The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-03 00:00:00

TILE FUNDS.

Consols opened at the leaving-off prices of yesterday, 91
9111 for Account ; same for Money ; Exchequer Bills, 18 20
India Bonds, 45 ; Bank Stock, 210 211 ; India ditto, 257
258.

The speculations in Joint Stock Companies are now viewed
with less alarm than a few days ago. Although they have in-
creased, and may produce in the end some mischief, se far as
the participators in them are concezned, it is conceived that
there is a degree of steadiness and solidity about the other
great money transactions of the period which will secure them
against any shock.
Our manufacturing districts arc in full activity, and the only
difficulty is how to get the orders executed with the despatch
required ; and our trade to all parts of the world is in a most
flourishing state. _ _ _

In the Poreign Market scarce a bargain doing, as we have no
information either from Paris or the Peninsula. Spanish Ac-
tive may be quoted at 45N- ; Passive, 14:12 ; Deferred, 22k;
Portuguese, 8314 ; Three per Cents., 52-; Colombian, 324-
33 ; Mexican, 35 36 ; Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents.,
56H.

HALF-PAST ONE.
We are still without any arrivals, which causes a great dul-
ness in the City for want of intelligence.
Consols have been during the morning at 91i a for the Ac-
count, and 91i 4 for Money.
Exchequer Bills, 18 20; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock,
2101; India Stock, 2574- 2581.
In the Foreign Market the chief speculation has been in
Spanish Active Bonds, which have improved from the morn-
ing price of 45a-1 to 461, at present may be quoted 46 to -I,
owing to a report that M. Mendizabal had completed his Mi-
nistry on the 24th ult. ; Passive 141 ; Deferred 221 ;
Portuguese 831 ; Three per Cents. 524 531; Dutch Two
and a Half per Cents. 56a I.
In the Share Market little doing—Colonial Bank 7 to 8
prem. ; Southampton 81 to 9} prem. ; Greenwich 7 to 8
prem. ; Great North of England prem. ; Blackwall 14
premium.
THREE 0' CL CK.
Consols for the Account, 91 la.

The magnificent collection of pictures forming the
Royal Collection in the state apartments at Windsor Castle,
of the sight of which the public have so long been deprived,
has again been arranged, and is now open for inspection ;
many new pictures of great value have been selected from the
other Royal Collections, and the whole is displayed in a
manner so as to exhibit as far as is practicable the works of
the artists separately, and thus give a better idea of the value
of the collection than could have been done by any other ar-
rangement. The glory of the collection are the works of
Rubens and Vandyke, which decorate two of the largest apart-
ments. The whole have been admirably cleaned since their
removal from the old apartments, and are hung in excellent
lights. A better entrance to the state apartments has been
recently opened. At the head of the staircase is placed the
portrait of Sir Jeffery Wyatville, painted by Lawrence for
George IV., in 1829; it has been placed in its present situa-
tion by command of his present Majesty.
EXECUTION.—On Saturday, Peter Taylor, who
was convicted at the Norwich Assizes of being an accessory
with Frances Billing and Catherine Frarcy in the murder of
his wife, Mary Taylor, was executed on the bridge leading to
the Castle. He persisted to the last in asserting his entire
Innocence, not only of the crime for which he suffered, but of
every criminal circumstance connected with it; but his vindi:
cation of himself was so general, and so at variance with facts
that can scarcely admit of doubt, as to deprive him of all
claim to credit.

APRIL 29.--A most horrible and melancholy event
occurred on Tuesday evening, in Nadsbeck-wood. Mrs. E.,
an English lady of Hull, went out walking with a Mr. P.,
when he drew a pistol from his pocket, and discharged it at
her head. He deliberately exclaimed, '6 What's that ? " and
ran towards the place from which it seemed to have been dis-
charged, took off his coat and waistcoat, reloaded the pistol,
and shot himself through the heart. Mrs. E., after recover-
ing from her swoon, walked above 1,280 feet to the inn. It
was then found the ball had passed completely through her
face, and carried some part of the gum and check bone away.
She lies very ill, but hopes are entertained of her recovery.
Mr. P. has left a wife and three children.—Hamburgh Paper.
The public flogging of Kennedy and Smith, which
the Court sentenced them to receive last Saturday, was obliged
to be postponed, as the Jersey executioner, who is occasionally
afflicted with epileptic fits, was deemed unable to perform the
task with sufficient nerve. Our authorities have, conse-
quently, written to Guernsey, to request the Court of the sister
island to allow its " finisher of the law" to take a trip to Jer-
sey, and officiate for his brother " Jack Ketch" on this extra.
ordinary occasion.—Jersey Argus.
AN M.P. AND A P.B.—A pinchbeck watch was
presented by the grateful Tories of Halifax to the representa-
tive of their interests. This pinchbeck watch, which was given
to Mr. Dinsdale for his eminent public services, as one of
their candidates, at the election of 1832 ; and his, less emi-
nent perhaps, but not less useful, secret services since—the
Halifax Blues so generously presented to that champion of
Tory Teetotalism, Mr. Dinsdale—it is too true, we repeat,
that that watch, in one of its noble owner's periodical fits of
temperance-aberration, found it way to the sign of the three
balls.—Halifax Express.
DREADFUL FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE AT
FINCHLEY.—This morning, about half-past one o'clock, a fire
was discovered to have broken out in some stables adjoining
the Queen's Head public-house, Church-row, Finchley, and
from the rapidity of the flames they soon communicated to
the Queen's Head. The inmates effected their escape by
jumping out of window ; but we regret to state that
an elderly gentleman, name unknown, has fallen a sacrifice
to the flames. Several engines were soon on the spot, but
notwithstanding the vigorous exertions of the firemen, as-
sisted by the inhabitants, and an excellent supply of water,
before the flames could be extinguished, the stables arid the
Queen's Head public-house were entirely consumed. The
cause of the fire is not yet ascertained. The unfortunate
gentleman's body has not been found. The proprietor (Mr.
Plabray) is insured in the Protector Fire-office.
A STYLE !—" The enraptured and ardent young
lover, hastily construing a short pause into an affirmative'',
blithely left them to the enjoyment of their palpable amuse-
ment at his precipitancy, and flew with ecstatic celerity to
proclaim himself liberated from all mundane shackles, to her
with whom he thought eternal bondage would be a state ce-
lestial."— Madame D'Arblay's Memoirs of Burney, Vol. 1.,
P. 78.