The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-15 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY )

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Newfoundland papers to Feb. 7 have been received at the
North and South American Coffee-house.

Extract of his Excellency's speech on the opening of the
House of Assembly:—
" In calling you together to enable you to proceed with
those measures for the advantage of the colony which
various circumstances interrupted in your last meeting, I must
regret it is not in my power to offer my congratulations
on the success of your fisheries, or on any considerable amelio-
ration in the condition of the people. Iro n every information
I can obtain, the toils of the fishermen have only in certain

districts been rewarded by an adequate return, and the fishery
of Labrador, on which the livelihood of many depends, has ap-
proached to an entire failure."
His Excellency also states that he had indulged the
hope that it would be in his power to announce that a
considerable surplus fund, arising on the grant voted by the
Imperial Parliament, would be at their disposal, to aid the
local revenue, but a decrease in the imperial duties of 3,0001.
on the late nine months, has disappointed his expectations.
The house of assembly meet on the 6th February, for the
first time. Since the opening of the Legislature, it was occupied
in committee on the report of the address, in reply to his
Excellency's speech.
Letters from Smyrna inform us that the French and English
squadrons in the Archipelago are going to be reinforced, but the
cause is unknown at present.
THE FUNDS.
Up to the present hour we do not hear of any arrivals from
Portugal : it must be owing to the easterly winds.

Consols opened this morning at the price they left off yester-
day, 91 % for the Account, with little doing; at present they
may be quoted 91 % sellers.

The Foreign Market is heavy this morning, owing to the
information from Spain.

Spanish, 28%, 29 ; Portuguese, 63 34. 64 ; Dutch, 50 IA ;
Brazil, 74 %.

HALF-PAST ONE.

In the absence of arrivals from Portugal, various reports
have been put into circulation, such as the pregnancy of the
young Queen of Portugal, Donna Maria—Miguel on his march
to Lisbon—the Queen having left Lisbon, and a vessel having
arrived at Brest—with other unfavourable reports for Don Pedro.
All this has had an effect of depressing the Portuguese stock,
which has been done at 62 ;at present it is 62i to 63. Spanish
stock remains steady at 28j We have endeavoured to trace
the above events to some authentic source, but up to the pre-
sent hour we have not succeeded.

Consols have been during the morning at tJlp for the Ac.
count, with little or nothing doing.
Within a few minutes another sale of Portuguese Stock has
taken place, and they have receded to 611. _ _

TiiRA-E O'CLOCK.

Console for the Aecount. 91 %.

SHEEP IN FLANNEL WAISTCOATS.—.The
Oxfor‘l Journal informs us that " the advance in the
price of wool has put all the farmers on the alert who have
any of that article to sell, and sheep are actu •Ily travelling
to London in flannel waistcoats, having been shorn for
the sake of the wool, and covered up with flannel to
prevent their flash being injured by exposure to the cold.'
As the lake at Scottow was being drawn by
Sir Henry Durant, with his keeper and other assistants
on Tuesday last, there were five pike caught, which were
of the f dlowing sizes:—Tie first, 4 ft. long, 37 lbs•
weight, 2 feet 3 inches girth ; the sei•ond. 4 ft. long, 32
lbs. weight, and 2 faet girth ; the third, 3 ft. 8 inches long,
271 lbs. weight, and 23 inches girth ; tile fourth, 3 feet
3 inches lone, 17 lbs. weight, and 20 inches girth ; the
fifth. 3 fert 4 ine•es long, 181 lbs. weight, and 20 inches
Firth, all at one haul.—Norwich Mercury.
PROPER TIME FOR SLEEP.--Night is the
time for sleep ; and assured:), the hush of darkness as na
turally courts to repose as meridian splendour flashes on
us the nece-sity of our being up at our labour. In fact,
there exists a strange but certain sympathy between the
periods of day and night, and the performance of particu-
lar ftmetions during ti,ese periods. That this is not the
mere effect of custom rni4ht be readily demonstrated. Ail
nature awakes with the rising sun. The birds h,gin to
sing ; the bees to fly about with murmurous delight. The
flowers which shut under the embrace of darkness, un-
fold themselves to the light. The cattle arise to crop the
dewy herbage; and " man gneth forth to his labour until
ti.e evening." At close of d.y, the reverse of all this acti-
vity and motion is observed. The songs of the woodland
choir, one after another, become bushed, till at length twi-
light is left to silence, with her own star and her filing
dews. Aaiun is succeeded by listlessness, enetgy by lay
guor, the desire of exertion by the inclination for repose
Sleep, which shuns the light, embraces darkness, and they
lie down together under t•:e sceptre of midnight.—lliac-
nish's Pliilosopby of Sleep, p. 3.