The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-06 00:00:00

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places of note in the east of Xtirope, is at present travelling it
the Holy Land, and returns to Aigland in the aattnnn.
A visit was made by the ibembecs of the British Asseciation
last week to the Wortley tunnel and collieries, belonging to the
trustees of the late Duke of gridgt-water. • The tunnels are
eight miles in length, nearly exten,ling to the town of Bolton.
In these collieries no less than about i-ss*ooo human beings are
employed, the produce of their labours,. .when in full work,
being the cutting, gathering, and shipping' Pi about 3;000 PODS
of coals per week.
SPORTING.
Lord Lynedoch's hunting stud, as also that 01 the Duke of
Grafton's, will be sold off this week at Newmarket.
The yearly match of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, for the
gland Challenge cup, took place yesterday. Several uNtewa•rd
accidents befel some of the boats, leaving the Hon. H. i'.7ptoi
of the Ada yacht, master of the otip for the year ensuing.
COURT—PASHIONAULZ.
The Dukes of Cadiz and Seville embarked on board thy
Royal mail steam-packet ship Dee, at Falmouth, on the 3d
instant, and will reach Corunna in fifty hours, thence to pro-
ceed to Madrid.
T..e Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have arrived in
Cavendish square.
1 he Lord Chancellor and the Duke of Wellington arrived ix
town vesterday om Cambridge.
Lord W. arnelifits' arrived in town yesterday from Wortley
Hall, near Sheffield.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday
from Cambridge.
Sir Thomas and Lady De Trat:urd have left town for their
seat, Trafford Park, Lancashire.
It is rumoured in fashionable circles that the preliminaries
of a matrimonial alliance are adjusted between a yonthful
Marquis, heir to a celebrated Dukedom, achieved by the dis-
tinguished military services of his ancestor the be inning of the
last century, and the fair and accomplished daughte: of a Noble
and Gallant Marquis, of high Conservative principles; but that
the marriage will not be solemnized for at least a twelvemonth,
owing to the noble promessa being still a minor. The proxi-
mate alliance has been talked of at the fetes and soirees dart-
sautes of the last week.
NIXSfr:LLAINEOZTS.
A silver coin of King William Rufus was dug up by a la-
bourer, from the foundations of an old house near Westminster
Abbey. It bears date 1090. The shield or escutcheon con-
tains a naked sword and three fleur-de-lis, on the reverse is a
warrior, accoutred in mail, on horseback, with the superscrip-
tion " Concordia parva crescunt."
James Haywood, aged 80 years, who never followed any other
trace or occupation than that of a cotton hand-loom weaver
at Liverpool, died at Oldham last week, leaving property to the
amount of nearly 2,0001. For upwards of 40 years past he had
only one pair of clogs, and one suit. of clothes; these he re-
quested should be put into his coffin with him.
The rebuilding of the Marquis of Lundonderry's splendid
chateau, Wynyard Castle, is in a state of great forwardness..

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
CITY, TUESDA.Y ErE2:l2:6.
TIMES:,—The premium on gold at Paris is 10 per mine,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 40i, and the ex-
change at Paris on London at short being 25 47k, it follows
that gold is 0.28 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 430' per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of Si. 17s. 1014 d. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 7i, and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 9, it
follows that gold is 0.58 per cent. dearer in Union than in
Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London is 1071
per cent., and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex-
change is. 2.32 per cent. against England. But the quoted
exchange at New York, being for bills at 60 days' sight, the
interest must be deducted from the above difference.
The Commissioners of Land and Assessed taxes for the city
of London met this day, agreeably to the notice of the Commis-
sioners of Taxes, to choose seven Commissioners for the In-
come- a( out of their body for the city of London, and the re-
su.t of the ballot wos as follows :
Mr. Richard Lambert Jones
Robert Carter 4l
John Elackett
John Musgrove 36
Day'd Allan
W. A. Peacock
A'd?rman Wilson "ll

And for the blowing supernumeraries :
Mr. Edward Eagleton
Greenaway
John Evans
Jeremiah Evans
Butterworth
James Hunt
Edward S. Hall
To these are to be added two Commissioners for till Bank of
England, two for the East India Company, two for the Lon-
don Docks, two for the Corporation of London, one for the
South Sea Company, one for the Royal Exchange, and one for
the Sun Assurance Companies, making in all eighteen Com-
missioners for the Income-tax for the city of London.
SUN.—The funds closed as firmly as they had been during the
day, and to-morrow being the first day for private transfer,
several small parcels of stock for investment were purchased in
anticipation. The public transfer days will re-commence on
the 15th inst. The last prices were, Consols, 94 9la for the
opening ex dividend ; Reduced, 91% 92 ; Bank Stock,
166 167 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 47 49, New, 44 46 prem.
Foreign Securities also improved slightly ; Belgian, 102 103;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51i 51% ex dividend;
the Five per Cents., 101 104 ; Danish, 81 82; and.
Brazilian, 64 66. The quotation for Mexican was 35Z 36*.
Shares generally were higher. London and Birmingham,
178 180; Birmingham and Gloucester, 48 b 0; Great Western,
86i 871 ; the Half Shares, 61* 64 ; South Western, 60i
61; North Midland, 59 60 ; the New Shares, 29i 301 ; South
Eastern and Dover, 231 24; Eastern Counties, ti 9; Northern
and Eastern, 39 40i ; Blackwall, 9 911; and Brighton,
34T 35A.
The foreign exchanges were all flat, and in many instances
r. The rates are still too high to render the exportation
of bullion profitable, and before such will. be the case, the
decline must be still greater than it is probable it will be for
some time. It is evident from the advices from all the Con-
tinental cities that bullion is as plentiful there as it is here, and
there is scarcely a place in which the last accounts do
not represent the price of Louis d'ors to have fallen.
Amsterdam was 12 5 12 44 ; Rotterdam, 12 514 ; Antwerp,
12 4i 12 41:2 ; Hamburgh, 13 1034 13104 ; Paris, 'iv. 72*.
25f. 77*c. ; Marseilles, 251. 77ic ; Genoa, 25 75 25 ;
Frankfort, 151* ; Leghorn, 30 30.05 ; Naples. 40i ; Lisbon.
5..2.4; Oporto, 52q ; Vienna, 9 54i 9 54; Trieste, 9 55i
9 56} ; Madrid, 364 ; Cadiz, 36Z 37 ; Palermo, 12011 ; Mes-
sina, 120 i.
The quotations for the Bonds were—Colombian, 22* 22%;
Peruvian, 17 18 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 333 344 ; the
Three per Cents., 194 ; Spanish Five per Conti., 21}
21 ; the Three per Cents., 24 2/1.
The holders of tea are very sanguine of an advance in price,
founded upon the probability of the rupture and consequent in-
terruption to trade with China continuing for some tivne yet.
Some sales having been advertised, the market to-day has been
rather more dull than yesterday. The London delivery from
the Ist January to the 30th June in the present year, has been
17,543,0001b5., against 16,916,00011)s. in the corresponding pe-
riod. of 1841. The stock on the 30th ult. was 32,198,0001b5.,
and on the same day last year it was •27,048,0001b5. At present
25,210,0001b5. are black, and 6,958,0001b5. are green. The
whole quantity in the kingdom is estimated at 42,300,000 RA.,
ncluding every vessel arrived up to the present time.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

2b '
23

Bank Stock 167
3 per Cent. Red. 92
3 per Cent. Cons 9li
31 per Cent. Red. lOOl
New 31 per Cent 99i
New 5 per Cm'
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ......... 121
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 l2 if
FOREIG.

India Stock 2471 pm
Ditto Bonds
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities —
'Ex. Bills, 1,000/....:1d 44 pin
Ditto 500/ 44 pm
Ditto Small
!Bank Stock for Acct —
!India Stock for Opg —
Consols for Opg. 91i
4 FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonda...

!Portuguese' 5 per cent.
:Ditto, :New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.

Bueno s Ayres 6 ►+er cent.
Chinon, 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent
Ditto, 1624 24
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent
IDitto, 6 per cent. 1b37
Peruvian, 1625, 6 perct. 17

Russian, 5 per cent
'Ditto, Metallic .....»
!Spanish, 5 per cent 216
Ditto, Deferred.... .
French, 5 per cent. —l.—e.
Exchange —f —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, 2i per cent.....,.. 51
Ditto, 5 per cent. ..„01/1

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SHARES
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 45
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid 3i
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifih (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) . 35
London and Birmingham (90)
Ditto Thirds (32 paid) 591
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ...
Ditto New Shares (15 paid)

SINGULAR AND FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday art
inquest was held at Hyde-green, Ingateitme, on the body
of John Attridge, the son of a labourer who died on Saturday
last, under the following singular circumstances ..—On San-
day the 26th ult., when on his way from church, he accosted a
lad named Thomas Dines, who was at the time scaring
birds with a gun, for Mr. Poole, of Margaretting, and said,
Give me a a pea-pod." Dines immediately replied, " 11l
give you a pea-pod," and, unhappily, when at a very short
distance from the lad, presented the gun at him and fired.
The wadding, it appears, entered Attridge's neck, and an alarm
being given, he was convejedi home, where he was attended
by Mr. C. Butler, of Ingatestone, and appeared to be recover-
ing. Lockjaw, however, ensued, a nerve having been injured,
and after lingering a week he expired. The Jury deliberate
for a considerable time as to their verdict; an opinion, we un-
derstand, prevailing in some that it should be manslaughter.
They, however, ultimately decided upon a verdict of accidental
death; and, at the close of the investigation, Dines was se-
verely reprimanded by the Coroner and the Jury for his incau-
tious conduct.—Essex Paper.
last boy
STRANGE DISCOVE Rl'a b
.-011 Sunday..,
named Patient, of Duton-hill, was crossing
Handleys, in the parish of Great Easton, and was a
pull a twig, when, by the removal of the. branches, he disco-
vered a dead body. Terrified by the sight, a "°dboucaltie to
the village, and informed police constable
body
as described.ht, bee
zoe, wrehpoaiirnsedmeto.
diately went to theespot, t
spot, and found h
Itisraemains tew
its advanced state of
divested of all clothing, and from
had
de-
composition, and from the havoc the vermin
made upon
With the exception of a small fragment of a shirt, it was
man whether it male or
be ascertained by. some medical
of
fc male.police are in possession, the corpse, on the spot
it, the body presented a friglitfmul
o here it was found, arrival. From the
of a bat, the lining of which was nearly out, hav-
ing reumstanee
found within 200 yards of the spot, on the morning
ing li,en
Theawaiting the Coroner s
atter Dutton-hill fair, six weeks ago, coupled with that of the
has
oelaxacbi itleidt y
~os trohoataiit
curiosity,
oas stranger.
hundred
nudity of the corpse, it is feared that violence was the cause et
i
death ; but as nn one from the neighbourhood is known to have
(mb)fe:pirsrliloi:usssnia:ff.tahtihreehval:cinity visited the wood y, that
,i
during the -ay.—
Essex Herald.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 17.—The report of the
failure of the respectable house of 131acket and Co. proves to b
correct. These gentlemen, whose misfortune hu awakens,
general sympathy and regret, were compelled to suspend thei
payments on the 7th. A meeting of their creditors took plac
on the 13th, and it was resolved that the firm should be allows,
a month to bring up their books. A dividend, it is expecte
will be declared, but not exceeding 35 per amt. The liabiliti
the house do not appear to exceed as many thotmands 'tern
ling. Perhaps there never occurred a qiii4C4 where the parties
tuluyed greater respect, or which caused tore reral maw.
Exertions will be made by friends to enable OM. Vie
and Co. to resume busirost, if porsible, hitt this istptteetien