The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-20 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The British Funds receded in the course of Saturday r per
cent., and Consols closed at 901 for the Account, owing to
various unfavourable reports respecting commercial affairs.
Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of
Saturday, 901 H for the Account and for Money; Exchequer
Bills 28 30 ; India Bonds 23 25 ; Bank Stock 207 20i ;
India Stock 257 258. •

Spanish Active 271 Passive 71 ; Deferred 121 ; Por
tuguese 49-; Three per Cents. 31 32; Colombian 251 26
Mexican 25} 26 ; Dutch 5331- 54.
.HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

The East India Company's sale of silk commenced this
morning. It is well attended, and the prices obtained are
higher than were expected.
The new ship Mediator packet, from New York, has brought
over 90,000 dollars and 10,000 sovereigns. More British
manufactured goods have been sold at New York within the
last few days than for some time previous.
During the whole of the morning little has been doing either
in the British or Foreign Markets. Consols, which were in
the early part of the day 904 for the Account, may at pre-
sent be quoted a shade lower, ;at 9!_tA- I. The brokers and
jobbers are chiefly occupied in preparing their accounts against
settling-day, which takes place next Thursday in Consuls.
The alarming reports which prevailed on Saturday with res-
pect to commercial affairs, have entirely died away this morn-
ing, and everything is tranquil in the city. Not even a single
report in circulation, of any description.
Consols may be quoted at present 90+ for Money ; for the
Account, 904 K. Exchequer Bills improved to 31 prem. ;
India Bonds, 24 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2074 ; India Stock, 2571.
Spanish Active, 27/ ; Passive, 71 ; Deferred, 12 ; Portu-
guese, 49+ ; Three per Cents., 32 ; Dutch, 531
Shares about the same as °Saturday.
We hear that accounts have been received this morning from
Bayonne, of the 14th, and on high Spanish authority, stating
that every thing was prepared at the above date for the com-
bined moventent on the Carlists, and the most perfect under-
standing prevailed between the Generals. The number Of the
Queen's troops who were to operate is stated to be 50,000 men.
THREE O'CLOCK
Consols for the Account, 90+ 8.

ROXBURGIISIIIRE.—Sir William Scott, Chairman
of the Roxburglishire Liberal Committee, announces that
Admiral Elliot will again present himself a 3 a candidate for
the representation of the county, whenever a vacancy occurs.
A lugger, destined for Santander, which was de-
tained in the port of Douglas for a considerable time, has sold
its cargo of stockfish at Bilboa at the enormous rate of 14d.
(British)per pound ; the usual price is 21 per pound. —lllona's
Herald.

An inquest was held on Friday, before Mr. Stirlinp;
and a respectable jury, at the Champion Tavern, Salisbury-
street, Lisson-grove, on view of the body of Martha Puddifoot,
aged 65, who terminated her existence by cutting her throat
from ear to ear with a razor.—Verdict, " Mental Dcrange-,
ment."

Two bricklayers who were making a vault on Tues-
day, in the Castle-gate burying-ground, finding the ends of
two coffins of persons lately buried projecting into the space;
instead of widening it, they procured a saw and took off the
ends of them, exposing the legs of the corpses, apparently not
decomposed. The wretches being unable to force them into
the coffins, most brutally cut them off above the knees with
their spades.—Lincohtshire Chronicle.
On Sunday last, the river at Pentewan, which had
swollen greatly, in consequence of the late rains, broke over
its banks, and destroyed a part of the rail-road.— Wcst Briton.
On Tuesday last the neighbours of Mr. Sinailbone,
the solicitor, of Gloucester-street, Leamington (who was ab-
sent from home), not seeing the house opened by the servants
in whose charge it was left, became alarmed, and forced an
entrance into the premises. On attaining the sorvants' bed.
room they were horror-stricken on finding Sarah Davis, one
of the servants, quite dead, and Martha Clayton lying beside
her in an almost insensible state. On examining into the
circumstances, it was discovered that Davis was in the habit of
warming her bed every night ; on the previous night she had
brought up the warming pan unusually hot, and after warming
the bed, there being no fireplace in the room, she had placed
the pan, with . the coals still alight in it, in the wash-Land
basin ; the chamber being small and ill-ventilated, the oxygen
was speedily consumed, and the unfortunate young woman bad
been suffocated' from the carbonic oxyde emitted froin the
coals.. The constitution of the girl Clayton being much
stronger than that of the deceased, she ewaped death, and,
although suffering much from the effects of the foul air, is out
of danger,—Leaniinyton Chronicle.

GLOUCESTER-SAT URDAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sue—Seeing your statement in Friday's publication of the
pan.-cedings of the parish of St. -Michael's, Gloucester, as ono
of the Churchwardens, I cannot allow its details to pass with.,
out a remark. It is true that.a, petition had been previously
advertised in favour of Church-rates, and the Rector had also
respectfully submitted the same to the parishioners for sig-
natures; as to its success I cannot say. It is not true, "that
in the face of the reluctance on the part of the public to enter
into the views of the Church-rate party, a vestry meeting'
would be held on Thursday, to make a Church-rate." For
tate, intimation had been given about a month previous, and
that, too, at a vestry meeting, that a Church-rate would be re-
quired, and that, in consequence of a previous appeal, upon
the voluntary principle failing to produce a sufficient amount
to defray the current expenses, and which sum only was
V. 145., a rate was demanded of 2d. in the pound, which
would have raised full 201. more, out of which rate my in-
tention was to return the several subscriptions, and which was
stated at the time of subsciibing, providing the voluntary
principle did not produce the amount of money required. The
money subscribed and the payments to be made amount to
very near 191. ; allowing the further voluntary principle there
is now required 11/. Gs.
Nor is it true that, after the triumph had b:en cb-a'ned,
the victorious party immediately collected among themselves
a sum greater than that which the rate would have prk duced,"
and the sum of money was contributed by both parties, and
handed over to me, which amounted only to 395., and home-
diately after the decision, the greater part of the rate-payers
attending the meeting, and who came for the avowed purpose
of opposing the grant of the rate, simultaneously bolted with-
out contributing one shilling to the good cause. Your, in•
sertiou will oblige, your obedient servant,
G O. SMITH, Churchwarden.