The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-03 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Our arrivals this morning are the French, Ostend, and
Dutch mails ; and ship-letters from New Orleans.
We observed yesterday, in our City article, that there was
every prospect that the heavy commercial payments which were
due to-morrow would be got over without any danger to the
trading community; and we had a proof, on the part of the
Bank Directors, of the interest they manifested in the com-
mercial concerns, by the notice which was given to the
public, that on and after the 2d instant they would dis-
count Bills of Exchange at 95 days to run. This ac-
commodation it is generally expected will give great relief,
facilitate the large payments due the present month, and
render the Money Market more easy than it has been for some
time past. It also must be observed, that the present notice
from the Bank of England differs from former, which does
not extend its advances to Exchequer Bills and India Bonds.
This difference on the part of the Bank Directors is generally
approved of, as their chief attention is to the commerce of the
country, and not to certain concerns where money is not
wanted.

Consols opened this morning at 89k 90 for the Account ;
Exchequer Bills 28 preen. ; India Bonds 26 prem. ; Bank
Stock 2.061-; India Stock 256.
In the Voreign Market Spanish is still heavy—closed at 26i,
at present 26 sellers ; Portuguese 49 ; Three per Cents.
311; Spanish Coupons 46 ; Passive 71; Deferred 11 ;
Dutch 52g.

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols have been rather heavy during the morning, and
have been fur Money at Bq-;. since which the Market Ims im-
proved, and they may be quoted at present at 891 for Money,
and fifq- 90 for the Account.
Money obtains the rate of 41- per Cent. per annum. Some
of the Slave Compensation Stock was brought to market this
morning. Exchequer Bills 25 27 premium ; India Bonds 25
premium ; Bank Stock shut.
In the Foreign market scarce a bargain doing. Spailish
Active 25 to 26i; Passive 71 to ; Deferred 1I i ; Porto_
guese -18:f ; Three per Cents., 3 ; Dutch Two-and-half
per Cents., 53.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 89i 90.

THE POST-OFFICE.—We understand the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, when replying to Mr. Hume last
night, stated that he would avail himself of that opportunity
of giving answers on two points in which his Hon. Friend the
Member for Greenock took a deep interest, and intended to
inquire about; the one, the conveying of newspapers by the
twopenny and penny posts, as to which a measure would be
introduced which would extend to that department the free
delivery of newspapers, with a distinct understanding,
however, that no interference should take place with the
present mode of hand delivery by newsmen and publishers,
of newspapers, within the boundaries of the towns in which
these are published. The other question, relating to contracts
for performing the riding work of the London Twopenny-
post, he had to inform his Hon. Friend that the Postmaster-
General would confine the period for the new contracts to six
months, so as to admit of any improved mode being adopted
which might be recommended by the Commissioners of Post-
office Inquiry.
DRURY-LANE TILEATRE.—At the fall of the
curtain, last evening, the following address was delivered by
Mr. Cooper, the stage-manager :—" Ladies and Gentlemen,
—ln compliance with the numerous applications that he has
received, it was the intention of the lessee to have afforded
the public an opportunity of witnessing the performance of
the historical opera of Fair Rosamond to-morrow evening;
hut in consequence of the interference of the Lord Chamber-
lain, the inhabitants of the city of Westminster are prohibited
from enjoying a dramatic entertainment within these walls, al-
though that privilege is permitted in every other portion, not
only of this metropolis, but of the kingdom at large. Fair
Rosamond will, therefore, be performed on Saturday next."
On Monday evening a young man went into a to-
bacconist's shop in Tottenham-court-road, and bought sonic
cigars, and on smoking one of them, he felt it unusually hard
and very hot, which caused him to take it from his mouth ;
he had scarcely done so when it exploded, and blew away part
part of his glove. He returned to the shop, and on making
known what had taken place, the others were cut open, and
among them was another charged with powder. The tobac-
conist expressed his regret, exchanged the cigars, and in-
stantly destroyed those that were in the box from which the
loaded ones had been taken. Several similar cases have oc-
curred in different parts of town lately, and the street smokers
begin to smoke some danger in their delight.
The Duchess Countess of Sutherland gave a grand
dinner on Wednesday evening in Hamilton-place, to the Duke
of Norfolk, Earl and Countess of Surrey, Lord and Lady
Francis Egerton, Sir Archibald Macdonald, Mr. Grenville,
Earl and Countess of Clarendon. There was no evening party.
Lord Dc Roos is sojourning at the Steyne Hotel,
in Worthing, Sussex.

CHURCH RATES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Plymouth, February 26, 1837.
SIR,-Anxious to counteract the misrepresentations which
the Tory organs will no doubt circulate respecting the pro-
ceedings which have taken place thin day, I hasten, though
much pressed for time, to give you such an outline as my me-
mory enables me to furnish, and request you to reserve your
decision till I can send you a fair and full report of the pro-
ceedings, which will, I trust, be found in the Phynouth News of
Saturday next, a copy of which I shall transmit to you through
the Post-offico.

Some time since, a public meeting of the inhabitants,
without restriction as to party, creed, or rank, was convened,
and held at the Guild-hali, for the purpose cf petitioning for
the abolition of that obnoxious impost, Church-rates, which
has been converted by the parochial authorities both here and
elsewhere, into such an iniquitous engine of oppression, not to
say robbery. At this meeting, which owing to the prevalence
of influenza was far from so numerously attended as it other-
wise would have been, resolutions were moved, and a petition
adopted alike by Churchmen and Dissenters, for the total abo-
lition of this impost. .

Deceived by the comparative thinness of the meeting, and
the imagined apathy of the inhabitants—without tracing these
to their legitimate cause, the visitation of an unsparing malady—
the 'furies imagined that a re-action really existed, favourable
to their selfish and unprincipled views. In this belief they got
up a petition in favour of Church-rates, which has been hawked
about from house to house, for signature, during nearly the
last three weeks, and has, through misrepresentation, caught
some liberal but incautious signatures. At length, cot sidering
themselves sufficiently strong to carry this petition at a public
meeting, they got up a requisition to the Mayor for a public
meeting, wording their requisition in the most ambiguous
manner, so, as while limiting the meeting to the exclusives
themselves, in the hope that it would deter the Liberals from
attending, it left them a handle for endeavouring to represent
the meeting as speaking the sentiments of the inhabitants at
large, in the event of their stratagem succeeding. The Mayor,
however, granted the demand of the requisitionists, only con-
verting the hole-and-corner meeting, which alone united the
views of the clique, into a meeting of the inhabitants gene-
rally, to be held this morning at the Guild-hall, at eleven
in the forenoon. The Liberals, in consequence, were on
the alert to defeat this plot; and while private circa-
lars were industriously circulated by the tequisionists through
the town, some of them fortunately fell into the hands of
the Liberals, in consequence of which one of the more
zealous of the Liberals, finding the time too short to adopt a
similar mode of proceeding, employed the Town Crier to rally
the Liberals to the meeting this morning, by which means the
attendance was at once overflowing and respectable, and showed
the faction that their defeat was inevitable. Upon opening
the meeting therefore at the exact hour named in the requisi-
tion, and after some discussion, placing a chairman of their
own in the seat of honour, that chairman in his address avowed
himself the organ of a faction, not the representative of the
inhabitants in whose name the meeting had been called, and
informed the meeting, that although he would hear all who
chose to address him, he would not put, or suffer to be put,
any counter-resolutions which might be proposed—a mode of
proceeding utterly inconsistent with the character of neutrality
which it is the duty of a chairman to observe, and which at
once revealed the sectarian character and views of the meeting.
Much discussion ensued, in the course of which the mortified
and defeated faction not only openly avowed their weakness,
but admitted that it was not their intention to call an open
meeting, made use of some of the most offensive expressions
towards the Liberals both generally and individually, which
they were compelled to retract, and altogether made an open
avowal of impotence the most mortifying and humiliating that
can be conceived. It was at length conceded on the part of
the Liberals, who were full twenty to one of their opponents,
that, upon the understanding that the meeting was not to as-
sume to itself representing the sentiments of the inhabitants
generally, they were to be left in quiet possession of the Hall,
which was accordingly evacuated by the inhabitants of Ply-
mouth, and left in possession of this fair and fanatic clique.
As I was quitting the Hall I met numbers' of recruits collected
from Devonport, Stonehouse, and all the neighbourhood flock-
ing to supply our place, and give a meritricious aspect of
strength, by filling the dreary vacuum our departure occa-
sioned. What has since occurred I have no means of knowing.
but trust the paper which I shall send you on Saturday wilt
contain a report Nhich will serve to fill up the faint outlines
of this hurried sketch.

In the meantime, allow me to remain, Sir, your obedient
servant,

A MEMBER OF THE PLYMOUTH LIBERAL
MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MARCH 1.
GENERAL ASSOCIATION.

The weekly meeting of the Association took place yester-
day, at the Corn Exchange- Great Rooms.
LAURENCE ESMOND WHITE, Esq., was called to the Chair;
RICHARD O'CONNELL, Esq., acted as Secretary pro ten: , and
read the minutes of the last meeting.
A mass of correspondence was then read, chiefly relating to
the progress of the petitions recommended by Mr. O'Connell,
and to the collection of the Justice Rent. The resolutions of
which Mr. Shea Lalor had given notice having been read by
that gentleman at:the conclusion of his speech, Mr. Crosthwaite
addressed the meeting, and gave to the English Members the
credit of desiring to do justice to his country. Several other
gentlemen ably supported Mr. Shea Lalor's resolutions. It was
moved that these resolutions be publishsd in the Chronicle.
Courier, Sun, and the Examiner newspapers. After some
further proceedings, and the announcement of the Justice
Rent, which amounted to more than 2001., the meeting
adjourned. _ _

lON AND MACRRADY.—Last night Sergeant Talfourd:s
celebrated tragedy of lon was represented for the first time in
this country. The Freeman's critic concludes his remarks on
the play and the principal performer thus :—" We are sorry
we cannot enter more minutely into them (the faults of Ion),
as well as the superb acting of Mr. Macready, &c. &c., but
the closing► scene was beyond all praise."
Loan GLENGALL.—The following trial is reported to have
taken place last week at a Court of Petty Sessions in Clonmel :
" The woodranger of Lord Glengall brought a number of
poor girls before the Bench for taking leaves and moss from
the wood of Darrinlau.

" The Magistrate—Waa there any damage done to the wood ?
" The woodranger—There was not.
" The Magistrate—This is a very trifling offence indeed ;
I am sure if those poor creatures had any one to write for
them to Lord Glengall, this prosecution would not come be-
fore the public. I know the owners of other woods in this
neighbourhood do not prevent the leaves being taken away.
" A little girl—Your worship, we put the leaves for ma-
nure on his Lordship's own land.
" The Magistrate—I must caution you not to go to the wood
again without leave. I will discharge you now on paying the
coats.

The poor creatures all declared they were not able to paY a
farthing.
.‘ The Bench-7-You shall get a week to pay."
[We think it unfair to ground any charge unftwourable to
his Lrodship from the above report, feeling fully convinced
that the woodranger did not act under orders, aid that the
" costs " will be readily paid by Lord Glengall.]

A letter from Constantinople, of the 25th ult.,
stated that the Turks had offered in the mosques solemn thanks
to the Almighty for the assistance he had afforded Achmet
I3ey, in burying the French under snow, and exposing them to
such an inclement season. A member of the divan had been
assassinated in a mosque, and another robbed of his jewels.

- - -
FAMILIES RESIDING IN THE COUNTRY
are supplied with TEAS and COFFEES at the WHOLESALE
PRICE for CASH :
black...2s. Od. 2s. 4d. 2s. Bd. Bs. Bs. 6d. 45. 4s. 6d. fol•
Green..3s. Bd. 4s. Od. 4s. Bd. ss. ss. 6d. 6s. is. Otl. 80.
Coffee, Is. 6d. Is. Bd. Is. 10d. 2s....Finest Mocha, 2s.
When the order exceeds £lO, the Carriage is Paid.
G. T. MANSELL, and CO.,
Wholesale Tea Dealers, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside.

P 0 ERh U L MUSICAL BOXES, in wood
cases, 12 inches long, by 5 inches wide, each playing Four Airs, Avi'
the mechanism finished in a very superior manner, are offered for
Five Guineas each. Also a few of the same description, with 513
Airs, price Seven Guineas each, at T. CO X SAVORY'S, Working
Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London•
N. B. The small musical boxes, 311 inches long, continue selling
in tin cases, price I9s. each, or in composition Shell cases, at :25
each.

BIRTHS.
On the 28th ult., in Manchester-square, the lady of H. Pear°'
Esq., of a son.
On the 28th ult., at Brighton, the lady of A. S. Perkins, E*l"
of a son.
On the 28th ult., at East Sheen, Lady Charlotte Penrhyni °f $
daughter, still-born. •
On the 28th ult., in Charterhouse-square, the lady of F. C.
Skey, Esq., of a daughter.
• of
On the 2d inst., in Illandford-place, Regent's-park, the wt.'
11. P. Co:lett, Esq., of Chancery-lane, of a son. iers
On the Ist inst., in Nottingham-place, the lady of I'. Purr
Esq., of a sun.

I) I E D.
On the 22d ult., aged 80, the Rev. Michael Dickson, Vicar is
itm instcr, S ire. ro°
On the 18th ult.,omersetsb at Beaufoy-terrace, Edgeware-roads
cii.a ~,,se.
Robertson, Esq., late Registrar of Slaves for the Colony °' -
quit)°, aged 61. creel 5•5'
On the 25th ult., Jos. Slater, Esq., of Newman-street, age wife
On the 26th ult., at Meadow Cottage, Teddington, SoPhia'
of Mr. E. Delight.

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London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG' cool
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of Middhiscx.—Friday, March 3, 1637.