The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-11 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

According to the accounts from Dover, there appears to
he a g►eat hustle in our diplomatic department. Couriers
arrive there in wholesale, and embark immediately on
board steamers, with pressing orders to proceed to their
destinations ; hut their despatches as yet are a profound
secret, which causes ra,her some anxiety amongst our
city speculators, who are anxious to ascertain if they re-
late to peace or war.
From the seat of war in Portugal we do not as yet bear
of any other information than that things remai❑ in the
same state as in our previous accounts. The Britannia, no
doubt, has brought late information from Lisbon, but the
contents have not yet transpired.
Consols, which loft off yesterday at 85 to for the Ac-
count, opened at the same price this morning, with little
doing.

NALF-PAST ONE.

A letter is in town from Admiral Sartorius's ship,
dated off the Bar of Lisbon, September 3, to the following
purport :

. .
" W, are again in our old berth, and we have infor-
mation that all the officers on hoard Don Miguel's fleet have
been dismissed, with the exception of the Admiral Don John
Felix. We also hear that Don Miguel has ordered his fleet
to put to sea in a day or two ; therefore, in all probability
we shall soon have to give you an account of a battle, as it
is Sartorius's positive intention to give them battle, having
been reinforced by two gun brigs.
All we he. from Oporto is, that on the 25th ult. the
.liguelite Generals made an attack on the north side of
Oporto, but were repulsed with some loss of men.
Consols have reached 85ii a for the Account ; since
which the M ,rket is not quite so good, and at present they
may be quoted 85 to ill.
The regular pack.t trom Oporto is anxiously looked for,
which, no doubt, will bring late dates from that quarter.
In the Foreign Market the chief business doing was in
Brazilian Stock, which has experienced a decline during
the morning of I 1 per cent., owing to the unfavourable
inte,ligence of some cominotions having taken place at Per-
nambuco, which has given a fright to the holders of the
above security. In other stocks little or nothing doing.
Portuguese Scrip 41 to 4 discount.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Conic,ls 85 for Account.

To the honour of the medical gentlemen of
Inverness, we may state, that, though they are toiling
night and (lay in their perilous and trying labours, they
have refused all pecuniary compensation. The allowance
granted under the Acts of the Privy Council is two
guineas per day to every surgeon, and one guinea for his
assistant. At this rate our medical practitioners have
made a sacrifice of at least 150L—Litterness Courier.

The following extraordinary instance of the
different effect of various vegetables, some of them poi-
sonous, upon different animals, are mentioned by the Bo-
tanical Professor, in a recent lecture delivered at King's
college :—" Horses," says Air. BURNETT, " will not
touch cruciferous plants, but will fe•d on the reed grasses,
amidst abundance of which goats have been known to
starve ; and these latter again will eat and grow fat on the
water-hemlock, which is a rank poison to other cattle.—
In like manner, pigs will feed on henbane, while tbey are
destroyed by common pepper ; and the horse, which avoids
the bland turnip, will grow fat on rhubarb, and take a
drachm of arsenic daily with advantage."

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