The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-30 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWEL VE 0' CL 0 CK.
Bat badoes papers, to the I Sth December, have arrived
at Liverpool. They bring the supplement of the Weet
Indian newspaper of the 16th, which contains a notice►
by the Governor, of the appointment of Commissioners for
the apportionment of the compensation fund under the
Abolition Bill. We give the notice, as we do net believe
it has yet been published :

" NOTICE.

" The Governor, by virtue of the 38th clause of the
Act for the Abolition of Slavery, is pleased to appoint the
following gentlemen to be auxiliary Commissioners with
himself and the Attorney-General, for the purpose of ef;
fecting the apportionment of the Compensation Fund i"
this Island, and for other objects, as required by the Act
of 3d and 4th William IV., cap. i 3: the Hon. Bell.
Hamden, the Hon. J. W. Jerdan, the Hon. the See ,ker,
William Oxley and Forsuer Clark, Esqrs.; John Matertr
E.q., to lie Secretary."
" The Board, thus constituted, are requested to meet at`
the King's hou'e on Saturday next, the 21st inst., in or•
der to take the prescribed oath, and for other preliminary
iturpones. " By Command,
" WILLIAM HUSBAND, Secretary."

Madras papers to the 13th of October have been re
ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house.

CALCUTTA.—An txtra shipping report, issued yestatf'
day evening, announces the arrival of his Majesty's ship
Melville, '74, at Sandhead, from Madras, on the Bth of
Sep ember. The Admiral is not on board.
(From the Madras Papers cf the 29th of Sept.)
We are enabled to inform our readers that the Right
!lon. Lord W. Bentinck, Governor-General-iii-Chief of
all India, was to embark psterday (Sept. 28), at CO'
cutta, for Madras. Lady Bentinck does not accompani
his Lordship. •
CACHMERE. —The famine in this province still rages
with severity, and the wretched inhabitants are flying in
all directions.

THE FUNDS. •
Two Hamburg mails, and one Dutch, have arrived 't
morning; but the French mail is still due, though hourly
expected. By the former arrivals we do not hear as yet
of any news of importance.
The letters this morning from Portsmouth and Falmouth
bring the good tidings of a change in the wind to the,
North, which will enable the numerous shipping at the'
above ports to proceed to sea. They also state, that two
steamers, with 800 Belgians fur Don Pedro's service, Were
preparing to sail.
KiTnghics
Charles,
being
arles,the
,te
chhang
anniversary
ewas of
closed
the
until
Martyrdom rdo, :roar,:
but the Stock Exchange and Foreign Markets were opeo•
o.nsols, which left off yesterday at 88i 89 for the
Account, opened at the same price, with a firm market.
In the Foreign Mirket Portuguese Stock is on the ad'
vanee,—done at 60k 1.

A report prevailed yesterdayH AinLFth-ePAST tAclltge•
that the Dutch affairs had been settled, since which We
have received the Dutch papers to the 26th inst., ad,
according to these journals, it appears that the Conference
in London cannot be resumed until the consent of the Ger'
man Confederation is obtained to the cession of Luxe!'
burg, and this cannot be obtained until the Congress of
Ministers at Vienna have given their opinion on this ler
porrant subject.
In the mean time, all eyes in Holland are turned to the
Prince of Orange's journey to St. Petersburgh ; and as be
is not expected to return before March next, no event of
importance is looked for until that period.
The result of the Vienna Conference will not, in All
probability, be known till Aprill, at the meeting of tbe
States General.
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polinfilsroieolsshha2ar4errai:t appirosileungtu Se
sSei6,
Oh;
isufotcrhiA4c9coil.t.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Ne,Cvo3n:oll for Account 88k.
CpLerOCSelnNt G PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2141 ' i India Stock 243
3 per Cent. Red B9: I Ditto Bonds 29 10
3,pet Cmt. Cons BBl i South Sea Stock lOO
3, per Cent. 971 i Ditto Old Ann ...... .... 88i
31 per Cent. Red ...... ... 97: i Ditto New Ann. --
961 I Ex. Bills, 1000/ 4B pnb•
4 per Lent 103/ Ditto 5001.......... 48 pm•
Long. Ann. to expire Ditto 5ma11......... 48pm.
Jan 1860
glom 185,. l6l Consols for 0pg.... ...... 89
Jan. 1860 l6l India St. for Opg. 244

FOREIGt,
Austrian, 5 per cent pt 4
Belgian, 5 per cent 9O-k
Brazilian Bonds 69
Columbian,
Ditto,
t:toi:tn,Buenosnb
isAa6.2ny4i
ee6rs
p,
ceo6rO ec. rn ct en t
22451
Danish 74
Greek, 5 per cent
Mexican 5 per Cents, 1825 30
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1825 3B
Peruvian 6 per Cent,

FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent 5,99 i
Ditto, Reg. Bonds
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian Bonds, 5 per cent lO4
Ditto, Metallic 1
Spanish, 5 per cent 2._,.
Ditto, 1323
2-,,
French 5 per' Cent.... —l.•
Exchange —f. ---
C.
French 3 per Cent—, —t. -- i
Dutch, 21 per cent.......... 4„9,
Ditto, 5 per cent..., ....... ~ '

LITERATURE.

EDINBURGII Rh. VIE' W. No. CXVIII.

EDINBUBGH, 1834.

The review, by Mr. :Macaulay, of " Thacke-
rar 8 History of the Earl of Chatham," is by far
the best article in this number. It is well digested
and forcibly written. No living author imparts
such interest to subjects that happen to hit his
fancy, as Mr. Macaulay. There is no beating
about the bush—no begging the question—no
foul play in his articles. He stands up to his
theme like a man. His papers are\ the very life
atd soul of the Edinburgh Review, and, oc-
cupying a mean between history and essay, form
the most delightful reading possible. The secret
Of their triumphant success is, that they are
written from a full mind, which, after all that
fay be urged to the contrary, is the main source
of true eloquence. But Mr. Macaulay is not
'Only well provided with knowledge, but he pos-
sesses also the rare faculty of discrimination.
Ile gives us the lights and shades of character
'with all the nicety and vividness of Clarendon.
Even his slightest outlines tell like the most
elaborate full-lengths of others. A few shrewd,
dexterous touches, let fall as if accidentally, and
the statesman, orator, or lawyer he would em-
°°dy, is complete. What, for instance, can be
finer in its way than the following hasty, but
characteristic sketch of the great Earl of
Chatham

not"ltt was, undoubtedly, a great man. But his was
a complete and v.ell-proportioned greatness. The
public life of Hampden, or Somers, resembles a reginar
drama, which can he criticised as a whole, and every scene
of which is to be viewed in connexion with the m Diu
action. The public life of Pitt, on the other band, is a
rude though striking piece,—a piece. abounding in incon-
gruities,....a
by some noble
Piece tt ithout any unity of plan, but redeemed
Passages the effect of which is increased by
the tameness or extravagance of what precedes, and of what
follows. His opinions were unfixed. His conduct at
'some of the most important conjunctures of his life was
evidently determined by pride and resentment. He had
one fault, which of all human faults is most rarely found
in company with true greatness. He was extremely
affected. He was an almost solitary instance of a man of
real genius, and of a brave, lofty, and commanding spirit,
without simplicity of character. Be was an swim in the
closet, an actor at council, and an actor in Parliament ;
and even in private society he could *not lay aside his thea-
trical tones and attitudes. We know that one of the mast
distinguished of his partisans often complained that he
could never obtain admittance to Lord Chatham's room
till every thing was ready for the representation—till the
dresses and properties were all correctly disposed—till the
'tight was thrown with Rembrandt_like effect on the head
of the illustrious performer—till the flannels bad been
arranged with the air of a Grecian drapery, and the crutch
placed as gracefully as that of Belisarius or Lear.
"Yet, with all his faults and affectations, Pitt had, in
very extraordinary degree, many of the elements of
,greatness. He had splendid talents, strong passions,
quick sensibility, and vehement enthusiasm for the grand
It"' the beautiful. There was something about him which
ennobled tergiversation itself."
The touches thrown in respecting Pitt's love
of theatrical display, give extraordinary force
and life to this masterly portrait, and place
the great statesman at once before us, as Key-
nnitis has done with Dr. Johnson, where he
Paints him with a dusty, mildewed quarto held
dose to his eyes. We must demur, however, to
Mr- Macaulay's assertion that Pitt's "opinions
were unfixed." Never was any thing so erro-
neous. From the dawn down to the twilight
of his political life, Lord Chatham had but one
predominant principle, which he kept constantly
before him, to which lie sacrificed every minor
consideration, which was the whole aim and end
of his ambition. It was his pride to win for
his country a foremost rank among European
nations. Other statesmen
might be content
with improving her domestic resources and
keeping her in her proper place ; Pitt would
have her be the arbitress of the Continent, and
peril her all in the attempt to make her so. We
tee this darling passion influencing him from his
very first start into public life, and keeping pace
with his own power. First, it is a dim, vague,
twilight conception ; by degrees it becomes more
distinct and luminous ; till finally, it bursts forth
into broad, full daylight. It was at its meridian
about the year 1760, when Pitt was Secretary
of State, and invested with the uncontrolled
conduct of foreign affairs. A more glorious
War-Minister England never saw. Her long
aeries of national humiliations were at once
Changed, as if by magic, into national triumphs.
Whateverexpedition was planned, whether by
land or sea, in the Old world or the New, suc-
ceeded, for Pitt infused his own energies into
every department of the foreign service. Could
a statesman like this be " unfixed in his opi-
nions ?" Impossible ! Nothing but the strongest
tenacity of purpose—the most inflexible perse-
verance---the most straight-forward determina-
tion, looking neither to the right nor to the left,
but keeping one grand object, as a land-mark,
perpetually before it, from youth to age, through
evil and through good report, in the midst of
doubt, distress, and difficulty,—could have
enabled a Minister to achieve such glory for
himself and his country. Had Pitt been a
mere political weathercock, shifting, like the
Duke of Newcastle, with every shifting wind, he
would not have come down to us, clad, as with
the Imperial purple, in his present glory.
Another of Pitt's favourite notions, from
which be never deviated, was the developing the
vast moral and intellectual resources
of the
middle classes. He was the first statesman of
this country who called them from almost a state of
nothingness, into active, political existence
pitted them against the whole weight of the
aristocracy; and when deserted by his sovereign
and the courtiers, boldly appealed to them for
St:PP°"*`won it—and was brought back in
triumph on their shoulders. In those days, when
nobility bore a " charmed life;" when political
influ
ence was unknown, below the higher grades
of the
commonalty • when, to use the words
of
, Fletcher, h
t ere was—

" Not the least limb growing to a King
an But carried thunder in it,"
experiment like this, was as daring as coin-
Prehensir e, and scarcely likely to be adopted by
indeeetjb°se " opinions were unfixed. But,
the never t ese r,ih never existed a statesman to whom
Hits whri etB Were so little applicable as to Pitt.
statue Public e Public life, like some noble Grecian
is i:e',..exhibits a grand uniformity. Nothing
stern, ugr.u.°llB, or out of keeping. In the
%titre aspiring cornet of dragoons, we see the
wat
er of England. The young
""" of the influential Walpolc—influen-

tial even in his fe.—gives hostages for the ma-
tured opponent of Newcastle, backed by all
the power of the Court and the Aristocracy.
But with all his triumphs, Pitt was of little real
or lasting benefit to his country. His services,
though splendid, were superficial. True, they
gained England a great name abroad, but they
sadly impoverished her at home. They pro-
cured her conquests, some of which she could
' not keep, while others were worse than useless
to her. The truth is, the school in which Pitt
studied was a had one, and essentially anti-
English. It overlooked our insular position,
which seems to enjoin on us the duty of non-
interference ; compelled us to rush headlong
into every mad, continental broil ; and, re-
versing the old adage, "solid pudding is better
than empty praise," to become the paymasters of
Europe, and take back as an equivalent, its
respect and admiration. Fortunately, this
school is now extinct. A more enlightened,
though less dazzling race of statesmen, has
sprung up. The word " glory " is now
exchanged in the political vocabulary for the
word " business." Our commercial resources,
neglected for so many ages, are in full process
of development. Monarchy—though still
wisely cherished—is shorn of its beams ; aristo-
cracy has found its level ; the people are rapidly
finding theirs. We are now content with hap-
piness at home, without coveting omnipotence
abroad. Henceforth our struggles will be, not
for some alien question about Spanish succes-
sion, or Hanoverian prerogative, but pro aris
et focis, for the safety and comfort of our own
fire-Sides.

The remaining articles in the present number
we have left ourselves little room to discuss. Few
rise above mediocrity, though the one on " The
changes required in the Corn Laws," which
takes a liberal, common-sense view of the
question, deserves an attentive perusal. "
fen's Memoirs of the House of Russell," also con-
tains some amusing, desultory anecdotage. As
for the article on " Transportation," it may be
shrewd, practical, and sagacious ; but it is so
intolerably dull and prolix, that we would rather
be transported ourselves than wade through it a
second time.