The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-24 00:00:00

INSURREC

ARGELONA.

roeffisueeltrsofotfhe the Chamber were proceeded with. The
ballot has given a complete and almost
The following telegraphic dispatch appeared undisputed victory to the "Coalitionists :"—M. ()lo-
in the Moniteur Parisien of Tuesday night zago, President, 82 votes ; M. Cortina, first Vice-
" PERPIGNAN, Nov. 19. President, 80 votes ;M. Cantero, second Vice-Presi-
-168
" A courier, who left Barcelona the day before dent, 75 votes ; M. Caballero, third Vice-President,
u
votes ; M. Domenich f rth Vice-President, 65
yesterday, has just arrived. The diligence of
votes; and the following, Secretaries, in the order of
o
Barcelona had not reached Figuteras. The eva-
their names, iiv
Galvez, Canero, Mate, Paz Garcia,
cuation of Barcelona by the troops is confirmed.; and Garnica. Forty-four votes was the highest num-
, " The General Zavala is in the hands of the ber which any of-the higher candidates obtained.
insurgents. They speak of three officers and 500 There can be little doubt, therefore, of the character
men having been killed. of the Chamber for the rest of the session. The Presi-
dents and Secretaries all belong to the Coalition, which
"
popular Junta has been. installed. It is
overthrew the late, and always declared the present
composed of men but little known. The Presi- Govern As a
Government as unparliamentarily 'appointed.
dent is Don Juan Manual Corsy. It has -pub- metier of course, it is to be expected that now, hay-
fished a proclamation, which recommends to the I ing the power, they will act on their principles. If
workmen Union and Constancy, and does not. I so, there is but one of two paths for the Regent to'
lve the Chambers,
say one word of the Queen, Esparturo, Don pursue—either to select a Ministry from the Presi-
Carlos, or of the aim of the insurrection.
dents and Secretaries elected to-day, or to dis-
c Montjuic, occupied by the troops, fires upon 'so and appeal to the country.
In either case the difficulties, if not dangers,
the town continually. The citadel is in the to the country may be great. •As to a em-
power of the rioters. promise and a modified Cabinet, that is barely pos-
" They write on the 17th from Valentia that I sible ; but in such case, little for the benefit of Spain
troops had been sent for the Mesestrarz." may be expected. The Senate also held a session to-
" BARCELONA, Nov. 17. day. The proceedings, however, were unimportant.
" The troops were engaged in the streets on A resolution of the Chamber was read to the effect
the 15th, at eight o'clock in the morning. After
that the President gives notice to all members who
-
did not present themselves in fifteen days to resign;
three hours fighting and a loss .of 500 men killed
and that, in the event of not appearing in the Chem-
and wounded, the Captain-Gemeral, seeing that ber in two months after, they would be considered as
the windows and terraces of th.e houses were oc- having vacated their places. It was then agreed that
copied in all the city, by tne armed National the ,hour of meeting each day should be at twelve
Guard, retired into the cited el with his staff and o'clock, and the session broke up. Brigadier Lavinia
two regiments. The other regiment and the
contradicts, in a letter to the Castellano, of this even-
Artillery have gone to Artarrazanas. The re-
ing, the
mainder of the day «as statementem to
published in all the journals here,
ployed in makin pre-
g
of the troops of the garrison, &c., having been under
arms on Saturday night last. The contradiction is
parations on one side and the other. being explained by the fact of the troops of the gar-
"On the 16th there was a fixing both of mus- rison and the National Guard having been under
ketry and cannon a great part of the day. All orders to be in readiness if required, and not under
the streets were barricaded. The garrison of the arms as stated. That precautions were taken on the
citadel was without provisions. The citadel occasion is universally admitted.
threw shells into the town .during the night. This being a holiday there was no I3ourse.
This morning before day the troops evacuated
the citadel and went out of the town, leaving the
place in the possession of the insurgent militia,
of which the number was increased by the militia
of the neighbouring towns and villages. The
fort of Montjuie had likewise thrown shells into
the quarters of the municipality.
" A Junta has been formed, and it signed a
capitulation with the regiment of Guadalaxara
which had remained shut up in the building of
the University. The General commanding the
military force had asked of the Junta what the
intentions of the people were, and lie proposed
to come to an understanding, for the purpose of
avoiding greater disasters, and stop the destruc-
tion of the.city. The overtures thus made suc-
ceeded. They are negotiating at present.
" No inhabitant had been menaced in person
or property. All the French inhabitants had
been respected, and the Consul had received as-
surance that lie had nothing to fear.

HONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The mystery which prevailed yesterday
concerning Mexican stock is not yet cleired up to the
satisfaction of the parties concerned. The agents bad,
it appears, from time to time been asked so many
questions as to the amount of stock"that they declined
answering any more ; and the last inquirer having
failed in taining the answer he desired, he made the
question an affair of the Stock Exchange Committee,
who wrote to Messrs. Lizardi, requesting to know the
amount of Mexican stock which they had issued. The
reply of the agents was sent to-day, and was to the
effect, that they knew of no precedent for an agent of
a foreign Government answering such inquiries with-
out the authority of the Government which he repre-
sented. They added, moreover, that the conversion
being yet incomplete, an answer could not as yet be
given as to the amount of stock issued, but that when
it was finished they had no doubt the Mexican Go-
vernment would authorise its publication. -
The Committee of the Stock Exchange, under these
circumstances, intend to push their inquiries further.
The public securities maintain their former buoy-
ancy. India Stock has advanced to 2q4 to 266, and
Bank-Stock is 170 to 172. Consuls for Money and
the Account closed 94- sellers. In the arrangement
of the settlement, which to-day occupied principally
the attraction of the brokers, every facility was ob-
tained in the abundance and eepness of money. The
improvement in the value of Stock is taken at about
1/ per cent. on Consols, and a rather greater rise on
the Reduced Securities, during the period the present
Account has TIM '

"The Royal brig, le Meleager, had given an
asylum to several Spanish refugees. The Com-
mander had received on board the family of the
Captain-General. It is thought that the move-
ment, the object of which is not yet known, will
spread to all Catalonia, at Saragossa and Valentia.

The members of the Junta say that there is no
conspiracy, and that the people had sponta-
neously taken up arms to defend their rights,
attacked by the imprisonment of the editor of
the journal called the Republican°, and by the
orders given by the Government to submit to the
military enlistment.
" The provincial deputation had been called
by the Junta to take measures of order and secu-
rity from the very commencement of the revolt.
The seven constitutional Alcades had taken re-
fuge on board the Meleager.
" The surrender of the Artarrazanas has taken
place, and the following proclamation to the in-
habitants of Barcelona was published by the poli-
tical chief on the 14th, in the evening, on the sub-
ject of the troubles :
" PROCLAMATION PUBLISHED BY THE
POLITICAL CHIEF.

" BARCELONA.—Yesterday night public order was
disturbed in this beautiful and populous capital by
some seditious and evil-intentioned persons, in con-
travention of the laws, and the tranquillity of the popu-
lation. They began the distUrbanee by insulting the
guard at the Port del Angel. According to the in-
formation that I have received from the General in
command of the place, the groups formed around this
post having been dispersed, others collected before the
Casas Consistoriales, some among them being armed
with muskets. The brave guard of the National
Militia kept them in check. Warned of what was
going. on by the Governor-General, I marched imme-
diately with a strong escort to reinforce this point.
At the entrance of the Place St. Jayme,l was insulted
by some groups who had assembled there, and who
endeavoured by their cries to prevail on the guard not
to receive me. But as soon as I had given orders to
the troops to charge them, they dispersed and aban-
doned the place. Immediately afterwards the Con-
stitutional Ayuntamiento assembled. lts patriotism
and love of legal order are well known ; and, in con-
junction, with me, it deliberated on what was to
be done. _

" Some National Guards, who had been either se-
duced from their duty, or were of the number of those
who dishonour their unifortn and sully the arms which
their country has given for the defence and the main-
tenance of public tranquillity, assembling together
without any orders from the authorities, proceeded lo
the quarters of the third battalion ; there were among
them an officer and several National Guards armed
with muskets belonging to other battalions. 'This
force dispersed of its own accord, as soon as it knew
that the authorities were taking means to reduce
them to submission ; notwithstanding some of them
who there was reason to believe had been the pro-
moters and the chief of the insurrection, were arrested
in the office of the Republicano. At six o'clock in the
morning I retired to my own house, having dismissed
the troops to their quarters, with the satisfaction of
having restored public tranquillity, to the re-establish-
ment of which the authorities and all the corps of the
army and militia effectively contributed. The militia
not only contributed to support the authorities when
its aid was called for by them, but the great majority
of the National Guards, despising the appeals of the
insurgents, remained quietly in their houses, disposed
not to take arms but when they should be called upon
to do so by legitimate authority; and I took that oc-
casion to thank these good citizens in the name of
their country.
" Unfortunately, the public peace has been again
disturbed to-day. Groups assembled before the Casas
Consistoriales, demanding satisfaction for my conduct,
and the release from prison of these whom I had caused
to be arrested. Five young men separated themselves
from the rest, forced a constitutional regidor to ac-
company them, and came as a deputation to me, in
the name of those wretches who call themselves the
people ; unfortunately for them they found that I had
firmness enough pot to accede to their criminal de-
mand, but to have them arrested and delivered over
to the judgment of the tribunals. In consequence of
these facts, and public order continuing to be threat-
ened, making use of the powers which the law invests
me for its maintenance, I ordain and command :
" Article 1. Every meeting of an armed force of
the National Guards is forbidden, unless it be con-
voked by the local authority, under the orders of
which it 15 placed conformably to the laws.
" Art. 2. That the officers of the said guard are per.
sonally responsible if they call- together any armed
force, except under the orders of the said local au-
thority.
" Art. 3. Every armed body, not forming a part
of the permanent army or the National Guard, con-
voked by the proper authority as above mentioned,
shall be arrested and retained in the quarters of the
Artarrazanas until I shall have been informed thereof.
" Art. 4.,The assembling of more than ten persons in
the squares and istreets of the 'town is forbidden. If,
after being three times summoned to do so, they do
not separate and withdraw, the patroles, or any other
armed body which may be employed in the main-
tenance of public order shall disperse them by force
of arms, arrest all those whom they may be able to
lay hold of, and conduct them to the quarters of the
Artarrazanas, that they may be afterwards delivered
over to the tribunals, and tried conformably to the
laws, and particularly to law 5, title,2, book 12 of the
Novissima Recapilacion.
' " Art. 5. Conformably to the said law, the orders
above cited shall be in force immediately after the pub-
lication of the present proclamation, which shall be
made with the greatest solemnity, according to the
laws and customs of the country.
(Signed) "JUAN UUTIERREZ,
" Barcelona, Nov. 14, 1842. Political Chief."

MADRID, Nov. 15.
The session of the Chamber of Deputies opened at
one o'clock. Senor Alcarisa, as the oldest deputy pre-
sent, occupied the President's chair. MM. Monedero,
Prim, Mata, and Costans, took- their seats at the
bureau as secretaries, being the youngest members
present. None of the Ministers appeared in their
places. M. Monedero read, from. the tribune, the acts
of the preparatory and opening sessions of the
Chamber, which were approved. He then called over a
list of the deputies then:assembled in the saloon,
and the number (130) being found sufficient by the
Bth article of the Reglamento, the elections of the

26 to 261 discount. Edinburgh and Glasgow N
Shares were at par.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

- - _
PORTSMOUTH' Nov. 23.—Letters from the Incon-
stant, 36, Capt. Ilichell, contradict the report of that
ship being ordered home. She was at Malta on the
4th instant, preparing to proceed to the coast of Syria,
having taken on board four months' provisions.
The Warspite, 50, Capt. Lord John Hay,. way be
daily expected from Gibraltar, having on boala the
late Governor, General Sir Alexander IVoodford,
G.C.8., and suite.
The brigantine Arrow, by letters of the 15th Au-
gust, was in Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, pre-
paring for sea, reported to proceed to England, via the-
west coast of African. The Arrow has been relieved
on the South American station by the Philomcl brig,
Commander Sullivan, destined for surveying the coast
near the Falkland Islands. .

I ',The troop-ship Crocodile, Mr. Elson, master, ie.:as
in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, on the tith October, rat-
ting to proceed to Jamaica, en route to England.
The Curacoa, 24, Capt. Jenkin Jones, has proceeded
to Chatham to be paid off, having landed her treasure,
consisting of dollars and gold bars, and amounting to
1,800,000 dollars. Commanders Fest' ng and Kenney
came passengers, also several invalid officers and sea-
men from the squadron. If found fit, she is to be Ye-
comm i ssioned .

The Samarang, 26, has been commissioned for sur-
veying service in the Chinese waters, to be com-
manded by Captain EdmUnd Belcher, who lately
brought borne the Sulphur from that quarter.
The St. Vincent, 120, is being stripped and other-
wise getting ready to receive the hag of the new Ad-
miral, Sir Charles Rowley, G.C.B.
The Victory, 104, harbour guard flag-ship of Rear-
Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., has been removed to her
old moorings off Common Hard, from off Cold Har-

hour, Gosport.
The Resistance, 42, Commander Pates', is in the
harbour ready for service. Her ultimate dqtination is
Quebec,but she will, in the first instance, go to Malta
with a detachment of the 42d Regiment. She will
sail at the end of the week.
The brigantine Dolphin, late in command of Lieut.
P. Bisson, who died on the passage home from the
west coast of Africa, remains at Spithead, and it is
expected will go to Chatham to be paid off.
At Spithead.—Pique, 36, and Dolphin brig.
In llarbour.—St. Vincent, Victory, Royal George,
Excellent, Resistance, Frolic, Samarang,. Nautilus
Echo, and flag tenderp.—Brighton Gazette.

NEW BBEAKWATER.—The steamer Monkey re-
cently arrived in this port, having in tow a cylinder
of large dimensions, and freighted with heavy iron
work, forming the material for a section of a floating
breakwater, the invention of Captain Groves, late of
the Rifle Brigade, which is to be moored experimen-
tally in the bay. Captain Groves has been busily
engaged with several workmen during the last fort-
night in framing and, putting together the different
parts of the work. Judging from its appearance,.
there is nothing complicated or difficult in its con-
struction. The whole is of iron. The cylinder sus-
tains a grating, attached to it by hoops, and firmly
braced by stays passing round the cylinder, and very
securely- bolted into the bottom of the grating. The
draught of water will be about twelve feet, and it will
be moored broadside to the sea, both to landward and
seaward. Nautical men stly that the doubtful part of
the experiment is the ability of the moorings to resist
the immense strain to which they will be subjected. -
Although this experiment is made with the sanction
and under the auspices of Government, Capt. Groves
incurs the whole expense of the work, with the ex-
ception of the moorings, which were furnished from
Sheerness Dockyard.—Dover Telegraph.
LORD MELBOURNE.—The Noble Viscount, accord-
ing to accounts received in South-street from Brocket
Ilall, has nearly recovered from the effects of his
severe indisposition ; and when the weather is favour-
able his Lordship is able to take carriage drives.
Lord and Lady Beauvale are the only visitors at
Brockct, and will remain there until after Christmas,
when they are expected to return to town with the
Noble ex• Premier for the season.
Miss KEA! n LE.—We understand that the medical
attendants of Miss Adelaide Kemble have given their
opinion that she will not be able to perfbrm fur a
week, and her next appearance at Covent-garden
Theatre has been accordingly postponed until Tues-
day next, when she is announced to appear once more
in Norma•previous to her retirement from the stage.
HANOVER.—The English society here has been
much saddened by the death of the young and amia-
ble Mrs. Gervase Parker Bushe, who expired on the
Ist of this month, a few days after a premature con-
finement. Mrs. Bustle was daughter of Lady Eliza-
beth Smyth, and granddaughter of the Duke of Graf-
ton, and came here as a bride in the spring of last
year with her husband, Mr. Bushe, who is attache to
the English Legation at this Court. He has been suf-
fering from severe illness since his bereavement.
THE POPE AND TILE PACIIA.—Seven Egyptian
workers in mosaic (who are about to repair to Rome
at the expense of their Government, to perfect them-
selves in the art) are to be the bearers of a new gift
to the Sovereign Pontiff from Mehemet Ali, viz., four
large granite columns, recently found in the neigh-
bourhood of Thebes, and covered with hieroglyphics.
The railroad from London to Ashford will be
opened about the Ist of December next, and in the
meantime nearly every coach, with the exception of
the Dover mails, will be taken off the present line.
It is calculated that travellers from Canterbury will
reach London in the course of four hours and a half
from the time of starting from the city, and the train
will run either five or six times daily. Application
will be made to Parliament in the coming session for
a cross line from Ashford to Canterbury and the coast,
and as little or no opposition is anticipated it is not
improbable that the railway will be opened some time
within the next two years.—Kentish Gazette.
TEE PUBLIC ORATORSIIIP OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVER-
SITY.—Three candidates have been announced as de-
sirous to succeed Dr. Cramer in the above office—
namely, the Rev. W. Jacobson, M.A., late fellow of
Exeter, now the vice -principal of Magdalen Ilall ;
they Rev. John Griffiths, M.A., sub-warden of and
tutor of Wadham ; and the Rev. Robert Blackburne,
M.A., fellow of llrasennose. The election is fixed
for to-day.
(cAorstaxuorcto.r2oß,RlsGa3A.sND:_s.--4,heletdteemr farnodmmSrdete
the French Government on that of Sardinia to execute
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the their.
attackof the brigadier of gendarmerie, Guelfucci, and two
men. Today the robbers' Luciani, father and son,
A
were killed near Sierra by a party of the Corsican
voltigeurs.. The two robbers intrenched themselves
behind some enormous blocks of rocks, and fought
with desperate courage. The father, although covered
with dreadful wounds, had strength enough left to
give a stab of his dagger to a voltigeur who came close
to him under the impression that he was dead. The
son survived an hour, without a complaint having
escaped him, and died abusing man and blaspheming
God. We had scarcely recovered a little from the
emotion caused by these events, when a new crime
threw us into consternation. The widow Rocaserres,
residing at Levie, was mortally wounded by a pist6l-
- fired at her by a cousin of her husband's, be-
cause this latter had left her all his property. This
murder will have the effect of bequeathing to the
in pro-
commune of Levie a dreadful hostility, to which no
inhabitant can remain a stranger."
aisreinntemed
to be
grels'ist,°la'c'asdilapppiltalitiovnlos.—PaSrulianm'eeYnst
made in the ensuing session for leave to construct a
branch railway from the Blisworth station on the
London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton
and Peterborough, and likewise for another branch to
Leamington and Warwick. Branches are also in
contemplation from the London and Dover Railway
to Canterbury, Margate, and Ramsgate. The way
Eastern
Counties Company arc about to aline make
station at Kelvedon to Bury St. Ed from their
mund's ; and the
Northern and Eastern will extend
theirs from Bishop's
Stortford to Cambridge,
terminating by junction
with the Norwich and a
Yarmouth. Two b • h
from Oxford are to bebranch lines
constructed to join the Great
Western at Wallin
Wallingford and. Did t •andthird eo , a to
communicate with the
Aylesbury Railway. Surveys
are also in progress
_.for a line to pass through the
i
towns of Greenwich, Woolwich, Gravesend, Ro-
chester, and Maidstone
• andalso for another
, -
nect the Brighton and South Western railways.
~ whe=n completed, will open a direct
line of communication with the metropolis from
nearly all parts of the kingdom. Two new stations
have lately
•
been opened on the London and Birming-
ham Railway, at Sudbury and Rimer, to accommo-
date the increasing traffic.
SOUTUEND.—The 19th instant was a most beauti-
ful day, the wind at S.W., when about nine ' o'clock
in the evening it shifted to S.E., and began • to blow
a fresh breeze. About twelve o'clock the rain fell
torrents, and the wind then blowing a strong al
boats and vessels put off on the look out. Theyg
hade,
not to go far to find a job, for directly off Southend
lay not fewer than nine ships driven
on that dangerous
and well known sand, the Nore. The gale at this time
had increased into a perfect hurricane, and the de-
struction amongst the shipping w
some drawing their anchors, -as most dreadful,
running into each other,
bulwarks cracking ani
When the anxiously
smashing in ,every direction.
looked-for daylight came, the
water was covered with '
sprits, Herald.pieces of yards, i • ,masts, bolt‘
&C.—Essex H
There was a smart fall neighbour-
hood of snow in the of our city on the night of Monday last.—Bath
Chronicle.

A very curious statistical return has just been fur
Dished by Mr. E. Deas Thomson, Colonial Secretary
relative to our Australian colonies, exhibiting the pro
gress they have made within the last ten years, whicl
is in many respects very remarkable. For in
stance, the total value of imports into New South
Wales, including the district of Port Philip, was
604,6201. in 1832, and 2,527,9881. in 1841 ; the value
of the experts was respectively at the same periods
384,3441. and 1,023,397/. These returns show the re-
markable fact of a gradual increase of trade up to the
year 1840, at which point it abruptly ceases ; the next
year showing a considerable decrease. In the returns
which regard the district of Port Philip separately,
however, the same decrease is not observable in the
exports. The amount for which this place figures
in the total above stated for 1841 is, for imports,
335,2521. and 139,1551. for exports. The total
value of the imports of grain into the colony,
' including Port Philip, was in 1832, 13,3651.,
and in 1841, 201,632/. ; the returns in this parti-
cular show the same decrease which affected the
whole trade in 1841, the article flour and bread
forming the sole exception, and, on the contrary,
showing a considerable increase. The return of
land in cultivation throughout the whole colony, at
the close of 1841, shows the principal produce to be
wheat and maize, of which the number of acres is
respectively 58,605 and 25,004, producing 832,776
I:ushels of the one, and 503,803 of the other. The
number of ships built and registered in the colony
was 21 in 1832, the total tonnage being 2,143 ; and in
1841 the number was 110, the tonnage being 11,250.
The revenue from the sale of Crown lands in the
colony was, in 1832, 12,5091. 13s. 10(1. ; in 1840 it
was 316,6261. 7s. 5d., having gradually increased every
year till then, and in 1841 it fell to 90,387/.
Among the miscellaneous news from Egypt as col-
lected from private letters, it is stated that the mor-
tality among the cattle continued, and was supposed
to have destroyed 150,000, from which cause, and the
slow rate at which the Nile was subsiding, the labours
of agriculture were almost suspended. The importa-
tion of mares is being carried on with great activity,
to augment the breed of horses for, the purposes of
agriculture. Four Egyptian frigates have been de-
voted to this service, two of which have lately returned
from Silesia with a cargo of 370.
CHRONICLE.—The private letters from the
East were delivered to-day, and we cannot avoid
ealling,attention to the important announcement con-
tained in the supplement to the Canton Gazette, re-
ceived in one of them, that an officer of high rank
from the Court of Pekin is immediately to set out to
repreSent his Sovereign at the Court of St. James's.
The presence of the Chinese Ambassador at the first
drawing-room . next season would, indeed, create a
sensation ! The same authority repeats that consular
officers are to be established at the ports of Canton,
Amoy, Fow-choo-foo, Ningpo, and Shanghae, which
are to be thrown open to British merchants, and that
a regular and just tariff of imports and exports, as
well as of transit duties, is to be established and
published. Our Canton Contemporary adds, " We do
not see that any time has been stipulated for the
ratification by the Emperor of China ;" but
is of opinion that the presence of the British
force commanding the city of Nankin cannot fail to
impress his Imperial Majesty with the necessity of
expedition. Chusan and Kolongsoo are looked upon
as a sufficient guarantee for the fulfilment of the
treaty ; and Hong-Kong remaining a British settle-
ment, will always be able to muster a naval force
sufficiently strong to keep the Celestial Government
in due subjection. No doubt is entertained in com-
mercial circles of the due ratification of the treaty.
The great anxiety is how to turn it to the best advan-
tage. The chief difficulty at first will be to select
the proper description of goods for the Chinese market.
At present they are consumers of our cotton twists
and coarse long c10th...; but when the trade is estab-
lished on a free and proper footing the demand for ar-
ticles of the highest quality of manufacture and em-
ploying the greatest amount of labour will be exten-
sive. Merchants should be cautious, however, and
not rush headlong into stock without some means for
guiding them in the selection. llong-Kong should
be declared a free port, or at least open to the ships of
all European countries; at very low
.d ti
it duties,
"as
to
make it the general entrepot for goods it ened for the _
China market. If that course be adopted thed value of
rie)eact o Inv
aeluiefntmo etnhsee, Barnilisiht
propertynrise iinntoa thes
oitsilracned
ot. willg.
Crown,w' covered with warehouses, and its harbour the
rendezvous of the ships of every country possessing a
mercantile marine. Cargoes will be discharged at
and thence transported by steam-ships
tioic)tnhg.:llg'
variousn ports, according to the demand.
SUN.—There was no increase of activity in English
..Funds, nor did any alteration of moment occur in the
quotations.
The fluctuation in Consols during the
Account, and taking the entire range, has been full 11
per cent. Consols for Money closed 941 to 94k, and
for the January Account, 95k to 1. The Unfunded
Debt was still dull, but India Bonds advanced to 545.
premium. In the Reduced Three per Cents., 5,000/.
were invested for the Savings' Banks. East India
Stock supported the advance to 264 and 265 ; and
Bank Stock seems to be again getting into favour, as
the price is l7oi- to 172. New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. were not higher than 1011 to 101 k, and the
1 time.toactivity3a l4d
took
Reduced brought 1001- to 104.
The Foreign Bonds were a shadeiN.vorsteetlghiisanafter-i
after-
noon. The Active Spanish closed at 171 to 18, and
the Three per Cents. at 22 to 22
were
Mexicanatlo2sftoore
Stock
the former,ft off
a t a 3121,11
at
f,
1r
oatn6hice_
Dutchfor
the Slattoctekr.
Five per Cents, and the Deferred were 91 to -1-4. Brazil
Bonds were rather higher, being 65-i to 866,
Portu-
guese New Five per Cents. receded upon one or two
andfirmer
placethe ethoinsvaeftrteerd.
sales, from 3toa7,l3dailidot 3f700
were
A slightclo
IlltlCrrlictettv'e3reonl9i to 20i ; the New,
rneooallitsedin. theG Great
eSaht alrlere
s-
rmer prices were
12 ; the Birmingham,
London and Brighton were 15•-
and York and I\ orth Midland,
New,
New,; South Western, 19;
81; Midland ' 1 -
Counties,
Ditto, Thirds 1i • a 39 • • North Midland, OS;
; \ or file7r iliqtrio dlEBa prom.stern
) 7an South' Eastern and Dover,