The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-18 00:00:00

Valencia were shut in conseeplent4 of the approach of
1,000 Carlists. Esperanza, after having drite7eii Chive,
went southward. r7:19 pursued by 1,200 of the (Whim
of Buil. Borso, with 1,500 tikin; was at Segorbe.
" On the 12th, at Barcelona, many electors were emi-
grating; and abandoning the field to the Bulangueto.l. The
assassins of the elector Vch,,,il had not been arrested. Bri,
gadier Puig had been removed. Barcelona is without any
military authority to maintain order.'
The Carlists hate been compelled to raise the siege
of Lodosa. We also learn that the Carlist deserters,
• who had engaged to murder Brigadier ZURBANO,
failed in the attempt. In the action of Retuerta, the
Carlists lost 300 killed, and as many made prisoners.
It was 0.1;0110 at Saragossa that. the Pretender was
confined to his bed at San Domingo, and that in the
opinion of his medical advisers his recovery was ex-
tremely doubtful.
FriENCII FUNDS—PARIS, OCT. 16.
Five per Cents., 101lf. 15C, 80c. 110 c. 85c.
Four per Cents., 10
80f.
715c5c. . ,O c.
85C.
Thr, pet Cents., of. 80c.
Bank ActiOtili,
Ciente de Naples, 90f. 10r,
Roman Five per Cents., MI.
Spanish Actives, 21%.
Spanish Passives, 4.X.
Belgian I.oan, Five per Cents, 102 102!4%
Belgian Bank, 1,460 f.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 251 A %14.
EXCHANGE oN LONDON.
Orie month, paper, 25f. 45Y,c. ; money, '251. 42!c.
Three months, paper, 25f. :3•2%c. ; money, 25f. 3oc,
—Coors Authenticrue.

• LAST PRICES_
Five per Cents.' 109 f. 9f e.
Three per cents. sOf. Otic. 95c.
flank Actions, 2,450 f•
ROM:111 i ive per Cents , 101.
Belgian Load, 1041,.
Belgian Bank, I,4qUi: ,
Mangum. Three per •-ems., 4,7 e.
:•pan iS 11 Actives, 2i',x. .
Spanish Passive!, 414.
Spanish Differes .

Joni r STOCK BANKs.—In a recent number of
the Economist there are some just remarks on the causes
which led to the suspension of payment by the Northern
and Central Bank. "It started at a period of great com-
mercial activity and successful adventure ; and, possessing '
a large capital and extensive credit, and outbidding all its
competitors in the extent of accommodation it afforded to
the enterprise of the country, ran wildly into a business
much beyond the limits of prudential banking. This is a
fact generally admitted by themselves ; and when we con-
sider that the Directors, for the most part, were gentlemen
•having great commercial concerns of their own, and in the
habit of drawing very largely upon the Bank for accommo-
dation themselves, and therefore not in a position to deny
it, with any consistency, to others, we can hardly wonder
that they involved the Bank in transactions of the descrip-
tion we have stated. While the Bank was thus going be-
fore the wied, it was suddenly taken aback. It was com-
pelled instantly to stop payment, and to withdraw from its
customers the accommodation which it had hitherto afforded,
and which they could not elsewhere obtain. Superadded
to this, the trade which their customers had been carrying
on with great success, became a losing one ; and, reflecting
that the stoppage of the usual accommodation by a Bank
must, even in the most auspicious times, ruin parties who
were trading upon banking credit, this latter circumstance
would seem to render the almost universal bankruptcy of
its connexion inevitable ; yet, with all this combination of
unfavourable circumstances, what has been the result ? It
appears to be that out of a paid-up capital of 800,0001.,
upwards or 685,000/ will be realised."
It has been remarked by statistical writers that a fine
season in France augments the number of crimes committed
through love and jealousy. Daily instances confirm the in-
ference. The following example of this deliberate mania is
given in the National of the 11th. On the 10th instant,
one of the omnibuses plying on the Neuilly road from Paris,
set down at Port Maillot a young man, about 25, and a
female somewhat younger. After taking a walk for an hour
or two in the Bois de Boulogne they entered a neighbour-
ing restaurateur's and ordered breakfast. After serving it
the waiter heard the man, in a vehement voice, charging
the female with infidelity, and immediately after was startled
by the discharge of fire arms. He called the two gens-
darme always stationed at the Port de Maillot, and all three
entering the apartment together found the young woman
bathed in blood on the floor. The criminal, roused by their
sudden appearance, seized a remaining undischarged pistol,
as if to defend himself, but, taking advantage of their mo-
mentary hesitation, applied it to his mouth and blew out his
brains. He died instantly, and no thing being found on his
person to indicate his name or address his body was carried
to La Morgue. The girl, who still breathed, was con-
veyed to the hospital of Beaujon.
A woman at the west end of the town, whose
name is Mallett, but who has occasionally gone by the
aliases of Green and Moore, has lately been carrying on an
extensive system of robbery. She caused handbills to be
published, setting forth that she was a laundress, and by
that means obtained possession of several persons' linen,
&c., all of which she kept, and absconded to another
residence, where she carried on the same system, return-
ing the duplicates of the property, which she always
pledged, to the owners, enclosed in a very polite note,
saying that she was very sorry, but she had been necessi-
tated through want to have recourse to such dishonest
practices. She is about sixty years of age, and has the
appearance of a gypsy.
INSURANCE.—If of the many objectionable taxes
with which the patient and industrious people of this coun-
try are burdened, there is one impost more impolitic and
unjust, we had almost said iniquitous, than another, the duty
on insurance is that pre-eminently bad tax. The Govern-
ment encourages the growth of good habits amongst the
population by levying a large and heavy duty on all persons
who are prudent enough to provide against the contingen-
cies either of death or the destruction by fire of property :
every prudent and provident man is mulcted by the wisdom
of our financiers. Astonishing as this assertion doubtless
would appear to persons ignorant of the " way and means"
of our beautiful financial system it is nevertheless strictly
true. It is a stubborn and disgraceful fact that the duty
on insurance is actually greater than the premium or sum
charged by the persons who indemnify insurers for all loss.
Out of every pound paid by the poor provident insurer the
paternal government seizes upon twelve shillings. Is not
this too bad ?
NEW MODE OF ROBBERY.---.The ever-active in •
genuity of the thieves has devised a new method of gaining
access to dwelling-houses for the purposes of plunder. A
youth, dressed like a grocer or linen-draper's shopman, and
frequently without a hat, calls at a house with a parcel
neatly wrapped up, and with the word " paid" written on
the outside in large letters. He asks the servant to take
the parcel to her mistress, and to inquire when Mr. So-and-
so (using the name of a tradesman in the vicinity) shall send
the rest of the things that are ordered. The servant usually
tells the pretended shopman to wait in the hall, and no
sooner is her back turned than he lays bold of shawls,
cloaks, or umbrellas, and disappears. Tne fact of there
being nothing to pay puts many servants off their gpard
who would otherwise be more cautious. On Monday
morning this trick was tried in the Liverpool-road, Isling-
ton, but the servant returning too soon, the thief dropped a
" Mackintosh" he had laid hold of, and bolted. The parcel
was found to contain a'small square of wood. In one in-
stance of recent occurrence the thief had the audacity to
unhook a large hall lamp, with which he got clear off.
The village of Cadbury, near Wincanton, has been
a complete scene of uproar for the last four Sundays. Some
Methodist field preachers have come over to the town, hold-
ing forth to the people, who have received them with tin
kettles, stones, and disgusting songs. Last Sunday, whilst
some people from the surrounding villages were congregated
around the preacher, some fellows threw a hive of bees into
the midst of them, and then pelted them as they ran away.
It is an extraordinary thing that even in Ireland these field
missionaries have never experieaced such outrageous con-
duct.—Bath Journal.

SIDE-ARMS.--On Thursday afternoon, while the
cron d was dispersing from the race-course at Musselburgh,
a private of the 14th dragoons, now stationed in Piershill
Barracks, gave offence to a young man, who in return chal-
lenged the soldier ; and in the course of the quarrel which
ensued, the latter drew his sword, and in the most reckless
and dangerous manner flourished it around him, to the great
alarm and danger of a dense crowd who witnessed the pro-
ceeding. He was at length caught and overpowered, the
weapon taken from him and sent, as we heard, to the
Musselburgh authorities, and himself conveyed to his bar-
raoks.—Seutsman, •
An experiment is conteinplated to be tried in
America to produce artificial thunder, lightning, and rain
almost at pleasure. It is well known that vapour exists in
much greater abundance near the earth's surface than higher
up, and if this vapour could be elevated in ample quantities
to a sufficient height, the superior cold would condense it
into clouds, which, from the very process of evaporation
and condensation, would become electrical. Hence may
Thu method
proceed those grand phenomena of nature.
Obviously pointed out is, to produce a powerful current from
the surface upwards at the time the atmosphere is otherwise
still, which may be accomplished by a great heat rarifying
the substrata. This is, indeed, the very step nature fol-
lows ; and it was lately stated to us, before severalgentle-
men,by a distinguished philosopheAnerica.
set
on r, that it has
larhas actually
lfigre fire,
an
been done, though accidentally, in
quan-
tity of wood or turf was by some means
after burning a considerable time, a deep cloud formed
above, and the phenomena of thunder, &c. followed. In
corroboration of this it has been remarked that heavy rain,
and not
notunkroerqnui Paper,enngtlythunder and lightning, follows great
b