The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-18 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

We have few ttcrrivals this morning'. with the exception
of t wo packet_ hips from New York of the 20th and 250,
ult.. (.1d dates. By the Cape of Good Hope papers we
are sorry ,o see that the small-pox extends there to an
al..rming degree. and the Government are using every
exertion to arrest its progress. The papers do not bring
got news from the frontier.
Consuls at present 921 for the 27th of August next;
nine), 91i, Exchequer Bills 29 31 prem. ; India
B ,n(ls, 2 4 prem.: alnk Stuck, 1734 1744 ; India Stock,
253 254 ; Spanish Active, .28;81 :i ; Deferred, 131 ; Pas-
swe, q 74 ; Portuguese, 361; Three per Cents., 234
24 ; Colombian. 274 281 ; Mexican, ..104 311 ; Brazilian,
80 81 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per rents., 53/ 4; Five
per Cents., 102/- 103/.
P!..IIOES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE t?'
Bank Stock CLOCK.
India Stock ... ...... ... .954
3 per Cent. Red 9244 Ditto Bonds ...... .. 4 3 pm.
3 per Cents. Con. ...911 2 14 South Sea Stock
34 per Cent. ... — Old Annuities ...
Ditto Red ... ......... ... 1004 New Ditto —
New 34 per Cent. ...... 9944 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto ...... 5001. 31 28 pm.
Jan. 5, 1860... 13 15-164 Ditto Small
Oct. 10, 1859.
Jan. 5, 1860. ... 13 9-16 Ditto Advertised ... pm.
Jan. 5, 1880.
April 5, 1880. ...
Jan. 5, 1870.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds
Belgian Bonds Ditto Account
Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds .--
Brazilian Bonds ... ...... 804 Ditto New Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account — Ditto Account ...... ... 24
Chilian Bonds ... Prussian Bonds ..... ...
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds
Ditto Account.
Columbian Bonds, 1824 Spanish Bonds ..... „. 282
Ditto Account 2B Ditto Account
Danish Bonds ...... ... .. 794 Passive
Ditto Account — Deferred 134
Greek Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 1825
Ditto Account — 3 per cent... —f. —c
Ilexicanßonds,s per cent Exchange... —f. —e.
Ditto Account ...... .. Dutch, 24 per cent ... 53P
Ditto,6 per Cent.— Ditto Account
Ditto Account ...... ... Ditto, 5 per cent... 1034 24
Neapolitan — Ditto Account
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
.E. a. d. X. s. d: £. s. d.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Great Western .. 65
Ditto New
London and Brighton
London and Blackwall
London and South Western 384 59
Londen and Croydon (Trunk)... 134 l2 ..... to
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
British North American
London and Westminster ...... .. 20
COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam CF. 12 5 Gibraltar 4B
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 2U. 12 54 Genoa
Antwerp ....... ....... 12 5 Milan 31
Hamburg... ...... M. B l3 114
Altona
var.'s, 3 days' sight
Ditto, 3 months 25 65
Marseilles
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine 1504
Petersburg, 3 Us 374
Berlin
Vienna, effec.ll. 331 lO 5
Trieste, ditto ' lO 6
Madrid
Cadiz 364
Bilboa

Our

NEW DUTlES.—According to Papers published by
the order of the House of Commons, the general duty
on Coffee is to be reduced from ls. 31. to 10,}d., and
that on coffee grown in any British Possession from 6d.
to 5d., while the duty on coffee merely imported from
British ports within the limits of the East India Com-
pany's Charter remains at 9d. We apprehend that the
intention and effect of this alteration will be to cause the
coffee of Brazils and other foreign countries to be im-
ported directly into this country without being sent first
to the Cape of Good Hope, and at the same time to
ensure to coffee grown in British possessions its present
protecting duties. •
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—On inquiry at Apsley
House this afternoon, we were glad to learn that his
Grace had passed a good night, and that his health con-
tinues to improve.
THE DUKE CF WELLINGTON.—On Thursday even-
ing we stated that it was a subject of general remark
that the Duke of Wellington was abseet when the
Lord Chancellor introduced the Regency Bill. We
had no doubt at the time that his Grace had been pre-
vented from attending the House of Lords by an attack
of illness, similar to those which have already occa-
sioned so much anxiety in the public mind, but we re-
frained from giving any p irticulars of his illness till we
could hold out some hope that no serious danger was
apprehended. We now rejoice to state that the attack
was much slighter than on former occasions, and that
it yielded almost immediatly to medical skill. It is
said that the renewed illness was brought on by
over-exertion. Are attach -no credit to the state-
ment. The Duke of Wedington is, perhaw,
the most systematic man in existence the
most abstemious, and the most correct in all his per
sonal and domestic arrangements, and this attack, like
all the others, was the result only of a long life of the
most arduous and strenuous exertion in the cause of his
country. All our readers will be delighted to know
that the " man of the age" is out of danger, and will
indulge the hope that he may yet live for years, as the
honour and the ornament of the country which he has
rendered so illustrious by his deeds On inquiring at
Apsley House last evening, we were glad to learn that
the Duke was much better, and that he would, in all
probability, be able to attend to his duty in the House
of Lords on Monday.
IMPORT DUTIES.—We have heard that the Com-
mittee appointed on the motion of Mr. Hume to inquire
into the effect of our import duties, has acquired some
information which is likely to astonish the public, and
essentially promote the cause of free trade. The loss of
wealth they occasion, inflicting want,poverty and distress,
is said to be beyond calculation. They disturb the
whole course of trade, and drive capital into compara-
tively unproductive employment. One or two facts
seem to us quite curiosities. While such an outcry
is- made against slave-grown sugar, most of the
coffee imported into England is the produce of
slave labour, and it generally makes two voya.es—FlßES IN NEW YORK.—(From an American
one from the Brazils or Cuba, or wherever else it may Paper.FIRES
192
fi)—Betweenres occurredt h e 2u3, d
New of M.ve,til,B3h9e,i ande
an the
averagesame datee f
l
be grown, to the Cape of Good Hope, and another for every 43 houses. t 4 this number 96 were caused, in the
from the Cape of Good Hope into England. We opinion of the Commissioners; by incendiaries, 90 were the re-
might as well have it by paying one freight for three or suit of carelessness or accident, and 7of causes not ascertained.
The value of property destroyed is $3,225,409. The amount
four thousand miles as by paying two such freights, but
of insurance was $2,983,310, or more than seven-eights of loss.
that would disturb our nicely adapted system of protect-
SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—We have received
ing duties, which, first inflicting a disadvantage on one
thefollownig from a correspondent:—" A lad taking shelter
from a shower class, proceeds next to inflict a disadvantage on some a few days since, by creeping under a slight ex-
other class, as a counterbalance, till the protecting cavation in a sand-bank by the side of the lane leading to Upper
duties become a great system of restraints, disadvan- Swainswick, discovered therein embedded a human skull.
rages, and injuries, affecting all classes. Again, all
He states that having broken off a portion, he left it still em-
our colonies, including the sugar colonies, consume i: bedded,
cir seournestaalnaerem
hreevtriseiatteedd.
tht.
On
t. the writ's
reiteerli's
slave-grown sugar. Bribed by the discrimina- oreartilaieg opfrincipa
principal portionm of it, had beeensporemoved ; the
ting duties, they send all their own produce to only remains the writer was able to obtain were the
England. Slave-grown sugar is also imported, is greater part of the os eccipitis of a human subject, small
refined in bond here, and then sent to our portion of ribs, one of the metacarpal bones, and a portion
West Indian and other colonies, where it is of one of the thigh bones. The slim of the latter was not more
than 18 inochebsindeisctiantfrtohme tislatutaotftonthienhweabo
dt.h
the
eibs
bones
sawtuerrael
cheaper after it has made two voyages across the
Atlantic, than sugar grown in those islands. Such are position,
discovered,
swith a fear that they belonged to some one who
il!ustrations of' our system of protecting and discri. met a violent death At all events they have been long depo-
minating duties. The men who by their laws bring sited, as is indicated by their state of extreme cc 5.7.7-• No rem-
about such results, boast of their puny wisdom, and nat is of clothing have been discovered."—Bath ehron.cle•
mock at free trade, which is the wisdom of God. SHREWSBURY.—We have great pain in record-
EXPENSE OF THE YEOMANRY.—By a return just ing the awfully sudden death of Margaret, the second daughter
laid before Parliament. the whole expense of the Yeo- of the Rev. D. Winstone, chaplain of the county prison. The
menry in Great Britain, in 1839, was 90,7861. The facts are as follow :—On Monday last W. Winstone's three
number of officers and men embodied was 14,119,, daughters (of whom the deceased, aged about eight years, was
Athleidsdevcona)hwent to spend the day at the house of the Rev. B.
making the cost of each, on an average, 61. Bs, NowAbbheyisFhooregate. His garden terrrinates with a
what the said Yeomanry does, or has at any time done, paddock, inlnt whiche
athveeryarqdueinetanimal, was grazing.
for the public, we arc at a loss to conceive, which should The three children went horde,
between four and five
entitle each man to the annual sum of 61.85, and the o'clock, and thence extended their-g infantile play into the ad-
whole body to the sum of 90,7861. They are some joining paddock. When tea was ready, one of Mr. 111,ddy's
times called out to put down the riots which are caused joining
went into the garden to summon the children to it.
She h.ard a cry of distress, hastened to the paddock. and found
by the Corn-tax and other taxes, which is the only use two of them kneeling on the ground under a cherry tree, by the
they arc of. Whey protect their
the landlords'houses from the I own boniest, ads and
consequences of their lifeless b dy. of their sister. One of them was supporting her
head, and in the wildness of grief calling her by name, " Afar-
own injustice, 'and for this they have the art Ito make garet ! Margaret !" The call was in vain—life was extinct.
the public pay. The 90,786/. is, in fact, another sum About three y. rds from the body was a puddle of blood, arid it
GREI.NWICH RA ILWAY.—We understand t‘.-,0
would appear that the deceased had either gone from that place,
of money which the ill-treated lauded interest receives er been carried there by her sisters. Ihe body was immediately this Company, having lowered the fares of their secand class `, .
from the general public for helping itself. It is a sum removed to the house of Sir. Middy, and that gentleman in- 6d., it has already increased. their receipts nearly ten pob.:_a_s:
additional to the enormous Corn-tax which the landed scantly proceeded in quest of medical assistance. Mr. Foulkes, a day The receipts of this Company for the last halt ai.:e
gentry abstr set from the people. What an hottest ' surgeon, accompanied him back, and examined the body. He including Cro)don toll, have been 30,326/. 14s. W., and tit
race:. If we must pey 1 military force to protect us nfooutnidgeohnt
had
de forehdea.d the mark of a severethbeloawc,c,l-hnitehivh,enhbad number. of
.I;asAengers 7.816,999. With these facts before
..eachnsded..pin,.stiatn,tvioli-o-alt;ha. illusrea-
against the consequences of bad laws, it would be better the survivinz ii From
that the decegased hair' licelqua'llletl7avti wasent etx6ptec‘tvii.ll'olriot(.l mlanndaegl'Zieleniti thoif-otheer li„e,, i
to have an additional number to the regular army, and carried a whip in her hand into the paddock: that she had either contains within itself the elements of: succeFs. and. uii!ess we
for the sum paid to the Yeomanry 5.000 troops might be struck the horse. or frightened him with it, and that the animal are much mistakes, will prove-a good and profitable concern.---
Railway Magazine. eve
raised and maintained. The Yeomanry, therefore, is i had kicked her, the kick causing death. Salopian Journal.
neither economical nor useful, Imaever ornamental it ANTIQuA eIAN DISCOVERY.—A silver seal in RIOT IN JAMAICA.—The account we 5 the
may be in the park of the Tory Lor:1-Lituten A 1,1,0,1 fine Preservation has recently been found on the grounds of yesterday of the disturbance at Falmouth, taken from
; Ny-de Brown. F.,,q., at Nloylton Farleie,l,, Wiltshire, near the American papers, was greatly i xaegerati d, and in mta3h;
fine summer's tie}. Si( ic' the Prior of St. Mary Magdalene. This relique is a spects ineo:reet. The part iteacriteng an engagemen
COUNTY VOTERS.--We cannot too strongly im press ' pendant, having a female front face, deeply cut, and of battalion of Irish troops, in which nearly on . hundred_
upon the minds of qualified Refoemers the necessity of 1 exquisite workmanship (probably Italian); the legend encir- blacks were killed or wounded, and stating that a num bir
their making immediate claim to have their names in_ cling the head, ,‘ Capvt Marie Magdalene," connects it with of Baptists had been ordered to quit the island, seerns.nto.,_:
serted in the list of voters, which must be delivered or the ancient Priory, which, on Dugdale's aliiithorityci was founded altogether a fabrication. Judging from the account
some
mws_
transmitted to the overseer of the parish where the qua- the de
monastic°hu n'
esabouttabl
establishments
hem yearents that2s fell a was
sacrifice
among
t o
sure Jamaica
culpable,
thiet appearsßaptist
t t h a!
minister
partieshmard 01.aarne
A7nidetit desire
;the zfr,ast
qfication is situate, together with one shilling, on or create a diturbanepet"(tomsianyunothing of harbouring the 11%;
of
fthrtenry the Eighth's Ecclesiastical Commissioners. to
before Monday, the 20th instant, or the claim cannot The Prior, who resigned 26 Henry VIII., A.D. 1535, preps- ' gitives), and the authorities for remissness in set taking ban
be recorded as valid. To those who have already : ritory to the dissolution of the house. was named Lodowick. It which it seems they were really bound to do. For sendin
claimed, it ;sill not bc.; r.,3,3,Aary for them CO re-clunn, is 4.:,,,c1 hi the Mona:4;ml. that ~ no seal of tele Priory 11,:,i ;:is serv•ant to stop the 13hAs, when it i,.d Leen or.e.liae,
,0„,, „....., coal, bt. a ,-• ~
unless they have changed their place V abode or quail- 9e" ''''int - ••of ''
.t. '-
- '''''
infer that the rare specimen ancient art thusbrought,to light, having once assumed to be their advocate; but the v2' ''
.fleation, prior to the 20th of July. And we would par- i was the seal of the last head of the priory of Monkton Farleigh. 1 tendency of his language, which appears in the detailed, pro'
titularly urge as a duty that every county voter in the 1 —.Provincial Paper. i eeedings, will not so easily admit of justification.

Barcelona ... 36i
Seville

Venice 47
Naples 4OA
Palermo, per oz 122*
Lisbon s4*
Oporto
Rio Janeiro 2B
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 dayesiglit 46*
46
PRICE OF KILLION, PER OZ.
Portugal Gold, eoLn £0 0 0
Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9
New Doubloons 0 0 0

PRICES OF IRISH STO,
3 per Cent. Consols • 914
Three and Half Stock 99i
Ditto Reduced ......

New Dollars 0 4 10i
Silver in Bars 0 5 og

Ditto New, 1830 lOO
31 per Cent. Dells.

;KS, DUBLIN, JULY 16.
Bank 5t0ck........ ......
Grand Canal Stock
Ditto Debs. 6 per cent...
....

Ditto 4 per cent
Royal Canal Stock
HALF-PAST ONE.

Consols may be quoted et present 921 fur the 27th
August Account; Money, 914, have been °2; Exche-
quer Bills lower, 35., 31 28 prem ; India Bonds lower,
4 3 prem. ; Bank Stock nothing doing ; India Stock,
254; Spanish Active, 28-al ; Deferred, 131; Pertuguese
lower, 35i ; Three per Cents., 24 ; Colo.nbian, 28 ;
Brazilian, 801 ; Danish, 794: Dutch Two-and-a-Half,
; Five per Cents., 103 k 1021.
Little doing in the Share Market, and prices lower
than yesterday.

SLAVE TRADE.
Lord PALMERSTON, in moving for leave to briny
a Bill to contiaue Act 1 and 2 Vic., c. 102, for cal;
ing into execution. by Orders in Council, Slave "flatb,
Treaties, said that negotiations for the suppression
DJ
Slave-trade Isere going on with Austria, Russia,
Prussia.
After a few words from Captain PECHELL, the 11.1°-
tion was agreed to.

FISHERIES.
...r.ord PAL NI ERS TON crowed for leave to bring in a
Bo to t.,l,Titinue Aet 2 and 3 Vie. c 96, for carrying into
execution A C9nvention b,-tween ber Majesty and tt e
Ktha
of the French, rei.,:the to the Fisheries ”ii ibe Coasts
British I,knds anj Frat,ee, %%bleb—
After a few word; ti,oni Captain PECHELL evo
i‘gr, ed !O.

VACCINATION BILL.
The Lords' amendments to the YReeination Bill were
asThe s,,%eral Mild were then brought
t' t(1 .
And read a 01

time. in
The Linen Manufacturers (Ireland) Bill wAS brought
and read a first time

The House :ejourned at Tvvt. o'Cleek

CHANCERY (IIiBLAND.)
Mr. PIGOT brought in a Bill for making further
provisions relating to certain Offices in the Court
Chancery in Ireland.
POSTAGE DUTIES. ie
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUEgt t„
moving for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the Fogel,' r
duties, said that, at present, in consequence of the Act
last year, the regulation of the Postage duties depeet
entirely upon a Treasury warrant. This, although attuito
time necessary, in consequence of the great change A;
in progress, was excessively inconvenient, as it Wag "":
sirable that taxation should depend upon Act of Parliatne,e''
instead of upon a Treasury warrant. It was therefore 1,11:
tended by this Bill to make the regulations respecting tu:
weight and postage of letters low by Act of Parlianfeet",
instead of leaving it dependent upon a Treasury warren,
The only cases in which power would be reserved to $ll.,
Treasury would be in cases of foreign and colonial Peesit
ages. This was necessary, because negotiations were
present going on with Foreign Powef.it, which be hoes
would have the effect of reducing the rates of fora
postages.—Leave was given to bring in the Bill.
ELECTIONS. Bill
Mr. TUFNELL obtained leave to bring in A ; tto
explain Act 7 and S. Wm. 3, c. 25, so far as Ovisteh-ers
the notice of four days of the day of election for Mein—
to serve in Parliament.