The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-17 00:00:00

THE FONDS.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 884 for the open-
ing, may be quotel at present a shade higher, 88i 89 ;
Reduced 88i 89 ; Exchequer Bills 1 dis., 1 prem. ; 13nt.lt
Stock 1561 1571 ; India Stock for the opening, 238 240.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active left off at
23i I, at present rather hatter, 23i y ; Deferred,
12 ; Passive, 5i- 6 ; Portuguese, 32 33 ; Three per
Cents., 211; Colombian same as the closed, 241 ; Mexican
same, 281 ; Brazilian 71 72 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cent. ks it left off. 51i ; Five per Cents, rather lowa,
left off at 971 984-, at presect 971 98.
slimas....._Great Western 22 23 prem. ; New, si
prem. ; London and Brighton, 9 81 discount; Blsekwall,
4} 4 discount ; Birmingham
.81 83 prem. ; Southamp-
ton, 53 b 4 per share ; Greenwich, 7i per share.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share,
London and Blackwall
London and South Western 3Bl 531 .. to

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Colonial ...
lonian State
Provincial of Ireland.. -

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 15.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 971 !Grand Canal Stock
Ditto Reduced

Ditto New, 1830 ...... 96* 1 Ditto 4 per cent
3 per Cent. Debs.
HALF-PAST ONE.

Up to the present hour we have no intelligence of con-
sequti.ce to communicate. A quarterly meeting of the
Bank Directors took place this morning, at which it was
decided to address her Majesty and Prince Albert, on the
birth of the Princess. We do not hear of any other sub-
ject of importance having taken place at the meeting.
Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at
88k 89 for the Account, is a shade lower at present, 88i,
with scarce a bargain doing ; Reduced, 88k 89; Exchequer
Bills, 1 prem., 1 dis., 1 prem. ; Bank stock lower, 157
1564 ; li.dia Stock for the opening, 238; India Bonds,
13 12 discount.
In the Foreign Market, Span;sb, ; Portuguese,
32i 33 ; Three per Cents., 211; Colombian, 24k 2-;
Dutch Two.and-a• Half per Cents., 51 ; Five per Cents.,
98k 97i.
Very little doing in Shares.—Blackwall, 18 ; South..
Western, 531.
We do not as yet hear of the arrival of the British
Queen from New York.

The Marquis of Northampton, accompanied by
Earl Compton and Lady Marianne Compton, arrived in
town yesterday, from Castle As by, near Northampton.

Captain Wetnyss, Member for Fife, will be ap-
pointed Lcrd LitAitenant of the county, in the room of K.
Ferguson, Esq., deceased.

POST-TlNlE.—Complaints continue to be made
Li' the defective arrangements of the post-offices at Long-
bud-street and Charing cress, where the crowd at post-
time is constantly so great as to reuder the posting of a ',A-
ter a matter of so much difficulty as to render failures
very frequent.

Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea have arrived
at the lion. rnd R .v. Gerald Wellesley's residence, at
Durham, from a tour of visits in Scotland.

DEATH OF LORD BRUCE.—His Lordship
died, after a lengthened illness, on Tuesday se'nnight,
at Tolaton, Devon, where he had .been residing fur the
bentfr of his nealth. The deceased, George Charles
Coi,stantine Lord lku:e, who was eldest son of the Earl
or E!gin, first rparri3ge with Miss Nisbet, which
thArriage was dissolved by Aet of Parliament in 1808,
was horn the sth of April, 1800, and was brother of Lady
Mary Chichester, the lady of Mr. R. A. Cliche:ter,
M P., Lady Matilda Maxwell, and Lady Lucy Grant,
Tne lien. James Truce, the Noble Earl's eldest son by.
!ns sLeond ioarriageA burn July 20, 1816, is row heir to
the family honours.

DEATH OF THE HO N• JAMES STUART.-
The above gentleu:aa. the eldezt son of the Ea,l of
Moray by his second Countess, daughter of Sir Pliilip
Ainslie and the [too. Elizabeth Gray. died en StourEy
I..st. He ..vas born 17th Jan., 1804, and was a captain in
h. 85th reg;,nent.

The Dowagcr Duchess of Bedford and the La-
dies Gt-!orgial,a and Rachel Russell, M“rquis and Mar-
chioness of Abereoru, Lord and Lady Haddo, Lord
Claude Hamilton, M. P., Captain and Lady Harriet flu-
And a select f,udiy circle, were staying at Haddo
House last week, au a visit to the Eurl of Aberdeen.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Cortyogharn
and family are staying at Bilrons, Kent, on a viiit to the
Dowager Maraiones) of Conyngliam.
The festivities at lialstrode Park, the seat of
Colonel Reid, commanding the 2d Life Guards com-
reenced last vieek. Most of the officers of the regiment
end a large concourse of the ;,obiiity and gentry of the
ot.iglA):-)urhood honoured the Gallant Colonel with their
pre Su lICe.

MUTILATION OF TREES IN KENSINGTON
G ARDENS. -It was yesterday discovered that in the course
of the previous night some evil-disposed person had cut
and seriously injured many of the young trees in Kensing-
ton Gardens, and had, it is believed, made an attempt to
fire one of the keepers' cottages.

By the death of Colonel Henry Oglander, com-
manding the 26th, or Old Cameronians, Major Mountai"
will get the Set'ond Lieut.-Coloneley ; Brevet Major John-
stone, a Corunna veteran, the Majoiity ; and Lieutenan!.
Maule, the vacant company in the reg,ment. Colonel Og-
lander originally served in the 43d.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro have
left 'own for Oakley Park, near Eye, on a visit to Sir
[;award and Lady Kerriion.
STRATITFIELDSAYE, TUESDAY.—The Duke
i.f Wellington continua* in excellent health. surrcundcd
by n select party of friends. Viscount and Viscountess
Burghcrsh, and his Excellency General Alava, arrived at
the close of the past week. Baron Mounier, and Viscount
and Viscountess Mahon, who have been staying here, have
taken their departure. His Grace, since his arrival front
Apsley House, has generally hunted once or twice a week
with the Vine hounds.
The Marquis of Westmeath has been entertain-
ing a small ofirty at Cloy n, Castletown Delvnin. Lord
and Lady Talbot de Malalik're. Misses Byrne, Sir Richard
and Lady Leveringe, Lady Eleanor, &c., have been among
the guests.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
s'.eam-ship Monarch, Capt. Fraser, made her last passage
Born Brunswick wharf, Blackwall, to Edinburgh in thirty-
seven bows,