The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-13 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

It is stated that the Bank of England commenced again yes-
terday to discount the paper of the Joint Stock Bank, which
had caused some agitation in various parts of the country.
This event, with the payment of the dividends to-morrow to
the public, will no doubt cause money to be more plentiful
than what it has been for several days past.
Consols, which left off yesterday morning at 901 for Money,
and 904 .1" for the Account, opened at the same prices this
morning ; Omnium, I prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 12 14 ;
India Botids, 1 2 ; Bank stock, 2071 2081 ex-div. ; India
Stock, 252 3.
The Foreign market is steady at present, owing to its being
settling day for the Foreign Stocks.
Spanish Bonds, which closed yesterday at 441 1, are at
present 441 ; Portuguese, 874 881 ; Three per cents, 57158 ;
Colombian, 32i 331 ; Mexican, 38 39 ; Dutch two-and-a-
half per cents, 541.
HALF-PAST ONE.

We can state on the best authority, that the allied Northern
Powers have proposed to the King of Holland an armistice
with the King of Belgium for two years, at the expiration of
which their differences are to be finally settled ; but the well-
informed are of opinion that it will...take place long before
that period.
Accounts have been received this morning from Lisbon,
and which may .be deemed as official, that his Excellency
Count Lavradio has taken his departure from that capital
to Prince Coburg, to settle without delay the marriage with the
young Queen of Portugal.
Consols have somewhat improved since the morning, and
may be quoted at 904 91, money ; same for the Account ; Om-
nium, 34 prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 12 16 ; India Bonds, 2 3 ;
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Bank Stock, 2081, improved also.
The Foreign Market is buoyant; Spanish, which was 441
has improved to 45i ; Portuguese, 87i 881 ; Columbian,
P 34 z ; Mexican, 38 39 ; Dutch Two and a Half per
Cents., 544 +. The Foreign Account is going off well.
THREE O'CLOCK
,d Consols for the Account, 90i 91.

The great question, touching the administration of
the Guild Wine Fund, which for nearly two years has agi-
tated the Guild Court, or (as it is commonly called) " Out
Court," is now we think, drawing towards a close.—Aber-
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deen Observer.

The workmen are at present employed in preparing
a new hall in the Museum of the Mint, in Paris, for the
reception of all the coins, moulds, medals, &c., which were
cast during the reign of Napoleon. The bust of the Em-
peror, in white marble, has already been placed in the ball,
on the door of which is inscribed " Hall of Napoleon."
This addition to the Museum will very shortly be open to
the public.

As a proof that literature alone will not produce
what are called " liberal opinions," it is a fact to mention
that at Leipsic, where more books are published than in
any other place in Europe, Jews are so wholly proscribed
that not one is allowed to reside within its precincts.

In consequence of the extremely dry
.weather, the
last two summers the foundation of the ancient Cathedral
of Old Sarum has appeared, and a subscription has been
commenced to open it, the proprietor of the land having
given his consent.
The True Briton coach; from Newcastle to Car-
lisle, was upset upon the railway between the former place
and Ilexham,• on Wednesday last, by which the passengers
had a narrow escape. Fortunately, however, no one was
seriously injured. The man who had charge of the traia
was immediately dismissed for his carelessness.
EFFECTS OF .DRUNKENNESS.-011 Saturday
evening, a man in a state of intoxication laid himself down
close to a lime-kiln at Lansdowne, and fell asleep ;in which
state he was found by some labourers, but so severely burnt
that he remains in a very deplorable condition at the
workhouse.

THE INQUISITION—since its foundation in the
fourteenth century, has burnt at the stake above one hun-
dren thousand persons of both sexes, besides destroying
twice that number by imprisonment. Religious wars among
Christians, for differenees in opinion, on points now unintel-
ligible, have cost the lives of above two millions in direct
slaughters ; and the wars to establish Christianity, and
those waged against the Turks about the Holy Land, &c.,
have cost fifty millions of lives. The wars of Charlemagne,
&c., to christianise the Saxons, &c., and of the Spaniards
to christianise the Moors and Americans, cost at least fifteen
millions.—Paris Advertiser.

MIRACLES AND MARVELS.-.4f miracles be
ceased, yet marvels will never cease. There is no creature
in the world wherein we may not see enough to wonder at ;
for there is no worm of the earth, no spire of grass, no Iteaf,
no twig, wherein we may not see the footsteps of a Deity.
The best visible 'creature is man ; now, what man is he that
can make but a hair or a straw, much less any sensitive
creature ; so as no less than an infinite power is seen in
every object that presents itself to our eyes. If, therefore,
we look only upon the outsides of these bodily substances,
and do not see God in everything, we are no better than
brutish ; making use merely of our sense, without the least
improvement of faith or our reason. Contrary, then, to
the opinion of those men who hold that a wise man should
admire nothing, I say that a man truly wise and good should
admire everything.—Bishop
WHOLESALE DESERTION.—The parish officers
of St. Matthew, Bethnal-Green, have published a full de-
scription, and offered rewards for the apprehension of no
less than seventeen runaway husbands, who have left their
wives and thirty-seven children to be wholly supported by
that parish. Eight of the number are weavers, and most of
the others mechanics of different kinds. One is described
as a teacher of the pinaforte, who, having removed into
that parish from Drury-lane, and there left a wife and two
children, has since been seen at Dalston with crape on his
hat, and calling himself a widower ; another, named Squir-
rell, was formerly a preacher at Duke-street Chapel,
Chelmsford, and subsequently minister at a chapel in Beth-
nal Green, but afterwards removed to St. George's-in-the-
East ; but, being informed against in July, 1834, for keep-
ing a private distillery, he disappeared and left his wife
utterly destitute. Several of those advertized, are de-
scribed as having left their lawful wives to cohabit with other
women.