The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-15 00:00:00

TIME FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, T WEL VE O' cr, CK.
We hive no arrivals of any foreign mails this morning,
nor do we bear as yet of an Express from Paris; this may
be attributed to the strong north-westerly winds which
prevailed the whole of yesterday. hut it is supposed the Ex-
press will arrive in the course of the day:
Being entirely without political news, a great dulness
prevails in the City, and all operations in the Funds are in
stagnant state at present.
Consols, which left MI yesterday at 85 to for the Ac-
count, opened at 85, with nothing doing.

The Foreign Market is in the same state.
Let.ers limn Babb, of the 15th July, state that all was
quiet there.
HALF-PAST ONE.
Consols have continued during the is hole of the morn-
ing at 85 to fur the Account. There is no speculation.
We have no reports of any description.
In the Foreign Ma' ket Spanish Stock is rather better.
In other foreign securities nothing doing.
THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols 85 * fur Account.

Lieut.-General Count DECAEN has just died
of an apoplectic stroke, at no very advanced age. It is
known that he began to distin;uish himself in the first
army of the Rhine, where he was the rival of KLEBER,
DESAIX, MOREA Uy and Sr. Cyst. From that time he
maintained his high reputation in numerous campaigns and
in his cfamnand in ludi I. It is a painful loss to be added to
those which time has aheady caused in the ranks of our
okl and glorious army.—Moniteur.

HAY M A RIC ETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .£:?. 15 to £3 0
Vow Meadow Hay 0 15 3 15
Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye.grass Hay 3 15 4 5
t.lover Hay 4 . 0 5 5
Oat Straw £1 12 to .£1 141 Wheat atraw ... 1 14 1 16
Supply moderately good, trade dull, and prices stationary.
sMITHFIELD.

Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5
New Meadow Hay 3 0 3 10
Uieful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 5
Clover Hay (extra 1ine)....£6 6... Generally , 4 5 5 5
'tat Straw ... ;LI 1;.I to I:1 14 I Wheat Straw 1 14 1 16
Supply limited, and trade very dull; prices as last quoted.

FRENCH TAxEs.--.—The receipt of the indi-
rect taxes for the month of August is very satisfactory. It
has exceeded by 1,800,000 francs the receipt of 1831,
and by 7,500,000 francs that of 1830. The receipt of
the first eight months of this year shows an increase of 18
minions beyond that of the first eight months of last ye ir.
This excess is apportioned among the principal branches of
the revenue as follows :—.

• Stamp Duties 7,186,000f.
Customs 7,P28,00011
Spirituous Liquors
Various indirect Taxes 884,000f.
Sale of Tobacco 648,000f.
Postage 521,000E
A RIVAL OF THE CZAR NICHOLAS.--
Li the suburbs of Baltimore I remarked an odd-looking
mansion, resembling something between a gaol arr! a lu-
natic asylum. There, I was told, dwells one who gains
his livelihood by seizing negroes, and whose myrmidons
are far from scrupulous in considering whether they have
any legal right for pouncing on their prey. Gangs of un-
happy creatures are thus assembled by a system of kid-
napping, and shipped off for the Southern States. At the
very moment we passed a horse stood panting at the g ite.
and covered with foam, whose rider, I verily lielieve, as I
was told, had Just returned from the pui suit of some hap-
less and f iendless negro.—Ferguson's Notes on America.
HORRID CASE OF FANATICISM.— All
Hindu fukeer, dressed in a fantastical garb, winked upon
the mind of a wealthy high-caste bramhun woman, to the
extent of making her believe that be was her Debut,
charged with a spiritual message from the goddess KALEE,
demanding a human sacrifice. She declared herself ready
to obey the divine order, and asked who was to.be the vic-
tim? The fukeer pointed io her own son, a young man
about 25 years oh!, the heir to her property. The deluded
mother waited till the unconscious youth was asleep, and
in the silence of night she struck him upon the head with
a kodalee, and killed him. This done, she cut up the
body under the direction of the fukeer, presented a part
boiled with rice as a peace eff-ring, with the usual ceremo-
nies, to the image of KALEE, part to the wretch who per-
sonified the Debta, and buried the rest with so Lttle care.
that the place of its deposit was discovered by the vultures
hovering over the ground, and thus brought to the notice
of the police. The facts have been proved before the
Commissioner.—Asiatic Journal.

DUEL.—Tuesday morning early, an " affair
of honour," so tailed, appears to have been settled in s
field adjoining Mi'uit Vernon-road, Edge-hill. The par-
ties, conaisting of five individuals, supposed to be the
principals, two seconds, and a surgeon, entertal the
about half-past 6 o'clock in the morning. The ground
measured, the parties were seen presenting the pistols,
which were discharged without effect. In about four mi-
nutes they were again ready, and upon the drop,iing of the
signal (a h, nikerchief) ihey fired. One of them, it to
supposed, was wounded in the arm, as he was seen soot)
afterwards lying on the grass, about 20 yards froiti the
fi,,h LI ground, prohahly getting his w..und dressed bY,
the medical attendant. Our informant adds, that two 01
the party h.d the appearance of military men, bring 122"
hied in close dirk frock coats and foraging caps.: We
have not been able to ascertain who the parties were,
although sev, rat names have been mentioned to us, but not
sufc'ently authenticated to justify publication. Alter
" the affair" was over, the parties moved off PO quieklY
that they escaped before being taken into custody.—Lives"
pool Courier. _

It has been observed by several of the foreign
journals, and corroborated by occular demonstration in both
this country and Ireland, that in many places where tit°
cholera has prevailed an amazing number of flies has bee°
observed. Whether it be an actual fact or not that the
cholera is preceded or attended by a winged army, it is 04
for the writer of this article to say; but a few day ago the
Trent, at Littleborough, near East Het ord, was literally
covered with a particular species of fly, which extended°
far as the eye could reach. Numbers of them were dead'
sad the rest were so stop fled and inanimate as not to .t
om
tempt to evade being caught : a person putting his h'°°
:o the surface of the water might take up from fifty tO
hundred at a time. There were some common flies anO,f,
the number, hut these appeared as torpid as the rest. T,
ferryman, who has resided at Littleborough for some year,
does not remember such a circumstance occurring
It is worthy of remark that the cholera broke out at Le
tleborough some time ago, and out of a p epulation 01 3
inhabitants, there were Eve ease., the whole of w 1,16--
1,
terminated fatally.—Lincoln Mercury.
THE STATE PRISONERS AT HANI
Count de PEYRONNET has addressed a.letter to the Qauwl;
dienne, to the follawing effect:—" I have been infuraiet,,
that some of the Journals, even the Ministerial Journi'
have been exceedingly amesiog with respect to I hilcoe
0
not what sort of manner of life which they have beei,
pleased to impute to me. Now Ido not deny that
gaiety is not in good taste, anti I regret to be obbged_oe
trouble eou with a disavoval of it. It is, however, trot
that I do not go abroad much; but this access of hunlbe
has scarcely been of 13 months' duration, and I am Iwter
only one who is subject to it. You are aware, Sir, tits
Marshal BASSOMPIERE, whose Memoirs are extent, -jes
sent to the Bastile. He had the power, which 113.0 e
not, of walking in any part of the premises, and at a
hour he pleased. But,' he used to say, I could uret
g,
go out of my chamber without a bloatedness superverin
of which I thought every moment that I should die,toeli
am of the same opinion as the Malteeis, and as thelo3.l-
net's still keeps away, I am determined not to leave „
chamber. " DE PEYRONVICT iof
INGRATITUDE.—On Monday, GABRA.
'URDU/ND COTTER, late clerk to the late Mr. I%lAeujic%
of the Brunswick Theatre, confidential clerk in alatisoe
and Co.'s Printing Office, was al reigned before a Loolue
Jury, for the embezzlement of 741., and pleaded Gubios
Though many cases have exceeded this in amount, per atel
few could match it in systematic turpitude. The e°°eie
was for six years in the confidential employment of TO
MAURICE, whose I emented death by the destruction °.„,,1
Brunswick Theatre, four yeses ago, is well known. ° of
the period of that catraetrophe, though a daily seitnol,
the exertions of the widow, for the support of heretlfeei
infant son, lee bas been recklessly engaged in emir.°
monies which came into his hands as collecting.clerkn't,t,
cover his defalcations, which amount to nearly I,°°',ollll
has made false entries in the books, anti committed e-ero
forgeries, the evidence of which is now in poss,ssi°
J
prosecutrix. For a entail tart of his f!elinqUeneleS
leas been prosecuted. When Mr. Manatee first eng,Ao
him he Was ,n the greatest p.wertv, am! it is by
widow and orphan that COTTER. has manifested his gra° 0/1(
PORPOISES IN HOLBEACH MARSII• bo eV
Sunday morning last the natives were astonished by a ,
bottle-nosed propoises or grampuses being left 11 t:,001'.
on the sands opposite Holheach Marsh, These erelPid
sters of the deep' (17 in number, and measuring
ei` o'll,
to 18 fee; in length) had, it is supposed, pursue' 6'17
flat fish up the creeks, and en the ebbing 01 t.ethrlit
tv. re left on the coast; their struggles to reol;ii'lit,
native element were tremendous, splashing the of
their tails until they became exhausted ; they _.,e End!!
cured and killed by stabs in the bead and body. 401
on Monday morning the fishermen and laboure,ra.,ol 1,1,1,,
near the spot were on the alert, and by 1 t's,;h 40
cut the fat cr blubber off the whole of the fish, iso bret
exception of two ; by this time also, a report lea two
circulated that aqu entity of young whales hid !t),
by the tibe, great numbers of persons assembled it
oat g
neighbouring villages, and might be seen operatingotbeera
mutilated carcasses; some securing a jaw-NMI; eteatra
heart, whilst here and there one might be seen
with a rib. The blubber, if prop, sly manuii.j,. the
certainly north a considerable stun, as several
weighed upwards of a ton each.—Stamford N w