The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-11 00:00:00

Stl N.—Again we have to report the close of another
day without having any information from the United
States. The American merchants are most uneasy at
the delay, especially those who are expecting remit-
tances to cover engagements now becoming due. In
American produce there is little or nothing doing.
The Foreign Exchanges were all flat this afternoen,
at the following reduced rates—Paris, 25f. 57-ele. to
60e.; Hamburg, 18 80 to 51 ; Antwerp, 12 3 ; Am-
sterdam 12 8 ; and Frankfort, 150;x.
The Markets for East India and China produce con-
tinue in a feverish state. The tea sales have not con-
cluded as was expected. Of 12,000 packages which
have passed to day, 9,000 found buyers. Common
Teas are Id. to lAA. per lb. cheaper. Fine sorts keep
at the advance of yesterday. The total sales since Mon-
day, at public auction, have only been 23,500 packages.
The West India Produce Markets left off firmly this
afternoon at higher prices fdr Sugar and Coffee ; Mocha
C.3lTee is up 4s. to ss. per cwt. ; Barbadoes Sugar
Is.rt,;(l. per cwt. ; and Jamaica ls. to Is. 6d. per cwt.
Ihe Funds left off very steadily at 921 t for Ac-
count, at 924 for February, and at 10 11 prem. for
Exchequer Bills. India Bonds were advanced to 1
prem., but India Stock has fallen to 0491.
In the Foreign Stock Market there was not more
done this afternoon. Spanish left off at 05, Portu-
guese Five per Cents. at 36 ; the Three per Cents. at
.241 ; Dutch Two-aae-a-Half per Cents. at 51i, and
Mexican at 29a g.
Shares were not quite so brisk at the close of busi-
ness as they were n the morning. The latest sales
were in the London and Birmingham at 60 premilm ;
in the Great Western at par ; in the Greenwich at
discount ; in the North Midland at 8i discount
in the New Ditto at 3 premium ; and in the Birming-
ham and Derby at 19 discount, and in the Bristol and
Exeter at. 24 discount.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

We are again compelled, from an unusual press of
matter, to restrict ourselves to a brief summary of the
contents of the leading articles of the Morning Journals
of this day. The Morning Herald, alluding to the
question most likely to be first mooted, on the approach-
ing Session of Parliament, says :—" The people of
England have a right to know how far the conditions of
the Act of Settlement have been fulfilled or overlooked,
by this union of their Sovereign with Prince Albert of
Gotha. Before one shilling of English money is voted,
the most searching questions should be satisfied, that
the Prince is really and bona fide a Protestant. Nor
should the grant be made any longer than he actually
continues a Protestant." The Morning Poa observes,
tn reference to the late Corn law meetings :—" There is
much of the ludicrous in the lamentations made by
Ministerialists of the failure of their Anti-Corn-law
meetings, in consequence of the troe.blesome interven-
tion :of the multitude, who look tsp on these meetings
as nothing better than Whig trickery and delusive non-
sense. Trickery and delusion are the vital principles of
Melbourne Whiggery in Great Britain." These aro
words easily said, but meaning nothing. The Times,
speaking of the Rural Police Act, calls it, " that very
curious and indeed unparalleled statute, die most recent
and certainly not the least remarkable, of the many
monstrous measures of the Whigs." The Morning
Chronicle contains a leading article on the subject of the
Liverpool Anti-Corn-law meeting, in the course of
which our Contemporary observes :--" No advocate of
the Corn-laws can possibly suppose that production
on a given surface has not its limits, add that,
in an old country like Britain, with a population
increasing at the rate of a thousand a day, these limits
will not soon be attained. The natural cost of food
must continually increase under such circumstances ; so
that every year's continuance of the Corn•laws must
render it more difficult to return to a system of free
trade."—The Morning Advertiser thus alludes to the
Penny Postage scheme :—" The country will not fail to
remark how characteristic of Toryism has been the con-
duct of the Tories in relation to that bold and b•meficent
experiment. They first refuse to grant the boon de-
manded, and then, reviled and to the latest moment, with
untiring energy, both the good and its granters."