The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-16 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.---(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE o' CLocr.

This seems likely to be another uninteresting day
in the British Stock market. Consols opened at
87i a for money, and 87 for account, at which
rate they have . remained all the , morning, with
scarcely a bargain doing. ' Exchequer Bills are 57 8
pm.; and India Bonds, 48 9.
'ln the Foreign Stock market this is settling day,
but the adjustment of accounts, has now dwindled
down to perfect insignificance, and the interest oc-
casioned thereby is scarcely noticed; below are the
various prices.

In Shares Imperial Brazilian Mines have advanced
to 43 5 pm., not from any intelligence of a favour-
able nature having arrived, but from the fact of the
speculators having sold more than they held, and
being obliged to fulfil their engagements were forced
to purchase; Bolanos are 70 50 dis.
It is with pleasure we notice that the accounts
from the coast hitherto received have brought no
ill-effects from the violent gale that took place on
Tuesday night.
Three per Cent. Consols, 87} ; Ditto, for Account,
S7i i; India Stock, 2:111 2; Bank Stock,
.209 10;
India Bonds, 48 49; Exchequer Bills, 57 8 pm. •

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, 87a for money, and 871, buyers, for
account.

THREE O'CLOCK

Consols, 871 I.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—
Consols 871
Do. for Ac. 87/
Brazilian Bonds 53
Buenos Ayres
Chilian Do.
Columbian, 1824

•CLOSING PRICES.
Danish
Greek, 1825
Mexican, 1825 201
Peruvian
Rtissiair.
Spanish 10.

•
The Dublin Freeman's Journal says, that
the county of Kerry has followed the example of Cork, in
contributing towards the fund to Mr. O'CONNELL, and
that it is. expected meetings will take place in almost every
part of Ireland for the same object.

Accounts from all parts of the country state
the spring to be one of the most backward ever remem-
bered. Even the hawthorn hedges have scarce a tinge of
green upon them.—Hull Packet.

A little before sunrise yesterday morning, a
traveller between Longtown and Gretna observed a part
of a rainbow over the Solway Frith, ,the lower end of
which was plaCed at a considerable' height above the ho-
rizon. Such a phenomemin is extremely rare; but it is
obviously to be accounted 'for: by the 'circumstance; that
at so early au hour, the shadow Of the earth iptercepted
the direct rays of light, from the sun up to a certain ele-
vation, below which no refraction could occur•= It is also
deserving of remark, that imniediately, after the sun rose,
there were seen exactly in the, opposite qiiaster of the
heavens, a great many liright, pencils of light, radiating
upwards' to, a considerableheight, from a mock sun, at a
centre in precise opposition to the real one, and therefore
depressed below the horiaon.—=Dunzjiiies Couriei.

. ,
SUPERSTITION.--7--71N Notwithstanding the
boasted " march of intellect "- within the last few years,
it would apjear that " the schoolmaster" has yet a vast
deal to 'do 'in rectifying vulgar errors, conquering absurd
prejudices, and decrying senseless and superstitious usages.
We are informed, that within the last two or three days, a
female, of apparently decent habits, and of a respectable
grade in society, applied to the sexton of the Holy Trinity
Church to procure for her a small fragment of a human
skull ! On the' man expressing his surprise at so singular
a request, add asking ber for what purpose she could pos-
sibly want a relic of mortality which most females would
view with horror and disgust, she made the following dis-
closure :—A. child of her's, she said, bad been for some time
afflicted with the falling sickness, and she had been recom-
mended, by some of her neighbours, as an infalliable cure,
to grind to powder a piece of human skull, and, mixing it
with treacle, to administer it to her offspring ! !
Packet.

THE SAW MILLS AT BANKSIDE.-Our
readers may recollect that about two months ago a fine
young man, named ALEXANDER LANE, met a frightful
death at the above mills; in consequence of becoming en-
tangled in the machinery. . The nnfortunate deceased had
only been employed at the works for a week, and acted as
the deputy of his brother, who., had three of his fingers
taken off at the same mills a fortnight before. Since the
above shocking catastrophe, another victim has fallen a
sacrifice at the same works. Mi. RICHARD HARRIS, engi-
neer to Mr. STUTELEY, the proprietor of the mills, about 10
drys ago, was in the act:of 'examining and arranging the
cogs of the. machine (at a period when it was going with
the utmost velocity), when his left arm was nearly torn
off, a few inches above the wrist. With the utmost for-
titude the poor fellow instantly walked to St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital, where a consultation of surgeons was
held, and immediate amputation above the elbow deemed
absolutely necessary to save his life. TiAnnis bore the
operation with extraordinary nerve, but eventually sunk
under it, and only survived the shocking accident a week.
The unfortunate man (who is to be buried to-morrow) was
in his 42d year, and has left a widow with four children,
whom Mr. STUTELEY has, with great humanity, provided

DECLINE OF PARTY.—A remarkable in-
stance of the salutary effects of the great measure int! o-
duced by Government for the pacification of Ireland, has
just taken place in the city of Curk. A Court of Oyer
Hundred was held there on Thursday, convened, expressly
to enrol the names of Sir CHARLES WETHERELL, ex-
Attorney General for England, and Mr. SADLER, the
DUKE OP NEWCASTLE'S new MetnLer fur Newark,
amongst the freemen of that loyal corporation, and to pe-
tition Parliament against Catholic emancipation. Alr.
Sheriff CUMMINS, however, had changed so entirely since
the requisition was signed, that he conceived any further
opposition to the mea.,ures of Government would be
justly branded as factious, now that it was obvious it must
be unavailing. As concession might now be considered
the law of the land, it became the duty of every loyal man
to promote peace and tranquillity among all classes of the
Irish people ; he therefore moved an adjoin nment sine die.
Mr. DEA/4E and Mr. GREGG, both heretofore distin-
guished by their anti-Catholic politics, concurred with the
Sheriff, and the Court accordingly broke up. We cannot
too highly applaud the good sense and good feeling ex-
hibited in this proceeding, and we trust we shall have
many similar instances to record.—Dublin Freeman's
Journal.

Great excitement was produced yesterday
among the underwriters at LLoyn's, by intelligence of a
capture of British property, scarcely out of the limits of
the British Channel, under circumstances which, to ap-
pearance, would designate it as piratical ; at least some of
the ship-owners, from facts which have, come to their
knowledge, affirm it to be so. The vessel captured is the
Union, of Buenos Ayres, and carrying the flag of that
republic, but having a cargo on board belonging to mer-
chants of London, and recently from the river Thames
bound to Rio de Janeiro. The vessel by which she has
been captured is called the Ferdinand VII., but has re.
cently been armed and equipped in the river, under the
name (a good counterpart of the other) of the Alexander
the Great. The crew and officers on board were all, or
chiefly, Englishmen, who gave out, according to the in-
formation which has been current to-day on 'Change, that
they are about to proceed to Cadiz, to be fitted out as a
privateer, under Spanish colours, to cruise against vessels
of the trans-Atlantic states, lately colonies of Spain. They
sailed from the river, it is said, ostensibly in ballast, and
made oath in the usual form at the Custom-house—that
they had neither arms, ammunition, nor warlike stores on
board. Of these, however, they had contrived surrepti-
tiously to smuggle in an adequate supply; and having
marked, as is supposed, the Union as their intended prize,
which vessel lay very near to the moorings they occupied,
they sailed from the river nearly about the same time. In
latitude 45. 30. N., and 13. 30. W., the Union was
1 captured by the Ferdinand VII., and carried, as appears
by the letters received to-day at LLOYD'S, into Corunna.
The parties interested have manifested, of course, the
most lively indignation at this proceeding; and, as an
application has been forwarded to the Foreign.office on
this subject, the affair will most likely attract further no-
tice, That which constitutes the offence in this case is
understood to he the taking nn board arms and ammuni-
tion in the river, without obtaining a proper license for so
doing, and in seizing British property, which constitutes,
it is said, the whole of the Union's cargo. The Corunna
letter to ).LOYD'S states, however, that the Ferdinand
VII had obtained the necessary documents from the
Spanish Consul in London.