The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-05 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The Express from Paris is not of much intertst, conse-
quently it has not had an effect on the Funds, which
opened at 92i for the Account, and for Money 92i,
with little or nothing doing as yet.
The Foreign Market is in the same state as that of the
British, quite inanimate.
ENGLISH

Bank Stock,
India Stock,

FUNDS.
31 per Cent.
New 4 per Cent., 101 i 2

3 per Cent. Cons. 92# 4 per Cent. 1826,
Do. for Account, 92# India Bonds, 82 83
Ditto Reduced, Exchequer Bills, 78 70
TWO O'CLOCK.
We not hear that the Lisbon mails have brought any
political news of importance. It is rather singular that
the Papers do not give the amnesty—it is said that they
first wait for the sanction of the English and French

Governments,
It is reported that the Quarter's Revenue is not so fa-
vourable as was expected.
We understand that his Majesty is nearly recovered from
his late indisposition.
The Googol Market, which was rather stationary in the
first part of the morning, has taken a turn, and improved
from 921 for the Account to 924, and for next Account
93. Consols arc now 921 4 ; this being the first day the
books are opened at the Bank for persons who wish to
dissent in the reduction of the new Four per Cents. ; up to
the present hour we do not hear of any person having
made their appearance.
The business in the Foreign Market has been animated,
particularly in Greek Bonds, which have got up Si per
cent. owing to a Stock Exchange report that Prince
Leopold has set off for Greece. Brazil Bonds hove im-
proved 1 per cent. ; Spanish Bonds have also got up.
7 HRE,.E O' CL CK.
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Consols 921 t.

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COMMON HALL.-(THIS DAY.)

PUBLIC DISTRESS.

This morning a Common Hall was held in Guildhall,
pursuant to a requisition signed by many of the Livery,
addressed to the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of " taking_
into consideration the present overwhelming distress which •
pervades all ranks and daises of our fellow-countrymen,
excepting those who are annuitants, those who receive
fixed incomes, and those who live upon the taxes; and to
devise the most effectual means of checking the alarming
progress of the wide-spreading. and devastating evil."
The whole of the Livery and freemen attiched to the
several Companies of the city were summoned to attend.
The hour appointed for the Hall was twelve o'clock pre-
cisely, and by that hour many of the Liverymen were in at-
tendance. Outside Guildhall there was a great concourse
of persons, who came for the purpose of hearing the
speeches, not aware that none but Liverymen and those
having the entre would be admitted.
The Loan MAYOR arrived in state, followed by the ,
Sheriffs also in state, about ten o'clock, and proCeeded to
the Council Chamber. Soon afterwards his Lordship.
entered the hall, accompanied by many of the Aldermeus.....
the Officers of the Corporation, &r. The Hall was -but--
thinly attended.
The Town Clerk having read the requisition,
The LORD MAYOR said that having received a requisi----:
tion, he had called the present meeting, and hoped that
proceedings of the day would be marked with every
consideration that such a subject deserved. He hoped the
resolutions would be frilly considered.
Mr. Hu sr came forward and said that from the few of-

the Livery who had assembled, he thought that there was
no fear of clamour. They had met on an important occa-
sion, but lie thought that the distress had not fallen so j
severely on the citizens as on other classes of the people.
lie attributed the thinness of the meeting to the little
publicity which had been given to the meeting. In all
his trawls he found no difficulty in finding those
who suffered severely from distress, excepting those specially
exempted in the resolution. Persons in trade and agricul-
tore wee suffering severely, and- were fast going to tbe.
workhouse. The last winter was severe, but that-would ,
n it press so sev rely:; and he would ask, were Englishmen
less provident and cat eful than formerly ? The great .
cause of evil was the excessive taxation ; but perhaps they
should he told that some of the taxes were to be ,:tilisst
off; but though lie would not find fault with
Ministers for this still lie thought the repeat utak:
Malt Tax would have afforded more benefit, to the
people. The report of the beer duties was to benefit the
agriculturist, but had he been called uptin; he sheuld haire :
asked for the repeal of the Bread Tax. He. gave the Duke: ;',
of Wellington, for lie was the who7e of the Mmistry, all obl ..
rest being his servants, great credit for the concessionitiii
hal made, and it was the influence alone of the borough-
mongers which prevented his doing more good distil*: -
had done. Mr. Hunt then went on to obst 'tie that the
mode of representing the people had not improved eirt94.
1793.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

SUFFOLK-STREET GALLERY.

This is by far the best Exhibition we have yet seen.—
The one of last year-was excellent—but, in point of vita
riety, excellence, and character, can hear no comparison
.;
with the present.
No. 23. DAIRY-MAID, T. Cr...ATER—Is chiefly
mailable for the happy expression of countenance in the
young country girl who stands churning her butter in the ;
foreground : it is a mixture of archness, innocence, and
simplicity, blent up in one harmonious 104 characteristic ,
whole.

40. WELCOME FRIENDS, J. KNIGHT Will, no doubt,

raise this artist very highly in the estimatiop, of the pub-
lic. It is a picture full of character and ',meaning, and
one that tells its own tale—like llogarth's engravings.. ,
without the aid of comment or catalogue. The Farmer's
welcome is admirably pourtrayed—and the bye-play in the '
corner, between the young man and the girl, who is.'
afraid her grandfather may overhear the kisses with which
she is in the act of being somewhat overloaded, is enviable
and amusing.
6. PORTRAIT OF THE COUNTESS OF ST. GERMAIN'S,
G. N. Naistr.—This as a painting is a singularly promis,i
ing performance. It is full of graceful expression, the,
attitude of the lady is easy, and the colouring of the dra4
pery rich, but not gaudy or exuberant. Mr. Nash seems.
to have studied in the school of Sir Thomas Lawrence,
whom he has apparently rendered his model, so far as thet4-
draperies of his pictures are concerned, and we know oaf
that he could have possibly selected a better subject fort
imitation. With the talent that he has here evi
backed by proportionate industry, Mr. Nash can
-fail of success.
2. PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN KING, E( THE SAME AR

—ls a spirited and intelligent likeness. The character of
the countenance is happily preserved, and the entire piet#l
finished in an elegant style.
45. SCENE IN ESKDALE—Is worthy the talents af.Hoir.
laud, one of our beet, certainly one of our most unaffected
landscape painters.
No. 289, Portrait of MACREADY as Wm. Tell, as a like-
ness is good ; but the unhappy tragedian seems off his
balance, and likely to tumble on his nose.
Among the other pictures of merit in the present exhi-
bition we may point out Nos. 61, 86, 119, 175, 208, 307.

Parliament, it is reported about the allies
will this year have a very brief Session. It is imagiked
that the prorogation will take place the second week in Jipte.
Mr. JERVIS, Chief Justice of Chester, will
be one of the proposed new Judges.

THE NEW FOUR PER being
the day appointed by the CHANCELLOR of the ExcnEcatxn.
for the opening of the books at the Bank of England, in order
that the holders of the new Four per Cents. who may dis-
sent from the plan of Government, may express their oppo-
sition, some curiosity was excited among the monied mte-
rest to learn how many of the holders bad signed. 'Up to
the middle of the day, however, scarcely any persons made
their appearance at the Chief Cashier's office in the tank
to inscribe their names, and it may therefore be inferred
that the measure is in a fair way of being carried without
difficulty, especially as it was to have been expected that
those holders, said to have formed themselves into a pirty,
to oppose the Minister, have not come forward to express'
their dissent. The hooks will remain open for some days.
DISTRESS IN LONGFORD.—A, correspondent
informs us that distress so general and unmitigated as now
prevails in Longford was never before experienced in at
quarter. The scenes of misery in the town itself surpass
all powers of description. Amid these scenes; however,'
there have been lately several auctions of beds, blankets,'
alticles of wearing apparel, and furniture, seized for *be
and church cess ! !—Dublin Morning Register. '•

INSUBORDINATE STATE OF THE Mai'
motrrnsmas CoLLizus.—We are concerned to hear-Abet
the spirit of insubordination. which, a few weeks s4we,
manifested itself in some parts of the mining district, has
extended itself into neighbouring parishes, and that, sinc.e
Saturday last, the whole of the workmen in the Mon.
moutlishire Collieries have abandoned their work, and still
illegal
esaonrrtya
haareve beweetn perpetrated.oadd,tha
that most
Thatun execrablewarrantablcvllegal
" Scotch Caul& has been. again ,raised. on the hilhf of
Monmouthshire. By some of these cowardly wretched'
the house of a peaceable collier at the Penllan Works was
broken into, and on Saturday night sundry barges, ;seer
Crumlin, loaded with coal, had holes bored in their boef
torus and were sunk, to prevent their proceeding to war"
ket, though the colliers had long ago been paid in fell for
cutting the coal they contained. The cause assigned fee
these and other outrages, and for the colliers leaving theit
work, is a requisition on the part of the masters for q re'
duction in the price given for cutting and getting of co
rendered necessary by the great reduction in the sale-prs
of that article at Newport. The colliers, in the con#
of the last week, repeatedly assembled in great -nurnhel
andvm meetings
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sequence.— Cambrian.
FRACAS AT ETON.—We regret en
mploy.
to site,that an unpleasant occurrence took place a few daye•aiseet
which, at one time, threatened serious consequences. One
sldS in c 0 el/441,
of the senior scholars belonging to this establishment, the
heir to an Irish Marquis, was crossing the bridge, whet)
he was insulted by a bricklayer's labourer, who addressee
him by one of those cant appellations which are used el
party watch-words between the several factions of echo°
and town. As the Noble Lord was deficient neither ill
strength nor resolution, a rencontre was the consequent;
in which the aggressor received so severe a besting, tioe
it was at one time doubtful whether he would recover it
The animosity of his companions was roused, and a sinte,lii
taneous attack, beaded by a bargeman, noted for his 01°,1
in pugilistic contests, was made at a subsequent per b
upon the victor, who was very roughly handled, and Wit
difficulty effected his retreat (partly thr.tugh the interest)
.:
tion of one of the Masters) by the back door of hour
in which he bad taken refuge. Opinion, we hear,
much divided in the neighbourhood " as. tq the molt/
the transactions.._ Intelligence.