The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-22 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols opened this morning with an improvement on the
leaving-off price of 884 ;at present 881 89 for the open-
ing ; Exchequer Bills, 15 17 ; India Bonds, 9 11 ; Bank
Stock, 208 209.
In the Foreign Market little doing as yet ; Spanish Ac-
tive, 20-1 ; Passive, 54 d ; Deferred, 81 ; Portuguese, 43
441 ; Three per Cents., 281 4 ; Colombian, 214 221 ;
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 53- 54*.
.HAL.F.PAST ONE.

Consols, which were rather buoyant in the early part of
the morning, soon after receded from 89i to 88-1 ; at pre-
sent, 88,4- 89 for the Account ; Reduced, 874 -4- ; Ex-
chequer Bills, 15 17 prem. ; India Bonds, 9 11 prem. ;
Bank Stock, 208 f.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 20i 4 ; Pas-
sive, 5i s ; Deferred, 8 to 84 ; Portuguese, 44 ; Three
per Cents., 29 ; Columbian, 22-4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Ha'"
per Dents., 544.
Consols for the Account, 88i 89.

THREE O'CLOCK

Cartwright, the game-watcher, who was shot at
Nun-Appleton, on Friday week, was considerably better at
the last accounts, and great hopes are entertained of his
recovery. We believe that application is intended to
be made to the Court of King's Bench to admit to bail
the four ltidsdales who are now in the castle, awaiting
their trial as accessories after the fact.—Hull Observer.
Last week, a woman at Jersey having got drunk
hung herself in the aberration of mind occasioned by taking
spirituous liquors.
Professor Meinecke, of Halle, proposes to light
houses and streets by means of an electric spark, and he
thinks that this system may supersede that of gas, as giv-
ing a better light and more economical. His plan is to
construct luminous tubes, having at intervals metallic plates,
on which might be formed, by means of a machine, a rapid
succession of electric sparks. The professor has obtained
by an operation of this kind, and from a two-feet machine,
a constant light in his apartment resembling a bright moon-
light. By confining the sparks in a tube filled with rarified
hydrogen gas, the professor thinks it will be easy to Ob-
tain the same result on a large scale.
NIGHTINGALES.—M. Merveaux has communi-
cated to the French Academy of Sciences a curious circum-
stance respecting som" nightingales in his garden. They
had built their nest in the lower part of a hedge, when
some water in the neighbourhood rose with such impe-
tuosity as to inundate the garden. M. Merveaux watched
the nightingales with some anxiety, and one day, when the
water had reached to within six paces of the nest, ho only
perceived two eggs. He at first thought that the nest had
been abandoned, but coming to it very soon after, he only
saw one, and this time waited to see the result. He was
much astonished to behold the last egg disappear with the
birds, who, flying cautiously, but rapidly, carried it to a
new nest, at the highest part of the hedge, where he saw all
four eggs deposited in safety ; and where they were after-
wards hatched. He could not ascertain how the parent
birds carried these eggs.

An alarming fire broke out on Tuesday night (just
as the family were retiring to rest) in the lower part of the
house of Mr.. Blain, eating-house keeper, North Audley-
street, Grosvenor-square. The servant-girl first discovered
the flames on the kitchen stairs, through a glass door at the
end of the passage. Storey, with several men and an en-
gine from the Baker-street station, soon reached the spot,
and fortunately an instantaneous supply of water was ob-
tained, when, by their judicious exertions, the raging de-
ment was confined to the lower part of Mr. Blain's pre-
mises, who is insured for the loss sustained in the Phoenix
Fire-office. Not the least idea can be formed of the origin
of the fire.

On Friday last, Mr. Clarke, poulterer, Boston,
killed 637 geese for the London market, one of which
weighed 181bs. It is calculated that Mr. Clarke, alone,
will send to the London market, this y4::ar, about 13,000
geese, and ,apwards of 1,000 turkeys ; but even this num-
ber, in consequence of the articles being very dear, falls
short of Mr. Clarke's usual number.—Lincoln Gazette,