,%.
Whether the burning of the Caroline was right
Or wrong is nothing to the purpose. We are not
now defending it. All we contend for is, that
being the act of the Government no individual
in his individual capacity can be justly, or le-
gally, held responsible for it.
Considerable blame is cast upon the Govern-
ment for not settling this affair long ago. If the
United States Government refused 'to regard it
as other than a private outrage we do not see in
what way Lord PALMERSTON could deal with it.
But there was a way in which the difficulty
might have been overcome—a way suggested by
The Sun immediately after the suppression of
the Canadian rebellion, and which the country
cannot now but regret was not adopted. We
then recommended to the Government to take
means for quietly withdrawing from the Canadas
all individuals whose acts during the insurrec-
tion could in any way compromise them on the
Republican side of the frontier. We observed,
that if this was not done, some of these person.;
would be likely to fall into the hands of the
United States authorities, and that though we
neither doubted the will nor the ability of the
British Government to defend the lives of its
own subjects, yet the trouble would be great, and
that after all the wisest policy would be that
which most diminished the chances of war
arising out of individual recklessness or bravado.
The soundness of this advice will not now be
called' in question. However inconvenient it
might have been to effect the removal of Mr.
INPLEon to this country immediately after the
pacification of the Canadas, the trouble would
have been slight compared with what it will take
to rescue him out of his present perilous con-
dition.

The Journal des Debats professes surprise that
on a subject so little suggestive of military fury
as the Customs' Bill, nearly every Member who
addresses the Chamber has something to say
about the enemies of France, as if the country
was actually in the jaws of some monster about
to devour her. On glancing over the debate from
day to day in the French papers, we were forci-
bly struck with the same circumstance. It is
astonishing with what pertinacity some minds
cling to a painful idea. That France has been
humbled to the dust—that her enemies are power-
ful and combined for her destruction—that she
is betrayed by her own Government, and is there-
fore in a state of hopeless abandonment, would
really appear not only to be the conviction, but
to afford delight to half the representatives of
France in the Chamber of Deputies. They are
wounded, they say, and they do all they can to
keep the wound green. When any hand ap-
proaches with salve they thrust it aside, and
apply salt, pepper, and sand, to make the smart
the more exquisitely painful. They are always
parading their dishonour and their helplessness
in a manner which would be pitiable were France
either weak or dishonoured, but which becomes
ludicrous when it is known that France is as
powerful at home, and as much respected abroad,
as she ever was at any period of her history.
And as to enemies we know of but two from
whom France has at this moment anything to
fear, and these are but little interested in the
Customs' Bill—namely, M. TRIERS and ABD-
KADER.

The Paris Journals of Thursday have all reached
us. The Moniteur Universel, the Moniteur Pa-
risien, and the Messager give an official contra-
diction to the statements of the Courrier Fran-
cais, the Temps, the National, and the Com-
merce, respecting the alleged disunion among the
members of the Cabinet. The Moniteur Parisien
also asserts that the reports about the notes ad-
dressed by foreign powers to M. GUIZOT relative
to the armaments, "are neither correct, nor have
a semblance of probability." We cannot see
what there is improbable in asking for what pur-
pose France places her immense army and
powerful navy on a war footing in a season of
profound peace. There is nothing surely strange
—nothing inconsistent with what is due to the
dignity and the freedom of action which every in-
dependent nation is entitled to claim—in request-
ing to be informed upon what grounds the French
Government has thought proper to convert
France into an immense arsenal, where, amid
the clangour of arms, nothing is heard but
shouts of European defiance or the wailings of
despair.
The Editor of the National has been summoned
to the Bar of the Chamber of Peers on the 20th
instant for two articles which appeared in that
Journal, reflecting upon the political character
of that branch of the legislative body. It is not
by cross-examining Editors, or prosecuting the
Press, that the Chamber of Peers will succeed in
doing away with the odium which attaches to it
in consequence of its gross subserviency to the
Court.

n the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday the

article of the Customs' Bill fixing the import
duty on linen thread was adopted. After con-
siderable opposition on the part of the thread-
manufacturers the Minister of Commerce suc-
ceeded in prevailing upon the Chamber to fix
the import duty at 10 per cent. instead of .121
per cent. as fixed by the Committee. The duty
on Cashmere Indian shawls is fixed at 100 francs
the large size, and 50 francs the smaller 'sizes.
Letters from Toulon of the 6th inst., received
by the Commerce, bring sad accounts of the
irkjuries sustained by the shipping in the
late storm. The Castor, which arrived early
that morning at Toulon, brought the me-
lancholy news that the Maine transport
corvette commanded by M. GATTIER was lost
in the Gulf of Stora, having on board fifty-seven
men, including the first and second lieutenants,
an ensign, and the chief-surgeon, all of whom
perished. Out of thirty-two merchant-vessels
at Stora and Philippe twenty-eight were stranded
by the violence of the tempest, and most of
their crews were drowned. On the 21st the
weather was tempestuous at Algiers. The Tiber,
loaded with gunpowder, was driven on shore, and
went to pieces. The Acheron sailed from Al-
giers, on the 26th ult., but up to the Gth instant,
she was not heard of at Toulon, whither she was
bound. The same Journal has the following
paragraph relative to Admiral II nacres squad-
ron :
'lll,l squadron under Admiral Hugon, of which only
two line-of-battle ships, the Ocean and the Genereux, had
returned to Toulon, experienced such severe injury as to
render it unfit for sea. The Triton shortly after the hur-
ricane commenced, signaled to the Admiral that she was
making 36 inches water per hour. She subsequently
separated from the fleet, and had not since been heard of.
The J; pia and Neptune likewise suffered considerably in
their sails and masts, and the latter was believed to have
sought refuge at Cagliari, in Sardinia. The Crank fri-
gate, conveying troops and material to Bourbon, had like.
wile put into that harbour.
The news from Algiers brought by the Castor
is of the 28th of January. On the night of the
27th a part of a column of the army at Algiers
had surprised the tribes of ZEROUELA, REIN-
DAADE and BENI-ZERGUIN, of whom they kiLd.
12, made 22 prisoners, and carried away conside-
rable booty in oxen, mules, and sheep. The
French lost but one Arab killed. On the 20th
of December a part of the garrison at Medcali
surprised three Arab villages, which they burned,
killing 30 Arabs and making 18 prisoners, besides
a number of bullocks, a flock of sheep, and a
score of horses and mules. Oa the 17th of Jan.
a division of the garrison of Medeah fell suddenly
upon an Arab encampment, killing 20 men,
wounding several, and carrying away 32 prison-
ers, 150 bullocks, 1,500 sheep, and 40 mules.
Such are the mighty feats of the French army of
colonization in Africa!

The following article from the Journal des
Debats refers to a circumstance of which we
heard somethingbefore, through an Anglo-Indian
J ournal. hI. IYABBomE's intimacy with the
Arab tribes at war with the little garrison at
Aden, was well calculated to alarm an officer
filling a post of so much peril as that occupied by
Mr. HAYNES. Under similar circumstances no
French officer could act otherwise without being
forgetful of his duty to his Sovereign, and dis-
playing a wanton disregard of the fate of the gar-
rison entrusted to his care :

At Aden, on the Red Sea, a French gentleman, Mons.
D'Abbadie, was, it appears, very uncivilly treated by Mr.
Haynes, the Governor. M. D'Abbadie, who had gone to
Abyssinia to establish commercial relations, was wounded
in the eye, when shooting, by the cap flying cif his
fowling-piece. Unable to get cured in Abyssinia,
he went to Cairo, and, when cured, he returned to
Abyssinia. This contirual going and coming attached
strange suspicions to Mr. Haynes, and he received
M. D'Abladie so ill on his r, turn to Aden, that the
latter thought proper to leave the place immediately.
These details are to be found in a letter, signed by
an English officer of the garrison, who participated
in the ideas of the Governor. Thus there is a reason-
able foundation for the opinion, which is common enough
in England, that the officevs of the helm' Army do not all
distinguish themselves by those high sentiments of respect
for themselves and for others which is in general to be met
with in the corps of the officers of the Royal army.
At Calcutta, on the contrary, our commerce has received
on a melancholy occasion affecting marks of esteem and
sympathy. The captain of one of our ships, La Petite
Nancy, having died of the cholera, the English sailors
joined the French in attending the funeral. The English
ships which were in the river set up mourning flags
as well as ours did, and the cannons of the fort saluted the
funeral as it passed.
QUEEN ISABELLA.—The German Journals bad an-
counced that Prussia was on the point of recognising
Queen Isabella, and that Baron Armin was going to Ma-
drid for that purpose.
BOURSE,—PARIS, THURSDAY, FRB. 11.

,-- - - -
First Highest Lowest tan
Price Price. Pricy. Price
rench!.rer Cents ll2 112 30 ... 112 119 30
45 per Cents lO2 IU2 ... 192 ... 102
4 per Cents 29 99 99 1.9
3 per Cents 76 76 30 ... 76 RvrA o: ... 7,1 30
erance ...... 2215 ...3:325 ...3215 ...32'25
L Rate bank I,ooof. Sh 5145 ...4145 ...5145
teigian Bank
5 ~,er Cr.nti QS 98 ... 98% 0,34
New Loan V 836 98% 08% ...
,panibh Active 404 ... '24 z 4 ... '24 ... 204
Passive
Portuguese 3 per Cents 3O ... 20 '2O
eapelitan
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
St Germain
Versailles,R. 11 437 50 ... 440 ...:437 50 ... 440
L.R. ............ 325 33! 30 325 1,2 50
0.-leans .
Stristitirg:, 0 Halo 245 ... 4'46 25 ... 245 '246 25
Montpellier to Cette
louen 461 ...46;) 460 ...460

We have Madrid Papers of the sth inst., but
they are destitute of news of any interest. The
elections were proceeding quietly, the bulk of
the people seeming to care nothing about them.
Reports of some disturbances at Valencia were
in circulation.

The Five per Cents. were done on the 4th
291 for cash, and at 291 at 60 days. The sun:
negotiated amounted to 12,600,000 reals.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

( From Me Sun of Saturday Evening.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—Our market has
been flat throughout the week, with unsteady prices for Ame-
rican and Surat ; the latter at the auction to-day sold at a de-
cline of id. to Ad. per lb., and we quote the middling do.. n to
ordinary qualities of the former id. lower. In Brazil, Sea Is-
land, and Egyptian we have not to notice any change. 2,200
bales of Surat were offered at auction, and 930 bales sold at
41/2 to 51/. The sales to-day are about 3,000 bales of all kinds.
We have no Share List this morning from Liverpool.
111.arrcur STER STOCK EXCIIA NGE, FEB. 12.—:Manchester
and Leeds 75 76 ; Ditto, Halves, 32 33 ; London and South
Western 47 53 ; Lancaster and Preston, New, IN 20i ;
Manchester and Birmingham 24 13-16ths Stafford and Rugby
3A 3i.

Late yesterday afternoon the Hebrew party pureliawd about
fifty thousand Consols, having received an Express bringing a
rise of h per cent. in the French Funds. This purchase had
not much effect on the Market.
Consols, which left off at 88a h both for Money arid time,
opened this morning with rather an improvement, and may he
quoted at present 88a for the Account, and Money 68h g, as
yet scenic anything doing ; Exchequer Bills, 5 7 premium ;
Bank Stock, 163 164; India Stock, 245 247.
In the Foreign Market a shade higher, left off 2341, at pre-
sent 23; Deferred, 12* 1 ; Passiye,sh 6h ; Portuguese same as
they closed, 31h 32 ; Three per Cents. 19,E 20 ; Brazilian, 7114
721 ; Chilian, 63 65; Colombian, 22h 23 ; Mexican, 27/ 28;
Buenos Ayres, 22 24; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
49h 50h ; Five per Cents. 9S 99*.
Sn it Es.— Great Western, 23 24 prem. ; New, 10 11
prem. ; London and Brighton, 7* 6,1 dis. ; Blackwell, 41/2 4
ciis. ; Birmingham, 84 86 prem. ; Southampton, 57h 58h per
share ; Croydon, I l 12* per share ; Greenwich, 8* 4 per share ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 15h 14h d;s.
PRICES OF SHARES THIs DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New 50 6oi to
London and Brighton
London and Greenwich
We have two arrivals this morning, one from the Brazils, by
the packet Express,—the other from Mexico, by the packet
ship Star. The intelligence by the former brings accounts
from Rio Janeiro of the 4th of December. The news by the
Star brings letters from Tampico to the 13th, and Vora Cruz
to the 23d December. The above vessel had a freight on board
of $BOO,OOO, chiefly on merchants' accounts ; she also had on
board Lieut. James and the crew of the late packet Spey. For
further particulars we refer our readers to another part of the
paper.
Consols we not quite so good as in the earlier
,part of the
morning, when they were 88a for the Account ;at present
85g ; in Money also lower,BB4, had reached 88; ; the market
has been in an inactive state during the course of the morning.
Exchequer Bills 7 5 prem. ; in Bank Stock nothing done.
The Foreign Market at present is entirely neglected, scarce
a bargain doing. Spanish Active, 23%, since which they
may be quoted 23h 24 ; Portuguese, 311 ; Dutch Two- and-
a- Half per Cents., 5Q ; Five per Cents. 99.
The Share Market is also very inactive. Great Western
Railway, 89 90; London and Brighton, 43h ; Green-
wich, 84.

. .
CLOSING PRICE?.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ... 162 , India Stock ......... ... ..
3 per Cent. Red ts9 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 88i Ditto Old Annuities —
3i per Cent Red........ 97i Ditto New Annuities...
New :3i per Cent .. ... 97 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2,1d spm
New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ 8 pin
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 8 p:i.
Jan. 1860
Oct 1859 ..
Jan. 1860 ... Consols for Acct BBi
FOREIGN FUNDS.
A astrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto.... .
Brazilian Bowls ... .. Prussian, 5 per cent....
BuenosAyres, 6 per cent 24i Russian, 5 per cent..
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 percent 22 Spanish, 5 per cent 24
Ditto, 1824 ............... Ditto Deferred —
Danish, 3 per cent..... Frenel,s per cent... —f. —c.
Greek,lB2s, spercent. Exchange .. f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent... —f. —e.
Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, Zit per cent 5O
Pertivian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 99
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 P) 80
Great Western Railway (65 paid) eoi
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 9i
London anti Brighton (50 paid)
London and Greenwich Railway (20 paid) 81
London and South Western