The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

TO BRISTOL•

S. Georhegan and servant, W. Beaswell, Luciano Forna-
sari, W. Prelm, Mr. Currie, John Mead, Wellington Gordon,
J. L. Payson, John Siter, Mrs. Langstreth, Mr. M'Culloch,
Mr. London, Mr. Steiger, Mr. M'Dougall, Miss E. Mount,
T. C. Ostler, C. Loeser, H. Goudin, De Bee Luden, R. J.
Girond, Mr. Pandamme, Mrs. Showell, Mr. Martinez, D.
Smith, Gen. S. Swartworet, Col. Gamble, Miss Gamble,'
Mr. Wedderburne, P. H. James, M. J. Keith, E. Duma-
zeaud ( Porteur de despatches au Gouvernmen Francais), Carl
Bahn, Mrs. Prosser and two children, E. Schenley, Mr. La-
mont, Mr. Huggins:X. Goodall, G. Coventry, J. Ruther-
ford, W. Hutherford, Dr. Stowart, J. Rhodes, Mr. Akroid,
Mr. Grimshan, Mr. Miranda' Geo. Keith, Mr. Brown, J. 0.
Dickson, J. S. Holstead, Mr. Moir, L. White, Thomas
Cochran, J. H. Miles, Mrs. Quarrel and servant, B. Tiltone,
W. Strickland, W. Chauncey, H. Meyer, D. Stewart, Capt.
Maitland, Capt. Williams, A. W. Peabody, Capt. Begot, F.
R. Broughton, Mr. Knight, Miss Knight, Mrs. Knight, child,
and servant, D. Kemper, J. S. Flagg, J. M'Laughlin, L. M.
Caneaux, R. M Intosh, D. Johnston, Mr. Sparks, Miss
Sparks, W. Davidson, John Trcubat, Captain Hill, and John
T roubat.

LIST OF VESSE',S SPOKEN By THE GREAT WESTERN, FROM

NEW TORK TO BRISTOL.
Sailed from New York on the 16th, at 5 P. M., and anchored in
King-road, 12 P.m.
DATE. VESSELS.
Aug. 18. French brig Avenir, from Rochelle
to New York 4O. 41. 70. 56.
23. Brig Gem, from Quebec to Hull,
out 16 days
24. American ship, Rob Roy, bound
to Virginia
25. Brig Henry, from Ulveraton to
Richetegouche 47. 55. 31. 33.
24. Cecrops, from London to Quebec,
30 days out
20. Exchanged colours with brig
Magog
21. Ditto ditto Amity 43. 37. 52. 29.
24. Ditto ditto Cambria 46. 51. 37. 7.
26. Ditto ditto barque Hope 49. 17. 25. 35.
28. Ditto ditto Tam o'Shanter 50. 41. 12. 48.
-. Ditto ditto Stanley ditto ditto.
-. Ditto ditto Pomona ditto ditto,

LAT.

LONG.

(FROM OCR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT—KNICKERIOCKER.)
NEW YORK, AUG. 16, 1838.
Of general news there is nothing to relate of any very great
importance. With regard to the Canadas there is no doubt
but that the course pursued by Lord Durham up to this date
has been one that will ensure to those countries tranquillity,
and eventually that prosperity which their situation and natu-
ral advantages almost command.
On the 3d inst., sixteen of the prisoners engaged in the
Short Hills affair (four of-whom are Americans, and the rest
subjects of the Queen), were convicted and sentenced to suffer
death on the 25th inst. After sentence had been passed, the

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Judge said he thought some of them would be reprieved, but
he could not say how many, or whom.
Sir John Colborne has been making a tour of examination
along the Upper Canada frontier, with a view, as it is said, to
the erection of fortifications. He was at Montreal on the 9th
instant.

The Cornwallis, 74, sailed from Quebec for Halifax on the
Bth inst. The Pearl was to sail on Friday the 9th; her des-
tination not known.

There was some little disturbance on the frontier on the 6th
or 7th inst., arising out of the arrest of Captain Davidson of
the Huntingdon (L. C.), volunteers, who was arrested at Cha-
tcaugay, Four Corners, New York, in an action for false impri-
sonment, at the suit of a Mr. Paddock, who was arrested about
six months since, and imprisoned by the Captain on suspicion
of aiding and abetting the rebels then in arms along the fron-
tier. Mr. Paddock is or was the Deputy Collector of the
Custom at Chateaugay, and his duties required his almost
constant attendance near and upon the frontier lines. The Mon-
treal Herald says that Mr. Paddock was arrested on suspicion
of having crossed the line to spy out the most favourable spot
for an attack (upon what does not appear), and that he had
confessed es much; and also that he was liberated on taking
an oath that he would give information to the Canadian autho-
rities should any attack be contemplated.
Captain Davidson was conveyed to the jail at Malone, hav-
ing refused to give bail. His brother, under the advice of Mr.
Ellice, immediately set off for Quebec, to lay the matter be-
fore Lord Durham. The same paper, the Montreal Herald,
Highland settlers in and about Huntingdon,
says, fiat the
were with difficulty restrained from proceeding to Malone, and
liberating their Captain by force.
The Highlanders are among the most loyal of the inhabi-
tants of the Canadas.
Mackenzie is still in this city, and it is said is highly suc-
cessful in the publication of his blackguard and violent paper,
called Mackenzie 's Gazette. lam told, from good authority,
that this paper has a large circulation on the frontiers of the
Canada: and America. The man and his paper are both held
by the respectable portion of the people of this city at their
proper value. I need not tell you what that is.
One of the papers here, the Journal of Commerce, speaking
of the sentence of death pronounced against the sixteen men
and boys of whom mention has already been made in this let-
ter, says
Should the Canadian Government carry into
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effect that sentence, it will deserve to be set down on the next
page in history after that which shall record the massacre of
Colonel Fanning's men by the cowardly Mexicans, five days
after their surrender." There is some degree of anxiety here
to know how Lord Durham will act in this matter. So far
Lord Durham's conduct has been distinguished for its clemency
and justice.
State
Fifteen prisoners escaped on the night of the
29th of July, from Fort Henry, Kingston, Upper Canada.
They had been furnished with a plan of the fort, which, no
doubt, bad been drawn up by some one who had access to the
plans in the engineer department. They were traced for
several miles, and a party of the Frenbenac Light Dragoons
were sent off in pursuit. An American, John Parker, one
of the prisoners, was retaken by a Corporal of the 71st. The
Corporal was offered 900 dolls. by Parker to let him go, but
he nobly refused the bribe. A
subscription was instantly set
on foot to reward him for his integrity. Three other pri-
soners were retaken. There was great confusion and excite-
ment in the town of Kingston when it was known that the
prisoners had escaped. Several persons were arrested on sus-
picion of having aided them in their escape, among whom was
the editor of the Kingston Herald.
The Halifax Acadian Recorder, Nova Scotia, of the 4th
instant, gives an account of some difficulties at Newfoundland
between the American and British fishermen. A New Bedford
Captain, whose crew had maltreated one of the inhabitants of
Cancau, was taken prisoner and punished. At the Magdalen
Islands a boat's crew of her Majesty's ships went on board
another American vessel, and threw all the fish she had taken
overboard.

THE NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY QUESTION.—It is said
that the Executive Government of the State of Maine are
taking measures to have every thing in readiness to run the
N. E. boundary line according to the treaty of 1783, on the
Ist of September next. The course to be adopted in running
the line will be, it is supposed, to appoint Commissioners.
If these Commissioners should meet with any resistance,
measures will be taken to protect them by a competent military
force.

THE AMERICAN NAVY.—The Government official organ
here, viz., the Globe, has been making an attack upon the
American
navy, which has aroused the whole Whig fears, and
the better portion of the press of its own party, as well as the
whole nation against it. The attack has been termed an out-
rageous, deliberate, and cold-blooded attack upon the officers
of the United States. They were charged with "a total
want of that esprit du corps, without which there can be no-
thing high or ennobling in the profession of arms ;" with " a
mean and pitiful jealousy, equally degrading to the man and
to the profession PERVADING ALL CLASSES OF OFFICERS;" with
a disposition, " in too many of the young officers to skulk from
service ;" with the " absence of all spirit ;" and with " a sor-
did spirit--an itching, grasping, monopolizing spirit," &c.
This article is attributed to the pen of the present Secretary
of the Navy, Mr. K. Paulding, the once popular author. It
is said, if he did not write it, he read it over and revised it,
and inserted certain words. This article was published about
the lath inst., and down to the present writing no denial or
disavowal of the authorship on the part of Mr. Paulding has
been published. He is reversed in the estimation of the whole
nation.
The blockade of the Mexican ports by the French has at
length began to excite inquiries, and some of the leading
papers here question the right of France to blockade those
ports. A Western paper says, " Whence does France derive
the right, the belligerent right, to blockade the Mexican
ports? The power to interrupt or break up the commercial
relations of nations at peace with both France and Mexico ?
The country is interested, the West is particularly interesteJ,
in this question. The shutting of the Mexican ports in-
, uriously affects the demand for and price of our products."
By the latest intelligence from Mexico, via New Orleans,

August 8, we learn that there is no probability of the Mexican
Government acceding to the demands of the French, and the
blockade is carried on with great rigour, paiticularly towards

American vessels.
The elections have begun here, and so far have resulted in
favour of the Whigs. Accounts from seventeen counties give
22 Whigs and 21 Locofoco, or administration Members. In
1836 the vote in the same state stood 19 Whigs and 24
Locofocos.
There was a large Whig meeting in the city last night, the
15th August, called for the purpose of hearing a young Mem-
ber of the Congress, the Hon. S. S. Prentiss, whose recep-
tion was enthusiastic in the extreme. The name of Henry
Clay, who, as you probably are aware, is already spoken of as
the next President of the United States, was mentioned and
received in a way that went to show how large an amount of
popularity that great man enjoys in this city. There is little
doubt but that ho will be the next President. _ . .

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The Great Western steam-ship arrived out here in fourteen
days and nine hours. She sails this afternoon, the 16th in-
stant, with over SO passengers, a large amount of freight, prin-
cipally cotton, and an immense number of letters.
MONEY AND BUSINE SS MATTERS.

Since the departure of the steam-ship Royal William
twelve days ago, the intelligence of the changes and move-
ments that have taken place in the monetary and commercial
affairs of this country will be of great interest on your side of
the water.
The most important movement in connection with financial
matters that has occurred (since the suspension of the specie
payments) in May, 1837, is the entire resumption of specie
payments by the Banks of the following States :—Massa-
ehwietts, Connecticut. Rhode Island, Pennsylvania (including
the Bank of the United States), Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri. The capital
of these institufrons, when taken in connection with
those of the State of New York, embrace more
than one-half of the Banking capital of the whole United
States. In addition to this, the Banks of about one-half a
the remaining non-resuming States, will undoubtedly return
to specie payments before the Ist of October next ensuing,
and most of the others, on or before the Ist o f January next.
This somewhat new approach to the financial policy, by
which the business of the country has made such immense
strides, from its infancy up to the days of the present adminis-
tration of the Government, is rapidly spreading its elements,
and extending its beneficial influence through the veins and
arteries of the trade and commerce of America and the adja-
cent commercial marts; and as rapidly as we approach that
policy, which has made us the great manufacturing, com-
mercial and trading people that we are, does the
restoration of confidence continue to increase, and that equili-
librium in the monied exchanges, that regulates the exchange
of commodities, one part of the country with the other and
with foreign nations.
From this position of affairs you will at once see that the
money concerns of this country are in a very sound and
healthy condition ; and that every branch of industry is once
more beginning to bring with it its reward. Our grain crops
of every nature were never before so propitious, excepting in
corn, which will be materially cut short, in consequence of
the drought that has prevailed for sometime past. The wheat
crop, particularly, will be superabundant, so that in-
stead of importing that article from other countries,
as we have for two or three years previous, we can
readily spare for any of our neighbours, any amount equal to
the imports of any one year, if not, an amount equal to the
imports of the whole time almost specifically.
The European advices, per the Great Western, although
looked upon as being exceedingly favourable to the business,
welfare, and prosperity of England and America, caused only
that healthy action and excitement here, so important to the
successful prosecution of all business affairs. That part of the
intelligence which stated that the house of Messrs. Wildes and
Co., of your city, would hereafter meet all their liabilities on
demand, was very gratifying to our merchants generally.
THE COTTON TRADE.
Since the advices, per Great Western, which we received
on the sth inst. (the day after the departure of the Royal Wil-
liam), we have had return news from nearly every
.Cotton
mart of ti a country, excepting New Orleans and Mobile, and
from these two places our dates received are of the 7th instant.
Tho accounts from all parts. give statements of small transac-
tions, in consequence of the limited stock, and prices denote no
essential variation from those by the steam-ship of the 4th
inst. In this market the business has been steady, but rather
moderate, the finer descriptions at full prices, and the lower at
a slight downward tendency. We note Uplands from ordinary
to good fair at 84c. tol2ic. ; good to fine 12i.c. to 13ic. a. .nd
14c. ; Tennessee: and Alabamas fiic. to 1 ; fine Lout
anas, &c., including Mobiles, at 12ic. to 15c. per lb. The
sales since the first are estimated at 4,700 bales.
The following tables will give you a statement of the busi-
ness of the whole United States, from October Ist, 1837,
to the present time :

The Stock on hand, October Ist, 1837
Amount received at the places of Experts since
that time, will scarcely vary from 1,800,000

BALES.
74,573

1,874,573

Exports, since October Ist, 1837.
To Great Britain 1,131,214
France 312,319
Other Foreign ports 80,718
And Stock remaining on hand 101,854

Amount of home consumption
For the same period last year the total amount re-

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ceived was
Foreign Exports
Stock on hand