MONEY-MARKET.
THE Money-market during the week has not been subjected to any vio- lent fluctuations, as no.political news of importance, foreign or domestic, has transpired to affect the Funds. The jobbers for a fall have indeed endeavoured to effect a decline by spreading very unfavourable rumours as to the state of the harvest; but as the price of corn, unless it varies materially, seems to possess a very slight influence over the Money- market, the effect has not exceeded per cent., even supposing that this fall may be fairly attributed to the rise in, the Corn-market. The greatest push for a fall by the jobbers interested in producing it, was on Friday, that being the principal market-day in the Corn-exchange ; but although messengers were constantly passing and repassing to and from Mark-lane, bringing exaggerated accounts, yet as it was soon ascertained that the rise had reached only 5s. per quarter, and that merely for fine dry sam- ples, which the millers must have, at whatever price, to enable them to grind up the new corn by mixing it, the Money-market remained unin- fluenced, and Consols, which on Monday opened at 874, and which rose gradually up to Wednesday to 87i, falling on Thursday to 851, and open- ing again on Friday at 861, then advancing to 871, closed at 87i, which was nearly an average price between the quotations of the morning and the afternoon. Exchequer Bills have fluctuated during the week from 71 to 73, and India Bonds from 113 to 115.
In the Foreign market the fluctuations were not great—Russian Bonds
have averaged 95, the lowest price being 944, the highest 95k ; Austrian about with very little doing ; French b per cents. from 1061 to Ma, the latter being the closing price on Friday ; Portuguese Bonds from 54*, in which they were done in the early part of the week, fell gradually to 52 on Friday; Mexican 6 per cent. Bonds have averaged 381, scarcely varying at any time 4 per cent. ; and Colombian Bonds may be quoted at about 20 to 21; Greek 18, and Spanish 10a.
SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK.
Consols have this morning been done at 87a ; but they are now at 875 4.
Poem 0'cm-tot:a—The Market remains very steady. Consolshave closed at difr 4. There arc no arrivals, and we are even without a rumour.
The true anniversary of the King's birth, the 12th of August, was cele- brated on Tuesday, at the Royal Cottage at Windsor, by a splendid dinner given by his Majesty to the Ministers and the nobility. The King completed his sixty-sixth year; His Majesty has become a most expert and scientific angler. Old Izaak Walton is a particular favourite in the Royal circle. • The Duke of Cumberland and his son have quitted England. They go by steam to Amsterdam.
The Duke of Gloucester has quitted Cheltenham, and the Duke of Wel- lington has gone to it. The Duchess of Clarence completed her thirty-sixth year on Wednesday.
The Gazette of Tuesday contained the following new appointments. The Earl of Wedmore to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica ; Major-General Lewis Grant to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Trinidad ; the Earl of Chesterfield to be a Lord of the Bedchamber, in the room of Viscount Melbourne, deceased ; Sir Astley Pastoo Cooper, to be Serjeant-Surgeon to the King, in the room of Sir Patrick Macgregor, de- ceased ; Benjamin Collins Brodie, Esq., and James Wardrop, Esq., to be Surgeons to the King. Friday 'a Gazette contained the appointment of Sir James Kempt to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Canadas, &c. ; Sir Peregrine Maitland to be Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia ; and Sir John Colborne to be Lieutenant-Governor of upper Canada.
It is now confidently reported that the Duke of Wellington, like a prudent General, after a dispassionate reconnoissance of the enemy, has recommended the treating with the Pope, with a view to a permanent adjustment of the Catholic Claim s.—.11nrnosq Chronicle.
It is said the establishment of the Treasury at the India House will be broken up, and the business be transacted at the Bank of England.
The Kensington Canal, reaching from the Thames a little above Chelsea to the high-road near Kensington, where a commodious basin has been erected, was opened on Tuesday. It is determined that the sittings in Chancery shall re-commence on the lfith of Octuber. Three distinguished barristers attempted to haVe the nicotine of the Court postponed to a later period, for their own convenience : Lord Lyndhurst had first the good-nature to consent, and neat the virtue to refuse. A Welsh Judge flip is vacant by the resignation of Mr. Balguy, and the Duke of Wellington waves his right to till it up. The match between the London and Edinburgh Chess Clubs, which com- menced on the 21111 April, 1824, has just terminated in favour of the Edin- burgh players—the fifth game having been resigned by the London Club on the :Het of .July. The other game: resulted as follows, :—The first was drawn at the 36th move; the second was won by the Edinburgh Club at the 53rd move; the third, which lasted upwards of three years, and is per- haps the finest game of the match, was drawn at the 99th move ; and the fourth was won by the London players on the 55th mom—Caledonian sa/ereury.
The ceremony of the confirmation of the election of the new Archbishop of Canterbury took place on Thursday, at the Church of St. Mary de Arcu- bus (Bow Church, Cheapsido.) A letter front Montreal announces that Mr. Galt is engaged on a history of ('anada.
The statement inserted in several papers on the authority of the Dumfries Carrier, regarding the supposed running down of the Birmingham Steat- vessel, is unfounded.
A correspondent of a Morning Paper gives two in which strong symptoms of the march of intellect appeared. 1. A dandy on the Thames, in a shower of rain, rowing with one hand and holding an umbrella with the other ; 2. A footman, waiting at a door for his master, regaling himself with a real Havanna cigar.
Tin: Wrartuma—We are not desirous of absolutely committing ourselves by giving any promise on so variable a subject as meteorology ; but we have well-grounded hopes. from some years' attention to the subject, that the rainy season is now near its termination, from the wind having gone rotund to the north; and north-west. As there is usually a sort of general average of the quantity of rain falling in any given district (the annual average for London being about thirty-one inches), we should calculate that the remainder of the present month, as well as September, would be favoured by line summer weather ; and those whose crops are still on the ground may even yet calcu- late on a fair harvest.
- A few nights since, three gentlemen were in imminent danger of losing their lives under one of the arches of the Old London Bridge. Some time ago two of the arches were (to use the words of an Irishman) knocked into one. The boat in which the three gentlemen were, struck against two pieces of timber, or booms (which arc placed on the water before the arch, to pre- vent craft from going through) and it upset. The gentlemen kept themselves above water by the most extraordinary efforts, and they were taken out with difficulty by some of a boat's crew.
'The head of a man was, on Wednesday, drawn up in anet from the Thames, near the Thames Police-office. A medical gentleman, who had examined it, said he was of opinion it had not been used for anatomical purposes, but had been forced from the body of some drowned man by the action of the water forcing it against the cables of the shipping.
t 'Mr. Simon Taylor, one of the most active and intelligent members of the
dix-ctiou,.effizrik-nk.:,.. of nd, was thrown from his horse about ten days *J. ,##§•Nvitkv4 lit e of recovery. He has not spoken since the
The Invincible Coach had journeyed about a mile from Burton-on-Kendal, on its road to this town, when it was struck by lightning. One of the passen- gers describes file scene as the most awful, the thunder the loudest he ever heard. He was sitting on the hind part of the coach opposite to a lady, whom he had desired the moment before this visitation to drop her umbrella. On recovering from the shock, which threw him from his seat, the first object that presented itself to his view was the lady hanging baCkwards, her counte- nance livid, without the appearance of animation, and her bonnet, cap, gown,
&c. burnt, and the umbrella shivered to atoms. On examination, the flesh was found to be literally torn from both her thighs, and she was conveyed back to Burton, without any hopes of recovery. Three of the horses were killed. —Kendal Chronicle.
The door of one of the stage-coaches which runs to and from London and Bath having been neglected to be fastened at Hungerford, a few days since, a
child which travelled in the coach with its mother, and which had been pre- viously amusing itself by looking out of the window, soon afterwards fell, head- foremost, to the ground, and one of the wheels going over it, caused its almost instantaneous death. Considerable property depended on the life of the child. —Devizes Gazette.
On Thursday, William Price, the City toll-collector in Sun-street, cut his throat with a razor, in a barber's shop, where he went to get shaved. On Monday afternoon, a girl was sent to a laboratory for a small quantity of the tincture of rhubarb, for an infant child. The medicine was administer- ed, which shortly produced symptoms of an alarming nature, and led to the discovery, that instead of rhubarb, the tincture of opium had been given in a mistake by a surgeon's boy. The child expired in the,eveuing.—Scolsnian. Last week, a man was found drowned, and all the remedies usual in such cases were unsuccessfully administered. He was then taken to the Morgue, and laid out in the usual way for recognition of the body. He had not, how-
ever, been there many minutes, when he rose from his plank, and seeing his clothes hanging up by his side, deliberately dressed himself—French Paper. On Thursday, about noon, a French decked lugger came into our roadstead, and fired a gun as a signal of distress; some of our fishermen off, and found only two men and a had on board, whose story was that the captain had the day before, in a fit of insanity, jumped overboard, and was drowned ; that they were much exhausted, and did not know whither they were bound. The fishermen took charge of the vessel, and carried her into Newhaven: site was corn-laden from Bordeaux.—Ilrighloa Herald.
Both coasts of the Channel are covered with wreck, from the effects of a tempest On the night of the 14th. One boat went down to the westward of Calais, and all hands perished.
On the 28th ult. a noted resurrectionist was married at a church not many miles from Stockport, on which, occasion he was accompanied to the altar by
the sexton and grave-digger, with others of the profession ! No wonder we hear of so many accounts of body-stealing, when we find those who should be the guardians of the church-yards in close intimacy with the resur- rectionists.—Stodeport Advertiser.
A Newsman's shop, in Bell.-yard, Temple-bar, was robbed on Sunday last, of a large quantity of Sunday newspapers! The thieves are supposed to have been influenced by a felonious sympathy for Corder, to whom most of those Journals were dedicated.
On Thursday evening, a 'serious disturbance took place in Frnien-court, Orchard-street, Westminster. Smith, a soldier of the 2d battalion of the Coldstream Guards, had been beating a woman, and a girl interfering to pro- tect her front the soldier's violence, he seized a knife, and stabbed her in the forehead. The cries of the girl brought another soldier, named Carrots, to the room, who remonstrated with Smith on his conduct; Macdonald, a third soldier, took Smith's part ; and they went into the Court to decide the matter by a pugilistic contest. Macdonald was beaten in the battle, and they returned into the house ; when Macdonald seized his opponent, threw hint down, and kneeling upon his body, drew a knife front his pocket, and stabbed him in different places. Carrots was conveyed to the Hospital, when it was discovered that he had received twelve different stabs on the face, neck, and ribs, one of which, in the left side, was of a dangerous na- me. Macdonald was taken into custody. On Saturday evening.' Mr. Alexander Watson, proceeding from the Batik to Baker-street, New-toad, on the coach-box of one of the Paddington stages, had his pocket book cut from his coat-pocket. It contained a good deal of money, chiefly in Scotch notes. Last week Mr. Thomas Austin, the Deputy Treasurer of the Royal Hos- pital for Seamen at Greenwich absconded, and it has been discovered that lie has embezzled several large sums of money. On Friday last, a clerk to a coal-merchant at Limehonse, absconded front his employer, carrying with hint 3501. in cash.
A new species of roguery has just been-played nff with success in the West End of the town. Fouts men, with books and printed receipts, have been from house to house in the neighbourhood of Portman-square, and exacted sums of money under the head of taxes, which, if the servants refused to pay, they threatened to take goods to the amount out of the house. This scheme imposed, on Friday, upon several servants where the families were out of town. A great many petty robberies have taken place within these few days. Miss Tilucy Long, and the Currier newspaper office, were in jeopardy on Thursday night, from a vicious horse that broke away from a hackney-coach in front of the English Opera-house. Five men were killed on Wednesday week by an explosion of fire-damp in one of the Earl of Lonsdale's coal-pits at Whitehaven. The Carlisle Journal calls upon the Legislature to compel proprietors " to ventilate their pits."
A few days ago, a man and his wife, residing in Pockthorpe, Norwich, were quarrelling, and the woman was in the act of stooping down to do something at the fire-place, when the brutal husband gave her a tremendous kick on the lower part of the body, which has since caused her death. The husband. has absconded.
