The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-10 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The Oxford packet, from New York, has arlived at
Liverpool—sailed on the 21st ult., bringing Papers to
the 21st.

We have received Jamaica Papers by the mail of the
25th April. . _

(Prom the above Papers.)

. _
The labourers of St. Andrew's and other parishes have
scarce been undeceived ;Tith respect to rat erroneous
opinion they had formed of their right to their masters'
property, but they have fallen into another. They have
scarce been taught to know that they have no right to oc-
cupy his houses without his permission, than they proceed
to dismantle them of such parts as they themselves may
have added by way of couvenietsee or improvement. Fre-
quent complaints of this nature are now brought before the
ma 2 islrat • s.

We perceive that complaint is made of the resistance
which the people on the estates, in some parishes, make to
the payment of rent, and also to the attempt to levy for
such rents; and it is thought that the constables tuf;ht to
be protected in distraining by the military. That the lat-
ter, will be done, is extremely impr h.bie.
X From the INT3rth side Journals by the Post.)
Wo have this day to record one other step ia the pro-
gress of democratic principles in this island, by the re-
signation of the Honourable William Prater, as Custos
of the parish of Trelawney, and Major-Gan. of Militia.
We have received Cape of Gond Hope papers to the
7th of April ; they do not contain any accounts from the
Border or any ether information worth notice.
We have Demerara papers to the 13th of April :—" We
regret that we cannot transmit to England by the packet
a favourable account of the state of affairs in British
Cohn

" The peasantry in this colony are much more culpable,
in regard to the unsteadiness and slovenliness of their
labour than any other set of human creatures would be if
surrounded with similar temptations.
"jc is beyond a doubt that many proprietors, hardly able
to take off the crop of the compulsory system, and finite
unable to supply its place with the prepratives fur future
harvests, must ere long give up the fruitless struggle,
unless altistance be given them with immediate spsed,
,to a large
.extent. The very season sce►rs to be conapir-
ing with the indfdcnce and capziei of man. The country
is alsulutely scorched under the intense wad protr:cted
dr.xght ; the likelihood of general sickness and increitied
indisposition of field labour, being the close conseq•rences
of the setting hi of the rainy months, is a new cause of
alarm."

" S.:veral branches cf commerce have undoubt: dly hal en
impulse given them by the ret,mtion, in the colpy, of the
money,that used to benefit the absentees in Europe; hat
the Impulse is unnatural, and must have its limits %here
no produce is raised. How are wages to be given ?"
From the islands there is not much news of any moment.
We have received the Port of Spain Gazettes to the
13th April :
" At St. Vincent a Meeting has been held in Charlotte
pariah to take into consideration the disorganized state of
the district. A Memorial has been addressed to his Ex-
cellency on the subject."
Ihrbadoes papers have been received up to the 7th

We fear sugar-making in our Island is proceeding,
with rather a snail's pace from the unconquerable indo-
lence 0; the labourers. The continued bright and dry
weather has so fully ripened the canes that in many
places they are becoming very dry and they ought to be
cut down."

The Liverpool steamer has arrived at Falmouth, I..ft
G;b-altar on the 30. h May, Cadiz•3lst, and Lisbon 31
Jule. The papers from Lisbon do not contain much news
of importance.

The Exchange from New York may be quoted at 93.
United States Balik ; Shares 1181. •
The information by the Lisbon mail is somewhat of a
move favourable nature, respecting the Foreign debt, than
previously received. It appears that the present Ministry
at least makes a show of honesty, e.ni have plJeed the
foreign debt with that of the interior ; but I am a;,pre-
hensive there is no money in the treasury to pay either
of them.

C,nsols opened this morning at the leaving-off nrice
of Saturday, 94 to for the Account ; Reduced 921 ;
Exchever Bills 30 32 ; India. Bonds 30 32; BaLk Stock
192} 193} ; Inlian Stock 256 257:
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 191 ; Portu-
guese improved to 35k, owing to the account,: from
Lisbon respecting the Foreign debt ; Brazilian, 79. ;
Colombian also improved to 31/ ; Dutch Two-and-a-Ileif
Cents. 561 ; Five per Cents., 102 k 103.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONL O'CLOCK
Austrim Ronde Peruvian Bona

Belgi.aa

Ditto Account.

, . . 7 _____ .............. _
lit tto Account
Brazilian Bonds .. Ditto New Bonds ........ 33 4
Ditto Account
Buenos Aytes Bends — Ditto, 3 per Cent. ...... ... t I !i,
Ditto Account — Ditto Account
Chiiian Bonds ... — Prussian Bonds —
D tto Account
Colnuibian Bonds - 2l,i , Ditto Account —
Ditto Account —i Ditto Metallic
Columbian Bondp:, 1i.:94 ... . .- Spanish Bonds 19,;
Ditto Account 313.7,? ii R 4 'i , Ditto Account. !llk%
Danish Bones
... ,-;1,.i
Di:to Account — Def. rz ei SS
I
Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent....... —f. —c.
Ditto Bonds, 1/52.5 — -- 4 per cent. f. —c.
alto Account —; ---- 3 per cent...—. —f. —r.
Mexican Bonds, 6 per Cent —-- Exchange. f. --,..
Ditto Account — I Dutch, 256 per cent. ..... ... .50!3
Ditto, 6 per Cent ... 'Ali ' Ditto Account —
-
Ditto Account
Neapolitan. —, Ditto Acc0unt..............

lIALF-PA ST ONE.
LITERTOOL COTTON-MARKET, JUNR 8 —The dernanti
for Cotton to day has been very fair from spinners to
about 3,500 bags have been sold at full prices of vcsterdsy,
holders shelving more firmness. American, 7i 01; 800
.Surats, chiefly for export, 4:t per lb.
'KA. a !Ong tine past we have not bad-such a quaut:ty
of arrivals of ship letters as to-day; they are from the
three quarters of the globe, South, East, and West—thcso
from the East are of old dates.

The She'drake has brought the Jamaica and LeeTard
Island Mails. Sail( d from Jamaica about Toth April, St.
Thomas, 231 March, H yti, 22th March.
We find ia the Demerara papers that the mortiXty
among tic troops is distressing rod alarming, some blame
the water, some say the fruit and new rum are the cau:es.
Consols are not (-elite so good as in the early part of the
day, and have receded from 94 to 94; for Account, re-
duced 921 i ; Exchequer Bills, 31 32 ; India Bonds, 32 ;
Spanish Active, 194-; Portuguese, 351; Three per
Cents. 214 ; Colombian, 31k; Mexican, 2G:I ; Dutch
Two-and-a- Half per Cents. SG; Five per Cents. 103.
Na news or reports to communicate. •

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS

rank Stock - ---14c4-.
3 per Cent Re.l
3 per Cent. Cc as
3% per Ccnt. Red IV)
New 3W. per Cent
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860
0ct.1859 ..
Jan 1060
FOREIG
_ . .

India Stack
Ditto Bonds
I;itto Old Annuities —
Ditto New Annuities
iEx. Bilis, L000t.......2.: ....... 30 pm.
Ditto 50'4'. 32 pm.
Ditto 5001 "4 pm
.Bank Stock for OK! —
'lndia Stock fur Ope;
'Consols for Act (4
4 FUNDS.
Austr:an, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent. ICI% Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds — rsrussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — Russian Bond:, 5 per cent.... 112%
Chihat: 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic —
Colomb'atn, 6 per cent 29N, Spanish, 5 per cent 19%
Ditto, 1824 :,11.4 Ditto, Deferred S%
Danish, n per cent ......... ..,... 751 A French, 5 per cent. —t —c.
Greek &ads, i 825, 5 per ct. Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent French, 3 per cent —C. —(
Ditto, (i per cent., 1825 ...... 2514 Dutch, 2% per cont.
Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent..... Ditto, 5 per cent. 1035
SD A RES.
Great North of England Railway 2l
Great Vv'estern Railway . 7b1,4
London and Brighton it,lway
London and Greenwich Railway l7
London and Croydon Railway ("1 run ) in!,',
Manches.ter and Birmin:;liam Railway
—.....„„---.........._____
Her NI ' - " .1.

_ajosty the Queen Dowager attended the
performance of Handel's _Messiah, at the Hanower.,7.gtore
Rooms,. on Wecincsday evening, for the benefit cf the
Royal Society of Musicians, and expressed herself highly
gratified.
EXTRAORDINARY DESPATCH.—Last week a
briekmaker in the employ of the Eastern Counties' Railway
Company, completed the task of mcultling 50,000 bricks,
between Monday and Saturday night. We are informed
that, at the eleven tables engaged in thit like work, little
short of half a million of bricks were moulded in the same
time.— Clielmforl Chronicle.

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BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAIL-
Wednesday the 29:h ult., the directors of the
above railway inspected the line between Derby and the
junction with the London and Birmingham Railway at
Hampton-in- Arden, a distance of abcut thirty-eight
miles. They proceeded from the bridge over the river
Dove, a distance of seventeen miles, towards Tamworth,
with a train of passenger carriages, drawn by an engine
built by Messrs. Charles Tayleur and Co., of Warrington.
The line is generally and cn many portions remarkably
straight. The gradients are so extremely favourable that
it may almost be said to be a level, and the motion, we
are assured by gentlemen who accompanied the Directors,
was easy and smooth, to a degree which they had seldom,.
experienced on any other railway. By the simplicity oh
construction and stability of the bridge ever the Teme and
Trent, at their junction near Alrewas, over which the train
passed at speed, the Directors were strongly impressed. It
is near this point that the intended junction with the
branch of the Manchester and Birmingham Extension
Line is to be effected, by which the traffic from Lancashire
to Derby, Nottingham, and the eastern parts of the king-
dom, will eventually be brought along the line of this
railway. Though some portions of the line were not in so
complete a state as to render the further passage of the
train advisable, the greater portion of the permanent way
was laid, and in a few wcoks the engines will be able to
pass along the whole distance. Considerable progress is
makiog in the station accommodations for the Company's
traffic at Derby and Burnton-upon- Trent ; the building of
the station at the junction with the London and flit
learn line at Ilampton-ia- Arden will soon be Completed,
and no doubt exists that the line may be opened to the
public, :for the whole distance from Derby to the junctioa
with the London and Birmingham Railway, is the course
of the ensuing month.
ST. MICHAEL'S TOWER AND BELLS.--lii
consequence of the great vibration of the hanthonte and
lefty Gothic tower of St. Michael's church, Cornhill,
can. etl by the ringing of the bells, it was deemed neces-
sary to lower and rehang the whole peal, which has bet.n
lately efliseted. The bells arc twelve in nun-.bt,r, and,
with the exception of those of St. Saviour's, Southwark,
and St. Peter's, Muncrott, are decidedly the finest-toned
peal of twelve bells in England.
TIIE LIVERPOOL BARBERs.---Police officer
80 charged Genr,ge Knight, hair-dresser, with shaving on
Sunday. The defendant admitted the truth of the charge,
but urged in extenuation, that it was a great convenience to
the male public to be able to obtain a " cleat, scams " be-
fore attending divine worship. The megistretes said ,hey
hal no discretion, and he was accordingly mulcted in the
penalty of five shillings.—J. Dauhleday wits fined the like
sum for a similar offence. Mr. Doubleday said, he had
reason to believe that the officers were bribed to lay infer-
m eioni against him and Mr. Knight, as a groat number
, of the f earthy practised on a. Sunday without inter-
! tuptior;