The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-09 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols opened this morning at the leaving-off prices of
yesterday, 91i 92 for Account and for Money ; little doing
as yet. Exchequer Bills, 20 22 ; India Bonds, 68 ; Bank
Stock, 2144 215 - ; India Stock, 25S 259.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which left off
yesterday 461 4, are not so good-464 ; Passive, 144 ;
Deferred, 21.11 ; Portuguese, 83i 8421 ; Three per Cents.,
541 ; Columbian, 321- 33 ; Mexican, 351 36 ; Dutch
2:11 per Cents., 56 ?-3-
HALF-PAST ONE.

Consols continue at the morning prices of 91i for
Money-91i- 92 for the Account, with scarce a bargain
doing ; Exchequer Bills, 20 21 ; India Bonds, 6 8 ; Bank
Stock, 214 ; India Stock, 2584.
In the Foreign market, Spanish Active may be quoted
461- ; Passive, 144 ; Deferred, 211 ; Portuguese, 84 ;
Three per cents, 53-1 54 ; Colombian, 32i ; Mexican,
354 ; Dutch, 64
A good deal doing in shares, without much alteration in
their prices of yesterday. Great Western has improved
11. per share.
THREE 0' CL 0 CB.
Consols for the Account, 911 92.

His Excellency Count Pozzo di Borgo gave a ;rand
dinner on Thursday evening, at Ashburnham-house, to the
Earl and Countess of Minto, Lord and Lady Holland, Baron
and Baroness Bulow, Count d'Aglie, Colonel and Lady Mary
Fox, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Count Labinsky, M. Hummc-
lauer, Austrian Charge d'Affaires ; Baron and Baroness
Cetto, Prince Paul Lieven, Colonel and Countess Pozzo di
Borgo, &c. &c. The Ambassador has issued cards for an-
other grand banquet on the 17th inst.
Grisi, Rubini, Tamburini, and Lablache, have
arrived in town from Paris.

SUFFERING FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE.—Mr. Rus-
sell, one of the Town Councillors of Edinburgh, and Mr.
Chapman, a plumber in that city, have been imprisoned in the
Calton Hill Jail for non-payment of the annuity tax for the
support of the Church Establishment in Edinburgh. We ob-
serve it stated in the public papers, that our respected Repre-
sentative visited Mr. Russell in the Calton Jail on Saturday
last, and undertook to present and support a petition which he
intends to send to the House of Commons immediately after
the re-assembling of Parliament.—Greenock Intelligences.
EXECUTION.—On Monday morning, the last sen-
tence of the law was carried into execution at the head of
Libberton's Wynd, on the person of Charles Donaldson, sen-
tenced for the murder of his wife. The crowd was not very
numerous, and quietly dispersed. Donaldson was only 46
years of age, but had the appearance of being at least ten
years older. We understand that his victim was a woman of
dissipated habits, and had for many years been a continual
source of irritation to him. Donaldson himself was of sober
habits.—Edinburgh Courant.
OYSTER LAINIP.—M. do Layage remarked, on
opening an oyster, a shining bluish light, resembling a star,
near the centre of the shell, which, on nearer examination, he
discovered to be phosphorus. On scooping it out of the shell,
it extended nearly half an inch in length, and, when immersed
in water, seemed in every respect the same as artificially pre-
pared phosphorus. The oyster in which this was discovered
was perfectly alive and fresh. The light could not, therefore,
proceed from any decomposition of the shell or the animal, but
must have been derived from some other source. Upon exa-
mining this phosphorescent substance by the aid of a microscope
of considerable power, it was found to consist of various animal-
cula, each beautifully luminous, like miniature glow-worms,
lightening up their starry lamps to illuminate the dark solitary
chamber of the shell, and intended, perhaps, to lure within its
reach such marine inhabitants as it might prey upon.
By the bills of mortality for the parish of Liver-
pool and its vicinity, which were published on Tuesday last,
we find that during the year which ended on Easter Monday
the number of births and baptisms in the established Churchs
of Liverpool amount to 6,392, of Roman Catholics 9,572, of
independents 140, and of baptists only 76. Jews, qualm-3,
and unitarians, cannot be ranked under the head of baptisms ;
but the births amongst these people are rated at—for Jess s os,
quakers 20, unitarians only 16. We leave out the births of
the Scottish Church, and of the Wesleyan methodists,
inas-
much as we have a clear right to consider them as belonain,,
to the national Church. On the whole there are of births and
baptisms in the Church, and amongst the Protestant Dissen-
ters, 9,408, and of Roman Catholics, 2,572.-Liverpool
Standard.