The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1841

fortunate, though well meant, efforts to
suppress the slave trade. Mr. TYLER denies
the right of all the nations or the c;-. cti 1 . 1,..C..e
any interpolations in the Maritime Code without
the consent of the American's. He adds, " when
we are given to understand by a foreign Govern-
ment, that Its treaties with other nations cannot
be executed without the establishment and en-
forcement of new principles of maritime police,
tt.) be applied without our consent, we must em-
ploy a language neither of equivocal import, nor
susceptible ,of misconstruction." He expresses
his determination to urge on Great Britain to
grant full and ample remuneration for all losses
sustained by American citizens engaged in law-
ful commerce, and he indulges a hope that Great
Britain will not refuse remuneration for wrong
done to those citizens by the exercise of rights
which the American Government cannot recog-
nise as legitimate. This is the most important,
and the• most painful part of Mr. TYLER'S Mes-
sage. It indicates an additional and festering
subject of quarrel between the two nations.
Mr. TYLER infers, from the manner in which
paper money has been abused, that society
would have been happier without it; and he re-
commends Congress to inquire whether the
Banks cannot be made to resume cash payments,
or liquidate all demands on them. At the same
time he announces a plan tbr a new fiscal agent
to furnish " a sound paper medium," to be
placed under an independent Board of Control,
to have a capital of 15,000,000 dollars, agencies
in different parts of the Union, and be a discount
and exchange agent. In this scheme, which
goes to establish a powerful rival of the excutive
Government, we trace the contriving hand of Mr.
BIDDLE. It is the work of a profound financier,
intent on disguising what he really means, and
never can have sprung from the simple mind of
Mr. TYLER. The scheme is, in truth, the esta-
blishment of an independent National Bank,
without adopting the name.

We shall notice one topic more, in which the
monied classes are much interested. The PRE-
SIDENT asserts that the indebtedness of the seve-
ral States amounts to 200,000,000 dollars, which
money has generally been spent in important
internal improvements. Though he expresses
his belief that each State will honourably fulfil
its engagements, and points out the rapid de-
velopment of their resources as reasons why
they should, he declares that he can do nothing
to make them. If the separate States, therefore,
have not that feeling of honour and conscientious-
ness which the PRESIDENT attributes to them,
their debtors in Europe may give up their
claims. The hopes that were founded on the
supposition that the general Government would
interfere, must now be at an end. Like the
PRESIDENT, we trust a great deal to the sense of
rectitude which is strong in every free people,
and we shall be slow to believe that any of the
States will repudiate their engagements.

exercise the finest right which the Chamber has given
him. 'AI then there is a respite, and this respite is a
pr ,of to us that the iinhnnny culprits will not haVe
rip-
pealed to the royal clemency in va'n."—Constitutionnq
TOULON, DEC. 22:—The news brought by the Al_;cr
(of the line) are re illy important. If General Mustapha
has not e)tatned the absolute submission of the Aga of
the Tr. ra, inc:uding the great tribes of the Oulassa, he
has hem able to promenac.e as master on the left bank
of the Tafna, among tribes which have 3,925 houses,
and which are protected by 300 horse and 9,000
foot (the Kat,yies g3Ler lly fight on foot) the brav-
est tr ,ops in he western part of the regency. As for
the] tribe of the Bordja, ohich General Becleau has
just chastised, and from which he has taken 6,300 head
of cattle and 750 horses and beasts of burden; it is part
of the eastern region called Cheek, and cannot defend
itself, not having more than 200 combatants.
The Phaeton steam-boat has arrived from Tunis and
Bona, which it left on the 17th with some despatches
and 37 passengers. All was tranquil at Tunis and Bona,
when it left those places. The Bey of Tunis had left the
Goletta and returned to his palace after having inspected
all the batteries.—Commerce.
BOURSE`—PARIS, MONDAY, DEC. 27.

!!first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. rr.c.. Fri,
3,re:di 5 p.lr Cents lid 60 ... 116 65 ... 116 50 ... 116 55
4 per Cents lOl 05.. 101 05 ... 101 05 ... 101 U 5
3 per Cents. ex div 7B 50 . 78 55 ... 849 ... 78 40
dank of erance :39d ...:1190 ...3390 ~3390
Laffitte Stank I,ooof. Shares 1032 50 ...1002 50 ...13 02 50 ...1002. 50
-,...orran Sank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
S ker Cent., 1849 lO3 ... 103 103 13.3
Actire 24% ... 21% ... 24% ... •..4%
... ... ... 5%
Old Deferred
Pleat-0431,w
80 ... 10 , 7 .. 5
... 1117, 80
Portuguese 5 per Cent...
.._.. 1112% ... 102% 102%
RAILWAY SHARES.
830 ... 8:30 ... 830 ... 8.:0
198 75 ... 198 75 .... 147 50 .. 197 50
_. 323 75 3,3 75 323 '75 ... 32:3 75
Rouen ........ ..... ............ 457 50 ... 457 50 457 50 ... 457 50
()clean,.
Montpellier to Cette 250 250 250 ... 251.1
Strasburg to Balc 225 ... 225 223 7. 5 ... 215
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vinsura, Dec.lS
rive per Costs. Metalligues
Four per Cents. •••••••••••••••••••• c.o. ....... es.
Three Fa' Cents.
..........
Bank Shares
!625
—Allgemesne Zellune. Dec. 22.

St. Germain
Versatile,. L. 15.......

L B

SAVE THE LANDED INTEREST FROM THEIR
FRIENDS.—The landed interest objects to the
repeal of the Corn-laws, that they are over-:
burdened with taxation; and instances, amongst
other taxes, the Land-tax. That is not cor-
rect, reply the Corn-law repealers, and the
landed interest have evaded the Land-tax, which
is legally set at 4s. in the pound on the actual
rental, and, instead of producing less than
2,000,0001., ought to produce at least 10,000,0001.
To rebut this, a learned lawyer in the
Times proves that the Land-tax, so called,
falls on personal property as well as on
land, and is not exclusively a Land-tax. It
quotes the following passage from the Land-tax
Act :—" That all and every person and persons
having any estate in ready money or debts owing
to them, or in yoods, wares, and merchandises, or
other chattels or personal estates whatsoever (with
certain exceptions), shall pay to his Majesty the
sum of 4s. in the pound, according to the true
yearly value thereof for one year; that is to say,
for every 1001. of such ready money and debts,
and for every 1001. worth of such goods, wares,
and merchandises, or other chattels or personal
estate, the sum of 20s. (being 4s. in the pound on
the income of such 100/., calculated at five per
cent.)" This is, therefore, a tax on personal pro-
perty as well as land, and it is little felt, because
the total amount, divided amongst counties, is
levied according to a valuation made in the reign
of Kin.. William the Third, and not since in-
creased.' If a larger proportional share of it now
fall on land than on personal property, the reason is
that personal property has, since the reign of
William the Third, increased even more than the
rent of land. The Times, however, has effec-
tually demolished the landlords' claim to tax the
bread-eaters, because they exclusively pay the
Land-tax.
We gave a paragraph yesterday, furnished by
a Correspondent, setting forth the high opinion
some Aldermen had formed of the New Police
Act, the vigilance of the Commissioner and the
constables, and attributing the boasted " pity
sobriety," during the holidays, to these combined
circumstances, but chiefly to the closing of pub-
lic-houses on Christmas-eve and Saturday night.
We looked upon all this as " mere moonshine,"
and so the upshot has proved. One of the " vi-
.llant" constables let the secret out yesterday at
" The police," said he, " received
instructions not to take any charge of drunken-
ness unless compelled to do so, but to pass the
drunkards home from one policeman to another."
Was this notable scheme got up because the
drunkards were too numerous for the receiving
houses, or was it contrived by Commissioner
Harvey to protect stray Aldermen who might
happen to be wandering home at a late hour re,
markable for anything but " City sobriety ?"

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 28.—We have
had a moderate demand for Cotton to-day, the sales
comprising 4,000 bales, 500 of which have been taken
by speculators. Prices are firm.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 28.—The tran-
sactions comprised Grand Junction, 195 ; Half Ditto,
971 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 24i ;
Ditto, 321. Shares, 561 ; North Midland, Thirds, 164 ;
York and North Midland, sq.

—..“,
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 28.—Our Mar•
ket to-day is firm, and prices continue to improve. The
sales are !—Manchester and Leeds, 681 and 674- ; Ditto
Halves, 294 Dit to Quarters, 31.155., 3/.;165., and 31.165. 6d. ;
North Union, 764 ; Midland Counties, Quarters, 21f ;
South Lancashire Bank, 41. is. 6d. ; Manchester and
Liverpool District Bank, 10k.

THE FUNDS.
The President's Message, which we published in our
Paper of yesterday, was read with an unusual degree of
interest in the City, but it was not, upon the whole, re-
ceived with satisfaction, and Consols fell about 4 per
cent. The opening price to day is 888 89 ; Three per
Cents. Reduced 894 ; Exchequer bills, 12 14.
Spanish Active Stock 24:f; Passive, 58 ; Deferred,
11i 12-4 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 321- 3341 ; ditto
Threes, 191 20.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton .............. 50 ...... 39 3
London and Blackwell ........... .325
Ditto New .. 41. 6s Bd. 6/ 11s. Bd.
London and Bi. mingharn .. ...... 90 l7O to
Ditto -,-,, Shares
Ditto Thirds
Ditto New
London and South Western....., 38i s9k to
Manchester and Leeds .. 70
Midland Counties
Northern and Eastern
York and North Midland. -
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock

.. 10

COUi7.SE OF EXCHAr
Amsterdam CF. 12 7i
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ........2 U l2 8
Antwerp l2 7
Hamburgh M.B. 13 13i
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55
Ditto, 3 months 25 80
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine... 1501
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37
8er1in.....
Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 952
Trieste, ditto 9 55
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville

GE—(YESTERDAY).
[Gibraltar .
Leghorn
Genoa .. 25 90
Milan ... 3l
,Venice
Naples 4O
Palermo, per oz 119 i
Lisbon
Oporto 514,
Rio Janeiro 27
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21days sight Obi
Philadelphia
!PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz.
Foroign Gold, bars E 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Com ...3 17 5
New Doubloons OO 0
New .......... 4 10
[Silver in Bars... 0 4
HALF-PAST ONE.
There has been but little business doing in either the
English or Foreign securities. The prices have, however,
improved. Consols are 89j- ;or the Account, and some
business has been done for money at 90*. Three per
Cents. Reduced are 89-Ei ; Three-and-a-Half do. 99i1,- ;
Bank Stock, 165 i; Exchequer Bills, 12 14 prem.
In the Foreign market Brazilian Bonds are quoted at
64; Mexican, 261; Russian, 114; Spanish Active Stock,
24i -a.
A further advance has taken place in Shares to-day.
London and Brighton are 397- ; Great Western, 86* ;
ditto Fifths, 10; London and Birmingham, 170; ditto
Thirds, 571; ditto New, 29k; Manchester and Leeds, 69;
Midland Counties, 85; York and North Midland, 91.

TWO O'CLOCK-7
The Markets are all firm. Consols are now 891- for
the account; Spanish, 241

HA-PAST TW
Three per Cents. Reduced, 891 LF ;
Consols, fort he
Account, 89k ; Mexican, 264- a ; Spanish, 241 fi•
QUARTER TO THREE.
With the prevalence of such changeable, and, at the
same time, unseasonable weather, the Corn and Bullion
Markets again become the object of attention in the City.
It is well, perhaps, that our stock of bullion is strmigthened
periodically by arrivals from South America, or the ex-
ports of silver that have taken place this year might
prove very inconvenient to us. From London alone
this, year, a circumstance that will no doubt excite the
surprise and attention of many of our readers, there have
been shipped off nearly ten million ounces of silver. The
exports of gold have been under 25,0004 in value.

CORONERSHIP OF CHESHIRE.
CLOSE OF TRE POLL, MONDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK.
Henry Chnrton, Esq 1,027
Mr. John Wood Masery

Majority for Churton.

141

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13tibitt 14; Wilton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The whole of the Paris Opposition press, with one
exception, devote their usually leading columns to the
publication of the protest of the sixteen Journals against
the conviction of M. Dupoty. The single exception is
the Constitutionnel, which, however, contains a clever
article'denouncing the sentence of the Court of Peers.
The protest of the Journals created a much greater sen-
sation in Paris than the King's speech.
"Sir Robert Peel," says the National," has written to
King Louis Philippe a letter in extremely pressing and
flattering terms, to request that M. Guizot may be kept at
the head of affairs."—What nonsense shall we have next?
The King of the French's Speech was followed on
Monday by a fall in the funds of a quarter per cent.
The repressive threatenings which so delighted the poli-
tical rats round the Throne produced far other sensations
in the bosoms of the financiers. Never before was a
Throne Speech ofLouis Philippe followed by such a result.
Mehemet Izzet Paella has been appointed President of
the New Turkish Cabinet. A more incompetent person
to fill such an office could hardly be found in the Otto-
man Empire.
Advices from Erzerourn of 20th ultimo, in the Leipsic
Gazette. state that Sir H. M'Neil has been received in a
splendid manner at Teheran, and that 10,000 persons
came out of the town to meet him. At the gate he was
complimented by the Prime Minister of the Shah, and
afterwards revived a valuable horse from his Majesty.
Such is the result of Lord Palmerston's firmness.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Post contains a lengthy leading article suggested
by some remarks in the forthcoming Number of the
Church of England Quarterly Review, wherein our Con-
temporary strives hard to prove that the late Ministers
were a mere squad of " Shuffiers " whose policy it was
to do every thing that they should not have done, and
exhibit nothing but inconsistency on the question of the
Corn-laws.

In an article discussing the question of the heavy
deodand with which the Jury accompanied their verdict
on the inquest lately held on the eight persons who were
killed on the Great Western Railroad, the Herald de-
fends the justice of that deodand, observing that the
accident was undoubtedly caused " by the negligence and
inattention of the Great Western Railroad Company,"
and that the " evidence adduced fully establishes a
case of great carelessness against them."
Referring to Mr. Christopher's late speech on the sub-
ject of the Corn-laws, the Chronicle is of opinion that
that speech is a good sign of the times, evincing some
improvement ; and adds, that "it indicates that there
is some change in contemplation ; that the Government
dares not take its stand on the perfection and immuta-
bility of the present Corn-law ; but that the whole sys-
tem is to be thrown open to full discussion by those
who have heretofore refused to hear evidence, answer
argument, or permit debate.','
The Times has an article on the King of the French's
speech on the opening of the Chambers, in which our
Contemporary observes that the greater part of the do-
cument is occupied with domestic affairs, of which the
King speaks " with a straightforward and characteristic
manliness, which indicates a very considerable degree of
confidence in the stability of the existing orer of
things." The Times adds that all Europe must " hail
with satisfaction these indications of a strong Govern-
ment in France."
The Advertiser observes, with reference to the late
great Anti-Corn-law meeting in Dublin, that the enlist-
ment of Ireland in the efforts to procure a repeal of the
Corn-laws, is " another heavy blow and great discourage.
ment to the landed oligarchy."
We take the following from the Dublin Pilot :
" There is no people on the face of the earth on whom
kindness has such influence as on the Irish. No greater
proof of this can be given than in their reverential affection
for the Queen. They know that she is kind and just,
and they consequently love her, because she has not, like
others, resorted to coercion, and because she can, with-
out cruelty, preserve orders in this country, and win an
obedience as unbounded as that of the Queen Bee."
The North Devon Journal says:—" The suffering poor
naturally look to the Government for relief ; and al-
though no legislative enactment can entirely remedy the
complication of evils which have conspired to produce so
wide-spread a state of distress, yet it is certain that the
immediate attention of Parliament must be directed to
the subject ; and we would encourage a hope, that the
statements of wretched destitution which have pervaded
the public prints for months past, may have engendered
sympathy in the bosoms of the powerful class to whose
interested legislation it is attributed, and induce the
landed proprietors to consent to forego the injurious pro-
tection which they have too long enjoyed."
-Alluding to Mr. Christopher's late speech on the Corn-
laws, the Tyne Mercury observes as follows :-" We
mentioned the general terms of the new sliding scale ;
Heaven knows but that before we go to press another
sliding scale may have been invented ! We have always
been opposed to any sliding scale at all ; but this
sneaking, paltry, ridiculous sliding scale, above
all others, we strenuously repudiate. Its be-
ginning at 45., as we stated last week, and
ending at 18s., is enough to convince one of its folly, as
well as its impropriety. The lowest rate being 4s. (Mr.
Christopher in his demi-official speech, makes it 55.,)
will not maintain an equilibrium, in the mind of any
person at all acquainted with commerce, with the ex-
treme duty of 18s."
The following appears in the North Staffordshire Mer-
cury :—" The Church-rate question is again vexing the
parish of Stoke-upon-Trent. After the experience of
the past, in the trial of the relative advantages of the
compulsory and the voluntary system, it does surprise
us that the professed friends of the Church should so far
stand in the way of their own comfort, and the credit of
the Establishment itself, as to seek to extort another rate
from the unwilling hands of their fellow-parishioners."
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The Sugar-question Conference of the Germanic Cus-
toms Union has terminated. The duty on lump sugar is
about doubled, and comes in force on the 16th of next
March.
The large house of Van Nooten and Hagwood, at
Demerara, according to Trinidad papers, has failed to
the amount of 90,0001.
Of the produce shipped from Trinidad for the last
year, there has been a decrease in cocoa and coffee, but
an increase in sugar and molasses.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
Among the items voted by the Belgian Chambers for
the support of its various institutions and their respec-
tive members, assistance to necessitous teachers without
employ, and schoolmasters' widows, is set down at
10,000 francs, for salaries to schoolmasters 250,000 fr.
and 75,000 fr. for school-houses.
A third pier is about to be erected at Gravesend, upon
the completion of which the present Terrace Pier will be
pulled down. It is to be a handsome structure of iron,
and will cost about 8,0001.
IaI:ECTIONESEZLING.
The death of Mr. West, Queen's Counsel, occasions a
vacancy for the city of Dublin. It appears he died of an
ulcerated sore throat, and has left a large young family.
He was in his 54th year. The Irish papers of both par-
ties pay a high tribute to his goodness of heart and gene-
rous disposition.
NAVAL AND MILITARY.
A division of the 6th Regiment, which has been sta-
tioned in India twenty years, arrived ut Rochester on
Monday. During that period they have been stationed
at Bombay, Cutchbough, and Coletabourn. The regi-
ment is ordered for Canterbury.
LAW AND POLICE,
A journeyman tailor, named John Cross, was charged
at Lambeth-street with attempting to murder his step-
daughter with a spring clasp knife. Love, it appears,
was the cause of the mischief; the girl had promised to
marry him, but finding another lover more to her liking
she " left her Johnnie," and married his rival, upon
which Johnnie to be revenged married her mother, a
woman 60 years of age. Not liking his bargain, he still
harrassed the young woman with his importunities,
which she strenuously rejected, and he therefore, ac-
cording to his wife's account, made one attempt to take
away his own life, and seemed determined also to mur-
der her daughter. The tailor. who wept bitterly, said it
might be all true, and was ordered to find bail.
Yesterday at Queen-square seven men and six women
initiates of St. Luke's workhouse, Chelsea, charged with
riotous conduct in that establishment, were committed
to prison for twenty-one days. Whilst evidence was
given against one of the women, named M•Bride. by a
female inmate, but not one of the party convicted, fir
threatening to take her life, the prisoner rushed at the
witness, and struck her a violent blow on the head. She
was removed in a fainting state, and bleeding much.
Evidence of this outrage committed in presence of the
Magistrate, was then given, and Mr. Burrell sentenced
M`Bride to pay a penalty of 51., and in default of pay-
ment to be kept to hard labour for two months, and find
bail for her good behaviour for twelve months.
Yesterday a pretty young girl, about fourteen years of
age, was brought before the Brentford Magistrates,
having been faund by a policeman on the previous after-
noon in a back lane,•utterly insensible. It appeared
that she had gone to a pawnbroker's in Old Brentford, to
take out a pledge for her grandmother, where she had
been supplied by the shopman with gin, and had drank
five or six glasses. The poor girl remembered that she
had been dragged into the passage of a house by two
young men, and had been ill used, but she could give
no description of the place. The Magistrates regretted
that the person who had supplied the gin was not brought
before them, and directed an officer to wait upon the
pawnbroker, and state the facts.

pnwE ARTS.
The Royal manufactory at Sevres is to furnish the
painted glass for the windows of the chapel of Henry IV.,
at the Louvre, which is now to be restored to its original
ecclesiastical uses.
When Rubini went to sign his name as a member of
tiy.e Lyceum, at Madrid, of which he had been elected,
the directors placed before him for that purpose a
spleodid inkstand, surmounted with his own bust, which
they afterwards requested him to accept.
Fifteen- thousand people, a multitude of whom were
young persons, visited the National Gallery during
Monday and Tuesday.
Three thousand persons visited Westminster Abbey on
Monday, and almost as many on the day following.
ZaTER.A.RY AND SCIEWINCP/C.
Last night the members of the London Mechanics'
Institution observed the eighteenth anniversary of their
foundation. In honour of the late Dr. Birkbeck, the
theatre was hung with blank cloth, and most of the com-
pany were in mourning.

-A
Queen Elizabeth'W shilling was lately dug up in a
garden at Shatton, in Carlisle, after being 273 years
under ground.

THEATZLXCAL.
Rubini sang for the last time on the 21st at Madrid.

A magnificent pin, in the centre of which was a splenflid
brilliant, set round by rubies, has been preser:••7 • •
the Duke of Ossuna.

Cerito is at present gaining golden laurels at Vi,?ntia.
She has appeared in all her favourite ballets, and is fol-
lowed as much as Taglioni.

SPORTING.
A few clays since the Duke of Buccleuch's hounds met
at Kelso-bridge, and after a most perilous run across the
borders, the fox was killed near Middleton Hall, after a
chase up the tremendous cliff of Newton Tor.
The late Earl of Westmoreland, like his c( nteinpora..y,
Lord Chancellor Loughborough, was excessively devoted
to English pastimes. The latter has been known, on
hearing of a boxing-match, to doff his wig, and ride 25
miles without stopping, to see his favourite athletes
" come to the scratch."
COURT—IVISELIONILBLZ.
The marriage of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy is put
off to the latter end of January, on account of the death
of the bride's grandfather, and the delay of the departure
of his Serene Highness Prince Paul.
Her Excellency the Countess de St. Aulaire is ex-
pected in London early in the ensuing month. It is ex-
pected that she will be accompanied by some portion of
her numerous and distinguished family.
A rumour prevails of the marriage of a French diplo-
matist, well known in England, the Marquis de la Va-
lette, and Mrs. Wells, the widow of an American mer-
chant, lately resident in Paris, who left his belle moitie a
fortune said to be of 25,0001. per annum.
Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci arrived in town yesterday
afternoon, from a visit to the Duke of Beaufort, at Bad-
minton.
Uolunel Churchill has left town on a visit to the Duke
of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye.
The dinner to the Duke of Buckingham, which is to
be given by the English agriculturists, will, we learn,
take place on February 11.
A vacancy in the Governorship of the Charter House
occurs by the death of the Earl of Westmoreland, who
was a Carthusian.