The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-31 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols----Yesterday closed - 82i1
After the Clore - - B'2 8?..i
This Looming opener!

We yesterday noticed the determination of
the Bank to require repayment of the sums ad-
vanced on Stock, and Circulars have since been
issued, limiting such repayments to the 15th of Ja-
nuary Although this may have operated slightly
to repress any advance in Consols, it is confi-
dently asserted, that no inconsiderable proportion
of the three millions advanced by the Bank, will
be returned intact—precisely in the form in
which it was received. In several instances,
the sums remitted to the Country Bankers were
merely precautionary, and have riot been used.
If the expectation on this point be well-founded,
the pressure on the market by sales of Consols
for redemption of Stock pledged at the Bank, will
be greatly less than has been anticipated.
Consols opened thii morning at 82, and

went to 824,—buyers.
The price afterwards receded to 81:4, but at
one o'clock the quotation was 82, to
The transactions in Consols have not been of
Magnitude.
The demand for 3 kind 31 Reduced, has been
great, and the scarcity of those Stocks is
been proportionate. Three per Cents. Reduced
have been done at 81i, and Si at 80.
India Stock (for opening) - 2474.
I3onds - - - 6 pm.
.;chequer Bills, £lOOO-2 pm. par I pm.
£560-.--2 pm. par 1 pm.
£lOO-3 b pm.
FOREIGN.
There has been a small advance in most of the
Foreign Securities, Colombian 61,d0. 1824, 62/,
61 ; Mexican 6 per cents. 601, 06 ; Peruvian,
42 ; Danish, 598.
Spanish - . -12 i
Guatamala - a. 15 dis.
Russian - -
SHARES.
- In the afternoon of yesterday, the price of
Shares improved in several of the mining con-
cerns ; Anglo-Mexican, 10 prem. ; Anglo-Chi-
, lian par ; Brazilian, 4 prem. ; Colombia:l,92 prem.
Potosi 24 dis.; Royal Irish 1 dis.; United
Mexican 9 prem.

, QUARTER-PAST TWO.
Consols - - - • 814, 82.

We are informed, from a quarter on which
we place great reliance, that the negociation
with France, on the subject of a Commercial
Treaty, so far from being at ar► end, is now
in actual progress, and with every prospect
of being brought to a favourable conclu-
sion. The unexpected death of the Emperor
ALEx INDEn has tended, it is sad, greatly to
strengthen the relations of amity between France
and England—the two Great Powers, by whoFe
union alone, any undue pretentious from the
North could be put down.

A deputation, cots isting of Messrs. FITCH And
PARRY, of A veley, from the tenants of Sir TllO9.
LENNARD, waited upon the Baronet, and repro.
settee,d that the very great difficulties into which
his tenantry were thrown suddenly by the late
failures, &c.. in Essex, required that some indul-
gence should be extended to them. Their land-
lord immediately consented to 'allow them till
next February for the payment of their rentals.
This indulgence would afford considerable relief
to a great number of agriculturists, who, if it had
been withheld, would not be able to pay even
their labourers.

Most of the letters from the sea coast notice a
great fall of snow both yesterday and the day
before, with thick and foggy weather.
The City of London Literary and Scientific
Institution have taken the house near the Albion Tavern, Alder-
gate-street, formerly occupied by Sir John Welsh, and now the
property of the Wax-Chandlers' Compay, for the purpose of
forming reading-rooms, and of building a theatre or lecture-
room on the garden behind. The lectures are now given twice
a week at Albion-Hall. Mr. Cromwell, who is, we are given to
understand, a lineal descendant of Oliver Cromwell, will
50011 give a gratuitous course of lectures on topography. Dr.
311-ntyre, of Stockwell-park, Fellow of the Linneean Society,
is now lecturing gratuitously on botany, and on the last lecture
night, notwitstanding all: severity of the season, made a fine
display of plants.
The Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Mechanics'
Institution commenced its active operations on Thursday even-
ing last. The meeting was held in a neat chapel in Jamaica-
row. DANIEL BRENT, Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents,
took the chair,. and made a suitable address, pointing out the
advantages which must be derived from an establishment cal-
culated to make shipwrights, and other persons connected with
maritime architecture, scientific, and otherwise intelligent.—
Some of the liberal and enlightened merchants of the vicinity
are aiding in this object, which is likely to succeed beyond even
the most sanguine calculations. After the address, Dr. Mitchell
gave a lecture upon the Terrestrial Globe, and received great
applause and attention. We understand that Dr. M'lntire,
Mr. Elliott, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Partington, and other friends of
science, have also undertaken to give gratuitous lectures. Se-
veral valuable donations of books have been received, and the
number of members amounts to nearly 300.
The English Gentleman of to-morrow, Jan. 1,
1826, will contain an interesting letter, most re-
spectfully addressed to his Royal Highness the
Duke of YORK. Opinions on the present state
of the Country, and more particularly as to its
internal credit and resources. Also a completa
list of all the late failures of Banking Establish-
ments ; distinguishing those that have re-opened ;
those that have commenced liquidating the claims
of their creditors and holders of their notes ; those
that are preparing and have announced their in.
tention to do so ; and those that have been de-
clared Bankrupt ; with much other important and
interesting information; To be had of all News-
venders, and at the Office, N 0.7, Brydges-street,
Covent.gardeu.—Price Seven-pence.

FA.SIIIONA 111-4 E INTELIAGF,NCE.