The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-20 00:00:00

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK

Per Share,
1%

Paid.
Albion Copper Mining Company 254
Bolivar Copper Mining Company 2O
Ditto Scrip
British Iron Company
Real del Monte Mining Co., Registered 63/. 10s. 6d.
.1.7:414a
Ditto Unregistered 2056
Great Western Railway Company 5 2054 20
Brighton Railway Company
Brighton (Gibbs') Railway I 1,04%
London and Blackwall Railway 3 6
London and'Gravesend Railway Company 1 24 lA%
London and Birmingham Railway Company 45 107 109
London and Southampton Railway Company
North Midland Railway Company 5 104 10
Danube and Mayne Company lO 94 9
General Steam Navigation Company lO 23
Landon and Westminster Bank l5 16
Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 44

COURSE OF EXCH
Amsterdam C.F 12 7

.NGE YESTERDAY.
Leghorn 1
Genoa •. 7A
20 0
Milan 2l
Venice 47
Naples 40%
Palermo per oz. 122
Lisbon 554

Ditto. at sight l2 5
R0tterdam............ ...... U l2 '7%
Antwerp l2 7
Hamburg M.S. 1314%
Altona l3 14%
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Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75
Ditto ....... ........... ...2 Us 26 0

Bordeaux

26 0

Oporto 56
Rio Janeiro 37
Bahia 26
Buenos Ayres
Dublin, 21 days' sight 1
Cork l3

Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M. 153%
Petersbuigh, ruble .3 Us. 10 0
Berlin
_3

Vienna, effective fl 2 M. 10 13
Trieste ditto lO 13
Madrid 37

Cadiz,

Baca

........ .. ... 1614

B 3 reelona 1634
Seville 363q

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Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0
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New Doubloons

Gibraltar

New Dollars
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MAILS.
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0 Brasil 0 0 Guern. &Jersey 0 0 Malta 0
0 Buenos Aires... 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico ..... ....... 1
0 Carthagena. OI 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0
1 Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0
0 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning.— ..... 17minutes aßer 4. f Erening......34; minutes after 4

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.

THIS EVENING will be performed the New-Grand Opera of
THE SIEGE OF ROCHELLE.

Couot de Roaemberg, Mr. Seguin; Marquis de Valmour, Mr. Templeton

Montalban, Mr. Giubelei ; Michel, Mr. H. Phillips.
Clara, Miss Shirreff; Marcella, Miss F. Healy.
After which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime called
WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT.

Harlequin, Mr Ellar ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr,
Tumour; Haramsearam, Mr. W. H. Payne.
Columbine, Miss G. Reekie.
To conclude with the new Grand Operatic Drama entitled
THE JEWESS.

Cardinal de Brogny, Mr. Warde; Prince Leopold, Mr Cooper; The
Grand Provost of Constance, Mr. Giubelei; The Bishop of Constance,
Mr. Seguin ; Eleazar, Mr. Vandenhoff.

,
Rachel, Miss E. Tree ; the Princess Eudocia, Miss Fords.
Stage Manager, Mr. Cooper—Acting Manager, Mr. Yates.

The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Parsons, of
whom Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be obtained.
Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Second Price, 2s.
Gallery, 2s. ; Second Price, lc—Upper Gallery, Is. ; Second Price, 6d.

HAMBURG, JAN. 8, 1836.
HEINE BROTHERS, CONTRACTORS,
beg to state that it will now be too late for receiving
TICKETS before the Three First Days of Drawing of the 67th
HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY; but Tickets warranted un-
drawn will sell between the third and fourth days at Ten Pounds.
The largest Capital Prize cannot be drawn before the fourth day,
as per Scheme.
In February, en approach of the fourth day, the price will con-
siderably advance, wherefore it is recommended to order in the
course of this month.

a few of the most noted Tory hot-beds, where the
struggle between parties was pretty equally divided last
election, and says not a word about the numerous bo-
roughs where, as the Register shows, Toryism has,
within the year, been not merely declining, hut abso-
lutely extinguished. No, he is far too discreet to make
any embarrassing allusions of this sort ; though,
despite his discretion, his apprehensions creep
out, when, notwithstanding his boasts of the
great Conservative gains, he strenuously objects to a
dissolution. Why all this alternate vaunt and timidity
—confidence and distrust—on the part of the leading
organ of the Tories ?—Simply because he has not
the slightest faith in the energies of that faction whose
cause he has so disinterestedly taken up ; simply be-
cause he feels that the ground is fast crumbling be-
neath them ; and that impudence—that immeasurable
impudence which desperation gives—can alone save
diem. Reformers ! in the waverings—the inconsisten-
cies—the craven fear—the unblushing effrontery of
the Times journal (all springing from the same source)
you may read the difficulties which oppress the Tory
party. In that organ, their hopes, their doubts, their
caprices, are faithfully reflected, as in a mirror. Profit
then by their embarrassments. Turn their apprehen-
sions to your own account. The hour is close at hand
when you will be called on to summon all your best
energies. Never was there an epoch so fraught with
momentous results to all classes of the com-
munity, as the approaching session. Hitherto, we
have seen much bush-fighting between Tories
and Reformers ; but now, we are to see a close,
desperate conflict, which will be as decisive as that of
Waterloo. There can be no more staving off of great
questions. The Irish Church Appropriation Act
Must be settled ; and on the result of this hangs the
destinies of the Tories. Again and again then we say
to the Reform Members, be constant in your attend-
ance in Parliament. Remember that your constituents
have their eyes rivetted on you,—and will be sure to
log every instance of indolence or forgetfulness on your
parts. Be diligent then—be uncompromising—and
let the hustings be ever present to your minds.

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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1836.

The Meeting of the Birmingham Political Union
has put an end—so far as that town is concerned—to
the prattle about a re-action, with which the Conser-
vatives have been amusing themselves for some weeks
past. They now see, plain enough, that nothing of
the sort has been in progress ; and that though some few
of the inhabitants, whose respectability is more to'bc
commended than their wisdom, may have become pro-
selytes to the specious creed of Toryism, yet that the
vast mass of the population of Birmingham are Refor-
mers, to the utmost extent to which Reform can safely
be carried. This must be a sad shock to the totter-
ing Tories, for they had reckoned confidently on the
support of the mid-land metropolis ; and it is scarcely a
month since they were expatiating on the altered tone
of its public fealing, with a fervor and vivacity which
testified how deeply they felt the value of such a re-
cantation. Now, however, that they have discovered their
mistake—and that Birmingham, protest and promise as
they may, will have nothing to do with them—they find
out also, that her support is not worth talking about;
and that the grapes which a month ago, were passing
sweet, are now just as sour. Mark the language of
to-day's Times on the subject ! " After reading over
the report of the Birmingham mob-meeting of Monday,
we have been compelled to give up as hopeless the
attempt to find, in the configuration of that enlightened
assembly, or in the compositions of the orators on whom
devolved the superfluous office of instructing it, a single
circumstance, sentiment, or characteristic, worthy of
any particle of notice ;''—in other words, Birmingham
will not allow herself to be duped by the honied profes-
sions of the Tories—as a short time since these shrewd
intriguers hoped she would be—and, therefore, Bir-
mingham is not worth the slightest further considera-
tion. Oh rare }Esop, how aptly thy well-known
apologue of the fox and grapes applies here ! But
though Birmingham be given up as incurable, our
Ccontemporary is still full of confidence in the energies
of Toryism, as will be seen from the following article,
entitled " Numerical State of Parties," which appears
in the Times of this day :
The following calculation has been made as to the probable
result in England and Wales of the changes attendant upon
an immediate dissolution :

CONSERVATIVE GAIN.
St. Alban's

Middlesex
West Kent

East Surrey
Radnorshire

Guilford
Newport (Isle of Wight) 1
West Somerset
Wigan 1
East Worcestershire
Wakefield
Poole

Weymouth I
South Nottinghamshire 1
Monmouth
Lewes
Peterborough

CONSERVATIVE LOSS
East Cumberland
Rochdale
Halifax
Leicester
L Yarmouth
Bridport
Norwich
Colchester
Knaresborough

The Paris Papers of Monday bring us a rather
unexpected piece of intelligence—the resignation of
M. HUMANN. That Minister tendered his Porte-
feuile on Saturday ; on Sunday the KING was pleased
to aceept it ; and on Monday it was announced in the
Chamber of Deputies that the Count D'ARGOUT
had been appointed his successor. In the discussion
which followed, M. HUMANS informed the Deputies
that he had long meditated the reduction of the national
debt of France ; that he thought the present a favour-
able opportunity for taking measures for the accomplish-
ment of this great object ; but that his colleagues dif-
fering with him as to the expediency of such a course
in the present posture of affairs, he had felt it his duty
to resign. The Duke de BROGLIE followed M.
HUMASIN, and expressed deep regret that any diffe-
rences of opinion should have arisen to deprive the KING
and Cabinet of the great and important services of M.
HUMANS. On all sides there was a superabundance of
courtesy, and the utmost extent of credit for good inten-
tions. As to M. HUMANN's successor, nobody expects
that he will be able to retain office for three months. He
is no financier ; and the only reason which the KING
could have had for appointing him, must have been a
desire to rid himself of the importunities 'of Tit lERs,
GUIZOT, and DE BROGLIE—each of whom had a
protege of his own ready to accept the Finance De-
partment, MM. D UCHATEL, SAUZET, DUVER-
GIER DE HAURANNE, and GASPARIN, were all
on the tiptoe of expectation, and as the KING could
not have selected one without wounding the self-
love of the patrons of the others, he took it into his
head to disappoint, and at the same time silence all, by
nominating as Finance Minister an individual of whose
official capacity they had not the slightest comprehension.
We are therefore prepared for a variety of other changes
in the course of a short time. As to the Five per Cents.
there is to be no reduction of the interest upon them
during the present Session of the Chambers, nor
would the President of the Council take upon himself to
state when such a measure would be proposed. In
the true style of the Doctrinaires, he told the Cham-
ber, in answer to a question by M. AUGUSTIN
Crraik up, that all would depend upon circumstances.
This has had a wonderful effect in the money market.
As soon as the speech of DE BROGLIE was known
on the Bourse, the Rentes rose one per cent.

The National has some severe strictures on the
conduct of Captain HYDE PARKER at Barcelona, of
whom that Journal observes, that had he been as
anxious to prevent the massacre of the Carlist priso-
ners, as he was to resist the solemn proclamation of the
Constitution of Cadiz, the citizens would have been
Saved the disgrace which now attaches to them, and,
through them, reflects discredit upon the Liberal
cause. We are not in a condition to judge of the
conduct of Captain HYDE PARKER ; because we do
not know whether he was at all aware of the inhu-
man murder of the Carlists, before the perpetration
of that foul act. The officers of the British Navy
are as justly celebrated for their humanity as they are
for physical courage ; and we cannot bring ourselves
to believe that they would positively witness the bar-
barous massacre of unarmed men by a rabble, acting
in defiance of all recognized authority. It is well
known that vindictiveness is no part of the English
character ; that our countrymen know no enemies in
chains ; and that there is not an officer in the British
service who would not lose his life rather than suffer a
prisoner fairly captured while fighting against England
—his native country—to perish by the knife of an
assassin. We state this generally, because, as yet, we
have no fixed data to go upon ; and it surprises us
that a journal of the high character of the National
should make a charge so serious on mere assumption,
founded upon probability.
We have advices from Barcelona to the 11th inst.
The Municipality of the town had then prepared an
address from the authorities to her Majesty the
QUEEN-REGENT, which was to be forwarded to Ma-
drid by an extraordinary courier. A copy of this do-
cument is now before us. It begins by stating that
Barcelona had escaped the worst horrors of civil war
until the 3d inst.—that the atrocities committed on
the 4th and sth are deplored by all good men in the
city—that peace has been happily restored—and that
they are ready to lay down their lives in defence of the
Throne of ISABELLA 11. We cannot but express
our surprise, that while compliments in abundance
are paid to the good sense of the Barcelonians, the
loyalty of the Ayuntamiento, and the courage of the
National Guard, the address contains not a single allu-
sion to the gallantry of Captain HYDE PARKER and
the brave British Tars who saved the town. This
looks very like ingratitude of the basest sort.

The accounts from Bayonne are to the 15th instant,
and take notice of a skirmish between a convoy escort
of Christinos, and a Carlist battalion, between Lerin
and Puenta la Reyna, on the Bth, in which some thirty
or forty were killed and wounded on each side. The
Carlists at last gave way, and the escort proceeded to
its destination in safety. We cannot comprehend by
what conceivable process the Spaniards contrive to
sustain an engagement with so little execution. In
this "great battle," as the Spaniards have baptized it,
nearly four thousand men engaged, fought valiantly for
some hours ; and left the field of battle strewed with

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The chances are Lord Lansdowne will lose Caine ; Scar-
borough is not safe for the Tories en revanche; the race for
West Surrey will be neck-and-neck ; South Hants will de-
pend upon what Government is in, with its appendage, Ports-
mouth ; and it is
_possible North Nottinghamshire may be
contested with our Knight of the Dilly. Such casualties being
borne in mind, the gain on neither side would justify a disso-
lution.
A more partial or deceitful calculation than this, was
never yet attempted to be foisted on the public as
«a probable result." Our Contemporary merely selects

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1836

thirty bodies The Spanish guns must be made after
the fashion of the Irishman's fusee, viz., to shoot
round corners.

PARIS, JANUARY 18.—A Journal says—" Some days
ago there was remarked in the foyer of the Opera
a group of distinguished persons of the Tuileries,
who, conversing together with visible emotion, Messrs.
Montalivet, Rambutrace, and a physician of the palace were
listened to attentively. It was soon afterwards known that
they had been conversing of the very alarming state of the
health of the Duke of Orleans. It appears that the fatigues
of the expedition to Mascara, though of short duration, were
sufficiently severe to increase in a very dangerous degree an
affection of the chest, with which his Royal Highness has
been long since threatened. What is certain is, that the
Prince is put under a very strict regimen, and that he only
appears at the fetes and balls at Court for the sake of com-
plying with etiquette. The health of the Duke of Orleans
is so precarious, that an unusual crowd of courtiers is al-
, ready observed in the salons of the Duke of Nemours."

We have spoken of the engagement of the Meteore
steam-boat with the Carlists. It seems that a report has
been spread at St. Sebastian, that this cannonade was only
a concerted comedy. M. Vigent, the French Consular
Agent in that city, in a letter to the Alcaldi, complains in
bitter terms of the ingratitude of the inhabitants of St.
Sebastian.

MANNHEIM, JAN. 13.—The Tribunal has to-day passed
sentence on Gutzkow and Lowenthal. The latter is wholly
acquitted ; M. Gutzkow is sentenced to one month's im-
prisonment, and in one-third of the costs. The Tribunal
rejected the accusation of blaspemy and immodesty, but
recognised in the Novel Wally, an attack on the Christian
religion, an offence punishable by our laws with three
months' imprisonment.—Mdssager, Jan. 18.

MARRIAGE OF LORD RAMSAY AND LADY
SUSAN HAY.—We learn that the marriage, which was de-
layed on account of the death of a relation, is now fixed to
take place on Thursday, the 2lst instant. The tenantry on
both estates, the inhabitants of Gifford, and a number of
gentlemen from Haddington and other parts of the county,
have resolved to dine together in honour of the auspicious
event.—Edinburgh Courant.

SCOTCH POACHERS.—Four poachers who had not
only killed the game of Mr. Stirling of Craigbarnet, but
threatened to bring down his keeper, have been committed
to the jail of Stirling.

MONEY MUNIFICENCE.—A Tory trumpet pro-
claims the donations of Lord Rolle for the purpose of
church-building. The sums are certainly large, and the
manner of bestowing them good enough ; but the Western
Luminary ought to know that a good giver-away of a por-
tion of his immense wealth may be a very bad Peer, and
exceedingly dangerous, by reason of the wealth and legisla-
torial functions which he combinedly inherits.

FIRE.—In the afternoon of Sunday last, a fire, at-
tended by loss of life, broke out at Saughton Mills, near
Edinburgh. It is supposed that the fire was caused by the
flues having been overheated, which set on fire the floors of
three flats of the tenement through which they passed. The
greater part of the furniture of the dwelling-house above
the mills was saved.

A crab of very extraordinary size, which weighs
Nibs., was caught at Portaferry. It has been forwarded
to the Belfast museum.

VALUABLE RELlc.—There is now in the pos-
session of one of our townsmen a most valuable relic
namely, a portion of the Sabre Sash worn by Sir Ralph
Abereromby when be received his death-wound on the field
of Aboukir.—Kelso Chronicle.

A few nights since, an attempt was made to de-
stroy the Triumph schooner, at the Custom-house Quay,
Cork, by perforating her larboard quarter in several parts
with a large auger or spike, and, had she gone to sea in
that state, no doubt she must have foundered.

KING'►S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

WAIT AND OTHERS, V. THE GOVERNORS OF THE POOR OF BRISTOL.
Their LORDSHIPS were occupied from the sitting of the
Court with the further arguments in this case from the new
trial paper, which was partly beard yesterday. The question
was as to the liability of the defendants to be assessed for the
poor rate as the occupiers of certain premises called the
Armoury, in the parish of St. Philip and Jacob, Bristol. Mr.
Sergeant Ludlow, and Sir W. Follett, appeared in support of
the rule, and Mr. Alexander, and Mr. Maule, for the defen-
dants.

The case had not terminated when our reporter left.

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

(PROM LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, JAN. 19.—Wind N. E.—Came down from the River
and proceeded the Malcolm, Eyles, for Madras ; St. George,
Livingston, for Grenada ; Hinda, Lothian, for Rio Janeiro ;
Ann, Griffiths, for Bombay ' • Corea, Trescott, for New York ;
Tilden Smith, Welchman, for Chester; and Medora, Pike,
for Boston. Arrived and proceeded the Liberty, Manuel,
from Newcastle to Jersey ; Vigilant, Mogul, from Yarmouth
to Liverpool; Elizabeth, Northerp, from Havre to Newcastle.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Wind E. N. E.—Arrived the Druid,
Treadwell, from London : and Emma Louisa, Haesloop, from
Hamburg.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 18.—Wind W. S.W.—Arrived the Eliza-
beth, Vincent, from Terceira.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 18.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the James
Watt steamer, from London.
STANGATE CREEK, JAN. 18.—Arrived the Dundee Mer-
chant, Fife, from Constantinople.
ISLE OF WIGHT, JAN. 19.—Arrived off the Elizabeth and
Jane, Hart, from Honduras.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 18.—Arrived the Jane, James, from St.
Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Florence, Smith, from Natches;
and Johanna, Fenwick, from Jacobstadt.
RAMSGATE, JAN. 9.—Arrived the Isabella, Downing, from
Liverpool, very leaky, and with loss of rudder, &c., having
struck on the Brake, bound to London.
HARWISH, JAN. 19.—Arrived the Commerce, Fish, from
Aldborough, with damage, leaky, and bound to London.
Duat,lN, JAN. 17.—Arrived the Albion, Connor, from Wex-
ford, leaky, having struck on the Bar, bound to Belfast ;
Bristol Packet, Sanders, from St. Michael's ; and Hirondelle;
Randall, from Lisbon.
CORK, JAN. 17.—Arrived the Mary, Bell, from St. Do-
mingo. Off port the Parmelia, from Barbadoes.
BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 18.—Arrived the Herme, from Roxby,

POISON.—Mr. Sewel and his daughter, to whom
poison was administered, as we last week stated, we are
happy to inform our readers, are out of danger. The mise-
rable youth is in custody.—Lincoln Gazette.

leaky.
ODESSA, DEC. 28.—The port is now closed up—the vessels
are wading over the ice.

The Clio, from Liverpool to Para, was taken possession of
by the Indians at Vigia, near Para, previous to the 14th Nov.,
and, after being plundered, was scuttled—only the second
mate saved.
The John Miller, Ramsay, from Liverpool to Savannah,
was abandoned off Flores on the 25th Nov., being dismasted.

, The woman Kennedy, at Springholm, who was shot
by Blair, the sheriff-officer, has been considered in a dan-
gerous state. The steward of Kirkcudbright has taken a
precognition into the circumstances of the affray, and Blair
has been committed to Kirkcudbright jail for trial.---Duni-
fries Courier.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

ESQUIMAUX PHILOSOPHY.—Among the Esqui-
maux, according to Sir John Ross, the crime of murder
very rarely occurs. When it does, the murderer's punish-
ment consists in being banished to perpetual solitude, or
shunned by every individual of the tribe, insomuch that
even his sight is as oided by all who may inadvertently meet
him. "On being asked why his life was not taken in 're-
turn, it was replied that this would be to make themselves
equally bad----that the loss of his life would not restore the
other, and that he who could commit such an act vcould be
held equally guilty."

The arrivals reported this week are moderate of Grain, and
good of Fleur. The Wheat trade remains firm at Monday's
prices; as also does that of Barley. Beans and Pease are
dull. Oats still come in short quantities, and are again rather
dearer. Flour remains as last quoted.
ARRIVALS.

Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour.
English
Irish
Foreign - -

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK..

PRICE OF A TOWN CLERK.—To take the Town
Clerk of Liverpool at his own valuation would be a most
expensive affair, it seems. Would any body, asks the Li-
verpool Albion, who knows the late Town-clerk imagine, that
tiny being as he is, he is ready to declare, on oath, that his
value to the new Corporation is Seventy-seven thousand one
hundred and eight pounds ! What an idea the little .fellow
must have of his own importance! In the West Indies, an
emancipated slave is valued at some forty or fifty pounds :
in England, an emancipated Town-clerk values himself at
seventy seven thousand one hundred and eight pounds.
What a difference in the value of black and white flesh
Seventy-seven thousand one hundred and eight pounds !
The estimation is perfectly astounding ; the man who values
himself so extravagantly must be the vainest mortal breath-
ing. Why, at this rate, every pound of Mr. Foster's flesh
must be worth, at least, forty, and every ounce some six
hundred pounds " of good and lawful money of our sovereign
lord the King." Seventy-seven thousand one hundred and
eight pounds sterling !—what a sum for a man not five feet
five inches high to ask for himself! Why, such a demand,
in such a country as Brazil, would prompt to, though it
would not justify, some act of personal violence to get quit
of him. The demand being, however, a practical joke,
there is no fear of the Reformers attempting to "spirit" Mr.
Foster out of the way, as the easiest mode of evading his
claim They will pay him according to their valuation, and
not according to his own, on the rule of law, that no man is
a good judge in his own case. He will, at any price, be a
hard bargain.
e have been at some trouble to give our readers
the following statement, which we are enabled to do through
the kindness of the collector of the tolls for Smithfield
Market. "Number of beasts and sheep sold in Smithfield,
during the year 1835 :—Beasts, 182,308 ; sheep, 1,573,410.
—Agriculturist.

Our arrivals this morning are of a very scanty descrip-
tion ; only one foreign mail from Calais, with one arrival of
ship letters from Honduras.

THE FUNDS.

The Consol Market continues in the same inactive state
as it has been for several days past, and it is thought that
little activity will take place in the Funds until Parliament
meets. Consols, which closed yesterday at 90i 90* for
Money, and 911 for the Account, opened at the same
prices this morning. Exchequer Bills, 17 19 ; India
Bonds 3 5 ; Bank Stock, 2141 ; India ditto, 252/ 253.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Bonds, which
left off at 4911, have rather improved, and may be quoted
49/ 50. M. Mendizabal's new plan of finance will not
appear before the 20th inst., therefore we cannot receive it
until the 27th or 28th of the present month.
Portuguese, 834 841 ; Three per Cents., 534 541 ; Co-
lombian, 31 31 ; Mexican 3811 ; Dutch 21 per Cents.,
54* 551 ; Chilian, 501 511.
The Express from Paris brings the confirmation of the
resignation of Humann. The French Funds have improved
—Five per Cents., 110 ; Three per Cents., 81 15 ; Ac
tive 491.

HALF-PAST ONE.

Consols, which have been in a dormant state for these
two days, have taken a stride since the early part of the
morning from 91* I to 91* 3 for the Account, and 91* for
Money. The public are now looking to the meeting of
Parliament with great anxiety ; and according to report the
present Ministry is to be modified, but nothing positive is
known on the subject at present. Exchequer Bills 19 20 ;
India Bonds 3 5 ; Bank Stock 214 i ; India Stock 252*
2533.

Tile Foreign Market continues steady ; Spanish Active
improved to .50i I ; Portuguese 841 ; 3 per Cents. 54k.
The Share Market continues buoyant, particularly for
the Brighton Railway-road.
Consols far the Account, 911

THREE O'CLOCK.

Accounts have been received from the exploring ex-
pedition under Dr. Smith, dated Meriqua River, July 26.
The party had received great attention from the Chief
Matsillicatzi, who had expressed his determination to send
his principal adviser, Nu-Corubute, as ambassador to the
Governor, with a view of establishing a treaty with the
white people.- Dr. Smith had penetrated two degrees to
the eastward, and made considerable advances to the north,
adding a large increase to the collections of the expedition.
He had ascertained the point where the waters divide, and
crossed the sources of all the streams which flow to the
southward and eastward. The character of the country at
the rise of the Ky-Gariep, as well as that towards Delagoa
Bay, on the west, had been examined. From the summit
of a high ridge of mountains, where the party turned back,
they saw a range of country at least 60 miles to the east-
ward, and which must have brought, it is stated, the limit
of vision to within an equal distance of Delagoa Bay. In
that direction the country was very flat, with the appear-
ance of a large mountainous range, extending south-east,
which Dr. Smith considered was the continuation of that
which they ascended in the country of Mosbech, at the
sources of the Caledon River. The day after the date of
Dr. Smith's letters they were to start directly north, and
expected to be within the Tropics. They had a guide, who
said he had resided within sight of the Great Lake, but
from his description it was feared scarcity of water would
prevent their reaching it. Dr. Smith, however, decided,
unless the obstacles were insurmountable, to gain a view of
this interesting object. The party were in high health and
spirits. The Meriqua River, whence these advices are
dated, was discovered, it will be remembered, by Messrs.
Scoon and M'Luckie, traders, in 1829. It rises in the
high lands north of the sources of the Ky-Gariep, or Yel-
low Orange River, and, taking a direct northerly course for
some time, turns to the eastward, and is supposed to reach
the coast somewhere in the district of Inhambane.

THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE.—Some little
interruption of the peace enjoyed in the quiet town of
Kimbolton, occurred last week at a public house there,
c illed the White Horse, where it seems a happy pair had
only entered upon the blissful state of matrimony three
weeks and two days, when some unhappy circumstance
took place which the parties endeavoured to arrange, by
effecting at least a temporary separation. This was done
in rather a summary :nanner, by the tender fair one being
placed in the open street with scanty clothing until two
o'clock in the morning, the host keeping possession of his
house as his castle, until the police of the town stormed
the place, and required an explanation, and Mr. John
Teedon, the gentleman alluded to, was safely conveyed be-
fore the Bench at St. Neots, on Thursday, and after a
patient investigation of the whole affair, the magistrates
ordered that the said John Teedon should be effectually
separated for one whole year from his beloved wife, by being
lodged in the county gaol and kept on the prison allowance
of bread and water only, and in strict silence during that
period, unless he in the mean time should happily succeed
in finding sufficient sureties to be bound with himself in the
sum of 1001., not to attempt during that time to break a
contract in such an illegal and uncourteous manner.—
Cambridge Chronicle.

ORIGIN OF THE NEWSPAPER STAMP.—S 0 im-
portant were these libellous publications deemed, that the
Queen (Anne) concludes one of her messages to Parlia-
ment, by representing the licentiousness of the press. She
is made to declare, that by seditious papers and factious
rumours, designing men have been able to sink credit, and
the innocent have suffered ; and she recomments the House
to find a remedy equal to the mischief. In obedience to
the Queen's desire, and at the instance of her Secretary,
the Parliament passed a Bill (1712-13), imposing a stamp
upon pamphlets and periodical publications---the origin of
the present newspaper stamp. At its origin the amount of
this stamp was only a halfpenny ; and it is curious to ob-
serve what an effect this trifling impost had upon the cir-
culation of the most favourite papers. Many were entirely
discontinued, and several of those which survived were
generally united into one publication. The Bill operated
in a directly contrary manner to what the Ministers had
anticipated ; for the Opposition, who had more leisure, and
perhaps more acrimony of feeling, were unanimous in the
support of their cause. The adherents of Ministers, who
were by no means behind the Opposition in their proficiency
in the topic of defamation, ware, it seems, not so stre-
nuously supported ; and the measure thus chiefly destroyed
those whom it was Bolingbroke's interest to proteet. The
insufficiency of his expedient soon become apparent to him-
self, and we find, from his correspondence, that Boling-
broke was often employed in prosecuting the printers of
those papers which were most violent against him,—Cooke,
Life of Bolingbroke.

UNSTAMPED NEWSPAPERS.—At the Leeds
Court-house, on Saturday, Mr. Joshua Hobson, bookseller,
of Market-street, and Mrs. Alice Mann, bookseller, of Cen-
tral Market, in that town, were brought up, the former
charged with selling, at different times, four copies of un-
stamped newspapers, and the latter with five similar offences.
Mr. Marshall, barrister, appeared in support of the informa-
tions, which were laid at the instance of the Stamp-office.
Mr. John Fawcett, a travelling bookseller, appointed by the
Stamp-office to inspect hawkers' licenses, proved his having
purchased of the defendants the whole of the papers men-
tioned in the informations. Both the defendants admitted
having sold the papers, and that they contained public
news. Mr. Marshall made an offer, on the part of the
Stamp-office, to convict the defendants in one penalty each,
and let the others be suspended, if they would promise to
abstain from selling such publications in future, and both
of them refused to make such a promise ; and the magis-
trates convicted the former in the full amount of 201. upon
each of the four informations, and the latter in the full
penalty of '2Ol. on each of the five informations, or, in default
of payment, to be committed to prison for six months.
The Bench requested to know whether the defendants in-
tended to pay the fines, or appeal against the convictions.
They replied that they did not intend to do either. The
Mayor then ordered them to be immediately committed for
six months each to York Castle.—Halifax Express.

The French boast that the colony of Algiers has
been the source of prosperity to Marseilles. The Gazette
du Midi gives the receipt of customs of that town to have
been nearly 31 millions of francs in 1833, 30 millions in
1834, and but 28f in 1835.

PERSONAL PECULIARITIES OF DR. JOHNSON.
—Johnson's countenance, when in good humour, was not
disagreeable. His face clear, his complexion good, and his
features not ill-formed, many ladies have thought they
might iot have been unattractive when he was young._
Much misrepresentation has prevailed on this subject
among such as did not personnlly know him. That he had
had some whimsical peculiarities of the nature described by
Mr. Boswell, is certainly true ; but there is no reason to
believe they proceeded from any superstitious motives,
wherein religion was concerned ; they are rather to be
ascribed to the' mental distempers" to which Boswell has
so repeatedly alluded.