The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-04 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Our City politicians and speculators have been much sur-
prised this morning, on finding that Ministers were in the
Minority in the House of Lords last night, on the motion of
the Duke of Wellington respecting the neutrality of Portugal.
It is now generally expected that a petit guerre, or some sort
of skirmishing, will soon take place between the House of
Commons and the Lords, as no doubt two addresses on the
subject will be presented to his Majesty, that from the Lords
censuring the Ministers, and the other approving of their
measures.

In consequence of this unforeseen event, Consols which left
off yesterday 90 14, have receded to 89 .34 4 for the Account.
In the Foreign Market, Dutch Stock has lowered, as well as
Portuguese Scrip. . . -

HALF-PAST ONE.

The chief topics of conversation in the City and on 'Change
entirely relate to the defeat of Ministers in the House of Lords
last night, and the future measures they will adopt to retrieve
this unforeseen event. Their resignation is not expected to
take place on the occasion. A batch of new Peers is talked
of, but before such a measure is adopted, we have no doubt
that Ministers will wait the result of the debate on Colonel
Davies's motion in the Commons next Thursday, for which the
public are looking with some anxiety.
Up to the present hour we have no foreign political informa-
tion. The war in the East appears to be ended, as Ibrahim
Pacha is retreating with his army. . _

Consols have been during the morning at 89 .7,4 for the
Account; at present they arc 99% N.

Bank Stock 204 to 205.
In the Foreign Market there is little doing.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account Si) %

THE IRON TRADE.—We are glad to be
enabled to state that an advance of ten and a half per cent.
in the wages of the operatives in the iron trade has recently
taken place. This will be a great relief to the labouring
classes in the iron districts, but the wages are still not re-
munerative.

By the demise of the Rev. Mr. RIPPON,
M.A., of Lone Marton, the two valuable livings of Long
Marton and Kirlaythorne become vacant—Patron, Earl of
THANET. We understand that they are decidedly the best
livings in Cumberland or Westmoreland.

DR. DOYLE.—It is a source of gratification
to us to learn, that this first of patriots, of scholars, and of
prelates, is recovering from the illness with which some
time since we announced to our readers, that his Lordship
had been afflicted. Dr. DOYLE is at present sojourning
at Leamington.—Tipperary Free Press.
CASE OF LUNATICO INQUIRENDO.—On
Thursday last, a respectable jury was empannelled at the
Green Man, Bethnal green, before Commissioners W.
PHILLIMORE, J. E. BLUNT, and C. A. MURRAY, ES1:11114,
by virtue of a Writ de Lunatico Inquirendo, to inquire
concerning the alleged lunacy of ELIZABET/I BURNELL, a
wid.)w lady, resident in the house of Dr. WARBURTON,
of Bethnal-green. The presiding Commissioner, Mr.
PHILLIMORE, charged the jury, and described to them
the nature of the important inquiry upon which they were
about to enter. The Commissioners and jury adjourned
to Dr. WARBURTON'S for a second interview, and the re-
sult was, that the jury pronounced a verdict of " Un-
soundness of mind." The Commissioners and the Fore-
man animadverted in very strong terms upon the nature
of the evidence, and the discrepancies in the statements of
the witnesses.

SPOTS ON THE SUN.—When viewed through
powerful telescopes, provided with coloured glasses to take
off the heat, which would otherwise injure our eyes, the
sun is observed to have frequently large and perfectly black
spots upon it, surrounded with a kind of border, less com-
pletely dark, called a penumbra. They are, however, not
permanent. When watched from day to day, or even
from hour to hour, they appear to enlarge or contract, to
change their firms, and at length to disappear altogether,
or to break out anew in parts of the surface where none
were before. In such cases of disappearance, the central
dark spot always contracts into a point, and vanishes be-
fore the border. Occasionally they break up, or divide
into two or more, and in those offer every evidence of that
extreme mobility which belongs only to the fluid state, and
of that excessively violent agitation which seems only com.
patible with the atmospheric or gaseous state of matter.
The scale on which their movements take place is immense.
Spots have been observed, however, whose linear diameter
has been upwards of 45,000 miles; and even, if some re-
cords are to be trusted, of very much greater extent.
That such a spot should close up in six weeks' time (for
they hardly ever last longer), its borders must approach at
the rate of more than 1.000 miles a day.--Sir J. Hers-
chel on Astronomy—Cabinet Cyclopedia.