The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-07 00:00:00

FOREIG.

Brazilian, 72% S - - ---
Buenos Ayres, 35 37
Chilian,
Colombian, 23%
Danish, 72% 73
French 5 per Cent. 104 S
Ditto 6 per Cent. 79% SO

The Hamburg steamer has arrived, by which we have
received the Hamburg Reporter of the 4th June, which
states that the Funds there have completely recovered the
ground they have lost, and a good deal of business has
been dose.

In the course of the day Expresses from Frankfort have
had the effect of raising Austrian and Polish securities.
The private letters from Holland this morning also bring
the Dutch Funds higher. Great damage was done in the
neighbourhood of Amsterdam on the 25th u!t. by a dread-
ful thunder storm, with a heavy fall of hail ; three persons
were killed by the lightning.
The Funds still continue heavy, although the estafette
from Paris brings the French Rentes higher than on Friday,
79f. 85c. Up to the present time the speculators on the
Stock Exchange are quite idle, not the least business of
any consequence doing.
The Toulon expedition, and the unfortuna.e state of
his Majesty, are the two features which at present excite
the public attention. We had a stock jobbing report of
there going to be a change in the Ministry, which, at pre-
sent, is without any foundation.

Console, during the morning, have been at 92k, alter-
nately buyers and sellers for the account, and, at present,
921- f.
In the Foreign Market there is also not a feature worth
the least observation. The prices are much the same as
on Saturday.

In Shares there is little doing.—Anglo.Mexican 551
6* ; Bolanos 185 95 ; Brazil 9i 10i ; Colombian 8 9 ;
National 291 91 ; United Mexican 15 16 ; Real del Monte
5961 ; St. John del Rey 7i 81 ; South Metropolitan Gas
2 per cent. premium.
7 HRE.E O' CL CK.

Consols, 92a i.

The reservoir in the Green-park which proved
to be so dangerous in its former exposed state during the
Spring, has been surrounded by a handsome and appropriate
cast-iron railing, at the expense of the Board of Works.

A well known partnership of distillers in the
neighbourhood of Holborn-hill, is renovating, or rather
entirely rebuilding their establishment. They are con-
structing two vats, which are each to hold eleven thousand
gallons. Thus two hundred puncheons of British spirits
will be deposited in these enormous vessels.

The two remaining shops in Farringdon-
street, which formed a part of the old Fleet•market, were
levelled to the ground on Saturday, and thus the entire
space from Holborn to Fleet-street is cleared of houses,
leaving an uninterrupted view from Holborn-bridge to the
Surrey side of the Thames. It is to be hoped that the
march of improvement will be accelerated in this quarter,
and that the street will not be allowed to remain long in
its present neglected state.

Defendants may pay money into Court in
lieu of bail," according to a clause added to the Adminis-
tration of Justice Bill, by the Committee thereon ; and
take the same out on perfecting special bail.

BENTLEY enjoyed smoking tobacco with his
constant companion—a practice which he did not begin
before his 70th year. Ile is stated to have been an ad.
mirer of good port wine, while he thought contemptuously
of claret, which he said "would be port if it could."—
Life of Bentley.

What infatuation, what nonsense, (says a
modern French writer), to talk of the lessons of expe-
rience ! Men profit nothing by experience, and will con-
tinue to the end of the chapter the mere playthings of the
same passions, and the victims of the same errors.

INGENUITY OF RATS.—In a cellar belonging
to the Ale and Porter Brewery, at Falkirk, over which is
a granary, an instance of ingenious contrivance by the
rats was discovered the other day. It appears that these
little topers, finding the flavour of the Falkirk ale excel-
lently suited to their taste, hold nocturnal debauches,
when they regale themselves, after a feast upon the grain
up stairs, by tippling from any bottles that may happen
to be broken or spilt. A bottle which happened to have
a small hole broken in one side, near the neck, just large
enough to allow them to " dip their whiskers or their
tail in," held out a tempting prize ; but the liquor not
being full to the top, a curious mode was had recourse to.
Filling their cheek pouches with wheat, and successively
emptying it through the aperture, the ale naturally rose
high enough to admit of the animals drinking ; and this
plan had been persevered in until the bottle was quite filled
with grain, and its generous contents completely quaffed
off.—Scotsman.

DUTCH SPORTS.—An amusement, very sin-
gular in its nature, is kept up at Namur annually. The
young men of the two parts of the town, called the old
and the new, assemble before the town-house, mounted
on stilts, and having marshalled themselves in two oppos-
ing battalions under regular leaders, commence a contest
of a most extraordinary kind ; each party endeavouring,
by the exertions of the elbows and legs of the combatants,
to drive back the other. The engagement sometimes
continues for several hours, while the female relatives of
the contending parties cheer on and encourage them in
their exertions. It is said that PETER the Great, of
Russia, took peculiar delight in being a spectator of this
strange combat ; as also, that one of the Dukes of BUR-
GUNDY exempted the brewers from the payment of excise,
in testimony of the pleasure it afforded him.—Dr, Lard-
ner's Cabinet Cyclopedia.