The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-25 00:00:00

CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS
Bank Stock ............ ........... India Stack
3 per Cent. Bed Ditto Bonds ..... .......
3 per Cent Ccns 9O Ditto Old Annuities.... ...... ..
3b per Cent. Red Ditto New Annuities ... ......
New 3y.', per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,0001 2d 18 pm
New 5 ner Cent Ditto 500/ 18 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 18611
Oct. 1859
Jan 1860
FOREIGN FUNDS

Austrian, 5 per cent
Bclgian, 5 per cent
ilrszilian Bonds. X.. 78%
roienos Ayres, 6 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 or cent 22%
Ditto, 1824
Danish. 3 per
Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct —
Mexican, 5 per cent....
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 —
Pernvian,lB2s,6 per cent —

Portuguese Honds,sper cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russianonis, 5 per cent —

Ditto, Metallic -
Spanish, 5 per cent. 27t4i
Ditto, Deferred
French, 5 per cent .... ..... —f. —c
Exchange f. —c
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, 2% per cent 53%
Ditto, 5 per cent.... ........ —
A.RES.

Great Western Railway —
Ditto "lew Shares .... 3l
London and Brighton Railway 24
London and Birmingham Railway 156
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 97i
Midland Counties Railway 76S,
Northern and Eastern Railway l3
North Midland Railway
Ditto New Shares
York and North Midland Railway 52

THE LATE EARL OF STAIR.—The late John
William Henry Dalrymple, Earl of Stair, who died at Paris on
Friday last, was the seventh Earl. He was Earl of Stair, Vis-
count Stair and Dalrymple, Lord Glenluce, Stranraer and
Newliston in the Peerage of Scotland, and a Baronet of Nova
Scotia, and was born the 16th November, 1784. In 1821 he
succeeded his cousin, the sixth Earl, to the title and estates.
His late Lordship married, in 1804, Miss Johanna Gordon,
eldest daughter of Mr. Charles Gordon, which union was an-
nulled in June, 1820; and on the 3d of June, 1808, his Lord-
ship married the late Lady Laura Manners. This marriage was
declared void in 1809, in consequence of the previous Scotch
marriage. _ _ _

LEECHES IN FRANCE.—M. Huzard has pre-
sented to the Societe d'Encouragement a proposition for grant-
ing prizes for the best methods of preserving and increasing
the number of leeches in France. He states that about
23,000,000 of these useful creatures are annually consumed
in France, but their price is raised to an enormous rate on
account of the difficulty of keeping them alive. The objects
of the proposed prizes are :—The stocking of such pieces of
water and streams as are fit for the propagation of leeches
but at present have none in them ; for the best means of
making them disgorge after an operation, without injuring them
or diminishing their powers; and introducing a new and effec-
tive species hitherto unknown in France.
THE KING OF HANOVER.—The Hanover
Gazette of the 18th instant states that his Majesty received all
the Court on the day before, the fifth anniversary of his enter-
ing the army, and distributed numerous decorations to officers
on this occasion. A letter from Hanover gives the following
particulars of the reception, &c., at the Court :—" His Ma-
jesty has created twelve Grand Crosses, eight Commanders,
and eleven Knights of the Order of the Guelphs. Prussia,
Brunswick, and Mecklenburg have had each their share in
these Royal favours. The promotions in the army are nume-
rous. At twelve o'clock the King reviewed the troops of the
garrison, and afterwards received the congratulation of the re-
sident Foreign Ministers, his own Officers of State, and the
other principal authorities. At four o'clock there was a grand
military Court at the Palace. A deputation from the officers
of all the different regiments presented in their name an eques-
trian statue of his Majesty in silver, in testimony of their grati.
tude and attachment. After the Court the King gave a grand
dinner of 500 covers, including all the officers in the capital.
The Prince Royal proposed his Majesty's health, which was
drunk with enthusiastic acclamations, accompanied with a salvo
of 21 guns. Prince Frederick William Louis, the Queen's son,
was present, having come expressly from Berlin."
The Limerick Reporter states a horrible threat-
ened case of extermination—namely, seventy families, on the
lands of Portrain, the property of a Rev. Mr. Lloyd, about
to he ejected. Can it be true ? We shall watch such deLds as
thine with tuvre—than nrainarrattwtttiou,

THE RUSSIAN EXPEDITION TO KHIVA.—
A letter from Berlin, in the Augsburg] Gazette, states, on the
authority of accounts from Russia, that the corps under Gene-
ral Perowsky had, on its march to Khiva, met with serious and
unexpected obstacles. The Khan had destroyed all the bridges
over the rivers and ravines, and as wood is.very scarce in that
country, the expedition, which was harrassed by a numerous
cavalry of Usbecks, was much delayed in re-establishing the
communications, and consequently advanced but slowly.
On Monday afternoon a respectable young man
named James Booth was drowned in the Thames, off the Dun-
dee wharf, at Wapping. He had called upon his brother, a
proprietor of the wharf, and was crossing a plank, when he
slipped and fell into the water, and when taken out was dead,
although he had been submerged a few minutes only.
THE LORTON CASE,--.At last our repeated
taunts have extorted from the agent of Lord Lorton something
which he calls an explanation of the ante-dated copy of lease,
as previously only made public through the statement of Widow
Murphy's counsel. The letter is signed "Thomas Courtenay."
It consists of a long rigmarole, going over agLin the old ex-
ploded allegations against the widow Murphy, but not one word
of compassion or repentance. The following contains all the
defence of the ante-dated copy ; and it is right to give every
party the benefit of their own story The facts as to the
lease produced at the trial, on the part of Lord Lorton, are
simply these :—Sir Thomas Featherstone, who owned the
estate in question, in the year 1795 agreed to give each tenant
then in occupation of the lands of Fardromin (of which the
holding in question forms a part) a lease for one life or thirty
years (not eighty), and proposals for such leases were
accordingly put in by the several tenants, and accepted
by Sir Thomas Featherstone, the then landlord, at cer-
tain rents—a proposal for a lease being considered almost
as good as the lease itself, and being a document upon
which a 40s. claimant for the franchise could register his
vote. Matters so remained, and the intended leases were not
executed at the time ; but in the year 1804 Sir Thos. Feather-
stone having determined on selling the estate in question--and
with a view to preparing a correct rental, and being anxious
that the tenant should have the full benefit of the previous
agreement for leases, before handing them over to another, had
the leases prepared; but as the proposals iv ere accepted in
January, 1795, it was deemed right that the leases should be
antedated to that year, and the term to spring from thence."
Here now is the explanation ; and not one word need be said
of its nature. The document was a falsehood : it purported
to be what it was not, and that is enough. The public will
judge for themselves.—Dublin Pilot.
QUIETNESS AT LAST.—A bickering couple,
residing near Manchester, were recently overheard in high con
troversy, and the repentant Benedict exclaimed, " I'm deter-
mined I'll have one quiet week with thee ! " " But how wilt
thou get it? how wilt thou get it? how wilt thou get it?" said
his taunting spouse, with that " d—d iteration " which mar-
ried ladies so provokingly practice—" I'll keep thee a week
after thnu'rt dead ! " was the tender rejoinder.
Great activity prevails in the Royal Dockyards
at Chatham and Sheerness, and several line-of-battle ships are
in a state of rapid forwardness. The London, 90 guns, it is
expected will be launched from the%former establishment early
in the month of June next. Orders from the Admiralty to
that effect were/ received on Friday last.

The Duke of Wellington had an audience of Prince
Albert yesterday afternoon, at Buckinghaea Palace, to
present to his Royal Highness the Diploma of a Doctor
in Civil Law, conferred upon his Royal Highness by the
University of Oxford.
Viscount Melbourne had an interview yesterday with her
Majesty.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the perform-
ance of Mr. Charles Kemble in The 'Wonder, at Covent
Garden Theatre last evening, with their presence. The
Royal Suite included the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, Earl
of Fingall, Colonel Wemyss, Colonel Wylde, and Mr-
Francis Seymour.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by several
Ladies and Gentlemen of her Suite, rode out on horse-
back in the Parks yesterday morning. The Duke of Cam-
bridge and Prince George visited her Majesty yesterday.
Lady Anna Maria Dawson has succeeded Lady Fanny
Howard as the Lady in Waiting on her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent.
Prince George of Cambridge visited the Princess Au-
gusta yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's.
The Rev. John Becham, the Rev. Dr. Alder, and the
Rev. Elijah Hoole, as a deputation from the Committee
of the Wesleyan Methodists, with a Congratulatory Ad-
dress to her Majesty, had an interview with the; Marquis
of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office.
Mr. G W. Wood and Mr. Macivar, had an interview
with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial Office.
M. Guizot, the French Ambassador, honoured the
Raleigh Club of Travellers and Geographers with his Como
pany at a dinner, which was given on Monday,- to comme-
morate his Excellency's services in promoting geographic
science, while Minister of Public Instruction in France.
Mr. Murchison occupied the Chair, and among the Mem-
bers present, were the Earl of Ripon, Hon. Mountstnart
Elphinstone, Sir John Barrow, Lord Prudhoe, the Vice-
Chancellor, Sir Woof'bine Parish, Mr. Hallam, Mr.
Greenough, Mr. B. Frere, Mr. H. Hamilton, Sir J. Ren-
nie, and Captain Warlington.
The Attorney-Gencral and Mr. Osborn, had interviews
with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial Office.
Sir M. Wood. and Mr. Sanford, with a deputation, bad
an interview with Mr. Labouchere yesterday, at the Board
of Trade.

The Marquis of Lansdowne, had a dinner party OP
Monday, at Lansdowne House.
Despatches from the Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson,
Governor of the Canadas, were received yesterday at the
Colonial Office.

kASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Lord and Lady Petre, Captain Sir Thomas Fellowes,
Lieut.-General Huskisson, the Rev. Robert Grosvenor,
the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Phipps' the Hon. Miss Spring
Rice, the Dowager Lady Petre, Mr. Sloane Stanley, Co-
lonel Peel, M.P., Mr. M. Arcbdall, M.P., Colonel Ver-
ner, Major and Mrs. Compton, Lord Kinnaird, at Fee-
ton's Hotel ; Mr. and Mrs. Crookenden, at ditto; the
Lord Provost of Glasgow, at ditto; the Hon. Mr. Walde-
grave, at ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Duff Dingwall, at ditto;
Count de Courcy, at the Brunswick Hotel; the Hon.
Miss Louisa Noel, Colonel Angerstein, and Colonel Selo'
ley ' • Lord and .Liady Ingestrie ; Lord George Paget;
Lord and Lady Lilford ; Lord Kelburne, at the Clarendon
Hotel ; Sir Charles Grey, at ditto ; Lord and Lady Wil-
liam Fitzroy; General Sir H. and Lady Campbell; Lord
Bexley; the Bishop of Ely; the Earl of Thanet ; Lora
St. Vincent, at Ellis's Hotel ; Lord Dunsany ; the Duke
and Duchess of Roxburghe, and the Marquis of Beaunaont.