The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-18 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Although there is scarce anything doing to the present time
in the British Funds, still they have a firm appearance, and
opened this morning rather better than they left off, 87i 90
for the Account, at present may be quoted 90 to a Money
89A 90 ; Exchequer Bills 1 3 prem. ; Bank Stock 1675 1685 ;
India Stock 250 252; India Bonds 1 dis. 1 prem.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active opened a shade
lower, 234 24 ; Portuguese, 34} ; Three per Cents., 20i 5 ;
Spanish Deferred, 115 ; Passive, 5a ; Brazilian; 675 685 ;
Colombian, 225 ; Mexican, 285 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. 525 ; Five per Cents., 991 100.
SBA ASS.—Great Western, 285 295 prem. ; New, 145 prem. ;
London and Brighton, 31 a dis. ; Blackwall, 7 61/ dis. ;
Birmingham 68 70 prem. ; Southampton, 565 575 per share ;
Croydon, 135 14 per share ; Greenwich 85 per share ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 155 145 dis.
We are exceedingly dull in the City owing to the adjourned
debate, and no arrivals of consequence.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 15.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 97 Grand Canal Stock ...
Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... 855
Ditto New, 1830 ...... 97a Ditto 4 per cent ...
35 per Cent. Debs. 9O Royal Canal Stock

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
South Eastern and Dover
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National of Ireland l7i l6 to
Provincial of Ireland 25 . 42

HALF-PAST ONE.
Consols have been during the morning 90 for the Account ;
Money, 891 90 ; Exchequer Bills 1 3 prem. ; Bank Steck
168 167 1681; India Stock, 251 ; India Bonds, par.
In the Foreign Market little doing, Spanish Active rather
heavy, 23i ; Deferred, ; Colombian, nothing done ; Mexi-
can. 284; Portuguese, 34h ; Three per Cents., 20*; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 5.4; Five per Cents, 994.
The Share Market is quite inactive. Manchester and Leeds,
53 ; New Shares, 211 j; South Eastern and Dover, 16 15g.
We have no news or reports of any description to the pre-
sent hour.

QUARTER TO TRREE.
Consols, 90i ; Spanish, 234 ; Mexican, 28i 4.
Markets not very firm, owing to the scarcity of money.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock .. 1681 'lndia Stock 251
3 per Cent Red BBir Ditto Bonds 3 dis
3 per Cent Cons 9O Ditto Old Annuities ... -
38 per Cent Red 97§ Ditto New Annuities...
New 3/ per Cent 9BB Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2/d 3pm
New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 3pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small spm
Jan. 1860 124 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 l2 9-16 India Stock for Opg. ...
Jan. 1860.. I Consols for Acct SO
1 FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 per cent
Ditto, Metallic —
Spanish, 5 per cent 23'4
Ditto, Deferred llB
French, 5 per cent. --f. —c.
Exchange —f. —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —r.
Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 524
Ditto, 5 per cent 99i
RE.,
aster Railway (100 p)
i paid)
(65 paid)
' paid 64i
' paid).

FOREIG
Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent lOO3
Brazilian 80nd5.... 64
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent —
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824 ..... 223
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 283
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 —
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct —

S H A
Birmingham and Glow
Ditto Nei, Shares (2
Great Western Railway
Ditto New Shares (51
London and Brighton (I
London and South West
Ditto Tenths .•
Manchester and Leeds (

tern ....

Ditto New Shares (31
South Eastorn and Dovi

;70 paid) ...... ... .... 53i
/ paid)
r (33 paid)... . 153

UNIVERSITY
,INTELLIGENCE.
CAMBRIDGE, MAY 15.—At a congregation on Wednes-
day last, the following degrees were conferred :
Doctor in the Civil Law.—Hugh Penfold Wyatt, Fellow
of Trinity Hall.
Masters of Arts.—William Norris Nicholson, Trinity
College ; Thomas George Wilmer, Trinity College ;
George Waring, Trinity College ; William Anderton
Smith, St. John's College.
Bachelors of Arts.—William Frederick Witts, King's
College ; John Kinsman Tucker, St. Peter's College ;
Charles Cockle, Trinity College ; William Headley,
Corpus Christi College.
Gonville and Caius College.—The Chemical Examina-
tion for the Mickleburgh Scholarship was held on the
13th • the first on the list was William Davies, one of
the iancred Students.

The Rev. William Martin Mungeam, 8.A., of St.
John's College, in this University (late assistant minister
of St. Mark's, Whitechapel), has been licensed by the
Bishop of London to the ministry of White's-row Epis-
copal Chapel, on the nomination of the Rev. W. Stone,
M.A., Rector of Christ Church. Spitalfields. A Morn-
Paper says Mr. Mungeam bids fair to be one of the moz4
popular preachers in the metropolis.
The Rev. J. B. Snelgar, of Jesus College, in this Uni-
versity, has been presented by the Right lion. Lord
Dacre to the vicarage of Royston, Ilerts, vacant by the
death of the Rev. S. Cautherly. Value, 1071.—Popula-
tion, 1,757.

. .
The Rev. W. C. Broughton, M.A., of Emmanuel Col-
lege, in this university, has been presented by W. Smith,
Esq., to the rectory of Stopham, Sussex, vacant by the
death of the Rev. J. C. Whicher. Value, 1601.—Popu-
lation, 129.

The Rev. George Henry Walsh, M.A., of Corpus
Christi College, in this university, has been presented to
the incumbency of the newly consecrated church of St.
John the Evangelist, Clifton, Bristol.

The Rev. R. Brocklebank, late of Queen's College, in
this university, has been presented by the Earl of Bur-
lington to the perpetual curacy of Udimore, Sussex.
Value, 1001.—Population, 454.
William Dougal Christie, Esq., 8.A., scholar of Tri-
nity College, in this university, has been appointed pri-
vate secretary to the Right Hon. the Earl of Minto,
First Lord of the Admiralty, in the room of Lord Mel-
gund, retired.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas
Welch, Esq., of Queen's College,. in this university, to
be Attorney-General of Van Diemen's Land.
On Saturday last, the Bev. John Ashley, of Jesus
College, in this college Chaplain, .and brother-in-law to
the Lord Bishop of Ely, was inducted to the prebendal
stall in Ely Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Ve-
nerable Archdeacon Cambridge.

MARRIED.—On the 13th inst., at St. Mat-
thew's, Brixton, by the Rev. Edwin Prodgers, Thomas
Smith Daniel, eldest son of George Daniel, Esq., of
Canonbury-square, Islington, to Mary Ann, eldest daugh-
ter of R. W. Herring, Esq., of Brixton-rise, Surrey.
ST.MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS.—THE CORN-
LAWS.—This forenoon, at eleven o'clock, a very nume-
rous and highly respectable meeting of the inhabitants of
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields was held in the Vestry-room,
" to take into consideration and to adopt such proceed-
ings as may give success to the proposed measures for the
reduction and alteration of the taxes on sugar, corn, and
timber." Mr. Cobbett, Senior Churchwarden, presided,
when resolutions were proposed, seconded and agreed to,
approving of the measures introduced by her Majesty's
Ministers for the alteration and modification of the duties
upon corn, sugar, and timber. The Hon. P. Bouverie,M.P.,
Messrs. Hutchings, (late Churchwardens), Ridgway,
Hawkes, Cockrane, Wilson, &c., addressed the meeting,
which was unanimous in its condemnation of all mono-
polies, and the utmost enthusiasm prevailed in the sup-
port of her Majesty's Government. The resolutions
having been adopted, a petition founded upon them, to
be presented to both houses of Parliament, was ap-
proved of, and it was further resolved, that the Mem-
bers for the City of Westminster be requested to pre-
sent the one to the House of Commons. Mr. Sydney
Smyth, the Anti-Corn-law lecturer, addressed the
meeting.
FRANCE.—The National states that M. Arago
commenced his course of lectures on Astronomy last Saturday,
and such was the anxiety of persons who had come from all
quarters to hear the Learned Professor, that more than 4,000
persons were unable to abtain admittance.
The Countess of Durham arrived in town last
evening, from Falmouth, where her Ladyship landed from Lis-
bon and a tour in Spain. The Earl of Durham and the La-
dies Mary and Emily Lambton, accompanied the amiable
Countess.

The Earl of Oxford and family arrived in town
from Antwerp, on Thursday last, by the steam-ship Princess
Victoria. 'the Bishop of Limerick and the Hon. Thomas
Denman, with their families, the Baron Mandell, &c., were
amongst the numerous passengers who left by her on her re-
turn voyage on Sunday last.
The Earl and. Countess of Eglintoun, arrival in
town on Saturday last, from Eglintoun Castle, Ayrshire.
Viscountess Forbes and Mr. Vaughan, accom-
panied by the youthful Earl of Granard and family, are ex-
pected in town to-day, from Castle Forbes, Longford. Her
Ladyship shortly goes in waiting on her Majesty, as one of the
Ladies of the Bedchamber.

HOME STEAMING.—The competition among
the steamers has become so great, and their numbers have so
much increased of late, that 17 vessels are daily engaged in
conveying passengers between Gravesend and London. Some
of them charge 2s. in the after cabin and Is. 6d. in the fore
part of the steamer for each passenger, others Is. 6d. and Is..
and a few Is. only all over the vessel, while the steamers from
BlAckwall to Gravesend carry passengers for Bd. each. Four-
teen steam-vessels are engaged in carrying passengers between
London and Greenwich, and a majority of them have lately
reduced their fares to 6d. each. Eight steamers are constantly
moving to and from Woolwich, and they will receive a great
accession in a few days, by the fast and elegant boats of the
Watermen's Steam-packet Company. There are sixteen small
steamers, belonging to different Companies, steaming away from
tarn till night above bridge ; and on Sunday last they carried
upwards of 55,000 passengers, at 4d. per head, between the
numerous piers between London-bridge and Chelsea. Some
of them were shamefully orer•crowded.