The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-29 00:00:00

and as it can only perpetrate mischief, the sooner it
fall the better. TORENO'S performances arc now
limited to prompting and scene-shifting.

Letters from Cadiz of the 13th inst. state that a
riot took place in that city on the 10th., occasioned by
a drunken officer of the third Regiment of National
Guards, who persuaded his men to commit outrages
upon the peaceable inhabitants. Numerous arrests
have in consequence taken place, and as the authori-
ties dread the existence of a conspiracy, they have
resolved to treat the convicted with extreme rigour.

The Paris Journals of Wednesday have been re-
ceived, but their contents are uninteresting. The
following gleanings from them include all they contain
worthy of the least notice :

It is announced that General Bugeaud will shortly arrive at
Paris. His presence in the Chamber may be useful when
the debate on the Address brings forward the question of
Algiers.—Constitutionnel.
The Indicateur of Bordeaux, of the 25th inst., has the fol-
lowing paragraph :—We learn by letters from the frontier that
General Alaix arrived at Pampeluna on the 18th, to take pus •
session of the Viceroyalty of Navarre, in the room of General
Latre, who was going to put himself at the head of the troops.
The same letter states that General Espartero was going to
Madrid.
The Captain of an English vessel, named James Joll, having
attempted to land at Passages several bales of prohibited
goods, under cover of the British flag, Commodore Lord
John Hay being informed of the fact, has ordered the goods
to be seized and conveyed to St. Sebastian, under the escort
of an officer, declaring that Captain Joll should be tried ac-
cording to the existing laws, without being allowed to avail
himself of his character as an Englishman. This conduct
does the greatest honour to Lord John Hay. —Le Commerce.
The Commerce says—" We think it our duty to publish
entire the last speech of Lord John Russell in the House of
Commons. This speech is one of the most important docu-
ments (les plus graves) that been presented to the public
for a long time. It abounds in avowals, and the situation of
England and of its Ministry is reflected in it, in colours that are
by no means encouraging. The words of the English Minister
are an advent, not only for Canada, but likewise for Europe.
We shall return to this subject."

FRENCH FUNDS -PARIS, Nov. 27.
Five per Cents.. 107 f. 90c. 108 f.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 10c.
Three per Cents., 7Sf. 70c. 65c. 80c.
Bank Actions, 2,555 f. 2,551. f. 2,515 f. 2,537 f. 50e.
ftente de Naples, 97f. 55c.
Roman Five per Cents., 100%%.
Spanish Actives, 20%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102.
Brussels Society, 1,710 f.
Belgian Bank, 1,535 f. 1,5404 1,537 f. 50e.
Haytian Loan, 3701.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 47%c.; money, 25f. 47%c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 30e. ; money, 25f. 2'7%e.
LAST PRICES.:
Five per Cents. 108 f. sc.
Three per Cents., 73f. 90c.
Bank Actions, 2,537 f. 50c.
Romans, 100%.
Belgian Loan, 102.
Belgian Bank, 1,537 f. 50c.
Brussels Society, 1,710 f.
Spanish Actives, 204.
Haytian Loan, 3701.
BELGIAN 1' UNDS-Bausenu, Dec. 27.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl
Loan of Thirty Millions VS%
Loan of City, 1332, 4 per Cent lOl3
Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent 144%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent
National Society .
-Brussels Papers, Dee. 27.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-VIENNA, De 19.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
-Allgetneine Zeitung, Dee 24.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

There can be no lasting peace or security in Canada
with the present Constitution. The Constitution o
1791 is an utter absurdity. It gave to the represen-
tative body the command of the public purse, and the
Lower Chamber has just as much right to stop the
supplies as our House of Commons has, when affairs
come to a crisis, and there is no other means of re-
dress. PAPINEAU and his party adopted this plan
when they found, or believed they found, that there
was no other way to reform the Upper Chamber.
Wrongs they had, it cannot be denied—indeed Lord
JOHN RUSSELL admitted the fact in the House of
Commons—and when they had recourse to a ha-
zardous, though a constitutional remedy, the mo-
ther country breaks the contract, and, with-
out their leave, takes unappropriated money out
of the Treasury to pay the judges and civil officers.
The result proves the absurdity of the original agree-
ment. Mr. PITT gave to the representatives of a
colony the greatest power possessed by the represen-
tatives of an independent State, and when they exer-
cise this power, the only alternative of anarchy or
independence is " might against right." All the faults
of the Colonial Government being admitted, it must at
the same time be admitted that Mr. PAPIN➢AU has
not " chosen the good part." The country is yet too
weak and defenceless to set up as an independent State,
and if England is to retain it as a colony, another
Constitution must be the result, and he will find in that
case that he and his party will be the chief losers.

THE TRADES AND MR. O'CONNELL• --- To-
morrow we shall give a report of the meeting of tradesmen
held last Tuesday in Dublin, for the purpose of denying the
charges made against them by Mr. O'Connell.
It is a singular anomaly in civilized society, that
those with the smallest means pay at the highest rate for every
necessary of life. In the articles of coals, potatoes, tea, sugar,
and indeed most others, the rich lay in a quantity at the proper
season, while the poor always purchase them by retail, at an
increased price of a third, and sometimes of one-half. A poor
man that buys his coals from week to week has to pay Is. Bd.,
and in severe weather Is. 10d. the cwt. ; whereas, if he had
contrived to lay by, at the commencement of the winter, 155.,
he might purchase with that sum half a ton ; and in that case
he would find that Is. would go as far as Is. Bd. in the other.
Taking into account the bad quality, often the bad weight,
and the higher profit charged on articles sold in small portions,
the poor pay twice as much for coals as the rich. But where
he is compelled to borrow or pawn some of his property, he
pays a vast deal mere—he pays at least four times as much as
the rich 1 For every article of the value of 205., if allowed to
remain one year, he pays as interest of 20 per cent. ; and if
the article is repeatedly redeemed and re-pledged—say once
a fortnight—he would have to pay more than a hundred per
cent. From calculations made, the poor and the improvident
sacrifice in this way, throughout the country, not less than
750,0001. a year ! There is some difference between this
practice and the Savings Banks system. In the one case, a
man acts like a rational being—in tke other, like a maniac.
WYLD's MAP OF LOWER CANADA.--Mr.
Wyld, of Charing-cross, has just published a coloured Nlap of
Lower Canada, which we recommend to all who wish to be
correctly informed respecting the progress of the civil war in
that provinee. It is well executed, and on a scale sufficiently
large to admit a distinct outline of the size of even the vil-
lages on either bank of the St. Lawrence.

-WHITFIELD'S EARLY PlETY.—Being now, writes
Whitfield, near the 17th year of my age, I was resolved to
prepare myself for the holy sacrament, which I received on
Christmas day. I began now to be more watchful over my
thoughts, words, and actions. I kept the following Lent, fast-
ing Wednesday and Friday, thirty-six hours together. The
evenings, when I had done waiting on my mother, were gene-
rally spent in acts of devotion, reading " Drelincourt upon
Death," and other practical books, and I constantly went to
public worship twice a day. Being now an upper boy, I made
some reformation among my schoolfellows. I was very diligent
in reading and learning the classics, and in studying my Greek
Testament, but I was not yet convinced of the absolute unlaw-
fulness of playing at cards, and of reading and seeing plays,
though I began to have some scruples about it. Near this
time I dreamed that I was to see God on Mount Sinai, but
was afraid to meet him. This made a great impression upon
me ; and a gentleman to whom I told it said, " George, this is
a call from God."

SYMPTOMS.—Sympom 1. When you meet a
friend about five o'clock near his own house, and he stands
gossipping with you at the street door without knocking, take
it as a symptom that you are not wanted to dinner.—Symptom
2. When you drop in for half an hour's chat at a friend's
house in the evening, and your friend looks at his watch after
you have been there about two hours, while his wife packs up
her needle-work with a yawn, observing, " Well, I think it
is time to give over for to-night," it is an infallible symptom
that you are a bore, and that the sooner you export yourself
the better.—Symptom 3. If at any evening party you are se-
lected to make one at a rubber at whist it is a symptom there
are younger persons in the room whom the ladies cannot spare
as well as yourself.—Symptom 4. If you are travelling outside
a stage, and when you stop for dinner the porter brings a lad-
der for you to descend, consider his civility a decided symptom
(whatever you may think of yourself) that he thinks you a
gentleman who has arrived at a time of life not favourable to
agility. Symptom 5. When a Jew boy importunely offers
to sell you a pair of spectacles as a bargain you may conclude
it is a symptom there is something in your appearance which
denotes the father of a family, in spite of whatever the tailol
may have done to dress you like your youngest son. Symp-
tom G. If you meet a gentleman and a lady, the gentlemar
looking vacantly serious, as if thinking of nothing—the lady
placidly careless, as if perfectly satisfied—depend upon it them
are symptoms of their being man and wife, and that the hus-
band has consented to a walk, though he would rather leave it
&one, while the wife is pleased to find he is as attentive as
ever. But when you meet a lady and gentleman in earnest
discourse, the gentleman talking much, the lady listening with
downcast eyes, it is the s,)mptom of an affair in progress which
will probably end in going to church.