The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-25 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAT.)

CITY, TWELTE O'CLOCK.
The two important statements in the Houses of Lords and
Commons last night have caused some excitement in the City
this morning. We are informed that Prince Leopold accepted
the throne of Greece conditionally, and that after considerable
time had elapsed, he did not find that the conditions were in
a state of completion, upon which he made a representa-
tion to the Duke of Wellington, whose reply contained
a paragraph which the Prince took umbrage at, and in a subse-
quent letter the Prince desired it to be recalled, which was not
complied with. The consequence was, that Prince Leopold came
to the final resolution of resigning the Throne of Greece.
We understand that the Vera Cruz packet, Sphynx, is arrived
off Falmouth ; the letters and papers are not yet received.
Accounts from Calcutta to the 4th February state that the last
strong hold of the East Indians, Berepore, has been taken by the
English.
Letters from Alexandria dated Egypt, April 11, state that the
harvest of cotton has not been so productive as was expected, it
has only produced 70,000 bales.
The French Ambassador at St. Petersburgh has informed
Count Nesselrode, by order of his Government, that the Com-
mander of the French naval forces before Algiers has received
orders that on the arrival of the French expedition before Algiers,
in case the Russian agents and subjects should be in any danger,
lie will receive them on board the French ships.
At present there are four candidates for the Crown of Greece,
the second son of the King of the Netherlands, Prince Albert
of Prussia, the Prince of Hesse, and the brother of the King of
Bavaria.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 923(90 for the account,
opened at 92%, and at present they are 923%, for next account
93. This is settling day in Consols, and the extreme fluctuation
during the present account has been about two per cent. ; all
is going off well to the present hour.
In the foreign market Greek has rather improved, and been
done at 36%.
ENGLISH FUNDS.
Bank Steck, 2163{ 17 314 per Cent. 9934 I(
India Stock, 242 3 4 per Cent. 101% %
3 per Cent. Cans. 9214 % 4 per Cent. 1826, 10454 %
Do. for Account, 92% % India Bonds, S 3 84.
Ditto Reduced, 91% 71, Exchequer Bills, 78 70
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Greek, 35% 639
Mexican, 3039
Peruvian, 243 5
Portuguese, 5959 601%
Prussian,
Russian 109%5101A
Spanish, 1834 3

Brazilian, 734 N
Buenos Ayres, 373 31134
Chilian,
Colombian, 44U 54
Danish, 7334 44
French 5 per Cent. 10431 534
Ditto 3 per Cent. 81 Si

TWO O' CL CK.
Accounts have been received from Rio Janeiro to the 14th
March. We do not hear of any political news. The Exchange
was 2334, and the Stock there had got up 2 per cent. to 68. The
produce of the Imperial Mines was sixty-one pounds of gold in
nine days.
The Turkey Mail, which has arrived, brings letters to the 25th
from the capital. The information has been anticipated by the
French Papers, which has brought dates of the 26th from Con-
stantinople ; but the accounts from Smyrna state that the Greeks
are committing all kinds of enormities ; they strip the British
sailors of their clothes when they find them on shore drunk.
Consols continue at 924 for the account, and 93 for next
account. The chief business doing is arranging accounts; it
appears to be a Bear account. At present we do not hear of any
failures.
In the Foreign Market Greek has been done at 34, since which
a reaction has taken place, and they may be quoted at 37.
7 HI?EE O'CLOCK
Consols, 921 f.

TILE MURDER AT ASSYNT.--Additional
information, we understand, has been obtained since the
return of the Sheriff of Sutherlandshire from Assynt,
tending to confirm the suspicions against MACLEOD, the
person now in custody for the murder of Illuanocir
GRANT, the pedlar, and also tending to implicate another
individual in the guilt of that transaction.—lnverness
Courier.

HYDROPHOBIA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,--I perceive that you have recently inserted in your
Journal a letter on the subject of Hydrophobia, which
deadly malady is allowed to prevail in this intelligent and
enterprising country to a degree utterly unaccountable,
and inconsistent with the general feeling of the people►
where a principle of humanity and public security calls for
sympathy and exertion.

I have paid particular attention to this subject, and
have in vain endeavoured to draw the attention of our
Legislators to the imperative duty which they owe to their
country to arrest so direful a scourge ; but hitherto without
success. The state of the law respecting dogs is a disgrace
to a civilized nation, and retains traces of all the barbarism
of the feudal times : a few local Police Acts have recently
provided for the alleviation of this nuisance in the limited
places to which they relate, but the country at large is
left without the power of repressing a plague inevitably
destructive.

I think I should not exceed the truth were I to say that
from twenty to thirty individuals, many of them heads of
families, and highly valuable lives, are annually martyrs to
this gross neglect—and they have perished for many years
past without any extended or effective efforts on the part
of the survivors to prevent the frequent recurrence of this
most horrid death. Shall the individual who, in defiance
of the law, scruples not to consign to ruin many a helpless
family by forgery and fraud, and reckless of his fate, lushes
to his own destruction, alone command our sympathy ?
Shall even crimes more heinous excite our pity, and prompt
exertions of the most active character to avert impending
punishment, while the lives of numbers unoffending are
forcibly cut off, heedlessly, and therefore criminally, by this
ti rifie awl this dread disease?

It is the duty of those who have witnessed these deadly
ravages to call upon the Government and the country to
avert the evil ; it is the duty of those to whom is entrusted
the legislation of the country to adopt those measures which
the case requires. Suggestions for restraining the evil,
apparently unexceptionable, have been submitted to many
individuals on whom would naturally devolve so imPera-
live and so beneficial a task—but ridicule has once been
thrown upon the subject when brought forward in the
House of Commons many years since ; and although the
attention of the Home Department was promised to the
measure, if introduced from any other quarter, the indivi-
dual to brave that fear was not procured.
Our naval hero said " England expects every man to do
his duty." Shall she upon this subject be disappointed." It
may be well that the public should know that efforts,
strenuous and repeated, have been made to avert a calamity
fatal to all that come within its range—for want of the
expression of public opinion upon it these efforts have
hitherto failed.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,

GEO. WEBB HALL.
Gloucestershire, Mity 15, 1830.

The main design of " Paul Clifford," the
New Work by the Author of Pelham, we understand to
Le a general satire upon the hypocrisy of society, and the
various methods of rising in the world. Sometimes this
design is embodied in a covert shape—sometimes op.nly--
sometimes in masks, sometimes in portraits. The hollow-
ness and pretences in literature, politics, fashion, pro-
fessions, and callings, are the great materiel of irony and
satire throughout the work.
THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.--
It is asserted on good authority, that h;s Grace of
NORTHUMBERLAND will be the last Nobleman who will
fill this high office. The contemplated changes are, as
we announced some months ago, the appointment of a
Secretary for Ireland, who is to have, in virtue thereof, a
seat in the Cabinet, and in whom is to be vested all the
responsibility of the government, and all the patronage of
the country. In addition to this arrangement, Lords
Lieutenants of counties, the same as in England, are to be
appointed, with an express stipulation that they are to be
constantly resident in their counties. Consequent upon
this arrangement, all the present commissions of the peace
are to be called in, and new ones issued by the respective
Lords Lieutenant of the counties. By thin means all cause
of invidiousness in a radical reform of the Irish magistracy
will be avoided.—Dublin Evening Post.

About two o'clock yesterday afternoon the
Marquis of ANCLESEA visited his two sons at West-
minster school. The Noble Marquis was on horseback
accompanied by his son Lord GzeacsPaGET, and looked
remarkably well. Soon after taking leave of his sons,
he was recognised by an old out-pensioner of Chelsea
Hospital, who formerly served in the Coldstream Guards,
and was present at the memorable battle of Waterloo.
The veteran addressing the Noble Marquis, reminded him
of having been an old companion in arms, and showed
him a severe wound which he received at Waterloo, in
the heat of the action. The Marquis listened to the
brave fellow with great condescension, and at the con-
clusion of his narrative, presented him with a sovereign
to drink his health, which the old soldier joyfully received,
retiring with a low how.

The title of the Attorney-General SCAR-
terr's new Libel Law Bill is, " to repeal so much of the
60th Geo. 111., for the more effectual prevention and
punishment of blasphemous and seditious libels, as relates to
the sentence of banishment for the second offence, and to
provide some further remedy against the abuse of publishing
libels."

An immediate and formal separation is about
to take place between Lord and Lady W. LENNOX. In
the mean time the lady is residing, accompanied by a female
friend, at a respectable hotel at the west end of the town.
Globe.

The late Sir R. PEEL is said to have died
worth 2,500,0001. The will was proved on Friday in
Doctors' Commons, and sworn to exceed 1,000,000/.,
which bears highest probate-duty (15,0001.) !

ROMEO COATES, his lovely bride, and their
family, are now residing in Paris. It is reported in the
French cipital, that in the event of English theatrics's
being revived in Paris, as is at present contemplated, Miss
SMITHSON will resume her high station in the tragic
drama, and Mr. ROMEO COATIS will be engaged to per-
sonate the characters formerly acted by Mr. ABBOTT.—
Morning Paper.

JEWISH PRAYER FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY.
—The following is a copy of the ordinary prayer used in
the Jewish service for the Royal Family :—" He who dis..
penseth salvation unto Kings, and dominion unto Princes,
whose kingdom is the kingdom of the whole universe,
who delivered his servant Dawn from the sword of de-
struction, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the
mighty waters; may he bless, preserve, guard, assist, exalt,
aggrandize, and raise to the highest state, our most gra-
cious Sovereign Lord King GEORGE, and all the Royal
Family. May the KING of all Kings, through his mer-
cies, grant him life, preserve Lint from all sorrow and
grief; save him from all danger, subdue nations under his
feet, cast his enemies down before him, and cause him to
be successful wheresoever he may tend. May the Su-
preme KING of Kings, in his mercy, inspire his heart and
those of his ccunsellors and nobles with benevolence to•
wards us and all Israel. In his day and ours, may Judah
be saved, Israel dwell in comfort, and the RitnEnseu.
come
say Amen."untoZion. 0 may this be the Divine will ! and
let us