The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-23 00:00:00

Till FUNDS.

lip to the present time we have a completely blank
morning for intelligence and speculating in the Funds, as
well as for arrivals, which causes a dullness in the City.
The Foreign exchanges yesterday .afternoon, with the
exception of Harnburgh, which was lower, continued much
the same as per last post day.
The British Market opened this morning heavy ; Con-
sols, which left off yesterday at 88i ex dividend, are at
present 88} for the Account, owing, no doubt, to the in-
telligence received from Lisbon yesterday, that the Portu-
guese Government were determined to resist the Spanish
invasion, but the prevailing opinion in the city is that,Eng.
land will interfere, and prevent hostilities taking place.
Three per Cents. Reduced, 881 ; Exchequer Bit ls, 1 3
prem. lower ; India Stock for opening, 237 239 ; Bank
Stock, 156 157.

In the Foreign Market Span;sh Active has receded
from the leaving off price of 23ii to 23i ; Portuguese
also lower, left off 31i I, at present, 31k; Colombian,
►ower, closed at 23i 24, at present, 23* -; Mexican, also
receded, left off 28k, may be quoted at 27i 281 ; Dutch
Two.and.a-Half per Cents., 50i 51i, lower; Five per
Cents., 97i 98.
SHARI/S.-Great Western, 25 26 prem. ; New, 11 12
prem. ; London and Brighton, 8 7i discount; Black-
wall, 51 41 discount ; Birmingham, 78 80 prem. ; South-
ampton, 54 55 per share; Croydon, 11i 12 per shaie ;
Greenwich, 71 8} per share ; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 14 12 discount.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western

Ditto New ...
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighten
Condon and Greenwich ..... ...... 20
Ditto Scrip
London and South Western 3B/ 54i..... to
Manchester and Leeds ... 70

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland 25 .. .. 44

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY).
Amsterdam C F. 1' 2 IGibraltar

Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 2 U. 12 si,Getioa 25 85
Antwerp l2 4i:Milin
Hamburgh . M.B. 13 9ilVenice . ... 47
Altona.
Paris, 3 (lays' sight 25 40 ll'ealermo, per oz 121
Ditto, 3 months 25 65 Lisbon .. 524
Marseilles.... 23 70 'Oporto
13ourdeaux..„ ..... . .... 25 70 IRio Janeiro - 284
1,44164 on Maine.... 149 Bahia 27
Peterstiurgh,l3 U 5..... 37 I Buenos Ayres
Berlin ' • • 7 0 iNew York ,21 days' sight 464
Vienna, effec. fl. a M. 10 3 Philadelphia

. _
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz...
Billsoa
Barcelona 354 New Dollars.. ' 0 4 10(i
Seville 354 Silver in Bars 0 5 og.

HALF-PAST ONE.

Consols are rather lower than they were in the morning,
and may be quoted at 88i, had reached 88i; Exchequer
Bills, 2 4 prem. ; India Bonds, 15 discount; Bank
Stock, 157.
In the Foreign Market the chief business doing is in
Portuguese and Spanish, the former have fallen since yes-
terday about per cent. ; at present they are 30i ; Three
per Cents., 24. Spanish Active was lower about 2
per cent., at present 23* ; Mexican, 28 ; Chiljan, .56 ;
• Colombian was lower about 1 per cent. ; at present, 22i
23 ; Dutch Two-and a- Half per Cents. also lower, 501-, ;
Five per Cents , 97*.
The Share Market has also receded. Great Western,
89i; London and Brighton, 42 41i 42 ; South Western,
54i ; Manchester and Leeds, 74.

NAPIER'S CONVENTION.—We are informed
;hat the Members of the Convention now in Londsn have

testifi,d their approval of Commander Napier's conven-
tion with Mehemet Ali. —Morn ing Herald.
THE LATE FIRE AT FOOTHEE.—On Satur-
day last the body of Thomas Marshall, the lodger who met
his death in the house that was burnt last week, was con-
veyed to Methlic, and there buried. On Monday arterno, n
the bodies of the four,Howies were interred in St. Nicholas
churchyard. The body of the man, with that of the elder
daughter, was placed in one coffin, and the bodies of the
mother and younger daughter in another. They were thin
conveyed away in two hearses. The funeral was attcr.ded
by about fourscore pers mi.—Aberdeen Banner.
The Haymarket does not produce any liar-
lequinade, or indeed any direct novelty for the Christmas
holidays, it, season now being so short ; but on Saturday
next, after Money, will be produced, with entirely new ap-
pointments, and with alterations by the author, Mark Le-
mon's drama of the Ludiea' Club; to conclude with the
revived " most tragical tragedy ever tragedised," Twit

Thumb.
In the forthcoming new pantomime, the Castle
of Otranto, at Covent-garden Theatre, is to be intro-
duced, it is said, a human figure upwards of thirty feet
high, with limbs, Sze., of proportionate dimensions; these,
with the famous gigantic helmet, on which devolves the
main interest of the original romance—a sort of " ditto to
match,"—are in themselves not trifling difficulties to con-
tend with ; and to make them " tell" arc such as to call
forth the utmost skill and ingenuity of all concerned, to
more particularly of the ma-chin ist. Mr. Manche is sai,,
to be the principal cook, whilst the " garnishing" d
" dishing up" are left to those experienced artistes Mr.
W. Bradwell and the Messrs. Grieve.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.-00
Tuesday an inquest was held by Mr. Wakley, M. P., at
the University College Hospital, on the body of John.
Green, aged fifty-one, coal-merchant, St. James's-mar-
ket, St. James's. It appeared from the evidence that de-
ceased had received a large order for coals from one of his
customers, on Friday night last. At this time the de-
ceased's man was out, and the deceased was therefore com-
pelled to take the coals himself. On reaching the house
he entered the passage, which bad about the centre of it a
rising step, with a sack containing one hundred weight of
coals on his shoulder. He had just reached the rising step
when he fell backward, coals and all, without his relin-
quishing the hold of the sack. He exclaimed, " This will
be my last fall ; I shall never get over this." He was at
first thought to be intoxicated, but such proved not to be
the case. Mr. Woolridge, surgeon, of Jermyn-street,
was subsequently sent for, who advised his removal to the
hospital. The house surgeon said that when admitted to
the hospital no external marks of injury could be dis-
covered, though deceased complained of his neck. On a
post snorteni examination of the body, however, it was dis-
covered that the vertebrae of the neck had gut shifted out
of the r place, which had the ifect of disconnecting the
spinal marrow. The marrow had thereby become para-
lysed, and caused death twelve hours after the deceased's
admission. Verdict—Died of dislocation of the vertebrae
of the neck, from an accidental fall."
THE MURDERERS OF CLAUDIUS WEST,
Esq.—Just as we were going to press, a gentleman who
left Mobil' at an early hour this morning, informed us that
he met Sir William Lynar, stipendiary magistrate, Sub.
Inspector Stuart, arid a party of thirty police, going into
that town, with eleven prisoners, all charged with the mur-
der of Claudius West, Esq., and Sir William informed
him that he had no doubt but they would be enabled to
convict them from the nature of the information received.
They are all tenants on the late Mr. West's property, one
of them named Creegan and another Hart, the man whose
cow he seized on the day of the murder. From the late
hour we received the above we have been unable to
further particulars, which we hope to be able to give in our
next publication.—Longford Journal.
THE AMERICAN DIVER.--On Tuesday
Scott, the celebrated American diver, performed one f
his extraordinary feats, by jumping from a scaffolding
raised on the centre arch of Southwark-bridge. Notwith-
standing the extreme coldness of the day, the fl rating pier
and the bridge were crowded with persons. At three
o'clock Scott, being perfectly satisfied with the collection
made, ascended the scaffolding, the top of which was 160
feet from the river, it being then low water, acid dived head
foremost into;the river, exclaiming as lie was desceialifig,
Look out I" He arose after a few seconds, the tide,
which was runnink, out, having carried him under the
bridge, when he jumped into a ;.,oat which was in readiness
for Lim, and rowed ashore. On reaching the bridge he
appeared not to have suffered from his extraordinary cif. r.
In the Adelphi Pantomime, called Harlequin
and the Enchanted Fish, or the Genii of the Br.zen
elaid
arcwi glad to see restored to thell perform the Clown, and in
th°e partiet the
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a gHarlequinil eV
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stage Eller, the contemporary of Grimaldi, and for many
years the motley hero of Covent-garden Theatre.
The Marquis of Granby left the Brunswick
Hotel, Jermyn-street, yesterday, to spend the Christmas
at Belvoir Castle.