The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-17 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols, which closed on Saturday at 90ii for the Account,
opened this morning at 90i both for Money and Time. Ex-
chequer Bills, 3840 prem. ; India Bonds, 37 39 prem. ;
Bank Stock, 204 205 ; India Stock, 258 259.

In the Foreign Market Spanish closed at 22i, opened at
; Passive, 51 ;1; Deferred, 83- i; Portuguese, 46i 47 ;
Three per Cents., 29i 30 ; Colombian, 23 24 ; Mexican,
23 24; . Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52i
HALF-PAST ONE.

There is not a feature either in the British or Foreign
Market worth notice to the present hour, with little doing ;
indeed the markets are in a state of stagnation. The debate,
which takes place to-night in the House of Commons respect-
ing the affairs of Spain is anxiously looked for, particularly by
the Spanish bond holders.
Consols have rather improved since the early part of the
morning, when they were 90k j-; at present they may be
quoted at 90i 4 for the Account, and Money, 90 I. Ex-
chequer Bills, 38 40 prem. ; India Bonds, 39 37 prem. ;
Bank Stock, 2041 ; India Stock, 2571 k 258.
Spanish Active may be quoted at 24- ; Portuguese, 46k;
Three per Cents., 291 ; Dutch Two and a Half, 52k.
We hear that gold is arriving from the Continent. Money
is easy in the house, and good bills can obtain discounts.
We copy the following from an American paper received
this morning, the Evening Star of the 15th March, which de-
picts the present state of America in respect to their commer-
cial affairs ;

" The daily express, 'which we always open with pleasure
for its variety and intelligence, :in alluding to the specie,
circular, says, usury is devouring the country.' This is
a melancholy truth, and it is impossible that the country
can sustain it much longer, when we hear of one mercantile
house paying thirty thousand dollars for the last year, it does
seem impossible to sustain that House under such burdens.
As to the repeal of the specie circular, we cannot see how it
is to be longer postponed. Congress, the supreme power of
the country, ordered its repeal by an immense vote.
" Affairs are rapidly coming to a crisis. The rich will be
made poor, and the poor become beggars, if the Government
is not interdicted from interfering in the money concerns.
" Stocks have fallen ; Exchange rising ; living high ; every-
thing exorbitant ; and money scarce. Three cr four per cent.
a month is paid for loani by the people, while 50 millions of
their money are loaned to" Deposit Banks at 2 per cent. per
annum, to swell the dividend of rich directors."

THREE• O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 901 4.

Mr. Mayo, in his amusing work, " The Philoso-
phy of Living," states; at an instance of the tendency of man,
as well as other animals, to imitation, that, " if, when three
or four persons are sitting at a table and engaged in conversa-
tion, you, seemingly without design,- take up the snuffers and
slowly open them to the utmost, and shut-them several times,
one or two of the party will immediately fall into an imitative
yawn."

A respite was received on Thursday afternoon at
Chester for Isaac Davies and John Batty, the two convicts left
for execution in that city.
Madame D., the ,:rife of one of the first performers
in the orchestra at the Grand Opera at Paris, on returning
home on Thursday night, found her infant smothered in the
bed of it% nurse. The woman, horror-struck at the conse-
quene-e of her negligence, has fled.
It is a matter of surprise that, in an island like this,
ar.d a country so maritime in all respects, the art of swim-
:fling- should be attained by so few, comparatively, among its
inhabitants. In the best days of Rome, this accomplishment
'was held to be an essential part of educations; and " he has
learned neither to read nor to swim," was considered as the
highest reproach.
COVENT GARDEN TnEATILL—On Saturday
.a
new one act piece was produced, with the somewhat cutin
brous title of Modern Orpheus, or Music is the Food of Love.
The story of this piece is -very oeasing, and the arrangement
• of the 'scenes and situalkns very skilful ; but the dialogue is
a remarkable insUmee of an author not knowing how to treat
his own subject.. The idea of an old artist retaining all the
poetic feeling-is of his youth, regretting that his early friends
have sunk.ir:co mere oommon-place beings, and finally awaken-
ing in thr.ln their former and better dispositions. is purely pr.-
thetic ; from no point of view can it be regarded in a ludi-
crow'. light. Yet the author having called his piece a farce,
hax, laboured to make it comic, and put into the mouth of Du-
mont a number of puns, which, though smart in thcmselve,s,
become actually disagreeable by their variance with the spirit
of the whole. Fortunately, Farren and Mrs. Glover caught
.this spirit ; the former was the beau ideal of an old romantic
musician, the latter, instead of acting a meie farcical shrew,
made it apparent that her harshness proceeded rather from
youthful disappointment, than from any inhereia ill nature.
The piece was- perfectly successful, and Varren was lencll
called for at the fall or the ettrtaiu, •