The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-05 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, 7' IV EL VE O' CL 0 CK.
Our only arrival this morning is the Ostend mail. Three
French are due; one Ostend and one Dutch are also due.
We have a mail from Vera Cruz by the Pandora, sailed the
26th October; the Leeward Islands mail by the Reynard,
sailed the 3d of November from St. Thomas's ; and a mail
from Halifax by the Delight, sailed the 15th November.
Ship-letters from Nassau, Teneriffe, Valparaiso. Honduras,
Quebec, Berbice, and Pernambuco, have been received ; as also
Penang to the 16th July, and Cape of Good Hope to the 13th
October.
We have received the Journal' du Commerce of Saturday's
date, bringing the Dutch prices of Ist December. Five per
Cents., 99+ ; Two and a Half per Cents., 52 9-16.
The Dutch papers of the 2d December bring very disastrous
accounts caused by the late storm. Prince Alexander, son of
the Prince of Orange, was seriously hurt by the falling of a tree.

THE FUNDS.
Consols opened at 88,- 1 for the Account ; Reduced, Si k;
Exchequer Bills, 911 ; India Bonds, 8 10 ; Bank Stock,
205 206 ; India, 255, 236 ; Spanish Active, 19 to 19 1; Pas-
sive, 51 1 ; Deferred, 71 4 ; Portuguese, 43fi 44 ; Three per
Cents., 28i.
.HALF-PAST ONE.
We do not hear as yet of the arrival of the French mails ;
consequently there is no news from the Continent or Peninsula,
which causes a general stagnation in the various funds.
We hear that the Mexican mail has brought over about
230,000 dollars ; also favourable accounts from the mines. •
Consols have been during the morning at 881 to 1 for the
Account ; Reduced, • Exchequer Bills, 12 prem. ; India
Bonds, 9 10 ; Bank Stock, 206 f ; India Stock, 2561.
There is also a stagnation of business in the Foreign Market.
Spanish, 18i ; Passive, 51 ; Differes, 7i ; Portuguese, 44 ;
Three per Cents., 284; Colombian, 21i ; Mexican, 21.1 ;
Chilian, 40; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 531.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 8811.

LAW AND PRACTICE OF PARLIAMENT.—A use-
ful and important work on this subject is announced. It is
to be in three parts. The first on the Construction of
Statutes—and the second on the Law of Election, by
Ric HARD BLIGH, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Judicial Reporter
of Appeals in the Lords, &c. &c. ; the third part on the
Practice in Passing Public and Private Bills, by W. S.
NORTHHOUSE, Esq., the Parliamentary Agent of Parlia-
ment-street. It is to be in one volume, and at a moderate

price.
The inhabitants of Swanbourne have, during the
past week, been thrown into a state of considerable ex-
citement by the following circumstance :—On Tuesday
week the body of an individual was found in a cow-house
there, and an inquest was held on it, when a verdict of
" Died by the visitation of God" was returned. Subse-
quently to the inquest, some doubts arose as to his being
dead ; and it is said, that on a medical man being called
in, he gave it as his opinion that the man was merely in, a
trance. He has been placed in a coffin, and now lies in the
church ; his face is still of a florid appearance, his limbs are
neither stiff nor cold, and his body is at times covered with
perspiration. Numbers have visited the place, but none
of the villagers choose to go alone.---Aylesbury Paper.
A widow named Monteret, who is fifty-four years of
age, and the mother of three daughters, the youngest of
whom is upwards of twenty-five, resolved nevertheless to
contract a second marriage. The father of this elderly
widow took exception to the object of her choice, who was
a young man of twenty-six, on the ground that he was no-
thing more than a poor servant without fortune or educa-
tion, who speculated on the respectability of the widow.
The Tribunal de Premiere Instance of Paris, before which
the case came, took a different view of the question. The
parents of the tender Madame Monteret lodged an ap-
peal, but eventually allowed judgment to go by default ; the
decision was therefore on the 20th October confirmed.
The President observed that the father of the youthful
lady attributed the intention of his daughter to madness.
The advocate of Madame Monteret said that parents al-
ways consider children mad who oppose them. The ap-
pellant not having followed up the appeal, the amorous
widow has been enabled to realize her fond expectations.
An inquest was held at Misson, on Monday week,
on view of the body of a child about fourteen months old,
belonging to Mr. John Pinder, shoemaker, that came to its
death from having on the previous Friday pulled upon itself
a tea-pot containing boiling water, by which it was so much
scalded as to expire in about twenty-four hours. A verdict
was returned accordingly.—York Courant.
A locket, set round with large brilliants, containing,
a lock of the hair of General Washington, ha
been pre-
sented to Lord John Russell, by John Mortimer Barclay,
of Philadelphia.
At a meeting of the Marylebone vesney, on Satur-
day last, a motion was made, that the sum of 41. should be
voted for the purchase of holly and other eve-greens, for
the decoration of the church during the approaching festive
season. The motion was negatived by a m ijotity of 30
against 10,