The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-11 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 90k for the Account,
opened this morning at 901 ; for Money, 881 89 Ex-
dividend ; Exchequer Bills, 23 25 ; India Bonds, 12 14 ;
Bank Stock, 210 211 ; India Stock, 2551; 2561.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 251 1,
has receded to 214 25 ; Passive, 7 ; Deferred, 12} 4 ;
Portuguese, 474 4 ; Three per Cents., 291 304 ; Colom-
bian, 271 28 ; Mexican, 261 27 ; Danish, 76 ; Dutch Five
per Cents., 1024 ; Two-and-a-Half, 531
Owing to the non-arrival of the French mail we are this
morning without any Continental information, which has
damped the operations in the various foreign Funds. Spanish
and Portuguese Stocks have receded, and appear heavy.
Yesterday, the foreign Exchanges were rather lower.

lIALF-PAST ONE.

In the British Market the chief business doing is making
up the accounts against next Friday. Consols may be
quoted at present soi 1 for Account ; 88 89 for Money.
Exchequer Bills 23 25 premium ; India Bonds 14 12
prem. ; Bank Stock 210 211 ; India Stock 2551 2561.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is very heavy,
and has receded about 1 per cent. in the course of the
morning, owing to various reports—that General Evans is
coming home ; also letters being received from Durat*o of
the 29th ult., stating that the Carlists are going again to
blockade Bilboa. We have no doubt that these reports
are the invention of the Carlist party, and in a few days
will entirely vanish, by the.Carlists being attacked the mo-
ment the weather permits.
Spanish Active receded from 25:1t0 214- Passive, 711;
Deferred, 12+ ; Portuguese also lower, from 47i to 47 ;
Three per Cents. from 30i to 294 ; Colombian, 271 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., .53-1 ; Five per Cents.,
102.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.

Consols for tho Account, 90Z A-.

CURE FOR THE INFLUENZA.—Simultaneously
with the breaking up of the late frost a severe influenza at-
tacked the inhabitants of the metropolis and its environs ;
and although it is not so violent in its nature at present as
the like epidemic of 1834 was, so general is it, that scarcely
a house can be found without some of the inmates being
affected ; and as there are many persons who are unable to
procure medical assistance, we recommend, from good au-
thority (that of an eminent surgeon in extensive practice),
the following as a safe and efficacious remedy for the cure of
so distressing a malady :—One table-spoonful orsweet spirits
of nitre, and two tea-spoonfuls of paregoric elixir, mixed to-
gether, and taken in a wine-glassful of hot sugar and water
on going to bed for two or three successive nights ; also, a
quarter of an ounce of Epsom salts dissolved in a cupful
of warm water and taken on each following morning, the
patient being at the same time particular in keeping the feet
warm and dry, and living on a light diet. A proportionate
dose of the same medicine is equally beneficial for children.
A boy named Mattock, employed on Bottle-hill
Mine, near Edgeway, was killed on Wednesday last, by
falling into one of the shafts of the mine. He was literally
dashed to pieces.—Devon Paper.
DINNER OF THE GARRICK CLUB TO MR. C.
ICEMBLE.—Yesterday the Garrick Club gave a dinner
to Mr. C. Kemble, on his retirement from the stage.
Hitherto celebrations of this kind have taken place at the
Club-house, King-street, Covent-garden, but so many names
were put down upon this occasion, that it was found im-
possible to accommodate the members as usual, and the
dinner was therefore given at the Albion. About a hun-
dred sat down, under the presidency of Lord Francis
Egerton, who conducted the entertainment with that easy
grace and urbane dignity which distinguish him. Mr. C.
Bumble was upon his Lordship's right, and Sir G. War-
r.mder (the Vice-President of the Club) upon his left ; and
they were supported by the patrons and the distinguished
ornaments of the drama, authors and actors.

Upon the death of Jack, the ourang-outang of the
Garden of Plants, several opinions were expressed upon
the nature of the malady which terminated the existence
of this much-lamented animal. The general impression
sterns to be that individuals of this species caunot resist the
climate of Europe. We, however, can cite an instance
which proves the contrary. Prince Jerome Bonaparte, ex-
King of Westphalia, brought from Martinique an ourang-
outang, which he had with him all the time lie remained in
France, and which he subsequently took to Cassel. This
animal was of considerable size, of immense strength, and
was never ill. in 1813 it became necessary to shoot it in
consequence of its vicious propensities, namely, throwing
stones from the roof of the house at persons in the street,
.and insulting every female he met.—Frenek Paper.
An unexampled number of wood pigeons have fre-
quented the Duke of Norfolk's beech woods near Arundel
du:ing the late severe weather.,
SIGHT-SEEING.—Dont you remember a report of
eie plague being in the City, and every body went to the
house where it was, to see it ? You see I laugh about it,
for I would not for the world be so un-Englished as to do
otherwise. I am persuaded that when Count Sax, with
ten thousand men, is within a day's march of London,
people will be hiring windows
'"his
Charing-cross and Cheap-
side, to see them pass by. our characteristic to take
dangers for sights, and evils for curiosities.—Wa/po/e's Pri-
vate Correspondence.
DOMESTIC SERVANTS.--I have often thought the
general complaints of annoyance from the faults of domes-
tic servants scarcely reasonable, when we consider the class
from which we receive them. With all the habits of dis-
orderliness, negligence, and insensibility to filth and foul
air, in which they have in many cases been horn, nursed,
and bred, they enter our houses, and most readily under-
take to keep them in proper order, to anticipate the num-
berless minutiae of our personal accommodation, and at
once supply, by intuition or sympathy, our wants—nay, our
whims. We soon find (though here, too, there are rare
exceptions) that their notions and ours on all those points
differ widely. Great disarray and want of cleanliness to us,
is order, neatness, and sweetness to them ; ventilating of
rooms and airing of beds, are to them mere troublesome
fancies ; dusting is an unnecessary disturbance of what, by
nature, falls so noiselessly, and falls so impartially ; they re-
move, of course, only what is pointed out to them, and sit
down contentedly in the midst of what remains. In no-
thing should we reap more every-day satisfaction from judi-
cious education, than in the improvement of our domestic
servants.—Sinpson's Necessity of Popular Education.