The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

THE. SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1842.

to 7i per cent. premium, and on France sf. 35c. 1.,

to sf. 37c.

SANTA ANNA was vigorously pursuing warlike
operations against Texas. A force of 1,300
Mexicans, had taken San Antonio at a time when
the Courts of Justice were sitting, and Judge,
Jury, accused, and accusers, together with•the
princival citizens, were made captives by the in-
vaders. The Texians were altogether taken by
surprise.

From Yucatan we learn that the Governmen
was still holding out, and that no movemen
against Campeachy or any other part of the coun
try had been made by the Mexicans.

- The accountA from Rio Janeiro state that an
increased duty of five per cent. on imported goods
had been ordered by the Treasury.

The advices from Havannah extend to the .(22d
ult. The Island of Cuba had been visited by a
severe hurricane, which caused very considerable
damage to the crops generally.
Intelligence had been received at Balize, -Hon-
duras, of the loss of her Majesty's steam-ship
Spitfire, on the 10th ult., on Half-Moon Key-
reef. All hands were saved, but the vessel be-
came a total wreck.

The accounts from Madrid are to the 22d inst.
Private correspondence states, that a modifica-
tion of the present Ministry was spoken of;
by which CARN!ZRERO would become Minister
for Foreign Affairs. Instructions had been for-
warded from the Government to Don FRANCISCO
DE PAULA, informing him that he must not ap-
proach Madrid. The Infante had requested as a
fitvoui that he might be permitted to pass the
winter in Andalusia, but had not yet receivedany
answer to his application. It is announced that
ZURBANO had been promoted to the rank of In-
spector-General of Customs by land and sea in
the province of Catalonia.
The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid
Bourse on the 21st at 211 at 30 days. The Five
per Cents. at 261 at GO days. On the 22d inst.
the Three per Cents. were done at 211 for cash,
and 21 11-16ths at 60 days. The Five per Cents.
26/ at 60 days,

Accounts have been received from Lisbon by
the Tagus steamer to the 24th instant. The
Prince DE JOINVILLE and the Duke D'AUMALE
had arrived with a squadron of three vessels, and
were received by the Royal Family and the pub-
lic authorities with the most marked attentions.
Sir CIIARES NAPIER, to whom the QUEEN owes
so much, arrived on the f&lowing, day, and was
saluted by the Portuguese forts as Ile proceeded
up the river. Great attention was paid to our
gallant countryman by the Court and public
authorities.

The tariff convention bad been brought to a
conclusion, the final proposition on the part of
Portugal having been communicated on the 22d
to the British Envoy. It remained with our
Government to accept or reject these terms.
Some further reductions, but to an inconsiderable
extent, were admitted by Portugal on woollen
and printed cotton goods. No new general
classes of goods were included, but reductions
were here and there admitted in particular items.
There was the appearance of further concession,
without the reality of substantial abatement.
Portugal had rejected as inadmissible the several
propositions that 3s. 6d. per imperial gallon should
be fixed as the duty upon her wines until her
export duty of 12 milreis per pipe on port wine
is done away with that an additional ad valorem
duty of 20 per cent. should be retained besides
the 3s. ; and that the system of specific duties
should be abandoned by Portugal, and one of ad
valorem duties substituted, with regard to our
manufactured produce.
For a reduction of 45 5. 11 per cent. on the im-
port duty on her wines, the staple of Portugal,
England obtains in return a reduction of 20 per
cent. upon one class, and 40 per cent. upon
another class, of her manufactured goods, there
being several articles on which no reduction is
admitted. But unequal as the proposed reduc-
tion was, the commercial treaty being signed, it
would be impolitic to reject it.

The Paris papers have been received.
Their contents are not important, being still
chiefly occupied with the question of the
Right of Search, and Lord ABERDEEN'S letter,
&e. A private letter repeats, that the French
Government has officially and formally com-
municated to ours that the Treaty of the
20th of December, 1841, will not be ratified.
Coliat D'AnNim, the Minister of Prussia, and
M. WENDLAND, the Charge d'Affaires of Bavaria,
presented to the KING on Thursday, letters from
their Sovereigns, notifying to his MAJESTY, the
marriage a Princess MARY of Prussia with the
Prince Royal of Bavaria.
The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 25th inst.,
contains an important notice from the Chamber of
Commerce of that city, informing the merchants
that on the invitation of the Consul-General of
France at Alexandria the Viceroy of EGYPT had
ordered that all cases of goods forwarded in
transitu between Suez and Alexandria would,
without distinction of country, be allowed to
pass freely on the mere declaration of their con-
tents, accompanied by an invoice. The duty to
be levied on those goods was fixed at one-half
per cent. ad valorem. This decision of MEHE.•
MET ALI was communicated to the Chamber of
Commerce by the Minister of Commerce and
Agriculture in a letter of the 17th instant.
" Yesterday morning," says the Sud of Marseilles,
of the 25th, "Artim Bey, private Secretary, and Head
Dragoman of Mehemet Ali, charged with the duty of
delivering to the King of the French and the Royal
Family, the presents sent by the Pacha, was allowed
to go out of quarantine. He was accompanied by his
secretaries and a numerous suite. The presents con-
sist of eight superb Arab horses of high breed, and
six cashmere shawls of. the greatest beauty. The
horses were immediately led off towards Paris, each
under the guidance of a person sent for that purpose
by the Viceroy, and the whole under the direction of
one of the Pacha's equerries. Amongst the horses
is the one ridden by Ibrahim Pacha at the battle of
Nezib. He is of a light grey colour, and is of a
-more muscular form than is generally seen amongst
horses of the Arab race. It is said that this animal,
in the retreat of Syria, sustained a gallop of eight
hours, without being much fatigued, and that having
fallen into the power of an Arab tribe, he was ex-
changed for 1,200 camels. The only bay horse
amongst the eight is one unequalled in Egypt for
speed. The shawls are the finest that the Pacha has
been able to obtain. A considerable crowd was wait-
ing at the door of the lazaretto to see the strangers.
Artim Bey, who has been before in Marseilles, ex-
presSes himself in French with great facility."

The Constitutionnel has a brief article on
the right •of search and slavery in the French
colonies, which displays much good sense and
moderation. The following is an extract :
" No person has shown greater opposition to the
rightin g the
ohef
Fs eraein• eel
hi than
andhave,
the
ibbt, tr.
tt3h, eG
ft a
ours
maritime
commerce against the exercise of this vexatious privi-
lege shall not lead us beyond the mark. We shall
always keep clear of two faults ; first, that of exciting
a blind and systematic hatred against England, so
as to drive the two civilising nations of the world
to a lamentable rupture ; and next that of abandoning
the idea, at once political and Cnristian, of emanci-
pating the slaves in our colonies. We believe, on the
contrary, that the difference relative to the right of
earth has brought about circumstances most favour-
able to a prudent and well ordered emancipation ; it
has given a counterpoise to the too violent passions of
certain abolitionists ; it has produced in men's minds
a happy reaction in favour of our maritime interests;
it has taken from imprudent defenders of slavery all
pretext for saying that France meditates the ruin of
her colonies and navy; it has, in fine, prepared for
moderate and practical men, the means of making
themselves heard by every one, and of peaceably
proceeding with the solution of the difficult problem
of slave emancipation with the continuance of labour.
Englr,nd, however, will take the lead, will organise
free labour, and will escape from the crisis in which her
emancipated colonies are still placed. A new re-
action in favour of emancipation will declare itself in
France ; public opinion will become imperious ; every-
thing will be hurried on precipitately, and, under the
dominion of an excited feeling, the blind champions of
the colonies will have compromised, by a temporary
success, the future prosperity, and, perhaps, the exist-
ence of the colonies, of which they pretend to be de-
fenderS. For our parts, we hope that moderation and
sound policy will have the advantage, and that France
will, in a short time, calmly and resolutely commence
the work of colonial transformation.
OCTOBER 28.
B_ URSE—PARFIirt
F.RlDHAiirghest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Fire-per Cents. 118 45... 118 60... 118 40... 118 60
Four per Cents. 101 25... 101 625 .. 101 25... 101 25
3 per Cents.... 79 95... 80 79 90... 80

Bank of France 3265 —.3265 —.3265 .. 3265
Laflitte Bank 5,000 f 5073 75...5073 75...5073 75...5073 75
Belgian Bank 812 50... 812 50... 812 50... 812 50
Belgian Fives 103 h ... 104 ... 103 h ... 1031
1840 104 h ... 104 k ... 104 h ... 1044
Threes 7l 95... 71 95... 71 95... 71 95
Dutch 2i per Cents... 534 ... b3l ... 531 ... 534
Spanish Active.......... 22/1 ... 224 ... 22{ ... 22
Portuguese Fives 324 ... 324 ... 32* ... 324
Neapolitan
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.

Rouen . 563 75... 565 ... 563 75... 565
Orleans. 5Bl 25... 531 25... 581 25... 581 25
Strasburg to Bale 206 25... 206' 25... 205 ... 205 1
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Beussni.s, Ocr. 29.
Actual Debt, 2.34 per Cent , S3M
liotlischild's Loan, Five per Cent. 102,4
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent V2
Three per Cent....
T-seven Milli. ns, ditto --- 71!

__ ....... 113, dit
_---...-- (1840) lfg%
Loan of City, 1802, Four per Cent 92
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent BB
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent
National Society —
Exchange on Loudon (short) ...... ......... -
-Brussels Papers, Oct .t..,9.
A USTRT AN FUNDS.--VIENNA, OCT. 9.1
Five per Cents. Metalliques- l(9
Four per Cents..., 100!..i
'1 taw per Cents .
Bank Shares ..
illlgemeine Zeilung, Oct. 25.

Thirt:

Loan MELBOURNE.—We regret to learn that the
illness of Lord Melbourne is more serious than the
first accounts led the public to believe. He has had
two paralytic strokes; but, considering thelsevere in-
fliction, he is doing as well as can be exp2cted.