The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-27 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The only arrival of importance this morning is the Dutch
mail of Saturday, which brings the Dutch Stock near one per
cent. lower, 40 15-16. The private letters attribute this decline
to the King of Holland still continuing obstinate. Other ac-
counts state, that he will nut conform until he knows the event
of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords. Should this be his
motive, no doubt he will be agreeably surprised on reading last
night's debate.

Consols opened this morning at the same price they left otf
yesterday, 821 for Account.
In the Foreign Market Dutch Stock has lowered to 4234 ;
in other Foreign Securities nothing doing as yet.

HALF-PAST ONE.
Consols have been during the whole of the morning at
83 }si % for the Account, and 83 M % for Money. The specu-
lators are anxiously waiting for the second reading of the Re-
form Bill, as until after that period no speculations of magni.
tude are expected to take place.
In the Foreign Market Dutch Stock has rather improved
since the early part of the morning, and may be quoted 42% 4.
The new Committee has been chosen at the Stock Exchange
this morning; eight or nine of the old ones have retired, and
the same number of new ones elected.
THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Console, 834

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DA'

FROM LLOYD'S.

PORTSMOUTH, Maacu 26.—Wind N W.—Arrived t
Amphitrite, from Deptford, and his Majesty's ship Levu -t,
from Plymouth, and sailed on her return.
MARGATE, MARCH 26.—Arrived off port, the Indust,
Rowland, from Dublin.
BRIGHTON, MARCO 26.—Arrived off port, the Eliza
Jane, Bowen, from Waterford.
GUERNSEY, MARCH 24.—Arrived the Rose, Moore, fr,,m
Mavannah.

PENZANCE, MARCII 23.—Arrived the Selina, Stone, from
Teneriffe.

DUBLIN, MARCH 25.—Arrived the Shamrock, O'Callaha,
from Oporto.

DUNDEE, 31,kacu `2.4.—Arrived the Industry, Kerr, from
Quebec.
ABERDEEN, MARCH 2.4.—During last night and this morn-
ing it has blown a very heavy gale from the N.E.

The Fame, from Liverpool to Donegal, was driven on shore
in Lochendahl Bay on the 17th inst.

The Concordia, Ostman, from Altona to Sunderland, and
the Seaflower, Ashton, from Boston to Wakefield, were driven
on shore near Grimsby, on the 24th inst.
The Experiment, Kennedy, from London to Ghent, was on
shore near Campvere, on the 24th inst., in a dangerous position.
The Dorothea, Moretz, from Memel to Liverpool, put into
Copenhagen with damage, having been on shore near Diago.
The Jessee, Anderson, from Leith to Sunderland, was driven
on shore on the Ind inst. near Dunbar. Her cargo is expected
to be saved.

The Gilbert Henderson, Tate, from Dublin to St. Andrew's,
New Brunswick, which put into Belfast Lough, proceeded from
thence on her voyage on the 20th inst., after being surveyed
and found not to make water as was reported.

From the circumstance of the Duke of Cum-
berland's proxy not being used against Earl Grey in the division
in the Lords on Thursday last, the report gains credit that his
Royal Highness is either determined to abandon politics alto-
gether, or to pursue a new course of action respecting them.—
News.

Last night the expected presentation of the
Reform Bill to the House of Lords naturally enough excited a
good deal of attention, and a considerable assemblage of Lords,
Commoners, and strangers. Before five o'clock the space in
front of the throne was crowded with Members of the House
of Commons, and below the bar was also thronged with Mem.
bers of the Lower House, so much so that it was with much
difficulty that room could be afterwards made for Lord John
Russell, attended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and
other Members of the House of Commons, to approach their
Lordships' bar to present the Bill. The attendance of Lord:
was very great on the Ministerial as well as on the Opposi-
tion benches, and there was a full attendance on the Bishops'
bench. The Woolsack, and other seats in the centre of the
House, were also crowded. The gallery was crowded, and
that part of it allotted to the ladies displayed a very compli-
mentary attendance. About a quarter after five o'clock it
was announced that there was a message from the Com-
mons. The doors were thrown open, and Lord John Rus-
sell, attended by the Noble Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c.,
entered, amidst much bustle and a subdued hum of applause.
Having delivered the Bill to the Lord Chancellor, and desired
their Lordships' approbation of the same, Lord John Russell,
and the other Members of the House of Commons then and
there attending, did not, according to the usual mode of pro-
ceeding, retire from the bar, but having made the customary
obeisance, and retired one step, they returned to the front of
.the bar, and there remained during the conversation that
subsequently took place. The Lord Chancellor, on receiving
the Bill, deliberately returned from the bar to the Woolsack,
holding up the Bill as he went along so distinctly, that it
could be well seen by all; he afterward► announced the mes.
sage from the Commons, that they had agreed to a Bill " to
amend the representation of the people of England," to which
they desired their Lordships' concurrence; and he did so in
a clear and decided, rather than in a loud tone. The Com-
moners about the throne—indeed all the spectators—remained
during the conversation upon the Bill ; and that conversation
was listened to with the greatest, and often almost breathless,
attention.
A declaration is in the course of circulation
for signatures, on the part of the most respectable brokers, dis-
avowing the practice of taking double commissions, of which
the following is a copy :—" An idea having become prevalent
(in consequence of recent discussions which have found their
way into the public papers) that it has been a general custom
with brokers to receive a commission from the parties with
whom they have executed the business of their principals, and
have therefore not given tot heir employers the whole advantage
to which they are fairly entitled, we, the undersigned, declare
that we have never, either directly or indirectly, received from
any capitalists, or dealers in Government securies or foreign
stocks, any commission or allowance in consequence of business
transacted with them, but have invariably allowed to our prin.
cipals the whole advantage of such transactions."
Business in the port of London has not been so
stagnant during a similar period, for above a century, as it has
been during the last month. Few or no ships are entered out-
ward, while other ports being open, trade, for the present, is di-
verted into other channels, or altogether suspended. The
disaster, too, is greater, because this is the usual season for ex-
ports; and hence the Spring orders to the staple manufactories
have been arrested. The first result is a deficiency of Custom-
house receipts ; but the Treasury have been unusually active in
collecting arrears, and drawing from stray resources, so as to
put the best face on the next quarterly exhibition of revenue.
Some Excise differences have, by management, been made to
yield an extra 200,000/. or 300,000/.

ADELPHI THEATRE..—Last night a new
hurletta was produced here, called Nina, or The Bride of a
Galley Slave. It was of a very mediocre character. The scene

is laid in Leghorn. Considerable disapprobation was expressed
throughout the piece; and when Yates came forward, at the end,
to announce the repetition of this " unpretending Burletta"
till further notice, the Noes mustered very strong, but, as is
usual, the Ayes had it. Another new burletta, called The
Printer's Devil, being a burlesque on Robert the Devil, was
brought out after The Forgery.
THE FRENCH PLAYS.—The French actors
commenced their performances last night, at the Haymarket
Theatre. The entertainments consisted of a vaudeville called
La Hane d'une Femme, of the comedy of Les Trois Qv.artiers,
and of the vaudeville of Les Cuisinieres. The comedy was the
best of the performances. M. Laporte played the accommodat-
ing M. Despres with great humour, and occasionally provoked
an additional laugh by substituting some phrases applicable to
the changes which the late revolution has introduced for those
which formerly held their place in the dialogue. M. Gamard
acted Desrosiers, which be made sufficiently absurd, but which
he also somewhat overcharged. Madame Theodore, who ap-
pears to be a practised actress, and not without merit, played
La Marquise d'Olmaee. In the first piece, a Mademoiselle
Olivier appeared, for the first time, as Juliette, and although
indifferent singing is good enough for the songs of a vaudeville,
it should, in all reason, be somewhat better than this lady's.
The house was very full.

A letter from Paris encloses the following
document for regulating the admission of vessels exclusively
engaged in carrying passengers into French ports :
" ADMINISTRATION OF CUSTOMS.
" Paris, March 21, 1832.
" Several chambers of commerce having desired that the
payment of the tonnage duty by the packets exclusively en-
gaged in conveying travellers should be regulated, not upon
the real burthen of those vessels, as is now done by law of the
27th Vendemaire, 2d year, but at the rate of one ton for each
passenger. It is therefore thought right and just to make a dis.
tinction between vessels employed in carrying merchandise and
those merely conveying passengers. The Ministers of Commerce
and Finance having taken this into consideration, Baron
Louis issued a regulation on the 13th of this month,—viz., the
packets exclusively employed in conveying travellers and their
baggage shall pay a tonnage duty at the rate only of one ton for
each passenger on board. But the whole tonnage duty will be
demanded-1, in case the number of the passengers is equal to
or above that of the measured tonnage : 2, or if more passengers
are on board than the number declared by the Captain at the
Custom.house ; or if any passengers be landed clandestinely,
before the packet arrives, who were not included in the Cap.
tain's report; 3, in case the packet, bringing only passengers,
shall take back any quantity whatever of merchandise."

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[ADVER T IS EMEN T.] The Newspaper
Agent who sends the Morning Chronicle to the Lion and Dol-
phin and the Cap and Stocking Inns, Leicester, is requested
to send that Journal with more regularity. A similar request
is also necessary to the Agent who supplies George Fordham,
Esq., of Royston, that gentleman having lately received other
papers instead of the Chronicle. There is no excuse for this
substitution and irregularity; the Chronicle being the earliest
Journal published on mornings, generally at Five o'clock, and
is kept on sale from that hour until One in the afternoon, from
a single paper to any quantity, at the Office, No. 170, Strand.
NAIL-ROAD BETWEEN LIMERICK AND
CARRICK-ON-SUIR.—We understand that Mr. William Bold,
civil engineer, is now, by orders of Government, inspecting the
line of this intended railway, as at present contemplated, be-
tween the towns of Tipperary and Carrick.on-Suir. This im-
portant national work, which will run from the districts bor-
dering the Shannon to the deep water at Carrick-on-Suir on
the east, will afford a ready transit for all kinds of agricultural
produce to the ports of England. The portion of the country
which the railway traverses, is unparalleled for fertility, and
will, we have no doubt, be attended with beneficial results to
all the southern districts of Ireland.—Tipperary Free Press.
DUEL.—OltTuesday, a duel took place in
the vicinity of Northallerton, between two young gentlemen,
the one a gallant son of Neptune, and the other a classical
student for the honours of Esculapius. After exchanging shots
without effect, the seconds interfered, but the parties could not
be brought to terms of reconciliation, therefore a second dis-
charge took place, when the Doctor was wounded on the right
hand, his pistol fell from his grasp, and the contest ended. A
young lady " of high attainments and beauty," was the inno-
cent cause of this act of juvenile gallantry.
STEAMING EXTRAORDINARY.--.His Ma-
jesty's packet Dolphin, Captain Smithit, arrived in Kingston
harbour yesterday morning, having succeeded in making the
passage from Liverpool in less than twelve hours. Taking into
consideration the disadvantages of a heavy sea and a strong
head wind, with which she had to contend during the night,
this will be allowed to be perhaps the most extraordinarily ex-
peditious passage which has been made between this port and
Liverpool.—DeLlin Freeman's Journal, Friday.