The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-26 00:00:00

THE PUNDS

Consols opened this morning at the closing price of yesterday.
91i 92. Exchequer Bills, 55 57, lid. per day ; India Bonds, 51 53 ;
Bank Stock, 206.207 ; India Stock, 264 265.

The Foreign Market is also inat
off', 19} ,i, with Coupons ; Portug.
per Cents., 18 !i ; Brazilian, 72
Cent., 52 ;xi 53e ; Mexican, 271 ;
Exchequer Bills just done at 60.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY- AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 20634 India S•.cie
S per Cent. •ia,l. . 92
.7,,414 ' htto Bon, is
3 per Cart. Con,
31y per Celt — Old Annuities ... .....„ .....
Ditto Bed. 103%34l .•-.
;% New Ditto
New 3,‘i per Cent 100 99'3 1004, 3 pei Cent. Annuities. 1751...
NeiV 5 per Cent... .. .. _ ... ... ... Exch. Bills, .£l,ikli • 58 60 inn.
Bunk LongAnnuitlesto expire Ditto . ..... ....,....500„,..„ , 56 60 rm.
Jan. 5, 1860 15% 3-164 Ditto Small
Oct. 10, iili9 'ls Ditto Commt,rcial: .... .... pm.
Jan. 5, 1360 l4-X
,Ditto Advertised — pm
Jan. 5, 1,33,.
April 5, 1E5,1,i
Jan. 5. !'i"16....... — Consols for Acconnf... ...... 91 2
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Aceoun. Portuguese Bonds —
Brazilian Bonds .......... ...... 73 Ditto Account —
Ditto Account ...
Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account
Ditto Account
~,„„,.
hillian Banda — Prussian Bonds ..'
Ditto Account
C 1 I u mbian Bonds ..... ...-. ..... ... - - Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
Csiumbian Bonds, 1824,.... ........... Spanish Bands —
Ditto Account ......»...... Ditto Account
Dmish Bonds .......... ....... '744 Ditto 80nd5.1834 —
Ditto Account
Greek Bons!s .. French, 5 per tent_ ........ —f —,
Ditto Bonds, 1625 ....... ” ------ 4 per cent...........
Ditto Account — 3 per c,nt.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent._ Exchange
Ditto Account
Ditto. 6 per teat.. — Ditto Account 53
Ditto Accountlo2./6
--_ . i Ditto,it t .
Account. e r caret .
..
Neapolitan
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

:ice. Spanish Active same ite it left
Jess Five per Cents., 2Si ; Three
73 ; Dutch Two-and.a-Half per
Colombian, 25i1

Pahl. Pia Share,
Cata Branca Mining Company
Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 2O 16 17
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Cointiany .......
Eastern Counties Railway 3 ' l3i
Cl,at Western Railway Company 65 55 3
Brighton Railway Corapanir
London and Blackwall Railway
Loadon and Southampton Railway Company 5O 40‘
London and Southampton (New) Railway ls 2254 '2
London and Croydon Railway Company • 2O 22sy
Ditto Scrip 5 • 14
M,.i.chester and Birmingham Railway .. 7 103654 96
Northern and Eastern Railway Company
South Eastern and Dover Railway Company 7 534 5 %
York and North Midland Railway Company 6 6
Australasia Bank 4O 53.4
Canada Company 24 33
Landon Joint Stock Bauk 7 7
Nation al Provincial Bank of England
Provincial B ink of Ireland '2s 3'34i
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JANUARY 21.
--- - '

3 per Cent. Consols ill [Grant Canal I)ebs. 6 per cent. -
Ditto lteduced ...... ...... --, Ditto, 4 per cent ... ...... .... 60%
!Bs', per Cent. Stock l/S3, Hibei 'llan Bank 22,
Ditto Nev, 1630 ... • 9A4 City of Dalin Steam Company -
35y per Cent. Debentures II 1.4 Nation ii Insurance Company... -
Bank Stock -
Royal Canal S' ock - ?Wiest Ofico Debentures, 4 per
Grand Canal Stock -

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
IRTTER FROM LivaarooL—The Seacombe steamer will not attempt
to cross the river after dark to-night, in consequence of the great quan-
tities of ice floating in the river.
The Consol Market has improved since the early part of the morning,
from 91i 02 to 92} for the Account, owing to a demand for Money

Stock.
In the Foreign Market the only feature worth notice is a report that
the Portuguese Government was going to offer the Azores as a security
for the loan of 500,0001., which has had the effect to raise the Portu.
guese Stock about i per cent., done at 281 ; Spanish Active, 19i % ;
Brazilian, 73 ; Danish, 74i ; Mexican, 27 271 ; Dutch Two-and-a.
half per Cents, 52 % 53.
London and Brighton Shares, 8 per Share.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 92!4 .
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 202114 Omni ana _
per Cult. Fled 91% India Stock
3 per Cent Cons 92./i Ditto Fonds
3. per Cent.
3.4 per Cent. Bed lON Ditto Old Annuities
N', .tide per Cent. 100!,i Ditto New Annuities —
t 1 per Cent. Assf.nted
Dissented — Ditto 500! 60 pm
Lyng, Annuities to expire Ditto 500/ 81 pm
Jac. WO ls'; Bank Stock for Opg.
0,1 1R,,,i l5 India Stork for Act. 234?'
Jan 180 14% Consols for Feb.
WOItEIG N FUNDS.
Atistrien, 5 per cent ' Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lO2 Ditto, New Ditto 2.5A
Br:zill.ui Bonds
guervss Ayres, 8 per cent — Russian Rondo, 5 per rent ~..11214
Chiltan, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent
Ditto, Int
Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 pet cent ... - _.
Greek Bonds, 1v25.5 per kent. Exchang.
Nlt'xicAn, 5 per cent.
Hato, 6 per cent., 1825
is...rowan. Iq2'. 6 per cent
SHARES
Birmingham and Derby Railway l7
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
Bristol and Exeter Railway
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway.... 2
Eastern Counties Railway
Gre t Western Railway B3
London and Brighton Railway 8
London and Blackwalatailway
London and Southampton Railway 46,ti.
London and Southampton (New)
London and Croydon Railway
London and Croydon Railway (Scrip )
Manchester and Leeds Railway
Mai.'hester and Birmingham Railway
Northern and Eastern Railway
South Eastern and Dover Rahway sq
No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o'ciao
List.

On Sunday an old man named Emanuel Mercury,
well known in \Yapping and about the Thames Police-office,
to vrhich saAablishinent he was once attached, and where sub-
sequently many years ago he frequently attended and inter-
preted between the magistrates and foreign seamen, was found
dead in his bed, in a miserable hovel in Upper East Smith.
field. The deceased had arrived at the advanced age of 93
years. He had once seen better days, but for a long time past
he had led a miserable life, subsisting on the charity of some
of his old friends, and occasional gifts from various persons
in the parish and district. An asylum had been frequently
offered him in the workhouse, but he had a great horror of the
place, and nothing could induce him to enter it. Relief was
denied to the old man under the new system out of the house.
Last week he was relieved by the Charitable Committee ap-
pointed to relieve severe cases of distress in St. John's, \Yap-
ping, and on Saturday night Marshall, the parish-beadle, pre-
sented him with half-a-crown, by direction of the Committee.
Next day he was found on his wretched bed, in a dirty cold
room, a corpse. The father of " old Mercury" also lived to
the advanced age of nearly 100 years.

Mr. I3oldero (whose death is noticed elsewhere)
was one of the stoutest men in Suffolk. At his funeral, from
the immense size of the coffin, it was found impossible to con-
vey it to the grave in a hearse. A bier of immense strength
was therefore constructed for its removal, and the coffin being
placed thereon, it was moved by 24 bearers, who were relieved
at frequent intervals. It is stated that the weight of the body
and its encasements of wood and lead was 136 stone, and that
the width across the shoulders was three feet two inches.—
Essex Herald.
We take the following from 'a Warsaw letter, quoted
by the Leipsic Gazette :—" While in England and Germany
the question of granting civil rights to the Jews is still in de-
bate, it has been decided in their favour in Russia. The re-

gulations publish: d in 1835 have produced most excellent

effects. Count Uwaroff, the Minister of Public Instruction,
has succeeded in procuring the admission of Israelites into all
the houses of education ; and in the universities of Russia arc
to be found Jews who have been educated at the expense of
the State, and have obtained distinguished honours. Every
Jew who gains the degree of candidate becomes entitled to
the privileges of a cititen for himself; and all who reach the
degree of doctor have the faculty of transmitting the rights of
citizenship t, their descendants. It is worthy of remark that
one-fourth of we remnant of the Jewish nation, via., 1,070,000
souls, are established ia Russia."
We learn from Manheim, 16th inst., that the Rhine
was completely blocked up with ice on the previous night and
had been crossed by some persons on foot. For several days
past the Necker had been crossed above Heidelberg.
The late severity of the weather has not interrupted
the communications between the port of Boulogne and those of
England. The English mail-
packets came into Boulogne on
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, not being able
to make Calais harbour. From the 13th to the 19th, inclusive,
twelve packets arrived at Boulogne with 198 passengers, and
ten took their departure with 241. The number of passengers
landed at Boulogne during the last year was 26,592, and of
those who embarked 30,207, making a total of 56.809. At
Calais, the arrivals during the last year were 13,719, and the
departures 15,124, a total of 28,843; making a gross total of
passengers passing to and from the two ports in this last year
of 85,652.—French Paper.
On an urgent application to the Court of Chancery
a few days since for payment of an annuity, the claim was re-
sisted by three Learned Counsel on the following ground—
that "it stated no greater hardships than many which daily
occurred in the Court, and, if countenanced, would give en-
couragement to petitions of a similar nature, so as to impede
the ordinary business of the Court." If this be not justifying
and perpetuating abuse we know not what is. Here we have
the wrong, but the remedy is not to be approached lest we
should interfere with the " ordinary" sluggishness of Chancery
proceedings.-21 Terning Paper.
The weather has been so severe at Amsterdam,
that the river L'y was crossed a few days ago by a
loaded diligence and four horses at a spot where it was nearly
half a league in breadth.

RARE FIDELITY.—On Friday last, a man was
found frozen to death on the river bank between Brigg and
North Kelsey. His companion (a dog) sat by the side of his
dead master, and was with sofne difficulty removed from
Hull Observer.

On Wednesday morning last a letter was received at
Falmouth from Sir M. Rolfe, tit. P. for that borougii, en-
closing one from the Admiralty, which stated that the ques-
tion of removing the Government packets from that port had
received due consideration, and that it was decided that no
change should take place.— West Briton.

COURT CIRCULAR.

. .

Her Majesty gave audience yesterday to Viscount Mel-
bourne.

The Royal dinnei• party at the New Palace last evening in-
cluded his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge,
attended by Colonel Cornwall ; the Lord Chancellor and
Lady Cottenbam ; the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto and Lady F. Eliot,
the Earl and Countess of Burlington, the Earl of Albemarle,
and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish.
The Hon. the Misses Pitt and Cavendish succeeded the
Hon. the Misses Murray and Lister yesterday, as the Maids
of Honour in Waiting on the Queen.
The Duke and Duchess and Prince George of Cambridge,
attended by Baron Knesebeck, arrived at Cambridge, House,
Piccadilly, at half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon,
from a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Stratfieldsay, Hants.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at half-past twelve
o'clock at the Foreign-office. It was attended by all the Ca-
binet Minstcrs except the Lord Chancellor and Lord Hol-
land. The Council sat two hours.
The Hon. Mr. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., Mr. Divett, M.P.,
and Mr. E. Protheroe, M. P., with Mr. Alderman Gibbs, and
Mr. S. Waring, of Bristol, had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday on the subject of making
the port of Uphill, Somersetsbire, a packet station for inter-
course with Ireland.
M. Tricoupi transacted bus;srress yesterday at the Foreign
Office.

Despatches Were sent off last even;.ng from the Colon al
Office for Lieutenant-Colonel Doherty, Governor of Sierra
Leone.

IRELAND

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, JAN. 23.
POOR-LA WS.—A meeting of Mr. O'Connell's constituents;
took place this day at the Corn Exchange, for the purpose of:
hearing the Honourable and Learned Gentleman upon the.
New Poor Law Bill. I would send you the proceedings but
that Mr. O'Connell requested of the Press to hold over the
meeting for a day, in order that he might be ablu to prepare a
correct report of his own speech, amended from the notes of
the Reporters of the Dublin Morning Papers. When Mr.
O'Connell's own report is finished, I shall send you an
abridgement of it, with the rest of the proceedings.
COMBINATION.—The adjourned meeting of the citizens of
Dublin to take into consideration the subject of Combination
is fixed for Thursday. It will be attended by even more of
the opulent and influential citizens than the last, to mark their
disapprobation of the violence upon the last occasion.

GREAT MEETING ON THE CURRAGH—
TITHES, POOR-LAW, &c.
Yesterday one of the most numerously attended and
respectable meetings we have ever witnessed was held on the
Curragh of Kildare, pursuant to requisition, for the purpose of
adopting an address to her Majesty, and petitions upon the
above vital questions. At a long time before twelve crowds
were seen collecting from all quarters, crossing the immense
plain on which the meeting was held towards the standhouse.
At twelve precisely Mr. O'Connell, M. P., accompanied by
Robert Archbold, Esq., M.P., arrived at the standhouse, and
was received with tremendous cheering by the persons at that.
time assembled. From this hour till half-past one the crowd
continued quickly increasing, and at the time the Chair was
take.n, there could net have been less than 30,000 persons
present.
ROBERT AuctieoLD, Esq., M.P., was called to the Chair.
He commenced the proceedings by reading the requisition
convening the meeting.
Sir F. M‘DoNNELL moved the address to the Queen, which'
was seconded by Mr. PETER PURCELL, and passed by the
meeting unanimously.
Mr. O'CONNELL then came forward, and was received with
loud and long continued cheering. When the applause had
subsided Mr. O'Connell said—Let us begin with giving
three cheers for the Queen.—(Tremendous cheering.) Next
let us give three cheers for Lord Mulgrave.—( Renewed
cheering.) Next give three cheers for Old Ireland.--(En-
thusiastic cheering.) Men of Kildare, it delights me to look
at your merry faces.—(Cheers.) We are honourably cn•
gaged, and in good humour, and we ought to be in good hu-
mour. Many and many a bitter century has passed over our
country in affliction and oppression—many a pelting tyrant•
exercised his wantonness over the people of Ireland. I
am old enough to remember the period when hundreds of un-
fortunate men, who had surrendered themselves under the
promise of an amnesty, were cruelly slaughtered, contrary to
the faith of agreement, in yonder fort. —( Hear, hear.) Where
were the Orange gentry then?—(Cheers.) Did they look
for justice for the people? Oh, no. Stuck in two boots,
with a rusty sword by their side, they were cutting down and
butchering all against whom they dared to raise their hand.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman proceeded to descant with
his usual force on the objects for which the meeting was
called. In speaking on the subject of tithes he said, " This
,present Session Government has come to the determination to
wipe off this odious impost entirely. My plan is to send the
Parsons to the Treasury, and if the English wish that we
should have more Parsons than we want, let them pay them.
—( Hear.) And, after all, I am their best friend, for I do
not care where they put their hands, so as I get them out
of my pocket.—( Loud laughter.) They may put their
hands wherever else they like for their luck-penny."
Mr. O'Cosistem, then made some observations condemna-
tory of the contemplated Poor Law Bill, and spoke also in fa-
vour of an extension of the franchise, &c.
Resolutions, in conformity with the requisition and declared
objects of the meeting, were then passed. A vote of thanks
was then proposed to Mr. O'Connell, and carried by accla-
mation. After some routine business had been transacted.
Mr. O'Connell was called to the Chair, and the vast masses of
the people separated in the most orderly manner, cheering for
the Queen, her Ministers, and O'Connell.

EPARTURE, JAN. 26.--Mr. and the Hon. Mrs.
Grantham, from Bryanston square, for Ketton, Rutlandshire.
COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—Shakespeare's
tragedy of King Lear was produced at this theatre last night,
and with a degree of taste, and skill and splendour, that re-
flects credit on the manager. Tate's alterations were very
properly dispensed with, and the original text of Shakspeare
restored. Mr. Macready, who seems determined to justify
his experiments in favour of the high drama, exerted himself
peculiarly in Lear, and never with more success. Indeed we
should say that he has never hitherto appeared to so much ad-
vantage in the part, especially in its pathetic scenes, wherein
he rose above his mannerisms, and presented a fearful general
likeness of human greatness sufferixg in severest trial. No-
thing could be more touching than his concluding scenes with
Cordelia ; they were hallowing- from their perfect simplicity.
intermingling an:incomplete consciousness of imbecility with a
full feeling of unutterable woe. Amongst other improvements
in the general arrangements, in this instance, was that of the
scene of Edmund's challenge in the last act, where the sol-
diers on the stage suddenly form temporary lists by crossing
their spears round the circle of combat. The effect was as
appropriate as strikin:. Miss Faucitt's Cordelia is amongst
her best performances—feeling, gentle, and affecting. Elton
went through Edgar spiritedly, and the other prominent parts
of the play were well cost. The house was completely
crowded, and deeply attentive to the performance. At the fall
of the curtain Mr. Macready was compelled to come forth and
receive a renewed tribute of the much applause lavished upon
him in the course of the night.
OPERA BOFFA.—The Opera of Le Nozze SIC
Figaro was repeated here last night to a full and fashionable
audience. The cast of the characters was nearly the same as
on the previous occasion. Mme. Eckerlin was the Countess,
and, to our thinking, had improved in the delineation of the
character. At first cold and stiff, she became more free as
she proceeded, and in the latter portion of the Opera, deserved
and received more than one encore. Her first successful effort
was in the air " Done sono," her last in her portion of
" Sull'aria." Her performance was throughout pleasing.
Mlle. Scheroni played with no inconsiderable archness the
part of Susanna, and Cherubino was sustained in a very lively
manner by Miss H. Cawse. Both these performers acquitted
themselves exceedingly well; and if Miss H. Cawse had a little
more confidence in her power of pronouncing the Italian, there
would not be much wanting to make her representation of
Cherubino almost all that could be desired. The beautiful
air " Donne the sapete," was given very pleasingly by Mddle.
Scheroni, and was encored, notwithstanding an absurd, ill-na-
tured, and ridiculous piece of affected criticism by some one who
talked Italian, and vented his dissatisfaction on the exclama-
tion "gusto Inglese." We ought to add, as a proof of his
capacity to criticise, that all the time that the air was being
sung, he was talking to a dandy friend, and discussing the
personal charms of the performers and the ladies in the boxes.
The opera went if satisfactorily.
A Court of Common Council was held yesterday
at Guildhall, at which, after considerable discussion, it was
agreed to apply to Parliament for the repeal of the Act of
George the Second for regulating the nightly watch and
beadles, and to introdnce a measure for the uniform regulation
of the police and watch by night and day, by a majority of 20,
the numbers being—for the motion, 65—against it, 45. A
Committee was then appointed to prepare a Bill forthwith,
and to report the same to the Court. The Court directed the
Chamberlain to take the proper, steps for the discharge of
22,300/., a further part of the loan raised for the London-
bridge approaches, out of the surplus of the dues for the quar-
ter ended the sth inst. Three hundred pounds additional was
subscribed in aid or the funds of the Committee for the relief
of the necessitous poor of London and parts adjacent. The
several officers of the Corporation were elected.

PATENT LEVER WATCHES.
Four and a Half Guineas each.
A variety of Second-hand Watches, on this celebrated construc-
tion, with going fuzee, to continue going while winding up, jewelled
in four holes, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and
other modern improvements, are offered at the above price, war-
ranted, at COX SAVORY'S, Jeweller, Silversmith, and Watch-
maker, 47, Cornhill, London (Seven Doors from Oracechurch •
street).

DIED.
On the 13th inst., in Newman-street, Oxford-street, Mrs. Ann
M'Cabe, aged 69.
On the 20th inst., at Old Swinford, Stourbridge, Worcester-
shire, Wm. Orme, Esq., aged 67.
On the 20th inst., .1. B. B. Eastman, Esq., of Mount Sandford
Heuse, near Barnstaple, Devon, awed 59.
On the 20th inst., in Connaught-terrace, Regent's-park, aged
16, John, fourth son of the Rev. H. Boyce.
On the 13th inst., Mr. George Blundell, formerly of Bishop.-
gate-street, and late of Arundel-street, Strand, aged 64.

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f Mittellesez.—Friday, January 28, 1838.