The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

bunal of Hanover has at length pronounced its judgment
on the Members of the Municipality of the capital, who
were put on their trial two years ago, for an act of oppo-
sition to the new Constitution. M. Rumann, head of the
Municipality, has been sentenced to two months' impri-
sonment, or to 400 crowns' fine ; two other Members to
five weeks, or 250 crowns ; a Municipal Judge to four
weeks and a half, or 225 crowns ; the Municipal Secre-
tary and another Member to four weeks, or 200 crowns,
and the Assessor, with six Senators, to two weeks, or
100 crowns, the commutation being at the rate of 50
crowns (about 250 fr.) a-week.
The Brussels Independent states that the liabilities of
the house of Geymuller at Vienna are now known to
amount to 12 or 13 millions of florins, being upwards of
thirty millions of francs. •
The Observateur d'Avesnes mentions the suicide of a
person of that town, by cutting his throat with a razor.
He had previously been seen by his wife with a pistol,
and dreading, as they were on bad terms, that he in-
tended to shoot her, she sought her safety in flight.
He left a letter in which he announced that he had
really intended to murder his wife and .his son, and it
appears that this was fully his intention, for a few clays
before his suicide, a little-brass cannon was found on the
bed of his child placed so as to kill it, and which had
been fired, but without effect. It appears that the mind
of the unfortunate man had been much affected by the
calumnies of a servant whom he had turned out of doors.
" At Aspelaer, near Alost," says the Constitutionntl,
" there is now living a family of four persons whose
united ages amount to 357 years. Three brothers in it
are of 93, 90, and 86 years respectively, and a sister is
88. The youngest brother is postman of the district,
and often walks five or six leagues. The father of this
race of Methusalems (lied at 99."

A letter from Florence, 22d ult., says :—" Prepara-
tions are making here for the third meeting of Italian
savans. This scientific congress is likely to be still
more numerous and brilliant than those of Pisa and
Turin, the Governments of Rome and Naples having re-
moved the prohibition to the visit of the professors of
those states. Several learned foreigners are expected,
and we also hope to see those distinguished men Orioli
and Libri, one of whom is in Greece and the other in
Paris. The congress will open on the 15th of Septem-
ber, with a grand mass at the church of Santa-Croce,
after which, the members of the congress will meet in
the great hall of the Palazzo Vecchio. The opening
speech will be made by the Marquis de Ridolfi, the Pre-
sident, and immediately afterwards, the Presidents and
Secretaries of the different sections will be chosen. The
Grand Ducal government is doing everything in its
power to promote the object of the congress. The
library, museum, &c. of the Ricardi Palace (formerly
the Medicis) and all the public establishments, will be
opened to the members. Several fetes will be given
during the congress."
The evening before last, as the servant of a money-
changer, named Guiteau, on the Quai Pelletier, was
putting up the shutters, an enormous stone was hurled
against the window, and completely stove it in, while a
hand was put through the window and seized a bowl of
gold. Mme. Guiteau, who was in the shop alone, hurried
to the door and called out " Thieves but all around
the entr,ance were too much engaged in picking up some
pieces of money which had been scattered about, to at-
tend to her cries. The rogues had collected a tolerably
good booty, when two sergens-ele-ville came up and
stopped further depredation. Fortunately the driver of
a fiacre on a stand near the spot marked two men as the
chiefs of the attempt, pursued them, and succeeded in
securing one who held in his hand a cap, into which he
had emptied the bowl from the window, with 2,000 francs.
This fellow, who gave his name as Felix Bandier, is not
more than nineteen years of age. His confederate, Beau-
vais, who as well as himself was employed as shopman at
a wine-dealer's, has since been taken, and proves to be
about the same age. They are both committed for trial.
The changer's total loss will not exceed 300 fr.
The fete of St. Cloud commences next Sunday, and will
last three weeks. On each Sunday the Grandes Eaux
will play, and the Royal Manufactory of Porcelaine at
Sevres will be opened to the public.
We understand that the " light-fingered gentry" made
a plentiful harvest at Versailles and SL Germain on Sun-
day lasi. It is generally asserted the depredations have
been princirally by a party of the English swell mob,
now on a protlssional trip to Paris. The police, how-
ever, are on the itiei4. but they candidly acknowledge
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British supremacy in th:s branch, the French pickpocket
being a mere barbarian in ,'dill as compared with the ac-
complished artistes from tke otho side of La Manche.
Two aged persons at Granges, In the Haute Saone,
have met with a melancholy Lath. One of them, a fe-
male, who was 78, had been drinking brandy f!eely, and,
having approached the hearth, set fire to her clothe. 7,. and
rushed screaming into another room, where her husban,7l;
who was paralytic, was sitting in an arm-chair, wrapped
up in a counterpane. The old man was not only unable
to render any assistance to his wife, but also to prevent
the fire communicating to his own clothes. Before as-
sistance arrived the wife was quite dead, and the old
man died almost immediately afterwards.
The exhibition of the works of students of the Ecole
des Beaux Arts (landscapes) will take place in that in-
stitution on this and the two following days from ten to
four.

During the last month the Paris Savings' Bank re-
ceived 3,400,340 A. C.,m.--z4;zat nepositors,-onvi. Q. 194
were new, and paid 2,346,000 fr. out.
The wheat harvest is now all got in round Paris. The
crops of various kinds still on the ground are stated to
be in unusually good condition.
The official table of the prices of-wheat in the French
markets, made up to the end of last month, show the
,„gmec to nave been 21tr. 47c. per hectolitre in those of
Mulhausen and Strasburg, and the lowest 17fr. 14c. in
those of St. Lo, Paimpol, Quimper, Hennebon, and
Nantes.

The autumn meeting of the Paris races in the Champ
de Mars will commence on Sunday, the 19th instant,
when the two special prizes will be run for. On Thurs-
day, the 23d, the principal prize for horses four years old
and upwards, and the royal prize, will be contended for;
and on Sunday, the 26th, the principal prize for three
year olds and the grand royal prize. According to a
new regulation by the Minister of the Interior, the run-
ning for the principal prize for four year olds and up-
wards will be confined to one course of four kilometres,
instead of three heats of the same distance.
BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 1.
I hat Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price, Price
sena 5 per Cents ll6 50 Ild 50 1.6 40 ... 116 40
4 per Cents 99 70 ." 99 70 ... 99 70 ... 99 70
3 per Cents. ex. div 77 35 77 3.5 ... 77 20 77 20
*Sank of France
x. 32 5
Latfitte Bank I,ooof. Shares 1025 ...1e25 ...1020
5,0001. Shares 5095 '95 „,5095
_5093
ifelgian Bank
5 per Cents.
3 per Cents ....... 71 25 71 25 71 25 ... 71 25
New Loan lO4 If 4 .. 104 104
ipanish Active 2l 21% ... 21114 21%
Passive ... 5 ... 5
7eapolitan lO4 60 ... 104 60 ... /54 5) fn4 L 0
Roman lO3 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103
RAILWAY SHARES.

Versailles. L.B 213 75 ... 213 75 ... 212 LO ... 212 50
R. B 335 ....°»35 ... 3.35 ... 335
Montpellier to Cette l.o ... 220 ... 210 ...
Strasuure to Bale, shares red. 240 ... 240 ... 238 75 .. 238 7

ITELOIAN_P U NDS—Batmenr, SEPT. 1.

Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.

Hothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ......... llll
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 93
3 per Cent. —
.Thirty.seyen--_, 7l X
(184,0) lOl
Loan of City, 1C32, 4 per Cent. ........
_ _ . .

Society ef CoMmerce,-4 %per Cent 93N
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ........
National Seciety . ••••••••••••••• ....
Exchange on London &holt)
_Brussels Papers, Sept. 1.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visrina, Aua. 21.
live per Cents. Metalliques
boar per Cent 5....... ....... . ...... ...........
Three Nr Cents.
Bank shares ... 1590
—4llgeninne Zeitung, Aug. 29
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Auo. 31.

Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. •611 ••••••• 000000 II•••• 0000000 ••••• ... 107
Bank Shares l6lO
Anglo-Russian Loan lOl4 108%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series lO2 10156
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 9814 98
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% 66
.
Dutch tctual Debt, 2% pe. Cent LO34 50%
Ditto 5 per Cent.... — -
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cer. 75% 75%
Netwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per C. 01.... ., 11,2% 10214
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, Atm. 31.-13 654.—Tw0 months, 13 434
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bzumus, Auo. 'A
Mils. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 46 per cent. 10434 104
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102 101)2
Exchange on London, three months 6 18.%
—Prussian Stale Gazette, Aug. 21)

DEADLY EFFCTS OF PASSION.-A very
shocking occurrence took place in Lisburn, on Tuesday
evening last. A man named Wm. Boomer, a blacksmith,
and his son, a fine young lad, about 17 years of age, had
some angry words in the forge, where both worked, when,
in a moment of irritation, the former seized a small bar
of nail-rod iron and struck the boy so severely on the
lower part of the chest that the instrument, passed
obliquely in the direction of the lungs, and caused
death in a few minutes. Doctor Wethered and seve-
ral other medical gentlemen were immediately on
the spot, but at once pronounced the case as hope-
less. The unfortunate man was generally very in-
offensive, and, till within the last few years, was
one of the most industrious individuals in the neighbour-
hood; latterly, however, he had been sadly addicted to in-
temperance, that fruitful source of Ireland's misery ; and
this tragic occurrence is only one of the many which arise,
either directly or otherwise, from that demoralising indul-
gence. An investigation into the above affair took place on
Wednesday, before Thomas J. Smyth and R. Crawford,
Esqrs., local magistrates, the result of which was the
wretched man's being sent to Carrickfergus gaol, to abide
his trial at the pring Assizes.—Edinburgh Courier

TA UNTON.--k I RE.—On Thursday morning
a fire, involving the destruction of property amounting
to at least 2,0001., broke out on the premises of Mr. Bur-
nell, organ builder, South-street. The cause of the
calamity is not known, but there is reason for suspicion
as respects some base incendiary. It appears that at
three o'clock, A.M. somebody was seen with a lighted
candle in the field in which is situated Mr. Burnell's
workshop, and about an hour and a half afterwards the
inhabitants of the neighbourhood were aroused by
the cry of fire. Great exertion was used to subdue the
flames, but we regret to state that four organs, a bassoon,
harp, and several other musical instruments, together
with a lathe which cost 95/., and some valuable tools,
were entirely destroyed. The fact of none of the pro-
perty being insured cannot but excite sympathy for the
sufferer ; and it is hoped that_every means will be used
for obtaining satisfaction on what now remains a mystery.
A western gentleman has recently invented a
new sort of matches, which take fire at a wink ; they
are called ophthalmic magnetic matches.

A western editor, in speaking of vegetable won-
ders, says he heard the other day of a young lady whose
lips were so sweet that she dare not go into the garden
for fear of bees.