The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The city article will apprize our readers of the va-
riety of reports by which the great centre of money
speculation was agitated during the whole of Saturday,.
and of the falsehood an well of those which had raised
the public funds, as of those by which, in a subse-
quent part-of the day, they were lowered. With re-
gard to the assurances of a pacific declaration from
M. Villele, and of his formal approval of the decided
policy of Great Britain, having reached this country,
we have reason to believe, that down'to a late hour
on Saturday night no communication from that Mini-
'titer had reached any official quarter here. That there
arc many circuinstances, immediate and "emote, well
calculated to occupy the full attention of the French
ftiovernment, and thence to retard the announcement
of a final resolution upon the serious alternative pre-
sented to it by the Royal Message to Parliament, is
obvious from the least consideration of the possible
results of indefinite military movements between Spain
and Portugal, and of the extrenrities to which Ferdi-
nand and the cause of despotism may be driven : but
so strong are the inducements to
.remain at peace on
the part of the House of Bourbon, that we feel few, if
ally, doubts respecting its uninterrupted continuance,
in so far as that much-desired consummation can de--
pend upon the obvious interests of the French House
of Bourbon, and on the present wishes of its ablest
and most discreet advisers. The news from Oporto
appears to be More favourable than from the impres-
mons made in the city on Friday last could have been
anticipated. The authorities of Oporto had made ar-
iangements for a vigorous resistance at the bridge over
the Tamega, the only pass by which Oporto could be
approached from the north-eastward, and a detach-
ment of Portuguese troops had arrived in steam-ves-
sels from Lisbon. The fears entertained for the lick-
lity of the army, were, it is said, subsiding ; and Lord
Beresford, it was rumoured, had, on his own respon-
sibility, sent for a body of British troops fiom.Gihral-
tar. But it is fair to say, that this last piece of intel-
ligence does not- rest upon authority which would con-
vince us at once of its truth. Lord Beresford might,
on his own responsibility, tend for troops—but would
the Governor of that fortress be, of necessity, justified
in complying with such a requisition ? Lord Bares-
lord was not his commanding officer ; nor has the gar-
rison of Gibraltar been for a long time past so much
more than adequate to the bare discharge of those
duties which are indispensable to the actual security
of the place, as to render it sq/e, while 11,000 or
12,000 French soldiers are posted in its immediate
neighbourhood, to reduce the British force by even a
single regiment. Whether, at the same time, the fact
may not be.as described, we cannot take upon us to
determine. The last news from Oporto is of the even-
mg of the 7th. The report then current was, that the
'rebels under the Marquis de Chaves had been beaten
and driven back.-71/nes. .

CITY, SATURDAY EVENING.
THE MONEY MARKET.--The city version of the events
which have produced the favourable re-action in the Stock
Market is as follows, though it would not be prudent, in
such u.crisis as this, to believe all that is circulated in this

quarter. The object, of course, is to show, that in a
\which has occurred lately; France and England are per.
• reedy syreed.• Mr. Ca.ming then, it is said, communicated
to the Frenth Ambassador, on Saturday last, a copy of the
• KiteesMesisge to
,Parliameet, delivered on Monday, and
of the intention to send troops to Portugal. This was pent
off on Seturday by a courier, sod the report is, founded on
the Paris letters, that wheircommuniveted to M. de Villele,
that Minister expressed himself highly satisfied at what had
eccorred, as.the only event that could secure the peace of
doe Peninsula, and that the proceeding had his entire con-
curience with that of the King, his. master. The letters
'from Paris are said also to confirm the statement, that; the
King of France had written to Ferdinand itn autograph
letter, threatening the immediate recall of the French
troops, if he interfered in any manner with the PortugUese
rebels. Assurances of a pacific nature have also, it is said,
been received from M. de Villele at the Foreign-oflice,
subsequeutly to the arrival of the message, with the de-
, bates which followed it. Mr. Canning, it is added, has iu
,Onsequence of the above, despatched a nwssenger to Mu-
.drid, with a firm remonstrance to the Spanish, Govern-
' Meta, concluding with u categorical demand of the acknow-
ledgment within 21 hours of the present form of Govern-
ment in Portugal, at the end of which time, if not coin-
plied with, the English Ambassador is ordered to leave
Agedrid. These are the.principal points on which the
rake-party depend, and to the circulation of them on
Change during yesterday and this morning, is to be as:,
(31 ed the rise of the funds from 77i, the lowest price of
yesterday, to 801, at which Consols were currently sold
this morning. That construction of the real posture of
affairs seems to have been borne partly by the state of the
French Funds on .Thursday, when the 3 per Cents,,left off
• ut 67, 75., full 2 per cent. higher than they were on the
,tirrival of the King's Message from London.—lbid.
The threat in an Evening Paper with respect to
. General 'Quiroga was, we think, ill judged. In our
opinion, if that General, or General Mina, or any
other Ex-Spanish General with followeri, were to land
il,Opain, they would be attacked by the French, and
if they were beaten, as it is probable they would, the
French- would avail themselves of a pretence ac-
count of such attack—march their forces into Pont'.
gal, and take possession of it as they did of Spain,
except we could send a sufficient force to prevent them.
But the question would be, could we send a sufficient
~fbrce ? 'lt is well known that in England we have
• 'only 20,000 men altogether, and in Ireland 25,000,
*high latter it is said are barely sufficient to keep the
discontented in order. What number of troops the
French have iti•Spain does not appear. But we well
know that France has upon the whole a very large
disposable force. We saw how easily she poured
50,000 tfimm into Spain, and how easily she took.
.
possession 0 Slum, in spite of the bravery of Generals
Mina, Qui
Troga, Riego, and other Constitutional Ge-
nerals. etltink that the Enslish Government could
not do a more dangerous dung than to give secret
encouragement to the Spanish Refugees in this coun-
try in any attempts the latter might Make on Spain.
Besides, it is beneath the dignity of England to build.
anyliopes on the employment of the proscribed ? We.
by no means liked that part of Mr.'Ciiimities speech,
any more than we did his let out respecting Sir
Charles Stuart and the Constitution the latter took in
pocket ,with him from Brazil to Lisbon. It is
Much this Constitution does not cost us sm
moue sum of money—it may endanger the Debt it-
self. But what business had Sir Charles to busy him.,
self respecting a Constitution ? When 'the Spaniards
had their COnstitution and Cortes, they welt not a
vdtit inure, friendly towards England than Ferdinand
And:his Priests 'now are. In truth, had the Spanish
Coats and Constitution lasted, South America would
now have been under the dominion of Spain.-Morn-
tfrrald.'
The fears of the English in Oporto, and the baste
vvith which all who can, are preparing to depart from
Portugal .with their most valuable effects, afford but too
strong a proof of the little reliance to be placed on the
Ntinlation of that country at the present moment. MI
. *litters:agree in stating, that the Priesthood are in
opposition to the existing order of things ; and know-

.ng this, the writer, frankly own that little reliance-is
,o be placed on the KOfessions of the`piople of zeal
.n defence of the Constitution. How happens it that

the Priests, who once idolised the luglisb, are now so
decidedly opposed to them ? Have the Priests changed
their policy.? 0 no. From the commencement of
the Revolutionary War, down to a comparatively re-
cent' date, the English were adored by all the partizans
of abuses, all the patrons pi superstition, in every
country. hi Spain, Portugal, and Italy, the Priests
were attached to the English, because they looked on
the English as the supporters of the Inquisition, and
in consideration of their Services in the good cause
they willingly pardoned their heresy. Every pious Ca-
tholic was taught to look on the English as the great
supporters of the Altar and the Throne. The en-
lightened and respectable classes in Italy were scanda-
lized at the sight of English Ministers interesting then-
selves in the miracles of St. Januarius at Naples,
or taking part in processions in honour of the
Virgin in Tuicany. When the virtuous Bishop
of Pistoia, the Ecclesiastical Refdriner under the

•
great Leopold, was insulted by superstitious mobs,
English Ministers did not disdain to take a part in
these mobs. " The insurrection of Arezzo, says •
Potter (whose assertions rest on abundant evidence),
" concentrated all the scattered efforts, and drew all
eyes towards it. . Religious enthusiasm led the re-
volters to declare. their Madonna, believed miraculous
for somewhat more than three years, Generalissimo of
the armed hordes hich they sent in pursuit of the
flying RepUblicans, to pillage and slaughter them with
a sate conscience. The image of the Virgin became
the standard of rebellion, murder, and, brigandage.—
Ricci, who saw only in this event the triumph of igno-
rance, of superstition, with all its excesses, and the
abuses as anti-religious as anti-social rooted out by
Leopold, sighed at the prospect of ouccesses which
now appeared but WO certain. Scarcely had the
French withdrawn into the States of Genoa, when the

Aretins marched on Florence. These bands of un-
natural men,' says the Abbe X. reinforced by smug-
glers.aiid malefactors of every kind, guided by Monks
and Priests, and defiled by homicides, rapines, and all
sorts of crimes, entered that capital on the 7th July,
1799, under the standards of Madonna of Arezzo,

each of the Aretins, carrying that image as a distinc
tive sign, either hung to his dress, or attached to his
hat inlieu of a cockade. Even the English Minister
(Windham) and the pretended General Mari (his
mistress), who accompanied him,- were decorated in
this manner with the order of the Madonna. What a
prostitution—what an abuse of religion !' " In those
days the Pope and the. Monks clung to the English
as the great prop of "superstition. When :'we ' en-
tered the Peninsula, our good deeds in Italy had
gone. before us, and we were still looked to as the
supporters of he Altar and the Throne. Nay, the
Battle of Waterloo did not dissolve the connection
between our old friends, the Monks, and us. So
long es it was uncertain whether the family placed by
the Battle of Waterloo on the Throne of France
would be able to-support- itself, the English Govern-
ment still prudently cultivated the friendship of' the
Monks. It is but the other year that the Courier in-
veighed with great bitterness against the attempt of the
Portuguese Cortea to 'render the Ecclesiastical Esta-
blishment of their coimtty somewhat more Wasonant
the a iirit of Christtaility, and we re'Metriber that
very vaper si?Otte of the loatttution us a ‘renerable,to-
stitution. But the subjugation of Italy by ..A.uOria,
and the occupation of Spain by France, afforded a
proof that legitimacy and superstition 'could now dis-
pense with the.support of England. The English be-
gan to suspect that they had overshot the mark; and
the Priests, on the other hand, finding a more natural
ally in the French Government, began to open their
eyes to the defects of their old allies, the English.
During their own struggles for existence, as it were,
they had little time to think 'of the treatment of the
Irish Catholics by the English; but now, from one
end of- Catholic Europe to the other, this treatment
has been a constant theme of discussion. The Eng-
lish are now every where held up by the Priests to the
people, not merely as heretics, but as persecutors
and oppressors of their fellow4eligionists.- We shall
now find our absurd treatment of the- Catholics
of Ireland operate in two ways to our disadvantage.
In the that place, it makes every priest in the Petun-
:oda an enemy of the side we espouse ; and the mul-
titude, through the agency of the priests.., In, the
next place, the Apostolical 'party know, that one-third
of the population of these Islands, and that not the
least warlike, are necessarily in their interest. With
respect to the threat held out by Mr. Canning, the
time, :is we have already more than once said, is gone
by for using such a threat with effect. Indeed, we
are satisfied that such a threat would never have been
Made, had the least apprehension with respect to the
stability of the French Government existed. We do
most conscientiously believe that' the English Aristo-
cracy, however much they may coquette it, now that
they think they may do so with safety, consider them-
selves as 'much interested in the stability of the Bour-
bons, as the Bourbons themselves are. The Aposto,
Heal party in France know, therefore, that even if we
had the power, we would religiously avoid' any thing
'calculated to promote it revolution in France.- They
know that we are aware that there is an Aristocracy' in
France worth talking of; that if a French Minister
were to make such a speech, in one of the Chambers,
as Lord Palmerston did in the House of Commons
the other day, that the army should be almost exclu-
sively officered by the nobility and higher gentry, he
would be assailed by one cry of indignationand that
therefore there is nothing so much to be dreaded in
this country as the throwing such a royal democracy
into a state of commotion. But should we be invol-
ved in a war with Franee,," what an ally have not the
French ill Ireland ! Well do the -French Ministers
know their strength and our weakness, in that
country. The first intelligence of his Majesty's sues,
sage has been received by the Catholics in a way that
'we should think must carry alarm to the minds
of the most bigotted of the opponents of Emend-
,pation. a War, my- countrymen (said Mr. Shiell),
---war has been announced (loud and , continued
cheers!) This event, of which intelligence has been
Lreceived within this hour, and which will make the
heart of every man in Ireland leap within him. (Loud
vheem) 'Such is the opening of Mr. Sheill's•Speeeh
at the INTeeting of the Catholic Association, on Wednes-
day last. One,third of our fellow-subjects, and that third
the
,111°biwarlike
are unable to contain their joyat the
intelligence f
the country being about to embark in a
fresh war. They •
rej• oice at the prospect of war, not
because they think the sacrifices and burdens it must
occasion be more than compensated by the success
with which it will be carried on, but because it )Vill en-
able them to extort that from our fears which they
could not obtain from our justice—because they see
that the condition of our escaping disaster is to submit
to a humiliatin&mortificatiep, to pay the penalty, once
more -of our stupid obstinacy. 7..., I own, in the gpirit

of discontented fearleAness,‘that I rejoice at •
(Cheers.)--Alas'! to to what miserable condition are
we reduced ; and how vainful it -is to think that one
third .of the subjects of this great Empire, and seven
millions of the Irish people,,are so far sundered from:
the State, and alienated front their natural and legiti-
mate duty, that they cannot help (for we cannot help
it) feeling a sentiment of disastrous and desperate ex-
ultation; in whatever portends calamity, and is omi-
nous of ill. Ido confess that I regard it as a sort of
reproach to us, that we should derive a fero-
cious joy .from events which will boast so much
of human life, and which will be followed
with so much woe and misery for their train." Mr.
O'Connell, who had been engaged in one of
the, Courts during Mr. Shiell's speed), entered soon
afterwards, and spoke in the same tone: " 1 nelier,
in all my life," he said, " rose with such pleasure to
speak in a Catholic assembly. England is at war—
(Cheers). Let her do.without Ireland if she dare"
—(tremendous cheers).
chances of war could not . make us worse. I would

ask Goulburn if a foreign foe were to invade this
country and desolate the land What could it do ? It
might create unjust distinctions and embitter social
life—it might establish a faction to insult and trample
On the people—it might send a famine in the stead of
plenty, and spread disgrace and death round the land.
But, good God ! -how could we he worse than we are
at present ; If he believes the people of Ireland to be
interested in the contest; I tell him lie is wrong." Are
Mr. Shiell and Mr. O'Connell faithful interpreters of
the sentiments of the Catholics of Ireland ? We be-
lieve they are. When we quote these sentiments and
state this, all further observation becomes unnecessa-
ry. We are sending &troops to the Peninsula, to
fight, we fear, against the great body of the people of
Portugal. In that case, even if France remain a spec-
tator for a time, we must continue our embarkations
to keep down the Portuguese ; for having engaged in
the contest, .our honour is involved in the issue. In
the mean time Ireland is proelaimine, to Europe, we
dread no enemy so much as the people .to whom we
are obliged at present to submit. And do we think
the French will not know the import of this language
or will not know the use which may be made of it ?
Strange infatuation, to leave this act of justice unper-
formed till a time when, whichever way we decide, we
are disgraced!—Morning Chronicle.
We received last night the Paris Papers of Friday,
and the. Etoile dated Saturday. Their contents are
of considerable interest, as far as relates to Spain and
Portugal. They contain, among other things, the
capitulation of Braganza to the rebels, under the com-
mand of the. Marquis de Chaves. We say the Rebels,
for it is a mockery and a perversion of language to de-
signate them, as the ultra Paris Papers do, by the
term of Royalists. Royalists, forsooth ! Men who
are arrayed in open insurrection against the throne,
against the laws, and against the Constitution !
Iraitors, who are desolating their country by making
it the theatre of civil war ! Worse than traitors, for
they have shown by their excesses, that they are itui-
mated by more than the vindictive and merciless
.spirit which might he supposed to exist in the bo-
soms of foreign enemies, whose business it is to
shed blood upon command, with no privilege to in-
quire why they are ordered to cut the throats of their
Liellaw-creatures: But here is a band of lawless in-
choose to tell their-King, you shall' nut
make us free•'—you ah4l not give tie virtered liberties—
apd they are to be called Royalists ! it ia true they have
raise&the standard of rebellion, in the name of a phantom
King, whom they have proclaimed—Don Miguel V.—
a King:v.lmm Kings disclaim I A Monarch, who, if
he ascend the Throne, which treason would erect • fur
him, must wade knee-deep in blood—the blood of his
countrymen—before he can seat lilinself upon it. We
have nothing to do, in this view of the case, with the
question of which' is the stronger party in Portugal—
ahe friends of the Chatter—or its foes. It is only be-
cause we know the importance ofnames, that we enter
our protest thus early, against an abuse of words which
may lead to a much more serious abuse of things.
These men, who call themselves, or who are called by
others, Royalists, are the open and avowed enemies of
their King ; and as such, language has but one term
for them ; they are rebels ! II appears by. advices from
Madrid, of the 4th inst., contained in the Etoile, that
the Spanish Government feels, or affects to feel, alarm
at the progress of event& The fear, if
_it exist, will
have salutary consequences, we trust, by causing the
immediate suspension, and ultimate cessation, of those
measures which have driven this country to. the threshold
oft(war. The remonstrances of Mr. Lamb, our Am-
bassador to the Court of Spain, become every day
more menacing, it is said, and hence the anxiety to ar-
rest the mischief which was in progress. What will
Ferdinand, what will his Ministers, say, when they
hear that England has not confined herself to re-
monstrances ? That her' soldiers and her fleets are
already on their way, to assert the faith of treaties, the
independence of Nations ? They have prepared for
themselves a bitter cup of humiliation. England has
but to speak, in ' the loud voice of ,war, and
Spain, abject and trembling, like a recreant bully, who
fears no danger, because he sees none; must shrink
before her. We are reluctant to believe one part of
these accounts. When the Rebels entered Bragania' ,
we are told, " they sought chiefly after the English.
One of them had the misfortune to be taken, and was
dragged alive, through the streets, until he expired;
under the most cruel torment's." We would fain hope,
this' is mere invention. It' it be not—if, on the con-
trary; these fanatical rebels single out for refined tor-
tures, unoffending British subjects, only because the
name of an Englishman is identified, (and long may
it be 'so !) with all that is free and liberal, and
high-miuded, a just but terrible retribution will
be dealt out to them. Injuries like these,
&toil upon national honour,' will convert a mea-
sure of precaution, intended to prevent war, into
active hostilities, for the vindication of British rights.
The tone .of the Journal des Debats is warlike ; hut
this matters not. What else could be expected frdm
the-ultra organ of ultra politics ? The policy of the
French Cabinet, however," is pacific ; the desire for
peace has been sincerely expressed the French
Monarch. For *hat legitiinate ollects, indeed, Could
France go to war ? To. support Spain against.
land ?—to enable Ferdinand, the most imbecile
hlip-
narch that ever swayed a sceptre, to uphold the cause
• of rebellion against the lawful authority of the,' throne?
Is France the L'‘'untry who can venture to teach so
dangerous a lesson'? France, who, but four • yeah;
since, took her instructions from the Congress at Ve-
rona, and drew, the aword for thrones 'againit subjects
in Spain) at the hazard of provoking England ink
the contest ? Is this same France now prepared to
turn round and draw the sword with equal facility for
subjects against thrones ? lii this dilemma she 'Stands,
and we confess we are not among those who can easily
believe that they who ..govern het—would be rash
enough to plunge into a war, for the inconsistent ob-

ject. of attempting to curb the exereise of royal prero-
gative in Portugal. A nobler and a better course lies
.before her. Charkii X. may repay the debt of grati-
tude he owes to Europe, whose combined armies con-
quered for him and his family the throne on which he
now sits, by using his recovered power to assert the
authority of the throne of Portugal. Twenty years of
exile and adversity have been suffered m vain, if they
have not taught him, above all living Monarchs, the dan •
ger of encouraging rebellion. It would be a short-
sighted policy indeed, in a question like the present;
looking to the part which France has already played
in Spain, looking to her obvious interests at home, and
to the opportunity that presents itself of making com-
mon cause with England in a just and honourable
cause, if she were to discard all these considerations,
and, from feelings of unworthy jealousy, or in the wan-
tonness of military ambition, cast her sword into the
scale of popular insurrection. We do not believe her
thoughts turn that way ; but; if they do, it were well
she paused for a moment, to calculate the tremendous
perils that may hang upon her decision.—New Times.

WINTER ASSIZES.

CHELMSFORD, Dec. 15.

The winter gaol delivery for this county ended this morning.
The only capital convict left for execution was Thomas Kinger,
for uttering a forged check with intent to defraud Thomas
Linsell.

John Goodey, who was convicted of manslaughter, in killing a
young man named iatnes Owers, at Great Coggeshall, on the 21st
of October last, was sentenced to six months' itupritionment and
hard labour in the House of Correction.

Jo/in Frost, a lad only 17 years of age, was indicted for vio-
lating the person of Sarah Wilkinson, a widow woman, aged 70,
at Ugley, in this county. •
The Jury, upon the evidence adduced, found the prisoner guilty,
and sentence of death was recorded.

LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

British Plantation Sugar, about 400 hhds. have been
sold, for which full prices were obtained, and in some in-
stances rather more than last week's quotations. In East
India and Foreign Sugar nothing has been done. A
parcel of Demerara Molasses has been sold at 28s. 6d. per
cwt. off the quay. Coffee is rather better : 110 tees. and
370 bags Demerara brought forward by auction, well:
nearly all sold at an advance of Is. to 2s. per cwt. on the
clean qualities. Nothing done in Foreign Coffee. Cocoa
and Pimento dull. A small parcel of Barbadoes Ginger
has been sold at 545. per cwt. The Rum market remains
firm ; the sales are confined to small lots of Jamaica,
common flavour, at 3s. per gallon fur 15 to 16 0. P.
COTTON.-The sales amount to 19,950 bags, arid the
prices of most descriptions have advanced id. to }d. per
lb. The sales consist of, 5,640 Bowed, ordinary to fair,
6/d. a 7d.; good fair to good, 7/(1. a lid. ; 2,610 Orleans
6/d. a Bfd. ; 3,000 Mobile and Alabama 61d. a 7P. ; 20 Sea
Island at 13d.; 130 Stained ditto 6/d. a 8/d.; 500 Per-
nambuco at 10d. a 101 d. ; 1,400 Maranham at 8/d. a 90.;
630 Bahia at 8/d. a 9d.; 3,160 Egyptian 7d. a 81d.; 100
Demerara at Bd. a 10d.; 20 Barbadoes at 6id. a 7d.; 100
West India at NI a 8/d.; 30 Laguira at 6id.; 10 Bour-
bon at Old.; 480 Surat at sid. a 61d.; 120 Bengal at sd.
n 51(.1. About 1,000 bags American and Egyptian have
been taken ou speculation, and 600 Brazil for export. The
arrivals are 7,399 bags; 400 bags Sea Island are declared
for auction on the 22d inst.

The demand for Tobacco has again been limited, with-
out any alteration in prices. In Rice the sales have been
only about 70 tees. of Carolina at 20s. to 235., and 170
bags East India at 18s. per cwt.
Imported into Liverpool from the 9th to the lath Decem-
ber, 1826, inclusive by 2 vessels from Demerara, 3 New
York, 1 Pitifullelpflia, 2 Charleston,.l Quebec, 1 Lima

a►►dl Bahia, 1 Bahia, 1 Mac,aio and 1 Marseilles

Sugar, Demerara, 779 hhds., 40 aces; Molasses, 958
casks; Coffee, 13 bags; Cocoa, 320 bags; Rum, 96 puns.
6,7 hhds.; Cotton, Vest India, 90 bales; United State
ditto, 4791 bales ; Brazil ditto, 2514 bales ; Tobacco, 24
bales; Rice, 320 tees; 'Turpentine, 1714 brie.;
4 serous ; Flaxseed, 495 bags ; Shumac, 121 bags ; Bark,
Quercitrou, 147 Ithds. ; Madder, 134 casks; Madder
Roots, 52 bales; Hides, 1346 No. .
The wants of the trade and the firmness of holders have
occasioned a further improvetnemt in Turpentine, parcels,
warranted two-thirds soft, before landing, have been freely
sold .at Ils. 6d. per cwt.; the total sales of the week are
1,243 barrels at 111. 6d. to I Is. 9d. per cwt. ; the holders
of parcels warehoused have now almost generally with-
drawn them from the market, in the full expectation that
a considerable improvemenewill take place, the manufac-
tured article, both Rosin and Spirits, being now in brisk
demand at improving prices,' without a stock in the hands
'of the distiller. The sales of Tar are only 300 barrell
American from the quay at 14s. to 14s. 3d. per barrel.
Rosin is in brisk demand, and is now refused by the
distillers' who demand ss. 3d., being full of orders for two
Months' delivery.

The prospect of a rupture with Spain has occasioned
considerable inquiry for many articles likely to be effected
by such an event ; and such as rate the lowest have par-
ticularly attracted attention, as being the safest for invest-
ment. In Ashes the sales are 500 barrels new Montreal

Pot at 275. 6d. 'with a very small parcel at 26;.,-;d150
barrels Pearl at 28s. to 28s. 6d.; of States' Ashes .only
10 barrels Pot have been sold at 30s. per cwt. Logwood
has been in good request, and 180 tons Jamaica sold at
61. to 61. 10s. per. ton ; for Campeachy 71. 15s. to 81. is
demanded: The lower qualities of Fustic have been in.
quired for, and 60 tons Spanish have been sold at 6/. to
6/. 10s., with a= small parcel of Cuba at 9/. 10s. per ton.—
In Nicaragua Wood there has been considerable business
doing, particularly in Solid, of which 115 tons have been
sold at 18/. to 191., with 70 tons wet by salt water at
IW. to 171. ss. per ton. Barwood is more inquired for,
and 61. 10s. refused for a considerable parcel of Gaboon ;
a small sale has been effectedat 71. 15s. per ton. One
hundred casks Philadelphia Quereitron Bark have been

taken at 12s. per cwt. There is an improved demand for
Shumac, the Sales of Sicily are about 700 bags at 105. 9d.
to 111., and 100 bags Verona at 7s. 9d. per cwt. The
low price of Madder Roots has attracted some attention,
and a sale of .500 bales Turkey has been effected at 38..
per cwt. In Madders but little has been done. There
continues a steady demand for Indigo, with-a very limited
supply in'this market ; 20 serous Cttracea have been sold
at Bs. to 9s. 6d. and 26 chests E. I. at Bs. 11d. to 9s. per
lb., the latter in bond. Some inquiry
has appeared for
Lac Dye, but only 14. chests MN.'s have been sold 2s. 7d.
per lb. The holders of Brimstone and Saltpetre are ask-
mg an advance of about 2/. per ton, but we cannot learn that
it has been realised. One sale of 20 tons Smyrna Valo-
nia is.reported at 171. pet. ton.'
OliVe Oil has been in better request, the sales are 24
time 'GrallipOli; at 411. a 421., and 30 tuns Sicily at 36/. 10s.
a 38/. per tun. In Seed Oils little doing. Some im-
provement bus taken place in Cod Oil, and about 60 tuns
hive beeP sold at 2.51. 10s. a 261. per tuu; the demand
for Seed Oil:his diminished, but the ptices:reain steady.
The demand for Oil of Turpentine has induced the distil-
lent to adV‘ance tbfq...Price- t°544 PeT tun. Palm Oil has
been in good iteiGA-t; kid some considerable -Wes eiTected.
at 26/. a 27/. per tuft ; a small parcel has since brought
price generally demanded.
284 per tun, which is now the
The; sales of Carolina Rice are only -79 casks, at, 20e. to
235,. per. cwt. of fair to fine quality ; and 180 bags East
India at 18s. per cwt. The
:transactions in Hides have
been confined to 1,000 dry Odessa Ox ;and Cow at 7d. ;
and about 4,000 'salted' Monte Video and Buenos Ayres
ditto. The holders OtHemp are asking an advanCe of 1/.
per ton, which, however, has not been realised. There
has been a brisk demand for Tallow, and several parcels
have changed hands; Odessa has been sold at 41s. to 426.;
-old Y.C. .11s. to 421.; and new Y.C. at 425. to 435.
a small sale of the latter is also reported at 445. per cwt.