The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-25 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.►

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Our arrivals this morning are the Frenci and Ostend mails ;
also a mail from Lisbon by the Lapwing--sailed Aug. 7 ;
and ship letters from Lisbon, Gibraltar, Cadiz, Oporto, and
Antigua.
This being settling-day in the British Market, the brokers
and jobbers are chiefly occupied in settling their accounts.
The extreme fluctuation during the Account not being more
tti:3 about 1 per cent., it will be well adjusted.
Consols opened 9184 for the Account ; 31oney the same ;
Exchequer Bills, 8 10; India Bonds, 2 dis., 1 prem. ; Bank
Stock, 211 212 ; India Stock, 2601 2611.
In the Foreign Market the information from Made"
of the
agitation which prevailed there on the 15th, and tin: assassi-
nation of Quesada, has not had any effect on the ,Spanish
Funds. Active Bonds 318 ; Passive, t 10 ; Dexeerred,
131 14; Portuguese, 711 :43-; Three per Cents., 441; V
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55i8.
.HALF-PAST ONE.
Various reports are in circulution on Change respecting th e
massacre of Quesada, as well as a serious affray at Madrid, in'
which a great number of persons lost their lives. We do not.
attach any credit to the above reports, as we are informed that
letters are in town of the 16th instant., which do not mention
utch
the above circumstance.
Since writing the above, we have received the following
interesting letter from Madrid, dated the 16th, in the
evening :
" The change of Ministry and proclamation of th e Consti-
tution were effected almost without commotion, and without
bloodshed, with the exception of a conflict which took pi,ane in
the Plaza de la Cebada, between some of the National Gvards
and a detachment of troops in possession there, when sore
lives were lost. On the 15th, at eight o'clock in the morn-
ing, Mendez-Vigo, the Ex-Minister of War, arrived in the ea.-
pital from La Granja, with the decrees of his own and his
colleagues' dismissal. At five in the afternoon on the same
day, an immense concourse filled the Pi.aza Mayor, where a
stone was raised, with the inscription Plaza de la Constitu-
tion.' Salutes of cannon, peals from the bells, and the en-
thusiastic shouts of the assembled multitude, accompanied this
ceremony. The capital was illuminated at night, and to the
hour of the last accounts remained perfectly tranquil."
Consols may be quoted at 018 4, both for Money and time;
Exchequer Bills lower, 7 to 9 ; India Bonds, 1 dis. ; Bank
Stock, 2111 ; India, 2601.
The Directors of the Bank of England are now assent..
bled. It is reported a notice will be issued during the after-
noon, increasing the rate of interest of discount to 5 per cent.
Spanish Active, 314 s ; Passive, si; Deferred, 12 131 ;
Portuguese, 7113-; Three per Cents, 43,1 ; Scrip, 5 disc.
THREE O'CLOCK:
Consols for the Account, 918 1.

VIENNA, AUG. 12.—The Court will set out fox
Bohemia on the 16th ; on the 17th their Majesties will arrive
at Porsdorff, and on the 18th at Brunn, where they will stop
till the 20th. They will arrive at Konigsgratz on the 22d,
and remain there till the 27th. At Brandwies they will stay
two days (the 30th and 31st), and arrive at Prague on the Ist
of September.
ODESSA, JULY 29.—News from Constantinople to
the 24th of July has been received here by the Emperor
Nicholas steamer. The Porte had received the most satisface
tory accounts from the army in Asia. Redschid Pacha had
taken the town of Deschesira, after an obstinate resistance of
forty-five days. It is a fortress on the Tigris, song days'
march from Diarbekir. It was chiefly a place of rendezvous
for the Kurds, and it is said that during the siege there' were
12,000 of them there. The loss of the Turkish army i 59 we
believe, 400 or 500 men. The fine 80-gun ship lately built at
Arsmastro, on the Black Sea, has come here to be equipped,
and will soon be added to the Sultan's fleet, which becom'es
daily stronger. The Turkish steam-boat, which took Hal.il
Paella to Varna, returned on the 9th. Varna will be a very'
strong fortress when the works are completed ; they will be
defended by 260 cannon of the largest size, which will soon be
sent thither. Letters from Adrianople say that the plague
has lately broken out there, and commits great ravages.--
Hamburg Papers, Aug. 20.
ENGLISH JUSTICE.—An ancient people said to
Alexander, "We beg you to accept half our treasure." The
Conqueror replied, " The question is not what you wish me to
accept, but what I may please to leave you." The English
Government has adopted the terrible logic of Alexander. In
1815 it guaranteed to the King of the Netherlands the sove-
reignty of Belgium in exchange for his colonies. Belgium
having been taken away from the King with the consent of
England, not only has the latter not restored the colonie.'
which it received only in exchange, but now an outcry is
raised in full Parliament against King William, who, in the
Island of Java, the only colony of which he has not been de-
spoiled by Great Britain, does not manifest favourable dispo-
sitions with respect to the commerce of that Power. One
means remains to England, viz., to know, like Alexander,
what it will please to leave to the King of the Netherlands...—.
Journal de Frankfort, Aug. 20.
We understand that, in consequence of the advance
of potters' materials, the Yorkshire manufacturers have re-
solved npon an advance in the price of earthenware..—. Hull
Express.
Two novel christenings took place at Rastrick UD
Sunday week. A young man named Thornton, aged 14 year's
and who had been baptised at one of the Dissenting chapels,
has been rather uneasy, for a year or two, thinking he was
not properly registered. His father having another child to
baptise, the youth was resolved to put his mind at ease, and
taking a copy, from the family register, of the time of his birth,
he went to the chapel of the establishment, where he prevailed
upon the clerk to be his sponsor, and got baptised in time to
become sponsor to his little brother, thus being baptised ;Ara"
self, and becoming surety for another, on the same dayee'—'
Hull Express.
The Helvetie of the 9th instant, has the following
—" The Government of Berne is prosecuting the inquiries
into the affair of Conseil, the spy, with great earnestness.
Four Italian refugees, named Migliari, Bertholo, Bosqui, and
Primavesi, have been arrested. It is said that the confessions
of Conseil leave no doubt of his having long been employed by
the French Government. The Government of Berne, it is
stated, has resolved to lay the whole affair before the Diet-
For some time reports have been spread that there was a con:
'piracy formed in Switzerland against the life of the French
King. A pretended discovery, said to have been made on
Friday last, in the forest of Bremgarten, near Berne, comes in
this case very apropos, as it frequently has done on similar oc-
casious of vague accusations. A man, who was behind a tree,
saw five persons arrive in succession, who, when joined, took
an oath on an image of Christ to assassinate Louis Philipp
the Duke de Montebello, and the Count Bombelles. Vie,/
were denounced to the French Embassy, which immediately
laid a complaint before the authorities, as if it were a matter
the highest importance. An inquiry will be entered into, Dr
in the end the informer may possibly be joined with Conseua
and meet with the same reward." are
The two main sources of political disturbanSe
power unfairly distributed, and power improperly
When some are too high, some too low, and others prose's',
there is a continual effort in the system to establish the socit
equilibrium. While this struggle goes on, there is more ncri
less violence ; when it is over, there is not rest, but serene 5,1',0
steady motion. The mean elevation is the point of order. le
equalize is to tranquilize. A well-constituted state is like t';'ll
path of the Deity in Holy Writ, formed of the depressed
and the exalted valley; and if the quere of Bishop BerkeleZ,
may safely be put affirmatively_,. It is the public aim of ee,
wise community that each member, according to his Fret°n''
sions and industry, should have power."—Examiner.
The London Society for Promoting Christiaol'i
among the Jews, held their 12th anniversary at the Chelte!:
ham Infants' School Room, on Thursday last. The chair
taken in the morning by the Right Hon. and most Rev.
Lord Archbishop of Tuam, and in the evening by the ge v,
J. C. Davies. The collection amounted to 291. ss. 24'1.,
sum considerably less than was received at the last anno:!vo
sary, although the operations in all parts are more exteostibe
than ever, as was fully shown by one of the deputation' a
Rev. F. C. Ewald, Missionary to the Joys at Tunis, &0•' of
converted Jew. This gentleman has distributed upward and
five thousand copies of the Scriptures in those countriec,is
has returned to England, in order to raise funds to op hoo
on the northern coasts of Africa.—Cheltenham Chronic-e• fir,
CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.--The iron 17,,,
of If inch diameter, intended to form a traverse across _scroy
chasm, which had been several days welding in Leigh-wo°l_,ed
was completed on Monday, and yesterday the men comlrleowhe
drawing it over; which was done by fixing a stout rope.tootal
end of the bar ; which rope was attached through heri,f(toa:
pulleys to a strong and powerful capstan on the rock at
a gang of men took turns at this windlass, and the work Prot
ceeded as favourably as could be wished. About haltaFtbe
10 o'clock this morning the bar was brought home,would
men gave three hearty cheers ;in five minutes more all Of
have been safe and secure, but at the very Ilinmeriegf
triumph the 10-inch hawser unfortunately broke at 0%04
where it was attached to the chain, and the bar,. sfe•
loosened, sprung up with great force, and immediately 00
scended with a tremendous and awful rush, a fall of vie'
feet, into the river below. Fortunately only one manon .. Dee.-
hurt, and he, believe, not dangerously. The bar ;Otis
gents an extraordinary spectacle, lying across the channel' the
one end deep in the mud and the other lost in the wooclor
summit of the rock. The toughness and pliability of the . ;._ 'sod
have been thus thoroughly proved, and although the je7iT is
oscillation of the swing have twisted several parts, Ye
..d the
expected that the mischief will be easily repaired, Captain
bas soon restored to its proper place. A letter froth "pool
Claxton, who has superintended the operation, will 150
annexed :
clai•
" St. Vincent's Parade, One o'clock, Weune.,ssroalt
wish to state, through the medium of your .I° eon
that as far as I have been able to ascertain, there is nntres
now a single fracture in the bar which, under Mr. Brun red
rections, I, with Messrs. Tate and Richardson, bad assts a°
in getting to its position where it had been about T
stn
hour, before the hawser unfortunately went at the ring.
not aware that there is fault an ;it had been sel al eta'
much tighter several times during the progress than 1
when it broke.
" Your's obediently, arl'ON'''
—Bristol Gazette. c. CLA... news.
The grave-digger at the Independent chapel' Icon
bury, had a narrow escape, a few days ago. Whilst
as
a deep grave both the sides suddenly
as his breast, and fastened the poor man so that of tp:,
fell in upon could
scarcely breathe. He was fortunately in that. parts'itants
burial ground which is near some houses, the 1nt.1., •"releAsei
which heard his moaning, and immediately
Had he been stooping at the time, he must have
alive.--Hull Express, went
been
boo.