The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-01 00:00:00

THS FUNDS.

The British Funds are not quiteso good as they left off
yesterday, :881 i for the Account, at present may be
quoted at 68 it ; Exchequer Bills, 3 5 premium ; BAnk
Stock, 157 158 ; India Stock 237 239.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active lower than it
left off, 25- ; Deferred, 121 13 ; Passive, 51 .a; Portu-
guese same as they left off, 321 it ; Three per Cents.,
201 ''- ; Brazilian, 701 711 ; Colombian, 241; Mexican,
29f ; DutchTwo-and-a.Half per Cents. 493 50k ex. div. ;
Five per Cents. 971 :f.
SIIAREL—Great Western, 251 261 prem. ; New, 11
121 prem. ; London and Brighton, 61 6 discount ; Black-
wall, 41 4 discount ; Birmingham, 81 83 premium ; South-
ampton, 56 57 per share ; Croydon, 121 i per shale ;
Greenwich, 81 per share.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT, ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Dittos Debentures
Great Western
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths ..
London and Brighton
London and Greenwich ..... ...... 20
Ditto Scrip
HALF-PAST ONE.

Very late dates ftom Buenos Ayres have been
received at Havre, of the 21st of October, and from
Monte Video of the 29th of October, by which it is stated
that the blockade of Buenos Ayres was not severe, and
that a great quantity of merchandise entered the tow e.
The French residents found themselves in such a situation
that most of them were preparing to leave the town, but
they found protection, in the British Consul, from mo-
lestation and had treatment. At Monte Video the
French division, commanded by Admiral Mack3u,
arrived on the 21ith, and were preparing to act. Already
the companies were formed for effecting a land-
ing, which were going to make a descent at Martin
Garcia, and from thence proceed to Buenos Ayres. A
report prevailed in the squadron that Rosas had caused
a lieutenant of a French ship to be assassinated,
but the report appeared rather vague. In the Rio de la
Plata there were 44 French ships of war of all descriptions.
From the American papers received this morning to
the 11th December :
" Ica in the Delaware.—All the vessels along the ends
of the wharfs yesterday morning were compelled to haul
inside of the docks, in order to:avoid being cut through by
the skim ice, large quantities of which came down yester-
day. The river Delawarre at Bordenton, yesterday morn-
ing was filled with ice afloat from shore to shore. The r.a-
vigation of the river, for the present, is completely
stopped."

Consols, which were nominally in the early part of the
morning at 88a 4 for the Account, have since been done
at 881 and at present may be quoted a shade lower,
884. For the Opening little has been doine, during the
course of the morning ; Exchequer Bills rather im.
proved, 4 6 premium; Bank Stock, 157 158, also im-

proved.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active may be quoted
at 25i; Deterred, 121; Portuguese 311; Three per
Cent's., 201 ; Mexican, 294; Brazilian, 7lk ; Colombian,
24 ; Dutch Two-and a- Half per Cents., nothing done.
In Shares not much doing. Eastern Counties De-
bentures, 5; Great Western, New, 6241; ditto, Fifths,
114; London and Brighten, 44-; Greenwich Scrip, 3i I.

We are given to understand that the Lord
Chamberlain has moat considerably extended the license
of the Haymarket Theatre, by which act the manager of
this place of amusement will be enabled to continue his
present successful season beyond the 15th inst., at.which
period he must otherwise have closed his doors.
LEWES, DEC. 31.—The Hon. H. Fitzroy and
Lord Cantilupe will to-morrow present such of the elec.
tors of the borough as choose to accept the gift, with a
quarter of a ton of coals each,—Brighton Gazelle.
llis Excellency General Alava, Lord Grenville
Somerset, and a crowd of fashionables, have visited the
Royal Polytechnic Institution, in Regent-street, doting
the present week. The attractions of this place of in-
structive amusement are daily receiving additions, and
amongst the novelties that are announced as in prepara-
tion arc a new form of railway carriage, which is to be ex-
hibited in the Great Hall, and an ingenious modification of
the powers of the hydro-oxygen microscope, which by an
entirely novel invention can be adapted so as to magnify,
by reflection, opaque bodies. The first application of this
discovery will be to exhibit the pictures thrown by the
Daguerreotype on metallic plates, which will thus have all
the effect of a natural panorama, strictly faithful to the ori-
ginal view.
ENGLISHWOMEN IN ITALY.—The English-
women, too, evince a no less warm attachment to the
customs of their native land. Balls, soirees, and tableaux,
a-la.mode de Londres, arc continually given, where may
be seen assembled mashy of the same faces to he met with
at Almack's every spring ; wearing the same smiles, and
lisping about the fetes of the previous and ensuing weeks
just as they are wont to do at home. In short, men and wo
men endeavour as much as in their power to forget, and
make others do so too, that they are dwellers in the
" Niobe of nations ;" and though they leave London, take
with them all its luxurious habits and dissipations. It is a
positive tact, that one English lady of fashion proposed to
exclude from her circle any individual who should in con-

versat•on revert to the works of art or antiquities of Rome.
—Lady Blessington's Idler in holy, VolllL
;How TO HAND A NAME DOWN TO POS-
Thityrv.—There is now to be seen on a post at the corner
of a street forming in the Faubourg du Temple, Paris, a
pl6card with the following notice :—" To be sold, the
right of giving a name to this street."
Extract of a letter, dated from on board the
Princess Charlotte, Marmorice Bay, Dec. 13, 1410:--
" 1 am sorry to inform you that the Zebra was driven on
shore and totally wrecked, with the loss of three of her
crew. The Bellerophon was nearly lost, and the Pique
lost her masts. Dreadful weather on the coast. We, thank
God, have escaped, but most miraculously ; four anchors
a-head. I never saw worse weather. We have twelve
sail of the line here, and a host of small craft."
It is calculated that at the Shrewsbury Christmas
market there were sold in one day 6,000 turkeys, which
realised the sum of 1,800/. ; 8,000 geese for 1,8001. ;
ducks and fowls (couples), 7,000 fur 1,0501 ; making a
grand total of 4,6501. Worcester Journal.