The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-29 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS FROM AMERICA

By the arrival of the London line of packet ship Sam-
son, at Portsmouth, from Nam York, which place she left
on the 11th instant, papers of that date have been received,
from which we make the following extract!

" There is a general depression in the Money Mark
and Stocks feel the downward influence.
" It is not probable that money affairs here can be re•
established on a better basis till the Bank of England re-
duces its rate of interest. When the rate of interest in Lon-
don is 5 per cent. it can hardly be expected that capitalists
will loan it here at six or seven. The high rate of inte-
rest in England not only increases the value of money here,
but so contracts the currency as materially to affect the
value of produce. The falcon Cotton in the face of a
short crop and the sudden annihilation thereby of an im-
mense amount of property is to us a public calamity, from
which we can hardly hope to recover till a lower rate of
interest tempts to investment in the staple and to specula-
tion. Unfortunately, too, this action of the Bank of Eng-
land, by crippling all the fortifications we might otherwise
have from it in the sale of American securities, has left us
no resource of our own but the hope that in the great
marts where British manufactures are sold, the demand
will be such as to compel an advance on the staple.
" The horrible disorganization of the domestic ex-
changes adds to all these calamities. The country as v
whole cannot now act against those foreign cau,es, but
only here and there can we present a side to breast the
storm. It is on these accounts that the news from Eng-
land, always important to us, is now more important than
ever.

" Exchange on England was at 9i per cent. pre.
mium, and United States Bank shares 115 to 116."

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, &c., JULY 8.
The Stock transactions on Saturday were again mode
rate, and prices continued throughout the day much the
same as on Friday. The Money Market is without any
perceptible change since Friday; money is evidently
scarce, or there is a want of confidence to make loans;
yet, the great quietness that generally prevades the com-
mercial and trading community, causes only a moderate
demand for it, and regular business men consequently get
along without any great difficulty.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, &c. JULY 10.
The sales of stocks yesterday, with the exception of
Delaware and Hudson, and Harlem, were to a moderate
extent only. Of the two!above-named descriptions of
stocks, there seems to be a large amount pressing upon the
market, for cash, and at the first board Delawyre and
e:udson declined per cent. ; and Harlem, a per cent. cn
the rates of Monday. At the second cal►, all kinds of
shares were still heavier, and prices further receded, and
Delaware and Hudson, sold at 69, and Harlem, at 48, and
many other descriptions were offered at lower rates than at
the morning call. Money continues quite close, and we
perceive no favourable change in the market.
In the foreign exchanges there is but little doing, and
no special alteration in rates have transpired, on England,
4 dot. 86c. to 4 dot, 88c. the pound sterling ; on France,
Jf .12qc to sf. 25e.
The Bank of Kentucky has declared a dividend of 4
per cent., which will be paid at the Union Bank, to the
shareholders on the books of this agency, on and after the
15th instant.

PHILADELPHIA MONEY MARKET.—Bicknelts Reporter
of yesterday says :
.‘ We are unable to notice any material change in the
Money market since our last. Some trifling improvement,
however, was app rent in the early part of the week, al-
though Stocks were sadly depressed and rather declined
than otherwise. The money rates at the close of the week
were from 12 to 15 per cent.
The fcllowing extract of a letter, said to have been
written in Mississipi, appeared in the Con:mere:al last
evening

" Everything bears the aspect of gloom in Mississipi.
The downward tendency of the cotton-market and the ex-
treme scarcity of money, joined to the confused state of the
currency, make our prospects for getting out of debt look
dreary in the extrt.me."

" Notwithstanding the recent large issues of the Union
Bank, amounting to nearly 4.000,000 dollars, no percep-
tible relief has been afforded the community. The courts
are still crowded with suits, and the newspapers filled, to
the exclusion of almost all other matter, with advertise-
ments of sheriffs' and marshals' sales.

" I am afraid that the whole State will have to change
hands and become the property of its creditors, before we
can again get rightly in train."
RATE OF SALES AT TILE STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 6.
50 Shares Bank of Commerce lO-
O do. Atlantic Bank, Brooklyn 95
30 do. Noret American Trust and Bankingeo 76
50 do. Delaware and Hudson Canal 7O
40 do. United States Bank ll3l
10 do. Vicksbura• Bank 39
50 do. Bank of Kentucky b. 10 86i
10 do. Canon Co
20 do. New Jersey Railroad
L
75 do. Stonington Railroad
90 do. Haarlem Railroad

LATEST FROM CANADA.
(Frem the Burlington Sentinel, July 24.)
FROM THE FRONTIER.—We regret to learn that another
disgraceful scene has been enacted on the frontier by a
party of refugees from Canada.
" The party, which consisted of from ten to twenty men,
all armed, arrived within half a mile of the line on Sunday
night, 23d inst. Here they remsined concealed in the
woods till Monday night, when, after dark, they emerged,
and came to an opening on the premises of Mr. Mosier,
and were discovered by his wife. One of the party fol-
lowed the woman to the house, and stated their object to
be to take the fire-arms in possession of Mr. Burroughs,
captain of militia, of Barnstown. Mosier remonstrated
against their proceeding- further, but this had no effect on
the gang, which then proceeded to Burroughs, demand-
ing; a surrender of the arms. It was at midnight. The
demand was resisted by Mr. Burroughs, another man,
and boy, all the force there was in the house at the time,
except the women, and not a musket loaded out of
the 20 or 30 stand which this valiant band had come to
capture. Finding they could not obtain the arms, without
at least the chance of taking ball with them, the party fled,
after setting fire to the hay in the barn, leaving two dirks,
and one of their party, Switzer, a prisoner. Thia fellow, a
fit companion for such patriots, had been a tenant in our
state prison, Switzer is the only one of the party who has
any claim to being an American citizen, if indeed he has
not forfeited this by his residence in Canada. I need not
add there is a strong feeling of indignation prevalent in
this section among all classes against the authors of this
outrage."
The following absurd report appears in one of the
papers :
" It is reported that Sir Allan M'Nab has been arrested
in Toronto, Upper Canada, and thrown into prison, for
forgery. All his property has also been seized, it is said.
We hardly believe this ; at any rate, it requires confir-
mation."

We learn that at a meeting of the board of directors of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, held yester
day, the Hon. Louis M‘Lean was appointed by a unani-
mous vote to proceed to Europe, for the purpose of dis-
posing of the sterling bonds issued by the state of Mary-
land and city of Baltimore, in payment of their several
subscriptions to the stock of the company. It is supposed
that in the course of the ensuing week the various parts of
the entire line of road from Harper's Ferry to Cumberland
will be in the hands of the contractors.—Baltimore
American.

A DISCONSOLATE WIDOW.-A short time
since we announced the death of Old Jack, the gigantic
and venerable swan so well known in St. James's Park,
and we have now to record the demise of another swan,
the consort of Old Jack, and for many years his insepar-
able companion. The old hen, though not so aged as poor
Jack, was supposed to be a sexagenarian, and to have been
hatched about the year 1778. She first broke the shell
at Frogmore, and was reared in the grounds of that beau-
tiful retreat, under the immediate auspices of King George
111. and Queen Charlotte, both of whom always mani-
fested an extraordinary degree of interest in the rearing of
these magnificent birds. The Queen in particular paid
great attention to the breed of swans, and by her special
directions convenient buildings were erected in the plea-
sant gardens at Frogmore for their reception. Old
Jack's consort was known by the familiar name of Jenny,
and was placed in the canal of the ornamental
gardens of St. James's Park shortly after they were
laid out in their present form, and soon got on
terms of great familiarity with Old Jack, and a mutual
attachment existed between them up to the time of his de-
mise. They were often seen together on the water rear-
ing their snow-white necks, and looking out for biscuits
from the promenaders. After the melancholy demise of
the venerable swan, Old Jack, at the advanced age of 70
years, his consort pined, and evidently felt very keenly
the loss of her companion. She refused her customary
food, left her usual haunts, and appeared borne down with
grief. She continued to pine away for several weeks,
and expired in a kind of fit on Sunday morning, surviving
her mate only three weeks. The body was sent to the
Ornithological Society, in Museum-street, Bloomsbury,
to be preserved. Like Old Jack, poor Jenny was terribly
annoyed at the introduction of the shoals of foreign inter-
lopers on the canal, and, whenever her lord and master
gave battle to the intruders, she most valiantly took part
in the fray. There are, at the present time, only two full.
good,
aCndITsYo
wFaslStHradilol_ApßriKeeEs
grow swans and three cygnets in St. James's Park.
THE POLICE AND THE MILITARY.-We
TuSrubpopt,lie4ss. 6d. to las. ; Soles, 6d. toper pair ,
regret to state that, on the evenings of Saturday and Lobsters, 101. to 4s. ;_ Fine Salmon,
Is.
disturbed t*o. Is. 6d.6d. per lb. ;
Whiting, 3d, to 6d. ; Haddock, Bd. to 1 . MARKET.
THE they wire;
Sunday last, the usually quiet town of Hull was much
disturbed by a series of disgraceful disturbances between CINNAMON SALE.
the military and the police. It appears that, on Saturday The quarterly sale of Cinnamon, consisting of about tf°
evening, about nine o'clock, three privates of the 81st bales of different descriptions has commenced at the 1 low •
Regiment of Foot, now stationed in the Citadel, were Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane. There was a fa,, .0'
proceeding along Great Union-street, towards the barracks, tendance of the trade, but the buyers were not disposed to give
when, in consequence of
two of them being intoxicated, the late prices ; very little was sold.
something that occurred, a policeman conceived it to be NEWCASI LE CORN EXCHANGE,-July 27.
MA. White
his duty to take one of them into custody, which, after Whoa t,
I.N.,e,orrri,..,tightenukm:nedr land
Scotch
68s 721...... 72. 76.4
blows on both sides, was accomplished. This raised the -
it;'oraoik and Suffolk
fi.), 6:e..... -1, "" ii*
6''. 6'1...4.. 67, 744.
indignation of the soldiers, many of whom are young ----
Irishmen, and on the following evening a very serious dis- tlye, Norfolk slid Suffolk ... 0. 45
Sti 38. --s. --s• 11.
the soldiers-a..
turbance took place-the commands of Cbolonel Simpson,.
who happened to come up, were Slighted y ey, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk- 42.. 4.114
Bea»s, Small
- Grinding and Feeding 3os. 31s.
and one of the police,
be able to attend
who assisted on both occasions, was Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 64, 64i -s. --s- ..cr
40.. 43.- -84 ---6'
on Sunday so seriously beaten as not to
438. 45,4 -
Pease White 44s. 41i5..... -.41. --$. I
much interest, and on ---! Gray
the next day to give evidence before the Magistrates. An - - Tick
occurrence so extraordinary excited
425. 4., -s. "-li.
I
Northumberland, l'otatoe ...... ... 318. 338.....„ -8. -s.
Feed
Monday, when the parties were brought up for examina- cats,
-s -a -s 4-54.41
tion, the crowd assembled about the Tovvn•hall was so Foreign
flour (per sack) sng 525. -a. --8.
great, that the tradesmen and private families on both sides
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET -July :76 ~a
of Lowgate, which is at least fifty feet wide, deemed it pm- WAKEFIELD
Red, Norfolk and Suffolk ...... ... ...... CA, to 68s. tine 44_,:
17arl i'°.i.e!gn
dent to close their windows. After evidence, the Magis-
Crates hoping that their clemency might have a good .
- "hitle."kshire
-.. SN, CO tit,. fine I'7
5. 694 i. to 715. Inc 7,,
effect, reprimanded and discharged the military offenders. Foreign, Red s -g. to 641. fine i, .
-Eastern Counties Herald.
POISONOUS TOADS.--It has
frequently
been Lincolnshire ries. to 375. fine ~,,,,.
- York.shire %Vold
__Barley, I,lorfolic and Suffolk
doubted by writers on natural history whether toads are - Foreign
.--6 to -S. ~.
poisonous ;on Monday a dog worried one near to the Hut Beans, Smal' a, to ca. fine 4:t
Tavern, on the Mansfield road, and ere it had gone 300 ..
s to `t.a. tinc 3i,
-s to 308 rine •''
3t4os:. :54::
fine`"'
41,.
. ~,•
yards the animal died from the effects of the poison._t In
addition to the above fact, wo can add our own testimony,
zian4 and Smsil ' .. ~& 0.4:4,--
(174ats, i:',;r4-Tiltseaientkcc)i
.......... .....-.. --... t. - - , ,a.:
for we have had three dogs poisamed ba zaads, ale-. wo , --- ---"" . - . I.ld .:. .5,,,,,!.1,..,- ..:‘,...0
As.liing 31a. to 35a Od. per r:,,cl.
have known instances of pointers and spaniels sufferirig Malt
-.s. 455. tine 498. per 4', 0..
. .
from their virulent poison. -Nottingham Review. Rapeseed - •