The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-31 00:00:00

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bask Stock
3 per Cent. Red 99% Ditto Bonds --...... ..... 95 pm.
3 per Cent. Cons. • 98% Ditto Old Annuities ... 9'7
2% per Cent. Red lOl% Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3% per Cent.,, lOl Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1%d... 7& pO%.
New S per Cent..............., ..- Ditto 5001.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11.... .......
Jan • 1800 12% MBank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859 1.2% Consols for Act...„..... 98%
Jan. 1et 10.... .....

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian. 5 per Cent ~.. ..... Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent • 'Ditto, New Ditto.... ....... 7.
Brazilian Bonds ..•• ....... •••• - 'Prussian, 5 per Cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent.. Russian,• 5 per Cent. ....
Chlliant r. per Ceot ........... ,Ditto, Metallic ....... ........ .
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1824.... _
3 per Cent._ .........- 3:;%
Cuba Bonds, 6 per
Cent — Ditto, Deferred... ...... ...--... --
Danish, 3 per Cent
French, 5 per Cent.......119t. 23c.
... . .
Greek. 18,5, 5 per Cent — Exchange ...... ...... .... —I;
.__.c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1831....... 'Dutch, 2% per Cent 613
Peruvian. 1825, 6 per Cent.., , Ditto, S per Cent 10034

SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid),.„....„..., 109
Ditto. New Shales, 17k paid
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
Chichester and Brighton, 5 paid
Dublin and Cashel, 234. paid
Eastern Counties (23 paid) ......
Ditto Registered (816 s 8d paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 5.. pawl
Great North of England, 100 paid
Great Western (75 pami)
•
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 8.11,4
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid
Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid)
London and BlaCkwall (161. 13s. 4d.) , 7
Lonion and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) B%
Diito, Preference or Privilege, .£.B 17s •2d paid '3
London and South Westein (411. 6s. 10d. paid) Bl
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
Lynn and Ely, 1% paid 334
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid!
Ditto, Half Shares, SO paid
Manchester and Birmingham
Midland Counties (100 paid) lOB
Newcastle and Darlington Junction. 21 paid 45%
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Norwich and-Brandon, 4 paid ..... • ..... ..•••••••• 13
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4.d paid)
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
York and North Midland (50 paid) lO7
Ditto Half Shares ('25 paid)
York and Scarborough Branch (2% paid)
?anis and Orleans (20,paid)
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid

STATE OF TRADE.
_ FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, AUGUST 30.
There has been a rather larger amount of business
transacted on foreign wools this week than during
the fortnight preceding, but in prices we have not dis-
cerned_ any variation:
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, AUGUST 30.—
We have not
The
alteration to report in this market
this week.
manufacturers are all fully em-
ployed, but bu
tionary. y cautiously. Prices are firm and sta-
WAKEFIELD WOOL
r MARKET
they AUGUST 30.—There
either is no new feature in he long or short wool
market; prices are quite stationary,
sales are not extensive,
better hopes
and although
the splendid weather for harvest oPesare excited
operationsby that has
set in since our last week's report
LEEDS.—There has this week been quite as brisk
demand for goods at our cloth-halls as of late ; the
principal articles are shawls, fancy cloakings, heavy
tweeds, and pilot cloths for winter demand. The
supply continues to be very limited, and considerably
more business . would be done if there wag more
choice in the market. Prices continue steady. There
has been a considerable number of wholesale buyers
in the town during the week, and, in consequence,
business has been brisk in the warehouses-.
lIECKMONDWIKE BLANKET MARKET, AUG. 29,......
This market continues in the same state as last week.
On Monday there was a fair attendance of merchants
and manufacturers, but to-day not so good : few
samples, and little inclination on the part of either to
do business. The manufacturers are looking for an
advance, on account of the present price of wool.
_ BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is a fair

. demand for most piece goods suitable for the autumn,
- and the prices firm. Yarns are in steady requ( st,
and Fines stationary. There is only a very limited
• business doing in combing wools, the market well
supplied, and the buyers evidently only take what is
required for immediate use.
MANCIIESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had

much less doing in grey cloth this week, and since
Tuesday the heaviness has been on the increase; still
a large business is doing. No one seems disposed to
purchase on China account till the next
advices come to hand ; and as this will
probably be the case before Tuesday n€ xt,
we shall then have some• certain indication of what
may be expected for the remainder of the autumn, so
far as the India and China markets are concerned.
The dyers and printers are very busy—a good sign
of a brisk home trade. Domestics are still in fair
demand, at previous rates. Yarns are shipping to a
great extent, but there is no real change in value.—
Leeds Mercury.

THE « SEVEN NICOLLS."
(From the Naval and Military Gazette.)
We recently published an article relative to the
" Three Napiers," and a correspondent in Dublin has
called our special attention to another family of gal-
lant men. He says very justly, if the honoured
mother of the Napiers had reason to be proud of
giving birth to three such sons, and Scotland has felt
herself honoured in their having sprung from her soil,
how much more proud ought she to be who claims
the maternity of seven officers, distinguished for their
bravery, and many of them for their wounds, in their
Sovereign's service ; and how much greater honour
may that town, or that kingdom, lay claim to, who
have fostered such sons? That pride justly belongs
to the venerable and respected head of the Nicol's'
family—that honour unquestionably attaches to Cole-

raine.
Mrs. Nicolls, now nearly ninety years of age, is
sister of -the late General William Cuppage, of the
Royal Artillery. She has had seven sons, all of whom
were in the united service at the same time.
The eldest son, Col. E. Nicolls, R.M., has been
in 102 engagements, and was 23 times wounded—
once shot through the body, an eye shot out, and his
skull fractured. In consideration .of these services,
her Most Gracious Majesty, on the recommendation
of the authorities, has granted him a pension for the
remainder of his life, besides full-pay.
Lieut.-Col. W. B. Nicolls, who died at Jamaica on
25th May last, left Coleraine in 1792, and was ap-
pointed ensign in her Majesty's 78th Regiment in
the East Indies, and shortly afterwards in 72d High-
landers. He was present at the capture of the Cape
of Good Hope, and at the taking of the Isle of France,
Bourbon, &c. Shortly afterwards he received
his majority from the 72d to the 2d West
India Regiment, of which, in due course,
he became lieutenant-colonel. Had he survived
until November he would have been fifty years in the
army, during which period he was constantly em-
ployed in tropical and sickly climes, and never on
half-pay for any period of that long and arduous
service. He devoted five sons to the service, all of
whom had her Majesty's commission. His two eldest
died in Africa, while on duty in the Gambia. Four
survive him ; the eldest now resides in London ' • one
a lieutenant in the 25th Regiment in India, and two
are captains in the 56th and 2d West India regi-
ments. He has also left behind a widow, three
daughters, and a grand-daughter. The late Colonel i
W. B. Nicolls was the second son of Mrs. Nicolls.
As an officer he was universally esteemed and be-.
loved by all with whom he was professionally con-
nected. In him the soldier had a warm and persever-
ing friend and advocate.
George Cuppage Nicolls, third son of Mrs.
Georgiana Nicolls, of Coleraine, joined the Royal
Navy, on board her Majesty's ship Nassau, as a mid-
shipman, in 1795, commanded by Captain Thomas
Bertie, who being, after due course, appointed to her
Majesty's ship Ardent, took him with him, and, while
serving in that ship, was killed by a fall from the
mizentop-sailyard-arm, in the act of putting an ear-
ring in the sail, off the Texel (while on her Majesty's
service, 1798).
Lieutenant Abraham Nicolls, fourth son, served as

lieutenant in the Royal Marines, also as ensign in
the West India Rangers, and latterly in her Majesty's
38th Regiment, as lieutenant. Having lost his health
while serving in the West Indies, he returned inva-
lided to Europe, and died 18th May, 1810, at Coleraine.
Robert Nicolls, fifth son, went abroad, as mid-
shipman, on board her Majesty's ship Standard, and,
in due course, was appointed, Admiralty passed, mid -
shipman to her Majesty's ship —, and served in the
West Indies, He died at Kingstown, Jamaica, 4th
April, 1819, of yellow fever.
William Nicolls, sixth son, joined the Royal Ma-
rines, as lieutenant, 1812, and served on board her
Majesty's ship Chatham, on the Walcheren expedition,
and afterwards in the West Indies, whence he was
invalided, having lost his health at the island of Ber-
muda, and died soon after in Coleraine, May 18, 1819.
Commander Jonathan Nicolls, R.N., the youngest
surviving son, now living with his mother in
Coleraine, has also signalised himself in defence
of his country. He bore a part in several of
the hard contested engagements under the imme-
diate eyes of Lord Nelson, Sir H. Parker, and
Sir T. Graves, and received a wound at the Darda-
nelles, the effects of which have been the shelving or
exfoliation of the bones of his leg, and increasing
suppuration discharging from his wounds ever since,
rendering his leg a burden to him. He is now, in
consequence, retired on half-pay—a slender income
for an officer of his standing and superior merit.
Commander Nicolls entered the navy as a first-class
volunteer, early in 1800, on board the Defiance, and
was present in her at the blockade of Brest, Saints,
and Laryengues, under the command of Admirals Earl
St. Vincent, Lords Cornwallis and Bridport, and other
gallant officers, during which period he was frequently
engaged with the enemy, and was present, though but
15 years old, in that ship's barge, with the late gallant
captain, then Lieutenant Mouncey, when she cut out
a chasmaree between Ushant and St. Matthew, from
under the fire of the field-pieces which lined the
beach, and brought her off to the squadron. He also
served in said ship on the Baltic expedition, and was
present at the battle of Copenhagen. The ship bore
the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir T. Graves, and was
under the immediate command of Lord Viscount Nel-
son. The Defiance was then nearly destroyed by fire
from red-hot shot discharged by the great Crown
Battery ; she had 102 officers and men killed and
wounded, and amongst the former, Lieutenant
George Grey, to whom he was A.D.C. lie after-
wards served in the Goliah and Trent, in the

West
,Indies, and was present in the fonder
ship at the capture of several of the enemy's
vessels. The next actions in which he figured were
the blockades of Roehfort, St. Martin's, and Sable-
delone, where the Goliah's boats cut out the brig
Rachel from under the enemy's batteries and ships of
war. He was after Wards successively engaged under
Sir J. T. Duckworth, Sir S. Smith, and Sir T. Lewis,
and was present at the cutting out of a large Polacer
ship of 500 tons, when he was badly wounded, and
nearly lost his left eye ; at the captures of Alexandria
and Elhamett ; and at the capture of the President
French ship. After upwards of nine months' severe
suffering from wounds and climate he returned to
Europe. On recruiting his health, he was appointed
junior lieutenant of the Superb, bearing the flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir R. Keats, in which vessel he served
in the Mediterranean. He again returned as an in-
valid, on half-pay. His health again improving, he
was appointed to Malin Head signal station twice in
succession, in command of the gun-boats in Lough
Swilly, Donegal. The Lords of the Admiralty were
graciously pleased to appoint him a commander of the
fleet in April last—after being on the list of lieute-
nants for nearly thirty-seven years, during the
greater part of which he suffered very severely in his
general health, brought on in consequence of his se-
vere wounds. He has-been present at the destruction
of upwards of 100 sail of the enemy's ships of war, of
every description. It is also worthy of remark that,
whilst Commander, then Lieutenant Nicolls, was
engaged at the great gun 3 during the time of action,
his brother, Colonel Edward, was frequently in the
same ship, commanding the marines. Seldom, if
ever, has a similar circumstance occurred in the ser-
vice ; yet, strange to say, that notwithstanding all
their services, those brave officers have been compara-
tively unrewarded.
Also, Lieutenant Hugh Montgomery Nicolls,
Royal African Corps, son of Commander Nicolls,
served several years m Africa, at Fernando Po, Sierra
Leone, &c., and died on his passage, with his detach-
ment, to the Gambia, on the 25th December, 1837
was the youngest surviving son of Captain Jonathan
Nicolls, R.N.
The late Lieutenant and Commander Edward
Nicolls, of her Majesty's ship Dwarf, was eldest son
of Colonel E. Nicolls, R.M.—was drowned off Tar-
bert, river Shannon, Ireland, while striving to save
the life of a fellow creature in danger, in a yacht, the
property of the Knight of Glin, in March, 1844.
Lieutenant Richard T. T. Nicolls, second son of
the above Colonel E. Nicolls, is now in India, in the
East India Company's service.