The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-02 00:00:00

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, MAY 26.

Address to his Excellency the GOVERNOR—read the third
time, and passed :
" May it please your Excellency—We, his Majesty's most
dutiful and loyal subjects, the Assembly of Jamaica, beg leave
to offer to your Excellency our thanks for your speech at the
opening of the Session, and in having taken the first opportu-
nity in your power, after having received the King's command,
to re-assemble the Legislative Body of this Island.

" The Act in Aid of the AbolitiOn Law shall have our imme-
diate attention ; and all other measures which it it the in-
terest of the colony to have discussed, shall receive our seri-
ous consideration.

" We arc perfectly satisfied with the reparation which your
Excellency has offered for the breach of our privileges, which
led to the prorogation of the Assembly.
" We shall most respectfully receive any communication
which your Excellency may have occasion to make, whether
from h s Majesty's Government, or from your Excellency; and
we shall bestow them our best consideration.

" We thank your Excellency for the assurance, that agree-
ing to the Committee in the working of the apprenticeship
system, his Majesty's Ministers
.had not the slightest idea of
consenting to any broach of the honourable compact which
has been made between the mother country and her colonies ;
and at the same time we do assure your Excellency that it
has always been the wish, as well as the interest of this
House, to preserve that compact inviolably on the part of the
House."

His Excellency's Answer to the Address of the House of
Assembly of Jamaica:—
" MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF TIIE ASSEMBLY,

" I receive with much pleasure the assurance of your inten-
tion to take into consideration the various important matters
which it is for the interest of the colony to have disposed of,
even at your own personal inconvenience, at this unusual pe-
riod of the year.'

" I am confident that the benefit which will thereby accrue to
the Island, will amply repay you for that inconvenience.
" I am gratified also by the expression of your feeling, that
it is as well your wish, as your interest, to maintain inviolate
these engagements which have been entered into with the mo-
ther country. Such sentiments existing on both sides afford
the best guarantee for a happy result, and induces me to augur
most favourably for the future progress of this great measure.
" I cannot conclude without assuring you, with the most
perfect sincerity, that nothing could be further from my mind
than any invasion of your privileges. I have before declared
to you my high respect for those ordinances—l again repeat to
you the same feeling."
The business of the House of Assembly is progressing
amicably, and we shal soon see to whom the blame of any
future rupture will be attributed.—Jamaica Paper of
27th May.

THE FUNDS.

Consols opened at 921 -7,- for Account; Exchequer Bills,
12 14 ; India Bonds, par. 2 premium ; Bank Stock, 210 211.
In the Foreign Market, little doing as yet. Spanish Bonds
same as they closed, at 425 ; Passive, 12i ; Deferred,
204 ; Portuguese, 823-; Three per Cents, 531 ; Columbia,
30 31 ; Mexican, 34 35 ; Dutch, 5611 f div.

HALF-PAST ONE.

A report prevails in the city that his Majesty intends to
give seats in Parliament to all the Irish and Scotch Peers
now in existence who have already titles.
Consols continue firm at 924 s for the Account; Exche-
quer Bills, 12 16 ; India Bonds, 1 prem.; Bank Stock, 210 x.
In the Foreign Market a complete stagnation in all the
Foreign Funds prevails. Spanish Active, 421 s ; Passive,
; Deferred 19u y ; Portuguese, 821.
We do not hear of any arrivals from the Peninsula.
THREE O'CLOCK
Consols for the Account, 921

The CROPS.—The favourable change in the
weather, from wintry winds to soft genial sunshine and re-
freshing showers, has produced a delightful improvement in
the grass and corn crops. At present the whole of the vege-
table creation seems rejoicing under, the influence of the power:
ful rays of the sun. The fields present 4 luxuriant ap-
pearance.

The Lord Mayor and Aldermen have, with the
approbation of the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
just promulgated a code of "additional rules and by-laws for
the regulation of the waterrnen and lightermen of the river
Thames." These new rules relate principally to the size of
boats to be hereafter used upon the river, and appear calcu-
lated to remove part of the danger arising from the swell.. pro-
duced by steam-boats. If anything were wanting to contradict
the timidity attributed to cockneyism it would be the boldness
with which Londoners are seen to embark in the present
slight and insecure wherries which ply between Putney and
Blackwall.

LEEDS.—On Saturday last, we had a specimen of
the giant rhubarb exhibited to us, grown by Mr. Joseph Mar-
shall, of Rothwell Haigh, and supposed to be the largest ever
seen in the Leeds market, and proved, when used, as tender
as the ordinary sized rhubarb. The owner realized from
twenty-seven roots no less than " thirty stones and a half,"
some of the leaves of which, with the stem, measure about
" eighteen feet."

Within the few last days prodigious quantities of
hay have been got together in fine order, having been little, if
at all, injured by the late rains.
The Austrian Government, on receiving intelli-
gence of a toll having been levied by the Russian authorities
at the mouth of the Danube, on the Ferdinand steam-packet,
plying between this port and Galacz, has sent orders to the
Captain of this vessel in future to refuse any port dues to the
Russians, unless obliged to comply with their demands through
the employment of coercive measures.

The late Lord Bath's parsimony, in trifling mat-
ters, was sometimes laughable. Colman the elder used to
tell the following anecdote :—" In a rural lane, through
which the Noble Earl often passed in his carriage, a gate was
placed across the road, which was opened for travellers by an
ancient female. His Lordship one day, touched by the ap-
pearance of the old woman, gave the word to halt; the out-
riders echoed the order—the coachman pulled up—the caval-
cade stood still—and William Pulteney, Earl of Bath, stretch-
ing forth his hand from his coach-and-four, bedecked with
coronets, threw to the venerable object of his bounty —a half-
penny." We have heard a similar anecdote relating to a
Noble Duke now living, who resides at his baronial place in
the north of England.

A " fairy doctor," named Dwyer, died suddenly a
few days since, in a public-house in the village of Carriga-
bolt. He had been drinking with two men, who were bar-
gaining for a cast of his office, and about five half-pints of spi-
rits were consumed by the parties. The " wise man " was
then left to his meditations, but occupying a longer time than
usual, the people of the house repaired to the room, and found
him sitting with his head on his hand at the table, but quite
dead. An inquest was held on the body by James Lucas,
Esq., and a verdict nturned accordingly.--Limerick Star.

MARRIED.
On the 30th ult., at Bolton-by-Bolland, Craven, Yorkshire, by
the Rev. Ambrose Dawson, 8.D., the Rev. Robt. W. Goodenough,
Vicar of Whittingham, Northumberland, and Student of Christ
Church, Oxford, to Elizabeth Anne, eldest daughter of the late
Anthony Littledale, Esq.
On the '?.Bth ult., at Witham Church, Jacob H. Pattisson, Esq.,.
of Witham, Essex, to Charlotte Garnham, eldest daughter of Wm.
Wright Luard Esq., of Witham Lodge.
On the 30th ult., at Upper Clapton, the Rev. Edward William
Clarke, Rector of Great Yeldham, Essex, to Sophia, third daughter
of the late R. Jones, Esq., of Kidderminster.
On the 27th of January, at Poona, James Erskine, Esq., eldest
son of J. Erskine, Esq., of Cardross, Perthshire, to Mary Eliza,
second daughter of Brigadier C. S. Fagan, C. 8., of Southampton.

DIED.
On the 29th ult., at Dulwich, in his 48th year, the Rev. Edward
Smedley.
On the 12th of March, washed overboard and drowned, on his
passage home from New South Wales, in the " Hercules," George
Fraser Tytler, late of the 4th or King's Own Regiment, eldest sur-
viving son of W. F. Tytler, Esq., of Burdyards.