The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-27 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
The New York packet ship Cambridge, Capt.
Bursley, arrived here to-day, having left that
city on the Ist inst. By this opportunity we
have received all the New York papers of the
Ist inst., but do not find in them any news of po-
litical interest to the readers on this side of the
Atlantic. The usual report of the Money Market
and a summary of the commercial news, will be
found beloW.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
TUESDAY, AUG. 31.—A fair amount of business was
done at the Stock hoard this morning, at generally bet-
ter prices. U. S. Bank improved per cent ; Delaware
and Hudson, ,1 ; Harlem, ; Patterson, ; Mohawk
declined Saes of Bills on Philadelphia, 23 a 2 ;
Mobile, 8 a ; Illinois Six per Cent. Stock, 1870, 55
New York Five per Cent., 1858, 86k. There is a good
business doing in sterling bills.
The transfer of the public funds from the Merchants'
Bank to the Bank of Commerce, appears to have given
as great general dissatisfaction as the selection of the
Merchants' Bank met with approval. The manner of the
operation was such as justly to condemn the Secretary
of the Treasury for a financier, and is in the highest de-
gree discreditable to the Federal Government. Instead
of coming into the market on fair and above-board terms
the issue cie $1,000,000 is made in an underhand way to
the Barak of Commerce, which concern takes through
James G. ICing, who made the negotiations on condition
that, that institution should have the Government depo
aces. Here is a direct alliance and contract between the
Federal Government and a " Wild Cat Bank." Instead
of standing on its own credit and resources, the Govern-
ment bribes an agency of the foreign houses to take its
stock at a certain rate ; or, in other words, it sells the
custody of the public funds to a clique of brokers for a
consideration... The contract is, that if these brokers
take the public loan at a certain rate, they shall have the
public deposits. The Government thereby relinquish
all right to remove them, as long as the institution fulfils
its part of the bargain. The Sub-Treasury has been re-
' pealed; -scarcely. thirty days, and already the Treasury
Department has lost its independence. It is bound to the
same set of men that have plunged New York head and
ears in debt---so much so, that the Commissioners have
advertised for a loan that they cannot obtain, and then
they go round "cap in hand," begging company loans of
the banks. If the next Secretary of the Treasury is per-
mitted to go on, six montlisj,will not elapse before the
general Government will be in the same condition. The
present Cabinet are not of President Tyler's choice—the
extra session was not only not of his calling, but is against
his avowed approbation. Its whole proceedings, and
with the exception of the bankrupt law, all the measures
before it, he is opposedo.to. He took things as he found
them at
.the death of the late President, and has thus
far endured both the session and the Cabinet • and they
have verified the old adage, "put a beggar on horseback.."
&c. With the breaking up of the-session, and the dis-
solution of the Cabinet, the President will organize a
new one, more in accordance with the spirit and wants
of the people ; and the miserable mistake of the present
officers will be rectified.
RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
$3,000 N. Y. State s's, 1858 •
.
86
$ 3,000 Illinois 6's, 1870 55
50 Shares Delaware and Hudson lOB4
25 Ditto N. A. Trust
50 D:tto Farmer's Loan 564
50 Ditto United States Bank ...
25 Ditto Vicksburg Bank
160 Ditto Mohawk Rai1r0ad........
50 Ditto Paterson Railroad
100 Ditto Long Island
25 Ditto Stonington cash 35i
100 Ditto Harlem Railroad r 20i
SECOND BOARD.
100 Shares U. S. Bank
50 Ditto do s6o 11
50 Ditto do ....
100 Ditto Long Island . b 3 33i

50i

COTTON TRADE.
The market has been very heavy since the arrival of
the last packet. The whole decline may be put at cent.
in this city. In the Southern markets, there is, as is
usually the case at this season of the year, but little
doing. The accounts of the growing crops are contra-
dictory, but there is nothing to lead to the conclusion
that the yield will be otherwise than large,
As we have remarked on a former occasion, the weight
of bales this year is larger than that of last year.
CORN-TRADE.—FIour in this market ranges from
$5,50 to $6,75 a barrel. In the last day or two the de-
mand has decreased, and the supplies increased a little.
This year's crop in New York will reach an average
or say a little short. And the accounts from Virginia,
although somewhat conflicting, still we think there will
be an average crop. Pennsylvania will also give an
average yield. In the northern part of Ohio the crop
will be good, but falls short of an average in the
southern. In the aggregate, however, there will be more
than an average. The crops of the upper lake country
turned out decidedly good. Whence, and from previous
statements published by us, it appears that there is a
favourable prospect for an average crop in 1841.
Comparing these statements, it is to be seen that only
a material difference exists between prospects in 1840
and 1841, and as it is against this year, there is a pro-
bability, as we stated on the start, that prices this year
may be a fraction higher than they were last ; and
they can only be a fraction higher from the demand
which may come from England. It is, therefore not un-
reasonable to expect that the prices this fall will range
from $5 to $6 a barrel.

FROM FLORIDA.
Despatches have been received at the "War Depart-
ment from Colonel Worth, commanding the army in
Florida, up to the 18th inst. They furnish gratifying
evidence of the continued activity of the troops in ex-
ploring the hiding places of the enemy, and in promptly
pursuing predatory parties among the settlements.
The Colonel commanding reports the coming in of
ten Indians since the report of the Bth of August, and
the capture, by Lieut.-Colonel Riley, of a sub-chief of
Halleck Tustenuggee's band, from the possession of
whom he expects material assistance in the furtherance
of his plans.
It is believed that the settlements can be suffici-
ently protected without the necessity of calling- out
militia. In connection with this object Colonel Worth
has happily conceived the plan of recalling to their
plantations the settlers who have been driven away
by Indiansland of encouraging the citizens to form new
settlements, promising to such as may avail themselves
of the proposed arrangement, rations and armed forces
to aid them in protecting themselves, whenever such
protections shall be necessary and practicable. Under
the direction of Major Wilcox, a zealous and efficient
officer, to whom this service has been confided, the pro-
ject has met with great success, two hundred and ninety-
eight persons having already been enrolled to form new
settlements, and to re-occupy old ones, of whom one
hundred and four are able to bear arms. These armed
settlements are chiefly in a section of country heretofore
much annoyed.byban depredations, and may be ex-
pected to exert the happiest influence in repressing the
inroads of the enemy, and giving confidence to the border
ECctlers.—National Intelligencer.

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THE WEATHR.—NOON, SEPTEMBER
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer... 63 1 Highest 63 J Lowest ..... 45
Wind S. W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

A SCENE FOR THE PAINTER.—The follow-
ing incident, which, for appalling interest, surpasses anything
we have yet encountered, occurred at the late great meeting
in the 'town-eall, Manchester. In the course of the speech
of Sir Thomas Potter,_ whilst alluding to the great increase of
commitments to the New Bailey prison, he said, " I have been
horror-struck to hear the observation from the prisoners
brought up at the Cou-t, that they wished to be sent to prison,
that they would prefer going to the New Bailey, for there
they would be better fed than they could be at home.—(Cries
of " Hear, hear," from the crowd, and " that's true.")
Now, this is a shocking state of things. (Cries of
"We want to go.") No, no, you don't deserve to go.
And I do say that there is not a population in the world
who are bearing their sufferings with such fortitude and
such resignation as you are bearing them. They cannot
be endured long, Gentlemen ; it is impossible." Here is a
scene for the pencil of a Satvator Rosa. The venerable and
benevolent Knight is addressing' a crowded meeting, in which
arc seen many hundreds of the haggard and careworn faces of
unemployed artisans, who, in the desperation of famine, im-
plore the excellent old Magistrate to commit them to prison,
where they may find that food which is denied them at home.
Tears start into his eye), and his. manly frame is convulsed
with emotion, as he denies them their wretched request, as-
suring them that tl ey are_too good to go to prison. To com-
plete the picture, the artist must introduce the figure of an old
warrior, of stern asPect, wrapped in a comfortable cloak, with'
his back turned towards the meeting, uttering these words-
-4." This is the only country in the world in which a poor man,
who is industrious and sober, is sure to obtain a competence."
Should a painter take our hint, and *put on canvas a record of
this scene, we must, for the sake of our country and our
creed, implore him not to transmit to posterity the fact, that
if occurred in Christian England, in the year 1841.—Anti-
Bread-tax Circular.
FIRE IN CORK.—On Saturday night last it
was discovered, at about ten o'clock, that the oil and colour
stores of Mr. Wilson ,
in Cove-street, in this city, were on fire,
and in less than half an hour afterwards tt e entire establish-
ment was one mass of fire. Te engines were well worked, and
at one o'clock the fire was completely got under, at which time
nothing was left of the stores or their contents but a heap of
mouldering ruins.—Cork Southern Reporter.
A BADGER HUNT.---." While the Duke of
Orleans," says the Conimerce, " was recently shooting in the
woods of Versailles,
his dogs starter., a badger of enormous size
which soon buried himself in his hole, and thus for a time
escape.). Determined to secure his unexpected game, the
Prince engaged ten labourers to dig the beast out ; his Royal
Highness set his own hand stoutly
RntoetlhHe
inghonrkes,ssatnhdenthreetimreed,n
persevered till ten at night. His 3'
but r t three in the morning returned, and found that his men
had been employed the whole night withoeuntirmeaeclhsitnilgl
rtehmeiair
nobed-
ject. At eleven in the day the tenacious
in his stronghold ; the Duke and his men
hungry and
fatigued, and perceiving the Prince
conveniently
became-e
a house in the distance,
sent to ask for any refreshment that could be
afforded. The house proved to be tye hos
l cent d pownitabl a sumptuous
M. Mallet, the banker, who immediate .
he mansion of
breakfast. At one o'clock the badger was reached and taken
alive, and the Prince sect it to the Garden of Plants in the
name of Mme. Mallet. This capture cost the Prince Royal
not less than &iof."
A SCHOOL-Bolt's \VIT.—The master of
instila
free grammar-school was one day endeavouring to
ns-
into the minds of his pupils that two negatives make a p
tive. On a remarkably fine day, shortly afterwards, the boys
were petitioning their master for an afternoon
which he, the master, hastily replied, " No, no." Ths e
ty
o
were accordingly repairing to their stuoies, when
_one
of the
hots (a very .shrewd lad) r minded him of the .fact, that
Two negatives made a positive," and therefore claimed a ho-
liday. The master, pleased with the boy's wit, immediately
Iranted the request.