The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-01 00:00:00

TBE FUNDS.

Consols at present continue stationary, at the leaving-off
price of yesterday, 921 s for the Account This being New
Year's day, it is not expected that much business will be done.
India Bonds, 2 3 ; Exchequer Bills, 13 15 ; Bank Stock, 212
213; India Stock, 2561 257 f.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active Bonds, which closed
at 504, opened heavy this morning, and receded to 491 50 ;
Portuguese, 844 a ; 3 per Cents., 55f 56 • Columbian, 32}, ;
Mexican, 38f ; Dutch; 21. per Cents., 54:11.
The City is very dull owing' to the badness of the weather,
and but few operations doing in either of the markets.

HALF-PAST ONE.

We have no further arrivals to the present hour. The bad-
ness of the weather prevents the usual attendance on 'Change,
and causes a stagnation in the operations of the various funds.
Consols have continued during the morning at 921 for the
Account. Scarce a bargain doing.
In the Foreign Market the speculations are limited to Spa-
nish Active and Portuguese Securities. The former continue
at the receding price of the morning, 491 to 50 ; Portugicsc
have improved, owing to the Bills due this day being pro-
vided for, 841 ; Three per Cents, 534 to 541, Ex. Div. ;
Colombian, 324 ; Mexican, 381 ; Dutch Two and a Half,
54 4 Ex. Div.
THREE OCL 0 CK.
Consols for the Account, 924

On Christmas day the thermometer, at Salisbury,
at eight in the morning, stood at 18 degrees below the
freezing-point.
A correspondent of a Morning Paper says, that as
two of his sons, boys at home,forn school for the Christmas
holidays, were passing up Regent-street on Wednesday, a
miscreant put a card into their hands, inviting them to a
gambling-house.

At Vary-le-Francais, last week, a man named Paul
Bernard, died in the 104th year of his age, who enjoyed
all his faculties -to the last.

A pear, of the St. Germaine species, has, been
this year groivn in the garden of a clergyman near Salis-
bury, of the extraordinary size of 14i inches in girth, and
17i inches long.

A pauper:whilst in the course of examination as
to his settlement, before a bench of Magistrates, not a
hundred miles from Arundel, was asked, among other ques-
tions, whether he was born in wedlock. " No," replied
the man, " I was born in Midhurst."—Brighton Gazette.
A certain Alexander Day is advertising for a wife
in a New York Paper, He's "A. DAY after the fair."
MARRlAGE.—Marriage in England is seldom pro-
moted by a genuine disinterested love, but is the rusult of
that spirit of calculation and foresight, which so eminently
characterises the nation.--P. Anichini's Remarks on Mar-
riage, 4c.

Lord Sefton continues indisposed at his residence in
Arlington-street, and his dinner parties have been there-
fore discontinued.
The Earl and Countess of Abingdon have been
placed in mourning by the death, at Wytham Abbey, of
Miss Gage, sister to the Countess, and to Rear-Admiral
Sir William Gage.
The Marquis of Hertford, accompanied by the Mar-
chese and Marchesa Di Salsi, are now on their route
from Milan to Naples, where there are, however, at pre-
sent, fewer English fashionables residing than have been
known since the peace, owing to the alarm created by the
cholera. The Marquis waited at Milan,for the restrictions
relating to the quarantine to be removed.
The Honourable Colonel Henry Molyneux, son of
Earl Sefton, has embarked for Malta, to assume the com-
mand of the Ist battalion of the 60th Royal Rifles, •to
which he was recently appointed.
BRIBERY.—Two more cases of Tory bribery were
brought to light yesterday by the Dublin Commission.--
Morning Register.