The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-29 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols, which closed yesterday firm at 91i 92 for the
Account, opened at the same ; Exchequer Bills, 45 ; India
Bonds, 46 prem. ; Bank Stock, 211 ; India Stock, 2591.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 194,
opened at 204 21 with Coupons ; Portuguese closed new, 3'.),
opened the 'AMC ; 3 per cents. Portuguese, 251.
LIVERPOOL CO'CTON MARKET of yesterday just received :
—" There has been a pool demand for cotton to-day, and
the sales amount to nearly 5,000 bags at full prices-
-500 Pernams Sid. to 94J. ; 400 Maranhams Bd. to 91d. ;
200 Bahias 71 to 81 ; 400 Egyptian, 84, 10d. ; 500 Su•
rats, ai to 41 ; and the rest American 54, at 7d.

HALF PAST OiV.R.

New Brunswick papers to the 21st •f July have been
received, by which it appears that the Civil List Bill had
been passed in the House of Assembly, in exact conformity
with the draft transmitted by Lord Glenelg to Sir A.
Campbell on the 30th of October last, and agreed to by
the Assembly and Legislative Council at the last Session.
Consols have been inanimate during the morning, and
may be quoted at present 91i, buyers for the Account,
and 91i for Money. There is not a feature in the mar-
ket worth observation. Exchequer Bills, 43 45 prom. ;
India Bonds, 48 46 prem. lower ; Bank Stock, 211 ;
India Stock, 260.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has rather im-
proved owing to the retreat of the Carlists from Segovia.
Spanish Active, 20 without Coupons ; with Coupons,
20i 21 ; Portuguese, 39} ; Three per Cents., 25i;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 i.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 91k.
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
BIVITISH FUNDS.
F.trik Stuck '2l . Omni am
t per Cent Red ,;•.4,.', India Steel(
:3 ;.;Pr l':crit Cons pits, :/itto I:(m4e.
3,„ per Cent.
3., •.!...r Cent. Bed. .110 Ditto Old Annuities .
N'rw !in; per Cent. l,9)i, Ditto New Annuitic: —
I ;,:er ..-mt. Assmted
Dissented Ditto 50(II 45 pm.
tl7, Annuities to expire . - I Ditto 5001 45 pm.
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tan Piv) l5 1-1 i

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Jan. 1260

FOREIG

Art:than, rs per cen•
riOriltn, 5 p,r
Bonds

flank Stock for org.

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lacha Stock fer Act.
C,msolo f,r Act.

Ayreg, 6_ per east

FUNDS.
P,rtugucse, Bonds. 5 per cent.
• Ditto, Now Ditto
Prussian. 5 per cent.
j Ru'e'in 5 per cent .. 111
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish. 5 per cent 2 )
Ditto. Consolidated.
French, 5 pet cent
• Est:hang.
• French. 3 per cent.
Dutch, 231, per cent. 527„
Ditto. 5 per cent 102%
SHARES.

Clnlian, 6 per cent
redornhian, 6 per cent.
Ditto, 1`434
D wish, 3 per crir 73
Give!, Bonds, 1112.5,5 per cunt
,xican, 5 per cent... .......
Ditto, 6 per cent., 152.5
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per cent

Gre .t Western Railway 5414
Lowlon and Brighton Railway (Stevenson's)
London and Greznwich Railway
Brighton, Lewes, and Newhaven Railway .......
:Sin other variations in the Prie-. of Shares since our One u'c]ec
Liet.

THE NEW PARLIAMENT.—Ave have received a
copy of the Spectator's list of the new Parliament, done
up in the very convenient form of a pamphlet, for general
reference and distribution, by Mr. Clayton, the Publisher.
The pamphlet comprises the following heads :—I. The
whole members divided into Liberal and Tory, with the
places they represent.-2. The Doubtfuls.-3. New
Members.-4. Members rejected or resigned.-5. The
Exchanges.-6. Gains and losses.-7. Ballot-men in the
now Parliament.-8. The Constituencies, &c., &c. All
these are done up with the Spectator's acknowledged cha-
racter for industry and ability ; but we regret to see in some
of them an evident leaning to Toryism.

Yesterday afternoon, between three and four o'clock
the following awful instance of the uncertainty of human
life occurred at the Victoria Gardens, Vauxhall, to a highly
respectable elderly gentleman between 50 and 60 years of
age, of the name of Sparks, residing at No. 17, Wickham-
street, Kennington Common. It appeared that a number
of ladies and gentlemen proceeded to the above Gardens
for the purpose of dining together. The unfortunate gen-
tleman, accompanied by his daughter, about 25 years of
age, proceeded there. After having eat a hearty dinner,
the cloth was removed and Mr. Sparks left the room, ap-
parently in his usual health and spirits. After remaining
absent a considerable length of time. Miss Sparks became
uneasy and alarmed, and requested one of the waiters to
go in pursuit of her father. Ile had not been gone more
than a few minutes before he discovered the unfortunate
gentleman in the water-closet, apparently lifeless. He im-
mediately acquainted the proprietor of the Gardens of the
melancholy circumstance. Medical assistance was promptly
procured. On their arrival they immediately pronounced
that the vital spark had fled. The body was removed to
the tavern to await an inquest. On the unfortunate young
lady being informed of the f►tal event her feelings can be
much more easily imagined than described.

Yesterday forenoon, about twelve o'clock, the inha-
tants of Berkeley-street., Lambeth, were much alarmed, in
consequence of the appalling screams of a female, who was
observed at No. 11, in that street, holding a man at the
second floor window, and whose desire appeared to be to
precipitate himself into the road. Dunn, a parochial offi-
cer of Lambeth, seeing the perilous situation from his house
opposite, hastened to the assistance of the female, and was
just in time to save the unfortunate man from destruction,
since the only support the female had of him was by grasp-
ing his head with both her hands. He was drawn into
the room by Dunn, with other assistance, when he was
told thut the man, whose name is Marshall„ was only a
few minutes before attacked with madness. A strait-
waistcoat was procured from the workhouse, which, after
great exertion, was put upon him, and he was so violent as
to be compelled to be tied down. It appeared that on
Monday last, ho was in a tepid bath for two hours, since
which he has gradually got worse. In the opinion of the
doctor who attended him, the effect of his lengthened im-
mersion in the water has been to produce temporary de-
rangement.

RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AUG. 28.—We are ex-
ceedingly happy to find that her Majesty's Ministers are
making inquiries by whose orders the troops were sent from
Portsmouth to Ryde (luring the late election, when every.
thing was perfectly quiet, and would have remained so but
for the conduct of the Tories. We have no doubt that
Ministers will go on with their inquiries, and ultimately
punish the guilty. We think that some of our Tory magis-
trates and parsons begin to feel queerly, and very differently
to what they did when they sent for the bayonets.
The body of a young woman, supposed to be the
person lost when the Medway steamer took fire, was
picked up yesterday at Northfleet, not far from the yard
into which the Captain ran the vessel.
The parish Church of St. James, Bristol, which
had been closed for the last five or six weeks, for the pur-
pose of being cleaned and repaired, was re-opened on Sun-
day last. It is understood that the expense of the same has
been defrayed by private subscription.—Bristol Mercury.
On Monday Mr, Thomas Emmett, and Miss Fanny
Roberts, of Rochdale, availed themselves of the privileges
granted by the Registration Act, by contracting the sacred
and binding obligations of matrimony before the Super-
intendant Registrar of Rochdale.—Manchester Times.

FICTITIOUS VOTES IN SCOTLAND.

(From the Perthshire Advertiser.)
DUNELANE.

On Wednesday of last week, Mr. Sheriff Anderson hell
the annual Court for the registration of claimants at Dun-
blane, when the Tories brought forward a large number
of mushroom claims, which were sustained. Mr. Stirling
of Kippendavie, we understand, to have been the principal
manufacturer on this occasion, and game-keepers and other
subordinates were admitted as life-rent proprietors on parts
of his property. The number added to the roll on both
was, notwithstanding, nearly equal.
On Friday the Court met in Dunkeld, where several
faggots were also admitted, and the enrollments were, as
at Dunblane, about equal. The persons admitted as mush-
room voters in this district were !

Mr. Robert Austin Finlay, writer in Perth, joint Secre-
tary to the City Conservative Association.
Mr. Andrew Cunningenn, clerk to James Condle, the
landing Agent for the Tory Lairds.
Mr. David Peacock, precentor, East Church, Perth,
Reporter for the ultra-Tory Journal, the Constitu•

tional, and now or lately also clerk to Mr. Condie.
These individuals claimed to be enrolled as life-rent pro-
prietors of some acres of West Haugh, Caputh, in virtue
of a disposition in their favour granted by Sir John M. P.
Mackenzie, of Delvine, narrating the subscription of a bill
for 749/. by those parties long since due, and cleclaring- that
amount a real burden on the disposition of the subjects.
The value being proved, reference was made to the oath of
the parties, when they severally underwent a sifting exami-
nation by James M. Bell, Esq., Advocate, Counsel for the
Liberal interest :

Mr. Findlay was first examined, and deponed as fol
lows:—

Have you ever seen the subjects referred to in the claim?
—Yes.

When did you first see them ?—This morning.

What inquiries did you make to natisfy yourself as to the
value, before entering into the transaction ?—I had no in-
formation as to their value excepting from Mr. Condle.
Was not he the agent of Sir J. M. Mackenzie, of Del-
vine, who is stated in the deed to be the seller?—He was.
And you acted solely on his information as to the value
of the subjects did, and made no particular enquiries
as to the value. I have heard to-day the rent is 35/., but I
cannot say where I first beard that.
For what amount was the bill drawn which you signed
in reference to this transaction ?—I think it was for 749/.
sterling.
At what date was it drawn ?—I do not recollect.
Is it long past due ?—I rather think it is.
Did you expect to be called on to pay it when it fell
due ?—Not exactly when it fell due.
Why did you not expect to be called on to pay it ?—Not
from anything that was ever said to me.
Was there any understanding on that subject between
you and the opposite party ?—No.
Then, if there was nothing ever said to you, and no un-
derstanding on the subject, can you explain why you did not
expect to be called on to pay it when it fell due ?—I cannot '
explain why I formed that idea. I knew I was liable, but
so long as I retained the life-rent 1 did not expect to be
called on to pay the bill.
Are you under any obligation to give up the life-rent
when called on by any party ?—No.
The sum in the bill is large, have you made any arrange-
ments to pay it if called on to do so ?—I have not.
You are a man of businesss, and arc aware that in en
ordinary bill transaction you might be called o❑ summarily
to pay the whole bill ?—I am.
Have you funds ready to pay it, if so called on ?—I will
not answer that question.
Who holds the bill ?—Sir J. Mackenzie.

Have you drawn any rents out of the subject ?—No ;
the first rent since I acquired the right has not fallen due.
After some questions as to the delivery of the deed,
which appeared to be in the possession of Mr. Cunning-
ham, one of the co-life-renters, Mr. Findlay said that he
was a true life-renter of the subjects ; and was admitted
on the roll.

The other two claimants, who were also enrolled, were
then examined, whose deposition was of a similar descrip-
tion. It appeared in particular that neither of them knew
at what date the bill fell due ; and one of them expressly
stated that he had never taken any serious thought about
payment of it. Mr. Peacock deponed that he had long
been desirous V purchasing sonic property iu the county,
but it did not appear why he had selected Delvine for that
purpose.