The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-03 00:00:00

ANIMALCULES.

Animalcules have been discovered, whose mag-
vitude is such, that a million of them does not
exceed the bulk of a grain of sand ; and yet
each of these creatures is composed of members
as curiously organised as those of the largest
species ; they have life and spontaneous motion,
and are endued with sense and instinct. In the
liquids in which they live, they are observed to
move with astonishing speed and activity ; nor
are their motions blind and fortuitous, but evi-
dently governed by choice, and directed to an
end. They use food and drink, from which
they derive nutrition, and are therefore furnished
with a digestive apparatus. They have great
muscular power, and are furnished with limbs
and muscles of strength and flexibility. They
are susceptible of the same appetites, and obnox-
ious to the same passions, the gratification of
which is attended with the same results as in our
own species. Spallanzani observes, that certain
aulibalculea devour others so voraciously, that
they fatten and become insolent and sluggish by
over-feeding. After a meal of this kind, if
they be confined in distilled water, so as to be
deprived of all food, their condition becomes
reduced ; they rain their spirit and activity,
and amuse themselves in the pursuit of the more
minute animals which are supplied to them ; they
swallow these without depriving them of life,
for, by the aid of the microscope, the one has
been observed moving within the body of the
other. These singular appearances are not mat-
ters of idle and curious observation ; they lead
us to inquire what parts are necessary to produce
such results. Must we not conclude that these
creatures have heart, arteries, veins, muscles,
sinews, tendons, nerves, circulating fluids, and
all the concomitant apparatus of a living orga-
nized body ? And if so, how inconceivably minute
must those parts be ! If a globule of their blood
bears the same proportion to their whole bulk
as a globule of our blood bears to our magni-
tude, what powet.sf.4, calculation can give an
adequate notion-Of iti minuteness ?—Dr. Lard-
ner s Cabinet Cydopcedia.

On Thursday last Mr. PETER COMYN,
whose cue excited some interest in this neighbourhood, was
executed at Ennis. His crime was setting fire to a house.
—lrish Paper.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS PAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 in'; stock
'I per Cent. Bed. 913/N Old Annuities
1 per Cent. Cons. 92-Y,% '4 New I)it to , ' 92%
per
Cent—, Ex. Bills, £1,990 Vd. ;2 71 pm.
Ditt; Red. -99 lilDittl,•:.' • lid. '7B 79 pm.
I per Cent. Ann. " IONS Vs (Ditto ..... .......501,2d. 78 79 pm.
Wt.:, 26...,,..0...:15= ' ' 101 ~i ' Ditto lid. 72 '79 pm.
Mink I. Ann. IS 15-16 19 18T.' DIU* Small 2d. 78 '79 pm.
,)itto SO years lB 13-16 iDitto ljd. 78 79 OM.
ditto 30 years • 19 5-716 i Bank for /11,,ceis,'4t
India Stock • --Ikethv, f:',l* eaTount
-..vtt.--, Bonds B4 S-,4 pi,:t.;i ens. for May 25 ..... ....... 92% ~

PRIN.?. 61, FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
AUStrian Bonds -
D•razilian Bonds- 74% 4 Peritriftn .130•••.V.',
Buenos Ayres Bonds ' 40 Portliguese Bonds
Chilian Bonds .......t ' - Prussian, Old
l'olorribian 11:41ds
Dian, 1524 -
Danish — Spanish. :S2l 21% % % %.7.4, 215,(
Greek Bonds
Ditto, 1825. SO•X French Be`ltel, 3p. c.lb6f. —c.
Guatimala .... _ Exchange 25f.65-.
\lexicon Bonat ~..';;;..: ...... 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Atto, 1.41.,, — Exchange —L —c.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
..
Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at Si. pm. £lOO 38 14.
Bolanos Mining Co. £:,;(10 4f,0 471) 475
Brazilian Mining Company,.,.. .b Z 5 13V4 13 %
Brazilian Imo. Nlm. t '‘• :iss At St. pm.) £2O 82!.4 B'2
Ditto St. John bel 110 ....1 5 9 B.!i
Mining Company of Ireland
tteAl dcl Monte Mining Co £4oo 05
Alliance Fire and Life insurance Co lb 914
Provincial Bank of Ireland - • 25 2,3%

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL SO.
Rank Stock •........ 23715 t. Patrick Insur. (per sh.)
Consols, 3 per cent
Gov. Stock, 3.', per cent. 981,4 National Ditto —
Ditto, New 9S4 ; Patriotic Ditto —
t per Cent 99% 'Hibernian Bank .—
Goy. Deb. 3i.,', percent.... 92t Prov!ncill Ijitto ...... .......
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine —
City Deb. .1 per cent ...... Mining Co. of Ireland
Uallast Office Deb. 4p. c. 93!4 Commercial Buildings —

FOREIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
ST. BETERSBURGH, APRIL 15.—Three months, 10 7.16.
HAMBURG, APRIL 27.-13. 144.—Tw0 months. 13. 12,A.
STOCKHOLM, APRIL 20.—Seventy4five days, 33.
BERLIN, APRIL 21.—Three months, 1.
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 30-12. 540.
Two months-12. 20

HIGH WATER. AT LoNnoli MUDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning —46 minutes after 11. I Evening... 0 minutes after 0.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1830.

HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH.

" 'Windsor Castle, May 3.

" The Kixis has suffered much by a want of sleep,
nevertheless his MAJestes symptoms are mitigated this

morning.
(Signer!) " HENRY HALFORD,
" MA FTHEW JOHN TIERNEY."
Copies of the above Bulletin were forwarded
from Downing-street to the Duke of CLARENCE
at Bushey, and also to the different branches of
the Royal Family.

A Cabinet Council, which was attended by
nearly all the Ministers, was held at the Foreign
Office this afternoon at three o'clock.

The. Russian squadron, consisting of eight
ships, passed through the Downs on Saturday
for the North Sea, on its return from the Me,
diterranean.

We understand that Count LUDOLF, the
Sicilian Ambassador, with the Countess, will
leave London to-morrow morning for Paris, in
order to meet his Sicilian MAJESTY in that
capital.

We may infer that the present session of
Parliament will shortly terminate, from the cir-
cumstance of the Duke of WELLINGTON having
ordered Walmer Castle, which is now being re-
paired and painted, to be got ready for his
Grace's reception by the end of May.

The following are extracts from the French
Papers of Friday and Saturday, together with
some correspondence

PARIS, MAY I.—Two of the Paris Papers of this morning, Le
Globe and La Nouvelle France, contain an announcement, ex-
pressed in terms so positive dnd categorical, and printed in so
Conspicuous a forms as tb tteatC d vtr, attong Sensation In this
capital; In La Is'oueelle France, a Paper better known by its
second title Le _Nouveau Journal de Paris, the statement stands
as follows :