The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-16 00:00:00

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

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The VicE-CnAscri,Loa was occupied till our Reporter Jeft
with hearing unopposed petitions and consents.

KING'S BENCH.-(TINS DAY.)

FOLEY V. FOX AND ANOTHER.
This was an indictment preferred by a poor woman, who
sued in forma pauperis, against the defendants, one of whom
was a broker, for breaking and entering her dwelling-house.
It appeared that a distress warrant had been placed in tho
broker's hands for non-payment of rent, and at an unseason-
able hour of the night the door was broken open for the pur-
pose of obtaining possession of the plaintiff's goods.
Lord DENMAN, in summing up to the Jury, observed, that
the broker's instructions from the landlord were no defence
No man could take upon himself to justify another in doing an
illegal act. The broker had no right to take the law into his
own hands by making a distress after sunset. If such things
were sanctioned, there would be no protection for the poor.
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 40s. da-
mages against Fox, and acquitted the other defendant.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JUNK 15.—Arrived the Pict Hayle, Wilde, from Su-
rinam ; and Alexander Brandt, from Trieste.
STANGA rE CREEK, JUNE 15.—Arrived the Dean, from Con-
stantinople ; Melancho,. from Smyrna ; Venetia, from Pa-
lermo; Don Vantcr, from Tangier; and Francis Charles,
Duck, from Tarragona.
MARGATE, JUNE 15.—Arrived the Hero, Head, Teneriffe.
DOVER, JUNE 15.—Arrived the Lady Clarke, from Ja-
maica ; and William Allen, from Sierra Leone.
BEACHY HEAT)' JUNE 15.—Arrived off, the Dolphin, Genoa.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 15.—Wind S. S. E., fine.—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Athol, from the Cape of Good Hope, sailed
the 18th April.
CowEs, JUNE 15.—Arrived the Estafette, from Charleston.
PLYMOUTH, JUNK 14.—Wind variable.—No arrivals.
TORBAY, JUNE 14.—Arrived off port the Salome, Cadiz.
DARTMOUTH, JUNE 14.—Arrived the Dewdrop, from New-
foundland. _ _ _ _

FALMOUTII, JUNE 14.—Arrived the Diadem, Campeachy.
GLOUCESTER, JUNE 15.—Arrived the Albion, from Messina.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 14.—Wind W. N. \V.—Arrived the The-
tis, from Monte Video ; Perseverance, from Savannah ; Bar-
low, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Fredericke, from
Messina ; and Leonora, from Wismar. Off port the Brian
Boru, from Demerara ; John. Scott, from Tortola ; Sheffield,
from New York; and Zante, from Cephalonia.

The Bristol, from Alexandria, and Canton, from Mobile,
have not arrived as reported yesterday.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
We have received Cape of Good Elope papers to the 16th
of April, from which we extract the following :
" A considerable number of the country towns and villages
have already taken advantage of the Municipal Bill passed
last year, for enabling certain neighbourhoods to form Local
Boards for the management of local affairs. We hear nothing
from the frontier this mail, except that all is quiet."
An express has arrived from Liverpool with New York
papers to the 16th ult., brought in the packet ship Sheffield.
The accounts from the United States are of a more favourable
nature than by the previous arrivals. It is stated that the
packet brings about 20,0001. sterling in specie. United States
Bank Stock, 111 110 109 ; sovereigns arc worth 5 dollars 25
cents.

There arc no later accounts from Mexico, Texag, or Florida.

TILE FUNDS.

There is a rise this morning in the Funds, owing to
an improvement within these last twenty-four hours in his
Majesty's health ; as well as to the decision of the Bank Di-
rectors yesterday afternoon, regarding the firm at Liverpool
connected with the American trade. That house is to be as-
sisted by the Bank with the sums required until the 31st De-
cember. This resolution on the part of the Bank Directors
has given general satisfaction to the American merchants in the
City ; and doubtless will be the means of preventing further
extensive failures in the American trade. It will also have the
effect, on the news arriving in the United States, to make
ample shipments of specie to the above house in support of
their credit. _ _ _

Consols which closed at 91 if: for the Account, opened at
91+ ?, for the AccO-unt ; Exchequer Bills, 34 35 prem. ; India
Bonds, 34 35 prem. ; Bank Stock, 206 ; Spanish Active,
21,2- -a Ex-Coupons ; Passive, 514- ; Deferred, 7,1 Eq; Portu-
guese, 431 44 ; Three per Cents., 281 291 ; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 531 ; Colombian, 221 23+.

HALF•PAST ONE.

At New York, on the 26th ult , Stocks were lower at 107 i
108 for United Bank Shares. The premium on gold had ra.
ther declined. _ _

Consols, Nillich were in the morning at 911 for the Ac-
count, are not so good at present, and may be quoted 911.
Little business is doing in either of the markets. Exchequer
Bills, 33 33 prem. ; India Bonds, 35 33 lower; Bank Stock,
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active continues heavy at
21 ex-Coupons ; Portuguese, 434-1 ; Three per Cents.,
28; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53 ; Columbian,
improved to 22n.
We hear that a large sum of money was sent off last night
to Don Carlos.
The large Cotton sale this morning is going off better than
was anticipated.
THREE O' CL CK.
Consols for Account, 911.

The Brethren of the Order of Freemasons will meet
on the 21st in their Hall, to hold a Festival in aid of the
Asylum for their aged Friends, and in this laudable meeting
they deserve the support of every friend to social happiness.
It is with great pleasure we can state that his Royal Highness,
their Grand Master, does rot object to the proposed institution.
GRAND JUNCTION RA IL WAY.—The day on
which this splendid road will be thrown open for public travel-
ling is now fixed—Tuesday, July 4, when the journey between
Liverpool and Birmingham, and vice verses, will he performed
in five hours, or in little less than one-half of the time it now
occupies, as well as one-half of the expense, exclusive of the
fees which are at present paid to coachmen and guards.
KING'S TII TRE.—LaSt night's performances
were for the benefit of Madame Grid, and comprised her long-
tried attraction I Puritani with La Piova dun Opera Sena,
the Latter for the first time this season. Of pieces so well
known it is almost needless to say anything. I Puritani was
excellently done, but we have heard La Prora go off with
greater spirit. As a specimen of the burlesque and ridiculous
in music it is a real curiosity, and with such acting and sing-
ing completely answers its object. It is. difficult, however,
completely to impress upon large audiences humour of that
description, and the piece is almost the only one of the kind
that has maintained its ground upon the Italian stage. Grisi
was in her best vein, and was applauded even to adulation.
She richly deserves her success, beesuse. it has never,com-
mon as it is among the sisterhood of
donne, raised a
shadow of presumption or conceit in her. The ::,2use was full,
but by no means inconveniently so.
COMMON COUNCI L.—A Court of Common Coun-
cil was held yesterday for general business, and was fully tsts
tended. After the proceedings of the former Court had been
read, a member called for the letter of the Secretary of the
Blackwall Commercial Railway Company to Mr. Alderman
Wood, as read at the former Court, to be again read; and
after the same was read, the Court unanimously resolved that
the said letter should lie on the table, and that the Court
were decidedly of opinion the Commercial Railway should
not be suffered to extend in any degree beyond the present
terminus on the cast side of the Minories ; and they confi-
dently relied on the justice of the Legislature not to permit
a violation of the arrangement made last 3. ear between the
Court and the Railway Company, and confirmed by Parlia-
ment. Copies of the resolution were orde-red to be imme-
diately sent to the Members of Parliament for the City. The
Court agreed with a report from the Coal and Corn and Fi-
nance Committee, for allowance for summer excursion to the
several members. The Court were then occupied at very
considerable length, in discussing a motion brought for-
ward by Mr. Anderton, which, after two divisions, was finally
carried, to the following effect :—" That it is the opinion of
this Court that all persons ought to be rendered ineligible to
be elected to, or, having been elected, ought to be removed
from, the office of Alderman of the city of London, if he shall '
have been a bankrupt or ins:Avent, if he shall have com-
pounded with his creditors and paid less than twenty shillings in
the pound, or if he shall have been convicted of a fraud, of
other misdemeanor, by the verdict of a jury; and this Court
considers itself bound at all times to use its utmost endeavour
to prevent every such person holding the said office of alder-
man, as essential to protect the character and purity of the
Court, and thereby promote the best interests of their fellow-
citizens." The Lord Mayor was requested to lay a copy or
the resolution before the Court of Aldermen, with a request
that they would unite with the Court of Common Council in
carrying the same into effect, whenever occasion should re-
quire. Mr. William Mozart Russell was elected clerk and col-
lector of the city's duties upon coals.
One of the Brussels papers contains a letter from
Frankfort, stating that a considerable quantity of gold was on
its way to England.