The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-03 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Prisoners
hereinafter named (the same having been filed in the Court)
are appointed to be heard at the Court-house, in Portugal-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on Friday, March 4, 1836, at
Nine o'Clock in the Forenoon.
Critcher, J., Smithfield-bars, salesman.
Odell, P., Coleshill-street, Pimlico, clerk in the Secretary's ()Ace,

Chelsea Hospital.
Merrick, R., Frith-street, Soho-square, spinster.
Brabant, E , Hatton-garden, Holborn, agent.
Morrison, Albion-place, Wahvorth-road, omnibus driver.
Wood, W., Union-road, Clapham-road, Surrey, coach master.
Richardson, G., King-street, Brighton, linen draper.
Hutchinson, Bath-street, St. Luke's, grocer.
Chismon, A., Heathen-street, Kingston-upon-Thames, maltster,
Adjourned.
Sanders, T., Turner's-hill, Chcshunt, Hells, gentleman.

REPRESENTATION OF OLDHAM.—We hear that
Mr. Fielden, at present one of the representatives of this
borough in Parliament, intends to vacate his seat in a short:
time, on the ground of ill health, and his Parliamentary duties.
oecupying too great a portion of his time. Mr. Henry Stooks
Smith, a gentleman of staunch Conservative principles, and
connected with a mercantile establishment in Leeds, we under-
stand, will offer his services to the electors of Oldham, in the:
event of Mr. Fielden's retirement.—Liverpool Standard.—
[Mr. Henry Stooks Smith may offer his services, but will Old-
ham accept them ? This aspirant for senatorial honours will
take nothing by his motion from Leeds to Oldham but defeat
and disgrace. Mr. Henry Stooks Smith already has a name,
but, in his o'er-topping ambition, he wants it seems a seat ilho
to illustrate it.]
ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS AND ST. GEORGE,
BLOOMSBURY.-On Monday evening a meeting of the inha-
bitants of the above parishes was held at the Angel Inn, St.
Giles's, " for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the
repeal of that clause in the Reform Act which requires the
payment of rates and taxes as a qualification for exercising the
elective franchise."—Mr. Rogers in the chair. After the
meeting had been addressed by several gentlemen, a petition
to Parliament to that effect was unanimously passed.
It is an extraordinary fact, that while we are de-
batingin England whether flogging should be continued in the
army, our neighbours the French have abolished it even in
their prisons. " Corporal punishment (says a recent eye-
witness) is never inflicted in the French prisons ; the directors
of these establishments, who are not given to err through an
excess of lenity, acknowledge that the tendency of all corporal
punishment is bad, and that you lose the last hold upon an un-
believing and immoral character, when you break his remain-
ing sense of personal honour by a lashing, which degrades him
to the level of a hound."
TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.—We cannot find room
for a report of the proceedings at meetings which are so fre-
quently and generally held, in various parts of England and
Scotland, for the abolition of the duty on newspapers. We
trust our countrymen will continue to agitate the question,
until the restrictions of the Press be removed.
Such is the passion for smoking among the lower
class of females in French prisons, that they make pipes of
bread, in which they smoke snuff, tobacco being prohibited.
AFFECTING ANECDOTE.—The habitual serenity
which distinguishes the Armenians has, during the last fort-
night, been much disturbed by the occurrence of one of those
domestic tragedies, the more fearful in proportion as they are
rare ; but, for the same reason, conveying a more impressive
lesson that the best feelings of nature are not to be tram-
pled upon with impunity. The daughter of an Armenian
Saraf, of the name of Kerkor, had been affianced by her father
to a young man of the same community. Perhaps no insti-
tutions are less favourable to what are styled love-matches than
those of the Armenians, since, by their prescription, the lover
before the settling- of preliminaries must be indebted to the
eyes and report of some female relative for the faintest idea he
can form of the personal charms of his mistress, setting every
quality of heart and mind entirely out of the question. As
children, who are wantonly bid to open their mouths and shut
their eyes to see what Providence will send them, they for
the most part find matrimony a bitter pill to swallow. When,
however, as in the present instance, fortune, by some kind
caprice, has imposed the same yoke on those whom free choice
would otherwise have united, to the effect of an agreeable sur-
prise is superadded the security which the previous ceremony
of betrothal confers on their happiness, since, for better or for
worse, it is generally considered as indissoluble as the nuptial
knot itself. In this case, however, what appeared to be " the
sober certainty of waking bliss" proved to be a dream, as base-
less as the visions of true-love are proverbially said to be. A
more wealthy suitor having offered himself, the Saraf did not
hesitate to overthrow the whole fabric which he himself had.
contributed to raise, and, without considering how far the
thing was practicable, commanded his daughter to balance-her
account forthwith with her old admirer, and make a transfer
of her affections to the richer one. Tears, entreaties, and ex-
postulations having proved unavailing, and the eve of the day
when the ring she had accepted from her lover was to be re-
turned having arrived, she presented herself calmly before her
father, and having appealed to him whether he had not on every
former occasion found her obedient to his commands, told him
that -" in this instance he had commanded impossibilities—
that she had accepted a husband of his own choice, a boon
which he was no more at liberty to retract than the life she
was equally indebted to him for--without it she was deter-
mined to live no longer." With these words the unfortunate
girl drew a poniard, and stabbed herself to the heart, and the
same instant the horror-struck parent beheld the victim of his
avarice weltering in her blood at his feet. To complete the
catastrophe, the. lover, unable to survive the " duri mate
amore dolores polluto," followed the example of his mistress,
and destroyed himself a few days after.
A few days ago a man named Pichot, living at La
Ferro Gauche, Seine et Marne,
interesting, but they
were destroyed by the finder, his ignorance of their pro-
in cleanintrunk, which he had long used for depositing ashes in, dis-
in
covered a false bottom,
re
an old worn out
in which there we
of gold pieces of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, of the
value of 4,000 f., which probably had remained there ever
since
c otnhtee)ll sa wars
o ify
ht
ceh Lmigibeen There were also some papers,
th
bahle value.
A rich discovery was made at Pompeii in January
Mercury.
house situated in the street of
last, of a The exte-
rior is not remarkable, though it has some • f pain ings of Nar-
cissus and Endymion ; but the house contained four vases of
silver, and a great quantity of metals, among which were 29
pieces of gold of the first Roman Emperors. Two vases of
silver of five inches diameter, ornamented with relievos of Cu-
pids and Centaurs, and emblems of Bacchus and Ceres, have
also been found.—French Paper.

PRICES OF STOCKS TI-EIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock. 019 184 f India Stnek... ......... ...... 2584
3 pet Ccnt Red .924 4 ; Ditto Bonds 3 -n.
.3 per Cent. Cons 913,3 A South yea Stock p—
Ski per Cent. 10“!,4 Old Annnities
'Ditto Red
New 3i4 per Cent ... ...... /004 100; 3 per Cent. annuities, 1751 —
New 3 per Cent --I Exch. Bit:,s, £1,00......... 19 21 pm.
Bank LongAnnuitiesto expire t Ditto 500, l9 21 pm.
Jan. 5, 1590 — D'.'...ko Small
Oct. 10, 1.450 Ditto Cemmerrial ' 20 pm.
Jan. 5, ISM 16,4 !• Ditto Advertised pal.
Jan. 5,1 M 1 Bank Stock liar Account ......... --,
April 5, IWO -
Jan. 5, 1870
.... 'Consols. for Account -
Ornnium

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PRICES OF FORWLGN FUND. THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Austrian Bonds ...
B Peruvian Bonds
elgian Bonds .
Ditto Account —
Ditto Acco•ja.
Brazilian P,,,d,
Ditto ;runt Ditto New Bonds BIU 8034 1
Buenos Aires Bonds — Ditto Account ... 8114 80%3,4 %%
Ditto Account — 1 Ditto, 0 per cent. 50% I
Cnilliva Bonds — i Prussian Bonds —
Di*.to Account — Russian Bonds, 1622 _
Co,.,imbian Bonds —l Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, :801 OIIA Spanish Bonds —
Ditto Account — i Ditto Account —
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account
,
Greek Bonds — • French, 5 per cent.
'Ditto Bonds, Is-2.5 - 4 per cent. —t•. —c.
Ditto Account _l- '3 per cent. —f. —c.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent —' -- Exchange ...... ..... —f. —c.
Ditto Account — Dutch, 214 per cent. ;53,47
Ditto, 6 per cent.
Ditto Account ~ — ' Ditto, 5 per cent 105%6V,
N,'apolitan — Ditto Account

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share
:Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 5 Ifll‘i 14 Isli
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company 5 12 %'A LP,'
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company 2 5%
Calcutta and Suagur Railway Company
Cheltenham and Great Western Railway
Commercial Blacktvall Railway Company 2 3%%%74;
Great Western Railway Company lO 58 7 41 40
Hunan& Selby Railway Company 5 914
Brighton Railway Company
Brightim (Rennie's)
London and Dover Railway Company 1 oq
London and Gravesend Railway Company ....
London and Birmingham Railway Company 5O 125
Lor.don and Southampton Railway Company l5 .23 X. 4
lirirthern and Eastern Railway
worth Midland Railway Company 5 12 11 It
'South Eastern Railway Company 2 344417.1.1
York and North Midland Railway Company 1 414
London and Westminster Bank 2O M. 1.4
South African tank
PT 5 pm.
1 lB t,l