The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-09 00:00:00

I the advantages of wide, open, well-drained
streets, and clean, well ventilated apartments,
about which we see several of our Contemporaries
expatiate with great eloquence, in contrast to the
dirty hovels, fetid alleys, and murky closes in
which the people now dwell. We are quite as
sensible of the benefit of a change from filth to
cleanliness as the greatest lover of whitewash,
large windows, and free circulation of air, in ex-
istence. But we doubt whether their recom-
mendations to establish Boards of Health, and
drainage laws are precisely the means to effect
the much desired improvement. They cannot
be carried into effect without causing consider-
able expense, which somehciw or other, like all
other taxes, will be thrown on the labourer.
But the labourers are already steeped to the lips
in poverty; and, in our opinion, whatever adds
to the public expense, and takes the smallest
fraction of the QUEEN'S coin out of the
pockets of the labourers, to put it into
the pockets of surveyors, commissioners, clerks,
&c. &c., increases the evil—namely, the po-
verty, and with that the dependence and
recklessness, of the people, which it is so desir-
able to cure. The existence of the disease we ad-
mit equally with our Contemporaries, but we
differ from them as to its cause. They think it
arises from too few regulations, and they propose
to make more. We think it arises from too
many; and wish to see them lessened. The
evils they complain of prove to us that the
Legislative authority, which has long had almost
unlimited power, and has not remedied them is
not to be trusted ; and we decline, therefore,
like our Contemporaries, to ask it continually to
extend the sphere of its operations.

The French Journals of Wednesday have duly
reached us. They publish the news from China
which appeared in our columns of yesterday ;
but they contain little else of any importance.
The same may be said of the Madrid Papers of
the 31st ult., which have also reached us.
The following was the bulletin of Lord GRAN-
VILLE'S health, issued on Wednesday :
" British Embassy, Wednesday Morning, April 7.
" His Excellency has passed a good night, and is going on
well"

The Toulonnaise of the 28th of March says "It is re-
ported in our city that an important operation has taken
place at Oran. It seems that the fear with which General
dace
has inspired the Arabs is so great that they had
formed a project to get possession of his person ; in order to
obtain their object they had laid a snare for General Lamori-
ciere, who having been warned by his spies did not suffer
himself to be taken in it. In order to punish them for their
perfidy the brave General laid an ambush, which the Arabs
could not avoid, and in consequence of which 800 of them
were left on the field of battle. We do not answer for the au-
thenticity of this intelligence, which, if it is true, will be con-
firmed by the next mail.:'

The Sentinelle de Toulon mentions the same report.
On the 26th of February another earthquake threatened
Zante with total destruction.—La Gazette de France.
M. Faramond, French Consul at Campeachy, who was ap-
pointed Consul in New Holland, has declined to accept that
post. He will return to Campeachy at the end of the month.
In consequence of serious differences which had arisen be-
tween the Roman' Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar and the lay-
men who were intrusted with the management of the revenues
of the church, a law suit has taken place, and M. Hague, the
Bishop of Gibraltar, has been condemned by a sentence of the
tribunal of Gibraltar to a pretty long imprisonment.
A letter which the Univers has received from Constanti-
nople, dated the 18th of March, says that the situation of
Reschid Pacha is more and more precarious.—Le Commerce.
BO URSE.--PARIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents ll3 30 ... 113 30 ... 113 •.0 ... 118 20
4 per Cents 59 25 ... 99 25 ... 99 25 .., 99 25
3 per Cents 7B 60 78 be ... 78 70 ... 78 70
Sank of trance .. .......
Latlitte Bank I.ooof. Sh lO6O ...1060 ...1060 ...1060
5,000 f. Shares 5150 ...5160 ...5150 ...5155
Belgian Bank
5 per Cents lOl% ... 101% ... 1015% ... 195%
3 per Cents 7l 71 ... 71 ... 71
New Loan lOl% ...... 1,1% ... 10i 34 ... 10154
ioanish Active 244 ... 244 ... 244 ... 244
Portuguese 3 per Cents 2014 ... 204 ... 204. 204
Neapolitan lO3 90 ... 103 90 ... /13 90 ..
... 103 90
Roman

RAILWAY SHARES,
qt. German
Versailles,R. B 385 ... 385 ... 985 ... 385
L. 8.......
Orleans .. O 483 ... 485 ... 485 ... 485
Montpellier to Cette 250 ... 250 ... 250 ... 250
Strasburg to Bale 226 25 ... 237 50 ... 236 25 ... 236 25
Rouen 455 ... 455 ... 455 ... 455
BELGIAN kUNDS—Baussins, APRIL 7.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOO
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per-Cent VD%
3 per Cent.

Thirty.seven

(L4O) HO _
%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. Bl%
Society of Commerce, 4Si per Cent 9B
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ........... 77%
National Society .
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, April 7.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vismia, MARCH 30
Five per Cage. Metalliques ..... ....... ..... 106%
FOUL per Cents. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••«•••••• ........... ••• 98%
Three per Cents. •••••«•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 78
Bank shares le3o
..-Allgemeine Reliant. April 4.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLB, Amu. 6
•

Bs. Mon
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1635 1639
Ist Se:ios 107% 107%
5i
per Cent, Loanist series, Certificate
II
tAnctoi rliap-it:/ tus i 05 5 s
np,101%
Russian er Cent. Hop. and Co. 3d and 9th
i
Series
...... ***** ... 97 .
Ditto in Certificates
9
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) — 67
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pc:• Cent 5O 49%
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bonds
New I icket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 74% 74)6
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent... —
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. ' 163( 16
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, APRIL 6.-13 634.—Tw0 months, 13 4%.
PETERSBURGH, MARCH 23.--Two months, 3936 pence.
STOCKHOLM, MARCH 30.—Seventy-five days, 11. 46.
CHRISTIANIA, MARCH :27.—"Three months, 4 61.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL B.—We are with-
out improvement in the trade demand, and nothing is being
done on speculation, consequently the market continues
flat, and prices unsettled. -Export buyers are increasing
their transactions, and have taken this week 1,600 bales
of American, at 7 a Bi, the better qualities being for
Russia; American descriptions are on the average /I lower
than Friday last, the decline being more apparent on the
lower qualities ; other descriptions are very heavy of sale
at previous rater. The sales to-day are 2,600 bales of
all kinds.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET. —The following are the
transactions at the Stock Exchange this day :—Edinburgh
and Glasgow 344 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 244 ;
Grand Junction quarter shares 288 ; New ditto, 244 ;
London and Brighton United Company 454; Manches-
ter, Bolton, and Bury 54 ; Midland Counties 88} ; North
Midland 78; North Union 81.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL conse-
quence of the scarcity of stuck, the business done in our
market to-day has been limited, although we continue to have
buyers for most kinds of railway stock at advanced prices.
Should the India mail, which is due, bring favourable intelli-
gence from China, our market will undergo a further advance.
Liverpool and Manchester Halves, 91i ' • Manchester and Leeds,
6614; London and South Western, 56 a 57 ; ditto Tenths, 18.
a 19s. prem ; Manchester and Birmingham, 24i ; South Lan-
cashire Banks, Si. 6s. 3d. ; Lancaster Canal, 28.

• We have received by the Stag frigate Rio Janeiro
papers to the 14th February, about fifteen days later than
the last arrival, also the Price Current of the above date.
MONEY MARKET.—Discounts.—The prevailing rates
for approved commercial paper was from 8 to 9
.per cent.,
and at these rates money was abundant during the first
fifteen days; so early as the 4th, the Bank rate was reduced
to 8 per cent., ai.d Treasury Bills, to the extent of 400
contos of rcis, were negotiated on the 11th at 7 per cent.
and the brokerage. Atter the 11th, however, money was
in more demand, and since the arrival of the Penguin
packet,with the intelligence that no loan had been made, the
demand has increased, and the uncertainty as to whet mea-
sures will be devised to meet the wants of the country, keeps
the market in some degree of feverish excitement. There
are those who still think that a loan will be effected, but
we must net fail to recollect that the time in which it was
sought was most unpropitious, whilst the credit of Brazil
in England is not by any means se good as it was up to
September, 1839. It appears to us that some of the capi-
talists of England decline
.to grant Brazil a loan unless
the Portuguese claim of 483,0001. sterling shall be in-
cluded in the amount of the loan, or the payment of the
same be otherwise provided for. What will, in the inter-
val, his Excellency the Finance Minister do ? The
source from which be bas hitherto derived assistance is
thoroughly drained. If we are rightly informed, his
Excellency depended upon this loan. His position has
now become much more painful and difficult. The
amount of the dividends in England is yet unprovided for,
though it is possibly understood that this will for the
time be advanced by the agents of the Government.
The delay which has already occurred has been injurious
to our commerce, and his Excellency has a duty to per-
form in determining upon some course. We think it
would be more consistent to make some pecuniary sacri-
fice than to permit the national credit to be eternally com-
promised.
EXCHANGE.—The rate upon London opened at 31, sad
fluctuated between 31 and 30, with one or two excep-
tions for small sums, until the 21st, and 30} and 31
towards the end of the month. Stocks have fluctuated be-
tween 74i and 74, the former having been the first price
of the month, and 74 to 741 the selling prices to-day.
Specie is in brisk demand, both for export and specula-
tion, and a consequent rise in prices existed since the. 4th
instant,

FEB. 13. P. S. Exchange EteadY ; modeiate trinsac-
ions on London at 30.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp_
date. of yesterday's

Accounts from St. Petersburgb, of the 25th of April,
state that it has been resolved to reduce the army
110,000 men, a measure which will assure a saving of
fifteen millions in the treasury. The Emperor with much
pain consented to this pressing measure.
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, APRIL 6.—The National Funds
are without anything doing, consequently no variations,
but the prices of yesterday- are sustained.' 'Ardoin's re-
mains at 20 11-16. _

The letters by the overland express from India have
been received at the Post.ofce, but too late for the first
delivery, consequently they will not be sent out until to-
morrow.

This day being observed as a -strict -holiday in the City;