The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-11 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Captain—G. B. Martin, C. 8., to the Eagle.
Commander—William Crispin, to the Victoria and
Albert yacht.

Lieutenants—John Daly and George Hancock, to the
Eagle ; H. W. Hire, from the Snake, to the Bonetta,
vice Lowcay, dismissed that ship ; A. Barrow (addi-
tional), to the Snake, vice Hire ; J. W. Robert (addi-
tional), to the Snake, vice Franklin, dismissed the ser-
vice; G. Pyne (additional), from the Formidable, to the
Warspite ; W. Robson, to command the Nautilus, vice
Tringham, promoted.
Purser—John Thomson (b) to the Eagle ; V. A.
Haile, to the Accountant-General's Department, at
Somerset house.

Master—Angelo L. Vanzetti, to the Eagle.
Mate—Mr. James King, to the troop-ship Apollo.
Assistant-Surgeon—Andrew Moffat, to the Eagle ;
Robert Willcox, to the Volcano ; Dr. David Lyall, and
J. A. Miller, to the Formidable ; G. Yeo and Dr.
Coulter, to the Penelope; John Forbes, James Croninn,
G. Simpson, and J. Wade, to Victory ; D. Durgan and
J..Collings, to the Agincourt.

Royal Marines—Captain Appleton and Lieut. Driver,
to the Eagle.

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 9.—The England packet-ship,
Captain Bartlett, reached the Mersey this evening,
with dates from New York to the 16th ult., one day in
advance of the last steamer. There is nothing in the
papers of much interest.

The elections were proceeding vigorously, and
the journals are almost exclusively occupied with
these contests. The Whigs in Pennsylvania claim a
victory of 4,000.

A speech delivered at Boston, by Mr. John
Quincy Adams, against the project of an annexing
Texas to the United States, had caused some atten-
tion. Nothing later from that country relative to the
election of Mr. Anson Jones, the new President, had
been received.

The Canadian papers are also mainly filled with
electioneering news, but there is little to be gleaned
from them relative to the general issue.

LATEST COMMERCIAL NEWS.

NEW YORK, OCT. 15.—The operations at the Stock
Exchange this morning were to moderate extent. State
Stocks were firm. United State Sixes sold at 17 per
cent. premium ; Pennsylvania Fives advanced I, ; Far-
mers' Loan, ; and Norwich and Worcester Railroad,
; Mohawk Railroad declined I, and Long Island Rail-
road per cent. At the Public Stock Exchange, Far-
mers' Loan improved per cent., and Norwich and Wor-
cester Railroad, ; Long Island Railroad declined I,
and Canton Company 1 per cent.
The Stock Market has been remarkably active
during the last three weeks, and prices of all descrip-
tions have improved.
Ohio State Stocks have advanced considerably, and
are now in very active demand for permanent invest-
ment. The elections in that state having secured a
Whig majority in the Legislature, we do not doubt that
their stocks will still further advance, and become
favourite objects of investment. The probability of the
passage of a new banking law will undoubtedly increase
the demand for these stocks, and in a short time place
them in permanent hands.
There is a fair demand for specie. The packets of
the 16th instant will take out about $300,000.

The Bank of New York has this day declared a semi-
annual dividend of 4 per cent. payable on the Ist of
November.

FOREIGN EXCHANGES.— London is at 110 ; Paris,
5.211 ; Amsterdam, 404; Hamburgh, 35i; Bremen, 79}
to 79k.
SPEClE.—American Gold is at par to f prem.; Sove-
reigns, 4.83 to 4.85 ; Napoleons, 3.83 to 3.85 ; Spanish
Doubloons, $16.20 to $16.30; Patriot Doubloons, $15.85
to $16.00 ; Spanish Dollars, 4 to 5 per cent. prem.;
Carolus Dollars, 7 to 8 per cent. prem.; Mexican Dollars,
If to li; Five Franc Pieces, 94f to 94g.

THB ALERT, 10, COMMANDER BOSANQUET.—Pri-
vate letters have been received from this ship, which
give a perfect refutatiok to the statement that has been
published by an American shipper, whose ship was
boarded and searched by an officer and boat's crew of
the Alert. It appears that the vessel in question was
supposed, and not without reason, to be engaged in the
slave-trade, and that the search was conducted through-
out in the most becoming and proper spirit, and with the
utmost: forbearance, notwithstanding the obstructions
offered by the skipper of the supposed slaver.—Northern
Whig.
CONDITION Or THE IRISH POOR.—The condition
of the great body of the people is deplorable in the ex-
treme. It is computed that there is, on an average, at
least 2,000,000 of open acknowledged paupers--persons
who live all the year round in a state of the most extreme
poverty. There are myriads more of the peasantry who
are not one whit better off, and yet are not professed
mendicants. When there has been a failure of the po-
tato crop, the two millions of avowed beggars are usually
swelled to half a million more. How the very lowest
class of the Irish peasantry continue to live at all, is the
subject of amazement, not only to all those strangers
who visit Ireland, but to such of their own countrymen
as are in better circumstances. Their cabins are unfit
places for the beasts of the field to live in. They have
rarely anything in the shape of windows in the mud
huts, which they call their cabins. Glass is wholly un-
known to them : so that if there be any perforation in
the wall, it only answers the purpose of letting out the
smoke; for they have no chimneys by which they can
escape. I need not add, that a hole which will let out
the smoke must needs let in the wind and the rain. The
door is a great thing in an Irish cabin. It answers the
double purpose of a window and chimney • and there is
often a regular contest between the smoke in seeking
egress from the cabin, and the light in seeking ingress
into it.—lmpressions of Ireland and the Irish.

FORGED. NOTES AND BASE COIN.- .Within the last
few days, the tradesmen of Stockton, and others more or
less interested in the monetary:world in that town, having
been informed that a consideral4 number of base 5/. notes,
sovereigns,half-sovereigns, half-crowns, shillings, and six-
pences, were in circulation, a kind of a panic took place,
which ended in the capture of several suspicious cha-
racters. Some respectable persons are implicated, and
several have been already apprehended, while the police
are on the alert for others, nho are supposed to be the
principals in this nefarious transaction. Many of the
notes, as well as the counterfeits in gold and silver, have,
it is generally supposed, found their way into circulation
at the late fairs in the north of England. Plates of
copper, steel, &c., with moulds of various kinds being
every day brought to light, it would be premature to say
any more on the subject at present, as from this simple
notice the public will be on their guard. In addition to
the above, minor robberies and depredations of almost
every kind are daily taking place, and are evidently most
alarmingly on the increase.—Newcastle Advertiser.