The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-29 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-.(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
, We copy the following :rom the American papers received thiiiimc oiron-
mg, of the, lit inst. r.as the House of Representatives a commu,i atn
Boni the President saes received to the following effect :_.....
" Department of State, Washington, Dec. 23.
the" The S'y of State; to whom has been referred the resolution of
H ..-cretar
riuse of Representatives of the 9th of October last, requesting
the President to communicate to that House at its next session, so far as
In his judgment is consistent with the public interest, whether any fo-
reign Power, or the subjects of any foreign power, have possession of
any Portion of the territory of the United States on the Columbian river,
or are in the occupancy of the same, and if so, by what way, and by what
authority, and how long such posseseision has been kept by such per-
sons, has the honour to report to the President that a trading establish
silent, called Astoria, was founded at the mouth of the Columbian river
about the year 1811, by J. J. Astor, of New York, that his interest was
sold to the British North WestlCompany during the late war between the
United States and Great Britain, and that this Company afterwards
United with and became a part of the Hudson Bay Company. The
Hudson Bay Company have also several depots situated in Water
Course in the interior ofithe country, the principal one is at Fort Van-
comer, on the northern bank of tho Colombian river, about eighty or
one hundred miles from its mouth. As, however, by recent informa-
tion obtained that the English Company have a steamboat on this river,
and that they have erected a sawmill and are cutting timber on the
territory claimed by the United States, and are shipping it in consider-
able quantities to the Sandwich Islands, it ends by stating that by the
Second Convention, that a stipulation is extended and continued in
force to be annulled at any time after the 20th of October 1639, at the
will of either party on duo notice of twelve months.
'e have received a Montreal paper of the 27th of December. The
following are extracts :
Our accounts from Buffalo are to the 26th inst., -and do not add
Much to the information we have given in our last. The rebels aro
still on Navy island, and as busy as ever, with reports of total defeat of
ISlacnab by Duncornb, to keep up the spirits of their adventurers from
the States.
It is certain, from the Buffalo papers, that M`Kenzie did sot leave
Buffalo before he had received a broad hint to make himself scarce. An
address has been published from 140 of the leading men of Buffalo, stat-
ing that the undersigned inhabitants of Buffalo and Black Rock have
Witnessed, with deep regret and mortification, large bodies of men
thronging our streets and public-houses, enlisting volunteers, collecting
arms and other munitions of war, and organizing themselves into mill.
Lary corps, for the purpose of crossing into Canada, to aid with their
arms in the civil contest. The object of this notice is, to apprize those
who are Rating under such delusion, that they are violating the laws of
• their country, and to beseech them to abandon at once an enterprise,
1 it exposes them to punishment, promises but little advantage.
Up to the present hour we ae no Island, and it is still discrediteh v
d in the City confirmation of the affair of Navy.
THE FUNDS.
Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of Saturday—no
speculations have as yet taken place--92 for the Account, Money 91i
02; Exchequer Bills 60 62 ; India ;Sends 55 57 ; Bank Stock 206 207.
The Foreign Market is also i', estate of stagnation'; Spanish 191 to
191 ; Portuguese 24 ; Du..ch 521 to 53g.
?IankPRICES OF STPCKS- THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Stock • ••••••... .......... India Stoek...
3 3 per Cent. ded
.................. 92v. Ditto Bonds ...................
'..i; .60 am
34 per Cent. CP'Ag.. • . 923 z South Se .........
. .
per Cent.
..........
............ 100 x
............. ,a
.Stock ........ . .......
Ditto Rest Old Annnities
.. ................ 1003,;% New Ditto...
Nell 31; per Cent...............5k 1004 3 Per Cent. Annuities, 1/51 —
New 4 per Cent... ................. --- Exch. Bills, .£l,lloo 62 64 63 sm.
,
•atis LongAnnuitiestoexpire Ditto ...............5()0 .. 61 64 pm.
Jan. 5, 1860............... 15 3-1614 Ditto Small
Oct, 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial lB poi.
Jan. 5, 1860 ............... — Ditto Advertised —— pm
Jan. 5, ISBO - Bank Stock for Account —
April 5, 1880 ............ ........ -- India Stock for Account
Jars. 5; 1870 — Consols for Account...
PRICES OF FOREION FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds
Belgian Bonds — Ditto Account .................
_
Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds
_
Ilragilian Bonds .... 73 Ditto Account
Ditto Acconnt — Ditto New Bonds ........ .......2'3%
28%
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account ... ........
Prussian Bonds
Milian Bonds
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds Ditto Account
Ditto Account
Ditto Metallic. ........ .........
Calumbian Bonds, 1it.24 .. — Spanish Bonds z
Ditto Account
Ihnisli Bonds
Ditto Account ..... . ..... .......
73% Ditto Bonds,lB3l
19% N...,
19%
Ditto Account
Bitto AccrAint
Greek 8evA15...... ....... .- ......
French, 5 per cent......... —f. —c.
Ditto Bonds, 1825 -- 4 per cent. _e, —e.
.to Account
—..
1/
Illea Exchange --f. —c.scan Bonds, 5 per cent.... ----
Ditt 3
1/i
Dutch, 24, per cent ,3
Ditto Account
_
Ditto Account
o, 6 per cent.
Ditto Account 1 Ditto,
Ditto
Neapolitan ..... .. Account 102%... ........... ...... —1 5 per cent
PRICES OF SHARES Tills DAY AT ONEei
ls. 6d. O'CLOCK.
. 11l
Per Stare.
Real del Monte Mining Co., Registered 63/
Ditto Unregistered 15% 16
United Mexican (issued at 2/. pm.)
Ditto Scrip
—2%
N
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway C0mpany.......~
11% %
Eastern Counties Railway 3
~,,
Sheet Western Railway Company
65 82 2
• t
7
larighton Railway Corapans
5 h 8
-
IL, radon and Birmingham Railway Company
90 % 163
Ditto Shares 5 27%
London and Southampton Railway Company.... 50 40
Manchester and Birmingham Railway I 8N
North Midland Railway Company 25 '25
5
Mexican and South American
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JANUARY 27.64
3 Per Cent. Consols
Ditto Reduced 9l ~Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 9161,',
Ditto, 4 per cent. ... ....... ...
20,1
34 Per Cent. Stock 'ber nian Bank
091,4 1-1' • • c 107
Ditto New, 1830
31,6 per Cent. Debentures
99% City of Dublin Steam ompany
91% Nationsl Insuran V
-
Bank Stock
GrandS,ock Canal Stock 25% cent

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
to Since the early part of the morning Consols have improved from 92
92t for the February Account, which may be attributed to some
Purchases having been made in the 3i per Cents. Money continues
pUos lentiful both in the 'louse mid for Commercial affairs on good securi.
Consols at present, 923 ; Exchequer Bills, 62 64 63 21d. per
share ; India Bonds. 56 60 prem. ; Bank Stock, 206 207 ; India Ssock,
2631 2641.
In the Foreign Market very little doing; Spanish Active 1 fli 3,
'vith
73 Coupons ; Portuguese 2SI ; Three per Cents., ISI ; Brazilian
1; Dutch 53.
On Saturday last 1,000 shares in the United States Bank was pur-
chased, in one lot, at 251. per share, by Mr. B. B. Williams, of the
Stock Exchange.
London and Brighton Shares S. Owing to a report of a call on
Dublin and Kilkenny Shares of 21. 10s., they have receded from
to ji.
C•asalS tr,r the Account, D2a.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Died, on Sunday morning, at ten o'clock, at his
residence in Brompton•squa7e, A. H. Beaumont, Esq., editor
and proprietor of the Northern Liberator.
On Friday morning last the body of a man named
Allen Oldfield, about 36 years of age, was discovered in the
river, at a dam between Shceps-mill and Armitage-bridge. le
, had resided at Upper-park, near Robin Hood's-hill, and
i"4 been missing since the Wednesday evening previous. It
1118 .stated that he had been subject to frequent aberrations of
Nsirni_d, approaching to derangement, for a considerable time.
end hang
he left home on the Wednesday, he said he should go
`i hang or drown himself, but as he had frequently before
uttered the same expressions no notice was taken of them.
The countenance which appears to be given by the
inhabitants of the town of Buffalo to the inhabitants of Navy
Island is the consequence of want rather than political feel-
-I,tilig• Some years ago it was a thriving place, and the rage
ere for building was almost as great, and the result as bad, as
tit Brighton ; an American citizen entered on vast building
B,Peeulations, like Mr. Kemp; they turned out unfortunate, and
410 consequence was that thousands were thrown out of ern-
t"lment, and are now ready for any desperate undertaking.
l° of the Tory papers blame the Government of the
United States for allowing the inhabitants to assist Mackenzie,
ilitbout recollecting that the Executive is less efficient in that
country than in any part of the world.
At the Derby Hunt Ball, the young Marchioness
(=f littstings appeared in a magnificent dress of scarlet velvet,
trimmed with the brushes of sundry foxes which had fallen be-
tore the hounds of the Gallant Marquis.
The river Medway still continues frozen over as low
fla Rochester-bridge, and there is a vast quantity of ice below
Qttham Gillingham, &c. The navigation of this river is
ccalpletely stopped. The wild fowl are very plentiful, and
tabY and rare varieties have been secured by the sportsmen.
Last week two watermen undertook to row some sporting
Fentlemen from Chatham even into the marshes. They landed
tern in safety, but on their return they got locked in the ice,
i11(1 after great difficulty were dragged on shore in a state of
tensibility by means of planks and ropes over the ice. They
were exposed to the weather nearly four hours.

LITERATURE.

LOVE, 3 Vols.
Coburn, London, 1838.

There are some hiEhly-wrought and impassion:4 nenei,
in this novel; `';utcli is the preiiictiort tvt quaetstand, of
Lad Charlotte Bury ; but As a Whole, it is by no means
comparable to the authoress's eaf•risr works of fiction, for
there is far too much of sickly sentimentality about it, cal-
culated only for the meridian of a Kentish Watering Place.
We regret to see this constant parade of false feeling, espe-
cially as Lady Charlotte Bury shows in many of the inci-
dents and dialogues in the second volume, that she can
write in a healthy, vigorous, and even masculine, style
when she pleases. The plot of the story is simple ; Miss
Elton, a young lady, of course exquisitely beautiful, and of
an uncommonly susceptible nature, marries for love, a
young man, Lord Herbert, and is uncommonly vexed,
and mortified, and astonished, to find that after a sixteen
years' union, the honeymoon is considerably on the wane.
Almost the whole novel is made up of a recapitulation of
her griefs on this discovery, which terminate, as might be
expected, in her death, her husband having previously been
abet in a duel. Some detached scenes, especially Lady
Herbert's last interview with her dying husband, are de-
picted with much skill ; but the general effect of the tale is
heavy, and monotonous. An occasional love scene in a
novel is well enough ; but too much of the barley-sugar is
apt to cloy one's palate.

CANADA.
London, Roah and Party, 1838.

Had we the postage paid-for this pamphlet again in our
pocket, we would not part with it for such a purchase. We
have read it, but can make nothing of it. We neither can
comprehend its aim nor object. All we know is that the
author is a Tory, and maintains that force and fraud are the
main-springs of all Governments—that the origin of all colo-
nial right is to be found in deception and the sword !

TRIFLES FOR LEISURE HOURS.
Br M. A. Z.

Leisure hours could not be more harmlessly occupied
than in the composition of such " Trifles" as fill-the pages
which Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall have published under
the above-stated title. To those who have nothing better
than " Trifles" to amuse their " Leisure Hours," we re-
commend this volume, as a specimen of what busy idleness
may produce.

THE LAWS AND CONSTITUTION OF THE
BRITISH COLONIES IN THE WEST IN-
DIES.

R. and W. Scale, London.

In this volume much interesting matter is condensed,
and the information it contains will be found useful to every
one connected with the Colonies. The author has under-
taken to illustrate and define the Constitutian of those de-
pendencies which possess legislative assemblies ; the rights,
and authorities of the Governor, Counsil, and Assembly ;
the power of the Crown over its subjects who may emi-
grate and settle in the colonies ; the authority possessed by
the Imperial Parliament over the British plantations ; the
jurisdiction of the superior courts of law and equity in the
mother-country over colonial matters ; and the applisa-
bility of the statute and common law of the realm to our
foreign possessions. The Author has displayed much
ability and research in the manner in which he has treated
on these important questions, and we have much pleasure
in recommending his work to the notice of the public.