The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS.

AiSTERDAM, OCT. 26.—Inland funds of all kinds were
offered at a depreciation to-day, Spanish especially, in
consequence of a e dismissal of the Spanish Minister
Nurvaez. Portuguese, Austrian, and Russian shared
the same tendency; French remained without fluctua-
tion.—D etch papers, Oct. 27
DUTCII FUNDS.—A3ISTEIIDaM, OCT. 26.
Bills. Money.
Actual Debt, 23¢ per Cent-- •• •• •• • 52 11 -16 53
Ditto, 3 per Cent ••••• • • • • • ........ 62 11-16 G 2 X
Ditto, 4 per Cent.....
Amort Syndic. 35{, per Cent..........
East India IA an, 4 per Cent ••••• • • • • •
Spanish New S per-Csnts..
Austrian .5 per Cent 5....... ••.. • •
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1n1and..........—
Commercial C, impany, 43% per Cent • • 163
Exchangeors London, at sight ...... 12 5
Two months. • • • • • • • • 12
On Hamburgb, at sight 34 15-16
Two months. ••••• • • • .• .... 34 13-16
On Paris, at sight-- •• .•
Tw °mouths. ••••••• • • • • • ••
11KVIBURGH FUNDS, Ocr. 26.
Bills. Money.
10d

Hanoverian New Loan, 5 per Cent.....
Ditto, 3% per Cent. .. •• •• ..
Rank Shares.. • • ....................
Prussian 5 per Cent. ••••.. • • . ...... 106% 105%
Haraburgn Certificate .• ••••• • .. • • .... 99 99
Anglo-Russian Loan • • •• • • ....... .. 105 104%
Ramburgh, 3 per Cent .... • • ........ 87 86%
Russian 4 per Cent... ——.••••• •• •• • •
New 4 per Cent., Rope and Co. ...... 94
Ditto Stieglitz —•• .• • .... ...... 84% 84%
Belgian Loan, 2% per Cent.. • • ........ --
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...... 72
Ditto, in 1001. Shares .. .. .. ..
Ditto, 5 per cent• • • ...• .• • •
Anglo-Swo.lisli Loan ................
Ditto, Transport Loan ..............
Norwegian :r.,0 an, 1848 •• • • .... •• . 99% 99%
Spanish New .5 per Cent.• •• .......... 9 ....
Ditto, 3 per Cents. .. • • ............ 25% 95%
Ditto, 1846 ••..• • • • ............ -.—
Angio.Portugriese Loan, 2% per Cent • •
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent —
Ditto 3 per Cent. •••.••••• • • • • • • •
National Bank Shares ••• • • —
American, 6 per Cent. ••• • • ....... •
RAILWAYS.

Hamb. Bergd.• •••••••••.•• • • •• • • • • • • 97
Ditto, Priority Shares •• ••••• • • 104 103%
Berlin and Hamburg • • •••••• • • • • • • 79% 79%

Ditto, Priority Shares .. ••••• • • • • 981 i 9314
Cologne and Minden ........ •.•• • • • • 9434 94%
Ditto, Priority Shares .. •• • • 9934
Magdeburg I— •••• • • • •• • ...... 6334 63
Altona and Mel ..... • • ....... ..... 96% 9634
Gluckstadt .......... ••.. • • • 25
Hanseatic Steam Company .. • •• • •
=CHANGES ON LONDON.
Hamburgh, Oct. 26. •..•••• • • • • • • 13 Ws
Ditto, Three months ••• • • • .... 13 10%
Petersburgh, Oct 19, three months . • 37 %
Bremen, Oct. 23, two months • • .. 614

An extraordinary progress has been made in the
utterance of free thoughts. We no longer burn a man
because he differs from us in opinion. lie may now
conscientiously entertain views which the majority regard
as heterodox, and still retain the use of his ears! It
was not so in the time of Henry VIII., Elizabeth,
Charles 1., and even more recent reigns. Then, any man
who gave utterance to opinions not strictly in accord-
ance with the views of the ruling powers, was liable to
be whipped at the cart's tail, to have his ears cut off, to
be set in the pillory and pelted with rotten eggs and
dead cats, to be branded in the forehead and both cheeks
with a hot iron, perhaps finally to be thrown into a
dungeon for life. A man's hand is not now chopped off
because he ventures to write a book or tract in which he
questions the extent of royal prerogative; nor are grim
human heads any longer stuck on London•bridge or
T, triple. bar. Thank God ! all such brutalities have
been banished for ever from this country: and though
sectarian and political feeling still runs strong, it dares
not now proceed to the frightful extremities that it was
allowed to do of old. Such a riot as that which occurred
at Birmingham about the end of last century, in which
the learned Dr. Priestley's library was burnt, is now,
happily, no longer possible.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
THE LATE ATTEMPTED PARRICIDE AT CHISWICK.
—Although Mr. Monkhouse, sen., still continues pro-
gressing towards convalescence, it is not considered that
he will have attained sufficient strength to be able to
r attend at the court to give his evidence in the case for
a least three weeks. The accused will therefore con-
tinue to be weekly remanded until that time.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF STRATIIMORE.—We
have to announce the demise of the above venerable
I Countess, who expired at Ilolyrood Palace on Tuesday
I last, in her 77th year