The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-23 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols opened at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 911
for the Account ; same for Money ; little doing. Exchequer
Bills, 9 11 ; India Bonds, par, 1 prcm. ; Bank Stock,
211+ 212+ ; India Stock, 260+ 261+.
The Foreign Market has a more lively appearance this
morning, owing to the recruiting service for Spain having
recommenced, as well as the change of the Ministry of
Madrid; and it, is generally presumed that M. Mendizabal is
virtually the life of the present Ministry.
The speculators are anxiously waiting for further particulars
from Madrid. Spanish Active Bonds opened at 311 im-
proved to 324-, at present 32i to ; Passive, 9/1 ; Deferred,
134 14.
Portuguese has also improved to 73f; Three per Cents.,
45f 46, owing to the insurrection at Oporto being entirely
discredited. Columbian 25 26; Mexican, 28 29; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55i
HALF-PAST ONE.

Consols continue steady at 911 e for the Account ; and 91f
Money; Exchequer Bills, 8 10; India Bonds, par, 1 dis.; Bank
Stock, 211 2121; India Stock, 2613-.
In the Foreign Market the speculations are in Spanish Bonds
Active, and:Portuguese ; Spanish* 321 i; Passive, 91 10;
Deferred. 141; Portuguese, 73i 74 ; Throe per Ceuts, 45, 46 ;
Dutch, 21 per Cent., 56i- 56.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 914

THE FU NDS.-CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH
Bank Stock 211%
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent Cons 91%
354 per Cent.
3% per Cent. Reel 100%
New 3% per Cent 100%

I per ant. Assented
Dissented
Long Annuities to expire
Jam IEIfSO

Oct. 1850 ll-16
Jan. 1860

BANKRUPTCY COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

LAPORTE'S BANKRUPTCY.

Mr. Laporte appeared this morning before Mr. Commis-
sioner HOLROYD, to undergo his final examination. Our
readers will recollect that the last examination was postponed
in consequence of some informality in the accounts ; and to-
day it was further postponed till the 31st, that informality
not being removed. Several minor debts were proved.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

BOW-STREET.

A poor Scotchman, evidently labouring under insanity, was
brought before Mr. MINSIIULI„ charged with being disorderly,
at six o'clock this morning, in Lincoln's Inn. On being asked
his name by the Magistrate, he said it was the same now as
before. The officers said he had been brought up before, and
his name was William Muir. . . .

Policeman 44 F said the prisoner was, at the time named,
creating a great disturbance in the square of Lincoln's Inn.
He was throwing his arms about, and making a strange inco-
herent noise. With difficulty he was got to the station-
house ; and on being locked up, he broke all the wood work
he could lay his hands upon, and tore the fastenings of the
hot-air pipes out of the wall. The damages were stated at 7s.
The Magistrate inquired if he had any friends. He said
they were an article that was very thinly sown. He lived near
the Middlesex Hospital.
The Magistrate said he was evidently out of his senses. He
sentenced him to pay 75., or be imprisoned one month, and
then to find bail. He ordered the officer to go to the address
given, and apprise the prisoner's friends, so that he might be
taken care of.

THE KING'S SPEECH.—In the copy of the King's
Speech, read from the throne, the words at the end of the sixth
paragraph, after " I trust that this circumstance will tend to
draw still closer the ties which connect this country with two
great and friendly nations," should have been wholly omitted.

The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Vice-President
of the Board of Trade, gave his farewell dinner on Friday last,
in Hamilton-place, to Viscounts Melbourne and Howick, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord John Russell, the Attorney
and Solicitor Generals, the Speaker, Messrs. R. Gordon,
Hume, Warburton, &c.

Sir Francis Burdett is still rusticating at his seat,
Foreraark, Derbyshire, for the benefit of his health.
Mr. Spring Rice is expected to take his departure
in the course of a few days for Limerick, but will return to this
country in the course of a month.
The Earl of Cork and Orrery is passing the autumn
at Marston House, near Frome, in Somersetshire.

The Earl of Derby has been for some time busily
engaged in superintending the alterations and improvements
which have been made in Knowsley Park. The new farm-
yard is now completed, and for convenience is not surpassed
by any other in England. His Lordship, it is well known,
has long been a most devoted ornithologist; his aviaries con-
tain the rarest specimens of the feathered tribe. To allow an
increased indulgence to this favourite pursuit, the aviary al-
lotted to foreign virds has been much enlarged, and numerous
choice kinds have been added. _

Married, at the house of the British Ambassador in
Brussels, on Saturday last, by the Rev. E. Jenkins, John
Edward Venables Vernon, Esq., of Clontarf Castle, Dublin,
to Louisa Catherine, only daughter of Charles P. Bowles,
Esq., late of Old Park, Isle of Wight, and Park-lane,
London.

Lady Robert Seymour is passing her widowhood at
that romantic villa, Tali Arias, in South Wales.
The Attorney-General returned to town yesterday,
from the Liverpool Assizes, where he has been on a special
retainer.

Friday one of the boilers belonging to the stationary
engine on the Liverpool railway burst, and a man named
Wilson was killed by being dreadfully scalded ; he was ac-
tually blown to the side opposite to where he stood. The
other men were likewise so much bruised and scalded that
little hopes are entertained of their recovery.
Administration was on Wednesday taken out to the
effects of the late Mr. Rothschild, in Great Britain, which
were sworn to be under 1,000,0001. sterling, and the probate
duty amounted to 15,0001.
CHASE EXTRAORDINARY.—A greyhound be-
longing to a gentleman of Devizes, on passing the road near
Potterne a few days since, being apparently frightened at the
sight of three foxhounds which came by, started off at full
speed. The foxhounds immediately started after it ; and,
notwithstanding the greyhound gained upon them, they con-
tinued in full chase, running through the greater part of the
town, until the greyhound took shelter in its master's house in
Devizes.

The Brussels papers of Saturday announce that
the opthalmia again prevails amongst the military, and that
300 soldiers afflicted with the disease have been sent, in six
weeks, into the hospital.
The Ladies in the House of Lords on Saturday
had an opportunity of witnessing what is seldom seen on the
same day—especially on the day of prorogation,—viz., a Peer
taking his seat, a judgment given in an appeal cause, mes-
sages coming up from the Commons, and legislative business
done by the House.
In the report of the London and Birmingham Rail-
way, which has just been issued, we perceive that the amount
of " payments for obtaining the act of incorporation" was
72,8681. 18s. 10d.
The German papers arrived yesterday contain, un-
der the head of Berlin, a deplorabl.e account of the condition
of East and West Prussia, which suffer in consequence of the
decay ut the corn and timber trade. The revenue of Elbing,
a town of 16,000 inhab!tants, is said not to be sufficient to light
the streets. In Paderborn, too, it is said that the peasants
are in so bad a condition that they have been exempted from
taxes for three years. It will, we have no doubt, turn out in
the end that the very paternal Government of Prussia is very
ruinous to its subjects.
Last Thursday the body of a Mr. Imeson was dis-
covered in a brake. About eighteen months ago he suddenly
disappeared, and notwithstanding every search was made, no
tidings of him had ever been heard till this week. —Devonporl
In,lependent.
Several of the French performers of the St. James's
and Queen's Theatres are about to pay professional visits to
the most fashionable towns in the neighbourhood of London.
Their first representation will be at Richmond, on Friday next.
M. Fabien Mars is the conductor of the enterprise.
The intention of erecting a monument in Lichfield
Cathedral to the late Bishop Ryder, representing him in the
act of confirmation, has been abandoned by the advice of Sir
F. Chantry, who is engaged to execute a simple statue of the
Bishop.—Derbyshire Chronicle.
The actual sittings of the Lords during the Session
just passed were 119 days—those of the Commons 130 days,
including, according to a sort of Hibernian computation, the
" no houses," " countings out," &c.
REPRESENTATION OF EAST CUMBERLAND.—
On Friday the House of Commons ordered a new writ for the
Eastern Division of the county of Cumberland, in the room of
Mr. W. Blamire, appointed Chief Tithe Commissioner.
On Saturday the Union Derby and Nottingham
coach, which leaves Derby about one o'clock in the day, was
overturned on its way to Nottingham, when near the Lodge at
Spondon, in consequence of the lynch-pin of one of the wheels
falling out, and the wheel becoming detached from the body
of the vehicle. The coach was heavily laden (full inside and
out), and we very much regret to find, that one female (Mrs.
Pigott, of Findern, near Derby, an outside passenger), had
her leg broken by the accident, and was otherwise much
bruised. Several persons received severe contusions. The
coachman, all admit, was entirely free from blame, as he was
driving at a moderate rate ; and indeed the cause of the upset
almost precludes the possibility of there having been any error
on his part.—Derbyshire Chronicle.
RATTLIN THE REEFER.—Whether Captain Mar-
ryat be the author, or but the Editor of this novel, it will be
acknowledged in every way worthy of his well-acquired repu-
tation. In some respects it displays a power even greater than
we find in his acknowledged productions. It is for the most
part nautical,land thoroughly true to life on the quarter-deck—
the characters of the Captain, the Doctor, and Rattlin, being
quite on a par even with Smollet. In its scenes and characters
ashore it is equally, and in one instance, perhaps, more success-
ful. The episode of Josephine is a sketch of exceeding grace
and beauty, while Mrs. Causand is drawn with a power, bril.
liancy, and originality, which few writers of fiction could rival.
Hervieu, who has thrown so much piquancy into Mrs. Trollope's
books, has also been of some assistance to the Reefer, with his
spirited and expressive etchings.—Morning Herald.
SUCCORY COFFEE.—Succory root, cut, dried,
torrified, and ground to powder, is most exsensively employed
as a substitute for coffee, or rather, I ought to say, to adulte-
rate coffee. A full account of the preparation of it will be
found in the Annales de Chyntie, lix., p. 307. Its consump.
tion is so great, that some fear has been expressed of its se-
riously injuring the trade in, and cultivation of, coffee; and
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has proposed to lay a tax on
it. I am told that it is employed very largely by grocers to
adulterate their coffee, by coffee-house keepers, and by eco-
nomical housekeepers. It yields a perfectly wholesome and
beverage, but wants that fine aromatic flavor peculiar to
coffee, and for which the latter is so celebrated.—M. Pereins'
Lectures, in the Medical Gazette.
A very numerous and respectable meeting of the
electors of Newcastle was held in the Music Hall there, on
Tuesday evening last, Mr. Alderman Potter in the chair, for
the purpose of forming a Reform Association.
A new chapel is erecting at Edgbaston, near Bir-
mingham ; it is built from a design by J. J. Scoles, Esq., at
the expense of Lord Calthorpe, aided by a legacy of 5001.,
bequeathed by the will of the late Mr. Samuel Wheeley, of
Edgbaston.
On Tuesday night week, as the mail was on its way
from Leeds to London, the Wakefield bag was by some means
lost from the coach ; whether it had been taken from the mail
by some robber, who must have been disturbed in his work of
plunder, or lost by accident, the particulars have not yet tran-
spired. Suffice it to say, that the bag was found beneath a
tree, in a field in the parish of Sandal', on Wednesday morning,
by a farming man named William Smith, who entered the
field for the purpose of catching a horse, and discovered the
bag opened ; some letters also appeared to have been opened,
but the man conveyed the bag to the post-office as he dis-
covered it, from whence, we understand, it has since been for-
warded to its destination.—Doncaster Gazette.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Earl of Limerick and the Earl of Shaftesbury had in.
:erviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing•

street.

M. de Hummelauer, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, trans -
acted business yesterday at the Foreign oil:Pe•
The Attorney-General returned to town yesterday from the
Liverpool Assizes, where he has been on a special retainer.
The Earl of Kerry expired at Lansdowne-house,
o'clock on Sunday. About one