The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-03 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY (T.HISDAY),TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We have received Halifax Papers to the 15th of August

they state that his Excellency had received instructions to em-
power all the Justices of the Peace throughout the colony to
raise men for her Majesty's land service, to be attached to such
regiments in North America as they may choose to enter
into. The usual bounty will be paid on their arrival at head
quarters. A proclamation to that effect may be expected in
the course of next week. This, combined with the convoca-
tion of Governors, about to be held at Quebec, looks some-
what warlike

We have received a New York evening paper, of the 16th
of August, the Commercial Advertiser.
FROM CHINA.-By the ship Roman, from Canton, we have
a file of the Register of the 31 of April. The repressing of
the opium trade was carried on with great activity, and nume-
rous seizures arc reported. In the Register of the 27th of
March, we find a memorial to Lord Palmerston, signed by
the principal resident British merchants, praying the inter-
vention of the British Government to obtain the payment of
the heavy debt* owing to them by the Chinese Hong mer-
chants.

CANTON, MAnCH 27.—1 t is said among the Chinese that
the trade of the Hong merchants is now at the lowest ebb, and
this themselves attribute to the custom of shipping goods
through their 'longs for the outside shipmen, which has greatly
reduced their own trade • they have now consulted about esta-
.. . .

blishing some new regulations, such as that only one shipman
shall ship goods through one Hong. By these means they
hope to prevent smuggling, and in some degree to restore
their own trade.

The Register of April 3, contains an Edict from the Hopp,
requiring the duties on entering and leaving the port to be
paid by the foreign ships. A letter from Appenham states
that the Dutch ship Manu was attacked by two piratical
prows. The Captain and Mate were murdered, and the vessel
carried off.

We have received the Journal d'Anvers of yesterday's date,
'hick reports that Prince Leopold de Salerno, uncle of the
King of Naples, has failed for the amount of two millions of
ducats. The Prince set off in great haste for Milan.

THE FUNDS.

We have very few arrivals this morning; with the exception
of the usual foreign mails.
Consols opened at the closing prices of Saturday-94A for
Money, and 94i if for the Account ; at present little doing.
Exchequer Bills, 72 74 ; India Bonds, 72 74 ; Bank Stock,
207-7 2081 ; India Stock, 2641- 265.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active continues heavy, at
19L -a, with coupons; Portuguse, 351 1 ; Three per Cents.,
23A- ; Brazilian, 83} 84; Mexican, 23 24; Colombian, 251 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt, 53} 4 ; Five per Cents., 10241-.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
J per Cent. 14~i.
3 per Cont. Ccns 94% , South Sea Stock ... —
3% per CenL .... -
Dato Re, 10214 614 Nov Ditto
New 3% per Con' loi %% 3 per Cent. Annuities. 1751 —
New 5 per Cent., —; Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 72 73 71 73 err.
........ .........
Bank LotigAnnultlestoexpire . Ditto 500 72 73 pie.
Jan. 5, 1860 l5 8-16' Ditto Small
Oct. 10, 1859 l5 7-16% Ditto Commercial - - Pm.
Jan. 5, 1860 — i Ditto Advertised ....... ..... pir.
Jan. 5, 1880 — 1 Bank Stock for Account —
April 5 18S1 — India Stock for Acc0unt.........
Jan 5. 1070.........
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bends -
Belgian Bonds Ditto Account -
Ditto Account Portuguese 80nd5.................72
Brazilian Bonds SI 344 Ditto New Bonds . 3514 5
Ditto Account - Ditto Account .. -
3Jer:os Ayres Bonds - Ditto, 3 per cent... - . ...... -
Dia,. Account .......... - Ditto Account 221/s
C :i111717. Bonds . ........... ........ - Prussian Bonds -
Ditto Account. - Russian Bonds, 1822 ......
Columbiao Bonds... ..... -,....... - Ditto Account -
Ditto Account ...- Ditto Metallic
C,lumbian Bonds, 1824 Spanish Bonds -
Ditto Account . Ditto Account
Danish Bonds ......
Ditto Account - Ditto Account 19%%
Greek Bonds... ........... .......... - French, 5 per cent .... ..... -t. -i.
Ditto Bonds, 1825 ........ ..... - ------ 4 per cent f. ....e.
Ditto Account - ----- 3 per cent. -f. -c
Mexican Bonds, S per cent 16% -- Exchange -f. -c
Ditto Account - Dutch, 2% per cent -
Ditto, 6 per cent - Ditto Account .53404
Ditto Account - Ditto, 5 per cent 10214 %
Neapolitan ..... ..•• - Ditto Account -
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK

Paid.
Great Western Railway Company 65
Brighton Railway Company .... I l
London and Rlackwall Railway
Li ndon and Birmingham Railway Company 9O
Ditto's Shares
London and Greenwich Railway Company 2O
National Loan Fund 24

Per Share.
8%1174 1
2S S
16%14

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, SEPT. 1.
3 per Cent. Consols 93% Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 93%
3y4 per Cent. Stock Ditto, 4 per cent. -
I)itto Reduced Hibernian Bank -
Ditto New, 1830 -
3Sa par Cent. Debentures -
Bank Stock -
Royal Canal Stock -
Grand:Canal Stock ..... .... - cent -
HALF.PAST ONE.

The Newfoundland Papers give most flattering accounts of
the fishing, which is represented to be more productive this
year than it has been for a length of time past.
44 ST. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK, JULY 28.—WHALE
FISHINO.—We have much pleasure in announcing the
return of the ship Mechanic, the first fitted out by the St.
John's Mechanics' Whale Fishing Company, from a com-
pletely successful voyage, having since her departure from
this port on the 2d July, 1836, procured a full cargo, consist-
'rig of 2,860 barrels of black oil, 260 of sperm, and 27,5001b5.
of whalebone. The accounts from the Royal William, another
of the Company's ships, we are glad to learn, are also en-
couraging; that vessel touched at Rio Janeiro in April last,
with fifteen hundred barrels of black oil and 200 sperm."
Since the early part of the morning Consols may be quoted
a shade lower for the Account, receded from 94k to 94k,
Money 94k, with little spirit for speculating during the morn-
ing ; Exchequer Bills lower, 72 73 ; India Bonds, 74; Bank
Stock, 208. In India Bonds nothing done, nominally 2641 265.
In the Foreign Market the prices are much the same as in
the early part of the day, Spanish Active, heavy at 19A, ;
Portuguese, 341 251} ; Three per Cents. lower, 224 23-1 ;
Brazilian, 83 84; Mexican, 23 24; Dutch Two-and-a-half
per Cents., 53i 4 ; Five per Cents., 1024 8.
In the Share Market there is but a limited demand. Great
Western rather better, 9 prem. ; Brighton, 2- disc. ; Bir-
mingham Quarter Shares, 23+ prem. In Asphaltes nothing
doing.
Consols for Account, 94+,

THREE O'CLOCK.

Lady Byron, widow of the poet, arrived at Frankfort
a few days since.

THE MAGAZINES.
TAIT' S MAGAZINE.
There is a good deal of adroit, well-sustained irony in the
" Congratulations at the Close of the Session of 1838,"
which is the production of an uncompromising Radical Re-
former, who has no great fancy for O'Connell, and still less
for the Ministers. His closing observations are full of stern
truth, especially where he alludes to the growing discontents
of the people. " They are not content," he says, " and
their dissatisfaction is rapidly increasing. It is smouldering
everywhere, ready on the first breath of agitation to burst
into a flame. The symptoms were never more alarming
than at present. Wrath is treasured up against the day of
wrath." In the notice of " Sidney Smith's Principles of
Phrenology,' some very absurd crotchets put forth by a
thick-and-thin phrenologist, are exposed in a happy vein of
ridicule. This science—Heaven bless the mark !—is so
truly absurd in its character, so shadowy and unsubstantial,
that it cannot be too frequently or too severely exposed, the
more especially as it would seem to be making progress
among that unreflecting class of the community—no small
number—by whom every novel doctrine is looked upon as
having sound sense for its foundation. The " Feast of the
Poets" is a miscellaneous collection of poems contributed by
a variety of writers. We subjoin a specimen of one of them,
which is a Scottish chaunt in honour of the young Queen :
Scotland's hills are bonny hills, a' clad wi' heather bells,
And music warbles in the rills that sport adown her dells,
And there be glens in fair Scotland where foe hath never been,
And wild and free we'll keep them yet for our good Queen !
Oh, wad she cross the Tweed some day, our Scottish glens to view,
Our fairy lakes and streamlets grey, lone isles and mountains blue,
And see auld Scotland's goodly bands, wi' belt and buckle sheen,
In proud array come forth to greet their fair young Queen !
For Scotland has her clansmen brave that bear the targe and brand,
Who'd spend their dearest blood to save their own romantic land;
And they would leave their hills of mist, and glens of lovely green,
To form a living bulwark round their fair young Queen.
And Scotland has her yeomen leal, and stalwart loons they be,
That whirl like willow wands their steel when mustered on the lea;
And should a foe invade our soil, no braver band I wren
Would fight beneath the banners broad of our young Queen.
And Scotland boasts her lovely ones—a beauteous train are they ;
But much she mourns her tuneful sons, young bards and minstrels grey ;
For those that waked her sweetest lyres sleep 'neath the turf so green—
We've few to sing the welcome now of our young Queen.
We've heard of merry England's scenes, and trusty souls are there,
And Erin boasts her green demesnes, rich woods, and prospects fair;
But Scotland boasts her rugged hills where freemen aye have been—
Oh, come, and let us dote on thee, our fair young Queen.
" Speeches of Lord Brougham" is a review, penned in a
just and temperate spirit, of the late authentic edition of
his Lordship's Parliamentary and other Speeches. The
Opium Eater's " Recollections of Charles Lamb" are so
called, we suppose—like luaus a non lucendo—because
they do not contain one single sentence about Lamb ; but,
on the contrary, are exclusively devoted to recollections of
Mr. De Quincey's own Sayings and Doings in years long
since passed. " Steam Communication with India" is a
useful, practical article, put forth at a seasonable juncture.