The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-17 00:00:00

COLOMBIAN BONDS.

TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE
OF COLOMBIAN BONDHOLDERS.
Sia,—As it appears that the Colombian States are about
to come to some terms with the British Creditors, I consider
that the more simple the arrangements are, the more satis-
factory it will be to the Creditors, and the more beneficial
to the credit of the Colombian States, while the carrying
the same into effect will be attended with much less ex-
pense ; therefore, instead of making a Deferred Stock at
once, as proposed at the late meeting, which would eventu-
ally
create nine different descriptions of Stock (three to each
State), I beg leave to suggest the fidlowing plan for the
consideration of the Committee, as being in accordance with
what I have above stated, viz. :
That each State shall be bound to remit sufficient funds,
according to the proposed allotment of its proportion of
the debt, as shall be enough to pay the first dividend that
became due ; i. e., those Coupons payable on the 15th July,
1826, and Ist Nov., 1826, on the Ist Jan., 1838 ; those
payable on the 15th Jan., 1827, and Ist May, 1827, on the
Ist Jan., 1839. The next half year's to be paid on the Ist
Sept., 1839, and a further one every eight months during
the four following years ; at the expiration of which, the
full 6 per cent. to be regularly paid, and the arrears of divi-
dends to be then funded, not at par, but say 10 per cent.
above the average price that the Bonds may bear in the
London market for the month or two months previous to
the conversion.

This arrangement would allow ample time for the adjust-
ment of all differences between the three States, as to the
proportion of the debt to be allotted to each, and then there
will be no difficulty in having new Bonds delivered by the
respective States for their proportion of the amount of the
old Bonds, and the arrears of interest that may then remain
due upon them ; the commencement of the payment of in-
terest on the latter of which might, if necessary, be deferred
for two years. An inducement would be here held out to
the Colombian States to pay, if possible, an extra dividend
for the last year or two, as, by so doing, they would raise
their credit materially, the advantages of which they would
reap in the greatly improved priceS at which they would be
able to fund the arrears.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
T. A. R.

Jan. 16, 1837.

Admiral Ross Donelly, Admiral A ustin, and Ad-
miral Munly are to be raised immediately to the dignity of
Knights Commanders of the Bath. •

Everybody is talking about " Henrietta Temple,"
and remarking upon the author's pictures, or caricatures,
of the remarkable and well-known characters about the
clubs and gaming-houses, and in the fashionable circles.
Of at least one individual, who is understood to have rea-
lised a vast fortune in a very short space of time by supe-
rior skill and grdat natural talent, Mr. D'lsraeli's sketches
are generally very correct. The party referred to bears,
in this work, the appellation of Mr. Bond Sharp, and the
author has hit off his character and personal appearance to
the very life.—Dispatch.

Last Thursday afternoon an Irishman entered the
Roman Catholic chapel in Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn-
fields, and committed several outrageous attacks on one of
the Priests, who was standing near the altar, and would in
all probability have murdered him, had he not fortunately
released himself from the man's grasp, and taken refuge in
the private house belonging to the chapel. The man
amused himself for some time breaking down the backs of
the pews, and throwing at the chandelier suspended from
the ceiling. The beadle arrived with assistance from the
Bow-street station-house, when it required the force of seven
men to eject him from the chapel, and place him in custody.
Who the person is has not been ascertained, but that he is
in a state of madness there cannot be the slightest doubt.
The Priest and beadle's clothes were nearly torn from their
backs, and the damage done to the interior of the chapel is
said to exceed 50/.

MR. O'CONNELL AT BANBUR I.—We are not
a little astonished at finding the following exceedingly
foolish and illiberal paragraph in the Northampton Chroni-
cle :—" On Tuesday last, just at dusk, a dark-green car-
riage entered the gateway of the White Lion. The waiter
ran out, and, when he opened the door, he found inside
nothing but a thick walking stick, and a dirty pair of gloves.
T:e driver refused to give any account of the persons whom
he had brought to town. After remaining about three
hours, he went out for a short time, and, on returning, put
his horses to, and drove off. We were satisfied there was
some mystery, some Whig-radical trickery in this, and de-
termined to unravel it, and to the dismay of our jobbing,
self-elected, popish, infidel, town councillors, we have suc-
ceeded most completely. The person who came in that
carriage was set down at the end of the town, and was no
other than the Member for all Ireland. Yes, the virtual
head of the crim-Connell administration, on that evening,
visited Banbury. He proceeded to the house of one of
the aldermen ; a special meeting of the Council was imme-
diately summoned, the great agitator attended, and shortly
after eight o'clock his carriage drove up South Bar-street,
and opposite to the monument, he got into it and departed.
We, ourselves, saw an individual of immense proportions
standing before the popish chapel now building, near to the
above spot, evidently surveying it with great satisfaction ;
but we then little thought that the blackest heart in the
British dominions was polluting this, before sufficiently de-
based, town with his presence," &c. &c.

In consequence of the progress made in the system
of education, the municipality of Paris has made a change
in the Jury or Committee for examining governesses as to
their qualifications, and has determined that a female shall
henceforth form one of the Jury. Governesses will have to
undergo three examinations. The first in grammar, arith-
metic, and sacred history ; the second in geography and
the history of France ; and the third in general history,
logic, and literature.—.Galignani.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—At eight o'clock Friday
night an inquisition was held before Mr. Hig,s, at the Rose
and Crown, Crown-street, Soho, on the body of Auguste
Dubuisson, aged 20, who destroyed himself by firing a
pistol into his head. About fire o'clock in the morning of
Friday, Mrs. Elizabeth Stroud, egg-dealer, of 17, Graf-
ton-street, Soho, was asleep in the room behind the shop,
when she was awoke by a noise outside. She thought from
the noise more than one person was there, and that they
were attempting to break in. The violence against the door
was such as to make a small bell attached ring, and forced
off a small bolt. She sat up in the bed in alarm, and after
about ten minutes she heard the report of a pistol, and all
was immediately quiet. On going into the shop she saw
blood flowing in under the door. Mrs. Cheeseman, a
lodger, opened the street door, and found the unfortunate man
lying dead. Previous to the discharge of the pistol, she
heard a pacing up and down before the door, but thinks it
was of only one person. The Rev. Dr. Niblock, Princi,
pal of the London High School, said the deceased had for
the last six months been professor of French and Geometry
in his school, and had been diligent, patient, and singularly
meek throughout. He was a Roman Catholic. He left
witness at the commencement of the vacation, on the 20th
of December, and then received a check for his quarter's
stipend, but which he never presented. He was when he
left in perfect health and in high spirits. Witness never
saw any symptom of aberration of mind in him. The fa-
ther, who was evidently deeply affected, had not seen his
son for three months, having been in Paris during the
greater part of the interval. Friday morning, by the
first Twopenny-post delivery, he received a letter in his
son's handwriting, the substance of which was that he was
tired of life ; that it was a burden to him, and that in his
distress and perplexity death alone could solve the question.
Verdict—Temporary Insanity. _ _

. ,
epidemicTHE INFLUENZA.—The epinec so extensively
prevailing in the metropolis exhibits at present no signs of
abatement. It is observed that in places situated low
its attacks are far more severe than those on a higher
elevation. About Hampstead the aspect it assumes is
comparatively mild, and differing little from the common
catarrh. The courts of law are deserted by most of the
leading counsel, and various important motions, &c.,
stand over in consequence. More than one remedy for this
distressing malady has been recommended, but the follow-
ing has been communicated by an experienced medical man
as the simplest and surest in its effects. Keep the bowels
in a state of gentle relaxation, and take at bed-time a basin
of hot sweetened gruel, in which must be mixud a tea-
spoonful of ipecacuanha wine, and the same quantity of
sweet spirits of nitre. It taken in time this specific will
speedily throw off the complaint. Antimony has been re-
commended in the place of ipecuanba, but the former is much
more variable in its action, and is less to be depended upon.
At twelve o'clock on Sunday night, Mr. Charles
Cornell discovered a fire on his farm buildings at Brook-
street farm, near Halstead. The house is at a short dis-
tance from the buildings, and on Mr. Cornell arriving at
them, two barns, cattle-sheds, cart-lodges, a granary, stable,
and a cottage adjoining, were all in flames at the same mo-
ment. It is supposed that the fire took place in the thatch
of a barn adjoining the road; the wind being high at the
time, the flames spread rapidly. Mr. Cornell's loss consists
of a stack of barley, a stack of straw, a stack of haulm,
twelve loads of wheat, a great quantity of barley and seeds
in the granary, numerous sets of harness, and two fine
horses, which were totally destroyed. The people in the
cottage were so paralysed with, fright, that they were
obliged to be dragged out of the place. The 'gentlemen of
the neighbourhood gave every assistance in their power, and
the whole of the people of the towns and villages did their
best to save the property ; by their exertions a considerable
quantity of hay, turnips, &c., were fortunately rescued from
destruction. There does not remain a doubt of its being
the work of an incendiary, no fire ever being used near the
spot where the conflagration commenced. The property
is insured to the Essex Office,--Esser Herald.

FOREIGN IN TE LLIGEN CE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, JAN. 15.—We have accounts from Bona of the
22d December ; they announce that the evacuation of the
troops previously drawn from Oran and Algiers, on the
Constantine expedition, had entirely terminated. There is
now remaining in the place only the garrison necessary for
the duty. Tht_., communication with Guelma is still open,
and the engineers are still actively employed in surround-
ing the intermediate . points of communication between
Bona and Constantine, with some defensive works sufficient
to secure that ancient town from a coup dc main on the
part of the Arabs, who have not yet appeared in any num-
bers on that side. It appears that they are all assembling
in the environs of Constantine.

Despatches addresseCto Don Carlos have been inter-
cepted. Among them is a very curious letter of Baron
Capelle. It states " that the Powers were firmly resolved
not to acknowledge Charles V. till he shall be master of
Bilboa, and that a check before that place would do him
the greatest injury. As for the intervention (adds the
letter) it will not take place, so long as the Doctrinaires
are in power. For this reason it is to be desired that
they may keep their ground, and the Powers are fully re-
solved to support them with all their influence."—LeTemps.
The estafette from Calais has arrived without bringing
tho English Journals. The sea ran so high, fir t the packets
could not enter the harbour.

The mail from Strasburg is likewise still due. An Even-
ing Journal says, " The accounts which we receive to-day,
inform us that Espartero is going to direct his operations
towards the French frontier, in order to cut off all the com-
munications of the Carlists on that side, and to deprive
them of the resources which they draw from it. The army
of Navarre is especially charged with this operation."
A letter from Toulon says, " The SrSi.en having taken
its provisions and stores, was ready to sail on the 7th in
the morning, with about 900 men of the new Foreign Le-
gion, whom it is to convey to Africa ; but the embarkation
of the troops has been suspended. It is believed that
General Damremont has written by telegraph to the Mi-
nister of War, to ask for fresh orders relative to the desti-
nation of that battalion."—Journal du Commerce, Jan. 15,
Supplements published at two o'clock in the afternoon.