The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-15 00:00:00

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

BILLS OF EXCHANGE BILL—The Secretary to Govern-
ment presented a petition from certain individuals praying
t' be heard by Counsel against the Bills of Exchange Bill,
valich he moved should be acceded to.
Mr. Cloete moved that Counsel be now heard in sup-
port a the petition against the Bill.
Couns,l called. His argument on the subject takes up
seven colurnAs of die paper.

Accounts from St. Petersburg state that more than
thirty-five persons have died frcm the cold weather, which
wAs very severe, within a few days.

The New Orleans Papers to the 15th December bring
accounts of heavy amounts of cotton, which literally
poured into that port ; according to the Price Current,
there came as follows:—Per Levy, 29,576 ; per Raynal,
24,375. The price has been reduced, since the news by
the Queen, a quarter of a cent. per lb ,; the sales arc repre-
sented 1..1- the week by Levy at 15,C00 bags, and by Ray-
nal at 17,000. The authorities differ widely in their
statemeets of stock on band. Per Levy, 125,177 bags;
per Raynal, 117,435 baga.,_

THE FUNDS
Conso:.° opened this morning at 99.2 4, both for Account
and Money.
To-morrow being settling-day in the British Market, the
chief business cluing at present is arranging their accounts.
Exchequer Bills, 9 11 prem. ; India Bonds par, 2 prem. ;
Bank Stock 1784 179; India Stock, 248? 249.
In the Foreign Marketit i; settling-day, consequently
the brokers and jobbers arc buay in paying and receiving
the balances of their accounts.
Spanish Active. 244 4 ; Portuguese, 33 34 ; Three per
Cent5.,...2.34 ; Colombian, 24& 25 ; Mexican, 291 t; Bra
zilian, 74 75 ; Dutch Two-and- Half per Cents , 521.
The Exchanges were lower yesterday, although a great
coal of business was doing in them.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock )78% India Stock —
3 per Cent. Red. ......... ..... .91% ii Ditto Bonds
B per Cent. Cons. 9ult % :;.onth Sea Stock
3% per Cent — Oki APPlnti" —
Ditto Red. 99%.%,% New Ditto „_ —
rew 3% per Cent... ........ ...ge% ); 3 per Cent. Aniwalcs. 1751 ---
New 5 per Cent.
B.Ank Long Annuities toexpire , DittO 500. 1I S pm,
J an; 5, IB6' 14 1-18 14 MAO fiirnall 8 11 0 pm.
Oct. 10, 1859 —, Ditto C..o43oWrcial —
Jan. 5, 1660 — ' Ditto Advcr#44-1,,...
Jan. 5, ISSO — Bank Stock for Account ... 178
April L'• 1880 — India Stock for Account ..
Jan. 6. 1870 — COOSPA for Accourt....... £ll,f %
PRICES O)' FOREIGN FUNDS THIS D 4 .y AT ONE O'CLOCK
Austrian 40n0.g Peruvian Bonds -
Belgian Bonds .. Ditto Account -
Ditto Account. .. Portuguese Bonds. -
Brazilian Bonds .......... .... - Ditto tipw Bods -24 31ii 4%
Ditto Account
-
Buenos Ayres Bonds
3%
Ditto Necont ......... - Ditto Account..., .... f.3%
u
Chilisn Bond i - Prussian Bonds .. ..... ~,•••• -
915t3.tecc-. nt - Russian Bands, 182:....... lln 43f,
toient i.t. .:ids 12% Ditto Ae,count -
nit:, t„.„, nt
.............. _ Ditto
h rißletadllie ..............
2 4 s 4;
Columbian 3:iis,l6A •
...... 24% 5 Spanish on 5„..., ....... ~
L 3,...:,,,
.u...,,,,,,1it, ............... - Ditto Account : ~.'2414%
. , ... ,••• t,-,ii
banish B,..nds ................. 75% Passive
Ditto z.:. i.nt ••..«, ....... Deterred
- French, 5 per cent....... t. -C.
Greek Bonds - --.....- 4 per cont.
Ditto Bonds, 1825
- ----- 3 pot Cent ...... -f. •-c,
Ditto ACCOUGt
2fexican Bonds, 5 per Cant - ----.
cent. Lief 'JB ...... ... 7c.
Ditto Account .......... - Dutch, 2!<, per ,' ..... Dc2iii
• Ditto, 6 per Cent.
Ditto Account ~....s.. 29,t Ditto, 5 per cent ..... ,-
Neapolitan Ditto Ae4oitrit ft-
PRICES OF SHARES THIS AP aid DAY A o>l O
g 'CLOCK.
Paid Per Share.
Enuth Western Railway Company `,9 43%
Nlssional Bank of Ireland... ........ ....... ......... 17% pi
COURSE OF' EXCHANGE, 115..i.E.8.1,A i: .
A.-tstrulem . ........ -.C.F. 12 C Ultira:t.. ,„....„.„..,............. 41,
Ont.'. ,i't sight
[totter. 'OR id,..... ...... 2 U ll li%. Ge. 0.... . ~.,......,....., „,,•,. cl,
12 ti , Milan.... ...... ..,....... ~... AI
Antwerp.. •' -
ti,nnnrg. ....... ~,,.31. B. 18 :2 sa , Venice ........ ....................,, •'''.
- . ,„..„, la 13 I N...p10s .
Mtona
Paris, 3 days, 5,7.,4„ 25,
_45, I.'al.erroo ~......-........per oz. ~..
Ditto__ „ „ .......... its, ?i, 40 il.f.t,cr.
.. a 4 ~ 0 I 0p0rt0........., ,„..„,,,•,,, „,,, Au
Marseilles. - ~..........,,,„.„.,.. 1,656
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine, E.M. l.:1/4t --tat"a""•-• **-- ...... i.”-,-.• .11.0
V'etersbuigh, ruble... 3 Us. 37 I ix,i.pos Apes ~„.„....., ......„ ...
Berlin
7 0 , , . , . day • ' ~,,,,,t
~ 4,1%
Vienna, ellectivc f1...3 M. In i; t'll i.`,..-ti,ro ....... ........ it,
Trieste ditto in f pay
_- Or pii.lll: N. ps' OZ,
Madr1d.......... ...........
Wiz....
Bilboa .....
Ztarcelon,
.:N.,- AV' 11164,•, 0 17 p
3144 1 Nevi Oottblat.sioi .........., t` 0
36 1 N 2,A, Dnlhrs ~,,t5,„... u 4 ItN
se.ilie ............ .. ...... .
HAMBURG BOR:iiEN_ HALLE, Isar, Id.
Bills, MOnZIY. ,
107 106%
I Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 107% 11)7%
An hi-Russian Loan l7OO 1f95
104% -
102
I Russizn 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
103
Inscription, Ist Series
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop? and Co. 3d and 4th
Se:Ls
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch ectual Debt, 254 per Cent
Ditto per Cent llO
Polish Bonds
this i icket 5
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent t)7%7N 98
90% 98%
98 -
72 72
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent...
)
S,•anisli, New 3 per Cents.
EXCHANGES OS LONDON. jai
HAMBURG, JAN. 10.-03. li%-TWO months, 13 4%.
PETERSBURG/I, Mc. 3i.-Two months, 38 11-16;
bTocKnoLm, JAN. 1.-Seventy-five days, 11. 40.
3ERIAN, JAN. 7.-Three months, 6. 21%.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-Vmarrs,JaN. 4
five per Cents. Metalliques
Fear per Cents.
Three pa* Cents.
Bank Shares l7OO
....Allgorteine Zeilung, Jan. 9 11,814
HALF-PA3T ONE.
The settling of the Foreign account is going off well. as
is not a heavy one; the difference of the extreme fluctuation
in Portuguese Stock has been about 3 per cent. ; Spanish
about 1.4. In other Foreign securities scarce worth notice.
Consols continue much the same as in the early part of
the morning, with . the exception of I, per cent. lower,
924 for the Account; Exchequer Bills lower, II 8 prem. ;
India Bonds, par, 2 prem. to par ; Bank Stock, 1784.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Actives rather improved
since the morning, 244 i-; Portuguese, 341 ; Three per
Cents., 23;1; Colombian, 24a_ 25 ; Mexican, 294 ; Dutch
Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 52.
We have no further arrivals to the present time. The
public and speculators are anxiously waiting for the Queen's
speech to be delivered to-morrow.

Ell;

The Countess of Minto and the Ladies _ .tot,
have arrived at the Admiralty from Minto Castle
Roxburghshire, for the season.
THE DIARY OF A NUN.—This highly ex-
citing narrative of romantic events in real life derives a
peculiar charm from the reminiscences of travel which
it contains, after the manner of the " Ennuyee," &e.
" We must not anticipate," observes the New Monthly,
"She course of events on w'lich tlp. interest of this
stoty hangs and the passion oE2Kturns ; suffice it to
say, that it is very pleasingly and skilfully blended with
what eve have no doubt are the actual details of a
lengthened tour antlsidenee in Italy, and that the
whole forms a very graceful, interesting, and touching
story. Nor must we neglect to add that a strong effect
of reality is given to the whole by the introduction of
numerous ariecdotes and personal descriptions of many
celebrated individuals who still occupy a large apace in
public attention.
COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, a
melancholy calamity occurred in one of Earl Fit z-
winifun's extensive coal mines, near Greasbough,
attended with the loss of life. Samuel Street,
steady and industrious man, who has a large family,
:Was employed mining, when a huge mass of coal fil
,vetddenly with a dreadful crash, and falling on the poor
wan bruised him severely. What is still more tragic,
.‘e et his sons, a fine youth, who was mining along with
°his I:\ther' was killed on the spot .
meeting_ of the Clergy of

'E -
TH: CLEF.Gy.---,.
-Itaconry -4
of Ity was held on 'Tuesday ire the
the Arch, %Ii hael's Church, Cambridge, to take
vestry of St. x!"---
tba steps it became the Clergy to
into considerati!ul
,o,f measures now in agitation.
adopt, in conseque.leo
TRADE or NEN/rCAS •
TLE --We sincerely con-
gratulate our friends awl neighbours upon the gratifying
fact, announced ii the Collector of the Customs of the
?art of Newcastle, (Satn:g , , last,
Edgcombc, Esq.,) to the
ruesoay that the re-
Ctramber of Commerce on • ~., last
r the year more
ceirS of the Custom Houtd t:
than equalled in :'mount the wholii'.
47'ted 10 +64,000/.:
years preceding. re 'r3ipts for the three
In 1830, they amoi.
,na,y ,
....,,_,,1
i stre“-n,t,“
whilst for the three years preceding they
150,000/. a year.—Tyne ,illercury. .
IMPROMPTU SPEAKI'N'G 1 s
.-A few days •111c,(2
in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris, Marslial g.mi.
i rose to speak, but found that he had forgotten 11;s writtw
speech. He sent very coolly to the office of the Moniteur,
where the report of the speech was printed before being
spoken, for a copy, from which he delivered himself.
much to his own satisfaction sin t 1 that of hit 11.2ar,erf,
This is called impromptu speaking us the Chambers.

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