The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-11 00:00:00

COURSE 01. EXCOANOF. YES. ERDAY.

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PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, APRIL 9

3 )er Cent. Consols
per Cent. Stock
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Ditto New, 1830 ...... .. 98!,,', ' City of Dublin Steam Comp. -
314 por Cent.ebentures... 9;,d National insurance Company -
Bank Stock .... -
grand Canal Stock -
Royal Canal Stock -
lIALF-PAST ONE.
We continue in the same dull state as on the early part
of the morning. Both speculating in the British Funds
and commercial transactions are at a stand still. The
wind having changed to the south west, we are in expec-
t tt ion that on Monday next we shall have numerous arrivals
`rom all quarters. The British Queen steamer may be
looked for on Wednesday or Thursday next, from New
York. Her day for sailing was on the Ist inst.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon were a
trifling shade lower.
The fineness of the weather causes many of the mem-
bers of the Stock Exchange to return to their country re-
sidences, particularly as there is so little doing in the

House.
Consols have been the whole of the morning at 9 I*,:both
for money and account, with scarce a bargain doing.
Exchequer Bills, 25 3 5 prem. ; India Bonds, 4 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish and Portuguese Stock
have been the favourite speculation ; the former may be
quoted 29i. and the latter 251 ; Three-per-Cents. 24i ;
Mexican, 29. ; Danish, 77 ; Spanish Deferred, l4:1;
Dutch Tivo•and-a-Half, nothing done; Five per Cents.,
991.

Some stamping vagrants have this week been as-
semblaig the people in various places of thiscounty, on pretence
of exhibiting their skill in pugilism, but in reality to gather
dense crowds together, on whom their thieving associates might
levy contributions to pay the expenses of their tour. The parties
tried Hadnal, Hodnet, and Ternhill as the scenes of their
plunder, but in each place were defeated by the county police,
who, in the Queen's name, commanded every well-dressed
person to assist in keeping the peace, and thus dispersed the
crowds. The pugilists have escaped into Flintshire.— Shrews-
bury Chi onic e.
The first locomotive engine on the line of the
Eastern Counties Railway reached Brentwood on Tuesday last,
and we learn there is every fair probability of the Company
being enabled in about six weeks to open the line from thence
to Shoreditch.

Richard Wrightson, Esq., of Warmsworth, near
this town, qualified as a Magistrate for the West Riding, at the
sessions held at Pontefract this week.—Doncaster Gazelle.

SINGULAR VERDICT.--At the Devon County
Sessions, a private in the Marines took his trial on the charge
oc stealing a saw at Plymouth. The Jury after a short con-
su tation r t r. ed thea lowing verdict—We fii d the prisore:
guilty of taking the saw, but he didn't steal it.
THE CIIEFFONIER.—The Parisian Cheffonier
is one of the most disgusting creations of civilization and im-
perfect social institutions. 'I here are 4,000 of them in the
French metropolis, to which they seem peculiar.
The Bucks Chronicle is defunct.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT SEA.-Friday aftr rn)on
an irquest was held at the committee-room, St. Katharine's,
on the body of Richard Flaher, a seaman, aged 31 years, wha
was killed on board the Sir William Wallace, a schooner, during
her voyage from Scotland to London. Alexander Laing, the
mate of the vessel, stated, that on Tuesday last, about 1 o'clock
in the morning, it was blowing a heavy gale of wind at sea, and
the deceased was assisting to jibe the mainsail. While he was
endeavouring to pass the mainboom al mg, a heavy sea struck
the vessel, and broke it as it was in the act of jibbing. The
deceased was directly wader the boom, and both parts fell down,
one piece striking him on the head in its descent, and forcing
him on the deck. The man's head was crushed, and his death
was instantaneous. He considered the occurrence was purely
accidental. Verdict, " That the deceased was accidentally
killed while in the discharge of his ordinary duty."
On the decease of the late Provost of Eton
College, Dr. Goodall, her Majesty nominated the Rev. Francis
Hodgson, vicar of Bakewell, late Fellow of King's College,
Cambridg,e, and well known in the literary world as the trans-
lator of Juvenal. Eton College has, however, rejected this
nomination, and chosen the Rev. John Lonsdale' 13. D., on the
pretence that Mr. Hodgson was not qualified by the college
statues, from his riot having taken the degree of Bachelor of
Divinity
On Monday last, a young woman, named Har-
riet Powell, living in Pound's Ground, Wotton-under-Edge,
put a period to her existence, by hanging herself to a beam by
a small piece of cord.
TH. WEATHER.—By the Meteorological Re-
gister kept at Chiswick Horticultural Gardens, from 17th of
March to the 7th of April, there
.appears a very considerable
fluctitatiort Its the state of the atmoThere. The barometer,
which was highest oil March 21, was 30,443 inches, whilst
on April 7it was but 29,560 inches. The highest range of
the thermometer was 59. F. on the sth of April, and the
lowest, on the 21st of March, was 25. The quantity of rain
during the three weeks was but seventeen-hundredths of an inch.
FIDE IN RATCLIFFE.—On Friday morning
a pre broke otit art the premises of Mr. Solaman, druggist. It
commenced in the shop, and was discovered by police constable
No. '203 of K division. The inmates, consisting of five per-
sons,were awoke by him, and their escape being cut off by the
staircase, they got out of the window and descended a ladder
into the street in safety. During the confuiion a valuable gold
watch was thrown out into the street, and was not found till
daybreak, when it was discovered in the carriaze -road covered
with mud. It is a singular fact that hundreds of persons had
passed by and over it during the morning. Mr. Solaman is
insured.

THE WHALE FISHERY.—The total number
from England and Scotland will be about thirty ships. Last
year the number was 41. The decrease in this trade during
the lust ten years is very striking, and in twice that period still
more so. In 1832 Hull sent 30 ships, Peterhead 11, England
30, and Scotland 42 ; total 81. In the four years from 1818
to 1821, not less than 140 ships sailed from the United King.
dom in each year, with about 6,000 men on board. The
greatest number of ships was 142, with 6,137 men, in 1820,
when Hull sent 62 ships, and the greatest number of men
6,291, in 140 ships, in the year 1819, when Hull sent 68 ships.
The average number of ships sent from Hull during the 11 years
ending 1820 was 55 4-11, and the average number leaving the
United Kingdom each year during the same period 133 4-11.
The average number of men in each ship was about 45, those
leaving Huil beir - of a large class, carrying 48 to SO, and up-
wards. Should the ensuing season be prosperous, it may have
the effect of encouraging more owners to send their vessels in
the following year; but the Government bounties, formerly so
great an inducement, having long since been abolished, there is
no probability of this trade becoming again that which it was
long celebrated for being—the most famous nursery of British
seamen.—fort of Tyne PL'ot.
POST CONVEYANCE.—A clergyman resident
in Bath bad lately sent him, through the medium of the Post-
o'fice, a tinnel waistcoat from Ireland; the cost was Is. 10d.
Instances such as this, of which there are no doubt many, must
prove a serious injury to the coach proprietors, and vindicate
their claim to the consideration of Government.—Devizes
Gazette.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON. )
John Turner Flynn was indicted for " feloniously utter-
ing a forged order and certificate to obtain money, with
intent to defraud the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital."
The case had not closed at the hour of our going to
preSF.