The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-01 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK.
Montreal Papers to the 2d March, Quebec to the
same date, and Singapore to the 15th November, have
been received at the North and South American
Coffee-house.

(From the Montreal Papers.)
The council are rapidly getting through the bills
which have been sent to them ; of the forty-nine
which they have received they have passed thirty-
three. Amongst the measures yet undecided is that
of St. Lawrence Canal.

The question of retrenchment has been disposed of
in the council in rather a summary way, but the report
is not to be made public. The council are on Satur-
day to enter into the consideration of the state of the
province; the nature of the resolutions to be proposed
has not yet transpired.

( From the Quebec Papers.)
The House of Assembly of Upper Canada have
refused to grant 12,5001. for a penitentiary in that
province. The house, in committee on the Supply
Bill, voted the salary of the government officers same
as last year ; a sum of 350,0001. for the improvement
of the River St. Lawrence, and 25,0001. for the roads.
It is understood that the Upper Canada Legislature
will be prorogued about the Ist of March.
From the Singapore papers we learn, by letters from
Canton, that the Chinese Courier newspaper has
ceased to exist.

The annual statement of the trade of Singapore for
the year ending Ist May, 1833, has been completed, and
we give the comparative statement of the trade between
the years 1831, 1832, and 1833, of the imports and
exports.
The total value of imports amounts to dis.'9-101-179,
including the trade with Malacca and Penang, while
the exports amount to dis. 7-593-190.
( From the New York Commercial List.)
We have still to deplore embarrassments resulting
from the deranged state of the currency. At no time
within the last six months has a want of confidence
been more severely felt.
The express from Paris this morning is of_little im-
portance, and does not communicate any event of con-
sequence from Spain.
Consols opened this morning at the price they left
off yesterday-91 for the Account, buyers.
Spanish, 301 ; Portuguese 65 14.
As yet we do not hear of any fresh arrivals from
Portugal, although the Lightning or the Pantaloon is
hourly expected.

HALF-PAST ONE.
We have had a very dull morning in respect to
operations in the Foreign Securities, and the fluctua-
tions in Portuguese and Spanish Stocks have been on
a less scale than for several days past.
We are also in the same state in respect to political
news and reports. To the present hour we have no
arrivals from Portugal.
Consols have been, during the morning, at the
opening price, 91 to for the Account.
It is still the prevailing opinion that Spanish troops
will enter Portugal. Spanish Stock 301 ; Portuguese
65
THREE 0' CL CK.
Consols for the Account, 91 to I.

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

We had hoped the case of Baron Smith was
settled for the season, but here we have it again,
a lively full-length. The article is a most com-
bustible one, full of cutting sarcasms and un-
savoury similes. If hard words could break a
man's bones, O'Connell would be pummelled to
a jelly—Stanley smashed to atoms, and poor
Lord Althorp utterly annihilated. " A Story
without a Tail" is capital, in the very broadest
style of the broadest humour of Rabelais. It
must be the standard-bearer's, without a doubt
—aut 0' Doherty, aut Diabolus. Jack Ginger's
regrets for his vanished honesty, and lamenta-
tions that the force of circumstances should have
compelled a gentleman of such stern integrity as
he was, when a pirate in the Mediteranean, to
become a rogue in his new capacity of lawyer,
are irresistibly pathetic, not to say edifying. We
subjoin an extract from this jovial extrava-
ganza : •

"ROW WE DINED AT JACK GINGER'S.

" The history of that cod's head and shoulders would
occupy but little space to write. Its flakes, like the
snow flakes on a river, were for one moment bright,
then gone for ever; it perished unpitiably. Bring
hither,' said Jack, with a firm voice, the leg of pork.'
It appeared, but soon to disappear again. Not a man
of the company but showed his abhorrence of the Ju-
daical practice of abstaining from the flesh of swine.
Equally clear in a few moments was it that we were
truly British in our devotion to beef. The sirloin was
impartially destroyed on both sides, upper and under.
Dire was the clatter of the knives, but deep the silence
of the guests. Jerry Gallagher, Jack's valet-de-chambre,
footman, cook, clerk, shoeblack, aide-de-camp, scout,
confidant, dun-chaser, bum-defyer, and many other
offices in commendam, toiled like a hero. He covered
himself with glory and gravy every moment. In a
short time a vociferation arose for fluid, and the half-
and-half—Whitbread quartered upon Chamyton--beau-
tiful heraldry !—was inhaled with the most savage sa-
tisfaction.
" ' The pleasure of a glass of wine with you, Bob
Burke,' said Joe Macgillicuddy, wiping his mouth with
the back of his hand.

66 With pleasure, Joe,' replied Bob. What wine
do you choose ? You may as well say port, for there
is no other ; but attention to manners always becomes
a gentleman.' •

1" Port, then, if you please,' cried Joe, ' as the
ladies of Limerick say, when a man looks at them
across the table.'

" 6 Hobnobbing wastes time,' said Jack Ginger,
laying down the pot out of which he had been drinking
for the last few minutes ; and, besides, it is not custo-
mary now in genteel society—so pass the bottle about."
" [I here pause in my narrative to state, on more ac-
curate recollection, that we had not decanters ' - we
drank from the black bottle, which Jack declared was
according to the fashion of the Continent.]
" So the port was passed round, and declared to be
superb. Antony Harrison received the unanimous ap-
plause of the company ; and, if he did not blush at all
the fine things that were said in his favour, it was be-
cause his countenance was of that peculiar hue that no
addition of red could be visible upon it. A blush on
Antony's face would be like gilding refined gold.
" Whether cheese is prohibited or not in the higher
circles of the West End, I cannot tell ; but I know it
was not prohibited in the very highest chambers of the
Temple.
" ' It's double Gloucester,' said Jack Ginger; ' prime,
bought at the corner—Heaven pay the cheesemonger,
for I shan't--but, as he is a gentleman, I give you his
health.'

" ' I don't think,' said Joe Macgillicuddy, ' that I
ought to demean myself to drink the health of a cheese-
monger ; but I'll not stop the bottle.'
" And, to do Joe justice, he did not. Then we at-
tacked the cheese, and in an incredibly short period we
battered in a breach of an angle of 45 degrees, in a
manner that would have done honour to any engineer
that directed the guns at San Sebastian."

" The Cruise of the Midge" is a coarse,
rough, graphic sketch like Tom Cringle's log,
and looks as if it had been scrawled by a Jack-
tar's paint-brush dipped in pitch. There are
some piquant tit-bits of description in it. " Fa-
mily Poetry" is quaint and humorous. The
rhythm itself is full of fun and eccentricity. We
suspect it is by the same author who parodied
" Catherine of Cleves" so admirably in this
Magazine some few months since. " Edmund
Burke" is beginning to grow prosy ; though we
are glad to find the Reverend Critic fervent in
his praise of the " Letter to two Noble Lords,"
which, though it have not the elaborate com-
pleteness of the " Reflections," yet, as respects
humour, sarcasm, eloquence, fancy, and an in-
exhaustible variety of all that constitutes the
perfection of writing, is, by many degrees, the
finest thing that Burke ever penned. We re-
member going through it at a sitting, under the
shade of a walnut-tree, in the Isle of Wight,
and never was morning so delightfully spent.
" Lords Brougham, Lyndhurst, and Local
Courts," sets out and ends in a prodigious pas-
sion. The Chancellor is, of course, everything
that is abominable ; Lord Lyndhurst just the
reverse. These wholsesale indiscriminate at-
tacks only weaken the cause they would
strengthen.