The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-30 00:00:00

BY EXPRESS.

EPSOM, THREE O'CLOCK.
The OAKS STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft.,
for three year old fillies, Bst. 41b. Mile and
half. The owner of the second horse to re-
ceive 100 sovs. out of the stakes. 94 subs.
Mr. Cosby's br. Pussy ... 1
Mr. Forth's b. Louisa 2

Mr. Richardson's Jenny Mills' fillly ... 3
15 started. Won by a length.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY)
CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0-OK.

lip to the present hour we still continue in the
same situation as yesterday, respecting the new ap-
pointments in the ministry—nothing is known in the
City to be depended upon.
We have also a very great dearth of information, as
the French mail and express from Paris have not ar-
rived. They are anxiously looked for, as they are
expected to bring us the Parisian accounts of the effect
produced in the above capital by the dissensions in
our Cabinet, and the resignation of some of our Mi-
nisters, which, no doubt, will cause some depression in
the French funds. They will likewise cause a great
sensation in Holland, and encourage his Dutch Ma-
jesty again to procrastinate the settlement of the Bel-
gian affairs.

THE FUNDS.

Owing to the non-arrival of the express from Paris
this morning with the French prices, the British funds
at present are in a stagnant state. Consols, which left
off yesterday at 9214 fo the account, and 921 to
for money, opened at 921, and soon after reached 921;
at present they may be quoted at 921 1, with little
doing. Spanish has improved from 37-a 4to 38+ ;
Portuguese is not so good as yesterday; and may be
quoted 791 f.
It appears that on the Bth inst. another Spanish
brigade, under the orders of Don Francisco Serrano,
entered Portugal. It is stated that after they have
formed a junction with Saldanha new operations will
take place. . _

Spanish has just been done at 381, owing to a report
that it comes higher from Paris.
We have a report of an express from Paris, which
brings the Spanish stock there 2 per cent. higher.
This has caused the rise of that stock in our market
this morning.
To-day is settling-day in the foreign market. The
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HALF-PAST ONE.
We hear from good authority that the following is
the new administration :
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buyers.
Lord Auckland, to the Admiralty ; Lord Carlisle,
Privy Seal ; Mr. Spring Rice, .Colonies; Lord Mul-
grave, Post-office, not in the Cabinet.
Mr. Ellice, Secretary at War, with a seat in the
Cabinet; Mr. Francis Baring, Secretary of the
Treasury.
The report in the morning of an express from Paris,
bringing the Spanish Stock two per cent. higher is not
correct. By an express from the above capital we
have the following, after the breaking up of our Mi-
nistry was known,—Spanish, 30i ; Rentes, 79f. 60c.
Consols may be quoted at present 92i. for account.
Spanish 38 to 38k; Portuguese 794 -f.
The Foreign account goes off well.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 924.

A DISAGREEABLE HYPOTHESIS.—Two
persons were once engaged in an argument. " Sup-
pose," said one of them, " that you owe me two thou-
sand crowns." " I wish," replied the other, " that
you would suppose some other hypothesis."
GIVING WARNING.—A gentleman, unfor-
tunately linked for life to one who made him feel the
weight of his chain, was one day told by the maid that
she was going to give her mistress warning, as she kept
scolding her from morning till night. Ah, happy
girl !" said the master, " I wish I could give her warn-
ing too l"
RISING IN THE WORLD.--" What news
to-day ?" said a merchant to his friend lately. " What
news !" responded the other, " nothing, only times
grow better—people are getting on their legs again."
" On their legs !" said the first, " I don't see how you
can make that out ?" " Why, yes," replied the other,
" folks that used to ride are obliged to walk now ; is
not that getting on their legs again?"—Anterican
Paper.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION.—.A gentleman,
not long since, took up an apple to show a niece, six-
teen years of age, who had studied geography several
years, something about the shape and motion of the
earth. She looked at him a few minutes, and said
with much earnestness, " Why, uncle, you don't mean
that the earth really turns round, do you?" He re-
plied, "But did you not learn that several years ago ?"
" Yes, sir," she replied, " I learned it, but I never
knew it before."—American Annals of Education.

ABSURDITIES OF INTOLERANCE.—The I
Chancelier de I'Hospital was called an atheist, because
he refused to be a prosecutor : Galilelo for thinking
the earth turns round : Descartes for saying there are
innate ideas : Gassendi and Locke for denying them.
Father Hardouin proved, very much to his own satis-
faction,
that Malebranche, Pascal, Arnaud, and Nicole, 1
(the most pious of men), would certainly be damned.
The mother of Louis XIV. was shocked by the notion
that Jansenists might be saved, and cried out, " Ah !
fi ! fi ! de la Grace." In Hispaniola, some Spaniards
made a vow to sacrifice every day twelve Indians in
honour of the twelve Apostles. When Savoy and
Geneva exchanged a village or two, Geneva engaged
to tolerate the Catholic inhabitants for twenty-five
years ! If the Mahometans conclude a treaty of peace I
with Christians, they forthwith proceed to the mosque, i
and ask pardon of God Almighty for discontinuing to I
cut the throats of his children, on whom they impre-
cate calamities.—Sharp's Letters and Essays.
THE POVERTY OF THE RICH.—His father,
in spite of his vast estates, he knew to be excessively
poor—poor with the poverty of a very great man—be-
fore the wretchedness of which the poverty of a com-
mon beggar sinks into insignificance—his is the indi-
gence of nature—the want of a few things which the
accidents of the next hour may relieve—anxieties,
however pressing, which reach not beyond the present
moment ; but the poverty of the great is a system of
hopeless, irretrievable embarrassment—often the work
of successive generations—inextricably interwoven
with a web of their existence—a yoke—a burden,
shackles which every successive proprietor puts on at
his accession to lay down only in his grave.—Two Old
Men's Tales ; The Deformed.
VEGETATION IN THEITIMALAYA MOUN-
TAINS.—It is well known that the laws of climate,
which were formerly suffered to govern animal and
vegetable life, and the limits of the zones of vegeta-
tion, have been materially modified since our acquaint-
ance with the Himalayan country. Snow is there found
to vanish, at an elevation of nearly 17,000 feet. Ve-
getation extends, in Kunawur, to 16,000 feet ; nay,
the Tama, or Tartaric furze, is found at 17,000 feet ;
birches reach as high as 14,000 feet, and the Rhodo-
dendron Lepidotunt, above them. Crops of barley,
buck-wheat, and turnips, were seen by M. Gerard, at
an elevation of 13,600 feet (though in Chimborazo,
even grasses disappear, at 13,325 feet) ; and, a little
lower, the ground was covered with thyme, sage, and
other aromatic herbs, sweet-briar, and gooseberry
bushes. At 10,000 feet are apricot orchards ! It is a
curious scientific fact, and an interesting circumstance
to European travellers, that the zoology and botany of
these Alpine regions exhibit many of the ordinary and
familiar species of Northern Europe.—Royle's Natu-
ral History of the Himalayas.
THE PICKPOCKET'S
TEST OF SKILL.—
When the sneak comes into the hands of the pick-
pocket, he is instructed and practised every hour of
the day, until made tolerably perfect : he is then taken
into the streets, to make his first essay in the presence of
those who have taught him ; and it has been given in
evidence, that they dress up a lay figure, hanging bells
all over it, on which they practise. When the tyro
can empty all the pockets of the figure, without occa-
sioning a bell to sound, he is considered fit for the
street. He generally begins with a pocket handker-
chief, whilst another takes " ding," that is, receives
it from him. In almost all cases of robbery, 0110
commits the act, and another receives the article fr_oT
the thief, which is called takingding." If they: ,
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a boy dull, they forthwith turn him out of their p t

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)

The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Suffolk, Lorti
Howard of Effingham, Lord Wynford, and the Bishop
of Rochester sat in the Heim or Lords at tvrelit
o'clock to-day to hear English appeals.
_
- qr. lordships on the part-

Mr. KNIGHT addressed their lordships
heard appeal of Toulmin v. Copland, the question
in which related to extensive partnership transactions
between the husband of the appellant and the re-
spondent, who some years ago carried on the business
of navy-agents, in Surrey-street, Strand.

COURT OP CHANCEitt.-(TiiiB DM;:

CLAYTON V. ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
The Loan CHANCELLOR WaS occupied till 12 o' iclock
in hearing the further arguments in this pa-
case ; at which time his Lordship left the Court for
the purpose of sitting in the House of Lords to be&
appeals,