The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-29 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols remained steady during the whole of Saturday, at
the opening price of the morning ma for the Account, and
opened this morning at 918 ; Exchequer Bills 26 28 ; India
Bonds 6 8 ; India Stock 260 261 ; Bank Stock 216 217.
There was an increased demand for money on loans upon
Stock.

In the Foreign Market the business doing was on a very
limited scale. The following are the prices of this morning :
Spanish Bonds 1101 111 ; Spanish Scrip 17/1- 17 discount;
Portuguese 83 84; Colombian 35k; Mexican 36 37; Peru-
vian 30i- 31i.
HALF--PAST ONE.

Consols have continued at the opening price during the
whole of the morning, with little or nothing doing----91
for the Account; Exchequer Bills 25 prem. lower; India
Bonds 5 7 prem. ; Bank Stock 216+.
The Foreign Market, which was heavy in the early part
of the morning, has somewhat improved, owing to three
heavy accounts of brokers, which are to be settled against
to-morrow, which is settling day in- the Foreign Market.
Spanish Scrip which was 401; has improved to 42 ; Scrip
which was 171, is at present 161 discount ; Portuguese,
83+ 84 ; Columbian, 35+ 36 ' • Mexican, 35 ; Dutch 55k.
We understand that the Duchess de Beira, with suite,
leaves to-morrow for Rome.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 91

A Reform Association has been established for the
dish ict of Redditek, Alvechurch, and neighbourhood.

The Earl of Lichfield, Postmaster-General, has
commenced an inquiry into the salaries and emoluments of
that highly responsible and useful class of public servants, the
Ger.cral Post letter-carriers.

The New York papers received last. night contain
an account of the explosion of the boiler of a steam-boat at
Memphis, on the Mississippi, by which 40 .passengers were
killed or wounded.

DOUBTFUL LOYALTY.—A thief is announced as
!laving stolen a musical snuff. box from a shop in Oxford-street,
" which plays God save the King' badly."

MIDSUMMER DAY.—Never, probably, did our'
uncertain climate present itself in such a variable aspect as ou
Wedaesday last. After a fortnight or more of real scorching
summer weather, on a sudden we were doomed to experience
all the bleak wind and rain of winter. The thermometer,
which a few days before had been at 82 in the shade, actually
sank during the night of Wednesday to 48.

In 1820, the wife of a labouring man, named Ri-
chardson, residing in the parish of Upton Warren, near Broms-
grove, was delivered of four girls at a birth. They all sur-
vived until the 23d ult., when the first born died.—Warwick
Advertiser.

STATE OF TRADE.—It appears from the Leeds
Mercury that business has been dull at the Cloth-halls during
the week. Stocks are lower than has been the case for some
time at this season, but the prospect for the trade during the
fall is considered good, provided goods remain steady in price.
At the Bradford Market there has been no alteration in prices
since last week, except in the few sales of wool, which have
been effected at a reduction in price. The Wakefield Wool
Market continues flat. Tho general impression among the
trade is, that the present high prices of wool cannot be main-
tained.

THE WEATHER, &c.—On Friday week, the 18th,
the thermometer fell during the night below 32 degrees, al-
though it had, for nearly a week before, been above 60, and
near 80 during the day. The ferns, potatoe leaves, and young
leaves of the oak, were destroyed in all elevated, and in most
marshy situations. What was hardly to be expected, this
sudden and great depression of temperature was felt more se-
verely on the west than on the east coast of Ross-shire.
Around Loch Maroc and Loch Terridon, the ground to the
water's edge was covered with hoar frost, and the ferns and
potatoes blackened. On the heights of Inverness-shire simi-
lar effects have been produced, and the hills were white with
snow, In the Highlands of Perthshire and Badenoch, the
hills are as white as in the middle of winter. On the bleak
moor of Rannoch, the cold was intense.—lnverness Courier.
The weather has been seasonable in most of the
Leeward Parishes, and the rain fell abundantly in Man-
chester, Vere, &c. The prospect of a Coffee crop in the
former is said to be very cheering. The crops in Vere are
forward, and we feel much pleasure in stating, on good au-
thority, that the people work well and cheerfully. What
next year's crop may produce, we know not ; but it is some
consolation to be able to say, that quietness prevails even in
one parish.—Jamaica Despatch.
The Roxburghe Book Club, founded, we believe,
by the late Mr. Heber and Dr. Dibdin, in 1812, during the
memorable sale of the library of the late John Duke of Rox-
burghe, had their anniversary dinner a few days ago at the
Clarendon Hotel, in Old Bond-street. Lord Clive was chosen
President, in the room of the late excellent Earl Spencer;
and the Duke of Buccleugh, one of the stoutest bibliomanists
of the day, was elected a member of the Club.

CHANGE OF EMPLOYMENT, PLEASURE.—Mr.
Guthrie, in his examination befoie the Medical Committee of
the House of Commons, after alluding to the hard duty of ex-
arnining persons for practising surgery, very naively says,
'5 There are many evenings when, after sitting some hours at a
stretch, I should be glad to give a guinea to be allowed to go
for half an hour and break stones in Lincoln's Inn-fields."

One day last week, as the first class railway train
was passing over Chat Moss, at the rate of 20 miles an hour,
an adder, measuring two feet ten inches, jumped from the
Moss upon- the tender attached to the engine, where it was
killed.—Liverpool chronicle.
JUDICIAL DUEL.—There was a duel on Friday,
between a Judge and a practitioner in his Court—the provo-
cation proceeding from the Judge, he valorously declaring, at
the same time, that he would seek for no shelter in his office 1
The Court in which this personage discharges his judicial
functions, was adjourned yesterday, in consequence of this
seemly proceeding l—Dublin Register.
AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—A duel between Mr.
Murphy and Mr. Haire has been the result of the extraordi-
nary proceedings at the Election Commission. At four o'clock
on Friday morning, a meeting took place. After the usual
preliminaries had been adjusted, the parties exchanged shots
without effect, and Mr. Johnston asked Mr. Jacob " if he
were satisfied?" to which, Mr. Jacob having replied in the
negative, a second shot was interchanged, also without effect,
upon which Mr. Johnson removed Mr. Haire from the ground,
Mr. Murphy keeping his poisition and his second declaring that
he was not satisfied. Thus the affair terminated.-.—Dublin
Register.
Five actions for divorce have been brought forward
in one week at Bruisels. This kind of trial appears to be
much on the increase in that city.

We understand that both corn and flour are ship-
ping from this country to America, in consequence of the wheat
crops having failed in the United States.—Leeds Nercur,y,