The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-15 00:00:00

been at an average, above 26,000,000 a) ear, half
of the budget of Sweden. The augmentation is
continual and progressive, and when we compare
the foreseen receipts with the receipts realised,
as the anticipated receipts are reckoned after the
receipts of the two preceding years, the overplus
is much increased. Thus 1843 will have yielded
45,000,000 more than was reckoned. In 1842
the overplus has been 77,000,000. Hence the
consoling result to those who had been alarmed,
•by the additional expenses imposed by circum-
stances in 1840, that the extraordinary disburse-
ments the Treasury was in consequence con-
demned to, will involve us much less than had been
supposed. Our finances will soon bear no vestige of
it, provided we be wise enough to persevere in the
same policy, of which a doubt must not be enter•
tai ned. Thisstate of the revenue will relieve the Go-
vernmentfrom some anticipated difficulty in com-
pleting and maintaining the fortifications, and, if
we are to credit a statement in the Reforme, the
latter operation is in a very advanced state.
From 12,000 to 15,000 gun-carriages it says have
been cast at Nevers, Toulouse, Douai, Lille, and
Strasburgh, of which a specimen may be seen at
Vincennes, and at the esplanade of the Invalides;
and as the Government has written on its banner,
' Peace everywhere, and for ever,' and as the
arsenals contain from 8,000 to 10,000 pieces of
cannon, the twelve bastiles which are ready to
ceive their artillery may be supplied with their
guns and mortars as soon as it pleases the Go-
vernment."

BOURSE—PA RISC SATURDAY, JAN. 13.
First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 124 45... 124 65... 124 45 .. 124 65
Four per Cents. 105 50... 105 50... 105 50... 105 50

Threes B2 50... 82 60... 82 50.. 82 55
Bank of France 3260 ...3262 50 —3260 ...3262 50
Latiate Bank I,ooof 1112 50 —lll2 .50...1112 50.-1112 50
Belgian Bank ..... 652 50... 660 ... 650 ._ 660

1841 lOBO —.lOBO —.lOBO ...1080
Belgian Fives
1840 lOBl 108 i ... 1086 ... 108 i
Threes.. 76 40... 76 40... 76 40... 76 40
Dutch 2i per Cents 541 ... 541 ... 541 ... 544
Spanish Passive
Old Deferred 51 51 ... 51 51
Portuguese Fives ...
Neapolitan .....
Roman ......
RAILWAY SHARES.

Versailles, R.B 3lO ... 310 .. 310 310
L. 8...
Rouen
Rouen is Havre 650 ... 650 ... 650 ... 650
Orleans.
Strasburg to Bale- 230 ... 230 ... 228 75... 230
Avignon to Marseilles 662 50... 662 50... 662 50... 662 50
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, LB l7O ... 175 ... 170 ... 175
Rouen to Havre... 650 ... 650 ... 650 .. 650
Orleans B4O ... 840 ... 832 50... 837 50

Strasburg to Bale O2O ... 235 ... 230 ... 235
Avignon to Marseilles t:62 50... 663 75... 662 50 ...663 75

IA Cabinet Council is appointed to be held this
afternoon at the Foreign office, Downing-street. All
the Ministers are expected to attend, the Cabinet
Ministers being in town.

AMERICAN NEWS

ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING.

Ti►e Hibernia, Captain Judkins, which has
performed some extraordinarily quick passages
across the Atlantic, arrived here yesterday at one
o'clock, having, with fifty-six passengers, left
Boston on the afternoon of the Ist, and Halifax •
at noon on the 3d instant, thus making the run
from the latter place in ten, and from the former
in twelve days, including the stoppage to take in
the mails, which, considering the season of the
year, is one of the most successful trips on re-
cord. Her dates are nine days later than those
brought by the Liverpool.
Congress dragged its slow length along. No-
thing of interest has occurred in either House,
if we except a furious onslaught which the
southern members, headed by Mr. %Vise
had made upon Mr. John Quincey Adams,
for contending that Congress was bound
to receive the petitions of the people against
slavery, in accordance with the spirit of the
American declaration of independence. Pre-
vious exhibitions of the same kind were marked
by great bitterness of feeling against the aboli-
tionists; but the outbreak alluded -to seems to
have excelled all that have gone before it in that
respect. Mr. Wise, in particular, distinguished
himself by his ridiculous violence.
The annexation of Texas is discussed in the pa-
pers, but the project, which is by no means po-
pular in the north, seems to excite but little
enthusiasm, or even warmth of feeling in the
south, although more particularly interested in
the measure. But, however this favourite pro-
ject of the retiring President may have fallen still-
born upon the people, it is clear that the feelings
of the same authority with regard to the
Oregon territory, have excited more atten-
tion, and are more zealously responded to.
To take immediate 'possession of the dis-
puted territory, is the favourite topic of the
day. The British Government ought to lose no
time in settling this bone of contention, because
it is clear that, whatever the American Execu-
tive may wish to do—however honourably it may
be inclined to act, the impetuosity of theipeople
will be in advance of diplomacy; and by taking
peremptory possession, embroil the two Govern-
ments. The present excitement appears to have
' been produced by what are termed the " British
agents" taking forcible possession of the land,
and selling portions of it to American settlers.
Repudiation becomes popular. One of the
New York papers says, " It is greatly to be re-
gretted that the doctrine of repudiation, in
several parts of the Western States, is openly
sustained and defended." As the tide of
emigration is continually flowing towards the
west, and as population, which is the basis of the
constitution of the Union, is more rapidly in-
! creasing there than in the north or south, it is
poor consolation to reflect that the most dis-
honest portion of the communiiy will soon be
! paramount in Congress.

Staten Island had been the scene of a horrid
murder. A woman named Houseman and her
infant, in the absence of her husband, who is a
seafaring man, had been murdered, and then
covered with a rag, which had been set fire to,
in order to consume the bodies. The atrocity
took place on Christmas eve or morning. A re-
ward of a thousand dollars had been offered for
the discovery of the murderers.
There appears to be nothing new or exciting
from Canada. The Welland Canal had been the
scene of another riot, produced by a police-
officer going to make an arrest. The officer was
met with an armed resistance, the troops were
called out, and the ringleaders were arrested.
Many of the labourers, it is added, had refused
the present prices, and destitution had made
then► desperate.

The Stock and Money-markets of New York,
which at the date of the previous advices were
very buoyant, had sustained a check. The
prices of many descriptions of stock had fallen
considerably, and something like a panic had 111-
lowed, from which the Stock-market had not
recovered when the packet sailed.
The Cotton-market was active, although the
most conflicting opinions still prevail respecting
the yield of the new crop.

CANADA.
DISSOLUTION OF THE UNITED
LEGISLATURE.

Our advices from Canada this morning furnish
the speech of Sir Charles Metcalfe on the disso-
lution of the Parliament. The following are
the main points of this document. A Council
had not been formed when the advices left :

" Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative
Council, and Gentlemen of the. Legislative
Assembly :

"In consequence of the interruption which
our joint labours: have undergone, entirely
against my inclination, and front causes over
which I have had no control, I now meet you
for the purpose of relieving you from further
attendance in Parliament. I am sensible
of your unremitting application to your
arduous duties during the session which
has been so unexpectedly shortened and
I trust that the measures which you have passed,
and to which I have given the Royal assent in
her Majesty's name, will prove beneficial to the