The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

SYRIA,

BETHour, Nov. 30.—0 n the day after my last (23d
November) intelligence was received at Beyrout to the
effect that Ibrahim had the day before retired from Zee-
cbally with all his army, moving southward.
Upon the 24th Colonel Bridgeman and Major Napier
left Beyrout, on a reconnoissance of the enemy. They
arrived the first night at Zachle, and found the Emir
li,eschir, with his mountain troops, in occupation of that
village. They were each furnished by the Emir with :IS
horsemen as a guard. Colonel Bridgernan on the follow-
ing day skirted the plain of Baalbec, in the direction of
Damascus, and meeting with a body of 400 horsemen, de-
serers from the enemy, accompanied them to Beyrout.
The deserters wore under the co:nmand of Shibley ilerryan,
a celebrated freebooter, a ho, a short time ago, embraced
the side of Ibrahim, having previously been very active
hira-
mialaain,tsgldei
ce.u..scp;roo,pb;,usuhel;dir,
sciuetn: insurrection. rv,pe,rcaost
plaincioetnei
proceeded
dfde Irls oo enteredrfo i
hNn ti
hsa
epth:desecri, on the other
mountains,
ttiiio-nnL efi,
)bfadtpriing
theinselv,s in whet', and perhaps hostile,
at
one by one they had in a few hours deserted him. Ac-
companied then only by, his servant, a private of marines,
bearing the English with the mountain colours, the Major
ultimately penetrated to the village of Zebbedeneb, three
hours from Damascus. The information he there olvained
was to the effect that Ibrahim had, on the 22(1, passed
through that village with 12,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry,
and twelve field pieces ; that much dissatisfaction existed
amongst his troops ; and that he was then with his army
in a.,el around Damascus.
Intelligence has just been received here of the full re-
treat of lb ahim from Damascus upon Egypt, and the Sul-
tan's steam-yacht is instantly leay.mg with the news.

CURIOUS REMARKS ON THE BIBLE BY A
WIDOW, AGKD 65 —Tue Bible contains 3,566,449 letters,
810,697 wor3s, 31,173 verses, 1,159 chapters, 66 books.
The word " cod " occurs 46,227 times ; " Lord " 1,855 ;
" Reverend " only once, and that in the llth Psalm. The
27th verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains the alpha-
bet ; the 19,11 chapter of the 23 book of Kings and the
37th chapter of I,aiah are alike. The first man recorded
as having been buried in a coffin 'vas Joseph, 50th chapter
of Genesis and 26th verse; no where but in the lit chap.
2d Timothy is the name " grandmother" mentioned.
Two p. rticularly fine chapters to read )ou a ill find arc
the 21 of Joel and the 26th of Acts. There is no name
or word of more than six syllables in the Holy Bible.
SA LT Si E ETS.—A medical correspondent
urges the discontinuance of the dirty, and extremely
dangerous practice now prevalent, of sprinkling salt on
the pavement, in order to dissolve the snow and ice, which
a little labour would remove without inconvenience to the
public. He says, " I believe more catarrhs, coughs, and
can,:umptive diseases, ending in death, have been occa-
sioned by this pernicious practice than all other baneful
influences besides. In my practice several patients have
been confined by severe illness to their sick chambers by
this salt-sprinkling mania—it is the dea;h of many persons."

A GOOD PARLIAMENT.—Mr. Cowper has
yet further provoked them by saying, that an active, in-
dustrious man who employed 5,0001. in trade was every
whit as fit to be a Member there as a country gentleman of
0001. u-year, who spent all his time in hawking and hunt-
ing, and was over head and cats in debt. My Lord Not-
re:, s al:se:era him that he was one of those country gen-
tlemen, but tlioualit himself as fit to sit there as those a'uo
were used to take money for their opinioa. Mr. now
overslipt himself, and happened to open the design further
than he should have done, say in,' this Bill was but the first
step to a good Parliament, and he hoped they should ad-
vance it a li: tae further hereafter.—James's Coral and
Times of William 111.
ANCIENT 13ooxs.—Pausanias relates that a
book by fLsiod was written on leaves of lead, and Hero-
dotus mentions the use of skins by the lindens when pa-
pyrus was scarce, which seems to show that he wrote on
papyrus, or the manufacture of the paper " reeds of
Egypt," which grew by ttlarooks. Pliny mentions linen
books, and Virgil alludes to books that were made of the
inner rind of the (lin. The waxen hand tables of the
ancients arc 'Nell known, which were inscribed upon with
the point of the style, arid smoothed with its fist end.
NORTH STAFFORDsIIIRE.—We find by the
London Journals that the Hon. W. Ingham Baring, the
bttra)er of the Liberals of Winchester, is about to retire
from the representation of North Staffordshire, " in conse-
quence. of some family arrangements." We congratulate
the electors of North Staffordshire on the prospect they
have of no longer being represented by this political Isca-
riot, who not only sold the Reformers of \Winchester for a
peerage in reversion, but has ever since shown, as well as
his father ( the apostate Whig Lotd Ashburton) the bitterest
hostility to his .orrner supporters. The Grange preserves,
and the Grange influence (small certainly) is placed at the
command of the Winchester Tory " whipper-in," to benefit
the cause of Mr. Eseott ; and Lord Ashburton and his
hunoureble son's influence is used to place Winchester
again under the political thraldom which they were for-
merly the denouncers of, and the latter the opposer of, at
three contested elections, at which he was one of the Whig
candidates for the representation of Winchester. We say
nothing of the genuine Tory contempt for the independ-
ence of the electors of North Stafford implied by the terra,
" family arrangements," which we suppose turns there
over for " a consideration," to:some other nominee of the
apostate peer, who will consequently be a Member of the
House of Commone, the representatives of the people !
Hampshire Independent.
WOOD PAVING.—The recent frosts have tested
the wood pavements in the metropolis very severely, but
with different results. That laid down at Whitehall, and
in Oxford-street, and Fore-street, City, appears to have
stood without any injury ; whilst the wood pavement around
St. Giles's Church, and in other places, has got so much
out of repair as to render :replacement necessary. Nor is
the contrast less singular as respects safety ; for the very
sharp frost of last night made the wood paving opposite
Coutts' banking-house, in the Strand, extremely slippery,
so that horses have been frequently felling upon it, although
that at Whitehall has been less affected than the Mac-
adamised road at alter end of it, and is considerably more
safe.— Evaniefa Paper.
Lady Newborough was confined on Thursday
last at Glynnllior Castle near Carnatvon with a son and
heir. The auspicious event gave rise to a manifestation of
rejoicing unusual in that retired part of Wales.. Cannon
waa fired, and all the craft in the harbour displayed their
different flogs. In the evening Carnarvon was pada*
illuminated. His Lordship, who resides the greater part
of the year at the above seat, is deservedly respected by
his neighbours, and from that circumstance the display of
wynn was more
good feeling towards the noble family
than ordinarily enthusiastic on that joyous occasion.
as the.
:dfcmonstrations of
NEW YEAR'S DAY.—NCW: Year s Day was
ushered in here amidst the usual noise;
joy from the idlers upon our streets.
ml.terg:Ve, us trruch
unruliness of that class,
pleasure, however, to add, that
creased from
with their
ttohe-heaumubch'ltas well
single case of riot called
former years. The grouo, of.Picte7l—e c:mgregated ie
athe police. the High-street, at the Reg: and other. 10.
calities, mingled great
stoolde humour
During the day,
numerous rornenaded the streets, but
P p reets, for tee most
numerous
orderly and temperate—even localities whose repute-
part
e.rance do not stand
tion fur tem! very high, partook of the
fo
ood orucr ; and an old •
r hilarityt.l, e ; inTir fe scarcely
loYf
general g residenter in the Cowgate
nevel seen
rcmar so much quiet prevailing is on
the present occasion.
night advanced, cases of intoxi-
cation became more frequent ; but on the whole, the ge-
neral impression is that a morequiet and
iced he had •
orderly New
Year's Day never took place in Edinbur I Ed' V 1
g rn urg
Courant.
THE LATE FIRE IN BLOOMSBURY, AND AL.•
LEGLD Loss Lt. LlFE,—Monday a paragraph went the
round of the daily papers, which, after detailing the eir-
cutustence of the conductor of one of the fire-escapes of
the Royal Society having fallen through the canvas bag
attached to it on to the pavement, proceeds to state,
" That the unfortunate man terminated his sufferings
shortly after his arrival at University College Hospital."
Such is not the fact, as, front inquiries made at that Insti-
tution on Mondry evening, the pour felle..v, although labour-
ing under severe concussion of the brain, was still living.
RAILWAY INDIcATon.—A machine has re-
cently been exhibited, cal:ed an " Indicator" of the
passing of carriages or trains on railways. This instru-
meet is designed, and will most completely effect the in-
ventor's intention, to show to the conductors of a suc-
ceeding train the distance in time of a train in advance,
through a period of fifteen minutes or longer if necessary
—thus holding out the caution to trains in quick succes-
sion that there arc only tcvo, three, or more minutes apart,
and to use their locornottve power accordingly. For night
service the usual coloured light is presented by the ma.
chine for the same period. It is suggested that an indi-
cator should be placed at each mile along the line of way,
by which means a complete and never-failing system of
signals will be established at the-first cost of 201. per mile,
aid the annual expense of about 51, for lights.—/avent is
Advocate,

EVENFINC, te.niTION.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEW S.

VONDAY EVENING.)
C H RONIC English Funds assumed a
considerable degree of firmness shortly after the com-
mencement of business, and a purchase of 40,000 Con-
sols was effected by an influential broker at 89-1. Later
in the day, however, prices again receded, the last quo-
tation being 89 buyers. Exchequer Bills experienced
a further rise of 45., the quotation having reached 7s.
to 9s. prem. Money has been easy to-day.
We expected that our recent explanation of the pro-
ceedings in Chancery at the instance of the State of
Illinois against Delafield, would call forth some efforts
at contradiction, and we have not been disappointed.
We observe an attempt to throw discredit upon our
statement in a Contemporary to-day, but a more lame
or impotent one we have never seen. We published
the opinions of Mr. Daniel Webster the counsel, and
of Mr, Ruggles, the Solicitor for the State of Illinois,
in the cause, explaining the object and nature of the
action, and declaring that there was no inten-
tion on the part of the State to repudiate the va-
lidity of the bonds issued to Delafield, but merely
to restrain him from parting with those which he still
retained without paying for them, and to make the pro-
ceeds of those which he had parted with available to
account of his debt. The opinion of Mr. Webster
cannot be shaken by unsupported assertions, and the
bona fide holders of Illinois stock may rely with confi-
dence upon its truth and authenticity. Our Contem-
porary should be satisfied to let facts alone. He will not
increase his reputation by endeavouring to subvert them.
'We have received the African Colonizer for the 2d
instant, in which strong complaints are made against the
Westminster Review, because in a recent article
on the subject of Emigration, containing a cata-
logue of colonies fit for emigration, " the very name of
the Cape of Good Hope is omitted." " This," says
the African Colonizer," is bad enough, but worse fol.
lows. The quantity of wool exported from Australia
is displayed with judicious care, and the twofold increase
of that wool every five years is properly enough insisted
upon ; but the strange conclusion is made that the de-
mand for wool in England, viz., 50,000,0001b5. yearly,
with an indefinite probable augmentation in the de-
mand, will most likely be supplied by the Australias."
The African Colonizer thinks that there is great par-
tiality exhibited for the Australias in this statement, and
attributes it to a want of knowledge of the truth in the
contributor to the Review. Our Contemporary states
that the quality of the C tin wool is undeniably excel-
lent, and its increase every five years since 1816, as
follows :-9,000 to 27,000, in 1821 ; to 40,000, in
1826 ; to 90,000, in IS3I ; to 200,000, in 1836 ; and
last year it was more than 600,0001b5. lb gives the
following enumeration of the quantity of Cape sheep, as
they are at present distributed in the several districts :
Acres. Sheep.,
Cape District 2,300,000 20,000
Stellenbosch
Worcester
Swellenda:n
Beaufort
Grad R .inet
)rn;.rsct 3.560,000 240,000
Col esberg
Cradock ..... 2 027,520 160,000

su'u3o7.ne,l ta‘,,le shows th 3 comparative increase
in the importatioa of Wool into British ports from Aus-
tralia, as well as frern Southern Afric s, within ten
years, enaing with 1638 :
S I DNEY AND TASMANIA. SOUTHERN AFRICA.

per cent.

.._.
lbs. per ceat. 1h!.
1329...1,838 642... 37 619...
1831.-1,937,319 7 ... .. 33 497... Decrease 12i
1831...2 493.337... 35;
1832-2.377,057 29.'1 B3 257... )) 1211
1833 ..3 516,:439... 91.'i 93 323 .. lf 140 i
1334—'3 558 W. 11... 93:i lll 707... If 276 t
18'.5...4 210,310.. 12!) 191 GP,— 11 40'0
..:._
1535....1 99; 645...171:t 33! 972...

37...7 4';', 01 1...
1331 ..7 8j7,-;2 )...3261

1,14,4

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P T.-1:i a recent artie;ie wo ruent;oncil the fist
that a lit:ge amotrot of a certain b inkrupt Throe p
Cent. foreign stuck hid been purchased on the p c ii
rec)menen.l.ition of an " einineat ipitalist." Tee
bolder of the ..teck in qaestion seems to thi;:k the
matter Las not been put by us with sullieient et-ajhis:s,
and we ATt accordingly atrkeil whether the itlif.-,rity
frt,m which we were writirg did not go t!te ler:4!!1 cf
s,howieg very distinctly that two gent:emen who hop-
p.:ned to have semo lool,:oy to inve-it acre
tel in the c.ms• vences of one and the same sta'em,,et.
Toe.e can be no dudot that it did, but we
lest in Following, the text with that precis we lilt dis-
pssetl to do iniot have been taking to g-eat
a 1 herty avid; a conuntioa:,a'ion which ha I the
appearance of co:111.1 ntin% The siiil,,rers
in this case no tneinh,n-s of the same fa-
mily. in have bet ,z eon them about a hun-
dred and ten thousand pounds in nearly eqnal
amounts, the one of S,-).td:01) stock, the other of Portu-
guese, cxe:usive of a Ite..vy arrear of dividends. 0.1
the subject of thcse. claima, tile rem irk; m :de by no in
the first instance arc thus referred to :—" WC'S not the
note say that my purchases were, and that I l)li,secl
my relative's to have been, founded upon the representa-
tioa alluded to? his were, in Joel, for they were made
by the same broker, proccedir.g on the same recomn-rn-
dation. Mine were absolutely so, for the broker re-
turned to me from the party direct with the rlossage
--• Tell him they (the Three per Cents.)' wid be
80.'" The principals were well known as opulent and
respectable persons, owing, as it would seem, to the
considerable investments enade by them, on previous oc-
cas'ous, of Ditch Sock through the same channels, for
every transaction of this nature is, we may venture to
assume, treasured up in the memories of the great op:.--
rators in loans when once a knowledge of it is acquired.
The business of which we are now speaking was
managed for one of the gentlemen through the following
artfulprocess :
" I find," he observes, " oa reference, that I bought of
the capitalist 638,000 guilders in the middle of Februiry,
1835, and sold him 32,000 Portuguese Fire per Cents.,
because he said, according to my broker, they were much
too high. At tit:: end of the !ails month I re-sold him
320,000 guilders, and bough: 20.500 Portuguese Turee
per Cents., because he said they would be at 80. Now,
I think it was about a fortnight after I had sold him the
Portuguese Fives at 92, became they were too high,' that
we had out the Three per Cent- stock, extinguishing the
Six per Cents., and which carried the Fires up to 100.
He must have known, in all human probability, that a loin
bad been contracted, or was in the course of being so,
which, by extinguishing the Six per Cents., would carry
the Fives up to par, and yet he gave me the advice to
part with them, and, although no purchaser's name is ex-
pressed in the b-oker's account, I am confident that, having-
done it, it was to him. After this he pas.es rf}, w,o have
seen, 20,500 of the New Three per Cents. upon me be-
cause they would be at 80."
These details will let the cublie a little more into
the mysteries of the loon-jobbing system, the art of
making minions on the one hand, and the readiest and
most effectual method of kicking down a splendid patri-
mony on the other.
At a meeting of the committee of bondholders held
to-day, preliminary to the general meeting fixer! for the
6th instant, various financiil documents dignified with
the name of securities were read, and the contempt of
the decrees under which they were issued as exhibited
by the Peninsular Governments produced a great sensa-
tion. Several of the number, such for instance as have
the guarantee of the tobacco contract, were found to
be in the same state, that is to say, with
seven overdue
coupons attached to them, as when first thrown off from
the printing press ; yet another change of paper is pro-
posed. The contractors are to be called on to in-
terfere.

SUN—There was little difficulty experienced in meet-
ing the large payments falling due on mercantile accept-
ances as usual on the 4th of the month, and the funds
were not at all affected by the circumstance. On the
contrary, they were steady, if not buoyant all day. Con-
sols for the opening rose from 881 and 89, the range of
Saturday, to 891 and 89, closing at 894- ; Exchequer
Bills were a shade better, viz., 8 to 7 premium, but
India Bonds were not higher than 14 to 10 discount.
The Reduced Threc.and-a-11.11f per Cents. obtained
97:1 to the Three per Cent. Annuities S 9 to 4, and
the Three.and-a-Half per Cents. 98 to 971.
The Foreign Market was rather dull, and generally
prices had a downward tendency. The business done,
however, was but trivial. The Active Spanish Bonds were
again rather neglected at 23 to 24ii for immediate trans-
fer, and at 24i to for the Account ; being, however,
a slight improvement on Saturday's rates. Portuguese
new Five per Cents. were dull, in the absence of any
later news from Lisbon, at 321 to -a-1 ; and the Five per
Cents. of 1836 at 42., -1 Six per Cents. of
1824 were flat, at a deaVi;c, from 24 to 2'35 -t• Stock was neglectedl3razil
Dutch Two-and-a-Half , Belgian Bondss 98,_ end.
Russian Stock was firm,peetrlele3nts. at 50 ex-dividend
The market for Railway Slaa,rp., has been tolerably
animated to-day, and prices generally have been fully
supported. We must, however,
pt from the re-
mai k the Brighton line, which deelixn:ed
value this af-
ternoon, in consequence of a report that an accident
bad occurred to one of the trains.
quotations this afternoon were these :—Tre current
Blackwal!, ; Brighton, ; Grecawich, 'leine
li-
r
den, 14- ; North Midland, 19 ; Ditto, New,'l ; -rlay-
mingharn and Derby, 24 ; Bristol and Exeter, ~t 2
Hull and Selby, 61, disc. The Great Western S;aaarned
were 23 ; the New, 13 ; the Fifths, 71 ; the South
Western, 18E1 ; the New Manchester and Leeds, 6 ;
and the York and North M dland, 19 prem.
Nothing was done in B inking Shares.
The stock of tallow in London Low is 37,649 Casks
against 29,490 casks at this time last year. The deli-
very last week was 1,942 caski: only against 2,051 casks
at the same time last ye Ir. Trio arrival last week was
3,293 casks against 196 caik3 at this time last year.
The total arrivals since the Ist of June list have been
casks against 84,835
86 ')1
1839-40. casks at the S;1111:1 time in

From the comparative statement of the stock of 11°iLP
in the port of Lon:Ion we find that on the Ist ;if
18:15, it was 7,033 tons ;in 1837, 3,116 to,g ;is 1:38,
9,871 tons ; in 1839,7,417 tons ; its 1810, 1');575 Lew ;
and in 1841, 9,24 G tons.