The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-04 00:00:00

MONEY AND CITY NEWS.

(FROM THE MORNING PATERS OF THIS DAT.)
HERA LD.—lt appears that, notwithstanding the political
troubles in Canada, a very great increase has taken place in the
importations of foreign and British colonial produce, as well
as British manufactured goods, the only decrease shown being
in the articles of leaf tobacco and coffee. By a comparison of
the quarters ending on the 10th of October, 1837 and 1838,
it appears that the imports of manufactured tobacco had in-
creased by 53,2251bs ; leaf ditto had decreased by 114,7571b5.
Coffee had decreased by 10,8781b5. Raw Sugars had in-
creased by 957,0651b5. ; Refined ditto, by 155,6841b5. ; Mo-
lasses, 7,080 galls. ; Rum, by 127,813 galls. ; Brandy by
44,850 galls. ; Wines by 44,350 galls. ; Whiskey by 5,850
galls. ; Salt by 40,662 bushels ; Tea by 136.0531b5. , and British
manufactured goods in the value of 32,313/. There is no
doubt but that a great deal of this increase in the imports
may be attributed to the increased number of the troops at
present in those provinces, but, looking at the long-continued
distracted state of the colony, it shows that if the peace of the
inhabitants had not been disturbed, and their useful avocations
literally broken up by the fear of the lawless acts of foreign
bucaneers and hot-beaded ignorant Canadian demagogues,
that colony was steadily progressing in improvement, and in
its increasing power of consuming the products of the mother
country and her other colonies; whilst her marine commerce
has always proved a good nursery for the British navy, render-
ing the Canadas a most valuable adjunct to Great Britain in
every respect.
. . .

The British funds open rather heavily in consequence of
the rumours to which we have already referred ; but the mar-
ket again rallied to about yesterday's quotations. The Go-
vernment Commissioner bought about 6,000 Three per Cent.
Reduced at 93+. Consols closed at 94 a k for the opening.
The Three-and-a- Half per Cent. Reduced are 10(q a for
money, and the New Three-and-a- Half per Cents. 10li a 102
for the opening. Bank Stock is 2021 a 203 for money, The
premium upon Exchequer Bills is 64 a 66, and on India
Bonds 64.

The Foreign Market has been very inactive, Portuguese
Old Five per Cents. are 70 ; the New Five per Cents are
31i a 32 ; and the Three per Cents. 20A- af. Spanish Ac-
tive Bonds are 161 ; and the Deferred 71; Brazilian Bonds
are 77i, and Colombian 25,i- ; French Five per Cent. Routes
are 110 f. 25e., with the exchange at 25f. 40c. Dutch Two-
and-a-half per Cents are 54 ex div., and the Five per Cent.
ditto 101

POST. —Cc,nsols, which were done early in the day at
94k to 4 for the Opening, receded before the termination of
the day's business to 94 to Exchequer Bills left off at 645.
to 665. prem., and Bank Stock at 2024- to 3.
Nothing remarkable occurred in the Foreign Funds. Five
per Cent. Dutch Stock left off at 1014 to a, Brazilian at 774
to a, Colombian 254 to 6, and Active Spanish at 16i to :41.
The market for Portuguese was again a little firmer. The
Five per Cent. Bonds closed at 314 to 2.
Great Western Railway Shares left off at 12 to 4 prem.,
London and Brighton, in which there were some extensive
purchases, at 3to 2f die., and Blackwall at lf to 1 dis. per
share.

The " Rig" in the Cotton Market, and consequent ex-
posure of some of the manoeuvres which have been resorted to
by individuals with the view of promoting it, seem likely to
let the public a little into the secrets of the trade—a circum-
stance of which we trust due advantage will be taken by
straightforward people. Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle, of
Liverpool, were perfectly well aware of Mr. John Ingersoll,
of Natchez, having published a circular, assuming to be their
authorised agent for making advances on the article in the
state of Mississippi, and binding them to hold it for sales
during the next summer months, but they did not, it
seems, think it of sufficient importance to give it any
consideration whatever until now, when, at length, they
discover that it has made so much stir in the United
States, and that their more business-like friends, Messrs.
Bevan and Humphreys, of Philadelphia, have taken upon
themselves to give it some consideration for them. Messrs.
Humphreys and Biddle confirm the disclaimer of Messrs.
Bevan and Co. We are, therefore, to understand that the
course pursued by Mr. Ingersoll, of Natchez, has been an ex-
tremely unjustifiable one ; yet it is declared in the New York
Papers received to-day, by a friend of this individual, that he
will be able to clear himself from the imputation which has
been cast upon him as soon as time for the purpose shall have
been afforded him. We extract the following announcement
in his behalf from the .New York Enquirer of the 11th ult.:—
" Messrs. Bevan and Humphreys, by a very shameful and
blasting publication of this morning, having attempted to in-
jure John Ingersoll, of Natchez, for their selfish purpose, ab-
sent and distant as he is from the place chosen for this wanton
calumny, I think proper at once to anticipate the notice he
will no doubt take of it, by stigmatising it as it deserves, as-
suring the community that, in the contest thus provoked by
Bevan and Humphreys, he will manifest that, for strictness of
truth, integrity, and fair dealing, he has nothing to fear from
collision or comparison with any one—certainly not Bevan and
Humphreys.

" C. J. INGERSOLL

" Philadelphia, Dec. 8, 1838."
As the reputed, and perhaps the real commercial agents of
the United States Bank, Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle, of
Liverpool, must have been well aware of the injurious tendency
of Mr. John Ingersoll's circular. We cannot but think,
therefore, that it behoved them, at the very earliest mo-
ment, to put the public right respecting it, and not to have
left that duty to be performed for them by parties whose in-
terference was liable to be construed, as we see it has been,
into an act of hostility arising from an unworthy feeling of
jealousy.
We submit Mr. C. J. Ingersoll's letter to the attentive
perusal of Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle. They will see
from its contents how much unpleasantness they might have
spared their Philadelphia correspondents by a more prompt
course of action, to say nothing of the losses which may have
been sustained by many through the fair promises held out to
them in their (Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle's) name by an
over-zealous agent.

DEFENCE OF THE CORN-LA WS.—Finding the fol-
lowing defence set up by one of the cleverest, as well as the
roost influential, organs of the landocracy, we may perhaps
fairly enough conclude that no better one can be devised :
" How (asks the Hampshire Advertiser) has the manufac-
turing capital been increased to the enormous amount it
has attained during the last thirty years, but by granting
it the most sweeping immunity from taxation, while agricul-
tural capital has been overwhelmed by every species of irn
post fiscal ingenuity could contrive. Look at the land-tax
of 20 per cent., not of recent date certainly, but not the
less intolerably and most iniquitously oppressive—a tax,
the redemption of which has been partially effected by a
confiscation of one-fifth of the landowners' capital. Can the
maoufacturers in metal or cotton show a corresponding bur-
den inflicted upon them ? Upon the land also has been
thrown ea lusively the burden of county and highway rates,
and we may add also the support of the poor. The agri-
culturists support all
the poor on their estates ; the mill-
owner, after extracting from the blood and sinews of thou-
sands of operatives the riches so vaunted of, but pays the
most minute share of the cost of those ha has reduced to
pauperism. Who, too, now pays the whole burthen of
the tithes but the landowners ? They are compelled, by
Act of Parliament, to redeem tithes, even if the redemp-
tion should be their ruin, Have the Chamber of Com-
merce gentlemen any, Oven the least sacrifice to make, to
the clamour or the wants of others."
Th CORN-LAW-LOVING LANDLORDS.---" The
straw is being moved :" the Born monopolists begin to evince
symptoms of excessive apprehension ; they evidently dread
the determination now so generally evinged throughout the
country to put an end to the starvation systorn, and tremble,
as well they may, at the prospect of the coming day of re-
tributive judgment. We congratulate the country on this
early evidence of the people's well-directed exertion, In
Essex, we see, the more short-sighted and illiberal of the
predominant class have already issued orders to one of their
most active advocates and loud-tongued organs to enlist all
the farmers they can seduce into their service, The Essex
Herald accordingly comes forth clothed in the panoply of
false pretences and high-sounding declamation, and calls on
the farmers to enrol themselves in defence of the Corn-laws
—tile. Herald, by the way, may can, but will the farmers,
simple as some of them are, come when called. ..g The Corn-
laws are attacked exclaim the granting class), rents are in.
danger, our monopoly is menaced, the starvation system13
threatened, nay it totters, and will be razed to the ground
by the ruthless hands of a hungry community, if "
the agt!i4
culturists do not rally round the standard—of dear bread
Those landlords (we trust they are not a very numerous
class) who would sacrifice the country to their own little,
base lust of lucre—who care not if the community is crip-
pled and starved, so that some miserable addition to their
private purse be got—have reason to be alarmed : for an at•
tack on their cruel and suicidal monopoly will be made in
the coming Session, in comparison of which all former at-
tempts to rid the country of the Devil's laws have been mere
child's play. This morning we see the Post, (a tolerably
faithful representative, and a not uninfluential organ of its
party,) re-echoes the cry of its country Contemporary and
colaborateur. The Post's panic is an encouraging sign of
the times for those who would destroy the dour bread
monopoly.
On Wednesday evening an inquest was held in High-
street, Marylebone, on the body of Ann Roe, aged 74. It
appeared from the evidence that the deceased was one of
the pew-openers at Marylebone church. On the previous
morning she went to the church in her usual good bealtil,
and was in the act of letting some persons into a pew about
half-past eleven o'clock, when she fell down at the door.
She was carriedinto the Vestry, where Dr. Gregorie and
Mr. Thomas, surgeon, attended and bled her, after which
she was taken to her residence, No. 47, High-street, where 1
she shortly after died, the medical gentlemen giving it as
their opinion that the cause of death was the rupture of a
blood-vessel near the heart. Verdict—Died by the visita-
tion of God,