The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-27 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent 991 Portuguese, 5 per cent.... 651
Belgian, 5 per cent 99/ Ditto, Reg. Bonds
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent. 25 Russian Bonds, 5 per cent 163.1
Chilian, 6 per cent. 25/ Ditto, Metallic 103;
Columbian, 6 per cent Spanish, 5 per cent 3O;
Ditto, 1824 ................... 0,4/ Ditto, 1823 2B}
Danish ........................... 751 French 5 per Cent.... —1 —c.
Greek, 5 per cent 2Bl, Exchange
Mexican 5 per Cents, 1825 311 French 3 per Cent --f. —c.
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1825 3B/ Dutch, 24 per cent 491
I'eruvian 6 per Cent. 2Ol Ditto, 5 per cent. 971

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VIE MARKETS:-(TITS 13AV.)

HAY MARKETS.—( At per Lo,d of 36 Tru3ses.)
CUMBERLAND.

Supply good, trade dull, alai prices as last tooted.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Haw £3 10 to £3 15
New ,eaduw Hay .. . 0 0 0 0
Ifieful Old Ditto
Fne Upland Meadow and Oye.grass iiav 4 6 4 10
Cover flay 4 5 5 0
Oat Straw CI Bto ..-1: I 101 Wlt••.t. ,t, a, ~. 1 12 1 14
SMITHFIELD.
A moderate supply, and a very dull trade; prices as last quottd
Cud,. heavy I...wland Meadow Hay £3 5 to £3 10
Vew Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto 3 10 3 15
F.ne t'pland Nteadow and itye-grass Hay 4 0 4 4
;!over Hay (extra fine)...C4 15... Generally
at Straw .., £1 12 to .C 1 14 I Wheat -craw 1 14 1 10
lIUNGERFOHD.
A limited supply, and a sluggish trade.
Coarse Meadow Hay £3 5 to £3 10
New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto
Floe Upland Meadow and nye.grass Hay 4 2 4 6
Clover Hay 1 0 4 15
Cat Straw £1 Bto .C 1 1, I Wheat Straw.... 112 116

Many of the leading and influential members
iif the Universi•y of Canthridee, though highly sensilsle or
she value of the Duke of W,llington's inrerferem•e on a
Lite °cession, feel, it iv said, not a little mortified at. the
silt-et-ice and the silence of their own Chanclior, the Duk-
of (doucester, on the presentation of the petition in favour
of the Dissenters.

The Committee on Captain Ross's claims met
yesterday to consider their Report, which we learn is
i'.vourable to the Gallant Of cause.

The late Mr. Adair, in landed and personal
estates, is suimosed to have been one of the wealthiest
individuals in the kingdom.

Extract of a private letter from Quebec, dated
Feb. 14 You may have had some accounts of the
state of business here, but you cannot form a correct idea
of the depression unless you were on the spot. In summer
was expected the fall trade world be better ; the reverse,—
cales have dwindled to insignificance : in wholesale and
retail at this moment literally nothing doing. Collations
the same. Newly half of the retailers have been obliged
to close, no: being able to take up the notes they had
granted in the spring. One auctioneer has been obliged
to retire to the amount of:15,000/. This crisis is alarming.
In the States the distress, though only beginni.g, is alre dy
beyond expectation ; exchange down to 4 per cent, under
pa, ; speculations in shares, bonds, cinals, rairrulds, banks,
Szc., have been carried beyond all just calculation."
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PARIS.—
A ridi :talons story was got up some time ago of a mis-
und.intanding between the Court of Stockholm and the
Court of the Tuileries, between the old ex-General of N.po-
leon and the Citizen King of the French, respecting their
oriein or their dignities. It wus stated that King Charles
John, though a soldier of fortune, did not like to be re
presented as the cumarade of a corporal on the French
stage, and that he got angry with his Royal brother for
not preventing the dr .tnatic scandal. As it is always
alutea,le to mike out a goad and perfect story when the
proper foundation is laid, it was added that Louis
Philip, to booth the wounded pride of the Swedish
Monarch, by showing that he had a brother in misfonune,
ind to c invince Into et the sime time that he had no
power to eirvorce the suppression of the obnoxious farce.
sent him some of the numerous car c.tures in which he
himself is held up to 'he derision of his people in his own
capital •ind at the very gars of his own palace. This
appears not to have been sari-factory, awl in order to
complicate matters, a misunderstanding was added respect-
trig a neglect shown by Louis Philip, to the young
Duke of Leuchtenberg, to whose sister, we believe,
t,e Crown Prince of Swerten is married. The stitemeni
seemed not at all improbable ; and you may state, on the
sest aut, way, that it had not in it a single word of
ti tub. It is, indeed, a fact, that the French Ambassador
was lately recalled from Stockholm; but his recall had
not any relation to the acting of a French farce, or to
the neglect of a German Prince. It was solely owing to
an offence taken by Louis Philip at some onservations
made by Charles John, in familiar conversation with the
French Ambassador, on the weakness of the French
Government, in permiiing so many tumults in the streets
of Paris. Tills language of blame being conveyed to the
Court of the Tuileries as expressive of the sentiments of a
foreign Prince, who had no right to deliver an opinion on
such a swiject, gave umbrage to the susceptible temper
of the citizen King, and caused the temporary alienation
between the Co9rts, which ce lard as soon as explana-
tions could be offered or received.—Times.

WOOL IN FRANCE.—The result of a table,
just published by the Admioibtration of the Customs,
shows that in the course of the year 1833, the importations
of wool into France amounted to 10,725,952 kiit•grammil,
the total value in tiatics being 23,0 1.0, 42, of which
9,310,702 kilogrammes, of the value of 19,182,894 francs,
were used in the manufactories of France.

The cod fishing off the Isle of Man is just
now very prosperous. One but alone took upwards of
1,300 fish last week, off Port-le.Airy, and si venal have
talc, n on board at one drawing of the lines upwards of 400
fi.ie fi.h. The prices have been 6d., 9d., to 11. each.—
Whitehaven Herald.

A fine young sturgeon, which measured 4 feet
2 inches in lengtn, and weighA 241b5., was caught last
week at all Quay, by a man who sold it to Mr. Tutte,
fishmonger, at whose house the fish was exhibited for one
evening. Mr. T. forwarded the sturgeon to London the
next morning as a present to his Majesty. _Brighton Goz

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, MARCH
25.—We have had a good demand for cotton to day.
The operations reach 3,500 bap, chitfly American
descriptions, at full prices.

:MONEY OF NO USE.—When Spencer (the
author of " View of the State of Ireland,") and his wife
were forced in great distress to fly from their hon•e, which
was burnt in the Irisn rebellion, the Earl of Essex sent
him 20 pieces ; but he refused them, telling the person
that brought them, he was sure be had no time to spend
th•m.—Mirror.

RIGHTS OF COLOURED PEOPLE IN THE
UNITED STATES.-Some months since, a coloured person
brought an action in the Common Pleas at Boston, fur
damages, against a master of a steam boat, for refusing to
admit his wile into the hdies' cabin, although her passage
had been paid in advance. The cause was decided in favour
of the plaintiff, but was afterwards reversed by the Supreme
Court.

We are concerned to state that Francis Douce,
Esq., the celebrated antiquarian, lies dangerously ill at his
house iu Gower-street, without hopes of recovery. He
is upwards of SO years of age, and one of the oldest and
most distinguished members of the Antiquarian Society,
and has been a gentleman of great research, and well
versed in ancient lore. lie is the author of " "ham
tions of Sbakspeare," and editor of " Holbein's Dance of
Death."

UNUSUAL DROUGHT.—At the village of
Easton, near Stamford, every well is dry. The inhabi-
tants are wholly supplied with water by means of carts
from a neighbouring sdring.—Boston Herald.
STORY OF A CAT SUCKLING A MOUSE.—
A eat belonging to Mr. Smith, the respectable bailiff and
agent of the Earl of Lucan, at Laleham, is in the constant
habit of taking her place before the parlour fire. SLe
bad been deprived of all her litter of kittens but one,
and her milk incommoded her. I mention this, in order
to account, in some de,ree, for the following circuin.
stance :—One evening, as the family were seated round
the fire, they observed a mouse m eking its way from the
cupboard which was near the fire-place, and lay itself
down on the stomach of the cat, as a kitten would do
when she is going to suck. Surprised at what they saw,
and afraid of disturbing the mouse, which appeared to be
fu'l grown, they did not immediately ascertain whetter
it was in the act of sucking or not. After remaining with
be cat a considerable length of time, it returned to the
cupbo ird. These visits were repeated on several other
occasions and were witnessed by many pers,.ns. The
cat not only appeared to expect the mouse, but uttered
that sort of greeting purr which the animal is so well
known to make use of when she is visited by her kitten.
The mouse bad every appearance of being in the act of
sticking the cat; but such was its vigilance, that it re-
treated as soon as a hand was put out to take it up. Wben
the cat, after being absent, returned to the room, her
greeting call was made, and the mouse came to her. The
attachment which existed between these two incongruous
I animals could not be mistaken, and it lasted some time.
The fate of the mouse, like that of most pets, was a
melancholy one. During the absence of its nurse, a
a range cat came into the room. The poor mouse, mis-
taking her for its old friend and protectress, ran out to
meeteeul her,
rescued from
andwa s immediately
her
clutches.seize
d and
Thegrief
oe fofr et
b iet
d be
foster-mother was extreme. On returning to the parlour,
she made her usual call, but no mouse came to meet her.
She was restless and uneasy, went mewiug about the
house, and showed her distress in the most marked man-
tier. What rendered the anecdote I have been relating
the more extraordinary, is the fact of the cat being an
excellent mouser, and that during the time she was show-
i ig so much fondness for the mouse, she was preying upon
"hers with the utmost avidity. She is still alive.—
Jesse's Gleanings in Nataral History.