The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-25 00:00:00

FUNDS.

The settling of the Consol Account yesterday passed over
without any failures. All is quiet in the City this morning in
respect to commercial affairs. _

Consols, which closed at 91i for Money, and for July
Account 912 -I, opened this morning at the above prices ;
Exchequer Bills 35 prem. ; India Bonds, 37 prem. ; Bank
Stock, 2061 ; India Stock, 2601.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, which closed at
231 Ex-Coupons, arc at present 232 1, with Coupons; Por-
tuguese, 47i ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 53k.

HALF-PAST ONE.
From Manchester the private letters received this morning
are more favourable. It appears that there was a demand
yesterday for cotton twist ; they were sold at low prices. All
is quiet in the City to the present time in recrect to com-
mercial affairs ; we do not hear of any failures.
Consols have been during the morning at Ali for July
Account, and 91+ for Money. Exchequer Bills lower-34
prem. ; India Bonds, 37 prem. ; Bank Stock, 206+; India
Stock, 260+.
Spanish Active, 24- Ex-Coupons ; Portuguese, 474 ;
Three per Cents., 2q-; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
541; Spanish Coupons, s‘q ; Passive, 51 6 ; Deferred, q 9,

THREE 0' CL 0 CA;
Consols for the Account, 918 A-.

The Landgrave Frederic of Hesse Rumpenheim,
uncle to the reigning Elector of Hesse, died on Saturday last
at Frankfort, where he had arrived only a few days before.
He was born on the 10th of September, 1747, and conse-
quently was in the 90th year of his age.
Sir John Franklin, the new Governor of Van
Diemen's Land, and Captain Maconochie, the late Secretary
to the Royal Geographical Society, who accompanied him as
Secretary, arrived safely at their destination on the 6th of
January.

The election for " Sutler" to the Lumber Troop
took place last night, at the Golden Lion, Smithfield. Three
candidates were in the field, but the votes went in favour of
Mr. Beck, of Johnson's Tavern, 80lt-court, in whose house
the meetings of the troop will be held in future. The ballot
was es follows :—Mr. Beck, 199 ; Mr. Hobbs, 182 ; Leg-
gett, 94. Majority for Mr. Beck, 17.

The Magistrates of Marylebone Office have issued
a public notice cautioning all persons against suffering their
dogs to go unmuzzled, several individusls having been bitten
severely in the district of the Marvlebone Office.
The operative glovers of Worcester, who have for
some years suffered great destitution, have been reduced by
the present depression in trade to the last extremity of despair.
In the well-founded confidence that the Queen, who has " a
heart open as day to melting charity," would readily do all in
her Majesty's power for the alleviation of their distress, the
poor fellows, through the Bishop of Worcester, memorialized
her Majesty—" Humbly praying that her Majesty will gra-
ciously vouchsafe to signify her Royal pleasure that gloves of
native manufacture shall be worn in the public ceremonies of
the Court, or other articles, for the relief of the petition-
ers, in such manner as to her Majesty's gracious kindness
and benignant judgment shall seem fit." In answer
to this memorial her Majesty immediately caused the fol-
lowing kind and gracious answer to be transmitted to
Worcester:—" Windsor Castle, May 13,—My dear Lord,—l
hasten to acknowledge your Lordship's letter of the 12th in-
stant, and to inform you that I have submitted the address of
the poor glove-manufacturers of Worcester to her Majesty.
The Queen is deeply affected by this statement, and begs you
to inform Mr. Bayliss that, from preference, her Majesty in-
variably uses Worcester gloves herself, and promises those in-
dustrious but suffering people that no endeavour shall be want-
ing on her Majesty's part to impress the necessity of supporting
every branch of national induary amongst all classes within
her Majesty's influence.—l am, my dear Lord, very truly and
faithfully yours, " HOWE.
" The Bishop of Worcester."
The benevolence of the Queen has not stopped here. An
order for gloves for her Majesty's use has been transmitted to
Worcester, and is now in course of execution.

In Miss Martineau's work on " Society in Ame-
rica." there is a singular claim to superior correctness, which
we copy for the comfort of those whose auriculars aro blunted.
The authoress says :—" I laboured under only one peculiar
disadvantage, that I am aware of; but that one is incalcula-
ble. I mean my deafness. This does not endanger the ac-
curacy of my information, I believe, as far as it goes; because
I carry a trumpet of remarkable fidelity—an instrument,
moreover, which seems to exert some winning power, by which
I gain more in tetes.a.tetes than is given to people who hear
general conversation. Probably its charm consists in the new
feeling which it imparts of ease and privacy in conversing
with a deaf person."

A porpoise was shot yesterday in the river Lea,
near the lock, by Thomas Barter, landlord of the Imperial
Crown, Bromley, Bow. The porpoise measured four feet two
inches in length, and twenty-seven inches in girth.
The produce of the Isle of Wight is in greater ex-
cess over the amount of its population than any other equal
portion of the King's dominions. Upon an average there is
corn enough produced in the island in one year to maintain
the inhabitants and visitors for seven ; while of lambs alone,
between 7,000 and 8,000 are annually sent to the London
markets.

A quarrelsome officer lately traversing one of the
Boulevards at Paris observed a person turn towards him and
laugh. Becoming indignant, he asked---“ Why do you laugh,
sir, as I pass ?" To which the other quickly rejoined---" Why
do you pass, sir, when I laugh ?"
At the meeting of the Entomological Society, on
Monday last, specimens of a minute ant,
which Mr. Shu(kard
stated to be new to science, and which had been very trouble-
some by swarming in houses at Liverpool, were exhibited by
Dr. Bostock, who stated, that lime had been found of service
in expelling them, when sprinkled near their retreats.
Accounts received from Colonel Light, surveyor to
the South Australian Association, give a very unfavourable
description of the weather. That gentleman describes that it
was then raining and blowing hard, and that he never ex-
pected such weather, which changps at every phase of the
moon, and rarely continues settiettifor a longer period then
five days.