The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-16 00:00:00

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Our 'arrivals this morning are an (Mend mail, and ship let-
ters from Rio Janeiro, Demerara, Jamaica, Lisbon, Calcutta,
Sept. 7, and Mauritius, Oct. 19.
Demerara papers have been received of the 28th November.
Nothing of importance appears to have occurred in that colony
since the last adviees.

Under the head of Barbadoes, we find the meeting of the
House of Assembly had been called for the 3d November, and
the non-attendance of the Members is thus explained in the
TVest Indian :—" There was no meeting of the House of
Assembly on Tuesday last, most of the Members being engaged
in planting beans 1"
New Brunswick Papers arc received at the North and South
American Coffee House, to Dec. 6. Of the timber duties
they state :—" We are glad to find that the change recom-
mended by the Select Committee of the House of Commons,
on the duties on timber, has roused our fellow colonists to a
sense of their danger for the operations of such a measure.
The example set by our merchants has been followed in
Frederick Town, Miramichi, St. Andrews, and the counties of
Gloucester and Kent; in each of which places public meetings
have been held, and petitions to the Imperial Parliament pre-
pared."
MIRAMICIII, Dsc. I.—The wea er during the week has
been unusually cold, and the frost intense. Several schooners
from Quebec, with flour, were expected, and their non-
arrival will be severely felt. Several vessels are frozen in
different parts of the river.

THE FUNDS.
Mr. Spring Rice, in his explanations to the merchants on
the slow progress made by the-Commissioners for the Slave
Compensation Fund, stated that the Commissioners, from the
lOth September to the 21st December, had comprehended
13,363 separate cases; and compensations amounting to
9,069,237/.
Owing to the non-arrival of the [tench Mail, with the Ex-
press from Paris as yet, the speculations in the various Funds
are inactive.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 90i- for Money, and
91 fOr the Account, opened this morning at the same price;.
Exchequer Bills, 18 20 ; India Bonds, 46 ; Bank Stook;
2131 210 ; India Stock, 252 253.
hi the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 50i; Porttigucse,
84k; Three per Cents., 511-; Columbian, 33k; Mexican,
371;ii 383-; Dutch 21 per Cents., 54 554.
HALF-PAST ONE.

W 4 have an arrival from Bengal two days later than the last
accounts. It does not bring any news of consequence. From
Rio Janeiro and Jamaica the accounts are of old dates.

In consequence of the non-arrival of the French:pail with
the express from Paris, both the British and Foreign markets
have continued stationary during the morning. Consols at
for the Account, and 901 91 for Money. Exchequer
Bills, •18 20 ; India Bonds, 4 6 ; Bank Stock, 214 ; India
Stock, 2521 253 ; Spanish Active Bonds, 50+ ; Portuguese,
84 ; Three per Cents., 53i ; Columbian, 33i ; Mexican,
34 • Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55is.
-
' THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for tho Account, Sill.

DINNER TO MR. R. VERNON SMITII, M.P.
NORTHAMPTON., FRIDAY, JAN. 15.—A public dinner
was given yesterday at the Peacock Inn, in this town,
to Mr. R. V. Smith, by his constituency, the Reformers
of this borough. The Chair was taken by George
Peach, Esq., who, it was anticipated, would have been the
Mayor of Northampton under the new municipal arrange-
ments, but which anticipation has been prevented from being
realised by a species of trickery well worthy the Tories. It
appears that the Town Council arc here equally divided—
nine Reformers and nine Tories. Upon the day on which
the Mayor was to be chosen the nine Liberal Council pro-
ceeded, about ten minutes before twelve, to the Town-hall,
the doors of which they found fastened. They returned to
the Peacock, and went to the Hall again at twelve, with the
exception of one who had gone home for a few minutes.
When they arrived there they found the nine Tories assem-
bled, who proceeded forthwith to elect a Chairman ; and so
rapid were their motions that, notwithstanding the [rperneptloonmda:
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them to e. themaenie
who had goo home, was in the Hall at four minutes past
twelve, they had olecto4 cmo of their own body as Chair-
man,
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811.9e1v. Mr. Serjeant, T. Percival,