The Sun. — 1862-05-03 (London, England)

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 4 per Cent, 1852-58-60 Eq uador New Consolidated Italian, 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) Ditto Scrip Mexican, 3 per Cent  Ditto Account 32 :tll,:ian .5 per Cent 182?,.L St .. 97 Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 591 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. BOl Ditto 6 per Cent, 1858 Ditto Account . Ditto 1862 (Scrip) 3li I 3 Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25i. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861  TWO O'CLOCK . Consols, Money 931 Ditto Account Ditto June, ditto ... 93i 4  THE FORCE OF SPRlNG.—Spring is not only a Season ; Spring is a Force, which begins to manifest itself at an earlier peri( d, and in more out-of-the-way places than very many people suspect. The phenomena occurring on and about St. Valentine's Day are unmistakable symptoms that something unusual is in the wind. Birds don't choose their mates, nor are postage-stamps purchased by millions, far nothing. But who would look for the first signs of the coming Spring, at the bottom of rivers, lakes, and ditches? 'f he mysterious influence, neverthless, penetrates the bed of waters, and works unsuspected at the preparation of next summer's crop—of weeds ? no ; grant them the dignity of aquatic plants. Before the Sun has walked into the Ram, the water-lily has thought of unfolding new leaves, and the water-soldier bedecks himself with starry green cockades. The start of growth once made, there is no further stoppage or check : spring frosts cannot penetrate the liquid mantle which envelopes their tender foliage ; the malignant rays of the " red moon"—the moon which scowls on and blights the earth between the Paschal and Pentecostal moons—are powerless to injure, when they reach the bottom of the gliding stream.—Dickens's "All the Year Round." SUICIDE OF A GIRL THROUGH DISTRESS OF MlND.—Yesterday morning an inquiry was held at the Grasshopper Tavern, Charles-street,Whitechapel, by Mr. John Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, touching the death of Emma Webster, aged 17, who committed suicide by throwing herself from a window 60 feet high, under very painful circumstances.—Mrs. Smith, the sister of deceased, said that she had been until recently a nursery governess in a respectable family at Hackney, and witness thought that she still resided there until informed of her death. From inquiries that were since made it appeared that she was turned out of her situation through having been seduced by a gentleman who was a friend of the family. She had been very religiously and strictly brought up, and was, no doubt, afraid to communicate with her friends, and being alone and destitute, her health broke down from grief.—Jane Shannon, nurse at the Whitechapel Union •house, said that deceased was admitted to the infirmary on the 20th of last month, suffering from complete nervous prostration. She appeared greatly distressed in mind, and said that she did not wish to live, as she would never be happy again. On Tuesday morning she quietly rose from her bed, and going out upon the landing opened the window. Witness discovered her as she was in the act of jumping out, and caught hold of her feet, but, being all but dragged out herself, had to let go, and the unfortunate girl fell on to the stone pavement beneath, a distance of 60 feet. She was killed instantaneously, her head, upon which she had pitched; being dashed to pieces, and her spine and arms being fractured. She had had no sleep the three nights previous, being apparently brooding over her desolate condition, and in witness's opinion her agony of mind had upset her reason. She had never spoken of suicide.—The coroner having remarked upon the melancholy fate of the unhappy girl, the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."