The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-23 00:00:00

TILE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

efTY, TwELV.E O'CLOCK.
We have New Brunswick Papers to the 22d of May. 01
the Crown Land department they state :—" We are informed
by a gentleman from Fred rictowu, that new regulations with
respect to Crown lands, and licenses to cut timber, were re-
ceived there by the Apiil mail, and will probably be published
in the Royal Gazette. In future all sales of land and timber
are to take place by auction monthly, and that no more than
30,000 acres of land are to be sold in any one month, and only
in small parcels. O.i Wednesday mlrning the Delegates, ap-
pointed by the House of A,sembly to proceed to England, for
the purpose of presenting the Grievance Address of the As-
sembly to his Majesty, embarked on board the ship Albion, of
this port, for Liverpool, which vessel was immediately toned
out of the harbour by a steamer."
We have but few arrival this morning, and without any in-
telligence of consequence.
The important trial of Viscount Melbourne sufficiently occu-
pies the general wtention. of the public, and the City Coffee-
, house loungers, who are eagerly perusing the newspapers.
Consols opened at the closing price of yesterday, 94 for Ac-
count; Reduced, 91k ; Exchequer Bills, 11 13 ; India Bonds,
2 disci. par. ; Bank Stock, 2091 210.
In the Foreign Market business very languid. Spanish
Active, 43 s ; Passive, 131 a ; Deferred, 20a ; Portuguese,
81 ; Three per Cents., 531 ; Colombian, ; Mexican, 34
35 ; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 57i.
HALF-PAST ONE.

No further arrivals from any quarter. The topic of con-
versation in the City entirely relates to the trial of Lord Mel.
bourne ; and in the Stock Exchange the chief occupation is
reading the Journals.
Consols may be quoted at 02i for the Account, and scarcely
a bargain has been done the whole of the morning.
Exchequer Bills, 11 13 ; India Bonds, 2 dis., par. ; Bank
Stock, 210.
The Foreign Market continues entirely inactive. Spanish
Active Bonds, 43 to ; Passive, 131 ; Deferred, 201 ; Por-
tuguese, 811; Three per Cents., 53i ; Colombian, 311;
Mexican, 34 35 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 571
The general opinion in the City is that the evidence on the
part of Mr. Norton is of the lowest and weakest description,
and tint the Jury could not do otherwise than find a verdict for
the defendant.

THREE O'CI.OOK.

Consols for the Account, 92k.

THE DUK E OF SUSSEX.—" The l'ollowing bulletin
was issued yesterday :—" His Royal Highness continues to
make very favourable progress.
( Signed)

" H. HOLLAND.
" THOS. COPELAND.

" HENRY ALEXANDER.
" Kensington Palace, Wednesday Morning, June 22, Nine

O'CICA, 'A. M."
COURT OF COMMON COUNClL.—Yesterday a
Court was held for the purpose of considering the propriety
of adopting resolutions and a petition to Parliament for the
emancipation of the Jews. The resolutions were agreed to
unanimonsly, and a petition founded upon them was unani-
mously adopted.
" MR. TOMKINS" IN SEARCH OF A WIFE.—
On Wednesday, the following amusing notice was made pub-
lic through the agency of the town crier :—" This is to give
notice, a gentleman of the name of Tomkins, who arrived at
the Terrace Pier this morning, has missed his wife, who was
to meet him on the High-street Pier, Gravesend. Whoever
will inform the crier where Mrs. Tomkins lodges, shall receive
five shillings reward."—Maidstone Gazette.
The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Ire-
land, have appointed Adolphus William Young, Esq., of St.
Swithin's-lane, City, a Commissioner for taking affidavits in
that Court for the London district. _ _

We are informed upon respectable authority that the
Sheriffs likely to be proposed to-morrow are Mr. Alderman
Johnson, and Mr. Duke, the eminent coal factor. We
think this augurs well for the peace and prosperity of the City.
Mr. Alderman Johnson is said to have a Conservative tendency,
but this is somewhat doubtful, and we know he is a gentleman
of high respectability, as well as of kind and amiable manners.
Mr. Duke is one of the first in his trade, a man of business
habits, much approved in general society, and of thoroughly
liberal principles. He will be proposed, we hear, by Mr.
Travers, and seconded by Mr. Benjamin Wood.
Rapid as the increase of buildings in about the me-
tropolis has been, it is quite out-done by similar operations in
Manchester, which is said to contain 700 more streets than it

did four years ago.
The following is an extract of a letter received at
Hastings last Friday :—" The ship Hercules, bound from
Sydney to London, was struck off the Falkland Islands on the
I Ith March by a tremendous wave, which carried away her
poop, mizen-mast, and cleared the deck fore and aft, washing
overboard Captain Daniels, the first and second mate, the doc-
tor, two passengers, and four seamen, all of whom perished.
The Captain's friends reside at Hastings, where he was much
respected. The vessel was taken into Rio Janeiro by the
the remainder of the crew to undergo repairs."
The Gazette of the Two Sicilies of the 28th ult.,
gives some long details of the earthquake that laid waste the
district of Rossano, in Calabria Citerior, on the night of the
24th of April:—" The two communes of Rossano and Crosia
suffered the most; scarce a single house remains standing;
192 individuals lost their lives by the disaster, and 240 were
more or less badly wounded. The inhabitants of whole com-
munes, having at their head a magistrate and a surgeon, were
seen coming to the aid of the sufferers, and some terrible
scenes took place as the bodies of the dead were dug out from
the ruins. Public beneficence was strongly excited by the
event. According to some accounts, but which may have per-
haps been exaggerated, a meteor was seen along the shore
of Calopezzati, like large burning beams of wood ; long and
deep crevices tore the land in the country ; the sea retired 40
paces from the shore in one place, and overflowed another part
to the same extent ; on the shore, volcanic substances were
afterwards found, and fish, of a species entirely unknown to
the fishermen of the country. The same shock was felt at Gi-
nosa, in the province of Otranto, and at Craco, in the province
of Basilicata, where some edifices were overthrown."
QUICKSILVER.—The cleaning process i 3 t, very
simple, a piece of canvass being merely spread over a funnel,
and the quicksilver being made to pass through this comes out
perfectly pure. That intended for home consumption is then
tied up in sheep-skins, while that for exportation is put in iron
bottles, large enough to contain sixty-eight pounds. The fur-
nace is kept in operation only during the winter months, and
then the vapour which escapes from it is a serious annoyance.—

Mining Review.
COVENT-GARDEN.—This theatre terminated a
successful season season last evening, with the performance of
Sheridan Knowles's play, The IT'Ve, and The Sexton of
Cologne. At the conclusion of the play, Mr. Knowles was
loudly called for, who came forward to acknowledge the com-
pliment, and, addressing the audience, congratulated them
on the success of that house, and remarked that the drama
was independent of any theatre—it existed in itself; and so
long as there was a barn in which it could be personated, it
would flourish. Mr. Knowles concluded his remarks with an
emphatic " God bless you till we meet again." Mr. H. Wal-
lack then appeared, and thanked the audience for the support
and patronage they had experienced in what he might term
" a profitable season." He stated that Mr. Osbaldeston, en-
couraged by their favour, had entered into engagements with
Mrs. Glover and Farren, and Macready, and that negotiations
were pending for an engagement with Mr. Charles Kemblc,
who, after the approaching season, intended to retire from the
stage; and that Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Sheridan
Knowles, had promised assistance in dramatic authorship.
The house was crowded to the ceiling ; it seemed as though
the public were resolved to give Mr. Osbaldeston " a bumper
at parting."
The Thames Haven Railway Dock BM was read a
third time in the House of Lords on Tuesday evening.

We learn that the damage done by the late storms
in the environs of Tournay are estimated at 400,000 florins.
A few days since, two young men, being left in
charge of a house on the lands of Glamacanty, near Tippe-
rary, unfortunately found a quantity of oxalic acid, which they
mistook for salts, and, being determined to take a dose each,
prepared it for that purpose ; the first that took it was imme-
diately seized with dreadful pains, and called out to the other
not to touch it, as he was sure it was poison ; hut he, not re-
garding the warning, resolutely swallowed it off, and was a
corpse iu the course of a few hours. The other is likely to
recover. —L imericle Star.

•---- ---
REWARDS TO INVENTORS.—In modern times the
gallows, or drop, the guillotine, and the maiden, have been the
general instruments by which human beings have been de-
prived of their existence. In the history of these fatal instru-
ments there is a curious coincidence. The maiden, by which
criminals were beheaded in Scotland, was introduced into that
country by Earl Morton, and that Nobleman was the first who
suffered by it. Monsieur Guillotine, who gave his name to an
improvement of the maiden, died also by his own invention ;
and Deacon Brodie, a man of good birth, who was hung at
Edinburgh about 30 years ago, made the first experiment on
the powers of the drop he had himself invented, and which is
now in general use throughout Great Britain. Bath and
Cheltenham Gazette. •
THE NEW CONSTABULARY.—The Lord Lieu-
tenant has been pleased to appoint John Blake, Esq., of
Sheilbagin house, County Wexford, to be paymaster under
the New Constabulary Bill. He is brother of the Right Rev.
Dr. Blake, the venerable Catholic Bishop of Dromore.—
Dublin Freeman.
RUSSIA AND SWEDEN.—A letter of the 10th
inst. from Hamburgh contains the following :--" A private
letter from Stockholm says that the Russian Ambassador,
having received evasive answers from the Swedish Minister
for Foreign Affairs to a proposal for a political and commer-
cial treaty between the two countries, demanded an explana-
tion as to the naval armaments of Sweden. The Minister
replied that they had become necessary on account of those
by other European States, without excepting the Russian
fleet in the Baltic. Far from admitting: this as a reason, the

Ambassador asserted that the Russian armaments were occa-
sioned by those of Sweden. A warm discussion ensued, but
in the end the Ambassador lowered his tone, though no con-
clusion was come to. M. Gausen, on attachee of the British
Embassy at Stockholm, has just arrived with despatches,
which are supposed to be of great importance; as others were
immediately sent off to London and Vienna."—French Paper.