The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-30 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY.

In the LORDS' yesterday were presented several petitions,
the objects of which will be seen by a reference to our Parlia-
mentary report. There was a short conversation relative to
the returns bearing on the Irish Constabulary Bill ; after which
their Lordships adjourned.
In the COMMONS', after the presentation of numerous peti-
tions, there was an interesting discussion on the Registration
of Voters' Bill. Mr. T. Duncombe brought forward in Com-
mittee, by way of amendment to clause 51, the motion of which
he had given notice, to prevent the disfranchisement of those
persons who do not claim to be rated to the poor-rate, the
landlords paying it for them, and including it in the gross
amount of rent. The Attorney-General resisted the amend-
ment ; Mr. Kemp, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Wakley, and Captain
Pechell supported it. The latter Hon. Member said that the
effect of the law, as it at present stood, was to curtail the con-
stituency of Brighton in no less a number than 3,000 voters.
The amendment was lost, 38 being for it, and 135 voting in
favour of the original clause. The conversation which took
place on the other clauses of the Bill almost wholly occupied
the remainder of the evening : our report of it will be read
with interest, for the facts it unfolds relative to the principle of
national representation.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We arc exceedingly short of arrivals this morning—only
the French and Hamburgh mails. We have no ship letters.

TIIF: FUNDS.

Consols which closed yesterday at 911 k for the Account,
and 91a for Money, opened this morning at the above prices.
Exchequer Bills 19 21 ; India Bonds, 5 r; Bank Stock,
209 210 ; India ditto, 2561 2575.
In the Foreign market, Spanish Active Bonds, which left
off yesterday at 471 fit, opened heavy at 471 to '4, owing to
their coining lower from Paris—at present 47:14 ; Passive,
141 ; Deferred, 211 22 ; Portuguese heavy at 821 1.; Three
per cents, 521- ; Colombian, 325 ; Mexican, 351 365. ; Dutch
Two-and-a•half per Cents, 56i l ; Five per cents, 100 k 101 k.
HALF-PAST ONE.

The Calpe steamer has at length arrived him Lisbon.
Great fears were entertained for her safety. She brings letters
olthe 15th inst., which are not of so late a date as received by
the Lightning. To the present time we have no other arrivals.
The British Market still continues in a stagnant state;
scarce a bargain has been done. Consols may be quoted at
9l for the Account, and 914 for Money.
Exchequer Bills, 18 20; India Bonds, 4; Bank Stock, 2101;
India Stock, 257-4-.
In the. Foreign Market, no operation of consequence has
taken place during the- morning. Spanish Active Bonds re-
main heavy at 473-; Passive, 141 ; Deferred, 221 ; Portu-
guese, 82k ; Three per Cents., 521; Colombian, 32i ; Mexi-
can, 35i 36 ; Dutch 2i per Cents., 56i ; 5 per Cents., 101.
A morning contemporary has been misinformed when it de-
clz.re3 in a leader, commenting on General Evans, that he
was inattentive to the wants of the troops under his command,
and did not sufficiently assert their claims upon the Go-
vernment. So far from this being the fact, the General
sent his senior officer to Madrid with the most urgent re-
monstrances—a mission which was attended by the most
complete success. The correspondence upon this subject is in
London, and entirely proves that General Evans was not only
sensible to the deprivations of the Legion, but took a
most advisable and effectual course for redressing them,
th,n if he had imitated the conduct attributed to General
Bernetti, by threatening to withdraw the troops under his
command—a dangerous policy to say the least of it, and
scarcely sanctioned by precedent.
We can also state on good authority, that so little effect has
been produced by the malicious reports circulated ofthe severity
with which the Legion has been treated, that the recruiting
was never carried on with such facility as at the present moment,
and that the men are of a far superior class to those first raised.
THREE 0' CL 0 CR.
Consols for the Account, 913 i.

TIIE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM.—We are happy to
hear that Mr. Jenkinson, agent to the Benevolent Agriculture
Employment Institution, from London, for allotting small
portions of land to the deserving poor labouring men in the
parish to which they belong, has been very successful in ob-
taining subscriptions and donations from the principal nobility
and gentry in this town and neighbourhood, many of whom
have added their names to the very high and respsctable list of
subscribers which has been put into our hands. To such an
extent has the benevolence of those upon whom Mr. J. has
called, been manifested, that throughout the great tour Mr. J.
has made of 12 agricultural counties and 236 parishes, that in
no one place have the contributions been equal to those of our
fashionable Spa and its environs.—Leamington Chronicle.
For the last twenty weeks not less than one hundred
cart-loads of cockles, the weight of which would be little short
of fifty tons, have gone over Lancaster Sands every week, for
the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. The
trade will cause an annual circulation of three thousand pounds
in the neighbourhood.—Halifax Express.