The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-14 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
A mail has arrived from Jamaica by the Lord Melville,
sailed on the 28th of May ; from Barbadocs, May 26 ; and St.
Thomas, June 4,
The Barbadocs papers state that a diabolical attempt was
made on the 3d of May, during the night, to burn down the
southern part of the residue of Charlestown, which bad been
spared from the conflagration of the 18th of April. No clue
had been found to discover the offenders, tlictlgh two indivi-
duals are apprehended on suspicion.
The Jamaica papers contain a circular to the Special Ma-
gistrates, dated King's House, 16th May, in which his Ex-
cellency repeats the injunction which had been so strongly
urged, that the use of corporal punishment should be re-
stricted as much as possible, and confined to offences of a dia-
graceful or highly aggravated nature. The smallpox still
rages in some of the islands to an alarming extent.
The Manager cif the Colonial Bank has, through his solici
tor, served a notice on the Directors of the Jamaica Local
Bank, that he will enforce the payment of their bank-notes in
gold and dollars of acknowledged weight and fineness.
THE FUNDS.
In the course of yesterday a great number of small pur-
chases were made in the British Funds; money being plenti-
ful at 4 per cent. on good security.
Consols closed at 92Z for the Account, and opened this
morning at 9211; Money, 904 ; Exchequer Bills, 41 43 ;
India Bonds, 41 43 ; Bank Stock, 208 209.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 21 ex
Coupons ; opened at 204 4, ex Coupons ; Portuguese, no
alteration from yesterday's leaving off price, 43 to 431-
Three per Cents., 274- ; Spanish Passive, s 4 ; Deferred,
74 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 524; Colombian,
254 24 ; Brazilian, 84 to 4.
HALF-PAST ONE.
The speculators in Spanish securities are rather disap-
pointed, not having received any further telegraphic dispatches,
with the movements of the contending armies in the Penin-
sula; in consequence of which there is little speculation this
morning in the Spanish Funds.
Accounts from St. Petersburgh state that the great com-
mercial crisis which has taken place in the United States, has
not had that effect at that capital which it had on England,
France and Holland. Not a single commercial house has been
compromised, yet trade is heavy with mistrust, and great diffi-
culty prevails in negotiating bills.
Very little business is doing in Consols, which were in the
early part of the morning. at 921 s ; the Account, at
present may be quoted 92Z- 4 ; Money, 91 ; Exchequer Bills,
Stock, 208.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active continues heavy at
213. 4, with Coupons ; Portuguese 434 Three per Cents ,
27 to 274 ; Chilian, 31 ; Colombian, 234 24; Dutch Two-
and-a- Half per Cents., 52.

THREE 0' CLOCK.

Consols for Account, 92-1 i.
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 2, 6 Omniam
3 per Cent. Red 91% India Stock
3 per Cent. Cons 9O Ditto Monde
3). per Cent. (91.4 Smith Sea Stock
.ili per Cent. Red. 4SX Ditto Old Annuities
New 354 per Cent. 92% Ditto New Annuities —
t 1 per Cent. Assented
Dissented Ditto 500/ 43 pm.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 43 pm.
Jai. 1860 l4 13-16 Bank Stock for Opg. —
Oct. 1850 ll% India Stock for Act.
Jan. 1860 14;4 Consols for Act.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, Now Ditto
:42%
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cant — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent ...
Chilian, 6 per cent 3l Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent
Ditto, 1834
Danish, 3 per cent 73 French, spm cent —f. —c,
Greek Bonds, 1825.5 per cent. Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent —f —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 ....... Dutch, 21 per cent. ........ 5214
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per cent. ... Ditto, 5 per cent...................1C 0 A
SHARES. _ ...

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l 4
Gre“t Wee,ern Railway — r,4
London and Brighton Railway (Stevenson's)
London and Brighton Railway (G;bbs's)
London and Brighton Railway (Rennie's)
London and Birmingham Railway
London and Greenwich Railway ll4
No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o'clock

List.

ABORTIVE TORY MEETING IN THE CITY.—
A meeting of the City of London Conservative Association was
held on Wednesday in the great room at the City of London
Tavern ; and when the business of the meeting commenced,
thirty-one members of the Association, for none others were
allowed to be present, had assembled to take part in the impor-
tant proceedings of the day. A few came in subsequently, and
some went out, but so tame a thing as the whole matter was,
even the City Conservatives have hitherto failed to exhibit.
Mr. Spottiswoode was called to the chair. The excuse for
the small meeting was that the members of the Society were
better and more usefully engaged elsewhere. Resolutions re.
joicing in the prospect of an improvement in the representation
of the City of London, and of confidence in Mr. Palmer, were
subsequently proposed and seconded by Mr. Dodd, Mr. Shears,
Mr. A. Moore, and Mr. Alderman Lucas. The Tories may
feign to rejoice and give utterance to expressions of confidence,
but they cannot feel that they have cause for either. Their
game is up.
No Go.—Our office was broken open on Saturday
night, the desk rummaged, but nothing was found of any con-
sequence, as a reward for their risk and labour. Robbing a
printing-office on a Saturday night is a forlorn hope in these
tunes.—New York Evening !tar.
At Geneva the elockmakers and jewellers begin to
suffer severely from the commercial crisis. There has not
been witnessed there for 23 years past, so complete a stagna-
tion in this trade, which gives support to a great part of the
population.
An auctioneer, who had been lately employed to
submit to public competition a house situated in the precincts
of Chelsea, thus concluded a most eloquent eulogium of the
superior advantages which the mansion possessed—" But,
gentlemen, besides the various multifarious and superabundant
qualifications which recommend this situation to your notice
beyond every other site which Europe possesses, I am happy
to have it within my power to state that the back attic com-
mands an unequalled and enchanting view of the fireworks
during the Vauxhall season."
Yesterday being the day appointed by the Queen
Dowager to receive the Addresses of Condolence of the Courts
of Aldermen and Common Council upon the death of his late
Majesty, William the Fourth, the Lord Mayor, attended by
the Recorder and Remembrances and his Lordship's Chap-
lain, and accompanied by Aldermen Brown and Scholey, the
mover and seconder of the Address, and Alderman Wood, Sir
Peter Laurie, Lucas, and Cowan, who will be the next Chief
Magistrate, and by Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Tickner, the mover
and seconder of the Address in the latter, proceeded from the
Mansion-house at ten o'clock to Bushey Park. The Sword-
bearer and Mace-bearer and the two City Marshals preceded
the members of the deputation. The scene was extremely
affecting. Her Majesty was attended by Earl Howe, Earl
Denbigh, the Duke of Saxe Meining en, Prince George of
Cambridge, Lady Clinton, &c., and received the deputation
with great kindness. While the Recorder was reading the
address almost every person in the room was in tears. Her
Majesty, in a low tone of voice, which evidently cost her a very
great effort, replied in a few words expressive of her sense of
the kind feelings by which the two bodies who addressed her
were influenced, and retired overpowered with affliction.
Nothing can exceed the beauty which the neigh-
bourhood of Keswick now presents, and the hay crops, like
those of every other part of the country, turn out so weighty
that no man living ever again ought to despair of a backward
season. The company at the lakes is less than it has been,
probably in some degree owing to the portentous election con-
flict about to commence.—Carlisle Patriot.

Millions of caterpillars were seen on the trees and
hedges on Friday night, in the neighbourhood of Taunton,
particularly the fir; they were in swarms like bees. The
same appearance occurred in 1835, before the dreadful ravage
b 7 inaucts of the turnip crop.