The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-22 00:00:00

THE S‘IJN, LONDON. WEDNESI)Ay,_DECEMBER 22, 1841.

was matter of singular coincidence that no less than 12
measurements were equal.
At the early age of 17, the eldest son of the late Sir
D. K. Sandford has been unanimously elected to a bur-
sary from Glasgow .to Balliol College, Oxford.
The planet Mercury, which by reason of its propin-
quity to the sun is seldom visible even in the► serene skies
of Spain and Italy, may be now seen in the morning in
the south-east, a little above the horizon, from six o'clock
to half-past seven. It assumes the shape of a slender
crescent, and is near the planet Venus by about three or
four times the breadth of the moon to the westward of N.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL-'

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Funds were to-day somewhat flatter, and
sales of about 50,0001. stock by the Bank broker and
others, in addition to minor parcels, led to a slight re-
duction in prices. Consols, for Money, have been.
marked 89i, and for the Account 88i- to 89, at which
they closed. Exchequer Bills were 12s. to 10s. pre-
mium, and East India Bonds ls. to 2s. premium. Bank
Stock was worth 165+ ; the Reduced Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. brought 98d to 99 ; and the Three per Cents.
88& to 89+.
All the Foreign Bonds were dull. Brazil Stock was
done at an improvement to 641 ; Spanish Active Bonds
were at 23k to 23i ; Portuguese, New, at 23 i; Mexican
at 26; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. ap
Shares were not so brisk to- day. Great;, 4 :tern,
New, were 9i ; Gosport Junction, 6* ; London,aq)e ir-
mingliatn, New, 24/ ; York and North. Midland, New,
16 ; and South Western, 19k premium. Brighton were
12 ; Blackwall, 14i ; North Midland, 29 ; and Man-
chester and Leeds, 5} discount. Union Bank of Lon-
don Shares were a discount.
There was less business doing in the Exchanges to-,
day, and the rates were not so firm, Bills being taken as
follows :—Paris, 25f. 72kc. to 75c; Hamburgh, 13 to
101 ,• Amsterdam, 12 4i to ; Antwerp, 12 34 to 4 ;
Frankfort, 149/ ; and Trieste, 9 50 to 52.
The following is the offiaial return of the export of
Bullion from the Port of London for the week ending
Thursday last :
Silver Coin to Hamburgh 125,040 oz.
Rotterdam 20,000
•Calais
Silver Bars to Ditto
• Rotterdam 30,000
Hamburgh
• (From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 20.—We have
had a fair business doing in the Cotton Market to-day,
the sales comprising 4,000 bales, all of which, except-
ing 200 for export, have been taken by the trade. Prices
are steady at the quotations of Friday.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 20.—The trans-
actions reported at the Stock Exchange are Lancaster
and Preston, 17 ; London and Birmingham, 103 ; Ditto,
New, 261 ; Royal Bank of Liverpool, 691 ; Eastern
Counties, 81. 17s. 6d.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 20.—Our
market continues very firm, very little Stock offering.
Manchester and Birmingham, 28+, 28k, and 28k ; Man-
chester and Leeds, 65+ ; ditto Half Shares, 27 ;,ditto
Querters, 34 ; Union Bank of Manchester, 61. I Is. 3d.
No later arrivals from any quarter to-day,

Consols and the Three Per- Cents. Redliced opened
this morning at the closing prices of yesterday, the former
88k, and the latter at 89. Exchequer Bills are steady at
10 12 premium.
Spanish Active Stock opened at 231 ; Portuguese
Five per Cents., 322 33; Ditto Fives, 191 20. Very
little business doing.
A further decline has taken place in the English stock
market since the opening; Consols are now qnoted at
881, for the Account, and the Three per Cents. Reduced
88j. Consols have been done for Money at 89i. India
Bonds, 1 prem.; Exchequer Bills are 11 12 prem.
Very little oing in the Foreign market. Brazilian
Bonds are quoted at 642 ; Portuguese Five per Cents.,
321 ; Spanish Active Stock, 23i; Deferred, 111; Dutch
Two and a Half per Cents., 52; Ditto Fives, 991 8.
The Share Market is flat, with but little doing. , Chel-
tenham and Great Western are quoted at 281 ; Great
North of England 69 ; Great Western Fifths 9# ; London
and Brighton 37i; South Eastern and Dover 20k; York
and North Midland New 31.
Consols are now 88,1 8. The market looking very flat.
Consols, 88-k 89 ; Colombian, 204} ; Mexican, 241 ;
Spanish, 2334.
There is again some talk of the Exchequer-bill affair,
and, from what is transpiring, it is evident the public
will never rest satisfied until the names of all the delin•
quent parties, high and low, are exposed.
To wind up the year with a good balance, some parties
have been effecting sales of stock to-day, and generally
money does not seem to be so easy of obtainment.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock 1651 (India Stock • .••
3 per Cent Red. B9 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons B9/ Ditto Old Annuities ...
3i per Cent Red fllii Ditte New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2}d 10 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/...
Long Annuities to e xpire , Ditto Small. 13 pm
Jan ' 1860 .. 12 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 l2l 'lndia Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. --
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian 80nd5.... Prussian, 5 per cent —

Buenos Ayres, 6 per cox
Chilian, 6 per cent...
Colombian, 6 per cent..
Ditto, 1824.
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825
P-- • 1825, 6 per ct. 14

Russian, 5 per cent —
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent 23#
Ditto, Deferred .. 11i
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Exchange —f. —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Dutch, 2i per cent 5l
Ditto, 5 per cent.
R'

....,
SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ... ..... . ... .. 28%
Great North of England Railway (90 paid) 69
Great Western Railway( 65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifth (4 paid) 9%
Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 3B
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 114
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
London and Birmingham (90) ......... ...
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid 263
London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) 6%
London and South Western
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 21%
North Midland Railway (100)
South Eastern and Dover (43 paid).
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid)
Ditto New Shares (15 paid) ..
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY).
Amsterdam CF. 12 7% Gibraltar .. ........ ...... 46
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...... ...2 U l2 8 Genoa
Antwerp l2 7 Milan
Elamburgh M. B. 13 13% Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 119%
Ditto, 3 months' 25 85 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 150% Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37% Buenos Ayres
8er1in..... ... ............ 7 New York,2l days sight 46%

'erunian,

Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 952
Trieste, ditto 9 55
Madrid

Philadelphia 46
PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9

Cadiz 36*
Bilbao ... 36
Barcelona
Seville ...36

Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 10
Silver in Bars... 0 4 11/

TO THE EDITO

IR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In the name of religion, humanity, and reason
I earnestly and respectfully beg the favour of the inser,
tion, in your Journal, of the following convincing and
conclusive argument against the dreadful custom of war.
—Your's, &c. H. MARTIN.
16, Wood-street, Brompton, Kent.

COURT CIRCULAR.
- WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al-
bert walked in the Little Park, inhere the Prince enjoyed
the exereisQ of skating with some of the Royal Suite.
Her Majesty was attended by Lady Caroline Cocks and
the Hon. Sarah Cavendish ; and with his Royal High-
ness were the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Liver-
pool, Earl of Warwick, Colonel Arbuthnot, Baron Stock-
mar, and Dr. Prcetorius.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent walked out,
attended by Lady Fanny Howard.
Viscount Sydney has arrived, to succeed the Earl of
Warwick as the Lord in Waiting on the Queen ; and
Sir Robert Otway has arrived, to succeed General the
Hon. Sir W. Lumley as the Groom in Waiting on her
Majesty.
The Countess of Sandwich has succeeded the Countess
of Gainsborough as the Lady in Waiting on her Majesty.
Lady Laura Noel left this morning.
Major-General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss will
have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party this
evening.
Dr. G. J. Elvey, the organist of St. George's Chapel,
having set to music " An Ode on the Birth of the Prince
of Wales," had the honour of conducting a performance
of the composition before the Queen, Prince Albert, and
the Court, yesterday evening, in the Music Room of the
Castle.

The Solos were sung by Master Foster. The Chorus,
consisting principally of the Sacred Harmonic Society,
Exeter Hall, accompanied by her Majesty's Private
Band, under the direction of Mr. Anderson, forming
altogether a complete and effective Orchestra of about
sixty persons.
At the conclusion of the performance her Majesty
and Prince Albert were pleased to signify, in a flattering
manner, to Dr. Elvey, their entire approbation.
The following are the words of the ode, which was
written by the Rev. W. C. Cotton, late of Windsor, who
has recently left England with the newly-appointed
Bishop of New Zealand.

RECITATIVE.
Through England's fruitful fields, and smiling vales,
Loud notes of gladness fill th' autumnal gales.

CHORUS.

" A PRINCE IS BORN !" Prom London's Queen-
like Tower
Is told afar by thund'ring cannon's voice ;
And Echo, with her hundred tongues, replies,
" A PRINCE IS BORN !" let British hearts rejoice.

AIR AND CHORUS.
" God do I serve !" this shall thy motto be ;
Whilst in our ears thy cheering watchword rings,
Nought fear we else but God, and view in Thee
A Prince well pleasing to the King of kings.

RECITATIVE.
Dread Queen ! Thy people bend the lowly knee
To God, in humble thankfulness for thee ;
Dread Queen ! Fond Mother ! These twin names combine
To swell the triumphs of thy Royal line.

Albert, be thine the joy a father knows
At the fair promise of a hopeful Son ;
Long may he live, each British heart to win
By goodly deeds, as, Albert, thou hast won.
CHOICE'S.
God save the Queen ! in this proud hymn of joy
Let every soul its loyalty evince ;
Each tongue take up the burden of our song—
Long live our Queen ! Long live our new•born Prince.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of
Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, arrived
in town yesterday from their residence at Kew, and
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
at Gloucester House. Their Royal Highnesses returned
in the afternoon to Kew.

The Committee of the Lords of the Council on Educa-
tion had a meeting yesterday afternoon at the Colonial-
office. The Lords present were the Lord President, the
Earl of Ripon, Sir Robert Peel, and Sir James Graham.
Their Lordships met at two, and sat till fire o'clock.
Dr. Kay was in attendance upon their Lordships.
General Sancho, the Spanish Minister Plenipotentiary,
having been presented to the Queen at Windsor Castle,
by the Earl of Aberdeen, paid visits to the members of
the Royal Family on Monday, at their respective re-
sidences.

Lord Stanley left town yesterday morning for Knows-
ley Hall, Prescot, Lancashire.
The Earl of Lincoln had an interview with Sir Robert
Peel, yesterday.
Despatches for the Governor of the Mauritius were
sent off last evening from the Colonial• office.