The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-01 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

The demand still continues good, but the supply moderate
—prices as they were. Old Meadow Hay 105 s. to 1151. ;
New 755. to 955. ; Old Clover Hay 115 s. to 1325. ; New
80s. to 105 s. ; Straw 40s. to 455. per load.
TALLOW MARKET.

P. Y. C. to-day is 495. 3d. to 495. 6d. on the spot and for
delivery.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE COLONIAL MARKETS
DURING THE WEEK.

There has been but very little business done in these mar-
kets during the past week, except in B. P. Sugar, which sold
3,000 hhds. In prices we quote no deviation from those of
last week, nor in Coffee, Tea, Rice, Rum, Cotton, Indigo, or
Spices. In fact, the week has been unusually uniform with
last. The Imports, on the whole, have been heavy, the Ex-
ports light, and the Deliveries to a fair extent.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS•

CITY (7711 S DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A 3 usual on Saturdays, very few arrivals, and a scarcity of
intelligence. We have only one foreign mail (French), and
no ship letters, consequently very little business is expected to
be done this day in the Funds.
Consols which closed yesterday rather heavy at 93k 91 for
Money, and 94-,i- for the October account, opened this morning
at the above prices. Exchequer Bills, 72 74 ; India Bonds, 72
74 ; Bank Stock, 2074 2081 ; India Stock, 2641 265.
In the Foreign Market the prices are nominal at present.
Spanish Active heavy, at the leaving off prices of yesterday,
19k 20i- ; Portuguse, 351 ; Three per Cents., 231 ; Bra-
zilian, 831 84 ; Colombian, 251 ; Mexican, 23 24 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half, 534 54 ; Five per Cents., 1021 H.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock ..... ........... 2973/4 814 .Imia Stec k 264%
3 per Cent. ',le,
3 per C,ot. Cmris 9l 13% 4 . South tea Stock .--
_
.31,,, per Cent.— ...... .......... Old .knimities
Ditto Re,' .. .. 10-2,, i 1 New Ditto —
New 3% p:!7 Cent 101%%% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751...
New 5 per C,nt. - I Exch. -gills, X 1,000........ 72 74 pm.
Ranh L mg A nnuitiestoexpire I DAG,— ........ ...500 74 fr-
Jan. 5, lano 153/4 11-16' Ditto Sirmll ...
Oct. 10, 1t,59 15,41 Ditto Commercial ...... ... Pt
Jan. 5, 1580 l5 7-16% Ditto Advertised Pm.
Jan. 5, 188,? Bank l.,tock for Account —
. .... .
April .5, ",ir, Incill Stock for Account —
J:.n 5. 18,, Onisols for Acconnt 94%
P HCES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIs .

A ittsion Honda
—!
Ditto Account . —!
rutt.i Account ...... .........
P.:ienos Ayr Bonth
Acc;unt
CBowls ..... ..,
Account ........
C ,ntro.bian
Lznnda —
Ditto Accovnt .
Bonds,
Aczoutit
thniih T:onds
Ditto .tcc..w.nt .....
...... ,„ .... —!
Ditto Bondl, 1E125
Ditto Account .—......
,tc-3:cati 5 1,77 _cat..,
to Account
6 firer cent.
Account .
PRICES OF SHARES THI

Peruvian Bonds ......... —
Ditto Account —
Portuguese Bonds—. ..... ....
Vitto New Bonds. —
Ditto Account 35 4% %
Ditto, 3 per cent.......
Ditto Account 23
Pro:sian Roods —
Russian Bonds, 1822 :. ... 112%
Ditto Aeccunt —
Ditto Metall:C.... ..... •• a• ••• • •
Spanish Bonds...
Ditto Account
Ditto Bends, 1834.
Ditto Account 2034 193 g%
French, 5 per cent.......... —5. —.
-- 4 per cent. ....... ... —1 —c
3 per cent.
Exchange
Dirt/in, 2y4 per cent 53%%%
Ditto Accour' S:P/5%%
Ditto, :, per cent 10234 2 14
Ditto Account
.S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share
Candonga Mining Company 734 714
Cr•ftt swioas,,scr, hallway Company 65 7334 4 3t(
Brighton Railway cerniro,
1,,,,W0n and Blarkwall Railway
I endon and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 168 9
Lomion ard southampton Railway Company
London and Southampton (New) Railway l5 37
M nchoster and Birmingham Railway lO 10
South Eastern and Dover Railway Company 9 3
Illitish North American Bank
Colonial Bank
COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam C.F. 12 5% Gibraltar
I
Ditto, at sight
Iturttrdain......-: 2U. 12 6 Genoa 26 0
Antwerp._
112mburg. ...,... ~.,,..,ALB. 13 liJes • Venice l9
Alt.,:na
..'.s,tr, 3 days' sigh 25 6.) Palermo per oz. 117%
Ditt,..... .. ..3 Ms. 25 81 Lisbon `l3
M-.1.-.lciVe,
11 mideaux
Frankfart 011 Maine, Ex.M. :53% Bahia .cr.
1
P,tersbuigh, relate, 1 Us. ill 0 Buenos Ayres —
B. rein
V,enna, etrective fl '2 51, 10 13 Philadelphia —
T:ianie ..... .ditto
Madrid 10 14 PRICE OF BULLION, PER 02.
-,7 Portugal Gold, coin .e 0 0 0
W1Z.... '7% Foreign Gold, in bars 317 9
Bill,ca .... -.6 New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona '313 New Dollars
8 rifle • s'(l i Silver. bars, standard 0 4 1134
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Atm. 28.
Bills. Money
Austrian Metariques, 5 per cent.
Dirr_ ditto 3 percent.
Ditto gitto 21 per cent, —
Intl() Ilank Shares 1422 1420
-ngio-Ittissian Loan 10834 1(814
i'apor loseripti,,n, 6 per cent —
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
liaisaino Inscription, Rorie and Co., 13c1 and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per curl.
ni!to, 3 mar cm.
Dutch 2% rer Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents lOO% 110
150 sh Bonds, 3 per cents
New Tickets 15434 15454
Analo-Danish Lean, 3 per cents 72% 72
Norwegian Loan of 15.14, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent
Greek 4 per cents. 1633, guaranteed by France
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HM{l,llO. AUG. 28 —l3 8 ; two months, 137%.
F."1.1N. Auu. 25.-I'hr.e in.nths, 6. 2334.
STOCKHOLNI, A uo. 21.—Two months, 12 ti.
—liarnburg Papers, Aug. 28.

HALF-PAST (i'VE.
A Hamburg mail has arrived of the 28th August, bring-
ing papers of the above date. Metaliques, 104 ; Bank
Shares, 1,420.
Consols may be quoted at the morning prices, of 948 for
the Account ; Money, 93i 94 ; Exchequer Bills, 72 74
prem. ; India Bonds, 74 72 ; Bank Stock, 2071 2084; India
Stock, 2641.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active has been the chief
speculmion, and which is very heavy--receded from 198 20+
to 19+ with Coupons. Portuguese lower, 34; ; Three per
Cents., 23 ; Brazilian, 83i 84; Mexican, 23 24; Dutch Two-
d-a- Half per Cents. lower, 53i; Five per Cents., 102+.
In Shares little has been doing, but they continue at yester-
day's prices.
Consols for Account, 948.

THREE O'CLOCK.

During the last three days in which the banking
account of the Court of Chancery was kept open for the pay-
ment ofc h s,the
unprecedentedßank oifnEngland
tfo
paid
rthe
upwards
limitedof
period4oo,oo o/.
_a sum
named ! The amount thus distributed among small and large
claimants must find its way in various channels among the
public, and so far prove beneficial.
STOCKHOLM,
will 1
the
AUG.course l 90
f.
nextl/Vm th on to
e hear
several provinces of the kingdom. M. Stogman, the Mi-
nister of finance, has received, as we understand, from his
Majesty the Emperor of Russia the insignia of the Order offinance,onra thatu his
itshrou Ma-
jestygh
setout
St. Anne of the first class in diamonds, for the conclusion of a
new treaty of Commerce.
An inquest was held last week, before J. W. Cow •
ley, Esq. one of the Coroners for Bucks, at Thornborough,
on view of the body of Joseph Holdom, a respectable farmer
of that place. The deceased was reaping with his men that
morning, when he was taken suddenly ill, sat down near a
and expired in about five minutes afterwards. Ver-
dict--DiedTHE Bust' Cow.—A remarkably curious animal
has just arrived in this country, from Sierra Leone, and is at.
trzcting a good deal of notice among naturalists. It resembles
in form a common cow, but is covered with a coarse thin hair
of a dirty yellow colour, with tufts of the same, hanging down
at equal distances from its broad pendulous ears, and has alto-
gether a most singular appearance. It comes from the in-
terior of Western Africa, and is little known, even by the
h ede
by the visitation of God."
natives, who call it the bush cow. No previous specimen has
b2en brought to Europe, nor is it even known to the colonists
at Sierra Leone, and it is believed to be quite undescribed.
It has been deposited for the present at the Surrey Zoological
Gardens. Several other rarities have also been recently
added to the same menagerie; among them are three rose-
breasted cockatoos, a pair of black parrots, both exceedingly
scarce, a gazelle, a very fine tigress, and American roe deer, a
pair of Cereopsis geese, presented by Sir Robert Heron, and
a female curassow with her young one, about six weeks old,
an age at which the bird is very seldom seen in this country.
A man named Ilsley was yesterday held to bail at
Marylebone Office for cruelty to his son, a boy eleven years
of age, whom he he had confined and chained in a dismal damp
hcie under ground for several days, and fed upon bread and
water. In his defence, the man said the boy was undutiful and
had robbed him, ,

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKWOOD' S MAGAZINE.

The Number before us is as good a one as has appeared
for months. Chapman, Christopher North, and a writer,
who signs himself " Archaeus," and exhibits no inconsider-
able powers of fancy, contribute to its pages. The first
article is entitled " Christopher among the Mountains,"
and contains some admirable descriptions of mountain
scenery, which show in every sentence that the " power of
hills"—to quote Wordsworth's striking expression—is on
the writer's imagination. But why does he so perversely
depreciate Byron's noble apostrophe to the Ocean ? Why
subject it to such a searching, inquisitorial criticism as not
the most careful English poet could bear ? That fine line
in " Childe Harold," in allusion to the sea,

" Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow,"
Christopher pronounces to be " a conceit, and a most im-
pertinent one !" Now, to our thinking, this is one of the
very best lines to be found in all Byron's works. As for
impertinence, nothing can be more appropriate. The poet
has just before been talking of perishable empires and
cities ; of huge mountains furrowed by the storms of centu-
ries ; of prodigious structures crumbling away beneath the
same resistless influence ; and then proceeds to contrast
their transient, with the eternal, nature of the ocean, which
rolls now, just as " Creation's dawn" beheld it roll. Where
is the conceit—where the impertinence here? We repeat,
there is not one English poet that could stand the ordeal
of such criticism as Christopher's; and if there be one who
would suffer by it more than another, it is Wordsworth—
his prime favourite—who is often flat and verbose to a de-
gree beyond endurance, and for one sublime passage has at
least two mystical ones that might puzzle even an CEdipus
himself to solve. " Legendary Lore" is a simple sea story
told with uncommon elegance of expression and sentiment.
In the " Whig Radical Corruption" a desperate party
recklessness is perceptible which cannot fail to provoke a
laugh. " Memoranda of our Village and Its Founders" is
a trite theme treated in a very ingenious and lively manner.
The germ of the idea may be found in a paragraph that ap-
peared a few years since in the " Edinburgh Review,"
illustrative of the rise and progress of a small Highland
village. " Letters of an Attache" are descriptive of the
proceedings in London at the late memorable coronation,
which though it cost only a third of the sum expended on
that of George the Fourth, was at least five times as im-
pressive a spectacle. We quote the writer's account of
the Congreve rocket which he saw brought into play at
the artillery review at Woolwich, a few days after the
coronation :

" The very flight of the Congreve rocket is startling ; it
springs from the ground in a volume of flame, and then rushes
along with a continued roar, with its large head blazing, and
striking point-blank, and with tremendous force, at the dis-
tance of a mile or more. In a siege it is already extremely
formidable. It bursts through roofs ; it fixes itself wherever it
can bore its way ; and it inflames everything that is combus-
tible. Stone walls only can repel it, and that not always.
This weapon may be regarded as almost exclusively English
in its use, as well as its origin. It will be like the English
bow in the fifteenth century. In the next war what au extra-
ordinary change will take place in all the established instru-
ments of putting men out of the world I We shall be attacked
at once from above, around, and below. We shall have the
balloon showering fire upon us from miles above our heads;
the steam-gun levelling us from walls and ramparts, before we
can come within distance to dig a trench ; the Congreves set-
ting our tents, ammunition-waggons, and ourselves in a blaze
in our first sleep ; and the steam-boat running and doing mis-
chief every where. But of all those mischief-makers I should
give the palm to the rocket. No infantry on earth could stand
for five minutes within five hundred yards of a well-served
rocket-battery. Half-a-dozen volleys of half-a-dozen of these
fiery arrows would break the strongest battalions into frag-
ments, lay one-half dead on the ground, and send the other
blazing and torn over the field. The heaviest fire from guns
is nothinr, to their effect. It wants the directness, the steadi-
ness, the flame, and, resulting from all those, the terror. If the
British troops shall ever come into the field without an over-
whelming force of rocketeers, they will throw away the first
chance of victory that ever was lost by national negligence.
Nothing can be more obvious than that this tremendous
weapon has not even yet arrived at its full capacity for war on
a great scale."