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London, England, 1841-02-16 00:00:00

merated—for every one hundred pounds of the value thereof,
5L sterling.

DUTIES ON GOODS EXPORTED.

n.
On every cwt. of Muscovado sugar Ster
oli 0g 5
On every gallon of rum.. 0 0 1
On every cwt. of coffee
On every cwt. of ginger
On every ton of dyewood and hardwood ......... ...

Besides the Jamaica journals, we have a file of
the Antigua Herald to the 25th of December in-
clusive. The state of the island is said to be ex-
ceedingly prosperous.

DREADFUL MURDER.
It is our painful duty to record one of the most cold-blooded
murders that has ever been perpetrated in any country. As far
as we have been able to learn, the circumstances are as follow :
On Sunday last Mr. James Cogill, of the parish of Claren-
don, was sitting alone in his residence, when two black men
went up to him, and demanded money. He ordered them
away; they became insolent, and refused to depart; upon
which the unfortunate gentleman struck one of the fellows
with a stick, and he immediately received several blows about
the head, which stunned him. In this state he was then
dragged into an adjoining room, when his throat was cut, and
several wounds were inflicted on various parts of his person.
The wretches afterwards broke open a desk, and took a sum of
money contained in it. One of the fellows, upon apprehen-
sion, gave up the money he had received as his share. They
were both lodged in Spanish Town Gaol on Thursday after-
noon.—Jamaica Despatch of Dec. 26.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday
and Saturday have reached us. The following
significant article appears in Friday's number
of Galignani's Messenger:—
" The Austrian Ambassador had yesterday morning a con-
ference with M. Guizot at the Foreign Office. Count
d'Appony, it is said, had been charged by his Government
to make serious remonstrances to M. Guizot on the subject
of the new levy of 80,000 men, the Bill for which was
presented a few days ago to the Chamber of Deputies. It ap-
pears that this increase of the military force has much sur-
prised the Court of Vienna, which in consequence of the
previous pacific protestations of the Cabinet of the 29th of
October, had rather expected a commencement of disarming
in France. It has been remarked that for some days past the
Ambassadors of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, meet often, and
alternately at each other's hotels."
On Friday a similar remonstrance was addressed
to M GIIIZOT by the Prussian Ambassador. The
following extract from a letter from Paris, ad-
dressed to a Dutch Journal, is to the same
effect :

" Affairs are becoming more and more complicated at the
very moment when they appeared about to arrive at a defini-
tive conclusion. The great Powers require absolutely that
France shall disarm; but the French Ministry declares that it
cannot adhere to this request, unless they agree to modify the
Treaty of the 15th July, or to make a new one, in which
France may take a direct and active part. England and Russia
are opposed to this, and repel all the exigences of France. It
is believed that King Leopold, during his stay in England, will
make new efforts for bringing about a reconciliation between
the Cabinets of St. James's and and the Tuileries."

The following is the paragraph for which the
Editor of the National is to be interrogated by
the Chamber of Peers :
" We came to the Chamber of Peers with some hope ;• we
left it as if we quitted a hospital of incurables. No life can ever
penetrate into that bonehouse. Energy is as much denied to
it as independence. This mockery of a Chamber, created by
the caprice of a monarch, moves in an atmosphere without
light or heat. There is an odour of decrepitude in the hall
of the Chamber which chills and saddens you. It re-
sembles a constitutional comedy, played by the dead—a mecha-
nical pantomime, which one is anxious to see terminate, on ac-
count of the continual fear which haunts one, of seeing the
springs crack."

It was surely wiser to take no notice of this
language than to prosecute. The writer is mani-
festly no mean antagonist. Accordingly, in that
journal of Saturday we find the following defence
of the charge against the Peerage :
" There is no crime, no offence in the spirit of what we
have written. There are the words, but these words the
Chamber has heard a hundred times without taking offence
at them. M. Thiers, we believe, was the first person who
applied to the Chamber the expression of Charnel-house.'
As to the words, ' Hospital of Incurables,' it was a Peer
who invented them, or something like them, when he said,
• Our Chamber is made a kind of Hotel Dieu, destined to
receive the wounded in electoral battles.' From Hotel Dieu
to incurables is but. a step. As to decripitude, it was M.
d'Argout who stated it, when he said, that adding up the age
of Peers, and striking an average, it amounted to mere than
sixty years. Assuredly a Chamber of sexagenarians is not the
flower of adolescence.

We are now at our thirteenth process; seven provincial
journals hare been seized; a gerant and an editor have been
placed in preventive confinement; this is what the Ministry
has done in four months. We predicted it from the first day,
and we were prepared for this rage against the press. We will
resist without bravado, but without weakness ; and whatever
trial may be in store for us—before whatever jurisdiction we
may be dragged—we shall not be less firm or less bold."
Tou coN, FY.E. B.—Satisfactory accounts have been re-
ceived of the three ships which were separated from Admiral
Hugon's squadron. The Neptune, the Jena, and the Triton
are at anchor in the port of Cagliari. The leak in the Triton
was such that it made 43 inches in an hour. The Neptune
having offered to assist and escort the Triton, if necessary, was
thanked by the Captain, who said he was able to proceed on his
voyage without assistance.
The Uraine frigate, which sailed from Toulon some time ago
for the Isle of llourbon, encountered most violent gales, which
obliged her to put into Sardinia very much damaged ; she will,
perhaps, be obliged to return to this port to repair.
The Turkish ships delivered up by Mehemet Ali to Admiral
Walker and Masloum Bey amount to 10 ships of the line, 10
frigates, and 4 corvettes, carrying in all 1,588 guns. The
Viceroy has 35 ship; of war.
BO UR SE.—PAms, SATURDAY, FRB. 13.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
fr.:..ch 3 per Cents ll2 g'S ... 112 30 ... 112 10 ... 112 30
4 per Cents 69 ... 99 ... 99 ... 69
3 per Cents 76 20 —. 71! 25 ... 76 15 ... 7G 30
Hank or r'rance
Latiltte Bank 5000 f. stares 5140 ...5140 . ...5140 ...51.0
.eigian Bank
5 per Cents .... . .
3 per Cents BB 10 ... 68 10 ... 68 10 ... 88 10
New Loan 994 -• 9814 ... 983, ... 9834
Dutch 2% per Cents 5(% ... 50% ... 50% ... 50%
*mu IA Active .....
Passive
Neapolitan 1
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1026424 ........ , 2026475!
Roman 10034 100% ... 10034 ... 100%
FAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailres,R. B 437 50 ... 437 50 ... 435 ... 435
L.B 927 50 ... 3%7 50 ... 325 ... 327 50
Orleans • ............ ••••••••••••• 493 75 ... 485 .•• 483 75 ... 485
Strasburg to Bale
Montpellier to Cette - ... 205 ... 205 ... 205
Rouen 461 ... 462 50 ... 460 ... 462 50

We have received Sydney Papers to the 24th
of September inclusive. They contain no news
of importance. Such extracts from them as we
feel disposed to make are postponed till to-
morrow, owing to the crowded state of our
columns.

A file of the New Zealand to the 22d of August
inclusive has been received. The accounts which
this Journal publishes of the state of the colony
are very favourable. A second newspaper had
been started, called the New Zealand Advertiser,
so that the colonists have nothing to complain of
in the way of wanting news. Several meetings
were held at Port Nicholson preparatory to the
establishment of a colonial bank. The following
extracts include what little news there is of any
interest in these Journals :
Britannia, the name first given to the town of the N3W
Zealand Company's first and principal settlement by Colo 'el
Wakefield, has been approved by his Excellency Capt. Ht be in.
FR ZNCH EMIG RANTS. —A French frigate, with part cf the
French expedition, bound to Banks' Peninsula, has arrived It
the Bay. Her Majesty's brig Britomart, had sailed wi.h M.
Murphy, Esq., J.P.. to warn the subjects of France, on their
arrival, that the territory in question had been claimed by Pr.)
clematiOn in the name of the Queen. After visiting Banks'
Peninsula, the Britomart is coming to Port Nicholson with
Mr. Murphy and another gentleman, apptinted as the Magis-
trates to reside at Britannia. Mr. Dudley Sinclair is also a
passenger. The vessel may be expected here in a few days.
The Hannah, Barker, arrived on Monday from Banks' Pe-
ninsula; when she sailed no account of the French emigrants
had been received there..:

EXPLORING EXPEDITION. Dr. Dieffenbach and Mr.
Deans have succeeded in reaching the summit of the Tararua
range. The height of the Tararua was computed to be three
thousand feet above the level of the sea. It was covered with
shingle and a heavy growth of black birch. These gentle-
men travelled by the windings of the Hutt about
fifty--miles,.- ituppose -the—direct disteuee to -the
mountain to be about thirty miles. Within six miles
of the Tararua, another stream of equal magnitude falls into
the Hutt. The mires of the Hutt was not detected, and is
believed to be far off, coming from the eastern base of the
mountain. Kapita,„was seen, bearing S.W. Hills continue
to the east, which further confirm the opinion that the fiat
land is to the north-west. The quantity of land in the valley
is estimated at 30,000 acres, and far up it is superior in rich-
ness of soil to that with which we are acquainted. Magnifi-
cent forests •f totara were met with, which will some day be a
source of great wealth to the settlement.

THE ORDNANCE ESTIMATES for the year
1841-1842 amount to 2,166,3031., being 223,8091.
more than for the year 1840-1841.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Guy, MONDAY EVENING.
Among the large numbers of arrivals to-day, none
excited more interest and conversation in the City than
those from America. The intention of the United
States people to bold a grand meeting on the subject,
as detailed in the advices by the Acadia steamer, is
thought likely to embarrass the government of General
Harrison ; but there are parties in the City who think
that Mr. Clay and his followers will help to keep down
some of the prevalent excitement.
Early in the day the English Stocks were rather
firm, though with very little business doing, but the
tenor of the advices from the United States being re-
garded on the whole as unfavourable, and the arrival
of the Acadia steamer not altering .the complexion of
the previous accounts, Consols receded before the close
of business I per cent. For immediate transfer and
time Consols brought'BBf to 88i M the morning, and
only 88 to 88i in the afternoon. Exchequer Bills
were steady at ss. to 7s. premium, and India Bonds
were nominally without alteration. Bank Stock was
higher, having rallied to 163 and 1631. The New
Three-and-a-Half per cent. Annuities were at 971 to
96i and the Three per Cent. Reduced at 89i- to 88i.
There were the same features perceptible in the
Foreign as in the English Market, viz., a steady appear-
ance in the morning, and subsequently a decline. The
political intelligence from Lisbon was looked upon in a
favourable light, but the advices oa the state of the
Treasury as being as bad as ever. Spanish Active Bonds
were marked 24 to 23i ; Portuguese New Five per
Cents. 31/, and the Three per Conts.,l9i. Colombian
Stock of 1824 got up to 23i, and Mexican of 1837 was
at 27i. Brazil Bonds realized 721, Buenos Ayres ad-