The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-11 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

We continue in the same situation as for several days past, without
any arrivals from the westward, and very few from any other parts,
which causes a complete dearth of intelligence, and likewise prevents any
speculations of consequence.

Consols opened this morning at the leaving off' prices of yesterday-
for the Account, 94e 4; Money, 94k. Exchequer Bills, 71; India
Bond, 83 prem.; Bank Stock, 205}; India Stock, 2711.
Spanish Active, 20t 21 with Coupons; Portuguese, 34 to 1,- : Three
per Cents., 221 23; Brazilian, 76t 4; Mexican, 281 ; Colombian,
27 k 28; Dutch, 54k k,
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK,
Bank Stock ..-. ........ ...2.f.5% 5 34 frulta Smelt -
3 per Cent. act. , 9314 % ())ao fonds
3 per Cent. Cons 84 34 3i, South Sea Stock ...... ...... ..... -
3 % per Cent.... ~. -
Ditto Red 101%14 1 New Oitto -
New 3% pcv Cei. t..... ..... 102 %%% 13 per Cent. ie.:mu:ties, Pm_ -
New 5 per Cent.,... - Exch. Bilk, £1; 0'... ..... .. 71 73 um
Bank Long Annuitlesto expire i Dit to ..... ...... ....SOP -71 73 pin.
Jan. 5, 1860 l5 3-16 Ditto Small
Oct. 14, 1859 - Ditto Commercial ...... ... - pm.
Jan. 5, MU - Ditto Adverttsed. ...... .... - - Plr,
Jan. 5, 1880 ........ - Bank Stock for Account ...-. -
April 5, P&L- - Indll Stock for Account .----
Jan. .'.., 11'171. - Consols for Acconnt 9414%
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLWK.
Austrian fonds „ ..,„ - Peruvian Bonds -
Belgian Bonds • - Ditto Account -
Lhtto itCCOUnt... - Portugueseßow.ls -
Brazilian ilmd.; ....,
Ditto Account - Ditto Account ... 34:, 5% f,
f :en% Ayres Ponds Ditto, q per cent. 23';
Ditto Account ......,..- - Ditto Ace.nint 22% 3%%
nillia.v Bonds ..-..... ..... -....- Pruisian Braids ... -
)itto Account... ...... ......., - nusalau fonds, 18:22
C ,qlmbian Bonds. Ditto Account -
Ditto ACr oil, t - Ditto Metallic ..„. ........ ~,,... -
-;:urri..ian Bo;,ds, 1824 2734% I Spanish B,)nds ......„ ..... ......... -

'Ditto Arcount ~.,. ..... ..
Ditto l 3 ,n
Ditto Account ..„ .... 20% 1
French, :, par cc:A. „,„ „....„ —t. ......., .
----- 4 her cent........... —f. •—...
—. 3 per cs,,it..
--- Excliange
DiAtch, :."."',, pc; can, 54%%
Ditto Account
I)tto, - rer cant. .. 1C0%4A
Ditto Account ...... ..... ...
DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Paid. Per Share
Brazilian lmverial Mining Co. (lsraed at 51. pm.) 20 .
DU° St. John del Rey ..
Eastern Counters Railway 5 4% 4
Ure.tt Vs estern Railway Company 65 94%
drighton Railway Co7apsns7
Loadon and Blai kwall Railway
L noon and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 170 -2
....ondon and Southampton Railway Company— 5O 44%
. nehester and Birmingham Railway 7 8% 'A
A,phalte, Claridge's Patent
Do B IritiAlt
Do. Liverpool
Du tiwis 4
Do. United Sta'es...
Bastenne and Gaujac Bitumen .. .. 2 334%%%
Do. Poloaceau 2 . 32% 3
Itiitish North American Bank
Mexican and South American 5 61%
National Loan Fund ..
National Provincial Bank of England (New) III ' 15%
Pnv incia! Bank of Ireland.. 25 . 42.34

7.174
i3r):1:2:11:is
tires:l( ........... ..„.,
fluncts, ..... . —
Vitt) Acc,:k.nt
5 per ,e7.t:
rhtto Aectrint
Ditto, 6 per cent.
Accs:unt
.............. 1
PRICES OF SHARES TEM

HALF-PAST ONE.

The British Market, although no improvement has taken place in the
ccurse of the morning, continues firm at 94i to ; Money same, 94
to ; Exchequer Bills, 71 73 ; India Bonds, 81 S 3 ; Bank Stock, 2051;
Inqia ditto, 2711, nothing doing.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather improved, 21 to ;
Portuguese also improved, 35}; Three per Cents, 23i; Brazilian,
76 4; Colombian, 271 2S; Danish, 7.11 75; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 54i 1.
The Share Market is very heavy, and nearly all of them lower
Brighton aprcm. Nothing doing in Claridge's Asphalt°, United
Statei :Asphalt° 11 prem.; Liverpool, a prem.: Bastenne Bitumen, 1*
prem. ; Polonceau, 1 prem.
Consols for the Account, 941 /.

THREE O' CL 0 CK.

The Woodstock election has been decided in favour
of the Marquis of Blandford, but the majority of the Tories is not so
great as at the general election. The rising sun and the Tory trustees
have carried it against the Duke of Marlborough, who is upwards of
70, and the person he supported. The Marquis of Blandford, however,
is said to have received several bad votes, and a petition will be pre-
sented against his return:

An Association has been formed for the exclusive
right of using in this country the Asphalte of the mines of Lobson, in
the department of the Lower Rhine, in France. The capital of the
Association is to be 369,0004, deposit 31., and 21. premium per share.
Subscriptions to that effect have been opened in Paris, at the offices of
the eminent banking-house of Messrs. Perier, Freres; and in London,
at Mr. Wm. H. Green's, solicitor, Basinghall-street. The shares of the
French Company of Lobson, issued at 1,000 francs each, were sold a
few days back in Paris, at 3,000 francs each ; and the shares of the
English Company, although not yet issued, command a premium of
61. to 71.

CORN LAws.—Can there be a stronger proof of
the injury inflicted by the Corn laws, not only on the working
clas;es, but on the many thousands possessing mines and en-
gaged in trade in this country, than the following facts stated
by Mr. G. R. Porter :—" That part of our commerce which,
being carried on with the richest and most civilised inhabitants
of European nations, should present the greatest field for extension,
will be seen to have fallen off in a remarkable degree. The average
annual exports to the whole of Europe were less in value by nearly 20
per cent., in the five years from 1832 to 1836, than they were in the
five years that followed the close of the war, and it aflbrds strong evi.
dence of the unsatisfactory footing upon which our trading regulations
with Europe arc established, that our exports to the United States of
America, which, with their population of only twelve millions, are re-
moved to a distance from us of 3,000 miles across the Atlantic, have
amounted to more than one-half of the value of our shipments to the
whole of Europe, with a population fifteen times as great as that of the
United States of America, and with an abundance of productions suited
to our wants, and which they are desirous of exchanging for the produce
ofour mines and looms."

IMPRUDENT ZEAL.—On Wednesday evening, a
lecture was delivered at St. Clement's Church, in Lever-street, in this
town, on the " Popish Mass." Amongst the hearers was an Irishman,
named Patrick Burns, who, when the preacher was attacking the doc-
trines of transubstantiation and purgatory, got up and declared for the
true Catholic faith. The wardens of the Chapel endeavoured to pacify
him, but could not succeed, and they eventually handed him over to
the custody of a police-officer. lie was brought up at the New Bailey
on Thursday, when these facts were stated. In his defence, Patrick de.
Glared he was defending his religion, and he was ready to bear the
punts • hment. After a reprimand from Mr. Maude, he was discharged.
Manchester Guardian.

NEGRO APPRENTICESHIP.—A very numerous and
highly respectable meeting was held last Monday in Dublin, at the Ro-
tunda, for the purpose of advocating the entire emancipation of the
negroes in the West India colonies, and the abolition of negro appren-
ticeship.
Tea-totalism, if we infer from the reports of total
abstinence meetings, published by the country papers generally, is on the
increase. Anti-alcoholism appears to be the prevalent fashion.
SOUTHWARK LITERARY SOCIETY.—A very
numerous and highly respectable meeting of the members and friends of
this institution was held yesterday at the Bridge house Tavern, London-
bridge-end, Southwark, for the purpose of devising means of placing it
on a more permanent and useful footing, by the erection of suitable pre.
mites. The chair was taken at two o'clock, by E. L. Bulwer, Esq., M.P.
The first resolution, expressive of the opinion of the meeting respecting
the utility of societies for the promotion and diffusion of literature and
science, was proposed by Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, M.P., who stated
that the Southwark Institution had now been established upwards of five
years, so that its advantages were not wholly prospective. It now Los-
sessed upwards of 300 members, whilst the crowded state of the rooms
which they occupied showed that their present accommodation was
wholly inadequate. Amongst the various arguments for the diffUsion of
useful knowledge he knew of none more cogent than what an examina-
tion of the criminal records would exhibit, where its gradual influence,
although imperfect, was very perceptible. The Secretary read letters
apologising for absence and inclosing donations to the building fund,
from Mr. Alderman Humphery, M.P., 10 guineas; C. Barclay, Esq.,
late M.P. for Surrey, 501.; H. Kemblo, Esq., M P., 10 guineas; Ben.
jamin Hawes, Esq., M.P., 10/, 10s. ; and a similar donation was also an-
nounced from Mr. Harvey, M.P. Several resolutions, embodying the
principles on which the proposed institution is to be carried into effect
having been passed, the meeting adjourned.
It is said that a detachment of the band of Cabanero
has captured, on the road to Calatayud, a very beautiful assortment of
fashionable novelties, sent from Paris to Queen Christina, and which
cost 60,000 f. The news of this capture has greatly vexed the Queen
Regent, and a person has leen sent to treat with Cabanero for the pur-
chase of these articles. It is very probable that the Carlist chief will
give them up for a sum of money, for they are articles of no use except
to a lady.—Journal des Debats,