The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-20 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES and CANADA!,

From the Halifax Times, May 7.)
ARRIVAL OF THE BTH REGIMENT.-Hor Majesty's ships
Pique, Andromache, and Wanderer, arrived. on Sunday
last, in 17 days from Jamaica, with the Bth Regiment ; they
disembarked at 2 o'clock yesterday. The Bth Regiment
left Halifax about five years ago, and brings back some fa-
miliar faces, but few of the gallant corps who left our shores
in health an I vigour have withstood the effccts of the pes-
tilential climate.

COLONEL PRINCE.
The conduct of this gallant officer is, we aro glad b see,
appreciated as it deserves by every loyal subject in the Bri-
tish North American dominions. A public clinker has
been given to him in Toronto. At every public festival,
particularly, the recent celebrations of St. George's day in
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, his name has been ho-
noured among the brave and the loyal with the utmost
enthusiasm. Colonel Prince has done more to check the
sympathizing propensity of the trt acherous Yankees, by
one act of decisive energy, than all the parade of power
without its exercise, and all the falsely calculated lenity of
the Government, could effect.
The House of Assembly of Prince Edward's Island have
voted 500/, for a delegation to represent the wishes of tr at
colony on the subject of a Legislative Council and other
matters.

(From the Royal Gazette, Fredericton, May 8.)
We understand that the Licutenant-Governor has re-
ceived by the April mail despatches from the Secretary of
State, conveying► to his Excellency the most entire appro-
val on the part of her Maj-sty's Government of all his
measures and views in connection with the recent disputes
with the State of Maine.

Her MHjfisty's ship Cleopatra, Captain Lushington, 24
days from Plymouth, arrived at St. John's on Saturday
last, with draughts for the 36th Regiment. Quebec Mer-
cury, May 18.

SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 25,
(From the New York Courier and Inquirer, May 25.)
50 Shares Union Bank
100 Do Delaware and Hudson Canal Co., 30 ds Bl
70 Do Leather Manufacturers ll4
150 Do Dry Dock Bank
25 Do Mechanic's Banking AFsociation
25 Do United States Bank
119
20 Do Kentucky
••• 90Z
10 Do Illinois
35 Da Canton
46
282 Do Mohan k Ralroad
66
85 Do Pdterson
,• 68
10 Do Boston and Providence lOBl
150 Do New Jersey
210 Da Stonington..
35
50 Do Haarlem Railroad s 60 days 591
50 Do Bank of Commerce s. 30 days 1021
100 Do Farmers' Trust 60 days 112

LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JUNE 19. —Wind W. S W. •
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 19. Wind S. W.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 19.—Arrived the Mary Hudson, John
son, from Marseilles.

FALMOUTH, JUNE 18.—Wind E. S. E. to S. S.E., fresh
breezes.—Arrivcd the Express packet, from the West
ludies—sail_•d from Barbadocs Ist ult., Tobago 3.3, Trini-
dad 9th, Grenada 11th, St. Kitts 13th, Tortola 15th, St.
Thomas 16. h, Porto Rico 17th, and Cape Hayti 22d.
Sailed the Helen Symons, Jopp, Hamburg. Off port, the
Circassian, Ritchie, from Monte Video.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 19.—Wind variable.—Arrived the
Cabotier, Ashton, from Bahia, sailed the 29th April ;
Monongahela, Miereken, Philadelphia, sailed the 20th ult.;
and Tweed, M.Ktrizie, Trieste. Off port the Alpha, from
Monte Video; Dale, New Orleans; Garland, Trinidad;
and Archer, Barbadoes. Sailed the John o'Gaunt, Ro-
bertson, for Batavia ; Betsy Hall, Coker, Monte Video ;
St. Cloud, Colman, Boston ; Ellen Brooks, Lindsay, Bal-
imore ; and William II arris, Luby, Vccice.

A male giraffe was born yesterday at the gardens
of the Zoological Society, in the Regent's Park. The
mother and her young one are doing well. The exhibi-
tion of these animals will necessarily be withheld for a few
days.
SCANDALOUS PUBLICATIONS._A correspon.,
dent rays it is the firm eet ,rmiriation of the inhabitants of
St.- Clement Danes tc cal a vestry meeting, to discus the
best means of preventing the future publication of a cer.,
tain scantlilaus paper within that parish.

We have received from our Correspondent at Philadel-
phia a letter, dated May 25, from which we make the fol-
lowing interesting extracts :--

PHILADELPHIA, MAY 25.
I regret to inform you that the state of banks, business,
and money matters, in some regions of the south and south-
west, is just now of a most unfavourable charactcr—l par-
ticularly allude to Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, and parts of
Tennessee and Georgia. At Mobile the pecuniary diffi-
culties are said to be beyond all precedent ; while, in Mis-
sissippi law-suits and seizures arc continual, and the state
of feeling, according to some of the papers and private
letters, is said to be such, that the otr.ces of the law are
executed with much difficulty. Indeed, sheras give extra
tire e instead of seizing, and but few ca 3 fulfil their husi-
nets engagements at maturity. At Cincinnati too (the
gteat emporium of the pork trade) heavy complaints arc
made, and instances of from three to five per cent. per
month are mentioned as having been paid for temporary
loans. lam well convinced that the embarrassment will
soon subside at Cincinnati; hut in the southern States I
have mentioned such usurious rates of interest are by no
means uncommon, and in these districts I do not sec much
prospect of its subsiding until after the next cotton crop is
gathered in.
As may naturally be expected, this state of things has
tended greatly to excite the public mind ; alai I rem rd
with feelings of pain the perpetration of a lawless outrage
by a mob at Decatur, Mississippi. For some reason or
other that has not yet transpired, the passions of the mul-
titude were much inflamed against the Real Estate
Batik at that place. A large concourse assembled and
burned the batik, together with all the books and papers.
Great excitement prevailed there.
You will naturally inquire what is the cause of all this
pecuniary distress in the South? I: is answered in one
word—Overtreding ! Merchants, bankers, money-lenders,
planters, importers, exporters, manufacturers, and agri-
culturists, pursue their avocations with such extraordinary
zeal, that they rush madly into that common commercial
vice of the age.
These remarks are chiefly confined to the States I have
mentioned, for I em happy to inform you that affairs at
New Orleans are tolerably prosperous, all things consi-
dered ; while in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore, I have seldom known them better, especially
when it is remembered that the spring trade has ceased,
and a summer lassitude has already begun. Money is to
be had in New York at 7 (legal New York interest) to 9
yes cent. on good paper, and in this city it is still easier.
Stocks have risen, and are rising. Confidence prevails.
Moderate speculations and public improvements arc ,pro-
greasing, and generally speaking the state of commerce,
and the tone of public feeling, are sound and healthy.
In Mississippi—as some time since in Michigan—the
banking systems are radically bad, while many of the
banks are in the hands of unprincipled adventurers. In
hose States they are now gradually adopting the wiser sys-
tems of the north ; and I have no doubt that with patience,
and also with the prudence that will have been taught by
experience, matters will soon light themselves.
The affairs of Canada are of an exciting complexion. A
fees days since, an American schooner—the Weeks, of
Oseve,go—while on her way to Ogdensburg, had occasion
to call at Brockville, Upper Canada. At that port she was
seized by Col. Fraser, in consequence, as it is said, of her
" having a cannon on board." The truth is, she was taking
the cannon from Oswego to Ogdensburg, for a military
company at the latter place. Col. Worth, of the United
States army, with a small military force, moved toward; the
opposite.bank of the river, and sent
..a note, requiring the
surrender uf the schooner. The answer was delayed until
the following afternoon ; and in the meantime the mob in
B;ockvillc seized the cannon, and paraded it in triumph,
and committed depredations on board the schooner, where
they broached casks of liquor, stole fruit, and were guilty
of other outrages. A military force arrived from King-
ston, Upper Canada, arrested three ringleaders, and finally
the schooner and cannon- were delivered up. It is deeply
to be regretted that now the feeling of agitation has sub-
sided
in the United States, the minds of the Canadians
should be continually excited by Tory writers in the pro-
vinces.
The crops in Canada promise well. Sixty-six vessels
passed along the Welland Canal in April, forty-four of
which were American. In 1838 only sixteen passed along
during the same period.
Another speck of trouble has reached us from the dis-
puted territory. Mr. M`Laughlin, the Briiish agent, has
ordered off Captain Nye and an American party from
Fish River, which is said to be now under the jurisdic-
tion of Maine, according to the Lite temporary compromise.
Maine has sent an extra force to the spot. The Maine
People say the British are erecting a fort at Madawaska
dsuhtful !

It is now decided that the Upper Canada Bauks are to
resume specie pa3raents on the Ist of November.
The most painful news we have from the North is the
statement of a famine in Newfoundland. Hundreds have
been ler dais without food. Some have died.
United States Bank Stock 1181 to 119. Cottoa looks
rather downward, owing to the fall in price at Liverpool
and Havre, but no change has yet occurred. Sterling
exchange in state quo. Flour and grain are still falling.
Sugar and et-ALT are rather more animated, but at the
same quotations as in my last.— Chronicle.
(From the .IVew Orleans True American.)
LATER FROM MEXICO.
Dates from Tampico have been received in town up to
the 4th inst.
They were in instant apprehension of an attack from
Bustamente, as he had begun to move from Vitturia. His
advanced posts were Et IlErcasitas, Tansr,snequi, and
Presos. A decree of the Government, bearing data the
22d of April, has been issued, disavowing the acts of the
Cu tom•house officers at Tampico in allowing foreign
goods to be introduced into their port, contrary to the
edict closing it, and more especially in levying the duties
below the actual tariff. M. Goraztiza warns the' people
of Tampico that the Government will not ba answerable
for any excesses that may hi committed by the army of the
republic, shouid that city fall before Bustamente. All
trade was paralyzed.
Alexia and Urrea were not bound to Vera Cruz, as was
belicvcd.They were marching upon Puebla, and thence they
intended to descend upon Mexico. To prevent'this latter
move, Gen. Inelam, with 1,000 troops, had been stationed by
Santa Anna at Perole, and General Vasques, with 2,000,
at Huahuachinango.
( From the New York Gazette.)
RECALL OF SIR G. ARTHUR.
We lear❑ from Toronto that Sir G. Arthur bas been re-
called, and that the Hon. F. Alaule has been appointed
Lieutenant-Governor in his place. This report may prove
to be unfounded, but we arc inclined to believe it true. It
is also'said that the entrance of Mr. Maule upon the admi-
nistration of the province is to be signalised by a general
act of amnesty.