The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-02 00:00:00

THE FUNDS,

Consols opeied this morning at the same quotations they
left off yesterday 90A- I for the Account ; Money. 894 I. Ex-
chequer Bills 11 13 prem. ; Bank Stock, 16bi 1691 India
Stock, 252 254 ; India Bonds 13 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather better, left off
23i 4, at present 233 ; Deferred, 11i 4 ; Passive, 5i 4 ;
Portuguese, 331 34 ; Three per Cents., al g ;
671,! 65%; Colombian, 21i 22; Mexican, 28i ; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cent 3., 52i ; Five per Cents., 99% 100.
SHAPES.—Great Western, 29 30 prem. ; New, 14i prem. ;
London and Brighton, 43/ dis. ; Blackwall, 65i dis. ;
Birmingham, 63 70 prem. ; Southampton, 55 56 per share ;
Croydon, 13i 3/4 per share.

The Batavier has arrived, bringing papers to the Ist of June.
Prices of the 29th 111ay.—Two-and.a-Half per Cents., 51i ,
Five per Cent., 100; Ardoin's, 22.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.

RAILWAYS.

Paid.

Per Share,

Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ......
Ditto New
Cheltenham and Great Western. 62
Great Western .

Ditto New
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham 9O 1584 to
Northern and Eastern
North Midland
HALF-PAST ONE.
Up to the present hour there is not a feature in either of the
Markets worth notice.

The Tea Market is also inactive, as the speculators arc wait-
ing for further arrivals previous to operating.
Cons-13 are a shade better for Money, 90; for the Account
a shade lower, 90i ; Exchequer Bills, 11 13 prem. ; Bank
Stock 164 ; India Bonds 3 prem.
In the Foreign Market very little &ink. Spanish /Votive
234 ; Portuguese 334 ; Colombian 21 ; Dutch Two -and-a-
Half per Cents. 523 ; Five per Cents. 99k.
In Shares also little doing. Great Western 94 ; Ditto,
New, 84 ; London and Brighton, 453 ; London and Birming-
ham 1581, North Midland 673.
TWO O'CLOCK.

In the Commercial Markets the chief attention of the
merchants is directed to the state and prospects of the Tea
trade, which has been put again into a state of feverish ex-
citement by the news received from China of the recom-
mencement of hostilities with the Chinese. There has not,
however, been so great an amount of actual business done as
might have been anticipated. In fact, the dealers have
not yet got over the loss they were compelled to incur by the
previous unfavourable intelligence from Canton. Holders are
not disposed to sell at the present advance which is about 3d.
per lb. The stock on hand. is not equal to a year's consump-
tion,,and therefore prices may be expected to go highen 'The
deliveries for home consumption and exportation for the last
three mouths have been equal to forty million pounds per
annum,

In the other principal Mercanti?e Markets there is not much
alteration to notice. The West India Produce Markets are
flat. Sugars continue to maintain very high prices. It having
becn officially intimated to the trade that there is no chance
of an alteration in the Coffee Duties this year, business seems
carried on with less fluctuation than in some other articles.

We are overwhelmed this morning with advices from the
United States brought by three sailing vessels, and we are sorry
to say that brother Jonathan, from all accounts, is in terribly
hot water. It is to be feared the American trade here will
suffer by the failures and dishonesty of the Banks, which must
drag down many of the merchants on the other side of the
Atlantic.

Business both in stocks and produce, is materially eheckcd
by the protracted debate in the House of Commons,
Today the Funds look very dull.
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols for Account firm at 90i No alteration in any of
the Foreign Funds. Nothing whatever doing.

On Tuesday, at Covent-garden Market, there
vras a p'eutiful supply of green peas, at Is. fid per peck, and
by the afternoon they were common at most of the shops in
the mettopolis. Cherries were retailed at, ls. per lb., and
strawbetries were very abundant at Is. 6d. per pottle.
The Rev. M. Kempe, vicar of Ltnkinghorne,
near Callington, cut his throat on Thursday, the 13th instant.
The reverend gentleman lingers in a deplorable state.—
, Western Times.
Wool grown in Ireland is continually sent over
I to Leicestershire and Derbyshire, where, haring undergone
the process of manufacture,it is actually sent back again as hose,
to the country where it was originally produced.
THUNDER STORM IN IRELAND.—On Thurs-
day morning, about six o'clock, after a very sultry night, Lime-
rick vs as visited by a most awful ard terrific thunder-storm,
which endured for an hour. It commenced with a hollow
rumbling roise, resembling the rear of distant artillery, and
increasing at intervals so as to convey the idea of a heavy can-
nonade, and then became more quick and continuou like the
frequent discharge of small arms, and the rattling fee de joie of
musketry, while again a tremendous crash boomed along
with a violence which no human power could be expected
to produce. The sky was in the interim dark as twilight,
and the air was charged with vivid flashes of • forked
lightning, which followed etch other with much rapidity. The
rain poured down in violent torrents for above an hour. It
waS,
,truly a fearful scene. A young woman, named Ann
Clanchv, residing at Clonmacken, while sittin, by the fire with
her husband about seven o'clock A. as., was struck by a flash which
ran down the chimney, and laid her prostrate on the floor. Her
husband sustained a slight shock, and was left insensible for
some time, but on eorning to himself, and attempting to raise
his wife up, he found to his borro- that she was dead. The
Mayor held an inquest on the body, whieli exhibited livid
streaks from the head to the waist. wizen, after a very minute
inquiry, a- verdict was returned—Died by the. visitation of God..
tirnorich Chrenirle,

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--I%ISGAZINES-CONTINUED.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE,

In the article on the " 'Whig Ministry," this
Magazine adopts a bolder and more uncompro-
mising political tone than has of late been usual
with it. It now proclaims " war to the knife"
against the Ministers, and is full of confident
expectation that the whole country will immedi-
ately respond to its battle-cry. The article is a
very fierce one, and in more than one instance
the writer's temperseems to have got the better of
his common sense, for he actually attributes "the
length of time for which the Whig Government
has been suffered to exist," to the fact that the
" Conservative feeling is more deeply rooted than
ever in the country !" Was there ever an absurder
paradox than this? The Whigs maintain the.r
power, because their sworn foes, the Tories, are
stronger than ever they were ! Were the Oppo-
sition at its last gasp, then, by a parity of reason-
ing, the Ministers, we suppose, would be at once
ejected from office !' " The force of folly can no
further go," than in this paradoxical remark of
Maga. The writer is compelled to admit that
' Lord John Russell's late speech " showed a large
measure of cleverness and dexterity ;" but imme-
diately afterwards he stultifies himself by the
declaration that " full-grown men can derive
little satisfaction from sounding sentences or
delusive generalities." Why, it was these very
full-grown men who were so delighted with his
Lordship's speech, which certainly could not
have "shoWed a large measure of cleverness,"
if it had consisted on y of " sounding sentences!"
Between sense and sound. there exists as great a
difference as between a Sibthorp and a Cicero.
The writer is horror-strnck at the flagrant iniquity
or the Penny -Postage s,.theme. 'Tae bare idea of
cheap postage shocks his delicate sensibilities;
and no wonder, for in Tory - eyes cheapness
is synonymous with revolution.. " Peter the
Wise " is an arch, sprightly poem, whose versifi-
cation, however, is here and
.there as lame and•
rough as the bellman's rhymes. In " Hints to
Authors " occur some capital hits at modern
biographers, whose. tastes for the eulogistic are
exposed in a searching strain of ridicule. " When
I was in the Legion" is a memoir of military life,
abounding•. in brO,:(1 humour. The present
portion of " Ten Thousand a Year" has one.
powerful scene—that, wt: mean, between
Gammon and Lord Dreddling-:on, where the
former states to the latter his conviction
that Titmouse is illegitimate, and cons:=(lue
has no just claim on the Yatton estates. Tntly
his
scene is wrought up in Mr. Warren's happiest
manner. The incident, however, which intro-
duceS it—namely, that of Gammon leaving open
on his table in chambers a legal document which
proves his own roguery, is improbable in the
highest degree; for an attorney, so wary,
thoughtful, and sagacious as he is represented to
be, in all cases where his own interests are con-
cerned, could never, by the remotest possibility, •
have been guilty of such negligence. There
is here a sad want of keeping and consistency
in the character. " Russia as it was in the sum-
mer and winter of 1812," is an article excellently
suited to the tastes of magazine readers. That
year was, it may be remembered, the celebrated
one of the French invasion, and the writer states
that he himself was present in Russia at the time.
His sketch of Smolensko at that stirring period
is replete with life and vigour; but we prefer
quoting his personal sketch of Napoleon during
the sanguinary battle of Borodino :
On the 20th of October, just five weeks too late, the
trumpet sounded in Moscow for a retreat ; and we all
know what followed. I, for my part, saw something of
what followed, and this it is which I shall now relate.
But let me pause to say, that it was not merely and
solely the obstinacy of pride, and the blindness of reli-
ance upon one mans infirm nature, which had led Napo-
leon thus far astray. It was well-known at that time
that the coats of his stomach were in a dreadful state of
nervous irritation, partly from general mismanagement
of the digestive organs, but more from the recent habit
of using strong -stimufants, especially green tea drugged
with brandy, in the proportion of half-and-half, for the
purpose of keeping him Self awake—a habit which at
times incapacitated him either for thought or for action
Bourrienne has denied emphatically his use of strong
coffee, or of snuff to any excess ; but Bourrienne's evi-
dence applies only to a period eight years earlier ; and
at present so altered were Napoleon's habits, that
on the day of Borodino his internal wretched-
ness
absolutely obliged him at times .to lay aside the re-
ports from the different points of attack, as they kept
coming into his tent. He walked feebly about, sipping
his green tea, in a state of mixed helplessness and rest-
lessness ; and it was owing to the dire depression Pram
this state of feverish weakness, that he could not be
moved by ally entreaties to =nuzzle the Imperial
Guard, forty thousand strong, upon the Russians, at the
latter part of the battle. He pleaded, indeed, that any
disaster to the Guard would compromise the safety of
the entire army ; but his policy had never been in that
spirit of rigorous caution ; for almost every advantage,
throughout his military life, he had been indebted to the
very opposite principle, of staking the whole succes:j upon
One decisive throw. It is the very necessity of such phy-
sical alterations in a man, tiizt he is not aware of his own
condition. He himself could see nothing unusual in the
preternatural timidity of his'planS ; but all those who
had access to his person viewed him, on tie day of Boro-
dino, as a mere wreck of what he had been
.eve" three
years before.