The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-01 00:00:00

TIIE FUNDS.

Consols were buoyant during the morning of yesterday,
and at one period reached 91i for the Account ; but in
the afternoon they were not quite so good, and closed at
Money continues abundant, at an easy rate of
discount. _

Consols opened this morning at the above price ; for
Money the same ; at present, 914 - ; Money, 91
Exchequer Bills, 50 52 prem. ; India Bonds, 50 52 prem. ;
Bank Stock, 210 211.

Spanish Bonds, which closed at 211 ex-coupons, opened
at 23 with the coupons ; Passive, 5i ; Deferred, 8 to 8* ;
Portuguese,4l to 41k ; Three per Cents., 26i; Dutch Two
and a Half, .53i 4.
The settlement of the Foreign Account, which took
place yesterday, has gone off well, there being no failure.
Indeed, so very little credit is given, with the exception of
the first-rate members of the house, that it is generally a very
easy settlement.
RALF-PAST ONE.

Notwithstanding half a million of money stock was
thrown on the market in the course of last week, Consols
continue very firm to the present time, and may be quoted
at 914 ; buyers for Money, 911 ; Exchequer Bills, 51 53
prem. , India Bonds, 52 51 prem. ; Bank Stock, 210
211 ; India Stock, 2581.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Stock is also
very buoyant, owing to two circumstances—first, the re-
treat of Don Carlos, closely followed by General Oraa ;
second, to a general report in circulation of a commercial
treaty with Spain, having for its object a loan of two or
three millions sterling, guaranteed by the British Govern-
ment, to be repaid by a duty of 20 per cent. on British ma-
nufacture entering into the ports of Spain ; such duties to
he paid in England on the shipment of the goods. Spanish
Active Stock firm at 231 with Coupons ; Portuguese
41 ; 3 per Cents., 26/ ; Colombian 25 ; Dutch 2 4 per
Cents., 53 *
THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols for the Account, 1014.

On Monday night last, Thomas Kermode, aged 21,
engineer at the Mersey iron and steel works, belonging to
Messrs. Tomlinson, Horsfall, and Co., met with a sudden and
shocking death. A forgeman, named Adam Billing, having
gone into the engine-room, found the deceased with his right
leg fast jammed between the fly wheel and the engine pit.
The wheel was going round, and every spoke of it struck
against his head as it passed. An alarm being given, the
engine was stopped, but the wall had to be taken down before
he could be got out. He was of course quite dead. The
body was thee taken to the house of his father in Com,
berrnere-street, where an inquest was held upon it on Thurs-
day.—Liverpool Chronicle.
The salmon fishing in the Tay, although somewhat
improved of late, has, on the whole, been successful ; but on
Monday last there was a take on the station betwixt the Friar-
ton and the mouth of the Earn quite unexampled for many
years. In the course of the morning of that day nearly 4,000
salmon and grilses were taken on the station within the places
mentioned, a distance little more than three miles I At the
Earl of Wemyss's fishings alone about 1,200 were caught.
This week, on the lower stations, great numbers continue to
be caught ; but the upper stations are suffering from the foul-
ness of the river, caused by the recent rains, which prevent the
fish getting far up.—Berwick Advertiser.

The " golden influences," so rife now in this coun -
try, have prevailed in the ancient borough of Brecknock. Mr.
Morgan, the late Tory Member, has been returned by a majo-
rity of 54—a number never even calculated upon by the most
strenuous adherents—paid or unpaid—of his party. Treachery
has aided the cause of injustice.—Silurian.

Within the past week Leicester has signalized itself
by a triumph which will go far towards atoning for the political
corruption for which the Tory party have of late years made it
disgracefully eminent among the most infamous municipal
bodies in the country. A blow has been struck in this town,
the report of which will reverberate to the utmost limits of the
United kingdom, and will carry encouragement and joy to
every patriotic subject in the realm. The corruptors and the
corrupted, the slave driver and the slave, have been mingled in
a total and final overthrow.—Leicestershire Mercury.

A fatal occurrence, leading to the loss of two lives,
happened at Little Malvern, on Saturday last. The unfortu-
nate sufferers were two labourers engaged in the improvements
of the road now in progress over the Wych in that parish. It
seems that having laid a train of powder for the blasting of a
portion of the rock, it did not ignite so readily as they ex-
pected, and they had approached to ascertain the cause, when
the mine suddenly exploded, scattering the rock in all direc-
tions. T. Cox, one of the men, had his skull fractured, and was
killed on the spot, and the other man was so seriously injured,
that he died in three hours after the accident. —Worcester
Herald. •
THE TEA TRADE (MONDAY.)—The deliveries
last week were only 383,500 lbs. The private trade sales will
conclude to-morrow. They have gone off with much heaviness.
At Aberdeen the herring fishery exceeds that of last
year, and premises to be most abundant. At the other stations
on the east coast the fishing is much about an average of
what it has been for the last two years at this tine—rather, if
any thing deficient, perhaps. At Wick an abundant fishing is
anticipated. There are GOO boats employed there in the
trade ; some of them have been very suceessful.—ilberdeen
Herald.
A certain parson at Peterhead has been making him-
self rather ridiculous, within these few days, by attacking some
of of hTishmeertbeeforsnonfesressosironfor
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of his character as a gentleman and a man. honour,oflih
admiration
and of his talents and integrity as their representative in Par-
liament.

Majority for Macleod l9
INVERBERVIE BURGHS, JULY 29.
P. Chalmers Esq.

ELECTIONS FIXED.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (Nonm).--Auguit 4, T. Houlds.
worth, Esq. (T.) ; H. G. Knight, Esq. (T.) ; G. S. Fol.
jambe, Esq. (R.)
WATERFORD ( COUNTY).—August 9.
EDINBURGHSHIRE.—August I arid 2. Sir G. Clerk (T.)
W. G. Craig, Esq. (R.)

THE EAIIL OF DERBY.—It is quite true tijat this
patriotic nobleman would feel obliged by his tenants voting for
the Reform candidates for the county, and that Mr. Statter,
his agent, wrote a letter to that effect to Mr. Peet, of Orms-
kirk ; it is equally true that the publication of the letter was
not authorized by Mr. Statter, who has indeed complained of
that circumstance. Still Lord Derby and his tenants are for-
Stanley and Towneley. —Liverpool Albion.
Very extensive alterations and improvements are now
being made in the Welch School, Gray's Inn-road, with a
view to the reception of a larger number of children, natives
of the Principality, or descendants of such, into this excellent
institution, which is one of the best conducted and most ex-
tensively patronised of the charitable establishments in the
metroplis.

On Wednesday morning last the body of Mr. Johm
Richardson, clerk at the Lambton Coal Staiths, at this pore,
was found in the river Wear, near this town, Sunder/a; sit
Chronicle.

The action for calumny brought by Mr. WilF.am
Long Wellesley against M. Dons Saints will be tried on
Saturday, August 5, before the Court of Assize of the; pro-
vince of Brabant, which will be held at Brussels. P,y what
we can learn the proceedings will be interesting.— russels
Paper.
There is a strange article in yesterday's Observer,
accusing Mr. Hume, Mr. Crawford, and Colonel 7.'hompson,
of a secret and disgraceful compact with the Gomrnment, to
deprive constituencies of a free choice of Members. We are
surprised that our Liberal contemporary could, lend the
smallest countenance to a charge so obviously unjust and
groundless. It twenty years of unbought and faithful servicie
to the country, cannot protect Mr. Hume from such an imps -
tation, all confidence in public men is at an end. Scotsman..
If the crack-brained conduct of the monster Kind;
of just one million of divided Hanoverians had not opened t tt e
tehyeesscoefneesvewryhiTchortyoodkuppelacwehothcisouwledekeaartnthheis
etaton fordihone t stl? ;
borough of Merthyr Tydfil, would do much to forward aco -
summation so " devoutly to be wished."--Silurian.
Liverpool is, indeed, disgraced : she stands on .a
bad pre-eminence amongst all the large constituencies of th, e
land, as retrograding towards the darkness from which yr
fondly thought that she was emancipated for ever.
On Friday upwards of one hundred and eighty smai I
whales, averaging from fifteen to twenty-two feet in length ,
were captured near Ardmaddy, the Marquis of Breadalbane
residence in Argyleshire. They were pursued by a numb" ,r
of boats for several miles up and down the Sound of Seil,
and were at last driven into a narrow part, within a hum" ted
yards of the very place where a whale, eighty feet long,. was
taken three years ago. Here the boats closed upon then", and
not one was allowed to escape. With the exception o' f two
men who were slightly hurt, and a boat which one of the); argest
of the whales broke to pieces with its tail, the car.tors ca me off scathless. The chase, whilst it lasted, was truly excitie g, and
was witnessed by the Marchioness of Bread:albane, a .nd her
sister Miss Baillie, who happened to be out in a bars a at the
time. —Kelso Chronicle.
A trotting match for 5/. aside came off ant Friday
last, on the turnpike road leading from Crooklands to Kirkby
Lonsdale, betwixt a dun pony belonging to a gentlt man of
Melling, and a grey mare from Middleton : distal ,ce two
miles. The odds at starting were on the mare, but, iowever,
to the complete discomfiture of the knowing ones, the! lan), beat
her by 100 yards.

LEITI-I.—DEATII OF 64 DUCK MAITTE::
singular half-witted being, so well known at Leith as Duck
Maitie, has at last paid the debt of nature. Marge
.ret Sed-
ley, who having perambulated its shores for more •
than half
a century, earned the sobriquet of Duck, or Doe) Maitie,
from her constant practice of wandering about the t Jocks, was
a strange compound of simplicity and shrewdness, quaint
humour and stupidity. She made a livelihood by picking up
old ropes, rags, &c., and was an immense favotto; ite with the
sailors, being held by them in superstitious reveres' ce; so that
her good opinion was always secured by presents.,__ .m fsaltcp
broken biscuit, or other sea stores. Mathes a sing, hen.-
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—Scotsni an.On Sunday morning a very alarming fire broke
out in the Bromley starch mills, near Bow, in Essex, -which
spread with frightful rapidity, and but for its timely die cove/
would have occasioned a loss of some thousands of p, punch.
Information was forwarded to the station-house of the MI
police at Bow, and the parish engine was set to work,
4a
aided by a. good supply of water at hand, succeeded ins cm, e-
what arresting the progress of the devastating element tii ti 8
arrival of the London engines when, by the combined e;xer -
tions of the firemen and the valuable assistance afforded them '
the fire was fortunately extinguished, before it reached th
machinery. The day watchman, it appears, first discovery,
the fire, which originated through the overheating of n.
ing-stove in one of the warehouses.
On Friday week a hasty of gentlemen, composed ' Mr. E. B. Hawker, son of General Hawker, Dr. Reid °fLondon, Mr. Miles I
,of London, Mr. D. Taylor, and 6
Tilbury, jun., embarked at Guernsey on board a small ya ,
called the Louisa, and went over to the island of Sark on
pleasure. On their return, about eight o'clock in the ev•
ing, and when off l'lle des Marchands, Mr. Hawker, who vas
standing near the rigging, saw some sea-gulls hovering abs 'L.III
the vessel, and called out to one of the gentlemen to shoot t be
birds, with this remark__" I do not think there are any sh, itg
in the gun." Upon his saying so, one of the company to, )it,'
held of the gun by the muzzle and raised it in an inclini•si
direction, as if to ascertain whether there were any shots i1t.51 •
or not, and at that moment it exploded ; and, as Mr. Hawk'
,r
had his arm raised at the time, the whole of the conte'
lodged in the pit of the right arm, and he fell a lifeless co, pso
into the arms of Mr. Tilbury. The deceased was abor
t 15
years of age, and was married to Major Johnstone's da,r ghtef
in November last,