The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-14 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The Funds continue steady at present. Consols, which
left off yesterday at 82i 1: fur the account, opened at 82,
since which the market appears to be looking up, and
Consols are at present 824 a•
The French question, in regard to withdrawing the
whole of the troops from Belgium, as well as the expectation
of a favourable result of the pending negociations, has had
some effect on the Funds, and no doubt will tend to further
improvements.

The Dutch steamer is expected in the course of the day,
but we do not believe it will bring later accounts than those
already received from Hamburg, without an express ar-
rives from Berlin to Amsterdam.

In the Foreign /llarket little or nothing doing as yet.

HALF•PAST ONE.

The contents of the commercial express from Paris is
not as yet known, but it is reported that the French Funds
are lower, which has had an effect on our Funds, which
were, in the early part of the morning, 82H, have since
receded to 82-i ;at present they are 82i, and for money
82i. The Dutch steamer has not as yet arrived.
We hear that the private letters from Paris this morn-
ing are of a favourable nature, and all was going on well.
In the foreign market Russian stock has improved to 914.
Report says, that a loan of 300,0001. was yesterday
concluded for the young Queen of Portugal.
When the last accounts left Hamburg, great fear was
entertained that the cholera would reach that city, ac-
cordingly they have divided it into seven districts, and
a lazarette is placed with two doctor■ in each.
THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols, 823:.

At two o'clock this day a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign office in Downing-street, which
was attended by the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Marquis of
LANSDOWNE, Lord MELBOURNE, Lord ALTHORP, the
Duke of RICHMOND, Lord PALMERSTON, Lord DURHAM,
the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, and Mr. STANLEY.
The Marquis of PALMELLA, the Portuguese
Ambassador, is expected at his residence in Upper Baker-
street to-morrow, from Portugal.

We believe we may announce it as certain,
that both WILLIAM RUSSELL, Esq., M.P. for the county
of Durham, and M. A. TAYLOR, Esq., will be shortly
raised to the Peerage.—Newcastle Chronicle.

Colonel D'EsTE has filed a bill in Chancery
to perpetuate the testimony of his father's marriage, and
has also taken Counsel's opinion upon its legality, which is
in his favour.

Alderman WOOD received a requisition last
evening, signed by a considerable number of wholesale
and retail dealers of the ward of Cripplegate Within, re-
questing the Alderman to call a meeting of the ward to
petition the House of Lords to pass the Reform Bill.—
Alderman Wow) ordered the meeting for Friday next, at
eleven o'clock.

BOGLE CORBET.--The distinguished suc-
cess of this last work of Mr. GA LT, the celebrated author of
" The Annals of the Parish," is to be attributed to the
amusing exhibition which is made in the story of the pe-
culiarities of mercantile life, as seen respectively in Eng-
land, Scotland, America, and the West Indies. Of these
materials this shrewd and observant writer has constructed
a tale, which for dry humour and knowledge of life, has
few rivals in our language.
The salmon-fishings on the Forfarshire coast,
by stake•nets, have of late been very successful. Some
of the fishers have been shipping, for the London market,
at the rate of 100 boxes per week.
in
theil oYnNiVhElyLhLa: sarrn RinEgeEnTio
uNsuidleSnAinNdCoEnsw.a—y
annoyances. His plan is to block up Ilolywell-street at
one end and set fire to it at the other. Nci‘'ithw those

An accident of a peculiarly distressing character
occurred at WOMBWELL'S menagerie, exhibiting in the fair,
On Wednesday morning. A man who was employed in
cleaning the cage in which the lion Wallace is confined,
imprudently patted him on the head several times, which
the animal appeared to take in good part, and in return
licked the hand that caressed him. At length the lion
suddenly caught the man's arm in his teeth, and in his at-
tempting to withdraw it, the flesh and muscles were dread-
fully lacerated ; and ere he could extricate it the animal
actually bit oft' and swallowed the unfortunate keeper's
hand ! He was immediately tatcen to the Infirmary,
where it was found necessary to amputate his arm, which
was skilfully performed by Mr. DANIEL, and it is hoped
the man's life will be saved. —Felix Farley's Bristol
Journal,