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

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 4i per Cent, 1852-58-60 Equador New Consolidated Italian, 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) Ditto Scrip Mexican, 3 per Cent  Ditto Account 3iissian 6 per Cent 1822 £ St 97 Ditto Account ' 96} Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 59t Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive ... l9l i Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded 'Turkish 6 per Cent. BOl Ditto 6 per Cent ,1858 Ditto Account Ditto 1862 (Scrip) 3ll i 3 Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 .. ... 691 I i 70  ' TWO O'CLOOn.. Consols, Money .. Ditto Account Ditto June, ditto 93li 4  THE FORCE OF SPRlNG.—Spring is not only a Season ; Spring 33 a Force, which begins to manifest itself at an earlier peril 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 tiat something unusual is in the wind. Birds d.en't choose their mates, nor are postage-stamps purchased by millione, for nothing. But who would look for the first signs of de coming Spring, at the bottom of rivers, lakes, and ditcles ? The mysterious influence, neverthless, pens., trates 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 Fun has walked into the Ram, the water-lily has thotght of unfolding new leaves, and the water-soldier bedecks himself with starry green cockades. The start of grswth once made, there is no further stoppage or check : eying 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 Pentacostal moons—are powerless to injure, when they reach the bottom of the gliding stream.—Dickens'• "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 ihe 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 wag admitted to the infirmary on the 20th of last month, suffering from complete nervous prostration. She appeared greatly distressed in wou rosel mind, and said that she did not wish to live, as she d never be happy again. On Tuesday morning shequietly 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 fractui ed. 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."