The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1837.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL'iCh.
tank !t,ock.
3rr Ceti: .1,1
3 per Cent, i ,:ns — South Sea S.,,cli.
314 per Cont.__ ...... ......... 97,!, Old Annuities
Atto Het
New :04 p,.i: Cet.t 3 lie: Cent. Annutt,s, 1/51...
~Icw 5 per Cciit.. .. .........
Bank I img A nntliliC.;:toexpire MU) 540 ...... :',.,, 0613 iitn.
Jan. 5, 1890 — Ditto ti .i .1)
Oct. i , 1470 Ditto Corrairwrcial..
Jan. 5, Bth - Ditto Aitvertisco — pm
Jan. 5, 1.3.9' ....... — B ink Stock for Account... ,--
April -,, 10th ........... ........ India Stock for Account... —
Jan. %. to?i' ....... .. ..... Consok tor Acconnt 9 I,;', 903.;,, 1
Omni= Pm.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
A ,strian Bonds
Be,g'an Bonds — Ditto Account —
Ditto Account —. Portuguese Bonds
B-azilian Bonds
Ditto Account . — Ditto New Bonds 431/i
13,itios Ayres Bonds —: Ditto Account 24.74 14
Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per cent. —
Clid!isin 80nd5....

Ditto Accovnt ........ ..... — flues: an Bonds, 1f51?......•—• •••
Clltimbian Ponds —, Ditto Account ......... ........
Dittc , ccoui•l
C,Lnabian Bonds, '824. . Spanish Bends —
Ditto Account
osnit!' Bonds
Ditto Account .
,• Ditto Account —
greek Bongs— •-••••••••......... —' French, 5 per cent .....•••• - f —,•

Ditto Bonds, 1F.2.5
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent
Ditto Account .
D!'to, 6 per cent. ......•
Ditto Account ......
N,:a7o!lt? II .

3 pe.
.1 per cent
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3 per cent . —c
Exchange
Dutch, 2i{, per cent .... 5:2A
—!
Ditto Account
Ditto, 5 per cent 99t
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Ditto Account

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Paid. Per Share
Bp.zillan Imperial Mining Lo. (Issue lat 5/. pm.) •'u
I),tto St. John dcl Rey .., 9 21,1,
Real del Monte Mining Co., Registered 63/. Ins. 64.
Ditto Unregistered — 14
Rhymney Iron M nine Company
Gr.qit %N ester') Railway Company ...... ..... 45 48Y. 6 7 tit,
Brighton Railway Company (Stevenson's) 5 2 1
Brighton pennie's)
Landon and Birmingham Railway Company B5 130 28 31 3444
Lon Jon and , reenwich :.ailwav Company 2ll 13N 13 14
London and Croydon Railway Company 2l 15 14,i
Australian Company s7'‘i 34
Mexican and South Anwrican
Ditto New

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1837.

THE KING'S HEALTH.

SUN OFFICE, Half-past Two.

The accounts respecting his MAJESTY'S health
are very alarming. Indeed, it has been currently re-
ported throughout town all the morning, that the

KING was no more.

SUN-OFFICE, Three o' Clock,
EXPRESS

FROM

WINDSOR.

Since writing the above, we arc most happy to state
that an express has arrived from Windsor, which it left
about one o'clock, conveying the gratifying information
that " His MAJESTY IS BETTER THIS MORNING."
At half-past two o'clock this afternoon, the Duke
of ARGYLE, Lord High Steward of the Household,
and the Earl of ALBEMARLE arrived at Kensington
Palace from Windsor, bringing accounts that " the
KING was better—but not much better."

Should any more favourable symptoms take place
during the afternoon, we shall be happy to announce
it in a Second Edition of The Sun this evening.

In the House of Lords yesterday the Royal assent was
given by Commission to several Private and some Public
Bills. The Dublin Police Bill was read a third time.
Amongst the petitions on the subject of Church•rates was
one presented by Lord BROUGHAM from Brighton, signed
by nearly four thousand persons, who prayed that the
impost might be wholly done away with. Lord BROUGHAM
subsequently gave notice, that he will on Thursday next
move the second reading of his Bill for providing National
Education. A petition from a parish in Norfolk in favour
of the amended Poor Laws was presented by the Duke of
RICHMOND.

The Report of the Church-notices Bill was brought up,
and with amendments agreed to. The Bishop of LIN-
COLN proposed the insertion of, but subsequently withdrew,
a clause, for the purpose of abolishing a curious custom
prevailing in the parish of Broughton, where, upon Palm
Sunday in each year, a person came into the Church, and
held a whip over the reading desk in which the Minister
sat. Two shillings were also brought in a purse, and de-
posited in the Church. This custom was complied with as
a quit-rent for the Lord of the Manor.
Thu motion of Ewl FITZWILLIAM for certain docu-
mentary evidence relative to the establishment of Poor.
lay in Ireland was withdrawn, after some conversation on
the subject.
On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR the Small
Debts (scotland) Bill was read a second time—Lord MEI:
vtt.t.t stating, that although he objected to the measure, he
would not oppose it now ; but, at a subsequent stage, he
should move that the Bill be referred to a Select Committee.

In the House of Commons the presentation of petitions
and the transaction of private business, emformab'y to
practice, took precedence, and last night occupied a large
portion of the sitting. Connected with the Portland C-
metry Bill there were some unusually stirring proceedings,
the report of which will be found in another part of our
paper.

Lord JOHN RessELL, in reply to Mr. TREVOR'S ques-
tion respecting the Church-rate question and Irish Tithe
Bill, said he did not think the discussion on the latter
measure would occupy more than one night ; and that be
intended to proceed with the Church-rates Regulation Bill
on Monday. With reference to the Commutation of Tithes,
the same Noble Lord stated that a Bill would shortly be
brought in for that object.
The remainder of the evening was occupied with a discus-
sion upon which we have remarked in a separate article,
on the important question of the Privileges of the House
of Commons as regards Printed Papers. On the motion
of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL it was agreed, without a divi-
sion, " That it is the opinion of this House that the defend-
ants appear and plead to the said action." Another resolu-
tion was also adopted to the effect, "That the Attor-
ney-General be directed to defend those parties against the
actions now pending against them in the Court of King's
Bench."

Lord D. STUART gave notice of a motion for the produc-
tion of all Correspondence relating to the Republic of
Cracow.

On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, it was agreed that
there be appointed a Select Committee to consider the best
means of conducting the public business of the House with
improved regularity and dispatch ; and also to consider the
best means o improving the mode of conducting private
business.

The House adjourned at half-past one o'clock.

The question of privilege was again discussed in
the House of Commons last night, at considerable
length, and with so much ability, that we think it
must now be set at rest for ever. Faction may pro-
bably keep up the ball a little longer ; but every
im-
partial person who reads the interesting debate of last
night, and is capable of appreciating sound argu-
ment, fortified by the unvarying testimony of his-
tory, must be satisfied that the two great
points involved in the late resolutions of the
House of Commons, namely, that to publish its
proceedings is one of its privileges, and that the
House, is the sole judge of its own privileges, are
made out beyond all reasonable controversy. The
ATTORNEY-GENERAL brought the subject before the
House in consequence of petitions from the printers,
Ijes6rs. NKHOLLS and Messrs. HANSARD, who had

been proceeded against for certain publications autho-
rised by the House, and moved that the petitioners
should be permitted to appear and plead to the ac-
tion. The Learned Gentleman delivered a very able
speech, in which he described the different modes in
which the House might proceed to vindicate its
authority, and gave the reasons which induced him to
prefer the course which he had advised. He then
proceeded to state the opinions of eminent lawyers
and Judges upon the question ; among whom we find
the names of FORTESCUE, HALE, BLACKSTONE,
Rom ELLY, and others, who lay clown with the ut-
most clearness and confidence the principles embodied
in the resolutions.

The only other speech that our limits will allow us
to notice at present is that of Sir ROBERT PEEL ;
and to this speech we are happy to be able to give our
unqualified approbation. It is not often that we can
thus speak of the effusions of the Right Hon. Baro-
net ; but it is not often that he can disentangle himself
from the fetters of party, and allow the country to reap
the full benefit of his talents and his experience.
The Right Hon. Baronet emphatically declared
that if the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice of the
King's Bench were correct, then "it did appear to
him that the functions of Parliament were closed."
He then argued with great force that the privilege
claimed by the House was by the very prin-
ciples of the Constitution inherent in Parliament—
absolutely necessary to its very existence as the grand
Court of inquest of the kingdom. Sir R. PEEL here
took his stand upon 'the Bill of Rights, and showed
that the ninth article was framed for the express puppose
of guaranteeing to the Commons their right to the privilege
of printing and publishing their proceedings, "with-
out such being questioned outside Parliament." Hav-
ing thus established the right, the Right Honourable
Baronet entered into an examination of the practice,
and from a very extensive reference to the cases in
which questions of privilege had come before the
Courts of law, and a remarkably acute—we had
almost said, lawyer-like—investigation of the merits
of each case, came to the conclusion—to which
also he brought the House—that the House
had not gone beyond its just claims in the late
assertion of its privileges. " 'Whatever," said the
Right Hon. Baronet, as he finished his very able
speech, " might be the result—whatever might be
the decision come to, of this he remained firmly
and unalterably convinced, that unless the House of
Commons had the privilege of free publication and
free circulation of its proceedings, its powers as a
Representative body, and its privileges as a branch of
the Legislature would be virtually extinct."—(Cheers.)

A brief but interesting discussion took place last
night in the House of Commons, on the subject of the
Portland Cemetery Bill. We hope and believe that
this Bill will be thrown out, for though of not quite so
flagrant a character, yet it is very similar in spirit to
one which was brought into Parliament two or three
years since, and which had for its main object the
building of squares, and streets, and terraces on Hamp-
stead-heath. Primrose-bill, as it at present exists, is
one of the favourite places of resort of all those, classes
who are confined during the greater part of the day to
the metropolis, and'are only able to sniff a mouthful of
fresh air in the summer evenings ; consequently
to enclose a spot of such general attraction, and
so debar the public from rambling at will over
the hill and the range of cheerful meadows that
lie adjacent to it, is an act of crying injustice
that cannot be too severely reprobated. To make the
matter more preposterous, the Bill for enclosing this
popular public walk, is introduced into Parliament just
about the very time when Mr. BUCKINGHAM, sup-
ported by many Hon. Members, is proposing to make
public walks for the benefit of the inhabitants of our
larger and more crowded provincial towns ! We are
sure the House of Commons will never consent to the
passing of any measure that may have the effect of en-
closing all, or any portion, of the neighbourhood of
Primrose Hill. The suburbs of the metropolis are
not so abundant in green, airy, open fields that we can
afford to lose any one of them. We shall not lose
sight of this subject, but shall return to it as circum-
stances may require.

The inhabitants of Brighton participate strongly in
the dissatisfaction we expressed at the conduct of the
Government, in voting against the adoption of the Re-
port of the Select Committee on the London and
Brighton Railway Bill. They are justly in-
dignant at seeing their interests sacrificed to
the rivalry of ,Parliamentary jobbers, who care
nothing for the people, provided they can fill their own
purses at their expense ; and their indignation has ❑ot
abated on learning that the vote of the House of
Commons upon the Report, is likely to delay the
formation of any line of road for at least another
year. On Wednesday last the respectable inhabitants
of Brighton and its vicinity held a public meeting upon
this subject at the Town Hall, when, strange to say,
there was but one individual present—and he the
hired agent of a Company whose line the Committee
had rejected—to defend the vote of the House
of Commons ! Save this individual, the meeting
unanimously condemned the course taken by Minis-
ters with respect to the appointment of an engineer—
especially as it was well known to the Government
that 200,0001. had been already expended in survey',
law, and Parliamentary expenses.. The time for the
appointment of such an engineer was when the line
was first projected—not when the question has been
decided by a Parliamentary Committee.
Before the meeting separated, resolutions were passed
in favour of a petition to Parliament, praying the
House of Commons to adopt Sir JOHN RENNIE'S
line as " superior do all others and the presentation
of a memorial to Lord MELBOURNE, embracing
the subject of the petition, soliciting that those mem-
bers of the Government who have opposed this
line do withdraw their opposition. The pre-
sentation of the petition will be followed by
a debate, in which Ministers will be expected
to explain themselves more fully than they have
yet done. 'We will await this explanation before
again reverting to conduct so unprecedented and so
inexplicable, as that of voting in a body upon a private
Bill, involving such a heavy responsibility as that of
.I
the London and Brightonßailway.

We have received the whole of the Paris journals of
Wednesday. The following official intelligence had
been communicated to the French Government :
" PERPIGNAN, JUNE s.—The Baron de Meer has arrived
from Fraga at Lerida, which he again left on the Ist, with his
troops, in the direction of Balaguer. On the 4th it was be..
Herat at Scu d'Urgel that Don Carlos designed to penetrate
into Catalonia by Higher Arragon."
" BAYONNE, JUNE 6.—The Carlists, on the 3d, were still
at BarbastrO.

" General Oraa made a reconnoissance up to its gates.
The enemy, on the 2d, fell back into the town, which they
seem to be fortifying. Brigadier Grases, superior commander
of the province of Huesca, has taken up positions in the higher
parts of the Cinca, with the militia of the vallies.
Baron de Meer guards the left bank.

" Espartero has left Pampeluna for Arragon."
, These accounts are all exceedingly favourable to
the Constitutional cause. Private letters state that
the Carlists ars terribly alarmed, and that the Pre-
tender would give the contents of his military chest to
be back again in his old quarters at Estella. The
Arragonese and the Catalonians have refused to join
him, with the exception of a band of shirtless out-
casts raised by the Chieftain Rovo on the strength of a
promise to allow them to plunder without restraint.
This band, which reached the camp of Don CARLOS
naked, without arms or horses, and totally unac•

quainted with military discipline, consists of no more
than 1,500 wretches fit for nothing, save consuming
provisions and robbing hen-roosts. ROY() had en-
gaged to reinforce the army of the Pretender with
7,000 men well provided with arms, clothing, and ac-
coutrements, but his utmost exertions failed to raise
more than the " awkward squad," which we have de-
scribed above. What course the Pretender will adopt,
or rather will be compelled by circumstances to adopt,
is now very doubtful. If ESPA RTERO cross the Ar-
ragon and reach Huesca before the Carlists fall back
upon that town, to retreat will be as difficult as to ad-
vance. On all sides the Pretender is now so hemmed
in that he will be soon reduced to great straits for want
of provisions. To attempt the passage of the Ebro,
is now clearly impossible ; and if the QUEEN'S Gene-
rals take the proper steps the war may be finished at a
blow. A letter from Bedanis of the Ist inst. states, ( n
the authority of a rumour, that 630 of the vanguard
of the Carlist army, had fallen into an ambush, and
were, after a stout resistance, compelled to lay clown
their arms. The main body did not arrive in iiPle
to attempt their rescue. The same letter states that
the Navarrese were deserting in great numbers because
the Pretender had broken his promise of leading them
direct to Madrid. The Carlist Generals were appre-
hensive that, unless a retreat to Biscay could be se-
cured, they would desert in whole battalions, and re-
turn to the protection of their homes and families.
Of domestic news there is none of any interest in
the French Papers. In the Chamber of Deputies on
Tuesday the President of the Council, in a debate on
the colonial expenditure, stated that France could not
follow the example of England without incurring an
expense of nearly ten millions sterling—adding that
England had gained little by the Slave Emancipation
Act. This is a silly assumption. England was not
influenced solely by pecuniary considerations. She had
a higher object in view when she set the world an ex-
ample of philanthropy at a cost of twenty millions.
Besides, the result has been, all things considered,
most satisfactory.

FRENCH FUNDS -PARIS, Just 7.
Five per Cents., ICBf. 90c. 95c. 75c. 80c.
Four per Cent., 99f. 50c.
Three per Cents., 78f. 25c. 79f 75c.
Bank Actions, 2,440 f.
Rents de Naples, 97f. 10e. 971
Roman Five per Cents., 101
Spanish Actives, 251„34%14.
Spanish Passives, 5; %
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., int 34.
Brussels Society, 1,550 f. 1,552 f. 50c.
Belgian Bank, 1,410 f. 1,407 f. 50c. 1,405 f.
Haytian Loan, 310 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25c. 37%c.; money, 251. 35c
Three months, paper, 25f. 1754 c. ; money, -c
-(;ours Authentigue.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 109 E
Three per Cents. 78f. 35c.
Bank Actions, 2,4401.
llente de Naples, 97f. 20e.
Roman Five per Cents., 101%.
Belgian Loan, 101 N.
Brussels Bank, 1,4115 E
Portuguese Three per Cents., 29%.
Haytian Loan, 3201.
Spanish Actives, 2534.
Spanish Passives 5%.
Belgian Society, 1,552 f. 50c.
BELG lAN I. UNDS-Basissms, JUNE 7
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 10054
Loan of Thirty Millions 9l
Loan of City, 1832. 4 per Cent 99
Society of Commerce, 4 ssi per Cent l3l
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 139
- Brussels Papers, June 1.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-Viaxiss, MAY 3).
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1383
-Allgemeine Zeitung. June 4
rIAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JUNE 6.
Bills. Money.
Austrian Meteiques, 5 per cent.
Ditto eitto 4 per cent,
Dig"_ ditto 3 per cent.
rntto Bank Shares 1366 vim
Anglo-Russian Loan lO5 104;
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 46
Ditto, 3 per cent 2B
Dutch 25, per Cents. -
Ditto 5 per Cents
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
New Tickets l5O

Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 70% 704
Norwegian lAan of 1f3.34, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent
Greek t per cents. 1533, guaranteed by France 93 92%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
ilAmlitißo, JUNE!) —l3 14, ; two romiths, 13 8%.
BERLIN, JUNE 3.—Three rn•nths, 6. 23!i.
BREMEN, JUNE 2.—Two months, 805 6.
STOCKHOLM, MAY —Two months, 12 16.
—Hamburg Papers, June 6.

A letter from Berlin of the 29th ult. announces that
Duke CHARLES Of MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN has
formally resigned the Presidency of the Council cf
Prussia, and the command of the Royal Guards. The
Duke opposed the marriage of the Princess HELEN
and the Heir-apparent of the French Throne, on the
ground of the illegitimacy of the ORLEANS branch of
the BOURBON family ; but finding that he failed to
impress the KING with his views, he sent in his resig-
nation, which the Monarch at once accepted. The
death of M. ANCIL LON and the removal of Duke
CHARLES will probably lead to a change in the policy
of the Berlin Cabinet. The Baron de WERTHER,
who has been re-called from Paris to fill the office of
Foreign Affairs, is noted for the extreme liberality of
his views ; and as the KING is too far advanced in
years to encounter public odium by a longer resistance
to the popular will, an opinion prevails that the old
Legitimate system will be shortly abandoned altoge-
ther. Of course, FERDINAND and NICHOLAS will
protest and intrigue against any change calculated to
call into action the patriotism of the Poles and the
Hungarians.

Government have chartered three large vessels to
call at Greenock and convey one thousand of the distressed
Highlanders to Van Diemen's Land as settlers.—Greenock
Advertiser.

John Hocking, the celebrated Birmingham black-
smith, has delivered interesting lectures to crowded andicnces,
in various towns in this county, on what is called by advocates
of temperance, Total Abstinence, or Tee-totalism. Ile is to
give a fourth lecture at Boston this (Tuesday) evening, in the
Theatre, after which a society is to be formefi.—Lincoln Gaz.
Under the reigns of Elizabeth and James the First,
gambling with dice was a very general and prevalent vice.
Whetstone, in his " Enemy to Unthriftiness," describes a
hazard table as the invention and temple of the Devil; and
maintains, moreover, that the number of those diabolical temples
in London, exceeded that of those devoted to the worship of
the Deity. To illustrate the seductive and bewitching nature
of this vice, an old gambler is made to say that the first dice
were made of a witch's bones, and the first cards of her skin :
hence their magical influence.

Four young men were drowned in the Bay of Banff
last week.

The importance of opening and maintaining a steam
communication with India by the Red Sea has been formally
declared by a Committee of the House of Commons, as well
as advocated by those immediately interested in the welfare of
our Eastern Empire.

Mr. fleathcote's steam-plough, upon which 10,0001.
have ,been expended by that gentleman, will be exhibited in
operation at the Highland Society's Exhibition of Stock at
Dumfries, in October next. —Ayr Observer.

On Monday, C. Scarrer, a young man, was brought
up at the Court-house, charged with having assaulted his
mother on Sunday night, by striking her. The complainant
was a widow with a large family ; the prisoner had a good
business, but refused to labour, and assaulted his mother when
she could not find money sufficient to supply his extravagance.
—York Courant.

Accounts from the cider districts state that there is
at present the prospect of a great abundance of apples this
year.

CATTLE AND CORN.—I!I 1425, cows were valued
at about fifteen modern shillings each. In 1425 there was a
bad season ; wheat sold as high as 13s. 4d. modern money per
quarter. It soon, however, fell to 10;., which seems to have
been the medium price of that commodity.
On the 3d of this month a three-masted vessel was
seen at a distance from the coast of Scheveningen, but without
the possibility of approaching it, in danger of perishing off the
point called Holland's Point. No tidings have yet been heard
of the ship.—Dutch Paper.
This day is the anniversary of the birth of Eliza
Fenning, June 9, 1793, at the island of Dominica, qualified
by nature to fill a high station in life. Mr. William Fenning,
father of the never-to-be-forgotten Eliza Fenning, served 20
years in the army—was master of the band of the 15th Rezi-
ment of Foot. Eliza, his only child, perished on the scaffold
a lamentable victim of legal tyranny.
The erection of a riandsome pillar or column at Bath
is to be commenced forthwith, in commemoration of her Royal
Highness the Princess Victoria having attained her 18th year.
Previously to 1418, iron balls were not used for
cannon, as in that year there is an entry extant for making at
Maidstone, in Kent? seven thousand stone bullets for the King's
ordnanceq