The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-29 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Clech.

AMERICAN NEWS

BY SPECIAL EXPRESS FROi
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING,
HALF-PAST THREE.
The British and North American Royal Mail
steam-ship Columbia, Captain MILLER, arrived
in the River Mersey, this morning, at three
o'clock, after a very rapid passage of ten days
from Halifax. She is the bearer of the Canadian
and United States Mail, but she entered the
river so close upon the departure of the train that
her letters cannot reach London till Friday
morning. Our express only saved the train by a
few minutes.
The news by this arrival is seven days later
than brought by the packet-ship Independence,
and is of considerable importance.
From Canada the accounts of Sir CHARLES
BAGo-r's health are very unsatisfactory. The
Montreal papers state that very serious fears are
entertained respecting the confirmed illness of
his Excellency the Governor-General, lest his
remaining strength should prove insufficient
to enable him to rally under the com-
plaint from which he is now suffering. It
is now stated, on what seems to be
good authority, that his Excellency's medi-
cal attendants entertain but slight hopes of
his recovery ; there is too much reason to be-
lieve that this report is true. It is said that
some days back the physicians in attendance
were of opinion that a removal to a more genial
climate might have a favourable influence on
the Noble invalid, and that such a step was ad-
vised, but that since that time a change for the
worse has taken place, and that at the present
moment his Excellency is in too weak a state to
render his removal possible.
Upon the subject of the State debts, the New
York Journal of Commerce says :—" NVe hope
that those States whose bonds are in dishonour,
will, during the session of their Legislature this
winter, do something to restore their credit and
redeem their obligations. That which is espe-
cially wanted, is a system of revenue. Several
of the States have absolutely no system of reve-
nue, which has any reference to their large
debts. Some of those who are in debt,
have lived so long by borrowing, that
they have hardly revenue enough to pay the
current expenses connected with the administra-
tion of government. Any system which might
now be established in a new State,' would grow
with its growth, and become important. If' the
amount raised were but two per cent. on the
debt now, the same rate of taxation would pro-
duce'six per cent. a few years hence. The desi-
deratum is to do something. It is the establish-
ment of a system of revenue, however small the
results may be at the first. Such a movement
would prove at least that the moral sense of the
people was not altogether bad. This proposition
will determine whether it is so or not; for no
State can say that it cannot do something.
The usually long reports of the War, Post-
office, and Navy departments, have made their
appearance. The same paper remarks upon that
of the Navy and upon that of the Post.office:—
" The Navy proposes, among other things, a
thorough scrutiny into the merits of our naval
officers; and that those of inferior qualifications
be discharged, and placed upon half pay. To
some extent such an expurgation js probably
necessary. It would of course be popu-
lar with the officers of superior merit, as
it would elevate the character of the ser.
vice, and increase the chances of promotion,
It appears that the receipts during the past year
have just about equalled the expenditure. The
number of miles of post-road traversed during
the year is 34,835,991; post-masters, 13,733; re-
ceipts, 4,546,240 dolls.; expenditures, 4,627,716
dolls. The Postmaster-General recommends the
enactment of more eifie;ent laws to prevent the
transportation of mail matter by private expresses
—a reduction in the rates of postage—and
a purchase by Congress of a perpetual right to
have the mails transported upon railroads. The
amount paid last year for mail,transportations on
railroads was 432,568 dolls.; miles of railroad over.
which the mails were transported, 3,091.
" The suggestion in favour ofa reduction in the
rates of postage, we trust, will be acted upon in
the present session. In some parts of the coun-
try, if a farmer raises a bushel of wheat, he can
sell it for 25 cents. If he receives a letter from a
distant friend, lie, must pay the same-25 cents.
We fully believe, that if a reduction of one
quarter was made in the rates of letter postage,
the revenue accruing to that department would
be greater than it now is. The Postmaster-
General complains of a diminution in the amount
of postage collected in the principal cities, and
attributes it to the increasing quantity of mail
matter conveyed-between those points by private
expresses and individuals. Reduce the postage,
and the motive for resorting to such modes of
conveyance would be diminished. In these hard
times, people are inclined to.econornie, even in
the matter of postage. The experiment of penny
postage has succeeded admirably in England ;
if we cannot safely imitate it to the full extent,
we can at least approximate towards it."

The New York and Boston papers, speculate
upon the probable measures which the present
Congress will adopt, upon which the Journal of
Commerce, a paper of great influence and circu-
lation, asserts that they will repeal the Bank.-
rapt law ; Congress will provide for the pay and
mileage of the Members; Congress will not
adopt an Exchequer project; Congress will not
do much with the tariff at this session.
The foreign news which had reached New

York since the Independence left that city is to
the following effect :—The New Orleans papers
contain important intelligence from the " seat
of war." They mention that the Mexican troops,
4,000 in number, were becoming disgusted with
the war, and were deserting in great numbers.
Many of them were joining the Yutacanese, who
were represented as full of spirit and thirsting
for battle.

It seems that an expedition has been fitted out
at Havana to utt against St. Domingo. The
cause is LIS follows :—Some time since the Hay tiens,
contrary to the provisions in the recognition
of their independence by the several Euro-
pean Powers, fitted out a small armed vessel,
which, cruiuing in these seas, put into Porto Rico.
The authorities immediately took possession of
her, and the Haytiens, to retaliate, have fitted
out a corvette and taken sev.eral Spanish mer-
chantmen. On learning these facts, the-Gover-
nor of Cuba immediately ordered all the Spanish
men-of-war in the West Indies to rendezvous at
Porto Rico, and then to act according to orders
and as circumstances may require. The force of
the squadron will be a 50-gun frigate, four brigs
of from 18 to 28 guns, two steamers with 4 car-
ronades and a 68-pound Paixhan each, and seve-
ral schooners. The only force possessed by the

llaytiens is said to be a sloop of war mounting
24 guns.
We learn from Captain GREEN, of the brig
Frances Ann, that the insurrection in the north-

era part of the province of Rio Grande and two
or three of the neighbouring provinces, still con-

inued.

Large bodies of troops bad been sent to Min-
as Geraes, to keep down the rebels.
The Esperanza, published in the Mexican ea-

ital, says, under the date of the 4th ult..--" We

have great satisfaction in announcing to our
readers that all the differences which existed be-

tween the United States and Mexico, have been
definitively arranged.
" It is said Upper California has been ceded
to us. We sincerely hope it is so, for no acqui-
sition of territory which we ever gained, except
Louisiana, is so important to us. Without it the
Oregon territory will be of comparatively small
value. It contains the finest harbour in the
world (San Francisco), in which the whole navy
of England might ride together in safety. Oregott
contains no harbour that is worthy of the name."

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, DEC, 15.
Affairs appear to be working well. Specie is ac-
cumulating and large amounts are known to be on the.:•
way from Europe. There is more spirit for invest,-
ment in State Stocks, and all of them are better, with
more business. Exchanges on the South are getting
into a better • state. Sterling bills are 6a 61 prem.,
and francs 5,42 k a 15 cts. per dollar.
NEW YORK SALE OF STOCKS, DEC. 15.
$5OO New York s's '45
11,000 Ohio 6's, 1860
1,000 Kentucky.,,., ......
1,000 Alabama s's
3,000 City Water Loan .
. 1,000 Illinois ..
5,000 Ohio 6's, 'GO.. •
50 shares North American Trust and
• Banking Company 2l
11 shares American Exc. Bank
5 do. Del. and Hudson Cana1........ 84-1
40 do. Mohawk Railroad
50 do. Harlem R.R......... b6o It;
50 do. Patterson R.R.
18 do. Uttica and Schenectady
11
45 do. Auburn and Rochester, R.R 941
- PHILADELPHIA SALES OF STOCKS.
S 400 Lehigh 6's '45
190 County 6's 1860 731
700 Wilmington R R, 6's, 1858
123 State 6's 1813..
50 Wilmington R R , ..IV
••••• .
40 shares Louisville Bank
~
•••
5 f

-•
7.14.
62
6✓
85+
181
71/

A large agricultural meeting was held at
Blandford, Dorsetshire, on Saturday, which 09
attended by the three Members for the Count)",
Lord ASHLEY, Mr. STURT, and Mr. G. BANf"9I ,
all good Tories, and friends of the farmers. MenY
speeches were made on the occasion,slldistinguish-
ed by that moderation and content which bore
generally prevailed at Tory gatherings, since the
party have obtained their objects, the expulsion
of the Whigs and place and power. Railings
against the • doings at Court have ceased, the
speeches are full of loyalty and devotion
to the Sovereign, and even O'CoNNELL
and the Irish priests escape abuse. The
4 of
late alterations in the Tariff and the Corn-laws,,,' sr
naturally formed topics of discussion, and as the..jloei
opinions of the speakers are entitled to some
,„ asf
weight, it maybe ,
useful to refer to them. Th.! '99
-speeches certainly display a different tone fr°llll,joi
that evinced at some other agricultural meetingSof
held in the adjoining districts, for they all, lead` dl
to the conviction that many of the landlords are
.determined to make every possible resistance to'
further changes. One of the toasts given by Lord 1(
ASHLEY was" Live and let live, and let thellalone!
/10,
and Mr. STURT declared his determination to'
resist to the last. " I believe I may stater said.
he, " that I am uttering the opinion of• all the
landowners and farmers of England,
when T snYt
that we do not require such protection as ina3r'„,
injure the general interests of the nation—that
we do not require any further protection than
such as will prevent us from being crushed by
foreign competition.—(Hear, hear.) In the
situation of this country, and the burthens
we have to bear, we are not able to contend
with unlimited competition ; and while such
is the case, it is our determination, with all out
might—and our might is great—(Cheers)—that
there shall be protection, : that we will have ft'ir
protection.4Cheers.) We wish this to go fiirth,
to the publiC; for —U?e require nothing /411'
justice. 'We ``are' ready to meet our fellow'
country Men upon the merits of the case; we
will submit the question to fair reasoning, but
we are not to be cajoled, or flattered, or frightened
out of protection."—(Tremendous cheering.)
Lord ASHLEY is equally explicit on the course
which will be pursued by Sir ROBERT'PEut next
session. "The Anti-Corn-law League," said his
Lordship, " will neither drive the Ministry, her
will it lead the people ; and, notwithstanding
Earl FORTESCUE'S prognostications, ' I do not 3
think there will be any attempt to introduce , 1,,
further changes during the next session of Par 1
liament,—(Loud cheering.) I.do not apprehend .0
any further changes, and i know that many of
those who voted in favour of the late alterations
did so vote because they considered them
as the settlement of a great question."
Mr. 13ANKEs expresses himself in :similar terms,
and it may therefore be taken for
granted that
if Sir ROBERT PEEL proposes any further altera-
Lions as regards the sliding scale and a fixed dutYl
he will be opposed tooth and nail by the agricul-
turists. " I have no wish," says Mr. BANKES,4.‘ to
overrate the agricultural interest, or to pretend
that it is exclusively entitled to attention over all
the other interests of the State, but I will not
consent to see agriculture undervalued. I will
not consent to see its interests put out of the
place which they are entitled to hold, and,. eve!,
The Minister is thus
have held, since this country became a great an",
a happy nation." place"
between two fires. The mercantile body, the
shipping interest, and the Anti-Corn-law League
call for further concessions, and the landlords
and parsons as loudly call for protection. But
the great question is, whether they are •really
protected by the present law, or, whether it
would not be for their interest, as well as th't
of the tenant, and all the rest of the
community-, that all the absurd restrictions
on trade should. be completely abolished. l'ns-
sibly Sir ROBERT PEEL cannot resist further
change, and, in that case, there will be the saute
feverish excitement and anxiety about the future
which at present injure alike the landed Pro-
prietors, traders, and manufacturers.

Of all those Tory country gentlemen who, btu
a few weeks since, gave pretty broad hints at
public dinners, meetings, &c., of their willingnes
to conform to the altered circumstances of the
times, as respects agricultural matters, and tO,
give, up the doctrine of " protection"—thZi
darling crotchet, which they have so long he'll
with the tenacious grasp of a bull-dog—of all
those Tories who have thus expressed themselves!
there is scarcely one that has not taken fright al
his own novel declaration, and denied that be "a, "13;
spoke but as a farmer's friend should speak----thibf 0.
is to say, in favour of " protection," and against
any further modifications of the Cora-laws*
They have been shamefully misrepresented--is
the ery of one and all—by that satanic instru-
ment of mischief the Public Press ! The Re--
' porters have entered into a sort of fiendish, Ca'
tilinarian conspiracy to misinterpret their every
sentiment; to saddle their speeches with a host
of highly objectionable substantives, adjective‘'
verbs, and adverbs ; and to induce the " Pensive
public" to imagine that they said "Yes," in, refer°
ence to further changes in the Corn-laws, when
in reality they said " No," and said it, ton, ill
the key of a Tower-gun, so that all might hear,
who were not as deaf as a post. Alas for the •
Reporters of the Press, what a painful destiny is
theirs To say nothing of the arduous and re-
sponsible nature of their duties, they are wade
the scape-goat of every public speaker, whe'
from want of consideration, excitement; or the
quickening impulse of the moment, has said
more than he meant to say, and re-
vealed what he would fain have kept
secret from the world. Does some blockhead
in the Douse of -Commons blurt out an,
awkward truth before the fitting season, and
thereby run the chance of damaging his political
interests, the limit pf his precipitation is instantly
laid, with the coolest effrontery, at the Reporter's

door! Does some Tory country-gentleman--
fancying that he sniffs an approaching change in
Ministerial policy—throw out a hint of his readi-
ness to accommodate himself to altered circum
stances, &c., and by such hint alarm all tho:x
with whom it is essential that he should be 0" -
friendly terms, he instantly denies that 1w ever
hinted anything of the sort, but was scandalously',
misrepresented by the Reporter! It may be
safely taken as an axiom—as a rule without an
exception—that no public speaker ever males
fool of himself. It is in variably the Reporter
who " writes him down an ass," and exhibit°
his long ears to the gaze of an admiring publi

Bat when a really eloquent and arguinentltive Let the writers leave off abusing this country,
SPeeelt is made, wherein sound principles are and they will find this calm tone preserved. Ou
texPlained: in chaste and perspicuous language, the very day, however, in which such remarks
hen the'lleporter has nothing at all to do with were made, the Constitutionnel asserts that the
the matter; the merit is exclusively the orator's violent language Used by the English journals
°Wn ;it is only when the speech is bad, that the was to involve France and Spain in war. This is
Poor Repoker is in fault, thoughpossibly his only a most unjust accusation. M. THIERS knows
error may have consisted in giving its dullness little of this country if he can believe for a mo-
411d verbiage verbatim. meat kthat any one party in England would be
pleased by such a result. On the contrary, we
believe all classes would regard it not only as a
calamity to Spain, but to the whole of Europe.
BOURSE—PARIS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27.
-First -• Highest '...owest Last
Price. Price Price. Price.
• French Five per Cents. 119 30... 119 35... 119 30... 119 25
Four per Cents. 101 60... 101 60... Hi! 60... 101 60
Threes .. 78 90... 78 90... 78 80.. 78 85
Rankof France, ex div. 3277 50...3310 ...3277 50...3310
Belgian Bank, 1841 _ 1080 _lOBO ...1080 —.lOBO
Belgian Fives .
1840.. 1048 —. 1041 —. 1043 —. 104 a
'Spanish Active. . 24 ... 24 ... 24 ... 24
Passive
'Neapolitan ...... 106 70... 106 .75... 106 70... 106 75
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, L.B l2O ... 120 ... 115 -_. 115
R. B 290 ... 2.93 75... 290 ... 293 75
Rouen
Orleans. ,
Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 205 ... 203 75... 203 75
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEC. 24
Money.
O.mM Del t, 2% per Cent
JUL°, ditto 5 per cent.
Amsit Svmlic,4s; per cent 9t
Ditto, ditto, 234 percent 17.4 77%
Commercial Company. 4% per cent 129% 30
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 9930 t
Exchange on London, One month IS 20
Two months
Hamburgh, One month l5 87 y 4
Two months 35 653(1
Dutch Papers, Dec. 24.
HAMBURGH BORSENT HALLE, Dec. 23,
Bills. Money.
110

The accounts from Marcelona are to the 21st.
General SEAONE arrived there on the 20th to
replace General VAN HALEN; Senor GUTTIEREZ
had. also been replaced by Senor 'moo, the
Liewly appointed political chief. The munici-
r°litY met with much resistance in raising the
reed tax, but the sum was to be paid up with-
tit further diminution.
t, The news from Madrid is without interest. On
20th. •the Five per Cents. were done at 26
116 I and 27i with 2 prem.,f0r24,000,000 reals.

keen contest is now carried on in France be-
:een two powerful parties respecting the duties
fo' Sugar. The producers of beet-root sugar call
ij more protection, while the merchants and
that
connected with the colonies demand
;at the, manufacture of the home-grown article
t'uld be suppressed altogether. Delegates from
I_llParts of the kingdom where beet-root sugar is
Zduced, have arrived at Paris an 4 delivered to
• Leh -of the Ministers an address pointing out the
• ifstresi to which they are reduced, and calling
81!)°11 the Government for protection. "We
all content ourselves," say they, " with repeat-
-I,llthat, la they present condition of our industry,
hich has arrived at the last stage compatible
)ittil the continued existence of such of us as
b4y divot already fallen, there can be nothing
44 statu quo of the relative positions of e
tllhligenous and colonial sugars, as establishd by
e law.of 1840.; but this stab,: quo must be real
,h
1,71 durable,, with two indispensable correctives,
'. an
,iresease of the surtax upon foreign
Ars, and a marked improvement in the pre-
ti of vexatious system of levying , the duties
41)°4 us.. Without these we must be annihilatA.
4I'Y increase in the amount of these duties
retention
have any other motive than a covert
to destroy us, without giving us
itti
Y indemnity ; it would be a real though dis-
141ated confiscation of the capital embarked in
04manufactories. If the many contending in •
treats involved in this question cannot be recoil-
4ed without our ruin, and if reasons of state
h 4 political considerations; which we are not to
ems, imperiously demand our suppression;
ken, in despair of our cause, and rather than
ell up a hopeless. contest, we shall be ready to
etifiee our establishments for the public good,
oti
he being indemnified. The sugar question must
brought ito a final solution. There must be
wi More palliatives, no more half measures,
killiclixan only lengthen out the sufferings of
• ShOuld the Government and the Chambers,
tolltracy to every principle of equity, determine
Weep us away without indemnifying us, we
4!1., Without any reserve, that it would be less
".11-nit to pronounce against us an immediate
of duty, which would have at least the
merit of a frank proscription, than to have re-
-I)rurse to the derisory attenuating expedient of a
riti?gressive equality of duties, which, under the
lacious pretext of consulting our interests,
tt)(4141 only be an immoral means of exciting us
further disastrous expenditure, and new at-
!aPts to perform impossibilities, and thus lead,
Itliont any just compensation, and by lingering
atitit)ilies, to the same inevitable annihilation of
14! industry?!
,The opposite, party use equally
41°4g language ; and, in., order to settle
lquestion, the
~.Miniaters., intend to.
ollg -in a Sugar. .Bill session, which,
have for its basis the suppression of the
~t4blialiments for house-grown sugar, with an
J'lensuification from the State. According to the
I:4rnal tie.Harrc, this ;decision has been come
by the , Cabinet, with only two dissentient
fttlit"r'lllo4; of Messrs. Vii....LEstaiN and MARTIN
404 1\412'4 .Thus the inhabitants of • France will
taxed to pay the indemnity, and also have to
Y 'L higher duty on foreign sugar, which will
obtain. a monopoly in the market.
v4,hlie follotving article, respecting the marriage
the, Princess CLEMENTINE, appears in the
•
Deno marriage of the Princess Clementine of Or-
-I),'
,as with Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg Cohari,
cithe-r of the Duchess of Nemouri, and of the hus-
iii4 Donna Maria of Portugal, has been for some
1:e decided on. Prince Augustus was horn on June
101 18.18; •and is a Major in the Austrian service in the
1)1 Regiment of Hussars, called the King of Pres-
-;:l'he Prince is a few months younger..than the
th;-4'eess Clementine. The family arrangements on
Qt.B Subject are now terminated. A desire had been
Pressoi on the part of the Orleans family, that the
inw,lY-inarried couple should take up their residence
4 Austria, and- •an application was made to Prince
tetternich, to know on what footing the husband of
(le Princess Clementine would be received at the
ti`-'4llrt of. Vienna. The answer was, Princess Clemen-
i4 would be received as a Princess of the Royal
of the Bourbons. As to Prince Augustus of Cos
the Austrian Court said it did not recognise in ,
any right to assume the title of Royal Highness,
which the House of Coburg was at present mak-
application to two great Cabinets of the Con-
These applications are supported by the
11.,'4110f England. Prince Metternich also replied
rat Prince Augustus of Coburg being, like his father,
4,-,!'lee Ferdinand, a subject of Austria, and in the
kviee of that Power no derogation from the eus-
14,111aiy • etiquette and' precedence could be granted
('": -In consequence of this declaration, it has hem
4:, ;(led that Prince Atgustus will reside in France,
it, has been even .added that he will quit the
O4triar service, and enter that of France. Some
Leulties are. offered on ti head, in consequence
k'os being an Austrian subject. The marriage is to
title place next year, but the period is not as yet de-
etily fixed.
% 4 he- same journal, in reference to misunder-
lttandings between Queen CITRISTINA and the
e,_geut of SPAIN, says,—
would appear from information derived from a
()d source, that Queen Christina has regularly kept,
I,i),
'lec-her arrival in Spain, a journal, in which she has
11,4,1',1ied down each day, the principal events of her
tiLtical life. It appears also that Espartero, short
back, applied for certain papers concerning the
°C) ardianship and civil list. of Queen Isabella, which
I,t4ecn Christina had brought with her to France.
tr-Partero demanded them as being of a nature to be
'-'4eed in the archives of Madrid. The ex-Re-
"t replied, that she should keep those documents,
11(1 that; on the majority of her daughter, whose legal
Warilian she considered herself to be, they should be
114eed before Isabella. Queen Christina has also
tCwn-np a paper, in whiseh she defends herself from
tSeri Nireach addressed to her by the English and
JournalS, of having brought away with her
the diamOndS of the Crown. This doeuthent has, it is
S'a'il, bee. ti to the Corps Diplomatique.
The Debats' thus points out with satisfaction
the difficulties in which the REGENT will be
'aced in keeping up an army in Catalonia
number of' troops put in movement by the
4'lnair of- Barcelona may be estimated at from 25 to
4"'°oo. The largest portion m ill occupy Catalonia
.t,?(-1 its capital ; another part will be garrisoned on
t" east of Arragon, and on the Tortosa and Lerida
; and a third in the neighbourhood of Tarra-
raaa and the frontiers of Valentia.' It is said that 70
ttalions and 10 squadrons, forming, with the artil-
an army of 40,000 men, are assembled ; but this
have
to be designedly exaggerated. The battalions
h_ave not more than 350 men under arms. No regi-
ent has the full war complement, except three or
i'tur4avourite ones, which serve as Royal Guards to the
'gent, and which lie takes with him everywhere, as,
f
instance, his Luchana Chasseurs. The expenses
of this army already amount to a million and a half
"' francs a month. The Regent has granted an allow-
ance of 25f. for each officer and 51. for each soldier,
,
'a addition to their pay. This allowance is paid,
Utit The usual pay remains two or three months
tji arrear. Before the capitulation of Barcelona,
troops lived only on forced contributions re-
T'ired from the inhabitants. Even the officers would
4 have anything to eat were it not for the army
rations that were distributed to all indiscriminately.
r-
,,s the troops are now to be paid regularly, the army
:6111; in fact the only guarantee of order in Spain,
iv," as., besides, the expense is much greater now
at they are. placed on a war-footing, the whole
amount will not reach less 'than two millions and a
'`'4lteach month. The Minister of Finance feels the
g're'atest difficulty in satisfying all the calls on him.
i e'sees the loan, which is not yet effected, in a fair
1;1Y 'of being eaten up, and ho grieves to behold the
Isent, intent on his military ideas, increasing the
embarrassments a the Treasury.
MnSt of the journals express satisfaction on
fit 4-
l-111g-what they call a more calm tone in the
'-diglish journals respecting the Barcelona affair,
4411 d appear inclined to follow the example.

Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1640
Anglo.ltussian Loan 116% lON
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate IO2X
Inscription, Ist series lO3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series "
.
• Ditto In Certificates DS --.
New 4 per Cent. (1840) :b7l4 5,7-
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Bonds —
New Tickets —
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 8214 82
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURGII, Dec. 23-13 8%, Two months 13 714.
PETERSBURG, Dec 13.—Three months, 37% pence.
RIGA, DEC. 15. —Three Months, 37A,.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 16.—Seventy-five days, 12 20.
CH RISTIA NIA, Dec 7.—Three months, 4 66.
VIENNA. Dec. 13.—Three months, 9. 49%,
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—ReitLiN,IDec. 23.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent.
Prussian English Bonds, 1830, t per cent "1. 2% 124
Exchange on London - 6 24%
Prussian State Gazette, Dec. 24.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO TIMES.

The cOttOn-Market .afr;LiiierpOOl, was animated
again yesterday, and the sales were . extensive,
amounting 8,000 baleit at full quotations.—ln Rail 7
way Shares Brighton were in demand, but others
not so good. Birmingham and Gloucester Scrip
realised 13 ;' Great Western, 90 ; Birmingham, 189 ;
Brighton, 36i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 20 ;
Paris and Rouen, 2C ; and South Eastern, 18.
There are no arrivals to-day from any quarter, ex-
cept by the usual continental mails.

The Belgian budget has been adopted in its en-
tirety by the Chambers, there having been only one
lissent►ent voice.
Accounts from the Havannah, indirect, state that
the Government had' sent vessels, well armed, to clear
lie neighbouring seas of the numerous pirates that
[nfested it.

The Public Securities have been very firm to-clay,
and an advance has taken place in the value of Con-
sols, which have touched 931 to 94. The very
different tone of the French journals, and the
, detni-official explanations given this morning
through the columns of a Morning Contem-
porary, of all the charges brought against
the rend) Consul, has helped to strengthen our Stock
market. Exchequer Bills have also risen, the price
having got up to 535. and 59i. preinium ; East India
Bonds have realised 495. to 50s. preniiiim. The Re-
duced Three-and-a-Ihlf per Cents. have improved to
1011 and 1014, and the Three per Cent. Annuities
have been advanced to 941 and 941. The. Canada
Guaranteed Debt has advanced to 14 premium.
In the Foreign house there has been less doing.
The rise of the last two days in the Spanish securities
has, as we anticipated, brought forward 'sellers, and
Actives are-not quoted higher than 18i tolBl,-.4while
the Three per Cents. bringl24l to 241. Portuguese,
Converted Bonds touched: 34 to' and a pamphlet
that has just appeared, translated from. the Dutch,
and recommending investments in this security, hits
led some credulous people to. risk their 'money,
taking the cha'pter of accidents. Mexican Stock has-
been at an improvement to 3l and 31;1 ; Buenos
Ayres Bonds are 26 ; and Peruvian, 19-1 ; the Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been at 52i ; and-
the Five per Cents. at 1001 to 104.
In the Share Market the transactions have been
very limited. Brighton are 131 diS.; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 2 dis. ; Northern and Eastern, 10 dis.;
Paris and Rouen, 4 to -4-1- prem.; and South Eastern,
271 dis:_

- PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per share.
Bristol and Exeter 7O ..... 49 ...... to 4Si
Edinlourgh and Glasgow 5O 4O
London and lirighton
London and South Western ... 41'4 . . 62i to
Northern and Eastern
North Midland

Paris and Roue■ ... .... . ...... 20 ...... 24a to
South Eastern anti Dover
Ditto Scrip
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Three per Cent.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 27.
Three per Cent. Consols...
Ditto, New, 1830....
Bank Stock .. ... 17.45 i
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 28.—We
have had agood inquiry for the Railway Shares, and a fair
business would have been done if the markets had not
been so byre of stock :—Manchester and Birmingham,
20 ; Iludilersfie'd Canal, 10i; South Eastern Scrip,
] 7' to 17i; 111idland Counties Fifths, Gs. to Bs. prem. ;
Newcastle and Darlington Junction, 41 to 4i.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Tra leturns for the week ending Dec. 24, 11842 :
Passengers
Merchandise 5lO 0 2

.£1,332 7 8

Corresponding week last year ...X1,200 0 9
Darlington, Dec. 28. W. O'BRIEN. Secretary.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY)

LONDON, DEC. 29.—Wind this day at noon, Wes-
terly, light breeze and hazy.
• DEAL, DEC. 28.—Wind N.W. moderate.—Arrd.
Elizabeth, Jamaica. Arrd. from the River, Diamond,
Colombia River ' • Lotus, Barbadoes ; Medora, Ha-
vannah ; Huron, New Orleans. Sld. most of the out-
ward bound. The Ludlow has proceeded for the
River in tow of a steamer.
JERSEY, DEc. 26.—Arrd. Fanny, Newfoundland.
. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 28.—Wind N.W. to N .N.W.
-Sid. her Majesty's ship Cambridge.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 28.—Wind light breezes.

YARMOUTH., DEC. 28.—The John 'and Elizabeth,

Erskine, from Montrose to London, which was ashore
on the Corton Sand, has been assisted off and into the
harbour, leaky.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 28.—Arrd. Sophia and Elizabeth,
Al ton a for L aguayra.

LowEsTorr, DEC. 28.—The Neptune, Young, from
Lynn, got in contact in the roads with a ship from
Glasgow, and has received considerable damage, and
must discharge to repair.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. '2B.—Arrd. Assam, M'Alpine,
Calcutta, left St. Helena 11th ult. ; Ellen Preble,
New Orleans, left the bar 28th ult. The Amazon,
from Calcutta, had been hove down at St. Helena,
had her leaks stopped, and was reloading 11th ult.
SCARBOROUGH DEC. 28.—Arrd. Jean Hastie,
Spark, Miramichi.
HuLL, DEC. 27.—Sid. George Delius, St. Thomas.
BRISTOL, DEC. 28.—Arrd. Thomas ltinsford, Her-
bert, Miramichi.

CAPT. GROVES' FLOATING BREAKWATER.
DOVER, DEC. 28.—The breakwater is moored in
34 fathoms at low water in Hay Cliff or West Bay,
with the following bearings by compass :
" South .East by North ;-Flag Staff on South Pier,
E. by N. N. ; Flag Staff on Archeliff Fort, N.E.
E.; Shakspeare's Cliff, W .N.W

Burru.—At Coombe Abbey, on the 24th inst.,.
he Countess of Craven, of a daughter.
DEATH OF SIR ALEXANDER CROKE.—The above

learned gentleman expired at his seat, Studley Priory,
in Oxfordshire, on Tuesday last, at the advanced age
of eighty-four years. He was called to the bar in
1786, and was for many pars Judge of the Vice-
Admiralty Court in Nova Scotia; on his retirement,
in 1816, from that judicial appointment, he received-
the honour of knighthood, In 1823 he was elected a
bencher of the Inner Temple, and in 1829 was ap-
pointed- Treasurer of that honourable Society.
Lord William Fitzgerald, youngest son but one of
the Duke of • Leinster,
was incautiously handling a
loaded fowling-piece on Christmas-eve, at Carlton,
Ireland, when it exploded, and inflicted such injuries
on one of his Lordship's hands, that amputation of the
middle finger was deemed necessary. The operation
was skilfully performed on the following day by Sur-
geon Adams, of Gardiner-place, and the Noble patient
is now doing well.

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FOREIGN.

Great commercial distress is felt at-Paris at present.
In the course of last year there had been a great di-
minution of the exports, which iis mainly attributed
to the financial crisis in the United States, and to
the elevation of the American tariff, which has had
the effect of restraining the commercial intercourse
between France and-North America.
The ]French Cabinet, it is said, have agreed to a
plan !Or suppressing the manufacture of beet-root
sugar in France, and granting a compensation to the
manufacturers.

The Council-General of the Bank of France had
fixed at 72 per share the dividend of the last six months
of 1842.
The subscription opened for erecting a bronze
statue of the Duke of Orleans on the Royal-square of
Algiers amounted on the 15th to 42,219 f.
A crowd of people from Lampurdan, with the Al-
cable of Figueiras at their head, have sought an asylum
in France. M. Manuel Carsy, the President of the
insurgent Junta, had arrived at Marseilles, where he
was preparing for the press an account of the insur-
rection of Barcelona.

Two aides de-camp and the physician of the Re-
gent of Spain were sent by him on the 19th to visit
the wounded lying in the military hospital of Barce-
lona. They presented, in the name of the Regent,
two dollars to each soldier, three to the sergeants, and
a month's pay to each officer.
A soldier, belonging to the provincial regiment of
Barcelona, convicted of having stolen a pair of ear-
rings, valued at" 20 dollars, and four dollars in silver,
in a house where he was billetted, was sentenced to
death, and executed on the 20th.

The following appears in the Courrier de Genere
of the 24th instant :—".lt is pretty publicly declared
that a conspiracy has been formed against the State,
and that the insurgents intend acting by night and by
surprise ; they intend, as is declared, :to arrest the
members of the Government, to seize on the Ilotel de
Ville and the gates of the town, to form a provisional
government, and to act afterwards as may seem fit."
The- hundredth anniversary of the birthday of
Prince Blucher was celebrated at Dusseldorf, on the
15th instant, by a brilliant entertainment, at which
not only many comrades of the deceased veteran, but
nearly all the officers of the garrison, were present.
In almost every large city in Prussia, the day appears
to have been celebrated in a similar manner.
The earlsruhe Gazette states that, notwithstanding
the reports to the contrary, the neg6tiations for a
commercial union between France and Belgium were
still continued, and the French Government, in order
to obviate the -objections made by the European
Powers, bad proposed that the existing French tariff
should-be maintained for some
years to come, that the
same tariff should be adopted by Belgium, and that
the'liroteetion of the frontiers should. be
.confided to
Belgian Custom-house officers.