The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-22 00:00:00

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, Twrors o' CLocr.
The important period has at length arrived for
the settlement in the English Funds, or as it is
termed, the account day.' Hitherto the business
doing has been rather limited, but still the Consol
market has been heavy, notwithstanding money
stock has been scarce. The fears entertained that
the settlement would not pass over without mischief
have been verified, and two or three of the minor
dealers have declared their incapacity to meet their
engagements. This in one instance is extremely to
be lamented, from the moral worth and integrity of
the party. The rise in this account is full 41 per
cent., and has been attended with a severe lesson to
the Bear party. Consols opened at 858 ex. div.,
and 861 7 for account, fell to 86a 4, and are now
864 the price ; the Commissioners gave S6B for
Consols. India Bonds are 02, and Exchequer Bills
60 pm.

In the Foreign Funds the advance which took
place yesterday in Mexican 6 per Cent. Bonds has
not been .maintained, and they have declined to
471- ; Russian are 931 :1; Danish, 61 ;in Bra-
zilian and Buenos Ayrean Stock there is no varia-
tion ; Greek are 17.

Shares appear to have little novelty ; Real del
Monte, 5 15 pm.; Colombian Mines, 1 11 pm. per
Share ; and Brazilian Mines, 69 71 pm.
Three per Cent. Consols, 854, ex. div. ; Ditto for the
Account, Blq, the price • India Stock, f249i ao, ex. div. ;
India Bonds, 92 pm. ; Bank Stock, 2091 101 ; Exchequer
Bilbs, 60 pm.
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FORElGN.—.Brazilian, 60- ; Buenos Ayres, 41 3 ;
ChiTian, 24 6 ; Colombian, 251 61 ; Danish, 61 4 ; French
Five per Cent. 1031 44; Dittoffbree per Cent., 691 70 ;
Greek, 17f Mexican, 5 per Cent., 36 7; Ditto, 6
per Cent., In 8 ; Peruvian, 251 63 ; Portuguese, 711 2 ;
Russian, 931 4 ; Spanish, 10/ 1.
MMES.—Anglo Mexican, GO 57) dis. ; Brazilian, 69
71 pm. ; Colombian, 1 1-3- pm. per Share; Real del Monte,
5 15 pm ; United Mexican, 21 20 dis,

TWO O'CLOCK.

With the exception of the parties already Me-
ntioned, upon one of whom the creditors will be paid
in full, the Account is passing off very satisfac-
torily. Consols are 87 to if, with the dividend
on; but there is little business in progress. For
February the price is a mere shade higher; the
market looks strong, however.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols 87i I, dividend on.

THE THAMES TUNNEL.

(From the Register of Arts.)

PROPOSED FLOOD-GATES FOR THE THAMES TUNNEL.
_ _

MR. Eorrou,--The lamentable accident which
occurred yesterday morning at the Thames Tunnel,
has suggested to me the importance of introducing,
a few yards behind the Is orkmen, flood-gates, so
constructed, that the lower parts of the gates will be
first shut by the water issuing in at the place where
the work is carried on, and when the waters rise
nearly half way up, then to shut the middle parts of
the gates, and when it rises near to the top, to shut
.the top parts of the gates. This arrangement would
afford all the workmen time who could reach so far
as the flood-gates to get safe out, and prevent the
tunnel from being filled with water. This plan
would not only tend to obviate much of the danger
to be apprehended by the workmen, but greatly
diminish the enormous expence consequent from
such an accident. The small space between the
shield and the flood-gates would soon become filled
with mud and sand, and the bed of the river might
then be soon made good from above, as there would
be no liability of the materials put down for that
.purpose being loosened, and removed, by the perio-
dical ingress and egress of the water during the rise
and fall of the tide.

I have no doubt but that the best method of car-
rying this plan into effect will really suggest itself to
the intelligent engineers connected with this great
and arduous undertaking ; however, if you should
consider the details of the scheme worthy of a place
in your useful journal, I will readily furnish you with
a drawing and description of it in a few days.
London, Jan. 13, 1828. X. Y.

HERRING FlSHERY.—Notwithstanding the
storm, the herring fishery in the Frith has not been much
impeded—the principal fishing ground being to the west
of Inchlccith. Herrings are now hawked about the streets
at very moderate prices. The white fishing has been en-
tirely suspended.—Edinburgli _Evening Courant.
On Monday last, Police Constable Jo:A-
-TI-lAN DANK apprehended DANIEL RIORDAN, for the mur-
der of MictrAEL RANAILAN, at Ballinvoher, on the sth of
December, 1826. He has been fully committed to stand
his trial at the ensuing A.ssizes. Dublin Evening Post.
A petition
tie isinive
toTal Hereford,Pamcn prayingtisoN for, an e
so f altera-
tion v
al
lying for sig-
natll
inre at
the present law, which imposes the exln
prosecutions under the Game Laws on the county rates,
and suggesting that all such expences shall be paid by the
e c
parties whose preserves are entered and robbed by the
poachers.—Cantbriati.
CAVAN SESSIONS.—MARY REILLY alias
KENNY V. THE Itr.v. Turns. BRADY.—The defendant in
this ease was charged with refusing to support two illegi-
timate children which the plaintiff alleged he had had by
her. Mr. Suinr. attended for the defendant (a Roman
Catholic clergyman) and brought forward evidence which
fully acquitted him. The trial excited great interest
throughout the neighbourhood.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(TiIIs DAY,

COURT OF.CHANCERY.
MARRIAGE OF A WARD.

VIDLER V. PARROTT.
In this case, which was argued on Saturday last,
before his Lordship in his private room,
Mr. TURNER stated that it stood over till to-day,
in order that the clergyman and clerk should be in
attendance. The question as far as they were con-
cerned was whether proper care had been exercised
with respect to the publication of the banns, it
having appeared upon the statements formerly made
that no account had been given of the residence of
the parties.
Mr. SUGDEN objected to the case proceeding
until it was ascertained whether or not the clergy-
man appeared in person ; he had not been instructed
that he did.

His LORD3IIII' did not find any thing before bin
that authorised him to say the clergyman vas actu,
ated by improper motives, but his Lordship though
it right he should see him.

SUDDEN then said he observed the clergyman
in Court, who then came forward, and
His LoßnstitP requested him to attend him in his
private room at three o'clock.
IN RE QUEEN'S COLLECT.

Nr. KING, the senior tutor, proceeded to make his
reply in this case. He went over again at great
length all the statutes and documents relating to the
regulations of not only Queen's College, but many
others, and concluded a little before one o'clock.

His LORDSHIP observed that the case had been
argued on both sides most elaborately and most
satisfactorily ; he desired to be furnished with all
the documents, or copies of thorn, that had been
referred to, and promised to deliver his opinion as
early as he could. He intimated no impression of
opinion either one way or the other.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
The cases disposed of this morning contained
nothing of the slightest public interest.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Nothing of interest occurred in this Court up to
:he time of our going to press.

THE MURDER IN MONTAGUE-PLACE

Yesterday being the day appointed for the first public ex-
amination of the individual who stands charged with the
murder of the late unfortunate Mrs. Jeffs, the Police-office,
Bow-street, and the several avenues leading thereto, were
crowded at an early hour. At eleven o'clock a hackney-
coach drove up to the ffice, and- the prisoner Wm. Jones,
who was in the custody of Furzeman, the constable of St.
Giles's, alighted, and was immediately delivered to Jones,
the gaoler, by whom he was locked up, and in less than
an hour afterwards he was brought into the justice-room,
and placed at the bar, before Sir Richard Birnie and Mr.
Halls, the witnesses being all present. The prisoner is a
low-sized slight young man, thin featured, and pale. Mr.
Butler appeared for the prisoner, and several gentlemen,
amongst whom we observed Mr. Sheriff Stable, attended to
hear the examination. The principal part of the evidence
gone into was nearly the same as that taken when the Co-
roner's inquest sat upon the body, and whatever facts the
next examination may disclose, it is but fair to observe,
that at the termination of the evidence yesterday, no cir-
cumstance transpired to criminate the prisoner. It is said,
however, that there are strong circumstantial proofs of hi
guilt ready to be brought forward.
William Salmon was one of the principal officers of
Bow-street. On the evening of the lst of January he was
sent for to No. 11, Montague-place, accompanied by Gar-
diner and Hawkins. Upon knocking at the door, it was
opened by Bonnick. Witness went down stairs and saw
the deceased lying on the floor with her throat cut. The
blood was flowing from the wound to the fire-place. Wit-
ness examined the pocket of the deceased, which appeared
to have been drawn through her pocket-hole, but found
nothing in it. A chair stood at each side of the fire-place,
as if two persons had been sitting upon them. A small
piece of writing-paper that appeared to be part of a will
lay upon the table. On the same night witness examined
the back kitchen, and found most of the drawers open. On
the Thursday after the inquest, while Mr. Plumb the
surgeon was examining the deceased, a sovereign fell upon
the floor from the pocket of the deceased.
Mr. Samuel Plumb, surgeon—l was sent for
Ligue-place, on the evening of the Ist of Januiry; to exa-
mine the body of a person said to have been murdered.—.. .
Went and found in the front room below stairs a woman
lying with her head towards her right side. There was a
deep cut on the right side of the neck. She might have
lived three or four minutes after the wound was inflicted.

There were two or three round btuises, apparently the
marks of knuckles, upon her left collar bone, and I should
suppose they were made by the hand that held her down.
It is very rarely that the gullet is cut through when the
throat is cut, and the appearance altogether of the wound

in the neck of the deceased induces rne to assert, that it
must have been accomplished in a manner the most deter-
mined. The neckerchief of the deceased was thrust into
the wound. There was the mark of a dirty shoe upon the
handkerchief, and there was also a mark, which I believe
to be that of a foot, upon the cheek of the deceased.
Mr. HALLS inquired if there was any appearance of the
deceased having struggled.
The witness replied that there was a strong expression of
'horror in her countenance.

George Gardiner, aged 16, sworn.—l am servant to
Mr. William Barrington, who keeps the -Gower Arms,
corner of Gower-streek and Store-street. On the last day
of the old' year I left a pint of beer with the old lady, Mrs.
Jeffs, at No. 11, Montague-place, about nine o'clock on the
night of the 31st of December. She was talking to a man
with a blue coat and white apron. The man was inside
the door, standing upon the mat in the ball. I went away
leaving the man and Mrs. Jeffs together.
The witness was asked if he could identify the man in
the blue coat and white apron, bet he declared that he had
no recollection whatever of the man's face.

James Hannan lived in Drury-lane, and was a watchman
for Bloomsbury parish. I have known Mrs. Jeffs for the
last eleven or twelve years. 1 saw her. about half.past 10
o'clock on the night I have mentioned. I went past, calling
the hour. The door was shut and nobody'wass at it. .A.!J

. .
came back towards Russell-square, I stood on tbeeurb-stone
of polite Mr. Lett'e house, and I saw a man. Aid woman
standing outside of the door speaking
to IttrOleffs, whO
held a candle in her left hand, and she had a hold- of the
door in her right hand. The man and the woman and
Mrs. Jeffs bid each other good night. The man had on a
blue body-coat ; but I cannot speak to his appearance, nor
to that of the woman. I went towards Russell-square,
having seen the man and woman part from Mrs. Jeffs.
The witness added, that the footman of a Mr. Skirrow
told him that he saw a man ringing
the hell at Mr. Lett's
house, about half-past ten o'clock on the night already
mentioned. 1

Mr: HALLS appeared surprised at this intimation, and
took down the name of the servant and his master, in
order to inquire further respecting what the watekman had
stated.

Mr. HALLS said, that as it was now past six o'clock, he
thought it would he too late to open the other part of the
case, and he therefore decided to remand the prisoner until
to-morrow (this day.)