The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-25 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRussai.s, DEC. 21,—We have spaen vaguely of
a difference which .has manifested itself between two
members of the Cabinet in the Secret Committee on
Wednesday. We must add that this difference did
not relate to the main point under discussion.

The Minister of Justice has made two declarations
—the first on the sense to be given to the nineteenth
article of the treaty ; it was common to the whole
Cabinet. The second, which was his own, personally
related to the consequences in case of a negative
answer from the Court of. Berlin. The Minister, in
announcing that for his part he made it a case of
Ministerial responsibility, desired to give the Chamber
a proof of his entire conviction. The difference was
only on the question whether the guarantee offered
by the Minister should be inserted in the journals of
the Chamber. It is asked, what answer will the Cabinet
of Berlin make to the explanation required from
Brussels ? We shall not have this answer before the Ist
January, but Messrs. Mercier and Dechamps have
announced the interpretation given in the Belgian
Chamber to Articles 19, as maintained by Baron
d'A rnim and by Mr. Helmenlag, the Russian Com-
missioner.

We have received to-day a letter which confirms
what we hare before said—the commercial negotia-
tions between Belgium and France are resumed.
After the vote of the Chamber on the 21st, approving,
by a majority of 77 to 7, the treaty with the Zollve-
rein, several projects of law, chiefly relative to votes
of credit for different branches of the public service,
were passed, and it was decided that th• Chamber
should adjourn to the 13th of January next. A de-
putation was chosen to present the respects of the
Chamber to the King and Queen on the Ist January.
CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 4.—M. Von Tibor? left
Bujukdere last week, and to the astonishment of
everybody, took up his abode on the ground-floor of
the new Palace of the Legation at Pera, which was
originally intended for the servants. The fancy of
the public is busy in conjecturing what may be the
destination of the empty state apartments and spa-
cious saloons in the upper stories of this truly splen-
did palace.
Sir Stratford Canning has returned from his ex-
cursion to the Dardanelles, to his country house at
Bujukdere.
It is said that Abdullah, Pasha of Trebisond,
alarmed by the order of the Porte, to justify him-
self, has offered a large pecuniary indemnificatbn to
the ill-used Greek. The Pacha is said to he also
threatened with an address to the chief Turks of Tre-
bisond to the Porte, representing the tyranny which
makes him hated by all classes, and earnestly desiring
that he may be removed.
Dr. J. Wolff writes from Teheran, that he is
chiefly indebted to the support of the Persian Am-
bassador for his deliverance from the hands of the
rapacious and murderous Bocharists ; it was under
his protection that he succeejed in returning safe to
Teheran.

Several Turkish passengers were frozen to death in
the lag steam-boat for Trebisond. Our thermome-
ter is at zero (Reaumur), and the roofs were covered
with snow.

CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 4.—The apprehensions of a
breach between Sir S. Canning and the Turkish Mi-
nistry are happily not confirmed. Sir Stratford acts
with great moderation, and seems to be quite confi-
dent that all his demands will be granted. In his lat.*
excursion he visited the coast of Troy.:

DUTCH FUND3.—AnsTnitnen, Dec 20.
Money.-'Bloa.
Actual rlobt, c.. 36 per Cent:..................... 64 14%
Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent. —......... 'THE( 70
Ditto, ditto, 4 per Cent. ........ .........., PIS Pei%
D ito„ ditto S per cent.
Allis' t Svndic,4% per cent... .....
"lotto, ditto, 3% per cent III el%
Commercial Company, 44,, per cent ......
Loan 1837, 44 percent. —
Exchange on London, Onemonth
Two months l2 12%
At sight —
Dutch Papers, Dee. 21.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW S
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
Consols leave off rather better this afternoon, being
1001 a. New Thi ee-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were 1034
bank Stock for Account was 210.
The advance in Foreign Bonds was maintained.
Spanish Actives were 27t to s ; the Three per Cents.
at 38#, 11.1delican, 361 a ; Chilian, 101 ; and Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 64i -a. Portuguese Con-
verted were 60ce ; for time.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Bristol end Gloucester were 9 ; Churnet
Valley) 131; Dtiblin and Belfast, 1,1- to 2; Great Western,
Half, 40; ; Hull and Selby, Quarter, 5i ; Brighton, 1;
South Western, ex New, 35*-; Ditto, New, 7; ; London and
York, 2i; Manchester and Leeds, 51 ; Ditto, Quarter, 9
to ; Newcastle and Darlington, 374 to 38i ; Ditto and
Berwick, 94 ; Norwich and Brandon, 5; Ditto, New, 3 ;
Rugby, 1 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 4*; South.
Eastern, 71; Ditto, New, 9; York and North Midland,
531; Orleans and Viereon, 91 ; Paris and Rouen, 22
to * premium. Birmingham and Gloucester have bean
to 51 ; Caledonian, ; Direct Northern, *; Eastern
Counties, 10; Blackwell, 9i; Greenwich, 21 to 3 ; and
Strasburg and Bale, I to I.discount. Union Bank of
Australia Shares were 21 premium.
The exchenge %Its rather higher this afternoon. on
ilamburgh, and Frankfort, and steady on Antwerp,
Amsterdam, and Trieste.
The folloWing is the official return of the exports of
Bullion from the Port of London for the week ending
Thursday last :
Gold Cein to Cedie ...
bilVef Coin Ditto
Ca1ai5..........., 250,000 „
Havre 1,356 „
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday at full rates, Selee 14,000 balls) brteltleh specuL
letors took 4,A019; coMprieing 1,00 Egyptian at 5.-111. to
ti-4(1.,d 1,000 Pernarn. at sd. to 4-1-d., 600 Maranham at
S2haresfct. to aid., and the rest 1
were active, and at
higher rates generally. Birmingham and Derby, 83k ;
A4imertioca Sti at 3
3,
Caledonian, 41. la. 6d. ; Chester and Birkenhead, 34 ;
1%0.0
to Suratsd at
._
Churnet Valley, 3f 4 ; Eastern Counties, 141 ; Rdirt-
burgh and Glasgow, e4l
;Grand funetidn, ; Ditto,
Ualf, 114 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 1023- 103; Ditto
Half, 514 51 ; London and Birmingham, 229; Ditto and
Brighton, 524 ; Ditto and Croydon, I7i ; Ditto and
South. Western, 83k ; Manchester and Leeds, 1201 121;
Ditto, Half, 52} ; Midland Counties, 112; 113 f ; North
Union, 1471; South-Eastern, 401 -I; Ditto, New, 13i /-;
Trent Valley, 11 ; Paris and Lyons,3f ; Paris and
Rouen, 414- ; Orleans; Touts, slid nordeaut, , ,
4 nen-
legne and Amiens,
The speech of the Queen of Portugal on the closing
of the Cortclartilllisbote on' the 14th insita)t, is not con-
sidered so eery satisfactory to the merciOtile interests as
it may be held in other quarters. To .e..certain extent
it is tree that the manegemeht of the ptiblic 'thence: has
tietZt Materially improved, and that the Interests of the
foreign creditors have been thereby advanced. Her
Majesty, therefore, may congratulate thiOnenabers that
the steps that hare been taken to imprtrie the revenue
will powerfully concur to establish a complete organisa-
tion in this department •f the State. But not one word
is said in this royal document on the subject of any
alterations in the tariff of duties as effecting British manu-
factures. Great Britain has made conceosions in favour of
the wines and other produced Portugal. The Government
of Portugal seems doggedly dieposedlo make no return.
This unquestionably is a bad feature,, especially to an old
ally, and one who, at a very vast expense, has protected
the interests of the Portuguese nation, not only by cash,
but by vast expenditure of British IdOod. At the same
time, from all we hear, there is a rising disposition
among the nobles and rich men of Portugal to liberalise
the tariff, but for this simple reason, Vent they begin to
think that it will be for the interests of their own country.
Unquestionably, both Portage' and England would be
favourably influenced by an extension of
khe trade now
carried on between eaeh.
There have not been any colonial arrivals this morning.
The additional correspondence that hag-Jake* place
between the Chairman of the Committee of South Ame-
rican Bondholders and the Financial Agents of the
Mexican Government here is anything but:eatisfactory.
The Committee require full information as to remit-
tances, the sum in hand to pay the dividends, and whe-
ther any further instructions upon matters concerning
their interests have been received by the lit packets.
The Messrs. Lizardi and Co. to these natural inquiries,
thus cavalierly reply

_
"26, Austin Friars, Dec. 21, 1844.
"Sir—We have to state, in reply to your letter of the
19th instant, received yesterday, that the public are
always informed of the amount received by each
packet, on account of the Mexican Government, and
that we have no instructions to give any further in-
formation on the subject. —We are, &c.,

"F. DE LIZARDI AND CO.
" Per procuration Maul. J. De Liaardi.
" G. R. Robinson, Esq."
The importance of Southampton as a port for the dis-
charge of cargoes of a perishable nature has be* n fully
demonstrated by two cargoes of oranges, ex Quiver and
Heroine (bringing together upwards of 1,200 St.
Michael packages), being landed there yesterday, to
be sold to-day, at three o'clock, by the selling brokers,
Keeling and Co., in London, just in time to supply the
holiday consumers, which, under other circums ances,
would have been, by the easterly wind, shut out from the
market. The Railway and Dock Directors have made
a further reduction in the carriage, the shipowners
have reduced the freight conseqnent upon the
♦essels discharging at Southampton, therefore a
greater inducement is held out to the merchant to pre-
fer the latter port to that of London.
The vexatious question respecting the dispute with
the. Customs as regards the measurement of the boles
still continues by the seizure of the various cargoes as they
a rrive, and the increased duty is paid by the brokers
under protest, pending the decision of the Lords of the
Treasury : and it is this overstraining for fiscal duties
that will eventually accomplish more for free trade prin-
ciples than all the arguments that can be poesil ly ad-
duced.
The Funds have been steady this morning, and but
little business doing. Consols for the Account have only
fluctuated from 100 to 100 k ; the Reduced Three per
Cents, from 100} to 100 i • the New Three-and-a-Quar-
ter per Cents. from 1031- to 1031 ; 'and Exchequer Bills
from 635, to 665. premium. India Bonds are at 505.
premium. India Stock at 286 for Account, and Bank
Stock at 209.

In the Foreign market business has been very brisk,
though the members aro "taking wing" to the country
for the Christmas holidays. Spanish hare reached 28;
the Three per Cents., 38i ; French Scrip, 1 to 2 pre.
mium ; Daniell, 89 ; Belgian, // premium ; and Portu•