The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-23 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The amount of business transacted in the Funds to-day has
been smaller than is usual on a Saturday. Prices, however,
are improving, Consols being 90,4 90j for Money, and 90i
91 for the Account; Three per Cents. Reduced, 90i ; Three-
and-a-H alf per Cents. Reduced, 1001 1008; New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents., 100; Bank Stock, 166 167 ; India
Stock, 249 250; Exchequer Bills, Old, 46 48; New 44 46
premium.
A purchase in the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at
51k, comprises all the business in Foreign Securities.
The quotation of Mexican is 36g.
In Shares nothing of moment has been done.
The Bonds, quoted to-day, are—Colombian, 21*; and Spa-
nish Five per Cents., 21i.
The only arrival with any late news is the l'eterel, from Rio
de Janeiro, dates May 26, but nothing later respecting the
insurrection at San Paulo.—Exchange, 274 d.
The French-Belgian treaty and the Stade duties have re-
called attention to a matter which has long injured our com-
merce, and, if not shortly adjusted, threatens to annihilate one
branch of it altogether—namely, the subject of Dutch aggres-
sions in the Indian Archipelago. Holland being in possession
of Java, has for years been endeavouring to obtain a monopoly
of trade in that part of the world, to the exclusion of every
other nation ; and although a treaty was made long since, by
which it was agreed that neither that country nor this should use
means for fettering the commerce of the other, yet every
means have been used quietly to form agreements
with the native chiefs extremely favourable for Dutch,
and highly detrimental to British interests. No op-
portunity occurred of striking a great blow until
the separation of Belgium, when, upon the pretext of
excluding the manufactures of that country, most vexatious
Custom-house regulations were formed, and strictly enforced,
by which our trade with Sumatra, and numerous other inde-
pendent islands, is almost, if not wholly, put a stop to. Con-
ventions were entered into with the several native provinces,
by which they were bound to carry out the above-named rules;
among which, and that most loudly complained of, is, that no
goods shall be allowed to be landed in their territories unless
accompanied by certificate of having passed the ordeal of one of
four Javanese Custom-houses, at which a duty is levied far
above what had been stipulated to be paid under the treaty
before alluded to. Instances have occurred in which goods
bonded in defiance of these orders have been confiscated, and
the owners had a narrow escape of life, and all in direct contra-
vention of the understanding between the two Governments.
The effect is to shut out our manufactures from aff ports except
those in Java, at which the duty there charged amounts almost to
a prohibition ; and even were it not so, it is contended that the
English have no right to be obliged to enter a port of another
nation before proceeding to dispose of its merchandize in free
countries. Memorials have been presented, and a correspond-
ence carried on between our Ambassador and the authorities at
the Hague ; but having been conducted in a very shuffling
manner by the latter, no result but an evident desire to procras-
tinate redress has yet been produced. Some time has now
elapsed since the correspondence was printed by order of the
House of Commons, and the public are completely ignorant of
what may have transpired subsequently ; but this much is
known, that no relief has been given, and that our export trade
has fallen off in consequence.

i 1 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 . .... 49
Eastern Counties - to
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto New ...... .............. ... 3
London atu Brighten ...... ... .. 50
Paris and Rouen ...... .... . ...... 16 ....., lqi. to
Scuth Eastern and Dover 5O .. .
Ditto Scrip
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JU Ll' 22.—Th-?, sales for the
week up to last night were 37,990 bales, at steady prices, and
nu the whole the dealers are et opinion that the demand is im-
proving, as affairs look better at Manchester, and there have
kern a few parcels taken on speculation. The stock is still
rather above what it was at this time last year, being 660,500
bales.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 22.—The market
is much the same as yesterday, with more inquiry for Man.
chester and Birmingham. Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters,
3A; Manchester and Leeds, 75 ; London and Birmingham,
178 179 ; Ditto, ditto, Quarters, 461 A 47.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 23.—Wind this day at Noon, E. to N.E.
DEAL, JULY 22.—Wind N. W. to W.N. W'., fresh.—Arrd.
David Lyon, Jamaica ; Don, Thomson, St. John's ; Arrietta,
Shields, and sailed for St. Thomas ; Henry Davidson, Gilmore,
and Choctaw, Westward; Marmion, Riven e de Loup. Sid.
General Wolfe, Demerara.
COWES, JULY 22.—Arrd. Mary Ann, Smith, Porto Rico.
OFF THE START, JULY 20.—Arrd. Royal Oak, Robson,
Quebec ; Boreas, Conrad, St. Croix for Flushing ; John
Bibby, Snipe, China, sailed March 11.
PLYMOUII, JULY 22.—Arrd. H.M.S. Albatross, Bermuda.
DOVER, JULY 22.—The Lynx, Statten, from Newcastle to
.Alicant, has put in here very leaky, and with bows stove, and
damage done to rigging, &c., having been in contact with the
Lavinia, of London, off Dungeness last night.
LtvEarooL, JULY 22.—Wind N.E. to N., light.—Arrd.
Springfield, Ray, Savannah; Ernester, Mormon, St. Antonio.
Slit. Corunna, and Ann and Jane, Calcutta; Harkaway, Vir-
ginia ; Caledonia, New York ; Tallentire, Montreal ; Fingalton,
Quebec. Arrd. off, Talbot, Haidee, Margaret, Elizabeth,
Oporto, and Fenella.
PENTLAND FRITH, JULY 18.—Arrd. Prince of Wales Ha-
vannah, for St. Petersburgh ; William Dawson, Beveredge, and
Britannia, Quebec.
CORK, JULY 20.—Large quantities of ice were fallen in
with on the 22d inst. in lat. 45, ion. 47, by the Maria, arrd. here.
OFF DARTMOUTH, JULY 21.—Seagull, Moyse, Calcutta,
left March 7, and St. Helena May 31, ; Lady Emma, Buck-
land, Hobart Towa, sailed March 25, and Launceston 30.
GLOUCESTER, JULY 21.—Arrd. Ireland, Quebec.
BRISTOL, JULY 22.—Arrd. Eldon, Moon, Quebec.
OFF BEACHY HEAD, JULY 15.—Zeepaaxd, Gatzres, Mid-
dleburg for Batavia.
POOLE, JULY 21.—Arrd. Love and Unity, Williams, and
George Killen, Newfoundland; Reaper, Seaman, Quebec.
Arrd. off, John King, Bristow, Mauritius, left April 14.
OFF LYMINGTON, JULY 21. —Mary Ann, Smith, Porto Rico.
FALMOUTH, JULY 21.—Wind N., fresh breezes.—Arrd.
Peterel packet, Rio Janeiro, aid. May 25th,Bahia 9th ult., and
Pernambuco 15th, with 32,000/. in gold on freight. Sld. Ilebe,
Gibraltar and Valparaiso.
OFF THE OLD lizar. OF KINSALE, JULY 19.—A barque,
from the Bahamas.
ST. HELENA, MAY 30.—The Earl Grey, arrived here from
China and the Cape, reports that the Robert Small, from Cal-
cuoa to London, had been ashore at Green Point, Table Bay,
but was got off with loss of rudder.

INCOME -TA -.K..—T1.1e editorof*-----th---e Worcestershire
Chronicle justly complains that three partners in one firm have
been appointed Income-tax Commissioners for that town.
1 What adds to the anomaly is, that these gentlemen are exten-
sively engaged in the leather and glove-trade, and that every
glove'-manufacturer may be compelled to disclose the state of
his affairs to those who. are so much interested in knowing the
amount and nature dins transactions." It is of great impor-
tance," adds the writer, " that the administration of so hateful
an impost should be not only impartially exercised, but that it
should be exercised without the chance of a suspicion of par-
tiality. To compass this the Land-tax Commissioners elect
seven Tories, three of one business firm, and that firm engaged 1
in the staple manufacture of the city, and seven more of the
same political party to supply vacancies.
RUGBY Scuoot,.—The additional candidates who
have sent in their names and testimonials for the Head Master-
ship are—the Rev. S. Donne, Master of Oswestry School;
Rev. J. Allen Giles, Windlesham Hall, near Bagshot ; Rev.
H. Highton, Assistant-Master of Rugby (educated there);
Bonarny Price, Assistant-Master of Rugby ; Rev. C. J.
Vaughan, Vicar of St. Martin's, Leicester (educated at
Rugby); Rev. C. A. Waldron, of NI estbrornwich.

EXPRESS FROM SOUTHAMPTON.
We have advices from Lisbon to the 18th instant.
The re-construction of the Cabinet was suspended until
the Duke of Palmella should make known his final de-
cision ; that this would be to accept office there was
no doubt. The Ministers of Marine and Justice would
certainly be superseded, and the latter was to be elected
to the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. From
want of cordial co-operation with reference to the
tariff reductions, to be considered in the supplemental
article of the treaty, a correspondent announces posi-
tively his conviction that the Convention would not be
concluded for months to come, and that the mercantile
community would not derive any practical benefit from
the treaty during the year 1842. 'We have been fur-
nished with a resume of the Portuguese Commissioners'.
labours, from which it would appear that no progress
whatever had been made towards a settlement ; the Re-
port of the Commissioners had been referred by the Go-
vernment to Baron Tojal for his judgment upon
its recommendation. The Baron returned it with
a favourable answer to the Government ; and
a conference with the Portuguese Pleniponten-
tiary would immediately follow, fortified by which he
would make a proposition to the British Envoy. But
this would not further matters very much, and the initia-
tion of liberality would probably have to be eventually
taken by our own Government. The exchange of the ra-
tifications of the commercial and slave trade treaties
would probably take place in about six weeks' time. Both
Legislative Chambers were as yet occupied with prepara-
tory labours. The elections, however, with very rare ex-
ceptions, had been pronounced valid. The Portuguese
army was to be immediately increased by 4,295 men. A.
decree had appeared for the immediate and effectual en-
forcement of a tax of 10 per cent. upon every description
of property.