The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-13 00:00:00

THE FUNLS.

Consols opened this morning rather heavy, owing to the
unfavourable intelligence from China.
Consols for the Account, 90i 91 ; for Money, 901,1 i ;
Exchequer Bills, 11 13 prem. ; lndia Bonds, par to 3
prem • Bank Stock, 178 179 ; India Stock, 248 249.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish AcOve closed at 26
27 ; at present, 261 i; Passive, 6i 7k ; Deferred, 12i
13; Portuguese, also rather lower, left off 331 34k, at
present, 334 34 ; Colombian, 251 26- ; Mexican, 211 i
29; Dutch Twc-and-a.Haif per Cents, 521 i; Five
per Cents., 1001 101.
PRICES OF STOCKS TUIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE•
Bank Stock 173% India Stock
S per Cent. Red. 91% v‘, % Ditto Ponds
B per Cents. Con 9uj4N% ; South Sea Stock --
3% per Cent j Old Annuities —
Ditto Red.
New 3% pct Cent 94%.% }4 •i" 1 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto 500.... C; 11 pm.
Jan; 5, Int. l4 1-1 R Ditto Small l3 11 pm.
Oct. 10, 1859 --' Ditto Commercial
( die.
Jan. 5, 136t1 — , Ditto Advertised ......
Jan. 5, 1830 —l Bank Stock for Account ... --
Aprils, iSSO. —l India Stock for Account .. --.
Jan. 5. 1370. —l Consos for Account OO% NI%
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds — Peruvi-.n Bon& —
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilis n Bonds 74% % , Ditto New Bonds.. 33% 4 3%i
Ditto account
Buenos skyres Bonds —, Ditto, 3 per Cent......... 23%
Ditto Icr.a.tut
Chillan 3o.id : — Prus,•ian Bonds
Ditto tcser, rt — Itu:sian Bends, IS2' ll4,
Colurntian 11,: -ids — Ditto Account
Ditto k::31. nt — Ditto Metallic
Columbian 3: 7 d 5,132-1 ......'js% si, ~
Spanish Bond, n6N%
itr.ta ler.o.rit ...........t6 5%34 , Ditto Account. 2tl3t N
Eanish Bonds
Ditto At t.:r nt — Deferred 12%
Greek Bonds — • French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Ditto Bonds, 16'25 — 4 per cent. —f. c,
Ditto Account — i 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent —, Exchange. —f. .....c.
Ditto Account , Dutch, 2% per cent. ' 52%
Ditto, 6 per Cent. -•; Ditto Account.
Ditto Account
1
Neapolitan Ditto Acc0unt......... ......

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Cheltenham and Great Western Railway
Brighton Kailwav 3O 19% W
National Provincial Bank of England 35 t 3 'X
PRICES OF HUSH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEBUARY II
3 per Cent. Consols
3% per Cent. Stock
Ditto Reduced
Ditto New, 1530 ... 9i% City of Dublin Steam Comp.
3% par Ccnt.ebentures... 91% ; National insurance Company
Bank Stock lBl% City Debentures, 4 per cent.
Grand Canal Stock
Royal Canal Stock
II A LF-PA ST ONE.
We have received the Bengal flurkuru Price Current
of the 16th December.
MONEY MARKET. CALCUTTA, DEC. 16 —Since our
last of the 9th of December our Money Market has been
much more animated. Our Bill Market has fluctuated
generally to the advantage of buyers.
Rates of Exchange—Bank Bills 2s. EV. per cent.
R. ; Treasury Notes 103. 63. to 101. 4d. per pound ; Pri-
vate Bills (against consignment) 2s. ld. ; Bills on France
(according to sight) 2 75. Bank of Bcngal Shares have
been without change.
Money is abundant, equal to all commercial wants.
MARKETS.—Coloured Yarns—The demand is rather
steady ; prices have submitted to a slight fall.
Cotton Piece Goods.—Our market for printed cottons
is at present rather dull in the absence of demand from
the upper provinces.
Woollens have been iu good demand.
Indigo.—The market may be considered now as fairly
opened, and some activity has been shown by purchasers
to secure particular marks.
The British Market continues rather heavy, wish little
doing. Consols may be quoted 901 R for the Account,
Money, 90/ ;43-. Exchequer Bills, 13 11 pm. ; India
Bonds, par; Bank Stock 1'74
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 261 ; Passive,
; 12:1; Portuguese, 34; Three per Cents.,
23a ; Columbian lower. 25/; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents.;s2i ; Five per Cents. lower, 100 A, have been 1001.

The Prefect of the Seine has just distributed
among she members of the Municipal Council the following
document, informing them at the same time that they would
shortly have to vote the necessary funds for the baptism of the
Count de Paris :—" Sums spent by the city of Paris on occa-
sion of differeet fetes :
Coronation of the Emperor ...
Marriage of the Emperor with Maria Louisa 2,670,932
Birth of the King of Rome
Christening of the Duke de Bordeaux ... 663,000
Fete of the Trocadero
Coronation of Charles X.
Marriage of the Duke of O:lesnt

8,148,675 f.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT FOR JOINT-STOCK
Coat r... NIES. —A new point was decided on Tuesday, by the Se-
lect Committee on Petitions, which may affect many Joint-
stock Companies applying for Bills in Parliament. A Joint-
stock Insurance Company proved the insertion of the regular
notices in the London Gazette, but declined to offer any proof
of similar insertions in any other paper, on the ground that
as it to3k no landss and affected no particular locality, such
further notices were not called for by the standing order, which
is in the following terms, " Such notices shall be published in
three successive weeks in the months of October and Novem-
ber, or citoer of them, in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin
Gazette, and in some one and the same Newspaper of the
county in which the city, town, or lands to s. hich such
Bill relates shall be situate." Mr. Northhouse, Parliamentary
Agent, contended that in a Bill for powers merely to sue and
be sued, there was no necessity for any further notices, than
those in the London Gazette, though it was the prevailing
practice to give them. Mr. Greene, the Chairman of the
Sub-Committee, No. 4, conferred with Mr. Aglionby, the
Chairman of the Sub-Committee; No. 3, after which the
Committee de;:ided that the view taken by Mr. Northhouse
was correct, and the Standing Orders were declared to be com-
plied with.
The Tyne Pilot of Tuesday states—We have
nothing particular to notice respecting the Chartists in this
neighb mrhond during the past week. The prosecution against
Dr. Taylor at Carlisle having been withdrawn, the circumstance
has created much surprise amongst all classes, particularly the
Chartists. No evidence having been offered against him at
Warwick, when the wittp.sses against him would have proved
that he was in the midst of an unlawful mob at Birmingham,
whatever might be the share he took in it, was extraordinary
enough ; but now that the prosecution should be sta, ed at Car-
lisle, when there are witnesses to prove he uttered far worse
language than any of the leaders at Newcastle, is a pm y which
many cannot readily explain.
CORN-LAW MEETING.—A public meeting of
the inhabitants of Barnstaple was held in the Guildhall on Tues-
day, at noon, convened by the Mayor, in compliance with a nu-
merously signed requisition, to take into consideration the pro-
propriety of petitioning Parliament for a modification or a repeal
of the Corn-laws. The hall, which was to:erably filled at the
commencement of the proceedings, became crowded as they ad-
vanced ; and we observed that although the majority consisted
of Whigs and Radicals, there was not wanting a considerable
sprinkling of Tories, who seemed equally alive to the object
which had called them together. A petition to th:, House of
Commons, praying the total repeal of the Corn-laws, was unani-
mously adopted. It was also proposed and carried that
J. P. Chichester, M.P., should be requested to present the pe-
tition, and Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P., to support it.—
North Devon Journal.

On Friday afternoon, a very distressing accident
occurred in Ingram-street, nearly at the foot of John-street.
The wind had risen shortly after mid.day, and increasedto such
an extent during the evening, that it went and came in hur-
ricane gusts, and so great was its force that passing along
the streets was a work of difficulty. A little before six o'clock,
three sisters, tlie daughters of Mr. Anderson, clerk-to Messrs.
Jack and Patterson, Trongate, were proceeding homeward
from school, hand in hand, and when near the place we have
mentioned, an angry qust dashed a can from the chimney of a
house, and it fell rightt on the top of the unfortunate children.
One of them, an engaging child of six years of age, was carried
into the shop of Mr. Lindsay, surgeon. Hutcheson-street, her
beaver saturated with blood, and expired almost immediately,
from revere fracture of the skull. An elder sister was also
very seriously injured on the head, the integuments being ex-
tensively torn, and she is far from being out of danger. Many
narrow esc apes were made during the afternoon, for bricks and
chimney-cans were falling foul and fast, and even sign boards
were tarn from their fastenings, and dashed on tho. pavement.
Glasgow Herald.
The ELTERWATER EXPLOSION.—We are
happy in being able to state that the two men who survived
after the disaster at the 1 to dreadful explosion at the Elter-
water Gunpoa der Mills, viz., Stephen Walker and John Bow..
ness, are doing well, and are eventually likely to recover, al-
though, from the serious nature of the injuries they have re-
ceived, it must be a lergth of time before the poor men will
be aisle to resume their employment. Joseph Holme,_ one of
the unfortunate sufferers, has left a widow and six children ;
Thomas Walker, a widow and four children ; John Bell, a
widow with two children ; and Robert ,Baker, a widow. The
survivors—Stephen Walker has a wife and four or five children,
and John BOWflen a wife and one child, who are all left in a
very destitute condition.—Carlisle Patriot.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

These Sessions, commenced this morning before Mr.
Sergeant Adams, Chairman, and a full Bends of Magis-
trates.

Ann Adams and Mary Somers were indicted for steal-
ing, on the 22d of January, a breast of mutton, the pro-
perty of James Wedmore.
James Downes, s!topman to a fruiterer, was, on the day
in question, passing through Clare-market, when he saw
the prisoners take up a breast of mutton from the window
of the prosecutor. He foilewed them till he met a police-
man, whom he informed of the circumstance.
Policeman, 36 F, took them into custody, and found
the mutton under Adams's cloak.
The prisoners were Elvers, and Adams said she found
her sister in the market rather the worse for liqucr; anal
she struck her with the mutton, thinking she had bought
it. She took it from her, as she thought she was exposing
herself.
Somers said she only teok the mutton for a lark, and
forgot it after her sister took it from her. She bad no
intention to steal it.
Both priscners received a good character for honesty,
and the CHAIRMEN said they had given the same account
of the matter when before the Magistrate, and if the Jury
thought it was a reasonable account of the matter they
would acquit them. Tao .hry almost instantly retuned
a verdict of Not Guilty.
The calendar is very light, and none of the cases are of
public importance.