The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-20 00:00:00

GERMAN P APERS.

VIENNA, Mallon 10.—An English courier from Constanti-
nople arrived here yesterday. It is believed that Lord Pon-
sonby, who is on the point of leaving Constantinople, sends
to London before his departure a detailed account of the state
of affairs in the East, and that this courier is the bearer of it,
A Russian courier is gone to St. Petersburgh. This frequent
exehange of couriers gives occasion for many conjectures,
without, however, furnishing grounds from which any positive
inferences can be drawn. The debate and the vote on the
Irish Municipal Reform Bill, which the Al!genuine Zeitung
gave so quickly and so fully, have excited a great sensa-
tion here. Great attention is paid to the debate' in the
French Chamber of Deputies on the proposed law of dis-
junction. The speech of M. Dupin must be allowed to have
its peculiar value ; but that learned orator probably makes a
lamentable mistake with respect to the state of France, when
he thinks that the Government should be deprived of the
means of energetically defending itself against the attacks to
which it is almost daily exposed. M. Dupin ought not to de-
ceive himself, but to perceive that that which may be good and
practicable in ordinary times, does not always afford the neces-
sary security in extraordinary circumstances ; and no persou
will deny that France is at this present moment placed in an
extraordinary situation, and driven to the verge of an alarming
crisis. Woe to Dupin and his adherents, if the enemies of the
Government should ever be able to manage France as they
wish. The Dupiniits would be the first that would have to pay
for the movement.

NAPLES, MARC!! 2.—We have a continuance of the cold
weather, which is very unusual in this climate ; we do not re-
member ever to have seen such a great quantity of snow as is
now lying on the surrounding mountains, within a short
distance of the plain. We feel this the, more sensibly, because
we had last month beautiful warm weather, like summer. The
frost will do great injury to the almond trees, and cause a rise
in the price of that fruit. Vegetation is already very forward,
while we are again in the midst of winter. Vesuvius is covered
with snow, very low down. The King and Queen are now at
Caserta. Last week there were several suicides in the Swiss
regiments, chiefly originating in home sickness.
BERLIN, MARC!! 8. —lt is probable that the young Duke of
Cumberland will return to England in the autumn, to remain
there for a considerable time, because it is said there has been
some discussion respecting the further payment of the appanage
6,0001, sterling. The hopes that the Prince's sight may be
restored, are unhappily very faint, but it appears that some
expectation is still entertained of success at a more advanced
age ; the English, however, think that they have surgeons
sufficiently able to attempt the cure at home.
In consequence of a quarrel, which ended in a'general affray,
the Duke of Cumberland has discharged almost all his sevrants
and sent them to England, from whence he has directed
others to be sent to him.—Francfort Paper, March 16.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 18.—The Moniteur publishes the Royal
sanction of the vote of the :Chambers, granting the sum of
350,000 francs for the purchase of the library of the late M.
Von Hulthern, including the printing of the catalogues and
other incidental expences.

rELG, IA N } UNDS—Bnossecs, Marten 17
Actual Debt, 2) per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOO%
Loan of Thirty Millions... 92'4
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. 99
Society of Commerce, 4,4 per Cent 134
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 136
Brussels Papers, March 18. •
DUTCH FUNDS—Astsmaoasi, March 17.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A mort Syndic, 4 % per cent. 93 93!4
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 7(14 764 i
Commercial Company. 4% per cent lBl% 18434
Ditto (1532 and 1833) 5 per cent.
lixchange on London, One month l2 02%
Two months
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MARCII 10.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
.
Three per Cents. 75%
Bank Shares 1363
—A/Igen:eine Zeitung, March 15. ~,,

We regret to learn that the absence of the Hon.
Fox Maule from Parliament on Friday was owing to the death
of his mother. in-law, the Baroness Abercromby, which has
called him to Scotland. We presume that this is also the
cause of the Speaker's levees being postponed.
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.—DEATH OF COL.
COLEBROOKE.—The meeting of Saturday was adjourned, as
a testimony of respect to the memory of the late Lieutenant-
Colonel Colebrooke, the founder of the Society, and for many
years its Director. The President, the Right Hon. C. W.
W. Wynn, M. P., very feelingly alluded to the loss the Society
had sustained in his decease, and delivered a high encomium
upon his services. Colonel Colebrooke had been a meritori-
ous and distinguished officer in India, which service he entered
in early life, and was much celebrated as a proficient in oriental
literature.

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OLDIIAM.—The spinners' turn-out still continues,
without signs of any amicable adjustment, both sides pertina-
ciously adhering to their own terms of conciliation. The ex-
citement of all classes is subsiding on the subject, and much
indifference begins to be manifested towards the sufferings of
a large mass of wretchedness and destitution caused by the
stubbornness of the contending parties. Those who are suf-
fering the most are the least deserving of it, having had no-
thing to do with the quarrel. The operative spinners are yet
well supported from the spinners of the neighbourhood and
other districts, but the masters are daily engaging new hands
from other places, as well as inducing the adult piecers to begin
spinning, which many are willing to do, not having been
allowed, till just lately, to participate in the contributions to
the turn-out spinners.—Manchester Times.
HISTORY OF THE COMMONERS OF GREAT
BRTTAIN.—The First Part, price 4s. 6d., of the re-issue, on
smaller paper, of Mr. Burke's History of the Landed Gentry,
is now before the public. It will be completed in Sixteen
Monthly Parts, at only 4s. 6d. each. It is scarcely necessary
now to call the attention of our readers to the great importance
of this truly national undertaking. The cheapness of the pre-
sent republication (the price of the former edition was 7s. 6d.
each Part) must place the work in the hands of every one who
can feel interested in an authentic and detailed account of all
the eminent families of his country.
Mr. Francis Bodenham, the son of the late Mrs.
Mary Bodenham, of Prestcigne, widow, who died many years
ago, having come of age, spontaneously called together the
creditors of his late mother, and, much to their satisfaction,

buf. no less to their surprise, paid all their debts in full. Such
conduct reflects the highest credit upon this young man, and
deserves to be noticed, especially when it is known that there
was no obligation on his part to pay one sixpence; and the only
means he had of thus coming forward to retrieve his mother's
character was a small estate which descended to him from his
grandfather. lie has also, in proportion to his means, provided
for his sister —Hereford Journal.
A French boat, with 76 casks of contraband spirits,
and two men, were seized by Mr. Wood, chief °Meer of the
Bridport station, on Friday, and deposited in the Custom-
house there.—A younc, man, named Hassey, was found deed
on the shore through drinking raw spirits the same day.—
Wilts Herald.

We are sorry to learn that information was received
on Saturday of several incendiary fires, and the loss of consi•
derable property, in Essex and other parts.
COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND
tivatoßisT FOR MARCH, EDITED 13T THEODORE HOOK,
Ese.—The present Number of this Magazine is even an im-
provement upon its excellent precursors. The conductor is
evidently straining every nerve to render the work attractive,
and great success has attended his efforts. We have here, in

the first place, a continuation of the " Gurney Papers," full
of pleasantry and a quiet dry humour, which tells most effec-
tively. Captain Marryat has supplied a tale, "The Phantom
Ship," and we need not say that such a writer is an important
acquisition to any magazine. We may also refer to " The
Times we live in," and a poem by Mrs. Norton, as imparting
a high degree of interest to the literary contents. The Hu-
morist is well supported. A comic paper by Jerrold is fol-
lowed by a humourous sketch by Captain Marryat, descrip-
tive of modern town houses and their peculiar comforts. But
perhaps the most laughable article in the Number is a racily
told adventure by Leigh [Lint, entitled " Jack Abbott's
Breakfast ?" The opening of the little Pedlington Theatre
carries exaggeration almost beyond fair bounds—but it is
droll, and that is the great point. The Number is also em-
bellished with a portrait of that very clever lady Mrs. Charles
Gore.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
BRISTOL, MARcii 16.—Early this morning, be-
tween twelve and one o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out in
Temple-street, by which a beer-shop, known by the sign of
King William IV., and an adjoining house, were entirely de-
stroyed. The flames not having been discovered until they
were seen to issue from both premises, it is not distinctly
known in which house the fire originated, although it is con-
jectured to have arisen in the beer-shop. The buildings in
that part of the town being very old, and principally built of
wood, it was with the utmost difficulty that the flames could
be restrained from spreading beyond those in which they on
ginated ; as it was, the greatest exertions were unavailing to
save the two buildings destroyed. In the King William four
persons were unhappily burnt to death--the landlord's son,
Charles Rees, a lad about ten years of age, Ann Davis, servant
of the house, Samuel Richards, a strolling comedian, who has
recently been visiting the public-houses in this city as a comic
singer, and his mother, travelling with him. The two last
victims ere lodging. in the house. The unfortunate father
of
Rees, who has lost everything in the fire, has been
wandering in the streets all day, talking of his child, and in a
state of mind bordering on insanity.
KENDAL.--GeOraC William Wood, Esq., of Man-
chester, is to be the man. Mr. Wood arrived at Kendal on
Wednesday, on which evening he met the electors at a public
meeting, and, as his explanations were satisfactory, a requisi-
tion, calling upon him to declare himself a candidate, was
prepared, which has already been signed by 181 electors.
When we state that the constituency does not exceed 320,'0f
course it will be seen that Mr. Wood's return is placed beyond
all dispute.—kendal Mercury.

LAW IN TELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, 31)nca 13,
VIM-MS V. LORD AUDLEY.

This ease stood for judgment this moining-, but 163 Lord-
ship had not been able to look over the sill iavits with sufii-
c•ient attention, and judgment was, therefore, postponed tili
Wednesday.

IN THE MATTER OF THE NORWICH CHARITIES.

Mr. \VIGRA Sf, on the part of Samuel Bignold and others,
Members of the old Corporation of Norwich, appeared in sup-
p ,rt of a petition which prayed a reference back to the Master
to revise his report with respect to the appointment of trus-
tees to the charities of that city generally, and particularly
with reference to the appointment of trustees to the Anguish',
Charity, or the Boys and Girls' Schools. The objection to
the report of the Master with respect to the first part of the
petition was, that he had excluded all the Members of the old
Corporation in a body, not because they were not in every
respect qualified to be trustees, but because they had been
Members of the Corporation ; and this was done on the
authority of certain ex parte statements of the report of the
Corporation Commissioners in 1833, which the accused had
never had an opportunity of questioning or disproving. They
submitted that there was nothing proved against them which
would disqualify them to be trustees. With respect to the
appointment of trustees to Anguish's Charity, it was sub-
mitted that the Charity was one which clearly came under the
head of Church of Englandism, and that, therefore, the Mas
ter ought not to have let in any Dissenters to be trustees of
the Charity.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed the petition.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that the Master had acted
in strict conformity with his duty in excluding men proved to
have perverted the funds of the charity to party purposes when
that matter was brought under his attention. His Lordship
was of opinion that the petition had been wholly unnecessary,
and he dismissed it with costs.

Tr ICE- CIL4NCEL L OR' S COURT, MARCH I.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. WILSON.

This information represented that the persons who were
members of the Corporation of Leeds in 1835, when the Cur
porate Reform Act was passed, determined upon depriving their
successors under the Act of every fraction of corporate pro-
perty, and with that intention transferred their whole corpo-
rate funds, consisting of 6,5001. stock, and 500/. secured by a
turnpike bond, to the defendants, as trustees for certain cha-
ritable purposes. The answer of the defendants disclosed the
nature of the transactions, and the trusts upon which the funds,
in such parts as were in existence were now held. Portions
of the funds had already been disbursed. The trustees ad-
mitted they still held a sum of 1,5001., which the Corporation
bad appropriated in sums of 7501., 500/., and 2501. to the In-
firmary, the [louse of Recovery, and the Dispensary of the
borough ; the bond was also in their possession, and there was
in cash a sum of 5571. 7s. 6d., out of which the trustees re-
presented they had already paid 5001. to their solictor.
Mr. JACOB now moved for an injunction to restrain the de-
fendants from parting with the trust funds, and for payment
into Court of the sum of 5571. 7s. 6d.

KNIGIIT and Mr. BETIIELL will be heard in opposition
the motion on Monday.

PREROGATIVE COUR7, 111.1Rcir 18.
BUTLIN V. HARRY.

The question as to the validity of the will of the late Pen-
dock Barry, Esq., of Tollerton Hall, in the county of Not-
tingham, and which has occupied the attention of the Court
for several days, was again brought to its notice. Dr. Addams
having concluded his argumeuts in behalf of Mr. Barry Barry,
the son of the deceased, for an intestacy,
The King's Advocate appeared on the last Court day (yes-
terday) for the executors and the parties benefitted by the
will, and contended at some length that the deceased was of
testamentary capacity.
Dr. Phillnitore followed on the same side this day.
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The Court announced its intention of giving judgment on
Tuesday next in the cause of Trevannion t'. Trevannion, in the
Arches' Court, and of deciding on the admission of certain
allegations in different causes in the Prerogative.