The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-06 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The British Funds, which left off yesterday rather heavy,
opened this morning with an improvement at 89% 90 for the
Account; Money, 891 3, since which they are riot quite so
good, and may be quoted 89:4 3 ; Money, 8941 3 ; Exchequer
Bills 8 10 prein ; India Stock 250 251 ; Indiaßorids 2 4
prem. ; Bank Stock 1653 1673.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has improved, left
off 233 3 ; at present 23j 3 ; Deferred 191 j ; Passive 5 3 ;
Portuguese same as it cioscd, 343 ; Three per Cents., 203 ;
Brazilian, 66% 69%; Chilian 60 62 ; Colombian, 2214 34 ;
Mexican, 283 293 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 523 j ;
Five per Cents. 99%.
SHARES.—Great Western 28 29 prem. ; New 14% 4
prem. ; London and Brighton 2% 3 dis. ; Blackwall 6
d:s. ; Birmingham 70 72 prem. ; Southampton 57% 58% per
share ; Croydon 133 14% per share ; Greenwich 83 per share
Manchester and Birmingham 15 14 dis.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great North of England ... ..... 90
Great Western
Ditto New
North Midland

JOINT STOCK RANKS.
lonian State

National Provincial of England... 35
Ditto New ...

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 4.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 96i 'Grand Canal Stock
Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent...
Ditto New, 1830 ...... 97i Ditto 4 per cent
St per Cent. Debs. B9g Royal Canal Stock

HALF-PA 37 ONE.
We have received Demerara papers to the 23d March, Bar-
badoes papers to the 25th March, and Trinidad to the 17th
March. None of them contain any intelligence worth extracting.
We have received the Journal of Antwerp, of yesterday's
date.
HAGUE, MAY 3. —By a Royal decree, of the 29th April, it
is decided that a Chamber of Commerce shall be established at
Bar le Due, to be composed of nine members.
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY 3.—Little bwiness has
been done in the National Funds, still the prices remain firm.
Ardoin's being more in demand have got up per cent ; Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 51 13-16ths ; Five per Cents, 994 ;
Ardoin's, 22 3-16ths. -
Although the news from China is net of a favourable nature,
as nothing of a decisive nature has taken taken place in regard
to the negotiations, still the British funds continue firm, and
have improved to 90 for the Account ; Money, S 9/ 90 ;
Exchequer Bills, 810 prem. ; Bank Stock, 166; India Stock,
250 ; India Bonds, 3 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has been the favourite
speculation this morning, and has improved to 24h ; Deferred,
12 / ; Portuguese, 341; Colombian, 221 ; Mexican, 29h *;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52i.
In Shares little or no bu,iness doing, only four quotations.
Great ,North of England, 75 ; Great Western, 931; Ditto,
New Shares, 64; North Midland, 75.
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols, Account, 89/ 90; Mexican, 29 # ; Portuguese,
34h ; Spanish, 24 h.

TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.-Last evening the
annual meeting of the Briti,h and Foreign Society for thesup-
pression of Intemperance, took }:lace in Exe•er Hall. at which
the Right Hun. Earl Stanhope pr, sided. From the Report it
appeared that the temperance cause was making extensive pro-
gress, there being at present in London and the suburbs fifty
societie4, with 20,000 total abstaining members, 3,000 ofwhom
were reclaimed drunkards. In the country are 90 auxiliary
societies, and 40,000 members, out of which 4,000 are re-
claimed drunkards ; 200 are clergymen of various denomina-
thins, and 1,000 are actively engaged in propagating the prin-
ciples of temperance societies. In Scotland there were 159,000
members; and in Ireland, through the instrumentality of Fa-
ther Mathew, five millions and a half of persons have taken the
pledge of total abstinence. The funds of the Society were in
so d•pressed a cnnditioa that many important stations would
have to be given up and useful agents dismissed, unless more
liberal efforts were made by the friends of the cause. The re-
ceipts were 818/. 17s. 4d., and the expenditure,l,B6s/. Os. 9d.,
leaving a balance of 3461. 3s. 51. against the Society. On the
p'at:orin were Mr. J. S. Buckingham, and several clergymen.
The meeting was most numerously attended, in which were a
l irge number of sergeants and privates of the Scots Fusilier
Guards. •

THE LATE CALAMITOUS FIRE IN WHITE-
CHAPEL.—Yesterday morning it was very generally reported
' that Mr. Berlin, the unfortunate man whose house in Church-
lane, Whitechapel, had been totally destroyed by fire on the
morning before, had breathed his last at the London Hospital
from the effects of the injuries he received, but on making in-
qiiiries at that institution I,st evening it was fund that he was
still alive, but with taint hopes of his surviving much longer.
On an examination of his person on being carried to the hos-
pital it was found that both his legs were broken close to the
ankles, that his left wrist was sprained, one or two of his ribs
on the left side fractured, and his back and spine ser'ously in-
jured. He is perfectly sensible, and states that at eleven
o'clock he put out the gas in the shop, and i etired to rest in a
small parlour behind, when everything appeared perfectly safe.
On being awoke, and seeing the shop in flames, he rushed up
stairs to where his sister and housekeeper slept, and taking
the former in his arms, jumped out of the window with her.
Rachael Shore, the young woman who lived as housekeeper to
Mr. Berlin, and who was to have been married to him in a
month, has been a good deal injured. Mr. Berlin, who is a
Jew, had not been residing in the house more than four or five
months, and he states that the 400/. for which he has been
insured in the Sun• Office will not cover his loss, though his
stock appeared to those in the neighbourhood to be exceed-
jngly light'