The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-16 00:00:00

AYRES.

A project of law permitting the reshipment of a variety
of articles of merchandise for the interior, without the ne-
cessity of clearing them at the custom house, also that the
additional duty of 10 per cent. on foreign goods should be
reduced to 5 per cent. was sanctioned by the house with a
few alterations.
The campaign is closed.

A letter has beeen posted at the North and South Ame-.
rican Coffee-house, from Rio Janeiro, to thefollowing pur-
port :
RIO JANEIRO, MARCH 2.—There is no alteration in
this place; with the exception of some unfortunate admirers
of Don Pedro I. discovered a few days ago at Rio Grande,
a small town on the other side of the Bay, and all persons
implicated in this affair have been arrested, and there now
exists a thorough confidence in the stability of the government,
and stock is in high favour at 53. This town is perfectly
quiet, and the police better maintained than ever. The
news from the mines and Bahia regarding the scarcity of
provisions are more satisfactory : in some places little
short of famine had been experienced, owing to the want
of rain, but it has now set in so violently as to make the
roads nearly impassable. By advices from the country
there is reason to believe that the coffee crop will fall short.

THE FUNDS.
Accounts from Germany may be considered unfavour-
able, for it is stated that that the armies of the Germanic
Confederation are to be increased.
From Bayonne it is stated that a courier passed through
that town from Madrid, who left on the Bth inst., and stated
that the loan of two millions hail been contracted for ty
four banking houses of that city.
The local affairs in France are still in a mysterious state.
Consols opened this morning at the price they left off at
yesterday-92A, 93 for the Account, at which price they
are at present.
Spanish Stock has no thriving appearance this morning
—done at 35% % ; Portuguese, also, is not so good as yes-
terday—done at 7834 79.
HALF-PAST TWELVE.

Within this half hour the Funds have become heavy.
Consols, which were 93, are now 92%; Spanish lowered
to 35% ; Portuguese, 78%.
HALF-PAST ONE.

We can assert with some certainty that the whole amount
of the dissents on the reduction of the Foar per Cents.
only amount to 150,000/.
Various reports have been put into circulation this
morning, which have had the effect to lower the funds :
first that there is a dissension amongst the Ministry, on the
treaty with Portugal and Spain, since which we believe
that their differences have been adjusted; also that Spain
has recalled her ambassador from the Northern Courts, in
which the well-informed say Spain is justified, to main-
tain her dignity.
Letters are in town from Oporto, reporting that the
Duke of Terceira entered Coimbra without opposition.
THREE 0' CL 0 CK.

Consols, 92% %.
CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock 216 !India Stock 2f9h
3 per Cent. Red 9lf I Ditto Bonds.. 29 pm.
.1 pet Cent. Cons 9 I South Sea Stock R.SI
31 per Ccnt. 991 Ditto Old Ann 891
31 per Cc nt. Red 99h Ditto New Ann. 9(4
New 3i per Cent 1044 Ex. Bills, lOntV 5l pm
4 per Cc nt lot,l Di.to 5"9/ 5l pm,
Long Ann. to expire Ditto Small 5l pm
Jar, ISM 174 Bank S. for Acc.
®Oct, 1859.. i 7 1-16 Consols for Opg 92
Jan. 1861) in lndia St. for Opg -

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 perecnt.
Belgian, 5 per cent 9B Ditto, Beg. Bonds
Brazilian Bonds 75; Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 percent. :30 Russian Bonds, 5 per cent 1,'51
Chilian. 6 per cenr. 2B I)it to, Metallic lO6
Columbian, 6 per cent WI Spanish, 5 per cent 3l
Ditto, 1824 27*l Ditto, 1823 31.1
Danish 7s* ! French 5 per Cent.... 1051. 50c
Greek, 5 per cent 331 I Exchange 2sl' 40c.
Mexican 5 per Cents, 1825 35 French 3 per Cent --f. —c.
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1825 45 Dutch, 21 per cent 53
Peruvian 6 per Cent. 23 Ditto, 5 per ceut 1)T„.

PARISH OF FULHAM.--A meeting of the
vestry of this parish was held last evening, pursuant to
public notice, for the purpose of agreeing to a petition
to the House of Commons against the bill now before
the house for amending the poor laws. The petition
having been read, it was proposed by John Horsley
Palmer, Esq., seconded by Mr. Daniel of Parson's
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be postponed for a month. Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Damer,
most respectable inhabitants spoke in favour of the
majority.aMmr e. nmuennt

BANK FAILURE.—The Sturminster bank
has stopped payment, but arrangements are making,
and it is hoped that the creditors will be paid in full.
—Hampshire Courier.

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On Tuesday morning, as an apprentice to
to his master, in which there was a dead body which
had recently been received from the Fever Hospital,
his attention was arrested by the breathing of a human
being, and conceiving that the corpse had come to life,
in a state of alarm he called for assistance, and they
proceeded towards the body, but that they found to be
inanimate, though they still heard the breathing, and
they began to rake the place, and in a corner of the
cellar, just near the dead body, they discovered an
elderly woman, as pale as death, covered over with
wood and shavings. She affected to be asleep, when
they aroused her, on which, in a strong Irish dialect,
she begged for mercy, saying that she only came there
to sleep, as she was fatigued. A policeman, 102 G,
was called in, and she was taken to the station-house,
where she gave a very lame account of herself, and
nothing could be concluded but that she entered the
place by the back way, and meant to admit some of
her Hibernian friends, when opportunity occurred, to
steal the dead body. She was eventually taken to
Hatton-garden police-office, when Mr. Laing severely
censured the custom of sending dead bodies from
fever hospitals to undertakers for burial, as being cal-
culated to spread contagion. There being no direct
evidence against the old woman, she was discharged.