The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-18 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

In commercial affairs at present we cannot announce any
improvement, but accounts from Liverpool, received yester-
day, state that orders were given by the Bank Directors to
their Branches in that part of the country, to discount the
bills of the produce brokers, which have not been received of
late at the Branch Banks. This no doubt will give some
relief by preventing the total disappointment of the Depu-
tation from Liverpool, to whom the Bank refused assistance.
This morning is entirely occupied with the perusal of the
debate of last night in the House of Commons on the affairs
of Spain, by our City politicians and Coffee-house loungers.
Consols, which closed at 90a i both for Time and Money,
opened at the above price, with little doing. Exchequer Bills,
40 41 prem. ; India Bonds, 37 prem. ; Bank Stock, 204
India Stock, 258 ; Spanish, 22 ; Portuguese, 461- -4- ;
Three per Cents., 2gi; Coupons, 46; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., 52j.
The report yesterday that the packet ship of the 20th from
New York, had arrived off Land's End, does not appear cor-
rect, and up to the present time we do not hear of her arrival.
HALF-PAST ONE.

To the present time there is not a feature either in the
British or Foreign Markets worth notice, with the exception
that in the foreign, Spanish Coupons have improved in the
course of the morning from 46 to 51, owing to the prevailing
opinion that the Finance Minister of Spain has been able to
provide for that portion of the dividends of Coupons, which
became due in November, last, and which, under the ar-
rangement, granting Treasury Bonds must speedily be liqui-
dated.

Consols have been during the morning at 90i i ; Money,
90i, little doing. Exchequer Bills, 393- 41 prem. ; India
Bonds, 37 39 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2041 ; India Stock, 258.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 221; Deferred,
81; Portuguese, 46} 47 ; Three per Cents., 291; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 53.
Consols for the Account, 90i

THREE O'CLOCK.

The Rev. Mr. Stanley, the new Bishop of Nor-
wich, was recently in Ireland, and on his return to this country
published a most seasonable pamphlet on the state of that
country, in which he took sound and rational views of the ne-
cessity of meeting the popular demands " for justice."

Yesterday morning, as a van belonging to Messrs.
Kenworthy, the carriers, of Aldermanbury, was proceeding on
its way to Oxford street, some daring thief, or thieves, con-
trived to steal a package containing a numerous quantity of
valuable silk shawls, &c. A gang of notorious fellows are in
the habit of watching and following vans and carts, for the
purposes of plunder, and Messrs. Kenworthy have recently
been sufferers to the amount of 6001.

The inhabitants of Newcastle and neighbourhood
are responding to the call which has been made upon them
from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, with their ac-
customed sympathy and spirit. Already the sum subscribed
amounts to 6931. 7s. 6d.

Three public meetings on the subject of Church-
rates, were held, in the West Riding, on Monday ; and in
each case, the Tories offered opposition, but were signally
defeated. At Bradford and Wakefield, the friends of the mi-
nisterial measure carried their resolutions most triumphantly ;
and at Huddersfield they were defeated, not by the friends of
Church-rates, but by the Ultra- Radical opponents of the new
poor law, led on by Mr. Oastler and his clique of firebrands.
Halifax Express.

There is now living in Folly-lane, Arnold, a person
named John Smith, who has occupied the same house fifty
years ; he has worked in a thirty-eight guage frame, for thirty-
eight years, without having it recruited, and his vision is so
strong, that he has always worked without spectacles, although
he is now 78 years of age.—Nottinghanz Review.

The Journal du Pas de Calais gives the following
statement of the number of arrivals and departures from the
ports of Boulonge and Calais during the first three months of
1837 :—Boulogne, arrivals, 2,573 ; departures, 2,900. Calais,
arrivals, 2,435 ; departures, 2,472; total, 10,380. " This
number," says the journal, " although in a most boisterous
season, much exceeds that in the same months of 1836."

The best and most durable paper of its quality is
said to be made of Irish linen and Bandanna handkerchiefs,
and is used for American bank-notes.

LONGFORD COUNTY ELECTION
COMMITTEE.-(THIS DAY.)

The Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock, and counsel
and agents having been called in, Mr. Lawson moved that
strangers withdraw, in order that the Committee should deli-
berate on the course it would be advisable to pursue. The
room was cleared, and on our readmission at half-past twelve.
The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee had decided upon
the following resolution :--" That the principle on which
beneficial interest" was to be estimated was according to the
terms of the Irish Reform Act, the 10 Geo. 4, sec. 6, c. 66•"
Mr. WRANGHAM said, that looking at the decision of the
Committee, coupled with their having struck off a vote at
the conclusion of yesterday's proceedings, he would suggest,
as a means of saving time and expense, that a number of
voters liable to the same objections as prevailed against
Reynolds should be agreed upon out of Court.
The CHAIRMAN having consulted with the Committee, said
it would better at present for Counsel to proceed with their
case.

Mr. ROBINSON, for the sitting Member, begged to say that
he was as anxious as his Learned Friend to save time and
expense, but the Committee would be aware that the resolu-
tion just now come to by the Committee was quite different
from that of the last Longford Committee; he was not pre-
pared to give up any vote at present.
It was ultimately agreed that the Committee should pro-
ceed, and the vote of Thomas Quarne was struck off for in-
sufficiency of value.