The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-13 00:00:00

toise, Chartres, Nogent-le-Roy, Soissons, Pont- Saint-
Maxence, Provins, and Orleans, the rise varied from
50 centimes to one franc the hectolitre. The supply
in those markets was not equal to the demand.
On the subject of the supply to be expected from
abroad, the National says—
" It results from the information we gather from the
Bulletin des Ilalles et Marches, that we are in a truly cri-
tical state, and that importations from abroad are
urgently necessary to supply our deficiency. The ques-
tion, therefore, is—what have we to expect from abroad?
Oar letters frasm the Black Sea, we are bound to say,
make us great promises. They announce the existence
of more than 2.000,000 hectolitres of corn at Odessa, and
that there are nearly equal quantities at Constantinople
and Alexandria ; but though this may ensure a provision
for the south, the rest oF France has not the less reason
to be uneasy. E'er example—what do they write from
America? Out of 334,000 barrels of flour that were in
New -rot k on December 25, 100,000 had been sold for
exportation, and were only waiting for ships ; 50,000
were in the hands of the bakers, and therefore there re•
mained no more than 200,000 for the daily wants at
home, and the demands from foreign countries during
the winter months. Let it be observed, besides, that the
rise in price is already felt, and that there is already
complaint of the small quantity of corn in the store-
houses. Can we rely at least, and above all, upon Ame-
rica to supply sufficient for the consumption of Europe?
Alas ! no, and we have already found a re-
doubtable competitor in the English. The rise of price
in Great Britain has essumed an alarming proportion.
At Marseilles it has had an influence upon cur market,
for even at the present time the English overbid us
for American flour. Till lately, on the contrary, France
ruled the price of her neighbours. But this state of
things is changed. Thus the barrel of 88 kilogrammes
sold at Havre for 42f. and 43f., finds purchasers in
London at 46f. and 49f. The same rise has extended to
all the markets of the Baltic, and the demands from
London have caused a rise in price exceeding our own.
Consequently, wherever we find ourselves outbid, we
must either yield, and suffer the corn of which we are
in need to be carried off by the English, or, beaten by
necessity, we must submit to the exorbitant increase
which their own distress imposes upon our neighbours.
We neither wish to exaggerate nor extenuate circum-
stances. We state them without comment, leaving the
public to draw its own conclusions. We will, however,
add but one word. Yesterday the intention of
the Bank of France, to lessen the term of the
; bills to be discounted by it, was talked of.
This measure, which we have this morning character-
ised, will appear, if possible, still more inopportune
when the peculiar state of our markets is considered. It
is evident, in fact, that France will be constrained, in
order to procure sufficient for her own food, to make
large ,purchases from abroad. We cannot estimate at
less than 200,000,0001'. the sum we must pay for corn
from America, the Black Sea, and the Levant. Thus
two millions of money must be again sent out of the
country. Transactions in business, already cramped,
will become more and more difficult. Is this, then, the
moment, we again ask; that the Bank ought to choose
to render the terms it imposes upon trade more and more
severe? And the Government, what has it done? What
will it decide upon in order to avert the evil with which
L.e are threatened ? How does it manifest its foresight?
By what acts does it reveal this ? M. Cuniu Gridaine
published two circulars to demonstrate that the
public inquietudes are without foundation, and that we
have snore corn than we can consume. Nevertheless the
price of bread continues to rise, and it is impossible to
foretell to what height it will go. Never mind, take
courage ! we shall have a third, and even a fourth cir-
cular, if need be. It is to this, in every great crisis,
that is limited the part of a constitutional Minister,
saving the interposition of the Procureurs du Bei and
the gendarmes, if by chance some ill-intentioned people,
having but little taste for the prosing of the Minister,
venture to complain too loudly of dying from hunger."

The speech of Senor MENDIZABAL in the Cortes,
which we gave in The Sun of yesterday, appears to
have given as much satisfaction in France as it has
in Spain. The Constitutionnol says—

" The noble and moderate language on the part of the
chiefs of the Progressist party produced a great sensa-
tion i❑ the Cortes. It was expected that the Opposition
would indulge in declamations and in virulent recrimina-
tions, and great surprise was felt to find its language
calm and measured, like that of a party certain of its own
strength, and feeling that it had a people at its back.
The entire Chamber welcomed with visible approbation
the speeches of MM. Lujan and Mendizabal, and M.
Tidal, the Minister of the Interior could nat refrain from
rendering homage to the generous sentiments which
they expressed."

It is stated, says the Courrier Francais, that an
aide-de-camp of the Minister of the Marine is about
to be sent on a special mission to the Marquesas, the
object of which is not known.

It is reported that one of the commercial delegates,
who accompanied M. DE LAGRENEE in his mission to
China, has just been appointed General Agent for
French Commerce at Canton. He will have under
him a deputy, who will reside at Macao.

The Three per Cents. dosed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 79f. 45c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. sc. • the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,240 f. ; Rouen, 897 f. 50c. ;
Gtof. ' • Great ,Northern, 631 f. 25e ; Avignon, 855 f.; Vierzon,
5921.50 c.; Bordeaux, 557 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 481 f.
25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 485 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 5071. 50c.;
Lyons and Avignon, 485 f.

-.MARSEILLES, JAN. 6.—Marseilles and Avignon, 867 f. 50c.;
Nol them, 640 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 508 f. 75c.

BUSYNESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 12.
Boulogne and Amiens, 15%—Bordeaux, Toulouse and
Cette (Espelete), Yu—Jamaica South Midland Junction, 13%
—Luxembourg, 2s—Namur and Liege, Wit—Northern of
France, 10%—Paris and Lyons, B—Paris and Rouen, 35%
—Rouen and Havre, 27—Sambre and Meuse, 45/6—Tours
and Nantes, 41_1.

HAY MARKET THEATRE.--The Conde de Monte-
Molin has commanded the performance of Goldsmith's
Comedy of " She Stoops to Conquer," the interlude
of " The Woman Hater," and the popular new extra-
vaganza of " The Invisible Prince," at this theatre
to-morrow (Thursday), on which occasion his Royal
Highness and suite will honour the theatre with their
presence.

Dr. King, of Sackville•street, has submitted to
the Medico-Chirurgical Society an essay " On the
Cause of Death of Infants Preternaturally Still-born,"
wherein he insists that death is not from asphyxia, as
hitherto supposed, but from syncope; and suggests
for the consideration of the medical profession an en-
tirely new practice, by which means a large majority
of infants preternaturally (head last) born may be
saved.

La Gazza Ladra is in course ')f revival at the
Italiens for Mmes. Grisi and Brambilla, Lablache, Co-
letti, and Gardoni. The last-named ;young singer ad-
vances in favour every night he is heard at this theatre.
We regret that we ar• to lose him, in the course of
next month, being under engagement in her Majesty's
Theatre.—Paris Paper.
BANKRUFTCY OF THE LEEDS AND WEST RIDING
BANK.—In the Leeds Court of Bankraptcy, yesterday,
Mr. Commissioner Burge gave judgment on the argu-
ment urged against the validity of the adjudication. He
decided that he had no power to annul the adjudication,
but that the parties, of course, had a right to appeal to
the Court of Review.

It is with extreme gratification we notice that
Captain Jackson, the Commander of the Princess Vic-
toria, the Antwerp Steam Company's vessel, has been
elected a Junior Brother of the Trinity House. All
who know him must be delighted at this event, as his
general conduct ensures him the good wishes of every
passenger. his chief study seems to be to attend upon
their comforts, and render the voyage a pleasant trip.
ExTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF AN ILLICIT DIS-
Tth-LEnY.—Last evening police-constable Redford, 32 L,
one of the warrant-officers attached to the Southwark
Poli,se Court, went to serve a warrant on a man named
Hackett, at No. 38, Broadwall, in the parish of Christ-
chureh,'Southwark. On arriving at the house he was
detained at the door nearly a quarter of hour, during
which time he heard a shuffling noise inside. At last
the door was opened by a female, when the smell that
pro seeded from the lower part of the premises left very
little doubt of the business that had been going on there.
Hackett made his escape over the back wall with a great
portion of the still, and on Redford proceeding to the
kite eon he discovered the other parts, with a large fire
and sr it. In the same room several tubs containing
about two hundred gallons of wash were found in a fer-
mer_ting state, several casks of spirit, and other utensils
sufficient to carry on an extensive distillery. Redford
instantly sent to Hawes's soap factory, for the supervisor
of the Excise, and on the arrival of the latter the still
was broken up, and the spirit and wash were conveyed
to the Excise-office.

A WOMAN KILLED BY A THRASHING-MACHINE.—
Ay; the thrashing-machine of Mrs. Tadman, of Higham,
near the line of the Gravesend and Rochester Railway,
was in full work on Friday last, a poor woman named
Phi Lips, while employed in feeding it, was caught by the
lowe r spindle, and before it could be stopped her body
revo.ived with the spindle three or four times, breaking
both her legs, one arm, several ribs, and fracturing her
skull, The poor woman lingered until Sunday morning,
wheia death terminated her sufferings. Deceased was a
widow, and has left a family to lament her untimely end.
PIiOVISIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES.—The
Burlington and Arethusa from New Yerk, and Judah
Toni() from New Orleans, which were reported at the
Custom-house, Liverpool, on the 11th inst., bring 3,529
barrels flour, 19,975 bushels wheat, 6,140 bushels barley,
11,534 bushels and 4,758 sacks Indian corn, 703 barrels
Indian corn meal, 632 packages cheese, 278 barrels pork,
and :,;56 packages lard.
A;RREAR OF BUSINESS IN THE COURTS OF CHAN..
CERY.—There are no less than 645 causes standing for
hearing before the Lord Chancellor, Master of the Rolls,
and the Vice-Chancellors of England, Wigram, and
Knight Bruce, during the present term, in addition to an
enormous number of motions arid petitions.
CHELSEA OUT-PENSIONERS.--It having come to the
knowledge of the Secretary at War that the pensioners
in warious districts were about to petition Parliament
for the abolition of the per centage now charged on the
payment of their pensions, a circular, dated the 7th inst.,
has been addressed to all the staff officers of pensioners,
requesting them to caution the men against signing any
such petitions, on the ground that the attention of
Government has been already directed to the subject,
and they intend bringing in a Bill in the next session for
abolishing the obnoxious impost.

MONEY and COMMERrTA 11, NE
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
Tire sales of Cotton yesterday at Liverpool weie 2,500
bales, including 500 American on speculation. The market
was very dull, and prices were nearly 8.1. per lb. lower
than on Friday last. Railway shares were lower again.
There are no late arrivals to day.
The sale of Rail way Shares yesterday, at Messrs. L-
amond and Co.'s, went off rather dull, but a good business
was done ; prices lower. The following are a few of
the principal sales :
Calcutta and St. George's Point £0 4 0
Newport and Abergavenny 1 3 0
Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire, New 0 15 0
Taw Vale Extension and Dock . 3 4 0
Direct Northern (scrip) 2 16 0
North British Extension
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 8 6
Shrewsbury and Hereford
Great Indian Peninsular
Beston,Stamford,andßirmingham
Vale of Neath 1 10 0
Manchester and Southampton 1 8 6
East Indian .
Cornwall
Northern and Southern Connecting
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 4 0 0
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 13 0
Royston and Hitchin
Among the various suggestions for meeting the pre-
sent crisis in Ireland, Mr. Jasper Rogers has put forth
some which he conceives would not only improve the con-
dition of the peasantry, but be of paramount advantage
to the ironmasters, manufacturers, and agriculturists of
England, and referring chiefly to the adoption of peat
and peat charcoal as a fuel and fertilizer. In a commer-
cial point of view even the subject certainly appears to
merit attention. If capital were applied to the preparation
of peat, it could be used, not only for household, but like-
wise for manufacturing purposes, steam-boilers, &c.,
and, converted into charcoal, would be more dense than
the fuel made from wood, fully equal in purity,
and about one-fourth of the cost—a most im-
portant consideration to the iron trade, as when
even the best made iron is prepared with coal, it is im-
possible to know whether the metal may not have be-
come unsound by an over-action of sulphur in its pre-
paration. As a fertilizer the value of peat-charcoal is
now established on the highest authority, for
it is lasting in its effect and general in its
action, supplying abundantly to the root that carbon of
which most vegetables contain from 40 to 50 per cent.
It is proposed to establish a society upon the principle
laid down in the report.to the late Relief Commissioners
of Ireland, and it is calculated that there would
be a consumption of six million tons of peat
annually, which could be supplied at 4s. 9d. per ton,
while the average cost of coal throughout Ireland is about
255. per ton. The nett surplus revenue from this source
is calculated at 236,000/. per annum, of which 150,0001.
could be disbursed in ameliorating the condition of the
people, while the rest on a capital of 1,000,0001. would
yield 10 per cent. to the proprietors.
The English Stock Market has been flat this morning,
Consols being 934 4 for Money and Time. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents are 954 4. Bank Stock
is firm at 2064 ; and Exchequer-bills have rallied to 10s.
and 13s. premium. The dealings have been to a limited
extent only.
The Foreign Bonds are duller even than yesterday.
Spanish Three per Cents. have been quoted wily 354,
and the Five per Cents. 254 4. Portuguese Four per
Cents. have been quiet at 38. In Mexican there have
been no bargains officially.
The Share Market has been rather heavy again, and
prices rather favourable to buyers, both for the English
and French lines.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
- - - - •

,
3 per Cent. Reduced Aims...— 9r/47/8 93g
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93A% 931/2
New 34 per Cent. Annuities 9SA q 951/4
t:,ongAnnuitiesto expire Jan.lB6o 9 9-16 5A 9%
India Bonds, 1,0001 —

Ditto under 1,0001................ 17 p
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Opening 93AI/2 93%
Exchequer Bills, 1000/.1%d. 13 10 13 p 13 p
OXE CLOSIhU
O'CLOCK PRICES

17 p

t- RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 B6
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Russian Bonds lll3/
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41/• per Cent ...... 9514,
Dutch 2% per Cent. .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92%
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2% 2%3/4
Belfast & County Down 43/4
Birmin. and Gleucester..loo
Ditto New 17% — ... .... .....
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 425...... 53/4% p 5% p
Birming., Wolverlepton,
and Stour Va11ey..... 425. ...... 33/4 p 33/4 p
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/4 —
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. %34 P.
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 32
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares...... 21h
Ditto, Clydesdale Janc 25
Chester and Holyhead... 27% 2514
Chelteaham and Oxford 2 ...... .
Clarence lOO
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Cork antiKillarney ... 2%
Cork and Waterford ... 1%
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares ... 21% — •••
Direct Northern Scrip.. 2% 3
Direct Norwich * 1
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12%
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
Eastern Counties 141.16 s 221/ 22%
Ditto New l2l. 16s 714 p 74 15
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1. 6/. 13s. 4d...
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... •
Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 314%
Eastern Union
Ditto Quarter Shares 10
Do. Ditto,
1% —
•..••
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2%......
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Do., do., New Scrip... 11%
East Lincolnshire ...... 11/4,,.... 3% %
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 78 79
Ditto Half Shares ~. 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ......
Edinburgh & Northern.. 12%
Ditto, New
Ditto, Newport 5 ...... 6
Ditto, ditto, New .... . 1% 3%
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ......
Ely and Huntingdon ... 12%...... 13%
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 2%
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle
Glasgow, Kilinar.,& Ayr 50 ...
Ditto, New .. 15
Do., ii, Shares (5 per
cent. guar.) ... ...... 12% —
Great Northern (London
and York Regd. )...... 2%.. ...
Do. (Direct Northern.
Rd.
Great South. and West. 3
(Ireland)
Great North of England-100

23%
36 L,,
111 N
25%
5%
35',4
39

951%

9234

12 N

% P

P
293 A
2%

25M

1%

3%

17%
8
2%
3i
79

6
314

31A
4%
28%

Ditto New
Ditto, New . —
Ditto, New
Great Western B5 130
Ditto % Shares
Ditto 4 Shares 12% 20%.
Ditto Fifths
Ditto. New . ... 4% lO% 10
Huddersfield &Manches. 13 - ********* ••• ••
Ditto, Extension 3
Hull and Selby SO
Do. half Shares
Ditto 1% Shares
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 14
Do., do., and Norwich 5
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Do. New
Leeds and Bradford 3O
Leicester and Bedford... 165....... % dis % dis.
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 27% 37% 37 ........• 37
Do., Branch % Shares 21,4.•
Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2%
Do. Extension( Green) 2%.• ...
• -
Leeds and Thirsk 171,4 16% ..... .........
Ditto, New
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% 47,8
Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport .... .......... 2
Liverp., Mnchstr& New
castle Junction 2% .... . . 21/2%
London and Blackwall. 16/. 133.4 d 87/2
Do. New
Ditto Extension ~ 7 %•••••• .. ........ ...
London, Brighton, and
South Coast
Ditto, Fifths
Do. Consol. Eighths lO
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9
London a.ndGreenwich 12/ 15s4d 9%
Do. Preference ...18117s 2d
11-9
London:and N. Westernloo
48%19:7:
........... 119473%
... • ---•
1)o. Quarters . .
Do., do., New
Ditto Fifths
Do. IA Shares (G. J.) 10 ..._. ............ ...
Do 401.Shares(L.N.) 8 —
............ ...
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 5
_ __ . __

Do. 10/. (M. & 8..) B. 5
Do. 101. M. & B.) C. 1

16%
4'

573%

91/s

8 ............ ...

London, Oxford, and
Cheltenham
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 64%
...
3 ........
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
Do. New
.. 26
Do. New
Ditto Tenths .. 5 ...... 5% ...•..
Ditto Tenths ..... 4 ......
4%
Ditto Scrip
5 3
Ditto ditto ...........4
London and York Scrip 214•„• 3 •
.....
Do. Extension
......
...
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Lmdonderry& juleraiae 15 ...... ......

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