The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-26 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.]

The Money-market begins now to assume a
degree of steadiness which has not been its cha-
racteristic for some time past. The Funds ap-
pear all rising gradually. It is gratifying to oh-
verve how fast the confidence in the Country
Bankers is reviving, and that our predictions,
with regard to the return both of gold and
notes, are daily being verified ; the Bank for
several days past has received considerable
sums from the country; both in notes and gold,
and on Saturday we witnessed the arrival of
the same commodity to a very large amount
from Country Banks. Our London Bankers also
daily receive the parcels of notes which they had
dispatched into the country, precisely in the
same state in which they were forwarded,without
having been opened by their Correspondents.
Such circumstances are incontrovertible proofs of
the return of that confidence, so ardently looked
forward to by all the well wishers to their country.
The samespirited ana laudable conduct which indu.
ced some of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Lewes
to come forward to the assistance of the Lewes
Old Bank, in the time of the late panic, by in-
demnifying the holders of its notes to a certain
amount, has also evinced itself in Essex. Lord
Braybrooke, we are told, in the most handsome
manner, proffered his services in favour of the
Saffron Walden Bank, by subscribing his name

Mr a given sum to indemnify the holders of its
notes for a specific time. His Lordship did
this without any reference to the state of
the Bank or its resources. His patriotic
object was to support public credit ; but
conceiving it probable that his example
would be followed by Gentlemen in the
surrounding neighbourhood, who, upon the
faith of his putting his name to an instrument of
indemnification, would feel perfectly satisfied of
the solidity of the Bank, without perhaps duly
entering into an examination of its resources, his
Lordship thought it would be due to them that the
affairs of the bank should be investigated. We un-
derstand that the offer of assistance in the manner
above alluded to was made to the parties, which
would undoubtedly have been the means of carrying
them on, but upon a consultation it was considered
prudent to decline the offer, in consequence of
the Proprietors of the Bank not seeing their way
sufficiently clear to enable them honourably to
accept this mark of confidence and esteem of their
friends. We regret the failure of the plan, but
must hold up these instances of support of local
Banks by the Country Gentlemen, to the general
and grateful admiration of the public.

[uarrisH PRESS.]
Last night we received the Paris Papers of
Friday, with the Etoile dated Saturday. It ap-
pears by the Moniteur that the death of the Em-
peror Alexander was known at St. Peters-
burgh on the 9th instant. The Grand Duke
Nicholas, after announcing the melancholy news
to the Empress Mother, took the oath of alle-
giance to Constantine I. in the presence of the
imperial Guards, who immediately followed
his example. Much grief has been every where
manifested by the soldiery and people. The
new Emperor had not quitted Warsaw on the
12th. On receiving the intelligence of his bTo-
ther's decease, he shut himself up in his Palace
for 36 hours, refusing to permit the access of any
body but his wife, the Princess of Loewitz.—
The subscription for General Foy's family
amounted on Thursday to upwards of 544,000
francs, nearly 22,0001. sterling.

We have received Papers from New York to
the 2d instant, and from Boston to the 30th ult.
They supply us with scarcely a line of political
intelligence. Another State is following the
example of Georgia in manifesting its discon-
tent with regard to the conduct of the Federal
Government. Governor Desha, of Kentucky,
in his last message to the Legislature of that
State, complains in the warmest terms of the
encroachments of the national authorities upon the
rights of the States. To appeal to the Federal
Courts at Washington is, he says, only a volun-
tary exposure to insult, as in them the tyrants
themselves sit as judges in their own causes.—
Such is the language in which the Governor
of a large and populous State deems it fitting
to express himself concerning the executive
and judicial officers of the general Govern-
ment. Though neither Governor Troup nor
Governor Desha may live to see the Union dis-
solved, it is quite clear that they are laying the
foundation of civil dissensions, which will ulti-
mately, and perhaps at no distant period, break
up the federation, and divide it into several small
and comparatively insignificant portions. Com-
modore M'Donough, of the American navy, died
on the 10th ult. on board of the brig Edwin, on
his return home from Gibraltar. His funeral
obsequies were celebrated with great pomp at
New York. The most distinguished honours
were voted to his memory by the corporation of
that city.---(lbid.)