The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-15 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Montreal Papers to the 6th of March, and Quebec Papers to the
4th, have been received at the North and South American Cof-
fee-house.

(From the Montreal Papers.)

" To his Excellency Sir John Colborne,
" May it please your Excellency,—We, his Majesty's most du-
tiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in
Provincial Parliament assembled, most respectfully beg leave to
represent to your Excellency that the distressed state of the tim-
ber trade of this province renders it exceedingly inconvenient
for the persons engaged in it to pay the duty which is collected
from them for timber cut in the waste • lands of the Crown ; we
therefore intreat your Excellency to take their case into consi-
deration, and allow them to cut timber on his Majesty's waste
lands free from duty."

pIB..EXCELLENCVS ANSWER.

Gentlemen,—l will forward your address to his Majesty's
Government."

From Upper Canada, we learn that the Bill to appoint Com-
missions in the upper province, to meet with those from this
province, has been returned to the House of the Legislative Coun-
cil, with the names of the Commissioners expunged, and a clause
inserted, leaving the appointment to the Lieutenant-Governer.
(From the Quebec Papers.)
We publish to-day in a separate sheet the exports and imports
at Quebec during the last year, the tonnage employed appears
to be about the same as that of the preceding year.

THE FUNDS.
The most important arrival this morning is the Express from
Paris, which brings a great improvement in the French Rentes,
the last price the Three per Cents. were done at was 58; it also
brings information that the French Ministry had gained a great
ascendancy in the House of Deputies by carrying the Electoral
Law Bill, by a majority of 300.
'Phis great success on their part will render them firm in their
situations, and by which it is expected that a general war on the
Continent will be evaded, although the editor of the Revolution
states that 100 battalions of the National Guard were about to be
organised on the eastern frontiers.
'We learn by the private letters received by the express, that
it was positively asserted at Paris by the well informed, that the
fate of Belgium has at length been decided upon by the five
Allied Powers, but the particulars bad not transpired. This
point, with that of the success of the Ministers, caused the great
rise in the French funds, and in consequence of which Consols
have improved this morning; they left off yesterday at 78N %
for the account, and opened at 79!,i this morning; at present
they are 79% 14, for money 79%.
In the foreign market little or nothing doing as yet.
HALF-PASS ONE.

There is at this moment a general report both on 'Change and
at the Stock Exchange, that General Diebitsch has been totally
defeated by the Poles, and taken prisoner; but this information
does not, as yet, come from any source that can be depended on.
We have received by express private letters from Frankfort,
stating that the Funds had got up there 5 per cent., owing to the
answer of the Cabinet of Vienna to the French Government.
The Austrian Government states that it is not their intention
to make any aggrandizement on Italy, but wish to be on friend-
ship with trance ; and the moment the revolutions are at an end
in Italy they will withdraw their troops, but till that is accom-
plished they will be compelled to keep possession of some of the
fortresses
Accounts from Antwerp state that the garrison there consists
of P 2,000 men, well armed and equipped, and it is to have a fur-
ther reinforcement of from 8,000 to le,ooo, infantry and cavalry.
They write from Brussels, that in case the German troops in.
vale the Duchy of Luxemburg, the command of the Belgian
army will be given to General Lamarque. Orders have been
given for the artillery to proceed towards Luxemburg.
The Funds have rather given way since the early part of the
morning, when Consols were 79M ; at present they are 78% 79
for the account, for money 79 to
In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing.
THREE 0' CL 0 CK.'
Consols 781

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appeared with
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as prise, none n: "a In
nientary Reform, or something touching a " dissolution."
The Metnjters having taken off their hats, to which they
were induced with considerable difficulty—so absorbed
were many Members with the word " message," that
they heard not that of " tats"—the message was read by
the SPEAKER, and it turned out to be a message from the
KING, calling on the House_ to make provision for the
M
QUEEN, in the event of his AJESTY'S demise.
EMIGRATION.—Three hundred and sixty
persons, principally labourers and mechanics, among whom
were many entire families, sailed from Bridgewater last
week, in two vessels, the Friends and the Euphrosyne,
as emigrants for Canada. Nearly 100 of the above were
sent out, it is stated, at the expense of the Marquis of
BATH. Bath Chronicle.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTE.RSALL'S.
The following is the state of the odds at the close of the room
yesterday afternoon :

MATCH.
5 to 4 on Priam agst Lucetta (takers at 11 to 8)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.

2 to 1 offered agst Blunder, and 6 to 1 agst Sarpedon, p.p.

ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
6 to 5 agst Duke of Gra fton's' Oxygen, p. p.
2 to 1 agst Mr. Stonehewer's Lioness, p. p.

THE DERBY.
2 to I agst Lord Jersey's Riddlesworth (9 to 4 taken)
7 to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Colwick
8 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Blunder (taken)
14 to 1 agst Lord Verulam's Vestris (taken)
14 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Bras de Ferl(taken)
30 to 1 agst Mr. Rush's Roadster (Rhoda)
30 to 1 agst Mr. W. Chifney's Caleb
30 to 1 agst Mr. J. Rogers's Spaniel
40 to 1 agst Mr. T. Thornhill's Africanus
40 to 1 agst Mr. Cook's Incubus
51 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Rattler
50 to 1 agst General Grosvenor's Sarpedon
50 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Cuidad Rodrigo
50 to 1 agst Mr. C hift4ey's Pigmy colt (taken)
40 to 1 agst Duke r.f Richmond's lot
40 to 1 agst His Majesty's lot
SGO even on Ridplesworth. Colwick, and Bras de Fer, agst the
'field (taken)
OAKS.
5 to 9. agst Mr. Houldsworth's Circassian (taken)
11 to 2 agst Duke of Grafton's Oxygen
9 to 1 agst Mr. Sadler's Delight
10 to 1 agst Mr. Stonehewer's Lioness
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey'i Riddlesworth
12 to 1 agst Mr. Hottldsworth's Circassian
13 to 1 agst Mr. Stonehewer's Zany
15 to 1 agst Marcus
17 to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Colwick
25 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Blunder colt

Dit. PARIS'S LIFE OF SIR HUMHPHRY
Devi.—The public will be glad to find that a new and
cheaper edition, in octavo, of this valuable work is just pub-
fished. The Literary Gazette has pronounced it "a work
th-stined to occupy a prominent place in every select library
in the kingdom." "The name of DAVY," observes the
Editor, " will remain tw;ociated with a bright era of Eng-
lish history so long as science shall maintain her empire
among civilized nations ; and it would perhaps be difficult
to find any living individual better qualified to transmit
down to posterity a faithful picture of the personal and
scientific career of the late Sir HUMPHRT DAVY."

Lord LIMERICK has put his name to the
Berkshire declaration against Reform. We could not
expect better from an absentee Irish proprietor, who sys-
tematically opposes every kind of poor rate. He is natu-
rally en'ugh joined in his efforts to prolong the existence of
the present system by a ci-devant Irish Under Secretary,
who arranged the Dublin jury panels in the " days of jus-
tice."—Dublin Morning Register.

The health of the King of PIEDMONT is 1111..
proving ; his kingdom is no bettor than it was.—Figaro.

ROSCOMMON—R EFORM.—A requisition has
been numerously and respectably signed, directed to Canis•
TOPHER D. J. GRACE, Esq., High Sheriff of Roscommon,
to call a meeting of the county to petition in favour of
Reform.

FALL OF BROUGHTON SUSPENSION-
BRIDG E. —Yesterday a most frightful accident occurred to.
a party of the 60th Rifles, consisting of about 70 officers
and men, who were returning from exercising on Kemal-
moor, by the Broughton-road, to their quarters in Regent-
road barracks. About a quarter-past twelve at noon the
party reached the Chain-bridge, at Broughton, and com-
mencing filing across it. Scarcely had the leading file,
preceeded by three of their officers, touched terra firma
on the Pendleton side, when a tremendous noise, resem-
bling an irregular valley of musketry, arrested the atten-
tion of the party. In an instant after, the bridge separated
at the end next the toll-house, and, with a large quantity
of the stone pier was precipitated into the river. The
situation of the soldiers at this moment was most frightful
—about 40 of the party, encumbered with their arms and
accoutrements, were entangled with the railing of the
bridge, or overwhelmed in the river. Most providentially
the river was low, and thus no lives were lost. But we
are concerned to state that six are now in the hospital
with fractured limbs, some of whom, it is feared, will be
disabled for life; and fourteen have been injured more or
less by cuts, contusions, &c.—Manchester Herald.

Great apprehensions are entertained in the
City, among the more ardent Reformers, that the Bill
will, after all, not be carried. They say, but, we suspect,
upon no direct authority, that the KING has given way ;
and that, in case the Ministers should be left in a mino-
rity, his MAJESTY wi:l not dissolve the Parliament. There
certainly does appear to be a vast deal of fiddle-faddling
about the proceedings of Ministers with regard to this
great question. The language held by Lord Avnioar
last night (Thursday) is not of that decided charav:er
which has been heretofore put forth ; and we think it in
some degree justifies the remark of General GASCOYNE,
th it "Ministers seems afraid of finding themselves in a
minority." As for the proposed alterations, we still are
of opinion that they are decided improvements ; but what
we complain of is the indecision of Ministers. They really
appear not to know what to be about. Lord Aurktoriat is
reported to have said last night that " when he men-
tioned populous towns all he meant was, that in case of
the Government being compelled, by a division, to
make the number of representatives as great as at pre-
sent, after they had fixed on what they considered a fit
number, it would be their intention to give these addi-
tional Alemllisrs to populous towns and counties. It was
not their intention, however, to do this without being
compelled by a vote of the House." Now, really, all this
appears to us to be calculated to shake the confidence of
the people in the Ministry. If the ins asure for the re-
duction of the number of Members be considered desirable,
why should not the Ministers make it a sine qua non?
But it, upon nflection, they do not think it worth re-
tainiug,whv not give it up at once ? Why talk about being
compelled by a vote of the House ? There cAI be no doubt
that a new Parliament would enable them to carry the pre-
sent Bill, and wl,en Ministers talk about being compelled
by the House, it would really seem that the KING has
refused to allow them to resort to a new Parliament. We
do not mean to say that such is the case, but we do think
that the thing looks suspicious, particularly when the
Windsor business is taken into consideration, about which
there is a great deal of mystery that certainly calls for an
explanation. It is a fact, which no one attempts to deny,
that two requisitions have been presented to the Mayor of
Windsor on the subject of a Reform meeting, and that his
Worship, with all that courtesy so becoming in the Chief
Magistrate of a Royal borough, took the proper course to
ascertain whether the meeting would be agreeable in s
certain quarter, and was given to understand that it
would not. Under these circumstances people ask,
firstly, whether any one has dared to make an un-
authorised us.t. of the Royal name, or whether there
be a power behind the throne of King WILLIAM greater
than King WILLIAM himself ? and, secondly, if such
be the case, what is the nature of that power, and by
whom is it exercised ? Such, however, is the confidence
which the nation has in the KING—,o thoroughly con-
vinced are the people that, if left to himself, neither wa-
vering nor shadow of change, would be found in his MA...
JESTY—that if, unhappily, the Ministers should be de-
prived of their great bulwark, the power to dissolve Par-
liament, no one would be brought to believe that this con-
summation has been brought about by any but the most
foul and treacherous means. But we hope and trust that
the sinister surmises which we have alluded to have no
foundation, and that all will yet go right : but serious fears
and apprehensions are abroad, and we have felt it our duty
to state them openly.—Moruiny Herald City Article.

A CAPACIOUS HEAD.—At Arona, on the
" Lago Al Iggiore" in the Milanese, there is a colossal statue
of ST. CHARLES BORROM/ELIS, which measures between
65 and 66 feet in height, including the pedestal. The
head of this statue is spacious enough for four persons to
sit down at table !

BIRTHS.
On the 14th inst. at the Vicarage, Croydon, the lady of the
Rev. H. Lindsay, of a son.
On the 12th inst. in Hans-place, Mrs. Bruce, of a daughter.
On the 1 lth inst. in Finsbury-square, the lady of A.M. Ran.
dad, Esq., of a daughter.
MARRIED.

n the 14th inst. at Brighton, by the Rev. W. W. Holland,
K A., Richard Merricks, of Runkton House, near Chichester,
Esq. to Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late Admiral Sir
James Collins.

.....
On the hth inst. at the hotel of the British Ambassador at the
Hague, Lambert Ouckama, Esq. of Demerara, to Julia, fourth
daughter of the late H. Ileathcote, Esq., of London.
On the 14th inst. at Richmond, Captain H. Jelf, third son of
Sir James Jelf, to Miss Clarisssa Amelia Sharp, of Kincarrochy,
in the shire of Perth, daughter of the late Major Sharp, of
that place.
On the 14th inst. at St. John's, Hackney, James C. Somer.
ville, M.D., to Albinia, fourth daughter of T. Hankey, Esq.,
of Dalston

DIED.

On the 11th inst. in Ebury-stTeeT, Chelsea, Mrs. Hope aged 83.
On the 11th inst. Col. R. M. Macgregor, late of the Hon. East
India Company's service.
On the 14th inst. in Pall-mall, Mary, wife of J. B. Toussaint,
Esq., aged 27.
On the 12th inst. at Paddington-green, the Rev. Basil Woodd,
38 years Minister of Bentinck Chapel,
On the 14th inst. at his residence, Cloudesley.terrace, Islington,
M. Thomas Godson.
On the 13th inst. at Hampstead, Mrs. Gregg, relict of the late
T. Gregg, Esq. of Wood-house, Sidbury, Devonshire.
St. Marylebone.

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