The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-25 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

As yet there is very little doing either in the British or Fo-
reign Markets, owing to the scarcity of information received
since the defeat of General Evans. The speculators in the
Foreign Market are waiting for another telegraphic dispatch
before they commence operations of consequence.

Consols opened this morning at Hi for the Account;
Exchequer Bills, 26 28 ; India Bonds, 26 27.
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In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 2l} i; Passive,
tip ; Deferred, 94; Portuguese, 47i 48; Three per Cents.,
304 311; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 324 53.
The Calpe steamer is arrived from Gibraltar, Cadiz, and
Lisbon.

HALF-PAST ONE.

The Calpe steamer, which had sailed from Lisbon, was
obliged to return again, after using all her coals, owing to
the North winds, but sailed on the 16th inst. She brings ac-
counts that, in the National Congress, two proposals were made
by Ministers—the one for the voluntary consolidation of the
floating debt of the country—the other that the Minister of Fi-
nance waited upon her Majesty, in company with her
lady in waiting, and begged that she would sign a docu-
ment in contradiction to the statement of the violent
article in the Correio, which declared that her Majesty was
coerced by her Ministers. Her Majesty replied she was sur-
prised be could ask such a thing. Every paper had a right to
advocate freely its own principles, which she would never at-
tempt to question. It is said that Viscount Sada Bandeira
will be accused in the Cortes for the nomination of General
Palmcrium as Civil Governor of the disturbed provinces.
There is a rumour that plans are being concerted for public
disturbances on the 4th of next month—it being the birth-day
of the Queen, when a review of the National Guards will take
place.
By the New York Papers of the 24th ult., it appears that a
considerable decline has taken place in Foreign Exchanges.
Negociations on London were generally made for the Packet
at 9to 91, and closed at 9f, with many sellers. On France,
5 francs, 22i cents.
There was a large amount of bills re-
maining unsold - and even at the reduced rates there were but
few buyers. Discounts have varied from Ito 11 per cent. per
month, and Money in urgent request at these rates. There
has been much conversation in Wall-street for some days past
on the'subject of calls for Specie, made by the Philadelphia
Banks on those of New York.

Consols have been during the morning at 901 s for the
Account, and 90k for Money, with little doing ; Exchequer
Bills, 27 30, 28 prem. ; India Bonds, 28, 26 prem.
In the Foreign Market little doing. They are occupied in
the Stock Exchange in electing a new annual Committee ;
Spanish Active, 21 IT, improved since the morning ; Passive,
6f i; Deferred 84 4 ; Portuguese, 47+ 3 per Cents.,
30k; Dutch 2} per Cents., 524
Consols for the Account, 934 S.

THREE O'CLOCK.

The French plays commence on Monday evening,
at tile Theatre Royal, the Lyceum, under the spirited direc.
tion of the lessee of Old Drury, with several popular valade-
vines, in which M. Lafont, of the Theatre du Vaudeville at
Paris, and Mons. and Madame Allan, of the Theatre du
Gymnase, will make their first appearance before a London
audience.

Sheridan Knowles and his pupil, Miss Elphinstone,
have been performing during the past week at Glasgow, in
his last play of the Wrecker's Daughter. Their return to the
Scottish city was cordially greeted, and their performance
most enthusiastically received. Mr. Knowles was called for
at the conclusion of the play, and briefly returned thanks for
the honour conferred upon them.

Unusually large flights of wild fowl have passed
over the eastern coast, which is attributed to the prevalence of
severe north easterly winds during the past fortnight. In
several parts of the country the ponds have been frozen over,
and the thermometer has suffered a greater depression than at
any time during the snow storm prevalent in this strange
winter.

Accident has furnished an excellent recipe for de-
stroying amts. A merchant, whose warehouses were infested
by those destructive insects, remarked on a sudden that they
bad deserted one particular room ; and observation having:con-
vinced him that the circumstance was caused by a barrel of fish
oil, which had been placed there, he tried the, experiment of
placing some of the oil round the plants in his garden, when he
found it produce the effect of driving the ants from the place
in a few hours.—French Paper.

" Our General says that Don Carlos is a Pretender,"
exclaimed an Irishman in the retreat at St. Sebastian, " but,
by the piper that played before Moses, if he be only a Preten-
der now, what will he be when he is in earnest!"

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SIR HARRY VERNEY.—It is conjectured that in
the event of a dissolution, an attack on the independence of
Buckingham will be attempted, and an effort will be made by
the high Tory party, to eject Sir Harry Verney from its re-
presentation.—Bucks Gazette.

" Going the whole hog" is an expression of recent
origin. It has come into use from the " barbecue" of the
West, which is a hog, or ox, or bear, roasted whole, for large
dinner parties consisting of men only—as in England in cele-
brating the coming of age of young men of rank and fortune.
" Do you give joints or barbecue ?" " Oh, we go the whole
hog." That is the manner in which the phrase came into use.
On Saturday last considerable excitement prevailed
in Dundee, in consequence of a report having been circulated
that on the day previous a respectable farmer had been mur-
dered in the neighbourhood of that town. The names of the
parties have not yet been publicly disclosed ; but, in reference
to the murder, the Dundee Courier of Tuesday last observes :
It is with feelings of the most painful description that we
give publicity to the fact of a murder having been perpetrated
a few miles to the eastward of this town, which will plunge two
respectable families, in a rank of life seldom the scene of such
occurrences, into the deepest and most poignant misery. We
refrain from giving utterance to what we have heard, notwith-
standing its being fully supported by authentic information,
because we fondly hope that when the judicial inquiries in
progress shall have been completed, some extenuating circum-
stances will interpose to rescue an unhappy young man from
the consequences of the horrific crime of which it is but too
much to be dreaded he has been guilty. Without mentioning
names, the following is a brief statement of the facts :—On
Friday last, a young man, residing at a farm near Muirdrum,
stabbed a neighbouring farmer in his mother's house. The
person wounded died on Sunday morning, and the culprit has
fled. lie is a young man of considerable property. In our
next we shall be able to sift the matter to the bottom. The
officers of justice are in hot pursuit, and it is scarcely possible
that the fugitive can escape.