The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-29 00:00:00

anxious to rid themselves of the Poles, and that
they are strictly watched by the police. The
number of Poles in the canton of Berne is only
165, of whom 25 live on their own resources,
and have taken no part in the incursion into
Savoy ; the others will, they say, be compelled,
by necessity, to accept the offers of France.
The Governments of Vaud, Geneva, and Berne
have applied to the French Ministry, in order
to obtain their re-admission into France.

BERNARDOTTE has returned an answer to
the address of thanks presented to him by a
deputation of the four estates for the effectual
measures which he had taken with respect to
the cholera, in which, after expressing his con-
gratulations, he calls upon Providence to pre-
serve the people for ever from a worse and
more fatal danger ; that is, the want of una-
nimity and firm resolution in all the mea-
sures to be adopted for preserving sure pros-
perity at home and independence abroad.
He is right : disunion is a worse evil than
any of the calamities which we are prone to
charge on Providence ; and the worst enemies
to their country are those who endeavour to
divide the people into factions, and set one
class against another.
The Swedish Government has substituted
a fixed duty on corn, for the former graduated
scale.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK

A Halifax mail has arrived by the Eclipse, which
sailed on the 23d of March, by which papers to the same
date have been received at the North and South American
Coffee-house. Also papers from Boston, one day later,
to the 29th of March, Philadelphia, to the 21st of March,
and Prince Edward Island to the 12th of March.

(From the Philadelphia Papers.)
GREAT MEETING OF THE PEOPLE.

The great meeting of the people will take place at
four o'clock this afternoon in the Independence-square.
Long before that hour the great mass of this community
will be in motion, proceeding to the various rallying points,
and prepare to form in procession, and march to the Senate
House-yard. We anticipate a glorious spectacle—a sight
that will make the office-holders tremble for their places,
a sound that will ring in the ears of the wretched men
who still adhere to the last of all the Romans, and the first
and the last of American despots.
It was currently reported in this city that the merchants
of Boston have, in a body, refused to pay the duty bonds.
The Halifax papers state that the accounts from Cape
Breton, respecting distresses from the failure of last year's
crops, are still of a very painful nature, and require imme-
diate attention.

The House of Assembly of New Brunswick has agreed
:o a civil list, amounting to 14,0001. per annum.
(From the Prince Edward Island Papers.)

NOVA SCOTIA.—His Honour the President announced
to the legislature that he had received his Majesty's com-
mands to form a legislative council, and assured both houses
that the measure would be carried into effect.

Singapore Papers to the 6th December have been re-
ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house.

SUMATRA.—Six boats have arrived during the week
from Campai with coffee. The Naguadap reports that
accounts have reached that country overland of a signal
defeat experienced by the Dutch in the interior of Sumatra.
About two months ago a detachment of 120 Europeans,
under command of a major, with a large body of native
troops, had established themselves in the interior, when a
quarrel ensued, for which a native was punished ; the
people of the country commenced an attack in an immense
body, having first gained over the Sumatra troops, and the
result was the total defeat and slaughter of the soldiers.
The natives are in possession of the fort or stockade, and
all the guns, small arms, and ammunition. It is stated
that the major poisoned himself when he saw all was lost.
The natives at first sustained great loss.
With regard to the proceedings at Jamba, the Dutch
troops sent to Palembang from Java have erected a stockade
at a place called Campai, which commands an extensive
district where grain is raised, but no engagement had taken
place.
Extract of a letter from Rio Janeiro of the 25th of Ja-
nuary, received at the North and South American Coffee-
house :

" Referring to my last of the 13th inst., I have nothing
to communicate, but that everything in this place is going
on very well, and that we enjoy tranquillity such as we
never before experienced. The Government is firm and
resolute, and several vessels have taken away a number of
troublesome Portuguese. All this has done much good,
and I consider the funds of this country as the safest
investment that can be made even in Europe at half of
their interest. No doubt you are aware of savings banks
all over the country. Commerce is rather brisk. Coffee
is coming down in abundance. Exchange, 40% to 41."
Consols have again improved this morning. They left
off yesterday at 9136 for money, and 92 to % for the ac-
count, and opened at 92% to iLA, at which price they are
at present.
The official information of General Rodil entering Por-
tugal is now published, in which it appears that his object
at present is only the pursuit of Don Carlos ; therefore it
still remains to be seen if he will take any part with Don
Pedro against Don Miguel ; nevertheless, it has had the
effect to improve the Portuguese Stock to 76% to 77.
Spanish Stock has also improved to 36% %. This is
owing to a rumour in the Stock Exchange that the holders
of the Cortes Bonds are to have 1001. three per cent.
stock, and a deferred stock for the unpaid interest now
due.

HALF-PAST ONE.

Since the early part of the morning, when all descriptions
of funds were looking up, a reaction has taken place in them.
Consols which had reached 92% 14 for the Account,
have receded to 92 sellers. At present they are 92 to lA.
Spanish, which was done at 37, may be quoted 36% %.
Portuguese was done at 77, reduced to 7614 1,4.
This is settling-day in the Foreign Market, and it ap-
pears to be a Bear Account in Spanish and Portuguese
Stocks, which was the cause of their reaching so high a
price in the earlier part of the day.
We do not hear of any defaulters.
THREE O'CLOCK
Consols for the Account, 92%.

QUARTER PA ST THREE.
EXPRESS FROM MADRID.
We hear that the Spaniards have entered Almeida.
The towns through which the Spaniard pass are rising
in favour of Donna Maria. Portuguese Stock 7714.

A Commissionership of Customs has become
vacant by the death of W. T. Roe, Esq., brother, we
believe, to the Chief Magistrate of Bow-street, and
nephew to the late Mr. Alexander Adair, who be-
queathed him a legacy of 10,0001. By a Treasury
minute of the Duke of Wellington, it was regulated
that the Commissionerships of Customs and Excise
should be each reduced, on vacancies, from 1,400/. to

1,2001. per annum.
We have heard from a respectable quarter,
a gentleman well known in London has accumulated
upwards of 20,0001. in buying and selling horse flesh,
having in 15 years slaughtered the immense number
of 45,000 horses.—Stamford News.
Water-mills in this neighbourhood will soon
be as scarce as heretofore they have been plentiful, in
consequence of the new drainage of the fens : numbers
are daily employed in taking them down, the owners
thereof saying, as they are useless,—why encumber
the ground ? Many of the farmers and graziers are of
opinion that it will take all the ingenuity they are
possessed of to keep a sufficient quantity of water in
the dikes for their cattle : if that be really the case,
which is not unlikely, the good which was anticipated
will not be realized.—Stamford News.
A BLOW UP AT BancHAm.—The inha-
bitants of Upper Brixham were terribly alarmed on
Tuesday morning about four o'clock, by a violent con-
cussion of the air ; and those who lived near the Lord
Nelson public-house were the more astonished to find
the glass in their windows shivered to atoms. As soon
as it was possible to make an inquiry, it was discovered
that a man who lives in a cottage near the above inn,
and who is employed in blowing the rock, had by some
means or other ignited a parcel of gunpowder, which
carried away the whole roof of his cottage, and rattled
down some of his neighbours' walls, besides breaking
about two hundred panes of glass in the houses near
the explosion. What was most extraordinary, neither
the man nor his children, who were asleep in the
house, received the smallest injury, nor did any fire
follow the explosion.—Devonshire Chronicle.
Saturday night, as Bartley, the mailman, was
ascending Hinksey Hill, near Oxford, at an easy pace,
he was met by four men, who, dividing two on each
side, suddenly unhorsed him, threw him on his back,
arid rifled his pockets, in hich luckily he had no
money, nor any thing f value. Bartley begged hard
for his life, which they engaged to spare if he would lie
quiet. The fellows then proceeded up the hill. Bartley
found the horse in a neighbouring field.—oxford
Aurnal.