The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-26 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The Bank, as well as the Stock Exchange and Foreign
Market, are open this morning for business.
Consols are at the same price as they left off on Wcchesda-,
92 to for the. Account, with little doing, although the French
Funds come with an improvement, Rentes Three per Cents.,
76f. 75c. Spanish also higher at Paris, 114. Money conti-
nues scarce, owing to the approaching elections, which has an
effect on the market.

The Foreign Market is agitated. Spanish Stock, which
left off on Tuesday at 541 opened at 54, receded to 534, at
present are 534- 4. Portuguese Stock also receded to 861 y.
-
A great deal of Spanish Stock is coming to Market for Money.

HALF-PAST ONE.
The British Funds, as well as the Foreign, continue ex-
ceedingly heavy.
Consols have receded from 92- to 911 92 for the Account,
with little doing.

Spanish Stock, which was in the early part of the morning
544, has receded to 53k 4, near two per cent. fall. There
were few buyers to any considerable amount, owing to a report
in the Stock Exchange that General Mina was defeated ; but
not much credit is given to the above information from Paris,
which is supposed to be for stock-jobbing purposes.
Portuguese Stock has also declined to 85 fi it was in the
previous part of the day at 861-1. 100,000 of the above
Steck has been brought to Market.

It is stated that the King is coming to town to morrow to
sign the proclamation for the dissolution of Parliament, after
which he will again return to Windsor.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols for Account, 91i 92.

MARSHA LSEA PRISON.—The Lord Steward of
his Majesty's Household having been kindly pleased to bestow
a very liberal and benevolent Christmas Donation, upon tll3
debtors confined in this prison, the same was distribuci yes-
terday, by J. Rutland, Esq., the Duputy Marshti, in a plenti-
ful supply of beef, bread, and porter, exclusive of one shilling
to each individual. That his L6rdship's bounty was most
worthily bestowed could not be more clearly evinced than by
the gratitude expressed, and the good order maintained, on the
occasion.

The City Theatre re-opens this evening with
Leman Rede ; Wild, of the Fitzroy ; Mrs. Chapman (late
Miss Ann Tree); Misses Cooke, Wilkins, Pitt, &c. &c.
Rede is the manager, and, arguing from former success there,
is likely to do well.

A substantial concrete wall, joining the east end of
the present one at St. Leonard's, has been begun, and is to
be continued to the eastward until it meets that at White
Rock. It is now, in the present very favourable weather going
on rapidly.—Brighton Gazette.

EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.---During yesterday
morning seven different cases of accident (two of them com-
pound fractures of the limbs, and to which a fatal termination
is apprehended) arising from intoxication, were brought into
St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
We are sorry to say that the sea has made a consi-
derable breach in the western part of the wall at St. Leonard's,
but that no buildings are endangered thereby, nor is it proba-
ble such will be the case.—Brighton Gazette.
POLAND.—A private letter from Leipsic, of the
13th of December, contains the following. paragraph In
the course of next Spring, a grand review of Russian and
Prussian troops will take place near Kalish, on the Polish
territory." This intelligence has given rise to a variety of
conjectures. The prevailing idea appears to be, that it is in-
tended for the purpose of still further intimidating Poland,
where the general discontent amounts almost to despair. The
latest news from Poland states that the prisons are now quite
empty ; all the prisoners have been sent to Russia and into
Siberia.

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PERSIA.—The late Schah of Persia reigned thirty-
eight years, and is succeeded by Mohammed Mirza, his grand,
son, who has been acknowledged by the Russian and English
Representatives at Teheran. When the last accounts left
about leaving Tabreez for
however, understood that the six brothers
TPeerhseiraan. the
It wag,
Monarch was
of the young Monarch, as well as several of his uncles, would
attempt by force of arms to assert their claims to the crown,
and that there was little chance of a civil war being ikYt*led•
A letter from Toulon of the 10,th. 114' the follow-
ing Qur miOrea yvill positively set sail on Saturday,
not for flip levant, as had been imagiPedo3llt fqf. 4}l(. Hyeres
Isle to practice 1.1,
..0 hlannTlP.9ll cif ,
ttie sails ;And other duti,—
Thp TOPArt§ which huge tlm spread of an apprn--• •
have Olsol from the merchants. P
have inerenspa

—ening war
~.mums of insurance

—iree-told at Marseilles, and there is great
difUeultp in getting ships destined for the Black Sea insured
at all."

DUBLIN.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

(Abridged from the Morning Register of Wednesday.)
CRIM. CON.—HODGENS V. MAHON.
Baron SMITH came upon the Bench about 11 o'clock.
The first witness examined was Margaret Howe. I
know, said she, Mr. Hodgens and Mrs. Hodgens. I was
cook to them. I went to them in February, and continued
in their service until the 17th of March. I have seen Mr.
Mahon. I saw him there different times, and going in
company with Mr. and Mrs. Hodgens three times to the
Castle. I never saw him in the house except those times,
though I have heard of him. I remember, on the 12th of
April, to have seen Mahon coming out of Mr. Mulrennin's,
the portrait-painter. The house-maid, Eliza Devoy, was
with me at the time. I saw Mrs. Hodgens come out first,
and in a short time after Mr. Mahon came out. There
could not be more than three minutes' space between the
time of the two coming out. She came out first and look-
ed about her, and then she went down the street. He came
out afterwards.

Cross-examined by Mr. JACKSON.—The, very day fol-
lowing that on which I saw this we went to tell Mr. Crostue;
the action was not brought at that time, but I thought it
necessary to go.

Counsel—'Who told you it was necessary ? Witness---
Am I no answer ?
Counsel—lndeed you are.

Witness—Well, then, Mr. Hodgens did. The time Mr.
Hodgens desired me to go was the day after she was at
Ashbourne races. I don't know the day of the month of
April of the Ashbourne races, but it must have been early
in the month of May. It must be after that Hodgens
came to me. Hodgens came to me to look for Eliza De-
voy ; there were the three servants of us turned out
without a fault. He desired us to say anything we knew
of Mrs. Hodgens, and I knew nothing of her. It was be-
fore what I saw in Dame-street that Mr. Hodgens came
to me. Mrs. Hodgens went to the Ashbourne races, as f
heard, with Mr. Mahon and Colonel Douglas and his lady-
She went there in a coach-and-four. I was not in the
house at the time of the races. I was not turned away by
the master for telling lies of the mistress. I have got the
discharge from them.

'Thomas Magee, exemined by Mr. LITTON—I know the
gentleman they call Mr. Mahon. I first met him in Ennis-
kr ary, at Quigley's Hotel. I acted as waiter there at that
time. I saw him there about June last. I had a conver-
sation with Mahon. He procured me a situation out of
Quigley's, and I was unacquainted with it until I went home
, to it. He said he would get me a situation as postillion-
H e did get it for me. He told me it would be with a lady,
but did not mention her name. He told me then to call at
No. 9, Sackville-street, to Mr. Freymouth. I went there
? before the time I was desired, and I saw there Mrs. Hod"
Bens, my late mistress, and Dr. Mahon. They were alone.
The Doctor desired me never to go into the room where
) my mistress sat without tipping at the door. I wa
Williams's Hotel six or eight days. I saw Mahon fre-
quently there. He was there almost every day. He Te-
• mained till ten or eleven at night, generally in the evening
late ; I never saw anything particular, more than to see
them together, and stand at the fire. They sat at
the table. I never saw any thing more particular
than that, and I went in, through mistake, two or
three times, without tipping at the door. O'Gorrna°
Mahon, Mr. O'Keeffe, and Colonel Douglas were amongst
the visitors at the hotel to Mrs. Hodgens. After that she
went to Gayfield, General Luscombe's place. I went there
to her as footman. He stopped the first night she went to
Gayfield until ten o'clock. She stopped there about five
months. I left four or five days before she did. I salt;
Mahon in that house frequently. He often stopped a"
night ; but I cannot say whether he slept ther.—(Lang,":
ter.) I mean that he stopped the whole of the night"
There was a bed-room allotted there for him. Her bed-
room, that of Mr. Mahon's, and Mr. Walshe's, were on tbs
same lobbv.—(Laughter.) On' of these rooms was Mr'
Holwell VValshe's. I could not call any one my master.
One person hired me, another said they hired me. One
d
paid me part of my wages, and Mr. Holwell Walshe
me the remainder.—(Laughter.) Mrs. Hodgens acted at
my mistress. There have been ladies there on a vislti
o.:e night I heard a noise, and I was in the habit always °
locking the doors at night. I found the noise was in 1)1'
Mahon's room. I heard in that room the voices of rei;
mistress and Doctor Mahon. That was about eleven a"
night. There was no family in the house but the servants;
and I was the last up. After that I had, upon one occa-
sion, sion, to go up to Doctor Mahon's room early in the nor',
ing. I always went np with his boots. I did not seet_end
one in bed with him in the morning. I saw her in his "4°,-1•
room. The room was quite dark. I went to the f°e,"he-r
the bed, and I knew my mistress was there, for I heard oss
voice in the bed. I thought, up to that time, my mistreat
was. a proper lady. When I saw them in bed it vas a
night. I saw her partly throu,rh the door another monlci
ing, in his bed-room, and I then went down stairs. Idi
not think it proper to go in.
Cross-examined by Mr. BENNETT-4 am the man that
is called Tom. I will answer any 'thing that lam called'
There is a woman called Eliza Fleming. She was there a"
the time. I lived in the house with her. She never sval)
called Eliza Magee. That was an empty title.—(Laughter'/
Will Tommy Magee ?
Mr. O'CoNNELL—Is this Tommy Magee ?—(Laughter")
Mr. BENNETT—This is Tommy Magee.—(Laughter;)t
To witness—Are you fond of tithes ? Witness—l do°
understand you.
Mr. O'CONNELL—Oh! then, this is not Tommy Magee.
—(Laughter.)
e ,
?
Mr. BENNETT—Gentlemen of fashion were the"r
There were gentlemen, but I am no judge of fashio°L
(Laughter.) mid they smoke cigars ? Yes. Did t':y
e
use a pipe—you understand me ? There was many ocii
thy;-e. I never got a pipe of Lord Kingsborough's. i pip
seas
these parties three times together. I cannot say what a
the time I first saw them together. Between the first ae
second time was from the 13th to 17th October—that isk,,
to the best of my opinion. The first time was, I t";hat
about the 13th or 16th October, and the reason I saY, 'her
is, I saw them together in the one week. I hear"
„dint
voice in the room a few days before I left her. I °The
say the length of time, whether a week or fortnight. . ,
time I first saw any unchaste freedom was at night trlest
There was no one in the house but the servants and OK
that time. I suspected something wrong ; because where ev ns
thing was right below, I suspected something must be lir
above. Mahon and Mrs. Hodgens wanted me to swear ao ajd
davit that I saw nothing between them. I told them le°
not do so. I cannot tell how long I remained in the g.era,
vice after I told Mr. Hodgens. I told him there Nra' Ito
propriety going on between his lady and 'Mr. MalO'
the best of my opinion. Ido not recol",ect where it 01s
~oa.
told him first. I once spoke to hiln out in Cullen's-"'`-tee
I went into prayers in the town, and he came out after
to Cullen's-wood, himself and another woman ; I ""
Mrs. Kelly is her nam,:,.
Eliza Fleming ejkarnined by Mr. O'CONNELL--- k'
-11
Mr. Hodgens., and Mrs. Hodgens. I lived with her' en
,vent to 1.1.ie with her the 25th March last. She was al's,
10.. `._-tephen's-green ; I also lived with her in Freyin°llci at
in Sackville-street. I saw Mahon in the afternoon anvil',
night at Freyrnouth's. He was there without any
else. The latest hour I have known him to be with 14,
Hodgens was between twelve and one at night. I renla'aa
her him coming with other gentlemen, Mr. O'Keeff_e'avia
Colonel Douglas, and O'Gorman Mahon. I have °went
of his coming to the house after these gentlemen
tit to
away. I remember leaving him after me. I went ° hut-
buy butter of a Saturday night. I told my mistres_actor
ter was wanted, and she desired me to go ; I left Pf..atc,
Mahon after me ; after I returned I found the back-'"daer
ing room closed against me ; the front drawing-rootil and
was open ; there were folding doors between the front o,
back room ; I heard a bustle--walking like, and ther, the
ing door open, and Mrs. Hodgens came and unlock" sly
door, and looked at me, and asked me was I sick ; slf,cas
peared as if confused, and her hair was tossed ; I sold
the
net sick ; she said she had locked the door to keep the
people of the house from pimping ; there was alight ~,
ck
front drawing-room ; I did not see any one in the in
drawing-room ; this was 11 at night ; Dr. Mahon
rv't oas
9;
the front drawing-room ; no one was there but my Os
he was at the table reading a book.
Mr. O'CONNELL—He came to finish his stuch.6s..;.t
(Laughter.) The latest hour I knew of Mahon comineone
night was between 10 and 11. He rapped and rung her
night. The boy was opening the door. She was Ll' eto
bed-room, and came down along with me. She told waling
settle his bed-room, that he was ill from eating sore°
that disagreed with him. tl?'
The case closed for the plaintiff by reading orders,,,
000
inuff
Court of Chancery relative to the marriage of the 1.
with Mrs. Hodgens, and the settlement of property' upon
her, upon which she was entitled to receive dividends
her own receit.
riciant,
Mr. WALSIIp E rose to address the Jury for the dete
when the Court rose, and the case was adjourned.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, DEC. 2-•-",,,itP
The
A,
sales in cotton to-day amount to upwards of 2,000 bale 99 150
a
rather a heavy market, at the prices of yesterday, vii.,i3d.
Pernams, lkfd. and 13d. ; 200 Maranhams, 12id. and fon'
70 Bahias, 110. to I lid. ; the remainder in American,
8i d. to lid. of
daps since,
tow d S t." the
an- -y, of Acton-lodge, was sitting 'vi
of
P 'Mrs. Montg.omery, the liber
ab
Colonel Monto,7ner
_aghter and Lady Byron, near the window of on? ~. were
parlours, in which several canaries and other fancy kiradvarting
kept, they were much alarmed by a fine sparrowha.:,,vtunatel
through a large square of glass towards the birds. P°: calle"
he missed his aim, and the servants being immediate,' 00 tbi
in, the hawk was soon captured alive, and is still kopl
premises.