The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-19 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The unfavourable turn in the state of his Majesty's health
since Friday has greatly impeded all operations in the funds
as well as in commercial affairs, it being now ascertained
that there are scarce any hopes of a favourable change in his

Majesty's illness.
Consols, which closed o►► Saturday at 91.1 91 ?3- for the Ac-
count, opened this morning at 914 ; Exchequer Bills, 33 35;
,India Bond, 33 35 ; Bank Stock, 206 207.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish, which closed at 221 with
Coupons, have improved this morning to 2* owing to the
telegraphic despatch received of the defeat of the Carlists ;
but we must wait for further particulars, to ascertain the de-
tails. Passive, 5-1- 5 ; Deferred, 7i si; Portuguese, 43i
44 ; 3 per Cents., 28.4 29 ; Colombian, 231 241 ; Duch 2i
per Cents., 53i. •
We have no further arrivals from America. To the present
time all is tranquil in the city, in respect to commercial affairs.
HALF-PAST ONE.

The accounts from Falmouth received this morning brings
the arrivals there;of two packets from Rio Janeiro and Mexico.
The information by the former packet states that no alteration
had taken plar,c in the state of affairs, which, on the whole
were satisfactorily, with the exception experienced by the
stagnation in the Money Market of Great Britain and the
United States.

By the latter packet from Mexico, which left Vera Cruz on
the 3d May, we learn that the new President had taken his
seat, and that the internal state of the country was not in an
alarming state, with the exception that near St. Lacy a consi-
derable amount of specie from the Interior had been attacked,
and it was deemed expedient to bring it back again ; and, in
consequence of which, the packet ;has only brought home
300,000 dollars. It was expected there would be very little
by the next packet. The mines appeared to be doing well.
To the present hour great anxiety prevails in the City for
information from Windsor, to ascertain the state of his Ma-
jesty's health.
We have no further intelligence or confirmation respecting
the defeat of the Carlists at Isona, on the 13th inst. Tho
speculators in Spain are anxiously waiting for further details
which no doubt will be received to-morrow from Paris.
To the present hour commercial affairs in the city are in a

tranquil state.
Consols have receded from the morning price of 91+ to
9ii I for Account, with. little doing ; Exchequer Bills, 35
33 prem. ; India Bonds, 33 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2061.
In the Foreign Market, little business doing in Spanish
Active, owing to the speculators waiting for a comfit-mak:in of
the defeat of the Carlists. Spanish Active had reached in the
morning 23 with Coupons, at present 23i ; Passive, bi-; De-
ferred, 84-; Portuguese, 43i; Three per Cents., 28i ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52i.
THREE O' CL O CK,
Consols for Account, 91/

The Rev. Edward Battiseombe, A.M., late fellow
of King's College, Cambridge, has resigned his fellowship, and
renounced his connexion with the Church of England, having
joined the Baptist denomination.—Patriot.

We have had sent to us, this week, a jargonelle pear,
approaching the size of a small hen egg, which was gathered
on Saturday from a tree in the garden of Mr. Williams, grocer,
Cleobury Mortimer, and is part of the produce of the luxuriant
blossom which the tree, as we mentioned at the time; partially
exhibited about the middle of April last. Several other pears,
the offsprings of the same blossom, are still growing on the
tree, whilst it also presents a fair and general crop of fruit, now
nitting, arising from the blossom of the season.— Worcester
Herald.

FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Wednesday
last, a disciple of Isaac Walton was amusing himself with the
" rod and line," in the river running through the meadow of
Gilbert Crompton, Esq., of this town, and after waiting
anxiously for a length of time, had the mortification of not
getting a " bite." At length, however, a " monster" got
fastened to the hook—the float darted with the rapidity of
lightening beneath the surface of the water—and the most
skilful generalship was required to land the prize. The angler
succeeded, after great anxiety, in " hooking him out ;" and
was astonished to behold a four-legged animal attached to his
line, kicking fiercely in the air, and darting looks of fire at
his tormentor. Another person arriving, at the spot, the ve-
nomous reptile was put hors de combat, having first evinced
its ferocity by springing at the angler ; and the two valiants
gazed mutely over the remains of .an immense—water-rat !
Derbyshire Chronicle.
SPORTING ETRAORDINARY.—LateIy, in Etlale,
Derbyshire, a fanner standing on a bridge happened to sea in
the stream below a fish amusing itself on the surface. Having
his &clock at hand, he deliberately took aim, and was so for-
tunate as to be able to bag a fine trout, weighing- upwards of
two pounds !—Derbyshire Chronicle. •

At Scudamore Upton, Wilts, on the 26th ult., a
hive of bees, belonging to the Rev. Mr. Cockerill, swarmed,
and settled upon the head of one of his men servants I Al-
though much alarmed at the sudden adhesion of theiminvited
wanderers, he was not long ignorant of the best policy to
adopt in his critical position ; for, having unsettled one of the
bees that•at first pitched upon his eye, it stung him severely.
A hive was soon procured, and the bees got into it without
further injury.—Sulisbury Herald.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Tuesday last,
a gentleman of Carlow (a passenger in one of • the steamers)
being desirous of visiting an old friend, an extensive brewer
in this neighbourhood, came on shore for that purpose very
early in the morning, and not being able to find his friend,
made his way to Mount Wise,' and observing a veteran whom
he at once perceived to. be " every inch a sailor," made en-
quiries of him as to the scenery, ships, &c., in the view before
him, and was obligingly made acquainted with every particular,
and also invited to look at the Camera Obscure on the hill.
Having satisfied his curiosity, the stranger offered his guide
half-a-crown for his trouble, which was at once declined, as
he could not think of taking a reward. After expressing
thanks for such attention, the stranger expressed his regret
that he could not view the Dock-yard, stating that he had
been at the gates, and found that the Commissioner could not
be applied to, at so early an hour. His guide said, lie thought
he could get him into the Yard, and at the moment a Lieu-
tenant in the Navy passed, who was hailed, and requested to
gratify the stranger's desire to see all that time would permit.
Observing that the request was replied to by a touch of the
hat, and every other mark of respect, the stranger enquired of
the officer the rank of the gentleman to whom he had offered
the hall-erown, and being informed that ho was the Com-
mander-in-Chief, made an apology to his Lordship, which
was received with the characteristic good nature of a British
Naval Officer, and the stranger parted from his Noble Guide
highly gratified with the condescending attention he had re-
ceived.—Devoliport Independent.
The arrivals at Weymouth increase daily. The
most popular promenade just now is Smallmouth Sands, than
Which LOthili_br, can be more pleasant. Parties are constantly
grading in that direction, to witness the progress of the new
bridge erecting over the passage. The drive by this way and
through Wyke is one of the most picturesque in the neigh-
bourhood—Salisbury Herald.

NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS.
At per stone, 6y the Coreasi.
s. d. to s d a A to s. d
Reef, inferior I 0 3 4 Mutton, interior
- middling ...... 3 6 3 8 - middling 4 2 4. 4
- prEne large - prime 4 6 4 8
_ . .

-- prime
Veal
Lamb 4s Od. to 5i Bd.

NEWCASII.E.UPON-TYNE CORN MARKET.—June 17.

Our supply of Wheat from the interior at this day's market
vas but small, but we had fair coasting arrivals, and the whole
met a slow sale, at a decline of Is. per quarter on the rates of
last Saturday. In Barley there is no alteration. Oats were
in fair supply, and prices about Is. per quarter -lower. Malt
continues in limited request, at our quotations. There is little
change in the value of Rye, but the sale is not so brisk as last
week. Pease and Beans support their prices. Flour is ex,
ceedingiy dull, and our quotations arc with difficulty realized,
Nee.
Wheat, Northumker!and —s 40, (11 .1
Norfolk and 5ua01k...... ...... —s —........ 57, 53,
Berwick and Scotch M. s L9 .

Rye, NGrf,lkwand Suffolk
Forel4n ; —r....... —s. —5. .:
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and SaS.lk 294. 30; ...... —s. -..-s. '..:t.
Grinding and Feeding
Malt, NoColk and Sufroll, 5 s 57: —. —s. 7
Deans, small 'W.. .f.,•
- Tick 384. 40s -3 -S. -
P,-ase, White 4',4. 445. . ... -E. -1
-- Gray '454 2:35 —..
Oats, Northumberland, l'ot.ttoc 3os. .is. 32s. 335.
-- --- Feed ... ......
--- Foreign
Flour (per sack) —s. —s 43s. 465.

On Wednesday evening, after the fete of the Champ
de Mars, while the crowd was pressing through the gates, and
screams were beard on every side, M. R—, an honest shop
keeper of the Rue St. Denis, supported his wife, whose
inor mous rotundity rendered a passage through the, crowd by
Wo means an easy operation. " I dare say," said he gaily to
the persons around bins, " that the pickpockets are at work,
but I have secured myself against their attempts."—" I should
have been glad had I known your plan," replied a youth be-
hind him, " for I have just lost my'hAndkerchief,"---.-" You
should have done as I have done," quoth And
pray how was that?"—" I crammed my watch, my 'purse, and
my wife's bag, into my handkerchief, and put them all into
my coat-pocket, fastening them with ten or fifteen pins !
Let them rub me if they can !" The young man comllimented
him on the ingenuity of his plan. On reaching the quay,
where the crowd was less dense, M. R— phced his hand wi,h
confidence on his pocket, to take out the precious deposit, but,
what was his surprise when he found that his coat was minus
the skirts, and bad been transformed, in the neatest manner
possible, into a jacket, thus affording to M. R— an opportunity
of exercising his ingenuity to devise some other plan cf pro-
tection for the next fete.—Galignani's Illeggengcr.
$I It INGHAM.-Many manufactories have ceased
Work aliogetim.; some arc not more than half employed, and,
in all probability, in the course of another week hundreds of
workmen, in addition to those already unemployed, will be
thrown idle and destitute on the town. 'I he chief cause of,
this extreme depression is, unquestionably," the American
failures. Most of our American merchants have, for some
weeks past, been in possession of an abundance of orders ;
but, in the present difficulties of the United States, it would
be worse than madness to execute them.-IVolezrLempton
Chronicle.

The orchards are everywhere well fruited, and an
unusually abundant crop may be now confidently expected.
Cider is uffsred at very low prices, compared with its value
before the late profuse blossoms gave assurance of so large a
supply of apFles,—Tguntwt courier.