The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-12 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
We are short of arrivals this morning, consequently there
is a great dearth of news in the city.

THE FUNDS.

Consols were heavy in the course of yesterday, although
money was very plentiful, and first rate bills were discounted
at the rate of 3 per cent. by the bankers. A large amount
of Stock was brought to market, supposed to pay the cost
of the recent elections ; but after the sales were effected,
the market rather improved, and Consols closed at 91 3 for
Money, and at 91* 3 for the Account ; opened this morning
at 9114 for the Account. Exchequer Bills 47 49 prem. ;
India Bonds 47 49 prem. ; Bank Stock 2101 ; India do.,
258 3.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 21
ex-coupons ; opened at the same price. Portuguese closed
very heavy at 393 40 owing to the unfavourable accounts
from Lisbon ; but the prevailing opinion is that the Queen
and troops will re-establish the Charter of Don Pedro.
Three per Cents. Portuguese 253 ; Dutch 21 per Cents.,
521
HALF-PAST ONE.
We continue in the same dull state as in the morning, and
very little doing in either of the Funds.
Consols, which were in the morning9ll 3, may be quoted
rather lower at 913 for the Account ; Money, 911 ; Ex-
chequer Bills, 47 49 ; India Bonds, 47 49 ; Bank Stock,
2103 ; India, 2581 ; Spanish Active, 413 ex-Coupons ;
Portuguese lower, 393 ; Three per Cents, 25 ; Columbian,
243 ; Dutch Twe-and-a-Half per Cents, 52a
THREE O' CLOCK.
Consols for th• Account, 513.

Lord Robert Grosvenor is gone to try the effects of
the German Spa, being in very delicate health.
His Excellency Count Pozzo di Borgo, the Rus-
sian Ambassador, embarked at Dover on Thursday, on
bard her Majesty's packet Swallow, for Calais, under a
salute from the guns at the Heights.
Sir Coutts Trotter and family will leave Grosvenor-
square next week. The worthy Baronet has been seriously
ill, but is now out of dangcr.
BLINDNESS.—Those who are pining away in dar
misery, waiting with hope deferred for eventual but un
certain relief, from a formidable and dangerous operation,
when the cataract is ripe, may now dispel their doubts and
fears, and indulge the confident and cheering anticipation
of restoration to sight by submitting without delay to the
admirable, singularly mild, and efficacious substitute for
couching, most interestingly detailed in the popular work on
cataract, advertised in another column of our paper.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE RIVER THAMES.--
Last night, between nine and ten o'clock, a fatal and me-
lancholy accident occurred off Hungerford-market to a fine
young man of the name of Reeves, 18 years of age, son of
Mrs. Reeves, a widow, a market-gardener at Covent-garden
market : and William Gill, another young man, his com-
panion, in the employ of Mr. Biggs, also a market-gardener.
It appears that they both left Covent-garden market for
the purpose of bathing, after having received the fruit and
vegetables for the day's market, and proceeded to Hunger-
ford-stairs, where they procured a boat in order to bathe.
They had not been long out before cries of help were heard,
and several boats put off to their assistance, but from it
being dark they could not receive assistance in sufficient
time, and both were drowned. The bodies were afterwards
found, when one was conveyed to Mr. Staunton's, surgeon,
Strand ; and the other to Mr. Hunt's, of the Savoy Palace ;
but the most assiduous efforts to restore animation proved
unavailing, and the bodies now lie for the Coroner's inquest.
COAL HOLE TAVERN STRAND.—This old esta-
blished and highly respectable place of public amusement con-
tinues to draw from all quarters. It is crowded every night
by Noblemen and Gentlemen, who, we need hardly say,
evince the highest gratification from the well conducted and
unrivalled convivial meetings. The singing is, as it always
has been, of the first order. The wines and spirits are of
the choicest quality.
Yesterday, in compliiance with a requisition, nume-
rously and respectably signed, to the High Sheriff, Sir
Hyde Parker, a public meeting of the gentry, clergy, and
inhabitants of the county of Suffolk, was held at Stow-
market, " for the purpose of voting an Address of Condo-
lence to her most gracious Majesty, upon the death of the
late King, and of loyal and dutiful congratulation upon her
Majesty's accession to the Throne of these realms." The
meeting was attended by about a thousand persons. We
learn from the Bucks Gazette that a meeting has been held
at Aylesbury also to present Addresses to her Majesty,
Queen V:ctoria, and the Queen Dowager Adelaide.
NOSOLOGICAL DISCOVERY —Here is glorious
news for all parents whose children are possessed of noses !
We always thought that the nose was meant for higher
purposes than mere sneezing, and now the secret is out. So
says an Eastern paper :—" Important to Nurses.—We
have been much amused by beholding one of the readiest
modes of silencing squalling children we remember to have
either heard or read of So desirable a piece of knowledge
is worthy of being universally known, and we therefore give
it publicity. Take the child in its cross fits, and press your
finger gently and repeatedly across the cartilage of the
nose, and in less than a minute it will be asleep."—Ameri-
can Paper.
The dispute respecting prices is likely to be amica-
bly and satisfactorily settled.—Coventry Herald.
Baron Bulow, who took his leave a few days since
of the Queen, has been detained by the non-arrival of his
First Secretary, who has been at the Baths of Marienbad.
This gentleman, Baron Seckendorf, arrived on Tuesday,
was presented on Thursday, and the Baron leaves by the
next liamburgh steam-boat.
ATHENS, JULY 6 —We have received from Pera
the joyful intelligence that the plague has totally disappeared.
The accounts from Maina are also favourable. According
to a report from Major Fedder, the troubles there are sup-
pressed.—Dutch Paper.
A report of the death of the Earl of Carlisle has
been very current in this town, and has obtained some
credence. We have been unable to ascertain whether
there is any foundation for the report, or it is one of the
idle rumours which gut spread over the country no 'one
knows how. If true, the melancholy event will cause a va-
cancy in the West Riding of Yorkshire, by the succession
of Lord Morpeth to the rank and title of his father.—
Blackburn Standard.
About three weeks ago a prisoner contrived to
effect his escape from the General Penitentiary, at Mill-
bank. The enterprise was ingeniously planned and boldly
executed. Short, however, was his triumph. After prowling
about in constant dread of 'detteCtion, he was yesterday given
up by some of his depraved associates, and safely lodged in
his old quarters, having experienced how little trust is to
be placed in those who are only banded together by the ties
of wickedness, and how ready they arc, like the master they
serve, to leave one another in the lurch. The inducement
in this instance was the reward offered by Government.

At Loughborough, on Wednesday (the Blue
election day) the ringers were ringing the bells, when, all of
a sudden, it was found that the tenor, or sixth bell, had been
so much cracked, that it must be taken down and re-cast, or
a new one substituted in its place. The weight of the bell
is 28/ cwt.
The intimidation at the recent elections has com-
pelled many persons to become converts to the Ballot. We
allude to the addresses in Montgomeryshire, especially those
of Colonel Edwards, Captain Thruston, and Sir W. Rouse
Boughton.
A man of the name of Robinson fell a sacrifice to
intemperance at Witton, in this county, last week. He had
drank excessively, and was much intoxicated. On the fol-
lowing morning he repeated his visit to the liquor vault, and
again drank a quantity of rum, atter which he suddenly ex-
pired. —Ch ester Chronicle.
THE SCHOOLMASTER WANTED.-At a shop in
Drury-lane is to be seen a bill in the window, which states
that " Redy nmead starch is ailways to bee had heare has
cheap has at any lions in the neyborhood, unuens, cowcom-
bers, and other lcindes of pieels—also red Kerins to for three
hapcnsc."