The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY. - The Queen and
Prince Albert walked both in the forenoon and
afternoon in the Home Park and Slopes. Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also took
walking exercise.

The lion. Miss Paget arrived at the Castle on
a visit to her Majesty.
The Earl of Jersey and the Right Hon. Sir
Robert Peel took their departure from the Castle
to-day.
Mr. Catlin bad the honour of exhibiting to her
Majesty and Prince Albert his Model of the Falls
of Niagara, and of explaining personally the
character of them, of which her Majesty and Ins
Royal Highness expressed their high approbation.
Her Majesty honoured Mr. Partridge by sit-
ting for her portrait to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured
Mr. Lucas with another sitting to-day, for a full-
length portrait.

Sir John Buchan, Sir Henry Watson, and Sir
Henry Pynn transacted business at the Foreign-
office yesterday, on behalf of the claims of
British officers that served in the Portuguese
army during the Peninsular war.
Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence in
Whitehall-gardens yesterday morning, from a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador,
visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday after-
noon, at the Foreign-office.
The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges,
Queen's Counsel, &c., on Tuesday next, the first
day of Hilary Term, at his Lordship's residence
in George-street. _

Mr. Thornton, the Chairman of the Spanish
arid Portuguese Committee, transacted business
at the Foreign-office yesterday.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.

Neither the accounts from China nor the Revenue
Returns' have had the slightest effect on the Funds.
From the success of the China expedition it might have
been supposed the Funds would have advanced, but there
are rumours respecting an extensive funding of Exche-
quer Bills, which are quite sufficient to keep down prices.
Consols were 89+ to it far the 14th instant, and 808 to
for Money. Exchequer Bills realised 18s. to 20s. prem.
India Stocks advanced to 247.

The Foreign Bonds were inanimate, nor was there any
disposition to speculate in the Railway Market. Great
Western, Brighton, and Birmingham, were about the
same as yesterday. Spanish Bonds were a trifle better,
viz., 251 to 4-. Portuguese not quite so good, the New
being 324.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. s.—The sales of
to-day are 4,000 bales of all kinds. Surats, 4d. ; Egyp-
tians, 7d. ; Pernams, 74d. to Bd. The market closed
steadily.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. s.—The following
are the transactions :—Chester and Crewe, 484- ; Great
Western, New, 601 ; Lancaster and Preston Junction,
271 ; London and Birmingham, 1691 ; New, ditto, 28,-1,- ;
North Union, 774-. •
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. s.—Our mar-
ket is flat, but prices continue firm :—London and South
Western, 59 ; North Midland Halves, 364- ; Manchester
and Birmingham, 284 ; Manchester and Leeds Quarters,
31. 18s. ; Union Plate Glass, 64.
The intelligence brought by the Overland Mail from
China, which will be found in another part of the
Paper, is considered to be of a very favourable nature,.
but up to the present time it has not had the slightest
effect upon the Funds.
Consols are now 89} 4- for money, ex div., and 894
for Account Exchequer Bills aro fiat, at 18 20 prem.
Spanish Active Stock 254 4 ; Passive ; Deferred
124 13 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 324 4; Ditto Three
per Cents., 194 i ex. div.
There has been but little business transacted in the
Stock Exchange, but prices have improved since the
opening. Consols are now 89k 4 ex div., and 89411 for
the Account ; Exchequer Bills 18s. 205.; Bank Stock,
167 f ; India Stock, 247.
Spanish Active Stock has advanced to 251 4-; Colom-
bian Bonds, 2li ; Mexican, 291 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. MI.
Very little doing in Shares. Great Western, New,
are ; London and Brighton, 384 ; Manchester and
Leeds, 70 ; South Eastern and Dover, 214.
The Tea dealers who have been so anxiously antici-
pating the arrival of the Overland Mail, do not seem ex-
actly to have made up their mind as to how to act, or
what to think of the news, and in the meantime the
market is rather dull. Company's Congou has been at
ls. 9d. cash. It requires the perusal of private let-
ters, and the receipt of more detailed information
than that furnished by a Morning Contemporary,
and which after all may be the opinion of one writer
only, to determine the much disputed point., " Shall we
receive the usual supplies of the leaf ?"
Consols, Money, 89k 4 ; ditto Account, 891 4 ; J!rtexi-
car., 294- ; Spanish, 25i }.
CLOSING
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock l6B India Stock - ..247
3 per Ceut Red
3 per Cent Cons B9* .Ditto Old Annuities ...
31 per Cent Red 99a Ditte New Annuities...
New 31 per Cent 9B/ Ex. Bills, 1,000/....24d 20 or
New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001..._ lB pm
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. 18 pn-
Jan. 1860 124 Bank Stock for Acct ...I 68
Oct 1859 l2i India Stock for Acct.... 2461
Jan. 1860. — Consols for Open B9l
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
'Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 per cent —
Ditto, Metallic —
Spanish, 5 per cent 2sa
Ditto, Deferred —
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
i Exchange
French, 3 per cent —f. —c
(Dutch, 21 per cent.—. .. 51
Ditto, 5 per cent. .... 1004
RES.
65 paid)
paid) • ........ • 6Ol
,0 paid) 39
ilway ( Trunk) l2l
70 paid) ...... ... .. 70
10 paid)
,r (-13 paid)... ...... 22

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgisn, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per ma
Chilian, 6 per cent... „ 71
Colombian, 6 per cent..
Ditto, 1824.
Danish, 3 per cent ...
Greek, 1825,5 per cent.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 29i
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et.
SH A
Great Western Railway)
Ditto New Shares (5(
London and Brighton (Z
London and Croydon Ra
Manchester and Leeds (
Northern and Eastern (4
South Eastern and Dove

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
The following were the only bets laid :-
200 to 50 agst Attila and Chatham
625 to 25 agst Barrier and Defier
270 to 10 agst Lord Verulatn's Robert de Gorham
400 to 10 agst Lord Westminster's William deFortibus
400 to 10 agst Lord Westminster's Auckland
1000 to 15 agst Lord Chesterfield's Joanna c—taken

THE OAKS.

35 to 1 agst Col. Westenra's Rapture—taken to 501.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—LIVERPOOL JULY
MEETING, 1842.

FIRST DAY.—Nominations for the Mersey Stakes :
Aquilo, Gaper, Foresail, Agidia f, by the Tulip, out of
Eleanor—Titania c, byVelocipede, out of her Highness—
c, by Bay Middleton, out of Mermaid—Gipsey Queen—
c, by Jerecd, out of Ganymede—Blacklock, Xanthus
Colin Clink, Churton, Winter, Maria Day—brother to
Perseus—c, by Emilius, out of Variation—Philip—c, by
Despot, out of Blue Bell—Delia—brother to Peloponessus
—f, by Physician, out of Y. Sweetpea—Marquese.
SECOND DAY.-Nominations for the Trades' Cup :
Naworth, 5 yrs—Topsail, 3 yrs—Tripoli, 3 yrs—The
Currier, 6 yrs—Mus, aged—Sybarite—Fatalist, 4 yrs--
Dr. Caius, 5 yrs—Bellona, 6 yrs—The Young-'un, 5 yrs
—Phaon, 4 yrs—Prince Caradoc, 4 yrs—Belmont, 4 yrs
—Charles the Twelfth, 6 yrs—The Dean, 6 yrs—St.
Andrew, 5 yrs—Collina, 4 yrs—Una, 4 yrs—Palmyra,
4 yrs—George, aged—Vulcan, 5 yrs—Cruiskeen, aged—
Zelmyre, 5 yrs—Fidhawn, 4 yrs—Disclosure, 4 yrs—
Alice Hawthorn, 4 yrs—Gallipot, 5 yrs—Pagan, 4 yrs—
Brother to Garland, 3 yrs—Fitzgambol, 4 yrs—Sweeper,
3 yrs—Wee Willie, aged—Calypso, 5 yrs—Moss
Trooper, 3 yrs—Mustapha Muley, 4 yrs—f by the
Colonel, out of Galatea, 4 yrs—Falcon, 4 yrs—
St. Lawrence, 4 yrs—Champagne, 5 yrs—Potentia,
4 yrs—Miss Fidget, 8 yrs—Sister to Glencoe, 4 yrs
—Black Beck, 5 yrs—Retriever, 6 yrs—JollyTar, 4 yrs—
The Oneida Chief, 3 yrs—Welfare, 5 yrs—Hyllus, 6 yrs
—Miss Stilton, 4 yrs—Fitzroy, 5 yrs—Satirist, 4 yrs—
Martyr, 3 yrs—Sampson, 6 yrs—The Recorder, 6 yrs—
Middleham, 4 yrs—Heslington, 4 yrs—All Fours, 6 yrs
—Knight of the Whistle, 4 yrs—Marshal Soult, 4 yrs—
Rodanthe, 5 yrs—Black Bess, 4 yrs—Duke of Welling-
ton, 4 yrs—Kingston Robin, 5 yrs—The Ruler, 4 yrs—
Thirsk, 5 yrs—Fieschi, aged—Baronet, 3 yrs—The Lord
Mayor, 6 yrs—c by Vestris, out of Gambia, 3 yrs—Bel-
lingham Lass, 4 yrs—Forester, 4 yrs—Flash, 4 yrs—
Ernest the First, 6 yrs—Cabrera, 3 yrs—Cormorant,
6 yrs—Whistle Binkie, 3 yrs—Bounceaway, 4 yrs—
Studley Royal, 4 yrs—Rory O'More, 6 yrs—Johnny, 5
yrs—Mustapha, 4 yrs—The Potentate, aged—Tammie,
4 yrs—Clinker, 6 yrs—Portrait, 4 yrs—Brother to Har-
purhey, 4 yrs—f by Muley Moloch, out of Zillah, 3 yrs—
Proof Print, 3 yrs—Shadow, 6 yrs—Princess, 3 yrs—
Tubalcain, 6 yrs—Robin, 5 yrs—Moonbeam, 4 yrs—
Marius, 4 yrs. •

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for five days, ending Jan. 1, 1842:
Passengers £5OO 9 9
Merehanitze 3BB 11 2

£BB9 0 11

Darlington, Jan. 5. W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.
N.B. In consequence of an alteration in the period to
which the weekly returns are mad return only
includes five day

The Duchess of Kent has been pleased to di-
rect that a shawl, similar to those lately made for her
Majesty, shall be made for her by the inmates of the
Royal Victoria Asylum for the Blind, Newcastle.--Type
Mercury.

MORNING SUN

OVERLAND MAIL

CHINA AND INDIA.

(From the Times.)
By an Extraordinary Express from Marseilles,
we have received our despatches from China and
India, conveyed to that port by the steamer from
Maltabearing the Overland Mail from India,-the
arrival of which we are thus enabled to antici7,: ;.!
pate.
Our advices are dated from Canton, Oct. 10;
and from Bombay Nov. 30.
The chief intelligence of interest which this
mail has brought to Europe relates to China,:
Burmah, and Cabul. The news from China
reaches to the 10th of October, and brings the
account of the taking of the great Chinese
fortress of Amoy on the 27th of August,
after considerable firing, but without the
loss of a man on the side of the British. Several.
hundred cannons were taken, and some Mania-
rins were so horrified that they killed themselves
within sight of the invaders. In the Proclama-
tion issued by Sir Henry Pottinger, the official
account of the capture is given. The expedi-
tion, having left a force at Koolangsee, a small-
island close to Amoy, proceeded subsequently to :.)1
the northward. The Chinese accounts at Can-
ton
in the beginning of October stated that the
British had in the mouth of September taken
Chusan and Ningpo, and had established it
blockade at the , mouths of the Grand Canal.
But no intelligence of those facts bad reached
Hong-Kong or Macao when the Mor clipper left
the latter port.
From Burmah the news is, that the extraor-.01!
dinary activity of the Calcutta Government had
surprised Tharawaddie; for within almost te-1; I
him an incredibly short space of time a consider-1'
able force appeared ready to resist his contem-
plated attacks on the British possessions. 8,000
men, several vessels of war, and some steamerSl
have proved that the British were not to be takena
unawares. The chances of his beginning a war
are therefore not great, particularly as he is noVf
aware of the British successes in China. The-ii
peaceful return of Tharawaddie to his capital',,
will place at the disposal of the Indian Govern-T-1
went several vessels of war, which in case of 4,
necessity may be sent to reinforce the expedition
in China; There are, it appears, two American
frigates now near China, ill order to protect the.
interests of the United States there.
There has been some fighting between the
Ghilzies, a tribe of hardy mountaineers, who
hold the mastery over the passes leading from
Cabul to Jellalabad and Peshawar. It appears
that a tribute, or blackmail, paid to them for,
liberty to pass through their defiles having been.;
reduced or not paid by Shah Soojah, they stop'
ped the mails coining from Calcutta and through
the Sikh country. There were ordersissued tn.'
clear the passes, and a force under Sir It°'
Bert Sale proceeded from Cabul for the put'
pose. This force encountered considerable ob•
stacles : the mountaineers, being fully acquainted
with the ground, chose such positions as ena'!-•2
bled them with their long matchlocks to d°
great execution among the British. Of the ail.,
cers, three were killed—viz. Captain Wynd;
ham, nth Bengal Native Infantry; Lieutenant
Jenkins, ditto ; and Lieutenant Edward King, °tl
• her ,M.ajesty's 13th Light Infantry. Amon°. 00
ten officers, wounded is Sir Robert Sale. Thy
fighting in the defiles, with an enemy almost 110;;
seen, is much 'commented on. The utility 174
forming an effective Rifle Corps is also urged.,
Sir William. Hay M'Naghten is expected Lt'
arrive in Bombay some time in January, 13I*
the date is not positively known. He is cominc.
as it is said, by the Bolan pass, which throng
the judicious management of the new polities
agent, Major Outram, is now in a fair state of
.1 ;
coming a safe communication, for the concilitej
arrangements adopted by this political agent nrt
highly acceptable to the neighbouring tribes. f.O
In the Sikh districts tranquillity is stated
prevail. Nothing is said of their expeditionl-
-
The steamer M tdagascar has been lost on the
coast of China, and several officers and Lase4f."
have fallen into the power of the Chinese. ,
Tile passengers and crew of the brig Suite";
which was burnt by lightning near the coast oA
.•
Borneo in January last, have arrived at Singr
pore, after sufferings of the severest kind 11011-
the petty rajahs and pirates.
Some travellers, lately arrived from the isla°
in the Pacific, describe the enormities committe
by some captains under British and Arnerietto
colours .as unworthy of the protection of ho,
those civilized countries.
The trials of the Arab revolters on the fronti
er
of the Nizam's country are over. One of thehe
has been executed, and several ordered to v
transported. Tranquillity prevails now in th°Se
districts. e
There are apprehensions of a famine in solo
a,
districts of Bengal, where the rice crop has fall",

AMOY.
We (The Sun), supply the following acccalhe
of Amoy :—Amoy Fort, now in possession of t.,,'"e
British, lies at the back of the town of the s3P-ft
name, about 400 yards from the shore, upon "o.e
eminence of small size. The front of the villi!°o
is composed of a cluster of small houses, behlior
which the principal fort rises. The position .ie
the fort is badly chosen, as several hills aeclibt
in the back ground, much resembling, in beige'
and conformation, that of Primrose Hill, 11.°14
which the Viceroy of the provinces of Chekesbo
and Fokien beheld the cannonading, and to
landing of our troops. A long battery I:4ljge
all along the shore, forming a frootTe6
to the line of houses, and much resetoers
at this point the appearance of A 41.01
from the sea. Immediately opposite the toilig
Amoy is a harbour, and the channel itsel,4
about three-quarters ofa mile in width, separa-po
Amoyfrom the island of Koolangsee,which has i'fir
its battery. The channel is about twelve,,o
thorns in depth, and affords very excellent "e,
chomp on the north part of the town, ittini.
diately facinc, the battery.
:of
Amoy, which is variously called EmotlP ,of
00;
Hiatnen, is situated near the south-east 10
China, annexing the province of Fokieu.'l,lo4
circuit it has a compass of about 15 miles' .05t
the great fort which British prowess hati4os,
taken was resorted to formerly by EurT'lre•
but abandoned when foreign commerce°, with
stricted to Canton. There are to be Metal
in its interior and on the coast SeVe
very large temples, particularly one of greaLe ~e7,4e
lebrity, dedicated to the God Fo, whiststatue, of colossal size, towers to a eo-f
height, and is much frequented by throngs er
vrorshippers. The images of numerous othof
divinities are also seen, together with a host ig
strange allegorical paintings; and incenst
burned perpetually on the altars.
Amoy is the residence of numerous tnerch4sl
who are the owners of more than 300 large junto
and who carry on an extensive commercei.say
only to all the ports of China, but to 1;11 to
also in the Indian Archipelago, and • ott
Japan. It is considered as the tit-
emporium of the Fukkeen province. Not
and
standing the heavy duties levied on expOrts_def
imports, these merchants maintain their t;ey
and baffle the efforts of the Mandarins. • ...I; or
have long looked forward with desire to alleaust
portunity of opening a trade with EuroP qtly
and it is considered that they would grelte
improve upon that of Canton. MoSt.49 ear
Formosa trade, which is extensive, 1,503.0 y ;
ried on by the junks appertaining to f'-utoet
they go to all the western ports of the Po to
and either return loaded with rice, or g° jade
the north of China loaded with sugar. Theeavitss
of Amoy has always been regarded with a icibioo!
eye by the Emperor and authorities o.f.ti
The revenue of the Emperor chiefly artslogn
of
of the payment of transit dues, t he posolilLolo
any ports or points on the sea coast, whici
at all interfere with the inland trade of the ,10
try, has been always most jealously g;:ito fl4.
against. Amoy lies in long. 118. 22. E.,
30. N.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGE.NCE.—CIIIStice
The following mercantile circular contains intelltgre'
from Macao to the Bth of October, being the day` the
vious to that on which the Mor sailed. It menti°safld
loss of the lion. Company's steamer Madagasc6l4'
the captivity of her crew and passengers:— 40'
1,
" MACAO, OCT. t the,
" Since our last circular of the 17th of A° Leh
aspect of affairs here has been marked with sn'7,citbei
uncertainty and anxiety as greatly to have obstrne'Trreo
satisfactory progress of trade, the Chinese being ck 13105
by the apprehension of trouble from buying imports, 110 riO
at very low prices, and importers unwilling to to Sul th.
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