The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-13 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK.
As usual on Saturdays we are without arrivals, which is the
case this morning, not even a ship letter having been received.
It is expected that in the course of next week the great
battle will be fought between the Tories and the Whigs, on
the ground of the Irish Church Reform Bill, and according to
speculation, the Whigs will lose the day. This has had some
effect on the Funds this morning.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 80% % for the Account,
opened at 89% %, and the Market appears to be heavy at pre-
sent, and, no doubt, will continue so until the grand struggle is
decided.

We hear that a vessel has arrived from off Oporto, which left
on the 30th ult.

In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet.
The Plymouth Chronicle, received today, states that the
George the Fourth steamer has been there shipping seamen for
Don Miguel ; but with all the endeavours of his agents, they
could not muster more than 10 or 12 men; she therefore sailed
for Portsmouth, to obtain a further supply.
The London Merchant steamer has just arrived from Hol-
land : papers and letters not as yet received.
HALF-PAST ONE.

tip to the present hour we have no fresh arrivals. It is
supposed that the Acorn, which is arrived from Oporto, does
not bring any news, as she sailed on the 30th ult.
Consols have been fluctuating during the morning from
89 %to 89 ;at present they are 89 %%, with little doing.
The prevailing topic of conversation in the city relates to
whether Ministers will remain in office or not. The general
wish is that they may.

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In the Foreign Market Dutch Stock is rather better; in
other Securities nothing doing,

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account 89} ‘.

KENSINGTON GARDENS.—CoIoneI EVANS
mentioned in the House of Commons the complaints that
were justly made respecting the broke-up and ruined state
of the walks in Kensington Gardens—the fellod timber,
and other obstructions which encumbered those those
parts of the gardens which are usually most frequented
for recreation during the fine season. Lord DUNCANNON,
in reply said, that it certainly arose from the absolute ne-
cessity there was for thinning the trees—that they had
lot been thinned for thirty years, that it became at length
indispensably necessary to do so—that it had been sug-
gesred to shut up the gardens until this was done, but
which he immediately refused. His Lordship declared,
that every exertion should be made without delay to re-
move the trees which were cut down, and to restore the
walks to a good state, so that the recreation of the
inhabitants should be as little as possible interfered with
any longer. Lord DUNCANNON also promised to endea-
vour to improve the entrances to the gardens through
both the dry arches of the bridge, &c. &c.
PIMLI4O.—In the House of Commons,
last night, Colonel DE LAC? EVANS alluded to
the very depreciated and unsettled state of property in
houses in the neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace, in
consequence of the uncertainty that existed as to the na-
ture of the improvements or demolitions intended by Go-
vernment in that quarter, and St. Martin's parish generally.
Lord DUNCANNON, in reply, observed that considerable
improvements had been intended by Government to be
carried into effect in that quarter, and that Government
had authorised the Commissioners of Woods and Forests
to give to the owners of various houses in the vicinity of
the palace as much as 2& per cent. above their estimated
value, in order to pull them down ; but the proprietors
refused, and Government had now no intention of making
any farther alterations in that quarter, beyond widening
the street near the building called the Queen's Guard
House, which is immediately near the Palace.
GOOD TASTE.—Good taste is a very fa-
vourite phrase with the English aristocracy; they carry
it to the pulpit and to the House of Commons—" Such a
min preached in very good taste ; or, in what excellent
taste So-and-so's speech was !" Good taste applied to
legislation and salvation—what does the phrase mean ?
Heaven knows what it means in the pulpit ; in the House
of Commons, it always means flattering the old Members,
and betraying impudence modestly.—Bulwer.
SERGEANT AND THE CAPTAlN.—Sergeant
ONsLow was changing horses !at the White Hart, at
Ryegate, one day ; the landlady o which kept calling him
" Captain." " What are you Captaining my master for?„
inquired the servant, when he got her away; " Don't you
know it's Sergeant ONSLOW." " Ye., yes," answered the
landlady, with a knowing wink, " I know he's only a
Sergeant, but they like to be called Captains."—New
Sporting Magazine.
INTREPID CONDUCT OF A SOLDIER,...—
On Tuesday evening, the wife of a soldier belonging to the
last battalion of Scots Fusileers in the Tower, threw her-
self from the seven-gun battery facing the wharf, into the
ditch, a height of 20 feet. A corporal, named HER-
aucKs, immediately plunged from the drawbridge into the
water, and with touch difficulty succeeded in laying ho'd
of the woman, and conveying her to the bank. A great
number of persons observed the intrepidity of the corporal.
ANOTHER ANECDOTE.—KEAN had a strong
perception of his own powers, and always predicted that
he should some day be at the head of his profession.
He was a beautiful fencer. His friends wished him to
establish a fencing academy. His answer was, "It
never shall be said, Sir, that I was a fencing- master."
I persuaded him to teach me the noble art as a friend,
but he would take no remuneration. He came to us one
day in the greatest possible spirits. "My fortune,"
said he, " is made ; Lord CORK has bespoken Othello ;
we know his reputation as a critic, and I will not lose the
opportunity." The next day we saw him again..-..." Well,
KEAN, what success ?" "Do not name it, Sir, I am
miserable ; whilst I was playing the finest parts of
Othello in my best style, my Lord Coxes children were
playing at hot cockles in front of the box, and Lord and
Lady C. laughing at them !"

HAY MA RKETS.—t At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CU M BERL A ND.
Supply good, trade steady, and prices stationary.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to X 2 15
►Mew Meadow Hay 3 5 3 10
Useful Old Ditto 3 10 4 0
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay ......
Clover Hay 3 10 5 5
Oat Straw......£l Bto £1 10 I Wheat Straw

SMITHFIELD.
Supply rather limited, trade dull, and prices lower.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5
New Meadow Hay 3 5 3 10
Useful Old Ditto 3 10 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 4
Clover Hay (extra fine)...£s 5 ..Generally
qat Straw II 10 to £1 12 1 Wheat Straw ll3 116

The Hon. SYDNEY HERBERT, M.P., has
taken Wardour Castle, near Salisbury (the seat of Lord
ARUNDEL), which he means to make his permanent
abode. Wardour Castle is not far distant from Wilton
Castle, the seat of Lord PEMBROKE, brother to Mr.
HERBERT. It is said that the Hon. Gentleman has se-
lected as his bride the lovely daughter of a Noble Earl,
who, with her mother and sister, affords one of the most
conspicuous constellations of our f ishionable circles.

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The contemplated marriage beteen Captain
Goimorr DOUGLAS, of the Grenadier Guard, and Miss
PENNANT, daughter and heiress of Mr. DAWKINS PEN-
NANT, of Penryn Castle, is, we understand, fixed to take
place the week after next. Mr. PENNANT (the most
extensive proprietor of slaves in the West Indies), has
made a handsome settlement on the lady, who will even-
tually bring the Gallant Officer a fortune exceeding that
of his brother, Lord Mon,Torr.

Mr. THOMAS, the Superintendent, has re-
ceived his appointment as deputy constable of Manchester,
and is expected shortly to go down to commence his offi-
cial duties.

In the celebrated cause of LAMBERT V.
HANHAM, Sir JAMES SCARLETT'S fee, on the part of the
defendant, is said to b• 600 guineas.
'IRE FATAL DUEL AT EXETER.—Major
HENNIs, who died lately at Fermoy, was not apprised of
the death of his son, the late Dr. HENNIS, so that his
death could not have been accelerated by that melancholy
fatality. His health was in so precarious a state that the
family concealed the circumstance from his knowledge,
apprehensive that it might hasten his last moments. It is
right to make this fact known, as the way in which Major
HENNIs's decease was announced by some of the news-
papers, was calculated to exasperate the public feeling,
already, perhaps, too much excited against the unhappy
survivor in that miserable contest.

It seems, from a recent representation to th.
Visiting Magistrates, that the prisoners in Lancaster Castle
have been for some ti:ne in the habit of receiving news-
papers; that they introduce them into th- Chapel, and
that they read them while on the tread-wheel. This novel
plan of combining mental instruction with mill labour is
to he brought on ler the notice of the Annual Session,
" with a view to consider the propriety of continuing the
custom."—Morning Paper.
COINS OF NORMAN KINGS.—AS some
boys wire last week playing in a meadow at Beaworth,
near Cheriton, Hants, one of them discovered, just under
the surface of the earth, a leaden box, which proved on
examination to contain about fifteen thousand silver pennies
of WILLIAM the Conqueror and WILLIAM RUFUS, in a
most excellent state of preservation. The field in which
they were discovered, is the property of Jontsr DUNK,
Esq., of Alresford, and was formerly, it is believed, used
as a burial-ground. Mr. DUNN has secured about seven
thousand of the coins, a considerable number having been
taken away by the boys who discovered them.—Dorscif
Chronicle.

In consequence of the great quantity of rain
which has fallen within the last fortnight, many acres of
mowing grass, and hay have been completely spoiled ; so
much so that great increase in price is anticipate i as the
necessary consequence. A custom, however, of putting
great quantities of salt on it while ricking it, seems to
preserve it in some measure from the injury cf continued
rain; and this has been now generally adopted.--Dorset
Chronicle.

The navigation of the Taunton and Bridg-
water Canal, westward from Taunton, is intended to he
opened as far as Bradford, about four miles, at Michael-
ruaa next.—Dorset Chronicle.

ORCHARDS.--The crop of apples in Glou-
cestershire and the adjoining counties is unusually
abundant; and may, in the phraseology of the eider
districts, be termed a "good hit."—Dorset Chronicle.
An instance of the power of love of offspring
in animals was witnessed a few days ago in a field near
this town. The writer of this, in going over a field of
lucerne, part of which was cut, his dog ran over a brace
of old partridges, brooding a covey of about 15. The
dog pursued the old ones, which fell to the ground scream-
ing and Littering as if hurt. The hen succeeded in de-
coying the dog (a spaniel, and which has killed many of
them in her time) to a short distance from the spot. She
then, with all the fury of a domestic hen, flew at and
buffeted the dog away. The cock had, in the mean time,
contrived to call the young brood to the corner of a thick
hedge, where be was soon joined by his spirited mate, who
had made so gallant a defence tbr.i. the dog actually left
them without further molestation.—Maidstone Journal.
COINCIDENCES.--HORACE WALPOLE,
writing to Sir BORACE MANN, in December, 1743,
says, " The French preparations go on with much more
vigour that, ours; they not having a House of Commons
to combat all the winter ; a campaign that necessarily
engages all the attention of Ministers, who have no great
variety of apartments in their understandings."
DUBLIN FIELD-DAY. -- MELANCHOLY
ACCIDENT.—The infantry corps were out on a brigade-
drill, practising some manceuvres under the eye of the
LORD.LIEUTENANT. On the troops being ordered to
their barracks, at two, Captain WEBBER, aid:-de-camp
to Sir H. VIVIAN, rode home by the Zoological-gardens,
where he was thrown off his horse, and a hackney coach,
galloping close in the rear, instantly passed over him,
inflicting a mortal wound on the head. The unfortunate
young gentleman expired in about two hours. Our read-
ers may conceive—for we cannot describe—what occurred
on breaking the melancholy intelligence to Mrs. WEBBER.
The deceased had been on Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN'S staff for
the last two years: he carne to Dublin with the 92d
Highlanders in October, 1530, and about eight weeks
alto purchased a company in the 47th Regiment. —Dublin
Times.

JOSEPH DIPPER, a journeyman butcher,
was fined on Thursday 10s. and costs, for dismembering
a sheep that was still alive in Newport Market. There
appeared to have been very little blood withdrawn, and as
the butcher proceeded to hack off the legs at the lower
joints, and afterwards to flay the sheep, evidence of life
and Were given by the kicking and struggling
°
they were quite certain that the struggles of the sheep
arose,
liter life was extinct, but from voluntary action occasioned
ttshen
not s
aatnii'
from' ninii. Two medical gentlemen stated that
involuntary action, which might exist
by extreme torture. One of the butchers of the market
said the defendant was to blame for not having left off
as soon as he found that the sheep began to struggle.
certainly ought to have waited a little longer before he he-
gan to skin it and cut off the shanks.