The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1847.

THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, JANUARY 29.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 34; Highest, 46 ; Noon, 46.
BAROMETER, 29.4.—W1ND W., fine.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGR THIS DAY.
Morning .. 30 minutes after 12. I Evening .. 57 minutes after 12,

colonial competition, we have been shouldered out of
important maritime advantages, which we had the
credit of originating, and for a long time almost
exclusively held. The several reasons to be assigned
for our having been thus disarmed of so powerful
an element of national prosperity, are traced with
great ability by Mr. CHARLES ENDERBY, in his ad-
mirable reply (which has been recently published in
the form of a pamphlet, and to which we recommend
our mercantile men to give a careful perusal) to a letter
which was addressed to him by Mr. PRESTON on
behalf of parties connected with the British shipping
interest. To the inquiry, whether a system of
superior efficacy could not be devised for resuscitating
our cetaceous trade, and to an extent not only
beyond what we formerly enjoyed, but beyond that
to which it has at present been carried by other
states, Mr. END ERBY has satisfactorily replied in the
affirmative. This gentleman has elaborated sta-
tistics, which are conclusive as to the errors of our
past policy, and full of promise in favour of his re-
generative project. He has shown that this wide field
of maritime enterprise, looking to the vast distance
between England and those seas which are chiefly
frequented by the monsters of the deep, cannot be
successfully compassed by individual efforts ; that a
company ought to be chartered by the Crown, and
that their operations should be centred in the Auck-
land Islands, which, situated in the South Pacific
ocean, a distance of 160 miles from Stewart's Island,
the southernmost of the New Zealand group,
render them highly eligible for the purposes of a
whaling station. These islands were first discovered,
in 1806, by the captain of one of the whaling ships
belonging to the firm of Mr. ENDERBY, which led to
their being secured to the British Crown. To the
former extension of the whale fisheries have we been
indebted for accessions of geographical knowledge
and the establishment of new channels of trade.

We have not at present space for more than
a cursory notice of this important subject.
We shall take another opportunity of re-
turning to it. The benefits that would at-
tend the adoption of any well-devised scheme
for raising the British whale fishery from its depressed
condition are too numerous and too national to be
slightly indicated. It is an astounding fact of itself,
that the Americans have 730 vessels engaged in the
trade, giving employment to 20,000 seamen. We
think Mr. ENDERBY deserves great credit for the
excellent manner in which he has brought under
public notice a matter of intrinsic national interest.

The proceedings of Parliament during the brief
period of the present session that has already elapsed,
exhibit a remarkable contrast to the usual and
accustomed course. A greater amount of business
has been transacted, more important propositions have
been submitted to the Legislature than has ordinarily
been the case in as many weeks as there have been
sitting-days since their meeting. Two measures have
already passed through both Houses, and received the
Royal assent, which, although limited in their du-
ration, are calculated to confer vast benefit on the
public in general ; and, strange to say, although they
interfere materially with the interests of two great
and influential parties, they have been suffered to pass
almost sub silentio, without a single voice being raised
in deprecation, or a single Member attempting an
opposition. A general truce appears to have been
proclaimed, party tactics and party warfare for once
have been wanting. The extraordinary nature of the
emergency has silenced the most fastidious caviller
and Whig and Tory, Free-trader and Protectionist,
Conservatist and Radical unite in according to the
Government the tribute of admiration, which the tone
of their statements, the spirit of their propositions,
and their manifest desire to meet the extraordinary
difficulties of their position, in an enlightened and
statesmanlike manner, so eminently deserve, and appear
to be animated with a sincere desire to judge each
measure on its intrinsic merits. And, although there
may be some slight differences as to the details, the
general features of the Ministerial propositions have
hitherto been received with almost unanimous appro-
bation.

of the nation, its peace and tranquillity, imperatively
demand.

The Madrid mail of the 22d has not arrived.

We received the Paris papers of Wednesday at a very
late hour this morning.

The publication in their entirety of the documents re-
lating to the Spanish marriages has produced a most
damaging effect on the character of M. GUIZOT, and on
the prospects of the stability of his Ministry.
Many well-informed parties consider that, after
the exposure of his intrigues that has taken
place, his continuance in office will be impossible, inas-
much as no foreign power can safely enter into nego-
tiations with a Minister who has shown himself so
utterly wanting in good faith as M. GUIZOT has done
throughout these transactions.
The deficiency in the last wheat harvest of France is
greater than was at first supposed. According to the
Journal des Debais, it will be necessary, in order to
supply the deficiency, to import between the present time
and the next harvest as much wheat as had been already
imported up to the 31st of December last.

g""The Chamber of Peers were on Wednesday engaged
in discussing the Bill authorising the importation of
corn until the 31st July, which it was supposed would
pass unanimously.

Bread riots are still of frequent occurrence in the
French provinces, and, as a prcof of the serious apprehen-
sions entertained by the Ministry, we may mention the
fact, that in the sitting of Tuesday the Minister of War
demanded of the Chamber an extraordinary credit of
4,500,000 f., for increasing in the present year the effec-
tive force of the army in the internal military divisions,
alleging, as the reason of this increase, the commotion
which has been already manifested in the central and
western departments.

The Presse publishes the following absurd story,
which it professes to have received from London:—

" A letter, which we have just received from London, gives
us some interesting details of a very animated explanation,
which, it states, has taken place between her Majesty Queen
Victoria and Lord Palmerston, relative to cert,in letters
from that Minister, which had allen into thehands of Donna
Maria of Portugal, and from which it would appear that he
had taken a most active part indirectly in the late insurrec-
tion, moved by the desire, and led on by the hope,
that the revolution, if victorious at Lisbon, would re-
act on Madrid, and that the fall of Donna Maria
might lead to that of Queen Isabella. A copy of these
letters was sent to the King of the Belgians, whose nephew
the King of Portugal is. Ferdinand-Auguste-Francoise-
Antoine, husband of the Queen of Portugal, is not merely
nephew to the King of the Belgians; he is also cousin-
german to Prince Albert, husband of the Queen of England ;
brother to the Duchess de Nemours ; and brother to the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, husband of the Princess Cle-
mentine. All these ties were not sufficient to arrest Lord
Palmerston in the prosecution of his resentments. What
must be thought of a Minister whose policy may be thus
translated—Perish two thrones (perhaps three) • rather than
my rancour?"

The losses sustained by the French in their late'battle
in Algiers were very considerable. They acknowledge
themselves that they had 30 men killed and 100
wounded. The Arabs contested the ground obstinately.
The battle began in the afternoon and ended at night.
fall.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 77f. 60c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 55c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,215 f. ; Rouen, 873 f. 75c. ;
Havre, 680 f. ; Great Northern, 606 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 825 f.;
Vierzon, 570 f. ; Bordeaux, 537 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 422 f. 50c. ;
Basle, 207 f. 50c. • Paris and Strasburg, 467 f. 50c. ' • Tours and
Nantes, 465 f. ; 'Paris and Lyons, 487 f. 50c. ; Lyons and
Avignon, 480 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 448 f. 75c. ; Spanish
Active, 33%; Spanish Three per Cents., 34.
MAitsriLt.Es, JAN. 22.—Marseilles and Avignon, 810 f. ;
Northern, 600 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 28.
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Boulogne and Amiens, 1414—Dutch Rhenish, 43,8—Luxembourg, 2
—Northern of France, 12%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7%—Paris and
Lyons, 7%.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 29.—Wind at noon W.S.W., light breeze,
and dull hazy weather.
DEAL, JAN. 28.—Wind A.M., W. to W.S.W., strong gale
and heavy squalls ; P.M., W. N. W., moderate.—Arrd.
Minerva, Marsden, Pernambuco; Catherine Greene, Holmes,
S. Kitt's ; David, Malon, New York, for Antwerp ; New
Hampshire, Chase, ditto. Arrd. from the river Marion, for
Jamaica.

LWERPOOL, JAN. 28.—Wind W.N.W., fresh. Arrd.
Bidaton, Harmer, Calcutta; Laura, Dambull, Bahia ; Senora,
BrownMatanzas ; Thomas Dempsey, St. Domingo; Oscar,
Nassau; Franklin, New Orleans; Adams, Gay, ditto • Byron,
M'Lellan, Mobile; Leland, Baxter, Charleston ; Globe, Theo-
bald, Wilmington ; Arabella, Parker, Philadelphia ; Lydia,
Saule, Baltimore; Patrick Henry, Delano, New York; Co-
lumbia, late Rathbone, ditto ; Mars, Patterson, ditto ; Bar-
low, Toody, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Edinburgh, Lew-
son, ditto. Put back, Helen M•Gregor, for Havannah ; Ame-
rica, for New Orleans.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 28.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W., bard.—
Arrd. Emma, Bussche, Belize. The Commerce has been got
off shore and into the harbour. The Gipsey, from Hull to
Cork, struck near Hayling Island during a heavy gale, and
filled ; crew, except a boy, saved.
ALDBOROUCH, JAN. 27.—A vessel's boat, 13 feet long, with
" Royal George, Sloops, of Faversham," on the stern, has
been picked up ; also a head-board, marked " Frances
Western."

HULL, JAN. 28.—Wind S.S.W.—SId. William Lee, Balti-
more ; Undaunted, Philadelphia ; Railway steamer, Boston.
DUBLIN, JAN. 27.—Wind W.—Arrd. Yarmouth, Clarke,
St. John's, New Brunswick.

RAMSGATE, JAN. 28.—A.M., Wind S.W., strong and very
squally ; P.m., W., light.—Arrd. Monarch, Manning, St.
Kitt's for Liverpool.
MILFORD, JAN. 27.—Wind S.S.W., strong and squally.—
Arrd. Duke of Norfolk, Havannah for London, leaky, &c.
KILRUSX, JAN. 26.—The Lawrence, of Cork, did not go on
shore yesterday as reported. It continues to blow very hard.
DEAL, JAN. 28.—1 t blew a heavy gale this morning, with
heavy squalls from W. to W.S.W., until 2 rat. The out-
ward bound rode out the gale well, many with both anchors
down. Six, P.M.—Wind W. to N.W. moderate, with every
appearance of a fine night.
MUMBLES, JAN. 26.—The Arab went on shore during the
night, to the westward of Swansea Pier.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 28.—The Sea Nymph, of St, John's,
New Brunswick, abandoned, was passed 20th inst., lat. 48
long. 20, by the Arabella' arrd. here. The Ann, of Yarmouth,
timber laden, was passed abandoned,l3th inst., lat. 46 long.
19, by the Tyrian, Walker, arrived here.
LOUGHSWILLY, RATHMULLEN, JAN. 25. The John
Quayle, Layle, of Derby haven, I. M. from Tralee to Liver-
pool, was totally wrecked on the rocks in Ballymastocher
Bay, 23d inst. Crew saved.
DUNDEE, JAN. 26.—The Po, High, of and from Yar-
mouth, was abandoned in St. Andrew's Bay, 24th inst.;
crew exhausted; but she was subsequently brought in here.

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