The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-14 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.--(THIS DAY.)

This morning these sessions commenced befdre the right
hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and Aldermen Brown,
Scholey, Laurie, Marshal, and Harmer.

The• RECORDER congratulated the Grand Jury that
the calendar of prisoners on the London side was unpre-
cedentedly slight.

DISOBEDIENCE OF THE ORDER OF A MAGISTRATE.
John Staples and George Casewell were charged upon
a voluminous indictment with having disobeyed the pe-
remptory order of a magistrate.
31r. BULLOCK, in the absence of the Common Ser-
geant, appeared for the prosecution, which was instituted
by the City Solicitor.
Mr. AooLmfus said he appeared on the other side.
His clients were connected with a benefit society, and an
order had been made relative to the payment of money,
which, perhaps from a mistaken view of the law, they had
not obeyed. He hoped that as there was no objection on
the part of the City 1-3oliciter, the case might stand ad-
journed.

The LORD MATox and RECORDER expressed a hope
that no bargain had been made with the Court.
The CITY SOLICITOR said that no such thing was con-
templated, and perhaps on the adjournment day the de-
fendants would confess judgment.
The trial was postponed, and the other business was
speedily disposed of, so that the jury were discharged with-
in a quarter of an hour after they were impannelled.

THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.)
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
We have no arrivals as yet of the least consequence ; but
we learn from a quarter on which reliance can be placed,
that the Regency of Portugal has signed the treaty sent out
by the Pembroke.
The express from Paris is again of a meagre descrip-
tion ; but letters received from Madrid, to the 6th inst., at
Paris bring the information of the ratification of the treaty
between England, France, Spain, and Portugal ; and it
was expected that on the arrival of the next courier he
would bring the decree fur the assembling of the Cortes.
The affairs of Switzerland are becoming important. French
funds, 79f. 50c. ; Spanish, 29%.
THE FUNDS.
Consols opened at 92% 3/4 for the account.
This being settling day in the Foreign Market, they are
busy making up their accounts, which are heavy in Spanish
and Portuguese. Spanish, 35% 1,4 ; Portuguese, 78%.
HALF-PAST ONE,
We have no further information this morning than that
the treaty sent to Portugal has been approved of by Don
Pedro, and its signature will be sent over by the Pembroke.
The settling of the Account in the Foreign Market to
the present time appears to be going of well.
Spanish Stock heavy at 35 ; Portuguese 78% 1,4.
Consols maintain the price of 92%, buyers, for the Ac-
count.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 92%.

Several young debutantes are expected to
make their debut at her Majesty's Drawing-room to-
morrow. Among them are the Hon. Miss Charlotte
Stuart, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Stuart de
Rothsay ; the Hon. Miss Gage, daughter of Viscount
Gage ; and the Hon. Miss Harbord, daughter of Lord
Suffield.

The most extensive arrangements are making
at Oxford for the inauguration festival of the Duke of
Wellington. A ddeung to 1,000 persons will form a
prominent feature in the series of entertainments,
which will continue for five days. The price demanded
for lodgings during the festival is most enormous.

The Middlesex county rate for the current
quarter is double what it has been for the last two
quarters, being for St. George, Hanover-square,
2,1621. ls., instead of 1,082/. Bs. 6d. The pa-
rishioners have no control over this expenditure ; it is
high time they had.
ANOTIIER ILLUSTRATION OF TIIE EF-
FECT OF OUT-DOOR RELIEF.—A woman, named
Brown, applied for relief at St. George's, Hanover-
square, as a casual pauper, living in Oxford-buildings,
and obtained 3s. The same day another woman sub-
sequently applied, who stated that her husband had
left her with three children. It afterwards appeared
that she had hired the three children of the woman
Brown for fourpence.

A report, not generally believed, is in circu-
lation that Mr. Sanford is about to resign his seat for
West Somerset.—Felix Farley's Bristol Journal.

Letters to Nantes from Para, of 6th March,
state that great agitation prevailed there. A party of
natives, which is very numerous and strong, speaks of
a separation of that place from the metropolis (Rio
Janeiro). A religious Canon, who has great influence
over the Indians, is the leader of the party.
The Middlesex Magistrates this morning, in
order to facilitate the business of the Old Bailey, by
enabling the Grand Jury, directed them to find bills
exclusively connected with that court ; and in order
that the petit jury might not lose unnecessary time,
they were discharged until one o'clock to-morrow
afternoon. The court was, however, obliged to be
kept open, and three magistrates in attendance to sit
constantly on the bench during the day, as that num-
ber is required to form a court of session of the peace
for the purpose of endorsing the bills as " sworn in
court," in order to avoid a repetition of the mistake,
which, some time ago, plunged the two courts into
so much difficulty.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,
THIS DAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at twenty minutes past
twelve:

On the motion of Mr. SHAWE LEFEVRE, several
clauses were added, by way of riders, to the London and
Southampton Railway Bill, after which the hill was read a
third time and passed.
Mr. WILLIAM ROCHE brought in the Limerick
Bridge Bill, which was read a first time.
Mr. HALCOMB presented a petition from the Lon-
don and Greenwich Railway Company against the Ber-
mondsey Water-works Company.
THE DORCHESTER UNIONISTS.
Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD presented petitions from
sixteen thousand of the working classes o Birming-
ham—tWo thousand two hundred females of Nottingham—
the members of the Council of the Political Union of Bir-
mingham, and the members of the Political Union of
Tewkesbury, praying for a remission of the sentence
passed upon the Dorchester labourers. The hon. member
contended at some length against the legality of the sen-
tence, and declared that, in his opinion, a month's impri-
sonment would have been an ample punishment for the
offence of which they had been convicted.