The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-18 00:00:00

LON DON, FRIDAY M.ORN,I NG, DECEMBER, lB, 18-16

their grievous errors—we should deeply lament to
witness the abolition of the venerable and venerated
institution of the grand jury. That this system has
its imperfections, like other human inventions, we do
not conceal ; but it is one thing to amend, and another
to destroy. The former, and not the latter, is the
spirit in which we should seek to free the grand jury
institution from the slender objections to which time
has laid it open ; but certainly we would guard it, in
every way, as it is, till our magisterial system shall
have been first thoroughly remodelled.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
On the morning of that day the Bey of TUNIS left
Paris for Toulon, on his return to Tunis.

These papers state that the Ministy have determined
to adopt a totally new plan for the Government of
Algeria, the object of which is to provide more effec-
tually for the safety of colonists, so as to induce them
to settle in the country. All the great military estab-
lishments are to be removed into the interior, instead
of being located on the coast, as at present. The
Governor-General, with his staff and the whole of
the military administration, will be removed from
Algiers to Medeah., which is to be their station for
the future.

The Governor of Oran, together with his staff and
military establishment, will henceforth be stationed
at Mascarah. The Governor of Constantina will also
be removed into the interior, but no town has as yet
been fixed upon as his location.
The mai►s from Germany and Spain had not ar-
rived in Paris on Tuesday.

BOURSE-I'mm, TUESDAY.
THREE o'CLocz.—The firmness manifested for some days
back has continued to-day, and the French Rentes are
again higher. The Three per Crnts. opened at 81f. 30c.,
and after same variations, during which they touched
81f. 10c., they closed at the opening price. After the Bourse
they' were they
at 81f 35c. Railway Shares were
exceedingly firm, and are somewhat better. This
being the reponse des primes for the half-monthly settlement
for the railway market, almost all the primes were taken up.
The continuations are moderate, .though decidedly higher
than for some settlements past. With the exception of
Paris and Orleans at 2f. 25c. to If. 75c., Rouen at If. 75c.
to If. 50c., and Avignon to Marseilles at If. 50c. to if. 25c.,
the continuations for the other lines are below lf. Nothing
was done in Spanish. Kr the Account, the French Three
per Cents. have risen sc. Five per Cents. 20c. Loan not
quoted. For Money the Three per Cents. are unchanged.
Five per Cents. have fallen 25c. Loan net quoted. Gouin
Bank I,ooof. Shares, Belgian Bank Shares, Roman, and
Rothschild's Receipts, are all unchanged, the latter being
102 f; 55c. Neapolitan Bonds and Portuguese Five per Cents.
not quoted. Exchange on London (thirty days), 25f. 45c.;
ditto (driety days), 25f. 30c. Railway Shares for the Ac-
count, settling of Dec. 16 :—St. Germain, Avignon to Mar-
seilles, Rouen to Havre, and Orleans to Vierzon, having risen
sf. each; Rouen,3t 75c., Paris to Orleans, Versailles (Right
Bank), Strasburg, Northern, and Orleans to Bordeaux,
2f. 50c. each ; Boulogne, lf. 25c.; Nantes, Lyons, and Ver-
sailles (Left Bank), are unaltered. For Money, Rouen
have risen 10f.; Northern, 7fiosk.-; Versailles (Left Bank),
3f. 75c.., Orleans to Bordeav, Strasboilig, and Nantes,
2f. 50c. each. Lyons are untraed. Paria to- Orleans have
fallen 2f. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 16.
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Luxembourg, :ii—Northern of France Constituted, 1058
—Paris and Lyons Constituted. 51/s ex d.—Rouen and
Havre, 23N—Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hassell, 5!/4.

DUTCH, GERMAN, and BRUSSELS

PAPERS.

CRACOW, DEC. 2.—lt is stated that the Pace De-
partment, where they expected to arrest John Schubert,
at the barrier of Zwierzynice, were in the hopes of disco-
vering thereby an important secret. Ilia disappearance
has, however, frustrated their expectation. Report points
out the said John Schubert as one of the ringleaders of
the new conspiracy, which is said to be brooding against
the Austrian Government. It might have been inferred
that in the present state of affairs, every thought of a
conspiracy would have been given up as utterly futile.
The report, however, is so often repeated, and frt quently
with such certainty, that apparently there must be some
foundation for it.

VIENNA, DEC. 3.—Two days after, we received the
intelligence that the well-known Polish insurgent Chief,
Dembinski, who appeared after the defeat of the Gali-
cian Nobles at Lisa Goroe, and had not been heard of
since, has been arrested in Cilli. He had been kept in
concealment on the estates of an Hungarian nobleman,
but had latterly obtained a passport for himself and a
female, and, under a false name, had succeded in getting
as far as Cilli, where he was arrested.
BERLIN, DEC. 5 —The King of Hanover is said to be
on the point of expending a pretty considerable sum (re-
port says five to six million dollars) in the purchase of
tandect estates within the Prussian dominicns, and that
several negotiations have already been commenced with
large estate owners. It is, however, added, that there is
danger that the entire plan may fall to the ground, as a
difference has hitherto subsisted in regard to the forma-
lities which the King of Hanover, as soon as he shall ob-
tain estates in Prussia, will be obliged to observe towards
our King, as landowner, and which have been observed
by other sovereigns who have possessions in Prussia; for
instance, the King of the Netherlands, the Duke of Bruns-
wick, the Duke of Dessau, &c., &c. . .

VIENNA, DEC. 6.—The day before yesterday, the im-
perial Russian Lieutenant, General Von Bibikoff, ar-
rived from St. Petersburgh, with a numerous retinue.
He is charged with the commission to accompany the
earthly remains of her Imperial Highness the late Grand
Duchess Maria, to St. Petersburgh. Her Imperial
Highness the Grand Duchess Helen has recovered from
her indisposition. Our mails from Constantinople have
for some time arrived very irregularly ; the mail of the
25th November arrived here two days after date.
BRESLAU, DEC. 6.—Letters from the Polish frontier
state that the time in which the kingdom of Poland is to
cease, is approaching, and that it is no secret that Prince
Paskewitsch has orders, on the slightest revolutionary
movement, to fire on Warsaw from the citadel, and utterly
destroy it.
KONIa6BURG, DEC. 1.-With respect to the marriage
contracted by Dr. Falkson with his wife in England, the
Procurator-General has instituted proceedings for de-
claringthis marriage between a Jew and a Christian
lad
yto be null and void. The tribunal has resolved to
require the opinions of the Cunsistory and of the Rabbis,
how far a Jew could comply with the Christian laws of
marriage.
BERLIN, DEC. 3.—The Crown Prince of Sweden is
gone to Hamburg, having first obtained from Prince
Charles and Princess Louisa the final promise of grant
ing him the hand of the Princess. His Riyal
Highness went to the King from Weimar a week
ago, and immediately received his Majesty's ap-
probation of his intended marriage. The bride,
however, is so far from having recovered from her
illness at Genoa, that the King has lately sent his own
physician, Privy Councillor Grisma, to that city to take
part in the consultations of the physicians in attendance
on her Royal Highness.
The affairs of Cracow seems to very much occupy the
attention of our Minister for Foreign Affairs, and while
we can only confirm our former statement that Russia very
reluctantly agreed to the incorporation of the Republic,
it appears now that our Cabinet is ready to approximate
on certain terms to the Western Powers. The protest
of Lord Palmerston has already been received here, and
is expressed in unlooked for mild terms with respect to
the Prussian Cabinet, whereas the reply to the Russian
Government is said to be very severe.
We have now a contradiction of the report which was
purposely spread, that the Western Governments, or at
least one of them, had been secretly informed before-
hand of the intended incorporations.
BERLIN, DEC. 2.—Though earnest representations
and wishes for a favourable decision, respecting our
commercial interests at Cracow, ha-I been sent from
here to Vienna, doubts are entertained of their being
complied with, because it is foreseen that they will be
opposed by the Russian Government. The free trade
of Cracow has hitherto been offensive to that Govern-
ment, and Russia considered Cracow not only as the
focus of revolutionary ideas, but also as a great depot
for a contraband trade in Poland. The commercial se-
clusion of that kingdom, whose complete incorporation
with the empire is near at hand, as the first consequence
of the new convention at Vienna, is one of the results of
the system which has latterly obtained so great a vic-
tory, of which we will hope, that it may not be found
diametrically opposed to the German interests.
HANOVER, DEC. 9.—Their Royal Highnesses the
Crown Prince and Princess, and the Hereditary Prince,
arrived here to-day from Celle by an express train, and
alighted at the Royal Ernest Palace, which is assigned
to their Royal Highnesses for their future residence.
BERLIN, DEC. 9.—The bankruptcy of the house of
Schiller and Muller, which was made known yesterday,
has excited a great sensation on 'Change. Their debts
amount to 800,000 dollars, of which, as far as is just
known, 80,000 dollars fall upon a house in this city. The
alarm is increased by the apprehension that the blow
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German papers.
BRUSSELS,
DEC. 13.—Their Majesties the King and
Queen will leave Brussels, as we hear, on Tuesday next,
for Paris. Their absence will not be prolonged above a
week.

It is said that after the promulgation of the law on
the promotion of the Princes of the Royal Family in the
army, the Duke of Brabant will enter the Regiment
(Mite, and the Count of Flanders the Regiment des
Guides, both with the rank of sub-lieutenant.—Brussels
Pxpe•-s, Dec. 14. •

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have now returned, God be
English coast, praist d, in safety, from the
THE HAG", DEC. 9.—A1l the boats, except one,
hat they have brought is nearly four and a half mil-
to Scheveningen. The number of herrings
lions, which is more, by half a million, than last year.
The fishery has been very successful, only two of the
owners are said to have barely covered their expenses,
the rest have all ample reason to be satisfied. The prices
have lately then.
AMSTERDAM, DEC. 9.—This morning there was a
general meeting of the shareholders of the Dutch Com-
mercial Company, in which it was resolved, with the up.
probation of his Majesty the King, to prolong the grant
to the Company, of the 31st of December, 1849, for a
second period of 25 years, that is, till the 31st of De-
cember, 1874. We shall revert in the sequel to the re-
solutions taken by the Assembly, and communicate it at
length.
THE HAGUE, DEC. 8.--qp Excellencythe Minister
of the Interior, has gives notice to those persons inter-
ested, that conformably with the public advertisement,
the public lottery, for drawing ten shares in the loan of

950,000 florins, for the construction of a causeway from
Maestrieht to the frontiers of Guidersland, took place
on the 7th of this month. The ten series drawn, were
Nos. 6, 152, 165, 198, 198, 203, 418, 636, 735, and 804.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were not
so large, being 10,000 bales, 5,000 of which were on specu-
lation. The market was firm. There were 7,000 bales
of American t:kun at sd. to 71d; 500 of Pernambuco and
Maranham at 7id to Bd.; 200 of Bahia at Bd.; 600 of
Egyptian at 7id. to 9d.; and 1,400 of Surat at 41d. to
5Ad. per pound. Shares were rather heavy.
The intelligence received relative to the surrender of
Tampico to the United States forces has caused much
anxiety among the merchants, the bondholders,
and others connected with the trade with that
republic. Should, however, any treasure, the property
of British capitalists and others, be taken possession of
by the invaders, a full and satisfactory account must
undoubtedly be rendered to our Government. Upon
this score, therefore, very little apprehension ought to
exist, although serious delays may occur in making
remittances.
The Cotton and Corn markets of the United States
appear to have been active, and money was easy. No
doubt we shall do a good spring trade with brother
Jonathan in our principal manufactures for part pay-
ment of his staples.
It is stated that—" The Atlantic and St. Lawrence
Railroad is fast progressing, and will, when completed,
be one of the most important and profitable roads in the
country-280 miles; and Portland is in connexion with
the lakes, grasping the whole western trade. It will go
ahead, with rapid strides, of Boston, and will be the
principal depot of the Atlantic steamers in a
year or two. No city in the union has the
same natural advantages. New York is 475
miles from the lakes ; Boston, 525 ; Portland has a
noble harbour, but three milts from the broad Atlantic.
No pilots are required to enter or leave her port, and she
will undoubtedly become one of the most important
commercial cities in the Union. The Bostonians are
not willing to believe that this road will be made, it is
so dead against the city of Boston, which must keep
wide awake or be beaten., '
The weather in the United States and Canada was de-
cidedly wintry, and most of the shipping which intended
to leave the latter country for England had left before
the close of November.
We have received, in common with our contemporaries,
the following extract relative to Customs' frauds from the
London Mercantile Journal :
" We have this week to expose a fraud of a most ex-
tensive character, committed in one of the largest ware-
houses belonging to the St. Katherine's Dock Company,
by the connivance of the Custom's officer in charge
of that warehouse. We understand the amount of
which the revenue has been defrauded in this single
instance, to be between twenty and thiry thousand
pounds.
" Sugar is the article by which this fraud has been
effected, and the way it has been done is simply this:
—Upon the presentation of warrants for the delivery
of goods, to the Company's clerks, it is the
practice to present the document to the locker
on the premises, for him to certify that he
has received the - necessary order from the Custom
House that the 'duty has been paid. before the de-
livery is allowed to take place. In this instance
the locker asserted that he was in receipt of the
order' when such was not the case, no duty
having been paid. The Dock Company delivered the
sugar, and, we presume, stands exonerated. The locker
has decamped with, we suppose, half the amount in his
pocket, which may be considered not a bad exchange
for a poor fellow whose duty commences at seven o'clock
in the morning, who is the lickspittle of the landing
waiters and surveyors, with a salary of ninety pounds a
year, without the chance of preferment.
" Of course it will be supposed that this very simple
method of plundering wholesale, was at once discovered
by the fat, well-paid functionaries in Lower Thames-
street ; but oh ! no ! for them it would have
rt-mained —as we unhesitatingly say, many quite
as gross are at present—undiscovered. It was
a SPLIT among the actors which brought this
affair to light, and it is to similar differences that
the public are mainly indebted for all they know of the
frauds upon the Customs, and the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, for all he may have received, in the shape of
verdicts, from fraudulent traders."
There was not a syllable said at the Bank meeting
held this morning, relative to any monetary matters.
However, it is still the opinion of some people, that the
rate of interest on discounts, will shortly be increased.
The profits of the Bank of England would be probably
increased thereby, though a less extensive business were
done than at present.
The English securities have been without alteration.
Consols are 93i for the January account. Exchequer-
bills realise 103. to 13s. premium, being a shade lower.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. bring 951
and the Three per Cents. 94 to *. Bank Stock is 207.
The effect of one or two considerable purchases of
Mexican stock made yesterday has been partially
counterbalanced by the intelligence of the fall
of Tampico. The Bonds are now 231 to 24.
Portugu‘ se Four per Cents. have been quoted at 37 to 4.
Spanish have not been dealt in. Dutch Two- and-a-half
per Cents. are 601 1.
Railway Shares are steady, although there is not much
doing in them.

ONK
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock .207
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 941/B 94
New 314 per Cent. Annuities 95% 3/i
India Bonds, 1,000/
Ditto under I,OOW. . ....... 22 p
South Sea Stock

CLOSES
FRICES.
207

Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Opening 931/2% 93%
Exchequer Bills, 10001. 11,4 d.... 10 13 p 13 p
Dit;o, 5001
Ditto. Small
CLOSING
PRICES
23%
24

ONE
itICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2334
Ditto; Account .
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
D,tto, Account 3714 37 371 371,4
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4O 40
Dividends on the above payable in London.
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Dutcb, 24 per Cent .

i•RIcEs OE PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
II t ILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber.. Nott., Boston, _ .

and Eastern Junction 254.....
Armagh, Coleraine, and

Portrush ...... 1%
Belfast & County Down 43/4
Birmingham and Dudley 413. ... .. .... . .....
Birmin. and Gleucester..100
Ditto New 17% ••• ••• ......
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/4
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 223.
Bristol and Exeter

Ditto, New . 5 ...... 7 ... . 7
Bristol and,Gloucester... 30 ......
Bristol and Liver. Junc.. 2%......
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian..._.
_.,

Ditto Half Shares.—
Ditto, Clydesdale Junc 25
Chester and Holyhead... 271,E — ...
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
21,12 —
Cerk and Waterford ...
Cornwall

Ditto, Half Shares ... 2% —
Direct Lincoln, East Ret-
, ford, and Sheffd. June. 2% --.
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12%
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway... -. 4
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
Eastern Counties 14/. 16s. ..... 223/4 223/
Ditto New l2l. 16s 7% p 7% p
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1—..... 61.135. 4d...
Ditto ditto. No. 2 .. 6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3%
EastDereh'm andNoech 1
:astern Union 35 .. .•., .., ........ ..
Ditto, Quarter Shares 83/4•••••• ...............
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 174 i • ..... --* ......... .....
Do., Camb, and Ely 2%.•—•
East Lancashire .
Ditto. New
Do., do. (late Preston
and Ormskirk)...
Do., do., New Scrip... 114 ..... —_,
East Lincolnshire ... - • 14— --- 2s/4
East & West of England 1%3--
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... ......... ...
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% .....
Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% —.
__
Edinburgh and Perth... 31.,, _
Elyand Huntingdon ... 12 ,2...... ..... ......... 13A
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% _
.............. _
Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 514 — .
Gaslgow, Dumfries, -and
Carlisle . ....
_
Glasgow,Kilmar.,&Ayr 50 ...... _
Ditto, New .. 15
Do., 14 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.) ... ...... 12%_,...
Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 2 ...... 2%
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn
Great Eastern &Western 2%.... .. •.•••• .....
•• —.
Great South. and West ••• ••
(Ireland)
27% ...... ••••
Great Munster
Great North of Scotland .IXII/2...... --
Great Northof England..loo 237
Ditto New 5
Ditto, New .
54"
Ditto, New
Great Western B5
Ditto % Shares 5O
Ditto 14 Shares lO
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New ... 2
Huddersfield & Mulches. 13 ......

.....
3%

2%

3
-4 /

Ditto, Extension 3
Hull and Selby
Do. Half Shares 25
Ditto 14 Shares
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11% lO%
Do., do., and Norwich 2%
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Do. New ' 5 - •••• •••• •• ••
Leeds and Bradford 3O
Leicester and Bedfard... 16s.
Leeds, Dewsbury, tic.. 32% .... ....

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