The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-19 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

We are still without any fresh intelligence from Oporto
or Lisbon, which cannot otherwise be accounted for than
the state of the weather off that coast.

In respect to the state of affairs with Holland, we must
wait a few days before the decided measures will be enforced.
The estafette from Paris is not of importance.
Consols opened at the same price they left off at yester-
day, 831 sellers; at present they are 831 buyers.

HALF-PAST ONE.

In the absence of arrivals and official information, it
may be as well to inform the public of the various reports
afloat in the City and the Stock Exchange. First, that
a courier had arrived from the Hague, despatched by
Count Dornhoff, announcing his first interview with the
King of Holland respecting the Belgian question.
Report says it is of a favourable description.--
Secondly, That accounts are in town, from Opor-
to, of the Miguelite array having broken up
before Oporto, and gone into winter quarters. Up to
the present time we cannot trace the above to any au-
thentic source. It is possible that the packet has arrived
from Oporto, and that some private express from Fal-
mouth has been received, as the Portuguese Scrip im-
proved about % per Cent.

The Consel Market has also improved since the early
part of the morning from 83i to 83j 84, at which price
they are at present.
We also bear, as a report, that one 'of Don Pedro's
steamers, the Soho, was burnt last night off Blackwall.
She is not insured.

In tke Foreign Market, Dutch and Belgian Stock, which
lowered in the early part of the morning, have since im-
proved.
Portuguese Scrip 4-} i discount.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Private accounts have been received from Madrid this
morning, stating that a continued attack was made on
Oporto on the 29th and 30th September and Ist October.
The Miguelites were obliged to abandon their outposts,
and have retreated five leagues from Oporto.
The Miguelite squadron entered Vigo Bay on the 29th
September. Sartorius arrived off Vigo on the 3d Octo.
ber, and was blockading them at both mouths of the bay.
There has been posted at the North and South Ame-
rican Coffee-house an Extraordinary Gazette of New
Granada, dated Aug. 7, in which is given the landing of
Santader, President of New Granada. The above Ge-
neral promises that he will he in Bogota the beginning of
September.
THREE O' CL 0 CS.
Consols for Account, 83 i 84.
CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK.

Consols
Ditto for Account 83 Greek
Brazilian Bonds 48. Mexican ............
Buenos Ayres... Peruvian
atilian Ditto.... Russia
C ilumbian 1824 Spanish .

MIDDLESZX SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

John Smith, Henry Brittain, George Williams, and
John Stevenson were prosecuted by Mr. Powell, of the
Mint, for passing two counterfeit crown pieces.
It appeared that on the 15th of September the prison( re
were all seen together on Finchley Common. Two
went one way and two another. Smith and Brittain scent
into a grocer's shop and bought some bacon, for which
they gave a 56.-piece to the woman who served, and she
gave them the change. Soon after her nephew came in,
to whom she gave the crown piece, and it was the❑ found
to be a bad one. The other two had gone to the
Greyhound public-house, in Hendon, where they
were joined by the others, and where they had a
pot of beer, for which they also tendered a bad
crown-piece, for which they received the change. Notice
was given to the constable, who came and took them into
cusmdy. On them he found good money to the exact
amount of what had been given in change at the two
places where they bad been. 4
Smith and Brittain pleaded guilty, Williams was found
guilty, and Stevenson was discharged, with a caution from
the Chairman. The other prisoners were sentenced to
one year's imprisonment and hard labour.
The Mint had eight other similar cases, which occupied
the whole of the morning.

OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

George Chilson and George Chandler, two sweeps,
one aged 20, and the other 19, were indicted for stealing
a quantity of silver plate, consisting of spoons, &c. the pro-
perty of John Ersthope, , M.P.
The prisoners were of the description of thieves gene,
rally denominated sneaks, who lurk about the fronts of
areas, particularly at the west end of the town, and take
every opportunity of plundering the kitchens and pantries.
On the present occasion the prisoners were detained by
Mr. Downes, a jeweller, of Long Acre, into whose shop
they went to dispose of the property very shortly after the
robbery, and who sent for Fall, a Bow-street officer, into
whose custody he delivered them on suspicion of having-
dishonestly possessed themselves of the plate.
The prisoners were found Guilty, and sentenced to be
transported for life.

Mr. Serjeant Axentx and the Jury expressed their
warm approbation of the conduct of Mr. Downes, in
being the means of bringing two such offenders to justice.
Archibald Warden, labourer, aged 24,, was capitally
indicted for having, on the 12th of October, in the parish
of St. Marylebone, committed an offence of a most abo-
minable and disgusting nature, to which it is impossible
more particularly to allude.
The case was proved by Samuel Rslph, policeman, 36,
Divisio❑ S.

After a most perspicuous summing up by Mr. Justice
TINDAL,

The Jury retired, and on their return found the prisoner
G u ty—Death.
Peter Charles Chalmers, a young man, aged 31, of
most respectable appearance, who was convicted of forgery
at the Sessions in May last, and whose case was afterwards
referred to the 12 Judges, was brought up to-day, to re-
ceive the deci'ion to which the Judges had come.
Lord Chief Justice TINDAL said the indictment against the
prisoner charged him with having on the 12th March, 1630,
feloniously forged an acceptance to a certain bill of exchange
therein set out, which offence was stated to be " against
the peace of our Lord the King, his crown and dignity,"
On reference to the time when the offence was alleged to
have been committed, it appeared to have been on a day
during the reign of his late Majesty, and it was objected
by the Counsel for the prisoner that no judgment could be
entered up, because of the contradictory allegation; that
" against the peace of our Lord the King" must be taken
to mean the present King, whereas the offence was, ire
fact, committed in the reign of the late King. The
L earned Recorder, who tried the case, reserved the ob-
jection for the opinion of the Judges. In June, eleven of
the Judges met to consider the objection, upon which oc-
casion two of them were of opinion that the word
" against the peace of our Lord the King," must be fairly
taken to mean against the peace of that King in whose
ieign the offence was stated to have been committed. The
other Judges were of opinion that if there were, in
fact, a variance in the indictment, it was fully
answered by the Act of the 7th of George IV.,
chap. 64, the 20th section of which provided, that for
the better remedying the inconveniences arising from
technical objections to indictments, no judgment should be
stayed or reversed for want of the averment of any matter
not necessary to he proved, or for the omission of the
words " against the peace of our Lord the King." The
nine Judges were of opinion, that if there were any contra-
diction in the indictment, the whole of the words " against
the peace of our Lord the King" were surplusage and not
necessary. Upon those grounds the whole eleven Judges
were of opinion that the judgment should not be stayed
or reversed, but that the conviction was good.