The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-29 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The settling of the Consol Account passed off well yester-
day. This is pay day, and there is no doubt of the drafts for
the differences being duly honoured.
Consols for January Account closed buoyant yesterday at
93i ; and for Money 93g. Money was rather scarce.
Consols opened at 93-4- 94. Exchequer Bills were rather low
in the morning, but improved in the afternoon to 47, prem. ;
India Bonds, 30, prem. The market was heavy for India
Stock—from 269 to 2691; Bank Stock 2114,-.
In the Foreign Market the chief speculation yesterday was
in Brazilian Stock, which fluctuated contintudly during ti;e
morning, and closed firm at 78—an advance of neariy 4 per
cent. on the recent depression. This advance is attributed to
the favollrahle accounts received yesterday from Rio Janeiro,
which had taken by surprise the parties who' have beert,largelv
selling the above securities. Spanish• Active closed at 204:,
with Coupons, and opened 201 s ; Portuguese closed heavy
at 30 ; Three per Cents., 20 ; Mexican, 281.; Colombian,
24 2&} ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 541,L, to 54+.

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols have been very firm during the morning at 934 k
for Money, and 93i 94 for January Account, but very little
has been doing, and not a feature in the market worth obser.
vation :—Exchequer Bills, 45 47 prem. ; India Bonds, 28 30
prem. ; Bank Stock, 212 ; India ditto, 269:k 270.
In the Foreign Market Brazil Stock was in the course of
the morning 75i 79, since which it may be quoted 78 ;
Spanish Active, 20-k with Coupons; Portuguese was 30e, at
presen t3O ; Three per Cents. 19i ; Mexican, 28.; Colombian,
241- 251 ; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 544.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 931 94.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Messrs. Payne, Goldsmiths and Jewellers in Ordinary to her
Majesty at Bath.

Mr. Wright, of the Red-house Tavern, Battersea-
fields, intends presenting his sporting friends, on Friday next,
a superb silver tankard and cover, to be shot for, at nine
pigeons each; those that have won public prizes to stand
twenty-five yards, on the contrary, twenty-two yards ; each
person to pull his own string, and the gun to lie on a table
until the trap is over. Mr. W. has been solicited by his
sporting friends to allow Eley's cartridges, as the birds are
likely to get out of distance for the open charge; the same
will be allowed, limited to two ounces. To commence at one
o'clock precisely. Dinner at half-past four.
ST. CATHERINE'S DAY, Nov. 25.—St Catherine
was esteemed the saint and patronness of spinsters, and her
holiday observed by young women meeting on this day, and
making merry together, which they call " Cather'ning;"
something of this still remains in remote parts of England.
It was formerly the custom every St. Catherine's day for a
man dressed in women's clothes, with a large wheel by his
side, to represent St. Catherine, to be brought out of the'
Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich, by the workmen of that place,
about six o'clock in the evening, seated in a large wooden
chair, and carried by men round the town, with attendants.
They stopped at different houses, where they used to recite
a speech, but this ceremony has been discontinued many years.
On Wednesday Miss Elizabeth Parry, daughter of
the late Mr. H. Parry, of Pen-y-dref, Anglesey, a beautiful
young woman, twenty years of age, came by her death in the
following manner :—She had arrived on Tuesday on a visit to
her aunt, who keeps the inn at Holyhead. On the day of the
fatal event a man named Radford, who had been out shooting,
came to the inn, and on going away left his gun, loaded with
swan shot, in the bar ; a lad, a first cousin of Miss Parry's,
only thirteen years of age, took up the gun, and, presenting it
at her in sport, pulled the trigger, when the whole charge of
shot entered her chest, at the upper part of the left breast,
shattering the collar-bone, and lodging in the lungs. A sur-
geon was immediately called in, but no hope remained, the
sufferer dying in less than an hour after the accident.—North
Wales Chronicle.
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On Saturday the farm buildings of Diuniner Farm,
Popham-lane, the property of Mr. S. Jessey, and in the oc-
cupation of Mr. Drummond, were maliciously set on fire by
some miscreants, as yet undiscovered, when the whole of the
extensive and valuable range of buildings, with their contents,
consisting of wheat and other corn, the produce of a large
farm, was completly consumed. Mr. Drummond is not in-
sured.—Cheltenham Gazette.
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We have had a week of extremely stormy weather,
and all the rivers in the neightwurhoed -have iisen to an
usual height—Carlisle Journal.