The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-09 00:00:00

HAMBURG HALLE, Arc G.

bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents. - ~.• 1t4:14 106
Bank Snares 1497 1411.
An 10-Russian Loan
Russian a per Cent Ist series, Certificate . 10:1 102
Inscription, Ist Series. —
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, and Co. 3d and 4th
Se i s 97% 97
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch ~ctual Licht, 214 pc Cent 5-th 5; %
MU,' 1 per Cell'
Polish Bond;
New ; icket
Anglo..l !ankh Loan, 3 per Cent
Norwegian Lean, l-34, 4 per Cent........

EXCHANGES O 1.0 DON.
Hametmo, AUG. My.—Two monthg, la
CHRIRTI.kNIA, JUNE '27.-1 hi month,, ti.
STOCKHOLM, JULY :I').—S,vency-five days. IL lA,
BERLIN-, AUG. a--Three months, 6.

The injury which the Duke of Wellington did to the
great cause of humanity—the Abolition of the Slave
Trade—and to his own illustrious name, by the rejec-
tion of the Portuguese Slave Trade all in the House
of Lords, had been repeatedly adverted to, before the
powerful, eloquent, and argumentative speech made by
Lord Palmerston last evening. That speech must in-
crease general regret, because it proves that the objec-
tions of the Leader of the House of Lords were founded
on gross ignorance or gross re glect of duty—a charge
never yet suecessfully made ageinst the Duke of
Wellington. They arose, said Lord Palmerston from
misconception and inadvertence—the complaint that the
notes and replies on the subject had not been presented,
was answered by the statement that they had all been
laid before Parliament, and had not been read, and the
reason that no lengthened opening statement had been
made was, that there was a perfect unanimity on the
subject, that all parties had been consulted, and though
Whig and Tory and Reciical had been unanimous on
the subject, the Duke of Wellington alone was ignorant
Of the fact. What Cln the people of this country think
of a House of Lords that thus blindly follow a
leader? His conduct, not one of the Peers that
voted with him, not even one rabid Tory in
the House of Commons, has ventured to defend,
or palliate ; Sir Robert Inglis has passed on it the se-
verest condemnation, by the unqualified and enthusiastic
praise of Lord Palmerstoe's spirited end humane con-
duct. Who are the imbeciles now, and where is the
wonderful un.tnimity among the great Cons,Tratives—
the bulwarks of the Coestituteon ? the prime organ of
the Conservative party treated, tile odor day, the
leader of the Opposition, its own proximate Pt ime Minis-
ter, with a degree of contempt, which in all its rabid
articles it never heaped either on Lord Johr. Russell or
Lord Meloourne ; and the next great leader, in another
place, it. treats with contempi uous silence, and unites
with S:r Robert Inali. in praising Lord Palmerston,
Are these the shadows of coining events ?

MONEY AN!) COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TIILIRSDAY.—The demand
for Cotton to-day has been brisk ; the sales amount to
4,000 bales, chiefly to the trade, and at full prices.
The Liverpool steamer, from Liverpool to New York,
was spoken on the 4th instant, lat. 51, long. 15.
We have received New York Papers one day later, by
the President, Captain Chadwick. Neither the Great
Western nor the British Queen had arrived out ; the latter
could not have got out.

Late from the West Indies to the 27th June.—The fol-
li;wing is from the Dispatch of the 22d June :
DEFICIENCY IN THE CROPS.—Severil returns have been
sent into the Governor, showing a considerable falling off
in produce. A correspondent at St. Lucia writes :-
-4 Believing you desire authentic information, I have it in
my power to inform you that the return called for at this
port from the sth January to the 31st May, 1838 and 1839.
show a deficiency of ships cleared and of produce. We
are extremely sorry to learn from a source the most authen-
tic, that, from the impossibility of earring on the cultiva-
tion with any hope of success, orders have been given to
throw up !eyelet sugar estates. This is c7rtainly tv be de-
plored fur we were sanguine that with the returning energy
of the Government, and the different policy which must
and will be pursued towards the Colony, that circumstances
.would mend, and althoulth we can Lye but one opinion
with regard to the great bulk of sugar p:aittat:ons, still it
grip ves us to see the devagation 11.diu so cart)."
" MONEY MARKET, 19TH, P.il.—TlL.re Was little mire
buoyancy at the Stock Exchange thie morning, and price=
generally improved, by reason of the prospect of a satis-
factory arrangement by the country banks for the redemp-
flan of their bil's. Bank of Commerce improved per
cdttit. ; State Bank per cent. ; Mechanics Li:ailing Asso.
ciation I per cent. ; Delaware and Hudson 1 per cent. ;
Bank of Kentucky 1 per cent.
" STATE OF TRADE.—Freights continue very doll ; there
has been solve offering for the Liverpool packets, but at
such rates, that little can be done; large shipments of corn
have commenced."

Accounts received from Liverpool this morning state
that the suspension of payments by the Pkelix Bank on
Tuesday is hardly deserving of notice, but as there are
aim foolish rumours abroad, it is as well to state what
we have learned on the subject. It is stated in 4 circu-
lar isto.cl by the mangers that the ultimate loss to the
shareholders cannot exceed 2/. or 2/. 10s. per share, which
after all, is a mere bagatelle; the whole ct.pital was only
80,000/, and the respectable and wealthy proprietors in the
concern merely continued the branch of the Northern and
Central Bank, in hopes of getting out ultimately without
1033.