The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-05 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY).

CITY, T IVEL VF, O' C'; C
Our arrivals this morning are three French mails. The
Ostend and Dutch mails arc still due. No ship letters.
The Sentinelle de Pyrenees says, that the movements of the
troops in Biscay indicate an approaching severe engagement.
Letters from Bilboa to the 22d ult., state that they expect
another demonstration by the Carlists on that town. It is fully
relied on, that the French Government has given orders to
send to the army of Cordova 1,200 horses, for the cavalry and
artillery.
General Cordova haviw, ' been informed that the Carlists,
who were beforo him at Arlaban, was about to make a move-
ment, with the intention of coming up with them on the 21st
ult., made a reconnoissance on their positions, when all their
troops retreated, and he was able to come up with them as they
withdrew into their intrenchments

On the 22d ult. Eguia left his position, and proceeded by
Ochandiano and Moravalles, on Balmaseda, where he arrived
on the 26th with fourteen battalions, and his artillery ; hav-
ing with him several pieces of cannon taken at Lequeitio.
General Cordova, thinking that an attack would he made by
the Carlists on Bilboa, trade dispositions to follow them, and
expected that he would arrive at Balmaseda at the same time
ax the Carlists. An engagement may therefore be expected
between tlyzt town and Orduna.

On the 26th General Garcia (of the Carlists) attacked at
Larrason, Colonel Leon Iria.te, coming from Pampeluna to
Burguette, with his battalion of Sharp-shociters. The engage-
ment was unfavourable to the Queen's troops; but the Foreign
Legion having come up, forced the Carlists to retreat, who
were followed to the mountains. They lost a great number
of men.

FUNDS.

Consols opened this morning—at the closing prices of yes-
terday, 91i for the Account, and 91a 4 for Money ; Exche-
quer Bills, 18 20 ; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock, 210:1 ;
India Stock, 257 fr 2581-.
In the Foreign Market Portuguese Stocks are buoyant, in
consequence of the intelligence from Lisbon of the new Mi-
nistry having been formed by the choice of men of experienced
talent, who formed the old Administration—such as the Duke
of Terceira, and Carvalho as Minister of Finance; the Duke
of Palmella appears to be left out. He, however, will have
an important task to perform in superintending the negocia-
tions and treaties with the foreign Powers. The Prince's
choice of the present Ministry will no doubt have an important
effect on the Portuguese nation. _ _

Portuguese Stocks, Five per Cents., 841 ; Three per
Cents, 534 53i; Spanish Active firm at the leaving off price,
464 1 ; Passive, 144 ; Deferred, 224 23 ; Colombian, 32i
33 ; Mexican, 35 36 ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents, 564
57 ; French prices, Five per Cents, 107 f. 95e. ; Three per
Cents., 82f. ; Spanish Active, 451, one per cent. higher.
By the latest arrivals from Paris we have accounts from
Toulon, that orders have been sent there to assemble eleven
sail of the line, four frigates of the first class, two of the se-
cond, and three or four of the third class, with other ships of
smaller force ; and that this fleet is to be under the orders of
Admiral Hugon. The King is about to visit Toulon to in-
spect it. Every person believes this force is destined for the
Levant.

HALF-PAST ONE.

Up to the present hour, we have no further arrivals, al-
though the French mails have been received. There is not
much business doing in either of the Markets.
Consols maintain the price of 91i for the Account, and
91i for Money.
Exchequer Bills, 19 ; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock, 210 ;
India Stock, 2571 258 i.
In the Foreign Market, the chief speculations are in Por-
tuguese and Spanish Securities, the former at 841 z ; Three
per Cents., 531; Spanish Active Bonds 46+ i; Passive, 141 ;
Deferred, 23.

The Dutch mail has arrived—the Prince of Orange also.
THREE 0' CL 0 CR.

Consois for the Account, 9]l.
THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 2ll OmniJm — pm.
3 per Cent. lied 903 India Stock —
3 per Cent Cons 915 Ditto bonds
'IN, per Cent. 99,4, South Sea Stock
3% per Cent. Red IS Ditto Old Annuities -iiii,g
New 3!4 per Cent MN Ditto New Annuities —
i per Cent. Assented
Dissented Ditto 550/ lB pat.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto suo/ RI pm.
.1411 1860 15% Bank Stock for Opg.
Oct. 1850 ISN .idea Stock for Act.
Jan. 18045 16% Consols for Act.
FOREIG

FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent — Fartuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 8454
Br2zilian Bonds .. 86 Prussian, 5 per cent. —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent. ~..109%
Chilian, 6 per cent l— Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent. — Spanish, 5 per cent ....
Ditto, 1931
Danish, 3 per cent 7ti French, 5 per cent
Greek Bonds, 1825.5 per tent. Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent. — French, 3 per cent —t. —e.
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 ....... 35% Dutch, 2, per cent. 57
Ferny:an, 1825, 6 per cent. ... —:: I Ditto, 5 per cent .. 101%

SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter Railway
Cheltenham and Great Western Railway 5
Commercial Blackwall Railway
Eastern . Counties Railway
Great Western Railway
London and Brighton Railway (Stevenson's)
London and Brighton Railway (Rennie's)
London and Blackwall Railway 44i.
London and Gravesend Railway
London Grand Junction Railway 4 IA
South Eastern Railway .
South Western Railway llh
No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o'clock
List.

""'"lNcENDtAnism. Between eleven and twelve
o'clock on Wednesday night a " steor" of flooring-boards, be-
onging to Mr. Joshua Taylor, joiner and builder, Haulgh,
which had been piled up to dry at the back of St. George's-
place, Little Bolton, was discovered to be on fire by a young
woman who happened to pass that way. She immediately
gave the alarm, and the fire was extinguished before any ma-
terial damage was done. On examination it was found that
two bottles containing turpentine, and a quantity of paper,
which had been saturated with the inflammable liquid, had
been placed under the timber, and ignited it. It was very
fortunate that the fire was discovered so early, as, if the
flames had acquired any great height the whole of St. George's-
place would have been in imminent danger of being burnt
down. A reward of 201. is offered for the discovery of the
incendiaries ; and, as the boards were cut in Liverpool, it is
supposed that this circumstance was obnoxious to some turn-
out sawyers.—Bolton Chronicle.
The cold assumed an intensity unparalleled at Paris
at this season of the year. On Saturday afternoon a quantity
of snow fell.
For a long time, in the Rue Mouffetard, Paris,
every morning were found manuscript placards, casting re-
flections upon the virtue of the young and pretty wife of ahair-
dresser. At midnight on Sunday an inhabitant of the street,
returning home, found a man in the act of posting up these
offensive libels. He was seized, and recognized to be a dis-
carded assistant of the hairdresser, who had dismissed him at
the desire of his wife, in consequence of his having declared
a passion for her. He was conducted to the Prefecture of
Police.

BRIGHTON, MAY 4.—On Monday it blew a hur-
ricane here, and the wind did considerable damage. We hear
that a sailor was literally blown off the deck of a vessel be-
longing to Mr. Bass, of this town, and drowned. Another
person was blown over the cliff near Kemp Town, and lie was
taken to the County Hospital seriously injured. Women and
children were blown down on the cliff, and large sheets of
lead, weighing several hundred weight, in two or three places
were lifted off the houses and carried into the street by the
violence of the wind. About forty trees in Lord Chichester's
park were torn up by the roots.
James Brant, Esq., has. ust been appointed his Ma-
jesty's Consul at Erzeroum, a Turkish city, nearly on the fron-
tiers of Persia, and 170 miles inland from Trebizond, at which
latter town Mr. Brant has hitherto been the English Consul..
Mr. Brant was presented at the last levee on his appointment
to the newly created consulate. .

A very numerous meeting of the creditors of Messrs.
Duckett, Morland, and Co., late bankers of Pall-Mall, was
held yesterday morning before Mr. Commissioner Evan's, for
the proof of debts and tho declaration of a dividend upon the
joint estate ; when a nutiabr of debts to a considerable amount
having been proved, the further proceedings were adjourned
for a -fortnight. . . .

A dramatic scene took place a few days ago, in the
Court of Assizes at Rennes. A prisoner, named Charrier,
was found guilty of having murdered a student named Ledieu,
in a quarrel in which several were engaged. When the Pro-
cureur-General called upon the Court to pronounce sentence
of hard labour at the hulks for life, Laperche, the brother-in-
law of Charrier exclaimed, " This is too bad; you are go-
ing to condemn an innocent man ; I alone am guilty." The
Court, however, had no alternative, and the sentence was pro-
nounced. Laperche was arrested, and underwent a very long
examination.

We understand that the arrests which took place a
few days ago are all connected with the clandestine manufac-
tory of gunpowder discovered durinr, March. It was nothing
to do with fresh conspiracies; the traces of the powder-manu-
factory plot have been followed, and all its ramifications dis-
covered.— Temps.
On the 10th November, 1833, some human bones
were found beneath the soil on the slope of a hill near Corn-
yeigne, fifteen feet below a road which led, half way up the
hill, through an uncultivated and lowly spot, called the Cavee
de l'Arc, about three quarters of a league from the high road
from Paris to St. Quenten. On the fact becoming known to
the police, Dr. Villette was sent for, who, after a careful exr.-
rnination, declared that the bones had belonged to a boy of
eight years of age, whose death must have occurred from fif-
teen to twenty years before. Inquiries were made at the
time and subsequently, but no light was cast on the subject,
and suspicions of foul play were entertained. These suspi-
cions have recently been changed into certainty. On the 16th
of April last, another skeleton was found in the Cayce de
l'Arc, apparently that of a robust individual. It was disco-
vered only a few paces from the spot where the search was
made in 1833. The soil, being very sandy, had been und: r-
mined in order more readily to get at the bones of the child,
and subsequent rains having cansed the ground to fall away,
disclosed the second skeleton, which must have belonged to a
man of five feet six inches in height, and from thirty to fcrty
years of age, to judge ,from the nature of the head and the
perfect state of the teeth, which were very fine and regular.
No fracture was apparent on the skull, or on any of the other
bones; but a heavy stone had been placed on the head, which
it had no doubt injured. No doubt exists that the Cavee de
l'Arc has been made the scene of a double crime, arid 'opinion
inclines to the belief that the murdered persons were strangers
in the country...... French Paper.