The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS.

ILAMBURGII BORSENIIALLE, Dn. 21.
Bills. MOW.
Austrian 5 per Cents •• . • •••• • • • • 104
Bank Shares • • • .
Anglo-Russian Loan ...............• 1043
Russian 5 per Cont., Holub. Certificate. 101 yi 101
Ditto let series Inscription.. •••. . • • • 10134
Ditto, Mope and Co., 3d and 4th series• • 95
Ditto, in Certificate.. •••••••• • • • • •• • • 95
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • • • 80fi
Ditto Stleglitz •• ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 8634 86
Spanish New 5 per Cent ••••• • • • • • • • 13 12 yi,
Ditto 3 per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 24 23%
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent • • 22
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ••• • • 55
Ditto 3 per Cent. • • • • •• • • • • • • ....
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 79
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 82 81%
National Bank Shares

DUTCH. FUNDS.—MisTERDAY, JAN. 11.
Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •••••• •• • • • 54% 58
Ditto, 3 per Cent •• •• • • •• •• 66% 67
Ditto, 4 per Cent......... ...... 84 86
Amort Syndic, 334 per Cent • • •• •• ••
Commercial Company, 4% par Cent 162% 1633
East India Loan, 4 per Cent
Exchange on London, at sight ... •• • 12 12
Two months... • • ••• • • . 12
On Hamburgh, at sight .... 35
Two months..... • • .... 34 62
On Paris • •••• • • • • .• 56 bo
Twomonths. •••••••• • • • • •• 56
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. S.
5 per Cent. Metallignes. ••••• • • •••• • • • • 103%
4 per Cent.ditt0............ •• • •..• .. 90
3 per Cent. ditto ••••• • • • • • • c 54
Loan, 1834 .. •• . • ..... •••••• • • • •• IMi3
Ditto, 1839 . • • • • • • • • • • • • • 111,,
Bank Shares • . • • • . • • • • • . • • • ... • • 1616
Estvrhazv's Loan ........ . . ........ 57

PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BaaLIN, JAW. 13.
tills. Stoney.
St•Schuld Sell., 3!.4 percent .... ••• • .. 92!, ! 2
Pruss.English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent......
Foreign Exchanges ••••• • •• • ..... •• • .• .•
Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 M stalls
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSIELS, JAN. 14.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........--
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. •• • --
Ditto Three per Cent •••••.••• • • • • • • • • •
Ditto Thirty-seven ditto ......
Ditto,ditto,lB4o • • • • .. 9814
Ditto,ditto,lB42 ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 9,%
Ditto, 1844... •••• • • • • •••• • • • • •• • 92%
Ditto, 1838 .. .. ••.••••••• • • • • • • • •• .. 67%
Ditto of the City, 1832 •
Ditto, 1843 . ...... 95%
Bank of Belgium •• •••• • • •• 79%
—.Brae SeLs Papers. Jan. 16.
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand •••• • • . • • • • • 139
Gloggnitz . • ........ ............. 110
Vienna—Milan .. .............., 87
Apenninen • . •

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ATTORNEYB.-177 gentlemen hav e given notice
this term of their intention to apply to be admitted to
practise as attorneys in the Court of Queen's Bench.
There are also 42 notices for the renewals of certifi-
cates.

Letters from liamburgh, received yesterday, state
money to be abundant at 3 per cent. Bills on London
were very scarce, and the rate for three months paper
was 13. 10.

NEW ASYLUM FOR INFANT ORPHANS.—Yesterday
a general meeting of the subscribers to the above charity
was holden at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-
street, the Lord Mayor presiding, when 12 children were
elected from a list of 47 candidates. The report for the
past year stated that the affairs of the charity were in a
prosperous condition, upwards of 400 subscribers having
joined it during the past year. There are now on tho
foundation (irrespective of yesterday's election) 611
children under eight years of age, who are clothed,
nursed, and educated. The balance sheet for the past
year showed the receipts to be '2,723/. 16s, 10d. ; the
expenditure, leaving a balance of 459/. 14s. lid. The
business of the day being gone through, thanks were
voted to the Lord Mayor for his presidency, and the
meeting broke up.
STARTLING:DISCOYERY IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.
—Yesterday morning, at 8 o'clock, Mr. William Payne,
the City Coroner, resumed an inquiry, for the third time,
in the Vestry-hall, Horselydown, concerning the death
of a newly-born female child, found under the most ex-
traordinary circumstances. The evidence went to prove,
that on the afternoon of Friday, the 24th of December,
upon the arrival of the Dover train at London-bridge,
one of the servants commenced his usual duties of letting
out the passengers ; and while searching one of tho
second-class carriages, he discovered a brown paper
parcel lying on the floor under the seat. He removed
the same, and not finding any direction on the outside,
it was thought necessary to examine the contents of the
paper, which it was found contained the body of a
newly- born female child. There were several marks of
violence on the head, and the umbilical cord had been
partially secured. The nose and mouth were much
compressed, giving ample testimony of some external
violence. The inquest had been twice adjourned, to
allow the railway authorities to make the necessary in-
quiries along the line, and also at Dover, from whence
the said carriage came. Mr. Meed, the summoning
officer, stated that he and the police had used every
means to find out the guilty parties, but that they were
unfortunately quite unable to throw any light on
_the
mystery of the case. The jury, after a brief consulta-
tion, returned a verdict of " Found dead from suffoca-
tion, but from what means such was caused, there was
not sufficient evidence to prove."
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. A rather singular
phenomenon happened in the neighbourhood of Lerwick
a few days ago, and in trying to account for it the people
have been a good deal puzzled. It seems to be a kind of
land-slip. The surface of a gentle declivity, to the
extent of about three hundred feet long, and eighty feet
wide, lies been precipitated into the flat below, and all
around the ground has been cracked and rent. The
surface consisted of a pretty solid mass, was about five
feet deep, and rested on a hard impervious bed. It
would seem that the rain from the surface, sinking down
to the hard soil, and not being able to get further, had
there softened the moss, making it slippery and soft ;
but there being no roots nor rocks to support or retain
the superincumbent mass, it then slid away, tossing up
on their sides, on both hands, large masses of the sur-
face, but in its main body flowing like a stream five
hundred feet beyond into the bottom. Edinburgh
Witness.
WELLS, JAN. 14.—The Abdiel, Harland, which went
on shore on Holme Beach, Bth ult., has been got off, and
arrived here 12th inst.

HARWICH, JAN. 15.—The schooner, Conrad, Kohler,
of Bremen, from Hartlepool to St. Thomas, got on shore
on the Long Saud, bilged, and soon became a total
wreck; crew awl part of materials saved.