The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-13 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Samuel Spencer, one of the keepers of Kensington-gardens,
was tined b/., or in default two months' imprisonment, for
drunken and disorderly conduct on Monday night in Piccadilly,
and assaulting two police constables of the A division. Mr.
llobler, jun., attended on behalf of the defendant. The money
was immediately paid.
UMOMHALL.

Aldridge Clark was charged with entering the Ship public
house, at Dockbead, and stealing a quantity of clothes.
The landlord having an alarm•bell to his bed-room deor,
heard it ring at nine o'clock on the preceding night, and know-
ing that thieves were in the house, he ran up stairs, and was
struck on the head by a person from above. He, however,
rushed up, and on entering his bed-room, he found the drawers
and boxes all brokin open, and their contents packed up ready
to be carried off. On further search, he discovered the prisoner
outside the window hanging on the parapet, and if he let go,
ne must have been dashed to atoms. He was dragged into the
house and given in custody ; he turned out to belong to a
gang of thieves, who are in the habit of robbing public houses.
He was committed.

MONEY MARKET lend CITY NEWS,

YESTERDAY.
TI M FE'° TS. TLE d3ils°aßpPlelasraantr!erolf RSspoanrish dollars from Can-
ton is a subject which has excited great interest in that place,
if we may judge from the latest accounts. 'the amount of
these de.lia,s formerly required for the trade at Canton was not
above 4,000,000, which have been subject to more than the
ordLary wear and tear of coins from the practice of chipping
acquired the name of
cehmipipMed° small piece-, by' „
which they
the of the dollar ceased 25 year,
ago, the imports have likewise ceased, after gradually diminish-
ing for some years, and another most important reduction was
etricted by Captain Elliot sending 700,000 dollars of the ran-
som money to England. The currency, already scarce, is said
to have been r,,cluced by this proceeding about one-fourth,
and what renders the scarcity more aco,ible, the neces-
sity for a metallic currency has increased. When the
whole foreign trade of China was confined. to Canton,
accounts were easily settled by tiari-ifers without the
employment of specie, and those &liars that were cir-
culated in the tea districts soon ft.und their way back
to Canton to pay for opium. This was tl-.e state of things
before Commissioner Lin appeared at Canon; but now the
trade is carried on at three places, viz., Canton, Macao, anti
Hongkong, there is no longer the same facility in settling ac-
couots, and therefore there is an increased demand for the
dollars, which are further absorbed by the expenses of the
British Government at Hongkong. But these, though the
chief, are not considered to be the only causes of the scarcity
but a d:ain proceeding from the practice of hoarding is added
to their number. Svcee silver, although of a purer standard
than the dollar, has been less in e.emar d, on aceount of the on-
wieldiness of the ingot ; and the scarcity of the dollar, con-
tras'ed with the comparative abundance of the ingot, is proved
by the fact that Sycee silver alone is to be obtained on the
coast for opium. 'the increasing scarcity of the Spanish dollar
seems to hare led to the opinion that the coin of Mexico might
be airantageously introduced, as some method or other must
be adopted to supply the -deficie. vies of .the circulation. All
attempts, however, to introduce the 31(xican dollar base en,
tirely failed.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARK ET—MoNaar MCAT.
The Second Grillion Stakes (To-morrow)—Eusebius is
scratched.

BETTING IN THE EVENING.
2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.
5 to 2 on the field 5 to 1 agst Meteor--taken
CHESTER CUP.
20 to I agst Bellona—taken
DERBY.
25 4.0 1 agst Forth's lot—taken 30 to 1 apt Lord of Holderness
30 to 1 age Mr. Gregory's two '35 to 1 agst Moss Trooper
—taken ,50 to 1 agst Policy
9 to 1 agst Attila—taken 150 to 1 agst Wiseacre
10 to 1 agst Frederica c—taken 50 to I agst Gunter
16 to 1 agst Auckland 50 to 1 agst Devil-among-the-
-22 to 1 agst Joanna c Tailors
25 to 1 agst Chatham 66 to 1 agst Meteor
30 to 1 agst Eleus ,66 to 1 agst Dirce c
1,000 even between Attila and Frederica c—taken
1,500 even between Chatham and Eleus taken
15 to 1 agst Chatham and Eleus—taken
OAKS.
40 to I agst Pharmacopoeia—taken