The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-19 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols which left off yesterday at 884 j for the Account,
Money 88i, opened this morning rather lower, 83,1 both for
Money and Time ; Exchequer Bills, 4 6 prem. ; Bank Stock,
164 166 ; Isdia stock 245 247.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active a shade lower than
it left off, 2n 24 ; Deferred, l2i ; Passive, s'i 6 ; Por-
tuguese same as it left off, 3li 32; Three per Cents.,
l9i 20 ; Brazilian, 71i 72/ ; Chilian, 62 64 ; Colombian,
22i 23 ; Mexican 27,1 ; Dutch Two.and-a-Half per Cents.,
50a 4 ; Five per Cents. 99k.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. • Paid. Per Ephare.
Great Western
London and Brighton

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia (New) 4O - to

BALF.PAST ONE:

By the Hamburgh Papers, which arrived yesterday after-
noon, to the 13th inst„ the Fxchange upon London is quoted
at 13 3 ; Gold, 424; Metal, 1041; Bank Actions, 1,605.

There still exists a stagnation in the British Market up to
the present time. Consols , which were in the early part of
the morning at 8S for theAecount, may be quoted at 88i ;
for Money 88 ; Exchequer Bills, 6 4 prem. ; Bank Stock,
164 164 ; India Stock 247 248.

The Foreign Market is also in an idle state. Spanish Ac-
tive 231, lower than in the morning; Portuguese, nothing
done ; Danish, 78i ; Buenos Ayres, 25 26 ; Dutch Two-and-
a- I lalf per Cents., 50i ; Five per Cents. 991
In Shares there is also very little doing. Great Western,
894 ; London and Brighton, 43. The above are the only two
quotations to the present time.
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There does not appear to be the least disposition to speculate
in either of the markets to the present time.
'1 he chief arrival this morning is from the United States,
which is net of much importance, with the exception of the fall
in the United States Bank Shares.

The inhabitants of Belgrave-square and its
neighbourhood have peti ioncd the Government t,,) allow
a now car, iage entrance into Hyde-park at Knightsbridge,
and Mr. Cubitt has offered t.) erect an orna r eutal lodge,
at hi• 4 own expense, if the proposition be acceded to

WANDSWORTH. Yesterday a new Police
court was opened at Wandsworth. It is not a new buiL ing
erected for the purpose, but a room, in the house of Mr.
Bucknell,the superintendent of the V di%,icion, in Lave-lane,
Wands% ortb, has been fitted up for the purpose.

The Directors of the Royal Polytechnic Insti-
tution beg to say
.that the statement which appeared in
the Post and Herald relative to the withdrawing of the
new posta,:e stamps was not in any degree authorised by
them.—Robt. J. Longbottom, Secretary.

VIENNA, FEB. 9.—His Imperial Highness the
Archduke Frederick, who so honourably distinguished him-
st lf in the campaign in Syria, has just returned to Vienna,
and was most cordially welcomed by all the members of
the Imperial family.
The Echo du Cantal states, that M. Mashes,
formerly Captain in the Imperial Guard and Officer of the
Legion of Honour, bad just died at Aurillac. " A corpc-
ral.of infantry at the siege of Toulon," continues the Echo,
" he saw the Major cf Artillery, Bonaparte, wounded and
incapable of protecting himself from the el emy's
To start forward, take him in his arms, raise him on his
should( ra, and place him in a secure quarter, was the affair
of a moment."

THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN PARIS.—The
hotel of the British Embassy, in the Faubourg St. Honore,
is abDut to undergo a complete repair and restoration. The
works will commence in ahout a fortnight.

MELANCHOLY INTELLIGENCE.—A country
correspondeat wr;tes ai follows, under date February 9,
1841 :—" I am sorry to say that I have no particular news
to send, as no person ha; been rota-de:el or acei!entally
killed here of late; so we are v(ry dull at present. "—Sun.
derland Herald.

THE LATE SUICIDE AT BLACKFRIARS
BRIDOE.—Last evening an inquest vat taken before Mr.
Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of
Thomas Henman, a pt inter, aged 26, whose death was
caused by throwing himself off the balustrades of Black-
friars Bridge, on the evening of Monday last. The Jury
r,turned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."
RECEDING OF THE SEA.--The Phare,
Rochelle states that the sea is receding so rapidly from
the bay of Bourg Neaf, that the remains of an English
ship of war mounting 64 guns, which was lost cm an
oyatcr• bank, called Les Retraites des CEuvres, whilst in
pursuit of a French ship in 1752, are now to be found in
the midst of a cultivated plain. In calculating the depth
of the water where this vessel struck with its present level,
it will be found that the depth of the sea has diminished at
least fifteen fee!.

On this day, 1401, Sir William Sawtree was
the first person that was burnt alive on account of rdi.
gious principles.
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At all the dinners and meetings in Ross-shire to
comn-emorate the marriage of Sir Glades Ross of Balea.
gown, the health of his excellent factor, Williim Laidlaw,
. Esq., was duly remembered. Mr. Laidlaw, will be re-
collec'ed, was the intimate friend of Sir Walter Scott--
his early compataiou in hunting for legendary lore and old
Lalads among the wilds of Liddesdale—his friend and
land-steward in mature life at Abbotsford—and one of the
few wl.o witr,eiied the last moments, and soothed the dis-
tresses of the novellist. Looking back on these
events, we have heard Mr. Laidlaw say, that the whole
seemed to him like some bright and splendid dream which
had ended suddenly in darkness and desolatior. Many of
our Southern readers will thank us for this incidental men-
tion of Mr. Laidlaw, and will Le happy to learn that he is
tranquilly and usefully employed as factor or manager of
the eztensive estates of Balnagown.—lnverness Courier.
THE FRENCH NAVY.—The Courrier Fran-
cais publishes a long letter from a Correspondent at Tou-
lon, containing statements to prove that the various dock-
yards of France are very inadequately supplied with timber
for the vessels repairing or building. Ho calculate; that,
in the naval ports on the western and southern coasts of
France there are not more than 80,000 steres of timber
(the stere is the cubic metre of 354 cubic English feet)
now collected ; of which only 50,000 steres I are really
ready for naval constructions; and he adds that this timber
is so ill assorted, that it would be impossible at the present
moment to put on the stocks five first-rates, or even to re-
pair them of er an engagement. He then proceeds to
show, on the same date, that the number of vessels ordered
to be built this year is impossible to be executed. He at-
tributes the cause of this wan'. of timber to two circum-
stances, the abolition of the sys'em of marking trees for
ship-building-buildingin forest?, which took place in 1828, andlthe
abolition of Arrondissements Forestiers for tl.e Levy in 1837
HAMBURG, FEB. 9.—The mortal remains of
our. late lamented Consul-Ger:eral Henry Cant ing were
this morning deposited in the English Epitels 1 Cherch.
The hearse was followed by a deputation from V.e Senate,
the corps diplomatique, and by nearly the whole of the
English rarsidents in and near Hamburg. A large concourse
of the inhabitants also assembled to pay the last tribute cf
respect to an individual, of whom, it may be said, " enemies
he had none." No man was ever more respected both by
his own countrymen and the citizens, than Henry Can-
ning—no man ever did more for the poor, no matter cf I
what religion or of what country, than he did ; and it
was a proverbial saying, " His band was never out of his
pocket." We have not only lost a respected Consul, but
a Iriend, and the city one of its brightest ornaments. A
di consolate widow and a married daughter are left to de-
plore with us one of the best of men.