The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-12 00:00:00

1854. 1853.
£37,027 *X42,935
8,956 9,501

Brighton 8,094 8,791
Caledonian, and Edin, and Glasgow 14,175 13,633
Great Northern
*lncluding proportion of traffic previously under agree-
ment with the North Staffordshire Company.
In Railway Shares there is not much business

doing, but quotations have sympathised in the
advance in English Stocks, and the principal lines
are generally about ss. to 10s. better. Frene`h
Shares are also higher.
Gold Mines are very dull. Bank Shares have

risen, but transactions are limited. Union of
Australia have advanced 1/. Land Shares have
improved, the Australian Agricultural about 1/.
to li. 10s., but not much is doing.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
( From the Offeial List. )

Blaine ss done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 921 3 k 2i
3 per Cent Consols Annuities 92s 3 2i 3
New 3i per Cent. Annuities 931 4 3i 4i 31
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO 4 p a
Consols for Openinn. 18th Jan, 923 3 * 21 3 2a
Exchequer Bills, ld.
£1000
£5OO lO 7 P
Small.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New, 1852, 44 per Cent .. ..
New Brazilian Bonds, 1829 dt 39, 5 per Cent 961
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 42 4 x d
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 2OA
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgianißonds 4i per Cent. ex. 25 fr .
Dutch Exchange, 2A per Cent. 12 Gail.
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates ..... ,
• THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 18th januavy ......... 921 i x d

DEPARTURE OF THE AMERICAN MAILS.—On Tues-
day forenoon the -United States mail steam-ship Atlantic,
Captain West, took her departure from the Mersey, for
New York, with the usual mails for the United States,
-
Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland,
&c., 5G passengers, and a large an d general cargo of mer
chandise on freight.
FIRE IN WHITEcHAPEL. —Yesterday morning, shortly
before 4 o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises belong-
ing to Mr. N. Brassatt, a German lodging-house pro-
prietor, 1, Colchester-street, Leman-street, Whitechapel,
which was nearly attended with a most fearful sacrifice
of human life. The discovery was made by Police-con-
stable 78, of the II division, who sprung his rattle, and,
after repeatedly knocking at the door, succeeded in
arousing the proprietor of the house, who set about
awakening the various lodgers. They made an attempt
to descend by the stairs, but the density of the smoke
forced them to retreat, when two male lodgers made
their appearance at the first-floor window and jumped
out. Fortunately, they were caught by the constable on
duty, and received no injury. At that moment Samuel
Wood, the oonductor of the Royal Society's fire-escape,
arrived with his machine from the Whitechapel station,
when he beheld 4 children screaming at one of the front
windows, with their parents, the father having been ill for
some time. At the windows of the floor above were four
male lodgers hanging by their handsfrorn the:window sills.
The conductor lost no time in adjusting the apparatus
in front of the building, and succeeded in rescuing
the four men, and then went up again and brought
down the four children, their father and mother. By
the time the residents were extricated, the parish engine
arrived, and was followed by two others of the London
establishment, from the Jeffrey and Wellclose squares
statioli. An abundant suPPIY of water was then flowing
front the mains of the East London Company. The
parish engineer and firemen of the brigade went to work
in admirable style, and fortunately succeeded in confining
the flames to the lower part of the premises.
BELGIUM.—Upon the representation of Lord Bloom-
field as to the unseemly discomforts to which English
worshippers were exposed in the celebration of their
public worship, the King of Prussia has granted a wing
of one of his palaces, which is to be fitted up as a chapel
for the use of English residents or English visitors to the
Prussian capital. A certain sum of money is to be
raised by subscription for providing the chapel with
sittings, pulpit, organ, Stc.,a.ncl all other appliances which
may be necessary for the celebration of Divine service.
The act is a most liberal one OR the part of the King.--
, ontinental