The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-03 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

By the returns published of the Bank averages it appears
that the circulation has increased 50,00‘)/., the deposits have
increased 43,0001., the securities have decreased 246,000/., the
stock of bullion has increased 299,000.
The British funds have become heavy, and Consuls have re-
ceded from the opening prices of 90A * to 90 for the Account,
Aioney, 891, owing to the expected dissolution of Parliament.
Exchequer Bills, 12 14 prem ' • Bank Stock, 166 163; India
Stock, 253 255 ; India Bonds, 2 4 prem.
In the Foreign Market the prices are much the same as
they left off on Saturday. Spanish Active, a shade lower,
23* ; Deferred, 14 ; Passive, 5i ; Portuguese, 34* ;
Three per Cents., 20* % • Colombian, 22% 23; Mexican,
29 ; Dutch Two-and-a:Half per Cents., 52i A; Five per
Cents., 99; 4 .
SII A RES.—Great Western, aoi 31i prem. ; New, 151 /
prem. ; London and Brighton, 1 j dis. ; Blackwall, 5h 5
d.s. ; Birmingham, 72 74 prem. ; Southampton, 53% 59
per share ; Croydon, 14* 3/4 per share ; Greenwich, 8* per
share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 14 dis.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.

Gre,t Western
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham ... 90
Manchester and Leeds ... 70

HALT-PAST ONE.

Both the British and Foreign markets are exceedingly heavy,
although there has been but little business doing to the present
time. A report prevails that the Secretary of the Treasury
has resigned, and that others of the Administration intend to
follow. Everything has a sombre appearance in the City, both
in respect to commercial affairs as well as the fund,. Money
is getting rather tight, and it is expected that a dissolution will
take place earlier than expected.
Consol4 have receded to 891 for the Account; Money,
894 ; Exchequer Bills, 12 11 13 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1661
167 ; India Stock, 252/ ; India Bonds, 2 4 prem.
The Foreign Market is also in a dull state, with scarce any-
thing doing ; Spanish Active, no quotation ; Deferred, 12/ ;
Portuguese, 34; Mexican; 29; Colombian, 22/ 8 ; Brazilian,
69 ; Dutch Five per Cents., 99/.
The Share Market is stagnant. London and Brighton, 48 ;
Great Western, 95 ; London and Birmingham, 162.
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols, Account, 891 90 ; Mexican, 29/ ; Portuguese,
331 34/ ; Spanish, 23/ I. Market flat.

THE CITY COMPTROLLER.—The high and
extremely profitable situation of City Comptroller, having be-
come vacant by the severe and hopeless illness of Mr. Heokey,
who has filled the office for several years, there is a good deal
of excitement amongst the members of the Corporation cs to
the probable successor. The office not yet being declared va-
cant there has not been a starting of candidates, but the fol-
lowing gentlemen are spoken of as ready to start. Mr. Thomas
Saunders, the unsuccessful opponent of Mr. harles Pearson
for the City Solicitorship; Mr. James. the Secondary; Mr.
Timothy Tyrrell, the Solicitor to theCommistioners of Sewers;
and Mr. Brand, the Comptroller of the Bridge-house Estates.
It is believed, too, that there are a couple of the members of
the Corporation who have an eye to the place, and that an at-
tempt will be made to suspend an essential Standing Order of
the Court which at present negatives their eligibility. It is
certain that many of the enormous emoluments which pressed
very hard upon the health of poor Mr. Hookey will be cut away
from his successor, and that the 4,0001. a-year hitherto arising
from it will drop into the less unwieldy bulk of 1,6001., beyond
which it ought never to have been raised upon any pretext
whatever.

Mr. Robert Gordon, M.P., for Windsor, has
resigned his •flice of Financial Secretary of her Majesty's
Treasury. _ _

The General Steam Navigation Company's ves-
sel the Giraffe, R. Stranack, from Rotterdam, arrived off the
Custom .house at seven o'clock a.m. yesterday, with the Dutch
mail, after a favourable passage of 23 hours ; also the Neptune,
H. Whittingham, from Hamburgh, arrived at two a.m. this
day, 'with the Hamburgh mail, after a favourable passage of
44 hours.

VOLTAIRE attended our rehearsals, as well as
our performances at Fcrney. I can fancy I see him now,
in his every-day dress, consisting of grey stockings and
grey shoes, a large waistcoat of baths descending nearly
to his knees, a large wig squeezed into a little black velvet
cup, turned upin front; the whole completed by a obe.de-
charnbre, likewise ( f baths, the c irners of whichNhe would
sometimes tuck into the waistband of his small-clothes.
Arrayed in this costume, any - other person would have
looked like a caricature ; but the appearance of Voltaire,
so far from suggesting any idea of the ridiculous, was eal.
culated to command respect and interest. On ordinary
occasions, when he happened to enter into conversation
with any of the members of our theatrical troop, his man-
ner was marked by good-humoured familiarity. But when
he superintended our rehearsals there was a truce with
pleasantry ; then he was all in all the dramatic poet ; and
one, too, whose correct judgment, and refined taste, were
not to be easily satisfied.--Theodore Hook's French
Stage.

INFANCY.—An infant requires a secretion
afforded by another's system, and requires this to be brought,
to it; it requires others to keep it warm, to protect it from
injury, to keep it c'ean, and to tend it in every way : and
I suspect, for reasons which I shall hereafter give, that a
living influence was communicated to it in uthes, by the
maternal fluids which entered into its system, and by the
surrounding body of its mother is whom it lay, and that,
after birth, a living influence is communicated of the
highest importance in the milk poured into its system di-
rectly from its mother's breast without the intervention of
a moment for this to lose its vital properties, and by the
contact of the mother when it is lying in her bosom. Not
only do childrea generally die which are fed wills milk that
has stood in vessels atter having been taker* from the
breast of a brute, and with vegetable mater, whatever
care be taken of them; but chickens which are hatched
and afterwards kept warm artificially, though their food is
the same, and the utmost care he bestowed upon them, ac-
quire size and vigour more slowly than those which have
the benefit of the hen's nursing, and therefore the contact
of her body. There s;as an old idea that animal heat was
different from common heat. The moderns argue that
caloric is always calo'ic, and that therefore the wisdom of
our ancestors in this matter was fully. But though ca.
loric is always caloric, it does not follow that with it some
other principle may not co-exist in animals and be commu-
nicated. I know a clergyman in Essex who has severe
pains iu his legs relieved by no other friction than with the
hand of another, nor by any other warmth than that comintl-
nic. ted to his lower extremities when sitting between two
persons, as is a coach, in wb ch he was struck with the
discovery. The aged David had good reason on his side,
when he bad a young virgin to tie in his bosom. The
communicator of course looses in propo'rti in, and therefore
Dr. Copland declares ha has frequently known children
become weak and pe:e from sleeping with the aged. The
greatest foe of the church, therefore, cannot doubt the pro-
priety of its order that a man shall not marry his grand.
mother. While a woman can sear children, she is in the
prime of life, and therefore not in a state to derive vigour
from her infant, bet to impart vigour to it. If old women
bred, their nursing as mothers would probably be delete-
rione —Elliotson's Human Physiology.
AN ENGLISH GOVERNESS IN PARIS.—We
find the following narrative in the Constitutionnel:—
" M. X—, a gentleman of independent fortune, father
of a family, a widower, and still young, resident in the
Marais, had taken into his house, as governess, a young
lady, from London, to direct the education of his children,
and especially to teach them English. Mme. A— pos-
sessed all the agreeable qualities of a prety English-
woman ; she had an air of sentimental coquetry, long fair
hair,•beautiful blue eyes, a slender waist, and she was
two-and-twenty. Two days ago, at breakfast time,
M. X—, at first surprised, end then uneasy, at not
seeing Mite. A—, went to her room door, which he
found locked. He went down stairs, and asked the
concierge if he had seen her go out. The answer was in
the negative. The anxiety of M. X— was redoubled; he
thought she most be ill, so he sent fur a locksmith and had
her door opened. M. X. went in himself first, thinking
that, it she were not dead, she was, at least, in one of
those delicate and romantic nervous crises to which taste;
in Groat Britain are subject ; but, not finding her any-
where in the room, he stood as it were thunderstruck. On
a sudden af, tal thought came ever him. " I have been
robbed 1" he exclaimed; and, rushing to his secretaiie,
found that two notes, of I,ooof. each, and a quantity of
jewels, worth 20,000/. had disappeared. It has since
been ascertained that Madame A. had left the day before,
but in what direction she went is not yet known. Mean-
time M. X. who is inconsolable for the loss of his jewels,
bas been to relate the whole affair to the commis:ary of
police of his quarter.
WEEPING.—Yourg wo nen are full of tears;
they all weep as bitn riy for the lots of a new dress as for
e loss of a old 1 wer. They veal', weep far an) thiriff, or
for netting. They will scold you to d ath fur act i
'ally tearing a yew gown, and weep for spite that they
c .nnct be revenged on you. They will play the coquette
i i your presence, and weep when you are absent. They
wilt weep whet they cannot go to a bell or to a tea-paiti
or heeaase th. it patents still not permit them to run away
w•th a scamp ; they will weep because they cannot have
e•eryti ing their own way. Married women weep t) con-
tra:Ai; tears are the most potent arms of matrimonial war-
fare. If a gruff husband has abused his wife, she weeps,
and he e'enta, and promises better behaviour. How many
met have gone to bed in wrath, and risen in the morning
quite subiued by tears and a curtain-lecture 1 Women
eep to get at their husband's secrets, and they also weep
when their own secrets have been revealed. They weep
thrcth;h pride, through vanite, through folly, through cun-
ning, through weakness. They will weep for a husband's
misf etune, while they scold Lim, and, at the same time,
a woman w'll weep (,vrr the dead body nf her husband,
while her wi 1 a,lt her neighbours how she is fitted
w:th her mournings. • She sometimes weeps for one hus-
band, that she may get ar.other.

ABOLITION OF THE CORN-LAWS

Immediately on receiving the account, on
Saturday morning, by the Second Edition of Me
Sun newspaper, of Lord John Russell's notice of
motion the previous evening, for a Committee to
consider the Corn-law, the Council of the Na-
tional Anti-Corn-law League forwarded the fol-
lowing circular to all the Branch Associations :