The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-24 00:00:00

the exterminatory principle of the new law, and the
accordant practice of the 'commission of administra-
tion, not one day passes over their heads in which
the everlasting processes of new Poor-law murder are
not repeated and gazetted, with, however, loathing re-
pugnance by the daily press, in all the frightful varie-
ties of death by new Poor-law starvation in the
workhouse, suicide out of doors rather than submit to
it, and infanticide by heart-stricken, desperate mothers,
f-antic with the pangs of want and the refusal of even sew
Poor-law relief. We hold the present occurrence rf such
cases to be almost an especial interposition of Providence,
by way of warning to the hard of heart, and the wilfully
blind of understanding, that resistance to new Poor-law
barbarism may be policy as well as mercy, for it is not in
the nature of things that innocent life wantonly sported
Rith surd slaughtered should long cry out for Vengeance in
vain. The people may one day arise in their wrath and
sweep away both the odious law, its authors and abettors.
To be just betimes is to be wine to salvation.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TlMES.—Notwithstanding the appearance that affairs with
America are coming to a crisis, such is the firmness of the
money market, that prices have been fully sustained through-
out the day, with a tendency to advance The French loan
proposed by M. Humann, though a subject of conversation on
the Stock Exchange, does not seem to produce any practical
effect, notwithstanding the deferring of the Railroad Bill shows
that there is no doubt that the French Government is really in
earnest with the measure. The brokers are of opinion that
the operation, when it does take place, will be spread over a
considerable length of time, and also that very little of the
loan will be taken by the English market.
Consols for money opened 88a, touched 88k, and closed 88a
to For the account they opened 88a, were afterwards
marked 884, and left off Sq. New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. closed at 97 ; India Bonds, 15 dis. ; and Exchequer
Bills ss. to 7s. prem.
Commercial matters in Jamaica wear an unsettled appear-
ance, and the distress caused by the scarcity of money, and the
d siuclination of the banks to discount, is said to originate in
a measure with the Commissioners of Accounts. Among
o'her suggestions made for the better regulation of the cur-
rency ii one for contracting a loan of 250,0001., but to retain
this money it is said the coin must be necessarily debased, or
an export duty laid on.' To the first proposal objection would
be made as an encouragement to a fictitious, debased, and un-
lawful currency ; the latter would, it seems, be disallowed by
Government. The on;y meiho I left, it is stiid, would be to
reissue the island notes, melting them a legal tender. By
doing this; it is contended the Commissioners would render
the community indeiendent of the banks, which are alleged in
vie first instance to be the cause of all the misery that pre-
va led. The draught was s ill severely affecting the crops in
the interior districts. Athicea received from Cuba repre-
selted the - small-pox as preva'ent there, and the Jamaica
_papers were endeavouring to rouse the authorities so that effi-
cient measures might be taken to secure vessi is thence not in •
troducing the epidemy. The cultivation of silk in Jamaica
aipears at present to be successful.

POST.—The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders
met again this morning, when a communication from the
Buenos Ayres Envoy, Senor Mon no, was laid before the mem-
bers. The document is one that afforded great satisfaction.
M. Moreno appears to have taken up the cause of the Bond-
holders with search, less zeal than the Committee themselves
Ind done. He pledges himself to u.e every effort, and to exert
hi; utmol influence in the proper quarter, in order to obtain a
settlement of their claims at the earliest possible period. In
proof of his good faith and sincerity, Moreno meioses for
tlie perusal of the Committee the copy of a recent despatch to
Buenos Ayres, in which the subject is dwelt upon with much
emphasis. He declares it to be his duty, now that the difficul-
ties of the Republic with France have been disposed of, to
place what he aptly terms " this most serious and important
business" in the strongest point of view before the Minister of
Finance, paying at the same time a just tribute to the forbear-
ance of the 13ondholclers.

A hint is thrown out, to the Minister that from the snalo-
pus positio i of the two classes of claimants, the amount of
debt, the accumulation of Couponl, anti other circumstances
being esSeniary the same, the arrangement just concluded
with the Chil an bondholders might, perhaps, be taken as the
best guide Ix Buenos Ayres in her n:ode of dealing with htr
British cretli,ors.

Commitiee passed a resolution expressive of its high
approbation of the conduct of Senor Moreno in connection
with this matter, a compliment to which he was certainly en-
tieed.

It was determined further to address letters on the came
subject to Mr. Mandeville, the English Minister at Buenos
Ayres, and the contractors of the loan, Messrs. Baring, lito-
thers, and Co., of this city.
It was whispered in the more select commercial circles to-
day that the British and American. Steam Navigation Company
had soh, their magnificent ships the British Queen and Presi-
dent trit the Belgian Government. The President is n'wv on
h r vriyage from America and will, it is added, have to be sur-
veyed before the c, ntract can be considered definitively con-
cluded; but, if our information be correct, of which we have
no doubt, the British Queen has already been " proved" and is,
in fact, the property of the Belgian Government. The future
destination of the two vessels ii scarcely less certain. The
Belgians are anxious to push their commerce in every possible
way, and we believe it will turn out that the British Queen and
President have been purchased with the view of forming _a re-
gular stesm communication between Antwerp and New York.