The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-04 00:00:00

SIIARES.

Anglo-Mexican, 20 dis. ; Bolanos, 2z p. m. ;
Pasco, 9 dis.; United Mexican New, 2f dis. ;
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 4 pm.; Gas
Engine Carriage, p. m.

2 o'cr.ocx.
The Concol Market is still heavy—now 79k.

ROUEN CATHEDRAL.

It will be remembered, that in September,
18V, the spire of this Cathedral was destroyed
by tire, occasioned by lightening. Soon after
this calamity, preparations were made to repair
the mischief which had thus been done, and to
re-construct the spires in cast iron. The different
works proceeded with great activity and success.
Already the tower on which the spire is to he
erected is completely rebuilt and restored. The
third story has been increased a few feet in height,
but the proportions between it and the lower stories
has been duly preserved. This permitted a less
abrupt transition from the top of the windows to
the 001 and beautiful ballustrade with which
the building is surmounted. The architect, M.
ALAvotNE, had previously restored the Cathedral
Church of Seer in .Normandy. The practicability
of his plan has been proved, and he has contrived
to give to this new spire the beauty, the lightness,
and the elegance so characteristic of the architecture
of the age in which this church was erected.
The angles of the tower will be ornamented wish
four minarets, and the spire from the grid will
be 442 feet in height, and thus surpasses nny
other in Europe. A spiral staircase will lend to
a !anthem, serving the purpose of Astronomical
observations, and which will be surmounted with
a cross. The tout ensemble of this grand spire
will leave nothing to be regretted, and presents
the double advantage of being in perfect harmony
with the rest of the building, and at the same
time fire-proof.

MO:VILLE ISLAND...-The Admiral Cockburn,
on her way from Nei South Wales to Batavia,
touched at Melville bland, a settlement lately
formed by order of the British Government.
Site brings information that the natural pro-
ductions of the settlement are of the Spice
Island description.. Wild nutmegs and cloves are
found in abundance. The trees are of a very
large growth, some of them producing a gum of
remarkably astringent quality. On the shores
of the settlement were found quantities of the sea
slag, designated Tra Pang, or Douche de la Mer,
so valuable in thy China market, but not so
abundant as it, Is supposed to exist further to
eastward. The settlers had cleared, in Sep-
tember last, above two hundred acres, which
produced almost every vegetable except the
potatoe, which seemed to decline. Captain Bar-
low of the 3d Buffs, who was resident, was
indefatigable in his endeavours to promote the
welfare of the young settlement. He had disco-
vered a fine fresh water river on Bathurst Island,
(luring an excursion in one of the Admiral Cock-
ht4rn's boats, but nothing could induce the natives
to an intercourse with the settlers up to the time
of the sailing of the Admiral Cockburn, in Sep-
tember last,, notwithstanding every inducement
had been held out to that, object.

LEOMINSTER AND LUDLOW BANKS.---We regret
to state that on Monda Messrs. COLEMAN and
W ELLN Ludlow, I
GS, bankers, and on Tuesday,
Messrs. Coleman, Morris, and Sons, hankers,
Leominster, in consequence of the sudden and
unexpected demands made upon them, deemed
it prudent to suspend their payments for the pre
sent. Both firms state, that a statement of their
affairs will be immediately submitted to the cre-
ditors. Messrs. Coleman, Morris, and Sons make
no doubt that they shall have a considerable sur-
plus, after all demands are discharged.
These
additional failures will cause much distress, as
the circulation of both houses was large.—(llere-
'ford Independent.)