The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-08 00:00:00

LITERARY AND SCIENTXPIC.

Dr. Fisher, of Downing College, Cambridge, was
elected on Wednesday, the 3d inst., to the Downing
Professorship of Medicine. The income of the office is
only 20c1. per annum, but it is one of much honour, and
only one course of lectures is expected to be given, in
Michaelmas Term.

So heavy are the fees demanded by the Dean and
Chapter of Westminster, for the erection of monuments
in the Abbey, that they are a constant subject of very
just complaint among sculptors. The monument to the
Earl of Chatham, executed by Bacon, cost that artist, in
fees, nearly 700/.

COURT-FASHIONABLE.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town
on Friday morning, for the Military College at Sandhurst.
His Excellency Prince, Esterhazy is expected to arrive
from Vienna early next month.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort left Hampton
Court Palace on Saturday for Badminton.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left the Earl of
Cawdor's seat in Wales on Saturday, for their place in
Shropshire.
The Earl of Clarendon has returned to Grove Park,
Watford.
The Earl of Kinnoul returned the week before. last to
Dublin Castle.

Count and Countess Baptiste Metaxa from Mivart's
Hotel on a tour.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A morning Contemporary relates a strange story about
her Majesty's ship Calliope, having encountered in the
Indian Seas a drifting vessel, having an officer and five
Lascars on board, all of whom were fast asleep, and were
only awakened by the firing of the Calliope's thirty-two
pounders !----If this sleepy crew had been reading any of
Captain Elliot's Chinese proclamations or manifestos,
their excessive somnolence is at once accounted for.

The Dublin Corporation console themselves by the re-
flection, that though the great Repeal Agitator is a tee-
totaller, the Lord Mayor is as convivial a host as they
could desire to see punishing a bottle at their festivals.
The Limerick Reporter announces the conversion to
the Catholic faith of the Rev. Mr. Sibthorp.—What will
his brother, the ultra-Tory Member for T incoln, say to
this? His very whiskers, we suspect, will bristle up,
like a cat's back, with horror.
Last week Mr. Abraham Turner, of Charlestown, near
Ashton-under-Lyne, died in his 100th year, having 11
children, 37 grandchildren, '36 great grandchildren, and
1 great great grandchild; in all 85 persons. Upwards
of 200 relations and friends accompanied him to his last
eating-place.
Parry, the unfortunate lunatic, who accompanied Lord
Byron to Greece, and who beheld the poet expire,
escaped from the Faversham Lunatic Asylum, but was
recaptured on the following Sunday.
The magistrates, gentry, and clergy of Waterford
have come forward to resist any agitation pursued by
the Chief Magistrate of Dublin. A meeting was held
by them on Monday last, at Shanahan's Great Rooms,
when a local society was formed to maintain by every
constitutional means the legislative Union between Great
Britain and Ireland.

The friends of Parliamentary Reform dined together
on Friday evening at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street, in
celebration of the forty-seventh anniversary of the ac-
quittal of Hardy, Horne Tooke, and Thelwall, from the
charge of high treason. • " They met," said thB Chair-
man, " to celebrate an occasion in which, if he might be
allowed to express it, the jaw-teeth of tyranny were
broken in its mouth." Above 130 gentlemen were pre-
sent at the dinner. Among other toasts was proposed,
" The memory of Margarot, Muir, Gerold, and Skirving,
the victims of the Scotch Courts in 1794."
Saturday was the anniversary of the death of Gustavus
Adolphus, who, in 1632, fell at the battle of Lutzen.
Also, on Saturday, in 1817, the Princess Charlotte died.
The funeral of the late Thomas Philipps, Esq., took
place on Friday at the parish church of St. Ann's, Soho.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. s.—The Cotton
market has been very dull throughout the week, and
prices of American descriptions are Id. per lb. lower,
prime quality excepted; There has been very little
doing in Brazils and Egyptians ; the former are /id. to
+d. per lb. lower, and the latter Id. per lb., in all quali-
ties but the best. Surat have declined Id. per lb. There
has been taken on speculation 700 American and 500
Surat, and for exportation 300 American and 700 Surat;
800 white and 200 stained Sea Islands are announced for
auction on Friday next.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, Nov. s.—The tran-
sactions are thus reported at the Stock Exchange:—
Eastern Counties, 7*; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 434;
Grand Junction, 190 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 251 ;
London and Birmingham, 154; Ditto, New Shares, 241;
London and Brighton, 37; London and South Western,
521; Midland Counties, New, 20i; North Union, 75i.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. s.—There is
a fair inquiry to-day, but, for want of Stock, scarcely any
business done. Closing prices :—London and South
Western, 52 to 52i ; Manchester and Leeds, 56 to 56i ;
Manchester and Birmingham;.2l to 2 I ; Midland Coun-
ties, 82 to 83 ; North Midland, 65 t 0.66.
Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 11th of September
have been received, but they do not contain any news of
interest. _ _ _

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Combols opened at 881 * for Money, and 881 + for
Account ; Spanish. Active Stock 21+I ; Passive 4+ 5 ;
Portuguese Five per Cents. 293 30 ;I.lu° Threes 183.
Very little business doing.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, NOV. 4.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock..... 97i 'Grand Canal Stock -.-
Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... --
Ditto New 1830......... 97i Ditto 4 per cent ...
per Cent. Dabs.
A slight improvement has taken place in the English
Stock Market since the opening. Consols are now 834 89;
for Money, and 89 for the Account ; Three per Cent.
Reduced 871 ; Ditto, Three-and-d-Halt' 97+ ; India
Bonds par to 2 prem.
Scarcely a bargain has been transacted in the Foreign
Market, up to the present time. The following are the
only quotations : Peruvian for the Account, 13;1 ;
Spanish Active Stock, 21+; Dutch Five per Cents., 993.
Not much business doing in the Share Market.
London and Brighton has advanced to 381. per Share.
Great Western, New, were 581 ; London and Blackwall,
941 ; North Midland, 65 ; York and North Midland,
80+ to 81.
Consols, Money, 88+ 89 ; Ditto for Account, 89+ ;
Spanish, 21 + A.
The recent convulsions in the Tallow market have
rendered it an object of much attention. The following
are the latest statistics respecting the imports from
Russia :

Of the qurntity shipped there are.:-
1841 1840
To London 52,700
Outports 28,675

Great Britain 81,375
Foreigners

101,575 ' 110,140
To be accounted for 23,425

Total casks 125,000
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 165 India Stock
3 per Cent Red. B7; Ditto Bonds 2 pr
3 per Cent Cons B9 Ditto Old Annuities ...
3; per Cent Red 976 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3/ per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,0001... lid —pm
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small. .
Jan 1860 l2; 'Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860.