The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-12 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The gloomy state of the weather damps all descrip-
tions of speculations in the funds.
Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices
of yesterday, 911 for the Account ; Reduced, 904
; Exchequer Bills, 4 2 discount ; Bank Stock, 176
179 ; India Stock short.

In the Foreign Market most of the prices are at the
same quotations as they left off yesterday. We heal
that there has been an extensive failure yesterday in
Colombian Bonds—not a Member of the House.
Spanish Actives same as they closed at 23i ; Pont].
geese 334; Three per Cents., 23* ; Brazilian, 71-4 72i ;
Colombian, 25 a ; Spanish Passive, 5- 6* ; -Deferred.
101 11 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53i ;
Five per Cents., 99i No American arrivals.

PRICES OF STOLR .; 11115 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Sto.:k... ....... 1740,4 7ii J India Stock
3 per Cent. Red. .........t 014 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent, Cons. — South Sea Stock —
3-,. per Cent.
I ha° Red. 9814% New Ditto -
New 314 pet Cent - 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 -
New 5 per Cent.
Sank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500
Jan. 5, 1860 l37i Ditto Small 23 1 dis.
Oct. 10, 1850 .„,.. Ditto Commercial....
Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised .....
Jan. 5, MO — Bank Stock for Account ...
April 5, IWO. — India Stock for Account ...
Jae. 5. 1870 — Consos for Account 9114 It
RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O.CLOCK
Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilia ~i Bonds ......
Ditto Account
3uenos =tyres Bonds
Ditto iccoutit
I'.hilian 3crid i Prussian Bonds
D.tt3 '.2:v, nt — Russian Bonds, 1321
7olamt 1,-.B•lids — Ditto Account

Ditto ic:l.3, nt
:.: 17 IJt 3 " d 5,1824
L.;1:::.1 iO:3 lit 2 ',14 I‘,3i 6 Ditto Account
anish ks .1 .... ........ .....,3% 54 Passive
Ditto Ace:: nt "Deferred 10;.
ti reek Bonds — French, 5 per cent.... —f. —c.
Ditto Bonds, 1815 — 4 per cent. —f. —c.
Ditto Account — 3 per cent...—. —f. —c.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent ; Exchange. —f. —c.
Ditto Account — Dutch, 2Y4 per cent. 53%y
Ditto, 0 per Cent.
Ditto Account ~. ... 279d, 8 Ditto, 5 per cent 00% 1041
Neapolitan ....•.... -- Ditto Account.... ...... 93%

PRICES OF SH A RES THIS DAY A',a(rE O'CL ye, C l'ist.m....
Eastern Counties Rallway........•••••••••••••••• ls 41,E
Great Western Railway company
Br.ghton Railway
1, r. inn and Birmingham Railway Company ... on 14 3,
Ditto New Shares
London and South Western , ...
I ondon And Croydon Railway Company ll/. 18x.. 6d, 8.14
Lo or. and Blao..wal, Railway
Colonial Joint Stock Bank
eltit. Es tit I itlSii Si tit, KS. DUBLIN, DECEMBER 10.
3 per cent. Consols
I (
Stock
.. —
I:l'Ar Cent,
Ditto - Ravi nian Bank
Ditto New, IQ3O ....... , City of Dublin Steam Comp.
3y4 per Cent. Debentures... 9117 i ' National Insurance Company
Bank Stock ...
Grand Canal Stock
Royal Canal Stock - per cent —
HALF-PAST ONB.
The Launceston Paper of the llth July says, .‘ In
our number of the week before last, we referred to the
determination of the Government to compute the pro-
fits of the distillers upon the assumption of the duty
paid having been 4s. the gallon.
" Upon the subject of this 4s. duty, the Hobart Town
Courier has the following excellent remarks :
"It might hare been in contemplation of the Go-
vernment to raise the duty to 45., but having omitted to
do so, they cannot now take advantage of their own
neglect. Such a proceeding is against every principle
of law, as it is of justice. We trust, therefore, that the
duty will be calculated from 2s. 3d., which was the suns
at which it was fixed when the Distillation Act came
into operation."

We give the following from the " Commercial Daily
List" of this morning :
The average yearly consumptions of Tea in Europe
is as under

LBS.
Great Britain
United states 8,000,000
Holland 2,800,000
Russia 6,500,000
Germany 2,000,000
France 230,000

57,550 000
There are about 35,000,000 of pounds in this port at
present.

The intelligence received from Lisbon this morning
of the Portuguese Ministry having been turned out, and
new Ministers having been appointed by the Queen
has not had much effect on the Portuguese Stocks,
which have improved about f per cent.
We understand that the present gentlemen in office
are very favourable to the British Government, and we
have no doubt that the slave question will soon be
amicably settled between the two Governments.
We

have no further arrivals to communicate at

IMPERIA

PA IiLLAMENI

(THI6 DAY.)

Parliament met to-day pro
.jbrnza, p

p toro2Ation.

S!lorily after two
the NLoquis (if Nonii
took their b,cito its LtJaiS LuniliosstonLi
The House of Commons was then summoned
by Mr. Pulman, the Deputy-Usher of the
Black Rod, to hear the Commission read, and
in a few moments Mr. W. Lee and the officers
of the House of Commons appeared at the Bar,
when the Commission was read at the table by the
Clerk.

till Lurd Duneall,

)Ck the Lo

The Lord Chancellor then, in her Majesty's
name, declared the Parliament prorogued Co Thurs-
day, the 16th of January, then to be holden for the
despatch of divers urgent and important affairs.

CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

HILL V. GOMME.

This case came before the Court upon appeal from
the decision of the present Master of the Rolls dis-
missing the plaintiff's bill with costs. The plaintiff
William Thomas Hill, claimed under an indenture exe-
cuted by u person named Deans, the whole of the pro-
perty left by him at his death. The plaintiff is the
son of a person who previous to his death carried on
the business of an agricultural instrument maker, in
Oxford-street. He was on terms of great intimacy
with Deans, who kept the Seven Stars, at Starch
Green. Deans having no children, became much
attached to the plaintiff, and in 1818 he executed an
indenture, by which he gave the whole of his property
to his wife, and at her death it was to go to the plaintiff,
to the exclusion of his own relations. The defendants
alleged that the instrument had been fraudulently ob-
tained from Deans, who, being an illiterate man, was
wholly ignorant of the effect of the transaction that had
taken place between himself and the father of the
plaintiff.
The arguments in the case bad not concluded when
his Lordship rose, at haP-past one o'clock.