The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-25 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Up to the present time we have no arrival worth communi-
cating.

THE FUNDS.

The express from Paris is the only feature worth noticing.
The attention of the speculators in Spanish and Portuguese
stock is solely devoted to the information and reports received
of the movements of Don Carlos in Spain, which are construed
according to their sinister views. If we can give credit to the
Bayonne Telegraph received by the express this morning from
Paris, of the 20th inst., stating that Don Carlos was still in
the environs of Salva Tierra, and had recruited but few men, his
march to Madrid will not take place so soon as was expected.
The rise of 3i per Cent. in Spanish Stock, at Paris, was
not anticipated by our speculators in the Foreign Market,
which, at the opening of the Market, caused some bustle.
Spanish, which left off yesterday at 441, opened at 451 to h,
but did not maintain that price long, and went down to
44H ;at present they are 45* to f. Portuguese 86.4
Consols maintain yesterday's prices, soi to 91 for the Ac-
count, with little doing, owing to the chief speculation being
in Spanish Stock. _ _ _

Consols have just been done at 91A- 4 for the Account.
HALF-PAST ONE.

Letters have been received fromfittoriaandPampeluna of
the 16th inst. They state, that General Rodil was manceuvring
to surround the Carlists ; but they do not mention one word
of Don Carlos.
Letters by the expresi from Paris state, that it was reported
in the higher circles there that Don Carlos was surrounded.
Consols have improved since the early part of the day from
91 to 91+ for the Acccount.
We have a general report of the failure of a Scotch Agency
House. _

Spanish Stock, 451# ; Portuguese, 861 I.
No fresh arrivals as yet.
It is a holiday at the Bank.
THREE 0' CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 91+

ACCIDENT.—At the Lee Races, yesterday, a poor
old man, a pensioner, was knocked down by one of the horses
in the great heat, and was so seriously hurt that he died soon
after. The horse and the rider fell, and several of the spec-
tators were thrown over by the confusion which the circlun-
stance occasioned, but no other accident occurred.

I'MPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

THIS DAY, FRIDAY, JULY 25.

HO USE, OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at twenty minutes past twelve.
Mr. MILES presented several petitions from the Western
division of the county of Somerset, in support of the Esta-
blished Church.
Mr. O'CONNOR DON presented a petition from an indi-
vidual named James Hindley, late Paymaster of the 6th Dra-
goons, complaining of having paid away large sums for the
use of the regiment, which were never refunded to him, and
of having been cashiered. and declared incapable of ever serv-
ing his Majesty again. The petitioner prayed for inquiry into
the circumstances of his case, when he would be able to prove
the hardship and injustice of the treatment he had received.
After a few words from Sir H. HARDINGE, the petition
was laid on the table.

Mr. SHAW, presented petitions in support of the Esta-
blished Church of Ireland, from the Corporation of Dublin
and other places.
Mr. H. HUGHES-presented a petition from Messrs.
Parker and Co., brewers, of Oxford, stating that having in-
vested 10,000/ in business in consequence of the passing of
the Beer Act, they would be much injured if the Amendment
Bill were to pass. _ _

Mr. BRODIE presented a petition from Moses Wing, of
Middlesex, complaining of the improvident bargains made by
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt,
in granting Government annuities.
Mr. WILKES presented several petitions.
Sir G. MURRAY presented a petition from a parish in
the county of Stirling, in support of the Established Church
of Scotland.

Dr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from the Pro-
testant Dissenters of Bow, Middlesex, against drunkenness;
and several other petitions on other subjects, one of which re-
spected the health of the motropolis.
Lord PALMERSTON said there was every desire on the
part of Government to improve the health of the metropolis.
Mr. WILKES and Mr. POTTER supported the petition, which
was laid on the table.

Mr. FINCH presented • a petition from William Mears,
complaining of a Roman Catholic priest in Ireland having
urged his people to commit violence upon a scripture-reader,
who in retaliation only quoted some texts, for which he was
taken-before the Magistrate and held to bail on the instigation
of the said priest, an praying for liberty of conscience.
Mr. O'DWYE R had no doubt that the petitioner was some
insolent fanatic, who had first insulted the priest, and inter-
fered with his congregation. Ireland was infested with a set
of fanatics who had no honest vocation, but went about to dis-
turb the country; and, if let alone, would create such a reign
of terror and persecution, that all Birmingham would not be
able to supply a sufficient number of thumb-screws and grid-
irons to torture the Roman Catholics with.—( Hear, and
Laughter.)
After a few words from Mr. Finch, Mr. Langdale, Mr.
Potter, Mr. -Wilks, Mr. Sinclair, and Col. Verner, the peti-
tion was ordered to lie on the table. _ _ _

Mr. FINCH then presented a petition from Hereford, in
support of the established Church.
Sir J. TYRRELL presented several petitions from the
county of Essex, to the same effect.
Mr. FORRESTER presented a petition from Wellington
to the same effect.
ENGLISH FISHERIES—INTERFERENCE OF
THE FRENCH.

Mr. A. BARING said he had two petitions to present upon
this subject, which. was one of considerable importance. As
the Noble Lord, Palmerston, had attended to hear the peti-
tions stated, he hoped the Noble Lord would give the subject
that serious consideration which it deserved.—( Hear, hear.)
The first petition was from some fishermen of Berkamstead,
in Essex, upon the coast, who obtained their livelihood by
fishing. The other was from a large body of persons in the
Isle of Jersey, interested in the same industrious trade.
Their statement was, that from time immemoria lthey were in
the habit, up to the year 1821, of dredging for oysters in the
seas between Jersey and France, and it was well known that
those coasts furnished the oysters that supplied the beds at the
mouth of the Thames ; and besides, these fisheries furnished
this country with a great number of excellent seamen.
The question, therefore, was of the most vital im-
portance to this country. The statement was, that from the
year 1821, the French began to molest the fishermen of this
country, and disputes arose as to how near they might approach
with their fisheries to the French coast. He would refer upon
this subject to the opinion of the Hon. and Learned Member
for the Tower Hamlets (Dr. Lushington), who stated that the
general principle of the law of nations was that any country
had a right to prohibit fishing within what was usually called
gun-shot, or a maritime league off low water upon its coasts.
Dr. Lushington also stated, that long usage or custom might
interfere with the general principle of the law of nations,
and the reason why he ( Mr. Baring) was particularly anxious to
call attention to the subject, was the apprehension that if the
French were allowed to establish a custom, it would affect the
right of the people of this country to redress. In this in-
stance those persons had long continued the practice of fish-
ing upon those coasts till they were interfered with by the
French, who had established three cruisers to maintain their
limits. Dr. Lushington was of opinion that in this case the
claims of the French had not been made out.—(Hear.)
The Hon. Member, after referring to the negotiations which
had taken place upon this subject, concluded by expressing his
hope that the Noble Lord opposite would take the subject
matter of the petitions into his speedy consideration.
Lord PALMERSTON said nothing could be more tempe-
rate than the statement of the Hon. Member. It was not his
intention to say any thing against the prayer of the petition,
or to• enter at the present time into the question, but
he would admit that the limits of the Jersey oyster fishery
were too narrow, and though our fishermen were bound to ob-
serve them until others were agreed upon, and the British
Government was not precluded from obtaining another ar-
rangement. He regretted that it was not in his power to state
that instructions would be given to the British Am-
basssdor immediately to take up the subject. The
question was very extensive, and therefore he should not fulfil
his duty if he begun such a negotiation before he had ob-
tained the fullest information on the subject.—(Hear, hear.)
With regard to expressions which had fallen from him
on former occasions on this subject, which seemed to
have given some offence, he had a report from the
Cominander of the Station, dated the sth of May, stating
that six vessels, which had been detained by the French au-
thorities, having all been in the wrong, and gone some miles
beyond the limit, notwithstanding the signals of warning
given to withdraw. He had derived similar information
from the authorities at Jersey. He would not, however, say
that the practice was general, but whenever the French authorities
interfered our people_were for the most part in the wrong. He
was perfectly aware of the great importance of this subject,
and felt it his duty to give it his most serious attention, with
a view to see whether some measures of a satisfactory nature
could not be adopted, which he would have done before had he
not been prevented by other pressing business
Sir ROBERT PEEL said nothing whatever was so
much calculated to produce between France and
England as these occurences. It was true an arrangement had
been entered into, but he thought a negotiation should take
place with a view to a proper treaty between the two nations,
to be confirmed by an Act of Parliament. Every British
Fisherman had a right to do as he pleased, and all the State
could do would be to withhold protection, but could not
interfere with them in any other way. Every fisherman knew
that he was allowed to go within a league of the French
toast, but how was that to be measured. By the tide or the
headlands, or how? It was a difficult question, and one that
could not be settled by a reference to the law of nations, and
he very much doubted, in the strict law of the case, whe-
ther the fishermen were not right. For the peace
of both nations, this question ought to be settled
for the fishermen of both conntries were a bold and gallant
race of men, full of national prejudice and jealousy, and their
quarrels might breed a war between the two countries.
Sir E. CODRINGTON expressed his earnest hope that
immediate measures would be to taken to allay all the causes
of complaint referred to in the petition.
After a few words from Sir J. TYRRELL and Lord PALMER-.
STON, the petition was laid on the table.
It being three o'clock, the SPEAKER left the chair.

BEHAVIOUR AND EXECUTION OF WILLIAM

HINKLEY.

( Abridged from the Nottingham Review.)
It again becomes our painful duty to record the untimely death
of a human being by the hands of the law, and on the ignominious
scaffold, for the awful crime, the greatest of all human offences,
that of the wilful and deliberate murder of a fellow creature,
and unhappily in this instance also, as well as in too many
cases that have before occurred within the limits of our town,
the inciting cause was the breach of that divine command,
" Thou shalt not commit adultery."
William Hinkley, who on Wednesday last expiated his of-
fence, and atoned to human society for his crime, was 31
years of age, and resided in Bold-lane, Derby, his station in
life being the humble one of a labourer ; nearly ten
years ago, (on the 22d of August, 1824) he was married
at St. Alkmund's church, Derby, to Fanny Young, the daugh-
ter of Samuel. Young, a coal-miner, residing at Matlock, in
the same county. At that time both parties were very
young, he having not quite attained his majority, and she
being still younger; they lived together for some time,
but not in the most perfect harmony, for it is stated
that about six years ago, he was imprisoned in the Nottingham
house of correction (in front of which he was executed) for
beating and ill-treating his wife, not being able to find sure-
ties for his good behaviour and keeping the peace ; he, how-
ever, repeatedly denied having ever used personal violence
to her.

Up to the period of his trial, he behaved with great gentle-
ness and meekness, and after his trial, both on Monday after-
noon and on Tuesday, he had an interview with his father and
other relations residing at Derby, and also with relatives
living at New Radford, to whom he behaved with the utmost
kindness.
Having once more taken a most affectionate leave of several
friends, who were moved to tears, the procession proceeded to
the scaffold, where the last preparations being speedily made,
he assisted the executioner in drawing the cap over his face ; the
reading of the appointed lesson commenced ; the last words he
was heard to utter were, " Lord, have mercy upon me, God
receive my soul "—the bolt was drawn, and after two or three
slight struggles he ceased to live in this world. A general
shriek; which was heard to some distance, proceeded from
the crowd, which was the most numerous we remember
ever to have witnessed, and they began immediately to disperse.

We understand that Earl Grey has relinquished,
for the present, his intention of visiting -Brighton.