The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-14 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY.

In the LORDS' last night, after the presentation of some
petitions, and the announcement of the intentions of Go-
vernment to bring in a Bill to remove the control of the
packet stations from the Post-office to the Admiralty, the
Lord Chancellor moved the second reading of his Bill for
reforming the Administration of the Court of Chancery,
and altering the Appellant Jurisdiction of the House of
Lords and Privy Council. The measure had for its object
the appointment of a third Equity Judge, to preside in the
Court of Chancery alone, as Lord Chief Justice of that
Court, leaving to the Lord Chancellor, for the time
being, the Appellate Jurisdiction in the Lords and in the
Privy Council. After considerable discussion, this Bill
(with which the others connected with it, of course, fell to
the ground) was thrown out by a majority of 65. Lord
Langdale's speech is pregnant with instruction ; the sound
and enlarged views which he took upon the subject of Le-
gislation and the Administration of Justice, entitle it to
particular attention. In no part of our system is reform
more required, than in the important provinces of making
and of administering laws.
In the COMMONS' the proceedings at the morning sit-
ting, comprehending the settlement of the personal affair
between Sir F. Trench and Mr. Wason, and the more im-
portant restoration of 85 clauses to the Irish Municipal
Reform Bill, were reported yesterday in The Sun. At the
evening sitting, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated
that he hoped soon to introduce a measure for the alteration
of the duty on first class paper, to take place from the October
quarter. With respect to the duty on stained paper, be
thought it would be very much for the convenience of trade,
were the reduction to take place in the July quarter. He
could not consent to allow a drawback on the stock on
hand, because the revenue would be subjected to great loss
by acceding to such a proposition. The Herne Bay Pier
Bill was read a third time and passed. The North Ame-
rican Bank Company Bill was read a second time. Mr.
Bannerman, in bringing up the report of the Aberdeen
Schools Bill, stated that it was not his intention to proceed
any further with the measure during the present. session.
A new writ was ordered for South Warwickshire, in the
room of Mr. Sheldon, deceased. Lord Ashley called the
attention of Government to an alleged violation of the Fac-
tory Act. The House then went into Committee on the
Registration of Births, &c., Bill. An amendment pro-
posed on one clause by Dr. Bowring, and one by Mr.
Poulter for another, were severally negatived. Then,
after disposing of clauses down to the 28th, the House
adjourned.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Hobart Town Papers have been this day received to the
6th February. They state that the Boadicea, with female
emigrants, was in the river. The Colonial Secretary, the
chief Police Magistrate, and the Port Officer had gone to
visit the vessel. A copious fall of rain had proved highly
beneficial to the turnip and potato crops, as well as to the pas-
ture ; but had not been advantageous to the grain. The ra-
vages of the smut were much greater than was at first an-
ticipated. The price of wheat had undergone a rise—now
quoted at 6s. 6d. to is. 6t1.. and for superior samples Bs. a
bushel ; English barley ss. 6d. to 6s. 6d. ; first flour 24/. per
ton ; second 22/. ; Hay per ton 51. to 61. ; Straw 31.
to 31 ss.

Tlll PI7NDS.

It was expected that the majority against Ministers in the
douse of Lords last night, would have affected the British
Funds ; but up to the present time Consols maintain the
leaving-off price of yesterday, 91i 92 for Account; Reduced
901,3 r ; Exchequer Bills, 11 13 ; India Bonds, par., 1 prem. ;
Bank Stock, 2104 ; India Stock shut-4or Account 259 260.
There is a pause in the operations in the Foreign Market.
The speculatiors in Spanish Stocks are anxiously waiting the
return of General Cordova to the army, to ascertain his future
conduct and operations, before they speculate to any extent.
Spanish Active Bonds, 40i 41 ; Passive, 121 Deferred,
18g- ; Portuguese, 814 ; Three per Cents., 521 53; Colum-
bian, 301; Mexican, 33 34; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per
Cents. 561 57.

HALF-PAST ONE.

We are still without any arrivals of consequence, and the
Funds are inactive. Consols have been, during the morning,
92 for the Account ; alternately buyers and sellers ; Exche-
quer Bills, 11 13 ; India Bonds, 1 discount ; Bank Stock,
2104 ; India Stock, 259 260 for the Account.
In the Foreign Market they are occupied in settling their
accounts against to-morrow, it being settling day. For a length
of time it has not been so small an account to adjust.
Spanish Active Bonds, 401- 41k ; Passive, 12i De-
ferred, 18a f ; Portuguese, 81i. ; Three per Cents., 521 53 ;
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 561-57 ; Colombian, 3(4;
Mexican, 33 34.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 92.
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.

FUNDS
Omni.= Pm.
India Stock —
Ditto Ponds
South Sea Stock ...
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuiti,-..; —
Ex. Bills, IR W.....
Ditto 500/ l3 pal
Ditto 500/ l3.m.
Bank Stock for Opg.
ladia Stock for Act.'
Consols for Act.
FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent 1d134 Ditto, New Ditto Bl
Br,zilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — - Russian Bonds, 5 per cent. ...110
Chilian, 6 per cent 49 Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent.
Ditto, 1831
Danish, 3 per cent — Feench, 5 per cent ...... ... —f. —e
Greek Bonds, 1525.5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, S per cent. — French, 3 per cent L —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 ....... 3214 I Dutch, 21 per cent. 57%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per cent. ... 2114 Ditto, 5 per cent .. ..... -Rd%
SHARES.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 4 (i.
London and Brighton Railway (Stevenson's)
London and Brighton Railway (Rennie's)
London and Croydon Railway
Northern and Eastern Railway
South Durham Railway
South Eastern Railway 44
Thames Haven Railway Company
No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o'clock
List.

BItITISI
Bank Stock
3 per Cent lied. 9l
3 per Cent. Cons
3Y., per Cent. 9B
34 per Cent. lted 983;%
New Kyle per Cent
1 per Cent. Assented
Dissented
Long Annuities to expire
Jau 15450 15%
Oct. 18L0
Jan. 1860
FOREIGI,

The Bishop of Bristol is to be translated to the See
of Ely. Dr. Butler is to have the See of Lichfield and Co-
ventry, and Dr. Longley is to be translated to Ripon ; but
this last appointment cannot take place till the Bill is passed
for completing the arrangement respecting the new Sees.—
Morning Paper.
The Members who were discharged from the custody
of the Serjeant-at-Arms yesterday, were directed first "to
pay the fees"—some 121. each.
Wordsworth, the poet, accompanied by his friend
Robinson, he Barrister, intends in a few days to leave
London for the Continent, on an extended tour through Italy
and Sicily. Wordsworth has already visited France, Spain,
Portugal, and Germany; but his journey to Italy will be for
the same time.
M. Brezin, the celebrated founder, to whom nearly
all the cannons of Napoleon are owing, died lately at Garches,
near St. Cloud. He has left a colossal fortune, part of which
he has bequeathed to the founding of an hospital for his work-
men, which is to contain 300 beds, and is being erected at
Garches.

DISTRESS OF THE HAYMAKERS.—It has been
a heart-rending sight during the past week to travel in the
suburban parts of the metropolis, particularly on the northern
roads, where hundreds of English and Irish mowers and hay-
makers, with their numerous families, are grouped about the
roads in the most abject poverty. The severity and len_gth of
the winter, and the present precarious state of the weather,
have so delayed the commencement of the harvest, that
scarcely a farmer about town ham ventured to cut his grass ;
and hence the shoals of Irish haymakers and English mowers
who have arrived near town in quest of employment, and fail-
ing to find it, have been reduced to a deplorable state of priva-
tion. Every passenger of respectable appearance, whether on
foot, horseback, or in a vehicle, is accosted by a knot of sup-
pliants, of all ages and denominations, urging their claims in
the most pitiable terms. At night they take up their abode
under haystacks, in stables, and hedges.— Observer.
EXPRESSIVE DINNER.--The Herald of Monday,
with that felicity of diction which is characteristic of " Grand-
mama," thus opens a long laudatory notice of a dinner, which,
it seems, has been given to the once dinnerless Member for
Evesham. " The electors of this Conservative borough have
given a public dinner to their Member, expressive of their un-
abated confidence and regard, after the recent trial at Taun-
ton." Further on the public are informed, that with respect
to his early reverses and struggles, the Hon. Member " sup-
ported his explanations by affidavits ! and other documents of
the most convincing character," and that he " was loudly
cheered during, and at the close, of his speech ; after which,
various loyal and constitutional toasts were drank, expressive
of the attachment of the company to conservative principles in
Church and State." It had, perhaps, been well for Mr.
if attachment to Conservative principles had always been shown
by him towards his own character—which, notwithstanding his
proceedings at law, to mend it, is still, by most people, thought
to be none of the highest, the purest, or the best.
At a meeting of old Etonians, held at the Thatched-
house Tavern, on Saturday the 11th of June, Lieut.-Colonel
Sir William Robert Clayton, Bart., M. P., in the chair; a
committee was formed for the purpose of collecting and ap-
plying the sums subscribed for a testimonial to the Rev. Dr.
Keats, and it was resolved, that upon Saturday the 9th of
July, the committee should proceed to determine upon the
choice of the proposed testimonial, until which day the sub-
cription list at Messrs. Hammersleys' will be kept open.
A few days ago the inhabitants of a house in the
Rue Cadet were alarmed by the smell of charcoal proceed-
ing from a small apartment occupied by the young Ernest
L --, first clerk in one of the principal shops of the Rue
Vivienne. They burst open the door, and found the unfortu-
nate young man breathing his last, surrounded by several pans
of charcoal. All assistance was unavailing. A letter written
by the deceased, at the moment of committing the fatal act,
to his employer, stated, that having entered a gaming-house
and lost 1,200 francs, which were the property of his em-
ployer, he had preferred death to the shame of such an avowal.
—French Paper.