The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-25 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

We find by the Madrid accounts that the Queen Regent
of Spain has already given orders to intercept all corn-
tnunications with Portugal• We are in daily expectation
of further information from Lisbon by the Pantaloon,
which, no doubt, will be of great importance.
Consuls which left off yesterday at 871 a for the Ac-
count, opened at 874 ; at present they are sellers at the
latter prices, with little doing.
The Foreign Market is one tdy, Portuguese Stock about
59 ; Spanish 214.
HALF•PAST ONE.

By private letters received from Oporto, we hear that
some apprehensions were entertained there at the approach
of a body of Miguelites on the south side. Villa Nova is
supposed to be their aim of attack.
Up to the present time we have no further arrivals from
the Peninsula.

Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at
87 i for the account, are at present 871, with little doing.
The foreign market is also inactive; Spanish, 91i 22
Portuguese stock, 59.
We hear that failures to a considerable amount have
taken place among some bill-brokers.

THREE 0' CL 0 CA.
Consols for the Account, 87 %.

Saturday the William IV. steamer, with 400
recruits for Donna Maria's army, sailed from Greenock.
The crowd of young men from all parts of the country,
eager to join the Portuguese constitutional ranks, and who
embarked on board of the William I V., was so great that
the captain put ashore about 100 of them before he sailed.
—Glasgow Chronicle.

During great part of the present week the
temperature of the days and nights has not varied more
than two degrees.
INTERPRETATION OF MOTIVES.—There
is no word or action but may be taken with two hands ;
either with the right baud of charitable construction, or
the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion ; and all
things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil
action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to my-
self ; but to misconstrue a good thing, is a treble wrong,
to myself, the action, and the author,—Bishop Hall.
THE FREE TRADE TO CHINA,—.A. number
of fine ships are now fitting out and altering for the China
trade, at the various docks and shipbuilding yards along
the river. The City of Edinburgh, a ship of upwards of
900 tons burthen, has been lately altered and adapted for
the trade to China, at Weston's dock, in Wapping. The
keel of a Chinaman is about to be laid down at one of
the yards in the port of London. She is to be ready in
four months.

THE SPIRIT-STIRRING DRUAL—Reader,
did you ever witness the magic effects of a drum in a
small village when the recruiting party, with many-
coloured ribands, rouse it up with the spirit-stirring
tattoo ? Matrons leave their domestic cares and run to
the cottage door ; peeping over their shoulders, the maidens
admire and fear. The shuffling clowns raise up their
heads gradually till they stand erect and proud ; the
slouch in the back is taken out, the heavy walk is
changed to a firm yet elastic tread ; every muscle appears
more braced, every nerve by degrees new strung ; the
blood circulates rapidly, pulses quicken, hearts throb,
eyes brighten, and, as the martial music pervades their
rustic frames, the Cimons of the plough are converted, as
if by magic, into incipient heroes of the field—and all
this is produced by beating the skin of the most gentle, the
most harmless animal of creation.—Jacob Faithful--
Metropolitan Magazine.