The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-26 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The Funds appear very firm this morning, which may be
attributed to a very large amount of stock being taken to-
day, it is said to the amount of 800,000/., by an eminent
Christian broker.

The Express from Paris appears to be of little import :
French Renter remain steady,
Cunsols, which left off yest
opened at 841 and are al

Iday at 84i for the account,
present 84.4.
JVUNDB
ak, per Cent. 92% %
Ditto, Reduced, 04. ff,
4 per Cent. 11+26, 90)6 %
India Bonds, 34 6
Exchequer Bills, :ti 8
FUNDS.
Greek, 28 30
Mexican, 36 7
Peruvian, IS 16
Portuguese, 54 6
Prussian,
'lmmo, 064 73
Spanish, 21%
TWO O'CLOCK.

ENOLIS,
Bank 5.tnek,213:1.4_1054

!rnU Stork

224 6

3 per Cent. Con% 8114 %
1) )..or Aceot.n., 84%
11:tto Reduced, 83% %

Brazilian, 62%
Bur!nos Ayres, 22 4
Chilian, 21 3
Colombian, 17% 18
Ci% 2
French 5 per Cent. 91 5
Ditto 3 per Cent. 63% 4%

The private letters from Berlin and Vienna bring the
Funds, at the above places, from 4 to 5 leer cent. higher.
The letters front Holland this d .y are rather of a gloomy
description ; no energy in the Government, and the people
do not come forward to the ipsistance of the King as was at
first anticipated.
We have but little information this day, and the arrivals
of a scanty description. Consols, which were firm and
looking up in the early part of the morning, are rather
heavy at present, although the Scotch Banks have made
some investments, and it is said that a large delivery of
Stock has taken place. Consuls have been done at 845 for
the account, and are ut present 844 5 ; the same for money.
Little or nothing doing in the Foreign Securities.
THREE O'CLOCK
Consols, 845 4.

The Earl and Countess of LONSDALE and
family, with the Hon. M. O'CALLamtarr, and Colonrl
Sir A. DALRYMPLE and Lady, have been sojourning at
Vhitehaven Castle for the last ten dap, which they leave
in a day or two for Lowther Castle, preparatory to their
departure for the South. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Bart.,
M.P., and Lady have left Netherhy for Loudon.— Cadise
Patriot.
Varliamept will ossemble this day. Ijjs Grace
the puke of Bycrisiquam will attend shortly after twelve
o'glock, us Lord 'Nil Steward, to swear in suph Aiwebers
as may be present; when the Commons will be summoned
to the Lords, and the session opened by Commission. The
Loan CHANCELLOR, as one of the Commissioners, will
direct the Comtnons to choose a Speaker, which, as it is
now supposed that there will ha no opposition to Mr.
5410u:us Suwon, will be done immediately. On Wed-
nesday the LORD CHANCELLOR will intimate his M.
3ESTY'S approba Sian of their choice. On Thursday and
Friday the House will assemble again for a short time to
swear in Members, when they will adjogro until Tuesday,
fhe'Vd of .I.loyember, on which day, as we bap before
the KING will 'go tiOWL; to The House anti drilver the Royal
Spacli. The customary search of the vaults under the
House, &c., which has beets invariably practised since the
Gunpowder Plot, will not he made till the day his MA.
rem goes to the House. Botts Mouses have been consi-
derably repaired and beautified.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, OCT. 25.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Scots-
man, Cassie, from Jamaica; and Resolution, l'adgliani,
from Bilboa.

PORTSMOUTH, Ocr. s.—Wind S.W.—Put back the
Jane, Church, bound to New South Wales. Arrived the
Columbia, Delano, from New Yolk ; and Emperor
Alexander, from Quebec.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the
Tantivy, from Zante.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind S.W. fresh.—Sailed
the Cygnet packet, for Lisbon.
BRISTOL, OCT. 25.—Arrived the Marmion, Adam!,
from Zante.

Laval:root, OCT. 24.—Arrived the Edgar, Vaughan,
from New York ; and Providence, Mardon, from Malaga.
Off port, the Algonquin, from Philadelphia.
. .

. - .. ... . _
CLYDE, OCT. 24.—Arrived the Susannah, Robertson,
from Bay Chaleur ; and Rowley, 11PLarty, from Archangel.
ABERDEEN, OCT. 23.—Arrived off port, the Bon
Accord, Parker, and Hercules, Reed, from Davis' Straits.

MARGATE, OCT. 25.—Arrived the Richard, Blackly,
from St. Kitt's.

HULL, OCT. 21.—Arrived the Louiqa, Evans, from
Charleston; and Caledonia, Garrick, from Quebec.
DUNDEE, OCT. 24.—Arrived the Margaret, Shield,
from Riga.

The Liberty, Rashleigh, from Newcastle, was wrecked
on the Shipwash Sand on Sunday; crew and materials
saved.

The Highlander, Kopp, from Porto Rico, has arrived
off Plymouth, with I ss of bulwarks, sails, &c., in a
hurricane, the 25th ult.

The Betsey, Clark, from Newcastle to Dundee, was
wrecked on the Elbow End Sand the 20th inst. ; crew
drowned.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

Lord TENTERDZN resumed his sittir'gs at Nisi Prius
this morning in Westminster Hall.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
BEREINSIIAW V. LODER.

This was an action to recover compensation in damages
for a breach of promise of marriage.
Mr. TOSILINSON, in the absence of the Attorney-Ge-
neral, stated the facts of the case to the Jury, from which
it appeared, that the plaintiff is a young lady, shout 25
years of age, living in the employ of Mr. Welt, a lace-
manufacturer, in St. Martin's-court. The defendant is
an attorney, and between 40 and 50 years of age. He
first met Miss ilerkinshaw in St. Martin's-court, and
it was then the acquaintance commenced. He visited her
regularly for two or three months, and then proposed that
they should be married on the llth of January last. This
was assented to on the part of the young lady, and in con-
sequence the wedding-clothes were provided, and all other
arrangements made for the due performance of the mar-
riage ceremony, the defendant himself having previously
purchased the ring, and caused the publication of the
banns in the parish church of St. James. On the morning
of the day fixed for the union of the parties the plaintiff
was thrown into great distress of mind by the receipt of a
note from the defendant, stating that be bad caught such
a severe cold from standing to talk with her at the shop-
door in St. Martin's-court, that lie could not be married
that day, and wi.hed it to be put off to the 16th, when
he hoped to be recovered. On the 16th, however, the
plaintiff was doomed to a similar disappointment, for on
that morning another note was received from the de-
fendant, who stated that the cold bad been succeeded by a
fever, and he then, fire wished for a further delay of the
marriage. Other delays succeeded, until at length Mr.
Loder declined altogether to perform the promise he had
made to the plaintiff. The Learned Counsel said he should
prove the promise by several witnesses, and he was at a
loss to know what excuse the defendant could make. It
appeared Mr. Loder bad been informed that thellaintiff's
father was a respectable pawnbroker at Doncaster, and
that lie had written down to that town to inquire into his
circumstance", when he received information that Mr.
l3erkinshaw was not a pawnbroker, but a dealer in rab-
bit-skins. Now he would prove that this informa-
tion was quite wrong, and that the dealer in rabbit-
skins was an uncle of the plaintiff's, and not the father,
who really was, as lie was represented, a retired pawn-
broker and a respectable man, and he trusted the Jury
would give such damages as the injured feelings of the
plaintiff called for. After some further observations the
Learned Counsel called his witnesses.

Mr. Grieves, a friend of the plaintiff's, stated that the
defendant and Miss Berkinshaw had several times visited
at his house, and that he had heard the defendant promise
marriage to the plaintiff.

Two young ladies, friends of the plaintiff, also pfoved
the defendant's promising marriage, u also the fact of the
plaintiff's father being a respectable run and a retired
pawnbroker.
_ _

Mr . ADOLPHUS addressed
tffiits thl►alarms
emJ:uoormfyi
noel fi.:kiitrte the defendant.
supposefse
ovd ne
oefebnwws
ntl itoo n".s.
La
tosi
mu at
ne necessary,icieh ianga lei et
coulde character oi of this
ould
cause much distress of mind to the plaintiff. The de-
fendant, as they had heard, was an attorney, and they
should also be informed that he was going down
the vale of years, but yet at this time of life it appear•erl
from his letters that he made love until he got a violent
cold. —(A laugh.)—lt did not appear how the acquaint..
once between the parties first commenced, or under what
circumstances. His Learned Friend, Mr. Tomlinson, had
said when alluding to the defendant's age, that the plaintiff
must be better pleased with the judgment of an old gen-
tleman, and it must be more flattering to her feelings than
if she received attentions from a young and inexperienced
one—(Laughter)—but if he, (Mr. A.) knew anything
of human nature, a young lady was not so likely to be so
attached to forty odd as to twenty odd.—(Laughter.)—
There was no proof of any dreadful visitations of sor-
row at the disappointment. It was true there was
a courtship of two months and a half; and also
that it was the intention of the defendant during that time
to marry the plaintiff, but yet lie had used no arts to in-
fluence her, or by any misreprentations bad he sought to
gain her affection. Ile (Mr. Adolphus) could now in.
form the Jury the real cause of the defendant's breaking
his promise : he ascertained that the plaintiff's family
were differently circumstanced to what he had been led to
expect. Ile was informed that on his marriage he would
receive with the young lady a fortune of 1,600/., but he
diicovered thit such was not likely to he the case, and as
he had turned mote than 40 years of age, it was only
natural to suppose that he possessed some prudence
that belonged to that time of life. The fact was
he was not a rich man, and could not afford
to take home a wife unless she had some money.._.
(A laugh.)—The plaintiff's father was not the wealthy
pawnbroker that had been represented, and be broke off
the match; but the Jury would bear in mind that, in so
doing, lie said nothing—he did nothing to blast or injure
her reputation—he found no fault, and neither, by word
or action did lie act so as to prevent any future lover ap.
proaching. It could not be supposed that, under such
circumstances, the plaintiff could have felt much uneasiness
or distress of mind at her disappoin•ment. At the same
time he was free to allow that Juries could not shut their
eyes and ears against actions like the present ; but every
case should be decided by its own particular circumstances.
Now here the lady was 25 year, of age; she must of
course (at least be would suppose so) know something
about love addresses; and, if so, he could not suppose
she would suffer much distress front losing the affections of
a lover approaching 50. In fact, be should have
thought such a loss sufficient compensation--(A laugh)
and that no damages would he asked (or; but the Jury
were to judge how much she was entitled to for her loss ;
her character remained uninjured, and he was of opinion
that the gold ring she had received from the defendant
was a sufficient compensation. They would also Taman-
her, that on their verdict depended whether or nut the de-
fendant wits to he a ruined man for writing a few foolish
Live-letters, which of all compositions were the most ridi-
culous, the most dull, and most insipid, except to the par-
I tics themselves. Alter sonic further remarks, the Learned
Counsel said lie felt confident that the Jury would think
nominal damages would justify the justice of the CAW.
Lord TINTERDEN briefly summed up. His Lordship
said the plaintiff wits clearly entitled to a verdict, as the
promise bad been proved ; the only question, ►hefefoCet
was, wliat 4aniges site ooght to receive. It appeared
there had been a three months' courtship, and there was
no proof that the defendant had been led to expect, when
lie formed the acquaintance, that the lady would have a
fortune. The defendant's age had been mentioned ; but
he (Lord Tenter•dett) did not see that there was much to
he said about the disparity of age. It did not appear,
however, that the defendant was a man of property.
The Jury consulted for some time, and then returner)
verdict for the plaintiff—Pamages 10p/.

1.,00 and Lady LANGroo, and the lion.
Mr. itimucc, have arrive train Ireland, at the residence
of Mr. CHAIMES EGAN. his Lottiobipso brother-in htivt
Chewier-street, Beigravu•aquarr.
The West India Association WO,
ttly, the sum of WO guito.q. to*tyrtld the erection of the
monument to Mr. flust:twitt.