The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEI;JNES )A Y, JANUARY 6, IS4I.

make the empire great, or be doomed to decay. A
more important question was never submitted to a
constituency. Their decision will have great weight.
It will give a heavy blow to the abolitionists, or it
will carry terror to the hearts of the bread-taxers.
It will convince the Ministers that they would not
find adequate support in proposing the repeal of the
Corn-laws, or that something must be done. If
the decision be right it will most probably procure
the abolition or some modification of the bread-tax
during the next Session.
They must not suppose that one Member can
have no effect. If all the electors acted on that
supposition no exertions would ever be made. The
supposition is not comet. One sturdy, determined
man, by dwelling incessantly on the subject, by
making motions at proper times, by presenting and
reading parts of petitions, may do a great deal. He
gives courage to others, and gathers fresh spirit
from their support, and he and they together may
become a host. Let every elector of Walsall act
in the great cause as if the entire abolition of the
bread-tax depended on his single vote, and succets
will be certain.

The result will have a powerful effect on public
opinion, and the influence of public opinion over the
actions of public men is paramount. Of the latter,
the Morning Chronicle yesterday contained a me-
morable example. It announced the unconditional
discharge of SARAH YOUNG, unjustly and ille-
gally imprisoned at Monmouth, at the suit of one
Dr. LYLE, for tithes. No legal steps appear to
have been taken to procure her discharge ; but a
public meet:ng was held at Monmouth, at which
Dr. LYLE's conduct was denounced, and the case
was warmly taken up by the public journals. Public
opinion procured her release. It softened the iron
hearts of ecclesiastical proctors, and shook the
well braced nerves of an endowed parson. With
such an example [More the men of rvatsau, tl5O,
may be thoroughly convinced that the power of
public opinion is unbounded ; and if they, by
placing Mr. G. SMITH high above his antago-
nist on the poll, demonstrate to the whole empire
that the town population is resolved to support only
anti-bread-taxers, they will convince both the Mi-
nisters and the landowners of the necessity of abo-
lishing the bread-tax.
It has been over and over again proved in the
Anti-Corn-law journals, that the bread-tax annually
dooms hundreds, and even thousands of our people
to death by starvation. Every elector of Walsall
who votes for a bread-taxer makes himself acces-
sory to the deliberate, wilful, and cruel murder of
his countrymen. How can he look on the suffering
crowd around him, asking for bread, and give a vote
for a man who deliberately consigns them to misery
and death ? The bread-tax is emphatically the
poor man's question. It is also emphatically every
mother's question. The unenfranchised of Walsall
and the women of Walsall must attend to their
own interest, and prove, though they have no
votes, they have much power. Let them aid the
League, besiege the electors, and supplicate and
implore them not to consign them and their fami-
lies to misery and death by voting for a sugar-
taxer and a bread-taxer. If the non-electors do
their duty they may work on the humanity of the
electors, and contribute to the success of the Anti-
Corn-law candidate.

Let us in parting say a word to the League. It
invites the electors of Walsall to give an honest
vote, and return an anti-bread-taxer to Parliament.
To do that many of the electors may disoblige
landlords, customers, and friends. Let the League
then at once promise to do all in its power to pro-
tect and reimburse every elector who may be co-
erced and injured on account of his vote. Let it
immediately set on foot machinery for inquiring into
instances of coercion, and holding up the would-be
tyrants to public scorn. Depend on it the highest
men in the land writhe under the honest expression
of public opinioii, and when the landlords and -other
wealthy and influential persons at Walsall are well
convinced that they will be gibbeted in the public
Journals if they attempt to coerce the votes of the
electors, they will abstain, will leave them free, and
will not dare to take any dirty vengeance on a
tenant for the honest exercise of his right.
If the hints which we have thrown out be followed
up by those on the spot, we hope that the enthu-
siasm of the inhabitants may be kindled, and Mr.
G. SMITH elected by a most triumphant majority.

Mr. O'CoNNELL, in the name of the Repeal
Association, has addressed a long and carefully
written letter to Lord CHARLEMONT, in reply to a
communication lately made by his Lordship to the
Repealers, wherein he expressed himself hostile to
their favourite panacea for all Irish grievances. In
this letter Mr. O'CONNELL has done little more
than repeat the various arguments which he has
urged from time to time in favour of Repeal, and
which in substance amount to just this—first, that
the " masses in England," if not decidedly inimical,
are at any rate indifferent, to the interests of Ire-
land, and that were the case even otherwise, still
they have no power to befriend her ; secondly,
that the majority in the House of Commons which
professes to be well disposed towards her, "is
exceedingly restricted," and upon the important
question of STANLEY'S Bill, " has been repeatedly
against her ;" and thirdly, that the " Anti-Irish
enmity in the House of Lords is perfectly trium-
phant, nor is there the slightest hope of diminish-
ing or mitigating that hatred." These are the
chief points of interest in Mr. O'CoNNELL's let-
ter. As for the other matters of which he treats,

we may dismiss them without a word, for they re-
fer in part to the proceedings of the last Irish Par-
liament, for which the great majority of our readers
care little or nothing; and in part, to the " com-
mercial advantages" which would ensue to Ireland
from Repeal—a theme which it will be quite time
enough to discuss, when there exists the slightest
probability that that measure will become the law of
the land.

With regard to Mr. O'CONNELL'S first hypo-
thesis—namely, that the English masses are indif-
ferent. to the interests of Ireland, we again repeat,
what we have often told him, that such is not the
case. There may be a noisy body of political
fanatics who are so—men of but one idea, and that
a wrong one, who can think, speak of, look for-
ward to, nothing but the realization of their own
engrossing crotchet ; but the sound, intelligent
majority of the People take unquestionably a warm
interest in the welfare of Ireland. And this they
do from no chivalrous notions of justice or libe-
rality, but from a principle of strong common
sense ; simply and solely because they see and feel
that their own interests arc inseparably blended with

those of the sister island ; and that one country can
never hope to make a rapid advance in Reform, so long
as the other is lagging at a distance in the rear. In-
deed, so far are the masses of the English people

from being lukewarm in the cause of Ireland, that
we agree with Mrs. HALL—who has lately had
many opportunities of forming a sound judgment
on this subject—that for the last three or four
years nothing has been more remarkable than the
rapid growth of kindly feelings between the two
countries. The mutual prejudices so long fostered
for their own selfish party purposes by the Tories,
have, one by one, given way ; ar.d we no longer
hold the scandalous doctrine, that Ireland is doe
weakness of England ; but nobly and justly regard
her as our strerimb—ruir pride—one of our maii
pillars of Reform. Mr. O'CONNELL is right when
he asserts hat the " English masses" are comps•

ratively weak ! but does he suppose that they are
weak only as regards Ireland, and quite strong
enough to protect their own immediate interests?
Not a bit of it. They are weak alike for the in-
terests of both countriws, and can scarcely, there
fore, be blamed for not: doing that for Ireland, which
they are unable to do iiior England.

To the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's two
remaining Repeal augraments, that little is to be
expected from the Comamons, and absolutely no-
thing from the LordLs, our answer is—" Insist
on justice to Ireland in the only way, and by
the only means that justice can be obtained for
her ;--that is to say, by recommending diligent
attention to the registrations ; by explaining and
popularizing—if we may venture to use such a
term—othe true principles of good Government ; and
exerting whatever influence you may possess to crush
Toryism under whatever mask this political Proteus
may choose to exhibit itself. In a word, devote to ra-
tional, substantial, ractical Reform, the energies you
are frittering away on that vague chimera, Repeal;
and we will answer for it that the majority of Ire-
land's wall wishers in the Commons will gradually
but surely increase ; and, as a necessary consequence,
her enemies in the Lords diminish, both in point
of number and virulence." Such is our reply to
Mr. O'CortNELL's two chief arguments ; but if
instead of acting in this spirit, he still continues to
agitate Repeal, he will be so far from strengthen-
ing the cause of Ireland, that he will be inflict-
ing on her injury in exact proportion to the
converts he makes ; that which is now a mere
phantom, will then become a substance, too feeble,
it is true, to occasion: any very profound appro•
pension, but quite strong enough to scare away
from her side those who at present have every dis-
position to insist cn an ample measure of justice
being meted out to the sister country.

Maxim' Journals, Co ar. 2thli ttie., bac, arrirccl.
The English Ambassador had prevailed upon -ES-
PARTERO to give up all thoughts of invading Por-
tugal. Spain was tranquil.

The French Journals of Sunday have all reached
us. The Moniteur of that date publishes several
New Year's Day Addresses to the KING, for
which space was wanting in its official columns of
the previous day. They are, however, from learned
societies, judicial bodies, end local corporations, and
-therefore of no European interest, inasmuch as they
touch neither upon foreign nor domestic politics.
The Journals under the influence of M. TRIERS
and his supporters, are indignant at the pacific
language in which the KING responded to the Ad-
dresses of the Chambers and the diplomatic body.
What is to every friend of humanity in Europe a
source of the highest pleasure, is to them gall and
wormwood. They estimate the greatness and glory
of France, not by what happiness she can diffuse
among the human race, but by what misery she
can inflict upon them. Their trophies, like those
which formerly embellished the capital of Persia,
must be made of the skulls of those whom they
choose to regard as their enemies. Higher and
holier is the mission of a great civilised nation like
France. In the eyes of wise men the trophies of
war are but so many records of human wretched-
ness and human guilt. It is in the spread of edu-
cation—in the progress of the arts and sciences,
which conduce to the elevation of the human

mind and the comfort of human hfe—in
the disappearance of poverty and the vices
which it engenders in conjunction with ig-
norance—in the cultivation of sentiments
of peace and good-will among men, that we can
only discover the true greatness which covers a
nation with glory. Besides, as was well observed
by the KING in addressing the Deputies, France
has no need to add to her military trophies. She
has had blood enough upon her hands to make he
sufficiently an object of terror to her weaker neigh-
bours. Any supineness which she may now appear
to exhibit, will certainly never be attributed to liar.
Her fame for prowess and for chivalrous courage is
too firmly established ever to be shaken ; and we know
no weakness which she exhibits more contemptible
in itself than her constant anxiety to find in every
trifling forgetfulness of claims flattering to her
vanity, a pretext for parading an ability to do mis-
chief which nobody ever thought of disputing
But we happily find in the patriotic sentiments of
the KING, and in the enthusiasm with which the
deputations of the Chambers heard those senti-
ments, powerful guarantees for the continuance of
European tranquillity.
The Moniteur of Sunday publishes the follow-
ng telegraphic despatch from French Africa :

" ALGIERS, DEC. 22.
" The tranquillity of the province of Algiers has not
been disturbed since the last courier.

Blidah, Mostaganem, have
m The
made predatory
g r
edaartrjrsyOnes lxocurMsioendeah
s against all the tribes in the
vicinity of those places."

The same official organ announces the
,appoint-
ment of General BUGEAUD to succeed Marshal
VALLEE as Governor Commander-in-Chief in
French Africa—thus confirming the statement
which appeared in yesterday's Sun. The Com-
merce accompanies this announcement of an ap-
pointment generally regarded in Paris as disastrous,
with the following extract from a letter just received
from Algiers. "It is curious," says that journal,
"that this information reaches us just at the mo-
ment that we are going to send General BUGEAUD
to Algiers, doubtless to sign the Treaty with ABD-
EL-KADER, which Marshal VALLEE rejects."
The following is the information to which the
Commerce alludes :

" ALGIERS, Dec. 21.—As I have told you, it is cer-
tain that the Emir Abd-el-Kader would wish to have a
truce tor two years, in older to obtain new resources, and
recommence the holy war with some chance of success;
he would be glad of a second edition of the treaty of the
Talus; we must hope that he will not obtain it. When
the Emir wrote to M. Dupuch that he wished to send one
of his officers to accompany the sub-ictendant Massote to
Algiers, it was easy to guess that he had something im-
portant to communicate to the Marshal. We have now
got a new proof of the intentions of the Arab Chief,
Some Sheiks of the environs of Milianalt having
been authorized to wait on General Changarnier,
Commander-in. Chief -at Blida., after having spoken at
length on the miseries of war, asked him on what terms he
would treat with Abd-el-Kadcr. The General replied,
• France receives the submission of the Sheiks who come to
place themselves under its protection, but it dots not treat
nith the absent. I do not kn9wAbd-el-Kader ; let him conic
and make his submission, and he will be well received.
If he is hostile to us, we shun make war on him, and de-
stroy him." General Changarrder Own asked the Sheiks
if they were disposed individually to make their submis
sior. They replied in an evasive manner, and withdrew.
‘. We know, however, for certain that the &t r.'. of Abd-
el- K.,cler is waxing pale, and that all the Arabs would
come to us if they were not continually watched by the
Kalifas with their regular troops. Whenever the enemy
are not near at hand the Arabs of the Little Atlas and
of the East come to the markets with their tents and their
flocks, and place themselves under the French protection.
The last markets at Bouffariek were attended by a great
number of Arabs, who brought provisions of all kinds.
The Civil Commissioner purchased 400 oxen, but paid the
natives only half of the price, in order to be sure of their
coming back again. The Arabs did not manifest any
distrust."

Count WALEwsKt arrived in Paris from Alex-
andria on Saturday. The Scamandre steamer,
which carried him to Marseilles, encountered a
dreadful storm which, by filling the vessel with
water enough to extinguish two of the furnaces,
completely destroyed the Count's despatches, which
were reduced to a thick pulp or paste.
most fortunate for M has thus
M. THlEfts, who This is
escaped an exposure which the present Ministers
contemplated with much satisfaction. Had his
despatches to the Count been obtained,
a clue
would at once have been found to the whole
scheme of his labyrinthine policy in Egypt.
The Committee appo;!Itl to examine the a Pro-
ject of law for fortifying Paris, have agreed to re-
commend three very important
points
The

erection of a wall of circumvallation ; 2. The
construction of strong chains of detached forts ;
and, 3. The completion of the whole of
these works in three years. These forts are
to be constructed so near the city that shells can
be thrown from them into the most crowded guar-
t2rs of the French capital. Heaven help the
Republicans if they be not as mute as mice when
these works are finished

The following account of the proposed popular
demonstration in favour of the Abbe DE LAMEN•
NAIS on Saturday, is copied from the Mes.sagcr :
" Oa Saturiay morning, about eleven o'clock, a gather-
ing of about 100 individuals, the greater part en blouse
and casquettes, amongst whom were several National
Guards in uniform, took place for the moment on the Place
de la Bourse.

" Having reached the Rue de la Michodieu, all the in-
dividuals forming the meeting ranged themselves along the
Louse inhabited by M. l'Abbe de Lamennais A deputa.
twit of fourteen, three of whom were in uniform. waited
upon the latter. At the expiration of ten minutes the de-
putation retired, and the meeting then dispersed without
utzering any seditious cries.

" Nevertheless forty or fifty individuals, amongst whom
were about twenty-five National Guards, rejoined each
other on the Boulevards, and repaired to the Place St.
Antoine, marching thieo abreaLt, and arm-in-arm. They
passed round the July column, sipging the Mai
uttering cries of ' A bas Guizut I' A bas la Garde
Menicipale I' This second altroupetnent dispersed after-
wards in various directions.

" These manifestaticns are culpable ; they arc an in-
ft-Mgt:mem on the respect which is due to justice and the
law. The authorities have adopted measures in order to
suppress immediately the recurrence of similar demonstra-
tions."

By a royal ordinance, dated 31st ult., Rear- Admiral
Hugon has been raised to the rank of Vice-Admiral, in
the room of Baron Roussin, lately promoted to that of
Admiral; Captain Dumont d' Urville was appointed Rear-
Admiral ; Rear. Admiral Casy was to to take the command
of a division of the squadron of the Mediterranean under
Admit at Hugon; and Rear-Admiral Parscval Deseliene
was to silt:cued Rear- Admiral Casy in the post of Major-
General of the Marine at Toulon.
The Moniteur publishes another ordinance in the war
department, instituting two special and distinct committees
for the infantry and cavalry, which had been hitherto united.
The first ass composed of Generals Schneider, Schramm,
Ropatel, Cubicres, Trczel, Tholnw, and Favier, and M.
Melcion d'Arc, a military indendant; and the second, of
Gimerals Near], Sparre, Audcnarde, Wolff, Latour• May-
bc>,4rg, Oudinet, and Wathicz ; and M. Denniee, a mili-
tary intendant.

iiy a third Royal ordinance, inserted in the same
(Acta! organ, the f,reign legion in the service of Prance
hereafter to be divided into two regiments, to consist
each of three battalions, aud of an effective force of 3,000
men each. Nu tordgners will hereafter be admitted into
tho,e corps, unless they sign an engagement for five years.
The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 29,h ult., an.
flounces that M. Mazlum, the Catholic patriarch of the
Greek rite in S) ria, had arrived from Rome at Leghorn, on
his way to Paris. The Prelate was said to be charged
ith a mission from the Pope to the French Government
on behalf of the old Emir Bechir.

A letter front Leghorn of the 23d ult. announces that
Queen Christina sailed on the preceding day for Cwitta
Vecchia, and that she would proceed thence to Rome,
where her mother, the Dowager-Queen of Naples, had
gone to meet her. M. de Rumigny, the French Ambas-
sador in Rome, was nearly recovered frcm his late il:ness.

FUNDS—DitussEta, JAN. 2.
Actual I)e:•t, 2N per Cent,
Rothschild'., Loan, 5 per Cknt titi%
Loan of Thirty 31i1Nong, 4 per Cent.... . .

, .
(l 4'f) 1157i,
--- --. 3 per Cent. —
---.Thirty.seven----- ...... 6814
Loan of City, Ihtl2, 4 per Cent PO
Society of Commerce, 45., per Cent llO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..... .. ......
National Society.
Exchange on Louttom (short) ......,. ll P 5
—Brussels Papers, Jan. 2.
4 USTRIAN FLlNDS.—Vietrivx, Dec. 24.
rive per Colts. Metall:cities
Fowl- per Cents.
fillCei,itenti. ...” ...
Bank -4 har,s
—Aagemelne &thing, Dec. 30

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
The meeting of to-day at the Colonial Bank shows
the advantages arising from an investment of capital in
such bona fide undertakings as this, in preference to
to bubble loans for foreign countries. Here a large
dividend is obtained by the shareholders, while at the
same time our West India colonies are benefited by the
increased banking facilities afforded to their mercantile
and agricultural interests.

The Stock Market was firm to-day, but the leading
feature was the improvement of 11 to 2 per cent. in
Bank Stock. Consols were at 89* for the opening ;
Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities were marked 891
to ; the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced 971 to
11., and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 97k- to 1
ex. div. Exchequer Bills rose to 7s. and 9s. premium,
and India Bonds to 13s. and 9s, discount. Bank Stock
rallied 1 to '23, per cent., being quoted 1581 to 160 ;
and Long Annuities touched 13 to 13 1-16.
The Foreign Stocks were not much dealt in. Spanish
Active Bonds were at 24* to 3, closing heavily. Per-
tte.,;uese New Five per Cents. at 32* to 47; the Three
per Cents. at 204. Brazil Bonds at 71 to ;I, and Co-
lombian at 23* to.
The Share Market was brisk to-day and the follow-
ing were the more current prices :—Great Western 28
to 30 ; the New, 13 ; the Fifth, 71 to I ; the London
and Birmingham, 83 ; the New 261 ; the Greenwich
Scrip, 14 toe ; the South Western, 19* to 20*; the
Midland Counties Quarter Shares, 51 ; the Gosport
Junction, 71, and the Eastern Counties Debentures 31
to 4 prem. Brighton, 61 to 58 ; Midland Counties,
20 to 18 ; South Eastern, 151 to 15i; Hull and Selby,
6 ; Birmingham and Derby, 24f to 231 ; Birmingham
and Gloucester, 15 ; Cheltenham and Great Western,
32 ; and Eastern Counties, 134 to 131 discount.
There was no improvement this afternoon in the Fo-
reign Exchanges. The rate for Bills on Paris was 251.
.521 e. to 571 c. ; on Amsterdam 12 21 to 1; on Ham-
burgh 13 7 ; and on Frankfort 1484.
We have still two German mails due.

The following are the official ret urns of the exports of
bullion for the week ending Thursday last .—Silver coin
to Lintin 40,009 ounces ; Silver coin to Calais, 150,000
ounces.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.--The
sales to-day are 3,500 bags to 4,000 bags, of which
150 are Sea Islands, at 16d. to 20d. ; 100 Egyptians,
0 9id. to Id. ; 100 Bahias, Bid. to Bad. ; 300 Peru-
vians, Bsd. ; !,50 Surats, 4id. to sd. Prices steady ;
a quiet market.
LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, JAN. 4.—Eastern Coun-
ties debentures, 5a ; Chester and Birkenhead, 36 ;
Glasgow and Paisley, 28-g- ; Grand Junction,
New, '29 ; Lancaster and Preston Three-Quarter
StILV CS, 151 ; London and Birmingham, 173 ;
Quarter Shares, 274 ; South Western, 571 ; Midland,
New Shares, 15 ; South Eastern, 12k.

We have received Van Diemen's Land Papers to the
251 h July.
The meeting of the Legislative Council is postponed
from the Ist to the 15th August. In this delay there
is an advantage seldom accompanying procrastination.
It is no theft on time ;' it has given to Government
an opportunity of presenting to the Council a Road
Act free from every objection."
SYDNEY.-Our last Sydney papers are to the 19th
instant. The most important intelligence is the con-
tinuel decline in the Wheat Market. Grain has now
fAllen to 96. 6d per bushel, the two pound loaf is
Bd., but is expected to be 6d. in another week.
The tide of emigration has commenced to flow
to the W estern and Eastern World.

Money Market.—ln consequence of vessels with
general cargoes incessantly pouring in, business at
this present moment is entirely at a stand still ; the
' Nloney Market is in a very depresse I state, the
demand for cash is considerable in the extrem and
e. The
hanks have curtailed their discounts; thereby causing
a great alarm amongst our commercial community,
which, we trust, will subside without any serious con-
sequences ensuing. The price of flour has not changed
since our last ; wheat is now selling at 9A. 6d. per bushel.

We have received the Australian of the 18th of
August, filled up with Eoglish news. It appears trona
the New Zealand papers to the sth of July, that his
Excellency, Captain Hobson, contemplated selling lands
New Zealand at 12s.t,en acre ; but as Mr. Shortland
r. El:aye forwarded information by the Bee, which
s..i!Ni for the Bay of Islands, after the arrival of the
Drf,ugham, instructions from the Board of Commis-
sioners will be awaited.

The following extract is from the same papers :
" We publish with pleasure the following extracts
from a despatch from the Secretary of the New Zea-
land Land Company ; they state that the Company
have not been unmindful of their promises and ur in-
terest. The colony is now secure in a good supply of
prov.hions for nine months.
A public meeting of the inhabitants of the district
of Port Nicholson took place on the Ist July, for the
purpose of agreeing to a loyal and dutiful address to be
presented to his Excellency Captain Hobson, the Lieut.-
Governor of New Zealand.

'• On the motion of Dr. Samuel Evans, Colonel
William Wakefield was voted to the chair. He said the
moment had now arrived, and he congratulated the
colonists upon it. A statement had, however, been
made, respecting the instructions of the settlers to his
Excellency Captain Hobson, which demanded expla-
nation. One of their own body had asserted that they
were prepared to resist the introduction of the British
law ; that an organized force was established to resist
even to the " knife." The gallant Colonel then called
their attention to the immediate object of the meeting,
by the presentation of an address to his Excellency
Captain Hobson, expressive of the unabated loyalty
and attachment of the inhabitants of Port Nicholson
to the British Government. Colonel Wakefield then
put the question, when the affirmative was carried una-

" It is reported that his Excellency Captain Hob-
ion has purchased Mr. Cleudou's property at the Bay

of hlands, on Government account, for 22,0001. and it
is further stated that the property cost Mr. C. only
twenty pounds a few years since."
The New Zealand Island Gazette has the follon-.
ing

" RUSSELL, BAY OF ISLANDS, JUNE 10, 1840.
On the night of the tla inst. information was conveyed
to his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor that several
Europeans had been murdered at the ' Pah,' and that
others would share the same fate were not immediate
steps taken to prevent it. A party of twenty of the
military, under the command of Captain Lockhart., were
dispatched to restore order. On the arrival of the
Captain he found a large body of the natives assembled
under arms, and it was desirable to have a reinforce-
ment at hand. On inquiry it was ascertained that (luring
the day two boats belonging tolimerican vessels had been
ssized by the Pomsre tribes in consequence of a misun-
derstanding which had risen from the attempted cap
ture by the crews of the boats of a deserter living at
the Pah, under the protection of the natives, who
refused to deliver up the man until they received a
is-
ward. The representation made to his Excellency was
unfounded relative to the murders. Captain Lockhart
endeavoured to persuade the natives to return the boats
but ithout success. Instructions were then given to
the sailors to remove the boats, which was acceded to.
The military were then returning, when an alarm was
given that the natives were making an attack, and a
cry of fire raised, and several shots fired in the direc-
tion of the natives caused much disturbance to ensue ;
during which, it is to be regrew d, three or four mus-
kets wore discharged by the soldiers without orders, hap-
pily without effect, none of the natives being wounded,
as was currently reported. On the foil ,wing morning
Pomare, with a considerable number of natives, waited
on his Excellency, and expressed their thanks for the
prompt assistance rendered by the Government, and
their sense of gratitude for the protection, remarking
that they had never felt so secure since the establish-
ment of her Majesty's authority in New Zealand. The
masters of the American vessels likewise ten'l3red their
obligations for the timely interference of the military,
Which probablyprevented a serious sacrifice of human life."

Consols opened at the same quotations as they left
off yesterday, 89 for the Account ; Reduced 89; 8.
with little doing at present ; Exchequer Bills 7 9 pre.n. ;
Bank Stock 157 158 ; India Stock 238 239.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active are the same
as they left off, 24 _I; Deferred 12i 13, Passive
; Ptiouguese 321; Three per Cents. 201 ;
lombi4n 41 24 ; 111, xican 28i 29 ; China) 57 60 ;
Brazilian 701 711 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
improved, 49 50 ; Five per Cents. 971
SHARES.--Great Western 271 281 prem. ; New
121 131 prem. ; London and Brighton 61 die. ;
Blackwall 41 4 dis. ; Birmingham 82 84 prem. ; South-
ampton 571 581 per share ; Greenwich 8 9 per share ;
Manchester and Birmingham 15 13 discount.

I'IIICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester 9O . .. 76
Cheltenham and Great Western. 624 304.- to
Eastern Counties
Ditto Debentures
Great Western
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
Gosport Junction
London and Brighton
London and South Western 3B,c 5B ... .. to 59
South Eastern and Dover
The British Funds have continued inactive to the
present hour ; the speculators arc waiting for the ar-
rival of the overland express from India, to see how
affairs are going on in China, the sews from that
quarter being expected daily.
Consols are present is a shade lower than in the early
part of the morning, and may be quoted 89 for the
Openirg ; Exchequer Bills, no alteration, 7 9 prem. ;
Bank Stock, 1581 1591 ; India Bonds, 13 9 discount
improved.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active also a shade
lower, 24:1 ; in Portuguese nothing done ; Colombian,
2.3, rather lower ; Brazilian, 711 71, also lower ;
Danish, 774 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half, also lower, 49i ;
Five per Cents., 97. The above market is flat, with
scarce anything doing.

In the Share Market scme business is doing, with a
little improvement. Birmingham and Gloucester, 75 ;
Great Western, 93i ; Gosport Junction, 421 ; Lon-
don and Brighton, 44i ; London and South Western,
58 59.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Rank Stock ... 16-) llndia Stock ......... ... ..
3 pi-r Cent. Red B9/ Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. Ditto Old Annuities
3. per Cent Red ..... ... 97,14 Ditto New Annuities... -
New 31 per Cent .. ... 971 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 9pm
New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ 9pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7pm
Jan. 1860
Oct 1859 ... lndia Stock for Acct ...
Jan. 1860 ... — Consols for Opg B9
FOREIGN FUNDS.

A astrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto.....
Brazilian Bonds .. ..
BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. ...
Chilian, 6 per cant
Colombian, 6 per cent ... 22% Spanish, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred ...
Danish, 3 per cent..... 77% French,s per cent... —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, spercent. Exchange ..
Mexican, 5' per cent.... Freneb, 3 per cent —f. —e.
')itto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2% per cent 493
eruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 97g
SHARES.
Birmingham and Del by Railway (100 pd)... 76%
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (90 p) 75
Cheltenham and Great Western (62% paid) 30%
Eastern Counties Railway Debs. (2 paid) 6
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 95
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ..,,... ... 63
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ... 114
Gosport Junction Railway . (35 pd)
Hull and Selby (50 paid)... 4 t
London and Brighton Railway (50 paid) 444
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 173
Ditto New Shares (24 paid)
London and Greenwich Railway (2u p.Lid)
Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid)... 34
London and South Western Railway ....., 59
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) . 10%
South Eastern and Dover (28 paid ).. . 12
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam C F. 12 4%'Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 2 U. 12 5 Genoa .. 25 BE,
Antwerp
Hamburgh........M.B. 13 10 Venice ... 47
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40 iralermo, per oz 121
Ditto, 3 months 25 65 , Lisbon ... •—• ... 52%
Marseilles.... 23 70 Oporto'.... 52%
.
Bourdeaux... ...... . .... 25 70 Rio Janeiro 28%
Frankfort on Maine.... 149 Bahia 27
Petersburgh, 3 U 5..... 37 Buenos Ayres —
Berlin. .
Vienna, effee. 8. 3 M lO 3 Philadelphia
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
i3ilboa 35 New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona
Seville

A very serious accident from the incautious use
of fire-arms, and which might have been attended by the
destruction of the lives of two persons, occurred on Sa.
turday at Beddington. It appears that on the day in
question several young men, who had been out shooting,
entered the parlour of the Plough public-house, Bedding.
ton, and after being there some time they commenced
amusing themselves by discharging their percussion caps at
the candles t.,) extinguish them. It appears that at this
time a loaded gun was standing in the corner of the room,
and one of the party, named Francis Lovell, took it up,
and, h lding it in the direction of the candle, pulled the
trigger. The gun exploded, and the greater part of the
charge entered the thighs and lower parts of the persons
of two men named Laxmer and Burgess, keepers to Cipt.
Carew, of Beddington Park. The wounded men were
immediately put to bed, and a medical man promptly at.
tended, and rendered them all the assistance in hie power,
and extracted a great number of shot from their person,.
Information of the occurrence having been forwarded to
Croydon, Mr. Collier, an inspector of the R division of

police, went to make inquiry, and he deemed it advisable
that an investigation should take place before a Magistrate,
and he directed LeaelLtn_attend at the -Town Hair,-Croy-
don, where Mr. Sutherland the Magistrate entered into
an investigation of the circumstances, and the above facts
were detailed iu evidence. Lovell, on being questioned
by the Magistrate, said he was exceedingly sorry for what
had occurred, and assured him that it was quite an acci-
dent, and he had not the least idea that the gun was loadel
when he took it from the corner of the room. Inspector
Collier said that, from the inquiries he had made, he had
every reason to believe that the affair was the result of

accident, and that Lovell had not the least idea of injuring
the two men. The Magistrate said it was a most dan-

gerous practice for persons to meddle with fire.ar;s,-anti
,t was continually the occasion of most serious accidents,
and in the present instance two lives might have beets sa-
crificed. The Magistrate having ascertained that the tie,
wounded persons were going on favourably, ordered Lovell
to enter into his own recognizance to appear at any future
time, should circumstances render it nec asary.
THE STORM OF SUNDAY MORNING.—A
Correspondent at Southend has sent us (the Essex Herald)
the following account of a severe storm which visited that
place early on Sunday morning last, and which also raged
here, as well as at Braintree, Ongar, and other plaes is
the county with equal violence. At High Easter, the
mill belonging to Mr. Fuller was much damaged, a large
portion of the sails being blown off to a distance r,f
thirty rods. Several trees have been torn up by the
roots in Mr. Tufnell's park, at Great Waltham, and in
other quarters, and a horse, we bear, was struck dead
in the high road between Romford and this town.
The storm was more severe than was ever remem-
bered at this season of the year, and was accom-
panied in many parts by a fall of snow and hail :
al-SOUTHEND, JAN. 3, 1841.—The wind had blown very
strong from S.W. this morning, with occasional flashes
of lightning; at about half-past six o'clock it suddenly
changed to the N. W. and a tremendous storm of hai!,
rain, and snow came on, accompanied with thunder and
lightning, which continued upwards of half an hour, the
thunder rolled awfully and the lightning was very
vivid. It passed off to the north-west, iv'filire the rumbling
of thunder was distinctly beard upwards of 'an hour after.
wards. During the str,rm a schooner went ashore on
Nlak, t!nd a large ship on the Neic Saud, Several
LqulD cliff cc, ileir C2tIEGC fait
give you further particulars, as the men have not re-
turaed,"