The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-15 00:00:00

UNITED STATES and Ma
25,
We have received the following, dated E
FebruaOry
from Tampico :
"We had an express to-day bringing the intelligence
that the American troops had taken possession of the
Fronton de Santa Isabel, situated near to Matamoras—
so near that it is considered M4tarnoro is already taken
by the Americans, for what can the Americans do with
such customers ? The Fronton de Santa Isqbel was taken
without a fight, and there were only some :LWxican
Custom-house officers and pilots, who were made
prisoners."
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the six persons before alluded to. The vessel, if it could
be got off, would be taken to Now York.
The trial of Tyrrell, for the murder of Maria Bick-
ford, had taken place; when the jury, in the face of most
conclusiNe evidence, acquitted the prisoner. Somnam-
bulism was the plea of defence. Tiie jury, however,
stated that that did not influence them. They did not
consider the case as proved. Objection to capital
punishments was surmised to be the cause of his ac-
quittal. It was an aggravated case.
A shocking massacre had taken place at Auburn, New
York. A negro entered the house of a Mr. Van Nest,
and murdered the whole family, consisting of five p/r-
-sons. Revenge was his object, he said.
Commodore Crane, of the United States navy, had
committed suicide.
Great floods and consequent damage had taken place
at Buffalo, New York, at Albany, and in the i anteri of
Pennsylvni. An immerse amount of damage was
taineda. Seaveral of the Lake boatsteam were crushed
sus
to pieces by the ice at Buffalo.
Ti.e cost of repairing the damage occasioned to the
public works of Pennsylvania by these floods, which
will amount to about 112,000 dolls., and the loss of tolls
consequent upon not opening the canals at the usual
time may, it was apprehended, interfere with the pay-
ment of the August dividend of the State debt. This
was, however, merely a conjecture. Pennsylvania Five
per Cents. were quoted at New York on the 31st at 694
to 70.

The spring business at New York was progressing
fairly, though the position of the Oregon an:l Mexican
questions caused frequently rather an uneasy feeling
affecting all business more or less. The news from
England of the final decision of Parliament on Sir R.
Peel's Bill was anxiously looked for. The Stock Market
was lower. United States Six per Cents., which sold
when the late steamer left at 1111, could scarcely find a
buyer at 110.
EXCHANGE.—London, 1091 to 110 ; Paris, 5 26+ to
5 231 ; Amsterdam, 391 to 394 ; Hamburgh, 35i to
354 ; Bremen, 784 to 79+—at which rates a large
business was doing in English Exchange.
MONEY MARKET, MARCH 31, P.M.—Stocks continued
in a very unsettled state, and there is not likely to be
much change in the market until after the arrival of the
foreign news, which may be expected on Thursday
morning. Money is tight, and the banks are cautious.
There is a rumour to-day that the Sub-Treasury Bill is
about to pass, though what will be its immediate effect
upon the monetary affairs of the country is not easy to
determine. One party looks to it with hope, and the
other with despair. It is safe to say that at present
matters at Washington do not look at all encouraging.
There is nothing settled in the policy of the Administra-
tion, and business men seem to be in a quandary.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MARCH 30.

The sales of cotton to-day have been moderate—ma-
nufacturers have taken a few lots of the finer qualities,
for which prices range as high as they were before the
arrival of the Hibernia; the lower qualities, however,
are sold for export at a decline of t to s from those rates.
The total sales since the 27th ult. amount to 15,600
bales. We quoted Upland, very ordinary to middling,
6t- cents. to it cents. fair to good fair and good, 8i cents.
to 9 cents. and 9i cents. per lb.; Tenessee and Alaba-
mas, 7 to 8t; Mobiles, Louisianas, &c., ordinary to mid.,
7 cents. to 81 cents; fair to good fair, 9i cents. to 101
cents.; good and fine, 11 cents. to 12i cents. per lb.
Flour, &c.—Western Canal flour is dull of sale ; Ge
nesse is offered at 5,50 dols. but shippers do not come
forward at that price ; Alexandria, Friedericksburg,
&c., may be quoted at 5,121 dols. to 5 dols.; Baltimore
5,121 dols. ; Georgetown, 5,121 dols. to 5,25 dole. ;
Brandywine' 5,371 dols. to 5,50 dols. ; Richmond City
Mills, 6,50 dols. Rye flour, 3,50 dols. Corn meal,
3,37 k dols. to 3,50 dols. in barrels, and 15,75 dols. to
16 duls. in tierces. Wheat is held at 1,10 dols. to 1,20
dols. Rye 80 to 801 cents. Sales of corn are made at
67 to 68 cents. The receipts of flour to-day, vitt North
River, amount to 4,969 bales.
50 tierces Pennsylvania Clover Seed (clean) sold at 9c.
Provisions are steady. New Mess Pork commands
11 dots. to 11 dols. 50c. Thera is but little old in mar-
ket. New is held at 9 dols. 50c. to 10 dols. Beef is
firm, with a moderate stock. Lard is dull at 7c. in bar-
rels, and 74c. in kegs. Cheese 71c. to Sic. Butter is
dull, and with an accumulating stock. Prices continue
to have a downward tendency. Orange Co. is heavy at
15c. to 18c.; Western Dairy, 12c. to 14c.; Interior and
Grease, 81-c. to 10c.
Ashes.—Pots are dull—a few sales of last year's
brands have been made at 4 dols., and of Pearls at 4d.
31c. to 4d. 37i-c.
Naval stores remain inactive. There has been no
movement for export since the arrival of the Hibernia,
in consequence of the low prices ruling in England.
Freights.—To Liverpool, 3-16 d. for Cotton, Tur-
pentine, and Flour is. 9d. to 25. To London, Naval
Stores and Flour 3s. to 3s. 3d. per id. To Havre, Cotton
to 4c. per lb. ; Ashes Bd. to 10d. per ton ; Rice 10d.
per ton.

CANADA.
The provincial Parliament was opened at Montreal on
the 20th inst., with the usual formalities. The speech of
Earl Cathcart embraces several topics which make it in-
teresting to this country, and we therefore give it entire.
It will be noticed that he announces his permanent ap-
pointment to the office of Governor-General.
HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUN-
CIL, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY :
The duty of opening the session of Parliament has
necessarily devolved upon me, as administrator of the
Gov( rnment, in consequence of the lamented departure
of the late Governor-General. But I am commanded,
at the same time, to make known to you, that the Queen
has been graciously pleased permanently to designate me
as her Majesty's future representative in this province.
In announcing to you the fact of my having thus be-
come the successor of Lord Metcalfe, you will, I feel as-
sured, concur with me in the expression of sincere regret
at the painful cause which has removed this distin-
guished nobleman from a station, the duties of which
he discharged with a zeal and ability that on every oc-
casion won for him the highest approbation of his So-
vereign, and the respect and gratitude of the people over
whom he presided as her representative.
The several addresses to the Queen which were
adopted during the last session of the Legislature have
been laid at the foot of the throne. It will be my
pleasing duty to announce to you her Majesty's gracious
replies.
I should under any circumstances have :directed your
early attention to the condition of the militia law. But
the unsettled state of the negotiations which have been
for some time past carried on between the Imperial Go-
venment and that of the United States of America, ren-
ders it imperative upon me to press immediately upon
your consideration the necessity of a re-organisation of
this arm of the public defence. I feel the most un-
bounded confidence that the loyalty and patriotism of
every class of her Majesty's subjects in Canada will be
conspicuous, as they have been heretofore, should occa-
sion call for their services to aid in the protection of
their country ; but a well-digested and uniform system
is indispensable to give a fitting direction to the most
zealous effort.

At the same time I feel warranted i❑ assuring you
that, while our gracious Sovereign will ever rely on the
free and loyal attachment of her Canadian people for
the defence of this province, and the maintenance of
British connexion, her Majesty will be prepared, as her
predecessors have always been, to provide with promp-
titude and energy, corresponding with the power and re-
sources of the empire, for the security of her North
American dominions.
The subject of the civil list, which was brought
under your considt ration by my predecessor, will doubt-
less engage your attention, when I trust to your wisdom
to make such a provision as will enable her Majesty
to give effect to your wishes, by recommending to the
Imperial Parliament the requisite changes in the act of
reunion.

GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY—
The financial accounts ot' the province for the past

'ear will be immediately laid before you. The estimates
ior the service of the current year will be likewise sub-
mitted to your early consideration.
The necessity of providing for the prosecution and
completion of the public improvements, undertaken with
the sanction of Parliament, will form a subject for your
deliberation.
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ASSEMBLYI —
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11°LNECIRSLABATIT GVE
Since your last meeting, the ancientcityinofthgeuesbuecc.
has been subjected to unexampled calamity
ct ssive fires which laid waste its buildings. Measuresi
rendered indispensable by the exigency were adoptet
by my predecessor, which will be sent down for your
approval.
The sympathy and benevolence of different portions
of the British empire were roused into active exercise
by the knowledge of the severe infliction with which it
had pleased Divine Providence to permit the citizens of
Quebec to be visited ; and we have the strongest reasons
for appreciating the noble generosity which has been
exhibited, and which has proved how truly the inhabi-
tants of Canada are felt by the people of Great Britain
to be brethren and fellow-subjects of the same mighty
nation. It will be for your wisdom to consider what
further measures it may be proper to adopt for the resto-
ration of what has been thus destroyed.
The last intelligence from the mother country
indicates a most important change in the commercial
policy of the empire. I bad previously taken occasion
to press upon her Majesty's Government a due consi-
deration of the effect that any contemplated alteration
might have on the interests of Canada. But until we
haveafuller exposition of the projected scheme, which
a few days will probably bring to us, it would be pre-
mature to anticipate that the claims of this province to
a just measure of protection had ben overlooked.
In these and the various other subjects affecting the
prosperity of Canada, which may occupy you. I offer my
hearty co-operation ; and I earnestly trust that, order
the din c,iou of an ise Providt-nce, we shall he en-
acled to pursue a cour.e calculated to promot, the best
interests, and to foster the rising growth of this rapidly
advancing colony.

THE SITS, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING

EASTER PAROCHIAL MEETINGS.
S"l.`. STEPHEN'S, WALBROOK.
ANOTHER REMARKABLE SCENE —On Easter Tuesday,
in accordance with annual custom, a meeting Of the
parishioners of the united parishes of St. Stephen, Wal-
brook, and St. Benet, Sherehog, took place in the vestry-
room of St. Stephen's Church, for the election of church-
wardens, &c., for the year ensuiuss
In the course *of last week, notices, convening two
vestry meetings for the election were posted on the
church doors7-ene by Mr. Rock and Mr. Flight, the
churchwardens appointed by the open vestry, and the
other by Mr. Alderman Gibbs, on the part of the select
one—and to meet at the same hour, namely, eleven
o'clock. Shortly before the time the Rev. Dr. Croly,
the rector, accompanied by Messrs. Rock and Flight, the
vestry-slerk, and a party of parishioners, took possession
of the room; and on eleven o'clock arriving, Mr. Alder-
man Gibbs, with three cf his colleagues, entered, and
addressing those who had already assembled, wished
them to retire, as it was a select vestry that had to meet
there fur the choice of parish officers. The request,
howevi r, being politely declined, the Alderman, with his
three friends, retired to his residence in Walbrook,
where their parochial business wa., no doubt, performed.
Dr. Croly then took the chair, aud
Mr. R. CIINLIFIE proposed the re election of Messrs.
Rock and Flight as churchwardens. The parishioners
were fully satisfied with the manner those gentlemen had
endeavoured to regain their privileges ; and he trusted
they would go on in the same spirit, and obtain that jus-
tice that was so justly due to the parish at large.
The proposition having been seconded, the re-election
of Messrs. Rock and Flight was declared to be carried
unanimously.
Mr. ROCK, in returning thanks, said he felt obliged
for the renewed proof of confidence of the parishioners ;
he had hoped that the question, whether !qr. Alderman
Gibbs and his colleagues, or Mr. Flight and himself (Mr.
Rock), were the legal churchwardens, would have been
settled last term ; but the case unfortunately was not
reached as yet. It now stood No. 6on the list, and was
appointed for argument on the 22d inst., and on the re-
sult a general meeting of the parishioners would be called
in order to take the whole of the parish affairs into con-
sideration, with a view of securing a speedy and just dis-
tribution of the parish property. He had been asked,
what they had done during the three years of litigation ;
but he would say, that if they had not succeeded in ob-
taining those privileges that had been unjustly withheld
from them, they had prevented the enforcement of rates
to the amount of 1,5001. The parishioners might rely
on his continued exertions in the claim they were prose-
cuting, for a fair and prompt statement of their parochial
concerns.
Mr. FLIGHT having acknowledged the approbation of
his fellow-parishioners, in again selecting him as one of
their churchwardens, and declared his intention to pro-
ceed fearlessly in the task they had entered into,
The Rev. Dr. CROLY rose and addressed the vestry.
He said nothing but a strong sense of justice, and of his
duty to his parishioners, would have brought him there
that day, under the severe domestic affliction which had
befallen him. But the condition of the church of the
parish, and of those to whom the parish was indebted,
absolutely demanded immediate inquiry. Why Mr.
Alderman Gibbs persisted in forcing his services on
them was a question which, palpable as the object war,
he avoided mentioning, merely for the reasons stated by
the vestry-clerk, that the whole case was about to be
decided by the judges. But the facts, which none could
dispute, were these : that the church of the united
parishes remained in a state of squalid and scandalous
disrepair; that the parishioners knew nothing of the
distribution of their revenue, and thus the three indivi-
duals most necessary for the proper performance of
divine service had been unpaid for years. It was with
considerable pain that he had been informed by the
organist of the church, that the debt now due to her
amounted to 110 guineas. The sexton for nearly three
years had not been paid; and he (Dr. Croly), as the
afternoon lecturer, had now upwards of three years sti-
pend due to him. As for the services of Mr. Alderman
Gibbs, as churchwarden, he knew of none, for he seemed
to have lost sight of the most important duties appertain-
ing to that office. It was the duty of the churchwarden
to see that the church was kept in repair. A glance
would show how that duty had been done.—(Hear.) It
was his duty to prevent the parish being involved in
debt. Mr. Alderman Gibbs brought it in debtor to the
amount of 1,8001., and that debt to himself.— (Hear,
hear.) And, lastly, it was the duty of the churchwarden
to attend the church during divine service; but he had
not seen Mr. Alderman Gibbs for some years, and, as
far as he was concerned, ho had no particular desire to
see him there. For fourteen years no church-rate had
been raised; certainly, from no reluctance on the part of
the parishioners. He must do them that credit on all
occasions, but simply from their declaring that they
would pay no more money until they had an account of
what had been done with the past.—(Hear, hear.) A
more natural and necessary demand he could not con-
ceive. But no account was given, and in consequence no
rates were received. They could easily calculate the
average rate, and they would see that the loss amounted
to a very large sum, now wholly irrecoverable. He would
abstain from saying more, simply because the whole
matter would be speedily decided by the legal authorities.
Still he felt all the sincere determination to see justice
done, which every man ought to feel in such an instance;
and he looked forward with strong hope to the decision,
which would extinguish the evil already so deeply in-
jurious to the peace of the parish, and to the credit of
the church of this Protestant country.—(Cheers.)
Other parochial business of minor importance having
been proceeded with, the vestry broke up.

ST. LEONARD'S, SHOREDITCH.
Yesterday the-annual meeting of the parishioners of
St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, took place in the parish
church, for the election of churchwardens, and Mr. Long,
late junior warden, was unanimously chosen as successor
to Mr. Bewley. Mr. Pearce then nominated Mr. Tho-
mas James Simpson to succeed Mr. Long as junior
warden, and in a speech of some length highly eulo-
gised his character and previous serviccs in the parish.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Cottell, but was op-
posed by Mr. Solomon, who nominated Mr. Robert
Black ; and, upon a show of hands, the majority was
declared to be in favour of the latter. A poll, however,
was demanded by Mr. Pearce, on the part of Mr. Simp-
son, and the pulling was directed to take place on Mon-
day and Tuesday next, when a fierce contest is expected
between the opposing parties.