The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-31 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
We have received Montreal Papers this morning to the 6th
of May, and Quebec to the 3d of May, from which the fol-
lowing are extracts :
" The Branch at Quebec of the Bank of British North
America, and the Canada Marine Insurance Company, are
now in full operation.
" The Provincisl Parliament will be further prorogued to
the 10th of June, and not then summoned to meet for dis-
patch of business.
" UFPER CANADA.—How the great convulsion in the
Money Market trill affect this country it is hard to guess.
Our concerns being generally of a very limited nature, we have
happily not to dread failures, such as involve scores of families
in sudden distress ; but we may reasonably expect a flat sea-
son, which we must meet with all the philosophy we can
muster, and cheer ourselves with the hopes of better times
to come.

" The Princess Victoria started for Laprarie yesterday morn-
ing, but could not approach within half a mile of the landing,
owing to the accumulation of the ice, and was obliged to return
to port. On Sunday night there was a fall of snow, and yes-
terday the weather was very cold, with a heavy north-west wind.
" l'rovisions of all kinds have a tendency to decline in price.
Business has not yet commenced, and fears are entertained
it will not be very active."
The Quebec Papers state that the corn market continues flat
and languid. The weather, after a gentle rain, changed to
cold, with a strong north-easterly wind. The river at Quebec
was open from the ice. Three ships have got up.

THE FUNDS.
Consols left off 91i 4, opened at 9111 1; Money 91. Yes-
terday a special meeting of the Bank Directors took place,
at which was discussed the present position of the firms which
have been assisted by that Corporation ; up to the present
time we do not hear the result, whether they intend to give
them further assistance or not ; Exchequer Bills, 35 37 ; India
Bonds, 35 37 ; Bank Stock, 206.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Bonds are very
heavy, closed at 23, at present 22+ ; owing to the unfavour-
able intelligence received from Spain. Portuguese 47 ; 3 Per
Cents, 29 ; Spanish Coupons, 49i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents, b3B ; Colombian, 23k.
We have just learnt that letters are in town from Madrid
of the 21st. inst., which do not mention any conspiracy in the
Spanish Army of the North.
This is settling day in the Foreign Market ; up to the pre-
sent hour the Account is going off without any failures.

HALF-PAST ONE.
The Bank Directors resumed their meeting again this day
at one o'clock, which, it is supposed, will decide the question
of their continuing to give further assistance to the American
houses.

The settling of the Account in the Foreign Market con-
tinues to go off well. The heaviest to settle are Spanish and
Portuguese : in the former the extreme fluctuation has been
4 per cent., and in the latter about 3 per cent.
The account in the French papers of a conspiracy hating
been detected in the Spanish army of the North does not
gain credit in the city. The speculators in Spanish Stock
are anxious to have farther particulars respecting the defeat of
Irribarren at Huesca.

New York papers have been received this morning, and are
of the same disastrous description as we published yesterday.
Consols have continued during the morning steady at 91i
for the Account ; at present may be quoted 91 ; Money 9th,
little business has been doing ; Exchequer Bills lower, 36
premium ; India Bonds lower, 34 prem. ; Bank Stock, 204 ;
India ditto, 260 ; Money in the house is at 3 per cent. ; on
foreign securities, 5 per cent.
In the Foreign Market Spanish continues heavy ; in the
course of the day it has been at 221, now 22i with the Cou-
pons ; Passive, 61 ; Deferred, El- ; Portuguese lower, 464 ;
Three per Cents., 28} 29 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 53g.
All quiet in the city respecting commercial affairs.
The Batavier has arrived of 30th May—Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 52 5-16; Five per Cents., 98i ; Spanish, 23+.
THREE 0' CL O CK.
Consols for the Account, 91i.

OFEN, MAY 16.—Yesterday was a day of terror
and danger for most of the inhabitants of Ofen ; for several,
the loss of their lives. About noon dark clouds enveloped the
horizon; a gentle rain fell, but was soon followed by a violent
thunder-storm, with hail and torrents of rain, which did great
damage to the gardens, fields, houses, and bridges ; as most of
the inhabitants of Ofen and Pesth were abroad and exposed to
the fury of the elements, several of them perished. Melan-
choly accounts of these events continue to be received, for
which reason we shall defer the particulars of the accidents that
occurred till our next publication.
Meunier was sent off to Havre at half-past five yes-
terday afternoon. He entered the yard of the Messageries
Royales a quarter of an hour before, attended by a brigadier
and a private of gendarmerie, who are to accompany him, and
remain with him until he sails for New Orleans. The yard
was crowded, but no particular precaution appears to have
been taken to prevent escape or rescue. Meunier appears to
be in much better health than at the time of his arrest and
trial. This improvement is, no doubt, the consequence of the
regimen of his prison both as to diet and cleanliness. On Sa-
turday he was conducted before the Prefect of Police, who
said to him, " Meunier, you wished to assassinate the King;
here are I,ooof. which he gives to assist you in your voyage."

Boireau, the accomplice of Fieschi, whose sentence
of twenty years' imprisonment has been commuted into banish-
ment, passed through Orleans on Thursday in the diligence
for a seaport, where he is to be embarked for the United
States. He was guarded by two gendarmes, who will remain
with him until the vessel sails.
Four hundred workmen are employed in the quarries
at Nourmont, for the purpose of procuring the granite neces-
sary for building the new Houses of Parliament. —Jersity Argus.

LITERATURE.

TIM CURATE OP STEINHOLT.
In Two YOlc.
Longman and Co., London, 1,!11.

Fifty years ago this taic—a tale of Ireland, by the
way—would have acquired an immense popularity.
But we fear the peregrinations oaf the sebooknaeter
Will limit it!t; present circulation to the nuesetv and :fie
, • •• ..;11 . '
servant's hail. There tir; lack of the wild and
the wonderful among its pages. Amor-14 the (lrainatis
persons we have two pairs of devotc7l lovers, a* be-
nevolent clergyman, a gc-tii of bloodthirsty robbers,
with the accompaniments of an eartlitrac, a brigand's
crown, two or three murders, a rape, a trial, awl a
legal execution. The honours ore all dished up after
the Most approved fashion but as we are no epicures
in the consumption of such mental regimen we will
leave to others the task of dliAling upon them in de-
tail. Nevertheless the style of the volumes is situ-
pie and natural ; and the moral reflections exince an
extent of reading and a habit of thinking, strangely at
variance with the childish events which they serve t 9
illustrate.