The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-04 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

" BRISTOL, APRIL 3.
" The Great Western arrived here this morning, at
four o'clock, after a passage Of.somewhat more than 14
days. She brings news to the 19th of March. The Bri-
t:.sh Queen arrived out on the 16th."
The Great Western arrived at New Yak on the 7th of
March, after a voyage of only 16 days, the precise time
taken by the British Queen to make the passage. 'the
imelatter vessel carried out news from this country to Ame-
rica 11 days later than the preceding packet, and the
Great Western news 43 days later—she carried out the
accounts of the marriage of the Queen with Prince Albert,
which the New York Papers give at considerable length.
Commercial business seems to have undergone no ma-
terial change since the last accounts, and the aspect of
affairs altogether was favourable, though there are still
ganeral complaints of the want of trade. The Great
Western, as might have been expected, was looked for at
New York with great anxiety. At her departure the
operations in Foreign Exchanges were not extensive. The
cause attributed for this in the New York Pupers is the ex-
pected early departure of the British Queen. At New
done at 74, and at Philadelphia on the 17th, at 781,
York, on the 18th, the United States Bank Shares were
and
Gerards at 341
The intelligence from Canada is destitute of interest.
The news from South America is snore important, as it
appears from the Buenos Ayres papers that actions had
taken place on the 13th and 16th of November, in which
the partizans of I,avalle and the French had been defeated
by the troops under General Lopez.
Copious extracts are given in these papers of the public
rejoicings, in consequence of the discovery and suppres-
sion of plots against .Rosas, of the honours paid to the
Governor -in-Chief, and of the indignation displayed
egainst the French and those leaped with them.
The 7th of Decemlier was tlooth day of the French
hlo,shade„
The republic of Peru was quidt:',-ard the U2ngress busy
in forming a new Constitution.
In Bolivia the expected revolution in favour of Santa
Cs uz had broken out, and that personage had left Guaya-
quil to take advantage of it.
Later advices from Rio Janeiro state that negotiations
had commenced between the French Admiral Dupontet
and the Government of Buenos Ayres, and that the former
had refused the proffered mediation of the British Minister.
The Great Western has brought over fifty passengers.

( From the New York Morning Courier and Inquirer 01

March 19.)
The Stock Market was rather depressed to-day, and
prices of most ducriptions declined. The following are
the rates as established by the business of the day :
London
Paris 5 261 a 25
Amsterdam 39 a4O
A awe: p
Hamburg
Bremen -

Some few heavy sales were made, part cash and part
short credit on both London and Paris Southern Bills were
ofE!ring as usual to a below the current rate, but unless
is ell known meet with but little favour.
A tolerable demand has existed for Inland Exchanges
generally, but it has been particularly active in New Or-
leans and Mobile at the following rates of discount :
Philadelphia 6i- to 6k
Baltimore .rai- to 6
Richmond
Charleston - to 6i
Savannah
Auusta - to 71
Mobile
New Orleans
Union, Florida 25 to 26
Union, Miss 4O
In flour, since the 7th inst. a reductien in price has
taken place of 25 cents. per barrel. There had been no
demand for foreign export, but some purchases have been
made for the Eastern States of Western at 5 371, 5 50,
and 5 62} dollars; Ohio Canal is held at 5 50 dollars,
but no sales. Ohio, via New Orleans, is bought in small
lots at 525 dollars. George-town and Howard-street at
5 25 dollars to 5 37:1 dollars, and Alexandria at 5 25 dollars.
Some sales of cotton have been made since the 7th in-
stant at a decline of c. per lb. The better qualities arc
scarce and have brought comparatively higher prices than
inferior. Uplands, middling have sold at 61 to .81 c. fair
to good and fair and goad 9 to 91 and n per lb. ; Alaba-
mas 6i to l ; Louisiana 211,- 11 to 111. The sales of the
last 10 days reach about 3,500 bales.
We take this opportunity of repeating the opinion we
have already often exp, essed, that there will eventually be
no measures adopted in Pennsylvania-adverse to the banking

in that state.
The Report of the Committee of Investigation into the
aff,irs of the Manhattan Bank, has been published, and we
regret that the crowded state of our columns to-day pre-
vent us doing mote than remarking that we think the ex-
position it contains of the affairs of individuals doing busi-
ness within the Bink, having no cojpexion with the direc-
tion or- th-e officers,-am! hia.;retttati-ia.atat-Zt ritiay-auxt
clearly " Business paper," is tot only unnecessary but
highly censurable.

THE BOUNDARY QUESTION.
(From the New Yorh Enquirer of March 11.)
Washington, March 9, 1840.
In the Senate to-day, a message was received and read,
+roil, the President of the United States, inclosing a fur-
ther correspondence with Mr., Fox, the British Minister Ple-
nipotentiary. In the progress of this correspondence, a
question of veracity, or rather of accuracy, has arisen
between Mr. Fox and Governor Fairfield, in addition to
the operations on the frontier, within that district of coun-
try occupied by the British forces, and in which the Go-
vernor re-asserts that the military force has been increased,
which statement is contradicted by Mr. Fox. The British
Minister, however,
closes his letter, by saying, that if the
state of Maine persists in the course of policy she appears
to have adopted, the period is not far distant when it will
become necessary for her Majesty's Government to adopt
measures of defence.

The followilig are the documents referred to:—
TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.—FIRST SESSION.
IN SENATE—MoNo4y, MARCH 9, 1840.
NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY.

The Chair submitted the following message from the
['resident of the United States:—

To 'THE SEKATE,—In addition to information already
communicated, in compliance with the resolutions of the
Senate Df the 17th January last, I think it proper to trans-
mit to ihe Senate copies of two letters, with enclosures,
since received from the ,Governor of Maine, and of a cor-
respondence relative thereto between the Secretary of
Sate and the British Minister.
M. V. BUREN.

CHELTENHAM, Aram 3.
The Cheltenham Annual Steeple Chase, with 2001. added.
Mr. J. Elmore's br g Lottery
Mr. Evans na. br h Seventy-four
Mr. Robertson's fir g Cigar 3
A Match for 200 sovs, 12st each, p.p.—Mr. Hussy's eh m
Ella, beat Mr. Cridland's ch•g The Doctor.
The Second Steeple Chase.
Mr. Griffith's b g Nupolien
Mr. Ilranker's b m Miss Fanny

The follow i ing s the house list of the Governors
and Directors of the Bank of England, for the year ensuing .

FOR GOVERNORS.
Sir John Rae Reid, Bart., Governor.
John Henry Pelly, Esq., Deputy Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.
Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Sheffield ' ve, Esq.
Geoff, arde Norman, Esq.
Jo lorsley Palmer, Esq.
mes Pattison, Esq.
Christopher Pearse, Esq.
Henry James Prescott, Esq.
Charles Pole, Esq..
Thos. Charles Smith, Esq.
William Thompson, Esq. and
Alderman.
V. Matthias Weguelin, Esq.

Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Bowden, Esq.
Edward Henry Chipmsn, Esq.
Wm. Cotton, Esq.
Timothy Abr. Curtis, Esq.
Bonamy Dobree, Esq.
Abel Lewes Gower,'
Thomson Harkey, • ~ Esq.
J. Oliver Hansip Esq.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq.
Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq
H. St. John Mildmay, Esq.,
J. Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq.
The election for Governor and Deputy-Governor will be
held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 7th of Aprii, and for Di-
rectors on Wednesday, the Bth of April, from ten o'clock in
the forenoon till four in the afternoon.
" WOMAN AND HER N1A5TE....4,:-1, BY LADY
MORGAN.—This work will be latinchottin a few days. It is,
we understand, an advocacy of th aims of the lair sex as ra-
tional beings, and as responsi and influential members of the
community. It does no owever, belong to the Woolstone-
craft school, and aba, no Utopian or organic changes in the
constitution of society. Though not strictly modelled on any
of the more customary forms of literary composition, it may be
considered as approaching the most nearly to the species of his-
tory which has been defined" Philosophy teaching by example."
PROPOSED PIER AT MILL BAY.—A meeting
of the inhabitants of Plymouth, took place at the Guildhall, on
Saturday last, for the purpose of taking into consideration a
report of a Committee of the Council appointed to examine the
provisions of a Bill now before Parliament, entitled ‘,a Bill
for erecting and maintaining a Pier and other works in Mill
Bay, in the port of Plymouth, in the county c 4 Devon." Other
sea-ports have been adding improvement to improvement, and
are thus rapidly increasing in wealth andimportance.
mouth, indeed, has not been idle ; but it is time that her in-
habitants should add the utmost that art can employ, in addition
to those local advantages which have been afforded by nature.
Mr. Gill, the active originator, and 30,0001. furtherer of the
scheme, will not trespass on the rights of the public in general.
Their favourite walk on the Hoe, instead of being disturbed,
is mere likely to be rendered more easy of access, and a scene
of still greater interest.— Plymouth Journal.
At the Duke of Beaufort 's magnificent seat at
Badminton, yesterday, there was one of the most splendid meets
that the oldest sportsmen in the county ever remember ; the
sport being purposely arranged for the enjoyment of his Serene
Highness Prince Ernest of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, who, how-
ever, was unable to avail himself of it, being laid up with au at-
tack of influenza. The company, which included a large num-
ber of Nobility and Gentry, amounted to nearly sixteen
in number. The meet took place on the lawn, and the throw-
off at a short distance. Reynard supplied admirable sport, and.
after a splendid run, was killed near Acton rl•urville.—_Bath
Herald.

The undersigned has the honour to report that, in ac-
cordance with your commission of the 6th instant, he pro-
ceeded immediately to the St. John's river, Temiscouta
Lake, &c., and ascertained by actual observation the fol-
lowing facts :
That 22 miles below the mouth of Fish River, on the
south side of St. John's, and nearly opposite the Mada-
waska River, a house has been fitted up for barracks, and is
rented by the British Government for that purpose, though
no troops are there at present. It is built of hewn tim-
ber, two stories high, about 60 feet long and 30 wide. It
has bunks prepared for over 100 men. It is now in charge
of one man only. From thence he followed up the Mada-
waska River, observing the tow path on its east bank,
which has been made and repaired by the English Govern-
ment, under contracts given out by James A. M`Lauchlan,
Esq., of New Brunswick, the gentleman who has hereto-
fore assumed to act as Warden of the disputed territory.
't his work was accomplished the past season ; the t.ength
corresponds withhathuat 2G
fmtlitles the east
side of the Madawaska
River,
Two miles and a half below the foot of the Temiscouta
Lake, on the west bank of the Madawaska River, the Eng-
lish erected, early last summer, a barrack, about 80 feet
long and 30 wide, and two small out-buildings. At this
post there are now stationed one serjcant, one corporal, and
Live private soldiers of company No. 3, 11th regiment in
the English service, where they have been from about the
Ist of January last.
Near this point commences a road, connecting it with
the English works next described, built the past season
under contracts given out by the said Al‘Laughlaa, for the
distance of 16 stiles, 10's5f whiSth are fully essizoleted, and
the remaining six nearly. That 15 miles from the foot of
Temiscouta Lake, on its west side, the English have
erected eight buildings as barracks for soldiers, officers'
quarters, a hospital, a magazine, a storehouse, and a cern -
missary's house, all of which are surrounded by ditches,
breastworks, and stockades, on three sides ; the fourth is
not fully completed. An accurate plan of all these works
accompanies this report, and is here particularly referred to.
From Major Chatnbri, the commander of this fort, who
was first informed of the object and case of the in-
quiries, and from his officers, the following facts were as-
certained. That he was there stationed by the Govern-
meet of the Canadas, under his command, one company
of the grenadier soldiers, numbering about 85 men, of the
11th regiment, and one light company, the third of same
regiment, numbering about 90 men, in all 175, not in-
cluding officers commissioned, or servants. The names of
the officers are Major Chambri, Captain Wallington,
Lieutenants Bloss and Gould, and Ensign Tolun. That
the barracks were commenced last spring, and were sta-
tioned here in June last, comprising a sergeant, corporal,
and:ten men of the 24th regiment; and in November fol-
lowing said company of grenadiers were ordered to take
their place, and that about the Ist of January last they
were reinforced by said third company. That the road
from these barracks to river D :s Loup has been made and
repaired the past season, distant about 3ti miles.
In addition, the undersigned ascertained that the Eng-
lish have built, at Lake Temiscouta, a number of large fLe-
bottom boats, and also of keel boats, each of which %%ill
serve to carry 50 men, and the flat-bottom boats would
carry safely heavy ordnance. Outside the defences the

English have a boat and store-house.
The works at this fort are calculated to be a sure de-
fence against artillery and light arms, as will more fully
appear from plan annexed.
All of which is most respectfully submitted.
BENJAMIN WIGGIN.
Augusta, Mine, Feb. 27, 1840.

State of Maine, Secretary's Office, Augusta, Feb. 27.
I hereby certify that the fo►egoing is a true copy of tho
original deposited in this office.
(Attest) PHILIP C. JOHNSON,
Secretary of State.

_ MR. FORSYTH TO MR. FOX.
Department of State, Washington, March 6.
By the directions of the President, the undersigned, Se-
cretary of State of the United States, communicates to
Mr. Fox, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of Great Britain, the enclosed copy of a report made
to the Governor of the State of Maine, by the agent cum-
missioned on the part of the authorities of the State, to
ascertain the precise character and extent of the occupation
of parts of the disputed territory by troops of her Britannic
Majesty, and of the buildings and other public works con-
structed for their use and accommodation.

By that report, and :no three depositions which the un-
dersigned infornially communicated to Mr. Fox a few days
since, he will perceive that there must be some extraordinary
misapprehension on his part of the facts in relation to the
occupation by British troops of portions of the disputed ter.
ritory. The statements contained in these documents, and
...thatAixelLkAr.....k4..in we of, the 20th J anuarylast,
exhibited a striking discrepancy as to the numbeit—Of troops
now in the territory, as. compared with those who were
in it when the arrangement between Governor Fairfield
and Lieutenant-Governor Harvey was agreed upon; and
also as to the present and former state of the buildings
there. The extensive accommodations propared and pre-
paring at an old and at new stations, the works finished,
and in the course of construction, on the land and on the
water, are not in harmony with the assurance the only ob-
ject is the preservation of a few unimportant buildings and
storehouses for the temporary protection of the number of
troops her Majesty's ordinary service can require to pass
on the road from New Brunswick to Canada.
i The undersigned will abstain from any remarks upon
these contradictory statements, until Mr. Fox shall have
an opportunity to obtain the !Titans fully explaining
them. How essential it is that this should be promptly
dune, and that the steps necessary to a faithful observance
on the part of her Majesty's colonial authorities of the
existing agreements between the two Governments should
be immediately taken, Mr. Fox cannot fail fully to under.
stand.
The undersigned avails himself of the occasion to renew
to Mr. Fox assurances of his high consideration.
JOHN FORSYTH.

MR. FOX TO MR. FORSYTH.
Washington, March 7, 1840.
The undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, has the honour
to acknowledge the receipt of the official note of yester-
day's date, addressed to him by Mr. Forsyth, Secretary
of State of the United States, to which is annexed the
copy of a report from Mr. Benjamin Wiggin, an agent em-
ployed by the State of Maine to visit the British military
Washington, March 9, 1840. post at Lake Temiscouta ; and in which reference is made
Executive Department, Augusta, Feb. 15, 1840. to other papers upon the same subject which were infor-
llis Excellency M. Van Buren, maily communicated to the undersigned by Mr. Forsyth
President of the United States. a few das before; and the attention of the undersigned
Sir—A communication from Mr. Fox, the British Mi- is called 'by Mr. Forsyth to different points upon which
nister, to Mr. Forsyth. Secretary of State, under date of the information contained in the said papers is considered
January 26, contains the following statement : to be materially at variance with that which was conveyed
" It appears from accurate information now in the pos- to the United States Government by the undersigned in
session of the undersigned, that the Governor of Maine, his official note of the 26th of last January.
and through him the President and General Government The undersigned had already been made acquainted by
of the United States have been misinformed as to the facts. the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, with the cir-
In the first place, a reinforcement has been marched to the cumstance of Mr. Wiggin's visit to the military post at
British post at Lake Temiscouta; the only change occur- Lake Temiscouta, where the officer in command very pro-
ring there has been the relief of a detachment of her Ma- perly furnished to Mr. Wiggin the requisite information
jesty's 24th Regiment, by a detachment of equal force of upon all matters connected with the British station, which
the 11th Regiment; this force of one company being now he appeared to be desirous to inquire about.
stationed at the Temiscouta post, as it always has been, The alleged points of variance, after deducting what
for the necessary purpose of protecting the stores and ac- is fanciful and conjectural in the reports now produced,
commodations provided for the use of her Majesty's troops, and after comparing what is there stated in contradic-
who may be required, as heretofore, to march by that tion to other reports before produced from the same guar-
route to and from the provinces of Canada and New ters, do not appear to the undersigned to be by any means
Brunswick. In the second place, it is not true, that the so material as they seem to have been -considered by the
British authorities either have built, or are building, bar- Government of the United States. The British military
racks on both sides of the St. John's river, or at the mouth detachment stationed at Lake Temiscouta, which the
of the Madawaska river; no new barracks have, in fact, agents employed by the State of Maine had, in the first
been built anywhere." instance, with singular exaggeration, represented as
This statement has been read by the citizens of this umounting to two regiments, is now discovered by the
State with the most profound astonishment. And however same parties to amount to one hundred and seventy-five
high may be the source from which it emanates, I must be men, which, instead of two regiments; is something less
permitted to say, in the language of that high functionary, than two companies. It is indeed tiue, should such a point
that "it is not true ;" though, in justice to Lim, I 'should be considered worth discussing, that the undersigned
add, that he has been misinformed. Though this State, in might have used a more technically correct expression in
the vindication of her rights and maintenance of her ante- his note of the 26th of January, if he had stated the de-
rests, relative to her territorial boundary,
lfrom past experi. t iehmetit in question to consist of from one to two com-
mahteriati admissionsh of the panics, instead of stating it to consist of one company.
ence had no reason to expect any
truth on the part of the British Aut eusa, s_Led was not I But a detachment of her Majesty's. troops has been
prepared to meet such a positive and.
_n qe_l_ial.o denial of stationed at Lake Temiseouta from time to time, even in
facts so easily the winter of 1837 and 1838, when the necessity arose
especially of
the facts as the foregoing exhibits, es
Minister is
for marching reinforcements by that route from New
susceptible of proof. The "accuracy
is only B unswiek to Canada; and it will be remembered that
alleged to be in the possession of the
the justice the pretensions heretofore set up a temporary right of using that route for the same
equalled by
in regard to title. purpose, was expressly reserved to Great Britain in
But not to be bandying assertions where proof is abun_ I the provisional agreement entered into at the beginning of
dant, I deem it my duty to transmit to your Excellency the last year.
depositions of a number of gentlemen, citizens of this State, It is not therefore true that the stationing of a military
of great respectability, and whose statements arc entitled force at the lake Temiscouta, is a new measure on the part
to the most implicit confidence. of her Majesty's Authorities. Neither is it true that that
These depositions abundantly prove, that up to May measure has been adopted for other purposes than to main-
last, nearly two mouths subsequent to t_ e arrangements tain the security of the customary line of communication,
h
entered into through the mediation, fGeneral Scott, no and to protect the buildings, stores, and accommodations
T troops whatever were stationed at
emiscouta Lake; that provided for the use of her Majesty's troops when on a
September, and October, the number did not march by thatand it
in August, Sep route ;
five, while now it has been increased to •
exceed twentyview to correct
misapprehension, which appeared to exist upon these
about 200 ; that prior to May no barracksh had been erected points, and thus to do away with one needless occasion of
at Temiscouta, but since that time two
or six
been built at dispute, that the undersigned conveyed to the United
the bead of the lake, besides some fivestx other build. States Government the information contained in his note
ings, apparently adapted to the establishmentt_e_ of a perma- of the 2tith of January.
nent military post, and at the foot of
.11 lake two or more With regard again to the construction of barracks and
buildings for barracks and other military purposes ; that, other buildings, and the preserving them in an efficient state
though no new barracks have been erected at Madawaska, t f repair and defence, a similar degree of error and misap-
certain buildings, heretofore elected, have been engaged pr,3,,,,i0n appears still to prevail in the minds of the Arne-
for use as such ; that a road has been constructed, con- dean authorities.
netting the military posts at the bead and foot of the lake— The erection of those buildings within the portion of the
a tow-path made the whole length of the Madawaska disputed territory now referred to, for the shelter of her
River—the road front the head of the lake to the military Majesty's troops while on their march, and for the safe
post at the River Dc; Loup, thoroughly repaired_srans. I lodgment of the stores, is no new act on the part of her
port boats built, &c. &c. Majesty's authorities. The buildings in question have been
I would further inform your Excellency that an agent in a course of construction, from a period antecedent to
has been despatched to Temiscouta and Madawaska, for the provisional agreements of last year, and they are now
the purpose of procuring exact information of the state of maintained and occupied along the line of march, with a
things there at the present moment; but inei- view to the same objects above specified, for which the
dentallv found some evidence of the state of things prior small detachments of troops, also referred to, are in like
to November last, I have thought best to forward it with- manner there stationed.
out delay, for the purposs of disabusing the Government The undersigned will not refrain from here remarking
point of comparison exhibited in the present eon.
and the country of the errors into which they have been upon the