The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-25 00:00:00

THIS DAI AT ONE O'CLOZA
Peruvian Bonds
__Ditto Account.

f Portuguese Bonas
—; Ditto New Bonds :161

A 34
Ditto &ccount ............... : Ditto Acc•unt ......... 3d IA Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
Ditto Accon_ t
—, Ditto Account
Colombian Bonds
Ditto Account —, Ditto Metallic..
Columbian Bonds, liiik
Ditto Account — , Ditto Account, 29 ;4 fi
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account —j Def,red l:3si
preek Bonds j French, b per cent...—. —f. —c.
Ditto 11111134h1. Mb .— I -----t 4 per cent....... —f. —e.
Ditto Account — --- 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — ' --- Exchange. --1-. —r.
Ditto Account — Dutch, 2Ni per cent.
Ditto, 6 per Cent. 3234 Ditto Account
Ditto Account

Neapelitan:

Ditto ACcount ..... ,

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL4 CX.
Paid Per Share
•roat Western Railway Company Si
Ditto Now
London and Croydon Railway Company l4/. IS,. ticl fl
.HALF-PAST ONE.
Both commercial affairs and speculating in the Funds
have a dull appearance. In respeet to the latter, during
the course of the morning lthere has been very little
fluctuation in the British Market, and Consols may be
quoted at 90i 91, alternately buyers and sellers ; for
Money, 901
Money continues plentiful in the house at an easy
rate of interest, from 3 to 4 per cent. ; in the money
market, according to the paper offered.
It is not expected that any business to a great extent
will be done until the arrival of the Liverpool steamer
from New York, which may be expected about to-mor-
row week, on which no doubt our manufacturing dis
tricts are anxiously waiting, as well as those connected
with the United States Bank. The packet ship Ox-
ford, of the 7th instant, is expected to-morrow, from
New York.

Exchequer Bills, 1 to 3 dis. ; Bank Stock, rather
lower, 180 179, ; India Bonds, 2 dis. ; India Stock,
246.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, rather lower,
; Portuguese rather better, 3631 ; Three per
Cents., 24k; Mexican, 321 ; Spanish Passive. 71
Deferred, 13i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents
.524 i 3 ; Five par Cents., 100 a.
No reports or any further arrivals at present.
TH E L

ATE DUKE OF ARGYLE.--It is with
feelings of the deepest regret that I take up my pen to
inform you that our much-respected Duke of Argyle is
no more. He died last night at dinner ; fell dead off
his chair, supposed to be in a fit of apoplexy. He was
out and well before dinner, and had a ride up Gle-
nary. He was a friend to the poor and needy at all
times, and always relieved their wants. It shall be a
long time ere the estate of Argyle shall have such a
generous-hearted man, who is deeply lamented by all
who knew him.—Correspondent of theGlasgowChronicle.
On an application from the keeper of the Ayr
Mechanics' Museum to the Right Hon. the Earl of
Eglinton for a lance used at the late tournament, the
Noble Earl sent a lance, accompanied with a donation of
51., to the institution.—Glasgow Courier.
Mr. Pryme has published a letter in which he
contradicts the report of his having accepted the situa-
tion of police magistrate.—Cambridge Free Press.
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS TO YOUNG MEN.—
In the course of my travels I have seen many a promising
and fine young man gradually led to dissipation, gambling,
and ruin, merely by the want of means to make a soli-
tary evening pass pleasantly. I earnestly advise any
youth who quits that abode of purity, peace, and delight,
his paternal home, to acquire a taste for reading and
writing. At every place where he may reside long,
either in England or on the Continent, let him study to
make his apartments as attractive and comfortable as
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the end : let him read the best books in the language of
the place in which, he lives ; and, above all, let him never
retire to rest without writing at least a page of original
comments on what he has seen, read, and heard in the
day. This habit will teach him lo observe and discri-
minate ; for a man ceases to read with a desultory and
wandering mind, which is utter waste of time, when he
knows that an account of all the information which he
has gained must be written at night.—Clayton's Sketches
in Biography.

BIJOTLIE-R JONATHAN'S BASHFULNESS.—
, The American gentlemen approach women with the
, most indubitable consciou=sness of their own inferiority,
and, caber from modesty or prudence, seldom open their
lips except to affirm what has been said by the ladies.
One is always reminded of poor Candide's honest prayer,
" Helms! madame; je repondrai comme vous voudrez."
I have seen one of the most distinguished old gentle-
men in the United States—one who held the highest
rank in the gift of the American people, and whose
learning and knowledge on most subjects rendered
him a most pleasing and entertaining companion of
men—betray as little self-possession in the presence of
women as if he had been making his debut in society,
and this, too, in the house of one of his most intimate
friends. This excessive awkwardness in the men, to
which even the most distinguished of their race make no
exception, must be owing to something radically wrong
in the composition of American society, which places
mon as well as women in a false position. The convic-
tion of this fact must force itself on the mind of every
impartial observer who ha 3 had an opportunity of
making himself familiar with the customs and manners
of the higher classes. There appears to be a singular
mixture of respect and want of sincerity on the part
of the men with regard to the women, produced, I be-
lieve, by the unnatural position which the latter hold I
wherever they arc brought into contact with the former. I

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John Thomas, a respectable young man in appear-
ance, was indicted for feloniously forging, on the 3d
of March, a bill of exchange for sixty pounds, with
intent to defraud Kenneth Poole, a hill broker, in the
City. In another count be was charged with uttering
the hit' krax.ein4 i: to be for,,J., d.
Mr. BALLANTYNE conducted the case for the pro-
scent 1011, and Mr. PHILLIPS nppeared ior the prisoner..
Mr. K. Poole stated that be was a bill broker, carry-
ing on business in the City, and was acquainted with
the pris. ner. In the month of March last the prisoner
brought a bill of Exchange to him for 601, and asked
him to discount it Witness advanced him 401. upon
the bill, and subsequently handed it over to a gentle-
man named Kemp, who discounted it for him. The
bill purported to be accepted by 'i person named
Haywood who was rela*.ed to the prisoner, and when it
became due it was dishonoured.

Mr. Haywood was called to prove that the accept-
ance was a forgery, but as lie did not appear his re-
cLgnizances were ordered to be estreated, and the case
m;.ainst the prisoner fading for want of his evidence, the
Court ordered him to be acquitted.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—James Rippen, a cat's-
meat-man, aged 22, was indicted with foloniously and
maliciously .cutting and wounding John Bullock, with

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intent to murder him. In another count the intention
was said to be to resist his lawful apprehension.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner had
been raising a disturbance in the Cart and Horses,
Clerkenwell ; in conseqnence of which a policeman was
sent for, and, upon his attempting to take him into cus-
tody, he took a knife out of his right-hand pocket, put
one arm round the policeman, and stabbed him in the
face with it ; the blood immediately flowed very fast
from the policeman's face. He held him for some time
after he had been stabbed. The prisoner was then
secured by another officer, and the policeman was taken
to the surgeon. _

Bullock, when called upon to give his evidence, ap-
peared extremely weak, and was obliged to have a chair
in the box, having been ill ever since the occurrence took
pace. Several witnesses clearly proved the committal
of the Offence.

Mr. PAY NE addressed the Jury for the prisoner.
Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and the Jury found
him Guilty of assaulting the prosecutor with intent to
do him some grievous bodily harm.
He was then sentenced to 15 years' transportation.
James Murphy, aged 21, was con%icted of violently
assaulting, on Sunday last, John RuQsell, a man of
colour, and cook on board the Mary of Hamburg, and
robbing him of half a sovereign, a jacket, a hat, and a
pair of shoes.

Thomas Nelson was also indicted with Murphy, bui
the Jury acquitted him.

Mr. Justice BOSANQUET sentenced Murphy to 15
years' transportation.

The trial of John Wentworth Fairbank, who stands
chargcd with the wilful murder of Arthur White, on
the high seas, and Aich was specially appointed to take
place to-day, was put off till to-morrow, for the con-
venience of Mr. Sergeant Andrews, who is retained to
defend the prisoner.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
The Court was occupied the whole morning in try
ing. cases which possessed no feature of novelty.