The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-10 00:00:00

" JAVA BANK.

" Extract of a letter, dated Batavia, Dec. 21 :
" You have no doubt, ere now, heard of the distress
that exists among the merchants, owing to the bank
having restricted its discounts, and the consequent almost
total stoppage of payments for the present; all we know
and feel is, that the sudden limitation of discounts has
placed our financial arrangements in a most lamentable
state of confusion, the acceptances even of Rothschild can-
not be discounted : there is no specie in the place, and all
our paper currency has gone into concealment."
The French papers say that England is going to
strengthen her armaments in the ocean and in the
Mediterranean. Orders have likewise been given by
the French Minister of Marine to follow the exam-
ple, and the French ships are to assemble and join
those of the English, as is supposed, to occupy some mari-
time port of Spain, or to prevent the usurpation of Russia
in the Black Sea.

By private letters this morning it appears that the
Chambers will be convoked on the 20th August. The
definitive report for the colonization of Algiers has been
submitted for the approbation of the King.
Accounts from Breda state, that the two camps will be
occupied on the 15th of June, and that the Dutch troops
are to proceed there on the 12th of June.

THE FUNDS.

The only interest of consequence in the express from
Paris this morning relates to accounts from Biscay, stating
that a column of the Queen's troops surprised, on the night
of the 29th ult., a body of Carlists of about 500 men, and
massacred 300 of thein, including the Junta of Castile,
with many of the chiefs of the Carlists. By this ferocious
state of warfare it appears that no quarter is given on
either side. There is no domestic news of consequence
from France ; the papers being of Sunday's date, the
prices of the French funds are not given.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 92%
are at
the for the Ac-
count, opened at 92% vest
%, at which p y
rice
present.
Spanish maintains its price, since it is officially known
that Baron M. Rothschild has been appointed banker to
the Court of Madrid. Portuguese, 761 %; Spanish,
44% 36. HALF-PAST ONE.
Up to the present time we have no fresh arrivals or any
political intelligence to
Conso cls ommun
may be quoted at 92 icate • The English
for the account, but Spanish and Portuguese Stocks have
Funds continue steady.
improved since the early part of the morning, the former
about one per cent. from 44% to 45%, the latter is 77 to y
4•
Columbian Stock 31.
THREE O'CLOCIC.
Consols for the Account, 921 %.

At a dinner recently given to the Duke of
Wellington at one of the clubs, a gallant General
is said to have delivered a speech more remarkable
for its ultra-Conservatism than its good taste—a speech
that, in short, if report is to be credited, amply proves
the truth of the old adage, which says, " When the
wine is in," Sce.
MUSICAL BOXES.—Talking of musical
boxes put me in mind of an amusing trick played off
by our facetious friend Brown, who took an opportu-
nity of slipping one of those ingenious little instruments
under the lid of a pigeon pie at a picnic, and insisted
that it was that celebrated " dainty dish," containing
,6 four-and-twenty blackbirds," formerly so great a
favourite at the Royal table, but that not being baked
enough, the birds had set a singing before their time.—
New Monthly Magazine.