The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-12 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

A new importation from the French, in two acts, entitled The
King's Seal, was produced on Saturday night with ambiguous suc-
cess. The plot turns upon the ambitious designs of tlw Marchioness
de Verneuil (Miss E. TREv.) to become the Queen of Henry the
Fourth of France (CoorEa). The wise Sully (WA itnE) had,
however, for reasons of State, urged the Monarch to wed the
Princess of Tuscany. The Marchioness, suspecting the fact, in a
moment of jealousy and rage, opens a letter of the King, sealed with
his signet, which proves the truth of her suspicions. The Marquis
de Baseompierre, who is the bearer of the letter, and is also a lover
of Louise de Balzac, the sister to the Marchioness, is anxious to
save her from disgrace. His page, Gaspard ('Miss TAYLOR),
accordingly applies so Bertholdus Defies (W. FARREN), an en-
graver, to produce in all haste a duplicate of the King's seal. The
engraver recognises the seal as the work of his own hands, and
hies to Sully to apprise him of the fact. In the meanwhile he had
locked up Gaspar/ in his laboratory, from which he is released by
Lena (Miss Munr.AY), the daughter of Bertholdus. Gronihind
( HARLEr), his servant, had overheard the conversation beween
Gaspard and the engraver. Sully and Bertholdus are taken before
the King, who, is at a masked ball given by the Marchioness. It
had been agreed that the latter should recognise the King by a cer-
tain costume. His Majesty had changed his dress with a former
lover of the Marchioness, and she unconsciously admits to him her
attempt to forge the seal, and avows her only attachment was for
the crown of France, and not for Henri Quatre. The King
throws off his disguise, and at the intercession of Sully, forgives
her. The piece concludes, secundunt. artent, with a brace of mar-
riages, and cries of " Vive /a Reine." The incidents were suffi-
ciently numerous to arrest attention, and the dialogue was at times
smart and pointed.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

(FROM LLOYD'S.)

DEAL, JAN. 11.-Wind light —Arrived and sailed for the river
the Alert and Monkey, Cargill, from St. Michaels ; Rossia, from
Odessa; Elizabeth, Douglas, from Rochfort. Arrived and sailed the
Chase, from London, for Havannab ; Euphemia, Simpson, from
Newcastle fur the Mediterranean, has been supplied with an anchor
and gone to Ramsgate. Came from the river, Jan. 10, the Antigua,
Planta, for Antigua; Scotia, for Charleston; Black Nymph, for
Sierra Leone ; Aquila, for Bristol ; Isabella, for Sligo ; Fame, for
Malta, and Maria for Cork. 4 P.m. Passed through from the
Westward the Shannon steamer. Arrived and remains with the
outward bound, the Swallow, Phelps, from London for Naples.
PORTSMOUTH' JAN. 10.-Wind W.N.W. to W.S.
W. S. W.-Passed by the Royal George, Wilson, for Calcutta,
sailed June 11, and St. Helena, Oct. 19.
WIGHT, JAN. 10.—Arrived off Tecunson, Lydam, from
Charleston ; and the Royal George, Wilson, for Calcutta.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 10.—Arrived the Emma Zoller, Wood-
ward, from Quebec.
TORBAY, JAN. 10.-Arrived the Faith, Jones, from St. Mi-
chael's, lost bowsprit, &c.
LivEnroot,, JAN. 10.—Arrived the Margaret, Ludlow, from
Maracaibo ; Washington, Benson, from New Orleans ; Indepen-
dence, Lye, from New York ; Venus, Kirkley, from Pugwash ;
Endeavour, Douglas, from Quebec ; Sir William Wallace, Haunch,
from Miramielii ; Patriot, Law, from T! ieste ; Georgiana,
Wylie, from Messina ; Thames, Luggart, from Lisbon ; Excellent,
Hanson, from Denia ; and Commerce, from Seville. Off port
the Arab, from Valparaiso ; Antelope and William Russell, Bruce,
from Pernambuco ; Cochlan, from Savannah ; Troy, from Charles-
ton ; Sherbrooke, from St. John's, New Brunswick •, British Tar,
Richebueto ; Esther and British Heroine, from Quebec.

The Hope, Seggie, from London to Kirkaldy, was on shore near
Flamborough Head, 10th inst.
The Swallow packet from Vera Cruz, arrived at Havannah
17th November, and was repairing on the 24th.
H. M. schooner, was lost the 3d November on Key
Island in the Bahama Channel---offieers and crew saved; she had
on board 270 negroes taken from a slave vessel she had chased on
shoro--70 were drowned.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of Corn reported last week were good, and of
Flour considerable. There *as no variation observable in the
trade from the previous Monday. This morning the fresh
supplies of most descriptions of Grain were moderate. The
finest parcels of Wheat were readily sold at rather better
terms than last Monday, and other qualities firmly maintained
their value. Barley, if fine for malting, is also rather
scarce, and grinding qualities meet buyers at last quota-
tions. Beans remain steady at previous prices. Pease of
both kinds are unvaried in value. 'I here has been a fair trade for
Oats to-day, and last week's prices have been rather exceeded for
fine qualities. In the Flour trade there is no variation to notice,
except thot the best town-made is more in demand.

RICRS ON 11

,AILD OF SHIP.

Nheat, Red (old'
-- White (01d'... —v. —s.
.--- Red i8:34 4os. 4•25.
-- Fin, 425. 43s
Su; erti e... 446 455.
Wh to (1634) 435. 455.
Fine 46s 51s
--
Superfine sos. 545,
Foreign free
Rye 4os
Bailey ''.2s 24:
Grinding 'Nis. 3 I,
-- Dialling . 33s
Malt . 445. 50.
Fine New srs. 625.
Pease, Grey, New ..... 365. 40i,
--- Maple New 4o.s. 4:is.
-- White 345. 40s.
-- Boilers 405.4-4:.

Beans, Small ,new)
-- (old)
'lick (m:w

(old),
373. 3'
Harrow
odd) ...... 345. •it's.
Brant; —e —s.
Oats, Feed
New 196.035
-- Poland
New
Potzttoe
-- New 2 3A. :273.
--- Scotch llSr.2Sr.
Irish les l9s. :240
Flour Town ,per sack) es. 425.
Second.;

North Country 3Qa.:44.
Bran

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols, which left off on Saturday at 92 for the Account, opened
this morning at 92,E ; Exchequer Bills, 42 44; India Bonds,
22 2.3.
In the Foreign Market there is also an improvement. Spanish,
which left off on Saturday at WA, is at present 551,4 3/4 ; Portu-
guese, 874
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 92%
THE FUNDS.—C

.USING PRICES.
FUNDS.
India Stock
,261,6

Bank Stook "23
per Cent. lied 91%
.1 per Cent. Cons 90%
per Cent.
:”.4 per Cent. Red
New :3%, per Cent
4 per Cent.. Assented
Dissented
Long Annuities to expire
JAIL Ntio 17 1-16
Oct If3W l6 15.-16
Jan. 1860 16%

Ditto Bone,, —.2l
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities ......

EL 131113, In
Oitto 5'71,
Ditto W./ 44 pro.
Bank Stock for Act.. ••• ••
India 1-tuck for Opg. .....
Consols for Opg.

1. OREICiN FUNDS
Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, spa cent. SN
Belgian, 5 per cent 6l Ditto, New Ditto B7l,
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cont — Russian Bonds, 3 pot cent ....10714
Chilinn, ii per cent — • Ditto, Metallic
Columbian, 6 per cent ..... .... Span.sh, 5 per cent PhY4
9itto, 1824 ' — Ditto, is. 3 5414
Danish
,:rcei: Bonds, 1825,5 per cent - Exchang, .. ............ ..... :23f. 40c.
14, exican, 3 per cent , 18:25-- j French, :1 per cent l7f. 50c.
Di, to, 18'25, 6 per rent s 114 Dutch, •:2 , per cent. ....... ........ 54'4
/ix Jrian, 6 per cent ......

li NITED STATES.

(From the New York Gazette of Dec.'4.)
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

A quorum of both Houses of Congress was formed on
Monday. Committees were appointed to wait on the Presi-
dent, who the next day at twelve o'clock sent in the following
Message :
.

•
ph: LOW-CITIZENS OF THE SENATE, •
Am) ;;OUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES :
In duty at the opening of your present SCE-
sin it gives
gives nie pieb:UlT to congratulate you again upon the
o
prosperous conditiofi of
lir beloved country. Divine Provi-
‘.
(Ince has favoured us with jit‘s.neral health, with rich rewards
in the Acids of agriculture and in Beery branch of labour, and
with peace to cultivate and extend the various resources which
us trust
• free institutions
our joint deliberations to preserve them may b
employ the virtue and enterprise of our ict)...:zens. Let
that in surveying a scene so flattering w ~,,,, t
crowned with

success.
Our foreign relations continue with but few eg'et;tions to
maintain the favourable aspect which they bore in my'
jest an-
nual message, and promise to extend those advantages which
the principles that regulate our intercourse with other naliQnS
are so well calculated to secure.
The question of the north-eastern boundary is still pending;
with Great Britain, and the proposition made in accordance,
with the resolution of tho Senate for the establishment of a
line according to the treaty of 1783 has not been accepted by
that Government. Believing that every disposition is felt on
both sides to adjust this perplexing question to the satisfactiot.
of all the parties interested in it, the hope is yet indulged that
it may be effected on the basis of that proposition.
With the Government of Austria, Russia, Prussia, HoZand„
Sweden, and Denmark, the best understanding exists. Com-
merce, with all, is fostered and protected by reciprocal go.'d
will, under the sanction of liberal convention or legal provisions-
In the midst of her internal difficulties the Queen of Spain
has ratified the Convention for the payment-of the claims of
our citizens arising since 1812. It is in the course of execu-
tion on her part, and a copy of it is now laid before ;col for
such legislation as may be found necessary to enable those in-
terested to derive the benefits of it.
Yielding to the force of circumstances and to the wise
counsels of time and experience that Power has finally resolved
no longer to occupy the unnatural position in which she stood
to the new Governments established in this hemisphere.
have the great satisfaction of stating to you that in preparing'
the way for the restoration of harmony between those who
have sprung from the same ancestors, who are allied by com-
mon interests, profess the same religion, and speak the same
languege, the United States have been actively instrumental.
Our efforts to effect this good work will be persevered in
while they are deemed useful to the parties, and our entire dis-
interestedness continues to be felt and understood. The act
of Congress to countervail the discriminating duties levied to
the prejudice of our navigation in Cuba and Porto Rico has
been transmitted to the Minister of the United States at Ma-
drid, to be communicated to the Government of the Queen.

No intelligence of its receipt has yet reached the Department
of State. If the present condition of the country permits the
Government to make a careful and enlarged examination of
the true interests of these in:nortant portions of its dominions,
no doubt is entertained that-their future intercourse with the

United States will be placed upon a more just and liberal basis.
The Florida archies have not Ye; been selected and delivered.
Recent orders have been sent to the agent of the United States
at Havanna!' to return with all that he can obtain, so that they
may be in Washington before the .43t ssion of the Supreme
Court, to be used in the legal questions there pending, to
which the Government is a party.
Internal tranquillity is happily restored to Portugal. The.
distracted state of the country rendered unavoie:ible the post-
ponement of a final payment of the just claims of o,nr citizens.
Our diplomatic relations will be soon resumed, and the long
subsisting friendship with that Power affords the strongest
guarantee that the balance due will receive prompt atten'ion.
The first instalment due under the Convention of inilemnitv
with the King of the two Sicilies has been duly received,
and an offer been made to extinguish the whole by a prompt
payment ; an offer I did not conceive myself authorised to
accept, as the indemnification provided is the exclusive pro—
perty of individual citizens of the United States. The origi—
nal adjustment of our claims, and the anxiety displayed to
falfil at once the stipulations made for the payment of them,
arc highly honourable to the Government of the two Sicilies.
When it is recollected that they were the result of the injus-
tice of an instructive power, temporarily dominant in its ter-
ritory, a repugnance to acknowledge and to repay which -would
have been neither unnatural nor unexpected, the circumstances
cannot fail to exalt its character for justice and good faith in
the eyes of all nations.

The treaty of amity and commerce between the United
States and Belgium, brought to your notice in my last annual
Message as sanctioned by the Senate, but the ratifications of
which had not barn exchanged, owing to a delay in its recep-
tion at Brussels, and a subsequent absence of the Belgian
nister of Foreign Affairs, has been, after mature deliberation,
finally disavowed by that Government as inconsistent with the•
powers and instructions given to tho Minister who negotiated
it. This diavowal was entirely unexpected, as the liberal
principles embodied in the Convention, and which firm the
ground work of the objections to it, were perfectly satisfactory
to the Belgian Representative, and were supposed to be not
only within the powers granted, but expressly conformably to
to the instructions given to him. An offer not yet accepted,
has been made by Belgium to renew negociations for a treaty,
less liberal in its provisions, on questions of general maritime.
law.

Our newly established relation with the Sublime Porte
promises to be useful to our commerce, and satisfactory in
every respect to this Government. Our intercourse with the
Barbary Powers continues without important change, except
that the present political state of Algiers has induced me to
terminate the residence there of a salaried consul, and to sub-
stitute an ordinary Consulate, to remain so long as the place
continues in the possession of France. Our first treaty with
one of these Powers—the Emperor of Morocco—was formed
in 1786, and was limited to fifty years. That period has al-
most expired. I shall take measures to renew it with the
greater satisfaction, as its stipulations are are just and liberal,
and have been, with mutual fidelity and reciprocal advantage,
scrupulously fulfilled.

Intestine'dissensions have too frequently occurred to mar the
prosperity, interrupt the commerce, and distract the govern-
ment of most of the nations of this hemisphere which have se-
parated themselves from Spain. When a firm and permanent
understanding with the parent country shall have produced a
formal acknowledgment of their independence, and the idea of
danger from that quarter can be no longer entertained, the
friends of freedom expect that those countries, so favoured by
nature, will be distinguished for their love of justice and their
devotion to those peaceful arts the assidious cultivation of which
confers honour upon nations, and gives value to human life.
In the meantime I confidently hope that the apprehensions
entertained that some of the people of ti.ese luxuriant regions
may be tempted, in a moment of unworthy distrust of their
own capacity for the enjoyment of liberty, to commit the too
common error of purchasing present repose by bestowing on
some favourite leaders the fatal gift of irresponsible power, will
not be realized. With all these Governments, and with that of
Brazil, no unexpected changes in our relations have occurred
during the present year. Frequent causes of just complaint
have arisen upon the part of the citizens of the United States,
sometimes from the irregular action of the constituted subordi-
nate authorities of the maritime regions, and sometimes from
the leaders or partisans of those in arms against the established
Government. In all cases representations have been or will
be made, and as soon as their political affairs are in a Fettled
position it is expected that our friendly remonstrances will be
followed by adequate redress.
'The Government of Mexico made known in December last
the appointment of Commissioners and a surveyor on its part
to run, in conjunction with ours, the boundary line between its
ae:ritories and the United States, and excused the delay for
the rosons anticipated—the prevalence of civil war. The com-
missioners and surveyors not having met within the time sti-
pulated by the treaty, a new arrangement became necessary,
and our tihargo d'Affaires was instructed in January last to
negotiate in Mexico an article additional to the pre-existing
treaty. This instruction was acknowledged, and no difficulty
was apprehended in the accomplishment of that object. By
information just received that additional article to the treaty
will be obtained, and transmittod to this country as soon as it
can receive the ratification of the Mexican Congress.
The re-union of the three States of New Granada, Venezuela,
and Equador, forming the Republic of Colombia, seems every
day to become more improbable. The Commissioners of the two
first are understood to be now negociating a Pig division of the
obligations contracted by them when united under one Govern-
ment. The civil war in Equador, it is believed, has pre•
vented even the appointment of a commissioner on its part.
I propose at an early day to submit in the proper form the
appointment of a diplomatic agent to Venezuela. The im-
portance of the commerce of that country to the United
States, and the large claims of our citizens upon the Govern-
ment, arising before and since the division of Colombia, render
it, in my judgment, improper longer to delay this step.
Our Representatives to Central America, Peru, an&Brazil
are either at or on their way to their respective posts.
From this Argentine Republic, from which a Minister was
expected to this Government, nothing further has been heard.
Occasion has been taken, on the departure of a new C'Onsul to
Buenos Ayres, to remind that Government that its long-de-
layed Minister, whose appointment had been made known t 9
us, had not arrived.

It becomes my unpleasant duty to inform you that this pacific
and highly gratifying picture of our foreign relations does not
include France at this time. It is not possible that any Go-
vernment and people could he more sincerely desirous of con-

ciliating a just and friendly intercourse with another nation
than are those of the United States with their ancient ally and
friend. This disposition is founded as well on the most grate-
ful and honourable recollections associated with our struggle
for independence, as upan a well-grounded conviction that it
is consonant with the true policy of both. The people of the
United States could not therefore, see without the deepest
regret even a temporary interruption of the friendly relations
between the two countries, a regret which would, I am sure,
be greatly aggravated if there should turn out to be any
reasonable ground for attributing such a result to any act of
omission or commission on cur part. I derive, therefore, the
highest satisfaction from being able to assure you that the
whole course of this Government has been characterized by a
spirit so conciliatory and forbearing as to makeit impossible
that our justice and moderation should be questioned, -whatever
may be the consequence of a longer perseverance on the part
of the Freneh Government in her omission to satisfy the con-
ceded claims of our citizens.
The history of the accumulated and unproveked_afressT. ns
upon our commerce committed by authority ofrthent,
°ring Go-
vernments of France between the years Soir#4 1817 has
been rendered too painfully familiar to Americana to make its