The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-30 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWRL -vs O'CLOCK.
The only arrivals this morning are a Lisbon Mail,
which sailed on the 12th December, by which we do not
hear of any news of importance, and an express from
Paris, confirming the express of last evening with respect
to the resignation of General Lafayette, and that the above
capital was then tranquil ; still there is some fear th.tt
an important event will take place before long. by the
agitated state of the different parties there.
Consols, which left off yesterday at tit for the ac-
count, opened this morning at 825, were done at 82a
and are at present 821 j, with little doing.
In the Foreign market no business doing as yet.
EN OLIN' FU N
Bank Stock, 106 7 314, per Cent. INr,i
India Stock, Ditto, New
per Cent. Cells.— 4 per Cent. 11128, MN I()
Do. for Account, 1121 India Lloyds, H 9
Ditto Reduced, 81% Exchequer Bills, 18 19
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Greek, 23 5
Mexican, 344 S
Penman, 1534
Portugese, 35 41
Prussian,
Russian, 84!4 9
Spanish,

Brestllan, 5334
Buenos, Ayres,
t7bllian 181,4 1L •
Colombian, 17 18
Danish, Mil 714
French b per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent.

HALF-PAST ONE.
We hear by private letters from Pa:is that the affairs
there will terminate better than was imagined, and that
the King is expected to maintain ground against all oppo-
sition. We also understeuil that the immense prepard-
dens making of late to assemble a large :truly is going to
he abandoned, and it will be considerably reduced,
France having bad the assurance that Austria and Prussia
are going to do the same, and not interfere in the affairs of
Poland.
Letters were yesterday received from Dublin, stating
that the Marquis of Anglesea was going to request of Go-
vernment a reinforcement of troops, and the Castle was
about being strengthened at several points.
Consols continue at 821 for the Account, with little or
nothing doing.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Bonds are rather lower :
16} to
THREE O'CL 0 CK.
Consols for the Account, 82i

TILE BEAUTIES OF QUEEN ADELAIX)E'S
Comer ! !—We understand the next Number of the Cow t
Journal, being the first for the New Year, will contain a
Second " Garland of Beauty"—from the same accom-
plished hand as that which wove the first. The object of
this elegant production is, to characterise, by a comparison
with some well-known flower, the peculiar style of beauty
of every lady whose personal attractions excite attention at
the present moment in the upper circles of society. We
production will no doubt excite an extraordinary interest
and curiosity ; but it will require no key to unlock its
secrets—every individual beauty being named. We under-
stand this paper is decidedly superior in elegance of fancy
and ingenuity of thought, to that which a year since ex-
cited eo touch curiosity as to call for the reprinting,
three several times, of the Number of the " Court
Journal" in which it appeared. The new " Garland"
will characterize no less► than sixty-two female members
of the aristocracy.
Now that the real state of public feeling in
Dublin is more fully developed, great uneasiness on the
subject and anxiety about the result are very generally ex-
pressed
in the city. It is known here, however, And tends
to inspire confidence, that the attention of Government
has been directed for some time past to the situation of
Ireland, is reinforcements to the troops there have been
promptly sent by the Aid of steam-vessels. .Application
has also been made to the proprietors of such result, to
knew the terms on which recruits would be conveyed to
Dublin from different parts of the coast, from which it is
inferred that that is to be the destination of some of the
new levies.--Timm.
It may be said of the Church, that she pre-
sents at oqe extremity all poverty, at the other all re-
pletion.

LITERATURE.

FESTIVALS, GAMES, AND AMUSEMENTS,
ANCIENT AND MODERN.-LONDON, 1831.

We have little doubt that this work, the pro-
duction of the author of the " Rejected Ad-
dresses," will promptly obtain the extensive
circulation that its merits deserve. In addition
to the very opportune season at which it has ap-
peared, it has the further recommendation of
combining taste with information, utterly devoid
of pedantic or antiquarian ostentation, in no
ordinary degree. Mr. Smith gives an analysis
of the nature of all the games, ancient and
modern, which have in any degree interested and
influenced the habits and manners of society.
He has also, in the course of his analysis, in-
terspersed cursory reflections of his own, most
of which, especially the closing remarks ap-
pended to the chapter on the Olympic Games,
display considerable propriety of thought and
feeling, and redeem the work from the cha-
racter of being a mere matter-of-fact compilation.
Of the ancient games, we prefer Mr. Smith's
description of the Greek and Roman Drama,
which, though the subject is somewhat trite, is so
spirited, natural, and agreeable, as to possess
all the interest of novelty. In approaching
modern times, Mr. Smith seems more at home
and at his ease. His chapter on Hawking and
Archery, possesses the grace and graphic fidelity
of one of Washington Irving's best sketches,
and his notices of the English Drama, from its
earliest origin down to the present times, are
marked by impartiality and di-c•rimination. We
select, by way of extract, Mr. Smith's observa-
tions on the drama, in every one of which we
concur. We may add, that the volume forms
the fifth of the National Library, and is elegantly
printed and embellished :

" \Ve need not follow the fortunes of comedy, which,
under the influence of similar causes, has experienced the
same decay, throwing off, indeed, in its downward pro-
gress, all the impurities by which it has been defiled ; but
proving at the same time, that it may be quite void of
offence, without possessing a single point of attraction.
Music, shows, farce., melodrames, and pantomimes, have
effectually pushed Melia and Melpomene frees their pe-
destals. Never was the English drama at so low, so deplo-
rable an ebb, as it is at the present moment. Almost
may it be said that we have no in ;tine modern drama ; for
the stage presents us little of novelty but successive adap-
tations from the French. It is no longer 4 public mirror,
which; by reflecting back to us correct images of our.
selves, end of the times in which we live, may assist us to
amend the defects of both ; but as a magic lantern, offering
to our view an unmeaning jumble of foreign frivolities,
grotesque monstets, and fantastic fooleries. Into the
causes of this deplorable perversion it is nut our province
to enter ; but when we say that we deeply regret it, we
do but express the sentiments of all those who are jealous
of our reputation for literature and good taste, and who
feel that a well-regulated theatre, where all classes, from
the King to the cobbler, may meet together to share the
same intellectual feast, to read the sone moral lesson, to
be similarly and simultaneously affected by the sympathies
of our common nature, must, in its civilising and crating
effects upon the community, conduce equally to the im-
portant purposes of general amusement, and of public
instruction."