The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-09 00:00:00

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Price P7ice. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents ll3 25 113 35 ... 113 25 ... lifl 35
4 per Cents lO2 60 st 72 60 ... 102 50 ... 102 50
3 per Cents B3 75 .. 84 15 ... 83 2.5 84 10
Bank of France 3170 ...3175 ...3170 ...3175

Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1065 ...1065 —.1065 ...1 05
5,000 f. Sb 5183 ...5185 ...5185 ...5185
Belgian Bank B7O ... 870 ... 805 ... 8.i7 50
5 per Cents lO3 4 ... 1033 ... 1075, ... 10.3%
3 per Cents 75 ... 75 ... 75 ... 75
Ohio lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102
New York
Outch 2% per Cents 54l ... 541(, ... 513 ... 54‘
Spanish Active 29 ... 29% ... 29 ... 29g
Passive 7% ... 7 „ ... 7% ... ;44
Portuguese 3 per Cents 24% ... 24% ... 24% ... 24%
Neapolitan
Roman 10414 .. 10434 ... 104% ... 104.2
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain B9O ... 095 ... 090 „„ 695
Versailles, It. B 585 ... 585 ... 5815 ~. 550
LB. .........
Orleans .. 515 ... 515 ... 512 50 „, 5,.5
strasbure to Bale 4's ... 435 ... 430 ... 430
Montpellier to Cette
Mulhausen to Thann .. .. . .
ASPHALTES AND InTU MENS.
tarn (Moberly's)

Yesterday a' Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the thanks of the Company were voted
unanimously to Sir Richard Jenkins, G.B. and M.P., chair,
man, and William Butterworth Bayley, Esq., Deputy Chair-
man, for their great application and attention to the affairs of
the East India Company during the past year.
Yesterday a ballot was taken at the East India
House for the election of six Directors, in the room of John
Cotton, Esq., John Forbes, Esq., John Loch, Esq., Charles
Mills, Esq., Henry Shank, Esq., and Henry St. George
Tucker, Esq., who go out in rotation. At six o'clock theglasses were closed and delivered to the scrutineers, who re-
ported that the election had fallen on Patrick Vans Agnew,
Esq., C.B, Major-General Sir James Law Lushington,
G.C.8., George Lyall, Esq., John Petty Muspratt, Esq.,
Martin Tucker Smith, Esq., and William Wigram, Esq.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort had a din-
ner party last evening, at Beaufort House, when the company
included Count D'Orsay, Count de Mornay, Lord and Lady
Southampton, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence Sir H. St. John
Mildmay, Mr. Mildmay, 111 r. Fitzroy Stanhope, Hon. Captain
Macdonald, Mr. Landscer, Mr. Duncombe, and Mr. Charles
Kemble.
DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.--
On Monday morning, Mr. Richard Le Keux, a mathematical
instrument makes, chart-seller, and stationer, who had re-
sided in High-street, Wapping, for the last fifty year 4,
after three days' illness, at the age of 85 years. The dec•_•Psed,
who had amassed wealth to the amount of upwards of 100,000/.
sterling, was noted for his eccentricities and his penurious
habits, and a great number of curious anecdotes of this extraor-
dinary miser are related in the district. He was of French ex-
traction, and educated in Christ's Hospital, to which institution
t is said he has left the great bulk of his fortune.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
attended by Colonel Jones, on leaving Goodwood, honoured
the Countess of Newburgh with his company at dinner, at
Slindon House. There were present, to have the honour of
meeting his Royal Highness, the Duke and Duchess of Rich-
mond, the Duchess of Gordon, the Duchess Dowager of
Richmond, Lord Hatherton, Lady Lucy Foley, Lord Arthur
Lennox, Mr. and Lady Cecil Dclafield, Mr. Moreton, and Mr.
Silv Ara.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey have issued in-
vitations for a grand dinner party to-morrow evening.