The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-29 00:00:00

TIM FUNDS.

We are again without any arrivals of consequence
this morning to communicate, but the British funds
have a lively appearance, and are improved.
Consuls, which left off yesterday at 88i for the
Account, may be quoted at 881 a, since :Which the
Market is not so good, and Consuls at present are
Sn ; Reiiuced 881 ; Exchequer Bills 2 4 prem. ;
Bank Stock 1561 1571 ; India Stock 237 239.
In the Foreign Market Spanish . Active left off
231 at present, 23i j ; Deferred, 121 . Passive,
51 6i ; Portuguese also rather better, left off 311
may be quoted 321 ; Three per Cents., 204 21 ; Co
lombian same as it left off, 221 231 ; Mexican same.
271 28 ; Brazilian same, 701 711 ; Dutch Two.and•
a-Half per Cents., 50.1 511 ; Five per Cents., 97/ 1•
SHARES.—London and Brighton, 71 7 dis, ; Great
Western, 241 251 prem. ; New, 101 111 prom. ; Bir-
mingham, 80 82 prem. ; Southampton, .54i 551 per
share.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RA ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Ditto Debentures
Great Western

Ditto '_Yew
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton
Llndon and Greenwich ..... ...... 20
Ditto Scrip '2
Loudln and Croydon (Trunk)... l3i 121...... to 123,1
York and North Midland

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia 4O . 55
HALF-PAST ONE.

"The Spanish Market is very active this morning, in
consequence of a report that a private letter has been
received by the French express from Madrid, stating
that the price of Spanish Active at the above capital
had got up to 30, and on the 17th instant upwards of
70 millions of reals were purchasod. The above intel-
ligence, with the fact that the British Ambassador at
Madrid had undertaken to mediate between Portugal
and Spain, to settle their differences, had the effect
to improve Spanish Active to 24.
Consols, which had reached in the early part of the
morning to 881 1, are at present 881 ; Reduced,
881 i; Exchequer Bills, 4 2, lower ; Bank Stock,
1561 157 ; India Bonds, 12 15 dis. ; India Stock,
2381 for the opening.
In the Foreign Market the chief speculation is in
Spanish Active, 231 24 ; Portuguese, 321 s ;
bian, 2311 ; Dutch Two-awl-a-Ma per Cents. 51/ ;
Five per Cents. 971.
Rather more business doing in the Share Market in
the course of the morning at higher quotations. Great
Western, 901 90 ; New, 51 52 ; Fifths, 101 ; London
and Brighton, 431 ; York and North Midland, 67.

MR. WILLIAM Too KE.—mr. Williams, of
Raymond-buildings, Gray's-inn, has been soliciting th^
electors of Finsbury to sign the notable requisition to Mr.
Tooke, to offer himself as a cand date to represent thin
in Parliament. Truly it behoves the electors to pause ;
for in Denbighshire this Mr. Williams, the relative of the
Rldical Mr. Tooke, Professes Conservative principles.
elections he posts down at own expense to vote for the
Ile is an elector for Denbighshire, and at the
hiscontested
Conservative candidate.—Correspondent of the Morninj
Chronicle.

POOR LIVING OF THE WORKING CLASSES.
—The essential principle to be attended to in framing a
dietary for a workhouse appelrs to be that the food of a
pauper maintained at the public cost, should not be mote
abundant or better than that of the poor man maintaining
himself in independence by his industry. In England, it
has been found very difficult to preserve this principle; it
was almost impossible, in many districts, to prescribe a
diet less abundant, and of inferior quality, than that of the
majority of the labouring classes and at the same time
sufficient to keep the inmates of the workhouse, belonging
to the same classes, in health and strength.—Hall on
Workhouse Dieta, ics. , .
A HINT TO CIIANIBERMAIDS.—'Nothing is
more injurious to health than warming a bed with coals;
the carbonic acid gas that escapes is almost suffocating,
particularly if there be no fire-place in the room. The
remedy is easy and cheap: get a piece of chain about a yard
long, make it red hot and put it in the pan, instead of
b pursuinr, the dangerous and unhealthy plan that is now
better honoured in the breach than the observance.
The General Steam Navigation Company',
vessel the Columbine, W. Norwood, from Schcvinitigen.
arrived off the Custom House yesterday, with the Dutch
mail.

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The Scottish Pilot says the conduct of the Post-
office authorities, in having prevented the usual delivery
of letters on the thanksgiving-day, formed, very properly,
subject of animadversion at the Council Board last Tuesd tv.
Died, on the 16th instant, in the Rue Royale,
Paris, of a three days' illness, Sir Francis Smith, DI. D.
Sir Francis had been physician to Lord Nerrnatiby, as
Viceroy of Ireland, and was woll known as the author of
several professional works full of talent and promise. Few
deaths have excited more surprise and regret in the French
capital than that of Sir Francis Smith.
The Victory freight-ship, having oil board the
, Ensign Brereton,
following drafts destined to join the service companies of
the regiments mentioned, sailed from Cork harbour on the
22d instant, for Bermuda, viz. 30th Reg:nient, Capt. An..
drews, Ensigns Grylls and Atherley, Assistant- Surgeon
fine o'clock,
Cockburn, three sergeants, and 120 privates
; 7Wh lfegi-
trirrenet,
sergeants, Capt. i'ickaanrdd Pickard,Lieut.
rank B
ande re sfifloer.d
the whole of the p‘rty
Last night, about a quarter before
the following accident occurred in Oxford-street,
Pantheon. A lady, gentleman, and child were proceed-
ing along Oxford-street snuedadre theniy
became unmanageable and sct off at a furious rate, over-
Middiesex-hcspital. The horse proceeded with the gig at a
sinettotintghethreoagdi.g, They were picked up, and conveyed
furious speed along the toot-pavement, to the imminent
danger of the passengers, several of whom were knocked
down and seriously injured, amongst the number a young
to the
lady, who was alto conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital.
The gig was dashed to atoms.
THE " LATTER DAY SAINTS."—....F.or sonic
time past twelve men have been going about the country
under the above appellation, and hare actually induced
many to sell their littlo properties in England and set sail
fer America, under a fanatical religious impre4sion. la
for the voyage is charged to such persons, and the ships
that convey them sail from Liverpool; 300
were so Con-
veyed in one ship from this port in September last. Some
of these men are at this time in London, where their pro-
gress is not so great as in the provinces.
TIIE CHARGES OF CRUELTY AGAINST THE
MASTER OF THE Hoo Uritox.—There was an
two
Cl.a,h investiga-
aeria;onious discussion, terminated in a resolution to prose-
ti,,, vf,=t, rd 1- et,tnt the ab•,i,te case, winch, attar
cute Miller, the master, if necessary, at the next Maid-
stone Assizes.