The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-31 00:00:00

MONEY ➢IARKET.

TUESDAY, DEC. 6, Six P.ll.—The stock market
opened heavy this morning, and quotations for most
of the fancies fell off a fraction. At the first board
Canton declined per cent.; Reading Railroad, 1 ;
Morris Canal, ; Harlem, ; Stonington, ; Nor-
wich and Worcester, ; Long Island, Treasury
Notes, Reading Bonds, and Farmers's Loan closed at
prices current yesterday.
At the second board Harlem advanced 1 per cent.;
Reading Railroad, 4 ; Norwich and Worc2ster,
The steam-ship Northerner, from Charleston,
brought 52,000 dollars in specie.
The President's Message, so far as we are able to
judge from the telegraphic synopsis, does not amount
to much. It gives a very favourable and flattering
account of the public finances, recommends that a
duty be placed on tea and coffee, that the price of
public lands be graduated, that important modifica-
tions be made in some of the provisions of the Inde-
pendent Treasury Act, that a branch mint be esta-
blished in the city of New -York, that the war be
prosecuted with vigour, that we retain possession of
what we have, and obtain possession of all we can of
Mexican territory, and by duties on imports and
exports, and by contributions, make that country pay
for the war.

It appears by the Message that the value of im-
ports for the year ending June 30th, 1847, was
146,545,638 dolls., and exports, 158,648,622 dolls.,
of which 150,637,464 dollars consisted of
domestic productions, and 8,011,158 dolls. of
foreign articles. The receipts into the Treasury for
the same period amounted to 26,346,790 dolls., of which
there was derived from customs 23,747,864 dolls.,
from sale of public lands 2,498,335 dolls., and from
miscellaneous sources 100,570 dolls. The expendi-
tures for the same period were 59,451,177 dolls., of
which 8,522,082 dolls. was on account of payment of
principal and interest of the public debt, including
Treasury notes redeemed, and not funded ; the ex-
penditures, exclusive of payment of public debt,
having been 55,929,095 dolls. It is estimated that
the expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1848,
will amount to, if war with Mexico shall not be con -
eluded, 58,615,666 dolls., including the necessary pay.
ments on account of the principal and interest of the
public debt, and the receipts for the same period to
42,886,546 dolls., of which 31,000,000 dolls., it is esti-
mated will be derived from customs ; 3,500,000 dolls.
from the sale of public lands; 400,000 dolls. from in-
cidental sources ; and 6,285,294 dolls. from loans al
ready authorized by law, which, with the balance in
the Treasury on the Ist of July last, make up the
estimate.

It is estimated that a loan of seventeen millions of
dolls. will be required within the next six months, or
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1848, if a duty is
placed on tea and coffee, and the price of public land,.
giaduated ; or a loan of 18,500,000 dolls., if neither
of these things are done. Should the war be con-
tinued until the 30th June, 1849, a further loan 01
20,500,000 dolls. will be required for the fiscal year
ending that day, in case no duty is imposed on tea
and coffee ; no graduation of the public lands ; and no
military contributions levied in Mexico. This will
make in the aggregate, from this to the 30th of June,
1849, a period of eighteen months, loans for
37,500,000 dolls.

DEPARTURE OF THE FOREIGN

MAILS FOR JANUARY.
The following notice was issued yesterday at the
General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, giving the
dates on which the foreign mails will be made up in
London, and when the return packets will be due at
Southampton, Liverpool, and Falmouth, for the en-
suing month :
" MADEIRA, WEST INDIES, &E.—The mails for the
British colonies in the West Indies (except Hon-
duras, Nassau, Bermuda, Havannah, and St. Juan
Porto-Rico) and Venezuela will be made up on
the evening of the Ist of January, and the
morning of the 17th ; Bermuda, Nassau, New Or-
leans, Mexico, Honduras, Havannah, and St. Juan
Porto Rico, on the evening of to-morrow only; Madeira,
Jacmel, St. Juan de Nicaragua, New Granada, Chili, and
Peru, on the morning of the 17th only, via Southamp-
ton. The mails of the Ist will be conveyed by the Doe
steamer. Next packets due on the 7th and 22d.
" GIBRALTAIS, INDIA, Pte.—The mails for Gibraltar,
Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Cey-
lon, India, Hong liong, and China, on the mornings of
the 3d and 20th, via Southampton. The mails of the
3J will be conveyed by the Euxine steamer. By the
fortnightly overland closed mails to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, India, &c., vid Marseilles, on the evenings of the
7th and 24th.

" Burma NORTH AMERICA, BX.--The mails for
British North America, Bermuda, and the United States,
will be made up on the evenings of the 3d and 17th, via
Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston—due on the 16th and
20th. Mails will be made up every alternate Friday
during December, January, February, and March, and
every Friday during the other eight months of the year,
to Boston and New York alternately, and vice versa.
Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres, by her Majesty's
brig Penguin, on the evening of the 4th—next packet
due at Falmouth her Majesty's brig Express, February
23. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and
Gibraltar, on the mornings of the 7th, 17th, and 27th,
(except Sundays),
via Southampton—due the sth, 15th, and 25th.
" FRANCE.—DaiIy
via Dover, Ca
lais, and Boulogne, and vice versa. Ostend daily (except
Sunday), via Dover and Ostend—due daily. Holland,
&c., every Wednesday and Saturday morning—due
Mondays and Thursdays. Lerarrlburgh, &e., every Tues-
day and Friday evenings—due Tuesdays and Saturdays."

CORONER'S INQUEST.—DEATII FROM CHOLERA IN
LAMBETH.-170:4erday an inquest was held at the
Feathers' Tavern, Waterloo-road,- on the body of Mar •
garet Garey, aged eight years, who, it was rumoured,
had died from cholera. The parents of deceased were in
very poor circumstances, and, it appeared, seldom tasted
animal food. On the deceased being attacked by vomit-
ing, &c., Mr. Pope, surgeon, of Princes•street, attended
her, and administered the usual remedies, but the disease
terminated fatally. At the inquest Mr. Pope stated,
that, from the symptoms of the child, he should say that
she had died from cholera of a malignant form. The
Coroner—Do you mean, when you say cholera of a
malignant form, the Asiatic cholera? Witness—De-
cidedly
not no
at all infectious.t,butamaligna T
malignant formhe jury of English cholera, a
disease
returned a ver-
dict that " The deceased died from English cholera."
FATAL ACCIDENT TO THE UNDERLOOKBR OF
MESSRS. SCOWCROFT S COLLIERIES.—An accident has
occurred at one of the pits belonging to Messrs. Scow-
croft, Hindley-green, near Leigh, which has terminated
in the death of the manager, Mr. Potter. The deceased
was going down the shaft of the pit with one of the men
on Saturday morning last, for the purpose of examining
the ventilating furnaces, when a screw-key, which it is .
supposed had been lei t the head gearing by one of the
men, fell down the shaft, and fractured the skull of the
deceased. The loss of the deceased is deeply regretted
by all who knew him. Mr. Potter Was a self-taughtman, and had, by his own exertions, raised himself in
society. He was an excellent mathematician, and pos-
sessed a valuable library. He was one of the earliest
promoters of the Leigh Mechanics' Institution, and was
for two or three years an active director.—Mandiester
Paper.
OFFICIAL PAYMENTS.— The Reveaue Board of
Customs having bad under consideration a report from
one of the members of the Board, who has recently
inspected certain of the ports on the coast of the king-
dom, in which be has suggested the expediency of the
extra inferior officers being permitted to receive their
payments weekly, the Board have concurred with this
suggestion, and have expressed their sanction that such
officers should be paid upon the usual day pay-bills,
and that credit may be taken ?very week, for the
payments, without a special application to the Board
in each instance.
VEGETABLE TALLOW.—A parcel of an article
called vegetable tallow has recently been imported into
the port of Liverpool by a vessel arrived from Shanghae,
China. It appears that this is the first importation of
the article into the port of Liverpool from the Chinese
empire, although it is well known at this port, into
which it has been frequently brought from China, as
vegetable tallow.
Sut apidly have the wages of miners fallen in
Ayrshire, that they are now paid only 2s. lid. a day,
whereas some time since they received ss. a day.