The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-15 00:00:00

T StTN, LoNDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY lsl_ 18.i5.

NOW READY,
COLONEL MAXWELL'S
" ADVENTURES."

meaning, and equivocal letters from archbishops
and bishops. It is of these very men that the
Church has so much reason to complain. They have
winked at, nay, cherished dangerous and wide-
spreading heresy ! they have, in defiance of all the
rules of prudence, and in utter contempt of Christian
precepts, and the example of the great Founder
of Christianity, attempted to force upon their flocks
ceremonies and practices which they admit are of no
importance, but which they know the people detest as
the emblems and harbingers of Popery. What has
been the result ? There have been meetings of laity
and clergy. The former unanimous, and the latter
divided in their opinions. Many staunch Protestants
have been forced to desert their parish churches ; pe-
titions from large assemblies have been prepared for
presentation to the Head of the Church, and to both
Houses of Parliament. A universal combination ap-
peared all at once, as if by natural impulse, to be
formed throughout the country toresist the innovations
and at the same time the insolent authority of the
bishops. No one cried them " GOD speed." It was
then, and not till then, that they saw the danger, and
orders were issued from head-quarters—not to yield,
but simply to stop proceedings till the " present
diversities (a gentle phrase) should be adjusted by
some general measure which shall have the sanction
of the whole Church." Now, what is meant by the
whole Church ? The people, the aggrieved party
are not regarded as the Church, and will not be heard,
nor will the deans and , chapters—much less the
clergy, or deputations from the clergy, be admitted
into the council which is to adjust the "present
diversities"—in act, the Church is a very snug, small
body, consisting of twenty-six individuals, who will
meet privately at Lambeth Palace, talk over the
questions of the surplice, the offertory, genuflexions
and burning tapers, and then issue an episcopal bull
for the edification of their obstinate and misguided
flocks. But the people can have no confidence in such
a conclave, nor do they virtually care one straw
about the mummeries which the Puseyite bishops
would re-establish. Were all the orders issued by
CHARLESJAMES LONDON and HENavExeirEst,and other
Puseyite bishops, declared null and void, the great
grievance would remain intact. A large body of cler-
gymen exist in the Established Reformed Church,
who are professed followers of men that have
denounced the Reformation as a great crime, and
openly professed their ardent wish to be again united
to the Roman see, in defiance of their ordination vows
by which they renounced the Romish doctrines con-
e:ming purgatory, pardons, worshipping and adora-
tion, as well of images as of reliques ; and also invo-
cation of saints ; and above all, transubstantiation,
declared repugnant to the plain words of Scripture
But even these Romish doctrines are not so alien to
the minds of Protestants as the spirit of that religion
of which they are outward signs, whose object is to
bind the human will in fetters, to crush free inquiry,
and smother that liberty and independence which have
wrought such wonders in England and Holland.
These are the real grounds of apprehension, and the
very general anxiety on the subject speaks well for
the country, and does immortal honour to the laity
who have had the courage to rebel against their
teachers, and think for themselves. What have these
teachers done ? While publications, which are a dis-
grace to the Protestant Church, have have been
written and circulated—while men holding valuable
livings, and the professed teachers of Protestant youth,
have openly renounced their faith, the bench of
bishops remained silent, apparently watching with
interest the progress of the scheme, and never inter-
fered till the people roused them to a sense of danger.
Contrast this supineness with the lively interest they
display in things temporal. When a Bill was
brought into Parliament for the better management
of Church lands, whereby provision might have been
made for the repair and maintenance of churches and
glebe-houses, and church-rates been abolished,
in a few days afterwards a conclave of bishops as-
sembled at Lambeth, denounced the plan, and thereby
kept up one of the most unseemly causes of strife in
a Christian community. " They are greedy dogs,
which never can have enough," says the Prophet, when
describing the degenerated sons of the Levites, " and
they are shepherds that cannot understand ; they all
look to their own way, every one for his gala from his
quarter." If self-interest, or love of ease, or the
natural longing of the human mind for power and
authority, have prevented the bishops from beginning
at the right end—if they have stood by while the bul-
warks of Protestantism were undermined by traitors
at Oxford, and the majority of the Bench is now
justly suspected of favouring the new doctrines,
do they vainly imagine that the people will be
lulled to security 'by a few unmeaning phrases
about the surplice and the offertory, or the indiscreet
zeal of the Bishops of OXFORD, LONDON, and
EXETER ? The very letter of the last Bishop, pro-
fessing penitence, is only a specimen of what they
may expect from the whole body. The principles of
Church authority he will maintain to the last, and he
stops his innovations only "in the prospect of these
principles being, ere long, practically asserted and en-
forced by our Reverend Primate." Does this show
any symptoms of yielding ? Does he thus give up
the surplice or the offertory, or any one clause of the
rubric, which he evidently regards as more sacred
than Holy Writ ? What absurdity to infer from his
Jesuitical letter that the affair is settled. According
to accounts just received from Exeter, some of his
young Puseyite clergymen have taken him at his
word, and " continued the services in their churches
as they now are." The church of one of these hope.
ful sycophants has in consequence been deserted,
and he has been hooted and "mobbed" in the streets.
Such are the effects of the Bishop's letter, yet he is
said by his humility and repentance to have cast oil
on the troubled waters.

2 Vols., with Portraits, 21s. bound.

. ,
" My Adventures' is, for the most part, a tra is-cript from the
Journal kept by Cot. Maxwell, and to that may he attributed the
rich, racy, riotous spirit that pervades it. It is instinct with life, fun,
and vivid impressions of men and things. Two more amusing
volumes have seldom fallen into our hands. In his personal sketches
Colonel Maxwell is very felicitous. Murat and his Court, the Princess
Charlotte of Wales and her Suite, and Napoleon and his Court at
Elba—and, indeed, most of the extraordinary characters who, at that
period, were to be encountered in that quarter of the world, are
etched with rare skill."—Morning Post.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 14.

THERMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 47 ; Noon, 40.

BAROMETER, 29.72.-WIND, E.

NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon. 'Water freezes at
32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on
Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and
" Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather
when the mercury falls below 30.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY.
IThrning 41 minutes after 6 I Evening 2 minutes after 7.

Judging from the proceedings in the Committees
in both French Chambers, the leading and most in-
teresting subject in the discussions on the Address
will be the right of search. The public mind appears
to be bent on annulling the treaties of 1831 and 1833 ;
and the Chamber of Deputies so far concurs in the
general wish, as to insert paragraphs similar to those
adopted at the commencement of the two last sessions
and expressing a strong hope that negotiations on the
subject with England may in time lead to the happy
result of placing French commerce under the protec-
tion of its own flag—in other words, abolish the
treaties concluded between the two Powers for the
suppression of the slave trade. The Americans have
successfully objected to all such treaties, and the
French see no reason why their flag should be treated
differently. The paragraphs, however, are of the
mildest character, merely expressing wishes in which
the Chamber, and, perhaps, the Ministers themselves,
cordially concur. The paragraphs are as follow :
"Struck with the inconvenience revealed by expo.
rience, and even for the advantage of the good intelli-
gence so necessary to the accomplishment of the common
object, we shall hail with all our wishes the moment
when our commerce shall be replaced under the exclusive
guardianship of our flag.
" This good understanding will no doubt aid in tl- e
success of those negotiations which, whilst they gua-
rantee the repression of an infamous traffic, must tend
to replace our commerce under the exclusive guardian-
ship of our flag." _ _

According to the Presse, the Marquis Da Boissr
presented a similar amendment to the House of Peers,
but without any hope of its adoption. It runs thus :
—" The Chamber of Peers invokes and anticipates
with all its wishes the day on which a negotiation so
long commenced shall have the effect of replacing our
marine under the exclusive protection of our flag."
The affairs of Otaheite will form another subject of
discussion. A long list of documents on this subject
had been laid before the Chambers, and the more im-
portant of them have appeared in the Government
journals. The following paragraph, in one of M.
Guizor's letters to the Count de JARNAC, will afford
the Opposition an opportunity of renewing the charge
that in everything the Foreign Minister yields to
England :—" As to the circumstances which have
accompanied the sending away of Mr. PRITCHARD, I
cannot pretend that they can all and entirely be jus-
tified, and that there are not connected with them
certain proceedings and expressions which are con-
trary to all equity, humanity, and propriety."
The Paris papers contain no news ; and the interest in
the fate of the Ministry is evidently dying away—for the
best reason in the world:—All know that a change of
Ministry will not lead to a change of policy. No
business was done in the Funds at TORTONI'S on
Sunday.

The Queen has approved of the sum of 4,000/. per
annum, as the salary of his Excellency the Lieutenant-
Governa of Van Diemen's Land,—Hobart Town Courier,

AMERICAN NEWS.

EIGHT DAYS LATER FROM

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA.

By the Mail Steam-packet Acadia, which arrived
at Liverpool yesterday morning, we have received
American papers to the 31st ultimo.
The Anti-Rent outrages still continued.
The discussion in Congress on the subject of the
annexation of Texas was fixed for Monday, Jan. 6.
Colonel William Polk, the brother of the President
elect, had arrived at Washington from Nashville.
These papers contain copies of the documents con-
cerning the relations of the Unites State with
Mexico, transmitted by the President to both Houses
of Congress. .

The following is from the New York Commercial
Advertiser :

LATE FROM MEXICO.
The barque Eugenia, Captain Biscoe, arrived this
morning from Vera Cruz, whence she sailed on the
12th inst. Mr. Cushing, late Commissioner to China,
was a passenger.
Captain Biscoe reports that most of the principal
towns throughout the Republic, and a very large pro-
portion of the people, have joined the insurrection
against Santa Anna, which has become a successful
and bloodless revolution, no serious resistance being
made in any quarter. Santa Anna was at Queretaro,
with a small force of yet faithful adherents ; but moat
of the troops had gone over to the party of Paredes.
The condition of the markets was very unpromis-
ing. The British frigates, Spartan and Inconstant,
and two French brigs of war, were lying at Sacri-
ficios.

Mr. Cushing sailed from Vera Cruz on the 12th
instant, and has irld a fine passage of eighteen days.
Mr. C. has brought but few newspapers, having had
all his newspapers stolen while in Mexico, saving only
his official documents, which he happened to have
about his person.
We have been favoured by Mr. Cushing with the
subjoined notes, which he prepared while on his pas-
sage from Vera Cruz :
The revolution of Mexico was rapidly approaching
a decisive crisis, and the utmost confusion and dis-
order exist in all parts of the Republic.
The great object of the revolution is to decide
whether Santa Anna shall be precipitated from power,
or whether, on the other hand, he shall be the perma-
nent Dictator and arbitrary master of the Government.
In order to understand well the actual state of
things, it is necessary, in the first place, to give a brief
explanation of the previous state of things.
At the head of the Government in 1811 was Gene-
ral Anastasio Bustamente, under the constitution
which then regulated the Mexican Republic. In
August, 1841, General Paredea and the Department
of Jalisco pronounced against the Government of
Bustamente. _ _ .

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A civil war of brief duration ensued, which was
terminated on the 28th of September, 1841, by an
arrangement, in virtue of which the pre-existing
constitution was abolished, and General Santa Anna
was invested with the powers of Dictator, for the
purpose of re-organising the constitution and the
Government. _ _

Texas, set out for Mexico, being invested by the Pre-
sident ad interim with the conduct of the war against
Paredes. He set out for Jalapa on the 7th ofNovember,
at the head of 8,500 men, crossed rapidly the depart-
ment of Puebla, where he received some additional
troops, and on the 18th arrived at Guadaloupe, a
town near Mexico, where he fixed his head-quarters,
He had left the departments of Vera Cruz and
Puebla full of professions of loyalty to his Govern-
ment ; and he found the same professions in that of
Mexico, and similar professions came to him there
from Queretaro and Guanajuato; and he prepared
to march from Guadaloupe, and to assemble at Quere-
taro a force of 13,000, with which to overwhelm the
little army of Paredes. But, even at this moment,
all powerful as he appeared, at the head of a great
army, and with all the departments behind him
loyal, symptoms began to appear of the uncertainty
of his cause ; for though the Congress did not pro.•
fessedly support Paredes, yet it insisted that Santa
Anna should proceed constitutionally, which the
latter was unable or indisposed to do. The Mexican
constitution provides expressly that the President
cannot command in person the military force
either by land or sea without the previous per-
mission of Congress. Santa Anna had taken the
command without even pretending to ask the consent
of Congress ; and in so doing had himself performed
a revolutionary act quite as positive and serious as
that of Paredes. Nevertheless, on the 22d he pro-
ceeded on his march to Queretaro, and on the same
day the Chamber of Deputies voted the impeachment
of the .Minister of War, General Reyes, for signing
the order under which Santa Anna held the com-
mand of the troops. Congress also voted to receive
and print the pronunciamentos of the revolutionised
department, in all this indicating a disposition, not to
be mistaken, of hostility to Santa Anna. On arriving
at Queretaro, Santa Anna found that, although the
military authorities were professedly in his favour, yet
the junto departamental had pronounced for the
initiative of Jalisco. Therefore, he make known
in the members that if they did not repronounce in
his favour, he would send them prisoners to Perote.
They refused, and three of them were immediately
arrested by his order, and sent oft; under a strong
guard, in the direction of Mexico and Perote. When
the report of these proceedings reached Mexico, the
Congress immediately summoned before it the Minis-
ters of War and of Government, to know whether
they had authorised General Santa Anna to imprison
the members of the junta departmental of Queretaro.
This subject occupied the Chambers on the 29th and
30th of November, and their attitude had now become
so menacing, that the President ad interim, Canalizo
(after consultation with Santa Anna), took the high-
handed step of deciding to close the session of Con-
gress by force, and declare Santa Anna Dictator of the
Republic. Accordingly, on repairing to the Palace on
the Ist of December the members found the doors shut
against them, and guarded by soldiers ; and on the
2d appeared the proclamation of Canalizo, as Presi-
dento interino, declaring the Chamber dissolved in
and conferring all the powers of Govern-
ment, legislative as well as executive, on Santa Anna,
as Presidento proprietario, the same to be exercised
by Canalizo as Presidento interino, until otherwise
ordered by Santa Anna. For some days this forcible
demolition of the constitutional Government by the
creatures of Santa Anna remained without pro-
clueing any apparent effect in Mexico. But on
the very day when the news reached Puebla, Ge-
neral Inclan, Commandante -General of that depart-
ment, in concert with the civil authority, pro-
nounced against Santa Anna; and in a few days (on
the 6th) the garrison and people of Mexico rose
against the Government, imprisoned Canalizo and his
Ministers—Congress re-assembled—the President of
the Council of Government, General Herrera, as-
sumed the exercise of the functions of President
according to the constitution, and new Ministers were
appointed the next day, whose authority was imme-
diately acknowledged in Vera Cruz. At the latest
dates there from Vera Cruz (Dec. 12) affairs stood
thus :

This temporary arrangement is known by the
name of the Basis of Tacubaya and the Agreements
of La Estanzuela.

Under the auspices of Santa Anna, a Congress
assembled in June, 1842, and proceeded to deliberate
on a new constitution. Santa Anna himself retired

to Manga de Clavo, leaving General Bravo as Presi-
dent ad interim; and the proceedings of Congress not
being agreeable to Santa Anna, it was dissolved by
General Bravo in December, 1842, and a National
Junta, or Assembly of Notables, was convened in its
place.
On the 12th of June, 1843, a new constitution was
completed and made public, by which (among other
things) the supreme power was lodged in the hands
of a President, to be elected for five years; of an
elective body called the Council of Government, and
of a Congress composed of a Senate and Chamber of
Deputies • and Santa Anna himself was immediately
elected President under the new constitution.

The departments of Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco,
Zacatecas and Aguaicalientes were in a state of re-
volution, and in military possession of Gen. Paredes.
Gen. Santa Anna (with Cortazar) had military
possession of the departments of Guanajuato and

During this period the Republic had been dis-
tracted, not only by the civil war which displaced
Bustamente and elevated Santa Anna to power, but
also by the insurrection of Yucatan and the long civil
war which ensued in that quarter—by an extensive
rising of the Indians in the extreme South—by in-
cursions of the Indians in the North—by controver-
sies with foreign Powers—by the question of Texas
—and, above all, by incompetency and corruption in
all members of the Government. By the sixth of the
Basis of Tucubaya it was provided that " the pro-
visional Executive shall answer for his acts before
the first constitutional Congress ;" and this was
confirmed by the agreement of La Estanzuela.
Nevertheless, by a decree of Santa Anna, issued on
the 3d of October, 1843 (before assuming the office of
constitutional President), it was declared that, as the
power exercised by him under the Basis of Tacubaya
was, by its very tenor, without limitation, the respon-
sibility referred to in the sixth of the said Basis was
merely a responsibility of opinion ; that all the acts
of his Dictatorship were of the same permanent force
as if performed by a constitutional Government, and
must be observed as such by the first constitutional
Congress. The new Government was completed and
installed in January, 1844, when the first Congress
under the new Constitution assembled. Its early acts
seem to have been in accordance with the views of
Santa Anna, for it voted an extraordinary contribu-
tion of four millions with which to prosecute the war
against Texas. But, on his requiring authority
for a loan of
i ten millions, the Congress hesi-
tated to give its assent; though it was notorious
that but a small portion of the extraordi-
nary contribution had been realised, and that
the Treasury, so far from being competent to supply
the means for carrying on a war against Texas, was
in fact incompetent for the ordinary daily neces-
sities of the Government. Meanwhile, as affairs
proceeded, a heavy opposition to Santa Anna began
to manifest itself in Congress and throughout the
Republic. He had been raised to power, though
apparently with great unanimity, yet, as the event
has shown, by a military revolution, rather than by
the spontaneous general choice of the people ;
for, on his expressing a wish to retire a short
time to Manga de Clavo for the care of

Queretaro.
Santa Anna's President interino, Canalizo, and his
Ministers, were imprisoned in Mexico. Congress
had re-ass-mbled, and a temporary constitutional
Government was installed there, composed as follows,

viz. :-

his private affairs (as he had done in the
year 1842), in which case the new con-
stitution required that the Senate should make choice
of a President ad interim, to officiate during his ab-
sence from the seat of Government, the Ministerial
candidate, General Valentin Canalize, prevailed by
one vote only over his opponent, General Rine4m.
Such, then, was the position of things in October,
1844 ; Santa Anna being President proprietario ; Ca-
nalizo President interzno, and the Congress assembled
in special session, occupied with the foreign relations
and the financial embarrassments of the Republic,
when the revolution broke out in the large and power-
ful department of Jalisco. On the Ist of November,
1844, the Departmental Assembly of Jalisco adopted
and published what is called an Initiative, being an
Act provided for by the constitution, in virtue of
which the Assembly submitted the proposition fol-
lowing :-
1. The National Congress will make effective the re-
sponsibility of the provisional Government, to which it
was subjected by the 6th of the Basis of Tacubaya, which
it swore to mad caused to be swore to by the nation.
2. The law of Aug. 21, 1844, imposing extraordinary
contributions, is repealed.
3. The Congress will occupy itself by preference in
reforming the articles of the constitution, which expe-
rience has demonstrated to be contrary to the prosperity
of the departments.
This act was adopted by all the authorities of the
department, civil and military, and made known by
public documents issued under the signatures of the
civil governor Escovado, and of the commandant-ge-
neral Galindo, with his principal officers ; and thus
far it was in Mexico a constitutional and not a revo-
lutionary act—for in Mexico the military participate
equally with the civil authorities in all political proceed-
ings. But though nominally a constitutional act it was
in reality a revolutionary one, skilfully arranged and
combined for the overthrow of Santa Anna. To this
intent, General Mariano Paredes, who had com-
menced the revolution of 1841 in the same depart-
ment of Jalisco, and who had since that time acted
with Santa Anna, was pitched upon to be the agent
of his overthrow. The secret movers of the new
revolution obtained for General Paredes the command
of the department of Sonora, to reach which it is
necessary to march through that of Jalisco. On the
way to his government, Paredes stopped at Guadala-
jara, the capital of Jalisco, with the troops under his
command, and there pronounced openly and directly
against Santa Anna, and assumed the functions of
military chief of the revolution. The four depart-
ments of Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Sinalva, and
Sonora, concurred at once in the pronunciamento
of Jalisco ; and thus the five north-western
departments were in arms at once against Santa
Anna. Between these and Mexico, there in-
tervene the two departments of Quanajuato and Que-
retaro. Paredes advanced to Lagos, on the frontier
of Jalisco, and there established his head-quarters,
with an army of 1,400 men, to await the progress of
events. In the contiguous department of Guanajuato
was General Cortazar with 2,000 men, on whom
Paredes depended for support ; but the rapid move-
ments of Santa Anna himself prevented Cortazar from

joining Paredes (if he had the intention) and corn-
pulled him (for the present at least) to declare for
Santa Anna. For, instantly on hearing what had
taken place in Guadalajara, Santa Anna, who was
then at Manga da Clavo, in the department of Vera
Cruz, and in whose neighbourhood was a large body
of troops, professedly collected for an expedition against

General Jose Joaquim de Herrera, President of the
Council of Government, charged temporarily with the
supreme executive authority.
D. Luis Gonzaga Cuevas, Minister of Foreign Rela-
tions, State, and Police.
D. Mariano Riva Palacios, Minister of Justice, Public
Instruction, and Industry.
D. Pedro J. Echeverria, Minister of Finance.
D. Pedro Garcio Conde, Minister of War.
And it was already known that the departments of
Puebla and of Vera Cruz had declared their adhesion
to the provisional Government ; and there is no doubt
that most of the other departments will also support
the Congress.
Meanwhile, Santa Anna is constitutionally Presi-
dent of the Republic, but unconstitutionally in com-
mand of the troops employed against Paredes. The
new Minister of War has ordered him to give up this
command.
If he refuses he becomes undoubtedly a rebel and a
traitor ; because the new provisional Government in
Mexico is constitutionally constituted. If he con-
sents, he ceases to have any troops for his support ; he
is placed at the mercy of his enemies.
His position is now an extremely critical one
therefore. Everything depends on whether his
troops adhere to him again• t the Congress and the
constitutional Government. If they do he becomes
the military Dictator of the country.
Reports were current at Vera Cruz that a party of
his troops had already proclaimed him Dictator, and
that another part had declared against him ; but upon
this point no information in authentic form had
reached the public ear.
If any sufficient portion of troops adheres to him,
to enable him to continue the war, still he is sur-
rounded with difficulties, being in the very heart of
the Republic, with Jalisco and its coocurrent de-
partments to the Pacific against him on the one hand,
and Mexico, with its concurrent departments to the
Gulf, against him on the other hand.
He may recover himself by some netz turn in the
wheel of fortune, and resume his place as constitu-
tional President proprietario of the Republic ; but this
is hardly probable, as the public sentiment is almost
unanimous against him in nearly all the departments.
It seems more likely that he will have to yield to
the storm ; and, if not deprived of his life, he may
escape to the United States by a sudden march on
Tampico, or to South America, by way of the Pacific.

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off, by which she came directly across the bow of the the Government of Belgium. The line proposiisburi'
Louisiana. nect the Great Western Railway with
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as alreadystated, but still it has beelLgool
stopped, but not in time to prevent collision. The termined to a 1 to the House of C°'7..1111
Belle of Clarksville was entirely demolished—the upon the subject.ppeTa here is a growing opinion -0
hull parting from the cabin, and the cabin breaking City that the Commissioners have an inkling 0,9
into two pieces. The hull instantly went down, and monopoly, as respects the main lines already form
Atli`
the cabin floated to Old Town landing, about twenty- rivalry almost always tends to benefit the public ,top
five miles below Helena. This ought not to be forgott&n by a Board of •noritt
The Louisiana took from the fragments all the the decision ot which, as to lines laid befor!!6ol
_ opinion, will, in eight out of ten cases, be 0001.,,g It
persons on them. As far as can be ascertained thirty
one lives were lost. Below we give a list of them. doubt, by Parliament. Undue invasion a e-v 5074014:
terie,sts, however, we should be as sorry as anyaouvre#l
Names of passengers lost, nearly all of whom were he English Stocks have been rather au, .„1
residents of West Tennessee.
W. 'rabb, P. Linn, W. Linn, J. Ryan, R. Malisle, Consols for present transfer have realised 100; '''' hell
and for Time 1001 to 100 k. Exche uer-bills bole 0
N. Sils, W. Jones, T. Whitley, N. T. Allen, A. marked 645. to 60s. premium. It wouldq certainlY.l'lO
Kirkland, J. Askew, G. Hyer, son of J. W. Hull, J. that inoney has been in more request within the 171,0
Peay, John Holliday (assistant engineer), four days, anti hence the disposition to sell Excbecheefrole
negroes belonging to J. Peay, twelve negro hands Bank Stock ,has been firm at 211 to 212. kod I
belonging to the boat—thirty-one. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been war AI
The survivors lost all their baggage. There were to I Oil, and the Three per Cents. 1001 11". 1. . SePili
six valuable race-horses on board, all of which were The Foreign Stocks are wholly neglecteu,nts, .
lost, among them the celebrated mare Ann Hayes. Five per Cents. realise 26k; and the Thr_eeoper_rueoq,;,
The cargo, consisting of sugar, salt, coffee, and to gt,edthbeavltatbteereabeingrkraetdheLliettbters.9 P r.tFgi. is
9
molasses, was all lost. The iron chest, containing evaer t, wnicuil;
ier. Mexican Bondsma havebeen4quoted 3--. ,
12,000 dolls. was saved. The cargo was insured for T- ws o-a'nd-
a-Half per Cents. have realise 4011 if
23,000 dolls., and the boat for 8,000 dolls. The Railway Shares have been compa-wei
. , rsinit I

SUPPOSED PIRATE.—The ship John Marshall, ar-
rived from Rotterdam on Tuesday evening, fell in
with a vessel whose appearance and movements were
very suspicious. The log-book of the John Marshall
gives the following account :
" Nov. 9th, lat. 37 64, lon. 16, at 8 A. M., saw a

;lected, though held firmly, and in some
'tiller rates.
PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE 011-°
(From the Official List.) 211
Bank Stock 212
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOt
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 10! 'I6X

brig and schooner to the leeward—the brig with her
starboard tacks aboard ; the schooner hove to, with
her fore-topsail to the mast; next morning saw the
same schooner—she came near our lee quarter, then
lulled up and came within four miles of us ; she
hoisted Genoese colours ; at the same time she had
a black flag hoisted at her main ; we hoisted
colours, when she hauled down her black flag ;
see lulled across our stern, and went hull
down to windward, and kept in sight of us on
the same tack ; at ten o'clock P.M., saw a light to
leeward ; in half an hour, she coming up with us
very fast, called all on deck at half-past eleven o'clock ;
she crossed our stern and went out of sight to wind-
ward, and hoisted a light ; we tacked ship and stood
N.E. for fours hours. Fortunately a breeze sprung
up, cloudy and squalls ; at four A.m. tacked to the
westward ; at daylight could not see her ; on the
12th, saw a schooner which we took to be the same;
she was a long, low, black schooner of 130 or 145
tons burden ; appeared to be an American built ;
vessel's hull and sails new; saw a great many men on
deck, and apparently a battery. Captain Poythress,
passengers, and crew, have no doubt she was a
pirate ; they suppose she had boarded the brig and in-
tended to board the John Marshall in the morning
had they not made their escape in the night."—.New
York Advertiser, Dec. 26.
WASHINGTON, DEC. 23, 1844.—The Circuit Court
of this district have had under consideration a slave
case of some interest, growing out of the application
to carry back to Virginia a woman slave who was
brought here voluntarily some years since. By, an old
law of Maryland, which continues in force in this
portion of the district, every slave brought into the
district by its owner with the view of residing here
becomes free. In the pending case, a justice of the
peace granted authority to the owner of the slave, or
rather the administrator, to return with his slave.
The Circuit Court decided that the justice of the peace
had no power to grant such authority. The case was
argued by able counsel, and excited a good deal of in-
terest.—Baltimore
American.
MORMON AND INDIAN OUTRAGE.—The Warsaw
Signal of the 4th instant confirms a rumour, put forth
the week previous, in relation to Lyman Wricht and
his band of Mormons. It appears that Wright's band
were suffering for want of provisions, but he would
not let them disperse over the country to find employ-
ment. In order to relieve them, he went to the
traders, and finding that they had flour, he tried to
get some on credit, but was refused. He then took
thirty men, and told the traders if they did not let
him have the flour he would take it. He was defied,
and made the attack on the store. The French and
Indians fired on his men, and killed four on the spot,
and it is supposed that nearly all fell in the retreat.—
New York Advertiser.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET DEC. 28.
$4,000 NY. State 7, 1849 lO6
500 Ohio 6s, 1850
1,000 Penn. 5s 744
40 shares Bank of Corn. full 99
150 shares Del. and Hud b 10 118
10 shares N. A. Trust
350 shares Farmers' Trust 354
50 shares Canton Co 43
10 shares Banhattan Bank
200 shares Morris Canal.
150 shares Erie R. R 6O 28
50 shares Mohawk R. R. 59
575 shares Long Isl. R. opg
20 shares New Jersey R. R.
100 shares Stonington R. R.
53 shares Paterson R. R. ..
75 shares Nor. and Wor. s 30 66
At the Board this morning, Farmer's Trust Co. de.
clined 1; Bank of Commerce i; and Ohio Sixes and
Stonington Railroad 4; Canton Co. advanced 4; and
Erie Railroad 4.
NEW YORK MARKETS, DEC. 28.
Asuts.—The sales of the week embrace about 700
barrels of pots at 3 dolls. 874 c. to 3 dolls. 75c., closing at
the latter rate; and 400 barrels of pearls at 4 dolls. 124 c.
to 4 dolls. 61c., with some few small lots at 4 dolls.
COTTON.—The sales for the week ending last evening
amounted to 3,700 bales, principally towards its close,
including 2,500 bales Upland and Florida, ordinary to
middling at 4ic. to 5c., middling fair to fair 51c. to 54c.,
and fully fair to good fair si-c. to 61c. ; and 1,200
Mobile and New Orleans, ordinary to middling 4ic. to
5/c., and middling fair to fair sfc. to 61c.
FLOUR AND GRAlN.—There is very little business
doing in flour, prices remain about the same, and the
market generally affords but few features of interest.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE WS

New 34 per Cent. Annuties lOO
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860.- ,I#4 -• ,i
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859..• " Os
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 1860 l'
India Stock 0 pm'
India Bonds 1,0001
1r
Ditto under 1,0001 75
10
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills. 134 d. 114 ti• ..,0.
1,0004
500/. ..
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised ..... ... - --. 'I,F
rvo
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE v 4
Mexican Bonds 1837, 5 per Cent. 4'''
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent...... . ---11$
69
Ditto Converted ;
Ditto for the Account.
59119)
,
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 126
1
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 6
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent 65
Dutch 216 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...... 99
Ditto 5 per Cents
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'Cl' $l/4 -
RAILWAYS. PAID. YO' tO
/
Bristol and Exeter
Cambridge and Lincoln
Eastern Counties
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3% — .....
Ditto, ditto, No. 2.
Great North of England.. 100
150 ..... 04
Great Western - ... .
0/
Ditto, Half Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and 8right0n......... 50
London and Greenwich ...... 123/4 loJ4.••'', 00
Ditto Preference
London and South Western.. 41% 76 ..".• 00
Ditto, New
London and Croydon
London and York 21,6... .. 3 4,l,i.'''''lo
Midland - 100 l2O 1;4 '''. 0/
Newcastle &Darlington Jnnc. 24 .... 64 •"''' 0/
North British
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip
.." ti/'
North Kent -
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm
South Eastern and Dover ... 33A 42 'Pe; w/
Ditto New 4 -
York and North Midland ... 50 - ~ i-'
Ditto % Shares
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS. 0/
Great Northern of France ... 4
/fr"../
.
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Paris and Lyons
Pans and Rouen • 20 •
MANCHESTER Srodx. EXCHANGE, 1141 I. ,
demand for Railway Stock continues good, il'il 10
able business has been done at full prices :-- ,AI
Manchester and Birmingham ....... . 4
, ......... ~
Ditto Quarter Shares ....................... ' , ,
Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, ..... '.O 4
Sheffield and Manchester
~ ii
11arnsley- Junction
Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chesh. XI
:,Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington ••••'' 71,
it
Cambridge and Lincoln .......................
Churnet Valley ...................................
.., iTil
Direct Northern ....... . ....0, a't
Leeds and Bradford, New Shares, ......••
... 9,
Leeds and West Riding Junction ...... . ... ".„ sti
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston ••'' ,
London and York ..'':: 1
Manchester, Bury, and Roseendale ...... '.. 11
Manchester and Buxton ..................... '''.• IL
North British . ,..."' ,
West Yorkshire ............................... •,: or
Boulogne and Amiens ........................ ",.. ,
'Union Bank of Manchester ............. . .... " .
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS. It
Bank Stock ........ - ........ 1
3 per Cent. Reduced ........... ••••• 00/
3 per Cent. Consols ................. ioiit
New 34 per Cent ..8.; irrli
Long Annuities to expire Jan 1 1- I
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ..• 0 ,
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 589
India Stock for Account... .•••••' /
India Bonds, 1,0001-
Ditto under 1,0001........ .... ...210
Bank Stock for Account ..... ..•' 1 1
Consols
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d• •"" 65
0 Ditto 500/. ... ..................
Ditto Small ..................... ...
FOREIGN FUNDS. 62
Brazilian Bonds . ....... •.."*. r,
Peruvian Bonds, 6 . Per Cents ...... r
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. . ....... ,14
SHARES. ..", I
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid ............. :„..:, it
Cambridge and Lincoln, 1% paid ..... ,„.',, /
Churnet Valley, 2 paid ....................
...,...., . I
I'lrect Northern, 21,4 paid ................. „1, / !
Eastern Counties, 25 paid... .......... :,;_l4o'
.„ f,A !
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, 28- pa1—.....",,.'f I
Great Western, 75 paid.................. ..
.„.0., /,:
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid.............
..... „ 00/1
Ditto Fifths, 20 paid ... ........................... 1
London and Brighton, 50 paid .....••••'
..,..., $1,.1
Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid ........... ...',,„::,., 'l4l
London and York. 2% paid •.. ............. ' 0. 6 i
Manchester and Birmingham, 40 Pal ..;sIP, 5 I
Midland, 100 paid ... ...................
~„, t,il
Newcastle and Darlington:Junction,'
.... ..,.„ fi:
Neweasi to and Berwick, 1% paid ••• .. 01, ill ‘,
North British, 7% paid ........... ..."..;,,,'
..,. 1 I,
Northern and Eastern, 45 paid .........
..,,.:,/ i
Ditto Scrip, 30 paid .:„,...„: 141
Portsmouth Direct, 2% paid "...••••'' ...''',...' 1
Rugby, I paid .......................... ":„...'.,„. A '
South Eastern and Dover, 33i paid
.......... 11'
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid ls •
.„ ;Ili
FRENCH RAILWAY
Boulogne and A nliens, 2 paid .... . ...•'':,,, Ii
Great Northern of France, 4 pata ''.....,..' Ali
Lyons and Avignon, 2 paid .......... " 1
.„.•
,„:: r,I
Orleans and Borde ia x. 2 paid .•••" •::,...:...,
~0
aris and Lyons, -: paid ..............
..... 4, ‘
Paris and Orleans, 20 paid ....................... V
COURSE OF EXCHANGE!V, ..',,:, ri
Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar.*•:„.:oo.o g
Ditto, at sight l2 6 Leg 'I. •
.„.. il
Rotterdam 2U. 12 fii Genoa .... .. ........'s ,0
Antwerp 26 0 14iLazi,;'. . • '',./. I
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Vew,c,..- :::....,14, „
Altona l3 14 NaPil'• oe ... i
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Pale
...
0„
~ d
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon •
~ .:...„ , '1
Marseilles 25 .5 °Pert°, nee '. ../. .
Bourdeaux 26 5 Rio '4l- • ‘ ./.1 /
is "' 41.,'" '
Frankfort on Maine 122
Bgabuen-_,o,;Ckf,;.: 4...... d„Ild
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7 New I 1 ~t.f -i,p 1
Trieste,ye..a,
dieffttoec. fl. 3 M 99 5859 Prhiitlysf;';e.,4fir'› /I t
Madri
Cadiz
Bilbao 36 Sew ‘);,1!1:;;;• ' i
36 New ~ ' lb ....
Barcelona
.........Silver op
Seville
itiV stia
,„„, 1)11 ~ lite of
ASYLUM FOR THE DEAF A." a)1 Ar,
a general meeting. of the supporter,n:yertes,V,
tution was held at the Londohnling
_dtii O'fief,
street, for the purpose of aPP°I deaf `pd
J '
ensuing year, and I.dmitting thirtfuni. '.i...-0 pi yr
dren to the benefits ~f the el se of il:,00 °Ott/
Evans presided, and, in the el
beci.-tiop , i
announced that, pursuant th t- „stip; sirod.,
Princess Sophia Matilda, the soy*, ,0 1 J
enriched by two portraits of theirr r_ote nots.„4. i
Duke and Duchess of Gloucestec:„.lllo ast ;,'ii!,
William Beechey. The officers Ll'llevliht Ftbedoo!,
elected. Amongst them were the w4icha , 41.047,
the Duchess of Gloucester ; Ff!: the I.lloolg,
Buccleuch ; and Vice-Presitlehst.% the "',l df
vCaisnetoerubnutrsyi,dtgnheoulla,rLquoirsdocf
aßillti:nrpselrLtillitivor_.J,..
Thomas Turton, Bart., Aldell:?t,us vvery ~0.
&c. The poll having closed, t12_70(1. CillriV,
Chairman, and the meeting sePst„ Ariee,:fe, Poi
Mr. Horace Twiss, the newait„4l,lctiet ,
the Duchy ,t Laneastur, hlks aFI)LOOOO4.i i
citor, Commissioner for Newcastle.,
affidavits in the Courts at l'aliw
ik/

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

The English Market has sustained no change since
the morning. Consols remained at 1004- 4-, and New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 104 to . Reduced
Three per Cents. were, perhaps, a shade easier, being
100- a ; Bank Stock realised 211 to 212 ; Exchequer
Bills were 60s. to 625. premium.
There was a slight increase of business in the Foreign
Market. Spanish Actives brought only 26:'1 -a- ; hut the
Three per Cents. maintained the rates of 371 to a.
Mexican Bonds were worth 344 a ; and the Greek
Bonds, without the overdue Coupons, 124 1. Peruvian
were 284.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Bristol and I:loucester were 12 ; Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, ; Churnet Valley, 2 ; Great
Western, Hall, 47 ; Ditto, Fifths, 181 a ; Brighton
Loan Notes, 24 ; South-Western, Eighths, 19 ; London
and York, 1* ; Manchester and Birmingham, 131 to
13 ; Midland, 214 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 404 ;
Newcastle and Berwick, 7 to 74 ; North British, 21;
Northern and Eastern 144 ; Ditto, Scrip, 124 ;
Rugby, ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, -a ; South-
Eastern, New, 114 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 24 4- ;
Great Northern of France, 14 4; Lyons and Avignon,
Orleans and Bordeaux, 6 to 4 ; Paris and Orleans, 23k ;
and Paris and Lyons, 1-1- premium. Portsmouth Direct
were ; and Stevenson's Portsmouth, a discount.
Direct Northern were 4 discount to par.
The Exchange on Amsterdam, Hamburgh, Paris, and
Trieste, was barely so high as on last post-day, but on
Antwerp and Frankfort it was steady.
The following is the official return of the Exports of
Bullion from tke Port of London for the week ending
Thursday last :
Silver Coin to China
Silver Coin to Belgium
(Fron- The Sun of Last Night.)
A good business was done in Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday. Sales, 6,000 bales, at full rates. A large
business was done in Shares, and generally at full rates.
Bristol and Gloucester, 42 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
3643- 374 38 ; Dublin and Belfast, 44 ; Eastern Counties,
l ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Half, 154 ; Glasgow and
Dumfries, 235.; Glasgow and Greenock. 12/4-; Grand June-
tion,2273 ; Ditto,Half,ll34 ; Great North of England,lsl ;
Liverpool and Manchester, New, 384 ; London and
Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 264 ; Ditto and South-
Western, 764 ; London and York, 4/1 ; Cambridge and
Lincoln, 61s. 661., 655. ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
12 13 ; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenths, 44 Midland
Counties, 120 1 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 4 ; North
British, 91 4 ; North \Vales, 81- ; North Kent, 68s.
6d. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 98,E 9 ; South-Eastern,
421 2 ; ditto New, 15 ; Trent Valley, 9„t 2 ; York and
North Midland, 381 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,
74 ; Northern of France, 54
We yesterday adverted to the rivalry which exists in
some parts of Ireland for obtaining the advantages of
railway communication in the principal sectional districts
of that part of the United Kingdom, and, as whatever
tends to augment the facilities of intercommunication—
which is beneficial to all—it will be our duty
as occasion serves, to refer to the many projects
in contemplation, by which industry must be
increased, and wealth added to the labourers of Ireland.
True it is, that conflict of opinion and party spirit may
for a time mar the full development of the good work of

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