The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY i 9, 1844.

AMERICAN NEWS.

EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING.
The splendid New York and Liverpool packet-ship,
Sheridan, Captain De Peyter, has just arrived, bringing
New York papers to the 28th. She brings also nine pas-
sengers, and made the voyage in twenty days. She
brings intelligence three days later than the last arrival,
but it is without interest.
STATE OF TRADE. •
ASIIES.—We still continue to quote Pots at $4 62k, and
Pearls at $5 124. The market is very dull, and purchasers
demand a reduction before operating.
COTTON.—The market to-day was comparatively inactive
until two o'clock, and prices had a drooping tendency; then
a few speculators entered the market, and upwards of five
thousand bales changed hands at very full rates. One list of
2,200 bales being taken at a higher rate than has been ob-
tainedbefore this season.
noun AND GRAlN.—There is no change. All the markets
continue very steady and uniform. Here Genesee is held at
$4 75 a $4 81*.
Witist(EY.—Drudge is held at 23c., but we hear of no sales;
barrels are firm at $5 121.
PROVISIONS.—There is so little doing in every article under
this head that the quotations remain quite nominal. We
have no alteration to report.
BEESWAX.—We notice trifling sales of prime yellow at 29i c.
SALES AT THE S 1 OCK EXCHANGE.
$l,OOO Indiana 25 yr bds
2,000 N. Y. 51's, '6l b6o 104
2,000 Ohio 6's b3o 964
2,000 Kentucky 6's IOOA
11,000 Illinois 6's, 70
25 Nor. and Wor. RR. snw 34
50 Mech. Bkg. Ass.
20 North Ame. Trust
150 Farmers' Loan 304
50 Ohio Life and Trust 9l
100 Vicksburg Bank 6O 6
25 Mohawk RR 5l
125 Long Island RR. s6o 71
225 Harlem RR

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAIN.

The Messager of Friday contains the following
mportant telegraphic dispatch :

" BAYONNE, FEB. 12.

" On the 7th the insurgents evacuated Murcia,
into which the Authorities and the National Militia,
who had retired, were on the point of re-entering.
" The disarming of the National Guard at Malaga
has excited some disorders, which have been promptly
repressed. In all the other cities of Andalusia the
disarming is taking place without difficulty. Galicia
is tranquil. On the 4th the events at A licant were
known at Corunna."

LATEST FROM CHINA.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
We have received letters, by the last Overland mail, from
Hong-Kong, China, dated November 30th, 1845, from which.
we extract the following :—" The ward-room officers of her
Majesty's ship Minden have, at their sole expense, erected a
neat monument to the memory of their late messmate, Mr.
Thomas Hancorn, late master of that ship. About 200 men
have invalided from the squadron, and will shortly leave for
England, in the Rattlesnake, troop-ship.. The Cornwallis,
Dido, and Vixen steamer, will sail as soon as the two mails
which are now due arrive. As soon as the hospital at Hong-
Kong is ready, the sick soldiers will leave the Minden, and
be taken on shore. The ship has been moved about two
miles further out from the town for the benefit of the sick,
amounting now, in all, to seventy-five—twenty-fiva of-whom
belong to the Minden. The Rattlesnake has about forty of
the 55th Regiment on board, the Sapphire about fifty, and the
Lansier more. Admiral Sir W. Parker will leave here (Hong-
Kong) on the Ist November. Messrs. Allen and Rogers,
assistant-surgeons, of the Minden, Fo to England in charge of
the invalids in the Rattlesnake. The Cornwallis, flag-ship,
sails to-morrow (Ist December), and the Admiral, it is said,
will return in May. All the troops will be taken out of the
Minden, and sent to .Chusan, so that ship will only have her
own sick in hospital on board."
Hong-Kong barracks will be ready in about two months.
There has been a survey held on board the Samarang, sur-
veying-vessel, Captain Sir Edw. Belcher; her copper being
all off, it is certain that the destructive worms of these seas
will soon make great havoc in her, and the officers have re-
commended that she shall be hove done.
Mr. Gordon, Mate of the Cornwallis, is -appointed acting
Lieutenant of the Starling; Mr. Spreat, Master command-
ing the Rattlesnake, has invalided, and is superseded by Mr.
King, Master of the Agincourt ; Mr. Elliott, Master of the
Dido, is appointed to the Agincourt ; Mr. Allen, Master of
the Vixen steamer, to the Dido; Mr. Giles, Second Master
of the Starling, to the Vixen.
Lieutenant Wade, of the Samarang, is in thelMinden's hos-
pital. Lieutenant Heard, of the same ship. has been thrown
from a horse and dragged along the ground, which disfigured
him very much, but he was not at all dangerously hurt.
Captain Call, and his father, Paymaster of the 18th Regi-
ment, go home on sick leave.
Mr. Sullivan, Master, is" appointed Consul at Amoy.
On the 9th of November a plot was discovered for blowing
up the markets here (Hong-Kong). Had it succeeded there
is no knowing what the consequences would have been : it is
very likely one of the victualling stores and the commissariat
would have been destroyed. One Chinaman has been appre-
hended, and he will be hung. The police are now burning
down a range of buildings, occupied by a disaffected body of
Chinese. The guards are all doubled, and armed boats now
guard all night. On the 11th November an alarm of fire
was given, and it was found that fifty houses were burning
at once here. Sir Henry Pottinger is at Canton, and is not
expected here till Hong-Kong is more healthy. The gunner
of the Samarang has been tried by Court-martial, and broke
for drunkenness.

We have also received a letter from a medical gentleman
at Hong-Kong, from which we extract the following:—
" Sickness prevailed to a great extent ; fifteen have died in
the last week, and about thirty are expected not to recover.
Strange to say, that although the Admiralty have fitted out
the Minden, hospital-ship, with every comfort, the men
have a great dread of being sent to her, preferring to remain
in their own ships even to death. A large house has been
taken for a military hospital. Mr. Rae, R.N., is ill in the
hospital. The prejudice against the Minden is so strong, that
it is thought no more sick will be sent on board her. The
soldiers are to be taken out of her, and sent to Chusan ;
therefore the Minden will only have her own sick on board."
We ought to have held Chusan, it being worth a hundred
islands of Hong-Kong, and I think we only wait for a fair
chance to take it again ; for if we do not America or France
will, if we allow them to do so. A great " squabble " has
arisen between the nobs here, the Governor supposing the
Admirals and General have not paid him proper respect as to
salutes. Sir W. Parker has been unwell, but is recovered,
and has returned from Macao.

The Starling, cutter, Lieutenant Gordon, has been con-
demned, being found rotten. The Castor, frigate, is expected
to arrive daily.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S

HEALTH.
LONDON, FEB. 16, 1844.
Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington presents his
compliments to the Editor of the Times newspaper.
It will save Om Duke some trouble if the Editor will
be so kind as to announce that there is not one word of
truth in a paragraph of the Times newspaper of this
16th inst., headed " The Duke of Wellington." The
Duke has not been in better health for the last twenty
years than at present. He was not on horseback on
Wednesday. He went to and returned from the Horse
Guards on foot through the streets, followed by his
groom with his horse, which was not mounted, on
that day.

*** The paragraph was copied from an Evening Paper, and
is manifestly one of those vile fabrications by which the press
is occasionally duped. We cannot, however, in this case
regret the error, as it has elicited from the illustrious Duke
so gratifying an assurance upon a point which must be one
of interest to all.—Times.

[The information upon which the paragraph in
question was founded, was communicated to us by a
party, on whose veracity we place the utmost confi-
dence. He had received it from two informants who
had, as they stated, witnessed the occurrence. We
have made inquiries, and are satisfied there was no
intention to deceive us, but that a mistake as to
identity of the person has occurred. We are much
pleased to find the paragraph unfounded as to the
Noble Duke, in whose long continued health we shal
sincerely rejoice.—ED. Sun.]

COLONEL STODDART and CAPT
CONOLLY.

We regret to have to state, that accounts were yesterday
received at the Foreign-office from St. Petersburg, stating
that the Russian Envoy at Teheran. in a dispatch dated the
15th (27th) of December, had reported to his Government
that the information which he had indirectly obtained from
the Envoy of the Ameer of Bokhara, who had arrived in
Teheran, had only toe surely removed all uncertainty as to
the tragical end of Captain Conolly and Lieutenant-Colonel
Stoddart, for he positively asserted that the first had been
executed for having shown on many occasions great pax-
tiality for the Khan of Kokan, at that time at war with
Bokhara; and the second in consequence of the discovery of
a secret correspondence which he kept up with his country-
men at Caubul, through the channel of Indian merchants
established at Bokhara.

The Russian Envoy adds, that although the truth of these
details can hardly be questioned, an Envoy from the Shah of
Persia, who is about to proceed to Bokhara on a special mis-
sion, will be expressly instructed to collect on the spot the
most precise information as to the details which accompanied
the death of the two English officers.
The Russian Envoy further says, that the agent from
Bokhara, whether from fear or from delicacy, had evaded
Lieut.-Colonel Sheil's attempt to obtain information from him
as to a catastrophe which must painfully shock the British
represent ative.— Times.