The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-13 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols opened this morning at the prices they closed at on
Saturday, 89:i for the Account, and for Money 89a 1, little
doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 26 28; India Bonds, 22 21;
Bank Stock, 207 208 ; India Stock, 257 258.
Spanish Active opened at 253 1, at present 25'41 26; Pas-
sive 71 4 ; Deferred, II s ;,i.; Portuguese, 484 49 ; Three per
Cents., 311 ; Columbian 251- 26 ; Mexican, 251 ; Dutch,
53Z- 5-I,i.
For a length of time past we have not had a Monday morn-
ing so barren of news.
lIALF-PA ST ONE O'CLOCK..
We continue in the same dull state as in the early part of
the morning, without any further arrivals or the least news to
ommunicate, and the Funds have taken a heavy turn.
Consols, which were in the early part of the day 894 for the
Account, have since receded to 801-, at present 891- i; Money
89a 4, some Money Stock having been brought to market.
Money is also very scarce out of the House. Exchequer Bills,
26 28 prem. ; India Bonds, 22 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2091.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has receded from
251 26 to 25 a ; Passive, 7-4- ; Deferred, 11 a; Portuguese
lower, 481; Three per Cents., 31.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account,, 89i i.

Mr. Wallace, the acute and industrious representa-
tive for Greennek, continues to ply the Post-office functionaries
with unwelcome inquiries. The Hon. Member is about to
investigate the extent of loss accruing to the public in conse-
quence of frauds committed by persons in the employment. of
the Post-office, and the security (if any) fer the restitution of
money purloined from private individuals by such persons.
There is another point to which Mr. Wallace has directed his
attention, wit h which we are familiar in Hull ; namely, the
exaction of a yearly tax by Postmasters, under the name of
box-money, which, we believe, was in this town originally de-
manded as a gratuity to the clerks, but has, in course of time,
found its way to the pocket of the principal. This, when en-
forced as it has been in Hull, by the adoption of a system of
annoyance towards those who will not submit to it, is a species
of levy as impudent and irritating as it is
Some time since a fraud was attempted to be com-
mitted upon Mr. Wise, the landlord of the Weymouth Arms,
Weymouth-terrace, Hackney-road, by a man who endeavoured
to procure change for a note of fifty pounds ; very fortunately
Mr. Wise discovered that the note was not drawn on the Bank
of Engl-.nd, but was a barber's note—the " Bank of Ele-
gance." Licensed victuallers cannot b-, too cautious to whom
they give change for notes or gold, as a set of swindlers arc
lurking about the metropolis ready to entrap them whenever
opportunity may occur.
By our last accounts from Kirkwall, we regret to
observe that Influenza has been felt very severely at that
place, and all over the Orkney Islands. On Sabbath before
last, the churches in Kirkwall were in consequence of it very
thinly attended, and the trade in the place has suffered con-
siderably from the same cause.—lnverness Courier.

'NFL' UENZA.—We fear that this trying disease has
extended itself rather than abated its progress among the in-
habitants of this city, where its prevalence with more or less
violence may be said to be all but universal and from the cx
traordivary number of deaths which have recently taken place,
there can be no doubt that its effects have been in many in-
stances fatal to those whom it has attacked.—Coventry
Herald.

The influenza, the prevailing epidemic of the season,
has been very fatal in this neighbourhood. As a proof of it
we may state, that our last week's Review recorded the deaths
of no less than 134 persons, and this week we have a fearful
catalogue of those who have paid the great debt of nature.—
Sickness is still exceeding prevalent, and the disorder has
spread over not only this country, but also the whole conti-
nent.—Nottingham Review.
INFLUENZA.—Decker, in his " Wonderful]
Years," printed in 1603, speaks of persons who were appre-
hensive of catching a disorder which prevailed at that period
in London similar to the influenza, and says, " they did go,
most bitterlie up and downs, with rue and wormewode stuft
into theyr cares and nostrils, looking like so many bores heads
stuck with rosemarie to be served up at Christmas."