The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-06 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols which closed yesterday at 89/ for the Open-
ing may be quoted at present 90* ; Reduced, 88i ; Con-
sols, 88/ ; Ex-dividend.
The sales of Exchequer Bills yesterday, had a great in-
fluence on the Market, and the decline would have been
greater had not the sales been brought to a stand. Exche-
quer Bills, this morning, 20 22 ; India Bonds, 12 14 ; Bank
Stock, 209 210 ; India Stock, 259 260.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 241 ;
at present, 24* ; Passive, 5i if; Deferred, 91 ; Portu-
gese left off at 47 to ; opened at 461 47 ; Three per
Cents, at 291 to 30, are 291 ; Colombian, 26/ 27/ ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 531 /.
Our only arrival this morning is a French mail ; Ostend
due ; one Holland due ; no ship-letters.
HALF-PAST ONE.

Consols are better for Money than for Time. Consols
may be quoted for Money 90 ; for the Account 89.. In
the early part of the morning, fears were entertained that
the Bank was going to sell Exchequer Bills ; but as yet this
operation has not taken place. Exchequer Bills, 22 20
prem. ; India Bonds, 10 12 prem. ; Bank Stock, 209.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active does not advance
as was anticipated, owing to the Carlist reports, at Paris,
of a misunderstanding between Espartero and the English
officers at Bilboa.
Spanish Active, 24i ; Portuguese, 47 ; Three per Cents.
291 ; Columbian, 27 ; Mexican, 26 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., .534.
Letters have been received this morning from Bilboa of
the 26th ult., but they merely allude to the distressed state
of the inhabitants, and the great losses sustained during the
siege of the place—particularly at an attempt in No-
vember to retake the Convent of St. Augustine.
THREE O' CL 0 CK.
Consols for the Account, 89*.

We are happy to state that the market, both for
yarns and goods, exhibit a very healthy and improving ap-
pearance. There is a decided inclination to make large
purchases of the former for the East India market, and on
suitable numbers an advance from recent prices is obtained
without difficulty. Goods also, particularly power-loom
cloths, made a readier sale at somewhat better rates than
were lately prevalent ; and, considering the season, the
market altogether exhibits a very satisfactory appearance.
In money matters the impression created by the untoward
situation of affairs at the Northern and Central Bank is
less serious than might have been expected.—.Manchested

Guardian.
The Brussels Observer of Sunday announces that
" the mortal remains of Madame Malibran de Beroit arrived
here ( Antwerp) at noon on Saturday, by the English steam-
boat Tourist. The vessel was nine days on her passage.
A complaint has been made that very little decency was ob-
served in the disembarkation. The hearse was waiting at
the Hotel St. Antoine, to which place the coffin was carried
on a hand-barrow. The numerous assistants assembled at
this mournful solemnity loudly expressed their indignation."

An increase of apoplexy, which appears to have
taken place in the late times, in the opinion of Mr. Farr,
is chargeable upon increased civilization. Hear him, ye
brain labourers, and make your choice—" After sixty-five
a man should undertake nothing requiring great intellectual
exertion or sustained energy ; warmth, temperance, tran-
quillity, may prolong his years to the close of a century ; a
rude breath of the atmosphere, a violent struggle, or a
shock, will suffice to terminate his existence. The apo-
plexy of the aged can,:with care, be averted for several
years ; but it is, perhaps, the natural death, the eutha-
nasia /of the intellectual ; their blood remains pure, the
solids firm to the last, when a fragile artery gives way
within the head, the blood escapes, and by a gentle pres-
sure dissolves sensibility at its source for ever. The life
is no longer there : the corporeal elements are given back
to the universe,"—Vital Statistics in Mr. M'Culloch's
Work.

A young woman was found lying dead at the side
of a ditch at Turterow, somewhat midway between Cashel
and Thurles. Upon examination, the body immediately
presented to view marks of violence and murder. An in-
quest being held on the body, the surgeon proved she had
been murdered. A. verdict of " Wilful Murder" was re-
turned, against some person or persons as yet unknown.—
Tipperary Constitution.
There was a report very current yesterday in Pad-
dington that the head belonging to the trunk of the mur-
dered female which was lately found in the Edgware-road,
near the Pine Apple Toll-gate, had been dragged by a
dog out of a pond at Watford, in Hertfordshire. On in-
quiry it was ascertained that a human female bead had been
found, and from circumstances connected with its discovery
there can be little doubt that the head found by the dog
did actually belong to the female in question. The head
is said to be now in the possession of a magistrate—that it
is the head of a woman about thirty-four or thirty-five years
of age—and that a female in the middle rank of life has
been missing from that part of Hertfordshire during the
last fortnight. From the fresh appearance of the head in
question there can be little doubt of its relation to the sub-
ject of the recent horrible and revolting murder ; and it is
hoped that the Government will lose no time in offering,
such a reward as, when joined to that offered by the autho-
rities of the parish of Paddington may be the means of
bringing the perpetrators of this horrible outrage upon hu-
manity to speedy and summary justice.
In a miserable shed at the bottom of a garden, in the
Faubourg Saint Antoine, in Paris, lives a female, who, in
March next, will have attained her 103 d year, having been
born in 1734. She married at the age of 29, became a
widow 20 years afterwards, and has remained so ever since.
She is frequently visited by the Rector and the Vicar of
Saint Antoine. Her health is good, and her faculties are
unimpaired.
During the present week some workmen in a gravel
pit, belonging to Mr. Weedon, on this side of the Henley-
road, discovered, 14 feet below the original level of the field,
a white substance resembling a large bone, which upon exa-
mination proved to be part of the fossil tusk of an ele-
phant. It was very much decayed, and could not possibly
be removed, except in small pieces ; but, whilst in its place,
it was about four feet long and four inches in diameter.
Part of an elephant's tooth, and some portions of bone, were
also found in the same pit.—Reeding Mercury.
The Churchwardens of St. Paul, Covent-Garden,
alive to the necessities of the poor at this inclement season,
have taken most judicious means of alleviating their distress.
The mode of relief is by issuing tickets of the value of
fifteen-pence each, in such numbers as the case appears to
require. These tickets will obtain coals, bread, potatoes,
grocery, or meat ; the provisions of course to be procured
in the parish. This, we understand, has bad the most be-
neficial effect. The funds thus carefully bestowed are de-
rived from the interest arising out of certain farms, be-
, queathed to the parish above a century ago.