The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-29 00:00:00

away by force the negroes and merchandise at those
factories. In the night of the 21st (,f May the Eng-
lish made a similar attempt at Port Ambriz, and car-
ried away 1,200 negroes to the Antilles. The cap-
tain of an American vessel from Angola confirmed
this account, adding, that the factories were burnt
down; In fact, according to the terms of the treaties,
no vessel should be stopped within three miles from
the coast, nor has any one a right to land on a foreign
shore and destroy what may be found u on it."

AMERICAN NEWS.

The packet-ship Rochester, Captain Wood-
house, which. sailed from New York on the 4th
i nst.,arrived at Liverpool on Thursday. The papers
.brought by her are three days later than those
previously received. They do not contain any
United States news worth extracting. The
money and stock markers remained without ma-
terial alteration, nor had the produce market
undergone any change.
The papers contain some brief allusions to Ca-
nadian affairs The following extract is from the
Journal of Contynerce :
" OANADA.—The Tories of Canada are, if possible,
more furious in their denunciations of Governor
.Bagot than are •the Whigs of the United States—
i.e., many of them in their abuse of President Tyler.
We are really afraid _that they (meaning the
'juries of Canada) will burst their boilers, in which
ease there • is. no -knowing what might happen.
The Toronto Patriot enumerates 20 Canadian papers
which,' denounce the present Cabinet in no equivocal
language.' • - •The same paper states that M. Girouard
has declined the office tendered to him by the Gover-
nor. In • consequence of the new appointments so
many -vacancies have. occurred in the Provincial Par-
liament; as to render a recess inevitable; consequently
a prorogation is about to' take place for two or three
nionths, and in the meantime the vacancies will be
filled. At present,' says the Patriot, ' the new Ca-
binet possesses a large majority, and unbounded con-
fidence in its own durability: The editors add—
" We look to the next Session of Parliament to as
certain to afford the spectacle of Bills being pasmed by
the House of Assembly, which—should a Legislative
Council be cowardly or corrupt enough to sanction,
unless swamped' by an infusion of fresh rebel blood
into its still loyal veins—any representative of a Bri-
tish Sovereign, be he even a Lord Gosford or a Sir
Charles bigot, dare not, for his head, assent to.
"A Bill has been introduced into the Canadian Par •
liament increasing the legal rate of interest to 8 per
cent., except in the case of banks. These are re-
stricted to 6 per cent.
" The House have voted to increase the capital of
the Commercial and Upper Canada Banks to 500,000/.
respectively."
The dates from Texas are to the 11th ult.,
at which time that State was tranquil. Colonel
Flockly had resigned the office of Secretary at
War.

There had been an arrival at New Orleans
from Yucatan. .The Mexicans had not arrived
off Campeachy, where active preparations were
making to give the invaders a warm reception.
It was feared, however, that the Mexicans would
succeed in reducing the peninsula to obedience.

COMMERCE OF QUEBEC.
(From the Quebec Gazette.)
The paralyzing effects of the late alteration in the
duties on the staple commodity of the country, and
its injurious consequences to the prosperity of the
colony, are now beginning to be apparent in the
comparative small amount of shipping that has
visited us, and the trifling extent of the export of
timber from Quebec during the present season. In
connexion with this may be taken another very im-
portant branch of our commerce—the export of flour
—in which we regret to state heavy losses have lat-
terly been sustained by those engaged in the business,
exceeding, we are informed, the sum of 100,0001.
during the present season. As a proof of the ruinous
sacrifices to which the export of this article is sub-
ject at the present time, we subjoin the following
statement furnished us by a mercantile gentleman on
whose experience and veracity we can place . the
strictest reliance :

Statement of expense of shipping a barrel of flour
to England, and the probable loss to the shipper,
calculated at the present prices of the English and
Montreal markets : s. d.
Highest prices of Canada fine in Liverpool . 26 6

Freight to Liverpool
Duty
Insurance
Commission
Incidental charges

s. d.
6
3 0
0 9
1 2
1 7-10 0

16 6
Exchange in Liverpool, say 9 per cent. p.

Sterling. .......

. 18 6

Currency ...

20 0

Taking the present rate of flour in the Montreal
Market, as stated, at 245., the loss incurred per barrel
on exportation of the article at this time would there-
fore be 4s. Losses of this description, although ap-
parently falling only upon individuals, must materially
operate against the country, and either directly or in-
directly will ultimately be felt by all classes of the
community ; while the only gainers by the traffic are
our neighbours on the other side of the line, who sup-
ply the principal part of the grain used in the manu-
facture of the article.