The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-27 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols, which left off yesterday 91i / for the Account,
opened at the same price this morning—at present may be
quotod 91/ ; for Money 91i, little doing ; Exchequer
Bills 11 13 ; India Bonds par, 1 dis. ; Bank Stock 210
211 ; India Stock 257 258.
Spanish Active Bonds have improved about 1 per cent.,
closed at 391, opened at 401, went up to 40-11 1, now 401,
owing to a report that Mendizabal had been sent for by
the Queen of Spain. Portuguese 831 ; Three per
Cents. 521 4 ; Spanish Passive 111 12 ; Deferred 181 ;
Dutch 561 g.

HALF-PAST ONE.

The chief operations in the Funds during the morning,
,was in the Foreign Market, and the speculations in Spanish
Active Bonds were very brisk ; good purchasers operated
in them. They have improved from the leaving-off price
of yesterday, 39} to 411 414. At the same time, we are
not without reports, which caused the rise, that M. Men-
dizabal was re-instated again by the Queen ; but we do not
hear as yet that official information leas been received to
that effect.

In Consols little doing, and may be quoted at 91-1 92
for the Account, and 914 for Money. Exchequer Bills
lower, 11 ; India Bonds, 1 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2101 ;
India Stock, 258.

Spanish Passive, 111 4 ; Deferred, 181 ; Portuguese,
841 ; Three per Cents., 53 ; Columbian, 301 ; Mexican,
33-34 ; Dutch Tw•o and a Half per Cents., Mi.
We understand that the Lisbon mail has brought over
the Treaty of Commerce, for the approval of the British
Government.

THREE O'CLOCIC

Consols for the Account, 91k.

PARTY AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE.—The Duke of
Devonshire gave another grand party on Wednesday evening ;
it consisted of a dinner party of 36, and afterwards a select musi-
cal party, at which some distinguished foreign artistes assisted.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange was expected, but
did not form one of the dinner party. Covers were laid in
the brand saloon. The tables presented a magnificent display
of gold and silver plate, and the pages and domestics appeared
in their rich State liveries of citron cloth and silver lace.
The dinner party consisted of the following Nobility and'
gentry, viz.:—The Marquis and Marchioness of Aileshury,
Countess of Stanhope, Earl and Countess of Surrey, the
Russian Ambasiador, and the Count and Countess Pozzo di
Borgo, Hon. Mr. and Lady Caroline Lascelles Lord Rokeby,
Lord Allen, Hon. Captain and Mrs. Townsend, Colonel and
Mrs. Peel, Hon. Mr. and Miss Cavendish. Sir Richard and
Lady Phillips, Mr. H. I'. Hope, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Corn-
wall, &c. In the evening there was a Concert, at which Mr.
Ole Bull, the celebrated Swedish violinist, was introduced to
the company.
DEATH OF THE ECCENTRIC MR. HARVEY,—
On the 13th inst., at his residence, Caldecote, Bedfordshire,
the Rev. Mr. Harvey, aged sixty-seven. He had been out in
the morning, and shortly after eating a hearty dinner he ex-
pired. Although for some years Mr. llarvey had lost the use
of his hands and legs, he could not bear the confinement of a
house, and was only a few weeks ago driven to Newmarket,
and attended the course, in what a London paper at that time
was pleased to call his coffin, but which was in fact a n:ere
couch made to fit the door of his carriage, with the legs pro •
truding nut for his peculiar comfort. The deceased Gentleman
was an excellent scholar, but has not done publiz duty as a
Clergyman for many years.—Hertford Refbrmer.

BATH.—A meeting takes place here to-day to pe-
tition the Houte of Commons not to give way to the ] Elo little
Lords who employed Lawyer Lyndhurst to obsti net the requi-
sition friarn Ireland for justice.
BANKS.—It. is noticeable that in all the censure
which has recently been dealt out on the subject of Banks and
Banking, not a syllable has been said against the Bank of
England—unless indeed Mr. Hume's last motion be considered
in that light. All the vices of Joint- Stock Banks have been
emphatically denounced ; some persons in their eagerness have
invented accounts of peccadilloes which never existed, and a
few—a very few certainly—have covertly insinuated that the
private banks are no better than they ought to be ; but against
the character of the Old Lady in-Threadneedle-street not a
whisper has gone forth. In the proclamations against discount
and improper issues too, there is no mention of the big bank ;
she is a awtered libertine of the epicene order, enjoying
great and exclusive privileges, and to an extent which is sup-
posed to be very closely connected with all the derangements
to which our monetary system is constantly exposed.

THE SABBATII.-It is no rash assertion, that
from that holy institution, the Sabbath, have accrued to man
more knowledge oF Isis God, more instruction in righteousness,
more guidance of his affections, and more consolation of his
spirit, than from all other means which have been devised in
the world to make bins wise and virtuous. We cannot fully
estimate the effects of the Sabbath, unless we were once de-
prived of it. Imagination cannot picture the depravity which
would gradually ensue, if time were thrown into one promis-
cuous field, without those heaven-directed beacons to rest, and
direct the passing pilgrim. Man would then plod through a
wilderness of being, and one of the avenues, which now ad-
mits the light that will illuminate Isis path, would be perpe-
tually closed.—Bishop Dehon.

On Tuesday Mr. Perrin and his wife returned to
their apartment in the Rue de Bossy, Paris, after a short A-
senee, and found a man so busily employed in ransacking their
most valuable stores that several minutes elapsed before he was
aware of their pre sense. On finding himself detected, he
threw, himself at their feet, declared that he was the father of a
large family, whose distress had made him yield to the tempta-
tion of finding their door open. He then emptied his pockets
of all he had taken ; but unfortunately for him, tire were
amongst them some valuable articles which did noMelong to
M. Perrin, and which immediately put an end to any commise-
ration he might otherwise have felt. M. Perrin and his wife
consequently went on the staircase, and called loudly fir as-
sistance. The neighbours soon entered in a body, but the
thief had disappeared, arid suspicions began to be entertained
that a false alarm ilaa been given, In a few minutes, however,
it was found that the rogue had made his escape through a hole
to the roof of the house. By the same aperture the boldest
of the party pursued the fugitive, and found him en-
deavouring to conceal himself bet►veen two chimneys. He
was secured and conducted to the Prefecture. He was
recognised as an old offender, named Boursier, a tiler by trade,
who, though only twenty years of age, had been several times
condemned for robberies, which he effected the more easily
from his remarkable activity in climbing over rod!,