The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-03 00:00:00

MERCANTILE NAVIt OF FRANCE.

" In the course of 16 years, from 1814 to 1830, the
shipping of France has increased from a few half rotten
ships unemployed, to 8,000 trading vessels, viz.._
At Bordeaux vessels. 210
Havre
Marseilles l7O
Saint-Mato
Dunkirk
Rouen
Dieppe
Caen
Cherbourg
Boulogne and Calais lO
Brest 9
Bayonne
Lorient 6
Cette 6
La Rochelle 4
Other ports

" Total S2O trading vessels, on an average of 250 tong
each, niak)ng in the whole 205,000 tons.

" There are also 1,800 vessels trading to countries in
Europe and to Newfoundland, of 250 tons each, making in
all 270,000 tons, and 5,380 vessels employed in the
coastin' trade (petit clbotage) of 50 tons each, making in
the whole 8,000 vessels measuring nearly 744,000 tons,
forming what may be called her mercantile navy.
" These vessels employ 57,200 seamen, distributed as
follows :

820 vessels with crews of 15 men each 12,300
1,800 id. id. 10 18,000
5,380 id. id. 5 26,908

Which number, added to the seamen employed in ships
of war, would raise the number engaged in the sea service
to nearly 80,000 experienced sennen.

" The vessels trading out of Europe are thus distri-
buted :
To India .merchantmen • 35
Islands of Bourbon and Maurice ..... 70 - -
South Seas - 25
Brazil 65
River Plata
Mexico
Columbia
Island of Cuba 6O
Haiti 6u
United States of America 35
The West Indies (not belonging to France) 20
Cayenne
Senegal and Goree 4O
Martinique and Guadaloupe 3OO
Whale fishery 6
Circumnavigation by way of China 6

Total 832

" These figures affnd additional evidence of the pro-
gre-s which France was making towards a state of com-
mercial prosperity anterior to the events of the late revs-

lution.

" From the best accounts it appears that the whole of
the capital employed in trade and shipping, independent
of manufactures, does not exceed two milliards of francs or
about 80,000,000/. sterling,"

tables, thirty pounds of green %egetableo, three pounds of
butter or grease, and one pound and a half of bait.

VAPOLEON AND THE PRFBS.

"-Before the war in Germany in 1805, Bonaparte at-
tempted to corrupt Doctor Stuver, the Editor of the
Bandbitrgh Correspandenten. but found it impossible ;
nor could his pOrpose at that time be accomplished by
force, as Hamburgh was yet an independent city. Uoon
one occasion, however, during the discussions with Eng-
land, previous to the commencement of the war in 1803,
he induce the Senate to order the insertion of a libel
against the English Government. But the difficulties he
experienced in the first attempt prevented him from rene7:-
ing it till he- became master of Hamburgh ; as, besides the
resistance he met with from the firmness of the Editor, he
had also to gain the censor appointed by the Senate, whose
duty it was to examine the different articles, and judge
of their admissibility. Thus foiled, he had recourse to
the following stratagem. He established a printing-press
at Aix-la-Chapelle, under the direction of a German of
the name of Haussner, and there reprinted, or rather coun-
terfeited, the Hamburgli Correspondenten ; and by brib-
ing all the post-offices in Germany (or at least having a
clerk in his pay in the post-office of every town of any con-
sequence), he found no difficulty in getting the fictitious
substituted for the genuine Correspondentcn. By forging
the Hamburgh arms, and by the closeness with which the
paper, typography, paper, and general appearance of the
Journal were imitated, it became a very tolerable fac-
simile of the original."

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
Rank Stock
3 per Cent. Red 8344 IA
3 per Cent.Cona.
3}6 per Cent. 9O:-;.,4
Ditto Red..... ...... ..... 907434 %
New 3% per eent. 92 %-
3 per Cent Ann. 1726
4 per Cent. 1826
Bank Long Ann. to expire
Jan. 5, 1868 16% 7-16 ~,c,
Oct. 10, 1859 161,4
Jan. 5, 1860 —
Jan. 5, 1880 —
Aprils, 1880 —
Jan. 5. 1870 ,

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds B9
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account 74%
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account 48
Buenos Ayres Bonds 22
Ditto Account
Chilian Bends l6

Ditto Account
Colombian Bonds 931
Ditto Account

Ditto Bonds, 1824 lO4

.
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds' 69 8%
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds 22
Ditto Bonds, 1825.
Ditto Account —
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 21%
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per cent oN ,
Ditto Account 26N 1
Neapolitan —l

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

New 5 per Cent,

India Stock
Ditto Bonds 2O 21 pm.
South Sea Stock 934
Old Annuities —
New Ditto —
3 per Cent. Ann. 1751
Ex. Bills, .E. 1,000 3O 31 pm.
Ditto 500 30 31 pm.
Ditto Small 3O 31 pm.
Ditto Commercial pm.
Ditto Advertised
Bank for Account
India for Account —
Cons. for N0r.,.........

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds
Ditto Account
Portuguese Bonds 49%
Ditto Account

Regency Scrip 1-1-,I dis.
Ditto Account ni.dis.
Prussian Bonds TOO%
Ditto Account —
1 Ditto Bonds, 1822 lOll
Russian Bonds, 1922 —
t Ditto Account
...

New Loan
Spanish Bonds, 1821...16% 171,4
Ditto Account... 16N 17+1,:i
Ditto Bonds, 1823 1544 IS
Ditto Account 1574 16
French Rentes, p. c. 81f —c.
1— Exchange 2sf 80c.
—3 per cent. —f —c.
Exchange.— —f —c.
'Dutch Scrip 4214
Ditto Account 41N %%
Frznch Scrip 2 pm.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) XlOO 814
Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 160 172%
Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O 47
Ditto National 17% 1735
Ditto St. John Del Rey
Ditto Cocaes
British Iron Mining Company £5O 15
Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 48% 6%
English Mining Company 1214 23
General Mining Association ll 24
Real del Monte Mining Co. ...,.. ...... - 21 2-2
United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 4%
Ditto New Sciip 2 s:i
Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO 8%
Protector Insiirance Como.
Australian Co.
Canada Company ......... ........... - l7 46 45
General Steam Navigation Co. l3 814
Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 ;84

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, OCT. 31.
Bank Stock .............. 199% ISt. Patrick Insur.(pet Share) -
Consols, 3 ner cent - !Royal Irish Ditto
Gov. Stock, 3w,, per cent. 90%1National Ditto
Ditto, New 90% ;Patriotic Ditto
I per Cent --; Hibernian Bank ......... ...... -
Gov. Deb. 356 percent 84% Provincial Ditto -
Royal Canal Stock .... ..... 40 Royal Irish Mine -
Grand Canal Stock - Imperial Mine
City Deb. 4 per cent. - Mining Co. of Ireland
Ballast Office Deb. 4D. P. -- Commercial Buildings
----

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amsterdam C.F 12 64
Ditto, at sight '0 4i
Rotterdam 2 U 12 fil
Antwerp 12 8
Hamana burg ...... ....... X B 13 15
Alt l3 154
Paris, a days' sight 25 85
Ditto .2 U. 26 ID
Bordeaux 26 15
Berlin
Frankfort on Maine, Ex. 51.:5401
Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10
Vienna, effective fl. 2 M. 10 i 3
Trieste do .lO 14
Madrid. 36
Cadiz B6
Bilboa 36
Barcelona 35
Seville 3.544
Gib.___raltar 475
______

,NGE YESTERDAY.

Leghorn 47%
Genoa. 06 10
Venice 47
Malta 46
Naples
Palermo peroz. 120
Lisbon
Oporto 4654
Rio .raneiro 38%
Bahia 32
Buenos Ayres
Dublin, 21 days' 1
Cork
BULLION, PER OZ.
X. s. d.
Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0
Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9
New Doubloons 0 0 0
ew Dollars
Silverhars, standard 0 4 10i

NAILS.
Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due.
0 America 0 0 Hamburg I
0 Brazil
0 Buenos Ayres
0 Carthagena. 0 0 Leeward Islands
1 Dublin ..... ............. CI 0 Lisbon 2
0 Flanders 0 0 Malta ....... ......... 1
o France 0 0 Sweden
0 ruernse• &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning... 55 minutes after 10.1 Evening.. 24 minutes after 11.
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