The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-15 00:00:00

CITY TRADE.

CITY, SEPT. 19.—Ashes—The stock light and mode-
rate ; sales of Pots at 5 dols. 374 cents., and Pearls 6d. 50c.
Coal—More active sales Liverpool at 9d. a 9d. 50c. Cof-
fee—A moderate business at previous rates. Cotton re-
mains as noted yesterday. Fish—Cod have improved 6i
cents., and sales making at 3d. 561 e. No. 1 Mackerel de-
clined to 10d. 624 c., and No. 2, Bd. 624 d. Flour—Wes-
tern, common brands is selling at 9 dols., and fancy 9d. 25c.
Troy, New York, &c., Bd. 874 e. a 9d. Rye Fiour, sd.
374 c. Grain—Wheat, domestic, may be noted at Id. 70c.
a Id. 75c. ; foreign, Id. 60c. ; and Rye, both foreign and
domestic, Id. 124 c. per bushel. Corn is selling at 1 del. ;
and southern Oats at 48 a5O cents. Molasses—Receipts
light, with moderate sales, without change in rates. Oils—
Whale remains firm at 33 cents ; but Linseeds are less ac-
tive, and sales of English at 85 aB6 cents. Provisions
continue as before noticed. In Rice no change. Spirits—
The demand steady to the trade, at previous rates.
Sugars—ln more active request, and prices have an ad-
vancing tendency. Whalebone remains at 22 cents. Wool
—A good demand for fleeces, but moderate for pulled, at
previous notations.

We are indebted to a second edition of the Times
for the following satisfactory intelligence from the
West Indies :

We have received by the Irian:, which arrived at
Liverpool yesterday, Barbadoes papers to the 3d of Sep-
tember, Their contents are very gratifying. The eman-
cipated labourers were behaving themselves in a manner
which gave the best guarantee that the greet experiment
of substituting free for forced labour would, eventually, be
for the benefit both of masters and men.
His Excellency the Governor opened on Monday, the
27th of August, the Session of the Legislative Assembly.

His address, for which we have not, at present room, was
of a highly satisfactory nature.
The proceedings which followed were not interesting.
The utmost harmony seemed to prevail between the Go-
vernor and the Members of the Assembly.

We hare also received a Demerara Royal Gazette of
the 18th of August. As this paper makes no mention
whatever of the conduct of the rural population of either
Demerara or Berbice, we reasonably infer, from the si-
lence it observes upon this important subject, that no
change for the worse has taken place in the working of the
free system.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and
Saturday have been received. They bring the follow-
ing important news from Africa:—
" Government has received the .following telegraphic
despatch from Marshal Vallee, brought to Toulon by the
Sphinx, which lift Stora on the 9th inst.:—
" MARSHAL VALEE TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.
" Constantino, Oct. 2.

" I directed four battalions to take up a position on the
30th ult., at the confluence of the Oued Ensta and the
Arrouch. General Galbois is established in a camp
there, commanding the junction of the roads from
Store and -Bona to Constantine. It is thirteen
leagues from Constantine and six from Stora. The
Kabyles have not made any resistance. Several Sheiks
came to receive the Bournous, and the Arabs are bringing
barley and straw to the coup, for which I have ordend
that they shall be regularly paid. The road, which is
finished as far as the defile of Kautorse, will in a few days
be traversible for carriages as far as the camp of the
Arrouch."

" CONSTANTINA, OCT. 4.—1 have definitively esta-
blished the gOvernment of the prcvince of Constadtina.
The Chiefs have been formally invested, and have taken
the oath of fidelity to the King and the Commander-in-
Chief of the province."
" FORT DE FRANCE, BAY OF STORA, OCT. B.—Yes-
terday the army took possession of the ancient Russicada.
The head-quarters are established on a point sshich com-
mands the roadstead, and which has been named Fort de
France."

The Swiss question has ceased to excite any marked
degree of interest in Paris. The Cantons_ of Argau,
Argovia, St. Gall, Zurich, Soletne, Vaud, and Ge-
neva, continue to make preparations for resisting any
attempt on the part of France to violate the territory
of the Republic. The Helvetie, a Swiss Journal of
9th, in enumerating these preparations, shrewdly ob-
serves—" The quarrel France sought to pick with
Switzerland, though not productive of any open
breach, shall nevertheless have loosened the ties of
affection which united the latter to her more power-
ful ally. The shameful means employed by a
nation of 33,000,000 against a nation who
scarcely counts 2,000,000, and who for ages has
constantly sacrificed the blood of its children for its
stronger neighbour, evince a want of dignity and mo-
rality in the Government of that Power which ought
to be a salutary warning to us in our future relations
with its rulers."

We have-no arrivals this morning from Madrid, and
therefore suspect there has occurred a second stoppage
of the mails; Letters from Alexandria, of the 16th
ult., report that the Viceroy has actually paid up all
the arrears of tribute, by bills on Marseilles. The
following notification is from the correspondence of the
Commerce:—
" A letter from the capital of Servia, dated September
18, says—
" We expect daily in our city the envoy of Great Bri-
tain to our sovereign. The British Government has already
notified to ours its consent that a Servian Minister reside
permanently in London, and a Servian Consul at Malta.
It would hence appear that England, at length, compre-
hends that the friendship of our country is not to be dis-
dained.' "