The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-13 00:00:00

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, MARC?! 13, 1829.

The Public will be happy to learn that his MA-
JESTY, with his usual benevolence, has sent, through
the hands of the Duke of WELLINGTON, One Thou-
and Pounds to the indefatigable Secretary of the
Spitalfields' Committee, for the relief of ;the dis-
tressed artisans. 'We trust that his MAJESTY'S
most gracious example will be followed by the
Nobility and the Public in general, for the necessities
of the poor Silk Wearers and their famished
families are great beyond description. Any dona-
tion in the present instance will not only be a deed
of charity, but of patriotism. Let the benevolent
look to it—they cannot find more worthy objects
for their kindness.

Mr. WARBURTON brought in a Bill last night for
the parpose of legalising the practice of Anatomy,
and supplying the hospitals with a requisite quantity
of subjects for dissection. The details of the Bill
were listened to with much deference by the_House,
more especially %Then the LORD ADVOCATE, who
has been engaged for some months past in the
investigation of the late horrid transactions at Edin-
burgh, delivered it as his opinion, that if some plan
were not promptly adopted by Parliament to legalise
and regulate a supply of bodies for dissection,
murder as it was perpetrated in the North, " must
still continue to exist, and even in all probability be
extended." The Noble Lord added that a further
inducement to the commission of such crimes con-
sisted in the difficulty of detection, for experience
had shown that a means might be resorted to
which would deprive individuals of life without that
chance of discovery which arose from the appear-
ance of marks of violence upon the body, while at
the same time, they (the Resurrectionists) were
placed in the possession of a method of disposing of
those bodies, which still further took away the means
of detection." Mr. PEEL also advocated the mea-
sure, the professed object of which is " to make it
lawful for the Overseers and Managers of poor-
houses and work-houses, and for the Governors of
Hospitals, to give up to the Surgeons and Teachers
of Anatomy the bodies of those persons who having
died in those poor-houses, work-houses, or hospitals,
were not claimed within a specified time by some
friend or relation." In reply to the objection that
the bodies of the poor are by this measure to be-
come the source of the supply, the Right Hon.
Secretary observed that already it is from the lower
classes that the subjects are taken, inasmuch as the
bodies of the rich are usually secured in such a man-
ner as to render them inaccessible :to depredation)

Perniisiofi; 1.,(1 hardly tdd;wag given to bring
in the Bill, the crying necessity fdr which haS been
for some years so self-evident, that we wonder it
has not long since been taken up by the Legis-
lature.

The Anti-CatholicA, we perceive, have not yet
become sufficiently ashamed of themselves for their
late unconstitutional methods of manufacturing pe-
titions. They still continue their artifices with
the most unblushing auJacity, notwithstanding the
repeated exposures that night after night they are
subjected to in either House of Parliament.
In one respect, we are glad of such perseverance;
it gives the country an opportunity of fully
and impartially entering into the merits of a fac-
tion which can only support itself by long-
continued trickery and falsehood. Had the
Liberals employed but one-half the artifices that
these Anti-Catholic gentry have, within the last
few weeks, had recourse to, in order to evince their
attachment to Church and State, what a pother
they would have raised on the occasion How
would their patriotic sensibilities have been out-
raged by such conduct ! " Compel a convicted
pickpocket to sign a petition to Parliament !
Monstrous !--incredible !" This would have
been the cry of one nud all of them ;
a cry that would have drawn from Lord
ELDON one of those patriotic bursts of tears which
whenever we are fortunate enough to witness them,
never fail to remind us of these two appropriate
lines in the Dunciad :
With that a tear, emblem of loss of place,
Stole from the master of the sevenfold face.

On the present occasion, however, the Brunswickers
are marvelously silent. Though their agents are
every where ransacking poor-houses, hospitals, and
prisons for signatures to their incendiary petitions, not
a word do we hear from them in reprobation of such
proceedings. What then has become of their
patriotism, their sense of justice, their nice feelings
of morality ? The question suggests its own answer,
they never had any of these fine feelings, and con-
sequently cannot lose what they never possessed.

The French Papers contain nothing but Parlia-
mentary discussions, which possess the less interest
because we have enough of our own. One report
says that the King of SARDINIA has been taken
seriously ill while another report contradicts it.

`• FRENCH FUNDS..—PARIS, MARCH 10. —Five per
Cents., ex. dir. 1071. 30e. 50c. 55c. ; Three per Cents.,
771. 80c. 90c. 95c. ; Bank Stock, 1,858 f. '7se. ; Naples
Stock, 82f. 45c . Royal Spanish Loan, 80f. ; Haytian
Loan, 530 f. Exchange on London, one month, 25f.
35c. ; three months 25f. 20c.—Coors Authentique.

The•Hambnrgh I?eportcr, and other liamburgh
Papers, of the 10th instant have been received, from
which we make the following extracts:—

iii.taultatrt MARCH 6.

Boasn4 HALLK, FOUR O'CLOCC.—The inactivity of
our Corn Market continues, but the thaw having now
apparently set in, we may shortly look for the re-opening
of the navigation of the river.

Weight. Rix dollars.
Dantric Wheat 134 to 130 180 to 190
Pomeranian 125 to 132 165 to 176
Anhalt. white 122 to 131 175 to ISO
---- red 11S to 128 165 to 175
Danish 130 to 130 130 to 150
Dantzie Rye llB to 132 B4 to 88
Hagdeburgh Barley 100 to 108 62 to 70
Anhalt 100 to 109 65 to 79
Upland Oats
Holstein Rapeseed

The further drline of bank-shares at Vienna has operated
unfavourably here ; the cause of the decline continues un-
known. No political cause appearing, funis have been
firm at the prices quoted.
End of February.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent
Anglo-Russian Loan 9ls,
Ila,nburgh-Russian Loan
Anglo-Prussian Loan of 1518
Austrian Bank Shares lfri
Austrian Motalliques 9l
WARSAW, FRB. 26.

On the 24th his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke
Michael left this capital to proceed to Tnlcayn, the head
quarters of the Guards.

German Papers of the 6th instant have been re-
ceived, but their contents possess little interest. The
Russian blockade of the Dardanelles had compelled
the Turks to unload their corn ships at Smyrna,
and to transport the corn over-land on twelve
thousand camels. It is said, in letters from Ser-
via, that the grounds for deposing the GRAND
Viztua were, that he had rendered himself odious
to the army by his excessive severity. The prices
of provisions at Constantinople had risen consider-
ably, and some fears were entertained for the tran-
quillity of the capital. M. JAUBLRT was expected
to leave it shortly.

We have this day the satisfaction of publishing an
abstract of the List of Premiums offered in the pre-
sent year by the HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF SCOT-
LAND AT EDINBURGH, and we think it may be satis-
factory to many of our readers that we should also
give some account of the purposes for which this
patriotic Institution (now comprehending about
1,700 members of the first rank and property in
Scotland) was established, and the manner in which
its business is conducted. This we cannot do better
than by referring our readers to the notice appended
to the Society's annual List of Premiums presented
for distribution.

THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TwEtrE o' CLoer.

For several days past there has been an unusual dull-
ness in the English Funds. Up to the above hour there
has hardly been a bargain of any importance done. Con-
sols, which left off yesterday at 87 it, opened at the same
price this morning, with little or no animation in the market.
In the Foreign market prices are nominal.
A Dutch Mail brings the price of the Funds with no
variation from the last quotation.
Two o'CLocK.—Consols, 87
TRIMS o'CLocx.—Consols, 87i I.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols for Money, S7l; For Account, 871.