The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-22 00:00:00

to reach the lerLl of the dike round the town. This
morning an express has come from the Groenendyk, and
we hear that a detachment of Lancers has been sent to
prevent the people from wantonly cutting through the
dike.

THE HAGUE, AUG. 20.—1 t is with great regret that
we announce that the Court has received the afflicting
news of the death of tho Grand Duchess Alexandria,
conort of Prince Frederick or Hesse, and niece of our
augu,t Quetn.—./Uurtd de la Haye, Aug. 21.

N AND C4).MMERCIAL',N 17.: WS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

A fair business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday. Sales 4,500 bales, including 500 for export,
viz., 400 Surat, at 2fd. to 3A-d ; and the rest American,
at 34d. to 54:1.—A fair business was done in Railway
Shares, but the market had a tendency to droop :--
Caledonian, 49 ; Chester and Birkenhead, Half, 151 ;
Dublin and Cashel, 61 ; Eastern Counties, 12 ; Ditto
Registered, 13+ ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 66; Glasgow
and Dumfries, 11. 2s. 3d.; Grand Junction, New, Quar-
ter, 39:12- ; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 321 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter, 5+ ; Manchester
and Leeds, Half, 521 ; Midland Counties, 1081 ; North
Union, 126; Scottish Central, 21. Is. 6d.; South-Eastern,
12+ ; Ulster, 37+ ; Paris and Lyons, 2 9-20; Lynn and
Ely, 5.
The Bombay has just arrived from Ichaboe, with a
cargoe of guano. She left there on the 12th of June.
At that date there were no less than 48 British ships
there taking in large quantities of the manure. At the
adjacent islands there were eight or nine other English
ships similarly employed. This intesesting branch of
trade appears to be very rapidly on the increase.
From the shipping reports, it appears that a consider-
able quantity of Brazilian sugar has just arrived off the
coast, not less than five large ships having waited, a day
or two since, for orders. A portion of this, we are told,
is the production of free labour. The bulk of the arri-
vals have been ordered to the Continent for sale.
The Funds have been rather steady this morning,
though at the opening there were several sales made at
a slight depression as compared with the closing rates
last evening. The Government brokers have bought
5,0001. Consols at 981. For the account the present
value is 98+. For Reduced Annuities 99+ has just been
paid, and for Exchequer Bills 71s. to 735. premium.
Bank Stock is at 199 for money, and one-half per cent.
higher for the account.
In the Foreign Market, the principal transactions have
been in the Dutch Funds, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
having varied from 61+ to 61i. There is not a quota-
tion for French Stock to-day. Spanish Consols are at
221 ; Portuguese Converted at 44 ; and Mexican at 35k.
In the Railway Share Market the more prominent
variation is the Birmingham and Gloucester Shares,
which have fallen from 12+ to 2 and 3 premium. Most
of the other Shares are also lower. A considerable
amount of business has been transacted this morning. In
Banking Shares there has not been a transaction re-
ported up to the present hour.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 199% 109
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .......... ........... 99;i%
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 981,4%
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 101%%14
Long Annuities, Expire 515 Jan. 1860 l2 P-16%
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities 91%
Bank Stock for Account ... 199%
Consols for Account .........
Exchequer Bills, 1 d. 1 sid
1,0001. ........ .... 71 73 pm.
Ditto 73 pm.
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
I)utch Exchange 24 per Cent
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ... ••
Ditto for the Account 35%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted 45
Spanish' Bonds, Five per Cent
Ditto for the Account

Dutch 2% per Cents 6l3ti3G%ii
Dutch 5 per Cents ......................
New Loan, 5 per Cents. (1837)
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PEN SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester...... 100 .........107 102 ... to 103
Ditto New
Chester and Holyhead 5 6% % ... to
Dublin and Cashel... ... 2% 6% .115 i to
Eastern Counties ....... ... ... ... Z. 3 , 11%
Ditto New Registered" ..... 6s. Ad.
Great North of England
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto Fifths l2 24% to
Liverpool and Manchester 100
Ditto % Shares
London and Birmingham. lOO 224%
London and Brighton . ....... ...... 50 ........ 473
London and Greenwich
London and South Western ...... 41%
Ditto Eighths.... ............ ...... %
Lynn and Ely..
Manchester and Leeds 7O
Ditto % Shares 3O . 52%
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Midland Counties
Birmingham and Derby IOO
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. :21
North British
Norwich and Brandon
South Eastern and Dover ........ 32% 37% 38% to 37%
Ditto New
Trent Valley
armouth and Norwich lB 28% ...... to
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux t
Fernand Rouen 2O ..... ... 37%
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Am. t'.o.
3 per Cent. Consols 99%
Three and a Half Stock ......
Ditto New, 1830
3% per Cent. Debentures —
Bank Stock
Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent.
Royal Canal Stock —
4 per Cent. Ballast Office Debentures
4 per Cent City Debentures ..
LAST PRICES OF SHARES.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Dublin and K. Road
Drogheda Ditto...
Dublin and Cashel ditto .... 21% 6%
Hibernian Bank 25%
Royal Bank
National Insurance 25
Patriotic ditto
Mining Company of Ireland
Wicklow Copper Mines
City of Dublin Steam Company
Ditto Ditto 5O
Ditto Difto, 1836
British and Irish Steam Company ... 50
Steam Ship Building Company

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 21.—The
market remains firm and a fair business done. Churnet
Valley,* premium ; Eastern Counties Perpetual, No. 2,
20s. ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 215., and
275. 6d. premium ; Lynn and Ely, 41 ; Manchester and
Leeds, 124 ; Ditto, Quarter, 10i ; Manchester, and Bir-
mingham, 541 ; Ditto Quarter, 5i ; Newcastle and Dar-
lington, 481 ; North British, 2 ; Paris and Lyons, 2i.

LEAMINGTON, AUG. 20.—This pleasant watering
place has lately received a considerable accession of
fashionable company. Among the recent arrivals are
the Countess of Wemyss and Lady Caroline Charteris,
Viscount and Viscountess Newry, Lord Blaney, Lord
Howard, Lady Stanley and family, Lord Calthorpe, Mr.
Laurence and Lady Jane Peel, Lady Wenlock, Right
Hon. the Attorney-General for Ireland and family,
Colonel Sir Rowland Eustace, F. A. M'Geaehy, Esq.,
M.P., W. Battie Wrightson, Esq., M.P.,&c.
BUXTON, AuG. 20.—Amongst the recent arrivals
here are Major-General Sir J. Bryant and family, Sir
George and Lady Phillips, Colonel and Mrs. Pole, Right
lion. Colonel and Mrs. Darner, Lady Charlotte Greville,
L-ird Francis Egerton and the Misses Egerton, Colonel
Wallington, Mr. Edmund Peel and Mrs. Peel, Mr.
Phillips, Sir W. Foulks, Lady Foulks, and Miss Foulks,
Sir Thomas and Lady Briggs and family, Colonel and
Mrs. Delap, Major and Mrs. Tatten, &c. We under-
stand Earl De Grey, who, with his Countess, is sojourn-
ing here, has derived most decided benefit from the use
of these waters.

A few days ago M. Mulet, an inn-keeper at Dru-
levent, in the Haute Marne, who, from his great strength
and hasty character, was nicknamed the " Gran Diable,"
was condemned to a year's imprisonment for insulting
the Juge de Paix of his commune, and ordered to be
taken immediately from the Court to prison. He, how-
ever, escaped from those who had charge of him, and ran
through the town pursued by the gendarmes. They
overtook him, and were on the point of laying hands
upon him, when he took a knife from his pocket, and
stabbed himself thrice in the body. lie lingered in
great pain for two hours, and then expired. He was the
father of a family, and, though violent, was industrious
and charitable.—Galignani.
BRIGHTON, AUG. 21.—Count Nesselrode' who left
Pegg's Royal York Hotel yesterday, for London, re-
turned this afternoon with Baroness Scebach, and M.
Kisseleff, the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Paris. Baron
Brunnow, the Russian Ambassador at the Court of
London, is expected on a visit to Count Nesselrode to-
morrow. Among the latest arrivals here are the Earl
and Countess of Wicklow, Lord Gainsborough and Lady
Elizabeth Noel, Viscount and Viscountess Ponsonby,
Mr. and Lady Sarah Bayley, Lady Gardner, Lady
Heytesbury, Sir George and Lady Wombwell, Lady
Rokeby, Mr. and Lady Sandford, &c.
Lord and Lady Methuen have been placed in
mourning by the demise of her Ladyship's sister, Miss
Mildmay, sister to her Ladyship and Sir H. Mildmay,
Bart., who died at Dogmersfield Park, near Winchester,
early in the week.
in a case of tobacco smuggling, recently investi-
gated at the Mansion-house, London, it was stated that
20,000 pounds of tobacco had been lately cleared out of
the Custom-house in Dutch cheeses.

Lord
Clifford has returned to Canington from
Ugbrook, with the Hon. Mr. Clifford and the Hon. Win.
Clifford, his two sons, the latter of whom is just returned
from Rome. We regret to say that the Noble Lord has
been thrown into mourning, in consequence of the me-
lancholy death of his brother, the Hon. and Rev. Walter
Clifford, S. J. The Hon. and Rev. Gentleman was sta-
tioned at Trichinopoly, in the East Indies. He was
bathing in the river, when be was carried away by the
current, and before assistance could be rendered, he was
drowned. his body was found the next day, ten miles
lower down. Western Luminary. . .

DUNDEE.—Our markets continue quite steady ;
and flax, yarns, and linens, are in regular demand at last
week's quotations, with a tendency upwards. In hemp,
hemp codilla, and Indian jute, there is no alteration
either in demand or prices.—Dundee Courier.
They are growing a giant at Coxsackie, in this
state, who promises to overtop all competition in this
country or Europe. His name is Nathan Lampman, and
he is 16 years old, weighing 198 pounds, standing at
this time 7 feet 1 inch in height, and growing " like
mad." He is described by Dr. Smith as " a great, tall,
awkward, good-natured sixteen-years. old boy: He has
actually grown nine inches in the last year. The doctor
thinks he will reach at least pother foot, and, on the
whole, we have a very good prospect of raising an " em-
pire" giant.—/Vetv Yoi k Paper.
Ax AwKWARD MISTAKE.—A gentleman was ar-
rested, by the " detective," in the great agricultural
ball, in Dublin, on Friday evening last, on suspicion of
being one of the fashionable members of the English
swell mob. Next morning, he was brought bet;we the
presiding magistrate, in College-street Police-office. It
was, however, proved by respectable parties in the city
that the accused was a Spanish Don, of rank and fortune,
and a man of the strictest integrity and honottr.