The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-03 00:00:00

Money ; Bank Stock, 170 ; India Bonds, 2 prem. ; and
Exchequer Bills, 14 16.
Spanish Active Stock continues firm at 224 ; Passive,
54 ; Deferred, 114 ; Mexican Bonds are 26; Colombian,
211; Brazilian 67 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
52 •, and the Fives 102-L.
The Share Market is flat, with but little business
doing. London and Brighton arc 47 ; South-West-
ern, 52 ex. div. ; Midland Counties, 76 ex. div. ; York
and North Midland, 751.

No alteration to notice.
BANK OF ENGLAND.
The following Notice was issued at the Bank of Eng-
land to-day
" The Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng-
land are ready, until furtlitr notice, to receive applica-
tion for loans upon the deposit of approved Bills of Ex-
change not having more than six months to run, Exche-
quer Bills, and East India Bonds, such loans to be re-
paid on or before the 21st Oct. next. with interest at the
rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and to be for sums of not
less than 2,0001. each.
" Bank of England, Sept. 2, 1840."
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ... 170; India Stock ....2471
3 per Cent Red .. 90 I Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons 894 Ditto Old Annuities ...
3 i per Cent Red 99A Ditto New Annuities... S 7
New 3i per Cent 9Bi Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 16 pm
New 5 per Cent — i Ditto 5001 l7 pm
Long Annuities t o expire I Ditt Small l9 pm
Jan. 1860 .. 12 13-16 Bank Stock for 0pg....
Oct 1859 — India Stock for Acct ...
Jan.` 1860. — Consols for Acct 9OA
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent llitto, New Ditto 30:4
Brazilian 80nd5.......... 67 Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent...... ,Ditto, Metallic.. —
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 6 per cent 2la
Ditto, 1824. — IDit to Deferred ... 11A

Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 18;45, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent 77f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1525. Dutch, 2} per cent. ... 52
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent 102 b
SHARES
Great Western Railway (65 paid) BO
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 55J-
_

. .
London and Brighton (50 paid)... 46.1i
Ditto New Shares ( paid) 51 19s 2d
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pi)
Ditto Thirds (32 paid)
London and South Western
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) Mi

MESMERISM, BY DR. ELLIOTSON,
We attended yesterday, by the invitation of Dr. El-
liot son, with a select company of literary men, barristers,
and physicians, to witness a series of mesmeric experi-
ments, which took place at his residence in Conduit.
street. The manifestations of the magnetic influence
which were produced were decided and obvious, and in
the highest degree curious and interesting, although it is
by no means an easy task to describe them satisfactorily
in writing. The first subject was a young lady, about
twenty-four or twenty -five years of age, who, having been
for several years subject to epileptic fits, without expe-
riencing any relief from the constant and costly assist-
ance of the most eminent physicians, to whom her parents
were from time to time recommended, was cured by the
magnetic operations of Dupotet, and has not had a
fit since the first time (four years ago), when the pe-
culiar sleep called mesmeric was induced by the Baron's
manipulations. We have heard of several well-attested
cases in which, by the application of the same means,
she has lately afforded to others the same relief which
she herself derived from magnetism. The object of her
introduction upon this occasion was to show, by contrast
with the next subject, the very different effects of mes-
merism on different constitutions. On this oc-
casion she was sent to sleep in twenty seconds.
Her limbs were rigid, and she was in a state
of absolute and unquestionable insensibility. Yet she
followed every motion of Dr. Elliotson's hands precisely
as a needle v ill follow the magnet ; and when he caused
her to stop in her extraordinary progress after him
across the room, she stood for twenty minutes fixed and
motionless as a marble statue, in a position in which the
most vigorous and adroit posture-master in the world
could not sustain himself for a minute. The rigidity of
her muscles was extreme, as in the case of the young
man who has been the principal subject of M. Lafon-
taine's experiments at the Queen's Rooms. In this re-
spect the next subject was very differently affected ; for
in her there was not only no rigidity of the muscles, but
no power to raise the body from the reclining position,
or to hold a limb for many seconds in the position to
which the movements of the magnetizer attracted - it.
She was between fifteen and sixteen years
of age, and with a countenance so sweetly
expressive of ingeniousness and good-nature, that if
the allegations that mesmeric exhibitions are all fraud
and collusion have any truth in her case, the " human
face divine " is a most villainous and unpardonable liar.
Her story has some traits of painful interest. She is one of
a family of nine daughters, of whom (we believe, three
years ago) seven were at the same time attacked with
scarlet fever. Upon the subsidence of that specific
plague, she became subject to epileptic fits of the most
distressing character,suffering no less than fifteen a-
day ! Her father btained for her, at vast expense,
the continual aid of the most distinguished medical men,
but without any mitigation of her sufferings. He
says he cared nothing for the cost, but he was heart-
broken to witness the condition of his child ; and
although he had, little faith in mesmerism, he determined
to try it as a forlorn hope. , Tinder Dr. Elliotson's care,
with the application of that remedy alone, she has ob-
tained such complete relief, that there is reason to hope
that she will never have another fit ; and this is her
own opinion. In the experiments of yesterday, we had
some extraordinary proofs of the mysterious sympathy
between the magnetiser and the patient, which we de
spair of making intelligible by any exertion of our
powers of description. When she was in a state of ap-
parent catalepsy, and insensible to all that passed
around her, she manifested in the most unequivocal

manner, a consciousness of, and pleasure in, the Doc-
tor's being near her—inquietude and distress when he
moved away—and annoyance and disgust when any
one else approached her. Notwithstaning this, how-
ever, several experiments were tried by every gentleman
present as to the subjection of her insensible limbs
to their mesmeric attraction ; and her hands and feet,
her head and eyelids, mere moved to and fro, up and
down, as the experimenters thought proper, but with
strong and evident expressions of displeasure on her part.
We were also informed of several extraordinary cases
of mesmeric cure, upon the authority of tradesmen of
high respectability, and far removed from all suspicion
of deceit ; but we do not think that a detail of them
comes properly within the scope of this notice.

THE TIMBER TRADE.—The extremely de

pressed state of the timber trade, at the present moment,
furnishes a convincing proof of the insufficiency even o:

the highest protecting duties to preserve particular
interests in a state of prospvrity, whilst the country
generally is suffering. The decline in the price of
most descriptions of timber has been from 20 to 25 per
cent. This, we believe, is entirely owing to the ces-
sation of building throughout the kingdom, which is
always a certain and immediate consequence of public
distress. There have been seldom fewer houses build-

ing in Liverpool than at present. In the manufacturing
districts it is too difficult to find employment for the
mills which are already erected for any new ones to
be built. The present miserably low rates of freights
to all parts of the world, besides depreciating the value
of ship property already in existence, also acts most
injuriously on the timber trade and on ship building.
We have already alluded to the depressed state of
shipping ; and we may add, that although there is no
interest in the kingdom of more importance than this,
there is none which is_more heavily pressed upon by.

impolitic legislation. The duties on all descriptions of
timber greatly enhance the cost of building British
ships ; the duties on corn and provisions add greatly to
the expense of navigating them ; and the exclusion of
foreign corn, except by fits and starts, deprives the Bri-
tish shipowner of the carriage of the bulky article,
greatly needed in this country, and to be obtained in
greater or smailcr quantities in all those ports from which
there is at present the greatest difficulty in procuring
cargoes. Under these circumstances, there can be no
wonder that the timber trade is depressed, and that the
protecting duties on colonial timber, high as they are,
have altogether failed to keep it in a state of prosperity.
—Liverpool Times.
It will be rememered that the Lord-Chancellor,
on Monday night, just before the House of Peers ad-
journed, presented a Bill to relieve "a Noble Lord"
(the name was not mentioned at the time) from the dis-
abilities and penalties he had incurred in consequence of
having taken his seat and voted before taking the oaths
and going through the other prescribed and requisite
forms. It now appears that the Noble Lord then alluded
to was the Earl of Scarborough, and the Bill in question
bears this title :—" A Bill to relieve the Right Hon.
John Savile Lumley Savile, Earl of Scarborough, from
certain disabilities, in consequence of his having sat and
voted in the House of Peers without being duly
qualified by taking the oaths and making the declaration
prescribed by law, and subscribing the same respec-
tively." It was presented by the Lord Chancellor by her
Majesty's command, and read the first time. The Stand-
ing Orders, Nos. 26 and 155 (that Bills should not be
read twice in a day, &c.), are to be taken into considera-
tion on Monday next, with a view to this Bill going
through all its stages on that day ; and the Lords have
been summoned to attend on that occasion. The dis-

abilities incurred (according to the 30th Charles 11.,
stet. 2, cap. 1) are very numerous and serious ; and the
accidental omission to comply with that statute in the
present case has brought the Noble Earl into a curious
position in relation to the severe enactments of that Act?,
A BRIDAL BLUNDER.—AtWaIcot, last week,
a dashing carriage drove up to the church from Box, and
a bride, attended by her bridesmaid, was handed out by
her papa. The parson and the whole party were soon
in readiness for the important ceremony, with the ex-
ception that a chief performer in the drama was unac-
countably absent. The bride trembled as the minutes
moved away, and—" He cometh not, she said, she said :
he cometh not, she said." Her father waxed wrrth at
the bridegroom's unpardonable non-appearance, and,
taking horse, gallopped in search of his intended son-
in-law. On arriving at the sinner's house, he found him
quietly pursuing his wonted avocations, unconscious of
the presence of his dulcinea at Hymen's altar. An ex-
planation ensued. He had left the lady and her brides-
maid to fix the day—the important day :—and they had
sent him a note—a sort of warrant—announcing to him
his loss of batchelor-life on the 10th of August, 1841 :
but, unfortunately, they committed the blunder of ne-
, lecting to ascertain if the intimation was received as
well sent. The fact was, it was not received—and
hens
cethe disappointment. The bride thanked her stars
it was no worse. and the wedding took place cal the fol-
lowing day,—Tyne Mercury,