The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-12 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TwRLvE o' CLocr.
The Consol Market is very dull to-day; Consols,

which left off yesterday at 861 for Money, and at
87 for Account, opened at the same prices this
morning, and remain so at the present time.
In the Foreign Market nothing doing.

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for Money, 86i ; for Account, 87.

THREE 0' CL 0 CMG
Consols for Money, 864 ; for Account, 87.

FOUR O'CLOCK.--
Consols 86,-1
Do. for Ac. 87
Brazilian Bonds 611
Buenos Ayres
Chilian Do.
Columbian, 182418 a

CLOSING PRICES.
Dattisla 641
Greek, 1825 14
Mexican, 1825 23i
Peruvian
Russian 941
Spanish

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at
the East India House, when the following Captains were
sworn into the command of their respective ships—viz.
Captain Henry Gribble, Repulse, Madras and China ;
Captain Robert Scott, Vansittart, China direct ; Captain
George Prohyn, Minerva ; and Captain Charles
Thomas Grenville, Madras and Bengal.

The country around Thebes is very far from
exhibiting the arid and sterile appearance which is gene-
rally supposed. The vegetation, on the contrary, is
rich and varied, and the villages around are very populous.
The large monumenis of this " eternal city," almost all be-
long to that period of time which followed the expulsion
of the pastoral inhabitants, about 2,000 years before the
Christian era.

THE SCOTTISH REGALIA.—It is no bad
earnest of the influx of visitors that may be expected this
year in our northern capital, that numbers of individual■
have already paid their respects to these highly prized
relics. Last year the numbers exceeded that of the preced-
ing year by one thousand persons.—Edinburgh Advertiser.

Mr. Waldy, the proprietor of Don Saltero's
Coffee-house, in Chenies-row, Chelsea, was yestc-day fined
20s. at Queen-square Office, for serving liquor during the
hours of Divine Service, on Sunday afternoon.
GRAND DIRGE FOR THE LATE POPE.—
This morning a grand dirge and funeral service for the
late Pope, Leo the Twelfth, were performed at the Roman
Catholic Chapel, Moorfields.
The business of the Post-office has been in-
creased beyond all precedent, by the subject which now so
much interests all parts of the country ; and we are in-
formed that the mail coaches not being sufficient to bring
up the multitude of petitions, additional conveyances have
been hired for that sole purpose.

Chandos-street is ROW blocked up, owing to
the dangerous stste of some of the houses at the western ex-
tremity.

The early lambs this year have come to mar-
ket of a more than ordinary else and fatness.

The New Literary Journal entitled " The
Weekly Review," promises to become as necessary a com-
panion for the library and drawing-room as any of its
elder competitors for public favour. The numbers 9 and
10, just published, contain among a variety of other ar-
ticles of great interest, a masterly sketch of the Italian
Opera in England, from the earliest times to the present
day, including anecdotes of all the principal performers,
among whom stand conspicuous : Nicolini Grimaldi,
Anastasia Robinson, krancesea Cuazoni and Fanatics
Bordoni, (the Pasta and Sontag of the day), Farinelli,
Caffarelli, Giardini, La Afingotti, Rauszini (the tutor of
Brabant), Gabrielli, Banti, Billington, Mara, Catalini,
Pasta, Sontag and Pisaroui.
The Lord Provost has declined to call a meet-
ing of the inhabitants on the subject of the Catholic Ques-
tion, and the gentlemen who presented the requisition to
his Lordship have also deemed it inexpedient to appeal to
a public meeting, but have prepared petitions against con-
cession, for the signatures of all who are of the same way
of thinking on the subject.--Edinburgh Advertiser.
DIVORCES IN THE NETHERLANDS.---FrOM
1215 to 1825, out of 430,000 marriages in the Nether-
lands, there were 605 divorces. The proportion of divorcee
to the number of marriages was in the northern provinces
as 1 to 227 ; and in the southern, 1 to 3,317.

The calendar of the prisoners for trial at
Dorchester Assizes, contains the names of twenty-fire
offenders, and some for very serious offences. There is
one for infanticide, one for shooting with intent to murder,
one for horse stealing, one fur sheep-stealing, and three for
burglaries.—Bath Chronicle.

Cabriolets have been recently established in
Paris, in which the fares are paid at so much per
minute ; for a quarter of an hour 60 centimes (about 6d.
English) are charged ; and for every minute over, 2i-
centimes, about one farthing. Dials are placed in each
cabriolet, to prevent disputes about time.

The schooner Corsair, Smith, of and from
Aberdeen, for London, with paving stones, run upon
Whitby rock on Sunday morning : the vessel has since
drifted behind the east pier, and will be a total wreck.—
The master and mate were saved by the life-boat ; the re-
mainder of the crew, four in number, and a passenger, were
unfortunately drowned. —Hull Packet.

RESURRECTION EXPLOSIONS.—It appears
by a letter that we have received from Mr. Thomas Cle-
mishaw, gun-stnith, of Eaaingwold, that he has invented
a spec'es of artillery to fix in coffin lids, and which will
explode and blow up any resurrectionist that may attempt
to invade the sanctity of the grave without the least da-
mage to the coffin.—lceds Mercury.
Sir Theodore Mayerne, a celebrated physi-
cian, about the beginning of the seventeenth century, pre-
scribed a poWder for the gout, one of the ingredients of
which was " the raspings of a human skull unburied."
OPENING OF THE JUNCTION DOCK
BRIDGE.—On Saturday the iron bridge connecting White-
friar-gate with Waterworks-street, was thrown open to the
public. The York mail passed over it, on its arrival in
town, on Saturday night. We understand, however, that
the Royal Union coach had stolen a march upon them ;
that coach having passed over at six in the morning, the
workmen haying been prevailed upon, by certain irre-
si3tible arguments, to lower the bridge for that purpose.—
Hull Pocket.

A CitoP-HOUSE.—Not less curious than the
talk of the chop-houses is their silence. Two strangers
meet in one box, and sit at one table; and to an English-
man, there cannot be a greater stranger than an English-
te spoons or playing with the
salt; till, himself
man. While one is reading the newspaper, the other will
se
length, dinner arrives, and his mouth is opened.
It is curious to see how apparently constrained and awk-
ward are the movements of persons who in these houses
are alone, yet not alone. They look as if they thought that
with spinning h
amuse
they were seen, yet seem to try to regulate their movements
as if they were altogether unseen. This is the embarrass-
ment of people who would be observed without being sup-
' posed to know it; they love to be thought much of, but
are ashamed to be looked at. True ease results from in-
difference to eyes and observations, and is acquired only by
constant intercourse. Society rubs off all the awkwardness
of character...-Atlas.

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