The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-16 00:00:00

port—all this was necessarily the work of time, even among
a people so enlightened and pure as that of the United
States. In most other countries, perhaps, it could only
be accomplished through that series of revolutionary
movements which are too often found necessary to effect
any great and radical reform ; but it is the crowning merit
of our institutions that they create and nourish in the vast
majority of our people a disposition and a power peaceably
to remedy abuses which have elsewhere caused the effu-
sion of rivers of blood, and the sacrifice of thousands of
the human race.

The result thus far is most honourable to the self-denial,
the intelligence, and the patriotism of our citizens. It jus-
tifies the confident hope that they will carry through the
reform they have so well begun ; that they will go still
further thr.n they have yet gone in illustrating the import-
ant truth, that a people as free and enlightened as ours
will, whenever it becomes necessary, show themselves to
be indeed capable of self-government, by voluntarily
adopting appropriate remedies for every abuse, and sub-
mittin4 to temporary sacrifice, however great, to ensure
their permanent welfare.
My own exertions for the furtherance of these desirable
objects have been bestowed throughout my official career
with a zeal that is nourished by ardent wishes or the wel-
fare of my country, and by an unlimited reliance on the
wisdom that marks its ultimate decision or all great
and controverted questions. Impressed with the solemn
obligations imposed upon me by the Constitution desirous
also of laying before my fellow-citizens, with whose con-
fidence and support I have been so highly honoured, such
measures as appear to me conducive to their prosperity—
and anxious to submit to their fullest consideration the
grounds upon which my opinions are formed, I have on
this, as on preceding occasions, freely offered my views
on those points of domestic policy that seem, at the present
time, most prominently to require the action of the Go-
vernment. I know that they will receive from Congress
that full and able consideration which the importance of
the subjects merit, and I can repeat the assurance hereto.
fore made, that I shall cheerfully and readily co-operate
with you in every measure that will tend to promote the
welfare of the Union.
Dec. 2, 1839. M. VAN BUREN.

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.
(From the New York Enquirer of the 28th Dec.)
DEC. 27.—Sales of Stocks to-day were made to a
moderate extent, but at a reduction on rates.
Althciugh the Liverpool packet-ship Siddons is still de-
tained, there has been but very little done in foreign ex-
changes. A few good bills on London have been sold at
8f ; but nothing of any note has been taken on France or
other places.

Domestic exchanges are rather dull, and, in some in-
stances, a shade lower. We learn that the arrival of the
southern mails has materially increased the quantity of
paper offering. The rates of to-day are—
Philadelphia, 84. to 9 ; Baltimore, 81 to 81 ; Richmond,
71 to Si ; Charleston, 3 to 3,-1-; Savannah, 5 to 5,1;
Augusta, 6 to 64; Florida, 25 to 30; Mobile, 81- to 9;
New Orleans, 6 to q.
Money is very scarce, and brokers do not buy unless at
an advanced discount, which, however, cannot be consi-
dered a fair criterion of what will be the value of money
after the holidays.
In merchandirse everything is dull, the combined effect,
probably, of the most inclement weather and the holidays.
50 Shares United States Bank 30 ds 75
25 do. Phoenix Bark B4
50 do. Delaware and Hudson 3O ds 68
5 do. Bank of Commerce
10 do, North American Trust
20 do. Illinois 66
10 do. Morris

20 do. Bowery
10 do. Merchants' Exchange 46
30 do. Paterson Railroad
25 do. Boston and Providence Railroad ..s. 60 102;
25 do. Stonington Railroad
225 do. Haarlem. Railroad
10 do. A:erchants' Bank lO6
25 do. New Jersey Bsi
30 do. Mohawk Railroad
SALES AT TILE SECOND BOARD.
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100 do. Harlem Railroad Company
50 do. Delaware and Hudson S. N. W. 68
205 do. North American Trust

MON IvIoUTII SPECIAL
COM MISSION.

CONVICTION OF JONES-COMPROMISE AND
ACQUITT IL OF THE OTHERS CHARGED
WITH HIGH TREASON,
MONMOUTH, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The evidence for the prosecution in the case of William
Jones was closed last night, and this morning Mr. Rickards
addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoner. The Attor-
ney-General replied on the part of the Crown; after which
Mr. Justice Williams summed up. The Jury then retired,
and after twenty minutes' consultation returned a verdict of
Guilty, accom, anied by a recommendation to mercy ;
which Mr. Justice Williams said should be forwarded to
the proper quarter.
Charles Walters, Jenkins Morgan, John Rees, Richard
13ctifield, and John Lovell, were then placed at the bar ;
and having been allowed to withdraw their plea of Not
Guilty, they then pleaded Guilty.
The remaining four prisoners, Edmund Edmunds, James
Aust, George Turner, otherwise Cole, and Solomon Bri_
ton, having been then placed at the bar, the Attorney-
General announced that it was not his intention to press
the prosecution against those prisoners. The Learned
Gentleman gave as his reason for the course he took, that,
in the case of the two former, there was some doubt as to
their identity, and it was not quite clear from the deposi-
tions that the two latter were voluntary agents. They
were accordingly discharged.
Several prisoners, accused of sedition and conspiracy,
are yet to be tried.

It- is said that the five prisioners who pleaded guilty will
be imprisoned for three years, and that under such an im-
pression they pleaded guilty.
The mild and merciful course pursued by her Majesty's
Attorney-General is the subject of universal praise, with
the exception of a few determined Tories, who hoped that
the officers of the Crown, by adopting extreme measures,
would excite an outcry against the Government, and thus
embarrass it. This merciful proceeding on the part of the
Crown will be productive of the best results to the country.