The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-24 00:00:00

THE FUNDS

Consols have improved on the leaving off prices of yes-
terday from 91i for the Account to 911 ; Money, 91
Exchequer Bills, 17 19; India Bonds, 1 3 prem. ; Bank
Stock 1781 1791 ; India Stock 249 250.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active opened at the
closing price, 25i 26 ; Portuguese left off at 331 341 ; at
present 34i ; Three per Cents., 234 Colombian, 271 ;
Mexican, 291 4 ; Brazilian, 754 764 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., 521 i; Five per Cents. 1011 4.
_ lIALF-PAST ONE.
. . .

The Rio Janeiro Papers bring accounts of aßevol;tion
having taken place in the province of St. Catherine,
which was soon put down by the Government troops, on
the sth of November.

(From the Sydney Papers of the 12th September.)
The True Colonist gives the following Agricultural
Report :
The crops in general do not look well, and the native
herbage has a very wintry appearance. The turnip crops
have generally failed, We have never seen the butchers'
markets so badly supplied. Last Saturday the butchers
shops presented an appearance of famine, the wet
weather, we learn, having detained the expected supplies
on the roads, owing to the rivers being flooded. The
quantity of wheat sown this year, on this side of the
island, already exceeds the usual quantity.
Both commercial affairs and speculating in the Funds
have been as dull during the morning as the weather has
been disagreeable, which has prevented the arrival of in-
telligence from the Continent and Peninsular. The
French, Ostend, and Hamburg mails still remain due, and
the arrivals from other quarters, which are very few, are of
minor importance.
Consols, which were:looking up in the early part of the
morning, are not quite so good, and receded from 91i-
to 911 it for Money, at present may be quoted 911 for
the Account, 91-i4; Exchequer Bills-have improved to 20
prem. ; India Bonds, 24 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1794 ;
Spanish Active receded from 261} to 24 ; Passive, sa ;
Deferred, 12 ; Portuguese, 34 ; Three per Cents,, 23 ;
Colombian, 27 ; Moxican, 29:1 ; Dutch Two-and-a Half,
521; Five per Cents., 101.
CLOSING PRICES.
Brtrristi FUNDS.
Bank Stock 179% India Stock "50
3 per Cent. Red 91% Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Ccns. 91%1 Ditto Old Annuities
3% per Cent. Red ... 99% Ditto New Annuities
New 3% per Cent 419% Ex. Fills, 1,0001 2d 01 pm.
New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 20 piri
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ... 2O pin.
Jan. 1860
179%
Oct. 1859
Jan 1860

FOREIGN FUNDS
Portuguese Bonds, sper cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 pr cent —
Russian Eonds, 5 per cent I 13;
IDi i.to, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent —
ui to, Deferred
French, 5 per cent. —f, —c,
Exchange 103 f. 5C:i.
French, 3 per cent Bof. 75c.
Dutch, 2% per cent.
,Ditto, 5 per cent. lo-
skiAnns. •

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 pr cent
Brazilian Bonds
6ue1163 Ayres, 6 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colomb,an, 6 per cent
Ditto, 1824 27%
Danish, 3 per cent 76%
Greek Bonds. 1825, Spec C —
Memican, 5 per cent
Diao, 6 per cent. 18'15
Peruvian, 1825.6 per cent —

Birmingham and Derby Railway
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
Orcat Western Railway
Ditto New Shares 2O
Gosport Junction Railway 2l
Hull and Selby
London and Brighton Railway.. 2O
London and Blackwall Railway
London and Birmingham Railway —
Ditto Quarter Shares
London and Greenwich Railway IN
1 ondon and South Western Railway 446
London and Cioydon Railway ('Turk) ll
Ditto Scrip
Manchester and Leeds I!:,ilway

Ditto New Shares
Manchester and Birmingham Railwaay
Midland Ceunties Railway :3
North Midland Railway
Ditto ditto Extension 83%
Ditto New Share,
South Eastern and Dover l5

Lord Dinorben is, we understand, appointed
Militia Aide de-Camp to the Queen, in the place of the late
Sir W. W. Wynn.

An institution for the cultivation of useful know-
ledge has been established at Calne, under the patronage of the
Marquis of Lansdowne.
It is rumoured that there are apprehensions of
an outbreak of the Chartists at Trowbridge ; but our Trow_
bridge correspondent says not a word on the subject. The
following is a copy of his letter. It is certainly multum in
parvo :—" News is very barren—Trade very flat—money
scarce—demands abundant."—Devizes Gazette.
A number of the pupils of Mr. Pyper, of the
High School of Edinburgh, entertained that gentleman at
dinner in the London Hotel, on Wednesday evening last,
when George Paterson, Esq., jun., of Castle Huntly, filled
the Chair, supported on the right by Mr. Pyper, and on the
left by Patrick Warner, Esq., of Ardeer. The Chair-
man, in a most chaste and feeling speech, gave the
toast of the evening, the health of Mr. Pyper, which
was acknowledged in a learned and powerful reply. The
4, Cause of Education" was then given by Mr. Iknl.Tarslatne;
one of the croupiers. After which, " Theßiaebr
was proposed by Mr. Brown, " The Bench
ilincdh
were, 3:‘ The
Turnbull, and several other toasts, among.
Memory of Sir Walter Scott," " The
Literature of Scotland," &c. It must have gratifying
HifiNeh.enSNc,hroolci The
to Mr. Pyper to see so many of his former
do honour to him as a. man and a friend, and pupils
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high estimation in which he is held by them as a distinguished
classical scholar, an eminent
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