The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-10 00:00:00

ROYAL SINKING FUND.

In execution of the provision in the royal decree
of the Ist of March, 1830, the board of the sinking
fund has resolved to proceed to the payment of the
interest on all the consolidated debt falling due in
the half-year ending April 1.
From that day there will be received from the
holders of inscriptions of rent payable to bearer at
and 5 per cent., the coupons of the said half-year
in the treasury of the sinking fund, where their va-
lue will be paid, on being presented with a note
stating their numbers and sums.
The holders of coupons of the preceding half-
years will present them with as many notes as there
may be half-years which they have to receive.
In the same manner will be received in the office
of the fund, and by the provincial commissioners,
from the said Ist day of April to the 17th of May,
both inclusive, all the effects of the said debt which
may result from receipts in the form aria with the
distinctions which follow :
IN THE MADRID OFFICE OF THE SINKING FUND.

Inscription extracts transferable at 5 per cent.

Ditto transferable at 4 per cent.
Certificates of Debt not negotiable atp per cent.

REMAINDEIti OR FRACTIONS OF CAPITALS.
Temporary documents of credit with transferable
interest at 5 per cent.
Ditto of capital at 4 per cent.
Ditto of perpetual rent, payable in Madrid at 5
per cent.

Ditto of ditto at 4 per cent.
BY THE PROVINCIAL COMMISSIONS.

Inscription extracts transferable at 5 per cent.
Ditto transferable at 4 per cent.
Certificates of debt not negotiable at 5 per cent.

REMAINDERS OR FRACTIONS OF CAPITALS.

Temporary documents of credit with transferable
interest at .5 p r cent.
Ditto of transferable capital at 4 per cent.
Each class of documents requiring the production
of receipts shall be presented by the holders entirely
separate, with two equal envelopes of the size of
half a sheet at least, dated and subscribed by the
parties interested, as has been constantly practised
with regard to this class of presentations, it being
understood that no claims will be admitted in which
the said classes are mixed. _ . _

The class of documents, their numbers from less
to greater, and their values, are to be expressed in
the envelopes, and on the inscription extracts is b-
sides to be stated the series to which they belong.
Effects, even though of the same class, will not
be admitted if the amount of the half-years of in-
terests arising from their creation be not equal, fur
those documents which represent arrears are to be
presented separately, and with as many envelopes
as there are passed half-years to be received, and,
moreover, a duplicate, with suitable expression, in
order to the giving therein the proper guarantee.
In like manner mixed documents, appertaining to
different proprietors, will not be admitted, it being
required that those belonging to each individual or
corporation, though the authority for collecting the
amount should be united in one and the same ap-
plication, in virtue of different powers or represen-
tations.

There shall be presented with the inscription ex-
tracts, the property of which has changed hands
since the preceding half-year, the legal documents
fully proving the right of the new possessor or heir,
by testament or last will, accompanied by a legalized
attestation, including the form of the title, the he-
ritable clause, and the conclusion and date of the
testament whereby the property was conveyed from
the former owner, with the adjuthcation of the ef-
fects presented; and if by any other mode, except
sale, with the proceedings requisite to prove the
conveyance of the property or possession, in order
to the official verification of the transfer to the new
possessor, and moreover always accompanied by the
power in case of presentation by second persons.
The persons who present the certificates of the
unnegotiable debt and other consolidated credits
connected with entailed property, corporations, and
pious institutions, must accompany the certificates
with the documents necessary to justify the legal
representation which they hold thereof, with the
powers, numbers, legalized in due form, adding
thereto with respect to the entails, capellanias, and
other foundations, of which the possessor has the
mere usufruct, the certificate of life, also legalized,
bearing a date posterior to the falling due of the
half year which is to be received.
With the remainders, or temporary documents
which are indorsable, the same rules are to be ob-
served as formerly with the vales reales. They will
riot be received with blank signatures, nor when
they change hands by the disposal of the legatees,
tutors, or heirs with indorsements to themselves.
Such indorsements being then considered null, the
documents ought to be transmitted for fresh indorse-
ments to the proper persons by the legatees, judges,
attorneys, as legally authorised so to act.
The board, being aware that there are in Spain
some holders of rentes payable in foreign markets,
has considered it proper to give notice that all suit-
able arrangements have been adopted, and the ne-
cessary funds provided for the punctual discharge of
the same in the respective markets, as well of those
which fall due on the Bth of March next, belonging
to the English claims, as those which complete their
period on the Ist of April following, with respect
to the three per cent.
The individuals who have transactions with re-
spect to the interest on funds in consequence of
powers or other authorities, and have not justified
in the office of the sinking fund, shall appear in the
same office on the 15th of next March, to present
the documents by which they are authorized, in
order that it may be ascertained whether they are
in condition to present the credits at the proper
time without delay or impediment.
For the purpose of facilitating the payment of the
interest, which is to take place in the treasury of
the sinking fund in this city, notwithstan itig the
accumulation of documents which are presented, the
numerous classes into which they are divided, and
to despatch the greatest amount of business possible
in each day, it has been thought fit to make the
following classification:—
From the Ist of April until the 14th, both in-
clusive, there will be paid the coupons or titles of
rent to bearers, viz.—

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 4 per
Cents.; Thursday and Friday, the 5 per Cents.
From the 15th, inclusive and forwards, in which
the delivery to the parties interested of the other
classes of receipts which remain indicated will take
place, the payment of all the classes will continue,
divided in the following manner:—

-- -
'Vouch), and Tuesday, 4 per Cent. coupons and
receipts which are entitled remainders to the bearer
of 4 per Cents.

On Wednesday, 5 per cent. coupons, and re-
ceipts for 5 per cent. remainders to bearer.
Thursday, receipts for the interest proceeding
from the 5 per cent. transferable and not transfer-
able debt.

Friday, receipts for 4 per Cent. transferable in-
scriptions, and also 4 per Cent. transferable re-
mainders.

On those days the respective payments will be
made, but not on the others, which are destined to
other classes. •

The period fixed for presenting the bends of the
consolidated debt being allowed to elapse, there will
then be no claim to the payment of interest ad-
mitted until the half-year following, conformable to
the provision in the Royal decree of the 18th of
March, 1830.

Finally, the Board is desirous that the parties in-
terested should contribute to facilitate the prompt
execution of this operation, preserving the greatest
uniformity in the mode of drawing up the state-
ments for presentation in the envelopes, according
to the models established since the half-year of the
Ist of October, 1832, and which are exhibited at
the entrance of the office occupied by the establish-
ment in the Commercial Exchange of this city, and
in the Provincial Commissions,

MOST CURIOUS FACT-A FAIRY TALE.

Yesterday, a poor old woman applied to the head po•
lice office, and stated the following very curious circum-
stances :—She said her name was Kearns; she was a
widow, and with her daughter, Mary Kearns, a very
handsome young woman, lived at Toornevara, in the
county Tipperary. Both supported themselves by needle-
work. About a fortnight since there came to the house
a woman, whose name is since ascertained to be Mary
Mac, otherwise Fitzgerald ; whose age seemed to be forty
black-haired, a small red face, slightly pock-
marked, wearing an old red coat, and a blue flannel petti-
coat. This woman pretended to be what the people in
that part of the country designate " a fairy worn-an"—one
who not only could tell fortunes, but knew the haunts of
" the good people," and was able even to raise the
d: ad. This wretch, by the story of her gifts, so influ-
enced the mind of the young girl, that she believed Mary
Mac to possess all the powers she boasted of. In a con-
versation with the young girl one day, she told her that
her father was not dead; that she knew he was with the
fairi.a, and asked the young girl if she could wish then
to see her father. The young girl replied she was afraid ;
but the fairy woman spoke to some accomplice who was
concealed, and an answer was given in the hearing of the
young girl. A voice was heard to declare, "I am your
father." The girl asked him if he would not remain with
them. " No," exclaimed the voice, " I cannot leave the
fairies yet, but I shall be home with you in four days."
This appeared to be glorious news to the deluded girl, and
the fairy woman then told her that they would have to go
to a place that it would require them two days to walk to
and two to return, and that it would be necessary for
them to procure some money, which she would have to
, pay in a certain place before the father could he got back.
Under this persuasion the'girl left the house with the fairy
woma,. The mother was absent at the time, and on her
return she discovered that her only child was taken from
her, and their little home stripped of every article of value.
The fairy woman, whose dress we have described, had, it
is known, two companions, one a person who was called
gay Fitzgerald, having black hair, cut short behind,
wearing an old patched petticoat, with white pockets,
and who is suppo-Td to be a man in woman's clothes.
The other, called Peter Fitzgerald, a boy about twelve
or thirteen years of age, spoke with a Limerick ac-
e'llt• and wore a grey frieze coat, corduroy trousers, and
a straw hat. These persons, with their dupe, have been
traced horn Toornevara to Alonasterevan. The unfor-
tunate mother of the girl appeared in the police-office,
in a state of distraction, as her impression was that her
daughter bad been murdered by these miscreants. So
much is the character of this woman respected in the
neighbourhood where she lives, that a reward of 501. has
been offered by the inhabitants for the discovery of her
daughter, and a letter was received at-the head-office from
a magistrate at Toomevara, requesting the co-operation of
the police, in searching for Mary Kearns, and apprehend-
ing those who have taken her from borne.—Dublin Morn-
ing Register, Thursday.

GRAVESEND.—The foundations of the new
pier are rapidly progressing, and the new chapel will
soon be ready for its roof. The Water Works Company
have laid down pipes in High. street, which is to be re-
paved ; and the whole town is the scene of much prepara-
tory bustle for the approaching season. Tbe regular
boats have brought about 130 passengers from town at
every trip during the winter. Last summer 3,000 persons
were landed from different boats in one day. Land in the
neighbourhood has increased immensely in value, and there
is little doubt that Gravesend will soon become one of the
most thriving places in the kingdom.
A MAN POISONED BY HIS WIFE.—An
inquest was held last week at Hurst Green, near Black-
burn, on the hody of Roger Holden, a labourer, who was
paiscned by his wife. The parties lived on the most un-
friendly terms, in consequence of a jealousy on the part of
the deceased, who was 45 years of age, that his wife, aged
only 29, was connected with another man. In consequence
of these disagreements, she formed the diabolical scheme
of poisoning him. With this view she prevailed upon a
neighbouring shopkeeper to bring her half a pound of
arsenic from Blackburn, for the purpose, as she alleged,
of destroying fleas. Her husband being in the habit, on
his return from work in the evening, of drinking a little
tea or coffee from the teapot, she placed the arsenic in this
vessel among some coffee. It stood two nights without
his touching it; but on the evening in question, being ra-
ther thirsty, and seeing the teapot upon the table, he
asked her if she had anything for him to drink? She re-
plied, " Eigh, there's the pat ;" on which he took it up
and drank heartily of its contents. Immediately on re-
ceiving it, he went out, with the intention of going to the
house of a relation, but before he arrived he dropped down
and shortly after expired. The wife being taken into
custody, she confessed her guilt, but added, with apparent
confidence of safety—" But mind, though I put the stuff
in the pot, I dio'nt give it him—he took it himself." A
verdict of " Wilful murder" having been returned, the
wretched female was committed to Lancaster Castle to
take her trial at the Assizs.

OPENING OF THE PARLIAMENT, FEB. 4,
1834.—This was the anniversary of the day in which I
enlisted as a soldier in the 54th regiment of foot; and I
could not hear the cannons fire without recollecting that
act of my life; and I could not see Sir Edward Knatch-
hull i❑ the House (which I did when the cannon was
firing) without recollecting seeing him (a pretty little boy)
in a green coat or jacket, led by his fither, walking along
before the line, on the parade at Chatham, while I was
standing in the ranks, with a cap and feather on my head,
and with a good " brown bens," as we used to call it,
against my shoulder. What delight Providence seems to
have in showing its power over us, and tossing us about
in this sort of way.—Cobbetes Register.
EXTRAORDINARY PIKE.—A few days ago,
Mr. George Lotnas, late park and gamekeeper to Sir W.
Heygate, Bart., took out of Rothley brook, adjoining the
river Soar, a pike, weighing 19.31b5. A short tine sinte,
Mr. L. took out of a creek, adjoining the river Trent,
another pike, which weighed 2 i -Vbs. and when opened,
there was found iu its belly, a young pike, weighing 2,ilbs
—Leicester Journal.

PETER SIMPLE; SECOND EDITION.—Life,
as seen on tbeocea.n in all its interesting and imaginable
varieties, dtscrmination of character, an exhaustless fund
of bumour;•afid touches of the highest order of feeling,
are all_abotdiding in this nautico classical work. If the
power to jricite laughter be, as some say, in the ratio to
the gravity of the exciter, Captain Marryat must be a
very serious character indeed. His book is good for the
spleen.
In the discussion relative to the exile of the
family of Napoleon, there is a circumstance to which Mi-
nisters did not allude, and which Marshal Soult had not
the courage to confess. This was, however, the motive
upon which the decision of the government was founded.
The exile of Napoleon's family was stipulated for by a
secret treaty with the Allied Powers, in September, 1815,
and these treaties, as it is well known, have become an ark
of the covenant, which must not be touched.—Courrier

Francais.
UNNATURAL PARENT.—At the Rochdale
police office, on Monday, Ihtty Waugh was committed
to the New Bailey for twelve months, as " a lewd and
disorderly woman." Her infant, only two months old,
was offered to her, but she declared she would not touch
it. A woman was sent with the infant to the New Bailey,
but the unnatural parent refused to receive it, saying she
would rather be shot than ult., it into her arms. The help.
less little creature was brought back to Rochdale.—Hali-
fax Express.
GROWTH OF SCANDAL.—In her new novel
entitled," Wen," Miss Edgeworth has devoted many
pages t exposition of the rise and
.progress of the
fashio a e Ace of detraction. First, a mistaken word—
then
faint surmise, followed by a broad assertion of mis-
named facts, ending in newspaper paragraphs, and the
apcucbulsiceaf
dtipni of ca
parties may
sinardyibaleouws vhoilillyum.ineo;orh
innocent
all
tn
ot. ttleiewohhilaergthe
e.
Surely nothing merits the lasl4. of the saiiiist more than
thiso vice. A
few days since, a respectable farmer in the
neighbourhood of Carlisle shot himself, in a fit of lunacy,
The unfortunate man went into his barn, and having
affixed his gun to a cart, he had contrived, it is supposed,
to pull the trigger with, his foot, and shot himself through
the breast. He died almost instantly. —Whitehaven
Herald.
On Saturday an inquest was held at the
King's Arms Tavern, White Conduit-fields, Islington, on
the body of George Granger, Esq., aged fifty-seven, late a
magistrate for the county of Sussex. The deceased,
having for some time been afflicted in his mind, was pre-
vailed on to abandon his iragisterial duties, and to lodge
in a cheerful part of Islington, in the house of Mr. Bur-
rington, of White Conduit-grove. He was under a delu-
sion that he was afflicted by syphilis, and his medical at-
tendants were actually obliged to humour him by subject-
ing him to a mild salivation. On Thursday morning
Mr. Barrington, who slept over the room of the deceased,
heard a noise like the running of water in the deeeisei's
apartment, and, on going there, found deceased with his
Ott oat cut. lie died in a few minutes. Verdict
4., Insanity."

S. S.
40 -

30 33

42 44
s.d. s.d.
00 00
56 60
50 53
56 60
60 67
00 06
56 60

86 100
79 89
86 90
80 89

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-March 7.'
Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suflblk -s. 445. to 48s. fin• 50..
Lin. and Cam. -s. 425. to 475. fine 495.
Yorkshire -s. 425. to 4Als. fine 48s.
- White -s. 475. to 525. fine 553.
- Foreign, Red -s. 38s. to 475. fine 503.
White -s. 40s. to 50s. nne 555.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 27s. to 30s. fine 323.
- Lincolnshire 2ss. to 28s. fine 30s.
- Yorkshire Wold 2ss. to 285. fine 395.
- Foreign -s. to -s. fine -s
Beans, Old
---- New 3ss. to 398. fine 40s
Oats, Potato l9s. to 225. fine 235,
- Poland -s. 17s. to 19s. fine 20s.
- Frieziand and Small -s. 16s. to IBs. fine 193.
- Mealing
Shelling 23s to 265. Od. per Load.
Malt 3ss. 395. fine 425. per Load.
Rapeseed

Aberdeen
Berwick
Coldstream
Cupar
Dundee
Elgin

Inverness—.
Kelso
Kirkaldy....—.,
Perth
The size

SCOTCH MARKETS.

Wheat. I Barley I Oats.

EDIN BUM
We had a large
the sales were not bi

OH COR
supply of
risk.

N MARK
all kinds

Beans. I Oatmea'.

of Grain ti

[ay, and

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans.
First 563 (id 32s Od 235 4d 00; (id riOs 0.1
Second sos Od 28s Od 19s Od 27s Od 27s Od
Third 4os Od 22s Od , 16s Od Od —s Od
PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C.

Beer, per lb.
Nhitton
Veal

Pork—.„.--,,

Os. Rid.toOs.6d.
0 31 0 6
08 1 0

Lamb, per qr. 2 0 2 6
fallow, cwt. —.35 0 37 0

Fresh Butter, lb. 5.10.1. to Is. Od
Salt Ditto-- 0 8 0 9
Ditto, per ca t. 70 0 0 0

Eggs, per Flo!. 0 7 0 0

,
Quartern Loaf 0 0 0 7
Potatoes, 17,11 b. 0 5 0 0

alSiraw(kpl.) 7 0 7 6
Wheat Ditto- 7 0 7 6

EDINBURG Ei MEA

Barley Ditto 6 0 6 6
Hay, per st.„,—. 0 7 0 9

There was a plentiful "supply
and the sales were dull, at last
Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp
.

First Oatmeal
Second ditto I 6 0
Barleymeal 1 4 0'
Peasemeal 1 4 0
Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt.

GLASGOW CORN
The arrivals of Grain are m,

ti?! in prices.

61ARKET.— March 5.
lerate, and we note no alter-

Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. f Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. s. d.
British, old 26 oto2B 0 Irish l4 otol6 0

•••••••-•...... new
Canada, free 2B 0 29 0 Beans, per 2601 b.
Irish
Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish
English 0 C Pease, Scottish ... 16 0 17 0
Scottish 2O 0 22 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 13 0 14 0
Irish

CORNWALL MARKETS.
Tatrao—Wheat (average) 19s.9d.—Barley, 9s. 6d.—Oats, 7s. 9tl.
Sr. AUSTELL—Wheat, —s. to 2.os.—Barley, Os. to 10s.—Oats
7,. to 7s. 3d.

PENZANCE—Wheat, 19s. to 20s.—Barley, 9s. to 10s.—Oats,
Os, to 7s. Od.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to 5111.—Pork, Od. to 3(1.
Butter, 12d. per lb.
Lau NCESTON—Wh eat (average) 19s. Gd.—Barley, 9s.Cd.—Oats,
Os. sp.—Mutton, Od.
LISKEARD—Wheat, —s. to 20s. Od.—Barley, 9s. Od.--Oats, Os.
to 6s. 6d.

BODMIN—Wheat (average) 19s.—Barley, Bs. Od.—Oats, 7s Od.
HELSTON—Wheat, 19s. 6d.—Barley, 9s Od.
ST. COLUNID—Wheat, 19s. to —s.—Barley, Bs. to 103.—Beef,
a.,ul Mutton, 53.. d. to 6d.—Veal, Od.—Lamtp, Od.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS
AT THE COURT, BASING lIALL-STREET

(From the London Gazette.)
TO-AIORROW, MARCII 11.
R. Phillips, jun., auctioneer, Chiswell-street, Finsbut 3,
'2 at 1
square
W. Venables, draper, Lamb's Conduit-street 2 11
T. and 'l'. Wooster, coal-factors, Coal Exchange
G. Elliman, grocer, Watford, Hertfordshire 2 10
G. Haynes, licensed victualler, Trinity-street, Southwark 1 1
J. Farmer, chemist, Putney
T. Connell, coachmaker, John's-mews, Little James-st 1 12
A. Sillito, wharfingar, Macclesfield-street, City-road 1 1

M. H.

The duty on tobacco last year produced
thehnat
years
article,i
is 2,185,2271.
1831,8i5n,2t
2h7e andtijNa theitnede
millions sterling puffed away in smoke, or snuffed up the
noses of a small portion of the intellectuals of Great
1.
Britain and Ireland, in the space of three years only.
totalKli 5n d4o4n amount(mluororifen dg
tuhtyd
then paid
lastt tdohindr eeti
OUR TOWN.—Tile work, on the eve of
appearance, under this title, contains—Sketches of the
Manners of Society, peculiar to a Country Market Town.
The Author is reported to he a wit of no mean order,
thoroughly conversant with his subject, which (though it
has not yet been treated of) affords abundant opportunities
for both serious and humorous description.
A Negro was brought to England, and the
first point shown him being the chalky
cliffs of Dover,
" 0 ki.' said, "me know now what makes the buckras all
so white !"

- A most melancholy event took place on Thurs-
day in the C.inal.office at Llanelly, near Abergavenny. It
appears that Mr. Jourdan, one of the young men in the
office, had been out with his brother-in-law, trying same
pocket pistols, which hid percussion locks; on their re-
turn, the pistols were placed, unloaded, on the desk.
S ton afterwards a young man, a workman, came into the
office, and, taking up one of the pistols to look at it,
asked Mr. Jourdan how the fire got at the powder ? Mr.
Jourdan put on a cap, and, pointing it towards the work-
man, pulled the trigger, and instantly the poor fellow fell
dead at his feet. During the interval that bad elapsed
between Mr. J.'s return and the accident the youth with
whom he had bcen trying the pistols had reloaded it. To
describe the feelings of the gentleman by whom this acci-
dent was occasioned would be impossible.

CUTTING TEETH.—A person was mention-
ing the other day the remarkable fact of a gentleman aged
8 eventy-tine having cut two new teeth—"Poh," mumbled
an old lady who had not one; "I cut all mine thier years
ago.".