The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-18 00:00:00

S VIARIARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The financial announcement of Sir Robert Peel continues
to be the leading, and, indeed, only subject of interest in the
original columns of the French Journal!. Our Paris Contem-
poraries, generally speaking, continue to bestow praise on
Sir Robert Peel, but some of then profess to consider the situa-
tion of England as very desperate.
The French Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has
published the returns of the grain imported into, and exported
from, France; during the year 1841. The wheat imported
amounted to 126,143 metrical quintals, other grain to 39,284,
and flour to 1,130. The exports in the same year were—
wheat, 344,338 metrical quintals; other grain, 21 1 ,43 4 ; and
flour, 124,886. The imports during the month of January,
1842, were.—wheat, 9,504 metrical quintals; otht r grain, 8,066 ;
1 and flour, 124. The quantities of those articles bonded in the
entrepots on the Ist of February, 1842, were—wheat, 144,851
metrical quintals; other, grain, 18,162; and flour, 9,590.
The Madrid Senate on the 9th instant rejected, by forty
against twenty-seven, the report of the majority of the Com-
mittee recommending that the Cabinet should be authorised,
to continue the proceedings against the venerable Duke de
Castro Terreno, compromised in the October insurrection.
According to the Expectador, a Madrid Ministerial Jourral,
the army of Spain, which at the end cf the war amounted to
220,000 rain, is now reduced to less than 140,000.
Private letters from San Sebastian of the 12th inst. describe
the public feeling throughout the provinces as averse to all in-
surre:ttionary attempt. 4, either in favour of Don Carlos or the
ex-Regent Chris;iiia. The Spanish authorities continued,
nevertheless,- to exercise the stri..test surveilance along the
frontiers, and in Biscay troops were marching from the interior
ti the :oast, to occupy the points which afforde.! facilities for
landing.

PA2IGX9MZ l'ir TARY.

The Peers m ere almost exclusively occupied by Lord
"Brougham's motion on the Income Tax. His Lordship made
a long and eloquent speech in explanation of his views.
The Earl of Ripon objected, not to the resolutions, but to
the mode and time of bringing them forward, and moved the
previous question, which was cal ried without a division, and so
ends Lord Brougharn's exertions for she pi went against the
Income Tax;
Their Lordships adjourned at. Eight o'clock.
In the Commons the Hon. J. K. Howard was ordered to be
taken into the (twody of the Serjcant• at-Arms for not being
present in his place in the House when he was appointed one
of the Select Committee to try the return for Wigan.
Ainon3st the petitions presented was one from the General
Shipping Company against Sir Ro ert Peel's proposedduty oa
coals.

In answer. to Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel said that
he had considered it necessary to reinforce the army in
India, and he should lay on the table a surplementary
estimate.

Mr. Lindsay moved a resolution that the House would, on
April 7th next, resolve itself into a Committee. to consider of
an Address to her Majesty, to compensate the merehants and
others for their losses in sacrificing opium in ChinP, to the ex-
, tent of the sum received from the Chinese Government. Sir
George Staunton, Sir G. Larpent, Lord Palmerston,
and other ,'!embers, supported the motion. Thu Chancellor of
the Exchequer and Sir R. Peel opposed it. Lord J. Russel
while approving of investigation, recommended th Hon. Gen-
tleman not to press the motion to a division. The Minister,
however, dee:thing to give any pledge on the subject, Mr.
Lindsay divided, and the motion was lost by 87 to 37.
The House suLsequently discussed Lord G. Somerset's
motion for a Bid to provide fur the more effectual inspection
of Licensed Houses for the ree,ption of the Insane. Mr.
Waldey and Alr. HaWes wished for delay, but in the end leave
was given to bring in a bill.
Mr. Duncombe's motion for a Committee to inquire into
the administration of relief to the Poor, under Gilbert's Act,
was after souse discussion, negatived by 108 to 41.
The House set till Half-past One o'Ulock.
X—TicetisZ—COICZNZER.CE.
At the half -yearly meeting of the Proprietors of Bank Stock,
held at the Bank of England yesterday, a dividend of 31 per
cent. was declared for the year ending the sth of April. Cl-
culatiuns were made as to the effects of the new income tax
upon the dead annuities and their proceMs, in consequence of
which it was resolved that it was most Indust to tax a termi-
nable annuity the same as a permanent one, and repre-enta-
tions were directed to be forthwith made to .s.ir llo'sert Peel on
the subject.
The colliers' strike at Monmouth, by which the red-ash eOil
trade was at awand, his been abandoned on an amicable agree•
ment with the masters.

The local merchants state that the foreign coal-trade of the
port of Newcastle has trebled since the removal of the export
duty. A meeting held in that town en Tuesday last passed a
resolution, that it the English Government carry their export
duty into operation, it will prove destructive of the Newcastle
trade, without producing any countervailing benefit to the
country. Two deputies have been sent to Lon lon to preuent
the imposition of the duty, and the coal-owners are taking ac-
tive measures against the same.
Measures are in preparation in the City for a requisition to
the Lord Mayor to call a public meeting, in opposition to the
proposed income tax.
7..u2iac 11Y1PR017.7; NIEN TS .
At a meeting of the New Zealand and Australian Company
yesterday in Cornhill, the object of which was the proposed
shortening of the passage from this country to Zealand and
Australia, via Panama, it was shown that by the at option of
this route a saving of ten clear days could be made. The
passage of the isthmus of Panama was however declared to ho
shoally, and in some degree impracticable, and the meeting was
adjourned till the opinion of those who had crossed the isthmus
could be obtained.
NAVAL AND ITILITABY.
The standard for recruits is reduced to five feet fire and a
half inches ; last week, however, such was the difficulty of
procuring them in Dublin, that the bounty had risen to 111.
3E. 3W.ll.zrzy Poz.u.M.
At Bow-street, yesterday, Henry Warboys, a letter-carrier,
was charged with stealing a letter, containing two sovereigns.
It appeared he had been suspected for some time, and an as-
sistant-inspector had put two marked sovereigns into a letter,
which was to be delivered in his district. On being searched, I
the two sovereigns were found in his pccket. He was fully
committed.
Sarah Norton, a well-dressed woman, about fifty years of
age, was charged at the Narylebone police-office, with being
dead drunk in the Hampstead-road last night. In reply to the
Magistrate, she said she " shouldn't have got into trouble at
all, but for the dreadful and most awful earthquake," to escape
from which she, with her aged aunt, had set, off towards High-
gate-hill, but unfortunately lost the use of her limbs, before she
reached the place of safety. Being an old offender, she was
fined five shillings.

riIITZ ARTS.
Among the Levee addresses presented to the Queen on Wed..
nesday last was one in a white satin envelope, embroidered with
silver, and surmounted with a silver wreath of " Forget me not,"
which was much admired.

COURT-FASHXONABLE.
The Duke and Duchess of Leinster have a select party visit-
ing, at Carton, near Nlaynooth, Kildare.
The Marquis of Exeter returns to Burleigh on Monday next.
The Earl of Mayo left town last week for Palmerston House,
Ireland.

The Marquis of Conyngham joined the youthful branches of
his family at Stanes Castle, Ireland, on Monday last.
Lady Neel and family leave Whitehall Gardens on Tuesday
next, for Brighton, where Sir Robert will pass the Parliamen-
tary recess.
The Duke of Devonshire has taken a mansion at Nice for
the summer.

The Duke of Bedford left Belgrave-square yesterday, for
Woburn Abbey.

- MISCELLANEOUS.
The widow Mozart died at :Faltzburg on the Bth instant, in
,he bs'h of her age. '

A woman died—in the Cantal, France, a few days ago, at the
age c f 110 years. During the last thirty years she had never
lain down on a bed, and yet the day before she h sufficient
strength to give a beating with a stick to her eldest daughter,
who is 72 years of age.

MitZOOMS OP THE DAT.
Sir Henry H. Hard.nge is spoken of as the expected com-
mander of the ten thousand troops destined for the seat of war
in Affghanistan.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
QUARTER TO THREE.
Our own funds are still flat, with scarcely any bw.iness, and
consequently quotations must be considered to be littlo more
than nominal. Consuls are 891 895 for Money, and 894 891
for the Account. India Stock, 241. Exchequer bills, 29 to
31 prem.
The Foreign Stocks have been :ntluenced by the sate of the
English Market, and very few bargains have been made to-
day. An evident indisposition on the part of public, to have
de,lings in these Bonds 'generally, must be noticed, and with
satisfaction.
The quotations are all lower ; Portuguese Five per Cents.,
34i to ; the Three per Cents., 20/ i; Spanish, 241 ; Co-
lombian, 25126 ; Venezuela, ; Mexican, 401 41.
Railway Shares have not been in much demand ; prices,
however, remain much the same. Yoi k and North Midland,
94 ; South Western, .594 ; Great Western, 90} 914 ; Eastern
Counties, 10 ; Brighton, 36.
Money is easy at 3 to 4 per cent.
The income tax, and many of the alterations about to be made
in the duties now payable, are still viewed with much dislike in
the City. A requisition for a public meeting on the first sub-
ket is now in course of signature, and assemblies of various
trades likely to he affected by the second, are daily taking
place. Many of there complaints appear to be well-founded,
especially where the duty on the manufactured article is to be
so materially reduced, but we must defer our remarks on these
topics for the present, on account of the great press of matter.
Letters of the date of the 6th Decemer have been rcce
ved
from the Mauritius, but the Indi-n Mail brought much later
intelligence.
PRICES OF. SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILWAY S. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter........
Great Western
to
90i 1}
LOndon amt. Brighton ... .50 ..... 36
Ditto New
London and South Western 3Bl s9i to
Manchester and Birmingham ..• 40
Paris and Rouen l4 ...... 15 -
York and Narth Midland
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 15.-1 hem 'rket was
less buoyant to-diy, and very few sales were effected on any
description of stock ; they, however, comprised, Quarter Shares
London and Birmingham, 36; the 32/. Shares, 58:1 ; Eastern
Neiwrds , 3,292 Pr/ 13 se.
m.;
Manchester and Leeds, 80; North
. 4d. ; South West-rn. 591; Great
Midland, Counters,
'thirds,
Fifths, 10.1 ; Grand Junction, 178; North Union,
73i; Lancaster and Preston. Three Feuris, 141.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 15.—A tolerably
extensive business was done ia Co' ton this day, and the market
remained steady at the last quotations. 50a American were
taken 'on speculation, and 303 by the exporters. The total
sales consisted of 5,900 bales, including 530 Surat at 3i to 4/1.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH I7.—There
has been little business done, but aiifa:r inquiry fix Stock.
London and Smell- Western, 59i ; Manchester and Leeds,
Halves; 351 ; Manchester and :•a!ford Water Works, 52
London and Birmingham, 175 177 ; Manchester and 'firming..
ham, 2,Si