The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-07 00:00:00

THE FIS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
As yet we do not hear of any arrivals from the United States; but
as a complete thaw has taken place, and the wind has shifted, we may
expect daily arrivals from that quarter.
We have received Buenos Ayres Papers to the 12th November.
Chili journals were received there on Monday to the 14th ult. ; of c3urse
there had not been time for any thing to be known respecting the opera-
tions of the expeditionary forces on the coast of Peru ; the intelli.
gence conveyed from that country by private letters represent Bolivia
ripe for revolt.
We have received Montevideo papers to the 9th. The news from the
army under the President Oribe comes down to the 7th January. He
had been reinforced, and was in march to seek his opponents.
Exchange on England sd. to 584. per dollar. The highest price of
doubloons during the week 143 dollars.
A mail has arrived from Jamaica by the Lapwing—sailed on the 27th
December, by which we have received Jamaica papers to 28th Dec.
The House of Assembly was yesterday (15th December) prorogued
until this day ; the Governor having given his assent to the various
Bills. After which, his Excellency the Governor was pleased to deliver
the following Speech :-,--
" Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. speaker, and Gentlemen of the
Assembly,

" The failure of the most important Bills in their progress to me—l
mean the Police and Process Bills—and my desire to avert, if possible,
the serious consequences which may result from the loss of them—com-
pel me to resort to a short prorogation, which I trust will not be attended
with great inconvenience to yourselves.
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly,
" When I consented to your adjournment, I did not contemplate
the contingency which has arisen. I was actuated by my desire to grant
your request, and nothing but my conviction of the embarrassment
which the loss of these Bills will entail upon the Island at large, induces
Me now to interfere with your wishes.
" Gentlemen of the Council,—
" I do now, in her Majesty's name, prorogue this General Assem.
bly until to-morrow (this day), the 16th instant, and it is hereby pro-
rogued accordingly."
HOUSE TO MEET AT TEN O'CLOCK—NEW SESSION—
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY—GOVERNOR'S OPENING SPEECH.
" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly,—
" It has been my anxious desire to avoid interrupting the progress of
your public business, and nothing but paramount necessity induces me
to resort to the late prorogation.
" I therefore avail myself of the opportunity to invite your considera-
tion of a measure for securing to the Island the services of the police
beyond the period contemplated by the present law, and I shall be much
gratified if the result of your deliberations enable me to assent to a Bill
for that desirable purpose.
" You are already in possession of the views of her Majesty's
Government on- the subject.
" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly,
" I cannot too strongly impress upon you the difficulties which I ap.
prebend, should I be compelled to disband the police force; and I have
no means at my disposal of continuing the present establishment without
your co-operation.
" I have also to call your attention to the Process law, and to submit
to your consideration the propriety of fixing a more adequate allowance
for Crown witnesses than they at present receive."
The House then adjourned for a quarter of an hour ; the chair being
resumed, the Address was read a third time and passed, and shortly
after presented. It goes on to state :—" May it please your Excellency,
we, her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Assembly of Ja.
triaica, thank your Excellency for your speech at the opening of the
Session, and nothing but a sense of paramount necessity induced
Your Excellency to resort to the late prorogation ; that we are quite
aware of the difficulties to be apprehended in the event of the police
force being disbanded, and the subject received our serious deliberation
during the last Session. We accede to your Excellency's invitation
to re-consider the measure, as we are at all times desirous to meet, as
far as we consistently can, the views of her Majesty's Government ; but
our more important duty, is to pass such measures only as we consider
beneficial to the interests of the colony.
" The process law shall also have our attention."
THE FUNDS.
Consols closed heavy yesterday at 91i 4, and opened this morning
still heavier at 91i sellers for the Account; since which the Market
has rather a better appearance, and Consols tray be quoted at 91# a for
the Account and Money, with little doing as yet ; Exchequer Bills,
56 57; India Bonds, 56 57; Bank Stock, 204 205; India Stock,
263 264.

0 Tth Foreigne
o thepresent time
Securities, and the prices may b
a completestagnatione
quotedprevails thei sansmpee as they
culation
losed yesterday. Spanish Active, 151- -: Coupons; Portuguese, 27k;
hree per Cents., 171 IS; Brazil, 741- ; Dutch Two.and.a.Half per
ents., 521 531-.
~, PRICES OF STOCKS THI7 -
Psiank Stock 2O-1 3% 4% 4
Per Cent. ..e.i.
Per Cant. Cons ...... ...... ..91%%%
Duper Cent —
to Red.... IOONIA ICO
241", 3% per Cent 99%%304
cw 5 per Cent
link Long knnuitiestoexvir,
an. 5, led" l5 1-16%
• Oct. IQ, 184,9
Jan. 5, 1860 —
Jan. 5, 1880 —
' April 5, Itot
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds Alelgian Bonds —
bltto Account
I 1 raziliar, Bonds' ... -:
~.
Ditto Account .....
...
.
plleans Ayres Bonds ... ...... -..— Ditto Account .. .......-• - Chillian Bonds ' • •
1 Ditto Account . ' -
Columbian Bonds ..........
•••
Ditto Account
V3luinbian Bonds, :824 24l:i l'
Ditto Account
.
bulish Bonds .
' Ditto Account. "
-0 re e k Bonds ..."
.........
...
Ditto Bonds, 1825 . -
• Ditto Account
'Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent....
Ditto Account ...--

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
India 5t0ck........
Ditto Bonds
South S2a. SDck —
101 d knnnities
[ lif-W Ditto ,
3 per Cent. Annuities, !751 —
Exch. Bills, Zl,;sio 55 57 cm
Ditto. 5011 55 57 pm.
Ditto Small
Ditto Commercial
Ditto Advertised — on,
Bank Stock for Account 20114
Indlis Stock for Account 292
Consols for Acconnt 91%%%%
THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds
Ditto Account ..„..
, Portuguei.teßonds —
Ditto Account —
Ditto New Bonds —
D:tto Account
Ditto, 3 per cent......... 17N% 18
Prof sian Bonds .......
Russian Bonds, 182',
• Ditto Account.--
Ditto Metallic.
Spanish Bonds —
Ditto Account ..
Ditto Bonds, 1834 I BX, .%
• Ditto Acconnt ......... .......
French, 5 per cent .... ..... --f. —c.
. ---- 4 per cent.
. 3 per cent..
. Exchange
Dutch, 2I per cent. '3 2%
Ditto Account
Ditto, S per cent —
Ditto Account
IS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
.
Brazilian Imperial Mining t Paid
o. (issued at 5/. pm.) 20 Per Share.
Ditto St. John del Rev 9.
3I
VI,
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Company ......
Great Western Railway Company 65 62 1% 2%
Brighton Railway Company
London and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 165 4
London mad Southampton (New) Railway 5 21
London and Croydon Railway Company
Ditto Scrip 5
Stiith Eastern and Dover Railway Company 7
Anti Dryrot Company 17%
COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Oitto. at sight C.F. 12 5% Gibraltar 4B
12 3Z Leghorn...
Rotterdam g,,,,,,, 2U. 12 612 Genoa 'l2
'X 15
Antwerp
12 5 Milan '9l
pAlHamburg." M.B. 13 13% Venice O6
t°,,i:,a..., .................................. 13 13% Naples '38%
tiitto' 'i
days' sight •25 65 Palermo per oz. 117%
A1„,,,,_•.;e..s . .............••3 Ms. 25 95 Lisbon 5314
thql7ll,a,
ux• ...................... 26 0 Oporto . 53%
...... ! ............... 26 0 Rio Janeiro 28%
trelteirk.flo)rt on Maine, Ex. M. 153 Bahia 25
Berlin nigh, ruble ...... 3 Us. 10 Buenos Ayres
Vienna, ................. I
........... . 7 3 Dublin, 21 days' sight %
ttatiesrid....e.. ff.del9 ..
tttiov ... .. .............
M. 10 11 Cork
10 13 PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ.
.................. Portugal Gold, coin ...t.O 0
,t!4i,fiii. ............................ 3r4 Foreign Gold, in bars 317 9
kreeain•Li. ........................ 34 New Doubloons
5ii,,,,,_ .u. a ...........
'e ........ •'•••^•••••••••.... 34 Silver, bars, standard 0 4 11%
HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Ditto, 6 per cent.
Ditto Account... Neapolitan —
PRICES OF SHARES TM

THE MAGAZINES.

TAIT' S.

Tait has been always celebrated for his admirable digest
of new books, and his notice of " Lockhart's Life of
Scott" will not derogate from his reputation. This review
is penned throughout in a manly, impartial spirit. It be-
trays neither likes nor dislikes ; but speaks the plain, undi-
luted truth. Its extracts are as well selected as they arc
numerous. They give indeed the very essence—" the
blood, bones, and marrow"—of the volumes. As a speci-
men of the Reviewer's manner, we give an anecdote quoted
by him, and referring to Scott's loyal exertions to get up a
gorgeous state-pageant on that memorable occasion when
his Majesty George the Fourth was graciously pleased to
turn the light of his broad countenance on his enraptured
city of Edinburgh :

" It was hinted—nay, it was openly said and fully believed—that the
sexagenarian dandy and voluptuary felt the ardour, the empressement,
of honest Scott, who thrust himself into all his affairs, as somewhat over_
officious ; and, so to say, assuming, or impertinent. Sir Walter, in
short, was too much excited, hurried, and worn, to be able to play
throughout the dextrous, observant courtier; and his Majesty was
equally worn out with the public part which he had to play, and which
suited ill with his tastes and habits. The self-love of the fastidious
monarch could not easily forgive that absurd exhibition, in kilt and full
tartans, into which he had been seduced by his Scottish counsellors ;
which, in an evil hour, Sir William Curtis rather over-trumped than
parodied. His Majesty got into very bad humour, in short ; and " silly
or maliciqus persons" said with Scott, though it could only have been
with Scott among others. Mr. Lockhart cites one letter from Mr. Peel,
and another from Mr. Croker, to prove that no coolness, no rising or
disgust of the Royal stomach with Sir Walter existed. He has, in the
copious narrative of these busy and important days, given a great deal of
extraneous stuff, which ought to be thrown into the jaw-hole of the
Appendix ; but, with all this, Mr. Lockhart has totally forgotten one
fact which gave strong colour to all that was known and surmised of the
Royal displeasure with Sir 'Walter. His Majesty, who accepted lodgings
at the residence of the minor Duke of Buccleugh, had not crossed the
threshold of any other private dwelling in Scotland, but one day, and
that a memorable day. THE KING WAS COMING TO DINE AT 39, CASTLE.
STREET! George IV., the most haughty and fastidious of princes, was
to honour the humble dwelling of the nation's poet, and his own knight.
The exultation of Sir Walter—by nature, training, and interest, the
worshipper of rank—may be imagined. His party was arranged, his
cards were issued, and no pains or exertion of influence, personal and col-
lateral, were spared to give the entertainment to Majesty all the eclat with
which the beauty, birth, or talent of the Northern Capital could illus-
trate so 'superior an occasion.' His Majesty either repented of his con-
descension ; or Sir Walter had trusted to the strength of his own wishes
in imagining so great an honour ever intended for him ; or the Scottish
nobility, Crown officers, and ancient gentry, might be imagined jealous
of the unwonted favour shown to the attorney's son, the new Knight of
the new Abbotsford. However it was, the anticipated visit of Royalty
ended in smoke, and those in the secret, and not to be of the party, laughed
maliciously at the ungratefully-requited labourer in the cause of itine-
rating Majesty."

" Canada" adopts the anti-ministerial view of this, at pre-
sent, all-engrossing question. The article is written with
force and animation, but its politics are questionable. " The
Trial of the Glasgow Cotton-spinners" is a sound, practi-
cal paper, and deserves to be read with attention by all
members of trades' associations. It gives the best advice
in the most friendly spirit ; and, in particular, warns all
Operatives to beware of false prophets, who " lead men
into scrapes, and then get out of them themselves, as best
they may." In the tale of the " Somnambulist" there is
much amusing reading, but it is too long, consequently its
effect is weakened. The most generally acceptable paper,
however, is the one entitled " The London Peripatetic,"
in which several brief, but piquant sketches are
given of the personal appearance of the leading drama-
tists about town. The majority of them, as we learn
by this lively article, are generally to be seen lounging and
gossiping with each other at the end of Bow-street, near
Long-acre, at about two o'clock in the day—most probably
on their way home from rehearsal. Here, at that hour,
may be seen Macready "in a dark, blue suit, and rather
broad-brimmed hat, with a yellow cane ;" Serle, " whose
smile almost amounts to a laugh ;" Bartley " attired in
mourning and evidently in thought ;" Yates, who " ner-
vously jerks his way forward, saluted on all sides ;"
Dowton " in thick-soled shoes, and a brown George wig,
who walks as if he indented the pavement at each
step ;" Charles Kemble " bowed by years, with an eye-glass
swinging loosely from his neck ;" Madame Vcstris " with
lustrous eyes, dark ringlets, and borrowed roses ;" Mon-
crieff, " who totters by aid of a stick and the arm of a
guide, with grey locks hanging over the collar of his coat ;"
and lastly, Mr. Thompson, who, " from his peripatetic pro-
pensities, has acquired the cognomon of omnipresent
Thompson." We can ourselves bear testimony to the
justice of this cognomen. Six times a week, at least—co
matter where we happen to be walking, or at what hour—
we are sure to encounter—Mr. Thompson! His pleasant,
good-natured countenance meets us in the City, at the
West-end, in the Borough, in the broad area of Russell-
square—in short, in every quarter of the metropolis. We sus-
pect that, if not endowed with übiquity, he has at least the
power ofself-multiplication ; for we have met him at 12 o'clock
in the City, and, but an hour or so after, rolling his way
down Guildford-street. Should we chance to be three days
without seeing his smiling, welcome face, we consider it an
ill omen. But the most extraordinary thing is—so extra-
ordinary, indeed, as to be positively awful—that age seams
to have produced not the slightest alteration in the face or
figure of this clever actor. Though it is full ten years
since we have been in the habit of daily seeing him, he
looks as alert and as youthful as ever. Time has frosted
our hairs ; dug wrinkles, as big as cart-ruts, in our cheeks ;
and planted crows-feet about our eyes ; but has wholly
spared Mr. Thompson. As he is now, so has he been for
twelve years past ; and so perhaps he will continue to all
eternity ; for, at times, we are not without a suspicion, that
he is neither more nor less than St. Leon! The article on
which we have thus enlarged is an exceedingly amusing
one ; and, we hope, therefore, our Radical friend Tait will
give us more of the like.

N 6
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_
(From the Jamaica Watchman, Dec. 20.)
A sltellsay
vessel came into the Bay on Sunday ; a man on board
had ..n ee it was the most dreadful sight he ever witnessed. The people
the
t"'.een short of water, and about one hundred of them had died from
pia fell" of their capture; the survivors were huddled together upon
6retatnn''s, where they could not sit upright ; the poor wretches, the
c°nPart of whom were young girls, were quite exhausted with the
h„,"en‘eeinent, and were all naked, being covered only with sores ; they
to st':l:n removed to the steam.engine house, where they will be able
matt ra UPright. The Captain is said to be very indifferent about the
130th the British and Foreign Funds have continued during the
the t,tg very heavy, with scarce any speculations transacting ; no doubt
Whi,.`ont state of our affairs with the United States, is the chief cause
c"o'n'
s oPPresses the Market.
11. ills, maY be quoted at present 91A for the Account; Exchequer
qklia per day ; India Bends, 55 57; Bank Stock, 204 ;
The '"•263A,
wi3Ohrt.eign Market also continues very inactive. Spanish Active,
Uteh .rit
-"Pons; Portuguese 271 heavy.; per Cents. 17i ;
"°•and-a-Half per Cents. 54—LondonThree and Brighton 31 pr.lB
THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
~nsols
for the Account, 91k.
hs kr.
Bomaa.e, the actor, whose death was announced
la „::" the papers lately, met with ase ~re accident about
how age, and bad to undergo a surgical operation, but be
41 a fair way of recovery.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRIXARY 7, 1838.