The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-21 00:00:00

LOWER CANADA.

The Pique frigate, for whose safety fears had been entertained, ar-
rived at Quebec on the 21st, after a passage of twenty-seven days from
Halifax. She had on board 500,000 dollars for the military chest. We
have a letter from Quebec which announces the arrival of the Rainbow
sloop.of-war with another half million of dollars for the public service.
If the officers of the guards and 71st are not to have fighting they are
determined to have hunting, having brought out with them a pack of
hounds and a number of fine horses.

Lord LISNIORE will, we understand, be raised to
the English Peerage at the Coronation. The crea-
tions are likely, we believe, to be very few—the pro-
motions in the Peerage will be more numerous. As the
theatres are all to be thrown open to the people on
that night, their enjoyment will be much better pro-
vided for than by the banquet at Westminster Hall, in
which mil) a few could participate. Proper precautions
will be taken to ensure easy access to the theatres.
In the course of a day or two a notice will be given,
that those who desire to visit them free on the night
of the Coronation must apply at certain places for
tickets ; and no more tickets will be issued than each
theatre can conveniently hold persons. A precaution of
this kind, if properly followed up, will prevent confusion,
and enable the people really to enjoy the representations.
It will also save the police an immense deal of trouble.

A small pamphlet was lately published by MoxoN,
under the somewhat quaint title of " Areopagitica Se-
cunda, or Speech of the Shade of JOHN MILTON, on Mr.
Sergeant TALFOURD'S Copyright Extension Bill." The
writer is a strenuous advocate for the rights of authors,
and, if he does not advance any new arguments, brings
some of the old ones to bear with considerable effect upon
the opponents of the Bill. The following passage, which
is all that our limits will allow us to quote, will give our
readers a good idea of the author's manner :—" Literature,
we believe, is intended to be the teacher of the public
mind. It is its privilege to instruct, and it is also the pri-
vilege of the public to be instructed by it. But now the
law reverses the order. It has corrupted your teachers ;
and thus it wrongs you. It does all in its power to pro.
duce this baneful effect—that literature may be swayed and
influenced by the capricious fluctuations of the public taste ;
and to prevent this other result—that the public taste may
be studied and ruled by the solid support and guidance of
literature. It has done all in its power to make literature
the abject and fawning slave, instead of the wise and
thoughtful master of the public." We regret that the
author's exertions in this good cause will not lead to any
practical result--at least for the present—the Copyright
having been postponed till next Session.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all been received.
Their contents are unimportant. The Army Regulation
Bill passed the Chamber of Peers by a majority of 35.
The following are extracts :
On the sth inst., a powder magazine, situate within three quarters
of a league from St. Gall, in Switzerland, blew up with a tremendotts
noise, and occasioned the death of eleven individuals. A pebble, flung
over the wall by a child, having struck against a nail of the roof, the
sparks sct fire to the powder dust which covered it, and this produced
the explosion.
The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 10th says :
" The Carlist battalions which occupied the line of Zubire set out on
the 11th for Estella.
. " General Espartero, in order to get provisions into Lumbier, is going
to put 12,000 men of his army in motion, who arc to proceed to
Montreal for the sole purpose of escorting a convoy.
.s Don Carlos and his suite went on the 12th to Aspeitia. Espartcro
has quitted Logrono, and gone to Haro.

"The silver plate of the churches of lloncevaux has arrived at Bay-
onne. The Spanish Consul is going to sell it. Munagorri has now
1,7 0 0 men enrolled."
We have a letter from St. Valery sur Somme, dated 17th, to acquaint
us with the happy arrival in that port of the first steam-boat from
London. It is impossible, says the letter, to succeed better, and though
one of the lowest titles in the month was expressly chosen to prove the
success of the navigation, the Royal Adelaide entered St. Valery in the
finest possible style ; the English Captain himself was surprised, and all
the crew admired the facility with which the vessel moored in the bay.
At four o'clock the populace of the town and neighbourhood was on
foot, awaiting the arrival of the Royal Adelaide, which came in sight at
half past five o'clock. An, important question is now decided, viz.,
whether a communication by steam-boats between St. Valery and Eng.
land was practicable. All doubts are now dispelled and the unfavour-
able predictions on the subject are falsified. The passengers from
London to St. Valery was made in 14 hours, of which two were passed
at Margate to take in coals.-Le Commerce.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PAnts, JUNE 145.
Five per Cents., 110 f. OOc. SOc. 1 Cc.
Four per Cents., 102 f. 50c. 40c.
three per Cents., 80f. 20c. 25,
Bank Actions, 2,775,f. f2,765f.
rtente de Naples, 99f.
Roman Five per Cents., 101 m.
Spanish Actives, 22%.
Spanish Passives, 4%.
Belgian Loan, 102%.
Belgian Bank, 1,442 f. 50c. 1,440 f
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., :35.
Portuguese Loan. Three per Cents. 24!.4.
Haytian Loan. 3COf. 355 f.
EXCHANGE n:g LONDON,
Onemonth, paper, 25f. 42%e.; money, 251.40 c.
Three months, paper, - f. -c.; mousy, 23f. 32%c.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 110 f. 75c.
Three per Cents., 801. 25c.
Bank Actions, 2,765 f. •
Romans, 101)4.
Belgian Loan, 10216.
Belgian Bank, 1,440 f,
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 35.
Portugue,e Three per Cents., 24%.
. Haytian Loan, 3.53 f.
Spanish Actives, 22%.
Spanish Passives, 4%.
ANTWERP, JUNE 16.-A letter from Luxemburg of the 16th says,
" His Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia, the King's son,
arrived at Luxemburg on the 13th, in the morning. On the following
morning his Royal Righness reviewed the garrison on the glacis of the
New Gate. At noon the public functionaries waited on the Prince at
the Hotel of the Military Governor. In the evening he attended a
brilliant fete given by the officers of the garrison, at the Cassino. On
the 15th his Royal Highness visited the fortifications, and left our city
at three in the afternoon.

Sir Charles Wood, Secretary to the English Admiralty, has arrived
today with his family, on board the Princess Victoria steamboat.
Sir. Constantine, chief Secretary to Baron James Von Rothschild, has
been at Brussels for some time. It it justly thought that his journey is
connected with an important financial operation, and the more so as
Messrs. Rothschild Brothers have offered a plan for realising the new
loan of 37,000,000.
I3ELGIAN kUNDS—BaussELs, JUNE 19.
Actual Debt, 2y, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions ta.
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 96
Society of Commerce, 45.',per Cent l5l
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 142
National Society
—brussels Papers, June 19.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JUNE 11.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Font- per Cents
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1462

—Allgemeine Zcitung, June 16.

We have received a file of the Australian Review to the
10th of January inclusive, but they contain no colonial
news of any interest.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)

Their Lordships sat in a Committee of Privileges to-day. The Peers
in attendance were the leord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the
Duke of Buceleugh, Lord Montford, the Earl of Aboyne (now Marquis
of Huntley) Lord Vaux, and Lord Colville.