The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-22 00:00:00

SIGNS OF THE TIMES I

BY THE EDITOR OF A MORNING PAPER.

"Aye, and bad signs too! We learn that the Marquis Wellesley
shook, in the publicity of the House of Commons, the hand of
the incendiary denounced in the King's Speech ; and the same
common disturber—the curse of his country—the mocker at
national faith—was seen walking arm-in-arm through the streets
of London with Lord Plunkett ! This species of profligacy can-
not be corrected by ordinary means. The severe and signal in-
fliction of Providence can alone do it. "—Extract from the Dub-
lin Warder, quoted in the Times of this Morning.

The star of Britain is on the wane,
Never—oh never to rise again;
From East and West—from South and North,
The sons of pillage are posting forth ;
Commerce looks black, Religion blue,
The Three per Cents. are down to Two ;
Rape and Robbery, Murder and Fire,
Are lighting Old England's funeral pyre ;
Not a hope remains; we've run our span;
For—hear it, and keep from tears who can?—
Wellesley has shaken hands with Dan I
( Yes, shaken his hand, as if from spite,
In the House of Commons in broad day-light)
And Dan has returned, with a bear-like clasp,
That shake of anarchy, grasp for grasp 11
'Tis a frightful sign, but a far worse lowers
O'er this once blessed clime of ours ;
We're threatened with Popery far and wide,
Havoc, and God knows what beside ;
For Plunkett too, misguided man,
Has squeezed the rebellious fist of Dan,
Resigned himself to the foul fiend's charm,
And even walked with him, arm-in-arm

Oh, who, with courage serene and high,
Shall aid us in this extremity?
Vain Melbourn's wisdom, Russell's skill—
We're rolling fast down ruin's bill,
And still shall keep rolling on, like a stone,
At a rate it alarms me to think upon,
'Till Dan, foregoing each fiendish view,
Consents to cut Wellesley and Plunkett too,
Shake hands with the Duke, to Goulburn kneel,
And walk arm-and-arm with Sir Robert Peel.

THE FUNDS.

(THIS DAY.)

CITY,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Owing to the great scarcity of arrivals this morning, we
have a darth of information in the city, which also causes a
paucity in the operations of the Funds.
Consols which left off yesterday at 92a 1, for the Account,
and 921 y for Money, opened at 92i for the Account, and 92+
for Money, with little or nothing doing.
The private loans to individuals on the part of the Bank, is
stated to amount to 1,000,0001., at the rate of Four per cent.
interest. Exchequer Bills, 36 37 ; India Bonds, 18 20 ;
India Stock, 258 ; Bank Stock, 218
The Foreign Market continues very buoyant, and opened at
the following quotations this morning :—Spanish Bonds,
694 e ; Spanish Scrip, 9} premium ; Portuguese, 991 ;
Columbian, 53 to 53i ; Mexican, 50 51.
The exportation of the precious Metals from the port of
London for the week ending the 18th inst. is as follows :
Silver Coin to the West Indies, 360 ounces ; to India,
24,000 ounces.

At present the Exchange between England and America
being 109drs. 23c. to 40c. per cent ; therefore it appears the
Exchange is 33c. to 40c. per cent. against England.
Our arrivals this morning are one French Mail, and a Lis-
bon Mail, by the Scorpion, which sailed on the sth inst. ; it
does not bring any important information—all was tranquil in
the above capital.

HALF-PAST ONE.

We still continue very dull in the City for want of intelli-
gence ; and the Funds are inactive, with little or nothing
doing either in the British or Foreign Markets up to the pre-
sent hour.

Consols have continued during the whole of the morning at
921 / for the Account, and 92 for Money. Exchequer Bills,
36 ; -India Bonds, 18 20 ; Bank Stock, 217 for the Account ;
India Stock, 253.
In the Foreign Market South American Securities are
rather heavy ; Spanish Bonds, 69t j ; Spanish Scrip, 9 to
premium ; Portuguese, 991 ; Columbian, 53i ; Mexican
50i; Dutch 21 per Cents., 57.
THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols for the Account, 92
THE FUNDS —C
BRITISF
Bank Stook 216%
3 per Cent. Red. 91%
3 per Cent. Cons
lha per Cent.
3y4 per Cent. Red 99
New 34 per Cent 100%
4 per Cent. Assented
Dissented
Long Annuities to expire
Jaa
Oct. 1859 16%
Jan. 1860 l7l
FOREIG

40SING PRICES.
FUNDS.
India Stock 25S
Ditto Bonds 20 pm.
South Sea Stock ...
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Ex. Bills, 10004...
Ditto 500/ 37 pm.
Ditto 5001 57 pm.
Bank Stock for Opg. 0i7%
India Stock for Act. 259%
Consols for Act.

1. UNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent ' ---I.
Belgian, A per cent lO5
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 42
Chilian, 6 per cent 5654
Columbian, 6 per cent.
Ditto, 1824 5314
Danish —

Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Ditto, Now Ditto g 9%
Prussian. 5 per cent —
Ituss.nn Bonds, 5 per cent. loa3s
Ditto, Metaiv —
Spanisk, sper cent 7O ~t
D

Ditto, kef 6S 14
French, 5 per cent
Exchange
French, 3 per cent —f. —e.
Dutch, 2j per cent 57
Ditto, .5 per cent 101%

Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent.
Mexican, 5 per cent., 1825
Ditto, 1825, 6 per cent 59Y4
Peruvian, 6 per cent

John Wilks, Esq., M.P., has given 501. to the poor
of Boston, instead of spending that sum in the ridiculous
pageant of chairing, a show only fit to please children and su-
perannuated old women.—Lincoln Gazette.

GERMAN BANDITTI.—The Journals of Saxony
announce that a band of 96 robbers, who had been confined in
the prison of Oschetz, have lately been brought to trial, when
four of them were condemned to be broken on the wheel, two
to be beheaded by the sword, 19 to hard labour for different
periods, from one to 19 years, and 34 to imprisonment for se-
veral weeks. Among them were 29 women and girls, very
few of whom were subjected to any of the severer punishments.
The rest were acquitted.

LUNATIC ASYLUMS.—No sooner are these recep-
tacles of wretchedness erected than they overflow with patients.
Of this the new building at Hanwell is an instance, which,
though holding 500 patients, is inadequate to the demands
upon it. While we admire the philanthropy which leads to
the erection of these edifices, we fear they bear testimony but
too strongly to the alarming increase of a disease which is
mainly owing to the taste for ardent spirits, which the Govern-
ment, for the sake of revenue, so unwisely encourages.
A grenadier was originally a soldier armed with a
sword, a firelock, a bayonet, and a pouch full of grenades—
whence the name. Grenadiers were first instituted in France,
in 1667, when four or five were attached to each company ;
but in the year 16. 70 they were formed into companies, and in
1685 introduced into the British service.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 25.—The Sultan's
eldest daughter, whose marriage with Halil-Rifant has been
announced, has just given birth to a child, who has been
named Abdul Hamed, and raised to the dignity of Vizier. It
is the first instance in the Ottoman empire of a male child
belonging to one of the first functionaries of the State not
having been smothered. This striking evidence of the progress
of civilization has made a favourable impression. The Sultan,
immediately after the accouchement, went and congratulated
his daughter. The Porte has recently caused the sum of
5,000,000 Turkish piastres to be paid to M. de Boutenieffe,
being a part of the 500,000 ducats it is to pay on the Ist of
May. According to letters from Candia the Egyptian squa-
dron has, owing to the plague which is raging at Alexandria,
entered the port of Suda.—German Paper.
On Thursday evening a boy attempted to pick the
pocket of a gentleman in Church-street. The gentleman, on
feeling the boy's hand, turned suddenly round, on which the
latter ran off. The gentleman, however, ran faster than the
thief, whom he seized by the collar. The rascal, finding that
he ran a chance of being taken to Bridewell, thought that the
loss of his coat would not be so great as the loss of his liberty :
so, he dexterously slipped out of his coat, which we saw in the
hands of the gentleman, and made his escape.—Liverpool
Albion.