The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-21 00:00:00

THE FUND!.

Consols opened this morning at the leaving off quotations of
yesterday, 931 i for the Account, with little doing as yet.
Exchequer Bills, 63 65 ; India Bonds, GI 63 ; Bank Stock,
202 k 203; India Stock, 262 263.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, rather heavy,
closed at 16k k, at present 16k ;4; Portuguese same as they
left off, 28k 29 ; Three per Cents., 18f 19; Belgian much
the same as they closed at, 98} to 99 ; Brazilian, 761 77k ;
Colombian, 253- 26 ; Mexican, 22f 23; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. at the leaving off price, 541 .; Five per
Cents., looft R.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2'214 India Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 92.34 3 j Ditto Bonds 6l (13 pm.
3 per Cent. Cons.
3;4 per Cent 10.)14 Old Annuities —
Ditto Red. 10014 100 14 New Ditto
New 3(4 per Cent 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751...
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto &JO
Jan. 5, 1860 l4 Ditto Small ((3 65 pm
Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial pm.
Jan. 5, 186(1 — Ditto Advertised ... ...... pm.
Jan. 5, IE4BI — Bank Stock for Account —
April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account
Jan. 5, 1870 — Consols for Account 9374 '%,,
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds —
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account 77 6 Ditto Accoun` —
Buenos Ayres Bonds " Ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
_Ditto Account

Chilian Bonds
I) tto Account

Prussian Bonds —
Russian Bonds, 1822 lllY,i

Ditto Account
Ditto Metallic..
Spanish Bonds...
Ditto Account —
Ditto Bonds, 1834 1614N
Ditto Account. I6M4
French, 5 per cent, f. —c.
4 per cent.
3 per cent. —f —c.
Exchange. —f. —c.
Dutch, 2% per cent.. 54.
Ditto Account 54X Ii
Ditto, 5 per cent lO 3
Ditto Account 1 uON
S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Paid. Per Shale.
British Iron Company
GBristol and Exeter Railway Company 2O 1165 75%
reat Western Railway Company ... .......
14
114%
Brighton Railway
74
I..ondon and Blackwall Railway 9 6%
London and Birmingham Railn ay Company 9O 165
London and Southampton (New) Railway .O 39%
NJrth Midland Railway Company 55 55%
25 29
Colonial Bank

Columbian Bonds 23
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824 25
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 1825
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cur —
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Neapolitan
PRICES OF SHARES THE

BELGIAN I. UNDS—Batissias, DEc. 19.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan 5 per Cent 9O
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. ......
3 per Cent. ..... ....
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent.
Society of Commerce, 4y4per Cent. l3/
—Brussels Papers, Dec. 19.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vinuris, DEC. 11.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. lOO
Three per Cents.
Bank Sharsatia
—4llgemein ung, Dec. 16.
HALF-PAST ONE.
No further arrivals rom any quarter to the present hour.
Ai
Since the early part of the morning the British Market bas
rather improved, and Consols have been done at 93j Buyers
and for the Account. The Government broker purchased
about six thousand Reduced at 92k. The uneasiness which
prevailed yesterday respecting the failure of the Belgian
Bank has now subsided, as it is ascertained that the creditors
will be paid. Exchequer Bills, 63 65 ; India Bonds, 61 63;
Bank Stock, 202 k.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, a shade better,
161 i ; Portuguese , 28i 29 ; Three per Cents., 18f 19 ;
Brazilian lower, 76 77 ; Belgian 98i 99 ; Mexican, 22i 23 ;
Colombian, 251, i ; Dutch a shade higher, Two and a Half
per Cents., 54i 55 ; Five per Cents., 100 i 101.
In Shares some business doing. Great Western, 10} pre-
mium ; Brighton, 3i discount.
7' If It.E.E 0' CL 0 CIE

Consols for the Accoant, 93j.

A meeting of the committee of that charitable insti-
tution, the Refuge for the Houseless Poor, was held at the
Mansion-house yesterday, when it appears there exists no
necessity at present of opening the asylum. A long discus-
sion ensued as to the expediency of delegating to the house
committee the power of opening it when they should see oc-
casion. The proposition was resisted, on the ground that it
was throwing too great a responsibility on a few indivi-
duals, and that it was unnecessary, as a general committee
could at any time be summoned to decide upon the matter.
Ultimately it was agreed that a general meeting of sub-
scribers should he held in January, when a report would
be submitted for their consideration. Dr. Conquest
strongly censured the mode in which the charity is at
present managed, as tending by its indiscriminate admis-
sion into the asylum of persons labouring under disease
and of disreputable character, to spread abroad evils
both physical and moral, and attracting to the City from
all quarters of the metropolis, and even from distant parts
of the kingdom, the idle and dissolute, who thus bad their
wants supplied, without reference to their real condition.
We have seen, within the last few days, a circular
containing a prospectus of a plan for opening and main-
taining a regular communication by steam betwixt Liverpool
and the different West India Islands.—Liverpoq'ilibion.