The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-22 00:00:00

and healthy state. In former times this would have been
taken as the certain evidence that our trade was in a flou-
rishing state, with a balance in our favour, but since the
creation of so much foreign stock, the case is materially al-
tered. Those securities arc continually changing hands,
not in England only, but from one part of Europe to another,
as different notions of their value prevail, and hence they
become an important instrument in the exchanges, inde-
pendently of commercial transactions, the operation of which
it behoves the merchant and the capitalist to watch with
peculiar care and attention. The crisis of May last at the
Stock-Exchange was brought on chiefly by that influx of
foreign stock from the continent which the high prices here,
unnaturally raised by speculation, brought upon us, and, by
affecting the foreign exchanges, it acted injuriously at the
same time op the regular commercial transactions. At
present the reverse of this state of things is going on ; the
low prices of various descriptions of foreign stock which
have not recovered that crisis are attracting foreign purcha-
sers to this country, and the remittances they make to pay
for them have produced the improvement in the foreign ex-
changes. How long this may last is uncertain ; the aspect
of things may change on any political convulsion, however
slight, and those who have much at stake will do well to be
prepared for any sudden change. The speculative article of
foreign stock, which the continent now takes freely from us,
bears no resemblance, to goods, or to produce of any de-
scription ; but will be brought back in a very few days to
this market, whenever it shall appear to be excited by
speculation, and the best place consequently for disposing of
it to advantage.—Morning Paper.
'SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHOW. - The cattle
show this season has been superior to those of many years
past, and excited the greatest admiration of all who at-
tended it. Three South Down wethers, 32 months. old,
fed and bred by Mr. Coke of Norfolk, were sold to a
butcher in Chancery-lane ; their weights were 1521b5.,
1421b5, and 1281bs. The Marquis of Tavistock's 4 years
and 2 months old Hereford ox was sold to the same
butcher. It gained a prize in the third class, and weighed
165 stone. It was very remarkable for the smallness of the
bones and the abundance of the flesh.

. KENSINGTON PA LAC E.—Several workmen are
now busily employed in putting into repair the apartment in
that part of the Kensington Palace where his Majesty
George the Second expired, and which has not been used
since his demise. The alteration, or rather renovation, of the
apartments at Kensington Palace, by order of the Hon.
Commissioners of Woods and Forests, is, by direction of his
Majesty,for the accommodation of the Duchess of Kent and
the Princess Victorst.

EXTENSIVE MAIL COACH ROBBERY.—On Sa-
turday information was received at the different metropo-
litan police offices that on the arrival of the Birmingham
and Leamington mail at Bicester, on Thursday night, the
guard discovered that a portmanteau (belonging to Mr.
Eady, jeweller, of Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, who was
proceeding by the mail to Birmingham), which had been
put into the front boot, bad been stolen, but when or how
has not yet been ascertained. Its contents, which are
valued at upwards of 5001., consisted of a number of
watches, chiefly gold, fifteen rose and other diamond
rings, some set sound with rubies and emeralds, seven
fine emerald ditto, eight pearl ditto, several ruby, intaglio,
onyx, amethyst, topaz, chrysolite, and fancy gold ditto ; se-
veral pairs of gold earrings, and a number of other valuable
articles of Jewellery.

A plan has been suggested, which if adopted would
have a very good effect. It has been recommended to take
down the brick wall that incloses a great part of the north
side of the garden of the new Palace, and to erect an
ornamental railing, reaching along that side of Constitution•
bill, to the entrance into the Park at Hyde Park-corner,
with a handsome shrubbery inside, and about the centre a
grand gateway, with a carriage road, leading through the
garden to the Palace, for the use of their Majesties and the
Royal Family, similar to the private carriage way leading
from St. James's Park, through the garden, to the state-
room of the Old Palace.

The author of the " Lollards," " Calthorpe," &e.,
is about to publish again. " The Self-Condemned" is the
title of the new book. It is founded on the troubles which
disturbed Ireland in the reign of Queen Elizabeth (as in
every other reign), and the interest is heightened by some
descriptive touches from the pen of Mr. Crofton Croker.
The scenes are wild and stormy, and love in all its varieties,
the tender, the refined, the fierce, the impetuous, the insi-
dious, and the lawless, is the subject of its chapters.
TII,E COUNT DE LAPLACE.—A monument has
been raised to this great man at Beaumont, and placed
on the site of the house where he was born. It is a
building erected for the purposes of a, primary school, and
a hall for the mayoralty. Two tablets of marble are in-
serted in the front of the building ; on one it is recorded
that the corporation of Beaumont had erected that edifice
to the memory of Laplace, born at Beaumont, the 22d of
March, 1749, and died at Paris the sth of March, 1827.
On the other is inscribed the following :
" Sous un modeste toit, ici naquit Laplace,
Lill qui sut de Newton agrandir le compas,
Et s'ouvrant un sillon dans les champs de l'espace,

Y fit encore un nouveau pas.'' - -
On Saturday an inquest was held at the Blue Boar
Tavern, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, on the body of
William Giles, Esq., aged 76, formerly in practice as a
solicitor, and Clerk of the Arraigns at the Middlesex
Sessions, but latterly living on his money. It appeared
from the evidence .of Mr. 'William Ford, solicitor, son-in-
law to deceased, and in whose house he lived, that witness
saw him last Thursday night at about a quarter before 12,
when he appeared to be in his usual health and spirits.
He then retired to his chamber for the night. Between
eight and nine on the following morning a report of a pistol
was heard in deceased's bed-room, when on entering it wit-
ness found him stretched on the floor bleeding, and his
throat exhibited a large wound. The shattered parts of a
pistol were lying beside him. A surgeon (Mr. Brooke)
was instantly sent for, but the deceased expired immedi-
ately on his arrival. His faculties seemed to have been
weakened for some months past, and the leastthing irritated
him. He had had the pistol in his possession for years.
He could assign no reason for committing the act.—Miss
Henrietta Ralph, a young lady on a visit to the family,
stated that she had occasion to enter deceased's chamber
on the morning of the fatal occurrence, when he was in bed
and inquired of her the hour.—The Jury, after remarking
that there was much mystery about the case, expressed a
doubt as to whether the wound was made by a bullet ;
they rather thought it was inflicted by a part of the stock
of the pistol. The surgeon stated that the collar bone of
the deceased was broken, and the carotid artery divided—
no doubt from pieces of the barrel, and not from a bullet--
The Jury, after some discussion, returned a verdict—" That
the deceased's death was caused by the bursting of a pistol,
but whether from design or accident there was no evidence
to prove."
FIRES.—On Saturday morning, about a quarter
past four o'clock, a fire broke out in the shop of Mr. J.
Sharp, bookseller and stationer (son of the Rev. Thomas
Sharp, A.M.), No 19, Upper King-street, Bloomsbury,
which threatened destruction to the inmates, twelve in num-
ber, who were sleeping soundly, and who were made aware
of their perilous situation by Mr. Kent, butcher, living op-
posite, who happened fortunately, to be up at the time, and
to be thus a means of their narrowly escaping uninjured.
The shop was gutted, and the whole of the stock in trade
consumed. How the fire originated is utterly unknown
to the family. Sunday morning, about two o'clock, a
destructive fire broke out in the lower part of the house of
Mr. Clewitt, linen-draper, 23, Diamond-road, Stepney-
green, which burnt with the most fearful rapidity ; and,
notwithstanding several engines and firemen from the
Prince's-square and Jeffrey's-square stations quickly ar-
rived at the scene of devastation, the house was gutted, and
the stock and building entirely consumed. By the praise-
worthy exertions of the neighbours and police the family all
escaped. Mr. Clewitt is, fortunately, insured in the Atlas
and Protector Fire Offices. Intelligence was received in
town on Friday night from a gentleman who had travelled
the Kent road, that an extensive conflagration was raging
at Iloxley Farm, near Rochester ; and, in consequence of
the short supply of water, added to a want of the assistance
of engines and firemen, there is, unfortunately, no doubt
but that the farmhouse, dwelling, &c., have fallen a prey '
to the devouring clement. It is feared that the property
is not insured.
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