The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

London and Birmingham

Ditto New - '2 ...... :251, to
Midland Counties
North Midland
Ditto Thirds
HALF-PAST ONE.

There has been but little business doing in the Stock
Exchange. Consols have been 884 buyers, and are now
884 sellers ; Exchequer Bills firm at 10 12 prem. ; India
Bonds 2 3 prem.; Bank Stock, 1651 165; Spanish Active
Stock is now quoted at 24i ; Passive, 51 ; Portuguese
Five per Cents., 331 ; ditto, Three per Cents., 194 1 ;
Dutch Five per Cents., 99/ 1 ; ditto, Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 511 s ; Mexican Bonds, 26.
The following are the only transactions in the Share
Market: Great Western fifths, 9i; London and Brighton,
361 ; London and Birmingham, New, 251 ; Midland
Counties,

QUAR T E R PAST TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols,. account, 8S 1; Mexican, 251 26113- ; Portu.
guese, 34 33 ; Spanish, 24 1.

QUARTER TO THREE.

One of the ultra French papers has been adverting
recently, with evident satisfaction, to the defeat off
Princess Iskuid, Africa, of the British vessel
Iris by the slaver. Negro, and it endeavours
to envelop the affair with as much exag-
geration and mystery as possible. It is stated
that the Commander of the after his repulse by
the piratical ship, one of far superior mettle,
and with a much larger farce than his own,
had made for the nearest African port to
repair damage, &c., but sedulously concealed the
fact of the encounter, to all but the Government
authorities of the place, who will no doubt be on the
look-out for the slaver. Greek pirates have also ap-
peared recently, if the information received lately is to
be depended upon.

PIIR ENOTYPICS.—Air. C. Williams delivered a
lecture last evening on Phrenotypics at the Mechanics'
Institution, Westminster, to a crowded room. Mr. Wil-
liams commenced by reading a brief essay on the frailty
of memory and the advantage of mnemonics, and illus-
trated his theory by the examination of several of his
pupils. The lecture seemed to give general satisfaction .
The auditory were principally composed of ladies a kind
of indirect satire on the lecture, as we seldom find ladies
troubled with short memories.

THE MOST EFFECTUAL CHURCH.—TO
myself, the most effectual Church is that in which I see
the signs of Christian affection in those around me, in
which warm hearts are beating on every side, in which
a deep stillness speaks of the absorbed soul, in which I
recognise fellow-beings, who in common life have im-
pressed me with their piety. One look from a beaming
countenance, one tone in singing from a deeply-moved.
heart, perhaps aids me more than the sermon.
When nothing is said, I feel it good to be among
the devout ; and I wonder not that the Quakers,
in some of their still meetings, profess to hold the most
intimate union, not only with God, but with each other.
It is not with the voice only that man communicates
with man. Nothing is so eloquent as the deep
silence of a crowd. A sigh, a low breathing, sometimes
pours into us our neighbour's soul more than a
volume of words. There is a communication more
subtile than freemasonry, between those who feel alike.
How contagious is holy feeling ! On the other
hand, how freezing, how palsying is the gather-
ing of a multitude, who feel nothing, who come to God's
house without reverence, without love, who gaze around
on each other as if they were assembled at a show,
whose restlessness keeps up a slightly disturbing sound,
whose countenances reveal no collectedness no earnest-
ness, but a frivolous or absent mind ! The very sanc•
tity of the place makes this indifference more chill-
ing. One of the coldest spots on earth is a Church
without devotion. What is it to me that a costly.
temple is set apart by ever so many rites for
God's service, that priests, who trace their lineage to
Apostles, have consecrated it, if I find it thronged by
the worldly and undevout? This is bo Church to me. I
go to meet, hot human bodies, but souls ; and if I find
them in an upper room, like that where the first disciples
met, or in a shed, or in a street, there I find a Church.
There is the true altar, the sweet incense, the accepted
priest. These all I find in sanctified souls.— The Church;
a Discourse by Dr. Channing.just published.
The greatest expedition is being used in the
equipment of the several ships fitting out at this port;
scarcely a day passes but some communication is made
from the Admiralty, urging the authorities to adopt
every means for expediting the work.—Hampshire Inde-
pendent.

- The Vindictive, Warspite, Hazard, Carysfort.
and Ringdove, are being fitted with all dispatch; on the
former ship the workmen are employed by torchlight, so
great is the demand for the services of this ship, as well
as that of the Warspite.—Hatnpshire Independent.
At a shop window in Holborn a paper is exhi-
bited, on which is written " A perfect blind painter
wanted." It is presumed that the blind painter must be
able to 800 his way in the "transparency line."