The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-29 00:00:00

tura-of Ordtm, --thus—euttitg—cfi tiab commtmicittiat
which the .Cailists had beediti hinctlabiithitig •to ! esta:e'l
blish between Vittoria and Bilboa-. This important
intelligence was cotnrntrnida-tM to'the-Frendr- Govern-
ment on Sunday by the rollowing telegraphic dispatch :
" Bayonne, May 26, Half-past Ten, A.M.
" THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE FRENCH 20TH MILT.

TAEY DIVISION TO THE MINISTER. OF WAR.
" Espartcro took possession of Orduna on the 223. The
Carlists have abandoned Balmaseda and Arciniega."
The Carlists organs all admit this to be a very serious
check indeed. Orduna is upon the limits of Biscay and
Uava, and upon the road between Bilboa and Vittoria,
and by its occupation, ESPARTERO has opened the road
to Durango and Estella. ESPARTERO has now the ball
at his own foot. If lie bravely push on in the path of
victory, he will speedily regain the confidence of every
friend of Constitutional Spain ; and he will, moreover, ob-
tain for himsflf the proud distinction of having saved his
country, when deserted by her faithless ally Louis PHI-
LIPPE. But it will be time enough to augur what
ESPARTERO will accomplish, when wd hear of his making
Estella his head-quarters. He has so often disappointed
us, that we cannot easily trust him.
The advices from Madrid arc of the 20th instant.
M. RODRIGUES LEAL was spoken of as the New Fi-
nance Minister. CABRERA was in the neighbourhood
of Cuenca, where he was perpetrating the most dread-
ful atrocities to revenge the appointment of NOGUERAS
to the command of the army of the centre. The coun-
try south of the Ebro was in a sad state of disorganization.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 28.—The Cotton
Market has not been so active as it was yesterday. To-
day the sales are 2,030 bags, at late prices.
Our arrivals this morning are a French mail, and ship
letters from Cape Coast Castle and Batavia.
The exportation of the precious metals from the port cf
London, for the week ending on Saturday last consisted,
according to the official returns, of 101,980 ounces of
silver coin, and 23,432 ounces of silver bars; 10,160 ounces
of gold bars, and 3,700 ounces of gold coin.

THE FUNDS.
The North Easterly winds again deprives us of any
arrivals of importance this morning, and which no doubt is
the cause of the non-arrival of the American Packet Ship
from New York of the Ist inst,, which is some days over
due. Yesterday was settling day in the British market,
and to-day being the pay day for the various differences,
there is not a doubt that all drafts will be duly honoured.
The accounts received from the manufacturing districts
within these few days, gives us reason to believe that the
late forced speculations in raw cotton will be soon checked,
owing to the manufacturers being overcharged with the
raw material. It is also stated that the enormous amount
of American bills drawn against the cotton speculators,
was partly the cause of the Bank of England having ad-
vanced their rate of interest to 5 per cent. ; and at present
the American bill holders must pay a high rate for dis-
counting the above paper, and that through private channels.
There has been a decided improvement in the Foreign
Exchanges yesterday afternoon. It now appears that the
late operations of the Bank Directors begins to take a
good effect, which, no doubt, will prevent the precious
metals being exported from this country to any great
extent.

Consols, which closed buoyant at 931 for Money, and
for Account at 934 opened at the above prices with a
firm Market. Exchequer Bills, 26 28; India Bonds, 30
32 ; Bank Stock, 195 196 ; India Stock, 2551 2561.
Money, which was scarce in the Stock Exchange in the
early part of the morning of yesterday, became rather
easy in the afternoon, when the account was settled.

. -
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 191 to
191, but the telegraphic dispatch of Espartero's success
improved the price to 191 ; Portuguese, 354 I ; Three per
Cents., 2141 1 ; Belgian, 1011 102 ; Brazilian, 791 ; Co-
lombian 304 31 ; Mexican, 261; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. .561- ; Five per Cents., 1021 i.
PRICES OF' STOCKS THIS DAY AT uisi r.: O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock lO6 India Stock
257
3 per Cent. Red. 92 %Yi ; Ditto Bonds 2B pm.
S per Cent. Cons. 93% }i ' South Sea Stock —
359 per Cent — Old Annuities
Ditto Red. 9.1% 1011 New Ditto
New 3 per Cent i014,14 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
New 5 per Cent. ~ — Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 2,,. 25 28 pm.
Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 28 96 26 pm.
Jan. 5, 1860 14% 7-16 Ditto Small 28 '26 28 pm.
Oct. 10, 1559 — Ditto Commercial — pm.
Jan. 5, 1861 — Ditto Advertised ...... pm.
Jan. 5, ISSO — Bank Stock for Account ...
April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account ...
..._.

JZn. 5,1570
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds
• Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account

Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Milan Bonds
D tto Account
Columbian Bonds
Ditto Account

Columbian 80nd5,1824 30X I
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account

I Consos for Account 93%34
THIS DAY AT ON/. O'CLOCK
Peruvian Bonds
Ditto Account
I Portuguese Bonds

Ditto New Bonds 35y4%;
Ditto Account 35%
Ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Prussian Bonds —
Russian Bonds, Mil —
Ditto Account —
Ditto Metallic
. __ —

Spanish Botitis..
Ditto Account.
Passive 19%%
Deferred

Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent....... —f. —c.
Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 1 4 per cent. —f. —e.
Ditto Account ' 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent —, Exchange. —l. —c.
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per Cent. S Ditto Account
Ditto Account —; Ditto, 5 per cent IO2
Neapolitan —l Ditto Acc0unt........ ......
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.

Candonga Mining Company 7 y,E,
Ditto Registered 7y2 3t(
Gosport Junction 5 fi'y9
Brighton Railway
Loudon and Blackwall Railway
London and Croydon Railway Company l6/. 11.5. 125 i 13
LAM) Midland Railway Company...—. .........
Colonial Bank

COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam. C.F. ;o 5 i iiihraitar 4S
iitto, at sight ........ ....... 12 2 1 Leghorn 30 55
Rotterdam 2U. 12 5%; Genoa .. • O5 75
Antwerp...
Hamburg.
A1t0na.....
B'..ris, 3 days' sight 25 41 Pa.er 'no per oz. 120
Ditt0....... ........ ...3 Ms. 25 70 Lisbon 51%
Marseille,.
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Mainit, Er...M. 1515 Bahia ... 27
?etersbuigh, ruble... 3 Us. 10% Buenos Ayres ........... ..........
Berlin
_ __... . .

_ ...
Vienna, effective ti..,3 Al. 10 6 Philadelphia 45
Tri..:,.te......ditt0 lO 7 PltloE O BULLION, per OZ.
I.l,lrie 37 I Portugal Gala, con-1....A:0 0 0
Cadiz.... ',7y2 Foreign Gold, in bar 3... 318 0
Gilboa ....
Barcelona
Seville. 36 Silver in Bars

lIALF-PAST
We have no further arrivals at present, with the excep-
tion of the Dutch steamer, Batavier, bringing the Dutch
Papers of the 28th May, with the prices of the 27th May
from Amsterdam ; Two-and-a- Half Per Cents., 55 1-16
to 4- ; Five Per Cents., 102.
In the British market very little business has been doing
in the course of the morning, but Consols continue firm,
and may be quoted at 9:14 2 Money ; and 93i a for the
Account.

Money continues very scarce, and high rates for dis•
counts are demanded, particularly for mercantile bills. In
the Stock Exchange it is obtained at easier rates, although
in demand.

To the present time we have neither reports or any news
of consequence to communicate, was it not for the fine wea-
ther we should be exceedingly dull in the City.
The merchants trading with the United States are
anxiously waiting the arrival of the packet-ship from
New York.

The Dutch papers of the 28th inst. do not contain any
political news of consequence.
Exchequer Bills,. 28 26 28 ; India Bonds, 28 ; Bank
Stock 196 ; India Stock,
.257.
In the Foreirm. Market Spanish 'Active, 19f ; Portu-
guese, 35i • Three per Cents., 211; Brazilian, 79 ; Co-
lombian, 3 I ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half pt.r Cents. 56h-
Five per Cents. 1021. Must of the Foreign Funds have
rather improved.

BREAD-TAX BRAVOES.—The maddened vio-
lence with which our lecturers have been assailed by the
scions and sycophants of the aristocracy, encourage us to
persevere. We have evidently hit upon the right method
of assailing the atrocious bread tax. The authors of the
corn-law writhe under our exposure of their selfishness.
They bore without wincing the castigations by Mr. Vil-
liers and the delegates in London : but to send missionaries
to open the eyes of their own deluded victims, that is
touching them on a raw place ! That the sordid
party which passed the Corn-law, surrounded by
bayonets to protect them from the people, should
hire bravoes to assault our peaceable lecturers, is
consistent enough. That the stewards, butlers, and game-
keepers of certain Lords should be ordered to drive up
their tenants, to drown with their view halloo the voice of
reason, is natural. But surely in times like these, when
men will claim the right to think, however they may be
coerced in action, the legislative landlords should endeavour
to find some one man at least who can argue as well as
fight for them. Even the slaveowners had their champion.
Cannot the landowners find a Borthwick ? or must it stand
confessed that nobody can be found with hardihoood suffi-
cient to face an impartial English audience as the advocate
of the Corn-laws 2—Anti-Corn-law Circular.

The " Anti-Corn-law Circular," anUnadvertirfg
on the recently committed outrage at Cambridge by the
unfledged ruffians in gowns and caps, says, " Let us hear
no more about the violence of Chartists; their meetings
have been conducted with decency, when compared with
the outrageous language, and the attrocious attempt at
physical force, and probably murder, by these collegians."
MONSTROUS RAT.—There is at present in the
possession of Mr. Lewis Smith, spirit-dealer, 141, Salt-
market, an animal of the rat species of the following ex-
traordinary description :—lt is of the bulk and thickness of
a pretty large terrier dog, and covered on the back and belly
with a thick coat of very fine hair ; the head is about the
size of that of a house rabbit; the front teeth in the upper
and lower jaws are nearly an inch and a half long and very
sharp ; the paws are webbed, and the hind ones are broader
than the webbed foot of a full grown goose. It swims and
dives remarkably well, remaining in and ender the water
until recalled by the voice of its owner, to whom it is very
much attached, following him about like a dog. The ani-
mal, wh;ch is a female, weighs upwards of 101bs., and its
length from the head to the extremity of the tail when ex-
tended, measures 2 feet 7 inches. The tail is entirely bare
of hair, and very long and thick, and covered with a scaly
stfastance. She is partial to vegetables and fish, but dis-
likes every kind of flesh whether raw or in a prepared state.
In eating she rests en her hind paws, holding the food in
the fore ones. She is also partial to porter and beer, and
has oftener than once drank more than she could well carry.
Although so powerful and fcrocicus looking she is perfectly
tame and gentle, and will suffer handling without the least
show of resistance or even ill nature, so that the most
may approach her with perfect safety. A strong attachment
subsists between her and a fine dog of the cocker species
Lo!on7ing to Mr. Smith.—Glasgow Chronicle.
REPRESENTATION OF WEST SOMERSET...—
The Somerset County Gazette refers to a circular issued
by the Tories as incitement to the Liberals to bestir them-
selves.