The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-14 00:00:00

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUGUST

3 per Cent. Consols 93% Grand Canal ])ebs. 6 per cent.
33.'1 per Cent. Stock loo%i Ditto, 4 per cent.
I)itto Reduced — Hibeinian Bank —
Ditto New, 1830 .....
3',2 par Cent. Debentures
Bank Stock
Royal Canal Stock — Ballast Office Debentures,4 per
Grand Canal Stock ..... ....

HALF-PAST ONE.
The news received from Lisbon this morning is considered of a more
favourable description than received for some time past, particularly
the defeat of the Miguelite band and the capture of their chief,
in consequence of which the Portuguese Stocks have improved
near 1 per cent.
The British Funds are also buoyant, and have a firm appearance.
Fifty thousand Consols were purchased, and they improved from 94A to
94f Buyers for the Account, Money 94i The continuance of the fine
weather also has had an effect on the market. Exchequer Bills lower,
75 77 pram. ; India Bonds lower, 78 76 ; Bank Stock, 208 f ; India
Stock 265.
In the Foreign Market Spanish has rather improved, 214 ; Por-
tuguese, 36i; Three per Cents., 24i ; Brazilian, 814 82A; Mexican,
244 25i; Columbian, 261 27A ; Belgian, 1011 1021; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half, 544 4 ; Five per Cents., 1023..
Scarce anything doing in the Share Market : the quotations the same
as yesterday.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.

Consols for Account, 94f.
THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 208 India Stock 265
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3 per Cent. Red 94% ;Ditto Bonds 76
3 per Cent. Cons 94%. Ditto Old Annuities 92%
3% per Cent 'Ditto New Annuities
% per Cent. Red 102% Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2%d 77 pm
New 3% per Cent 101% Ditto 50,/ 77 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 70 pm
Jan. 186'I
Oct. 1850
Jan. 1860
FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian, 5 per cent I Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.. 74
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Belgian, 5 per cent. 1004 Ditto, New Ditto .... VA %
Brazilian Bonds B3 Prussian, 5 per cent
Buenos Ayr: s, 6 per cent.
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic
Colombiam, 6 per cent Spanish, 5 per cent 21%
Ditto, 1824 2q% Ditto Consolidated
Danish, 3 per cent — French,l 5 per cent. —f. -...e.
Greek Bonds, 1823, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent. — French, 3 per cent —f. —.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Dutch, 2% per cent. 5-i•N
Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent . Ditto, 5 per cent. NA'
(CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.-(THIS DAY).
Birmingham and Derby Railway 32
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway ..... O%
Great Western Railway 78%
London and Brighton Railway
London and Greenwich Railway
London and Southampton (New) 3614
London and Croydon Railway
Northern and Eastern Railway MM, ••••• 2%

STATE OF TRADE.—During the last few days, a
more active demand has sprung up for several descriptions of manu-
factured goods, but more particularly for some of the power.loom fabrics
—such as skirtings, and the better qualities of printing cloth; and
there also appears to be a decided improvement in some branches of
our country trade, which has of late been so extremely languid. A
considerable business is still doing in yarns for export, which has at
length produced some little effect upon prices, and created a more
extensive inquiry amongst our own manufacturers for this article.—
Preston Observer.

THE BEER SHOPS.—If the beer-sellers, who have
established themselves in a trade, under the idea that they were sanc-
tioned and protected by the Legislature, are to be thus harshly treated,
and their little all sacrificed, where is the person who will hereafter
place any reliance upon the solemn act of a supposed deliberate assembly,
If the Beer Act is to be instantaneously repealed, then are the beer re-
tailers more justly entitled to compensation than the blood-stained
slaveholders. It is said beer-houses are the seats of depravity and vice;
ergo' gin-shops are patterns of virtue and morality. This must be the
inference intended, else why do proprietors of gin-shops sign petitions
against beer-houses. I maintain, and am prepared to prove, that beer-
houses are not the infamous receptacles they are represented, and the
Legislature ought to receive with caution the exaggerated statements of
interested parties.—Correspondent of the Hampshire Independent.

MAILS ON RAlLWAYS.—Yesterday morning, at
seven o'clock, the Emerald Bath and Bristol stage-coach was removed
from the tine of turnpike road to Maidenhead from London, and con-
veyed from Paddington, filled with passengers and luggage, along the
Great Western Railway to Maidenhead. In another fortnight two of
the Bath and Bristol stages will be conveyed to Maidenhead by the
same conveyance. .

THE CURSE OF PHARAOH.— I have omitted to
mention that the curse provoked by Pharaoh still rests upon the land of
Egypt, and that rats, fleas, and all those detestable animals into which
Aaron converted the sands, are still the portion of the traveller and
sojourner in Egypt. I had suffered considerably during the last four
days, but not willing to loose a favourable wind, had pat off, resorting
to the usual means of relief To-night, however, there was no enduring
it any longer; the rats ran, shrieked, and shouted, as if celebrating a
jubilee on account of some great mortality among the cats, and the lesser
animals came upon me as if the rod of Aaron had been lifted for my
special affliction.—Stephens's Incidents of Travel in the Holy Land,
Egypt, Edonz, 4.e.
ORANGEISM AT DBOMORE.—The Orangemen
of Dromore held a meeting on Thursday week, to denounce the Go-
vernment for sending troops to that place, on the 12th July. The
Rev. It E B. Maclellan had the manliness to meet the faction in their
den, and in despite of their vociferous opposition, succeeded in demon
strafing that the Government were entitled to the greatest praise for the
salutary precautions which they had adopted on the late Orange an-
niversary, by which the peace of the district, and the lives of the
well.disposed inhabitants were preserved. John Magill, Esq. of !sten-
derry, also opposed the factious objects of the meeting. As soon as
this gentleman had concluded, the clamour was renewed and became so
lengthened and violent that the Harrison, the Churchwarden, handed
to Mr. Brush his resolutions, and said, I dissolve (or adjourn) the meet.
tog On this, the friends of the Government, and many others, left
the Market-house. We understand that, afterwards, some resolutions
were passed, with the purport of which we are unacquainted.—Dublin
Evening Post.
MOCK SUNS.—A person named Green has ad-
dressed the following letter to the Editor of the Suffidle Chronicle :
On Monday morning, July 30, just after six, as I was going to my work
at the Sudbury Union How, my attention was suddenly attracted by
an unusual appearance of light on the ground, proceeding, as I thought,
from something in the atmosphere. I looked up to ascertain the cause,
when to my astonishment, there appeared three distinct suns; one, the
real sun, in the centre ; the two mocks suns were north and south of
the real one, equidistant and on a parallel line; the light admitted from
each of the mock suns did not appear so brilliant as from the real one,
yet the rays proceeding from each of them as seen between the light
clouds were brilliant, apparently like the tail of the comet of 1811 ; a
rainbow-like circle enclosed the three; the centre of the circle was the
real sun ; the colours the same as a rainbow ; the higher part of the circle
the most brilliant ; the lower part, below the stuns, faint in colours, and
at places scarcely visible ; above this circle, and just touching the upper
edge, was a segment of a circle, the reverse of the usual appearance of a
rainbow, tit, feet appearing upwards—this was very bright in colours,
corresponding in colours and brilliancy to the brightest rainbow. Above
this, was a faint appearance of part of another bow, similar to the
moon at three or four days old. There was at the time neither rain nor
fog, but white thin clouds, and very little wind; hew long it had been
visible before I observed it I am not aware, but it continued in its
beauty until more than half.?ast six ; after that time, the colours began
to fade, and about seven the whole disappeared.
As the cows, accompanied by a bull, belonging to
Mr. S. Saundere, of Hydon.vawr, Montgomeryshire, were bringing up
for milking on Monday week, a man employed as a inaltster by Mr.
nigh, of Hydan (c, ell known to the bull previously), met the animal on
this day with a large stake, and dared him with it. In art instant the
infuriated beast dashed at the unfortunate assailant, struck his horn
and made a frightful gash in the lower part of his belly, and tossed the
poor fellow a considerable height in the air. The bull attacked him
again on the ground, and would have completed his work of death, had
not a dog, assisted by two men, rescued the sufferer, who now lies dan-
gerously ill.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
WA NT OF EDUCATION.—There were eleven pri-
soners for trial at the Nottingham Assizes, ten of whom were unable
either to read or write.