The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-26 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY: TWELVE O'CLOCK,
Up to the present hour twelve inland mails are due ;
also the French, Hamburg, and Dutch mails, owing to the
great fall of snow during the night, and it is supposed we
shall have no arrivals until late in the afternoon.
This has caused a total stagnation in the operations of
the funds this morning. Consols opened at 89 to , the
leaving-off prices of Saturday for the opening. Reduced,
871 88 ; Exchequer Bills, 18 20 ; India Bonds, 9 11 ;
Bank Stock, 208} ; India Stock, 259 260.
Being deprived of any intelligence from the Peninsula
and France, the Spanish and Portuguese Stocks continue
at the leaving-off prices of Saturday—Spanish Active 19 to
191 ; Passive, 5i ; Deferred, 7-a i ; Portuguese, 44 to
44i ; Three per Cents., 28i 29 ; Columbian, 21-i- 22i ;
Dutch, 54* i.
BELGIAN k UNDS--BItUSSELS, DEC. 23.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOO%
Loan of Thirty Millions 9438
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent lOl
Society of Commerce, 45.4 per Cent 142
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 134
Brussels Papers, Dee. 24.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS..—VIENNA, Dec. 15.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
74%
Three par Cents.
Bank Shares l3 86
—Allgoncine Zeitung, Dec. 20.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Dec. .
8i115.20 Money.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. —
Ditto ditto 3 percent.
Ditto Bank Shares 1357 1555
102% 102%
Anglo-Russian Loan
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent —
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Russian inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds. 5 per cent. —
Ditto, 3 er cent. 27
Dutch 234 per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents —
131 130%
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
New Tickets 151% 1511/
Anglo-I)anish Loan, 3 per cents 71% 71%
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent l9
Greek 4 per cents. 1333, guaranteed by France 93 92%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, Dec. 20.-13 6 ; two months, 13 41%.
STOCKHOLM, DEC. 13.—Two months, 12.
CHRISTIANIA, DEC. Io.—Three months, 4 118.
ST. PETEKSBURGII, DEC. 9 —Three months, 10 49-61.
BERLIN, Dec. 17.—Three months, 6. 21N.
—Hamburg Pavers, Dec. 20.
HALF-PAST ONE.
In the various funds the prices are nominal, and scarce a
bargain doing.
Consols may be quoted, as in the morning, 89 to 891
for the opening ; Reduced, 88-3. ; Exchequer Bills, 20 ;
India Bonds, 9 11 ; Bank Stock, 2081.
The Foreign Market is in the same state of stagnation as
that of the British. Spanish Active, 191 ; Portuguese,
44i ; Three per Cents., 29.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 89 to 89i.

We learn from Cagliari, in Sardinia, that three
merchant-men were wrecked on that coast during the tem-
pestuous weather at the end of November, and that the
French ship the Sufren, on her way to Mahon, was
obliged to put in at Port San Pietro, where she was struck
by lightning, which, however, occasioned but some slight
damage to her upper tier.
Extracts from the lately-published Statistical Ac-
count of the Parish of Lochbroom, in Ross-shire .—" The
hills of this parish were well stored with game of all kinds
till the introduction of extensive sheep-farming, which has
greatly diminished the quantity of game as well as of salmon
and other fish in the lakes and rivers. The same circum-
stance has had an equally deleterious effect on the growing
woods of the country in general, and on its race of heroes."
Yesterday morning, about eight o'clock, a gentleman
in passing along the northern walk of the ornamental water
in St. James's-park, observed a female throw herself into
the water at the narrow part of the lake. He instantly ran
and alarmed two policemen who were near the spot, one
of whom, named Samuel Jones, A division, 24, stripped,
and jumped into the water. The clothes of the female had
prevented her from wholly sinking, and with the assistance
of the other policeman she was brought ashore, and instantly
carried to Westminster Hospital. She seemed exhausted
from cold, and having been well rubbed with dry flannels,
was put into a warm bath, and afterwards placed in bed be-
tween blankets. She stated her name to be Caroline Over-
ton. She appears to be about 30 years old, is a French
woman, and cannot sprak a word of English. It is believed
she has recently been in service as a lady's-maid, but it was
thought improper at present to press her with questions.
Her appearance by no means indicated distress. The po-
licemen say they have frequently seen her wandering about
the shrubberies near where she attempted self•destruction.
13y noon she had fallen into what seemed to be a refreshing
sleep, and there is every reason to expect she will soon fully
recover.

The clauses relating to bastardy in the Poor Law
Amendment Act, it will be recollected, occasioned much
opposition during the progress of that Act through Parlia-
ment, but the manner in which they have operated, proves
that they are founded on just views and sound policy, and
that their tendency has been to raise the moral character of
the lower class of English females. The following data, in
illustration of this view, are taken from the second annual
report of the Poor Law Commissioners :—lt appears that
the whole number of bastards chargeable to the parishes of
England and Wales, in 1835, was 71,298 ; in 1836, the
number chargeable was 61,826, being a decrease of 9,472,
or of thirteen per cent. In 1835, the number affiliated was
12,581 ; in 1836, the number was 7,686, being a decrease
of 4,695, or of thirty-eight per cent. The number returned
as born in the year 1835, was 17,578, and in the year ended
two years being attributed to a full registration in the 25th
March, 1836, was 17,036, the variation in the last year.
According to the population returns, the number of bastards
'.born in 1831, was 20,039, which, if allowance were made
for the increase of population since that year, would show
a decrease of between 4,000 and 5,000 born in the last year.