The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-07 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Saturday is a day in general on which we have but few
arrivals and little intelligence, and we are in the same
situation to-day, without any arrivals of the least con-
sequence, and the only expectation we have is the express
from Paris, which is hourly looked for by the speculators
in the Funds, who are waiting to ascertain the French
prices before they commence their operations. Conse-
quently Console opened at the same price they left off yes-
terday, Si to k for the Account.
The public are somewhat disappointed that the Gazette
does not contain the new batch of Peers, which they
anxiously expected.
Information of some importance may soon be expected
from Paris, as it appears that the French Government are
going to take the lead in the adjustment of the Belgian
affairs with Holland.

In the Foreign market nothing doing as yet. Belgian
Scrip i to i premium.

TWO O'CLOCK.

The express from Paris brings a very tumultuous debate
on the Civil List, which caused great agitation in the
Chamber of Deputies. Consols have fallen in conse-
quence, and have been done at 83i; at present they are
83i i for the Account.

Belgian Scrip has declined, and been done at i discount
to i premium. French Three per Cents., 661. 65c.;
Five per Cents., 951. 85c.

THREE 0 CLOCK.
Console for Aceonnt, 83i I.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.--WC are
happy to state that the differences between Mr. HARRis
and the present Managers of this Theatre have been ami-
cably settled ; the articles of peace were signed and sealed
on Thursday last.

A new farce, entitled The First Day of
Term, is in a forward state of preparation at Drury-lane
Theatre. One of its chief attractions will be a grand
moving Diorama, by STANFIELD, of the procession of the
Lord High Chancellor and all the Judges and other Law
Officers, from Berkeley-square to Westminster Hall,
through most of the newly-improved streets.
At the Bristol Special Commission on Thurs-
day, on the trial of MATTHEW WARNEY, JOHN TOWELL
WILLIAM OSGOOD, WM. CLARKE, and PATRICK KEN-
NEY, who were charged with assisting to set fire to the
Bridewell, and whose trial, inserted in TAe Sun of yes-
terday, was not concluded when our reporter left, all the
prisoners, with the exception of Wm. OSGOOD, were found
Guilty.
At the meeting of the Irish National Political
Union, on Tuesday, Mr. JOHN REYNOLDS moved for the
appointment of a Committee of twenty-one, with a view to
their considering the best and most effectual mode of making
permanent provision for the Irish poor. Mr. O'CowNxi.r.,
in seconding the motion, said that the establishment of
poor laws would aggravate rather than remove the dis-
tresses and suffering of the poor of Ireland, but he would
gladly consent to a poor law for the maintenance of the
sick, the maimed, and the infirm ; in fact for those who
could not support themselves. The Committee was ulti-
mAtely appointed; 1

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

B 0 TV-STREET.

Mr. Roe, an extensive cabriolet proprietor, ap-
peared yesterday before Mr. MlNstium,, the Sitting
Magistrate, and stated that he came to lay an in-
formation against the omnibus numbered 4,53.5, of
which George Shillibeer was the owner, for taking
op a fare in St. Giles's, arid setting down in Oxford-
arrect, being contrary to the provisions of the 55th
of Geo. 111. cap. 12. Mr. Roe said that his object
was to bring to an issue the question whether stage
coaches were allowed by the new Act to ply for
hire in the streets. He then went on to contend
that the several statutes passed for the protection of
hackney coaches, and which prohibited public stages
from taking up passengers in the streets, were still
unrepealed,inasmuch as the new Act merely repealed
so much of the old law as referred to the licensing
and regulating hackney coaches.
Mr. Burnaby, the Magistrate's clerk, said that
Mr. Roe was in error in supposing that the new Act
had left the law exactly as it was. The 57th of
Geo. I. cap. 2, section 3, inflicted a penalty of Si. on
stage coachmen who should be convicted of plying
for hire in the streets. The 3d of Geo. IV. cap. 95,
section 13, after referring to the former Act, de-
scribed the class of persons liable to be :so fined ;
and the new Act now in force repealed the 57th of
Geo. I. from section 1 to section 5, including the
clause which inflicted the 51. penalty, but overlooked
the 3d of Geo. IV., which had direct reference to
it, so that, as the law now stood, the persons liable
to be fined were described in the unrepealed Act
while the Act which stated the amount of the fine,
and gave Magistrates the power to inflict it, was in
point of fact a dead letter; and no proceeding would
be had under the 3d of Geo. IV. inasmuch as it
was a nullity.

Mr. MINsnULL observed that the question was
one of great importance to the public, and it was
also of importance to the proprietors of vehicles
subject to the Act, many of whom he understood
had embarked large sums of money in building new
carriages, under the supposition that they would
ply for hire in the streets.
Mr. Roe said that the number of vehicles would
occasion a serious loss to the old proprietors of
hackney-coaches and cabriolets. He was himself
the proprietor of ten cabriolets, and the extension
of the number of vehicles of that description had
already diminished his receipts upwards of 1,0001.
a-year. _

Mr. MnssituLL then said that, in order to bring
the question to a speedy decision, he would reserve
his opinion on it for the present, in order to give
Mr. Roe and the parties interested an opportunity
of having the question fully and fairly argued, and
decided according to the best judgment which he
could give it.

Mr:Roe then said that he would lose no time in
laying a regular information before the Magistrate.
He then retired to obtain the professional assistance
of Mr. Harmer, the solicitor.

Mr. Roe is brother to the Marlborough-street
Magistrate.

George Page, alias Potts, was brought up for a
re-examination, charged with having been concerned
in robbing the Glasgow Bank, in the month of De-
cember, 1830, of Bank notes and cash to the amount.
of 6,0001. and upwards. No evidence was offered
in support of the charge, but the prisoner was or-
dered to be detained on suspicion of having returned
from transportation before the term had expired for
which he was sentenced.

This man whose examination we have given
above, escaped last night from the cell at Bow-street,
where he was confined until his removal to the
House of Correction. During the temporary ab-
sence of Dodd, the gaoler, from the cell, the outer
door was opened by a pick-lock key, and a boy, hav-
ing been let into the yard, unbolted the cell door,
and throwing a coat at the prisoner, with which to
disguise himself, ran away. The prisoner instantly
threw off his own coat, and flinging it at one of his
fellow-prisoners, said, " Take that, it will keep you
warm." He then slipped on the other coat, and
instantly darted through the door, down the long pas-
sage, and into the street. The whole affair was the
work of a few moments. He was formerly an adept
at picking pockets, and belonged to" the swell mob,"
but latterly he sprung higher game, and nothing
short of a bank robbery, and a booty of some thou-
sands, would suit him. Officers have been sent in
pursuit of him in various directions.

GREENWICH OBSERVATORY.--It has been
found by Mr. LLOYD, in his late observations on the
height of the river Thames, that a block of stone under
the transit instrument in the Royal Observatory at Green-
wich is 158.8 feet above the mean level of the sea. The
marshes of Greenwich are half a foot higher than those of
Woolwich, which latter arc only three feet above the mean
level of the sea.

CAMBRIDGE; JAN. 4.—Seatonian Prize—
The subject of the poem for the recent year is, " The
Plague Stayed.—Numb. xvi. 48. Hu!seen -Prize Sub-
ject—A premium exceeding 1001. will this year be given
for the best dissertation on the following subject :—" The
advantages which have resulted from the Christian religion
being conveyed in a narrative rather than a didactic form."
In speaking of Mr. BULWER'S new novel of
" Eugene Aram," the Tatler says, " we can now evince
our gratitude for all the amiable, and wise, and lively and
touching things, which Mr. BULWER'S novel contains, by
saying it is the one which has most interested us since the
appearance of the best novels of Sir WALTER. Indeed,
the whole work abounds in beauties of all sorts, calling for
every species of sympathy, and exalting the author in our
estimation as a writer and as a man."

It appears from the registries of deaths lit
Paris, that during the last year they were one-fifth less
than the ordinary rate of mortality in the capital; the
number in 1831 does not exceed 19,500 though the an-
nual average has been 24,000.—Galignani's Messenger.

By the price lists returned to Dec. 3], the
average price of corn for all France is 22fr. 18c. Last
month it was 22fr. 52c. The fall was chiefly in the
markets of Gray, St. Laurent, Le Grand-Lesseps,
Dlul-
hausen, Strasbourg, Rouen, Paris, and the principal
markets to the north of the capital. There was some
rise at Marans, Bordeaux, Toulouse. The regime of im-
ports and exports established for the preceding saonth re-
mains unaltered.

MAGNA CHARTA.—It is vulgar to assume
that the Barons, in proposing the terms of Magna Charts,
considered they were doing any thing for the people at
large. It must be remembered, that although Peers led
the army, people composed it ; and it is curious to sce
that in the articles the Barons presented to the KING, they
include restrictions on taillage, a tax which fell upon the
people, and scutage, which bore upon themselves—but
in the Charter, scutage is alone remembered. In fact,
Magna Charts is the Charter of the Barons, and it hap-
pened to contain some excellent maxims, which they made
for themselves, but which have been subsequently applied
by the people.—[From an excellent and interesting sup-
plement to last week's Spectator, called the Spectator's
Anatomy of the Peerage.]
A MILD AND AGREEABLE REMEDY FOR
CHOLERA.—A curious case, illustrative of the utility of
external irritants, occurred to Dr. SCHOLTZ. He was
called to see a house-servant (Dvoßmcx,) whom he found
in the last stage of the paralytic ferm of cholera, and ap-
parently in agonici mortis. In this situation, Dr.
SCHOLTZ could not resolve to send him to the hospital,
fearing he might die on the road, and thought it even su-
perfluous to prescribe for him, especially as he declared that
he could take nothing. He therefore merely desired the
patient's comrade to rub his abdomen with warm tar, and
left him, in the supposition that he had not above half an
hour to live. The next day, Dr. ScHoLTz, on inquiring
for the patient, was much astonished to hear that he was
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completely out of danger, and not less eo to learn how his
prescription bad been followed. The comrade of the
,pa-
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terrible operation the patient hardly felt it, though, "
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was over.
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