The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-13 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

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CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Private letters have been received at Havre from Buenos
Ayres, to the 28th January, which state that the French citizens
in that country are imprisoned on the least suspicion, and they
cannot even obtain a hearing from the authorities. Things
have come to such a crisis that the French Admiral on the
Brazilian station is expected there in a few days with his
squadron.

Charleston papers are received to the 18th March. The Up-
I land Cotton Market was in a very unsettled state, and pur-
chasers were unwilling to operate, unless at a decline, which
was in several instances submitted to. The Markets afterwards
rallied, and the former prices fully maintained. There was
nothing doing in Stocks, and the quotations were nominal. Ex-
change on England i to 8 per Cent.
We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp of
yesterday's date, bringing the Amsterdam prices of the 10th
April; Two-and-a-half per Cents., 5-1 i ; Five per Cents.,
101 9-16ths. They do not contain any political news.
This being Good Friday, it is kept as a strict holiday in the
City, with the exception of a few coffee-houses being open.
We copy the following from a Gibraltar Paper received
this morning of the 29th March :—" A letter from Santa Cruz
de Mudela contains further melancholy particulars of the
number of victims at Calzada ; upwards of 400 dead bodies
were found amidst the ruins of the fort to which d'Basilio had
set fire, including many women, and fifty odd children. It
likewise appears that besides the Commandant of the fort,
Puertellano, he shot twenty-five of his officers, besides four
civilians, known for their devotionFlte_ortteAhresfQrorurneeTnL,TivbvEecrcLpaouvosleE;t.hneoy
had presumed to defend the place."
We have received the second
later arrivals from New York. The sales of Cotton 3,000
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LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY AT HER MA-
JESTY'S THEATRE.—We paid another visit to Her Alajesty's
Theatre last night, to hear Mr. C. H. Adams's admirable
lectures on Astronomy, and to witness his splendid
transparencies and costly apparatus, representing the
heavenly bodies, which were indeed upon a scale of unrivalled
magnificence. The house was very crowded, and did honour
to the ability with which Mr. Adams described the won-
ders of the heavens. He will repeat the lectures to-mor-
row night for the last time this season, and cannot fail
to close with a bumper. Reading astronomical lectures
and descriptions is all very well ; but to comprehend
a subject of such sublimity, the living hand of Art, pointing to
and illustrating the motions of other worlds, must be seen. De.
scription, however vivid, bears much about the same relation to
actual sight as precept to example. We say, therefore, to those
who wish to understand what they read of this sublime
science, which leads the mind to look
" From Nature up to Nature's God !"_,
to go and see with their own eyes, and hear with their own
ears, the brilliant but silnt wonders of the heavens, so ably
delineated in Mr. Adams' lectures.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the new Directors elected oa Wed-
nesday last, viz.—Henry Alexander, Esq. ; William Stanley
Clarke, Esq. ; John Thornhill, Esq. ; Francis Warden, Esq. ;
and Sir William Young, Bart., took the oaths and their seats.
Major-General Sir James Law Lushington, K. C. 8., was
Chairman for the chosen Chairman
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nsuing and Richard Jenkins, Esq.,
M P., Deputy.
STATE or TRADE.—It is pleasing to state that
the hand- loom weavers are at present fully employed. A ma-
nufacturer writes us that he has made application for additional
hands, but cannot fall in with them,—Zhndee Advertiser.