The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-15 00:00:00

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FUNDS
?lank Stock, 211 3V, per Cent. 9SN
India Stock, shut 4 per Cent. shut
3 per Cent. Cons. shut 4 per Cent. 18:16, 101
Do. for Account, 9`.2% India Bonds, 73
Ditto Reduced, 91',‘ Exchequer Bilis, 7(1 77
TWO O'CLOCK.
The Consol Market has remained steady during the
whole of the morning, with little or no fluctuation, at
92a for the Account.
`We still continue without any official information in
regard to the French Expedition to Algiers, which, no
doubt, is owing to the wind being contrary.
In the Foreign Market it is settling day, and the only
business doing is settling their accounts to the present time.
We do not hear of any defaulters. Greek Bonds are rather
lower. In Shares Anglo-Mexican 36 7 ; Bolanos 190
South Metropolitan Gas 2-1 prem.
900 ; Brazilian 9 10 ; Imperial 71 6 ; Colombian 8 9 ;
HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK.
A general report prevails that the differences between
the Ilong Merchants and the British in China have been
adjusted ; and by the same conveyance has arrived three
hundred and fifty thousand pounds in specie.
7 IMES O'CLOCK.
Consols, D2i.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols 1 Danish 73-1
Do. for Ac, 923- Greek, 1825 37
Brazilian Bonds 72 Mexican, 1825 37/
Buenos Ayres Peruvian
Chilian D 9. Russian 1091
Columbian, 1824, 2=2; Spanish 17j

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

ROLLS COURT.
DECCAN PRIZE MONEY.

JUIDWHENT.-IVATSON V. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

In this case, after Sir Chas. Wetherell had cited several
authorities to the Court, the MAsTza of the ROLLS gave
judgment in the following words :—Upon the frame of
this bill I consider the question depends entirely on the
due construction of the letter written by Lord Hastings to
Colonel Doyle. It cannot be contended that that
letter can amount to an equitable assessment, unless
it amounts to an engagement on the part of Lard
Hastings, that the bond debt and interest referred
to shall be paid out of that particular prize money.
Now I am not at liberty, in considering this question, to
conjecture what might have been the intention of the
parties : I must collect that intention from the natural
import of the language used in the letter ; and I confess I
cannot find in that language any positive engagement,
on the part of Lord Hastings, that the debt
shall be satisfied out of the prize money in
question. The words in the letter which have
been so repeatedly stated, must be mentioned again.—
" As I shall leave to you the dist, ihution of the prize-
money, as soon as it shall be issued for me, I have to
mention that the executors of the late Mr. Sims are
claiieaiuts on that fund for a bond debt with interest."—
Now it appears to me, that so far from this heing an en-
gagement on the part of Lord Hastings, that this bond debt
and interest should at all events be paid out of the fund, the
effect of it—the natural import of the words is—l shall leave
to Colonel Doyle the distribution of this fund, and I have
to mention that the executors of Sims have a claim upon
this fund. It is not for me to determine whether they are
or are not to be paid, but I give you notice that they are
claimants upon this fund. That being my opinion, this
bill must be dismissed, and of course must be dismissed
with costs.
After a short discussion between Mr. RUSSELL and Mr.
WRA s',
His HONOUR ordered the question of costs to stand
till the other cause could be heard.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
STRANGE V. WIGLET.
This was an action of trover brought by the plaintiff
against the defendant, to recover the sum of 1001. the
amount of a bank post bill, endorsed in blank and de-
livered to the plaintiff, by whom it was lost under the
following somewhat curious circumstances :—lt appeared
that on the 16. h of September, last year, the plaintiff (a
lady) came outside the coach from Tunbridge Wells to
London—during the journey she carried the bill in ques-
tion in her reticule on her arm. On arriving at Bridge-
street, Blackfriars, she engaged a hackney coach, in which
she proceeded to Smithfield ; she was here met by a
gentleman of her acquaintance, to whom she committed the
care of her reticule, which he unfortunately left on the seat
of the coach whilst the luggage was being removed. This
circumstance was not discovered until the coach was gene.
On the following day theplaintiffgave information of her lose
at the Hackney-coach Office, and also caused a number
of hand-bills, describing the number and amount of the
bill, to be printed and circulated near all the hackney
coach stands, as well as in all those public-houses usually
frequented by coachmen. During the same day she gave
information of the loss of the bill at the Bank, for the
purpose of their stopping it in case it should be presented
for payment. She did not, however, advertise it in the
newspapers until the 2-Ith, (eight days after the loss,) and
then only in one journal, the Morning Advertiser. On
the morning of the same day in which the advertisement
appeared in the Morning Advertiser, a person took tite
bill to the defendant's bank, at Brighton, and got it
caused. He gave his name and address "Wm. Wilson,
No. 16, Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields," and esid he
was about to proceed to Southampton, and from thence to
the Isle of Wight. He received the money in sovereigns,
the usual discount was charged. The case came on for
hearing before the Lord Chief Justice at the last sittings
at Guildhall, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff.
Mr. Serjeant TADDY now moved for a rule to spew
cause why this verdict should not be set aside, and a new
trial granted, on the ground that the plaintiff had not ex-
ercised a sufficient degree of caution in making her loss
known. The Learned Counsel contended, that under the
circumstances of the case it was not sufficient for the de-
fendant to have advertised in one journal—she ought to
have done so in all the London Papers, as well as in the
Hue and Cry, and also to have given notice of her loss at
Bow-street Police-office. He would not accuse her of
negligence in carrying the property in her reticule, because
he was aware that it was at present the absurd fashion for
ladies not to wear pockets—(A laugh)—but she certainly
might have found a place of greater security for it than the
one she had used. He therefore trusted their Lordships
would grant his application, since if the present verdict
were allowed to stand, the case would certainly go much
further than any other yet decided.
The Loan CHIEF' JUSTICE said that had the present
application been grounded on any misdirection to the Jury
on the part of the Judge, he should most willingly give
his concurrence to a new trial ; but the fact was, he had
put the case to the Jury, Ist, for them to consider whether
the plaintiff had been guilty of any negligence in the con-
veyance of the property ; 2d, whether she had been neg-
ligent in giving the necessary information of her loss; and
3d, whether they thought any want of care and circum-
spection had been manifested on the part of the defen-
dants in cashing the note ; and, after a mature deliberation
on all these points, they had returned a verdict for the
plaintiff; he could not, therefore, see any just grounds
for the cause to come again under the consideration of the
Court. _

The rest of their Lordships concurred in opinion with
the Lord Chief Justice, and the rule was, accordingly, re-
fused.

G. R. DAwsoN, Esq. has again announced
his intention of offering himself as a candidate for the
county of Derry. Mr. DAwsorr has addressed a circular
to every voter in the county, soliciting his support. Com-
mittees are organised, and are in process of organization,
throughout the several districts of the county, to secure
him his situation as one of the Representatives for the
county.—Dublin Evening Post.
FALSE ALARM ABOUT HYDROPHOBIA.
--(From a Medical Correspondent.)—So extensive liss
been the alarm about the prevalence of hydrophobic, and
so great has been the mischief done to the minds of ner-
vous persons thereby, that we feel it our duty to state, that
on an extensive inquiry made into this subject by a physi-
cian, it appears that hydrophobia has not been at all com-
mon of late, and that the disorder on which the reports
have been founded is not canine madness, but another ner-
vous affection, brought on in consequence of punctured or
lacerated wounds of any sort; and which have no parti-
cular reference to dogs, or their disorders, whatever, Mr.
LAwaxxcrs, the surgeon, who was applied to, Raid, the
ether clay, that he had known of only one case in London
all the last year.

THE CANADIAN GIANT.--Monsieur Mo.
DASTE MarrarorT, the celebrated Canadian giant, weigh
6191b5., or upwards of 44 stone; he measures in heigh
six feet four inches and a half, round the body seven feet
being more than sufficient to encompass four ordinary
men ; round the thigh three feet ten inches, equal to the
circumference of an able•bodied man; and round the calf
of the leg three feet four inches and a half. We presume
that he is the largest man in the world. This giant, al-
though 64 years of age, and with all the accumulation of
bulk and weight, is lull of vivacity of manner, and ma-
jestic in his deportment; when he paces the room it is
with a firm and easy step, and the floor seems to bend be-
neath its burden; seated in his easy chair, with his ringlets
of grey hair flowing over his shoulders, he has a patri-
archal aspect, with all the indications of good health and
contentment. The muscles of his limbs are firm; but
the excess of size, as a matter of course, excludes sym-
metry in the description ; but he breathes freely, and
is capable of walking half a mile at a stretch without ft-
tigue, and enjoys a good, but not inordinate appetite. This
extraordinary man is descended from French settlers in I
Canada ; his father, who was a farmer at St. John's, near
Quebec, was five feet eleven incites in heights, but rather
slender than otherwise, but his mother, although never
exhibited, was as heavy as the present MonasTE. He was
bred a millwright, and was reputed as active and inge-
nious in his line. At the conclusion of his apprenticeship
he, in conjunction with a brother, built a brig, and for
eight yeas followed a seafaring life ; but he ultimately
gave charge of his brig to a nephew, who sailed on a
voyage to Europe, and neither the brig or the Captain
were ever more beard of. MODASTE then followed chiefly
agricultural pursuits; he was for years remarkable mainly
for his height and strength, and was capable of, with case,
wielding a weight of six cwt. ; but fur the last 24 years
he has continued to grow till he has attained his present
enormous size. He has a wife living and four children—
one of his sons attends hint in the Exhibition Room ; he
is of middling stature only, and well proportioned ; but
one of his daughters, who is married, in Canada, and the
mother of five children, is now twenty-eight years of age,
and weighs upwards of 21 stone, so that it would seem
the breed of the MAttuorrs are likely to preserve their
characteristic in each generation.

SIIIPPINO INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JUNE 14..-JWind—Rii.—Arrived the Hon.
Company's ship Thomas, Grenville, from India; the Ann,
—, from Jamaica ; the Ranger, Spence, from Africa;
the Sovereign, INl‘Keller, from New South Wales; the
Bolton, —, for India. Sailed the Royal George, for
New South Wales. _

FALMOUTH, JUNE 18.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the
Osborne packet, from Malta, sailed 26th April, from
Gibraltar 25th May, and from Cadiz 27th ; the Rachel,
Hawke, from Malaga. Off port, the Etheldred, Harrison,
from Jamaica ; the Princess of the Netherlands, from
Batavia ; and the Francis, Brown, from Oporto.
BRISTOL, JUNE 24.—Off port, the Speculator, Cather,
from St. Vincents ; the Jessey, Gilmore, from Charente.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 13 —Arrived the Prince Regent,
James, from Maranham ; the Thomas, Hyde, from Tam-
pico; the Hellespont, James, from Sheepforil ; the
Spartan, Fletcher, from New Orleans ; the Gardiner,
Nicholl, from New York ; the Favourite, Withycome,
from Newfoundland ; the Souter, Donaldson, from St.
Andero.

CLYDE, JuNE 12.—Arrived the Rachel and Helen,
from Newfoundland.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 14.—Wind N.W.—Sailed the
Sylvia transport for Deptford.
Hurt, JUNE 13.—Arrived the Jessie, Eaton, and the
Samuel, Spycie, from Riga; the Olivia, Harrison, and
the Mary, Johnson, from Memel; in the Humber, the
James, Brown, from Riga.

The St. Helena, from St. Helena to England, put into
Sierra Leone on the 2d ult., having been boarded by a pi-
ratical schooner, and plundered of gold and silver. The
crew of the pirate murdered the master, mate, and eleven
of the St. Helena's crew, and cut away her masts.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY)

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load 0(53 Trusses.)
ST. JAMES'S.

Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 0 to .£2 10
New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 5 0
Clover Hay 3 10 5 5
Oat Straw £2 6to £2 10 1 Wheat Straw... 2 10 2 14
An ample supply; trade with the best Meadow and Clover
Hay tolerably brisk, otherwise very dull, :It Saturday's prices.
There were a few loads of very green New Meadow hay selling
at from 21. lOs. to 31. per load.

_
SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 0 to £2 10
New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto 3 3 3 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 10 4 10
Clover Hay (extra fine)...Xs 10... Generally
Oat Straw £2 oto £2 4 I Wheat Straw 2 4 2 8
Supply good, trade dull, and prices stationary.

CITY MARKETS.—(TWO O'CLOCK.)
Sucan.—The deliveries from the West India Docks
last week were 2,612 hhde. and 216 tees., and the stuck
yesterday was 13,491 hhds. and 14S tees. This morn-
ing there is very little doing, the trade being engaged in
discussing the alterations in the Sugar Duties proposed in
Parliament last night. The market this morning is in
consequence without variation ; the stock of Mauritius

is 71,994 bags.
HOPS.—The advices from the plantations this morning
continue unfavourable, the duty is called 120,0001 to
125,000/. ; the market is flat.
The COFFEE Market continues firm, and business to
some extent is doing.
Rust.—The delivery last week was 364 puncheons and
19 hogsheads. The market is flat in consequence of the
proposed additional duty of 6(1. per gallon by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons last
evening. The stock was 16,264 puns. and 1,735 hhds.
SILK.—The demand for Raw Silks is not active, the
trade awaiting the result of the East India Company's Sale.
SALTrgrast, by public sale, 3,143 bags, refraction,
sold at from 365. 6d. to 375. 6d. per cwt. 1,117 Ben-
gal, at from 325. 6d. to 335. per cwt., without refraction.
CorroN.—The market is heavy—prices unvaried.
BALTIC PRODUCE.—TaIIow is at 345. 9d. per cwt.
The delivery last week was 1,177 casks. The accounts
from St. Petersburgh to the end of last month—The
Exchange was at 10, and Tallow at 96 to 97 rubles per
puod.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

The settling for Ascot Races took place yesterday, and
was much heavier than we had anticipated : it occupied
a very crowded room till near five o'clock, when some St.
Leger betting took place. Priam was backed very freely
at large sums-5 to 2 the outside odds offered. Raby also
improved, and Brunswicker was backed at 18 and 20 to
1, to four or five hundred pounds. Hassan and the Car-
dinal (the latter having been beat at Beverley) declined
three or four points each; and St. Nicholas was in less
favour than usual, owing to the defeat of Lady Sarah.
The day's business did not terminate till later than usual.
The closing bettings were thus :

ST. LEGER.
D to 4 agst Mr. Chifney's Priam (5 to 2 taken)
8 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's It:thy
11 to 1 agst Mr. Clifton's Moss Rose
15 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's St. Nicholas
21 to 1 agst Lord Oueensberry's Hassan
20 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Brunswicker (taken)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Riddell's Emancipator
2'2 to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's The Barber
25 to 1 agst Mr. Powlett's Lady Emmeline
25 to 1 agst Duke of Leeds's Lady Mowbray
25 to 1 agst Mr. R. Shepherd's The Cardinal
30 to 1 agst Duke of Leeds's Redstart
35 to 1 agst Sir I'. Stanley's Lawrie Todd
So to 1 agst Duke of Portland's Lady Emily colt
12 to 1 agst The Cardinal and Emancipator (taken)
6 to 5 The field agst three (taken)
LIVERPOOL TRADESMAN'S CUP.
3 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Voltaire offered.