The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-10 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Our Funds are looking up, supposed to be in consequence of
the pure intentions of the French Ministry in regard to the
maintenance of peace in Europe. No doubt, in the course of
next week, important events may be expected, both in Hol-
land and Italy.
The French Papers state that the Pope has been acting with
great duplicity towards the French Government, which was the
c use of their sending the expedition to Ancona.
Consols, which lett off yesterday at 13314, opened at 83 14 % for
Account, and are at present 83 , with a firm market.
HALF-PAST ONE.

We have received an express from Paris, with the French
prices of Thursday, March 8. Three per Cents. for Money, 68f.
30c. ; end of the m6nth, 68f. 40c.
The French Papers are filled with the debates, and d• not
contain any political news. Our Funds maintain the price of
the early part of the morning, 834 for the Account, with little
doing.
Consols 831.

THREE O'CLOCK

John Evans, Esq., arrived this morning ai
his residence, 39., Hertford-street, May-fair, from Ireland.

AN APPROPRIATE TEXT.— A Dissenting
Minister of Dundee lately delivered a sermon to the inmates of
the Debtor's ward of the gaol, on which occasion he selected as
his text the following inexorable asseveration :—" Verily I say
unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence till thou
bast paid the uttermost farthing."—Scotsman.

CHIPPENHAM, MARCH 2.—The number of
deaths in this town is really alarming. We have not less than
twenty-one funerals in the last month. There were six chil-
dren lying dead at one time in the measles : and two, the only
children of Mr. Rainey, have died ; one of them last evening,
and the other this morning.—Bath Chronicle.

SIR RALPH ESHER, OR ADVENTURES OF
A GENTLEMAN OF THE COURT OF CHARLES IL—The scope and
object of this very interesting work are to display, in a point of
view at once picturesque and philosophical, the Court and Times
of Charles the Second, and with this design the form is adopted
of a personal memoir, supposed to proceed from the pen of a
gentleman of that Court and Times. The memoirs are at once
as literal as Pepys ; as gay, graceful, and lively as Grammont ;
as personal and peculiar in their love of thought and sentiment
as Montaigne, and yet without the slightest resemblance to
either; in fact, the Memoirs of Sir Ralph Ether are as true as
chronicles can make them, and yet as fictitious as if they had
been written in a dream. In this respect their effect upon the
reader who is versed in the records of the period to which they
refer is curious and unique.

Nothing can be more perfect than the police
of a Moorish city, a patrol passing incessantly through every
part of it, examining every door; and if, during the night, any
one is found unfastened, the owner is liable to the bastinado,
the Moors considering that the person who holds out temptation
to commit crime as little less guilty than the thief.

ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.-On Sun-
day week a bride expectant was cruelly disappointed by her
husband elect when on the very threshold of the altar. Up to
the moment of their departure from her home for Bedminster
church his conduct had excited no suspicion as to his inten-
tions ; he then proposed to walk by diferent ways to church,
to avoid the gaze of vulgar eyes, to which she unwittingly con-
sented, and arrived first at the altar, where, after waiting his
arrival three hours, she received the astounding intelligence
that he had leit this city for London !--Bath Chronicle.

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.--A veterinary
surgeon has lately discovered that exhausted and worn-out
horses are very speedily restored to their strength and condi.
tion, by giving them, daily, one or two bundles of couch grass,
of 10 or 12 pounds weight, mixed with a quantity of carrots.—
York Courant.

No MATTER.—We are unable to furnish
much matter to-day. The fact is, there is none to furnish,
except extracts, " stale, flat, and unprofitable," with which
the public is sufficiently dosed from other sources.—New Or-
leans Free Press.

On Saturday last, as the Hon. Mr. Moreton
was following his hounds near East Leach, in this county, when
in the act of clearing a wall, he fortunately saw a deep quarry on
the other side. With great presence of mind he slipt from the
saddle, and the horse, a tine animal, worth 300 guineas, fell into
the quarry, broke its neck, and died instantly. Mr. Moreton
was bruised in the face by the fall, but we are happy to say that
he was able to mount another horse and continue the chace.—
Cheltenham Chronicle.

JUST ANTIPATHY TO CAl's.---The Ame-
rican ladies seem to have an abhorrence (and a very just one,
too), of wearing caps. When one considers for a moment that
women wear the hair long, which nature has given them, both
for an ornament and to keep the head warm, one is apt to
wonder by what perversion of taste they can be induced to en-
close it in a cap ; a mob cap, a lace cap, a high cap, a low
cap, a flat cap, a cap with ribands hanging loose, a cap with
ribands tied under the chin, a peak cap, an angular cap, a
round cap, and a pyramid cap. How would Canova's Venus
look in a mob cap I+ If there be any ornament to the head in
wearing a cap, it must surely be a false ornament. The Ame-
rican ladies are persuaded that the head can be ornamented
without a cap. A rose bud or two, a woodbine, or a sprig of
eglantine, look well in the braided hair ; aid if there be raven
locks, a lily or a snowdrop may be interwoven with effect—
Watertg4's Wanderings in South AmfriCs•

IMPERIAL PA RLIA MENT

OF THIS DAY.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
At Twelve o'Clock the STIAICIA took the Chair.
REFORM OF PARLIAMENT' (ENGLAND) BILL.
Lord ALTHORP moved the order of the day for the

House resolving itself into a Committee on the Reform Bill.
Mr. CROKER put a question to the Noble Lord as to
the boroughs of Walsall and Wolverhampton, and begged
to ask whether they were not united—if so, they could not
be fairly entitled to a separate representation.
Lord ALTHORP briefly defended the course which
had been pursued with regurd to those two boroughs.
The order of the day having been read, the House re-
solved itself into a Committee, Mr. BERNAL in the Chair.
Lord ALTHORP, in moving that clause 1 of Sche-
dule 11 stand part of the Bill, wished to propose
some resolutions ; that clause of the schedule had
reference to the fifty-seventh clause of the Bill, as
to the questions to be put to the voter relative to his qua-
lification ; those questions were-1 st, That the voter was
the same person as appeared on the registry. 2d, That he
possessed the same qualification as that for which his
name was first registered. 3d, That he had not voted
previously at the same election. Now it might happen

that a person had 1,0001. a year in land or houses in a
particular parish, and he might so register himself ; yet
if he sold any part of it he could not swear that he pos-
sessed the same qualification as that for which be was regis-
tered, and although he might still have considerably more
property than amounted to a qualification, his vote would be
rejected. He (Lord Althorp) therefore wished to make a
few alterations to obviate that inconvenience, and to sim-
plify the clause by making it necessary for a voter to re-
gister for some particular part of his property.
This gave rise to a desultory discussion, not even the
purport of which was beard distinctly in the gallery.—
Mr. Croker and Mr. Hunt were understood to propose
some further alterations ; Mr. John Wood, Mr. Paget,
and Mr. C. Fergusson, were in favour of the proposed
amendments by the Noble Lord.
Lord ALTHORP explained that no inconvenience
would arise from the adoption of his amendments,
for no person would be able to vote twice for the
same property ; and if a voter registered his
name as for a particular part of his freehold he would ester
that part which he was least likely ever to dispose of.
Mr. HUNT spoke in favour of universal suffrage, and
asked the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Croker) if it was
not at least the theory of the Constitution, that taxation
and representation should go hand in hand.
Mr. CROKER—No !
Mr. PAGET hoped the Noble Lord would persist in
his amendments, and divide the House upon them.
Mr. CROKER—I beg to state, that the Noble Lord has
already heard the whole of the opposition to his amend-
ments.—(Laughter. )
The various clauses (numbered 1 to 16 inclusive), were
read an d agreed to, with the amendments proposed by the
Noble Lord, and schedule H was ordered to stand part of
the Bill.
Mr. CROKER wished to ask the Noble Lord his in-
tentions regarding the bringing up and discussion of the
report.

Lord ALTHORP intended to propose that the report
should be at once received (after the schedules, &c. should
be agreed to) and considered pro forma, in order to in-
sert those few alterations which bad been suggested in the
Committee. He should then propose that the report be
taken into consideration on Wednesday next, and in the
mean tinie the Bill would be printed, and in the hands
of Members.

Mr. CROKE4 said that arrangement would be satis-
factory if they could get the Bill by Monday, for
it would be necessary to examine very clearly the details
of the Bill. As to the amendments to be made in the
formal report, he wished to know if they were merely
verbal alterations, and what they were.
Lord ALTHORP was understood to say, that they
were merely verbal alterations, and nothing affecting the
principle of the Bill.
Schedules 1 and K were severally read and agreed to,
with a few verbal amendments. The latter schedule was
the last in the Bill.
Lori ALTHORP then, in allusion to the postponed
clauses, withdrew one of them, viz, clause 51.
Clause 56, proposing remuneration to Barristers, was
read and agreed to ; as was clause 57, with some amend-
ment.

Lod ALTHORP then proposed certain alterations
on the 6Sth clause ; the object of which was to provide
certain remedies in case of the dissolution of Parliament
before the passing of the Foundary Bill.
Mr. CRESSET PELMAM objected to the alterations.
Sir C. WETHERELL could not agree with the prin-
ciple of the clause, thinking it more preferable to leave
the old system to be relied upon than to introduce new
machinery.
Lord ALTHORP felt the reasonableness of some of
the objections of the Hon. and Learned Member ; but,
upon examination of those objections, it appeared to him
that on a choice of difficulties, the course he had proposed
would be attended with the least inconvenience. The
Noble Lord requested Hon. Members to recollect, that it
was only a provision in case of the improbable event
taking place of a dissolution in Parliament previous to the
passing of the B .undary Bill.
Sir C. WETHERELL thought the old basis of elec-
tion would be much more popular than the new one.
Lord ALTHORP replied ; and the clause Was then
carried without a division.
Clause 82 was then put.
Sir C. WETHERELL said he had intended to take
the sense of the House upon this clause, but be was sorry
that the state of the House would not sanction him. The
effect, however, of the clause (which related to the 101.
franchise) would be to put the whole constituency of
England and the representative body into a state of pur.
gatory, in consequence of the endless disputes to which it
would give occasion.
Lord J. RUSSELL begged leave to observe that as
only those went to Purgatory who were not permitted to
remain at Paradise, if after six months' purgation they
were enabled to arrive there, there was little ground for
complaint.
Schedule L (an additional one) was then read and
agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN then read the preamble of the Bill,
which was put and agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN having put the question, that be do
leave the Chair and report progress, which was agreed to,
the House resumed, and Mr. F. BARING brought up the
report.
Lord ALTHORP then moved that the amendments, as
agreed to, stand part of the Bill, which was likewise
agreed to.
On the motion of the Noble Lord the report was or-
dered to be taken into further consideration on Wednes-
day next, and the Bill with its amendments were ordered
to be printed.
SCOTCH CHOLERA BILL.

The LORD ADVOCATE moved for leave to bring in
a Bill to, alter and amend a Bill passed in this session of
Parliament for Preventing the Spread of Cholera in
Scotland. In the few observations which his Lordship made
he was so indistinct as to to be inaudible :n the gallery.
Sir WILLIAM RAE did not rise to support the
motion ; notwithstanding, in his opinion, the Bill
was wholly unnecessary, but we put it to the
Noble Lord opposite whether it would not be better to
leave it to the different parishes to take such steps as they
might deem most expedient, and be by law entitled to
protection of their various districts. He teek that oppor-
tunity to complain of the selection of the Commis-
sioners who had been appointed for Scotland. On
a former occasion he had stated his opinion that
they certainly ought to be persons of the very highest
respectability, and free from all party feeling. He was as-
sured by the Noble Lord that such should be their character
Now who were they ? They were two of the judges, the
sheriff, and three private individuals, namely, Sir John
Gibson Craig, Sir John Dalrymple and another. The
latter three being the most violent party men in Scotland.
Why such me❑ should have been appointed he eould not
imagine.
Lord ALTIIORP, as we understood the Noble Lord,
speaking in so inaudible a tone as to render it almost im-
possible to catch anything that he said, observed, that the
appointment ought to take place from persons of high
rank and station, and it was in consequence of that, that
the present Commissioners have been chosen. After a
few observations from the Lord Advocate in explanation,
and Mr. Ross, leave was given to bring in the Bill.
Mr. JOHN SMITH presented a petition from New-
port Pagnell in favour of the Factories Bill.
Mr. HUME presented five petitions from members of
the Birmingham, Bethnal-green, and Brentford Political
Unions, praying the House speedily to pass the Reform Bill.
The House adjourned at a Quarter to Three.

TITHES.—In the petition of the parishioners
of Conahy, county Kilkenny, one of the fourteen parishes in
Dr. Butler's union, the petitioners state, " that they have paid
to Dr. Butler, of Burchurch, the enormous sum of seven thou-
sand five hundred pound., out of this poor parish ; that all the
parishioners are Catholics, and that there is only one church in
the said Doctor's union, which church is distant thirteen naci
fr9lll f9ur petiticritre,"—Cork Chrimick.