The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-02 00:00:00

CORN AVERAGES.

GENERAL AVERAGE. PRICES OF BRITISH CORN,
for the Week ended Fel). 24, I sa, made up from the Returns of thi
inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englanl and Wales, pe
Quarter. .

sis. M. Oats
.
Wheat !33. 3,1. I Beans T's. 7d.
Barley 'fls lid., Rye lei: 7d. 1 Pease 375. Bd.
1311tIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TfIE SIX WEItICS
YILECEDINCI.
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Wheat s7s. 341., Oats
Parley I 345. '7,1„ Rye

DUTIES ON FOKEIGN CORN.

Wheat 29s. Stl Oats
Barley Ma. 104.1.1 nye

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Our arrivals this morning arc the French and Ostend mails,
and ship-letters from New, York, by the George IVashington,
arrived at Liverpool.
We have received Montreal Papers to the 3d Feb. Their
contents are not of importance, with the exception that they
state, that in some parts of Lower Canada they are in the
most distressing condition. In one parish alone upwards of
1,200 persons are represented to be in a state of destitution,
and in danger of actually starving before the spring, unless
relief is sent them. A Bill has been introduced into the As-
sembly of Upper Canada far the purpose of enabling foreigners
to hold and convey real estates.
Extract of a letter from Pampeluna, Feb. 22 :—" Thers
great movement at the head-quarters of Gen. Saarsfield.
This brave General, who has sacrificed most of his property in
the cause of the Queen of Spain, is now only waiting to fight,
which entirely depends on the support of the other Generals,
who are not anxious to give him their assistance. The con-
duct of Alaix is questionable ; instead of advancing with the
whole of his force from Vittoria to Tolosa, lie only sends de-
tachments to Pampeluna, by which means Vittoria is left un-
covered, and a passage is left for the Carlists, if they are de-
feated by Espartero hn d Saarsfield. The Carlists have sent
reinforcements to :Elisondo, to defend that point, to which
they attach great importance. The army of Navarre is sta-
tioned on the line of Lenenberg, which is very strong, to the
right, and the attack must take place by the frontier of France.
The left, in case of need, can be reinforced by the cavalry of
Irribaren."

THE. FUNDS.

It was reported yesterday that the Bank Directors had con-
sented to extend their accommodations to certain American
houses, to enable them to meet the heavy payments which
become due on tbe 3d and 4th inst.—taking their securities
for the amount they require. Upon the whole, the state of
commercial affairs in the city appears to be improving; and
there is every prospect that, with the assistance of the Bank,
the difficulties experienced in commercial affairs, and the
pressure for money during the present week, will be got over
with less difficulty than was anticipated.
The annual Meeting of the Shareholders of the London and
Westminster Bank was held yesterday, at which a favourable
report was submitted to the proprietors ; and the Bank only
expected to lose about 1,7001. on over due bills. A dividend
of five per cent. on the paid up capital was declared.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 90k for the Account, and
891 4 for Money, opened at the same prices this morning,
with little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 26 28 ; India
Bonds, 24 26; Bank Stock, 2074 ; India Stock, 2564 2574.
Spanish Active rather improved—closed at 254 1, opened
at 253- 264 ; in Portuguese no alteration, 483 494 ; Three per
Cents., 314 32; Dutch, 522-,4 53,i.
RALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
Money continues very scarce, and in the Consol market
5 per cent. is given for a few days ; in fact there is a general
demand for it, which will continue until after Saturday next,
owing to the heavy commercial payments becoming due on
that day.
There is not a feature in the operations in either of the
markets worth notice. With the exception of the above pres-
sures, scarce a bargain doing.
Consols continue at the opening prices, 904 for the Ac-
count, with a contango for Money at near 4 per cent., 894.
Exchequer Bills, 26 28; India Bonds, 24 26 ; Bank Stock,
0064 ; India Stock, 25(34.
Spanish Active, 26 ; Passive, 74 ; Deferred, 1 ; Portu-
guese, 49; Three per Cents, 314; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents, 524 534.
No further arrivals.

HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK.
The following has just been posted at the Stock Exchange :
" The Governor and Company of the Bank of England do
hereby give notice, that on and after the 2d instant,
they will be ready to receive applications for loans upon
the deposit of approved bills of exchange not having more
than 95 days to run, such loans to be repaid on or before 15th
April next, with interest at the rate of five per cent. per ann.
and to be for sums of not lass than 2,0001. each.
" Bank of England, March 2, 1837."
Consols for the Account, 90k.

THREE O'CLOCK.

On Wednesday, Locherene, in Perthshire, was ob-
served to be covered by a black scum which spread in a thin
film over its surface. On Thursday morning this had removed
from the central parts and collected near the sides, where part
of it was deposited on the sands in the form of black paste,
which, when taken up in the hands, was not easily washed off
again, and rendered the water (usually remarkably pure) to-
tally unfit for use. About the same time, at the farm of
Miggar, eight or nine miles from Locherene, some clothes
that had been left out all night to bleach, were next morning
covered with black dew of a similar kind. Was this pheno-
menon observed in other parts of the country, and can it have
any connection with the present noxious state of the atmo-
sphere ?

CHRISTENINGS.—On Sunday afternoon last, the
Collegiate Church-yard was thronged with an unusually large
number of parties, parents and sponsors, flocking to the parish
church, for the purpose of the christening of their young
charges. Three hundred and sixty children, at ages rising from
infancy up to six or seven years, received baptism during Sun-
day afternoon at this church alone.—Manchester Guardian,

MAGAZINES.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.

" Boz" takes the field in great force this month. His
present Number is the best we have yet seen, and this
chiefly by virtue of his own articles, the first of which—
that, we mean, entitled " Oliver Twist "—is better than
any thing in the last Pickwick Papers. The sketch of Mr.
Gamfield, the chimney-sweeper, is fresh and glowing with
life, and the scene wherein the poor parish-boy is proposed
to be bound apprentice to him, borders on the pathetic.
The " Pantomime of Life" is a hacknied idea, so ingeni-
ously set off by the aid of humour and a flowing style as
to wear the aspect of a novelty. The following parallel is
felicitously sustained :
" Of all the pantomimic dramatis persona, we consider the
Pantaloon the most worthless and debauched. Independent
of the dislike one naturally feels at seeing a gentleman of his
years engaged in pursuits highly unbecoming his gravity and
time of life, we cannot conceal from ourselves the fact that he
is a treacherous worldly-minded old villian, constantly enticing
his younger companion, the Clown, into acts of fraud or petty
larceny, and generally standing aside to watch the result of the
enterprise ; if it be successful, he never forgets to return for
his share of the spoil ; but if it turn out a failure, he generally
retires with remarkable caution and expedition, and keeps care-
fully aloof until the affair has blown over. His amorous pro-
pensities, too, arc eminently disagreeable ; and his mode of
addressing ladies in the open street at noon-day is downright
improper, being usually neither more nor less than a percep-
tible tickling of the aforesaid ladies in the waist, after commit-
ting which, he starts back, manifestly ashamed (as well he may
be) of his own indecorum and temerity ; continuing, neverthe-
less, to ogle and beckon to them from a distance in a very unplea-
sant and immoral manner. Is there any man who cannot count
a dozen PantaloonS in his own social circle ? Is there any man
who has not seen theta swarming at the West•end of the town
on a sunshiny day or a summer's evening, going through the
last-named pantomimic feats with as much liquorish energy,
and as total an absence of reserve, as if they were on the very
stage itself? We can tell upon our fingers a dozen Pantaloons
of our acquaintance at this moment —capital Pantaloons, who
have been performing all kinds of strange freaks, to the great
amusement of their friends and acquaintance, for years past ;
and who to this day are making such comical and ineffectual
attempts to be young and dissolute, that all beholders are like
to die with laughter."

The slight Memoir of Foote gives a correct estimate of
the powers of this incomparable humourist. The writer,
however, omits to state—or rather mentions it too slightly
—the singular fact that the " Mayor of Garratt" is never
acted without drawing down no small quantity of hissing.
When we last witnessed its representation, there was a
loud cry of " Nonsense" from pit, box, and gallery ; and
we find, on reference to one of his works, that Hazlitt
has remarked the same thing. The reason of this is, that
" Maim. Sturgeon" and " Jerry Sneak" are too true to life.
They come home to the bosoms of too many of the audi-
ence, who dislike to recognise another self on the stage—
when that self is purely ridiculous. Sheridan's " School
for Scandal" is popular for just the reverse reason—that it
is not direct life, but merely a distant approximation to it.
The " Two Butlers of Kilkenny" is a capital after-dinner
story, told with tact and humour. The first page drags a
little, but the closing scenes are admirabli coloured, without
being exaggerated. In the " Remains of Hajji Baba," we
recognize that quiet, easy pleasantry which pleased us so
much in Mr. Morier's early accounts of this paragon of
Oriental Barbers, who is worthy to vie with that immortal
one in the " Arabian Nights," who was called " Silence"
by reason of his excessive loquacity. " A merry Christmas"
trundles on merrily enough, though tho subject is somewhat
out of date. " Nights at Sea:' are a fair specimen of marine
" Noctes." " Hippothanasia" is a lively exaggeration from
the pen of Mr. Jordan, and just now, when all England is
troubled with the Rail-way mania, will be sure to take.
The style rattles forward like a steam-coach on the Man-
chester rail-road. A " Passage in the life of Beaumarchais"
is an agreeable relief to the Number—a sort of halting-
place, where a man may sit and rest his aching sides. The
embellishments are numerous, and well executed. The
sketch, in particular, of Oliver Twist and the Sweep, is
worthy to vie with one of old Hayman's comic Illustra-
tions of Don Quixotte.