The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-28 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Accounts from Bordeaux state that General Valdez
has issued a proclamation, as well as General Castagnon,
to the inhabitants of Rimy ; it ends by stating that
rigorous measures will be adopted against the revolters,
but that lenity will be shown to those who submit.
The Bishop of Toledo has gone to Portugal to join Don
Carlo
They write from Smyrna that the European ships are
daily receiving reinforcements, and that Admiral Alslcolm
had sailed for Vourla, where the most part of his squadron
had assembled; he was waiting for instructions, which he
expected by the Salamander steamer from England.

THE FUNDS.
The express from Paris bringing the French Funds ra-
ther higher, 751. 15c., likewise the present stability of the
French Ministry, have caused Consols this morning to have
a much more wholesome appearance than they had
yesterday. They left off at 89i buyers for the Account,
opened at 90, at which price they are at present. As
yet no operations of consequence have taken place in
the Market, and the speculators are acting with caution,
anxiously waiting the answer from the Court of St. Pe-
tersburgh, to the French and English remonstrances
respecting Turkey.
Nothing doing as yet in the Foreign Market, prices at
yesterday.
Letters from Jamaica, of the sth November, state that
all was tranquil there.

IIALF-PAST ONE.
The New York Gazette of the 26th November says,
" It is with great satisfaction we state that the money
market has been somewhat relieved by the discounts on
Saturday of the Ilaited State Bank, and one or two of
the States' banks. We have no doubt this commendable
example will he followed, and that the banks generally
will afford to our merchants every facility in their power
at the present time to facilitate commercial operations."
The only information expected of importance between
this and Monday, is the speech of the President of

America.
Consols are not so good as in the early part of the day,
when they were 90h ; at present they may be quoted at
S9l for the account, owing to a lot of Reduced being sold.
' The Foreign Market is void of interest ; Spanish
23i 1 ; Portuguese 561 ; Dutch 501 1.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 89i

EXPENSE OF LIVING ON THE CONTINENT
—As to the expense of living i❑ different towns on the
continent for a single person, at the first-rate inns, bed and
board, annually, faring sumptuously every day, and in-
cluding every expense whatever, I take it to be nearly as
follows in pounds sterling :—Plorence, 100/. ; Carlsruhe,
1201. ; Weimar, Elberfeldt, Cassel, Dusseldorf, Gottingen,
Geneva, 1251. ; Leghorn, Darmstadt, Manheim, 130/. ;
Utrecht, Heilbronn, 1401.: Paris, Rome, Turin, Spa,
Milan, Heidelberg, 150/. ; Rotterdam, Cologne, Aix-la-
Chapelle, 160/. ; Naples, Cob'entz, 1701. ; Amsterdam,
Kehl, 1801.; Frankfort, 2001. ; Calais, 300/. I have not
the least doubt a person going to these places, and making
an agreement before-band to remain some months, would
be boarded for one-half of the sums mentioned, and for
still less if he went into private lodings.—Reminiscences
of an Old Traveller.

FINE ARTS.

GAGE D'AMITIE, Lo Dory, 1833,

Contains a series of well-executed engravings
(which we noticed in The Sun when the work
was publishing in parts) illustrative of the vari-
ous picturesque beauties of the Northern coun-
ties of England. Among the views are several
magnificent ones of Windermere and Ullswater
Lakes ; Brougham and Howick Halls ; Low-
ther, Alnwick, and Durham Castles ; and those
stupendous mountains, Skiddaw, Helvellyn—
which Scott has immortalized in a beautiful
poem of that name—Langdale Pikes and Sad-
dleback. To these illustrations explanatory

literary notices are prefixed, the interest of which
is heightened by the frequent quotations made
from Wordsworth's stately poem, " The Ex-
cursion." The work, which is now completed,
forms one cheap handsome quarto volume.

MAJOR'S GALLERY OF PICTURES.
VoL. IL PART V. LONDON, 1833.
The idea of this work is excellent, and it
has been carried on from the very first with a
spirit that, we understand, has brought it into
very general circulation. It presents us with
engravings, at a very moderate cost, from the
works of all the ancient and modern masters,
not only in this country, but on the Continent,
that are accessible ; to which engravings Allan
Cunningham has appended critical notices,
written briefly, but with an evident understanding
of, and hearty relish for, his subject. The
present part contains three illustrations from
original paintings by Arnold Maas, Patrick
Nasmyth and Paul Potter. That from Nasmyth
is quite a gem in its way—a homely, rural,
English landscape, which ought instantly to sit
for its portrait to Miss Mitford : for it comprises
a cottage, equal to any she has sketched in her
" Village ;" a lovely group of shady woodland
trees ; a little pool fringed with rushes, and
catching a stray gleam or two of the mellow
sunset ; and a distant ridge of hills swelling
softly up from a small valley, which looks the
very emblem of repose and beauty. The en_
graving from Paul Potter is the well-known
" Young Bull"—one of the most natural and
most expressive that that observant master ever
painted.