The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-11 00:00:00

Advices from Barcelona of the 3d, quoted by the
Courrier Francais, state that Van Helen had re-entered
the city, and that all was quiet there.
A Constantinople letter of the 20th, in the Augsburgh
Gazette, states that the Ottoman Government is going
to construct a series of fortified camps, or barracks, on
the land side of the capital, to serve as a line of defence.
Two such posts already exist.

The Odessa Journal announees that the Grand Duchess
Helena and her daughter, the Grand Duchess Maria
Mikailcona, after remaining two months in the Crimea,
left Simpherophol on the 9th, for St. Petersburgh.—
Galignani's Messenger.
STOCK EXCHANGE, Two o'Ctocx.—Five per Cents.
opened at 115 f. 90e. ; Threes at 80fr. 25c.
STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 8, HALF-PAST FOUR.—The
'Nfarket has been slightly disturbed to-day by the defal-
cation and disappearance of M. Bonnet, a stock-broker,
whose Stock Exchange liabilities, however, are believed
not to be very large. French Funds have gone down in
pr For Cash Fives have fallen 20e. ; 'Threes 15c. ;
Ditto (1841) 25c.; Neapolitan 10e.; Spanish Fives (Ac-
tive) have risen ; Roman ; Belgian Fives and Spanish
Fives (Passive), are unvaried ; Belgian Threes and Por-
tuguese no quotation. For the end of the month, Fives,
Threes, and Ditto (1841), have declined 25c.; Neapolitan
no quotation.
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DUTCH FUND3.AMSTERDAM, Nov. 8.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt. 2% per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amen Syndic,4% per cent 90% 91%
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent...... ......«....» 75% 70%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 151% 155%
Ditto (1835 and 1337) 5 per cent. ...... •—• 101% 102
Loan 1337, 5 per cent. 97 92%
Exchange on Louie's, One month l2 7%
Two months 11 97%
Hamburg"), One month 35 81%
Two months SS 36%
Dutch Papers, Nov. 9.
BELGIAN U NDS—Bausans, Noy. 9.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per 10l
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 92
Sper Cent.
Thirty.seven-- 71%
101%
Loan of City, 1732, 4 per Cent. ........ 94
Society of Comm nee, 4 %per Cent 93
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .... 71%
NationalSeciety. • "MOON
Exchange on Londea (shot t)
—Brussels Papers, Nov. 9.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vtzsima, Nov. 2
five per Cents. Metalliques • 105%
Four per Cents. ..... ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• .......... •••• 98 Ska
Three p• r Cents• ...... ...... 73%
Bank Shares .• ......................... ..... 1524
—Allgemeine"Zeiiting. Nov. e.i

THE USE OF BURNING THE TOWER.—No
thing, it is written, is made, and, we presume,
done in vain; and accordingly, after reading the
following paragraph, we are at no loss to discover
the use of burning the Tower :
° Amongst those present during the day were ob-
served—the Ladies Seymour, the Lord Chamberlain, and
a party of ladies ; the Hon. Captain J. B. Home ; Mr.
Hall, the chief Magistrate of Bow•street ; Mr. Cotting-
ham, of Union-Hall ; the Earl of Chichester, &c., &c."

Ladies and gentlemen of the above description
are greatly in want of a sensation. They seek
for pleasures, and would give anything for a new
one. To look at the yet smoking ruins, to stare
with terror at the tottering walls, to wonder at
the vastness of the destruction, to be squired
or to squire through all the nooks and crannies
of the dilapidated fortress, to hear from the lips
of firemen of perilous escapes and fortunate
rescues, to examine the broken doors of
the jewel-house, and, perhaps, hear from Mr.
and Mrs. Swift the sparkling narrative of
their own exploits and dangers, to see, hear,
and admire on the spot the effects of the fire,
must be a prodigious pleasure to a multi-
titude of persons in search of a sensation, and
supplies a rational explanation of; we think, the
final cause of the destruction of the Tower. It
was burnt down to be a ten days' wonder to
those who might otherwise die of ennui. They
will be wanting to themselves if they do not,
now that we have pointed out to them the pur-
pose for which great public buildings are de-
stroyed, take care that they be not burned in
vain. We recommend them to give the beadles,
watchmen, firemen, and police-officers liberal re-
wards to keep a sharp look-out for fires, and in-
form them when any take place. They may as
well have all they can get ; and if it be delightful
to see the ruins of the burned Tower, it would be
ten times more delightful to see the Tower
burning. There is much inscrutable in the ways
of combustion and conflagration, but a diligent
inquiry would probably explain the mystery to
others as it has done to us. The Tower was
burned to create a sensation.

MOVE' and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 10.—A better
business has been done in the Cotton Market to-day, the
sales amounting to 4,000 bales, of which speculators
have taken 300 American. Prices remain steady, and
without any alteration from Friday.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, NOV. 10.—The follow-
ing are the transactions :—Grand Junction Quarter
Shares, 2:5i; Great Western Half Shares, 57k; Ditto
Fifths, 8i; Liverpool and Manchester Half Shares, 47;
London and Birmingham New, 24i; Midland Counties
Half, 201; North Union, 75k.

MANCILESTEIt STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 10.—The
market is quiet, but firm. The sales are:—London and
South Western, 52k; Midland Counties, 20-i.
Letters and papers from Monte Video to the 29th of
August have been received. They state that a commer-
cial treaty had been concluded between the Consular
Government of the newly styled Republic of Paraguay
and the province of Corrientes, the Southern adjoining
province, on the banks of the river Paranz.

THE FUNDS.
The same inactiveness continues in the English Stock
Market which has prevailed for the last two days, Con-
sols being still quoted at S9i for Money, and 89/1 k for
the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Securities fully main-
tain the advance of yesterday ; the Active Stock is now
21i ; Passive, 44 5 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 29}
30 ; D►tto, Threes, 11 18k.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.

RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham 9O 1571 to
Ditto New
London and Greenwich (New)... 20
London and South Western 3lll 53 ... .. to
Ditto Tenths
Looden and Croydon (Trunk). 134 111..... to
South Eastern and Dover
York and North Midland...
HALF-PAST ONE.
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The Batavier steamer has arrived with the papers of
Tuesday's date. The funds carne rather lower, the Five
per Cents. being last quoted at 99 11-16, and the Two-
and-a-Half at 51 1-16. Exchange the same as before.
The English Stock Market has gone flat since the
opening, Conrols having fallen per cent. ; the price is
now 89 for Money, and 89i- for the Account ; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 88i ; Three-and-a-Half ditto, 98 ;
Bank Stock, 164 165 ; India Stock, 247 246 ;
Ditto Bonds, par to 3 prem. ; Exchequer bills, 10 13.
Very littl'e business doing in the Foreign Market.
Spanish Active Stock is a shade lower, 211; Belgian
Bonds, 1001 1001; Buenos Ayres, 19k; Colombian, 19i;
Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 51k ; Ditto, Fives,
991- 991.
There has been a fair business doing in the Share
Market. The following are the quotations :—Great
Western, 79+ ; Ditto New, 57i • Ditto Fifths, 83- ;
London and Brighton, 36,i ; London and Birmingham,
157 i; London and Greenwich, 171; South Western, 53;
York and North Midland, 83k.
QUARTER TO THREE.

In the City we have nothing very new, the foreign
arrivals having been nearly exhausted for the present.
We find by a private letter that the French Jacobins are
accused of having had a great share in the recent Bel-
gian oneute, and the names even of one or two are given.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Nov. 11.—Wind at noon, variable and light.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 10.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Sperma-
cetti, Quebec ; Emma, Spicer, Miramichi ; Hirondelle,
Ponnay, Africa, with loss of anchor.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 9.—Wind S.W. and W.—Arrd.
Indus, Odessa ; Lord Ogilby, Constantinople. Arrd.-off,
Rainbow, Quebc.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 10.—Wind fresh.—Arrd. Sarah
Trotman, Maranham ; Bayfield and Adelaide, Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 10.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. her
Majesty's ship Pique, Halifax, sailed 23d ult.
STANGATE CREEK, Nov. 10.—Arrd. Torch, Bain,
Smyrna ; Competitor, Cephalonia.
RAMSGATE, NOV. 10.—Arrd. Juno, Stockton for New
York ; Sussanan Maria, Amsterdam for Surinam ; Cath-
arina, Shields for Naples, with main-boom sprung ; Don,
Hartlepool for Southampton, towed in with loss of rudder.
OFF THE NORTH FORELAND, NOV. 10.—Sarah,
Daniel, Faro, and supplied with an anchor and chain.
DEAL, Nov. 10.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Emma,
Mann, China ; Triton, Smith, Manilla, sailed May 20,
Anger July 7, Ascension Sept. 7 ; Chandos, westward;
Numa, northward ; two brigs, supposed the Severn and
Paradise, do. Arrived from the River, Margaret, Thom-
son, for Madras ; Black Prince, packet, Jamaica.;
Rackers, St. Vincent ; Countess Durham, Cape ; Moun-
taineer, Mobile ; Susan, River Gambia.
SCILLY, Nov B.—Arrd. Emma, Percival, Civita Vec-
chia. Arrd. off, Margaret, Maitland, Bombay; Johanna,
Batavia, for Rotterdam.
MILFORD, Nov. 9.—Arrd. Alicia, Nicholas, Quebec.
KINGSTOWN, Nov. 9.—Arrd. Pilot, Leghorn.
YARMOUTH, Nov. 10.—The Swedish barque, reported
yesterday on Scroby Sand, is the Indian, Muller, from
Gefle to Gibraltar ; she is full of water,and
isesgpeocttoend
to become a wreck. The Coquette, of Limerick,
the Scroby Sand, but came off without assistance.
Come, Nov. B.—Arrd. Marquis of Bute, Malta. Sld.
NVoodbridge, Sydney; Thetis, Port Philip.
IlAnwicm, Nov. 10.—Arrd. Tweed, Stockton, for
London, with loss of anchor and chain, and windlass
damaged ; Sceptre, Hull, for Alexandria, with hawse-
pipe broke.

SINGULAR COINCIDENTAL ACCIDENT.—As
one of the preachers at the Ranters' Chapel, in Driffield.
was preaching on Sunday evening last, he very empha-
tically exclaimed, in the course of his sermon, " It shall
he a lamp unto your feet," and " suiting the action to
the word," his hand struck the glass lamp attached to
the pulpit, it was dashed to the ground, and broken at
the teet of his hearers into a thousand pieces.—
York
Cot rant.