The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-07 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Accounts from Manchester this morning state that there
was an improved demand for almost all descriptions of
finished goods; and for all the lower number of yarns, at
prices somewhat higher than those obtained on and previously
to that day; though scarcely at rates which would remunerate
spinners and manufacturers for the increased price of cotton.
Advices have been received from Swaii River, which state
that the colony was rapidly improving. The wages of com-
mon labourers were from 4s. to 6s. per day, and mechanics
could earn from 7s. 6d. to 10s.

Rumours are already afloat in Paris of the King's Speech
at the convocation of the Chambers. Among- these, are that the
conversion of the 5 per cents. would be recommended ; also,
an intervention in the affairs of Spain. Now, that France has
resumed her influence in the banish councils, these rumours
produced an unfavourable effect on the Funds.

TILE FUNDS.
Consols which closed yesterday at 93i- opened this morn-
ing at the same price, with a languid Market. Exchequer
Bills, 49 ; India Bonds, 28 to 30 ; Bank Stock, 2041 ; In-
dia, shut.

"'ln the Foreign Market, Spanish, 194 20 with Coupons.
Portuguese, same ai they closed, 29 to 291; 3 per Cents. 19
to 194 ; Dutch 21 per Cents. b 43.
HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols may be quoted at present 931 for the Account.
There is not a feature in the market worth observation. The
badness of the weather has an effect on the operations of the
market; Reduced, 921 ; Money may be obtained at 3 per
cent. ; Exchequer Bills, 49 47 prem. ; India Bonds, 30 28
prem. ; Bank Stock impreved to 206 2054.
In the Foreign Market also little doing—Spanish Active;
1974- with Coupons ; Passive, 441- ; Deferred, 71 ; Portu-
guese, 294 4; Three per Cents., 19a ; Brazilian, 78k
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54e o ; Mexican, 284 ;
Danish, 734 74i.
Consols for the Ae•ouni, 934.

THREE 0' CL 0 CIS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, YESTERDAY.
The sales of cotton to-day are about 5,000 bales; we have no
change to note in the prices, although the market has been void
of animation ; 400 bales Surat have been taken on speculation.
Saturday, whilst two servant girls, named Coyle and
Melley, went to bring some water from a well in Lifford, as
old wall, which they had to pass on their way, fell upon and
killed them both on the spot.
SHORT .VVORK.--A young shopkeeper of this city
( Chester) having paid his addresses to a young female of his
own station in life, gained her friends' consent to his union
with her, and the Thursday in last week was fixed for the
marriage, when on Monday he received a letter from his be-
trothed, tellinr, him she would never see him more, in conse-
quence of his having been seen on the day previous to kiss his
servant Peggy. Mortified at the discovery, and anxious to
punish the indignant lady's anger, he procured a license, and
was married to Peggy before twelve o'clock on the same day.
—Chester Courant.

Two labouring men, named Thomas M'Keevor and
Michael Murphy, were suffocated on the night of Wednesday,
the 29th., at Castletown, near Dundalk, in consequence of
fire, placed in a pot, having been incautiously and improperly
introduced into the room where they slept, the apartment being
at the time without any means of ventilation.—Drogheda
Journal.

Yesterday morning Elizabeth Reed, who was tried
at the last summer assizes for the murder of George Burgess,
at Waddington, and acquitted on the ground of insanity, since
which time she has remained in custody, suffocated herself in
a pail of water. She had been left alone in the yard by the
other prisoners confined with her, and during their absence she
plunged her head into the pail, and in this situation she was
discovered lifeless about nine minutes afterwards. The poor
creature was about 70 years of age.—York Herald.
At the City of London Sessions on Tuesday an ap-
peal on the part of the London Missionary Society against an
award of the Magistrates, rendering them liable to Church_
rates due to St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, was affirmed. The
ground of opposition was the absence of beneficial occupation.
The Bench allowed a special case to be argued in the superior
Court of Westminster.

Three other persons were on Saturday committed to
York Castle, to await their trial at the next Assizes, for tak-
ing pint in the disturbances at Bradford, on Monday week.—
Halifax Express. _

The largest cask of wine ever imported into Cork
is now on the Quay; it is an original vat of nearly 500 impe-
rial gallons ; it is in its way a perfect curiosity.
Henceforward newspapers will pass free by the
London Two-penny Post, except where printed within the
limits for the time being of the General Post delivery. Money
orders are in future to be subject only to a single postage, in
addition to the poundage of Bd. for the order. The Post-office
have also made arrangements to remunerate pilots and others
who land letters, &c., from homeward bound ships.
TITHE OF WOOL.—In the Exchequer Equity sit-
tings on Tuesday, Baron Alderson gave judgment in a case
where a farmer, occupying two farms, one of which was tithe
free, drove the sheep which were usually kept on the other
farm to the tithe-free farm to be sheared, in order to avoid
payment of tithe on wool. His Lordship said that it was
evident the sheep had been driven to the tithe-free farm for
the purpose of defrauding the Rector (the Rev. Mr. Hall, of
Houlton, near Buckering, Lincolnshire,) of the tithe of wool,
and he must decree that an account be rendered of the amount
of wool thus improperly removed.
ABSTINENCE.—There are two methods of being
sober: one is by moderation in drinking intoxicating liquors,
and the other total abstinence from them. The moderation
plan is difficult, unsafe, and uncertain. The abstinent one is
easy, safe and sure.
A PARTICULAR DIRECTION.—A short time since
a letter bearing the following curious superscription, was put
into the post-office in Manchester :—" For Mr. Colwell thatai
in
keeps the shop in Back Anderson-street, to be gave to Jack
Timlen that keeps the pigs in his own seller Back Ander-
son-street—the Irish man that has the large family that bgs
the mail from Mr. Colwell and milk to Bolton."
IRVINGISM.—This sad delusion of the mind has
received a shock recently at Milford, near Southampton, which
may tend to open the eyes of some of its votaries. One of
their prophets, a Mr. Ballard, for some years a chief supporter
of the sect, went to their principal Chapel there, and declared
to the assembled people that they were all in a fatal error, and
if they persevered in it they would be lost. He ordered them
to leave the Chapel immediately, which they did with amaze-
ment ; some of them he was actually obliged to force out. He
then ordered a builder to raze the Chapel to the ground. He
has acted in a similar way in two different places of their as-
sembling in adjoining parishes.
According to a letter from Gottingen, the statue of
William IV. in that town was, on the morning of the 25th
ult., fund to have been decorated during the night with a
crown of laurels, as a testimony, it was supposed, to the
memory of the founder of the Constitution of 1833.
In the memoirs of the late Bishop of Norwich, edited
by his son, we have, from the pen of the Bishop, the follow- I
ing short but correct character of the first man of the age :
" The Duke of Wellington," say. the Bishop, " is an un-
daunted soPier, an indefatigable officer, and a man with- i
out vanity, possessing the expanse of an Alexander, the ver-
satility of a Caesar, and the native genius of a Marlborough."