The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-10 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

To the present hour the Funds are in a state of stagna-
tibra—sctircely a bargain having been done. The specula-
tors are waiting the arrival of an express from Paris, to
learn the price of the French Rentes before they com-
mence operations.
We have no political news.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 831, sellers, for the
account, opened at the same price this morning, at which
they continue.
Nothing doing as yet in the Foreign Market.
Two 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols continue to the present hour at SZq for the ac-
count, with little doing.
It would appear that the monied interest in France
think favourably of the loan which has been concluded
there for the Pope. Of late foreign countries have taken
the start of us, who used to be early in the field when
foreign loans were to be contracted for. We cannot help
thinking the great amount of unemployed capital at
present in this country ought to, be made available
on such undertakings, where it can be done safely. Thus
the financial resources of foreign countries aught, 24 it
were be made tributary to English capital. But we are
fond of extremes. We lend our money to new unfledged
republics, and refuse it to old established European Go-
vernments. _

.....
In the Foreign Market nothing doing.
THREE 0 CLOCK.

Consols, 83:i.
FOIJk O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols B3l Danish
Ditto for Account --1 Greek, 1825 —

Brazilian Bonds..
Buenos Ayres....

11Ieziean, 1825.
Peruvian ........

Chili= Ditto ....
Columbian, 1824

Russian
Spanish

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS-(THIS DAY.)

Daniel Humphrey, a silk-weaver, was indicted for
violently and wantonly assaulting police constable
Epps, No. 63, division N, in the execution of his duty :
two other counts in the indictment charged the defendant
with a common assault and riot.

It appeareC.from the evidence of the prosecutor,
and two other witnesses, that on the 12th October,
when the numerous parish meetings went up in procels-
'Aion with their' 'octillions to his Majesty, Epps was on dur
in St. .James's ; while there one of the inspectors
his division delivered a person into his custody, and or-
dered him to take that person to the station-house.
Before he got out out of the Park a number of
persons, among whom was the defendant, surrounded
him and violently rescued his prisoner. Having
done that, they commenced an attack on Epps, who en-
deavoured to escape from them, and proceeded out of the
Park by the Pall-mall entrance ; he had just got on the
top of the steps, when the defendant gave him a tremend-
ous blow, which knocked him down the first flight of
steps, and while he was down he was beaten and kicked
in so dreadful a manner, particularly in the abdomen, as to
make him insensible, and he did not recover his senses
until he found himself in the hosp:tal. He had ever since
been under medical care, had not attended his duty,
nor did he ever expect to be able to do so. One of the
injuries he received was a severe rupture. It was also
sworn that the defendant was one of a number of persons
who that day attacked Mr. Mayne, one of the Commis-
sioners of Police,
Mr. ARNOLD made a very eloquent defence for the de-
fendant, and while he admitted the shocking treatment
experienced by the constable, stated that he should be
able to prove that his client was not at all concerned in
the transaction.

A respectable-looking person, named Child, who wit-
nessed the assault, swore positively that the defendant did
not touch the prosecutor, but that three persons, dressed
like plumbers, were the only parties concerned in it.
The Jury acquitted the defendant.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT-GARI
There was a great supply at
trade was sluggish. Apples, Pez
Celery, and ilorse Raddish, we
night; prices otherwise stational
s.d. s.d
Potatoes (cwt.) '3 Oto6
Cal,bages (12 heads) 1 9 3 0
Red ditto 3 6 5134
Cauliflowers 3 0 4 6
Horse Itadish(bund!e) 3 0 7 0
Brocoli 0 9 1 6
Celery
Carrots 02 bunches) 4 11 6 0
Turnips
Coleworts or Greens 2 0 3 6
Leeks. 1 6 2 0
New Oranges (100) 6 0 10 0
Seville Oranges 8 0 12 0
Lemons 8 0 14 0
English Walnuts 1 0 2 6
Radishes (12 hands) 0 6 0 9

DEN MARKET.
th;s morning's market, but the
ars, Greens, Cabbages, Turnips,
ere dearer than on this day se'n-
ry.
s. d. s. d.
S;;inage (half-sieve) 0 4 too 6
Apples 4 0 6 0
?ears 6 0 9 0
Mushrooms
Onions (for pickling) 3 0 4 5
Span. Chesnuts (peck) 6 0 10 0
French ditto
I Spanish Hazlenuts 6010 0
I French Walnuts 5 0 7 0
; Brazilian Nuts 2 0 4 0
I Eng. Grapes (per lb.) 3 0 5 0
I Foreign 0 8 1 6
I Filberts 0 9 1 0
Pine Apples (lb.)
I Endive (pummet) 0 6 0 9

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 10
New Meadow Hay 2 15 3 10
Useful Old Ditto 2 15 3 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 0
Clover Hay 4 5 5 In
Oat Straw XI Sto £1 10 f Wheat Straw... 1 14 1 16
Supply limited, trade rather dull, and prices as last quoted.
SMITHFIELD.

Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15
New 7',leadow Fla-' 3 0 3 10
Useful Old Ditto ' 3 0 3 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 0
Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s 10... Generally
Oat Straw £I 10 to £1 12 I Wheat Straw 1 12 1 14
A short supply, and a dull trade; prices stationary.

The House of Lords has revived what is
termed its Library Committee, for the purpose of consider-
ing the propriety of some additions to the library of the
House, and of other matters relating thereto; a special in-
struction has been given to it to consider of some mode
" for more effectually ventilating the House."

The Chief Judge of the New Bankrupt Court
has to pay 300/. for stamps and fees for his new appoint-
ment, the Puisne Judges 2001„ the Commissioners 1501.
each, the Chief Registrars 601., and the Deputy Regi..
strars 40/

The Dublin Morning Register says—We
have no personal knowlege of the five persons appointed
Clerks of the Crown for Cavan, Donegal, Fermanagh,
Londonderry, and Tyrone; but we learn, from what we
deem competent authority, that, with a single exception.
a nicer selection of Orangemen, or anti-reformers, could
not possibly be made ! ! !
The Duke of NEWCASTLE is confined at
Clamber by a serious illness. His Grace's complaint is
incorrectly stated to be spinal. We believe it is inflam-
' matory, and that fatal consequences are apprehende 1. The
professional aid of Mr. Hay., of Leeds, has been called in,
and that gentleman,we hear, set out for Clum ber on Monday
night.—Leeds Intelligencer.
ALICE PAULE T.—This work, it has been
observed, might have been called " The Art of Choosing
a Wife." The Baronet who is the hero of the novel seems
to have brought the whole experience of an active life,
during which he bad penetrated all the mysteries of modern
society, to bear on this point as the summunt bonum. The
manner in which his election is made is amusing and
edifying, and accounts at once for the popularity of the
volumes among the fair, who forgive on this account the
satirical vein of the writer.

THE GAME LAWS.--A few days ago, while
looking in at the window of a fishmonger, who has com-
menced to retail game, an elderly respectable mechanic
came up, and after regarding the bares for some time, he
said, " Ob, it's a good law, you've been calling for it a
he then added, with tears in his eyes, " had it
long time ;"
been so twenty years ago, I should have, been a happy
man ; my son was a good lad, but he began with poaching,
and soon ended with transportation."—How many hundreds
in this county may say the same !—Nottingham Review.
BLESSINGS OF THE TYTHE SYSTEM.—
" At Man of Kent" writes us :—A this moment the
small tithes are being exacted in this parish, with the
utmost rigour and severity ; the cottager for his cab-
bage-garden is called en for half-a-crown ; the butcher
fur his patch of land, about half an acre, is requested
to pay the moderate sum of Bs. for the agistinent of
his sheep ; and the pauper, whose cow is his principal
support, which obtains the greater part of its food by
nibbling the grass growing by the way-side, is visited by a
blessed cull for 1 in the name of tithes of milk, pro-
duced by the poor half-starved beast. Surely the hour
of destruction to this abominable system is near at hand !
It cannot last much longer in Ireland ; and why should it
be tolerated here ?—Kent Herald.

Toe production of the new Drury-lane drama
of The Bride of Ludgate (played on Thursday) has
been delayed (writes a correspondent) by the extraordi-
nary official sensitiveness of Mr. Deputy COLMAN, who
refused to license the piece until Charles the Second (one
of the dramatis personw), who was made by the author to
disguise himself as a parson, should masquerade it under
another less objectionable character ! A King appearing
as a priest seemed to Mr. COLMAN as savouring of irreve-
rence towards the bench! This, monstrous as it may
seem, is a true story ! The stage is called " a school of
public instruction !" How long is it to be under the peda-
gogueship of " two o'clock in the morning morality ?"
Taller. [The substituted character is that of a notary.]

THE VICTIM.—A singular story, given as
one of real occurrence, and exemplifying, with a startling
particularity, the horrors of that secret and sordid species
of assassination, the recent discovery of which has ex-
cited so thrilling a sensation in the public mind, forms one
of the papers in the " New Monthly Magazine." It is
conveyed under the name of " The Victim," and appeals
as the communication of a Medical Student, who was
acquainted with the young lady that realized in her hap-
less fate the appellation given to the tale.
The silk trade at Middleton is in a state of
great depression. Numerous are the unsuccessful applica-
tions made for employment, and many persons are removing
to Wham, Hyde, and other places, to work on the steam-
looms. Last summer about 1700 weavers found employ-
ment in this town; that number is now dwindled down
to 500. The silk-dyers work only one day in the week.—
Liverpool Courier.

WILD SWANS.—Several of those majestic
birds were seen hovering about the neighbourhood of
Kelso Bridgt, 'luring Tuesday and Wednesday. They
were seen three and four together, and, from their great
weight and size, alternately floating about in the air and
on the river, had a very imposing appearance. From the
visit of these strangers we may probably anticipate ac-
counts of an early and severe winter in the North.—
Kelso Mail.

An impudent impostor has lately been using
the apparent introduction of medical men who attend the
family, and under the plea of soliciting charity, in which
respect he has succeeded ; or, under some plea, holds
long conversation with the master, mistress, or servant,
surveys the premises,
he can lay his hands upon.
and walks away with any property'