The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-02 00:00:00

concur :

" If we wanted any proof of the great importance attached
to Otaheite by the English, we need only refer to the at-
tempts made by them to impede our occupation, since we
took possession of the island. Mr. Pritchard, the missionary,
who acted as English Consul, at once protested against our
occupation. This example was soon followed by Queen Po-
mare, and she withdrew to an English vessel, to remain un-
der the protection of the English flag. An insurrection, of
which Pritchard was the ringleader, was then organised. He
represented the French to the natives as an insignificant
people, whom a great chief had long led to victory, but that
the English had at last placed that great leader in chains, to
prevent further disorder. - He declared also that a vast fleet
would soon arrive from England, and burn the French ships
at the islands. Proclamations announcing these fine things
were placarded ; and, as soon as they appeared, the inhabi-
tants of the peninsula of Taiaraba, either more credulous or
more courageous than the rest, took up arms. The Go-
vernor himself got on horseback, and endeavoured to put
down this revolt at its commencement, but the insurgents
marched ic,n Papeiti, and were constantly increased by real-
conter;cs from the neighbouring islands. The chiefs who
were most devoted to us then declared that their wives
a-A children would not beLsafe, if they remained longer
near us. Whilst the Governor was endeavouring to put
down the insurrection which was extending round the
island, and approaching towards the centre of our establish-
ments, news was brought that 3,000 armed men were at
about three hours' march from Papeiti, which they proposed
to take and burn. The rain fell in torrents, which circum-
stance would tend to baffle part of their plans, but it would
also render it difficult for our troops to use their fire-arms.
The Commandant of the Society Island, M. d'Aubigny, was
informed of this intended attack, and at once declared the
bay in a state of siege; the other energetic measures taken
under the circumstance, and executed with vigour, proved
to the insurgents, and to those who incited them, that they
had no mercy to expect from us in case of a sanguinary
struggle. In the afternoon of the 3d of March we expected
to be attacked; all our measures of defence had been
taken, the plain of Papeiti had been cleared of all the
trees which might impede the firing of the soldiers and the
marines who had been landed ; at five o'clock in the evening
Mr. Pritchard was at the landing-place ready to escape
in an English boat to the Cormorant steam-vessel, when the,
chief of the police arrested him as the instigator of the disor-
ders. He was immediately placed in confinement in a
blockhouse, and the Commandant d'Aubigny, in an order
of the day, declared that his head and his property
should be guarantees for what might take place. On the
19th of March, the day on which I write, we are still on the defensive, but tranquillity appears assured. The Go-
vernor has returned from Calaraba ; Pritchard is exiled, and
the English steamer has been requested to keep at a dis-
tance. Queen Pomare is still here on board an English cut-
ter, and must at length despair of ever returning with her
perfidious advisers to this laud which she has so foolishly
abandoned. "

We apprehend that not much reliance can be
placed on these assertions. Sir ROBERT PEEL would
not have denounced the conduct of the French autho.

rities, in regard to the English Consul, as " a gross
outrage, accompanied by a gross indignity," without
information on which he could implicitly trust.
Most of the papers refer to the unfortunate acci-
dents which occurred on Monday. Those of the
Opposition blame the police for allowing such vast
crowds to assemble in one spot, and assert that the
numbers killed and wounded are far more numerous
than the authorities are willing to admit.

A Toulon letter states that the vessels which are to
proceed to Cherbourg, in order to escort the KING to
England, will be the Ocean, commanded by Admiral
PARSEVAL, and the Inflexible, by Captain GRAEB.
Another letter says that twenty squadrons of ca-
valry, and twelve battalions of infantry, are to be
successively embarked for Algeria.
The Journal des Debats has a long article on the
state of crime in France, in order to show that a great
moral improvement is-. going on throughout the
country. The following extract will be read with
interest :

" The account of the year 1841 shows a considerable dimi-
nution in the number of crimes compared with the four pre-
ceding years. This decreasing movement has continued
during the year 1842. In 1840, the number of defended
causes tried by the Courts of Assize was 6,004 ; in 1841,
5,528 ; and in 1842, 5,104, showing a reduction of 900, or
nearly a sixth part during the two years. Another progress
not less remarkable is that, in 1841, the decrease only bore
on attempts against property, the number of crimes against
the person having on the contrary increased. But in 1842
both crimes had decreased in nearly equal proportions. A
third result still more striking is, that the number of pri-
soners comprised in the cases tried in 1842 was but 6,953,
being 509 less than in 1841, and 1,273 less than in 1840. It
will be necessary to go back to 1834 to find so small a num-
ber of persons accused of crimes. The cause of this ameliora-
tion is the power given to the jury, by the law of 1832, to
find extenuating circumstances. Whatever may be the
particular instances of abuse which arise from this system, its
salutary effects must be admitted to be incontestible. It is
this tempering of the law which quiets the consciences of
the jury, at a time when everything is decided and regulated
by a middle course. It is a support given by the law to the
mildness of our manners, to that sentiment of humanity
which inspires us with a feeling of invincible horror for irre-
parable rigours, and tends more and more to substitute tem-
porary inflictions for capital or perpetual punishments.
Thanks to this expedient, justice is less rigorous and less
pitiless, but at the same time more sure and more firm."

THE BOURSE-WEDNESDAY, JULY 31.

First

Highest Lowest

Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five perCuits.• ...• 121 50 .. 121'60 .. 121 50 •• 121 55
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents... ,81 85 .. 81 85 .. 81 80 .. 81 85
Bsnk of France 3110 ..3115 .3105 ..3105
Lafilite Bank, I,OOOL Sharesll2o ..1120 ..1115 ..1115
5,000 f. SharessoBo ..5080 —5075 —5075
Belgian Bank. 675 675 .. 675 .. 675
Belgian Fives, 1831.
1840 ....•... 1051 .. 105 i .. 1051 1051
1842 .. .• •• 108: .. 108 f .. 108 k
Spanish Active . 301 .. 301 .. 30i .. 30i
Neap01itan......
Roman .. . 103 i .. 103 i .. 1031, •• 103 i
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, L.E....... •. •• .. 243 75 .. 243 75 .. 243 75 .. 243 75
Rotten to Havre
)rleans ..... -......980 .. 960 .. 980 .. 980
Strasburg to Bale.-- •• •• 238 75 .. 240 .. 238 75 .• 238 75
RAILWAY SHARES FOR. THE ACCOUNT, 2n OF AUGUST.
Versailles, R.B. • - • • .... •• • • 385 .. 385 .. 385 .. 385
Rouen .......... •• •• ••
Rouen to Haves• 761 2:5 .. 761 25 .. 760 .. 760
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale 349 .. 240 .. 238 75 .. 240
Avignon to Marseilles.... 766 25 .. 767 50 .. 766 25 .. 767 50

NEWS FROM MOROCCO.
MARSEILLES, JULY 29, 1844.
The French steamer, La Ville de Paris, entered
this port at five o'clock, A.M. Captain Double,
orderly officer, attached to Marshal Soult, came as
passenger with dispatches from General Bugeaud.
Marshal Bugeaud informs his Government that
he had received dispatches from the Emperor of
Morocco, to the effect that he had ordered the
Calipha who had attacked the French troops to
be put into chains, and to be placed at the dis-
posal of Marshal Bugeaud. The Marshal replied that
he should refuse receiving the prisoner until he had
received further instructions from his Government
and that, in the meantime, he should continue hos-
tilities against the Emperor. Marshal Bugeaud, on
the 22d current, had his head quarters at three leagues
from Ouchda, and was continuing to burn the villages
and destroy the crops on the Morocco territory. The
same day (22d) the Marshal sent dispatches of a
most pressing nature to the Prince de Joinville. The
French army is well provided with provisions, and in
high spirits. Captain Double quitted Oran on the
evening of the 22d.

THIS - DAYS NEWS.

HONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A fair quantity of Cotton was sold at Liverpool yesterday,
and prices were firm. Sales, 5,000 bales, viz., 300 Surat, 3d.
to 31d. ; 100 Egyptian, 61d. to 7d. ; 120 Maranham, Sid. to
6d. ; and the rest American, 4d. to 6id.—Shares were generally
Crood. Bristol and Gloucester, 55 ; Caledonian, 31. 16s 3d. ;
hester and Birkenhead, 29a ; Eastern Counties Perpetual,
20s. ; Grand Junction New, Quarter, 39i ; Liverpool and
Manchester New, 35 prem. ; London and Birmingham, 2301 ;
Ditto, 321. shares, 384 ; Manchester and Birmingham Quarter,
5 ; Manchester and Leeds, 1161 ; Midland Counties, 107 ;
Paris and Rouen, 38i ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,
2 1-10th; Sambre and Meuse, 2 11-20ths ; Tours and Nantes,
23g.

The accounts from India attract the chief attention this
morning, and as it is evident that Lord Ellenborough was still
going on with his belligerent policy, his return is considered
likely to be very beneficial in once more turning the atten-
tion of the inhabitants to agricultural and internal improve-
ments, the very.objects which his Lordship professed to have
almost exclusively in view. The markets of India and China
were not very active, but a moderate business was doing.
Complaints were made at Calcutta of the delay in the arrival
of the outward mail, and the additional expense to which
the parties receiving letters were subjected, owing to the
defective arrangements of the London Post-office. We trust
that arrangements since made here will obviate this.
There are advices to June 13 from Rio de Janeiro. The new
tariff, it seems, was still expected to come into operation in
November. The political state of the country was more
composed.

The Stock Market looks flat again to-day, and the price
of Consols has declined again about 4 per cent. A few sales
continue to be made at intervals by the speculators for a
fall, and those who apprehend the carrying of their
operations still further. Consols for Money are 994 4,
and for Time 994 4. The Commissioners have pur-
chased 10,000!. at 993. Exchequer Bills are quiet at 78s.
premium, and India Bonds at 975. premium. Bank Stock is
worth 1994 to 2004. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
are 102 to 1014; the Reduced, 1021 to 103; and the Three
per Cents., par to 1004.
The Foreign investments have been without any buoy-
ancy. Spanish Five per Cents. realise 223 to 4; Mexican,
363 to 36 ; Colombian, 144 to 134 ; and Brazilian, New, 82.
Austrian Bonds are firm at 116; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 614 to a.
The market for Railway Shares has been well supported
again, and there is a good business doing at the rates below
given.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock ..... ...... . ................ ... ....... 200% 139%
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO% 100
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99% %
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102% 103
New 3% per Cent. Annuities.— .. ... . .....
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan.
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1660... ......
India Bonds,l,ooo .. ...
Ditto under 1,0011............. .............
South Sea Stock
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 975(
Consols for Account .........m., 119%14
Exchequer Bills, l%d. I%d
1,0001. •••••••••••••••••••••••• .... •••••••••••• 78 pm.
Ditto 87;11:................ ........... 78 76 pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ll5
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839
Columbian Bonds. ..... ........... .......... . .....
Mexican 80nd5,1837, 5 per Cent ft....
Ditto for the Account 36% 36
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 —
Ditto for the Account ..... .......
Ditto Deferred 12%
Dutch 214 per Cents 61X%%
Dutch 5 per Cents. ........ ........... .......
New Loan, 5 per Cents. (1837)
• PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. YAM Pea SHAM
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ... ..... 111 to 113
Bristol and Exeter 7O 79% .. to —.
Bristol and Gloucester 3O
55% 56%. to 56
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead ....... ...... 5 ...
Dublin and Cashel.... ........ . ..... 214 5%% ... to
Eastern Counties ... ....„ ... . 23 ..... ....12%% ... to --
Ditto New Registered 81.. 60. Bd.
Great Western ...... .......... ....... 75 139 to
Ditto % Shares 5O ........ 85
Ditto Fifths l2 .... ..... 25%
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Carlisle 5 4% to
London and Birmingham.
London and Blackwall
London and Brighton 5O ......... 49X % % to
London and South Western
London and Croydon
Manchester and Leeds
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Midland Counties
Birmingham and Derby ..... ...... 100 ......... 63 .... to 81
North British
Norwich and Brandon
South Eastern and Dover
Ditto New . ......... .. 4.. ... 12 -to Yarmouth and Norwich ..... ....."
18 ...
31%
York and North Midland
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1
Paris and Rouen ..... .......... ...... 20
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock

Erratum in yesterday's List.—Read London and South
Western 87** to 88.

ISIANCHES.T.ER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. I.—We have
had a quieter market, and prices are nominally the same as
yesterday :—Eastern Counties, perpetual, N0.,1, 345. 4d. ; Do.,
do., No. 2,20 s. 4d. ; 'Huddersfield and Manchester, 265. pre-
mium ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 5 and 5 1-16 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, 5 9-16 and 11-16
Manchester and Buxton, 365. ; Preston and Wyre, five per
cent. graduated, 24i ; Manchester and Liverpool District
Bank, 10i.

FOREIGN STOCE Lisr.--We have received the fol-
lowing note from " A Constant Subscriber to The
Sun:'

" The Editor of the Commercial and Money Department of
The Sun newspaper will please cause the Closing Prices of
the Foreign Funds to be quoted more accurately. There are
frequently mistakes. The enclosed paper will point out two.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEArtEtt took tht Chair shortly after Twelve.
The Bishop of Down and Connor and Drotnore's
Estate Bill was read a third time and passed.
Lord Lovat's Estate Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The Duke of Hamilton's Estate Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed.

Mr. 11. BERKELEY presented a petition from 500
tradesmen of Bristol, against the Insolvent Debtors Bill ;
also a petition from certain solicitors in London, to the
same effect.
__

Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from tradesmen of
Finsbury, Marylebone, and Southwark, to the same
effect. The petitioners prayed that the Bill might, at
least, be postponed until next session.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from Finsbury
to the same effect. The petitioners prayed that if any
law were passed, greater powers should be given as
against goods.
NEW WRIT FOR DUDLEY.

On the motion of Mr. J. YOUNG, a new writ was
ordered to be issued for the election of a Member for
Dudley, in the room of T. Hawkes, Esq., who had
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
The report on the Charitable Donations and Bequests
(Ireland) Salaries and Expenses Bill was brought up, as
was also the report on the Marriages (Ireland) Bill,
which were ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, at
Twelve o'clock.

"August 2, 1844."
We wish our Correspondent Lad informed us on
what authority he makes the corrections. On referring
to Wetenhall's List, reckoned the most correct, and
used by nearly all the daily papers, we find that the
quotations giyen in The Sun are according to copy,

711 E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING,' AUGUST 2,_164.1.

MAgKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

Only moderate supplies of English Wheat have been re-
ceived up to our market this week, yet the stands
were tolerably well filled with samples of that grain.
Fine qualities mostly found buyers, at full prices ;
biit the Value of other kinds was barely supported.
In Foreign Wheat, titiwAtda of 47,000 quarters of which
have been released this week, previous to the rise in
the duty to 18s per quarter, was a mere drug, and almost
nominal in value. Grinding Barley was is per quarter lower.
In other kinds no alteration occurred, notwithstanding the
large imports from abroad. In Malt next to nothing was
doing. The Oat trade was very dull, at a decline of 6d per
quarter. In other articles no variation.
ARRIVALS.
Wheat. r,2rley. I Oats. Flour
English. 4,120 qrs. 318 'lO qrs. 2,99osacks.
Irisn—••. 000000000 8.340 --
Foreign.••••••••• 14,160 21,230 I 25,-40%'
Ma t. 3,550 qrs.
smxTrzrzEzn.
Although our market was rather extensively supptit—
with Beasts, we have to report a steady demand for that de-
scription of stock, and in some instances an advance of 2d
per 81bs was obtained for the primest Scots, which were
quoted at 4s per 81bs. The fresh arrivals from Scotland com-
prised 200 Scots. For all kinds of Sheep, the numbers
of which were not large, the inquiry was active, at very full
prices. The supply of Lambs was large, owing to which the
sale for them ruled heavy, at barely Monday's quotations.
Calves, which were again plentiful, moved off freely, and the
rates had an upward tendency. In Pigs, very little was doing.
Mach Cows sold at from 161. to 19/. 10s. each.

Per Sibs. to sink the offaL
s d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Second qualityditta... 3 0 3 4
Second quality ditto 2 8 210 Coarse.woolled ditto.. 3 6 3 8
Prime large Oxen 3 2 3 6 Southdown Wethers 3IV 4 0
Prime Scots, &c.
Large coarse Calves 3 0 4 0 Large Hogs 4 0 3 6
Prime small ditto 4 2 4 4 Small Porkers 3 8 4 0
Suckling Calves, each 19 0 35 1'• Quarter old Pigs, eachl6 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep

SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. Sheep. 1 Calves.
927 11,330 414

I rigs.
276

N2EVTGATE AND LEADENHAILL.
We had only a moderate supply of Meat, while the demand
was steady, at full prices.
At per stone, flp the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. s d. to s. d.
Beef, ..... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 6 2, 8
- middling ..... 2 6 28 - middling 2JO 3 2
- prime large 2le 3 0 - prime 3 4 3 8
- prime small ...... 3 2 3 4 Pork, large 2 6 3 6
Veal u. 3 2 4 2 small 3 8 4 0
Lamb, 3s 10d to Is 10d.
Donouou HOP 111A1tICET.

The accounts which have come to hand from Worcester,
parts of Mid Kent and Sussex, are considered somewhat less
favourable than fur some time past. From other quarters
the reports are satisfactory. The demand here rules heavy,
yet we can notice no material variation in prices.