The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-23 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 83a i for the Ac-
count, opened at the same price this morning, with little
doing.

Pot tuguee Scrip still continues to decline, and is now
done at 6 discount.

HALF-PAST ONE.
All anxiety is now expressed in the city, both by the
public and the speculators, for the arrival of the Lisbon
mail, with further informatio❑ from Oporto, as it is gene-
rally imagined, ere this, the great blow, both by sea and
land, has taken place. It is not expected that the steamer
will arrive until Saturday next ; therefore, in the interim,
no doubt various reports will be put into circulation. At
present we have no later information from Portugal than
what was received yesterday.

Consols have been done at 83i for the Account ; at
present they are at the above price, sellers, with little
doing. Portuguese Scrip about 5f discount.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols are now S3l for Account.
FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES.

Consols
Ditto for Account 83i Greek, 1825:........ 26}
Brazilian Bonds Mexican, 1825......

Buenos Ayres...
Chili= Ditto....
Columbian 1824

PeruviAn ...... 10i
Russian
Spanish

PRIVATE SOMERVILLE.—The discharge of
Private SOMERVILLE, from the 2d (Scots Greys)
ment of Dragoons, was forwarded, on Tuesday night, from
the Commander-in Chief's office to the Co:onel of the
Regiment, at Birmingham. He is to pay 301. for his
discharge.

LEGENDS OF THE RHINE._" Various le-
gends of Germany and the Netherlands are here put to-
gether in a most amusing and interesting form. When
we tell the reader that they are from the pen of Mr.
GRATTAN, whose " Highways and By-ways" are se well
known to every lover of romance, we need scarcely re-
commend them as ranking with the most entertaining
volumes of the season."... Chronicle.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

A fashionably dressed young man, named Benjamin
Crombie, was charged with assaulting a girl of the town,
named Ives, and afterwards with assaulting a constable.
Constable Thomas, No. 163, division C, stated, that at
half-past 11 o'clock last night, he saw the defendant ac-
cost two girls of the town, in Regent-street—to one of
whom he behaved in the most indecent and disgraceful
manner, pulling her about, and tearing the clothes from
her back. She called for assistaace, when the witness
went up, and the defendant behaved to him in an outrage-
ous manner, collared him, and shook him violently.
The girl did not appear to support her charge against
the defendant.

The defendant denied having behaved in the way describ-
ed, either towards the girl or the constable. He certainly
spoke to the girl civilly, and the policeman came up, col-
lared him, and carried him off to the steion-house, where
he was forced into a dungeon under ground, and confined
amongst the worst description of persons until 2 o'clock in
the morning, when a friend appeared to bail him.
The inspector (Baker) said he knew nothing of the
transaction, except that when the female was at the sta-
tion-house her clothes were certainly torn.
The MAGISTRATE said, with regard to the place in
which the defendant was confined, he had nothing to do
with it. As the girl did not appear to complain, the
assault upon her was out of the question ; but as the po-
liceman swore to an assault upon him, the defendant must
pay a fine of 10s. to the King, no portion of which would
go to the policeman.

HATTON-GARDEN-(THIS DAY.)

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A SON.

Win. Boyle was brought up charged by his father with
robbing him to a great extent of rum and brandy ; and
John Williams and his wife were put to the bar charged
with receiving the spirits knowing them to have been
stolen.

The father, who is a publican in St. Giles, said
that he had lately lost a great quantity of spirits to
the amount of 601. ; and on Tuesday night last, at
twelve o'clock, aft:tr he had shut up his house, he
heard something rattle beneath the stair, and on
looking there he found his son secreted, with two
bottles concealed upon him. He then let him off, but in
consequence of information, he yesterday had the premises
of the prisoners Williams searched, when he found some
of his bottles, and he then gave them all into custody.
His son did not live with him, but lodged with the pri-
soners Williams, who are his cousins.

Ann Williams, the daughter of the prisoner, about 16
years of age, said she had often seen young Boyle bring
in spirits to her father's house. On one night last week
she went to bed, and in the morning she saw the stone
bottle produced lying there. In the course of the day,
Boyle and her mother emptied the brandy it contained into
four black bottles, and she then heard him tell how he got
it. He said he secreted himself in the cellar, just before
his fairer shut up, and when he went to bed be then
opened the shutrers with a knife. On the Monday morn-
ing, about two o'clock, he came in with a bottle of rum,
and he then said he had taken it in the old way, and that
he had also got 7s. out of the till, 2s. of which he gave to
her mother.

The officer produced the bottle, which would contain
about a gallon, and said, that the remains of many were
lying in the cebar of Williams's house.

The MAGISTRATE said, it was a most singular and dis-
gusting thing to see, first, a father against a son, and then
a daughter against a father and mother. He would re-
mand them till Tuesday.
The boy said, he had taken the spirits for sea-store to
his sister, who was going to America, and that be had
never taken more than a pint and a half.