The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1841.

stroy the character of social worship, " they keep I
up the distinctions of rank ;" and thus the clergy
themselves now confess the truth of the charges
brought against the poor man's Church seven years
ago. Their present complaints admit the justice
of our accusation, and prove that in the poor man's
Church the poor are not held to be equal to the
rich, and are treated as an inferior race.
All the praises which some nameless writer,
quoted by the Times, heaps on the poor man's
Church, describing it as open on Sunday, where a
man, cultivated by learning, imbued with piety,
addresses to the poor man's ear words of inspired
wisdom, describing the music as for him, and the
clergyman as his friend, who will come at his call
in sickness and sorrow, is the mere themy of what
the Church and the clergy ought to be and are
not. How can the Times venture to place in the
same column the passage we have quoted, describing
the Church as hitherto appropriated for the com-
forts of the rich, and another passage to this effect ?
A poor shivering shoeless wretch, dug from an
alley in Spitalfields, is supposed to speak :
" On the seventh day there is a house open to nre
on the seventh day there is a door, which is free as the
door of heaven ; there is a bell, which peals on my ear,
and calls me to that house of prayer ; there is a seat,
which is tree as the seats above, and into which I may
enter ; there is music, which rises upon my ear, and
rolls its sacred melodies for n c ; there is a minister, cul-
tivated, taught, and trained—a man who has con-
secrated his life, his powers, and his labours, to
the work of the sanctuary who has been cul-
tivated by learning, who is imbued with piety,
who has been trained in the school of man, and
nurtured in the word of God. The man ad-
dresses to my ear the words of ancient, almost of in-
spired, wisdom ; he directs to MC the living eloquence
of a human voice, and he beams upon ate the living
energy of a human eye ; he calls me, by all the protes-
tationr of human reason, and all the appeals of Scrip-
ture promise, and all the consolations of the Gospel—
he unrols them, he spreads them out, he unfolds them
for me. It is for me that these services are ordered—
it is for me that that music swells—it is for me that that
music saells—it is for me that that eloquence is che-
rished—and it is for me that the gospel of God is un-
folded, and every seventh day declared.'"

Archdeacon HARE flatly contradicts this flatter-
ing portrait, by declaring that the poor are shoved
to the outskirts where they cannot hear what is
preached. The shoeless shivering wretch would, in
fact, be turned out by the rosy-gilled beadle if he
had the temerity to intrude himself into such a com-
pany of well-dressed people as is generally found
in a metropolitan church, and the destitute poor
man no more dare to venture inside a church,
partitioned into what the Archdeacon likens to
cattle stalls, than he dare venture into Almack's
or Buckingham Palace. Is it not matter of notoriety
that the poor stay from church, because they want
clothing to go thither ? The Anglican Church,
of which the service is performed by rich gentlemen,
which is frequented by ladies followed by footmen,
and around which crowds of carriages and lacquevs
wait for their masters and mistresses, is no place
for the poor man. The Church is too opulent for
him. The clergy belong to a class, with whom at
present he is unfortunately at variance, and they
have, whether foolisly or wisely is for them to judge,
sacrificed their Christian usefulness for the sake of
the wealth and dignity they have undoubtedly
obtained.

Many of the clergy arc ;Magistrates. How can
the poor look for consolation to the stern Justice
on the bench, eager at all times tdenforce game-laws
and other partial enactments ? Many of the clergy
are the nobleman's son, the squire's nephew, or
the great landowner's nominee and man of all
work. They share the amusements and occupa-
tions of their relations and friends ; they never
mingle with the poor ; they know nothing of their toils
or their privations but by hearsay ; they belong to
a totally different class of society, have sympathy with
the rich, and not with the poor. To make the
Anglican Church a poor man's Church, even with
all the popular reforms now proposed, with all the
coaxing and blandishments with which a HARE
may seek to invest it, the priesthood must be a
different order of men, and must depend on the
poor, not on the rich. The new Chartist Church,
a specimen of which, at Birmingham, will be found
noticed elsewhere, which was begun at Glasgow,
and is to be propagated through the country, will
beat the Church of England hollow in bidding for
the support of the poor, and will soon, no doubt,
earn and deserve the name of the poor man's Church.
Formidable rivals, in the good graces of the poor,
to the Reverend J.P.'s, to stately Archdeacons.,
and to opulent and lordly Deans, are starting up,
and we would have them look, not to their laurels
but their livings.

The Post yesterday told some truth of the
Tories, in an article which we copied into The
Sun. They have been, it is true, very unpopular.
They were, we must admit, too unbending, too
cold and disdainful, too shy of making known the

grounds of their harsh policy, contenting them-
selves by making their will our law—they were, as
we all felt, utterly careless about satisfying the
minds of the people and making them content
with the law ; and the result of their conduct was

almost universal discontent, which threatened re-

bellion and revolution. They were themselves
frightened at the storm they had raised, which was
only appeased by their throwing themselves over-
board at the first hint from the House of Com-
mons. They made a great sacrifice for the good
of the country when they retired from office in
1830.

The Post, we must admit, also tells some
truth of the Whigs. At least, so far as saying
that the people are disappointed. This is a great
truth. They are no better off since the Reform
Act was passed than they were before, hut rather
worse. The enormous mass of restrictive

legislation which the Tories bequeathed to
the nation has had more time to operate,
and has produced more disastrous effects. It is

I like a strait waistcoat on a growing youth, which
becomes every day more narrow and irksome. The
popular enthusiasm which conquered the Reform
Act subsided when that victory was acheived ; the
Tories then gathered together the fragments of
their power, and have ever since laboured to keep
their strait waistcoat on the nation. They have
been but too successful. A want of power,
united with a feeble will, has prevented
the Whigs from enlarging it, and as the
nation has grown, year after year, the restraint
has been more and more felt in every limb. It is not
proposed, we presume, to treat the nation like a
madman, and chain it down to the narrow crib of
1830. If it be, discontent will increase, and the
struggles to escape will every year become more
desperate ; if it be not, the Tories themselves, in-
stead of thwarting the Whigs, should assist in re•
moving the impediments to the national growth
and the national freedom.

The Corn-law averages, published in another part
of our paper, state the average price of wheat for the
week at 61s. Bd. per quarter, and at the same time the
duty is 275. Bd., which represents at this moment the
tax levied on the food of the poor for behoof of the
landowners. Without entering into the immediate
effects on the farmers of abolishing the Corn-law,
after they have paid their Michalmas rents, on the
pledge given by the landlords, but not guaranteed
by the people, that they should be allowed to levy

this tax of 275. Bd. in the price of their corn, we wish
to ask the reader, and ask the public, what would
be the effect on the poor of now abolishing the
Corn-law ? The winter wheat is all sown, and
the crop no longer much depends on future labour.
Whatever may be the price of wheat, that will now

have little or no influence on the next year's crop.
To abolish the Corn-law would not cut off a grain
of the home supply. To abolish the Corn-law
would, however, at once let in all the corn that is
in bond, and would cause large importations from
America. It would at once lower the price at
least 205., if not 305., and that fall in the price,
giving a stimulus to trade, finding employment for
the people, and enabling the poor to command more
food, would at once ensure the comfort of thou-
sands, and the lives of many hundreds. We look
only at this fact, and we affirm that the Corn-law
is at this moment starving many persons to death.
There may be a question between the profits of the
farmer, the rent of the landlords, and the death by
starvation of the people ; and great shame to those
who have by the law raised the question, or put
these interests in opposition ; but there cannot be a
doubt that the present duty of 275. Bd. is at this
moment keeping food from the people, and starving
many persons to death.

Electors of Walsall, we now dwell on this fact,
for your especial consideration ! Men of humanity
all over the kingdom, we call on you to reflect on
it I Labourers—Chartists though you be—take it
to heart I 'Mothers, wome❑ of all descriptions, reflect
on the horrid fact I—your poorer countrymen, and
countrywomen, infants, and old persons, arcstarvcd to
death by law ! Unite one and all to secure the return,
at W alsall, of a Corn-law Repealer, and so put an end
to the odious and detestable law. Let the artisans
and labourers unite, like the men at Bolton, and ad-
dress the electors of Walsall. Let the mothers of the
empire petition them. Let the rich subscribe to
relieve any honest elector from the thraldom of
landlords or others, and enable him to give an
honest vote. Let all classes of Liberals in every
part of the kingdom now unite to command
success by the force of public opinion, and make
the Walsall election, what the Anti-Corn-law League
propose to make it, another Clare election, to secure,
as that secured Catholic emancipation,
sa free trade
in food.

Two Tory journals of yesterday discovered for
the first time, and discovered by a paragraph in-
serted in the Lincoln Mercury, that the punish-
ment to which convicts, sent to Norfolk Island, are
doomed, is worse than death. If these best public
instructors were not themselves woefully ignorant,
while they pretend, with a most dogmatic air, to
teach all the world, they would know that the facts
stated in the Lincoln journal are borrowed from the
evidence given before the Committee of the
House of Commons on Transportation. The
horrors which appear to have so much and
so suddenly revolted our Contetnporaries were
a common topic of discussion in the press
many months ago, and made such an impression
at the time, that a change, if our memory does not
betray us, was almost immediately made in the dis-
cipline at Norfolk Island. We apprehend, there-
fore, that the horrors which our Contemporaries
have now written two long articles about,
have been properly put an end to. But this speci-
men of their ignorance, combined with the arrogant
manner in which they day by day lecture
other people must not be passed by without notice.,
and without being turned to a proper account.
To the observations of the Herold, which will
be found in another part of The Sun, we have
nothing to object, except that they would have
been much better timed, had they appeared when
the Report of Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH'S
Committee was fresh in the public recollection. On
the able, zealous, and persevering exertions of that
journal to put an end to capital punishments, and
to save human life, we shall ever be ready to be-
stow our humble praise, though utterly unable to
reconcile such conduct with the support it gives to
the bread-tax, which kills a great many more than
the gallows ; and to the Tories, whose system of
government is wholly based on coercion and cruelty,
and cannot possibly co-exist with that extinction of
capital punishment, and that profound reverence
for human life which the herald has for years
justly and wisely laboured to promote. Its fellow
Tory, the Morning Post, if it be much more igno-
rant and very foolish on the question of capital
punishments, is at least consistent. It knows that
the dominion of the Tories and the punishment of
the gallows are one and the same ; and, with a
true Tory spirit, it advocates shedding blood, as it
advocates starvation. On some occasions that
journal dins into our ears a great respect for the
Bible ; it is loud against infidelity ; but when it suits
the policy of its party, it laughs to scorn the pre-
cepts of inspiration, and pleads for murder at the
gallows, as if murder had never been forbidden.
This is some of the language with which it assails
that humanity, and that respect for life, which is
the great superiority of our civilization over that of
ancient Greece and Rome :
" Is this the practical result of those appeals to mor-
bid sensibility, those performances of gentlemen of seri-
ous habits upon public platforms, when false eloquence,
aided by hot rooms, wrought upon the hearts of women
and of men of effeminate minds, and produced so great
a sensation against the punishment of death ? A
strange sympathy with robbers, coiners, and forgers,
was created, and felony was made absolutely interest-
ing in the contemplation of the spuriously humane.
Numbers of people secretly praised themselves for their
tenderness of heart in abhorring capital punishments,
and in subscribing to carry on agitation against what
was classically called our Draconic code.' Not a few
considered that they exhibited much refinement and a
superior sort of civilization when they voted that it was
vulgar and shocking to hang criminals by the neck till
they were dead.
" We have, through the indulgence of a sickly sen-
sibility, refused to cut short the career of the criminal
by a speedy death, before our own eyes ; but we have
sent him away thousands of miles, to a sort of hell
upon earth, where every dreadful passion of his de-
graded nature is wrought up to the utmost pitch of in-
tensity by misery and despair, and then the hangman
has to do his office upon the miserable wretch, who is
sent to his account with ten times the weight of guilt
upon his soul that he had incurred when convicted in
this country.
" If c ipital punishments did but harden the hearts of
some, upon the far greater number they produced an
effect of terror—terror of the risk of such a punishment
which they well knew would be incurred by certain
crimes. The punishment of death is a dreadful thing,
but wholesome, if it produces dread of doing what has
been visited with such punishment. The new system,
however, does not produce the terror which was pro-
duced by the old, for the class of people who generally
commit great offences against the criminal law confuse
the notion oftraosportation beyond seas with mere exile."

We do not defend the cruel punishments substi-
tuted for the punishment of death ; on the con-
trary, we heartily condemn them, and not now for
the first time. That they have not succeeded is
another proof of the general fact stated by PALEY,

They constitute
that all punishments have failed.

another proof of the deplorable ignorance of those
who arc ever ready, reasoning from some theory or

other, slowly and diliberately to embrue their hands
in the blood of an unhappy ;critninal, or consign
him, utterly regardless of the consequences, to

some horrors like those of Norfolk Island. Here

for example, is the Tory Post, which just learns
from a provincial paper two years after the investi-
gation has taken place, that these cruel punishments

death and imprisonment, and every other device to
have failed, as the equally cruel punishments of
torture men have failed ; but while its ignorance is
so profound it has the hardihood to sneer at bene-
volence as sympathy with criminals, and to recom-
mend the committal of murder as " a wholesome

thing." But we will leave the Post with its Tory
mockery of humanity, and its Tory advocacy of
capital punishments, to the Tory Herald, which
will be better able than we are to punish its love
of bloodshed, and its sly insinuations against the

L)ersevering exertions of the Herald itself.

We cannot, however, leave the sublectwitlMl'

saying that we are glad to see our Contemporaries
provoking a discussion into the rationale of punish-
ment. We infer from the general failure of crimi-
nal law, that the subject is very ill understood.
Men have first acted from their blind passions, and
then have invented a theory to justify their own
conduct. Punishment, particularly corporeal
punishment, even when administered in a private
family, where the parents have every possible op-
portunity of studying the disposition of children,
of adapting it to circumstances, and of watching its
effects, very seldom answers the end proposed, and
very often, if administered with severity, produces
the most disastrous consequences. If it fail there,
how can it, when blindly and in the lump inflicted
according to some general rule, without the least
regard to character or circumstances, be otherwise
than a complete failure ? We know from expe-
rience that it is ; and as it is also, as now admi•
nistcred, of itself a cruelty pregnant with evil, and
a source of great expense to the country, and the
parent of much misery, it is high time that our
law-makers took the whole matter into their serious
consideration, with a belief that they may possibly
be wrong, and that they have no right to organize
a great scheme of punishment for whatever they
may deem an offence, unless they can clearly de-
monstrate—not fancy—that it will be for the be-
nefit of the community.

The French journals of Tuesday have all reached
us, but they contain no news save the telegraphic
despatches from Malta, which appeared in The
Sun of yesterday. The project of law for granting
700,000 francs for the support of foreign refugees
was adopted by the Chamber of Peers on Tuesday.
• In the course of the debate, M. GUIZOT stated
that the Government would employ its influence
with the Spanish Regency to obtain a further ex-
tension of the act of amnesty, in order to allow as
many expatriated Spaniards as possible to return
to their own country.
The Constitutionnel has a long article on the
effect which the report of a probable alliance be-
tween France and Russia has had upon the English
Journals. Our Paris Contemporary does not be-
lieve in the sincerity of Russia's professions of
friendship, intimating, at the same time, that the
day is not distant when such professions will be
made in a more cordial spirit. For ourselves we
are of opinion that Russia has made no advance
towards an alliance with France other than those
made by all the Great Powers. The etiquette of
diplomacy requires that on the formation of a new
Cabinet the Minister entrusted with the manage-
ment of Foreign Affairs should notify to the different
Courts the appointment of himself and colleagues,
to which answers are returned in as complimentary
a strain as the change will admit. Now the ap-
poihtment of M. GUIZOT to the office of Foreign
Affairs being regarded by all the Great Powers as
a pledge given by France that the peace of the
world would not be disturbed, naturally called forth
from Russia, in common with Austria, Prussia, and
England, strong expressions of esteem and confi-
deuce. But except this note, written as a matter
of form, we firmly believe not a syllable was ad-
dressed by Russia to France, and not a word
spoken or a hint thrown out indicative of a wish to
form a separate alliance. The whole affair was
purely an invention of the French Journalists.
A courier from Aladrid arrived in Paris on 'Tues-
day morning. He was supposed to be the bearer
of despatches announcing that the dispute between
Spain and Portugal would be settled amicably.
France continues her armaments. Germany, too,
is preparing for war. A Correspondent of the
Commerce, writing from Frankfort, states that he
found Germany armed to the teeth. This state of
things cannot last much longer. Unless these war
preparations be put an end to war is inevitable.
The latest advices from Madrid a►e of the 28th
ult.—the (late of Spanish journals received yester-
day. The supreme Couit of Justice in Madrid had
sentenced to death M. D. A. GA LIA NO, son of
the celebrated Deputy and ex-Minister, for forging
forty-three Royal orders for the payment of certain
bonds. We presume the sentence will be commuted
by the Regency.

Accounts from Trieste, of the 21st ult., announce that
for the last thirty-six years a more rigorous winter was not
remembered Since the 15th of December snow had con-
tinually fallen, covering the country to the height of five
or six fee:, and intercepting all the communications, even
within the interior of the city.

The Gazette de France makes this evening a very just
observation :—" The moment," says that paper, when
the Ministers choose to deprive Admiral Lalonde of his
command, under the pretext of his representing an aron-
dissement in the Chamber of Deputies,,is precisely that on
which they appoint another deputy to be Governor-General
or Algeria. Is not this tantam.unt to saying to the elec-
tors of Exadeuil, that they are not to re-elect General
Bugeaud." _ _

A letter which we have received from Toulon acquaints
us with a fact which is more significant than the official
phrases. The staffs of the ships of the line have not their
full complement of officers, and yet the Ministry have just
granted furloughs ; a midshipman obtained one on the 31st
of December, and letters from Paris leave no doubt that
several more will soon come from Paris.

It is understood that General Bugcaud will not delay
going to Algiers to enter on his government. Ile is
already making preparations for his departure.
Orders have been received at Toulon to send to Algiers
the canaons with which the coast is now armed. Their
place will be supplied by others sent from Toulon, Stras-
bourg. and Metz.
. . _

It is said that the Maritime Prefect of Toulon has been
directed by the Ministry to have the Nestor (a fourth rate)
immediately armed. This cannot be done in less than five
or six months.—Le Commerce.

YIYS SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, JAN. 7.—There has been a severe fr( a' dur-
ing the night, which enntinum Wind this day at noon,
light easterly airs, and hazy.
DEAL, JAN. 6 —Wind S. E., moderate.--The schooner
reported yesterdayfon the Goodwiti Sands, came off on the
flood without assistance.

RAMSGATE, JAN. 6.—Arriveld the Herring►, Stoddart,
from Quebec, for New•castl',, with loss of bulwarks, fore-
topmast, &c., ard the master and three of the crew washed
overboard.

AYR, JAN. 4.—The Mary, Butterwiek, from Demerara
to the Clyde, drove in Girvan Bay ye•turday, during a
a gale, and went on shore no-th of that harbour, and it is
supposed she will sustain considerable damage ; crew
saved.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6 —Wind N. E.—Arrived the Wake-
field, from Quebec. Sailed the outward bound, about 33
in number. The Mary, Gress, sailed this mornii.g for
(Mend, and has put back with loss of bowsprit, having
been in contact with a vessel. The Mountaineer (steamer),
hence to Swansea, got upon one of the Swilly Rocks, on
the 4th inst., and it is expected it will become a wreck.
ABEEDOVEY, JAN. 5.—A schooner, from Newfoundland
to Liverpool, is on shore between this and Aberysttvith.
GREENOCK, JAN. 3.—The Loyal William, from Jersey
to Glasgow, was driven on shore upon Itierkip Point, last
night, but is expected to be got off
STRANRAER, JAN. s.—The James Dean, Wilson, from
Montreal to Glasgow, parted her anchors to-day, and went
on shore and knocked off her false keel. She is expected
off without much farther damage.
fluid., JAN. s,—lt has blown a heavy gale from N. W.
to N. E. and East, during the last 36 hours. Several ves-
sels drove on shore last night between Cleaness and
Grimsby.

StTNI;ERLAND, JAN. 4.—The Londonderry, Tamer, of
this port, struck the south pier in entering the harbour to-
day, and sunk.

MARGATE., JAN. 6.—Off port, the Charlotte, from New
Brunswick.

DOVER, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Ann and Emilie, Flen-
drichien, from Laguna, with damage; Roland, Monte
Video; Fredrica Louisa, Flogense, Rio Janiero ; Lisette,
Ashling, Alexandria, United States. The Planter, Zyl-
stra, from Surinam to Amsterdam, put in here yesterday,
with foremast and bowsprit sprung.
COWES, JAN. 6.—Sailed the Sophia, Pingclly, for Ja-
maica. The Theodore Korner, Bringemen, irom Bata-
via to Rotterdam, on shore at the entrance of the harbour,
has been got off after being lightened.
HOLYHEAD, JAN. s.—The Fleece., Clarke, from Newry to
Irvine, which was on shore on Parry's Island Rocks, has
been got off, and supposed without damage.
KINGSTON, JAN. b.—The Kuysna, Rowley, from the
Cape of Good Elope, parted her anchors in the Bay yes-
terday, and in running into the harbour took the ground,
and is leaky ; she was hove into a berth at high water.
LEITH, JAN. 4 —The Sarah Jane, Maitland, from Cuba,
was stranded at :he back of the Docks last night, but is
expected off to-morrow.

SHIELDS, JAN. s.—The Cowslip, Scott, sailed since 3d
inst. for Savannt.h, has put brick to-day, the master rind
carpenter having been washed overboard. 3. —The Nico-
lina Emilia, 11.inson, from Lynn, in running for this har-
bour got on the Herd Sand, but came off ►without as-
sistance.

DUNDEE ROADS, JAN 4.—Arrived Amwell, Quebec.
LONDONDERRY, DEC. 29.—Arrived the Mary Campbell,
Simons, from Quebec.
ABERYSTWITH, JAN. s.—The Robust, Meadus, from
Newfoundland to Liverpool, was driven on shore near
Borth yesterday, but got off after discharging nea►ly the
whole of her cargo.
SCARBOROUGH, JAN. s.—The Industry, Turner, from
liolifleur, parted her anchors in Filey Bay yesterday, and
went on shore, crew saved.

HULL, JAN. 5. Wind N. N. E., strong breeze.—Sailed
the Mersey, Walker, for Savannah.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE. O'CLOCK. -
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—
Sales were 5,000 bales at full prices, .500 on specula-
tion ;. 20 Egyptians, lOid. ; 70 Bahias, Sid. ; 70 Per-
nams, 8 d. 84d. ; 100 Maranhains, lid. ; 500 Surats,
-lid. to sd. ; 250 Sea Islands, at 14. i. to 161 d.
LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, JAN. s.—Birmingham and
Derby, 77 ; Eastern Counties, 9 ; Ditto debentures,
; Grand Junction Quarter Shares, 294 ; Great
Western, 94i ; Ditto Half Shares, 63 ; Fifths, 44
; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 57 ; Brighton
United Company, 44 ; South Western, 581 591 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 26 ; Manchester and
Leeds, Hall Sim-es, 31 ; North Union, 13i ; Liver-
pool Boro ugh, 194.

We have received Sydney Papers one day later, to
the 20th August. The colony has advanced so rapidly
within these last few years that there are many branches
of manufactures which might now be established there
with a certainty of succes3. Our immense resources if
properly expended and developed would, we arc per-
suaded, enable us to maintain certain branches of trade
--t,ne of them is the sugar refining, which is about
to be established ; another ib the growth of vine
and the manufacture of light ;wines ; another is the
growth of silk worm and the planting of mulberry trees
for their use ; another is the manufacture of iron, out
of the rule material. Some years ago engineers were
so seldom to be found here that it was difficult to pro-
cure the manufacture of any elaborate work for love or
money. The case is altered, and the ingenuity of the
engineer has created a trade in mills, boilers, and en-
gines, iron boats, and other works.

- PORT PHILLIP.—STRIKE OF THE SAILORS.—We
have just heard that the sailors of Melbourne, following
the example of the carpenters, have struck for an ad-
vance of wages, and that, as the demand is about 30
per cent. above the former prices, it is not the inten-
tion of the masters to yield.
COMMERCIAL REMARKS.—FIour--No alteration has
taken place since our last in the price of the article, and
although there is a good supply and more expected, the
large specuktors are determined to hold on, expecting
a rise ; and unless some arrivals from foreign ports
should take place, flour is not likely to he lower than
the present quotation. First, 421. to 481.; second,
381. to 421.

Spirits—The market remains very firm. Rum seems
likely to rise a little. Brandy, 12s. to 12s. Gd. ;
Ruin, Ss. to Bs. Gd. ; Gin, 255. to 28s. per case in bond.
Wines—Very little in the market of good quality.
Provisions—lrish Butter, Is. 41. to Is. sd. ; Pork,
61. to 61. 65.
Tea—Firm.
Tobacco-1 s. Bd. to Is. 101

Ale—Good samples 7/. to 71. 10s. in hogsheads
bottled, 10s.

Potter—Td lor's in }ids., 6/. to 6/. 10s, ; bottled,
-Is. to 16s.

Potatoes are firm, 14s. to 16s.

Candles—This article is very scarce in the marke'
English Moulds, 10(.I. ; Sperm, 2s. to 2s. 6d.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yes-
terday's date. Never in the memory of men has the
herring fishery given S 3 bad a result as in 1840.
BOURSE OE AMSTERDAM, JAN. 4.—The National
Funds were firm to-day ; the Actions of the Society of
Commerce, having been done at 1.594, tell to 158:i.
The improvement of Ardoin's at Paris was a coun-
terbalance for the fall in London, which had no influence
on the market ; they were after the closing 2•? 9-16 ;
Coupons 18i

The public are now anxiously waiting for the officia
despatches from China, to ascertain the correctness of
the intelligence received yesterday._
THE FUNDS.

Consols opened at 891 s tor the Account, at which
price they are at present, with little doing; Reduced
89 ; Exchequer Bills 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock 161
16:1 ; India Stock '242 244.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active much the
same as it left off, 241 s ; Deferred 12-a ; Pas-
sive G 1 s ; Portuguese 311 :12,1 ; Three per Cents.
19 201 ; Brazilian 701 711 ; Colombian 2:31 24 ;
Mexican 28?,4- 29 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
504 ; Five per Cents. 981 4.
StinttEs.—Great Western 30 31 prem. ; New 14

13 prem. ; London and Brighton 5,1 dis. ; Black.
wall 4 31 dis. ; Birmingham 83 85 prem. ; Southampton
58 59 per share ; Greenwich 8 9 per share ; Croydon
12,1 13 per share.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter
Cheltenham and Great Western. 624 32.1- to
Great Western

Ditto Fifths
_4 .... Di to 10,1

Mull and Selby -
London and Brighton
5() —• 44til ... to
London and Blackwall -
London and Greenwich .... . .. 20
Ditto Scrip
London and South Western
Midland Counties
North Midland, (New)
____
JOINT STOCK BANKS.

Colonial ... 25 37i to
London and Westminster . ... .. 20

"(ALF-PAST ONE.
Consols, which were in the early part of the morn-
ing at 89 ir for the Account, are at present become
heavy,owing ton sale by an eminent broker to a consider-
able amount at 90 for the February Account, which
caused them to recede to 891 11.
Money is easy at present.

By the liamb urgit mails, arrived last night, the ex-
change upon London comes 13 13 ; Go!d, 422 ; Metal-
liques 1033 ; Bank Actions 1,575. At, present Consols
may be quoted 89a for the opening ; Reduced 89i, have
been 90 ; Exchequer Bills improved 35., may be quote 1
9 7 10 ; India Bonds, 10 dis. ; India Stock, 242 ;
Bank Stock, 162, 163.

In the Foreigh Market, Spanish Active is lower,
receded from 24i to 24.;- 1, owing to unfavourable in-
telligence received in a private letter front Madrid by
a morning journal ; Deferred, 12-; ; Portuguese, 81i;
Three Per Cents. 20 ; Brazilian, 71i ; Colombian
lower 23i ; Mexican 2811 ; Dutch, Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. shade lower, 50 ; Five per Cents., 98k.
In the Share Market some of shares are better,
Bristol and Exeter, 38 ; Great Western, 95.1 I ; Lon-
don and Brighton, 44ii a ;;London and Blackwall 181 ;
London: and South Western, 591 to 59 ; Midland
Countlets, 84 ; North Midland Now; 4:2i.