The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA.

THE MESSAGE.—LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY NIGHT.—
The wind having kept in the N.E. for some days past,
it is not very probable that the American President's
Message can arrive by either of the sailing packets. The
steam-ship Caledonia will be 13 days out on Wednesday
next, and may be looked for on that or the following.
day. She will bring the Message and a week's proceed-
ings of Congress.

DEATH OF THE HON. J. BARRINGTON FORBES.—
We have the painful duty to announce the death of the
lion. Jonathan Barrington Forbes, eldest son of Lord
Forbes. The Hon. Gentleman died at Oxford on Thurs
last, of scarlet fever, after an illness of only two days;
he would have attained his 18th year on the 4th prox-
imo. The deceased was at the university pursing his
studies, being a Fellow Commoner of Oriel College. His
death will be a severe affliction to Lord and Lady Forbes,
as his attainments gave great promise.
DEATH OF GENERAL GEORGE MITCUELL.—On
Saturday accounts were received of the death at Fisher-
ton Anger, near Salisbury, of General George Mitchell,
at a very advanced age, for had he lived a few days
longer he would have completed the 89th year of his
age. He died on Tuesday afternoon, at three o'clock,
after a short illness. The gallant deceased was known
to every person residing at Salisbury and its vicinity,
from the singularity of his habits, and many tales are
told of his eccentricities. He repeatedly called in the
poorest of his neighbours to share the hospitalities of his
table ; and his benevolence to the indigent was most
bountiful. The venerable general entered the army as
far back as February, 1776, nearly 70 years ago.
SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCE IN WINDSOR AND ITS
VICINITY.—THE QUEEN'S GIFTS.—Her Majesty's
gifts to the poor of Windsor, consisting of blankets,
meat, bread, plum-pudding, &c. will be given away to
the poor of Windsor, consisting of between 400 and 500
families, under the superintendence of the Hon. and Rev
C. L. Courtenay, the Queen's domestic chaplain, and the
parochial authorities, in the Riding-school at the Royal
Mews, on New Year's-day, in the presence of her Ma-
jesty. the Prince Consort, and the members of the court.
TIIE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA.—
His Excellency the Earl of Elgin and suite, according to
present arrangements, will embark for North America
on the 4th of next month, from Liverpool, on board the
Boston mail-packet steamer, whence his Lordship pro-
ceeds overland to Montreal. The Earl and Countess are
expected to arrive in town on Monday next from Scot-
land. The Countess will not join the Noble Earl until
the advance of the spring.
WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE AN APOTHECARY'S SHOP.

_Limestone contains from 24 to 42 per cent. of the car-
bonate of magnesia, from which Epsom salts are pro-
cured by the application of sulphuric acid. Hence, as
Westminster-bridge is built of the rock, it would, if
covered with water and sulphuric acid, be converted into
Epsom salt.
DISMISSAL OF POLICE-OFFICERS.-011 Saturday
last, at the meeting of Commissioners of Police in Scot
land yard, no fewer than 22 officers connected with
various sections of the metropolitan police were reported
for drurkenness and other breaches of conduct in the
performance of their duties on Christmas day The re-
sult of which led to a rigid investigation of tho circum-
stances. llowever, the whole of them were dis6iarged,
notwithstanding many had been some years in the
force, which would have entitled them to a pension.
COBDEN TRIBUTE FUND.—The Manchester sub-
script' ,ns to this fund have been considerably increased
during the week, the principal contributions being from
places at a distance, including Tlllicoutry, Scotland;
Norwich, Leek, and Newcastle-on• Tyne. Total of the
Manchester subscription, 52,5764 ls, 6d. Manchester
Examiner.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of last Night.)
(I Saturday was :,b,,erved as a holiday in the L'verporl
The absence of many speculators from town at this
season prevented a large business being done at Messrs.
Lamond and Co.'s sale of Railway Shares on Saturday,
but prices were all very firm. The following are a few
of the principal sales :
Great Indian Peninsular £o 5 0
Vale of Neath
1 8 0
Great Luxembourg
Northern Counties Union 1 5 0
Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire, Old 0 10 0
Louvain ala Sambre
Manchester and Southampton, 1847 1 12 0
Madrid and Valencia 1 0 6
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 6 0
London and Blackwell, New . 4 6 •
Great Western of Bengal 0 5 0
Newport and Abergavenny
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 10 6
Eastern Counties, York Extension 3 11 6
Taw Vale Extension and Dock
There ale later accounts from the United States, viz.,
to the 4th inst., but the int.lligence is not of particular
importance, and the chief matter of interest now looked
for is the receipt, per Caledonia steamer, of
the President's Message. There was a fair
prospect of the supplies of grain for Europe continuing
abundant, a cheering circumstance in our need, and see-
ing that prices continue to advance here. To-day
wheat is full 2s. per quarter dearer. Referring to the
matter of corn supplies, the " Circular to Bankers,"
though affording some interesting calculations, is rather
warped by prejudice against the last Currency Bill of
Sir Robert Peel, and anticipates a decided pressure from
this necessity of importing from abroad. The writer asks :
" What amount of current money or capital will be taken
from its ordinary uses in general trade for this great,
new, imperative traffic in foreign corn ? In France and
England combined, we believe not much less than ten
millions sterling. A great proportion of this large
amount will pass out of the possession of these two
countries, into the hands of Russia and the United
States, to enrich and strengthen them. In France and
England a greater amount of money is required for
circulation, because of the enhanced value of almost all—
and certainly all the principal—commodities to be circu-
lated by the agency of money. And the system of cur-
rency prevailing in France and England, forbids the en-
largement of their monetary circulation for their internal
traffic. This describes the "fix" in which those two
old countries will, we fear, find themselves within the
r next six months. Payments for calls on fbreign railways
by British subjects will certainly not amount to so large
a sum as the investments by England in State Stocks,
and other securities of the United States, in the year
1638, and immediately preceding years. The extension
of continental railways must be regarded comparatively
as unimportant; or not a highly important, aggravation
of the existing evil of monetary disturbance
and the drain for them must be principally for France
a common sufferer with England from the same causes.
Austria and Prussia will take care of themselves by the
free use of paper-money—however temporary may be its
use—and by the direct patronage and identification of
their Governments with the railway adventurers."
Whatever Austria and Russia may do, we should be
sorry to see England copy them in their paper issues.
The English Stock Market is firm, although extremely
quiet. Consols realise 94* -I, the New Thr,e•and-a-
Quarter nor Cents. are 96 to *, and the Three per
Cents. 94* to 4. Bank Stock has been firm at 206.
Exchequer bills are Bs. to I 1 s. premium, being rather
heavy. There is not expt cted to be much done until
tie dividends are paid next month.
In the Foreign Stock Exchange the transactions have
been on a very moderate scale. Spanish Five per Cents.
have realised 264 being ecarcely so good as previously.
Portuguese Four per Cents. have risen to 384. Mexican
Stock is quoted, 241; Grenada, 194; the Deterred, 34;
and the Equador, 3*-; Buenos Ayres Bonds are
at 42 to 43, and Peruvian at 39, being in most
instances about previous rates. Venezuela Stock is 39k.
Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. have improved to 61
and 61*. The accounts from Lisbon are almost as inde-
finite as ever, and it is not easy to determine on what
ground the bonds have improved.
The Share Market looks well again to-day, and in
some cases there has been a slight advance in the
quotations .—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 114 to
11k; Caledonian, 34 to 29k; Direct Northern, 2-1 ;
Eastern Counties, 23 * ; Great Western, 126 ; South-
Western, 63. ; London and York, 2:1 ; North British,
36 -* ; North Staffordshire, 94 a ; Scottish Central, 22
224 ; South-Eastern, 40 ; York and Newcastle, 38 ;
Great Northern of France, 11 ; Sambre and Meuse, 44 ;
and West Flanders, 5.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock 206 206
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 9481,4 94%
New 34 per Cent. Annuities 961/s 96 •
1/s
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 978 9%
India Bonds, 1,0001 —
Ditto under 1,000/. . .......
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Opening 944%
Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1%d.... 811 8— p
Ditto, 5001
Ditto. Small
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Buenos Ayres Bonds. 6 oer Cent. 42 43
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent...
Equador Bonds
Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. l9
Ditto, Deferred 3%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 24,4
Ditto, Account —
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 39%
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto. Account ... ....- ..... 38%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account . 26%%
Ditto 3 per Cent......
Ditto, Account —
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 39%
Ditto, Deferred ll%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 934
PRICES OF
PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber.. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%..... 2% 3
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush .... 1%,...
Belfast & County Down 4.N ..... .
Birmingham and Dudley 425. ... .. 6% p
Birmin. and Glaucester..loo
Ditto New 17% — ... ...
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire Junc.... 23/4 —
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. 3/4 3/8 r, rs
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Bristol and Liver. June.. 2144
Buckinghamshire
~ aledoniar,
Ditto Halt Shares ..... . 21/i 2% 2%
Ditto„Clydesdale June '25 ......
Chester and 1101yhead... 27% —
Claurnet and Blythe— 2
Chester and Manchester 425.
•••
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... .
Clarence lOO
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 —
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford ... 11/2 —
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares ... 2% ..... . ..-..
Direct Lincoln, East Ret-

93%
94
8p
8p
8p

CLOSING
PRICES
43
88%

3);
191,4
31,4
2414
241/2
39%

265,i
38%
40
11%
61%
93

6% P

11%

% P

ford, and Sheird. June. 2%
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Belfast June 121,4i —
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 23%
Ditto New l2l 16s 71,4 p
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d...
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension.. 2 ......
EastDereh'sn andNor'ch 1
Eastern Union
Ditto. Quarter Shares 10
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 17,8 — .........
Do., Cainb. and Ely.. 21,,E
East Lancashire
Ditto. New
Do., do. (late Preston
and Orrnskirk)...
Do., do., New Scrip ll%
East Lincolnshire ... •• 114
East & West of England . .........
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 76
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
.........
Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% l5 .. .........
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
......
......
Ely and lluntingdon
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2%,,...,
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 2%
Glasgow,Kilmar.,&Ayr 50
Ditto, New .. 15
Do., 14 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.) ...... 121/2
Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 2
Great Eastern &Western ....... •••• ••
Great South. and West
(Ireland)
Great Munster ... 21 ......
Great North of Scotland 214......
Great North of England..loo 239 238
Ditto New
Ditto, New
Ditto, New
Great Western B5 126

-
3%q

23
7% P

.1/i p
3%

3
05/
-18

211/,
18%
151

1414,
1%

2%

281 A

Ditto % Shares. 50
Ditto 14 Shares lO
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New ... .. 2
Huddersfield & Manches. 13 ••••••
Ditto, Extension
Hull and Selby 50
Do. Half Shares 25
Ditto M Shares
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 14 ~..
Do., do., and Norwich 5
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Do. New
Leeds and Bra liOrd 10
Leicester and Bedr.)rd... 16s
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 221/2 311A.. ........ ....
Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2% —
Do. Extension( Green) 24.•
Leeds and Thirsk 1714...... 16:14'
Ditto, New
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ut. 3% 514 ...... .....
Do., Mnchstr & New
castle Junction. 2IX, .....
I.r.ndon and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 46
Do. New
3 ••• •• ....' .......
•• •• ...

4/
106

1314
4,
67!4;

7.7
,314

311/4

43/.71
514

Ditto Extension 71,.....• .. ........ ...
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O .. .. 591/E 59
is:— . .•:‘,l:,
DO. LR,Vi. Eighths.. 10
Do. (i•.:arant. 5 per ct. 9
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d —
Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — . .
London, Hounslow, and
Western
London and N. Westeratloo
Do. Quarters .. 2
Dn. , ci0.. New
Ditto Fifths
Do. IA Shares (G. J.) 5
•••
Do 40/. Shares( L. M.) —
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40
Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 5 -
10/. (M. X ' ' ---

Do. 10/. M. & B:) B. 5
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1
London. Uxfor'

Cheltenham l%
0d ...
... ........ ..
..
Lond. & S.Western 411 6a 1
De. New ConsoL Bths 40
Do. New .............. 221
..
Do. New .......... ... 18 Ditto Tenths ..... .. 5 ..
Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4 ""•'......
Ditto Scrip
Ditto ditto ...... ...... 4 ..... --
London and York 24 ....... 234 %re
Do. Extension
..... .........
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... .... ........ 2%.. .. . .
Londonderry& Coleraine 15 ..... Londonderry and Ennis-
....._
killen
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham
Manchester and Leeds 82 10834
Ditto lA, Shares . ... 38 ......
Do. Quarters
Do. Fifths ...... . 5 . , .
Do. Sixteenths ... 64
Do. Extension 42s. 11,4% p ...
Do. Liverp. and Bury 24
Do. do. Fifths ...... ... 1
blanchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 425....... 114% p
-Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ... .. . 1 h3/4
Midland lOO l3l 1291/2 1301,2
Do. Fifths 2
Do. New
Ditto, New
Do. Birin., and Derbyloo lO4l/4 AL....."
Midland Great Western
Irish
Newcastle end lierw:ck 20
Do. North Shields . . 25
Newcastlf- and Carlisle...loo
Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5
Newport& Abergavenny 2%......
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, Warrenpoint, ...
and Rostrevcr 5
• ~......••..
Norfolk ......... ......... ...100 129 .... ».......
Ditto Half Shares .. 9
Do. Extension
Do. Scrip, 1847, North
of Norfolk...
Do. do. Waveney Val.
Northern Counties Union 214.--
North Br.tish ..... ... 25
Do. Half Shares - ... .....
Do Quarters
Do. Extension
Ditto Thirds 1 ... 3%
Northerr, and Eastern... 50
Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45
Do. Quarter Shares... 121.4 —
Do. New
North Staffordshire 5 ---- 91/234 Ni,rth'Vales
...
Northern and Southern

Td, -and

Connecting
North Western... 24
Oxford, W,,rcester, and

Wolverhampton
Oxford, Witt) ey, and
Cheltenham....
Portsmouth Direct
Preston and Wyre
Do. I„.', Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate 3/. 12s. — dis. ....... ...
Richmond
Royston and Hitcben ... 1% —
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 12% —
Sheffield & Manchester 100
Do. Quarter Shares... 8
Do. Lincolnshire June. 11a ......
Do. & Great Grimsby. 10
Do. do. Extension 425.
Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 •• 5%1/8 ...... .....
Ditto ditto, Class B. 114 2%
Shropshire Union
South Devon..
South S taffordshire J unc. 2%
South Eastern & Dover. 33% 4O
Do., No. 1 2G
Do., lic , 2.
Do., No. 3
Do., No. 4
St.Alban's, Hatfield,and
Hertford Junction ... 425. —
•••••
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 23/4 ...-
South Wales 5 -
. • • ••••••
meron's Stm. C0a1.... 2
Taw Vale Extension ... 3 - ••• ... ••••••••
Vale of Neath 2
Wakefield, Pontefract, &
Goole
Waterford and Kilkenny 11 • - ..
Waterford and Limerick 27%
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
Wexford, W aterford, and
Valentia
Waveney Valley ..... -- 2
Welsh Midland
West Riding Union 42s. 2IA% p ...... ...
West Cornwall
tVexford and Carlow
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York and Newcastle. ... 25 ..... 38% 38
Ditto New 5 ...... 12%....• . ..... .
Do. Preference
fork anti North Midland 50
Ditto IA Shares-- ... 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extension 2O - ...........
Ditto, Preference
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo-Belgian 4
Barbadoes 1
Belgian Eastern Junctn. 21,[2
.••
Boulogne and Amiens... 18 ......„
Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cettc (Mackenzie's)... 2 ~ ~, ...............
Do. (Espelete's) .... 2 .... . ..... .........
Calais, Dunkrk, and West
Flanders ... 2 ......
Calcutta and Diamond
Harbour
Callao, Lima, and Pacific
Coast 1 .. ... ... .. .........
Central of Spain ...
Ceylon
Demerara 2l/2 .., _
~,
Ue.lcire Valley
Direct Bombay and
Madras
j Dutch Rhenish 6
East ltidis.o ... ..... .... ss.
Fampoux & llazebrouk 4
Great Indian Peninsular ss.
Great Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada... 314 .....
Italian and Austrian.... 4.....
Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 -
Jersey
Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... . ......
Luxembourg...... ..... .. 4
Lyons and Avignon 2 —
Madras .
Madras. Nellore, and
Arcot %
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... —
Mauritius 1
Namur and Liege
Nn of France Constituted 5 ..... 11 .
North Jamaica 1
Orleans ,and Vierzon ... 10 ......
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... ~, ~,„
Over Yssel 4l3s 4d
Paris &Lyons Constituted 8
Paris and Orleans 2O .. .
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg
Constituted
Rouen and Havre ...... 20
Sambre and Meuse ...... 10
... 41/2,
•••••
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
St. Laurence & Atlantic
Tours and. Nantes Con-
stituted ... ... . 5 - ..
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt....... 8
Trinidad
West Flanders ...... ~.. 6
JOINT STOCK BANKS.

Australasia
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
Union of London..- ..... 10
British North American 50
Commercial of London 20

Colonial
London & Westminster. 20
London Joint Stock
National of Ireland 2214 —
National Prov. England. 35
Union of Australia
MINES

Real del Monte Unregd.

59
47%

15%
19%

63%

2634
5%

2%

17%
17
108%
50

1% p

13b p
13/4
130%

32
714
10444

347 i

129
11%

36%
131,4
3q-
11A
3%

9%

22 1/, 1

24.4
4 dis

24;4
1714
3%

3%

_
2p

97s
3$

12%

81%
3834,
14%
18%

15%

X

1%

-
%

31/4
10%
144

81-A
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41

ADVANTAGES OF THE PORT OF SOUTHAMPTON.—
The Miranda, Captain Leonard, trading between London
and the West Irdies, came into the Southampton Docks,
on Wednesday, in a very eistressed state. She was
bound to London from Antigua, laden with sugar and
molasses, having about 500 hogsheads on board; and
having experienced a very stormy passage, she was much
beaten about and a great part of her cargo damaged.
Her tonnage is about 300 tons, and she appears to be a
strong-built vessel. Being in such a distressed condition,
it was deemed advisable to avail themselves of the safety
of this port, rather than incur the dangerous passage
round to London, and she accordingly came into the
docks to dischargs her cargo.—Hampshire _lndependent
FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE.—On Saturday night,
shortly after nine o'clock, an alarming fire, resulting in
loss of life, occurred at a house in Fox-court, Kent-
street, Southwark, occupied by deceased, whose name was
Ann Fleetv, out', aged 40 years. The firemen promptly
attended, and, after throwing a quantity of water into the
room. they were able to ent(r the place, when to their
astonishment and horror, they discovered the lifeless
body of the female completely roasted to a cinder, and
nll her ch,thing burnt off. After •the fire had been ex-
tinguished an examination was made of the premises by
Mr. Henderson, when that officer found that the deceased
woman must have fallen asleep before the fire, where her
cicthes by some means became ignited, which communi-
cated with the apariment and caused the death of the
deceased.