The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-06 00:00:00

THE FUNDS

As was generally expected, Ministers have carried the
day on Mr. Harvey's motion by a great majority, and it is
now thought that they stand on firmer ground than ever,
and cannot be easily shaken. This has had a little effect
on the funds this morning. Consols, which left off yester-
day at 92h, opened at 9214 % for the Account, with an
appearance of a firm market. The information received
by the Lisbon mail is not of that favourable nature as was
anticipated. Pedro's army appears still to be the order of
the day ; the foreign troops, and Colonel Bacon with his
Lancers, who so bravely fought his battles, are now, it ap-
pears, deserted by him, turned out, and Portuguese offi-
cers replace them. This is gratitude with a vengeance.
Owing to the above information Portuguese and Spanish
Stocks have receded. Spanish 36171 ' • Portuguese 764 3/4 ;
Portuguese up to 76% 77 ; Spanish 363% %.

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Within a short period a certain panic has taken place in
the Portuguese and Spanish Securities, which have re-
ceded 2 per cent. ; Spanish from 37 to 3514 ; Portuguese,
from 77/4 to 76%. The cause of the fall is attributed to
a private letter in town, and exhibited at Lloyd's, stating
that the Spanish troops have never entered Portugal.
The following is an extract of a letter from Lisbon,
dated the 27th of April :
" The north of the Douro is now entirely free, and the
Duke of Terceira is rapidly approaching the south. The
Spaniards, it is also said, are advancing upon Santarem,
and we daily expect to hear of the Miguelites having made
some desperate effort to get off."

Consols are at present 92% for the Account.
A further fall in Spanish—done at 31%. Report says
the Spanish bankers have the loan.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 921.

NEW' PUBLICATIONS.—We are requested
to state that the new and revised editions of the po-
pular novels of " The Hamiltons" and of " Cecil
Hyde" will be published on Thursday next, by Messrs.
Saunders and Otley, Public Library, Conduit-street,
who have now ready Mr. Bulwer's new work, " The
Pilgrim's of the Rhine," splendidly illustrated ; Miss
Pardoe's new novel " Speculation ;" " A year at Har-
tlebury, or the Election ;" " Two Old Men's Tales ;"
" The Deformed, and the Admiral's Daughter ;"
" The Language of Flowers ;" and new and revised
editions of Capt. Marryat's " Peter Simple ;" and
Miss Pardoe's " Traits and Traditions of Portugal."

At the double lock, near Exeter, may now
be seen 500 scarlet turban ranunculuses in full
bloom, all under water ! Western Times.

Thursday afternoon two ladies walking on
Blackheath were solicited by an Italian boy with a
monkey for alms. They paid no regard to his appli-
cation and walked on. The boy followed them, and
renewed his endeavours to obtain money, when, upon
one of the ladies turning round to expostulate with
him for his rudeness in persisting to follow them, the
monkey sprang at her and caught hold of her arm,
making a large incision, from which the blood flowed
copiously. Both ladies were terribly frightened ; the
lady who was bitten fainted, and was with great diffi-
culty conveyed to her residence in Elliot Vale, where
medical assistance was immediately rendered. The
boy immediately scampered off in great alarm the mo-
ment the accident occurred. This is not the first in-
stance of such a circumstance having occurred in the
vicinity of Greenwich. Deptford has lately become a
place of great resort for these vagabonds, in conse-
quence of their having been driven from the metropolis.
—Greenwich Gazette.

RECOLLECTIONS OF A NAVAL LIFE.—
Of Captain Scott's entering the service of his early
years, we shall say nothing more than that his youth-
ful passion for the profession was commensurate with
the great variety and constant activity of his employ-
ment in every clime, and under every circumstance of
hardship and danger. Starvation, wreck, risk, and
battle, have been his daily fare ; and that he is alive
to tell us of his hairbreadth 'stapes, is about as much
of a miracle as if he had been dead three or four times,
and resuscitated in order to write his posthumous me-
moirs. The remarkable statements respecting the war
in the Chesapeake would alone eminently entitle this
work to attention.—Literary Gazette.

LITERATURt.

THE METROPOLITAN.

We were unable to notice this. Magazine on the
first of the month, because, as usual, it had not
then reached us ; we have since, however, perused,
and been much entertained, with its agreeable, mis-
cellaneous contents. Jacob Faithful continues his
sketchy autobiography, and is, indeed, the main
prop and stay of the number. The " Story of a
Student" is a tale of a sombre H Penseroso caste,
the incidents of which would have been more effec-
tive had they been brought out with more graphic
skill. " The Sycophancy of Fashion" is a frank
and manly expose of some of the more glaring fol-
lies of our aristocratic or exclusive circles. Black-
wood had an article of precisely the same useful,
warning tendency a few months since. " Impri-
sonment for Debt," independently of the nature of
the subject, will be read with attention, from the
numerous sparkling anecdotes with which it is in-
terspersed'.