The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-08 00:00:00

were appointed accordingly :—Leonard S. Suarez, W. P.
Futniss, Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Laffan, and Mr. Maxwell.

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL

NEWS.
(From the New Fork Courier and Enquirer.)
MONDAY NIGHT, FEB. 15.—A slight decline took place in
most descriptions of Stocks this morning; the transactions,
however, throughout were- extremely limited. United States
Bank fell off 3.4 ; Delaware and Hudson 2 per cent. ; North
American Trust 3-4; Vicksburg 1-8; Stonington 1 ; Long
Island improved 1-2 ;in Harlem there w-s no change.
Nothing of importance was done in Sterling Exchanges-
-8 1 4 a 8 1-2 is quoted as the highest rates. In Southern there
was very little done, quotations are quite unsettled.
United States Bank bills are purchased by the brokers at 12
1-2 per cent discount. Other Philadelphia bills at 3-4 a 3 ;
Baltimore bank notes at 2 1-4 a 2 1-2, and Virginia 4 per cent.
Cottrn is dull at Saturday's rates ; we have not heard of any
sales worth reporting. Aloderate sales of Genesee Flour were
made at $4,5 a $l, and of choice brands in small quantities
at 5,12 a 5,23 per bbl. Oats remain inactive at 30 a 39e. per
bus. 200 tierces rough Flaxseed were sold at 10 1-2, and a
small quantity of clean at $ll. Clover-seed sells in small
parcels at 8 a 8 1-2. Provisions are heavy, and the market
has rather a downward tendency. Mess Pork is freely offered
at 11,75, and Lard at 7c. There is more inquiry for Cheese,
and considerable sales have been made at 5 a 6 1-2 c, per lb.
In Butter, A c., there is no change. In Sugars, Sze., nothing
doing. 100 bags Rio Coffee were sold at 10 3-4 a 11, and 100
ditto St. Domingo at 8 7-8.

NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET, FEB. 15, 1841.
Beeves.—At market, 750 Beeves, inc!uding 300 left last
week ; 175 was from the South, 200 from the East, and the
balance from this State-775 were sold at 6 1-2 to 9 1-4 e,
average $7 3-4 per cwt. —Market well attended and sales brisk.
Cows and Calves.—There were 110 offered, all taken at $25,
33, and $l2 each.
Sheep and Lambs. —1,600 at market, all of which were
taken at $2 to $6.—Good demand.
Hay.-62 1-2 to 75c. the 1001bs.—Market well supplied.

PHILADELPHIA, FEB. 15, P.M.

•
The weather continues cold, and the surface of the water in
the Delaware is thickly covered with floating ice, which is driven
up and down the stream by the tide as it ebbs and flows, and
gives active employment to our ice and tow-boats to work their
way through the thickly-formed ice.
The transactions in stocks have been only to a limited amount,
and embrace at and after the first Board of Brokers, $5OO

Pennsylvania State s's 1865, at 81--; $l,lOO Penn. State
s's 1870 a 81 ; 22 shares United States Bank 27 cash; 1 Gi-
rard 31.
At the Second Board—sl,soo Pennsylvania State s's 18E5
at 81i ; and after, 50 U, S. Bank, s. 11 ds flat at 26 ; 310 ditto
26i a 26* s. 10 ds flat ; and 26i b. 30 ds. flat, at 26i; and 100
Girard a :31 s. 20 days flat.
Closing Prices.—U. S. Bank 264 a 27, an advance of one
per cent. on Saturday's rates ; Girard 31 a 31i, a decli eof
one per cent. on previous rates ; Vicksburg 7 a 4. Light
drafts on New York 104 a 1021; on Baltimore one per cent.
preen.
-

BALTIMORE, FEB. 14-9 A.M.

The weather continues excessively cold, the thermometer
last night at 11 was only two degrees above zero. The ice in
the harbour is hard enough, and would effectually prevent the
arrival or departure of vessels but for the aid of the steam ice-
boats.
Money affairs continue very tight, and in the uncertainty
that rests on the subject of resumption and suspension, the
banks are hardly discounting a dollar. Exchauge on hew York
is up to 2a 2* prem. ; on Philadelphia, is at ia 1 discount,
so unsettled is the business, and on Richmond at 1 discount.

OPENING OF THE PRUSSIAN

DIET.

THE KING'S SPEECH.

The Prussian States Gazette announces that the Diet,
composed of the Brandenburgh department and the Margra-
viate of Lower Lusatia, was opened on the ht inst. After the
celebration of divine service in the cathedral, the Deputies re-
paired to their place of meeting, where their President, M. de
Bassewitz, read the fallowing decree :

" Frederick William, &c. -
" As a proof of our Royal confidence in our faithful States,
and of the value which we attach to their counsels, we invite
them to take the following propositions into their serious con-
sideration, particularly the first, which refers to the constitu-
tion of the Mates ; and another respecting a reduction of taxes
which we propose to grant.
"Ist. THE PUBLICATION OF THE DEBATES OF THE DIET.
In future we shall give a greater publicity to the debates and
deliberations of the Diet. We shall publish every proposal sub-
mitted to us by the Diet. Each Member shall receive two
copies
ofproceedings at the close of the Session to send to
the
his constituents. Our intention is to convoke the States every
two years, and for this reason they will enter into fuller delibe-
rations, . but our faithful States will advise us thereupon As
.

it is desirable in the interval of the Sessions that we should
consult men worthy of our confidence, we shall submit the
draught of an ordinance to our faithful States, in order that
they may appoint a Committee. The duty of this Committee
will consist in giving us all useful information relative to the
general interests of the kingdom and the particular interests of
the provinces
" 2d. AN ELECTORAL REGULATION FOR THE STATES.--
We submit an ordinance to our faithful States for the purpose
of remedying the inconveniences of the present electoral law.
" 3d. We submit several draughts of bills to our faithful
States relative to the game laws, and relative to the rivers
and forests, and the establishment of superior Courts of Ap-
peal, Sic.
" DECREE RELATIN• TO A REMISSION OF TAXES.-Our
faithful States will comprehend, as well as we do, that in the
present state of Europe it becomes an imperious duty to main-
tain all the existing financial resources of the State, in order
that we may be prepared for all events, relying on the
love and patriotism of our people, but if, as we hope,
we shall by our exertions consolidate a dui able peace, our
intention is to grant our subjects a diminution of taxes.
We hope at a later per:od, if circumstances permit, to grant
a still further reduction, because we are confident that our
subjects would not object to any sacrifices if the interests
of the peace of Europe required it. Notwithstand-
ing the considerable expense which the Government was
obliged to incur from the sear 1830 to 1833, his Majesty the
late King was enabled by economy to replace the sums ex-
pended, so that we expect by a similar economy in the present
and next year, if peace be maintained, to cover all expenses.
The satisfactory state in which our army is placed by those
expenses will, in case of war, save us from making further sa-
erifici s. In the commencement of the year 1 843 we propose
to reduce the taxes by 160,000 rixdollars. On this occasion
we shall render homage to the King our father, whose wise
economy enables us to make this reduction. Our States will
examine how this reduction of taxation shall be effected. We
are of opinion that the poorer classes ought to be particularly
favoured.

which the evil is not felt. This is, indeed, tl:e extreme of
knavery and cunning craftiness !
Again, in reference to the foreign money that these said fo-
reigners bring, it is all boiled with, and reduced by quicksilver.
If you wrap it up and put it past for several years without
touching it, it will become moths and corroding insects, and
their silver cups will change into feathers (or wings). Their
money is all of this species, and if we leave it fur four or five
hundred years, I am sure I don't know what it will change
into at last! If you take foreign dollars and weigh them, their
weight is 7 mace 3i candareens, but on putting them into the
crucible, they only yield 6 mace 3 candareens of pure silver,
thus on making a calculation, we find that they lose 1 mace and
5 cash ' what. sort of trash can they he made of ? Yet we find
that in Keang-nan, and where the river Hwae runs (i. e.
Hu-
nan and Che-keang), and all to the south, these dollars are used
in trade and circulate most abundantly ; we even find them at
a premium when compared with sycee silver, and this is really
what I cannot understand.

Moreover, it is a fact that we Chinese possees a rod of autho-
rity with which to chastise the foreigners at all times; an•t
yet so far from using this rod of authority to constrain them,
to be bit and duped by them, this is, indeed, a circumstance
to be much lamented. The rod of authority that I allude to is
to be found in the articles tea and rhubarb.
Of all the countries that lie to the N.W., Russia is the
largest by 'ar, and the people of that country, as well as those
of all other foreign countries, cannot possibly do without these
two articles. The reason of this is, that their climate is
rough and rigorous, the sun and wind both fierce and strong ;
day by day they subsist on beef and mutton ; the digestion ot
this food is riot easy; their bowels are bound up, and they
speedily die. Therefore it is, that every clay after meals they
take ot this divine medicine (i. e., tea and rhubarb), in order
to get a motion in their bowels.

The Great Western Ocean (or Portugal) is distant from
our country 100,000 Chinese miles (i. e., 30,000 English
miles), and these articles are no less necessary to them. Eng-
land is a little nearer, and they stand equally in need of them.
Now, however, the traitorous merchants of tl e inner land
covet their woollens and camlets, watches, and curiosities, in
order to make a little profit by them, and thus they carry on
trade with them, hoping to realise their expectations. But,
little do cur merchants know that these foreigners have pon-
dered deeply to provide measures aga'nst distant misfortune.
They have (in their country) heaped up a supply (of tea and
rhubarb) for ten or twenty years, so that when prevented from
carrying on trade with us they may experience no calamity,
and may not have occasion to sit with their hands bound,
waiting patiently for their death. Indeed, it may be said.
that ;heir plans are complete in the extreme. Now, although
I admit both the wealth and the power of these foreigners to
be very great, yet in these two important articles alone they
are quite at fault. They have wished to buy them in order to
plant and grow them themselves, anti yet they cannot realise
their hopes, the ground and the plant being quite unsuitable.
Thus then a kind Providence seems to have put the rod
into our hands by which we may curb and restrain these
distant foreigners.
My humble view then of the matter is this, that in order
to stop the deluge of opium poison that is now overflowing the
country, large proclamations should be posted up at the ports
and custom-houses, rigidly prohibiting for the meantime inter-
course with the foreigners. Let us stop until the opium evil
be entirely cut off, which will be several years atter this, and
the stock that they have on hand will gradually become ex-
hausted, when they will again come before us with the most
abject language, begging and praying; we may then wait pa-
tiently until they have begged us a second and a third time,
when we may open to them a side of the net. and, as a proof of
extraordinary goodness, permit them to trade with us again.
Still these two aforesaid articles, ere they leave the port, must
be paid for in sycee silver, they must neither be bought with
(their false) foreign money, nor bartered for commodities; if
any man oppose this law, let him suffer one grade less than
death by strangling. Thus, in the course of a few tens of
years, the sycee silver that previously went out of our country
in payment for opium, will gradually return to us without any
difficulty; and, in like manner, will tie spurious foreign
money go back gradually to the places whence it came
This is the real way to ward of the ills of the foreigners
by wisdom I this is the sage law that is to them in the native
traitors!

its to stopping the flew of opium poison, by means of killing
every person who smokes it, on the principle that there being
now no longer any person to use the drug, no more of the drug
will come ; thus cutting off the stream, in order to stop up the
source. 1 his plan, I say, would be imitating the former ex-
ample of Kaou-lew-pa (Europe? or halapa ? i. e. Batavia?)
and taking a lesson from the previous wisdom of the Cochin
Chinese, without being aware that the circumstances of the
case are widely different! Because, at the time that Bombay
bad intercourse with Cochin China, the attempt of the people
of the former place to induce those of the latter to smoke did
not succeed ; the Cochin Chinese having rendered their scheme
abortive at the very outset, so at the first prohibition, the evil
instantly stopped. It hase,however, been current among us
now, for several tens of years, and throughout the whole of the
eighteen provinces. How, then, is it possible, were a similar
command now given, that it would have the same effect? Per-
haps in the two provinces of Keang-nan and Che• keang, where
the people tremble at the laws, and cherish a whole-
some dread of punishment—perhaps there, there might
be a Chow district or a Been district that would not
dare to disobey, but you could not take these as a rule for the
rest. There are for instance the provinces of Hoo-kwang,
Honan and Sze• chuen ; in many of the Chow and Heen dis-
tricts live the Meaou tsze barbarians, indiscriminately mixed
with our own people; our settlements and their fastnesses are
studded in and out, out and in, like a dog's upper and under
teeth fast locked, and these Meaou t-ze have never submitted
to our laws! Again, in Kwang se are the five districts of Kwei
lin foo, Lew chow foo, Ping nan foo, Woo chow too, and Tsin
chow too, where the Chwang barbarians (or Chwang koo laou
urh) are much more numerous than our own people in the
proportion of seven of ,he former to three of the latter; and at
Sew jin, Shih pae, and Teen ho they are still more fierce and
fiery. If these barbarians smoke opiumt they will not c -nsent
to stoop their heads and be tamely bound, but must assemble
in great numbers and give downright battle ; and this is a
circumstance that we cannot but feel anxious about !

Moreover, as regards the people of Fokien, Canton, and all
along the coast, these people are accustomed to the use of
arms ; they have many ways of getting out and coming in, and,
moreover, those among them who smoke opium are very nume-
rous. If these fly off and escape to the little islands of the sea,
the foreigners may supply them with food and clothes, and by
means of that be continually finding out what is going on
among us; and, in some barren and secluded parts, where our
mandarins, soldiers, and police cannot go by reason of the by
paths, they (the foreigners) may with to take part with these
runaways, and if these assembled brigands once rice, our forts
on the land roads would be found mere idle contrivances !
his causes one still more anxiety than the rebelling of the
Chwang barbarians !

As regards the smokers of opium, these consist of noble and
base, rich and poor, worthy men and depraved wretches, good
and bad ; for those among them who are idle and sloth-
ful, stupid and impotent, who work evil and do harm, I
have not a word to say. But those who are the teal-hearted
descendants of loyal ancestors! who have worn with honour
the civilian's cap and the soldier's armour ! who are im-
bued with literature and refinement! perhaps rich people
who adorn politeness, who give up all for the service of them
country, and who take delight in doing good! men whose cha-
racter is upright, whose conduct is irreproachable! who may
be Sew tsae, Keen sang, or Ken jin, and possess the most
astonishing talent 1 or secretaries and clerks in public offices,
who love justice and act purely ! or, perhaps, the most beau-
tiful, the most refined, the most accomplished of our women,
or, perhaps, virtuous widows, chaste as the icicle itself, down
to the husbandman, mechanic, and merchant, who keep their
place, and conduct themselves well—if such persons, I say,
are for the mere whiffing of a pipe of opium to fall into the
net of the law, then the clanking of bonds and fetters . will
be heard in every highway ; the prisons will be so crammed
as not to leave an inch of space ; moreover, those who require
to take a large quantity of opium to renovate, will not be
able to await the reply from the Board of Punishments
(confirming or annulling their sentence), but will die off
by thousands and tens of thousands at a time. Now
in the instance of a rebellion, when we levy soldiers to exter-
minate the rebels, when we have "clipped their wings," and
massacred their wives and children, it only amounts to a few
hundreds or a few thousands of people after all, and there the
affair ends. But, on the other hand, as regards opium smo-
kers, if you wish to annihilate them, let us look at the pro-
vinces of Fokien and Canton alone,• where, out of every ten
men, some seven or eight smoke opium, and I fear that, even
should you butcher some eighty or a hundred thousand people,
yet would you be as far from effecting your object as ever 1
Again, if afterwards you are obliged by circumstances to loosen
the severity of the law, then those who hare already suffered
the awful penalty have suffered unjustly ; if you change it to a
new statute, then those whom you have put to death have been
murdered 1 But the foundations (of the Government) of
my native country are laid on benevo!ence and kind-
ness ! We are exceedingly careful in awarding punishment !
so much so that even so small a thing as a single life cannot be
taken away without a minute investigation into the circum-
stances previously, arid afterwards the warrant for execution
receiving the imperial rubric ; therefore it is that our laws and
punishments have now attained a state of perfection that they
never had before ! In consequence of this for these last two
hundred years, has this country been steeped with the dew of
vast prosperity (from your Majesty's family occupying the
throne), and the line of succession of your 'Majesty's descen-
dants promies to be long; now, however, .by a single word,
hurriedly and unadvisedly to convert the whole of your empire
into one vast prison 1 This is, I say, what never may be done !
Moreover, the people of the land are your Majesty's chil-
dren. Having received the opium poison from the foreigners,
and having been foolishly seduced to smoke it, their property.
is utterly exhausted, and their very lives are in great danger,
Think you that they do not bitterly repent of their folly? But
alas ! being deeply smit with the infection, they have no means
of getting rid of it. Again, the holy son of heaven (i. e. your
Majesty) is the father and mother of the people. You, know-
ing perfectly the circumstances of the case, should feel com-
passion for their folly, should pity the struggling in the waters.
Your Majesty should, therefore, take this unfortunate peoi lc,
covered, as it were, with boils and sores, lift them upon the
couch, and point them out the path that leads to a happy old
as grass and reeds; the affections of
age ; how can your Majesty ever assume the unbecoming at. •
titude of an executioner, flourishingn aboutiv your axe, and threat-
enings
of the people
to butcher your own chi
ldr_ _ ,
.h le you contentedly per-
°tnheeoutside forei,,ners m ; the most va-
luablemy
your
u,trrot hpseuepomopiluseopnint-hsupes :ley anhd:iltne
be
in one
1 a
lac, nni se owf.to.f
ro:r e;lii
sgr
from
neer s
yl fiovr
soe
and must not be per-
onflegratrrisons, and have e
,sis ust not be per-
mimuttti e notd utoo
commodity
eemalkuo odoiktueyt d;
ouftph e
Chekeang,sr k ki n? Kwangtung, and
terms, and the whole
such
slothfutl
of our sea-coast must not be so y guarded. Along the
whole range of our sea-coast, say,,
_I-neaoutung, Pichelee,
us
on centllel
miffed to trade with
Shantung, Keangnan,
At the mouth of
creek
every ferry, pa",
nu-
merousK w a n g
or
cautions belonging to the central land
we must take like precautions, to make of these as
strength, so that
it were our horns of _ the foreigners
may not come peeping and. sp.y..i:negnsabanount,o and then we shall
longer require to give their security
prdoel 41'announcing that we do
I intercourse •
se with us. Thus, then,
not permit them to ho. .
hive
ra'°vleedsmccucliesnatit•fiarns constantly
ypia
place
of time leave off coming •
will opium in the course
require to give their
, thus will
no longer lurk in their"
mysterious
sHwoinl merchantsigtimpium h
" tart crabs or scrambling
dens—and thus will no
moretransport of thes dor' "
thethu
dragons" be required for the
As f h ug., whith give
trouble in the catching. . or t eopium that has
us so much
inner land, there is no occasion to take the
already entered the inner
no it. A for
s those who smoke,
trouble of seizing and destroy].
ir,
let them leave •
let them continue to smoke, it off, just as
()even after half a
they please. After a year, or year,.when they
then those
who sell it will seek
know that no more will come,
d, and those
out some other means of livelihood,
shattered constitutions.
will take measures to secure their
leisurely, and without any violent
Thus, then, by going to work
no
ulters

" FREDERICK WILLIAM,
" MULLER.
• "DE ROCHA," &c.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. ls.—Yesterday, at length, the
Porte signed the Firman of Investiture to Mehemet AU. It
was communicated to the Representatives of the Four Powers,
accompanied with a request to continue the support which the
Four Powers had so generally afforded to the Porte last year,
in case that Mehemet Ali should refuse to execute, uncondi-
tionally, the ordinance of the Porte for the administration of
the country.
The Firman was sent also to Count Pontois, but it was not
accompanied with any observations. Nevertheless it excited
some sensation, as it was asserted that the Porte intends
shortly •to invite France to accede to the Treaty of the
15th of July, and to recognise the results which had been pro-
duced by that treaty.
CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 15.--(From another Correspon-
dent. )—lnstead of the expected firmans, three firmans were
yesterday despatched to Egypt by a special messenger from
the Porte. '1 he fir.t contains the order for the ,investiture
of Mehemet Ali, as well as the condi'ions and regulations
which the Pachas of Egypt shall be bound to observe in the
government of the country ; in the second, Mehemet Ali is
desired to send to Constantinople the arrears of tribute due by
him for Arabia, Candia, and :-.lyria : by the third, the pro.
vinces of Sennaar, Fazoglie, Nubia, and Ethivpia, are placed
provisionally under the Governor of Egypt. 'The firman of
No. 1 was communicated also to the French Ambassador.—
Aitgemeinc Zeitung.

Em wer
fa• eror,
al cone
' When one reflects that this nonsense is written by one of
the most learned and talented mandarins of China, one might
suppose
h taht aj to
khees was
hhaot a
kxiinndg
,tchoeolgdo ohde- nattendedwithp
sequences in China. Is it not possible that the memorialist
may have in his possession some mutilated translation of the
Scriptures? and, seeing such passages as Matt. vi. 19—." Lay
not up for yourselves ,treasures on earth, where moth and rust
do corrupt," &c. ; Prov. xxiii. s—" Riches make themselves
wings and fly away," &c., may have taken them in their literal
acceptation?
# The Chwann. Kco laou urh are said to be fond of opt
_ .. __ .Opium to
excess.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONtht MARCH 8,184 L

urging of matters, will the whole of the empire be made cheer-
fully and contentedly to follow after their lawful calling.
This will realise the saving that the people should be fos-
tered by kindness ; and the doctrine of straightening the stem
that the branches may likewise be straight, and purifying the
fountain that the stream may also run clear, is all contained in
these suggestions. By following up these suggestions we shall
rejoice for ten thousand years amid peace and plenty ! and wit
not this be a good plan ?

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 4.—The average price of wheat
last week was 18f. 69c., and that of Rye, Ilf. 41e. per
hectolitre.

We are happy to learn that investigations of the
Commission of Inquiry into the Linen Manufacture
are proceeding rapidly. Part of the report is ready.
The printing of the portion relative to England is
finished ; that of the interrogatories is begun.
The Precursor of Antwerp announces the dissolution
of the society for the navigation between London and
Antwerp. It is hoped that the Government will t ikc
up for its own account. an enterprise which is indispen-
sably necessary to our intercourse with England.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 5.—A letter from the Danube,
dated the 23d day of February, in the Gazette of
Callsruhe, says there is no truth in the reports of the
movement of Russian troops towards the western
frontiers of Poland. There is no idea of any such
movement. The same may be said of the extraordi-
nary levies rep( rted to be ordered in Russia. If the
affairs of Egypt are once settled, all other questions will
be arranged amicably.
AUGSBURG, FEB. 28.—THE HANOVERIAN CUS-
TOMS UNlON.—Hanover, Brunswick, and Olden-
burg, has announced the termination of the conven-
tion concluded in 1839, for three years with the Ger-
man Customs Union, with the intention of renewing
it with some alterations, especially to facilitate, by ex-
changing some detached portions of territory, the
guarding of the frontiers. A union with the great
German Union is not to be thought of, the King of
Hanover being averse to it on account of his connexion
with England.
THE HAGUE, MArterr 2.—We are glad to learn
that her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange, who
has been for some days past indispose 3, is now re-
covering.
DUTCH:FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, MARCH 5
Money. /310 s.
tctual Debt, ‘2% per Cent
auto, ditto 5 per cc!. t.
Amon t Syndic,4 er cent 7l 713
Ditto, ditto, :314 per cent
Commercial Company, 4' per cent I,ON 1614 i
Ditto (15435 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... 100 JOOl4
Loan 1537, 5 per cont. v534 90 ,
Exchange on London, One !retail l2
Two snan tha
Dutch Papers, March 6.
BELUIAI4 U NDs-ISILUSSELd, Mancit 5
Actual Debt, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent bll
per Cent.

---Thirty.seven
(1 40) J. ,
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent BB
Society of Commerce, .1!•; per Cent ll2 i
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ....... KA
National S9ciety . —
Exchange on LondoM (short)
—Brussels Papers, March 5.
-- -

_ .
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIE'IIiA, FE8.24.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. lkh,
Three psi' Cents.
Bank :Shares 1657
—.Alltemeine &Rung, March 1
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, MARCH 2,
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares
Anglo-Russian Loan IO6N 106%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Se2teS lOl 110%
Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th
Series . 963
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 21.‘, per Cent. 46'A, 49
Ditto 5 per Cen' ._
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cert l33f, 75%
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent.
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. IS%
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, Marten 2.
Bids. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4!,y per cent. 10:36 11:31,4
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 100% 100
lixcliange on London, three months 6li jit
—Prussian State Gazette. March 3

HEATING BUILDINGS WITH

HOT WAI ER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—ln your Evening Edition of the 27th ult.
there appears a letter from Mr. Thomas Fuller, of
Bath, in answer to an article inserted in your Paper
of the 15th, on the danger by fire from the Ise of Mr.
Perkins's patent apparatus.
To the question, " How, if at all, can the danger be
avoided, and this cheap and convenient mode of heating
buildings by means of hot water be practised without
risk ?" be " endeavours to answer by explaining t: e
plan adopted in their own manufactory." It appears,
Mr. Editor, to me essential that the public should
fully understand that the plan desbribed by Mr. Ful-
ler is not Mr. Perkins's alluded to by your Correspon-
dent, but is on an entirely different principle, and there-
fore cannot, "as he presumes, satisfactorily meet your
Correspondent's inquiry." Mr. Fuller describes the
plan adopted at their manufactory, " as at once, simple,
safe, and effective." Any mode possessing such re-
commendations for heating buildings, cannot, I think,
be too generrilly known, nor too clearly described ; but
unfortunately Mr. Fuller has either formed wrong
conclusion, and thereby erroneously described their ap-
paratus, or he has omitted to describe fully some por-
tion of it ; for his "ascending pipe" appears to be much
longer than the " descending pipe ;" still he adds, " the
c( lumnal pressure of the water in the descending pipe
being greater than in the ascending, the whole is set in
motion, passing through the cistern it the top down one
pipe, through the boiler, and up the other pipe, unt,l the
whole body is heated to one uniform degree, never
reaching the boiling point, consequently producing no
steam." In this explanation Mr. Fuller does not ap-
pear to make sufficient allowance for the temperature,
especially with the disparity, according to his descrip-
tion, in the lengths of the pipes.
Lastly, Mr. Fuller suggests that if it has been the
practice to work the apparatus in question, at a higher
temperature than boiling wat-r, and an interval of dis-
use has occurred during the late severe frosts, the
contents of the pipes most remote from the fire have
no doubt become solid ice, and by obstructing the flow
of water occasioned an excess of heat near the boiler, so
as to cause the mischief which has happened." Here
again Mr. Fuller has strangely overlooked this impor-
tant fact, that the mischief alluded to by your Corres-
pondent, in your paper of the 13th ult., did not happen
near the furnace, (Jar boiler, as I have before said,
there is none,) but in different stories, and at distances
from the fire varying up to twenty or thirty yards, and
even more. _

It is very generally admitted that in the case of the
disastrous fire at Messrs. Cra`ts and Steli's warehouse,

the pipes might have been in some places frozen up,
and here the coil within the furnace burst soon after the
fire' had been lighted, scattering the burning cinders
amongst the goodr, and caused the conflagration which
followed.

The several fires which were discovered in Messrs.
Barbour's warehouse all occurred in a different story
from that in which the furnace is fixed, and the water
is said to have travelled upwards of thirty yards from
the fire, before reaching that part of the premises where
these ignitions occurred. The floor and the matting of
one of the lobbies in the top story of the Museum was
charred, at a distance of about eighty feet from the
furnace, which is in the cellar, and this took place after
the pipes had been emptied and refilled with fresh
water by Mr. Walker's men, who had pronounced the
apparatus to be in perfect working condition.
I could produce many similar instances, but deem it
unnecessary.
It is now three weeks since I first called the atten-
tion of your Corre►pondent and the public to this danger,
and being yet, with the professional assistance of Mr.
John Davies, of this town, engaged in investigating this
subject, we are anxious to obtaic every information that
really bears upon the question.
I am, Sir, yours very respectfully,
Manchester Assurance Office, G. V. RYDER.
Manchester, March 4, 1841.

THE DISCUSSION IN PARLIA
11ENT ON LORD CARDIGAN'S CASE.

Lord Cardigan has found two zealous defenders in
Mr. Macaulay and Lord John Russell. They find no
fault with the Noble Lord ; they blame only the public
or an unjust and intemperate clamour against the in•
jured Nobleman, and Lord John declares that it is only
because he is an Earl, and rich, that he is so perse.
cuted ; Lord John having, it seems, discovered that
there is a strong prejudice in England against wealth
and rank.
According to Lord John Russell and Mr. Macau-
lay, if there were a Cardigan in command of every regi-
ment in the service, each ruining some half-dozen of able
and experienced officers, and bringing his regiment, to
repeat Lord Hill's words, into a state of inefficiency by
dissensions, if all the regiments in the service were
brought into the state of the Eleventh by Cardigans,
there would to no remedy applicabl-, and indeed no
cause of complaint, in the view of the leader of the
House of Commons and the Secretary at War.
Mr. Hawes well said—
" It might he true, as stated by the Right Hon.
Gentleman, the Snretary•at-War, that there were no
means of inquiring into the conduct of Lord Cardigan ;
but was it to go forth as their opinion that a man of
high character and unquestionable courage, driven from
his regiment by the conduct of- its commanding cfficer,
his reputation and prospects sacrificed—was it to go
forth that no protection was to be given to a man
placed in that situ.tion ?"
Lord Howick treated the subject with justice and
spirit. Ile pronounce:l the attempted defence of Lord
John Russel insufficient, and ably poit,!cl out the pro-
priety of inquiry as equally due, in fairness, to Lord
Cardigan, the complaining officers, and the Army ge-
nerally.
Sir Henry Hardinge slandered the officers of the
Eleventh, by imputing to them a cabal.
On the whole, nothing could be more ding
ung
than the partisanship displayed in the discussionu.vi.e must • ,sti but
with our space so pre-occupied as it now ►,
t b-
, reserve the remarks that occur to us for our
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