The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-22 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols, which left off yesterday, 91i for the Account,
opened this morning at 91 ; Money same. Exchequer
B:Ps 49 prem. ; India Bonds 48 50 prem. ; Bank Stock
2101- 211 ; India Stock 259 260.
2

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 201,
Ex Coupons, opened at 9.04 ; Portuguese closed at 394- ;
opened at the same; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
.531 ; Colombian, 24i 25 ; Mexican, 241 25 ; Spanish
Passive, .5i 5 ; Deferred, 77 n._

- HALF-PAST ONE.
We have received Singapore papers to the 24th March.
By the Amelia, which arrived on the 21st inst. from Bata-
via, we have received the Java Courant from the 15th
February to the Ist inst. Prince William Frederick, the
third son of the Prince of Orange, arrived at Batavia on
the 9th, on board the Belona frigate, and landed on the
10th under a salute due to his rank.

The weather at Batavia has been for some time very
boisterous. Rain had fallen almost incessantly since De-
cember, and the communication with the shipping in the
roads had been frequently interrupted for several days,
and a great part of the town had been flooded.
Consols have been during the morning at 911, for Ac-
count ; Money same, with little doing ; Exchequer Bills
lower, 47 prem. ; India Bonds lower, 48 prem. ; Bank
Stock, 210 i.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active heavy, 191. ex.
Coupons ; Portuguese heavy, 3SB ; Three per Cents., 24.1
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53k ; Columbian, 24i
Brazilian, 841 ; Danish, 73i.

THREE O'CLOCk.

Consols arc steady at 914.

Lord Melbourne is expected to leave town this day
'or his seat, Brocket Hall, Herts.
Lord and Lady Lyndhurst arrived in Strasburgh on
Wednesday last, on their way to Baden, in excellent health.
By an Act of Parliament, which came into force on
he Ist., it is provided that foreign newspapers, addressed
o a person, who has removed, are to be forwarded free.

Lady Drummond, whose funeral took place on
Thursday last, at Lee, in Kent, has left the splendid be-
quest of t►venty thousand pounds, to be divided among four
of our most humane and charitable institutions in the city
of London.

A perfect manuscript copy of the Edrisi, lately dis-
covered in the Royal Library at Paris, consists of 260
leaves, and is dated in the 74 fth year of the Hegira, the
1343 d of our era. It was written at Almeria in Spain, in
the Arabic characters used by the Moors in Africa, and
which are very ugly.

A journeyman hairdresser, named Lewis, while
bathing in the Thames, near some barges lying at New
Crane, Shadwell, last week, was carried under them by the
current, and although a very good swimmer, was drowned.
The body has since been found at King Edward Stairs, and
an inquest was held upon it at the Town of Ramsgate
public-house, in Wapping, when a verdict of " Acci-
dentally Drowned" was returned.
We hear that there is a revival in the iron trade ; an
advance of 1/. per ton took place last Monday.—Bristol
Mercury.
The King's attorney at Brussels has for some days
been engaged in the investigation of a rather delicate affair.
It is a kind of swindling in which some Englishmen of dis-
tinction have practised ; among them is one J. K. It seems
that the son of Mr. W. was taken to a tavern, where he was
made drunk and induced to play, in which he lost about
70,000 francs. This K. is a kind of duelist, well known for
his skill in such matters, and is said to have threatened his
victim if he did not pay. We arc curious to learn what
justice will decide in this dirty affair.—Lytt.r.
A gentleman at Marseilles having, a few days
since, received a challenge for some slight offence, re-
quired his adversary, before they went into the field, to
guarantee him against any damages he might be called upon
to pay in case the appellant was killed. This was answered
by sufficient proof that the latter was Pius ?Willis, and,
therefore, there was no one in existence invested with any
rights to make such a claim. The person challenged next
demanded that, in case he fell, his adversary would show
that he had sufficient means to indemnify his family for his
loss. This indemnity was produced to an ample amount.
" New," continued the business•like offender, " you must
obtain from the Procureur-Gcneral of the Royal Court at
Aix a formal permission to fight, so that, whether I stand
or fall, I may not be liable to any criminal prosecution."
This stipulation being impossible to be complied with, not
only was the duel abandoned, but a reconciliation took
place, and the antagonists have become sworn friends.
The beautiful grounds on the borders of Virginia
Water are e..w in a high state of perfection and rural
beauty, to which the public have access. Several persons
are employed in decorating and refreshing the painting 0., the fishing temple, which was a favourite retreat of. George
the Fourth.

LITERATURE.

'OGHLAN'S NEW GUIDE TO BELGIUM.

MEMOIRS OF THE AIOS7'EMINENT LIVING
POLITICAL REFORMERS. PART I.
Saunders, London, 1837.
These memoirs are written tersely and spiritedly;
the writer is evidently a Reformer, but he has too
much practical good sense to be an enthusiast, and
accordingly discharges his biographical duties in a
correct and scrupulously impartial manner. The
Number is accompanied by three Portraits, the best
executed of which is that of Mr. Roebuck.

ELEMENTS OF GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL

GE 0 GRAPH r
Br WILLIAM RHIN)), M. R. C S., 6-c.
London, Smith, Elder, and Co.
We regard this as the simplest and best elementary
work that has yet appeared for the direction of stu-
dents in the science of geology. It is embellished with
a map, and a number of very well executed wood-cut
engravings. The author is evidently a man of intelli-
gence, and understands the art of communicating in.
formation in a manner the most unobtrusively inte-

resting.

THE RECENT CRIMINAL STATUTES.
BY J. F. ARCHBOLD, ESQ , Barrister-at-Law.
London, Shaw and Sons, 1837.
This little work, which is published in a, form
equally cheap and convenient, contains the Nine Acts
for the Reform of the Criminal Code of this country,
which obtained the sanction of the Legislature during
the last Session of Parliament. Had Lord John Rus-
sell conferred no greater boon upon the nation than he
did in preparing and being instrumental in carrying
these important measures, for the reform of the Cri-
minal Law of the United Kingdom, his Lordship
would have established a claim to the eternal gratitude
of his ,fellow-subjects. The fruitlessness of the last
Session of Parliament is a subject of general com-
plaint : have any of those who indulge in it ever looked
into those Statutes ? We arc confident they have not.
To have passed these Acts is the best possible proof
of the devotion of Parliament to the best and highest
interests of the country. Their publication is well-
timed ; and as the learned Editor has annexed a num-
ber of valuable notes, and taken great pains to facili-
tate a reference to the provisions and penalties of each
Act, we anticipate for this very important little work
an extensive circulation. To all Justices of the Peace
and other Magistrates it is indispensable.

STOICESHILL-PLACE; OR, THE MAN OP
BUSINESS.
Br' THE AUTHORESS OF " MRS. ARIIITTAGE," O.
In 3 vols. London, Henry Colburn, 1837.

No writer of the present day possesses to an equal
extent with Mrs. Gore the faculty of pourtraying the
individual foibles and peculiarities which render per-
sons painfully conspicuous in NY a t is called the best
society. Her fidelity in the delineation of those
weaknesses which border upon vices, and which are
the results rather of a defective education and a false
position than of any inherent or studied worthlessness
of character, is a qualification for novel-writing which
is pre-eminently conspicuous in all Mrs. Gore's tales ;
and let us add, in none more than in the " Man of
Business." In the plot and incidents of this novel there
is nothing at all remarkable. Mr. Barnsley, a hard-
working, shrewd, young attorney, without money or
connexions, contrives to worm himself into the good
graces of an eccentric old merchant, whose only
daughter he marries without the trouble of a courtship,
and thus in a moment finds himself at the top of
Fortune's wheel. He purchases an estate in Kent, to
which he retires ; becomes a widower, and the father
of an interesting daughter ; tries for a seat in
Parliament for the nearest borough, and succeeds
by dint of corrupt influence. A season in London,
in the course of which Peers propose for the

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hand of Miss Barnsley, and are rejected, only
serves to fill the ex-Attorney's brain with visions
of greater honours to be achieved, when suddenly
the failure of a country bank involves him in ruin.
After a temporary sojourn in Brussels, and a variety
of adventures more interesting than probable, Mr.
Barnsley discovers what he ought to have known

from the commencement—namely, that true happiness
consists in contentment and the testimony of a good
conscience; and Miss Barnsley is happily married.
But the charm of this novel is not to be sought for in
the plot or incidents, but in the marked distinctions
and more striking peculiariaties of the several charac-
ters introduced. Here the authoress is quite at home,
and appears to the greatest advantage. Who, that
have had any intercourse with persons of rank, can
question the fidelity of the following transcript of the
feelings inspired by the first visit ?
" Among the things that puzzled her most in the course
of her first week at the Abbey, was her own previous in-
sensibility to the importance of Lord Shoreham. It had
never entered her head to conjecture whether he were tall
or short, amiable or unamiable ; but now, the consequence
she saw assigned to his most trifling inclinations by his
mother and sisters, convinced her that he must be a highly
interesting personage. Every thing, and every body, at
Wynnex, was referred to his oracular judgment. •
" lam not fond of yellow, though it is certainly the
best candle-light colour; observed Lady Shoreham ; ' but
I chose yellow hangings for the saloon, because Shoreham
thinks it becoming.'

" Do not let any more figs be served,' said she, another
day, to the maitre•d'hotcl, when the dessert was put on the
table, Lord Shoreham is particularly fond of ripe figs ; and
I fear there will not be enough to last out the season.'
" The servants were, of course, still more servile.
Twenty times a day, Margaret overheard one or other of
them expressing his terrors to his lady, lest the workmen
should not have finished their operations before my lord
came down ; that the new cooks would not have arrived
before my lord came down ; that certain missing cases of
still Sillery champagne would not make their appearance
before my lord came down ; that the off-wheeler of her
ladyship's set of greys would not get over its lameness be-
fore my lord came down. My lord' was the object of their
hourly and half-hourly solicitude !"
Another brief extract is all for which wecan find space.
We recommend it to the serious attention of those
to whom the authoress addresses it. Mrs. Gore's sen-
timents are in the most perfect unison with our own :

" If women could but know, par pa;•entheve, how com-
pletely they disfigure themselves by talking politics !—lf
they would but believe how unfitted to the texture of a
woman's mind and the habits of her education, is a subject
demanding the assiduous study even of a vigorous, manly
understanding! It is not a few phrases pirated from the
pamphlets of the day, or the conversation - of those public
men who deign to accept, in their political night-gown and
slippers, the incense of a circle of fair votaresses that suffice
to qualify We dissertations into which we hear these would-
be Aspasias plunge headlong, like SAM Patch into the Fall
of Niagara !—Lady Walmer, always beautiful, often bril-
liant, and endowed with -a thousand womanly attractions,
little dreamed how immeksureably she sank in the estima-

Bailey, London, 1837.
This is the fullest and completes: Guide Book we
have met with for a long time. It furnishes us with
minute particulars of the whole of the Belgic towns ;
of the best and cheapest routes by Antwerp, Ostend,
and Calais to Brussels ; and of all the objects worth
seeing in those excursions. The names, too, of the
most convenient hotels are given, together with a map
of Belgium and Holland, in which the different public
roads are traced out with remarkable accuracy. At the
present season, when travelling on the Continent is all
the rage, and Waterloo is sure to have its thousands
of English visitors, such a work as the present, so
cheap in price, and containing such a mass of well-
digested, practical information, cannot fail to prove
acceptable ; the more especially as it is a mere pocket
volume, and can in nowise encumber the tourist. The
account of the battle of Waterloo, and of the present
condition of that memorable district, is drawn up with
a skill and accuracy by no means common with works
of this class.