The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

HUMOURS or THE HAW.

It is rumoured that an alliance is in contemplation
between Prince George of Cambridge and a young Ger-
man Princess, a near relative of Queen Adelaide.

We hear that a splendid entertainment is shortly
:o be given to Admiral Sir R. Stopford, at the Thatched
House Tavern.

The Report of Mr. Stephen Conroy's death, late
of the Coldstream Guards, is contradicted on authority.
Mr. Conroy is at present on the Continent, with Sir
John and Lady. Conroy, and though seriously indisposed,
is sanguinely expected to recover.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
The amount of business transacted in the funds to-
day was of a very limited character, and, as regards the
fluctuations, they were confined to the same extent as
on Saturday, viz., about h per cent., taking the extreme
prices. The market was rendered a little heavy in the
morning by the loose statement, contained in an Ame-
rican paper, of an attempt having been made by the Ca-
nadians to rescue M`Leod. Very few, however, attached
the least credit to it. What we want now to give firm-
ness to Stocks is fine weather, and an early solution of
the intentions of the Legislature on the all important
subject of Commercial Reform. For immediate transfer,
Consols realised -894 to -, and for account 894 to *. Ex-
chequer Bills were 145.. to 16s. premium, Bank Stock re-
ceded to 168 k and 169 ; India Stock got up from 247 to
248, but with scarcely any business doing ; the New
Three-and- a-Half per Cents. were rather flat at 98* to
and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 90 to *.
The transactions in the Foreign Market were on a very
small scale, but there was rather more doing than to-
wards the close of last week. The New Portuguese Five
per Cent. Stock was quoted a shade higher, viz., 30*.
Spanish Active Bonds were also a trifle better in the
morning ; but, in the absence of any business of magni-
tude, they did n©t quite maintain the improvement, viz.,
20* for account. The money price was 198 to 20 ; Co-
lombian Stock was at 20i, Mexican at 26, and Chilian
at 62. French rive per Cents.tonehed 116, and Dutch
Two-and- a-Half per Cents. were at 52*.
The business in the Share Market was generally upon
satisfactory terms for the sellers, though no advance oc-
curred. Great Western Railway Shares were 19, the
New 8, the Fifths 5* to 4 ; London and Birmingham New
21*, and South Western 13* to 13* premium ; Brighton
were 7* to WI, Blackwall 9f, Croydon 1, and Eastern
Counties 15* discount. National Provincial Bank of
England Shares were 11 discount. Provincial Bank
of Ireland Shares were 15 to 158 premium ; and Union
Bank of London -1 discount ex dividend.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Auc. 7.—We have
had a very quiet market to-day, and the business limited.
The sales amount to 2,500 bales ; only a few of American
descriptions have bean taken by exporters.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 7.—The transac-

Highest rate of exchange upon London during the
week 20. ; lowest 2 13-16 d.

We have received Demerara Papers to the 3d July,
which do not contain any intelligence worth notice.
Mauritius papers have also been received. They are
also void of interest.

Cape of Good Hope papers received to the sth of
June, state that an edict against Cape paper money has
at length been issued at the meeting of the Legislative
Council on the 27th of May. The Governor laid before
it an extract of a letter from the Lords Commissioners
of the Treasury, dated 27th December, containing a
direction to withdraw and cancel the Cape paper money,
or substitude in lieu thereof Debentures bearing in-
terest, as to the Council shall appear most expedient,
for reducing the amount of Government paper money
in circulation.

The Corn Market continues the general object of at-
tention, and in the face of liberal supplies prices are
firmly maintained. Free wheats are ls. to 2s.
dearer than on this day week, and bonded 2s. to
3s. higher. The importation of foreign wheat is up-
wards of 7,000 quarters, and of Flour 1,025 barrels. It
must be borne in mind that the advance in prices is only
what had occurred on Friday last.

The British Funds opened this morning rather better
for Money; left off on Saturday at 891 I for Money, and
opened this morning at 89i 1; for the Account, the same
as they left off, 89/ s ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 901 ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 98* 991; New
Three-and-a-Half, 9811 1.
SHARES.—Great Western, 181 191 prem. ; Ditto,
New, 81 prem. ; London and Brighton, 7 6/ dis. ;
Blickwall, 94 dis. ; Birmingham, 69 71 prem. ; South-
ampton, 52 53 per share ; Croydon, 121 13.
There was but little business doing in the Stock Ex-
change. The following were the

CLOSING PRICES. •
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank St ock .... 169 ' India Stock .........248
3 per Cent Red. 9O Ditto Bonds - pm
3 per Cent Cons 89,1 Ditto Old Annuities ... _
3 per Cent Red.. 99 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3fr per Cent 9sa Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 16 p .
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/ l6 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small.—
Jan. 1860 .. 12 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct. 1859 lndia Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860. — 'Consols for Acct 894
FOREIGN FUNDS.
tustrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent...... 62 Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 2O
Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred .
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent.ll6f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange— ...... —f. —c.
111exican, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent. —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct — Ditto, 5 per
.cent 102*
SHARES
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) 7i
Great Western Railway (65 paid) B4
Ditto New Shares (50 paid ... ..... 58
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid).... 43*
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) l4
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd)
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ..
London and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l:2i

THE UTILITY OF THE TOAD —A few days
ago, a toad was observed in the neighbourhood of Settle
feeding on catterpillars, which it appeared to catch by a
rapid movement of the tongue. So eager was it in the
pursuit of its prey, that it raised its forelegs on the stem
of a gooseberry bush, and when the catterpillars were
thrown at it, it continued to catch them in the same
manner, never missing its aim. It is hoped that such
facts as this will tend to deliver a much-injured animal
from a contempt which it never deserved ; and that the
poor " paddock," in place of being the obect of cruelty,
will at length be enabled to take its place among animals
of a useful and respectable character—be considered- by
the gardener as an useful assistant, and permitted to pur-
sue its avocations unmolested.
• NAUTICAL NOVELTIES IN SOUTHAMPTON.
—We remark, among other novel propositions to voya-
geurs, that on the 15th of August, the yacht-built
schooner Louisa will leave Southampton for the Cape of
Good Hope and Calcutta, offering peculiar facilities and
comforts to passengers.—An opportunity is now pre-
sentel for enjoying a trip to Brighton by sea—the Prin-
cess Royal steamer, propelled by the Archimedian screw,
leaves Southampton for Brighton every Tuesday. She
made her first passage from Brighton Er Ryde, in the
Isle of Wight, in five hours and a half ; from thence to
Southampton in one hour and three-quarters ; and re-
turned from Ryde to Shoreham in four hours and a half.
—Within two months of the present time, the entire
steam fleet of the West India Mail Navigation Com-
pany will arrive at Southampton from the different ports
at which the vessels have been built, and make a trial
cruise round the Isle of Wight, to ascertain their re-
spective rates of speed.
A meeting of Ministers and other gentlemen
belonging to the United Dissenting Congregation of this
-town-was held at- York Chapel; -‘rat -Monday evening,
when it was resolved to depute the Rev. C. Thompson to
attend the great Convention of Ministers, which is to
be held at Manchester this month, on the subject of the
Corn-laws. It was stated at the meeting that, as there
may be many ministers in this district who cannot attend
the Convention, it would be very desirable for them to
drop a line to Mr. Thompson, appointing him their de-
legate. The meeting considered it of the greatest im-
portance that as large a number as possible express their
concurrence in this great undertaking.—Cambrian.
DUMB ELOQUENCE .OF A DYING BABOON.
—I remember a touching incident which happened at
the Cape of Good Hope when I was them. A party
had gone out to shoot baboons. The gentleman who re-
lated the anecdote wounded one rather severely. Great
was his surprise on seeing the animal thus wounded lea 4
the rest of the troop, approach him, and lie down at his*
Feet. Looking him full in the face, the fainting, dying
creature pointed at its bleedinf, side, as much as to say,
" This is your cruel work, and how have I deserved it ?"
No language could surpass this in truth of appeal, or the
moral lesson which it taught.—Rev. Dr. Jones's Lecture
on Oratory.

CLERICAL RETURT.—Our readers, we dare
say, will ar,ree with us in thinkinr, that the following
anecdote of a clerical friend not a'hundred miles 'dis-
tant, is decidedly " too good to be lost :"—Sabbath last
being the sacramental fast here, sorne difficulty
was experienced in procuring a minister to offi-
ciate to the cavalry in the Low Green. The
clergyman to whom we allude having submitted
the application of the Colonel to the judgment of his
vere.nd helpers, assembled at the time in the parlour
)f the manse, and unbending in a little social conversa,-
4):1 after the Saturday's services, the temporary appoint-
" chaplain to the forces " became the subject of
ocular discussion, in the course of which our friend

ment 01

took occasion to speak rather disparagingly of field-
preaching generally. "In that case I doubt you would
have made but a poor covenanting preacher, Mr. S--,"
observed one of his brethren, who unluckily is in the ha-
bit of reading his sermons—a practice still far from be-
ing popular in Scotland. " And what kind o' a cove-
nanting preacher wad ye hae made," retorted the other,
" gin a puff o' wiNd had come and blawn awa' yir bits o'
paper?"--.Ayr Observer.
Lord Ashley is now on a tour through the Ina.
nufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, with
the view of acquiring information as to the actual condi-
tion of the labouring population.—Liverpool Chicle.

tions are reported as follows:—Grand Junction, 189 ;
' Half Share ditto, 98 ; Great Western, 201. shares, 0 ;
Liverpool and Manchester, 195 ; London and South
Western, 52; Manchester, Preston, and Bury, 55; North
Midland Thirds, 98.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 7.—We can-
not report any improvement in the Share Market :
Manchester and Leeds, 50 51 ; do. Halves. 21+ 21i;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 424. 43 ; London and Birming-
ham, Quarters, 22k 224 ; Manchester and Birmingham,
21 21i ; Stafford and Rugby, 21., lls. 3d.

A Lisbon mail has also arrived by the Br.aganza
steamer, sailed from Gibraltar 29th of July, Cadiz 30th,
Lisbon 2d of August, Oporto 3d of August. The infor-
mation she brings is of little interest, except that a confla-
gration took place in which several lives were lost ; also
two respectable tradesmen destroyed themselves by
poison.

New York Papers have been received by the North
America, after a passage of nineteen days to the 20th
ultimo, three days later than previously received by the
Britannia. The news she brings is not of importance.
Some excitement was caused at New York-by a state-
ment in a Sunday paper that three hundred or four hun-`
dred Canadians were going to rescue M•Leod. An
alarm was given, and all the bells rung, and the people
turned out en masse.
The New York daily papers are silent on the above
subject ; and no credit is attached to it in well-informed
quarters.
The rate of Exchange upon England for good bills
was Bto 81, and 71 for inferior paper. United Statcs
Bank Shares rather lower, 178.
We have received Buenos Ayres papers to the 13th of
June, from which it appears that Admiral Brown in his
brig, accompanied by a brigantine, arrived in the
outer roads from off Monte Video, on Sunday last, to
re-victual, &c. It is said that the Riveresta squadron,
including Capt. Coe's ship, the newly-purchased barque
and brig Pereyra, were about to leave Monte Video to
seek a new encounter with Admiral Brown.
The tone of Capt. Coe's dispatch to the Monte Video
Government relative to the action of the 24th is quite
different from that which he indited of his operations off
this port, and does not warrant the bombast indulged in by
the Monte Video papers. It is such as was to be expected
from a foiled man who had done his best to wrest victory
from his opponents. He states that up to nine o'clock on
the morning of the 25th the returns received by him
gave the loss to the squadron of Captain Shannon and
Lieut. Lemoine (erroneously stated Paz) seven seamen
and two marines killed, and nine wounded. The Reve-
rista brigantine, which was driven on shore on the 25th,
has been dismantled; her second in command was
wounded in the arm.

The arrival of the national vessels of war on the even-
ing of the 27th ult., caused some anxiety on shore. The
former fired a gun on anchorage in our outer roads. A
boat was sent to her, which did not return until long
after dark, when the cheers of the boat's crew, and of
those assembled on the beach, gave the first intimation
of the triumph of Admiral Brown's squadron on the
24th ult.

The paper of the 12th June states, "we have no news
this week from the interior ; a strong wind off land has
nrevailed all the week, and• we have no late accounts
from sea, or from Monte Video. It is understood that
General Echegua has opened the campaign in-Corrientes.
The coronation of the Emperor of Brazil has been de-
ferred until the 18th July.
Treasury Bills in circulation on the Ist instant,
4,385,600 dollars.