The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-04 00:00:00

PRICES OF SHA►_tES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK,

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Paid. Per share.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company 50 20
Edinburgh and Glasgow l5 9
Erighton Railway
Mi.ncliciitur and Birmingham Railway l5 914 ,
ONE O'CLOCK
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At this hour inquirers and people are going to the Bank
to ascertain if any notice has been posted respecting the
advance on Discounts to 6 per cent. ; we can state to the
present time no notice has been issued from tho Bank Di-
rectors on the subject, therefore we apprehend it will not
take place this day.
This instant the following letter bas been received from
Luxemburg :—" Most part of the garrison of Luxemburg,
composed of Prussians, was to leave yesterday, Saturday,
at three o'clock in the afternoon, to occupy Martelange,
and to take it by force if they experienced any resistance.
At Martelange they were determined to resist : 400 troops
of the line, the gendarmerie, and the custom. house officers
of the ceded districts, the inhabitants of the village, and
the patriots of Arlon and the environs, proceed to defend
the Belgian soil, and prevent the Prussians from occupying
it. Yesterday evening all the measures of war were taken
for a stout resistance; four pieces of cannon were placed to
defend the approaches, and every one was determined to
sacrifice his life in preference to giving up the place."
HALF. PAST ONE.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of ;ester.
day's date, from which we copy the following news from
Luxemburgh, from the Namur Paper of the 30th June:—
Yesterday, at half-past ten at night, orders arrived
for the 2,1 battalion of the 9th regiment to depart imme-
diately for Luxemburg. Today at lour o'clock in the
morning they left Namur,

The squadron of the 2d Chasseurs is immediately to
set off for the same destination.
" General 011ivier, as well as the Colonel of the 23
Chasseurs, are also going to Luxemburg at 11 o'clock in
the morning.

Since the early part of the morning Consols have im-
proved to 932- A- for the opening; Reduced, 94 ' • Exche-
quer Bills rather lower, 27 25 ; In India Bonds nothing
done ; Bank Stock, 191 192.

In the Foreign Market, Spanish has receded to 19;
Portuguese also to 34; Columbian, 33k; Brazilian, 774 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., also lower, 54ii;
Five per Cents., 102:I.
Very little business has been done in either of the
nlrkets; nothing has app€ared as yet at the Bank.

QUARTER PAST TWO,

The meeting of the Bank Directors has broken up; and
w•e hear nothing has been done in respect to the discounts,
therefore they remain at .5i per cent.

The recent marriage of the Earl of Buchan and
Miss Maxwell is the first marriage in high life that has been
solemnized according to the late Act of Parliament.
MEETING IN NAAS TO ADDRESS THE
-QUEEN.—A most numerous and highly respectable meeting
of the landed proprietors and other inhabitants of the
county of Kildare was held on Saturday in the Court-house
of Naas, to address her Majesty, and express their grati-
tude to her for restoring the present Ministry to office.
There were about three thousand persons present. The
street in the vicinity of the Court-house wa s also densely
crowded. An address was unanimously agreed to and or-
dered to be presented to her Majesty by the Duke of
Leinster, Lords Cloncurry, Leitrim, and Milltown.
TRANQUILLITY OF IRELAND.---There are
ouly nine cases for trial at the ensuing assizes for the county
Galway. This is unexampled in the rccollectien of the
oldest inhabitant.—Limerick Chronicle (Tory paper).
CHURCH-RATE DEFEATED.—A meeting was
held in the perish of St. Sidwells, on Wednesday, for the
purpose of passing a Church-rate—the Rev. R. H. Tripp,
the perpetual curate, in the chair. The meeting was un-
usually stormy and noisy, but the result was that the
Church-rate was defeated after a poll by a majority of 57 !!
This proof of re-action in the " parish" will not be mis-
taken, and will, we trust, have a salutary effect on the
supporters of Church-rates, who, in this spirited opposition,
must read the speedy downfall of their intolerant and per.
secuting system. The rate was proposed by Mr. G. Hay-
man, and seconded by Mr. J. Rogers. Mr. G. Bradford
moved an amendment, seconded by Mr. N. Commin, that
no rate he granted. The show of hands being in favour
of the amendment, Mr. George Hayman demanded a
serutiey, and that the votes should be taken by the vestry
Act ( Sturges Bourne). The polling was taken, first by
individual votes, when there were for the amendment 125,
against it 68, majority 57. Secondly by the Vestry Act,
215 for the amendment, 159 against it, majority 56.
Western Times.
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Tuesday night, a few minutes before eleven, the
inhabitants of Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, were
thrrwn into excitement by the voices of females crying
from the upper windows of Mr. Pettinger's, No. 10,
" Murder, help." The police ran to render assistance,
when a dreadful scene presented itself; a person named
Meadows, occupying the tipper part of the house, returned
home in a state of madness front liquor, and attacked his
wire and sister with a large knife. The servant girl, in
endeavouring to save them, received some severe cuts, and
but for the interference of the police and neighbours, fatal
consequences must have ensued. With great difficulty he
n as secured, and the poor girl conveyed to Middlesex Hos-
pital, where she still lies.
BOAT LOST AND EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED.

—On Tuesday the 19th ult., an ill built little crazy craft
of a boat, belonging to Stronsay, left Kirkwall harbour for
home, and had not been heard of up to the 24th ult. There
was a good deal of sea in Stronsay Frith on that day, and
as the boat was greatly overloaded, and lumbered with
eight persons and their baggage, there appears every
reason to dread that she has gone down, and that all have
perished. The sufferers were two brothers, the proprie-
tors of the boat, four mums who were on their way to
Stronsay to build there, and two females, one of them a
girl and only daughter of a widow in Kirkwall, whose hus-
band perished in a similar way a few years ago.—Scotch
Paper.

DEATH FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.—An
inquest was held on Tuesday in Cloak-lane, Cheapside, on
the body of Mr. H. Alexander Smith, aged twenty-five,
, who died on Sunday night last. It appeared in evidence
that deceased and his wife came on Thursday evening last
to lodge at No. 16, in the above lane. When they came
they had a bottle of gin and brandy with them. On Fri-
day, Saturday, and Sunday they drank at the rate of two
pints of gin and upwards per diem, without counting one
shilling's worth of brandy each morning. The surgeon
said when he was called in about twelve o'clock on Sunday
night he found that deceased had been already dead three
hours, and that his wife was all but dead from the effects
of liquor. She was so far gone as to be unable to speak,
and he was obliged to use the stomach pump to recover
her. Deceased's liver was twice the natural size, and his
•stomach and intestines were fatally inflamed. Verdict—.
" Died from inflammation produced by excessive drinking."
The officers of the Animals' Friend Society last
week caused Alexander and William Gardner to be com-
mitted for 14 days each, by Mr. Bennett, for great cruelty
to oxen; and John Tucker and Henry Peters, 14 days
, each, by Alderman Kelly, for cruelty to horses ; and at
I Bristol the Society caused William Smith to be fined 20s.
by the Mayor, and James Wood, Esq., for cruelty to an
as (he also was committed for 14 days in default).
Thomas Light was likewise charged with cruelty in break-
ing in a colt, but as the prosecutor did not know whether
it was a male or a female, which Mr. Newman required to
be proved, this case was dismissed. The Society also charged
Warrington, the officer of Hatton-garden Police-office
with having abused the Society's officers, and pointed out
one cf them in the street as a common informer; but un-
fJrtunately Mr. Bennett favoured Warrington, and rebuked
the Society's officer.